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​ 2022-23 Season Dates
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​Saturday September 17th - Sunday December 11th 2022
(Half-term Saturday October 22nd and 29th - no rehearsals)
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Saturday January 7th - Saturday March 18 (WYSO continues until March 25th) 2023
(Half-term Saturday February 18th - no rehearsals)
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Saturday April 22nd - Saturday July 1st 2023
(Half-term Saturday June 3rd - no rehearsals)

2022-23 Concert dates: 
Sunday December 11th 2022 - afternoon - all YMWes Ensembles
​Sunday March 19th 2023- morning - YMWes Ensembles
Saturday March 25th 2023 - evening - Wessex Youth Symphony Orchestra 
Saturday July 1st 2023 - evening - all YMWes ensembles 


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The Gainsford Theatre - Lytchett Minster School

​See you on the downbeat!

Meet the team

With between them, more than 190 years of association with youth music in Wessex, the YMWes team is passionate about continuing the ethos and ensuring the Wessex tradition is secured for generations of young musicians to come.   

​Youth Music Wessex CIC - where highly skilled performing professionals come together to share their knowledge and expertise from the world stage, with the young musicians in their care.

To read more about the YMWes staff, please click on their photos.



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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