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LYSO play at Birmingham Symphony Hall

The LYSO performed in the National Festival of Music for Youth at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Saturday July 11th 2009.

They played Tchaikovsky' Symphony No.5, 2nd Movement and Finlandia by Sibelius.

LYSO perform at Birmingham Symphony Hall

The adjudicators made lots of positive comments about the orchestra and the LYSO can be justifiably proud of their performance alongside five other experienced youth orchestras.

LYSO Tours

The highlight each year for many members of the Lancashire Student Symphony Orchestra is a tour where the orchestra plays concerts at venues based in different countries around the world. These tours first started in 1973 and have continued for most years. The following is a list of the countries on which the tours have been based.

1973 Denmark
1974 Eastern States of the USA
1975 Sweden
1976 Great Britain
1977 England - Southern Counties
1978 Austria
1979 Sweden
1980 Argentina
1981 France
1982 Scandinavia
1983 France
1984 Malaysia & Singapore
1985 Paris & East Anglia
1986 Germany, Holland & France
1987 Austria, Hungary & Germany
1989 Romania
1990 France
1992 Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia & France
1993 France
1994 Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium & France
1995 Catalonia & France
1996 Tuscany
1997 Belgium, Germany & France
1998 Czech Republic & Slovakia
1999 Tuscany
2001 France & Germany
2002 Strasbourg & The Black Forest
2003 Berlin
2004 Poland
2005 Northern Spain
2006 Poland & Germany
2007 Rome

In 2000, rather than go on tour the Orchestra went to the BBC recording studios to record on CD a repertoire of their music.