Samyo set to spice up your life
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Samyo set to spice up your life
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The South Asian Music Youth Orchestra (Samyo) returns to the
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall on 23 February
following a three-year national tour. Its last appearance at the
venue in 2005 was a sell-out.
The programme will feature classical Indian ragas, world music
pieces and new compositions, including one written by BBC 3 World
Music award winner Debashish Bhattacharya.
Up to 20 performers will perform on an array of traditional South
Asian instruments such as sitars and tablas, plus violin and flute.
Created in 2002 and funded by Youth Music, Samyo is the UK's
first youth orchestra of South Asian music. It provides a platform
for the genre's most talented young musicians, using an
orchestral format rarely adopted in Indian music.
The orchestra debuted at the Lowry in Salford in 2002 and has since
toured extensively, performing nationwide including in Birmingham,
Leeds, Liverpool, Durham, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Members are selected from auditions that take place twice a year in
the UK. Samyo's evolving repertoire includes both traditional
North Indian (Hindustani) and South Indian (Carnatic) music styles.
Tickets for the Southbank Centre concert, which begins at 7.30pm,
can be purchased on 0871 663 2500 or via www.southbankcentre.co.uk.
www.samyo.org
