Ventspils Secondary Music School is planning to participate in the Nordic Youth Orchestra course of 2016 in Lund, Sweden. Practice will be 3 week long, there will be 3 students participating. The Nordic Youth Orchestra is a summer course that has been held in Lund every summer since 1951. One of the main goals with the course, apart from the obvious musical ones, is to get young people from different countries to meet and hereby develop understanding for each other’s different backgrounds and possibilities. The course was founded by the Swedish composer, conductor and violinist John Fernström (1897-1961) and The Nordic Youth Orchestra are proud to carry on his legacy as promoters of young people performing music and of sharing, protecting and developing a mutual cultural heritage. The participants will work every day between 09.00 a.m. and 19.00 p.m. with symphonic music, chamber music and group rehearsals under the leadership of highly qualified instructors and conductors. Artistic Director Stefan Solyom is the Artistic Director of The Nordic Youth Orchestra since 2002. He currently holds the position as “Generalmusikdirektor des Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar und Chefdirigent der Staatskapelle Weimar“. Academical points The course is a professional training program and gives every participant, after passing grade, 7, 5 academical points from Malmö Academy of Music.