National Youth Orchestra

The NJO National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands was founded in 1957. It offers young talented musicians between 18 and 27 years old the opportunity to perform orchestral and chamber music at a (pre)professional level. For instance during the NJO Summer Festival, an annual festival involving the most beautiful locations in the province of Gelderland, and during the NJO Winter Tour, when the orchestra travels to the best concert halls in the country. Read more >>

National Youth Orchestra visits Oman

The wind quintet of the National Youth Orchestra paid a visit to Oman in collaboration with the Dutch Embassy, in light of 400 years of maritime relations between The Netherlands and Oman. The Dutch amassador her excellency Dr. Stella Kloth and the Undersecretary for Political Affairs of the Foreign Ministry of Oman his excellency Sheikh Khalifa Alharthy attended the concert in Bait a Zubair, Muscat.

"Playing with the Youth Orchestra was literally life changing for me. It meant the world."

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NJO returns from a great summer tour 2024!

Elias Grandy

Elias Grandy, Conductor NJO Summer Tour 2025

During the NJO Summer Tour 2025, conductor Elias Grandy will work with the National Youth Orchestra on two highlights of the romantic orchestral repertoire. Two love stories, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and Prokofievs Romeo and Juliet, intertwined in a perfect summer programme. As an exciting addition, the NJO will perform 'Hands free' by Anna Meredith, for which they will receive special performance training. This tour will travel from the Muziekzomer Gelderland Festival to Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Kassel and Konzerthaus Berlin (Young Euro Classic).

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13 May 2022

Summer programme NJO now available

From chamber music ensemble to full-blown opera production: the musicians of the National Youth Orchestra will bring five different programmes this…

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