Welcome to the Cumbria Youth Orchestra Website.
Whether you are a young musician, Parent or Teacher, we are sure that there will be something to interest you. About the CYO Principal Conductor - Tim Redmond
The Cumbria Youth Orchestra exists to give young musicians in Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Southern Scotland a chance to come together and work with a professional Timothy Redmond is a young professional conductor who works with many of this country's leading orchestras. The 2008-2009 season will be Tim's 13th with the CYO. He has given concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, Northern Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata. In the opera house he is well known for his love of contemporary music and has conducted for Glyndebourne, Flanders, Strasbourg, Royal Opera House, Opera North, ENO, Almeida Opera and for the Covent Garden, Aldeburgh, Montepulciano, Tenerife and Los Angeles Festivals. His extensive work with youth orchestras has received international recognition. The Music Staff The music staff are all experienced teachers and performers, many of whom work for Cumbria's Music Service, Learning Support. The others are freelance professional musicians who work with the leading professional orchestras in the North of England. About the CYTO..... The Cumbria Youth Training Orchestra was formed in 1988 to give younger players - and those not yet at the required entry standard for CYO - the opportunity to play in an orchestra, with a view to joining the CYO in the future when they will have enough orchestral experience to settle in quickly and easily. The Conductor - Noel Bertram Noel started his professional career a a freelance trombonist in Scotland working with Scottish Opera and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. After a spell as co-principal trombonist of the Central band of the Royal Air Force and a year's postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music, he moved to Cumbria in 1985. His conducting career started in 1986 when he was appointed Musical Director of the Westmorland Youth Orchestra, a post he still holds. He has been working with the CYO since 1989 and founded the CYTO in 1998. He is now Head of Music for Cumbria's Learning Support Service. 
conductor and tutors and to play repertoire beyond the scope of area youth orchestras. Concerts have included works such as the New World Symphony by Anton Dvorak, the Second Piano Concerto by Shostakovich, The Three Dance Episodes from
the musical 'On The Town' by Leonard Bernstein and excerpts from the two suites from Georges Bizet's Carmen.
Our most recent concerts have included a performance of Carl Davies’ music played to the 1929 silent movie ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ starring Lon Chaney and ‘A Concert for Children’ featuring Paul Patterson’s Little Red Riding Hood accompanying narration of the Rohld Dahl Classic rhyme.
Foreign tours have included trips to Iceland and Holland.
Recent performances have included the pieces: Johann Pachebel's Canon in D, Grand March from Aïda by Giuseppi Verdi, Highlights from ‘Harry Potter’ by John Williams arr Michael Story, Take Five by Paul Desmond and The great gate of Kiev from ‘Pictures at an
Exhibition’ by Mussorgsky arr David Stone.