The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s Mentoring Scheme was instituted in the 2010/11 season.

The scheme is designed to offer advanced third level instrumental students the chance to audition, rehearse and perform with the orchestra and also with prominent conductors and soloists. In 2010, nine students from across Ireland took part in the scheme. Those nine students eventually performed Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with the RTÉ NSO under its Principal Conductor, Alan Buribayev, in November 2010.

Following the success of the first edition of the scheme, applications and assessment have been taking place over the past few months in order to select students to participate this season. Successful applicants, who have now all been chosen, will perform with the orchestra at the National Concert Hall on 4 November under conductor Matthias Bamert. The programme for the concert includes Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto in D minor and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’, alongside a surprise RTÉ NSO ‘Wild Card’.

Matthias Bamert will be in conversation with the RTÉ NSO 2011 Mentoring Scheme participants before the concert, at 7.00pm.

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Pictured: Matthias Bamert.