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Sydney Youth Orchestra
The Sydney Youth Orchestra (SYO) is a youth orchestra based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and is the premier orchestral training ground in Australia for many young musicians. Since its founding in 1973 by Peter Seymour, a legendary music educator, it has provided orchestral training to thousands of young musicians (aged between 6 and 25 years) whom are required to audition annually to be placed in orchestras and ensembles (say: on-song-bulls) best to meet their stage of development as a musician. It is part of the larger organisation called ''Sydney Youth Orchestra Inc,'' which provides a pathway for hundreds of young musicians from beginner to pre-professional to connect, create and champion orchestral music. ''Sydney Youth Orchestra Inc'' is also the largest orchestral training provider in Australia. SYO receives less than 10% of its income through funding from state government grants, and 35% from student participation fees. Ensembles SYO is made up of 9 ensemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youth Orchestra
A youth orchestra is an orchestra made of Youth, young musicians, typically ranging from pre-teens or teenagers to those of Music school, conservatory age. Depending on the age range and selectiveness, they may serve different purposes. Orchestras for young students have the primary purpose of music education, often led by a Conducting, conductor who is also a music teacher. Some youth orchestras have been set up by professional symphony orchestras, both as a training ground for future players, and as part of their community outreach program. This is particularly common in the List of youth orchestras in the United States, United States, examples including the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the New York Youth Symphony. While a professional orchestra will receive the parts and have a few days of rehearsal, and then play several performances, youth orchestras will typically rehearse the concert program over several months. This additional time gives the conductor to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tognetti
Richard Leo Tognetti AO (born 4 August 1965) is a leading Australian musician recognised internationally as a violin soloist, ensemble player, leader, composer and arranger, conductor and artistic director. He is currently artistic director and leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) and artistic director of the Festival Maribor in Maribor, Slovenia. Training period Born in Australia's capital city Canberra, Tognetti was already playing the violin at the age of four. He was raised in Wollongong where he began his violin studies with Harold Brissenden, the retired Scottish violist William Primrose and his wife Hiroko who was a Suzuki method specialist. At the age of 11 he was admitted to the Sydney Conservatorium High School and continued his tertiary studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His teacher was Alice Waten, herself a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and former student of Valery Klimov and David Oistrakh. While there Tognetti became lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA Award Winners
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List Of Youth Orchestras
This is a list of active youth orchestras. National youth orchestras are highlighted in bold. Asia * Arab Youth Philharmonic Orchestra * Asian Youth Orchestra Afghanistan * Afghan Youth Orchestra Cambodia * Angkor National Youth Orchestra China * National Youth Orchestra of China * Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra Hong Kong * Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong * Hong Kong Festival Orchestra India * India National Youth Orchestra Iraq * National Youth Orchestra of Iraq Israel * Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Japan * Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta Malaysia * Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Singapore * Singapore National Youth Orchestra Thailand * Siam Sinfonietta Turkey * Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Africa South Africa * South African National Youth Orchestra Foundation * Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Europe *European Union Youth Orchestra * European Union Baroque Orchestra * Gus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Weiss
Leonard Weiss is an Australian conductor and educator. He is the 2024-25 Cybec Assistant Conductor with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Canberra Sinfonia. He is known as a champion of new Australian music, including conducting the 2022 world premiere of Dulcie Holland's Piano Concertino with pianist Ronan Apcar, and as well as for his regular work as an operatic conductor. In 2025, Weiss was selected as a Tanglewood Conducting Fellow, where he will learn with Andris Nelsons and make his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2026. Education Weiss graduated from the Australian National University in 2014, citing the influence of teachers Alice Giles and organist, Calvin Bowman. He worked part time as carillonist at the National Carillon. In 2019, Weiss commenced studies with Marin Alsop at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he made his opera debut conducting Kaija Saariaho's Emilie. He was also awarded as the Conservatory's Risin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Edwardes
Claire Olivia Edwardes (born 9 September 1975) is an Australian classical percussionist, artistic director, composer and advocate for change in the classical music sector.''Who's Who in Australia'' 2018, ConnectWeb. Edwardes is the co-founder and artistic director of Ensemble Offspring, roles she shared with composer Damien Ricketson until his retirement from the group in 2015. In 2016, she won two APRA Art Music Awards, with one going to Ensemble Offspring for "sustained services to Australian music for 20 years", and Edwardes receiving an individual award "for performance, advocacy and artistic leadership”. She is the only Australian to have won the Luminary Art Music Award for an Individual 3 times. In 2019, Edwardes created and performed the music and dance theatre work ''RECITAL'' with dancer Richard Cilli and director Gideon Obarzanek for Dance Massive 2019. Edwardes composed the music and sound design for ''RECITAL'' in collaboration with Paul Mac. In 2011 and 2017, Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Noble
Guy Noble is an Australian musical composer, conductor, pianist and broadcaster. Noble studied piano in the early 1980s at the Sydney Conservatorium. On a scholarship from the Australia Council he travelled to London where he worked for four years, including a stint as presenter on BBC Radio 3. In 1984, he was pianist in the Sydney Youth Orchestra and from 1984 to 1986 in the Australian Youth Orchestra. Noble was the inaugural recipient of the Brian Stacey Memorial Trust Award for emerging Australian conductors in 1998; the trust, in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, financed the composition and recording of Noble's Flute Concerto, written for Jane Rutter. In 2022 he was appointed as the conductor and host of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that he conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, West Australian, Tasmanian, Queensland and Canberra symphony orchestras, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Malaysian Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Goodchild
Paul Goodchild (August 23, 1960 – March 29, 2022) was an Australian trumpet player. Career Paul Goodchild began his career in 1966 as a member of the community group Bondi Brass (formerly Waverley Bondi Beach Band), who had been formed by his father, Cliff. He joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1979 aged 18, and later became Associate Principal Trumpet. He was a member of the Orchestra for 42 years. He would often perform with Bondi Brass, and later took over from his father as their music director. He was also a Board Director of the Australian School Band and Orchestra Festival, that had been founded by his father in 1962. He performed with several groups around Australia, including Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Australia Ensemble Australia Ensemble UNSW is an Australian chamber group active since 1980. The group was founded in 1980 as the University of New South Wales Ensemble after a proposal put to the University of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fortune
James Fortune is a gospel music recording artist, songwriter and producer. He is also a radio personality on 1190 AM WLIB. Music career James Fortune & FIYA's highly debut CD, ''You Survived'', was released in September 2004. He was honored at the 19th annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards for his hit single "You Survived" off the same album. "You Survived" also peaked as the No. 2 most played Gospel song in the country and has remained in the Top seven for three years. The radio single, "God Can" features Micah Stampley and Zacardi Cortez. Fortune received a 2006 ASCAP Writers Award for "You Survived". FIYA has been nominated four years in a row for the Texas Gospel Youth & Young Adult Choir of the year. Fortune and F.I.Y.A.'s second project on Black Smoke Music World Wide, ''The Transformation'', was released January 22, 2008. The first single, "I Trust You", charted at No. 1 on Gospel radio for 25 weeks and No. 30 on Urban AC charts and No. 1 at WL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Davis
Bond (stylised as BOND; formerly often typeset as bond in deference to the owners of the 007 trademark) is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover and synth-pop music. The quartet has sold five million albums. Creation Bond was formed following initial conversations between Vanessa-Mae composer and record producer Mike Batt and her manager, promoter Mel Bush, after Batt suggested to Bush that the two of them should put together a quartet consisting of "four beautiful, talented musicians" Auditions were held at Baden Powell House in London, and violinist (Eos) and Cellist (Gay Yee) and a viola player were "cast" at that point, using as an audition piece "Contradanza" that Batt had written for Vanessa Mae. It was agreed between them that all was then required was to find the ideal first violinist. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake (born 6 September 1958) is an Australian composer, musician and conductor. As a composer for the screen, his film credits include the feature films ''Ali's Wedding'', ''Paper Planes'', ''Miss Potter'', ''Babe'', '' Babe: Pig in the City'', '' Children of the Revolution'' and '' The Nugget''. He also composed the theme for ''SBS World News''. Biography Westlake was born in Sydney, the son of Sydney Symphony Orchestra principal clarinettist Donald Westlake. Westlake studied the clarinet with his father and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music. By the age of 17, Westlake was touring Australia and the world, performing as a freelance clarinettist, bass clarinettist and saxophonist with ballet companies, a circus troupe, chamber music ensembles, fusion bands and orchestras. In 1983, Westlake studied bass clarinet and composition in the Netherlands and was appointed composer in residence for ABC Radio National in 1984. From 1987 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Rutter
Jane Rutter (born 2 November 1958) is an Australian flautist. Her repertoire encompasses classical, jazz, and pop music. Career Rutter specializes in the French Flute School. She has lectured at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and formed the chamber group POSH. Rutter has performed worldwide. She has released over twenty solo albums. Personal life Rutter lives in Sydney with her family. Outside music, she supports green causes. In 2005 she took her stepmother to court over her father's estate. Discography Awards and nominations In 2016, Rutter was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987. ! , - , 1990 , ''Nocturnes & Preludes for Flutes'' , Best Classical Album , , ARIA Award previous winners. , - , 2004 , ''Brazil'' (with Slava Grigoryan) , Best World Music Album , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
