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3rd Season of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic and Kristjan Järvi
About 100 talented students from the ten states of the Baltic region will lend a new voice to the north again in 2010. The Baltic Youth Philharmonic (BYP) enters its third season with its founding conductor and music director Kristjan Järvi and will give concerts with cellist Jan Vogler in six different countries: in Poland (Gdansk, June 30), Denmark (Copenhagen, July 2 at the Tivoli), Estonia (Pärnu, July 5), Latvia (Riga, July 6), Russia (St. Petersburg, July 8 and July 9) as well as Germany. The symphony orchestra will perform on August 10 at the Young Euro Classic Festival. On September 25, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic will open the 17th Usedom Music Festival, conducted by Neeme Järvi. This year, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic has an Artistic Council for the first time, formed by conductors Valery Gergiev, Marek Janowski, Mariss Jansons, Kurt Masur and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic presents two different tour programs in 2010 including varying programs for the Young Euro Classic Festival and the Usedom Music Festival. Thereby the repertoire ranges from classic to romantic to contemporary music. In three intensive working phases, Jean Sibelius’ Seventh Symphony, Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” and Piotr I. Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations” for Cello and Orchestra as well as an Open Air Program “Baltic Voyage” with rarely heard works by Hugo Alfvén, Ole Bull and Eduard Tubin will be rehearsed and performed. In addition, August 10 will see the world premiere of “parkour musical”, which the orchestra commissioned from Daniel Schnyder, at the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin. Kristjan Järvi and ten docents will work with the young musicians, challenging and broadening their orchestral skills.
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic’s goal is to make the cultural richness of the Baltic region obvious and unite them in one ensemble. Within a very short period of time, the young musicians are challenged to overcome cultural and social differences, creating new perspectives through communication, teamwork and individual support for each musician. The music students receive additional impulses, expand their knowledge of the repertoire and gather important experience in orchestral playing. The orchestra was founded in 2008 as a joint initiative of the Usedom Music Festival and Nord Stream AG. Since April 2009, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic is an associate member of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras (EFNYO).
This year’s members of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic were chosen during a five-day auditions tour which took the jury members to Berlin, Vilnius, Oslo, Tallinn and St. Petersburg. The 105 musicians, of whom 43 already took part in the orchestra during previous seasons, study at music academies in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany.
In 2009, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic had an impressive season, winning accolades for its concerts in seven Baltic countries. The concerts were broadcast in Korea, Australia and the Netherlands, among others. Under the baton of Kristjan Järvi and with pianist Peter Jablonski, the youth orchestra opened the Glasperlenspiel Music Festival in Tartu, the Musikfest Bremen and the 16th Usedom Music Festival. With energetic interpretations, technical proficiency and boundless joy in their music-making, the musicians earned roaring applause and standing ovations.
www.baltic-youth-philharmonic.org
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic presents two different tour programs in 2010 including varying programs for the Young Euro Classic Festival and the Usedom Music Festival. Thereby the repertoire ranges from classic to romantic to contemporary music. In three intensive working phases, Jean Sibelius’ Seventh Symphony, Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” and Piotr I. Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations” for Cello and Orchestra as well as an Open Air Program “Baltic Voyage” with rarely heard works by Hugo Alfvén, Ole Bull and Eduard Tubin will be rehearsed and performed. In addition, August 10 will see the world premiere of “parkour musical”, which the orchestra commissioned from Daniel Schnyder, at the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin. Kristjan Järvi and ten docents will work with the young musicians, challenging and broadening their orchestral skills.
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic’s goal is to make the cultural richness of the Baltic region obvious and unite them in one ensemble. Within a very short period of time, the young musicians are challenged to overcome cultural and social differences, creating new perspectives through communication, teamwork and individual support for each musician. The music students receive additional impulses, expand their knowledge of the repertoire and gather important experience in orchestral playing. The orchestra was founded in 2008 as a joint initiative of the Usedom Music Festival and Nord Stream AG. Since April 2009, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic is an associate member of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras (EFNYO).
This year’s members of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic were chosen during a five-day auditions tour which took the jury members to Berlin, Vilnius, Oslo, Tallinn and St. Petersburg. The 105 musicians, of whom 43 already took part in the orchestra during previous seasons, study at music academies in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany.
In 2009, the Baltic Youth Philharmonic had an impressive season, winning accolades for its concerts in seven Baltic countries. The concerts were broadcast in Korea, Australia and the Netherlands, among others. Under the baton of Kristjan Järvi and with pianist Peter Jablonski, the youth orchestra opened the Glasperlenspiel Music Festival in Tartu, the Musikfest Bremen and the 16th Usedom Music Festival. With energetic interpretations, technical proficiency and boundless joy in their music-making, the musicians earned roaring applause and standing ovations.
www.baltic-youth-philharmonic.org
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