We have been contacted by Aran Corcoran, an Irish composer and writer/translator. Aran has recently completed two short Irish-language song cycles for youth choir and orchestra as part of a new music resource called...
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...
‘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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
A library of out-of-copyright music has been created online at www.imslp.org. The goal of the Petrucci Music Library is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores...
IAYO have recently added copies of the Orchanics series by Richard Ling to the IAYO music library. The sets are all written for beginner up to grade 3 standard and all string parts are...
