"The soloist in this national celebration was the young Russian violinist, Anna-Liisa Bezrodny. We were truly privileged to hear such a talented musician surely at the beginning of a promising career. There was total mastery in her approach to Max Bruch's 'Scottish Fantasy', exhibiting a combination of technical skill and musicianship."
Quote from one of the five young composers, secondary pupils from Border schools, who were given the opportunity to work with Stephen Deazley in the Gie It Laldie Project
"The best thing was the real sense of achievement when I heard for the first time my arrangement played by the orchestra. It was really cool."
Welcome to Scottish Borders Community Orchestra
Scottish Borders Community Orchestra offers a warm welcome to anyone interested in playing, learning or listening to music in the Scottish Borders.
SBCO is more than an orchestra – it is a collective of musicians who lead and support a wide range of musical activities for players and audiences of all ages and stages.
Each year SBCO organises at least two orchestral concerts, a number of smaller scale performances, a series of tutored sessions for instrumental groups, occasional workshops, and an outreach programme that takes live music to children and to the elderly in particular
SBCO has a cello, suitable for someone who finds themselves
without access to a cello eg after leaving High School, or someone
wishing to take up cello. If interested or
to request further information contact the SBCO office on 01573 228464
News & events..
SBCO Combined Training Orchestra
All Playing Friends Welcome!
Abbey Row Centre Kelso
3.15 - 5pm, following the Strings Training Orchestra - 1-2.45pm
(Media-Newswire.com) - The École de Musique Saint Trinité orchestra of Haiti, together with Viva Río and with the support of the Organization of American States ( OAS ), offered today a classical music concert in the city of Port-au-Prince.
The event was not only an opportunity to bring together an important number of Haitians looking to normalize their lives after the earthquake that devastated the country last January 12, but also helped the OAS to locate and regroup children and students who have been involved in this OAS music program of social inclusion, with those with whom they had not been in touch with after the earthquake.
The concert, which took place at the Cabo in Kay Nou ( “our home” ), a community center of Viva Río which currently serves as a temporary refuge, was performed by musicians from the École de Musique Saint Trinité, who are also part of the country’s main symphonic orchestra, and by the school’s children’s choir known as Les Petits Chanteurs. In the concert they used musical instruments that were recovered under the debris of the destroyed school from the effects of the earthquake.
On November 1 of last year the Special Multilateral Fund of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development ( FEMCIDI ), of the OAS launched the Program for Youth at Risk. When the earthquake hit the Caribbean country, this initiative had recruited more than 80 youth at social risk and offered daily musical instructions at the École de Musique Saint Trinité.
Our funders
Contributions from: Scottish Community Foundation, Scottish Borders Council Community Grant Scheme - Our Scottish Borders, Mainhouse, D'Oyly Carte and PF Charitable Trusts, the Order of St John, the PRS Foundation, R S Hayward Trust, Radcliffe Trust, Cruden Foundation, Binks Trust, GB Telecom Change Foundation, The Hope Scott Trust.
