2010 Summer Tour
We have been invited to open the Aberdeen International Youth Festival with Garry Walker conducting and Lisa Milne, our soprano soloist.
Summer course dates 21st - 28th July
Thursday 29th July - Welcome Ceremony in the Music Hall, Aberdeen (EYO will play National Anthems of all participating countries)
Friday 30th July - Opening Concert of the AIYF in the Music Hall, Aberdeen
Saturday 31st July - Concert in Eden Court, Inverness
Monday 2nd August - Concert in the Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
PROGRAMME:
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Strauss - Four Last Songs - soloist Lisa Milne
Bernstein - West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Gershwin - Strike up the Band
2010 SPRING CONCERTS
Our Conductor was Garry Walker and our Soloist, the violinist Daniel Bell, a former member of the EYO and now a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
USHER HALL, EDINBURGH - SATURDAY 10th APRIL, 7.30pm
RSAMD CONCERT HALL, GLASGOW - SUNDAY 11th APRIL, 7.30pm
PERTH CONCERT HALL - MONDAY 12th APRIL, 7.30pm
PROGRAMME:
SHOSTAKOVICH - FESTIVE OVERTURE
BEETHOVEN - VIOLIN CONCERTO
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - SCHEHERAZADE
EDINBURGH/IRAQI YOUTH ORCHESTRA, 15TH - 18TH AUGUST
We also for this summer have an invitation to do a joint collaboration with the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq which, as you will have seen in the press, was formed last year with support from the British Council and the Foreign Office. Their Conductor is Paul MacAlindin, at present based in Germany.
We will be expecting around 30 - 40 EYO players to participate. The collaboration will take place at the new City of Edinburgh Music School and Julian Lloyd Webber will be involved in a masterclass and a solo cello work with the combined orchestra. More details of this exciting project will be announced soon.
1ST JUNE 2010
WE HAVE JUST HEARD FROM THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF IRAQ THAT SADLY, DUE TO LACK OF SUFFICIENT FUNDING, THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO UNDERTAKE THEIR TOUR TO THE UK THIS SUMMER AND SO WILL NOT BE JOINING US IN EDINBURGH. WE SHARE THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT AND WISH THEM WELL FOR THEIR SUMMER COURSE IN IRAQ.