5:00pm (whole performance approx. 60 mins)
Clore Ballroom
Southbank Centre, London
FREE

Following the Sistema England Young Leaders residency in October 2015, young musicians from In Harmony Lambeth, In Harmony Liverpool, Sistema in Norwich and The Nucleo Project will come together again at Southbank Centre in London on Saturday, 16 January 2016, for a day of music, friendship and performance.

The gathering celebrates the achievements of the four programmes represented, which together involve over 1,500 young people, alongside a residency at Southbank Centre of the renowned Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and their conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

The Sistema England Young Leaders Orchestra will join the newly formed Sistema London Orchestra and ensembles from In Harmony Lambeth and The Nucleo Project for a brief performance on the Clore Ballroom that starts at 5:00pm.

The Young Leaders Orchestra, currently composed of 46 young musicians, will be led by Venezuelan conductors Félix Briceño from El Sistema and Juan Carlos Maggiorani from Orquestra Geração, and Rod Skipp from In Harmony Liverpool.

At 7:30pm on Friday 15 January, In Harmony Lambeth’s Holst Orchestra, The Nucleo Project Symphony Orchestra, and the Sistema London Orchestra (composed of young musicians from In Harmony Lambeth and The Nucleo Project) will perform in St John’s Church (Waterloo Rd, SE1 8TY) as a Southbank Centre fringe event.

You can watch some highlights of the Young Leaders Orchestra performing in Norwich here.