Spring Tour 2015

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Joy Bryer Co-founder & President of the European Union Youth Orchestra “Ever since my husband and I founded the European Union Youth Orchestra in 1976 we had a dream of convincing the citizens and governments of the then European Community that culture, education, and international understanding are essential parts of our lives. After almost 40 years of an extraordinary journey both within and outside of the European Union, we have indeed accomplished our aims. I am absolutely thrilled and extremely excited that the EUYO has now taken on, with courage and determination, a strategy for growth and development in all aspects of its activities under the dedicated leadership of our new Co-Chairmen. It is with great pleasure and joy that I look forward to working with them, taking us into a new world for Europe’s future leaders in classical music.”

Sir John Tusa Co-Chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra “I am delighted to become involved with the EUYO at this momentous turning point in its artistic and strategic future. New people bring new ideas, and a revitalised approach to leadership. I have dedicated much of my life to the Arts and I look forward to aiding the development of what has already proved itself to be a strong, committed and ambitious leadership team. This is a journey I am happy to go on; Joy Bryer has given her new Chairmen a wonderful orchestra and solid foundations upon which to build a sustainable and remarkable future – with Europe’s fi nest young players at itsheart.”

Ian Stoutzker CBE Co-Chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra “The EUYO, founded in 1976 through the inspiration and commitment of Joy Bryer, has been an outstanding example of European cultural cooperation for almost 40 years. Building on this tradition, my aim is to help reinvigorate the Orchestra and 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.” EUYO > WELCOME MESSAGES > WELCOME EUYO

1 Marshall Marcus Jean-Claude Juncker Chief Executive of the President of the , European Union Youth Orchestra Head of the EUYO’s Honorary Patrons 2015 continues the EUYO’s recent unremitting pace of change. It is a pleasure to be asked to serve as Head of the The Orchestra’s Towards 2020 Programme – launched last year Honorary Patrons of the European Union Youth Orchestra. with a broad range of partners to skill the next generation of I am delighted to accept, and delighted that the European Europe’s musicians – is already delivering an extensive programme Union continues to support this worthwhile project. of new audience and performance initiatives, from music Labs and informal late night concerts to a new European Music For me, Europe is not just an economic arrangement, or a Campus Orchestra, alumni teachers in new regional orchestras, bureaucratic convenience. It is a place of peace and prosperity; apprenticeship schemes, and visits to the US and Brazil as part freedom and opportunity. It is a forum for people of many diff erent of the newly developed Global Exchange Programme. Matching backgrounds to meet, interact and celebrate their culture. these initiatives, a new logo and visual identity have been launched The many nations of Europe have their own cultures and languages; to coincide with our Spring tour, and later this year a brand new their own traditions and virtues; their own riches and raisons digital space for Europe’s young musicians will come online. d’être. Taken together, Europe has a diverse and deeply-rooted None of these (and many other) developments would have been cultural heritage of which we should be proud – not least in music. possible without our joining with our Towards 2020 Partners and But amid that diversity, there is much that we can share, and Associates, or without the support of the EU’s newly unveiled Creative much that we can learn from each other; our Union gives us the Europe Programme and our new Principle Corporate Sponsor, UTC. opportunity to do so, and we should take that opportunity. But as with all really eff ective organisational developments, it is This is why the European Union’s motto is to fi nd “Unity in Diversity”. the leadership and governance of the organisation that actually enables eff ective change. With great commitment, expertise That should not just be a slogan: it is something we must work to deliver. and enthusiasm, the EUYO’s new Co-Chairs, Sir John Tusa and Ian And the European Union Youth Orchestra is an excellent example of how Stoutzker are leading the organisation’s governance, marrying the to achieve it in practice. Bringing together young people from across remarkable tradition of the EUYO to a new sense of innovation. the continent, in mutual harmony and understanding, to celebrate and perform the rich resources of our cultural heritage. Allowing As everyone knows, the continent of Europe faces major challenges. those young people to bridge diff erences, overcome diffi culties and But here at the EUYO we are confi dent that we are playing our part experience joyful moments together; all projected on a European stage. in the training of tomorrow’s artists and citizens, and helping to create leaders from all 28 EU member states who will be able to Like a good orchestra, the work of the European Union can be marked face those challenges with confi dence, excellence and expertise. by tension and resolution; being in harmony does not always mean being in unison. But ultimately, we can do more if we do it together, working together in tune and in tempo. Acting “in concert” to achieve a common goal. Focusing on delivering results in the areas that really matter. That is the vision that inspires me – I hope it is one that inspires you, too. In music, as in politics, achieving such a vision does not happen by itself: it takes hard work and determination. I know you will all be showing that hard work and determination over the coming weeks and months, and I wish you every success. EUYO > WELCOME MESSAGES > WELCOME EUYO

2 Martin Schulz President of the , Honorary President of the EUYO As Honorary President of the European Union Youth Orchestra, comprising some of Europe’s most exceptionally talented young musicians, I am glad that you have put together yet another great Spring Tour revisiting some classics of the repertoire and introducing some brilliant young soloists to audiences in several countries. Federica Mogherini Being the President of a multinational, multilingual Parliament, I can only emphasise how valuable dialogue across cultures and High Representative of the European Union across traditions is to foster common understanding and to break down borders between peoples. What better and more for Foreign Aff airs and Security Policy and touching medium to choose than music to achieve this? Vice-President of the European Commission In these times of crisis, culture is coming under increasing Music is our universal language. It resonates across borders and pressure and orchestras the world over are forced to reinvent cultures to bring us beauty and inspiration. In these times of turmoil what they do and how they do it. How to ensure that we invest we rely on a common language, a common prism through which to suffi ciently in promising talent? How to ensure that today’s view the world, more than ever. audiences – and not only the afi cionados, but people of all ages from all walks of life – are engaged? In that respect, I look The young women and men that come together across Europe in forward with interest to the results of your recent initiative this orchestra send a message to the world: we need to transcend T2020 which has no less a task than to examine how culture can divisions and focus on what unites us. Their stellar achievements and increase its contribution to the well-being of European society. the inspirational music they perform give us hope for a future built on peace and understanding. On behalf of the European Parliament, I wish you a very successful tour! Culture is a central ingredient of our diplomacy. The European Union Youth Orchestra shows how we can work together to create something beautiful and lasting. I thank these young musicians for being such excellent ambassadors for the European Union. EUYO > WELCOME MESSAGES > WELCOME EUYO

3 TheOrchestra EMILY DAVIS CONCERT BRITISH ROYAL ACADEMY MASTER OF MUSIC, MATHIEU VAN BELLEN DUTCH JUDITH ROYAL COLLEGE OF DE HAAS MUSIC, LONDON DUTCH MARINA UNIVERSITY OF ARRUFAT & FONTYS HOGESCHOOL GRAU VOOR DE KUNSTEN, SPANISH TILBURG UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST, GRAZ

VIOLIN SAMUEL DEMIAN GARCÍA DORA BARALDI GARCÍA ITALIAN CHATZIGEORGIOU SPANISH CONSERVATORIO GREEK DI MUSICA HOCHSCHULE FÜR GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC “G. VERDI”, MUSIK UND THEATER AND DRAMA, LONDON MILANO “FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY”, LEIPZIG CONCERT MASTER, MEGARON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INGE DAVID BERGENHUIZEN GARCÍA DUTCH CONSERVATORIUM RODRÍGUEZ VAN AMSTERDAM SPANISH TESSEL ANTON BRUCKNER PRIVATUNIVERSITÄT, HERSBACH LINZ DUTCH FONTYS HOGESCHOOL VOOR DE KUNSTEN, HELENA TILBURG BUCKIE BRITISH ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON LISA KLOTZ GERMAN HOCHSCHULE FÜR MOLLY MUSIK KARLSRUHE COCKBURN BRITISH ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON EUYO > THE ORCHESTRA > THE EUYO

4 JAKUB PRZYBYCIEŃ HERLINDE POLISH VERJANS DIE HOCHSCHULE DER KÜNSTE, BERN BELGIAN KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, THERESIA ANTWERPEN KLUGER AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTE, BERLIN OLIVIER ROBIN FRENCH CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPÉRIEUR DE MUSIQUE ET DE DANSE DE LYON LIENĪTE KOSTANDA LATVIAN STAATLICHE HOCHSCHULE MAGDALENA FÜR MUSIK, SAMMER TROSSINGEN AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST, WIEN AMALIE KJÆLDGAARD ALIZA KRISTENSEN VICENTE DANISH AGNIESKA ARANDA DET KONGELIGE DANSKE MUSIKKONSERVATORIUM, ŚCIĄŻKO SPANISH KØBENHAVN POLISH HOCHSCHULE AKADEMIA LUZERNMUSIK MUZYCZNA IM. K. LIPIŃSKIEGO WE WROCŁAWIU  TRINITY LABAN COLLEGE OF MUSIC ANNA & DANCE, LONDON KUK POLISH AKADEMIA MUZYCZNA IM.K. ANASTASIA SZYMANOWSKIEGO VAINA W KATOWICACH GREEK KAIA STATE CONSERVATORY VOITKA OF THESSALONIKI ESTONIAN SIBELIUSAKATEMIA, HELSINKI FRANCISO LIMA SANTOS PORTUGUESE KONIJKLINK CONSERVATORIUM, EMMA VAN SCHOONHOVEN DUTCH ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC, MANCHESTER BLANDINE MATROT FRENCH CONSERVATOIRE ROYAL DE BRUXELLES EUYO > THE ORCHESTRA > THE EUYO

5 ZSÓFIA HOLYEVÁC HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITÄT FÜR VIOLA MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST, WIEN

JOOSEP CELLO AHUN ESTONIAN ILINA AURORE KONINKLIJK ILIEVA CONSERVATORIUM DASSESSE TE DEN HAAG BULGARIAN NATIONAL MUSIC BELGIAN SCHOOL “LYUBOMIR HOCHSCHULE PIPKOV”, SOFIA FÜR MUSIK SAAR, AND QUEEN ELISABETH MUSIC CHAPEL, ALMUDENA BRUSSELS ARRIBAS IRÉNÉE COMES KRUMENACKER SPANISH FRENCH KONINKLIJK HAUTE ÉCOLE CONSERVATORIUM DE MUSIQUE PATRYCIA BRUSSEL, KCB , DE GENÈVE BRUSSELS DE LA FUENTE LORENZO MÉLINDA SPANISH CORGNET UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST, GRAZ FRENCH IOANA CRR DE , MARDARE CONSERVATOIRE ROMANIAN DE MUSIQUE ET DE DANSE AULNAYSOUSBOIS UNIVERSITATEA DE ARTE “GEORGE ENESCU” DANA DE VRIES DUTCH CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPÉRIEUR DE MUSIQUE PALOMA ET DE DANSE, PARIS CUETO FELGUEROSO MARTIN MEJÍAS MORIARTY SPANISH IRISH GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONSERVATORIUM & DRAMA, LONDON VAN AMSTERDAM

SOFIA MARTINA SOUSA ENGLMAIEROVÁ PORTUGUESE ROYAL ACADEMY OF CZECH MUSIC, LONDON PRAŽSKÁ KONZERVATOŘ

SAMUEL ESPINOSA SPANISH SORINVLAD HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK SPASINOVICI “CARL MARIA VON WEBER”, DRESDEN ROMANIAN UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE MUZICĂ DIN BUCUREȘTI EUYO > THE ORCHESTRA > THE EUYO

6 SINÉAD FABIO O’HALLORAN FAUSONE IRISH MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ITALIAN ARTS, DALLAS, TEXAS CONSERVATORIO DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA, LUGANO CHRISTINE ROIDER DORA GERMAN HÁJKOVÁ UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE KUNST, WIEN CZECH GYMNÁZIUM A HUDEBNÍ ŠKOLA HLAVNÍHO MĚSTA PRAHY ANIK SCHWALL LUXEMBOURGISH ANNE CONSERVATOIRE ROYAL SOPHIE DE BRUXELLES KECKEIS AUSTRIAN KLARA UNIVERSITÄT MOZARTEUM WINCOR SALZBURG AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITÄT FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE JOHANNES KUNST, WIEN KÖNIG GERMAN HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER MÜNCHEN DOUBLE BASS FELIX JURA LASHMAR HERCEG BRITISH ROYAL ACADEMY CROATIAN OF MUSIC, SVEUČILIŠTE LONDON ELIAS U ZAGREBU BARTHOLOMEUS MUZIČKA AKADEMIJA BELGIAN LEMMENSINSTITUUT, LEUVEN ENRIQUE PAVEL TORIBIO HUDEC NIDO CZECH SPANISH HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UNIVERSITÄT EDWARD FREIBURG FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE FRANCISSMITH KUNST, GRAZ BRITISH BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE BAS VLIEGENTHART KRZYSZTOF DUTCH GRZYBEK CONSERVATORIUM VAN AMSTERDAM POLISH THE FRYDERYK CHOPIN UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC, DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUMENTAL AND PEDAGOGICAL

STUDIES IN BIAŁYSTOK ORCHESTRA > THE EUYO 7 TOMMASO FLUTE PRATOLA ITALIAN HAUTE ÉCOLE DE EMMA MUSIQUE DE GENÈVE HALNAN MATTEO BRITISH SAMPAOLO ROYAL ACADEMY ITALIAN OF MUSIC, LONDON KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, DEN HAAG

ALEX OBOE HILTON BRITISH ROYAL ACADEMY JOSÉ MARÍA OF MUSIC, LONDON FERRERO DE LA ASUNCIÓN ÁNGEL LUIS SPANISH STAATLICHE HOCHSCHULE SÁNCHEZ MORENO FÜR MUSIK UND DARSTELLENDE SPANISH KUNST, MANNHEIM ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE MÚSICA REINA SOFIA,

CLARINET FREDERIK VON WÜRDEN LORENZO DANISH RUSSO DET KONGELIGE DANSKE MUSIKKONSERVATORIUM, ITALIAN KØBENHAVN CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA “SANTA CECILIA”, ROMA

TIMO TROMP DUTCH HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK, THEATER UND MEDIEN, HANNOVER

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SOTERIS CHRYSOSTOMOU CYPRIOT HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK, DETMOLD EUYO > THE ORCHESTRA > THE EUYO

8 NIKOLAJ VESTMAR BASSOON HENRIQUES MICHAELA DANISH ŠPAČKOVÁ DET KONGELIGE CZECH DANSKE MUSIKKONSERVATORIUM, HOCHSCHULE FÜR KØBENHAVN MUSIK, “HANNS EISLER”, RICHARD BERLIN ION BRITISH ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC, MANCHESTER HORN TRUMPET CARLOS ANAÍS MARÍA LEITE ROMERO PORTUGUESE ESCOLA SUPERIOR BLÁNQUEZ DE MÚSICA, ARTES E SPANISH ESPECTÁCULO, PORTO HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK THEATRE UND MEDIEN, HANNOVER

JOSÉ KRISZTINA REAL BERCZELI CINTERO HUNGARIAN SPANISH LISZT FERENC CONSERVATORIO ZENEMŰVÉSZETI EGYETEM, SUPERIOR “SALVADOR SEGUI” CASTELLÓN

JAVIER SALA PLA LEA SPANISH SCHWARZ CONSERVATORIO SUPERIOR DE MÚSICA DE ARAGÓN, ZARAGOZA GERMAN ANTON BRUCKNER PRIVATUNIVERSITÄT, LINZ

ROBERT IAN SMITH WILDSMITH BRITISH IRISH ROYAL ACADEMY OF ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE MUSIC, LONDON OF MUSIC, MANCHESTER

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ROSS ULF KNIGHT BREUER BRITISH GERMAN ROYAL ACADEMY HOCHSCHULE FÜR OF MUSIC, LONDON MUSIK UND THEATER MÜNCHEN EUYO > THE ORCHESTRA > THE EUYO

9 Conductor, Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra

One of the few artists to combine a Ashkenazy is also Music Director of the European Union Youth successful career as a and Orchestra, with whom he tours each year, and Conductor conductor, Russian-born Vladimir Laureate of both the Iceland and NHK Symphony orchestras.

© Keith Saunders © Keith Ashkenazy inherited his musical gift from He has previously held posts as Principal Conductor and both sides of his family; his father David Ashkenazy was a Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (2009– professional light music pianist and his mother Evstolia (née 13), and Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Plotnova) was the daughter of a chorus master in the Russian and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra. He Orthodox church. Ashkenazy fi rst came to prominence on the maintains strong links with other major orchestras including world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in and as The (where he was formerly Principal fi rst prize-winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Guest Conductor) and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Brussels in 1956. Since then he has built an extraordinary Berlin (Chief Conductor and Music Director 1988–96). career, not only as one of the most outstanding of Ashkenazy maintains his devotion to the piano, these days the 20th century, but as an artist whose creative life mostly in the recording studio where he continues to build encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to off er his extraordinarily comprehensive recording catalogue. inspiration to music-lovers across the world. This includes the Grammy award-winning Shostakovich Conducting has formed the larger part of Ashkenazy’s Preludes and Fugues, Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No.3 activities for the past 30 years. He continues his long- (a work which he commissioned), Bach’s Wohltemperierte standing relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra, who Klavier, Rachmaninov Transcriptions and Beethoven’s Diabelli appointed him Conductor Laureate in 2000. In addition to Variations. Spring 2013 saw the release of ‘Ashkenazy: 50 his performances with the orchestra in London and around Years on Decca’ – a 50-CD box-set celebrating his long- the UK each season, and in countless tours with them standing relationship with the label. In 2014, Decca released worldwide, he has also developed landmark projects such a milestone collection of Ashkenazy’s vast catalogue of as Prokofi ev and Shostakovich Under Stalin (a project which Rachmaninov’s piano music, which also includes all of his he also took to Cologne, New York, and ) and recordings as a conductor of the composer’s orchestral music. Rachmaninoff Revisited (which was also presented in Paris). Saunders © Keith EUYO > CONDUCTOR EUYO

10 Soloists

Future engagements include a tour with But he consciously seeks to balance this the Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia both in recital and in the concert hall with conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, other, post-classical repertoire – Debussy, and with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Ravel, Liszt, Dvořák, Bartók, as well as the Alexander conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. composers of the great German repertoire. Romanovsky Since 2014, Alexander Romanovsky is the Piemontesi’s playing is characterised by artistic director of the Vladimir Krainev consummate technical skill, a wide and Moscow International Piano Competition. rich palette of colour and a refi nement © Ugo Dalla Porta Piano of expression. Of one of his great Born in the Ukraine in 1984, Alexander teachers and mentors, , studied with Leonid Margarius at the Imola Piemontesi says that Brendel taught Piano Academy and with Dmitri Alexeev him “to love the detail of things”. at the Royal College of Music in London. He has recently appeared as soloist both Mone In 2012, Piemontesi was announced as with the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted Artistic Director of the Settimane Musicali by Valery Gergiev in the Mariinsky Concert Hattori di Ascona, by his hometown Locarno. Hall in St. Petersburg and with the Russian Francesco Piemontesi now appears with National Orchestra conducted by Michael Violin major ensembles worldwide, including the Pletnev in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Cleveland Orchestra, DSO and Berlin Radio in Moscow, as well as with the Royal Born on 14 September 1999 in Tokyo Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican in (Japan). Mone Hattori began to study the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBCSO, London and the English Chamber Orchestra. violin when she was fi ve years old under Israel Philharmonic and the Orchestra of Goro Masuda and, from the age of six, under the Maggio Musicale. He has performed He has been invited to major European Akuri Suzuki. At the age of eight she played festivals and venues including La Roque with such conductors as , Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto with orchestra , Sakari Oramo, Vasily d’Anthéron in France, the Klavier-Festival for the fi rst time. She has also studied Ruhr in Germany and the Chopin and his Petrenko and and has also under Professor Zakhar Bron since 2011 as established a close musical partnership Europe Piano Festival in Warsaw, and is a well as taking classes from Akiko Tatsumi. frequent guest of the International Piano with, for example, Sir , Festival Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli In 2008 when she was ten years old she Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, David Afkham, in Brescia and Bergamo, Italy. won 1st prize at the XI Wieniawski and Nicholas Collon, and Andrew Manze. the Lipinski International Competition Piemontesi is a natural and keen chamber Since moving to Italy in 1997, Alexander has for Young Violinists and 1st prize at the appeared in venues in Turin, , , musician and plays with a variety of Japan Arts Competition, following which partners – the Emerson Quartet, with Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Teatro she held her own recital. This year she Politeama in , the Auditorio Verdi Antoine Tamestit and Jörg Widmann, was commended by the Tokyo Board of in trio, with Renaud and Gautier and Teatro dal Verme in Milan and the Santa Education after winning these competitions. Cecilia Academy in . Further afi eld, he Capuçon, Clemens Hagen, Yuri Bashmet, has given concerts in the USA and Japan. In 2008 at the age of eleven she performed Angelika Kirchschlager and during his at the gala of Zakhar Bron in Zurich on 3 formative years, with Heinrich Schiff . Notably, in 2007 Alexander has performed September. She currently lives in Tokyo In solo recital, he has appeared in many on an invitation at the Papal Residence and studies under Professor Zakhar Bron. in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall, in a concert celebrating the 110th Amsterdam , Rotterdam Anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s birth. De Doelen, Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonie, Last seasons highlights included his Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Tokyo debut with the Symphony and Suntory Hall and in Rome, Zurich, Paris, and James Conlon in Ravinia and with the Francesco Brussels. Festival invitations have come New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert from the Edinburgh International Festival, in Vail, concerts at the Stresa and Colmar Piemontesi La Roque d’Anthéron, New York Mostly festivals and performances with the Mozart, Chopin International Music Festival

National Philharmonic of and © Marco Borggreve Piano in Warsaw, Lucerne Festival, Aix-en-Provence Vladimir Spivakov, the Royal Philharmonic Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein Festival. Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Born in Locarno, Francesco Piemontesi rose Orchestra and Vladimir Fedoseyev. to international prominence with prizes Francesco Piemontesi has released a at several major competitions, including number of fi ne recordings, including Alexander Romanovsky opened the 25th the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Schumann Sonatas and a mixed recital “Master Pianists Series” at the Main Hall of He was chosen as a BBC New Generation of Handel, Brahms, Bach, and Liszt for the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. During the Artist (2009-11), and is regarded as one Avanti Classics and more recently, three last seasons he played with the Filarmonica of the new great Mozartian pianists. recordings for Naïve Classique – Mozart della Scala at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Piano Works, Schumann and Dvořák‘s Piano the Hallé Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall Concerti with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Manchester, the Bournemouth Symphony and Jiří Bělohlávek, and the Debussy Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Preludes, to be released later in 2015. and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. EUYO > SOLOISTS EUYO

11 Spring Tour Programme © Peter Adamik © Peter Foundation Walls © Falling Interlaken Interlaken Festival Classics Classics de Pâques

FESTIVAL Kursaal Interlaken Kursaal Interlaken Grand Théâtre de Provence

www.interlaken-classics.ch www.interlaken-classics.ch www.festivalpaques.com WEB

Interlaken, Interlaken, Aix-en-Provence, Switzerland Switzerland France LOCATION

DATE Saturday 4 April 17:00 Sunday, 5 April, 17:00 Tuesday, 7 April, 20:30

Maestro Vladimir Maestro Vladimir Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Ashkenazy conductor Ashkenazy conductor Alexander Romanovsky piano Mone Hattori violin Francesco Piemontesi piano ARTISTS

Haydn Symphony No. 49 Mozart Symphony No. 35 Haydn Symphony No. 49 Passione Haff ner Passione Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 Mendelssohn Violin Concert in E minor Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 REPERTOIRE Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Italian Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Italian EUYO > TOUR EUYO

12 Perugia Musica Megaron Megaron Classica Thessaloniki Concert Halls, Chamber Alternative performance & Music & Side-by-side with the Megaron audience opportunities Teatro Morlacchi Youth Symphony Orchestra www.perugiamusicaclassica.com www.tch.gr www.tch.gr

Perugia, Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Italy Greece Greece

Thursday, 9 April, 20:30 Sunday, 19 April, 21:00 Thursday, 16 April, 11:00 REACT Performances Maestro Vladimir Yuri Azevedo (pop-ups) Ashkenazy conductor conductor Meat Market, Thessaloniki Mone Hattori violin

Saturday, 18 April, 18:00 Mozart Symphony No. 35 Farnaby arr. Howarth Fancies, Haff ner Toyes and Dreames REACT Performances Mendelssohn Violin Spohr Nonet (pop-ups) Concert in E minor Schubert Symphony No. 8 Sea Front, Thessaloniki Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Italian 'Unfi nished' Skalkottas 3 Greek Dances for String Orchestra Epirotikos – Set 1 No.4 Arkadikos – Set 3 No.10 Kleftikos – Set 3 No.3 J. Strauss (elder) Radetzky March EUYO > TOUR EUYO

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Creative Europe T2020 Co-funding Towards 2020 : Skilling Musicians & EngagingAudiences in Europe’s OrchestralSector

Europe has an extraordinarily rich cultural The MEDIA sub-programme off ers support heritage and a vibrant capacity for creativity. We schemes along the value-chain, tailored to the create the stories, sounds and images that fi ll diff erent needs of professionals. The aim here the pages, screens and exhibition halls the world is to strengthen the competitiveness of the over. The challenge now is to build on these sector and increase the circulation of European strengths, carrying them into the digital world. fi lms, TV programmes, web series and games. The European Union has launched the Creative Responding to a real need on the ground, we Europe programme, off ering a budget of almost are making it easier for Europe’s cultural and €1.5 billion – which represents a 9% increase creative operators to obtain bank loans. Thanks over the previous budget. The programme to our new loan-guarantee facility, which will will support 240,000 European artists, 2,000 make available up to €750 million, we are helping cinemas, 800 fi lms and 4,500 book translations. fi nancial institutions to better understand how the cultural and creative sectors work. Creative Europe aims to overcome the barriers limiting creative development across the Creative Europe has a strong international European Union. It aims at promoting culture dimension. One reason for this is the on going for innovation and social inclusion, and at globalisation of the cultural and creative developing new avenues for well-being, new sectors and the need for the professionals jobs, and economic growth. The programme to internationalise their activities in order replaces the previous Culture, MEDIA and MEDIA to reach new audiences. Another reason is Mundus programmes, and has – for the fi rst time the European Union’s commitment to the – brought EU funding support for cultural and UNESCO convention on cultural diversity, and audiovisual sectors under the same umbrella. It to increasing cooperation and intercultural is, therefore, a more transparent “one-stop shop” dialogue with third countries. To this for all European operators from these sectors. end, Creative Europe is open – for the fi rst time on an equal footing – to Creative Europe will help the EU cultural and the participation of our neighbouring creative sector to operate transnationally; it countries, subject to some conditions. will help operators to reach new audiences in Europe and beyond; and it will help to strengthen their competitiveness. It will also strengthen transnational policy cooperation in order to foster innovation, audience building and new business models. Tibor Navracsics The Culture sub-programme will continue to European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport support cross-border cooperation projects. We expect that, for the period 2014 to 2020, at least 6,400 cultural organisations will be involved in cooperation projects with operators from other countries. EUYO > CREATIVE EUROPE > CREATIVE EUYO

15 T2020 Partner Projects

BOZAR Grafenegg

The BOZAR in Brussels is using its expertise and intercultural competences After its successful launch in 2014 the European Music Campus opens to create relationships with the players involved in the T2020 project for its second edition in summer 2015. As part of the T2020 project outside of the audition process. These players – auditionees, members, the European Music Campus is being developed to demonstrate recent alumni of the EUYO – will become part of a new ‘YOUNGBOZAR’ how centres of excellence can be created serving young classical scheme. The scheme will function by the players: being available to work musicians. As an important centre of international orchestral und in and see BOZAR education projects; being a focus group to understand musical culture, Grafenegg is helping to build the future for classical how young artists relate to/use a venue like BOZAR; taking part in music by bringing together more than 180 young musicians each year chamber music for unusual BOZAR projects such as pre-concert, late night from all over Europe as well as non-artistic participants to renew and informal exhibition music and cultural conferences. In these ways, apart reinvigorate the original ideals of a united Europe through group music, from supervising EUYO auditions, BOZAR will deepen its relationship culture and debate. The European Music Campus includes symphonic with future audiences whilst helping T2020 player development. concerts on Grafenegg’s beautiful ‘Wolkenturm’ outdoor stage, open rehearsals, ‘Laboratory Sessions’, informal ‘Late Night Sessions’ and a Music Gallery. It is hoped that the activities of the European Music Culture Action Europe Campus will serve as positive examples for other locations who are looking to create centres of learning and artistic development for Culture Action Europe is supporting the T2020 project through young musicians, as well as broadening and diversifying audiences. the development of an evaluation framework based on the overall social goals of the project. It will help to document the claims of a broad understanding of the social functions of orchestral music (and John Good Group performance art in general) by developing and measuring with both quantitative and qualitative methods the short and longer-term impacts The Digital Partner for the T2020 project is currently working on on the quality of life and wellbeing of audiences and practitioners. the new T2020 website and associated App. In short, creating a new portal, designed to engage with a young audience, deliver relevant educational content and eventually facilitate employment Cyprus Symphony opportunities for the next generation of orchestral players. Having completed the branding and identity work for the EUYO and initial Orchestra Foundation designs for the T2020 site and mobile App, they are currently working to deliver the initial phase of the T2020 site, due for launch in 2015. Cyprus has an important role to play within the T2020 project as it will link non-EU countries to Europe through the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra and its activities, serving as an inspiration for other countries Music Center Slovakia who fi nd themselves on a geographical periphery. For the purposes of the T2020 project, Cyprus will approach young musicians from Beyond the organising of auditions, T2020 is allowing the MCS to focus countries such as Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt and demonstrate more energy on ‘missing elements’: advanced training in orchestral how an Arts venue can become a cultural base for musicians who do playing, training on specifi c performance techniques etc. By enabling not have equal opportunities in terms of education and performance. valuable training and a chance to participate in global initiatives, young Slovak musicians will be able to grow professionally and become better equipped for demanding orchestral performances and a variety of new Fondazione Concorso Pianistico performance formats. MCS is dedicated to enriching and educating young audiences for classical as well as contemporary music. T2020 Internazionale Ferruccio Busoni represents an opportunity for the Music Center Slovakia to establish new relationships with cultural institutions throughout Europe. The Busoni Competition has been working to develop ‘Spazio Klassik’, an alternative performance space, designed to provide young musicians with a platform through which they can bring a broad, Thessaloniki Concert Halls diverse audience closer to their lives, with and for classical music. It is meant to encourage new audiences and serve as a transportable Thessaloniki are pioneering a new audience development project called model for use in other locations, worldwide. The prototype is ‘REACT’ that will serve as a model for developing skills amongst long- currently being developed with the local Faculty of Design, having term unemployed young people. It is also in the process of creating launched ‘Spazio Klassik’ last summer to the citizens of Bolzano. its own youth orchestra, the newly formed Megaron Youth Symphony Orchestra. Experienced young musicians from the EUYO will work alongside the newly formed Symphony Orchestra, and also perform for diverse publics in unexpected venues through the REACT programme: hospitals, schools, bars, and the seaside promenade and meat market. Masterclasses, alumni tutoring and musicianship workshops will form an integral part of the project, showing how an orchestra can ‘adopt a city’. EUYO > PARTNER PROJECTS > PARTNER EUYO

16 since 1913 How Much Does Excellence Cost?

We are fortunate victims of the energy of We cannot ignore the need to prepare our youth with our musicians and their aspirations. the necessary skills to enable social mobility and a union to shape a stronger, more confi dent Europe Besides enabling the performance you enjoyed with powered by tolerance and cultural empathy. us today, we also provide our musicians with advanced training in career management, and music education. There are many ways you can get involved, We work with young European NEETs to empower from unrestricted cash donations, to using your them and equip them for reinsertion and employment company’s CSR budget to invest in our projects and in the Arts. We are currently building the world’s players. Together, we can make a diff erence. fi rst dedicated, digital space designed for our young One brief conversation will kick-start one of the musicians to showcase their talents even further. most meaningful relationships you’ll ever have – We fi nancially support creative entrepreneurship: with thousands of Europe’s fi nest young musicians. encouraging young musicians to share their skills with other people, and in their home countries. To achieve all of this, we invest approximately Please call me, Charlotte Saldanha, €15,000 in each and every one of our young, (Development Manager), on: + 44 (0) 20 33705462. extraordinary musicians, each year. Or email, [email protected] You are here today because you also care about the future of Europe, and believe, like us, that transformation is possible if we invest in young people.

(Above) Leonidas Kavakos, violin student, EUYO 1982–1984

(Main picture) 2014 – Leonidas Kavakos, acclaimed international solo violinist and conductor, exclusive Decca Classics recording artist. EUYO EUYO > COST? MUCH DOES EXCELLENCE HOW

18 The European Union Youth Orchestra © Peter Adamik © Peter

The European Union Youth Orchestra with inspiring opportunities for 2020: Skilling Musicians & Engaging was founded almost forty years ago by digital and artistic innovation. Audiences in Europe’s Orchestral Joy and Lionel Bryer. An aspirational Sector’ (T2020), a project co-funded The EUYO has provided an exceptional organisation from conception, the by the European Union’s ‘Creative bridge between music colleges and the Orchestra was intended as a ‘living Europe’ cultural funding programme. professional music world for almost metaphor’ for the founding ideology T2020 is a large scale European 3,000 alumni, in a group that includes of the European Community, now the Cooperation Project that will establish conductors, soloists, and musicians European Union. The fi nest young a new model to skill talented young from, inter alia, the London Symphony classical musicians from all twenty- orchestral musicians from all 28 EU Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, eight EU Member States come together Member States in a manner that the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and to convey to audiences, worldwide, responds to the changing needs of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. that these diff erent, contrasting, and 21st century audiences and society. With Grafenegg as the Orchestra’s mutually supportive national cultural Summer Home and Principal Venue The EUYO’s Honorary Patrons include identities can come together and Partner, from New York to Nicosia, the Heads of Government of the 28 perform as one orchestra - united Seoul to São Paulo, Moscow to EU Member States, the President in diversity. Europe’s most excellent Mumbai, the EUYO has partnered of the European Commission and young players are stretched not only with some of the greatest names the President of the European by performances in great concert halls, in classical music including Marta Parliament. The Orchestra but also by the challenge of making Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard acknowledges support from the their own horizons into the future. Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Jessye EU and all 28 EU Member States. From its origins as a twice-yearly Norman, Mstislav Rostropovich and Together with its partners the touring orchestra, the EUYO is now a particularly its three notable Music EUYO aims to shape tomorrow’s much busier organisation. The EUYO Directors: , Bernard musical leaders in Europe. distinguishes itself by preparing Haitink, and current Music Director its players for the future with Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy. The European Union Youth new approaches to teaching, new Orchestra commits to excellence, The EUYO with its 8 international approaches to engaging audiences, but it commits to it for a reason partners and 30 associate partners, and a strategy that marries the beyond that of mere virtuosity. is currently delivering ‘Towards best of its performance tradition EUYO EUYO > ORCHESTRA UNION YOUTH THE EUROPEAN

19 The EUYO’s Global Exchange Programme New World Symphony, Miami

“In November 2014, I had the great opportunity to be “This experience was important, it forced us to step one of two EUYO-players who went to Miami to visit the outside of our comfort zone and experience fi rst-hand renowned orchestra academy, the New World Symphony. how classical music is brought to and perceived by a diff erent culture. European societies are more and more Tessel and I were there for quite an extraordinary modelling themselves on the American approach. In the week with the orchestra, where we got to be a part of music world, we are expected to promote ourselves as their ‘Discovery Concerts’. Hosted by Jamie Bernstein a ’brand’. We have to go out and look for our audience, the audience was guided through Beethoven’s life whilst before we only needed to have the skill of our and music. With modern lighting technology and a actual instrument and our audiences would come to us. presentation, they managed to make it a delightful and educational evening for a brand new audience. The New World Symphony, apart from giving high-class instrument and orchestra playing training, is constantly We got to meet other musicians while staying in an trying to improve their image and search for patrons and apartment in the middle of their dedicated housing. fans to support them. I found it interesting that during It’s always exciting and inspiring to meet other young concerts, their main focus seems to be the audience. They musicians who share our passion for music and orchestral are not just there to play the music the best they can and playing, but who come from very diff erent backgrounds. hope the public will enjoy. No, they actively try to engage To be able to visit as many diff erent institutions and the audience. They want to explain the music and most artistic concepts as possible widens one’s artistic horizon. importantly: they want to know what the people in the I returned from Miami with a new perspective on how hall are thinking about it. They want the audience to feel to develop new concepts for classical music diff usion.” part of the experience, instead of being mere spectators. Amalie Kjaeldgaard We all try to achieve the same, just in diff erent ways. The importance of these exchanges is to stay open-minded, Danish, Violin stay critical of your own approach and try to fi nd a way that works. Obviously, not everything from the American approach will work in Europe, but that doesn’t mean things should be instantly dismissed. In these changing times, my generation is the generation that has to invent a new model to keep classical music alive. Music is a language everybody understands, it’s vital to use that communication tool to bind cultures and nations, not just for the sake of music itself, but for all other aspects of society. By communicating with peers from a diff erent continent, a big step is achieved.” Tessel Hersbach Dutch, Violin EUYO EUYO > PROGRAMME EXCHANGE GLOBAL THE EUYO’S

20 Awards Emily Davis British, Violin Recipient of the Pavlovic Award Inge Bergenhuizen “Receiving the “Alexander Pavlovic” award was an absolute privilege and delight. Having admired the musicians of the Dutch, Violin EUYO for many years since I was very young, it felt extremely special to be given that honour. The award money will go Recipient of the towards the purchase of my own new bow, a very special Chairman’s Award thing that is as important as the violin itself, which I have “The EUYO has taught me so much about how to be a better needed for many years. It has been fascinating to be able musician, but I also learned how to work with diff erent, to try out various bows, and I look forward to fi nding the talented musicians from all over the European Union. perfect one for me. I have recently accepted a position at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and having It’s incredible how all these great musicians come the best equipment to play with is vital to establishing my together and not only make wonderful music, but career there. I feel incredibly fortunate to have been given also become great collegues and (maybe even this extra help, alongside all the other wonderful experiences more importantly) really good friends. I have benefi tted from as a member of the EUYO.” I am very honoured to be the joint recipient of the Chairman’s Award 2014, certainly because this orchestra demonstrates how it is actually possible for all the diff erent Sorin-Vlad Spasinovici nationalities to join in one orchestra and work as one, with an overpowering amount of positive energy. The Award Bulgarian, Viola helped me to pay the college tuition for my last year of Masters studies in Amsterdam, I am happy to set an example Co-recipient of the for future EUYO-members. The distinct EUYO-energy is Lionel Bryer Award what makes the EUYO special and I hope we can be an “The Lionel Bryer Award has brought me, besides the immense inspiration for the rest of Europe and even for the world.” honour and joy of being its joint recipient, the chance of buying myself a new bow, which helps tremendously in my development as a musician. The moment when this award was Ulf Breuer given to me really couldn’t have been more opportune, as I had just managed to buy myself a new viola, after many years German, Percussion during which I couldn’t aff ord to buy a better viola than the one I had bought when I was in high-school. By saving as much Recipient of the money as possible from the earnings that I had in the past Chairman’s Award couple of years, and with some fi nancial help from my parents, “I gave the money I received for this award to another I got my new viola one week before the start of the Summer musician in the orchestra. I believe this musician would Tour 2014. Therefore, a new viola would have also required benefi t signifi cantly more than me from this fi nancial gift. a new bow, a better one, which I wouldn’t have been able to buy so soon, but thanks to EUYO and the great surprise of He had been struggling with his instrument in a way off ering me this distinction, I will benefi t from the help of that would have prevented him from developing as this new bow in my future career – in my auditions, recitals, a player. So, I hope through my action, I may have exams and, of course, all the performances with the EUYO.” helped in some way towards giving him the chance to help himself out of this situation. I hope the end result will have changed his musical future defi nitively. For about two months he searched for the very best Soteris Chrysostomou instrument he could aff ord, and luckily he came upon an Cypriot, Trombone instrument that matched with the value of this award. Co-recipient of the Since then, he told me, his musical life has Lionel Bryer Award positively changed. This assures me that I made the right decision in the fi rst instance.” “I have been a member of the Orchestra since 2012. Since then, I have noticed a remarkable evolution in my playing, me as a musician and as an individual. I attribute this positive development to being involved in the EUYO – an orchestra unlike any other. I feel very privileged to receive tuition from some of the world’s fi nest. But, I have also learnt so much from my fellow musicians. It was an honour to receive the Lionel Bryer Memorial Fund Award. I have used it to invest in my continued musical development, repairing my instrument and to further my studies.” EUYO > AWARDS EUYO

21 Honorary Patrons

European Parliament European Commission European Commission European Committee of the Regions President of the European Parliament, President of the European Commission, High Representative of the European Union President of the European Honorary President of the EUYO Head of the Honorary Patrons for Foreign Aff airs and Security Policy and Committee of the Regions, Martin Schulz Jean-Claude Juncker Vice-President of the European Commission, Honorary Patron Honorary Patron Michel Lebrun (until Feb. ’15) Federica Mogogherh ini

Heads of State / Heads of Government

Austria Czech Republic Germany Latvia Spain Federal President President Federal President President President HM King Felipe VI* * * Heinz Fischer Miloš Zeman Joachim Gauck Andris Bērziņš Bronisław Komorowski Prime Minister Federal Chancellor Prime Minister Federal Chancellor Prime Minister Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey Werner Faymann Bohuslav Sobotka Angela Merkel Laimdota Straujuma* Ewa Kopacz* Sweden Belgium Denmark Greece Lithuania Portugal HM King Carl XVI Gustaf * President President President HM King Philippe HM Queen Margrethe II Prime Minister Prime Minister Prime Minister Karolos Papoulias Dalia Grybauskaitė Aníbal Cavaco Silva Stefan Löfven* Charles Michel* Helle Thorning-Schmidt* Prime Minister Prime Minister Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras* Algirdas Butkevičius Pedro Passos Coelho United Kingdom Bulgaria Estonia HM Queen Elizabeth II President President Hungary Luxembourg Romania Prime Minister Rosen Plevneliev Toomas Hendrik Ilves President HRH Grand Duke Henri President * David Cameron Prime Minister Prime Minister János Áder Prime Minister Klaus Iohannis Boyko Borisov* Taavi Rõivas* Prime Minister Xavier Bettel Prime Minister VikViktortor OrbánOrbán VicVictortor Po Pontanta Croatia Finland Malta * Pending President President Ireland President Slovakia ** Former Head of State Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović* Sauli Niinistö President Marie Louise President * * * Prime Minister Prime Minister Michael D. Higgins Coleiro Preca Andrej Kiska Zoran Milanović Alexander Stubb* Taoiseach Prime Minister Prime Minister Enda Kenny Joseph Muscat Robert Fico Cyprus France President President Italy Netherlands Slovenia Nicos Anastasiades François Hollande President HRH Princess Beatrix** President * Prime Minister Sergio Mattarella Prime Minister Borut Pahor Manuel Valls Prime Minister Mark Rutte Prime Minister Matteo Renzi Miro Cerar* Honorary Committees

Austria Cyprus France Italy Poland Spain * Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek Ioannis Kasoulides Laurent Fabius Paolo Gentiloni* José Ignag cio Minister of Education and Women Minister of Foreign Aff airs Foreign Minister Minister of Foreign Aff airs Minister of Foreign Aff airs Wert Ortega Minister of Education, Josef Ostermayer* Costas Kadis* Aurélie Filippetti Dario Franceschini Małgorzata Culture and Sports Minister of the Federal Minister of Education and Culture Minister of Culture and Minister of Heritage and Cultural Omilanowska* Chancellery responsible Communication Activities and Tourism Minister of Culture and National José Manuel García- for Arts and Culture Czech Republic Margallo y Marfi l Germany Latvia Sebastian Kurz Lubomír Zaorálek Minister of Foreign Aff airs Portugal and Cooperation Minister of Foreign Aff airs Foreign Minister Monika Grütters Dace Melbārde and Integration Marcel Chládek Minister of Culture and Media Minister of Culture Jorge Barreto Xavier Sweden Secretary of State for Culture Minister for Education, Manuela Schwesig* Edgars Rinkěvičs Belgium Margot Wallström* Youth and Sport Federal Minister of Family Aff airs, Minister for Foreign Aff airs Rui Machete* Minister for Foreign Aff airs Pascal Smet* Petr Drulák Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Minister of State Flemish Minister for Education, Lithuania and Foreign Aff airs Alice Bah Kuhnke* Deputy Minister of Frank-Walter Steinmeier Youth, Equal Opportunities and Minister of Culture and Foreign Aff airs Minister for Foreign Aff airs Šarūnas Birutis Brussels Aff airs Romania Democracy Minister of Culture Fadila Laanan Denmark Greece Linas Antanas Linkevičius Bogdan Lucian Aurescu* United Kingdom Minister of the French-speaking Minister of Foreign Aff airs Marianne Jelved* Konstantinos Tasoulas* Minister of Foreign Aff airs Community Government, in Philip Hammond* Minister of Culture Minister of Culture and Sport Eugen Teodorovici* charge of Culture, the Audiovisual Secretary of State for Foreign and Luxembourg Minister of European Funds Sector, Health and Equal Martin Lidegaard* Andreas Loverdos* Commonwealth Aff airs Opportunities Foreign Minister Minister for Education and Jean Asselborn Ionut Vulpescu* Sajid Javid* Religious Aff airs Minister for Foreign Aff airs Minister of Culture Isabelle Weykmans Mogens Jensen* Secretary of State for Culture, Minister for Culture, Minister for Trade and Nikos Kotzias* Maggy Nagel Slovakia Media and Sport Employment and Tourism Development Cooperation Minister for Foreign Aff airs Minister of Culture David Lidington Miroslav Lajčák* Didier Reynders Minister for Europe Estonia Hungary Malta Minister of Foreign Aff airs Deputy Prime Minister and Baroness Rawlingsg of Minister of Foreign Aff airs and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus* Péter Szijjártó* Owen Bonnici* Marek Maďarič Burnham Westgate European Aff airs Foreign Minister Minister of Foreign Aff airs and Minister for Justice, Minister of Culture Trade Culture and Local Government Bulgaria Urve Tildus Slovenia Minister of Culture Zoltán Balog Evarist Bartolo* * Pending Daniel Pavlov Mitov* State Secretary for Social Minister for Education Julijana Bizjak Mlakar* Jevgeni Ossinovski* Minister of Foreign Aff airs Inclusion in the Ministry of and Employment Minister of Culture Minister of Education Administration and Justice Vezhdi Letif Rashidov* and Research Netherlands Karl Erjavec Minister of Culture Ireland Minister for Foreign Aff airs Finland Bert Koenders* Croatia Heather Humphreys* Minister of Foreign Aff airs Pia Viitanen* Minister for Arts, Heritage and Vedran Mornar* Minister of Culture and Housing Jet Bussmaker the Gaeltacht Minister of Science, Education Minister for Education, Erkki Tuomioja* and Sports Charles Flanagan* Culture and Science Minister for Foreign Aff airs Minister for Foreign Aff airs Andrea Zlatar Violić* Lenita Toivakka* and Trade Minister of Culture Minister for European Paschal Donohoe* Aff airs and Foreign Trade Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport EUYO EUYO >  COMMITTEES HONORARY PATRONS

22 National Associates

Austria Denmark Greece Luxembourg Slovakia Wiener Jeunesse Orchester Det Kongelige Danske Thessaloniki Concert Halls Ministère de la Culture Music Centre Slovakia Renate Böck Musikkonservatorium George-Emmanuelg Marco Battistella Olga Smetanová Jonas Bille Gamkjær Lazaridis Belgium Malta Slovenia BOZAR Denmark Hungary Arts Council RTV Slovenija, Department of Ulrich Hauschild Det Kongelige Danske Kreatív Európa Nonprofi t Kft. Elaine Falzon Musical Production Musikkonservatorium Gábor Mondik Irena Lesjak Bulgaria Jakob Errboe Holtze Netherlands National School of Music Ireland NJO Lyubomir Pipkov Estonia National Youth Orchestra of Miranda van Drie Subdireccion General Gheorghi Arnaoudov Eesti Muusika- ja Ireland de Musica y Danza Teatriakadeemia Carol-Ann McKenna Poland Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte Croatia Kai Kiiv Department of Artistic Schools Jeunesses Musicales Croatia Italy and Cultural Education José Rodriguez del Pino Mira Surjak Finland RAI Ministry of Culture and Sibelius-Akatemia Mihaela Liliana Schefer National Heritage Sweden Cyprus Anna Rombach Eliza Kujan Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg Cyprus Symphony Latvia Orchestra Foundation France Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Portugal Tobias Granmo Nenad Bogdanovic Orchestre Français des Jeunes Mūzikas akadēmija Direção-Geral das Artes Pierre Barrois Maija Sīpola Dulce Brito United Kingdom Czech Republic National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain ARS/KONCERT,/,p spol. s. ro. Germany Lithuania Romania Lenka Šimečková Goethe-Institut Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro ARTEXIM Sarah Alexander Therese Hueber akademija Simona Barbu Giedrė Antanavičienė © Peter Adamik © Peter EUYO > NATIONAL ASSOCIATES > NATIONAL EUYO

23 Tutors

Dr Peter Stark Gertrude Rossbacher Rehearsal Director Viola Tutor

One of the fi nest teachers of Solo violist of the Tonkünstler-

© Chris Christodoulou conducting and orchestral trainers Orchester, member of the Berlin in the world. His work with young musicians is renowned. Philharmonic Orchestra from 1987–1997, Professor at He has taught over fi ve hundred individual students the Karajan Academy and the University of Bremen and has decades of experience working with young from 1998-2003. New York Debut Carnegie Hall as orchestras. Currently Professor of Conducting at the East and West Artists award winner in 1999. Studied Royal College of Music, London and Principal Conductor in Vienna and in Bern with Professor Max Rostal. of Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra.

Jeff Bryant David Watkin Horn Tutor Cello Tutor Jeff was Principal and Solo Horn with Formerly Principal Cello in the National the London Symphony and Royal

© Edward Webb © Edward Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, David Philharmonic Orchestras with whom he recorded the Mozart went on to perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the concerti and the Britten Serenade. He is Professor of Horn Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Orchestre Revolutionnaire at the Royal College of Music, London. Jeff also tutors the et Romantique. He was also a former member of the Eroica horn section of ICULTURE Orchestra, based in Poland. Quartet and guested with the Tokyo Quartet. David can now be found conducting, which he combines with his position of Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. John Miller Trumpet Tutor

Frank Sanderell Head of the School of Wind, Brass and Double Bass Tutor Percussion, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Prior to joining the RNCM in 1999, Currently Principle Double Bass, Tonhalle John worked extensively in London as a member of the Orchester Zürich. Previously, Principle Philharmonia Orchestra from 1977 to 1994, and a freelance Double Bass, Württembergisches Kammerorchester and musician working regularly with prestigious ensembles former member of “Lucerne Festival Orchestra” under such as the London Sinfonietta and the Philip Jones Brass Claudio Abbado and George Solti's “World Orchestra Ensemble. John is a founder member of the Wallace for Peace”. Chamber Music performances with artists Collection, with which he has recorded and performed like Maria João Pires, Radu Lupu, James Galway, an extensive output of baroque brass repertory. Ensemble Wien-Berlin and Musica Antiqua Köln. EUYO > TUTORS EUYO

24 Lorenza Borrani Rien de Reede Violin I Tutor Woodwind Tutor

Leader of The Chamber Orchestra Rien de Reede was a fl utist in the of Europe; Founder Member of Spira Concertgebouw Orchestra for thirty- mirabilis; Professor of Postgraduate Violin at Scuola di seven years. Besides this he taught fl ute at the Royal Musica di Fiesole; soloist and chamber musician. Previous Conservatory for almost the same length of time. As Head of positions of relevance: 2002–2006 konzertmeister Chamber Music in this school and as an Artistic Programmer of Sinfonica Toscanini (ex Philarmonica Toscanini/ for the Chamber Music Series for the members of the Maazel); 2005–2010 Claudio Abbado's Orchestra Mozart Concertgebouw Orchestra he was able to express his love and (violin 1 tutti, leader, soloist, chamber musician). interest in this fi eld, searching for programmatic innovation.

Oliver Kipp Sarah Sew Violin II Tutor Alumni Coach

An EUYO player from (1987–1993), Sarah Sew is currently Principal Principal 2nd violin of the NDR First Violin of the RTÉ Concert Radio Philharmonic since 1998 and member of the Orchestra and teaches at the Royal Irish Academy of “Hyperion Trio”, founded in 1999 it boasts an outstanding Music. She is a former Concert Master of the EUYO reputation in Germany and the international music and alumna of the Royal Academy of Music, London world, performing an extraordinarily broad repertoire. and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.

Raymond Curfs Timpani Tutor

Raymond has held positions with Noord Nederlands Orkest in Groningen, Stadttheater Bielefeld Germany and the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, becoming Principal Timpanist at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 1999. Since 2007 he is Principal Timpanist of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Raymond is regularly invited to play with leading orchestras worldwide and teaches at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. He has been a guest-professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur De Musique de Paris and has been teaching at the Conservatorium in Maastricht since 2011. EUYO > TUTORS EUYO

25 Partners, supporters and friends

The European Union Youth Orchestra is deeply grateful to the European Union and its member states, as well as the EUYO’s residency hosts, corporate partners, trusts, foundations and individuals, whose support is invaluable in helping it to achieve its mission. European Union A cultural ambassador for the European Union, the EUYO acknowledges the support of the European Union and the 28 Member States of the EU.

REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA  MINISTRY OF CULTURE

Summer Home and Global Principal Venue Partner Associates EUYO EUYO > SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS PARTNERS,

26 EUYO Trustees and Executive

CO-FOUNDER BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE TOURING STAFF & PRESIDENT Co-Chairman Chief Executive Development & Tour Manager Nurse Joy Bryer Ian Stoutzker CBE Marshall Marcus Communications Manager Colin Window Anna Letchworth Sir John Tusa Charlotte Saldanha MUSIC DIRECTOR Executive & Stage Management Alexander Technique Vladimir Ashkenazy Finance Manager Development Assistant Lesley King-Lewis Zoe Fagg Cathie Kidger Riitta Hirvonen Marianne Wright Robert Laurence Transport Manager Nicola Wallis Projects & Librarian & IT Manager Max van Duuren Anthony Sargent CBE Orchestra Manager Chris Turner Martijn Sanders Christina Hemmer Bookkeeper Robert Albert Projects & Orchestra Mei-Mei Siew Trustee Emeritus Assistant Partnership Coordinator, Matic Gajšek Towards 2020 Nicolas Klimis

Principal Corporate Partner

Charitable Trusts and Foundations Friends of the EUYO

Benefactors Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy Sir Harold and Lady Atcherley Tania Bryer Dirk Engelmann Friends of Clumber Studios Peter and Cynthia Hardy Maestro Gianandrea Noseda Dr Onno Ruding Claude Wasserstein

Rehearsal friends Dame Mary Archer Fred and Marianne Emery Derek Gleeson Dr Eckhart von Hahn David Heald Edna Laird Franz Mikorey Argirios Vainas Nicola Wallis

The EUYO would also like to thank those organisations and individuals who wish to remain anonymous. Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Kirby Laing Foundation Bellinger-Donnay Charitable Trust Modiano Charitable Trust The Lynn Foundation EUYO EUYO > TRUSTEES AND EXECUTIVE EUYO

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easter brochure.indd 12 05/02/15 12:29 Each time we take to the stage we We thank the President of the demonstrate that unity through European Commission, the President diversity is a reality, and that by of the European Parliament and the bringing together the very best High Representative of the Union for from the 28 nations of the European Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Union, excellence in performance is whose Patronage of the Orchestra enriched, creating an example for serves as a powerful example to the Europe. We thank the 28 Member hundreds of young Europeans who States of the EU, and the Heads constitute Europe’s most established of State, Prime Ministers and and dynamic youth orchestra. Ministers of Culture from across And we thank the EU Commission, the EU, who have come together as whose Creative Europe programme a body of Patrons to demonstrate enables us to carry out our ambitious their commitment to Europe’s programme and activities. future leaders in classical music.