I chose to do BYMT purely for enjoyment as I love playing in pit bands and it seemed like a great experience

Thank you to Molly for sharing this really inspiring story with us, and best of luck at Uni!

I wanted to share something about my experience with BYMT that has been super important and great for my life!

I was part of the production of The Legend of White Bear Lake last year (before starting my final year of A Levels), I played clarinet and bass clarinet in the band. The show was incredible, it was inspiring to be with such talented musicians and creative people – especially Caroline Wigmore (writer) and Gen Green (composer) and the whole creative team.

I chose to do BYMT purely for enjoyment, as I love playing in pit bands and it seemed like a great experience. I had no idea until two months later, when I received a certificate through the post, that we would receive Grade 8 Musical Theatre in Production for being part of the show!

Prior to that, I had been really struggling with what to do at university – I loved music but since I hadn’t done the A Level it wasn’t really an option for me. There was nothing else that really appealed, so I was going to leave applying to university until next year – until I got that certificate in the post. This made me realise that Music at university was an option as I now had a grade 8 qualification! This made me so happy, and I started researching universities straight away. I am really happy to say that I received offers from 4 universities to study Music, and this is basically all down to BYMT. Molly Clark, BYMT Company of 2016

BYMT MUSICIAN AUDITIONS are now open for applications email hannahkipling@bymt.org to book and for further information, more info can also be found here. BYMT PERFORMER AUDITIONS are  open for booking too, dates and locations are listed on our website here.