Antigua and Barbuda: The country’s Youth Symphony Orchestra is all set to launch an exciting new concert series called “Play Out” on Sunday, November 13, at 1:00 pm.
Antigua and Barbuda: The country’s Youth Symphony Orchestra is all set to launch an exciting new concert series called “Play Out” on Sunday, November 13, at 1:00 pm.
The concert series will feature mini-concerts which will be performed by string and wind ensembles within the Orchestra at various venues around the country.
The repertoire will include a diverse range of music from popular and traditional genres allowing the audience to sing along or tap their feet while enjoying a beautiful moment of musical escapism.
Violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason will join the ABYSO Strings for the first ‘Play Out’ Concert to be held at the Nomad Restaurant on Sunday, November 13 2022.
Braimah will be on Island to conduct string master classes with the ABYSO and has agreed to headline this first public performance.
Braimah Kanneh-Mason is a 24-year-old professional violinist and member of the musically gifted family The Kanneh-Masons. He’s travelled to Cremona in northern Italy to visit the home of the first modern violin and discover the age-old recipe that created these musical masterpieces hundreds of years ago, which is still being used today.
He is world-famous and performs all around the world at famous events.
The ABYSO in the country is a year-round, not-for-profit after-school youth music programme which provides fun, quality and accessible music education, performance, instruments and mentorship opportunities to young music teachers and musicians around Antigua and Barbuda.
The programmes offered by ABYSO, The Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra, are designed to motivate social change, academic success, teamwork, creativity and cooperative learning among young individuals regardless of their social as well as educational backgrounds.
ABYSO have launched various programmes in schools around the Island which motivate students to engage in music and music production and to take music as an option for their career in future.