Asian Youth Orchestra
The Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) was founded in 1987 by Yehudi Menuhin and Richard Pontzious in Hong Kong and is an orchestra for young Asian musicians who are at the beginning of their careers. In August 1990, Menuhin gave his first public concert. The late Sergiu Comissiona is the honorary conductor of the orchestra .
Members
The orchestra is made up of around 110 talents between the ages of 17 and 27 from China , Taiwan , Hong Kong, Indonesia , Japan , Korea , Malaysia , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand and Vietnam , who are selected annually to perfect their musical skills. In the summer of each year, the aspirants are invited to Hong Kong for six weeks to practice compositions, which they will perform on tours with conductors and soloists for the remaining three weeks.
Well-known soloists and conductors
Soloists who gave guest performances with the temporary orchestra or went on tour with it were the cellists Yo-Yo Ma , Mischa Maisky , Jian Wang and Alisa Weilerstein , the violinists Gidon Kremer , Gil Shaham , Elmar Oliveira , Young Uck Kim and Suwanai Akiko and Cho-Liang Lin , the soprano Elly Ameling , the pianists Alicia de Larrocha , Cecile Licad , Leon Fleisher , the Beaux Arts Trio and the trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger . Famous conductors were Sergiu Comissiona, Alexander Schneider , Tan Dun , Okko Kamu , Eri Klas , the current chief conductor James Judd and the founders of the orchestra Yehudi Menuhin and Richard Pontzious. The Board of Directors currently includes a. Yat Siu .
history
A group of Hong Kong entrepreneurs and business people founded a non-proft company in 1987 with the aim of establishing the Asian Youth Orchestra using the Hong Kong Tax exemption under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance .
In the history of the AYO, the first performances of Tan Dun's Symphony Heaven Earth Mankind with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing , New York's Avery Fisher Hall , California's Hollywood Bowl , Amsterdam's Concertgebouw , the Schauspielhaus Berlin , the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Sydney Opera House in 1997. The orchestra has also made guest appearances at the White House and the United Nations .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cecilia Burcescu: A Romanian Rhapsody. Google Books, accessed October 2, 2017 .
- ^ Tax exemption under section 99 of the Inland Ordinance. (PDF) April 2007, accessed on February 10, 2017 (English).
- ^ Non-profit organization qualified under Section 88 of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Ordinance. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, accessed February 10, 2017 .