Students meet for intensive rehearsals and have access to a range of performance opportunities in significant venues across Gloucestershire.  There are opportunities to work with contemporary music and student compositions as well as standard orchestral repertoire.

Musicians must be of at least grade 8 standard as well as having excellent sight-reading skills.

Performances in recent seasons have included a lockdown recording of Beethoven's Egmont Overture; Gloucester Cathedral with Cheltenham Cathedral Youth Choir; a community opera performance at Cheltenham Music Festival and performances at the Three Choirs Festival and Water City Music Festival.