Rainice Lai admitted to Youtube Orchestra.

Congratulations to Principal Percussionist, Ms Rainice Lai, who was selected to participate in Youtube Symphony Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall (one of the most prestigious venues in the world) on 15 April 2009 under Grammy Award-winning conductor and music director for the San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas. She is the only musician from Hong Kong to participate in the orchestra.

Youtube Symphony Orchestra is an international orchestra of 96 musicians who auditioned on the YouTube video-sharing Web site. The orchestra was assembled after more than 3,000 auditions were submitted in December and January. Judges from some of the world's top orchestras whittled the number to 200 before the winners were chosen by viewers of YouTube.

The project is a collaboration between YouTube, the London Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Grammy Award -winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Academy Award -winning and Olympics composer Tan Dun, world-renowned pianist Lang Lang, and many other classical musicians and leading institutions.

Rainice Lai in the Media

South China Morning Post 2009/03/04 - Hong Kong musician to play in YouTube Orchestra
The Standard 2009/04/16 - HK teen's performance more than cymbal-ic
明報 2009/03/07 - 17歲少女敲出彩虹 YouTube交響樂團最年輕成員 學藝3年 盼成敲擊樂家
翡翠台 2009/04/16 黎慧敏Rainice Lai接受電視台訪問
高清翡翠台 港17歲少女入選YouTube交響樂團
本港台 黎慧敏Rainice Lai接受電視台訪問