Aims

To promote, encourage, maintain, develop and improve public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects within the county of Norfolk.

The trust also aims to help the development of highly-talented Norfolk-based young musicians to pursue careers as professionals by offering annual grants and occasional public-performing opportunities.

Successful applicants will already be highly skilled in one or more of the six disciplines (brass, keyboard, percussion, strings, voice and woodwind) and will be either undergoing a period of study at a music college or specialist school, or who have made plans to do so.
 

2009 News

Grants have been awarded to the cellist, Maxim Calver of Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth; the organist and pianist, Hannah Parry-Ridout of Norwich; the clarinettist, flautist, pianist and saxophonist, Rachel Parry-Ridout of Rollesby, Great Yarmouth; the guitarist, Georgina Whitehead of Hickling, Norwich; and the bassoonist, pianist and violinist, Kate Sturman of Norwich.

The trust's University of East Anglia Scholarship was won by the Norwich oboist, James Marangone, a third-year student on an undergraduate music degree course.

This is the eighth year in which the trust has been delighted to support young musicians – all of whom have ambitions to follow a career as professionals.

The Norfolk Youth Music Trust has now made grants of over £18,000 to the county's young musicians to help them in meeting tuition fees, transport costs, specialist tuition and summer schools.

Grant winners and winners of the Norfolk Young Musician Competition can be heard in concert on Sundays 8 November at 2.30 p.m. (please note new date and time) and 6 December at 3.00 p.m. in the United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Norwich.