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European Union Youth Orchestra Summer Tour 2015 Principal Corporate Partner At United Technologies, we believe that ideas and inspiration create opportunities without limits. UTC applauds the European Union Youth Orchestra for its important role in transcending cultural, social, economic, religious, and political boundaries in the pursuit of musical excellence. To learn more, visit utc.com. Welcome The months and weeks of build up to a major six week concert tour are a complex yet exhilarating experience. The sheer volume of tasks – from international travel plans for hundreds of young musicians Contents from over 30 countries to providing for the needs of a global audience of thousands – appear as a series of almost impenetrable Orchestra Board 2 hurdles. Until the dust begins to settle, and the prospect of great EU messages 4 music played by some of today’s most polished young performers under the leadership of inspirational conductors becomes The EUYO 6 increasingly present on the horizon. Tribute to Joy Bryer 8 As we all know, Europe faces some particularly tough times at the Landmark moments 9 moment. All the more reason then to trumpet the unifying diversity Summer tour programme 10 at the heart of the EUYO, in an orchestra that shows us a tangible route for how we should live as Europeans, with young musicians Conductors 14 from 28 EU countries working together, harmoniously, yet with Soloists 16 limitless energy, aspiration and excellence. The Orchestra 18 As the CEO of an orchestra such as this I can only help create success by mirroring the shared leadership at the heart of the EUYO and Leverhulme Summer School 25 its performances. And in this case I should point to two recent The European Music developments – on and off the stage – that beautifully encapsulate Campus Orchestra 26 that attribute. In June we announced Vasily Petrenko as our new Towards 2020 28 Chief Conductor and Bernard Haitink as our new Conductor Laureate, opening up a new chapter of development for the EUYO following Global Exchange Programme 29 on from the successes of our previous Music Director Vladimir BFO Apprenticeship 30 Ashkenazy. And more quietly, but no less usefully, we formed an Awards 32 Orchestra Board to help guide the course of the Orchestra into that future. Overleaf you can read more about the new Board. Meanwhile, Honorary Patrons 34 in the spirit of being together that is an EUYO speciality: Welcome! National Associates 35 Partners 36 Governance 37 Tutors 38 Support 40 Marshall Marcus Chief Executive, European Union Youth Orchestra WELCOME > EUYO 1 The Orchestra Board The European Union Youth Orchestra is Ian Stoutzker CBE Sir John Tusa in a period of significant development, as Orchestra Board Chair, Trustee, Co-Chair is evidenced by its recent announcement Trustee, Co-Chair of a new Chief Conductor and Conductor Sir John Tusa became a Trustee of the Laureate, and by the activities of its new Ian Stoutzker studied the violin at the EUYO in 2014 and co-chairman with Ian ‘Towards 2020’ international partnership Royal College of Music. After graduation Stoutzker later that year. He was Managing project co-funded by the European Union’s he opted to pursue a business career. In Director, BBC World Service from 1986–92; Creative Europe programme. At its heart 1977, together with Yehudi Menuhin, he Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, however, there remains an unchanged, founded Live Music Now, a pioneering London from 1995–2007; Chairman almost forty year old tradition and vision: charity formed with the double purpose of the University of the Arts London an orchestra of young people from across of bringing music to the disadvantaged from 2007–13; and Chair of the Clore the EU performing at the highest levels in homes for children with special Leadership Programme from 2008–14. of excellence under the direction of needs. Ian Stoutzker remains the active Before that John Tusa sat on the Boards inspirational world class conductors. Chairman of Live Music Now. Ian was of the National Portrait Gallery, the British Chairman of the Philharmonia Orchestra Museum, the English National Opera, To help take forward this vision, the and subsequently, Chairman of the the Design Museum and Wigmore Hall. Trustees of the EUYO recently appointed Advisory Council of the London Symphony a new Orchestra Board. The Orchestra Orchestra, a position that he held for John Tusa has published books on Board brings together leading and over 15 years. Ian Stoutzker is known broadcasting and written three books on experienced figures in the world of music internationally for his active support the Arts: “Art Matters”, “Engaged with and the arts to oversee the artistic and of music and his philanthropy, and is a the Arts” and “Pain in the Arts.” He is a strategic development of the Orchestra. Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the frequent broadcaster and contributor It is chaired by Ian Stoutzker, an individual Royal Academy of Music and the Royal to conferences on arts and culture. At with an enviable experience of chairing Welsh College of Music and Drama. In present he Chairs the British Architectural world class orchestras, and is currently 2012 Ian Stoutzker was awarded the CBE Trust Board and is a Trustee of the composed of three further EUYO Trustees, for Services to the Arts by her Majesty Turquoise Mountain Foundation. together with the Orchestra’s CEO. the Queen, and last year received the The context for the Orchestra Board’s work Prince of Wales Medal for Philanthropy. is the inspiration and commitment of the Orchestra’s founders: Joy and Lionel Bryer, founding Music Director Claudio Abbado, and the then UK Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. Building on their achievements, the Board is helping to develop the EUYO’s European credentials and to broaden the scope of its activities, ensuring the highest levels of performance, and thus enabling it to continue to act as a beacon and example of what can be achieved by European endeavour. ORCHESTRA BOARD ORCHESTRA > EUYO © Geoff Wilson 2 The Orchestra Board Anthony Sargent CBE Martijn Sanders Marshall Marcus After studying Politics, Philosophy and Born in 1945, Martijn Sanders completed Marshall is the EUYO’s CEO, President Economics at Oxford, Anthony spent a degree in Sociology (Business of Sistema Europe and a member of 13 years in radio and TV production Administration) at Nederlands Economisch the British Council’s Arts and Creative and presentation at the BBC, finally as Hogeschool in Rotterdam, before going Economy Advisory Group. Since beginning Head of Planning for the BBC Proms on to earn his MBA from the University violin lessons in 1963 he has spent much of and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1972. All this his life in music, including membership of then worked as Artistic Projects Director with the aim to use his education to work the BBC Symphony Orchestra, co-founder, at London’s Southbank Centre before in the arts sector. He worked for 10 years CEO and Chair of the Orchestra of the becoming Head of Arts for Birmingham at the regional cinema chain Jogchem´s Age of Enlightenment, and Head of Music City Council (responsible for creating, then Theaters, initially in Amersfoort and later at London’s Southbank Centre where implementing the city’s Arts Strategy, in Bunschoten. When he left the company he oversaw one of the world’s largest and for such major projects as the 10- in 1982, it had become one of the largest music programmes. He was a professor year Festival of the 20thC, Towards the cinema chains in the Netherlands. within El Sistema in Venezuela in 1979, Millennium), before rejoining the BBC teaching extensively in the country, and In March 1982, he was appointed Director in the management of the nationwide forming a new orchestra there at the of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Millennium Music Live festival. In 2000 request of Maestro José Antonio Abreu. During his tenure there, he supervised he became founding General Director the full renovation of the concert hall A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge of Sage Gateshead – Norman Foster’s and introduced an all-new programme. universities in philosophy, experimental visionary international centre for music Under Martijn´s directorship, the psychology and education, Associate of the and musical discovery. In 2015, Anthony Concertgebouw became the best-attended Royal College of Music, in an eclectic career stood down from this position and as of classical music venue in the world. he has performed in over 60 countries with May 2015 became the new CEO of the musicians as varied as Sir Simon Rattle, Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada. In 2006, he left the Concertgebouw Baaba Maal and the Moscow Soloists. His to devote himself to his numerous A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, blog at marshallmarcus.wordpress.com national and international management in 2008 (jointly with football legend has been accessed by people in more than and supervisory board memberships Sir Bobby Robson) he won the Hotspur 120 countries. and advisory roles. He is also Award, given for outstanding contribution engaged in consultancy projects for to the development of North East England. cultural management and policy. ORCHESTRA BOARD ORCHESTRA > © Morley von Sternberg EUYO 3 Messages of Support It is a pleasure to return with words of support to the European The European Union Youth Orchestra is not simply an ensemble Union Youth Orchestra because its work means a lot to the of talented and young musicians; it is also a carrier of a powerful European Union project and to me personally. message of unity, of merit and of hope. The European Union Youth Orchestra and the European Union Watching and listening to these young musicians from all over share a fundamental characteristic: both attract people who Europe playing together leaves a lasting impression – for the expand their boundaries and build bridges.