Great Orchestra Experiment
Great Orchestra Experiment 2025
Nearly 1700 city pupils representing 38 Nottingham City Primary Schools participated in the Great Orchestra Experiment 2025. We had an incredible time and are so very proud of all our young people.
Thank You!
A massive thank you to the Backstage Trust for their grant towards GOE 2025, the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra for their amazing performance three times in the same day, the Albert Hall for their beautiful venue, and all the school staff and city pupils who attended the event. We also want to thank our opera singers Helena Payne & Kieran Rayner for making the event so much more dramatic and brilliant and Stage Connections for tech support.
Great Orchestra Experiment 2024
1767 city pupils
41 primary schools
3 concerts in one day!
We had an absolutely smashing Great Orchestra Experiment this year, with more students than ever taking part in our live event at the Albert Hall on 20th March 2024. We are so proud of the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra (RHYO) for leading such an inspirational performance for primary school pupils from across Nottingham City. We hope to see many of the primary pupils in RHYO in a few years time!
The children were thoroughly engaged. Loved the journey through different countries and wide variety of music covered with points for listening in a child friendly format
”Primary school staff
That was even better than playing on my X-box! I want to do more music now!
”Student participant from GOE 2019
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this occasion - of course from the orchestral point of view - they were of an amazing standard and there is much talent to nurture - but also because of the skill and dedication of the staff in providing this interactive music event for primary school children. To see all of these young people engaged musically with their instruments and interacting with the orchestra - and thoroughly enjoying themselves - was wonderful.
”Audience member/parent of participating pupil
