ALL CONCERTS
Triumph of the Human Spirit
Sunday 28 April 2024, 5:30 pm
Melbourne Youth Orchestra
Brett Kelly
Melbourne Recital Centre
A captivating folk-inspired program.
Infused throughout with joyous musical echoes of Russia’s religious and peasant past, Borodin’s popular Symphony No.2 is a bold and brilliant work; the perfect vehicle for MYO’s passionate young musicians.
Together with Sibelius’ Karelia Suite, it will create a concert overflowing with melody, pageantry, and power. Both works are much loved for capturing an exquisite balance of folk-like simplicity, dazzling orchestral sonority, and the sheer magic of the orchestral experience. It was said of Borodin and this work.
No musician has ever claimed immortality with so slender an offering. Yet if there be immortalities in music, his claim is incontestable.
Neeharika Shyju
Respect for the Land
Tim Jayatilaka
Heralding the Everyday
Jean Sibelius
Karalia Suite
Nigel Westlake
The Glass Soldier
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No.2
MYO Ensemble Program 2024 – Concert 1
Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th May 2024
Various Times
Iwaki Auditorium
Melbourne Youth Orchestras is proud to present the first concerts as part of the 2024 Ensemble Program.
Join us in celebrating the hard work, dedication and passion of our young musicians as they perform repertoire across multiple styles and genres, including standards, classics, and soon-to-be favourites.
Ticket link to be published soon.
MYJO & MYBB – Contemporary New Sounds
Tuesday 21 May 2024, 7:30 pm
The Jazzlab
Melbourne Youth Orchestras is proud to present Melbourne Youth Jazz Orchestra and Melbourne Youth Big Band in what is their first concert for the 2024 program.
Melbourne Youth Orchestras have been bringing countless young musicians together for ensemble music-making since 1967. The MYO program includes symphony orchestras, string orchestras and symphonic bands, and in 2023, two brand-new jazz orchestras were added into the mix.
Under the direction of drummer and educator Sonja Horbelt, these sensational bands will present a sophisticated and diverse concert joined by guest Saxophonist, Savannah Blount.
Director – Sonja Horbelt
Saxophone – Savannah Blount
7.30pm Melbourne Youth Big Band
8.30pm Melbourne Youth Jazz Orchestra
MYO x MSO Side by Side – Katie Noonan x MSO
Thursday 30 May 2024, 7:30 pm
Members of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra
Carlo Antonioli
Hamer Hall
Five-time ARIA award-winning artist Katie Noonan joins the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and members of the Melbourne Youth Orchestra for an unforgettable evening celebrating love, acts of kindness and bravery.
Equally at home leading a symphony orchestra as she is in a small jazz club, Katie will perform a genre-defying concert featuring selections by Britten, Bernstein and Joni Mitchell, orchestrated versions of her original music, and more.
Conducted by Carlo Antonioli, this must-see performance with one of the greatest Australian singers of all time will be a spine-tingling experience.
https://www.mso.com.au/performance/2024-katie-noonan-x-mso
Book NowMelbourne Youth Orchestra at Ulumbarra Theatre
Sunday 30 June 2024, 3:00 pm
Carlo Antonioli
Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo
Melbourne Youth Orchestra will be performing a regional outreach performance at Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, underneath the baton of the brilliant conductor – Carlo Antonioli.
“Meaning ‘gather together’ or ‘meeting place’ in the language of the local Dja Dja Wurrung people, Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre rises majestically from what was once the Sandhurst Gaol. The theatre is a redevelopment of the gaol, which operated from 1863 until 2004. Today you walk into an extraordinary arts and community facility and events venue that cleverly fuses heritage-listed 1860s penitentiary architecture and contemporary design.”
https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/arts-culture-theatres/space/ulumbarra-theatre
Ticket link will to be published soon.
MYO Ensemble Program 2024 – Concert 2
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th August 2024
Various Times
Iwaki Auditorium
Melbourne Youth Orchestras is proud to present the second concert for the 2024 Ensemble Program.
Join us in celebrating the hard work, dedication and passion of our young musicians as they perform repertoire across multiple styles and genres, including standards, classics, and soon-to-be favourites.
Ticket link to be published soon.
MYJO & MYBB – Performance 2
Tuesday 13 August 2024, 7:30 pm
The Jazzlab
More information coming soon.
Dreams and Nightmares
Sunday 01 September 2024, 11:00 am
Percy Grainger Youth Orchestra
Mark Shiell
Melbourne Recital Centre
Music to stir the subconscious, haunt your dreams and fuel your nightmares.
The Percy Grainger Youth Orchestra explores music of fear and fantasy in a program that walks the line between the evocatively haunting and the Conjuring.
19th Century Composers and writers drew from the rich source of horrifying folk and fairy tales to create enduring works of fiction and music of huge energy and visceral power. Bring holy water, wear garlic, or come with your favourite group of vampires. Join the Percy Grainger Youth Orchestra in a program for musical thrill seekers. Listen with your eyes closed…. if you dare.
Giacomo Puccini
‘La Tregenda’ from Le Villi – The Witches Sabbath
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E minor
Antonin Dvorak
The Noonday Witch
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Movie Magic for Spring
Sunday 01 September 2024, 5:30 pm
Melbourne Youth Orchestra
Brett Kelly
Melbourne Recital Centre
Celebrating film music’s evolution, from Max Steiner to Rachel Portman.
Over the past century, cinema has built a deep, magical, and unbreakable bond between its orchestral music and the human psyche. From the first wholly original film score written in 1932, every development in the concert hall has been immediately and creatively reflected in music for the movies.
The second half of this concert features the soaring mountain tops of film composition over the past 100 years, from the early luminaries Max Steiner and Erich Korngold to the greats of today, including Rachel Portman. MYO will revel in thrilling music from Gone with the Wind to Lord of the Rings and The Dark Knight and much more – all in all a feast of musical movie magic.
Artology Composers
To Country & Fanfare
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
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Various, 100 years of Thrilling Music for Film ‘Korngold to Zimmer to Rachel Portman.’
Book Now2024 MYO GALA CONCERT
Sunday 10th November 2024
Various Times
Hamer Hall
For the first time since 2016 Melbourne Youth Orchestras will be bringing back the annual Gala Concert!
With performances from 10 of our ensembles and held at the prestigious Hamer Hall, the concert will celebrate the exceptional talent of our Ensemble Program musicians.
SAVE THE DATE
Sunday 10 November, 2024 | Hamer Hall
More information coming soon!
MYJO & MYBB – Performance 3
Tuesday 12 November 2024, 7:30 pm
The Jazzlab
More information to coming soon.
