AN Alton teenager has ventured, musically at least, into outer space, performing at the BBC Proms with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain?.

Georgie Davis, 17, (pictured) played the viola alongside fellow orchestra teenagers, performing a space-themed BBC? set at the Royal Albert Hall last month.

The first piece was a dramatic new work that brought “drama, movement and vocals” over the top of a ?composition by ??Iris ter Schiphorst?? – composed in response to the discovery of Gravitational Waves? in September 2015.

A couple of weeks ?before the Prom?, Georgie was called up to a London studio to record some text to be voiced over the piece.

“I had to make sure that the words were extremely clear and I had to repeat the script over and over again in different ways, for the composer to choose from - that was used over the top of the orchestra playing,” she explained. “It was amazing hearing my voice booming out in the Albert Hall.

“The second piece was Also Sprach Zarathustra, by Strauss, the beginning of which is famously used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. There is a chamber section for the strings soon after the famous beginning. It makes me cry every time because it is so full and emotional,” Georgie added.

“In the second half we played Holst’s Planets but with an extra planet movement ’Pluto’ added on the end, composed by Colin Matthews, who was there to acknowledge the applause.

“After the concert we spent two days recording the Strauss and the Planets for a CD to be released next year.

“It has been brilliant being with the National Youth Orchestra - I’ve made so many friends from all over Great Britain, some of whom I will be going to music college with in September when I go to the Royal College of Music.”