TIYO is pleased to welcome Rondo Production as a partner organisation for the inaugural season. Rondo Production, based in Malaysia, produces RondoFest Music Festival and Tour, a residential training programme and concert tour for young orchestral musicians in Southeast Asia.

RondoFest 2027 is planned for June 2027. TIYO applicants who wish to be considered for that festival can say so on the TIYO application form. The request is optional. It is not part of the TIYO audition and it does not affect whether a place is offered in February.

Rondo Production will receive the names of those who opt in after TIYO applications close. Any further invitation, fee or schedule for RondoFest is set by Rondo Production, not by TIYO.

The two projects sit at different points in the year: TIYO in mid-February, RondoFest in June. A player may take part in both if selected for each.

TIYO is delighted to announce a partnership with the Euroasia Association of Performing Arts. Euroasia, based in Kuala Lumpur, runs the Euroasia Competition and a network of performance and education projects across the region. The two organisations will work together to put serious young string players in front of TIYO’s inaugural season.

As part of the partnership Euroasia is offering the TIYO 2027 Scholarship. It covers the full TIYO programme fee of ฿45,000 for the inaugural residential course, 14 to 20 February 2027. The award is made to one distinguished strings winner of the Euroasia Competition. It does not cover the application fee, travel or other personal costs.

To be considered, a player must submit a TIYO audition at tiyo.org by 31 October 2026 and must be offered a place in the orchestra. The scholarship recipient will be announced at the Euroasia Competition Final Round on 5 and 6 December 2026 at Sunway University.

The partnership does not change TIYO’s selection process. Places in the orchestra are awarded on the recorded audition. The scholarship is a fee award attached to a place already offered.

Applications for TIYO 2027 are open now. Details of the Euroasia Competition are published by Euroasia at euroasia.org.my.

TIYO is delighted to announce that Franke Violins, BAM Cases, Thomastik-Infeld and Jargar Strings have joined the orchestra as Season Partners for its inaugural season in February 2027. Between them they make the instruments, the strings and the cases that young musicians across the region carry to rehearsal every week.

Franke Violins is a family firm of luthiers founded in 1894, now in its fifth generation, with houses in Leipzig, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Bangkok and Jakarta. Its Bangkok workshop has become a home for string players across the region, connecting young musicians in Asia to a European craft tradition stretching back more than a century.

BAM Cases has been making instrument cases in Dives-sur-Mer, in Normandy, since 1980. Its cases are carried by professional players in orchestras around the world, and the company's work in protective design has become a standard of the industry. For young musicians travelling to a residential course, that protection is not a small thing.

Thomastik-Infeld inspires musicians all over the world with high-quality strings and a wide range of sound colours. To express their emotions. And to continually rediscover the joy of making music. From inventing the first steel strings for bowed instruments to other groundbreaking innovations like SPIROCORE and the iconic DOMINANT strings, all these innovations shape the sound of classical music to this day.

TIYO is continuing to build its family of partners ahead of the inaugural season, and would welcome conversations with organisations and individuals who share its belief in serious musical training for young players of every nationality. Details of the partnership tiers, and of the supporters already on board, are on the Support page.

TIYO has chosen Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in Maurice Ravel's celebrated orchestration, as the main work for its inaugural 2027 programme.

Mussorgsky wrote the piece in 1874 as a suite for solo piano, a musical walk through an exhibition of paintings and designs by his friend Viktor Hartmann, composed in tribute after the artist's sudden death. Each movement depicts a single picture, from a medieval castle to children quarrelling in a Paris park to a lumbering oxcart, linked by a recurring "Promenade" theme that carries the visitor from one frame to the next. In 1922, at the urging of conductor Serge Koussevitzky, Ravel reimagined the piano score as one of the most brilliantly coloured works in the entire orchestral repertoire.

Few pieces give so much to so many players, which is exactly why it suits a young orchestra. It opens with a solo trumpet, then features an alto saxophone, rarely heard in the symphony orchestra, in "The Old Castle", a singing tuba in the oxcart, nimble woodwinds in the "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks", a large and busy percussion section throughout, and a finale, "The Great Gate of Kiev", that builds through bells and full brass to one of the most thrilling closes in all of orchestral music. Nearly every section steps into the spotlight, and Ravel's orchestration is one of the finest lessons a developing musician can have in how an orchestra creates colour.

Pictures at an Exhibition will sit at the heart of the programme the orchestra performs at its closing concerts in February 2027.

The Thailand International Youth Orchestra has confirmed that Jörg-Peter Weigle will take the podium for its inaugural season, leading the orchestra through its residency and closing concerts in February 2027.

Weigle brings one of the most substantial conducting careers in Europe to TIYO's founding year. A former boy chorister of Leipzig's Thomanerchor, the choir historically associated with Bach, he went on to lead three major German orchestras: Chief Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Stuttgart Philharmonic, and most recently General Music Director of the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. His career has carried him on tour across Europe, the Americas and Japan.

For an orchestra built around the development of young players, his appointment carries particular weight. Weigle has spent decades training the next generation, holding a professorship in Berlin and leading conservatoire orchestras alongside his professional engagements.

Throughout the residency, Weigle will work alongside TIYO's full faculty of professional orchestral musicians, leading the orchestra through to its closing concerts.

TIYO has assembled a faculty of professional orchestral musicians and educators for its inaugural season, with tutors now confirmed across every section of the orchestra.

The 2027 faculty draws from some of the most respected ensembles in the region and beyond, including the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. Tutors also join from the Tianjin Juilliard School and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory.

Among them are concertmasters, section principals and conservatoire faculty, each with significant experience guiding young musicians. They will live and work alongside TIYO's players throughout the residency, leading sectionals, coaching chamber groups and mentoring the orchestra section by section.

The full faculty roster is available on the Faculty page.

The Thailand International Youth Orchestra is delighted to announce Rugby School Thailand as the Venue Partner for its inaugural 2027 season. The orchestra will be based on the school's campus in Chonburi for its residency and rehearsals, establishing RST as the founding home of TIYO.

The programme is being built and delivered by TIYO's Founder and Artistic Director, Graeme Norris, who leads the artistic direction, faculty, auditions and full operational delivery of the season.

Rugby School Thailand brings world-class performing arts facilities to the partnership, along with the space for a full symphony orchestra to live, rehearse and perform together over a concentrated week. The campus is also home to a new concert hall, the Teepsuwan Theatre, scheduled for completion in November 2026, which will give TIYO a purpose-built venue for its inaugural season.

TIYO's inaugural season runs from 14 to 20 February 2027.