Sydney Youth Orchestras will be presenting a day-long series of chamber-sized concerts in an imaginative response to dealing with COVID-19 restrictions applying to both player and audience numbers. Five short-form concerts will be staged at roughly two-hour intervals through the day in a festival format. Audience movement will be managed safely and at leisure. Due…
Sydney Youth Orchestras Janáček and Brahms Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 24 March, 2019 The Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music resounded with the cacophony of 70 young orchestral players of the Sydney Youth Orchestra Philharmonic, rehearsing their parts at full volume, playing fast as they could, before being tamed by the…
Marcus Michelsen This April Sydney Youth Orchestras’ most talented young musicians from the greater Sydney region, aged between sixteen and twenty will be led by their youngest Concertmaster ever, 15-year-old Marcus Michelsen under the baton of Alexander Briger AO. On the programme are Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, which celebrate heroes of 20th century…