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Quick Look @ What's On @ Youth Music Wessex in 2025-26

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2025-26 Season Dates: 

September 13th - Season Launch
(including taster sessions for the Robbie Bowering Brass and Wessex Recorder Classes & the ​YMWes Grand Open Orchestra event)

September 20th - "Overture to Conducting" Workshop 
Venue TBC

Autumn Term
Saturdays from September 27th - December 7th
(Half-term Saturday 1st November)

Spring Term
Saturdays from January 10th - March 21st 
- WYSO continues until March 28th
(Half-term Saturday 21st February)

Summer Term
Saturdays from April 25th - July 4th
(Half-term Saturday May 30th)
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​2025-26 Concert dates: 

Sunday December 7th 2025 - all YMWes ensembles

​March 21st 2026 - YMWes ensembles 

Saturday March 28th 2026 - WYSO Gala Concert

​Saturday July 4th 2026 - all YMWes ensembles
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The Gainsford Theatre - Lytchett Minster School

​See you on the downbeat!

Youth Music Wessex CIC - Policies and Procedures

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Inspire

​"Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music."

​​- Gerald Ford

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Knowledge

“Why do we teach music? Not because we expect you to specialise in music, not because we expect you to play and sing all your life, not so you can relax, but:
so you will be human. 

So you will recognise beauty, so you will be sensitive, so you will have something to cling to, so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good, in short, more life. 

Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?

​That is why we teach music.” 

​- Unknown

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Quality

"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education"

- Plato