Aargau Youth Symphony Orchestra
The Aargau Youth Symphony Orchestra , or JSAG for short, was founded in 2005 . It is located at the Künstlerhaus Boswil and is institutionally connected to it. Its conductor is Hugo Bollschweiler .
The orchestra now consists of about 50 musicians and musicians. Since it was founded, it has been one of the most innovative and ambitious youth orchestras in Switzerland , not least thanks to the work of its founder and former conductor, Moritz Baltzer . Since its inception, some world-famous soloists, and in particular emerging soloists from Switzerland, have played with the orchestra. Every year in winter and summer, the JSAG carries out a tour which has taken it to all the important concert venues in the Aargau region, as well as to appearances throughout the rest of Switzerland. More than 30 editorial newspaper reports in the leading print media in Switzerland, as well as radio reports on the state radio DRS, testify to its success.
Michael Schneider is the director of the orchestra.
Conductors
- Hugo Bollschweiler (since 2012)
- Moritz Baltzer (2005–2012)
prehistory
Forerunner of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Aargau was the continued existence of youth orchestras Freiamt . The JSAG was founded as part of an innovative cultural promotion project by the Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the Canton of Aargau .
Soloists
Since it was founded, the Aargau Youth Symphony Orchestra has performed with up-and-coming young soloists from the Aargau region as well as with important established artists. Previous soloists have included Radovan Vlatković ( French horn ), Dejan Lazić ( piano ), Daria Zappa ( violin ), Oliver Schnyder (piano), Fabio de Casola ( clarinet ), Judith Schmid ( mezzo-soprano ), Benjamin Nyffenegger ( cello ), Rahel Cuntz (Violin) or Edicson Ruiz (double bass).
Discography
- Klangfarben Boswil 1 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Le nozze di Figaro -Ouverture / concert aria KV. 583 "Vado, ma dove? - oh Dei!" / Edgar Varèse , Octandre for winds and double bass / Joseph Haydn , Symphony No. 104 in D major Hob I: 104.
- Timbre Boswil 3 : Béla Bartók , Romanian folk dances / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Concerto in E minor for violin and orchestra op.64 (Daria Zappa, violin) / Franz Schubert , Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200.
- Klangfarben Boswil 6 : Ludwig van Beethoven , Symphony No. 1 in C major op.21 / György Ligeti , Ramifications for strings / Richard Strauss , Concerto for French horn and orchestra in E flat major op.11 (Radovan Vlatkovic, horn).
- Klangfarben Boswil 16 : Works by Schönberg, Webern, Schumann and Schostakowitsch (recordings from 2011 and 2012).