Nuremberg Youth Orchestra
The Nuremberg Youth Orchestra ( NJO ) is the largest youth orchestra in Middle Franconia , along with the Fürth Streichholzern . It is affiliated with the Nuremberg Singing and Music School, and the director of the Nuremberg Singing and Music School , Rudolf Wundling, is responsible for its management. The members are schoolchildren and students aged between 14 and 25 from Nuremberg and the Nuremberg area. The number of members fluctuates between 50 and 60 musicians, with the full orchestra playing in a few works. Most concerts have between 25 and 40 people.
history
The Nuremberg Youth Orchestra was founded in 1984 by Wilfried Vogt and has since made a very good reputation as one of the two largest Middle Franconian youth orchestras alongside the Fürth Matches , especially at concerts in cooperation with the Nuremberg State Theater . Wilfried Vogt saw the goal of working with the orchestra as promoting young instrumentalists, promoting young musicians and promoting youth orchestral work. Wilfried Vogt not only had the instrumentalists himself in view, but also wanted to introduce young listeners to classical music by organizing children's concerts in the Nuremberg Opera House. The Nuremberg Youth Orchestra never saw itself as competition to the school orchestras, but wanted to offer talented instrumentalists an additional chance to deal with demanding orchestral literature. The children's concerts were very popular right from the start. The programs, which in addition to “classics” for children such as “Peter and the Wolf” also offered symphonic works and oratorios, testify to the high standard of the orchestra. For many young musicians, their dream of a career as a professional musician came true after leaving the orchestra. After Wilfried Vogt left as conductor, Rudolf Wundling, who had been director of the Nuremberg Singing and Music School since 1993, took over the management. For several years, is at the rehearsals to work closely with faculty from the two professional orchestras Nuremberg, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Nuremberg Philharmonic instead.
Rehearsal operation
The orchestra rehearses weekly, and special rehearsals take place before concerts. The NJO also regularly undertakes orchestra tours for rehearsal purposes.
repertoire
The NJO plays in differently sized cast works of medium to high level of difficulty from all epochs, from the baroque to classical and romantic to composers of the 20th century and arrangements of rock music.
Concerts
The NJO regularly organizes children's concerts in the State Theater in Nuremberg . In addition to other concerts, an open-air symphony concert traditionally takes place every July in the Kreuzigungshof of the Nuremberg Heilig-Geist-Spital .
Participation in competitions
In the Bavarian Orchestra Competition, which takes place every four years, the NJO won first prize in 1999 and second prize in 2003.
CD
In 2001 the NJO recorded the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns together with the Greek piano duo Antithesis ( Petros Moschos and Dimitris Karydis ) . In 2004, the "Winter" from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi , the Harp Concerto in Op. 6 No. 4 in B flat major by Georg Friedrich Handel and the Romanian Folk Dances for small orchestra by Béla Bartók were recorded. In cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk and ambitus music production , a CD was created from these recordings, which was released on April 1, 2005.