IAYO Music Library Relaunched
IAYO operates a music library for use by member orchestras including a range of works for full orchestra, string orchestra and various chamber ensembles. We are delighted to announce that we have updated our...
Category: Repertoire
Ukrainian Scores Available for Free
The team of the Lviv National Opera has made scores of Ukrainian music available for free online, including the Ukrainian national anthem. They have launched an electronic music library Stand with Ukraine with works by Ukrainian...
Character Suites for String Quartets
Katharina Baker, Director at the Coole Music in Gort, Galway has been very busy in recent years composing music for youth orchestras and young chamber groups (along with many other musical activities). A number...
Alan Cutts’ ‘Music Visible’ Conducting Books Available Online
‘Music Visible’ is the title Alan Cutts gave to a three-part course book he wrote for use with his students studying conducting as part of their degree course at CIT Cork School of Music....
Take a Bow
We have been contacted by the composer of a new set of easy and fun pieces for the young string orchestra and string ensembles. This music is child friendly – ‘has catchy tunes and...
A Gift of Music
Composer Vincent Kennedy contacted IAYO following the Festival of Youth Orchestras this year to offer some of his pieces for youth orchestras. Vincent’s music has been played at the festival in recent years by the...
Folk Arrangements for Elementary Orchestra
The following scores are provided courtesy of Alan Cutts, lecturer in orchestration at the CIT Cork School of Music. The degree course in the school is 4 yearsʼ long. In 2nd year, students are...
Free Scores and Parts Available from Kilkenny Youth Orchestra
Philip Edmonson at Kilkenny School of Music has arranged music for the Kilkenny Youth Orchestra by composers such as Berlioz, Borodin, Dvorak, Grieg, Handel, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Scores and parts are written using ‘Sibelius’...
New Music in the IAYO Library
New Music IAYO has purchased a number of sets from the Kaleidoscope series that are arranged for a variety of ensembles including orchestras, bands, strings, woodwind and percussion groups or almost any combination of...
