`Project Remix

Join us in a celebration of music with Project Remix 2025!

If you are a secondary school musician who is around Grade 5 or above, we would love to hear from you! In Spring 2025, we will be celebrating Project Remix’s vibrant musical history with Remix Revisited. We will be looking back over Project Remix’s previous contemporary music themes as participants are mentored through rehearsals by our very own CBSO musicians. The project will take place over a number of weeks and will culminate in a performance at Symphony Hall on Sunday 16 March 2025.

As well as the more typical orchestral instruments, we are looking for electric guitarists, bass guitarists and drum kit players to join this ensemble.

About Project Remix

Each year, Project Remix celebrates a different contemporary theme through exciting orchestral arrangements. In the past, we have performed music from MOBO award-winning CBSO Youth Orchestra alum, Laura Mvula, as well as celebrating Birmingham’s rich cultural heritage with a collection of South Asian hits alongside Bollywood singer Navin Kundra, and sitarist Tommy Khosla. In previous years we have also explored the music of video games like Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros and last year’s programme showcased music from popular shows such as Stranger Things, Wednesday, Squid Games and the Umbrella Academy.

Photograph of a teenage girl holding a French Horn waiting to go on-stage at Symphony Hall for a Project Remix performance

Apply now for 2025!

Key Facts

Project Remix is free of charge to participants.
We ask that participants are around Grade 5 or above in their instrument/voice.
This project is open to students aged 11-18.
The project is non-auditioned, but participants need to send in an application by Monday 11th November 2024 (EXTENDED DEADLINE: Friday 13th December for Viola, Lower Brass and Percussion.)
We are currently operating an extended deadline of Friday 13th December for the following instruments; Viola, Lower Brass and Percussion.
Places on the project are limited and will be allocated once applications close.

24-25 Rehearsal Dates

Rehearsals will take place from 18:00- 20:00 at the CBSO Centre on the following dates:

Tuesday 21 January 2025
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Thursday 6 February 2025
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Thursday 13 February 2025 -- (Rehearsal time 18:30-20:30)
Thursday 27 February 2025
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Thursday 13 March 2025

There will also be a rehearsal at Symphony Hall on Sunday 16 March 2025 from 13:30 – 14.30 before the concert at 16:30 – 17:15.