Ben Matson is a cellist with the National Youth Orchestra and is currently in his final year of study.
He says his role is to guide and help other young people.
National Youth Orchestra to tour Manchester soon
The National Youth Orchestra will be touring in Manchester soon and he is looking forward to it as he
has performed at Bridgewater Hall before but has never performed with the National Youth Orchestra.
On the first day of the residency, the orchestra all arrived and started rehearsing.
National Youth Orchestra begins tour preparations
They needed time to adjust to playing in a large group for the first time in a long time, and this was also true
for the cello section, which Ben Matson was a part of. It took them a while to find a sound that they were
happy with, so on the first day they started a full orchestra rehearsal and played Mahler’s 1st Symphony
and we realised that we had to work on it. A week later, the National Youth Orchestra has finished all the
orchestra rehearsals and is starting to prepare for the tour.