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Sydney Youth Orchestras
Presents
Saturday 30 May, Verbrugghen Hall
Saturday 31 May, Riverside Theatre
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Sydney Youth Orchestras
Upcoming Concerts
Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen
with Pacific Opera
Sydney Grammar School
Conducted by Alexander Briger
Friday 2 October, 7pm
Saturday 3 October, 7pm
Romance and Tragedy
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo & Juliet: Overture
MAHLER Symphony No.5
Conducted by Fabian Russell
Friday 6 November
Sydney Town Hall
Sydney Youth Orchestras strives to
nurture and inspire young people to
achieve artistic excellence by providing
the best possible orchestral training
program. This leads to the highest
standards of performance supported
by an engaged community of members,
parents and stakeholders.
In all aspects of its operations, Sydney
Youth Orchestras is committed
to upholding its core values. We
pride ourselves on our provision of
inspiration, creativity, collaboration and
excellence.
Sydney Youth Orchestra
SYO Philharmonic
Peter Seymour Orchestra
Symphonic Wind Orchestra
TangoOz
Percussion Ensemble
Speer Orchestra
John Hopkins Orchestra
Camerata Vibrata
Cameratissimo
Chamber Strings
Sinfonietta
SYO is made up of 12 ensembles, with an age range of 6-25.
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SYO TODDLERS’ PROMS
Leichhardt Town Hall
Peter Seymour Orchestra
Conducted by John Ockwell
Sunday 9 August
9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am
SYO Concerto Competition Final
Chapter Hall, St Mary’s Cathedral College
Sunday 16 August
10am
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T H ER I D EO F T H EVA L K Y R I E S
The Sydney Youth Orchestra is excited
to present The Ride of the Valkyries.
Wagner’s magnificent Der Ring Ohne
Worte (The Ring without words), is an
orchestral selection from the world’s
most epic opera. It features many
of The Ring’s best loved moments
including the Ride of the Valkyries,
Magic Fire Music, Siegfried’s Funeral
March and many more.
Conductor
Mr Alexander Briger
Sydney Youth Orchestra
Michael Dauth – Violin
We’re joined by violin virtuoso
and former Sydney Symphony
concertmaster Michael Dauth for the
world premiere of Concerto for Violin
and Orchestra by Australian composer
Lee Bracegirdle.
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Conductor - Alexander Briger
Alexander Briger is the newly appointed
Artistic Director for the Sydney Youth
Orchestras and is one of the most
exciting conductors appearing on the
podium today. After studying at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he
moved to Munich and in 1993, won first
prize at the International Competition
for Conductors in the Czech Republic.
He went on to assist and work
closely with Pierre Boulez and Sir
Charles Mackerras. He has conducted
international orchestras such as the
London Philharmonic, LSO, CBSO, BBC
Symphony, Philharmonia, Orchestre
de Paris, Radio orchestra of France,
Konzerthausorchester, Berlin; and opera
at such houses as the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne,
Aix-en-Provence, Theatre du Chatelet,
Paris, the Komische Oper, Berlin and
the Canadian Opera Company. He
has also worked extensively around
Australia with Opera Australia and all
the state orchestras. As Artistic and
Music Director of the Australian World
Orchestra, Alexander is a visionary
leader who regularly works with SYO
alumni currently placed in major
orchestras around the world.
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Orchestra
Violin 1
Darcy Dauth
Samantha Chiu
Liam Fogarty
Sarah Qiu
Sophia Vasic
Holly Smith
Ashkan Khoshab
Lily Mullin-Chivers
Amy Cohen
Colin Camphausen
Miriam Greenbaum
David Carreon
Sagar Nagaraj
Violin 2
Emily Beauchamp
Karen Kong
Daniel Zhou
Vincent Tsang
Raphael Coulhon
Anthony Youssef
Sabrina Macdonald
Lizzy Greenhalgh
Pana Panaretos
Tania Ma
Annia Mao
Viola
Sergio Insuasti
Joshua Cannon
Calida Tang
Tim Dickinson
Zoe Brown
Marlon Schroeder
Alexander Pettaras
Liam Kinney
Cello
Annabelle Oomens
Hikaru Fuminashi
Joshua Grasso
Nick McManus
Katherine Moses
Amy Chang
Julia Zhong
Rachel Liang
William Goh
Andie Wittenoom Louw
Patrick Carreon
Double Bass
Vanessa Li
Jessica Brown
Ethan Ireland
Adrian Whitehall
Annabel Cameron
Flute
Kinsey Alexander
Elissa Koppen
Clara Pitt
Chloe Hill*
Oboe
Callum Hogan
Eve Osborn
Kate Mostert
Toby Debelak*
Clarinet
Jarred Mattes
James Julian
Jessica Budge
Rachel Thompson*
Bassoon
Alison Wormell
Brighdie Chambers
Maria Smith
Horns
Bevan Nicholas
Eve McEwen
Thomas Edwards
Lotti Ropert
Nick Mooney*
Katie Garman*
Levi Johnson*
Jack Stephens*
Trumpet
Jenna Smith
Alfie Carslake
Sam Thompson
Trombone
Chris Upton
Darcy Shevlin
Jason Ulbrich
Cian Malikides*
David Williams*
Tuba
Yoann Degioanni
Percussion
Rory Wilson
Stuart Rynn
Jessica Fang
Oliver Brighton
Mitchell Sloan*
Harp
Joanne Baee
Kate Moloney
Bold = Principal * = Guest
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This concert presents several extraordinary musical milestones, not only
in a historical sense but as a chance for young musicians to grapple with
some of the greatest orchestral challenges. Wagner unleashed the full
expressive force of the orchestra like never before in his composition
of The Ring Cycle, and the work presented today reveals Wagner at
the height of his power. Our musicians in the Sydney Youth Orchestra
have bravely toiled with the great cultural and artistic significance of
this masterpiece, as well as with their sheer virtuosity, however equally
challenging is the task of interpreting a world premiere. Ride with them on
this tour de force of orchestral music-making!
Richard Wagner (1813-1883):The Ring Without Words
With the new season of Game of
Thrones well under way, what better
time to reflect on a work that in
many ways laid the foundations of
the numerous fantastic, mythology-
inspired stories that have achieved cult
status in recent years. A precursor to
authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien, George
Lucas and J.K. Rowling, not to mention
the many cast and crew who helped
bring their stories to life, Richard
Wagner, combining music, poetry and
spectacular visual staging, achieved
something unprecedented and unique
in the history of aesthetic endeavour.
Wagner created a new world from his
19th century romanticized readings
of including the epic tale Das
Nibelungenlied, writing every word
of the libretto and every note of the
15 hour score himself. Wagner boldly
admitted in a letter to a close friend
that “The whole will become – out with
it! I am not ashamed to say so – the
greatest work of poetry ever written.”
The story essentially depicts the rise
and fall of gods and civilisations via
the passage of an accursed ring,
forged from gold stolen from the
river Rhine. The famous and strangely
familiar characters include Alberich
the Nibelungen Dwarf, Brünnhilde the
Valkyrie and Siegfried, grandson of
Wotan, the head of the gods. There
are however close to thirty individual
characters and numerous ‘extras’ who
all inhabit the multigenerational plotline
on a plane shared by mortals and
immortals.
In order to stage this ‘never-before-
seen-or-heard’ scale of work, which
took Wagner around 25 years of
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compositional and poetic labour, he
built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, the
largest ever free-standing wooden
structure.
The gargantuan scale of the
performance limits the choices of
venues however, thus providing Erich
Leinsdorf’s justification for his orchestral
arrangement.
Erich Leinsdorf was one of the most
renowned and famously severe
conductors of the 20th century, he also
arranged Wagner’s other epic opera
trilogy Parsifal. Leinsdorf opens The
Ring with the magnificent “Ride of the
Valkyries”, moving on to the “Magic Fire
Scene” where Wotan warns any who
would attempt to clime his mountain
and seize Brünnhilde from the flames.
Evidently ignoring the warning, the
next musical scene depicts the fearless
Siegfried traversing the flames, albeit
slightly before he musically ascends
Valkyrie Rock. At the break of dawn,
we move with Siegfried on his Rhine
journey and find ourselves at Hagen’s
lair, with the brass ominously hinting at
his evil intentions. Suddenly, Siegfried
is no more, and his funeral march is
followed by the transcendent and
overpowering final scene which sees
the Rhine reclaim its gold, while in the
distance the palace of the gods burns
to the ground.
The orchestra sings on triumphantly
even once all the voices have died
down in Wagner’s Ring. Wieland,
grandson of Richard, explained to Lorin
Maazel that the orchestra “is where
it all is – the text behind the text, the
universal subconscious that binds
Wagner’s personae one to the other
and to the proto-ego of legend”. Maazel
beautifully translated these profound
comments after a later performance
of the complete cycle: “its orchestra
score is the Ring itself, coded in sound.
Decoded, it becomes story, legend,
song, philosophy in countless cosmic
overtones and human undertones.”
- Anthony Albrecht
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Lee Bracegirdle - Composer
After early musical studies in
Philadelphia, Lee Bracegirdle attended
the Juilliard School in New York as
a French horn student of James
Chambers, earning Bachelor’s and
Master’s degrees. During his studies
he led a multi-faceted free-lance career
which involved recordings with many
prominent jazz musicians, including
Clark Terry, Ornette Coleman, Stanley
Clark and Teo Macera.
From 1976-1977 he was Co-Principal
Horn with México’s Orquesta
Filarmónica de la UNAM and Principal
Horn with the Chamber Orchestra
of México City. In 1977 he moved
to Germany, where he co-founded
Germany’s premier brass quintet,
Rekkenze Brass.
In 1980 he was appointed Associate
Principal Horn with the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra, where he served
until his retirement in 2012. He has
made numerous recordings for the ABC
as a soloist, chamber musician and
principal horn.
In 1998 he was awarded First Prize
in the Zoltan Kodaly Composers’
Competition for his first orchestral work,
Divertimento for Orchestra. This award
earned him an honorary diploma from
the Chicago-based Kodaly Academy.
Since 1999 he has been Musical Director
of the Australian Chamber Ballet, for
whom he has composed several works.
The SSO has performed the premieres
of his Variations for Orchestra,
Ammerseelieder and Euphonium
Concerto. In 2007 the American Wind
Symphony Orchestra commissioned
and recorded his Threnos for Horn and
symphonic winds. This ensemble also
commissioned his Legends of the Old
Castle, which the SSO premiered during
the 2014 International Harp Congress
with Louise Johnson as soloist. His
music is published by C.F. Peters in New
York and Leipzig.
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Lee Bracegirdle - Notes
The conductor Charles duToit said
about concertmaster Michael Dauth, “If
I had to go into battle, he’s the soldier
I’d want at my side”. When a violinist
of this calibre asks for a concerto, you
don’t say ‘No’. Mr Dauth requested and
I gladly accepted. The work’s structure
reflects classic sonata form, with
melodic use of 12-tone serialism in a
very liberal sense.
Allegro:
An opening cadenza presents much of
the material that is developed during
the concerto. The soloist then begins
the legato main melody. An oboe
introduces the second subject and more
complex textures. After a musical ‘full-
stop’ the harp breezes while the soloist
shows off double-stops gymnastics. The
orchestra makes heated philosophical
discussion in the form of a fugue,
utilising all the material so far visited.
A cadenza follows and the movement
ends on a celeste-harp “question mark”.
Adagio:
Plush, heartbeat-swells of strings
underpin the soloist’s opening theme,
based on a magpie’s tune. A Gregorian-
chant-like melody follows, voiced deep
in the orchestra. After these develop,
front-desk string players form a tender
quintet accompaniment while the
soloist whistles a prayer. Passionate,
philosophial full-orchestra passages
follow until the violin’s magpie song
morphs into the Gregorian chant.
Presto (Rondo):
Sizzling percussion introduce the
soloist’s insect-swarm theme. After
woodwinds and brass swat at the
insects, the soloist emerges with a
Gypsy-esque dance tune, bragging
breathtaking technical acrobatics.
These two themes permeate the
movement’s development, interjected
with ideas drawn from the 1st
movement introduction. A wild dance
brings soloist and orchestra together in
a frenzied climax.
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Michael Dauth - Violin
Of English – German origin, Michael
Dauth began violin studies under the
direction of his father, later studying
with Franz Josef Maier and the
Amadeus Quartet in Cologne, and
with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall
School in London. Soon after, he
became Concertmaster of Hanover’s
North German Radio Orchestra and
successfully auditioned for the Berlin
Philharmonic under Herbert von
Karajan.
He was invited to lead the Berlin
Philharmonic Octet, Berlin Piano Trio
and Chamber Virtuosi. In 1988 he moved
to Australia, became Concertmaster
of the Melbourne Symphony, and
was a founding member, Special
Concertmaster and Artistic Director of
the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and
guest Concertmaster of the London
Symphony Orchestra. From 2000-2011
he was Concertmaster of the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra.
Michael Dauth has appeared as a
soloist with major orchestras in Japan,
Australia, New Zealand and Europe
He has recorded the Beethoven,
Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn violin
concertos, the Beethoven Romances,
works by Saint-Saens, Massenet,
Kreisler and Drdla, Schnittke’s Concerto
Grosso (which received the Deutsche
Grammophon prize in Japan), and the
world premiere recording of Takemitsu’s
Nostalghia. His recording of Vaughan
Williams’s Lark Ascending has received
worldwide recognition.
In 2003 he received the Centenary
medal awarded by the Governor-
General for service to Australian society
and the advancement of music.
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Darcy Dauth - Concertmaster
Darcy Dauth began playing the violin
in 2005 in the Year 3 String Program at
Barker College, under the direction of
Sheau-Fang Low, during which time he
participated in the school’s Chamber
and Symphony Orchestras and various
chamber ensembles.
Darcy obtained his A.Mus.A in 2012
and was a finalist in the 2012 and
2013 Roger Woodward Award. In
2012 Darcy joined the Sydney Youth
Orchestra Philharmonic, becoming its
concertmaster in 2013.
In 2014 and 2015 Darcy attended the
AYO National Music Camp in both
Canberra and Adelaide, and later that
year led the Sydney Youth Orchestra in
the second subscription concert series,
performing at Angel Place with soloist
Simon Tedeschi. Upon finishing Year 12
at Barker College, Darcy was awarded
the Music 2 and Music Extension
prizes. In 2014 he led the Sydney Youth
Orchestra at Carols in the Domain
performing with a variety of celebrities
and well-known artists. In 2015 Darcy
was appointed Concertmaster of the
Sydney Youth Orchestra.
Darcy auditioned and was accepted
into both the Brisbane and Sydney
Conservatoriums of Music and
commenced his Bachelor of
Music Performance at the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music this year.
Darcy is joined by his father, Michael
Dauth for this concerts exciting world
premiere of Bracegirdle’s Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra.
We would like to thank all of our generous donors in 2014-2015
Major Partners
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SYO BoardJan Bowen – Chair
Anthony Bell – Deputy Chair
Tim Samway – Treasurer
Geraldine Doogue
Malcom Long
Jon North
Pieter Oomens
Artistic PatronRev. Dr Arthur Bridge AM
PhotographyCarol Gibson
Design byDaniel Mui
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Aine Markey – Head of Development &
Marketing
Helen Cho – Events Operations Manager
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