Edinburgh Young Musicians

Congratulations to EYM violin teacher Tess Moran on the birth of her son Logan last Wednesday.

It's that time of year again when our S4, S5 & S6 pupils are (re)discovering the mental health and emotional benefits of taking a break from revision to focus on a session of music practice or to attend their EYM classes. When they return to their revision, their brains feel refreshed, their stress levels are reduced, their revision becomes much more productive and the exams don't seem like such an unwelcome prospect!

Members of one of our P2/3 Musical Workshop classes were thrilled that one of their dads visited their class last Saturday with his bassoon, giving them a chance to see & hear it played live. It seems that every question that could possibly be asked about a bassoon was asked!

Huge congratulations to our Junior & Senior String Orchestras who did us proud with their excellent and confident performances as part of the Janie Beeston Memorial Concert promoted by Edinburgh Competition Festival Association on Saturday afternoon. Anne Giles conducted a varied programme including music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Handel, Johann Strauss the Younger & Piazzola. All that careful rehearsal really paid off!

EYM teachers and assistants are wonderful! With a sudden flurry of unavoidable staff absence on the last 2 EYM Saturdays, including 2 teachers being taken ill during the last 2 Friday nights, other teachers and assistants have been totally supportive and willing to step up to take classes they don't normally take, with almost no warning. Thank you Laura, Katie R, Yasmin H, Max, Maria, Helen & Alex for being so wonderfully accommodating!

Many congratulations to former EYM pupil Murray Baillie, seen here receiving a runner-up trophy at Midlothian Young Solo Musician of the Year competition this week, for his extremely accomplished and sensitive performance of a movement of Edwin York Bowen's Flute Sonata.

What an excellent, if slightly early, Christmas concert we had on Saturday! String orchestras, choir in all its various formations, chamber music, recorder consorts and recorder ensemble all performed with great skill and enthusiasm. And the audience obviously relished the chance to join in with some of the carols.

We are delighted that former EYM pupil Yasmin Mair has just joined our staff to teach some Musicianship classes. As well as playing the French horn, Yasmin is a music therapist and teacher of piano and singing, with several current & former EYM children amongst her private piano pupils. Welcome back Yasmin!

It's always lovely to hear news of former EYM pupils. Now that we've been running for 27 years, maybe we shouldn't be surprised to hear that one has just been made a professor. Congratulations to Prof. Susi Ebmeier!

EYM pupils have loved these days on many occasions in the past. New friends, new music and fresh inspiration!

🎉🎶 Exciting news! Our popular Autumn Play Away Day is now OPEN for booking! 🍁🍂

No auditions, no previous experience of SScOT needed—just come ready to have fun and make music! 🎉🎻🎺 Open to orchestral and wind band instruments, aged 9-15 (Grade 2+)

Join us this November at the Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust and be part of a String Orchestra or Wind Band, AND a full Symphony Orchestra! 🎶✨

Hurry, places fill up fast—this event is always a sell-out! 💛

📅 Sunday, 16th November 2025
📍 Broughton High School, Edinburgh
🕙 10am - 4pm

Don't miss out—sign up now! 👉 https://www.sscot.org.uk/play-away-days/

Let's make some amazing music together! 🎵🙌