EMI Music Sound Foundation

Emily Stephens - Another sucess story!

Great News! To start off 2012 with a bang we have heard from Emily Stephens, one of our applicants who wrote to us with news of what she’s been up to.

Emily has just finished her second year with the National Children’s Orchestra of GB as principal Oboe and Cor player which has provided her with numerous opportunities for orchestral playing in many well known venues around the country. Consequently, Emily was asked to play the well known Cor solos in Berlioz “Overture to the Roman Carnival” in Birmingham Town hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
If you would like to check out her performance, this is featured both on the NCO website, http://www.nco.org.uk/gallery/videos/overture-to-roman-carnival-berlioz/, and on You Tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jznqLojYyJg . Emily’s piece was even reviewed in the Birmingham Post.

As a result of this success, Emily has received a number of requests to play in semi-professional bands to accompany school plays and musical productions such as Macbeth and Oliver in Gloucestershire including at the Roses Theatre Tewkesbury and Beaudesert Park in Nailsworth. Amazingly, on top of all this Emily finds the time to play second Oboe and Cor alongside her Oboe teacher in the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra and performed in Gloucester Cathedral with them in the summer.

Since having her own Cor, Emily has successfully auditioned for a place in the Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra and has just heard that she’s been successful in regaining her place in the NCO Main Orchestra next year. Also, Emily has taken on a pupil from her former Oboe teacher who she is currently teaching once a week in preparation for her Grade 2 examination.

It is great to hear from Emily and we wish her lots more success to come in the future!