Young Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart
The Young Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart ( JuKO ) was founded in 1960 by Charlotte Azone von Cube as a youth chamber orchestra .
Since its founding, the JuKO has dedicated itself to the entire chamber orchestra literature from the baroque to the present day. The Young Chamber Orchestra has been integrated into the work of the Stuttgart Music School since 1983.
The JuKO works with internationally known soloists such as Isabelle Faust , Jürgen Kussmaul , Christian Ostertag , Sergio Azzolini , Ingolf Turban and Hans Heinz Schneeberger . This enables the young instrumentalists to gain important artistic experience and also make valuable contacts. Performances take place regularly in Stuttgart in the White Hall of the New Palace and in various concert series in Baden-Württemberg.
Regular concert tours that have taken the ensemble to Japan, Hong Kong, China, St. Petersburg, the USA and Canada, but of course also through Germany and other European countries, are important highlights of the orchestra's work.
Alexander G. Adiarte has led the orchestra since 2007 .
Performances and tours
In May 2000, a performance at the “Festival Hungary” of the cultural office of the state capital Stuttgart was on the program, in which the JuKO presented itself with Christian Ostertag, concertmaster of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg . In October 2000, the JuKO acted in the Theaterhaus as an opera orchestra at the world premiere of a new opera by the Stuttgart composer Axel Ruoff . In March 2001, Handel's Messiah was recorded on CD with the Stuttgart Hymn Choirboy under the direction of Hanns-Friedrich Kunz. In December 2001, Lothar Hensel's concert for bandoneon and string orchestra was performed.
In November 2003 the JuKO embarked on a two-week tour of Japan with concerts in Naruto, Kakogawa, Kobe and Tokyo-Yokohama. As part of the ²tutti pro "initiative of the German Orchestra Association with Jeunesses Musicales Germany and the Association of German Music Schools, the Young Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart is sponsored in 2014 by the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn .