Our Story
Performance of ‘Anticlockwise’ with the Ulster Orchestra – Millennium Forum
Led by acclaimed choral director Dónal Doherty, the project was launched in August 2015. NBYC provides a unique platform for young people, from schools across the different sectors in North Belfast, to nurture and showcase their talents and attributes, whilst simultaneously raising aspirations, celebrating the diversity and energy of a shared community and projecting a positive image of the neighbourhoods in which the young people live.
Supported by global musical organisations, we offer young people extraordinary educational opportunities and collaborations. NBYC, through its variety of projects and travels, has pioneered and consolidated a new East/West link. These choral and orchestral collaborations with Codetta Youth choir, and the Ulster Orchestra, linking Derry/Londonderry and Belfast, create a criss-cross of performances and workshops at venues such as the Millennium Forum, the Titanic Hotel and the Ulster Hall including a residential for NBYC in Derry/Londonderry.
Trip to Londonderry to compete in the National Youth Choir Competition at the City of Derry International Choral Festival
Our Objectives
- Increase awareness amongst the students of the global citizenship and dimensions of the world they live in, by giving them access to collaborations and opportunities to travel to destinations that they may never otherwise have the capacity to visit.
- Facilitate students, despite their socio-economic background, with the same opportunity as available in other schools to access the highest standard of choral and musical tuition.
- Provide an alternative learning environment / experiences for students to develop their life skills, extending learning beyond the confines of the classroom.
- Increase awareness amongst the students of their cultural heritage and shared cultural heritage, through music and song.
- Leave a legacy of improving cultural relations in the divided community of North Belfast.
- Encourage the students to have high expectations and aspirations despite the prevailing lack of optimism and hopefulness within their community.
- Raise the profile of the young people from North Belfast community and the achievements of those students within the local and wider community.
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NBYC is an award-winning, interdenominational choir. It provides a unique platform for young people drawn from schools across the different religious sectors in North Belfast, to nurture and showcase their talents, raise aspirations and in celebrating and embracing diversity make meaningful friendships across divided communities.
