"Thank you for a wonderful evening and for enriching
the cultural 'offer' of East Anglia"
Anne Seex, Chief Executive Officer, Norwich City Council (2001)

Forthcoming event: Martinu Toccata e due canzoni

This open workshop will be conducted by Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and led by principals of Chamber Orchestra Anglia. Young musicians aged 11-25 are invited to apply to participate in the event by clicking here.

Sunday 31st May 2009
St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich
10.30am-1.30pm and 2.30pm-3.30pm
(playthrough at 2.30pm)
Cost: free to watch on the day, £35 to enter for a place in the workshop.



13th March 2009: Junior Academy of Music Launch

Information and application forms for the Junior Academy of Music now available (the deadline for applications is Tuesday 31st March).
Please click here for more information.



29th January 2009: Full-Scale Junior Academy of Music Planned

We are pleased to announce that after the success of the 2008 Pilot Scheme, Chamber Orchestra Anglia now intends to open a full-scale Junior Academy of Music in September 2009. The Academy, which will run in partnership with UEA School of Music, will develop the individual musical skills and advanced orchestral playing of promising young musicians across East Anglia.

Auditions will be held in March 2009 and again later in the year for applicants aged 11 to 18 who have reached a standard of Grade 6 or above on their principal instrument.

Follow this link to read the press release on the University of East Anglia website.

For further details and to request and information pack and application form, please contact Suzanne Francis through email or on 01603 618822.

UPDATE - COA phone number working again
Chamber Orchestra Anglia has recently been experiencing difficulties with our office phone line. These have now been resolved and our office phone number 01603 618822 is in full working order. If there is no one present in the office at the time of your call it will be diverted to a mobile phone number and your query will be answered as quickly as possible.

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Our guiding ambition is to bring classical music to a broad audience that is ready to be challenged and to embrace new musical experiences. In doing this we will complement and enrich the existing musical excellence in the region.

We aim to make inspiring music, to create new links and relationships with other art forms and scientific disciplines and, as befits an orchestra associated with the University of East Anglia, to explore new ideas in music and beyond. We intend, as the University’s motto says, to ‘do different’.

Our founding in 2001 marked the first time in the UK that a professional orchestra has been created through the initiative of a university. Since then, Chamber Orchestra Anglia has built an enthusiastic following, taken newly commissioned and established works to audiences in London and the East of England, and won a deserved reputation for bold, imaginative programming.

As it comes of age, the Orchestra is ready to move to the next stage of its development. We intend to take our programmes to audiences across the whole region, giving people greater access to live orchestral music of the highest quality. We are building on our international connections, and will be developing relationships with festivals, composers and promoters in order to expand our programme significantly in the years ahead. The Orchestra and the COA Ensemble will gain a higher profile as they perform their music for new audiences, in new places, in new ways.

We also want to expand and develop new strands for our education activities, nurturing the musicians of the future by creating world-class opportunities for the children of the region. In 2005, for example, we collaborated with our patron, Sir Colin Davis, to hold an enormously successful orchestral workshop for talented young musicians. In early 2006 we held a similar event with distinguished Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek. Sir Colin returns next year to lead another workshop as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

For Chamber Orchestra Anglia, and for our clients, audiences and young musicians, these are exciting times.



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