Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

This project creates a new, three-city European Orchestra ( TRIORCA) encouraging the composition of new classical music and of young talented musicians between three culturally-rich european regions, centred around Norfolk, Novi Sad, and Koblenz. The project establishes a high-quality international youth orchestra of talented musicians from three European countries, playing classical – including 3 new commissioned – works from each partner.

Regular exchanges enable at least 250 English, German and Serbian performers (minimum age 16, maximum 25: especially those otherwise lacking cultural or financial accessibility) to play together in a range of culturally important public spaces, to learn together, and from each other, tutored by professional teachers and conductors, employing culturally distinct, but interesting, methods and approaches.

The short-term aim is to encourage the highest quality of public performance from talented, but inexperienced, performers; the middle term aim is to encourage professional playing and training aspirations. Longer term sustainibility is achieved by giving purpose to active cooperation between the statutory state education bodies for young people, using the political catalysts of – emotionally highly-committed – twinning partners.

The widest aim is, both by precedent and example, to help normalise and enrich cultural relations between talented musicians from the most culturally-liberal province (Vojvodina) of an EU Candidate Country (Serbia), and those in two geographically-similar, culturally-important EU regions (East Anglia and Rheinland-Pfalz).