Australian Youth Orchestra Autumn Season Concert
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Step into a musical time machine as our flagship orchestra transports you to an era of great societal upheaval and political uncertainty. And no, it is not 2020.
Concert Date
Saturday 6 April, 7:30pm
Federation Concert Hall
Hobart / nipaluna
Over a century ago, composers were responding to major historical events that would change society forever. World Wars I and II compelled composers to create music that told the stories of those times. Ravel and Debussy, musical trailblazers, used innovative harmonies and lively orchestrations to break free from traditional music rules.
Between the wars, Szymanowski mixed in Polish folk tunes into his Violin Concerto, capturing in amber his emotional tribute to his country. Prokofiev’s Symphony No.5 is like a victory dance, full of energy and spirit.
This concert is a journey through the sounds of these amazing composers, each with their own style, pushing the boundaries of what music can be, and capturing the essence of the most turbulent of times – before our own that is.
Program
RAVEL La Valse
SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No.2
DEBUSSY arr. Tognetti La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
PROKOFIEV Symphony No.5
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About AYO
The Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) has a reputation for being one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative training organisations for young pre-professional musicians.
Our training pathway has been created to nurture the musical development of Australia’s finest young instrumentalists across metropolitan and regional Australia, from the emerging, gifted, school-aged student to those on the verge of a professional career. AYO presents tailored training and performance programs each year for aspiring musicians, composers, arts administrators and music journalists aged 12 to 30.
When Professor John Bishop OBE and Ruth Alexander convened the first National Music Camp in 1948, they created an institution that would fire the imaginations of over 12,000 young Australian musicians, see its orchestras tour the globe and instil in its participants a love of music and a dedication to the highest standards of performance.
AYO occupies a special place in the musical culture of Australia, where one generation of brilliant musicians inspires the next, where aspiring musicians get a taste of life as professional musicians, and where like-minded individuals from all over the country gather for intense periods to learn from each other, study and perform. On the world stage, AYO has established itself as a cultural ambassador for Australia on twenty-three international tours since its first in 1970.
Today, countless AYO alumni are members of some of the finest professional orchestras worldwide.
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Car Parking
On-site parking is available; charges apply. Market Place Car Park is open 24 hours, and there is both metered and voucher parking within close proximity to the hotel
About
Satu Vanska
Born to a Finnish family in Japan, Satu Vänskä has developed an international profile through her position for 20 years as Principal Violin of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Regarded as one of the best chamber orchestras in the world, Satu has both directed and performed as violin soloist with the ACO who are highly regarded for delivering transformative musical experiences on the stages of the world’s leading concert halls.
Satu’s development of solo violin projects is an extension and continuation of her desire to continually evolve as a musician and to courageously embrace new musical challenges. Her passion for dynamic programming constantly exploring the link between old and new music, plus blurring the boundaries in cross-genre collaborations gives Satu an appeal that resonates with today’s classical music audiences.
As a soloist, Satu has performed with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, at the Sydney Opera House as part of the venue’s Utzon Room music series, the Melbourne Recital Centre (she opened their Great Performers Series in 2019) and as part of Tasmania’s Mona Foma festival. Further afield, Satu has also performed with London’s Aurora Orchestra in the 2018 London season of Weimar Cabaret with the late Barry Humphries, the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti and the Festival Maribor in Slovenia.
Satu is also the Founder, Curator, Front-woman, Violinist and Vocalist of the critically acclaimed ACO Underground, the ACO’s electro-infused, experimental spin-off project. With ACO Underground, Satu has performed collaborations with artists including Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie and the Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie in venues including New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Phoenix Central Park, and as part of Sydney’s Vivid Festival.
Satu took her first violin lessons at the age of three in Japan and at the age of ten her family moved back to Finland where she continued her studies with Pertti Sutinen at the Lahti Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy. She later studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich as a pupil of Ana Chumachenco.
Satu performs on the 1726 Belgiorno Stradivarius Violin.
Alexandre Bloch
French-born Alexandre Bloch is Music Director of Orchestre National de Lille, a position he has held since 2016/17. Highlights of Alexandre’s final season as Music Director in Lille include a full Sibelius symphony cycle, concert performances of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin and collaborations with internationally acclaimed soloists including Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Alice Sara Ott. He will conclude his tenure with a performance in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. From 2015 – 2021, Alexandre was also Principal Guest Conductor of Düsseldorfer Symphoniker.
Highlights of the 23/24 season includes debuts with City of Birmingham Symphony, Deutsche Oper Berlin, European Union Youth Orchestra, George Enescu International Festival, Rotterdam Philharmonic & Hamburger Philharmoniker. He returns to Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Dusseldorfer Symphoniker and Dresdner Philharmonie, with whom he enjoys a regular relationship. Last season saw his return to Opera de Lyon with Le Nozze di Figaro, and next season he returns to Bayerische Staatsoper to conduct Carmen.
Alexandre works with a wide range of soloists including Nemanja Radulovic, Boris Giltburg, Alice-Sara Ott, Isabelle Faust, Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Alexander Gavrylyuk.
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