Yearbook 2020 January – June | EUYO

Yearbook 2020 January – June

Celebrating the legacy of the most European ofcomposers on the 250th anniversary of his birth

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PROGRAMME / 10

ARTISTS / 18

PARTNERS / 38

BEETHOVEN THE INFLUENCER

Ludwig van Beethoven is arguably the most influential classical musician of all time. Both during his life and following his death,

the innovatory nature of his compositions fascinated and preoccupied musicians. Why? Many composers became

obsessed with the style evinced in his late string quartets, last piano sonatas and the ground breaking ninth

symphony. Yet as early as the shattering repetitive chords of the first movement of his ‘Eroica’ symphony,

one cannot fail to see a revolution forming.

THE MOST EUROPEAN OF COMPOSERS

Beethoven’s urbane teacher ‘Papa’ Haydn wrote music full of entertaining games of wit and

invention, playing with music to the limit of its then current form and structure, yet with

care never to trip beyond the edge of the known. Beethoven learnt from the master,

but then headed straight for that edge. And beyond. Consequently his is a world of

struggle, and also a seeming universal quest for freedom from current constraint. Perhaps

this is what makes him the quintessential modern European: always exploring, always in search of invention and change. If Mozart

celebrates, Beethoven questions.

BEETHOVEN’S MIRRORThere are many Beethovens; the revolutionary,

the moralist, the innovator, the didact, the politician. And others too exhausting to list. No

surprise then that in the years since his death the force of Beethoven’s influence has splintered, with

composers and commentators seeking to both define and then claim his crown, to hold the very tradition of

classical music. Few have been immune to this. It is as if we are all looking into a mirror called Beethoven. But coming

at this mirror from a multitude of angles, we inevitably spy differing reflections, refractions and shards of meaning.

Celebrating the legacy of the most European of composers on the 250th anniversary of his birth

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CELEBRATING BEETHOVENDuring 2020 the EUYO celebrates the composer’s 250th anniversary by

exploring Beethoven’s Mirror. The year opens with the Orchestra joining conductor Marin Alsop in her All Together, A Global Ode to Joy project at

the World Economic Forum in Davos. In Spring we planned a series of concerts pairing Beethoven with composers from his own age to the

present day plus short video pieces by distinguished musicians and musicologists. Later in the year a world premiere in Berlin

presents a new European Broadcasting Union commission, Beethoven’s Mirror, followed by immersive Beethoven

chamber music projects in the EUYO’s homes in Ferrara and Grafenegg, engaging a diverse group of audiences.

From Amsterdam to Moscow, from Myanmar to Vienna and beyond, throughout 2020 the EUYO’s young musicians will be found performing and exploring the work and legacy of this most European of composers.

A BREATHTAKING CANVASThe extent of Beethoven’s legacy never fails to amaze: his ninth symphony has provided the European Union with its Ode to Joy hymn but also film maker Stanley Kubrick with material for the dystopian film Clockwork Orange, spreading Beethoven’s music to many millions of people around the globe but with very different forms of intent. Meanwhile rock and roll legend Chuck Berry inveighed against the composer in his famous song Roll over Beethoven, at the same moment that the late quartets and piano

sonatas were providing inspiration for some of the most abstruse and iconoclastic classical music ever

written. The range of the canvas is breathtaking.

AND FINALLY…As ever with the EUYO’s work there is an underlying

premise that sits at the very heart of the European Union, and that is also mirrored in Beethoven’s work: that coming

together in cultural endeavour with access, excellence and joy is one of the very best ways to confront the innumerable

challenges of the world. Given the challenges that we are currently facing from COVID 19 (some of which you can read about in the

following pages) this idea is surely all the more crucial. Meanwhile, welcome to our 2020 programme and to Beethoven’s Mirror.

Marshall MarcusSecretary General, European Union Youth Orchestra

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It is with great pleasure that I accept to be the Honorary President of the European Union Youth Orchestra. This project and the music it involves unites essential values, close to the hearts of European citizens, and through the prism of youth and culture.

This orchestra is formed by a generation full of enthusiasm and potential. Music is the most universal of cultural expressions and with each concert they play, they help shape the Europe of the future. By its very nature music is borderless, and in times of instability and political crises it can create a space wherein solace and unity can be found. The European Union Youth Orchestra does exactly this, bringing together people from all over the continent to work on the simple goal of harmony.

I would therefore particularly like to warmly greet the young musicians selected from the UK, who will continue to be a part of the Orchestra during this tour as part of the UK’s transitional arrangements with the EU. Together, the EUYO was entrusted with a mission to promote the rich and diverse tradition of European Art Music across the continent and internationally. From Mozart to Verdi, Ravel to Arvo Pärt, they have shown aspects of Europe that transcend our borders and each year their repertoire changes to reflect on our history. This year, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, I am particularly delighted to see that they programmed his Symphony no.4 in B-flat major, op. 60 in many concerts during their planned spring tour.

The Spring Tours are a very important opportunity for these young musicians to perform. They planned to begin their project in the Ferrara residency at the renowned Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado, and then go on to perform in Ferrara, Pavia, Grafenegg, and finally end in Vienna. In parallel with playing in these great concert halls, the “Orchestra in Città!” project that brings music to schools, hospitals and retirement homes spreads joy and curiosity to new and diverse audiences.

You young musicians are part of Europe’s and also part of the talent of the future. You will learn to work together harnessing cultural differences and musical traditions with the unique aim of showcasing your talents in this pan-European orchestra. It will be an unforgettable personal experience for each and every one of you, and through the tolerance and respect you will learn from this experience, your music will know no bounds.

I would like to convey my best wishes to the young musicians, their tutors and their conductors. I am convinced that you will enchant each audience once again.

David SassoliPresident of the European Parliament, Honorary President of the European Union Youth Orchestra

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It is with pride that the city of Ferrara hosts the opening concert of the spring tours of the European Union Youth Orchestra. The appointment is part of a well-rooted tradition that holds Ferrara and Music together. A bond that goes back precisely to the conductor and founder of EUYO, Claudio Abbado, to whom the city Municipal Theatre is named after not by mere chance: because it is precisely in our city that Abbado has resumed his activity as conductor after years of absence in Italy; here Abbado fostered realities such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; also here – on the proposal of Maestro Abbado – the Ferrara Musica association was established, to act alongside the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, with the aim of creating a permanent Italian residence for orchestral ensembles made up of the best young European instrumentalists.

The love for great music, for the quality of performances and for talent passes in fact through the promotion of youth activity, a nursery of excellence, which draws momentum from the greats of the past to take care of those of the present and the future.

EUYO is an extraordinary bridge, which connects the great music schools with professional concerts, becoming a training and selection centre for the most refined instrumentalists in Europe.

It is therefore an honour for us to host the Orchestra that transforms Ferrara into its residence for a period. During this annual city stay events are dedicated to the students of the Conservatory and the city’s music schools, open rehearsals, concerts in schools, hospitals and old age homes in Ferrara and the surrounding area. These are extraordinary opportunities and moments of sharing aimed at a large audience, not necessarily expert or passionate about classical music, but certainly capable of being involved through that universal language that is music. A music that leaves its mark, made alive and touching thanks to performances of the highest level, which are accompanied by the concerts of the Orchestra scheduled at the Teatro Claudio Abbado under the direction of maestros such as Vasily Petrenko and Iván Fischer.

Events and experiences like these make Ferrara a cultural centre of excellence, focused on promoting youth activity. We therefore proudly host the European Union Youth Orchestra: a reality that welcomes and promotes the talent of musicians who today are just at the beginning of their career, aware that from here they will be able to take flight and become tomorrow’s great performers.

Alan FabbriMayor of Ferrara

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Seat of Euyo Spring and Autumn Residencies

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At Grafenegg we are dedicated to the education of top musical talent. So it’s always a joy to welcome the EUYO as our guests for the Easter Concert in spring and for three weeks every summer. Moreover, with the composer conductor-workshop INK STILL WET and the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra we offer further platforms for the development of young musicians. With the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra, aimed at young professional players, the cooperation between Grafenegg and the EUYO becomes especially evident: many EUYO alumni count among its members. Following their time with the EUYO, they play in leading orchestras. Now these musicians return to Grafenegg to work with like-minded instrumentalists and to get to the core of orchestra playing without conductor to explore self-responsibility within an orchestra and to allow for all musical ideas and approaches to come directly from its musicians. We are very excited to hear both the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra and the EUYO perform at the Wolkenturm and in the Auditorium.

Philipp SteinManaging Director, Grafenegg

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GRAFENEGG ACADEMY

2020 the Grafenegg Academy at Campus Grafenegg in Lower Austria is led by Artistic Curators Håkan Hardenberger and Colin Currie joined by a group of fellow artists and tutors. The approach of the Grafenegg Academy is a new, creative and ambitious one: it focuses on the exchange of artistic ideas, advanced artistic development, self-res ponsibility, freedom in playing together and the intensive, col-laborative exploration of music.

The participants will be led very far into a new level of motivation, contribution and leadership. Jointly they explore a rich diversity of repertoire and pieces they most likely did not have the chance to play before. The Grafenegg Academy will result in two concert days with orchestra concerts as well as performances of chamber music works.

«We are looking for musicians who have this extra bit

of curiosity, imagination – people who want to think and

contribute a bit more.»Håkan Hardenberger & Colin CurrieTUTORS & MASTERCLASSES

• Håkan Hardenberger Brass • Colin Currie Percussion • Tomo Keller Violins (Academy of St Martin in the Fields)

• Alexandra Conunova Violins (Lausanne Soloists)

• Ruth Gibson Strings (Aurora Orchestra)

• Robin Michael Strings (Les Siècles)

• Céline Moinet Woodwinds (Staatskapelle Dresden)

• Sebastian Stevensson Woodwinds (Danish National

Symphony Orchestra)

and others

WORKSHOPS

• Håkan Hardenberger «Line – a Vertical Reality»

• Colin Currie «Keeping Time – Internalising Pulse in Music»

GRAFENEGG ACADEMY 202112–25 July

Call for applications: Autumn 2020

GRAFENEGG ACADEMY 202029 June –12 July

CONCERTS5 July · Festival of the InstrumentsSTRAVINSKY · BARTÓK · GRIME (Austrian premiere)

12 July · War and PeaceHINDEMITH · HAYDN · HK GRUBER BEETHOVEN · and others

campus.grafenegg.com/GrafeneggAcademy

@Grafenegg @grafeneggcom

APPLY!WHO IS IT FOR?

• Young professional musicians and advanced music students

• Age limit: 35 years

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PROGRAMME JANUARY–JULY 2020 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

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Monday 20 January, 18:15

OPENING CONCERT OF THE 50TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUMDavos Congress Centre

Marin Alsop Conductor

Eri Nakamura Soprano

Luisa Francesoni Mezzosoprano

Zwakele Tshabalala Tenor

Ao Li Bass

European Union Youth Orchestra

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Choir

Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125, Scherzo and Finale

The Opening Concert was generously supported by Intesa Sanpaolo.

The European Union Youth Orchestra appeared at Davos following an invitation to perform at the opening event of the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum that took place on 20 January 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The performance was preceded by the 26th Annual Crystal Awards ceremony, and introductory speeches by Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.

The EUYO supports the theme of the World Economic Forum 2020, Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World, and following the guidelines of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy it has already taken part in initiatives in aid of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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CHANGES TO THE EUYO PROGRAMME FOR 2020 AS A RESULT OF CORONAVIRUS COVID-19

The EUYO’s 2020 programme, as with that of innumerable other cultural organisation’s programmes around the world, has been heavily affected by the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that has been spreading globally since January 2020.

As a result, the Orchestra’s spring residency and concerts, including its extensive Ferrara Orchestra in Città! community programme and concerts in Ferrara and Pavia were cancelled in early March, a matter of days before the intended printing of this programme booklet. We are deeply sorry to have had to cancel this activity, especially our work in our home city of Ferrara.

In the pages that follow we show in their entirety the projects planned for the first half of this year, indicating at the start of each page any that have had to be cancelled as a result of Coronavirus COVID-19 at the time of printing. Apart from such known cancellations, all other programmes from March onwards in the following pages are also subject to change and postponement as a result of the pandemic.

Our hope – no doubt also the hope of all civilised people in Europe and around the world – is that the pandemic passes as swiftly and painlessly as is possible, and that as a global society we learn from it. Such lessons make us more than ever aware of the importance of the European Union as an entity premised on improving our lives by learning better how we should work together.

COVID-19 PROGRAMME CHANGES

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FERRARA

Monday 23 March, 10:00 to 12:00

OPEN REHEARSALSCentro Sociale Il Quadrifoglio

Event reserved for students and guests of the centre.

Thursday 26 March, 10:00 to 11:30

OPEN REHEARSALSTeatro Claudio Abbado

Event reserved for students of Ferrara Conservatory and schools.

Friday 27 March, 10:00 to 13:00

SCHOOL CONCERTScuola T. Bonati – Istituto Comprensivo G. Perlasca

Event reserved for students.

Tuesday 31 March, 16:30

HOSPITAL CONCERTOspedale Sant’Anna, Ferrara

Event reserved for patients in the rehabilitation ward.


OLD AGE HOME CONCERTResidenza Santa Caterina

Event reserved for the guests of the centre.


LIBRARY CONCERTCasa Niccolini

Event reserved for students.

Wednesday 8 April, 10:00 to 11:30

OPEN REHEARSALSTeatro Claudio Abbado

Event reserved for students of Ferrara Conservatory and schools.

Sunday 29 March, 11:00 – 22:00

TEATRO OPEN DAYTeatro Claudio Abbado

11:00 – 11:20Introductory talkIntroduction to Teatro Open Day activities.

Main Hall

11:30 – 13:00Open rehearsalOpen rehearsal of the European Union Youth Orchestra with conductor Peter Stark.

Main Hall

14:00 – 15:00Hands-on!A chance for children and young people to handle and try out different musical instruments, suitable for first timers to classical music.

Ridotto

15:15 – 17:15Side-by-sideYoung Italian musicians will play with EUYO Players in an open rehearsal.

Main Hall

18:00 – 19:00ConcertThe Orchestra Città di Ferrara plays Beethoven’ Septet in E-flat major.

Main Hall

20:00 – 22:00Chamber music concertsChamber music with musicians of the EUYO, the Orchestra a plettro Gino Neri and the Conservatory of Ferrara.

Ridotto

Teatro Open Day is under the patronage of the Comune di Ferrara, in cooperation with

Ferrara Musica, Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado, Orchestra Città di Ferrara, Orchestra a plettro Gino Neri

and Conservatorio Girolamo Frescobaldi.

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ORCHESTRA IN CITTÀ! CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 The EUYO’s Ferrara Community Program

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FERRARA

Saturday 28 March, 18:00

SPIRIT OF SAN MARCOChiesa di San Cristoforo alla Certosa

Brass Ensemble of the EUYO

Claudio MonteverdiDomine ad adiuvandum, SV 206

Giovanni GabrieliCanzon per sonar primi toni a 8

Canzon a double echo

Samuel ScheidtBattle Suite for brass quintet

Giovanni GabrieliSonata pian’ e forte

Sonata octavi toni a 12

Saturday 28 March, 20:30

EUYO BRASS CONCERTTeatro Claudio Abbado

Brass and Percussion Ensemble of the EUYO

Modest Petrovich MussorgskyPictures at an exhibition (arr. by Elgar Howarth for brass ensemble)

Chris HazellThree Brass Cats

Leonard BernsteinWest Side Story suite (arr. Eric Crees for large brass ensemble)

Sunday 5 April, 11:00

FERRARA MUSICA SEASONTeatro Claudio Abbado

Vasily Petrenko Conductor

Truls Mørk Cello


Ludwig van BeethovenDie Geschöpfe des Prometheus, op.43, overture and movements 5, 15 and 16

Robert SchumannCello Concerto in A minor, op.129

Claude DebussyPrélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, L. 86

Ottorino RespighiFeste Romane, P. 157

Thursday 9 April, 20:30

FERRARA MUSICA SEASONTeatro Claudio Abbado

Iván Fischer Conductor

Christina Landshamer Soprano


Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony n. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60

Gustav MahlerSymphony n. 4 in G major

PAVIA

Friday 10 April, 20:30

BEETHOVEN AND MAHLER IN PAVIATeatro Fraschini






SPRING TOUR 2020 CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

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SPRING FANFAREGrafenegg Auditorium Court

Brass Ensemble of the EUYO and Lower Austrian Youth Symphony Orchestra

Gottfried von FreibergAusseer Fanfare


EASTER CONCERTGrafenegg Auditorium






VIENNA

Tuesday 14 April, 19:30

CAPITAL SOUNDS CONCERT 75TH ANNIVERSARY JEUNESSES MUSICALESWien Musikverein


Julia Hagen Cello



Robert SchumannCello Concerto in A minor, op.129


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EUROPE DAY CELEBRATIONS Projects celebrating Europe Day 2020 with EUYO musicians and Alumni

YANGON

Saturday 9 May, 19:00

EUROPE MEETS MYANMARStrand Hall

Performances and workshops with locals musicians for an education project to celebrate Europe Day 2020.

EUYO Alumni String Quartet plus piano

Amalie Kjældgaard Kristensen violin

David López Ibáñez violin

Sofie van der Schalie viola

Klara Wincor cello

Fionnuala Ward piano

Orchestra for Myanmar

National Anthem of Myanmar The European Anthem

Tomaso Albinoni/Remo GiazottoAdagio in G Minor

Ludwig van BeethovenString quartet n.1 in F major, op.18, n.1 String quartet n.11 in F minor, op.95 String quartet n.15 in A minor, op.132

Enrique GranadosQuejas ó la Maja y el Ruiseńor

Franz SchubertBerceuse

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Sunday 10 May, 19:00

SHANGHAI ORCHESTRA ACADEMYShanghai Symphony Hall

Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici Concertmaster

Münchner Philharmoniker

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

EUYO musicians

David Tobin

Salomé Osca

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartDivertimento in F major, KV 138

Felix MendelssohnString Symphony in C major, n. 9

Pyotr TchaikovskySerenade for strings in C major, op. 48

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CONDUCTORS VASILY PETRENKO

EUYO Chief Conductor

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Vasily Petrenko was born in 1976 and started his music education at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School – the oldest music school in Russia before going on to study at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Following considerable success in a number of international conducting competitions, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2007.

In 2021, Petrenko will take up the position of Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Currently, Petrenko holds the position of Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. Petrenko has also served as Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2009-2013, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre (formerly the Mussorgsky Memorial Theatre of the St Petersburg State Opera and Ballet) where he began his career as Resident Conductor from 1994 to 1997.

Highlights of the 2019/20 season include his debut with the Metropolitan Opera of New York with a production of Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, his debut with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and return visits to the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras. He will also make an anticipated return to the Asia-Pacific region, returning to the New Zealand Symphony, and debuting with the West Australian and Singapore Symphony orchestras. Petrenko will lead the Oslo Philharmonic through their 100th Anniversary year, including on an extensive tour of European cities. Ten years on from his landmark Mahler cycle in the 2009-2011 seasons, Petrenko returns to the composer’s symphonies, presenting all nine in chronological order across 2020 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Petrenko has worked with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Czech Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Tokyo and Sydney Symphony. He has appeared frequently at the BBC Proms, George Enescu Festival, Edinburgh Festival and Grafenegg Festival. He has a strong presence in North America, having worked with the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco, Boston and Chicago Symphony orchestras, as well as appearing at the Aspen, Blossom and Ravinia summer festivals.

Equally at home in the opera house, and with over thirty operas in his repertoire, Petrenko has led productions in numerous theatres across the world. He has also conducted numerous concert performances of opera, including Falstaff, Tosca and Parsifal with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and Der fliegende Holländer with the Oslo Philharmonic.

His award winning Shostakovich symphony cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has garnered worldwide acclaim as have recordings of music by Rachmaninov, Elgar and Tchaikovsky’s complete symphonies, piano concertos and Manfred (winner of the 2009 Gramophone Award for Best Orchestral Recording), as well as works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Respighi, Britten, Offenbach, Higdon and Tavener.

With the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra he has released the Shostakovich cello concertos with Truls Mørk, the Szymanowski violin concertos with Baiba Skride, Scriabin’s complete symphonic cycle, and Prokofiev’s complete Romeo and Juliet ballet. Future releases include the continuation of his series of Strauss’ tone poems, Prokofiev and Miaskovsky symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic, and works by Stravinsky, Zemlinsky and Beethoven with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

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Iván Fischer is the founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra since 1983 and Honorary Conductor of Berlin’s Konzerthaus and Konzerthausorchester, after six years as Music Director of the Konzerthaus Berlin (2012–2018). In 2018 he became Artistic Director of the Vicenza Opera Festival. In recent years, he has also gained renown as a composer, with his works being performed in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra’s frequent worldwide tours and a series of critically acclaimed recordings, which have been awarded prestigious international prizes, released first by Philips Classics and later by Channel Classics, have contributed to Iván Fischer’s reputation as one of the world’s most visionary music directors. In Budapest and Berlin he introduced innovative concerts including cocoa concerts for small children, autism friendly concerts, midnight music for students and a variety of outreach activities.

A regular presence on the podium with leading orchestras of the world, Mr. Fischer has guest conducted the Berlin Philharmonic more than ten times and spends two weeks each year with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He is a frequent guest of the Cleveland Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, and held the position of Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. from 2006 to 2010. Mr. Fischer has conducted operas in the Staatsoper Vienna,

the Royal Opera House in London, the Opera de Paris, and in opera houses in Zurich, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Brussels, Berlin and Budapest. He has held music director posts with both the Kent Opera and the Opera National de Lyon. Since 2013, he has worked exclusively with the Iván Fischer Opera Company, with whom he has directed a number of successful “staged concerts” in Budapest, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Bruges, Geneva and in the Abu Dhabi and Edinburgh Festivals.

Iván Fischer is a founder of the Hungarian Mahler Society and Patron of the British Kodaly Academy. He has received the Golden Medal Award from the President of the Republic of Hungary and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum for his services in promoting international cultural relations. The government of the French Republic made him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2006 he was honored with the Kossuth Prize, Hungary’s most prestigious arts award. In 2011 he received the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award, Hungary’s Prima Primissima Prize and the Dutch Ovatie Prize. In 2013 he was accorded Honorary Membership to the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2015, he was presented with the Abu Dhabi Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 2016, he won the Association of Music Critics of Argentina’s award for Best Foreign Conductor.

Mr. Fischer studied piano, violin, and later the cello and composition in Budapest, before continuing his education in Vienna and Salzburg where he studied conducting under Hans Swarowsky and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice, a conductor of vision and distinction who passionately believes that “music has the power to change lives”. She is recognised internationally for her innovative approach to programming and audience development, for her deep commitment to education and advocating for music’s importance in the world.

From the 2019/20 season, Alsop becomes Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Vienna RSO), performing in their main series at the Wiener Konzerthaus and Wiener Musikverein, recording, broadcasting, and touring nationally and internationally. Her first season coincides with the orchestra’s 50th anniversary and will emphasize women in classical music.

Her outstanding success as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) since 2007 has resulted in two extensions in her tenure until 2021. Alsop has led the orchestra on its first European tour in 13 years and created several bold initiatives including Orchkids, developed for the city’s most disadvantaged young people. At the end of 2019, following a seven-year tenure as Music Director, she becomes Conductor of Honour of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), where she will return to conduct major projects each season.

Throughout 2020, Alsop launches a global project to mark Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, in collaboration with Carnegie Hall. Her goal is to bring the messages of

tolerance, unity and joy in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony to life for our 21st century. She will conduct reimagined performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on five continents, with newly commissioned texts and music. Partners including the Vienna RSO, BSO, OSESP, Sydney and New Zealand symphonies, Johannesburg and Kwazulu-Natal philharmonics and Southbank Centre, where she is Associate Artist.

Alsop conducts the world’s major orchestras, including the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Budapest Festival and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and has long-standing relationships with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), where she returns this season. Further highlights of the 2019/20 season include the Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony and Philadelphia orchestras. In the US, she also regularly conducts the Cleveland and Chicago Symphony orchestras and leads multiple projects each year at the Ravinia Festival.

Her extensive discography has led to multiple Gramophone Awards and includes highly praised Naxos cycles of Brahms with the LPO, Dvořák with the BSO, Prokofiev with OSESP, and further recordings for Decca, Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical. She is dedicated to new music, demonstrated in her 25-year tenure as Music Director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

In 2019 Alsop was awarded the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum, is the only conductor to receive the MacArthur Fellowship and, in September 2013, made history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. Amongst many other awards and academic positions, she is Director of Graduate Conducting at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. She attended the Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2017. Her conducting career was launched in 1989, when she was the first woman to be awarded Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Conducting Prize and began studying with her closest mentor, Leonard Bernstein.

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Truls Mørk is a celebrated artist who performs with the most distinguished orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Münchner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia and London Philharmonic orchestras and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. In North America he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor collaborations include Mariss Jansons, David Zinman, Manfred Honeck, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Christoph Eschenbach, amongst others.During the 2019/20 season engagements include the Boston and Cleveland Orchestras, Concertgebouworkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra with performances at the Barbican Hall, London and at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt. Truls Mørk will give the Japanese premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s cello concerto with the Philharmonia, conducted by the composer, following highly successful performances last season at the Royal Festival Hall, Lincoln Center and the Festival d’Aix en Provence. In collaboration with Klaus Mäkelä, he will also perform the Salonen cello concerto with the Philharmonique de Radio France and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.This season Truls Mørk will be Artist in Residence with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra which will feature the world premiere of Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ cello concerto conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. Further performances of the concerto are programmed with the Bergen Philharmonic under Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Vasily Petrenko and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano.Truls Mørk also continues to give regular recitals at major venues and festivals throughout the world.

Julia Hagen, born in Salzburg in 1995, counts amongst the most promising instrumentalists of her generation. Winner of the international violoncello-competition in Liezen (Styria) and of the Mazzacurati competition, she was awarded both the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Cultural Prize as well as the Nicolas-Firmenich Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy as Best Young Cellist.Most recently, she studied with Heinrich Schiff and Jens Peter Maintz. From the autumn of 2019, Julia Hagen will hold a scholarship of the Kronberg Academy under the aegis of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.Following appearances in Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Musikverein in Vienna, Julia Hagen will celebrate her debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Heidelberg Spring and at London’s Barbican Centre in the 2019/20 season, performing with renowned artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Kathia Buniatishvili, Marc-André Hamelin and Igor Levit.In 2019, her first CD was released, featuring the cello sonatas as well as songs by Brahms arranged for cello solo. Ms. Hagen plays an instrument created by Francesco Ruggieri in 1684.

Christina Landshamer is a versatile and internationally highly sought-after concert, opera and recital singer. Her work with conductors such as Daniel Harding, Alan Gilbert, Sir Roger Norrington, Marek Janowski, Christian Thielemann and Riccardo Chailly has taken Christina to Europe’s most distinguished orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Munich and Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. In the USA and Canada she has performed with the New York and Pittsburgh Philharmonic Orchestras and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.In the 2019/20 season she performs as a soloist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, as well as in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Orchestre National de France under Emmanuel Krivine. Furthermore, she sings in in Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester conducted by Andris Nelsons and in Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.Christina sang under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the Theater an der Wien, at the Salzburg Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, as well as in the new production of Weber’s Der Freischütz conducted by Christian Thielemann, Rinaldo in Glyndebourne and Der Rosenkavalier at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2018 she sang in Wagner’s Rheingold conducted by Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera and in a spectacular version staged by La Fura dels Baus of Haydn’s Creation in Paris and in New York.Her first recital CD uniquely combines songs by Robert Schumann and Viktor Ullmann with piano partner Gerold Huber. This season she performed her programme Wider than the Sky in the Kioi Hall Tokyo for the first time; she has also been invited to perform a Schubert programme in the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin.

Bringing together the most talented young musicians from all EU member states in an Orchestra united by a shared sense of European heritage, innovation, and the constant pursuit of excellence

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The European Union Youth Orchestra is one of the world’s pre-eminent symphony orchestras. Described by the UK Guardian as having “gripping, exhilaratingly good orchestral playing, surging with energy, laser-sharp focus and collective daring… [with] a technical prowess that is downright terrifying”, and by former EU commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as “the best possible ambassador for the European Union” it has provided an exceptional bridge between music colleges and the professional music world for generations of Europe’s finest musicians since its foundation in 1976.

The Orchestra has worked with many of the world’s greatest musicians including Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Mstislav Rostropovich and particularly its three Music Directors and current Chief Conductor: Founding Music Director Claudio Abbado, former Music Director Vladimir Ashkenazy, former Music Director and current Conductor Laureate Bernard Haitink, and Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko.

The EUYO’s 3,000 alumni have all come through the Orchestra’s rigorous, annual audition process conducted in all EU Member States, and many are now notable conductors, soloists, teachers and instrumentalists working with the major orchestras of Europe and throughout the world. A truly global brand, the EUYO has performed in most of the world’s major concert halls and festivals, including the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Musikverein. From Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, Moscow to Mumbai, Seoul to São Paulo, the Orchestra has appeared in many hundreds of venues across five continents.

Recent highlights include the European Orchestra Award in Dresden from the European Culture Awards TAURUS, a Cultural Diplomat of the Year Award at the Abu Dhabi Culture Summit, a live-streamed performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony and the European Hymn for an audience of more than seven thousand inside and outside of Berlin’s Konzerthaus, as well as performances in major EU cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, London, Luxembourg, Prague and Vienna.

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“ The most talented musicians of Europe”Il Giorno

“ An élite ensemble”Berliner Morgenpost

“ Tears the audience from their seats”Der Tagesspiegel

“ A youthful triumph of orchestral perfection”Oman Observer

“Sensational”Hamburger Abendblatt

The EUYO starts the year 2020 by performing at the Opening Ceremony of the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and its musicians will perform in ten countries across the EU and Asia throughout the year, working with young musicians from Cuba, China, Myanmar, United Kingdom and Russia, as well as from all 27 EU Member States. In its Ferrara home the EUYO continues its Orchestra in Città! community project launched in April 2019, and it devotes 2020 to Beethoven’s Mirror, a focus on the legacy of Beethoven as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Beethoven’s Mirror will include a video series, a series of concerts across Europe and in Asia, and the world premiere of a new composition to mark the 70th anniversary of the European Broadcasting Union. Other events during 2020 will include a performance celebrating the 75th anniversary of Jeunesse Musicale in Vienna, and in Berlin as part of the German Presidency of the European Council.

The Orchestra’s headquarters, legal seat and residencies in Italy are thanks to support from the Italian Ministry

of Culture, the Municipality of Ferrara, Ferrara Musica, the Italian national broadcast organisation RAI, and Bolzano Festival Bozen. The EUYO is resident orchestra at its summer home and principal venue partner Grafenegg in Lower Austria, and partner of Campus Grafenegg. The EUYO is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission, and by the Member States of the European Union.

Founded by Joy and Lionel Bryer in 1976, the EUYO has been a Cultural Ambassador for the European Union for more than forty years. The EUYO’s Honorary President is David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, and its Honorary Patrons include the Heads of Government of the EU’s Member States and the President of the European Commission. In recent years, the EUYO has added to its enviable tradition with a series of innovative learning and performance programmes pioneered in its Creative Europe Towards 2020 project, helping to train its members with the skills necessary to meet the challenges of 21st century society and audiences.

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“ They dazzled us … unleashing almost unbearable passion”The Guardian

“ The enthusiasm of those young musicians …transforms into magic”Hudební rozhledy

“ The best possible ambassador for the European Union”Jean-Claude Juncker, Former EU Commission President

“ The cream of Europe’s talent”

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“ Magnifique, sublime”Le Figaro

“Sensational”Hamburger Abendblatt

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Dr. Peter Stark

Rehearsal DirectorPeter Stark has conducted many of the world’s

leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and has assisted iconic conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink and Klaus Tennstedt.

As Professor of Conducting at the Royal College of Music and Rehearsal Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra, Peter’s reputation as a consultant and trainer is renowned. He now has a worldwide reputation in both performing and teaching, most recently in China, Japan, Norway, Russia and all countries in Europe. He is Principal Conductor of the Arabian Youth Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra.

Peter’s involvement in the two BBC 2 series Maestro further intensified a strong media profile. He states that music and its benefit to humanity is his driving force.

Clare Duckworth

Violin IClare is Sub-Principal First Violin in the London Symphony

Orchestra, having previously held positions with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the London Philharmonic

(Co-Principal Second Violin) and the Royal Philharmonic (Principal First Violin).

Her lifelong passion for orchestral playing can be traced back to the EUYO’s rehearsal director, Peter Stark, who conducted and coached her in the UK’s National Children’s and National Youth Orchestras from the age of eight to eighteen.

Clare studied at London’s Royal Academy of Music and played with EUYO from 2000–2003, leading the orchestra for two years. She coaches orchestral playing at London’s Guildhall School, Royal College of Music & Royal Academy of Music and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Oliver Kipp

Violin IIOliver Kipp studied violin with Atila Aydintan in Hannover and

Thomas Brandis in Berlin. Member of the EUYO – then European Community Youth Orchestra – from 1987–1993, he was a Guest player of the Berliner Philharmoniker from 1994 to 1998 and leader of the NDR Radiophilharmonie since 1998.

Oliver Kipp founded the Hyperion Trio in 1999, with which he has an intense concert activity. In 2016, this ensemble also founded the Klanginsel Helgoland festival, whose aim is to compare well-known masterpieces with rarely performed works in order to trace music-historical contexts.

Oliver Kipp is a tutor for violin and chamber music of the European Union Youth Orchestra since

2008. He regularly holds masterclasses in Germany and abroad and is a jury member in international chamber music competitions. He is a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and coaches students of the Orchestra Academy of the NDR Radio Philharmonic.

Thomas Selditz

ViolaThomas Selditz is a renown violist that comes from a

family of musicians. He studied at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin with Alfred Lipka, and later taught as a professor in Hochschule Hanover between 1999 and 2014 and in Hochschule Hamburg from 2004 to 2010, when he became Professor of Viola at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, a position that still holds today.

For 10 years, Thomas Selditz was principal violist under Daniel Barenboim at the Staatskapelle Berlin. Founder of the renowned Gaede Trio for more than 20 years, first as violist and later as violinist, he was also active as a regular member the Hugo Wolf Quartet between 2013 and 2016, with wich he performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Cité de la musique in Paris.

As a chamber musician, he has released more than 20 CD recordings for several labels including Sony, Largo Records, Tacet, MDG, Audite and Phoenix. His CD with works for viola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps was awarded with the Diapason/France and the Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award in 2003. Latest CD he recorded as a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra (Sinfonia Concertante by Walter Braunfels) also won the Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award in 2019.

Gregor Horsch

CelloBorn in Germany, Gregor Horsch studied at the Freiburg

University of Music with Christoph Henkel and later at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Ralph Kirshbaum. After graduating from the latter institution with honours in 1989, Horsch moved to the Netherlands, serving successively as principal cellist with the Netherlands Balletorkest and the Residentie Orchestra. He was appointed principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1997.

As the winner of the 1988 Pierre Fournier Award in London, Horsch gave numerous recitals throughout the UK and made various radio recordings for the BBC. He made his debut at the Wigmore Hall and performed at the first International Cello Festival in Manchester and during the Schubert–Britten Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Horsch was also a prizewinner at the 1989 Scheveningen International Music Competition and at the 1990 Gaspar Cassadó cello competition in Florence.

Since 2009 he has been Professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, and since 2010 Gregor Horsch plays a cello built by Giovanni Battista Rogeri, formerly played and owned by principal cellist Jean Decroos. This cello was purchased by RCO Foundation, together with

a number of individuals, and given on loan to him. Gregor is a regular guest at many music festivals and he gives masterclasses worldwide.

Alexandra Scott

Double bassAlexandra Scott, Sub-principal Double Bass of the Bavarian

Radio Symphony Orchestra, will take over as Professor for Double Bass at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre in Munich from October 2020. She has held the same teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe since 2012. In addition she regularly coaches the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Academy, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Bayerische Ladesjungendorchester and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Alexandra began her musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Subsequently whilst studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Rinat Ibragimov she became a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, the GMYO and the Verier Youth Orchestra.

As a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Alexandra Scott was taught by Klaus Stoll, Janne Saksala and Esko Laine. At the age of 23 was appointed Principal Double Bass with the NDR Radio Philharmonic in Hanover. Since 2007, Alexandra holds the position of Sub-Principal Double Bass with the Bavarian RSO, with who she played as a soloist under Maris Jansons in 2015. In 2017 she was invited to give a headliner Recital at the International Society of Bassists’ yearly conference in the USA.

Alexandra is a dedicated chamber musician and has appeared with artists such as Lisa Batiashvili, Vilde Frang, Gautier Capuçon, Reinhold Friedrich und Eduard Brunner. She often plays as a guest with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and is a founding member of the period instrument ensemble L’Accademia giocosa.

Philippa Davies

WoodwindPhilippa Davies has established an international

reputation as one of the finest flautists currently performing. Originally Principal Flute of the National Youth Orchestra of GB, Philippa went on to train at the Royal College of Music with Douglas Whittaker and later William Bennett. She won many awards including the Tagore Gold Medal Prize, the National Federation of Music Societies award, the Mozart Memorial Prize and was a Park Lane Group Young Artist.

She was a member of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s ensemble Fires of London, and of the ensembles Capricorn and Albion; currently she is part of the Nash Ensemble and London Winds directed by Michael Collins and plays in duo with Jan Willem Nelleke, piano, and with Maggie Cole, harpsichord.

Principal flute with the London Mozart Players, she is regular guest principal flute with all the main London orchestras. As a soloist, she took part in many international festivals since her debut at

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Philippa’s numerous recordings include Mozart’s entire original concertos and quartets, Bach’s Flute Sonatas, Romance of the Flute and Harp, Poulenc’s Flute Sonata, Giles Swayne’s Winter Solstice Carol with the King’s College Choir and all William Alwyn’s flute music.

She is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has a summer International Flute Course in Cubertou, France.

Marco Postinghel

WoodwindBorn in Bolzano, Italy, Marco Postinghel studied with

Romano Santi and Klaus Thunemann and at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He was awarded a number of prizes at international competitions. His concert activity subsequently took him to all Europe, Japan, Korea, Israel, North and South America.

He has appeared as soloist in a number of bassoon concertos with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Carl Davis, Carlo Maria Giulini, Daniel Harding, Lorin Maazel, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Franz Welser-Möst. Marco has played chamber music with world-renown artists and at the most important European festivals. After four years as principal bassoonist in the Orchestre de Paris, in 1994 he assumed the same position in the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich.

Marco performs classic as well as baroque repertoire on period instruments and appears also with orchestras that primarily specialize in contemporary music, as well with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg and the Cappella Andrea Barca.

Marco Postinghel has assumed a professorship at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2005. He also teaches at the Mahler Academy in Bolzano and is woodwind tutor of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra since 1997. He gives bassoon and chamber music masterclasses all over the world. Marco recorded for Philips, Amadeus, Naive, Musicando, Aulos, Ohems, Onyx and Alpha and has also served as a juror at the International Music Competition of Muri, Tokyo and at the International Music competition of the ARD in Munich.

Peter Gane

Lower BrassPeter is founder and former president of the British

Trombone Association and has a long-standing association with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the European Union Youth Orchestra, going back to when it was the European Union Community Youth Orchestra.

A former member of the London Symphony Orchestra and professor at the Guildhall School since 1971, Peter was later elected a Fellow of

the School and was appointed Head of Wind Brass and Percussion from 1988 – 2008.

He was presented with the Neill Humfield award for excellence in trombone teaching by the International Trombone Association in 1996 and the British Trombone Society’s outstanding contribution award in 2013. Peter continues to be a member of the Guildhall brass faculty and is Artistic Adviser to the Combret Music Festival in Aveyron, France.

Frøydis Ree Wekre

HornHorn soloist and teacher Frøydis Ree Wekre from Oslo,

Norway, was studying piano and violin before turning to horn at the age of 17. Outside of Oslo, her studies have taken place in Sweden, Russia and USA. After one year in the Norwegian Opera she joined the Oslo Philharmonic orchestra as co-principal, a position she left in 1991. She has also been very active as a soloist and chamber musician, mostly in Europe and North America.

As a teacher, Ms Wekre was Professor of Horn and Chamber Music at the Norwegian Academy of Music until 2011. Nowadays she is travelling worldwide giving masterclasses. Her book, Thoughts on Playing the Horn well has been translated into several languages. More than 40 compositions are written for her, some of which have been recorded on the labels of SIMAX, CRYSTAL and 2L.

Frøydis Ree Wekre is an Honorary Member of the International Horn Society since 1994, and she has been associated with the Sarasota Music Festival, USA, Banff Festival of the Arts and Domaine Forget, Canada.

Anne McAneney

TrumpetAnne McAneney was born in Belfast where she gained

her early experience as a musician. She began by learning piano and violin before brass bands and the cornet caught her attention. She then studied the trumpet while taking a Bachelor of Music (Hons) degree at Goldsmiths College, London, and as a post-graduate at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she was awarded the Principal’s Prize. She subsequently achieved a Master’s Degree from Reading University.

In 1985, she was appointed Principal Trumpet in the Royal Ballet Orchestra making her the first woman to hold a Principal Trumpet position in the UK.

She left the Royal Ballet in 1989 to pursue a freelance career and was soon working regularly with all the major London symphony orchestras and chamber music groups.

Anne had developed a love for the flugelhorn, which led to an invitation to join London Brass, the successor group to the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, where she replaced Philip as the specialist flugelhorn player. She held this position for 23 years and as a director of this prestigious ensemble led many brass courses and workshops.

In 2000, she was appointed Sub-Principal Trumpet with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a position

that she still retains. For 6 years, she was a member of the Board of the orchestra. she is a very active participant in the various education schemes that the orchestra has established to help young people discover and develop musical tastes and skills.

As a soloist, she has premiered numerous solo pieces for trumpet and flugelhorn.

In 1995, she became a Professor of Trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she continues to teach and coach chamber ensembles. She also visits the other conservatoires in the capacity of adjudicator and examiner.

Andrew Barclay

PercussionAndrew Barclay is the principal percussionist

of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. After studying at the Royal College of Music, he embarked on a wide-ranging freelance career with the London and regional orchestras, chamber ensembles and contemporary music groups.

Prior to joining the LPO, he spent 5 years as a member of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Andrew has also performed in West End shows including The Lion King and Les Misèrables; on film soundtracks including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and other film and TV projects.

He has worked with the Philharmonia, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the orchestras of Royal Opera House and English National Opera among others. As a teacher and coach, Andrew is much in demand: he is a professor of percussion at the Royal Academy of Music, visiting professor at the Royal College of Music and is regularly invited to give masterclasses at home and abroad. He is the regular percussion coach for the Britten-Pears School at Snape Maltings, and in 2012 performed a similar role with the Aldeburgh World Orchestra.

Adelheid Blovsky-Miller

HarpAdelheid Blovsky-Miller was born in Germany. At the age

of four, she started training for classical ballet and three years later she began her musical education with piano and flute. Later, she perfected her studies for harp with Professor Ursula Lentrodt at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich.

From 1977 until 1998 she was harpist at the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, and from 1985 to 2015 she held the position of Professor of harp at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Currently, she holds masterclasses in Europe and Asia.

Adelheid has performed solo concerts in Europe and Asia, including Salzburg Festival, Musikverein Vienna and festivals in Germany and Japan. She has also played in chamber music recitals with Ensemble Wien-Berlin and the Wiener Virtuosen among others.

She was the leading member of the organising committee of the World Harp Congress in Vienna in 1987, and as artistic director, she was responsible for the implementation of the international harp competition “Franz Josef Reinl” in Vienna.

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Royal College of Music, London

Julie Adalsteinsson

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Codarts Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten, Rotterdam

Lucía Barrero Oliver

SPAIN

Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears, Palma

Manel Barrios Ferragut

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Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Barcelona

Florian Bartl

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Musikhochschule Freiburg

Birgit Katriin Born

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Borbála Brezovszky

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Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium, København

Cristina Cazac

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Conservatorio “Arrigo Boito” di Parma

Lucrezia Costanzo

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Conservatorio “Bruno Maderna” di Cesena

Samuel Cutajar

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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London

Davide Dalpiaz

ITALY

Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy”, Leipzig

Estefanía del Barrio Schkopp

SPAIN

Musikene, Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco

Marta Małgorzata Dettlaff

POLAND

Private Innovative Suzuki School of grade 1 and 2 in Gdańsk

Wiktoria Elżbieta Dettlaff

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Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie

Elisa Dijkstra

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Conservatorium van Amsterdam

Jozefien Dumortier

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Institut supérieur de musique et de pédagogie de Namur

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Sofía Fasla Prolat

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Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Ariadna Ferrer Ortas

SPAIN

Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears, Palma

Eva Ghelardi

ITALY

Conservatorio “Guido Cantelli” di Novara

Malin Grass

GERMANY

Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart

Justyna Grudzień

POLAND

Akademia Muzyczna im. I. J. Paderewskiego w Poznaniu

Léon Haffner

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Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”, Berlin

Cathy Heidt

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Universität der Künste Berlin

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Lyusi Hovhannesyan

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Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

Annisia Iacovou

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Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim

Coco Inman

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Dominik Kossakowski

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Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach

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AustriaFederal PresidentAlexander Van der BellenFederal ChancellorSebastian Kurz*

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CHIEF CONDUCTORVasily Petrenko

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Lesley King-Lewis

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Secretary GeneralMarshall Marcus

Executive & Finance ManagerRiitta Hirvonen

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For detailed audition requirements and assessment criteria please visit:

www.ema.edu.ee/en/admissions

Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre offers an internationally competitive higher education. Its culturally diverse professional learning environment brings together top musicians, composers, actors and producers from Estonia and Europe. EAMT celebratedits 100th anniversary in 2019.

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The EUYO wishes to acknowledge the invaluable support of its funders, supporters, sponsors and partners, including in particular the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme, the Italian Ministry of Culture, Grafenegg Kultur, The Provincial Government of Lower Austria, Department of Art and Culture, St. Pölten, Austria, the Comune of Ferrara, Ferrara Musica, the Comune of Bolzano, and the European Union’s 27 Member States.

*This map acknowledges the presence of United Kingdom musicians as part of the EUYO during a transition period following that country's exit from the European Union.

“ Among the Elite Institutions of its kind” The New York Times

“ The European Union Youth Orchestra remains one of our most distinguished ambassadors … a potent symbol of our European Union” Jean-Claude Juncker, EU Commission President

Celebrating the legacy of the most European ofcomposers on the 250th anniversary of his birth

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Yearbook 2020 January – June | EUYO