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Proms Family Orchestra & Chorus

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BBC Proms Family Orchestra was launched in 2006, when five people turned up at a primary school in Reading for the first rehearsal. More recent Proms Family Orchestras have become bigger than your average symphony orchestra, featuring a wide range of music, and an even wider range of ages!

The idea is to give family members - whether mums, dads, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or grandparents - the chance to play music together. Everyone is welcome, from keen amateurs to those who've never played in an orchestra before - and it's ideal for those who haven't picked up their instrument in years!

Whatever instrument you play, at whatever level, you can come and join in the fun.

'The orchestra was fantastic, the music outstanding, the choir tremendous and the whole event absolutely brilliant! The musicianship of the people involved with leading the session was brilliant. We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and would love to do it again.' Jane Pullen - Proms Family Orchestra 2008

All Family Orchestra events take place at the Royal College of Music. (Except 16 August which takes place in Kensington Gardens.)

Saturday 1 August, 2.00pm - after Prom 21
Dinosaurs and Dodos! The Proms Family Orchestra inspired by Darwin.
4.45pm: Natural History Museum Proms Family Orchestra in performance

Sunday 2 August 2.00pm - after Prom 23
Dinosaurs and Dodos! The Proms Family Orchestra inspired by Darwin.
4.45pm: Natural History Museum Proms Family Orchestra in performance.

Saturday 8 August, 2.00pm - before Prom 31
The Proms Family Orchestra creates its own Concerto for Orchestra.

Sunday 16 August, 2.00pm - 3.30pm - after Prom 41
Join members of the Bollywood Brass Band, the Proms Bollywood Family Orchestra and Chorus as part of Indian Voices in the Park and learn how to dance Bollywood style! Part of Indian Voices Day

Monday 31 August 2.00pm - before Prom 61
The final Proms Family Orchestra of the season.

Sunday 6 September 2.00pm - 4.00pm - before Prom 68
Royal Albert Hall Proms Singing Day: Join the Proms Family Chorus.

Sign up online for these events.

Or you can download the Proms Learning Events form to sign up for the Family Orchestra, and the Singing Day form to join the Proms Family Chorus.

For more information email promslearning@bbc.co.uk or call
020 7765 0643.

Find out more about the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 'Out+About' programme.

Proms Family Orchestra Goes North

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Sunday 26 July

In 2009 Proms Learning has sought participation from families of all musical abilities to build a new Proms Family Orchestra in Salford and London. Combining members of earlier Proms Family Orchestras in London and bringing them together with new members from Salford, the Family Orchestra will work with musicians from the BBC Philharmonic on a newly devised piece inspired by Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra to be performed on 26 July as part of this year's free Family Prom.

If you live in or near London, email promslearning@bbc.co.uk or call 020 7765 0643 to find out more about this project and how you can get involved. If you live near Salford, click here to find out more about how to get involved.

All Proms Plus events are free of charge.
Capacity is limited: we advise arriving early for the more popular events.
To get your copy of the Proms Plus booklet, email proms@bbc.co.uk