West Dunbartonshire Council’s Youth Orchestra is joining forces with Joined Up Thinking Projects (JUTP) from Devon and Cornwall and the Yong-in Youth Orchestra from South Korea to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in St Mary’s Cathedral on Friday 20th of August
170 young musicians will perform a Gala Concert-Music Behind the Lines an exciting new collaborative venture in youth music. The show will provide a platform for young players to perform together and also participate in a variety of workshops that help them develop their creativity.
West Dunbartonshire Council Education Support Officer for Music Instruction, Aileen Douthwaite said: “This unique Edinburgh performance and international collaboration came about after a chance meeting of an old friend from my student days, Fiona McLean. Fiona, who is now Creative Director of (JUTP) contacted me and despite having not spoken to each other for 20 years since we graduated from the RSAMD, we started organising this event”
Aileen continued: “Our South Korean friends, The Yong-in Youth Orchestra, then came on board through a mutual contact from the National Association of Youth Orchestras and before you know it we have a grand total of 170 young musicians from opposite ends of the country and the other side of the world. Each youth orchestra will be performing their own show, while collaborating in a week of workshops and rehearsals culminating in their joint Gala Concert – Music Behind the Lines.”
The Gala Concert will also include two world premiere performances of scores composed by two very high profile musicians Gabriel Prokofiev and Rupert Bond who have worked closely withSouth West Camerata from Cornwall and Devon.
West Dunbartonshire Council’s Executive Director for Education, Terry Lanagan said: “This imaginative and ambitious venture is a major coup for West Dunbartonshire’s Youth Orchestra and a testimony to the drive and determination of their conductor, Aileen Douthwaite.
He added: “This international collaboration over a whole week with two other orchestras is a wonderful opportunity for our young musicians to take their talents to a whole new level. I am sure that the gala performance of such an ambitious musical programme at the world’s biggest arts festival will be an unforgettable experience for these young people and for the audience.”
Also being performed at the Gala Concert – Music Behind the Lines:
Fanfare for the Common Man – Aaron Copland
An American In Paris Suite – George Gershwin
Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 – Franz Liszt
Orchestral Suite No. 1 - Rupert Bond – world premiere
Piece (no title as yet) - Gabriel Prokofiev - world premiere
Benedictus from The Armed Man Karl Jenkins for orchestra and chorus
Songs of Hope and Creation; Out In a Stable and People Prepare - Andrew Daldorph – Scottish Premiere
Star Trek Through The Years - various
Suite from Video Games Live - various
Arirang - Traditional Korean Folk Song
Tickets for Music Behind the Lines, as on Friday 20th of August are £10, for adults, £8 Concession or £28 for a family ticket.
The other 3 Concerts
The 3 Youth Orchestras separate performances.
South West Camerata’s Concertante Ensemble - Joined Up Thinking Project musicians, are a highly talented group of young un-conducted performers from Devon and Cornwall who will be staging a lunchtime Quintet Chamber Concert in St Giles at Cathedral, on Tuesday 16th August at midday, (tickets free), as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and also their larger Concertante Concert on Saturday 21 August again in St Giles Cathedral at midday including music by Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.(tickets free)
West Dunbartonshire Council Youth Orchestra will be performing their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in St Giles Cathedral on Wednesday 18th August at midday. (Tickets free) Talented young musicians from Clydebank, Dumbarton and Alexandria, will perform a variety of music including Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 by Franz Liszt and Phantom of the Opera by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The Yong-in Youth Orchestra, a wonderfully gifted group of young musicians from South Korea are set to
perform Dvorak Symphony No.8 at as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in St Giles’ Cathedral on
Saturday, 21 August at 8:00 pm. (Tickets £5 from the Fringe Box Office)
