Arts Board awards $37,000 in grants to support local artists
June 28 2022 The Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra, Headspace Nowra and Connect Sanctuary Point are among the recipients of more than $37,000 in funding awarded to local community groups, charities and schools as part of the 2022 Shoalhaven Arts Board Grants Program.
Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra plan to use the funding to produce a CD for the second time in their 22-year history. Business Manager of the Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra Ryley Gillen said, “The grant provides us a great opportunity to showcase and produce a long-lasting album of music that has been written, produced and recorded by local musicians about the region”.
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ADFAS in support of the Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings
April 5 2022 SYO has partnered with ADFAS Shoalhaven in 2022 to offer SYO students the opportunity to prepare and perform solo recitals for its members.
This is an exciting opportunity for SYO students to develop solo repertoire and learn the demands of rehearsing both ensemble content and individual pieces that are performance ready.
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Arts and culture funding
March 26 2022 Audiences on the South Coast will benefit from record arts and cultural activity to be delivered across NSW, with Minister for the Arts Don Harwin and Shelley Hancock today announcing that Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra Inc, Beyond Empathy Ltd, Ms Lara Merrett will receive $79,000 in funding.
Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra Inc is one of 198 great projects sharing in $9,371,594 million through Round 1 of Create NSW’s 2021/22 Arts & Cultural Funding Program on behalf of the NSW Government.
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Funding boost for South Coast arts and culture
October 11 2021 Artists and audiences on the South Coast will soon benefit from more arts and cultural opportunities in the local community with targeted funding from the NSW Government.
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum and Gallery, Shoalhaven Arts Society, Arts in the Valley and Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra are among 10 recipients that have secured over $212,000 funding from the NSW Government to deliver new arts and culture projects in the South Coast.
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New faces to guide SYO in 2021
Jan 4 2021 Members of the Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra met at the annual general meeting recently to hear how the Shoalhaven’s regional orchestra for young musicians had managed to continue making music during a rocky 2020.
Students transitioned to Zoom rehearsals with Musical Directors John Dunstan and Eryn Deys and the orchestra invested time into developing its long term initiatives for increasing enrolments and interest for orchestral instruments in the area.
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See Shoalhaven City Council’s arts grants recipients
July 17 2020 Five individual artists plus the Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra will benefit from Shoalhaven City Council’s Arts Board’s grants announced on Monday, June 29.
In celebrating twenty years of music education the Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra will host refreshing, vibrant and inspirational masterclasses for emerging musicians in the community at the Nowra School of Arts featuring SYO students and SYO alumni.
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SYO turns 20 with new manager
Jan 21 2020 The Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra will see a former student come full circle this year, when Ryley Gillen takes the reigns as manager.
In 2020 The Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra (SYO) enters its twentieth year of providing tuition and performance opportunities for aspiring young musicians on the South Coast.
Ryley is currently Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the ballet company Illawarra On Pointe Productions and is a board member to the Create NSW Classical Music Advisory Board, an organisation which guides multi-million dollar funding for artistic companies across the state.
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SYO shines at concert
Dec 18 2019 Saturday, December 14 saw the Nowra School of Arts bustling with patrons eager to hear what the students of the Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra had to offer for their huge end of year celebration concert, and the students did not dissapoint.
The crowd’s murmurs faded with the house lights as maestro, John Dunstan, lifted his baton to call the orchestra to a readied position.
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Freemasons boost Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra
April 1 2019
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