SAMYO South Asian Music Youth Orchestra 29 January 2005, 7.45pm Queen Elizabeth Hall South Bank Centre London SE1 8XX Box Office: 08703 800 400 www.rfh.org.uk

Samyo is the UK's first national South Asian Music Youth Orchestra. Some of the UK's brightest young musicians come together to play music from the North and South Indian musical traditions. Traditionally, Indian music presents a small ensemble of up to five or six musicians, but Samyo presents up to twenty young talents on stage playing together, in one of the most exciting spectacles on the British Arts scene. With members recruited nationally, the orchestra is fast becoming both prestigious and a fast track to artistic recognition.

Samyo is unique because it presents the diverse styles of Indian music together, performed by dynamic young performers, all of whom are born and brought up in the UK. Because of their ability to understand and play both Western and Indian Music, the orchestra is an exciting phenomenon that has never been seen or heard before!