SYO FLAGSHIP CONCERT SERIES 2010

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Welcome to the SYO Flagship Concert Series for 2010, a year that offers you an immensely exciting program with the most wonderful and unique edge - music performed with an exuberance and passion that can come only from sensationally gifted young musicians.

Led by Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Max McBride, the Sydney Youth Orchestra will perform the great symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Saint-Saens, present special guest artists Konstantin Shamray (winner 2008 Sydney International Piano Competition) and SYO alumnus Kirsty Hilton, explore the irresistible rhythms of Spanish-Chilean music in the world première of Daniel Rojas’ newest piano concerto and revel in the genius of Gabrielli, Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky and Pärt.

2010 sees the SYO perform in Sydney’s greatest concert halls and churches, making the most of the architecture and acoustics that play such an important role in the making of live music. On behalf of Sydney’s 100 finest and most inspiring young musicians, you and your families are invited to come along and experience the joy of live orchestral music in our 2010 SYO Flagship Concert Series.

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SYO FLAGHIIP CONCERT 1: Rhythms Earthly & Divine

Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Friday 12 March, 8pm
City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney

Conductor: Max McBride
Soloist: Konstantin Shamray, piano

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Capriccio espagnol, Op 34
ROJAS, Entre Ritos y Parrandas (Between Rituals and Street Parties) - World Première
BEETHOVEN, Symphony No.7, Op 92 in A Major

Sydney Youth Orchestra erupts into 2010 with a tantalising program performed with unbridled youth and vigour – you will leave wanting more!

Indulge your rhythmic senses with music from across the globe and across the ages. Revel in the blend of Spanish folk melodies in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol and be the first to hear Daniel Rojas’ melting pot of Peruvian-Spanish-African rhythms in the world première of his second piano concerto Between Rituals and Street Parties featuring the winner of the prestigious 2008 Sydney International Piano Competition, Konstantin Shamray. This piece was commissioned by the Rev Dr Arthur Bridge AM on behalf of Ars Musica Australis and is dedicated to the Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP Bishop of Parramatta. Konstantin Shamray’s travel to Australia was supported by Ron, Lynn and Marcus Ogden.

Plus Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No.7, voted 5th in ABC Classic FM’s 2009 Classic 100 Symphonies, infused with such rhythmic intensity that Richard Wagner called it the ‘apotheosis of the dance’.

“Many forms of Latin American music are a blend between Western, Indigenous and African musical traditions. Similarly many forms of religious music and practices of this culture blur boundaries between the sacred and the profane. My second piano concerto, Entre Ritos y Parrandas celebrates this rich cultural and musical diversity by juxtaposing adrenalised salsa, tango and Indigenous Peruvian gestures with the solemnity of Christian hymns and framework of Western classical forms.”
DANIEL ROJAS

SYO FLAGHIIP CONCERT 2: Beauty & the Baroque

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
– Joseph Addison

Saturday 5 June, 7pm
St. James Church, Sydney

Sunday 6 June, 3pm
St. Patricks Cathedral, Parramatta

Guest Directors: Rachael Beesley (violin) and Ironwood
Conductor: Max McBride
Featuring: SYO String Chamber Orchestra, SYO Brass Chorale, SYO Winds

BACH, Partita No.3/Sinfonia from Cantata No 29/Suite No 4, BWV 1069
STRAVINSKY, Concerto in Eb Dumbarton Oakes
GABRIELLI, Canzona noni toni, a 12, for Three Brass Choirs
MOZART, Serenade No.10 in B-flat for 13 Instruments, K.361(370a), Gran Partita

Get to know the SYO’s talented young musicians a little better with their kaleidoscope of performances celebrating the true genius of Gabrielli, Bach and Mozart - with a little Stravinsky on the side. Presented in two of Sydney’s most beautiful churches, the SYO will harness the architecture and acoustics to bring this music into being – just a glimpse into the musical beauty of our musical heritage.

“I played Bach very regularly during the composition of the concerto and I was greatly attracted to the Brandenburg Concertos. Whether or not the first theme of my first movement is a conscious borrowing from the third of the Brandenburg set, however, I do not know. What I can say is that Bach would most certainly have been delighted to loan it to me; to borrow in this way was exactly the sort of thing he liked to do.”
IGOR STRAVINSKY

SYO FLAGHIIP CONCERT 3: Orchestral Genius

Talent works, genius creates.
- Robert Schumann

Wednesday 14 July, 7pm
Sydney Town Hall

Conductor: Max McBride
Soloist: Winner of the SYO Concerto Competition

BERLIOZ, Le Corsaire Overture
CONCERTO, TBC
SAINT-SAENS, Symphony No.3, Op 78 in C minor (Organ Symphony)

Berlioz and Saint-Saens were both masters of coruscating orchestral colour and sparkling energy. Combine two of their finest works with the charged enthusiasm of the SYO and you have a magical concert that will reveal to you orchestral music at its most stirring and uplifting.

This concert also contains a mystery at its heart: the concerto will only be known when we announce the winner of the SYO Concerto Competition for 2010, as it is the winner who will be our soloist. This will be truly an evening of youth, virtuosity and excitement.


“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN on his discovery of the theory of relativity

SYO FLAGSHIP CONCERT 4: Colours of the Soul

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Berthold Auerbach

Sunday 12 December, 3pm
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Conductor: Max McBride
Soloists: Kirsty Hilton and SYO Concertmaster, violins

MOZART Symphony No.31, K.297 in D Major (Paris Symphony)
PÄRT, Tabula Rasa (1977)
SCHUMANN, Genoveva Overture (1847)
RESPIGHI, Pines of Rome

A night to hear the SYO musicians perform music which will move, inspire and transport you. The concert bursts into life with the joyfulness of Mozart's Paris Symphony, the epitome of elegance and warmth. Then enter a new world with Arvo Pärt’s mesmeric Tabula Rasa, performed by SYO alumnus, Sydney Symphony principal second violin Kirsty Hilton together with the SYO concertmaster.

After the interval, a wonderful experience awaits: Schumann's exultant Genoveva overture prepares the way for the magnificent pageantry of Respighi's Pines of Rome, a tour-de-force for orchestra and a brilliant celebration of the year's achievement.

“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
GEORGE ELIOT

SINGLE TICKETS
Adult $42
Concession / Group 8+ $32
Child $17 (5 - 18yrs)
Family $95 (2 adults and 2 children)
Student Rush $15

SUBSCRIPTIONS(4 concerts)
Adult $138
Concession $100
Child $58 (5 - 18yrs)
Family $340 (2 adults and 2 children)

BOOKINGS
All bookings are through City Recital Hall Angel Place via the following methods;

Phone (02) 8256 2222
Online www.cityrecitalhall.com
In Person 2 Angel Place, Sydney
Fax (02) 9233 6652 (for subscriptions only)
Post Sydney Youth Orchestra Subscriptions, GPO Box 3339, Sydney NSW 2001 (for subscriptions only)

Click here to download a 2010 Subscription Booking Form.