Joining The Proms a tremendous honour - youth choir

A youth choir in Surrey has received an invite to join a sold-out performance at this year's BBC Proms.

Farnham Youth Choir (FYC) will perform with the National Youth Orchestra during a rendition of Neptune in Holst's famous The Planets at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 August.

The group's artistic director, Patrick Barrett, said: "For our small-town choir to be invited to such a prestigious, globally recognised event is a tremendous honour."

It follows the choir competing at the 2024 World Choir Games in New Zealand, where they won two gold medals.

A collection of 30 singers aged between 13 to 21-years-old will be singing at The Proms.

Melanie Hancox, FYC's chair of trustees, told BBC South East they received the invitation for their first appearance at the prestigious show at short notice but are fully embracing it.

"We are absolutely thrilled at being able to offer this remarkable performance opportunity to our young singers," Ms Hancox said.

Since being founded in 1984, the choir has performed with groups like the London Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra.

All of the concerts at The Proms will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, with 25 of the nights being televised.

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