YOLA National with Big Noise Raploch Sunday 4 August 3.30pm Gustavo Dudamel conductor* Usher Hall Paolo Bortolameolli conductor The performance lasts approximately one hour with YOLA National no interval. Big Noise Raploch Please ensure that all mobile phones and electronic devices are switched off, or put on silent. Traditional (arr. Nicholson, Rennard, Munn) A Scottish Celebration Bizet (1838–1875) Carmen Suite No. 1, Les Toreadores* Brahms (1833–1897) Hungarian Dance No 5* Gustavo Dudamel Conductor Gustavo Dudamel was born in 1981 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. He studied the violin before turning to conducting in 1993, studying with Rodolfo Saglimbeni and José Antonio Abreu. He started his career as an assistant conductor of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, of which he became Music Director in 1996. In 1999 he became Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra. He came to international attention when he won the inaugural Bamberger Symphoniker Gustav Mahler Competition in 2004. He was Music Director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (2007–12), of which he is currently Honorary Conductor, and became Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2009. A vocal champion of music education and inclusion, in 2007 he founded Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, which provides music education to over 1,200 children annually, and in 2012 he founded the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation to promote access to music as a catalyst for integration and social change. His numerous recordings include Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, which won a Grammy Award in 2012, and The John Adams Edition, nominated for a Grammy Award last year. The recipient of numerous international honours, he is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2013 was named Musical America’s Musician of the Year and Gramophone Artist of the Year. Paolo Bortolameolli conductor Paolo Bortolameolli studied at the Universidad de Chile, the Universidad Católica de Chile, the Yale School of Music and the Peabody Institute (Baltimore). He is currently Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Guest Conductor in Residence of the Orchestra of the Americas (Mexico). He has conducted all the major South American orchestras and his engagements this season include appearances with the Houston, Cincinnati, Detroit and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras; tours with the Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon) and the Orchestra of the Americas; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hong Kong Festival; the world premiere of Jorge Peña Hen’s Piano Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil (Chile); Mahler’s Ninth Symphony with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile; and Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago at the Teatro Municipal, Santiago. His past engagements include Meredith Monk’s opera ATLAS in Los Angeles. He has been named Symphonic and Opera Conductor of the Year three times by the Arts Critics Association of Chile. He has developed innovatory projects such as the RiteNow, which marked the centenary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and created the ‘Ponle Pause’ project, which seeks to revolutionize music education through social media. YOLA National Through Gustavo Dudamel’s Youth Orchestra Flute Los Angeles (YOLA) programme – inspired Jonathan Webb by Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema – the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its community Oboe Madison Centeno partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and academic support to over Bassoon 1200 students from vulnerable communities, Carlos Cano empowering them to become vital citizens, Ingrid Hernandez leaders, and agents of change. YOLA provides each student, from the ages of 6 to 18, with a French Horn strong musical and social foundation through Andy Gonzalez participation in 12-15 hours of programming each week. Trumpets Jorge Avila In 2018 the LA Phil unveiled the architectural Nataly Gonzalez design by Gehry Partners, LLC, for its new First Violins Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Leslie Gonzalez Inglewood: the first permanent, purpose-built Angela Ramirez facility YOLA. Helena Singleton The LA Phil’s YOLA National Institute brings Second Violins together young musicians from across the Francesco Capitano Unites States and offers in-depth training Juan Florez Gerdlie Jean-Louis and support to those interested in pursuing a Liliana Morales career in music. Programme activities include convenings throughout the 2019/20 academic Violas year, mentorship, private instruction, chamber Hannah Esquivel music coaching, travel opportunities, and Geovanny Martinez financial support for college applications. David Vallejo-Lozano Through this work, the LA Phil aims to empower young people from populations that Cellos have been historically excluded from intensive Jonathan Colon Rosario music training and foster a dialogue among Marcus Gee practitioners that will help shape the future Danielle Liburd of the field. For more information please visit Gizelle Polanco laphil.com/yola Double Bass Pablo Camacho Big Noise Raploch Sistema Scotland is a charity committed Violins Flute to transforming lives through its Big Adam Gregory Riordan McKinnon Noise programme. Their highly-skilled, Annie McCaskell Hannah Mary McEwan Oboes inspirational musicians work with over Jessica Nwokoye Lewis Sinclair 2,500 children in some of Scotland’s most Michael McGuire Dylan McCormick disadvantaged communities to develop Shihan Huang participants’ self-esteem, teamwork, pride Solomon Makhatholela Clarinets and aspiration by learning an instrument Aleena Rojan Jessica Chen (provided free of charge) and playing Scott Hutchison together in a supportive, community-based Violas orchestra. Aaron Connelly Trombones Dineo Makhatholela Jade Campbell Hannah Gregory Patrick Hutchison Big Noise engages with children from Kelsae Easton Symone Hutchison when they start nursery until they finish Jossy Nwokoye secondary school, evolving into an intensive, Cello immersive and rewarding programme of Danny Urquhart Tuba teaching, performance and social interaction Shanae Hussar Ben Morrison as the children grow, including after-school Steven Reynolds learning and holiday clubs. Alongside this Double Bass Mati Nowak Percussion is a range of Big Noise activities open to Shannon Galloway Andrew Rojan everyone in the local area, from Baby Noise Gavin Church to community choirs and parent orchestras. Hannah Davidson Richard Letford The young musicians of Big Noise have performed in several countries, including Italy, Sweden and Germany. They also participated in the official launch of the 2012 London Olympiad and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. For more information, please visit makeabignoise.org.uk. Sistema Scotland and Big Noise Raploch are supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery..