03/04/2017 Newsround

Hello, Jenny here with your Monday Newsround.

First up, England Women's head coach Mark Sampson has named his 23 player

squad for this summer's European football Championships

Four players have been selected for their first major tournament -

Manchester City trio Demi Stokes, Isobel Christiansen

and Nikita Parris, as well as Chelsea's Millie Bright.

Next he's gone from talented Violin player to leading

Ayshah went to meet 11 Year old Matthew.

At 11-years-old, he's ready to become one of the world's

Pretty soon, he's going to be up on stage at the front

of this Symphony Orchestra, leading them through

a performance of an operetta called Die Fledermaus.

Tell me a little bit about why you've decided to do conducting.

At the start I never really wanted to start conducting,

because a few years back my music teacher, Derek, told me to learn

this conducting piece, Die Fledermaus, the one I'm playing

But at the time I wasn't able to conduct this

This is a really important rehearsal for Matthew.

It's one of the last chances for the players

to get everything right before their massive performance.

There are 75 players in the orchestra, and it's his job

to lead them, keeping them all in time with each other

and checking that the audience can hear all the different parts.

My job with the orchestra is keeping time, making sure they're

I'm just controlling how they play, I can control if they play

What is it like to be in control of all of those adults?

It's very difficult, because, as a kid, usually I don't

really control them, they control me.

But when I'm playing the song, I have to tell them what to do,

and what to do when they start and when they finish.

He's better than some adult conductors that I've played

You have to put the stick higher so they see it,

but you have to make sure they can see your stick because if they can't

and they're not playing, they're just being really lazy.

Well, it looks like you've got your work cut out, Matthew,

Next, meet one of Africa's rising ballet stars.

16 year old Joel grew up in a very poor area of Kenya's capital,

Nairobi, before moving to the United States to train.

Now, he's returned home to share the beauty of ballet.

Three years ago I studied ballet here. It was a programme by a girl

called Annabel, she wanted a couple of dancers, so I auditioned and I

got in and that's when everything changed from there. My name is Joe

Keogh court and I'm a ballet dancer. -- Joel Campbell

Joel Kioko. I asked if you wanted to dance as a career. My friends

sometimes teased me. Your self-esteem goes down but I didn't

listen to them that much, I just let it all pass. When you hear ballet,

the one thing you think about is people are wearing tutus and tights

but a lot of that there is a lot of work, a lot of time management which

you have to make for yourself and a lot of sacrifices, I don't have a

normal teenage life. Ten years from now -- from now, if things have

worked out well, I will come back and open a small studio and get kids

from the streets and the slums that I know and come and teach them that

people can have an opportunity. I'm very proud. Sometimes you feel like

crying because of happiness. When I'm settled and in a company that I

love, that's when I will truly have made it. I've been fighting for this

the whole time, that is when I will take a breath and just relax. Very

cool. That is all from the team today. Newsround back tomorrow

morning with Ricky. Have a brilliant evening.