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National Youth Orchestra of Scotland

NYOS: Futures

Cream of Scotland’s young musical talent to dazzle audiences in Edinburgh

  

For the latest instalment of their educational concert series, members of NYOS Futures  (The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s increasingly popular contemporary chamber ensemble) will be providing an enlightening guide to Luigi Dallapiccola’s Tre Laudi, at Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh on Sunday 21 February at 2.30pm.

 Glaswegian conductor Will Conway, a leading authority on contemporary classical music, will direct this talented 13-strong ensemble in a full performance of the work, before exploring it with the audience, providing an exciting and accessible guide to a modern masterpiece. The ensemble will also be joined by stunning Italian soprano, Silvia Spinnato.

 Dallapiccola’s Tre Laudi ia a lyrical exultation of the Virgin Mary, a bittersweet synthesis of early serialism and medieval imagery conceived against the backdrop of 1930s Italian facism.  

 Italian Soprano, Silvia Spinnato will perform with the ensemble in this

Will Conway says of conducting Tre Laudi;

 “The music of Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola often combined archaic modal music of the Middles Ages and Renaissance with the more modern harmonic world of chromaticism. In this beautiful piece for voice and small orchestra he expertly combines these two worlds.”

 This will be Will Conway’s third appearance with NYOS Futures, he said of conducting the young ensemble;

 “I am delighted to be working with the talented NYOS Futures group once again an experience which is never less than a huge pleasure.”

  NYOS Futures

Tre Laudi, by Luigi Dallapiccola

Directed by Will Conway

Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh

Sunday 21 February 2010, 2.30pm

Tickets £5 (£2Student/Child) Available on the door

 William Conway was born and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland and is well known as both conductor and ‘cellist.

 After ten years as principal ‘cello with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, of which he is a founder-member, an Arts Council Award enabled him to further his conducting studies in Helsinki with Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Within four years of study he was already adding some impressive orchestras to his CV and became a finalist and prizewinner in the 1994 Leeds Conductors’ Competition.

 Since then he has established himself as a conductor of versatility equally at home with a wide variety of repertoire and orchestras.

 He has enjoyed a long relationship as conductor with many of the young orchestras based in Scotland most notably Camerata Scotland with whom he has toured and recorded as well as his regular, ongoing collaboration with several University orchestras. He regularly gives first performances of new works notably the viola concerto by Nigel Osborne with the RSAMD symphony orchestra. He works regularly with NYOS, this is his third appearance in the NYOS Futures series.

He has conducted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, the Italian orchestras Città di Ferrara and Orchestra del Teatro di Cagliari, Scottish Concert Orchestra, Goldberg Chamber Orchestra, English Northern Philharmonia, Scottish Baroque Soloists.

In 1996 he formed the Seer Opera Company and Seer Ensemble with whom he gave the world première of The Seer opera by John Bevan-Baker. He has conducted several operas with Haddo House Opera.

 He is co-founder and artistic-director of the innovative contemporary music group, Hebrides Ensemble, which has commissioned over sixty new works in the last nineteen years providing educational workshops and many cross-art projects.

He has been presented with a Scottish Society of Composers Award for an outstanding contribution to the promotion of contemporary music.

 Recent conducting engagements include English Sinfonia, Chamber Orchestra of Europe (with whom he has made a CD recording released by Warner), Sofia Philharmonic, Orchestra de Filharmonie of Flanders, Zagreb Philharmonic, performances of Birtwistle’s ‘Secret Theatre’ and Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, the American Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian orchestra Beethoven Academie, Goettingen Symphony where he is a regular guest, the operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at Haddo House and The Martyrdom of St Magnus by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney. Later this year he will direct performances of  two music theatre pieces by Maxwell Davies as well as a performance of Seven Last Words From The Cross by James MacMillan.

 NYOS Futures is the unique contemporary chamber ensemble of NYOS.  It is drawn from senior NYOS and Camerata Scotland musicians and aims to introduce young musicians and new audiences to the fascinating world of late 20th and early 21st century classical music.

The interest in NYOS Futures from established music professionals has been encouraging and the ensemble is delighted to have worked with a variety of internationally renowned Conductors, Soloists and Orchestras.

Through NYOS Futures, NYOS hopes to encourage an interest in the musicians and music of today, and develop and engage future audiences for contemporary classical music.

“It’s demanding stuff, but NYOS Futures delves head-first into it, resulting in a rewarding discussion and performance” Herald

 “NYOS Futures features the absolute cream of Scotland’s young generation of musicians” Scotsman

 NYOS Futures is a project of The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) that also runs The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, Camerata Scotland, The National Children’s Orchestra of Scotland sponsored by Standard Life, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland and NYOS Strings.

 

For further information please visit     www.nyos.co.uk

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