Summer Tour 2016

Summer Tour 2016 

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economic, religious, and political boundaries in the pursuit of 

musical excellence. 

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Co-Chairmen’s Message 

For 40 years the European Union Youth Orchestra has represented 

and embodied the highest ideals of European cultural unity and 

cooperation. As Europe has grown and expanded its membership, 

so has the Orchestra. In its ranks, at its desks, young musicians from 

28 nations between the ages of 16 and 26 work, play, learn, make 

music, make friendships, gain understanding, grow as musicians and 

as people. Which nation they come from only partly relevant, for 

they are united by a sense of a shared cultural heritage, a common 

cultural vision. Each season they start as 120 individuals; by the end 

they are an orchestra, that magical blending of brilliant individual 

skills and distinct personalities into a harmonious whole. Just like the 

European ideal itself. When the European Union Youth Orchestra 

performs, it is the expression of the European dream i n practice 

and in reality. It is the finest, most vivid ambassador for a vision. 

But the experience does not stop when the players leave. Over 40 years, 

several thousand musicians have colonised Europe’s music making. 

Many people the ranks of the greatest orchestras of the continent. 

Others teach, innovate, explore, inspire. They never forget what they 

learned with their fellow colleagues from the EU’s 28 countries. 

All of this nearly came to an end earlier this year when we announced 

that in the absence of continued core funding from the EU we 

would have to cease operations. The resulting outburst of support 

for the EUYO internationally was astounding and the EU has now 

undertaken to sustain the orchestra both in the short and the long 

term. We hope that in practice this will enable the continuation of 

the Orchestra. The scale of respect, affection and trust shown to 

the Orchestra at this time by the world of the arts was more than 

could have been anticipated and places on us a responsibility to 

continue to justify the confidence of the EUYO’s many supporters. 

Contents 

Co-Chairmen’s Message 1 

Welcome Message 3 

Milestones 4 

Tributes 6 

Thanks 8 

The Future 10 

Summer Tour 12 

Conductors 16 

Soloists 18 

The Orchestra 22 

Awards 30 

Tutors 33 

Honorary Patrons / Committees 36 

Partners, Supporters and Friends 38 

Governance 40 

Photo © Geoff Wilson 

Sir John Tusa 

Trustee, Co-Chair 

Ian Stoutzker CBE 

Orchestra Board Chair, Trustee, Co-Chair 

EUYO > CO- CHAIRMEN’S MESSAGE 

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Congratulations! 

Askonas Holt warmly congratulates the 

players and management of the European 

Union Youth Orchestra on the occasion 

of its 40th anniversary! 

At Askonas Holt, we guide the careers of world-class conductors, 

instrumentalists and singers, and arrange tours for a prestigious list 

of international orchestras, dance and opera companies. We are 

thrilled to be working closely with the EUYO on its remarkable 

Capital Sounds project. 

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Making TOURS Happen 

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Welcome Message 

Monday 8 March and Thursday 22 April 1976 were seemingly unremarkable 

days. Yet when the cultural history of the EU comes to be written they 

could enter the history books, for these were, respectively, the dates 

when the European Parliament passed a unanimous resolution to found 

the European Community (now Union) Youth Orchestra and when the 

European Commission confirmed its official Patronage of the Orchestra. 

The scale of achievement of the EUYO in the ensuing years is articulated in 

the following pages by tributes from a number of the world’s great artists, 

politicians and – surely most profoundly – the players themselves. By any 

measure, the EUYO has combined performance excellence with a unique 

cultural ambassadorship for the EU, acting as an emblem for the European spirit 

of freedom, co-operation and creativity, in Europe and around the globe. 

To celebrate this tradition, the Orchestra is launching ‘Capital Sounds’, an 

ambitious project to visit all the EU Capital Cities in the coming years with 

performances that reflect not only the pan-European nature of the Orchestra, 

but also focus on the cultural identities of each country. The Project launches 

in Bratislava on 7 August in celebration of Slovakia’s EU Presidency, and 

continues this summer to Amsterdam, Berlin, Ljubljana and Warsaw. 

Amidst celebration however, it is impossible not to mention the crisis in EU 

funding for the EUYO earlier this year that nearly caused its closure, a reminder 

that even the most impressive achievements are eternally at risk if they are not 

properly safeguarded. We hope very much that a solution to the Orchestra’s 

funding from the EU can be found, for as I write discussions are ongoing but 

not yet resolved. Should they be resolved, then a question is worth posing: 

as the world changes, increasingly complex, progressively more connected, 

how can the EUYO best be of service, developing its role as a tangible beacon 

of the EU’s finest ideals during such an undeniably testing time for Europe? 

For now, though, we welcome you to our summer 2016 anniversary tour. 

Marshall Marcus 

Chief Executive, 

European Union Youth Orchestra 

EUYO > WELCOME 

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Milestones 

From Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, New York to Nicosia, Moscow to Mumbai, Seoul to São Paolo 

and beyond, the EUYO has performed so far in 4 Continents, 43 countries, 177 cities and 224 

venues, including cities in all 28 EU Member States. A regular visitor to many of the world’s 

greatest concert halls including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the BBC Proms, and the 

Edinburgh, Lucerne and Salzburg festivals, the Orchestra’s Principal Venue Partner and most 

important home has, since 2014, been at Grafenegg as part of the Grafenegg Festival. 

Below are a few of the landmark projects of the first 40 years of the Orchestra. 

Herbert von Karajan conducting 

EUYO in Salzburg 1980 

Daniel Barenboim in 

rehearsal with EUYO 1981 

Leonard Bernstein © Jack Mitchell 

and Jessye Norman, Soprano 

Mstislav 

Rostropovich 

1978 

Inaugural tour conducted 

by Founding Music Director 

Claudio Abbado, to 

Amsterdam, Bonn, Paris, 

Luxembourg, Brussels, 

Milan and Rome 

1980 

Herbert von Karajan conducts 

the Orchestra in Salzburg with 

soloist Anne-Sophie Mütter 

1981 

EUYO performs under the 

baton of Daniel Barenboim 

1982 

Tour to Mexico 

1984 

Tour to China and Hong Kong 

1985 

Summer Tour including 

London, Athens, Hiroshima, 

Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, 

Copenhagen, Amsterdam, 

Lucerne, Paris and Vienna 

with conductors Claudio 

Abbado, Leonard Bernstein 

and Eiji Oue, and soloists 

Jessye Norman, Karita Mattila, 

Christa Ludwig, Barbara 

Hendricks and Mi Dori 

1987 

Concerts in Bari, Rome, 

Ravenna, Brussels, Paris, 

Dublin, London, Oxford with 

conductor James Judd, and 

soloists Sir Yehudi Menuhin 

and Dmitris Sgouros 

1988 

Tour to USA performing 

in New York, Washington 

D.C. and Boston 

EUYO > MILESTONES 

2000 

Vladimir Ashkenazy 

succeeds Bernard 

Haitink as the EUYO’s 

Music Director 

2004 

The Orchestra returns 

to Brazil to celebrate 

the city of São Paulo’s 

450th anniversary 

2007 

Concerts in Berlin (TV 

broadcast concert celebrating 

50th Anniversary of the 

signing of the Treaty 

of Rome), Garmisch- 

Partenkirchen, Bolzano, 

Zurich, Genova, Bologna, 

Astana & Almaty (Kasakhstan) 

with Conductor Vladimir 

Ashkenazy and soloists 

Sir James Galway, Janine 

Jansen, Lady Jeanne Galway, 

Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay, 

Aiman Musakhodzhaeva 

and Amir TebenIkhin 

2008 

Tour to Japan, 

China and Korea 

2010 

EUYO performs at 

Shanghai Expo 

2012 

Second tour to USA including 

performances at Carnegie 

Hall and Kennedy Center 

in concerts conducted by 

Vladimir Ashkenazy with 

soloists Reinhold Friedrich, 

Khatia Buniatishvili, Vilde 

Frang, Pinchas Zukerman, 

Itzhak Perlman, Yefim 

Bronfman and Mark Kaplan 

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Claudio Abbado 

conducting EUYO 1978 

Ravi Shankar 


Bernard Haitink in rehearsal 

with EUYO Luxembourg, 1995 

Vasily Petrenko, 

Chief Conductor EUYO 

1989 

Tour to Rome, Madrid, 

London, New Delhi, 

Calcutta and Bombay with 

conductor Zubin Mehta 

and soloist Ravi Shankar 

1991 

Christmas tour to Berlin, 

Moscow, St Petersburg 

with conductor Claudio 

Abbado and soloists Viktoria 

Mullova and Evgeny Kissin 

1992 

Concerts in Luxembourg, 

Copenhagen, Amsterdam, 

Luzern, Munich, London, 

Epidaurus, Birmingham, 

Nice, Rome with conductors 

Carlo Maria Giulini and 

Mstislav Rostropovich 

1994 

Concerts in Maastricht, 

Moscow, St Petersburg, 

Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius with 

conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy 

and soloist Dimitri Ashkenazy 

1994 

Bernard Haitink appointed 

as the ECYO’s Music Director 

succeeding Claudio Abbado 

1995 

Concerts in Luxembourg, 

Montpellier, Baden Baden, 

Lubeck, London, Amsterdam, 

Santander, Perelada 

and Lucerne conducted 

by Bernard Haitink and 

Mstislav Rostropovich with 

soloists Charlotte Margiono 

and Martha Argerich 

1996 

South American tour to 

celebrate the Mercosur 

Treaty, with conductor 


1998 

EUYO performs at the 

World Economic Forum 

with Iván Fischer 

2013 

EUYO opens the rebuilt 

Pjazza Teatro Rjal in Valetta, 

Malta in a concert under the 

Patronage of the President 

of Malta, and performs in 

Skopje, Former Yugoslav 

Republic Of Macedonia, as 

part of ‘Skopje Remembers’ 

to mark the 50th anniversary 

of the 1963 earthquake 

2014 

The Orchestra’s Middle 

East debut with tour to 

Abu Dhabi, and launch 

of the European Music 

Campus in partnership with 

Grafenegg, the Towards 2020 

programme, and the Adopt 

an Orchestra Programme in 

partnership with the Megaron 

Thessaloniki. Beginning 

of a Global Exchange 

programme with Brazilian, 

Chinese and US partners 

2015 

Vasily Petrenko appointed 

as Chief Conductor of the 

EUYO. Bernard Haitink CH, 

KBE, becomes Conductor 

Laureate of the EUYO. Debut 

of the Orchestra’s first woman 

conductor, Xian Zhang 

2016 

40th anniversary of the 

founding of the Orchestra 

with the launch of the 

Capital Sounds Project 

to take the Orchestra to 

performances in all EU 

Member State capitals 

EUYO > MILESTONES 

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Tributes 

“I am proud to congratulate the 

European Union Youth Orchestra on 

its 40th anniversary. From the very 

beginning, a simple but powerful 

vision has shaped your great project: a community working 

together to achieve peace and social understanding. It is a 

vision that is shared by the European Union and its institutions, 

and a vision that inspires as much today as it ever has. 

We sometimes forget that the European Union, at its 

heart, always was and always will be a cultural project. 

While our political, economic and social achievements 

are most visible, our underlying mission is to negotiate 

Europe’s great cultural and linguistic diversity so that 

different peoples can live side by side in peace. This is the 

work we do every day, and it is something that art and 

music instinctively understand. No human organisation 

embodies this mission better than an orchestra. 

The European Union Youth Orchestra remains one of our 

most distinguished ambassadors. Its devotion to musical 

excellence is equalled only by its commitment to its young 

musicians and their development. In its efforts to promote 

education, creativity and understanding among our peoples, 

the Orchestra offers a potent symbol of our European Union. 

An orchestra that symbolises the best of the European ideals. 

The very embodiment of the motto of the European Union: 

United in Diversity. ” 

Jean-Claude Juncker 

President of the European Commission 

“As Honorary President of the 

European Union Youth Orchestra, 

I would like to reiterate my 

wholehearted support to your 

orchestra on the occasion of your 40th anniversary. The 

European Commission, the European Parliament – and 

myself personally, we are fully committed to finding the 

best solution for your organisation to continue to promote 

the positive values of music among the European youth. 

On 8th March 1976, a resolution of the European 

Parliament created the Orchestra to bring together 

talented young musicians. It has since then become 

a renowned European Orchestra, representing the 

values of the EU and building bridges not just between 

musicians, but also between cultures and peoples. 

For the audiences which will have the privilege to attend 

one or more of your concerts, you truly represent a cultural 

ambassador of the European Union. With young musicians 

from across the 28 countries of the European Union, 

performing together, your orchestra perfectly embodies 

the power of being united in diversity. Your search for 

harmony in a time when people and countries go out of 

tune on our very core principles is rewarding and inspiring. 

I would be more than happy to once again have 

the opportunity to listen to you and share this 

joy with as many Europeans as possible.” 

Martin Schulz 

President of the European Parliament 

EUYO > TRIBUTES 

To celebrate this anniversary, your Orchestra plans to visit 

many European capitals over the summer. This wonderful 

initiative will be an unforgettable experience for the 

young talented musicians fortunate enough to join. 

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“For forty years the European Union Youth 

Orchestra has united the young generations 

of our continent through music. This is 

Europe at its best. In hard times like the 

ones we are living, the EUYO sends a 

powerful message to all the young people 

of our continent: your time is now”. 

Federica Mogherini 

High Representative of the European Union 

for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, 

Honorary Patron of the EUYO, 2016 

“The European Union Youth Orchestra is 

Europe at its best. The young musicians of 

the EUYO symbolize the values and ideals 

that lie at the heart of Europe – solidarity, 

culture diversity, cross-border mobility, 

intercultural dialogue and collaboration”. 

Androulla Vassiliou 

Former EU Commissioner for Education, 

Culture, Multilingualism and Youth 

“The youth orchestra has been a symbol of 

cultural diversity in Europe for 40 years… If 

this European Union Youth Orchestra did not 

already exist, you’d have to start one now”. 

Monika Grütters 

Federal Government Commissioner 

for Culture and the Media 

“Pre-eminent cultural ambassadors for the EU” 

Herman van Rompuy 

Former President of the European Council 

“This is Europe at its best: openness and 

readiness to listen and embrace others’ 

ideas to better chart the future.” 

“…undoubtedly one of the most successful 

and loved European co-operation projects”. 

José Manuel Durão Barroso 

Former President of the European Commission 

“As the EU prepares for its historic 

enlargement eastwards, the Youth Orchestra 

can proudly say it has blazed the way”. 

Hans-Gert Pöttering (2003) 

Former President of the European 

Parliament and current Chairman of 

the Konrad Adenauer Foundation 

“…the remarkable European Union Youth 

Orchestra enlisting musicians from 15 

European nations. By their art these orchestras 

greatly contribute to strengthening mutual 

understanding among peoples and to the 

construction of the common European home”. 

Boris Yeltsin (1997) 

Former first President of the Russian Federation 

“I am delighted to learn that the ECYO is 

touring Europe and India as part of the 

birth centenary celebrations of Jawaharlal 

Nehru. This is a befitting tribute to one who 

had tremendous faith in the capabilities 

of youth. I extend a warm welcome 

to the ECYO on its tour of India”. 

Rajiv Gandhi (1989) 

Former Prime Minister of India 

“For over a decade, you have remained 

committed to enhancing the considerable 

talents of young musicians, while serving 

as an important symbol of European 

unity and cooperation. I commend you as 

ambassadors of goodwill who bring delight 

to audiences the world over. Through 

your inspiring performances, you enhance 

our love and appreciation of music”. 

Ronald Reagan (1988) 

Former President of the United States of America 

“[The ECYO] proves that our cultural 

differences – far from presenting an obstacle – 

brings common riches, creativity and success”. 

Jacques Delors (1985) 

Former President of the European Commission 

“The Youth Orchestra perfectly fulfils its task. 

It carries with it, from one frontier to another, 

the hope of unity and a promise of friendship”. 

Jacques Chirac (1986) 

Former President of France, former 

Prime Minister of France 

“The ECYO sets an example to us all 

by demonstrating what harmony 

amongst nations can achieve”. 

Margaret Thatcher (1985) 

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 

“The EUYO is of huge importance to the 

European Union, bringing together talented 

young people from all 28 member states in 

order to create an orchestra of the highest 

artistic level. The EUYO promotes political and 

cultural collaboration, and is a powerful symbol 

of everything that the EU strives to attain”. 

Vasily Petrenko 

Chief Conductor, EUYO 

For 40 years the European Union Youth 

Orchestra has been the very definition of 

excellence and commitment, consistently 

proving the value of bringing together young 

people from diverse European cultures”. 

Bernard Haitink 

Conductor Laureate, EUYO 

“Since its inception in 1976, the EUYO has 

been one of the world’s most prestigious 

orchestras and brings together the most 

talented young musicians from all 28 EU 

member states to create a unique orchestra. 

The impressive music educational aspect is 

nevertheless secondary to the symbolism 

of this unique EU cultural institution, where 

the idea of a peaceful and united Europe is 

lived out and made tangible to the public”. 

Sir Simon Rattle, Martin 

Hoffman, Ulrich Knorzer, 

Knut Weber Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 

“The Orchestra is a symbol of coming 

together that is important for everyone”. 

Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director, Teatro 

Regio Torino, Music Director Designate National 

Symphony Orchestra Washington DC, Chief Guest 

Conductor Designate London Symphony Orchestra 

“For 40 years, thousands of the best musicians 

In Europe played in this wonderful orchestra 

conducted by all the greatest conductors and 

soloists. We learned, we shared and enjoyed 

music all together. This orchestra is a symbol 

of what the European Union should be”. 

Renaud Capuçon 

Violinist, Artistic Director Aix-en-Provence 

and Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad Festivals 

“The EUYO is one of the most proactive 

bodies in shaping and defining orchestral 

and musical life in the 21st century… For 40 

years the EUYO has encapsulated European 

values in a unique and powerful structure, 

across all member states, demonstrating 

and developing excellence in a holistic and 

progressive way, looking at the artistic and 

social power of music to transform lives”. 

Directors and Secretariat of the 

European Concert Hall Organisation 

“The EUYO inspires beyond the boundaries 

of Europe. The very existence of the 

New World Symphony is a product 

of one of those inspirations”. 

Michael Tilson Thomas, Artistic Director, 

Howard Herring, President and CEO 

New World Symphony, Miami, USA 

“… Among those superb projects that 

inspired us over the years to develop 

our own musical institutions, the EUYO 

is the best example in the world of 

commitment to the future generations and 

excellence in training young musicians”. 

Marcelo Lope 

Executive Director, Osesp Foundation, 

Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil 

“Of all the institutions of the European 

Union this is surely the most profoundly 

successful. My experiences both playing in and 

listening to the EUYO were transformative: 

there is no way one can be involved in 

the orchestra without developing a deep 

love not only for the music and culture 

of Europe but for its people as well”. 

Alec Frank-Gemmill 

Principal Horn Scottish Chamber Orchestra 

“Where else is there such a strong voice 

for the EU – a large community of people 

travelling the continent as 28 nations, working 

in absolute harmony together? Isn’t this 

everything that the EU should stand for?” 

Emily Davis 

Concertmaster EUYO, Principal First Violin, 

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 

EUYO > TRIBUTES 

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Thanks 

EUYO > THANKS 

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To Joy Bryer for selflessly 

promoting an ideal 

The European Community Youth Orchestra (later to become 

the EUYO) was founded in 1976 by Joy Bryer and Lionel 

Bryer, together with Sir Edward Heath and Founding Music 

Director Claudio Abbado. The aim was to create an Orchestra 

which would represent the European ideal of a community 

working together to achieve peace and social understanding, 

whilst providing an invaluable professional development 

experience for young orchestral musicians at the highest 

levels of excellence. 

Joy Bryer has been recognised all over Europe for her work, 

which has impacted on the lives of thousands of Europe’s 

musicians. Amongst her accolades, she has received the 

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (from the French Government) 

1996, the Officer de l’Ordre Grand-Ducal de la Couronne de 

Chêne (from the Luxembourgish Government) 1997, a medal 

of honour from President Gil Robles (European Parliament) 

1998 and the Comandante della Repubblica Italiana in 2004. 

Joy’s commitment to the education of Europe’s finest 

young musicians, to their scholarship, and to their continued 

professional development has set her apart from others. 

Wherever she goes she takes with her an impassioned belief 

in the importance of investing in Europe’s youth. She believes 

in and advocates for access to culture as a fundamental 

human right, and lobbies governments and institutions to 

create the social and economic conditions for this right to be 

enjoyed by all. If the EUYO has achieved anything in its first 

40 years, it is through her inspiration, her drive and her vision. 

At this critical moment the entire organisation salutes her. 

To our Artistic Leaders 

The Orchestra's reputation for artistic excellence derives 

in major part from the work of its Music Directors and 

Chief Conductor. The legendary work of Founding Music 

Director Claudio Abbado established a benchmark in not 

only performance excellence but also orchestral spirit which 

endures to the present. Between the 1990s and 2015 this 

tradition was continued by Music Directors Bernard Haitink 

and Vladimir Ashkenazy with extraordinary musicianship, 

skill and generosity. Today, Vasily Petrenko as Chief 

Conductor, and Bernard Haitink as Conductor Laureate, 

lead the Orchestra and are developing its artistic tradition 

as it looks towards 2020 and to the next decades of its 

existence. Together with the Orchestra's other conductors 

and soloists – in recent years including notable names 

such as Gianandrea Noseda and Itzhak Perlman – and the 

Orchestra's Tutors, they are the artistic engine of the EUYO.

To our Residency Partners, and in 

particular Grafenegg, our Principal 

Venue Partner and Summer Home 

Every Orchestra needs a home, and the EUYO, particularly 

because of the huge hinterland of its players, is no 

exception. Over the years the Orchestra has gathered 

to rehearse in many places – Bolzano, Interlaken, 

Luxembourg, Thessaloniki, to name but a handful of such 

locations. But one location and one festival has emerged 

in the last few years to play the most significant role of 

any venue in supporting us, and that is Grafenegg. 

We give particular thanks to Ian Stoutzker, Rudolf 

Buchbinder and Tassilo Metternich for help in developing 

the European Music Campus. Without their vision, 

commitment and determination the Orchestra would 

be in a far less fortunate position than it currently is. 

To the 28 EU Member States and 

The European Union’s institutions 

We thank the Heads of State, Prime Ministers, and Ministers 

of Culture of all 28 EU Member States, as well as their 

grant giving bodies and National Associate Partners, 

without whom our performances would not be possible. 

We would also like to thank the Presidents of the European 

Commission, the Presidents of the European Parliament 

and all the other EU leaders who have shown support 

during the 40 years of the Orchestra’s existence. 

To all the Orchestra’s Supporters 

down the years, particularly UTC, 

our Principal Corporate Partner 

We would like to thank all of our supporters, a number of 

whom wish to remain anonymous, who have donated to 

our organisation since its foundation. These donations, of 

varying dimension, are incredibly important to the success 

of the Orchestra. UTC have sponsored the EUYO for two 

years, a staunch supporter of developing young people 

and an active contributor to our programme of activities. 

We thank each and every one of our supporters for 

investing in Europe’s next generation of musical leaders. 

To our players 

An orchestra is its players. We have been fortunate to work 

for many years with Europe’s brilliant emerging talent. 

Each year, our musicians never fail to perform to exacting 

standards of excellence whilst retaining their dynamism, 

commitment and energy. We learn so much from them, and 

are proud to work alongside these 28 different nationalities. 

To our staff 

Finally, we would like to thank our hard-working and 

committed staff. This has been a testing year, and the 

future still remains uncertain for many. Yet, each day 

these individuals give so much of themselves to support 

the future of European classical music through the work 

of the Orchestra. The EUYO is fortunate to have such 

an exceptional group of people, and regardless of the 

future, the EUYO’s team will have been a most significant 

contributor to its endurance through challenging times. 

EUYO > THANKS 

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The Future 

“an orchestra united by a sense of shared cultural heritage 

EUYO > THE FUTURE 

10 

It is a give 

n that the 

21st century has brought major changes 

and fresh challeng 

es to cultural organisations worldwide, 

and that the pace of this tran 

a sformationo 

will intensify in the 

future. Increasingly, the best orchestral work connects with 

broad, diverse audiences as much as conventional 

concert 

goers, delivering events 

for a huge, almost bewildering 

vari 

ety of local, national and global communities. 

In this context reinvigoration 

and adaptation is required 

by arts organisations in order to thrive rather than 

simply 

survive. 

During the first 37 years of the EUYO’s life, 

under the inspirational leadership of Joy Bryer an 

d an 

extraordinary group of Music 

Directors beginnin ng with 

Claudio Abbado, the Orches 

tra established an unrivalled 

reputation 

as a European 

training orches 

tra. 

That trad 

ition 

speaks 

for 

itsel 

f. But 

now 

the 

challenge 

is to take that 

tradition forward an 

d – wi 

thout in any 

way 

losing it – add 

to it with 

innovation, 

making work 

that re 

sponds 

not only 

to the diver 

sifica 

cation 

of audiences referr 

ed to ab 

ove, 

but also 

to the new forms of entre 

preneurship that 

Europe’s current 

economic landscape now requires. 

In response to these 

challenges, 

since 

2013 the European 

Un 

ion Youth Orch 

estra has been focusing on four 

aven 

ues of development: a rene 

wal of its 

leadership 

an 

d governance, a new Ch 

ief Conductor and Conduc 

tor 

Laur 

eate as part 

of a re 

newed focus on artistic standards, 

a new home at the Grafen 

egg Festival, and for the first 

time in its history, multi-year pr 

ojects providing longterm 

vehicles for development, 

including the Towards 

2020 

0 programme and the 

Capital Sounds project 

. 

The Towards 2020 

0 ( T2 

020) 0 programme is designed to 

skill talented 

young 

musicians 

from all the EU’s count 

ries 

to engage with a broad range 

of 21 

st century aud 

iences, 

combining conventi 

onal 

orchestral trai 

ning and innovatory 

projects. At T2020’s0 hear 

t is a Par 

tnership of 11 org 

anisationsns 

from 10 EU count 

ries, and more than 35 additional Associate 

Pa 

rtners 

from 4 continents, including all EU member states. 

In 

dividual T2020 in 

itiatives are many and 

varied, 

including 

The European 

Music 

Campus at Grafenegg, Adopt an 

Orchestra in Thessaloniki, 

i, the 

Spazio 

Klassik 

mobile music 

space in Bolzano, and a new urban music programme 

developed with 

the 

BOZAR 

in Brussels. Th 

ere are new 

training programmes for alumni 

teachers, 

the developing 

of youth orchestras in Cyprus, Greece, e, Malta 

and 

Slovakia, a 

Global Exchang 

e Prog 

ramme, 

new 

concert formats, a new 

digital plat 

atform, and employab 

ility programmes for 

areas 

of high EU youth unemploym 

ent in Portugal and Romania. 

a. 

This verit 

able ‘laboratory’ signifiies a collective 

determination to create a model for sustainable 

employ 

ment 

and 

aud 

ience developmen 

t with 

in class 

ical 

music that can also serve as best prac 

tice for 

other

Photo © Sebastian Philipp 

and common cultural vision, all in pursuit of excellence” 

sectors. From 2014–15 T2020 0 was co-funded by the EU’s 

Creative Europe Programme. Stable future funding for 

T20200 

is no 

w a key obje 

ctive for the Programme. 

Capital So 

unds 

is another project 

that is planned 

to 

weave into the 

future programme of the 

Orchestra. A 

series of concerts 

in all EU capitals will 

celebrate the 

EUYO’s 

anniversary through the 

prism of the nations 

from 

whom the EUYO’s players 

come, and without whom 

it would not 

exist. Each performance 

will include a key 

note 

speech by a significant 

figure of that country, and 

performances by young people – separately curated 

in each co 

untry – wi 

ll refllect the musical 

tradi 

tion of 

that 

country. The Capital Sounds 

project is presented 

in 

association with 

the 

music agency Askonas Holt, and is being 

developed jointly with 

the EUYO’s networ 

k of 28 National 

Associat 

e Partnersrs and 

28 grant giving organisations. 

None of th 

is work will be possible without 

som 

e ma 

jor 

supporters, including the 28 EU member 

statet s, our 

Principal Corpor 

ate Partner UTC and our Prin 

cipal 

Ve 

nue Partner Grafenegg. 

g. And 

as we develop 

our 

relationship 

with the EU, there are addition 

al objectives 

when 

considering the 

future. They are alluded to 

in that question 

posed 

in the opening pa 

ges of this 

brochure: ‘as the world changes, increasingly comp 

lex, 

prog 

ressively more 

connected, how can the EUYO best be 

of servi 

ce, developing its 

role as an EU ambassador during 

such 

an undeniably testing time for Europe?’ 

As a starter, the EU is providing so 

me of its own answers 

to such qu 

estions, as a glimpse at rec 

ent EU initiatives 

shows. The announcement by High Representative Federica 

Mogherini of a strategy to put culture 

at the heart of 

external 

relations, Co 

mmissioners Ansip and Oettinger’s 

work on onli 

ne digital platforms, and the announcement of 

2018 as European 

Cultural He 

ritage 

Year are all exampl 

es 

of interesting signposts. The critical 

question is only how 

to ensure that 

the 

Orchestra 

is able 

to engage with the 

right peop 

le at the right level with 

in the European Union, 

an ent 

ity which is, after al 

l, as complex as it is idealistic. 

But st 

epping back for a mo 

ment, and notwithstanding all 

of the 

above, there is one 

fundamental that must 

surely be 

the key driver 

of the EU 

YO’s 

fut 

ure, and 

that is the founding 

pr 

inciple that 

createded it forty years ago: the 

bringing together 

of the 

most talented young mus 

icians from all the countries 

of the 

EU in an orchestra united 

by a sense of shared 

cultural 

heritag 

e and common 

cultural vision, all in pursuit 

of excellence. As Helmut Kohl poin 

te 

d ou 

t in the 1980s, the 

Orchestr 

a is a ‘microcosm’ of the EU, an 

d on 

e of the most 

tangible metapho 

rs 

for Europe itself. And that, surely, is 

the Orchestra’ a’s future. Now, 

working with the EU, we have 

to 

find out, 

if an 

and how, 

tha 

t future can 

become a real 

ity. 

EUYO > THE FUTURE 

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Summer Tour 

European Music Campus, Grafenegg 

EUYO’s Principal Venue Partner 

EUYO > SUMMER TOUR 

12 

Friday 22 July, 19:00 – 21:00 

Reitschule 

Music Lab 1 

Knowing Conducting, 

Knowing Orchestras 

Monday 25 July, 14:30 – 16:30 

Reitschule 

Music Lab 2 

Supreme Symphonists: 

exploring Bruckner and Mahler 

Saturday 30 July, 11:00 – 12:30 

Auditorium 

Open Rehearsal 

Conducting Workshop 

with Peter Stark, Conductor 

Talk with Tom Service 

The EUYO in rehearsal, featuring music from the summer concerts 

Saturday 30 July, 14:30 – 16:30 

Schloss Grafenegg 

Music Gallery 

Mahler’s Contemporaries 

Virtuosity Continued 

From the Manuscripts 

Monday 1 August, 14:30 – 17:30 

Reitschule 

Music Lab 3 

The Digital Musician 

Wednesday 3 August, 19:00 – 21:00 

Reitschule 

Music Lab 4 

Auditioning: How To 

Programme your own concert 

from 3 trails of chamber music 

performed throughout the 

rooms of Schloss Grafenegg 

Workshop with Charlotte 

Hamilton (EUYO) and 

John Kieser (New World 

Symphony, Miami) 

Workshop with members from 

Europe’s leading orchestras 

Thursday 4 August, 16:15 – 17:30 

Side by Side Session 


and the European Music Campus 

Orchestra (EMCO) join forces in 

a large - scale Mahler Workshop 

Mahler Blumine 

Mahler Symphony 

No.1 in D major Titan, 

4th movement 

Saturday 6 August, 17:30 

Schlosshof 

Prelude Concert: 

European Music Campus Orchestra 

Peter Stark 

conductor 


Reitschule 

Pre – Concert Talk 

With Alexander Moore 

Glass Company for 

String Orchestra 

Schubert Symphony 

No. 3 in D major 

Mahler Blumine 


Wolkenturm 

EUYO Concert: Mahler Meets Glass 


conductor 

Katia and Marielle Labèque 

piano 


Reitschule 

Late Night Session 

Glass Double Piano 

Concerto 

Mahler Symphony No.1 

in D major Titan 

Informal music and conversation with the players of the EUYO, 

EMCO and their guests

Bratislava 

Capital Sounds 

Sunday 7 August, 19:00 

Slovak Radio Concert Hall 

Cultural Summer and 

Castle Festival Bratislava 2016 

Opening address 

Mrs Alžbeta Rajterová 


conductor 

Katia and Marielle 

Labèque 

piano 

Rajter Suite Miniature* 

Mozart Concerto 

No.10 in E – flat major 

for Two Pianos 



*National Guest Performers 

Slovenský Mládežnícky 

Orchester 

Vienna 

Monday 8 August, 19:00 

MuseumsQuartier 

EUYO Close – up 

Peter Stark 

conductor 


in D major Titan, 2nd 

and 4th movements 

Experience the players of the EUYO close up in a free 

informal performance in the open spaces of Vienna’s 

MuseumsQuartierIncluding a number of first come first serve 

special orchestral ‘listening chairs’ allowing audiences a unique 

opportunity to listen up close to the players of the Orchestra 

Ljubljana 


Thursday 11 August, 20:00 

Slovenska filharmonija 

Ljubljana Festival 

Wrocław 


NMF Wrocław Philharmonic 

European City of Culture Concert 

Opening address Mitja 

Bervar, President of the 

National Council of the 

Republic of Slovenia 


conductor 

Julian Rachlin 

violin 


No. 10 in E – flat major 


Mozart Violin Concerto 

No. 3 in G major 




Duo Scaramouche piano 


conductor 

Lortzing Der Pole und 

sein Kind – Overture 

Introduced from the stage 

by Polish EUYO musicians 




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Warsaw 



Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall 

Chopin and His Europe 12th 

International Music Festival 


Dr Artur Szklener, 

Director of Fryderyk 

Chopin Institute 


conductor 


piano 

Panufnik A Procession 

for Peace* 

Lortzing Der Pole und 

sein Kind – Overture 

Mozart Concerto No. 10 in 

E – flat major for Two Pianos 




I,Culture Orchestra with EUYO 

Berlin 


Wednesday 17 August, 20:00 

Konzerthaus 

Young Euro Classic 


Monika Grütters, Federal 

Government Commissioner 

for Culture and the Media 


conductor 


piano 

Bartók String Quartet No. 

5, 4th movement Finale* 

Mozart Concerto No. 10 in 

E – flat major for Two Pianos 




Vision String Quartet 

Photo © Klaus Vyhnalek 

Grafenegg 

Bolzano 

Friday 19 August, 20:00 

Wolkenturm 

EUYO Alumni at Grafenegg Festival 

Friday 19 August, 20:30 

Teatro Comunale – Stadttheater 

Bolzano Festival Bozen 


Yutaka Sado conductor 

Tonkünstler – Orchester 

Niederösterreich and 

EUYO Alumni orchestra 

Camilla Nylund soprano 

Elena Zhidkova mezzosoprano 

Klaus Florian Vogt tenor 

René Pape bass 

Wiener Singverein choir 

Jost Fanfare 

world premiere 

Beethoven Overture 

to Coriolan 

Jost An die Hoffnung 

after Beethoven op. 

94 world premiere 

Beethoven Symphony 

No. 9 in D minor 

24 EUYO Alumni perform with 

the Tonkünstler – Orchester 

Niederösterreich to 

celebrate Grafenegg 

Festival’s 10th Anniversary 


conductor 


piano 


No. 10 in E – flat major 


Mahler Symphony 

No.1 in D major Titan 

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Alpbach 

Bolzano 

Sunday 21 August, 12:30 

Congress Centre 

European Forum Alpbach 

Thursday 25 August, 20:30 

Teatro Comunale – Stadttheater 

Bolzano Festival Bozen 

Piazza Walther 

Details to be advertised via the 

Orchestra’s social media channels 

Spazio Klassik 

David Watkin 

conductor 

European 

Anthem 

Mahler 

Symphony No.1 


The concert marks 

the inauguration of 

the new Congress 

Centre Alpbach 


conductor 

Lorenza Borrani 

violin 

Paul Watkins 

cello 

Kai Frömbgen 

oboe 

Haydn Sinfonia 

Concertante in 

B-flat major 

Bruckner 

Symphony No. 

7 in E major 

A performance space to encourage 

audiences new to classical music 

Free event 

By invitation only 

Stefan Schweigert 

bassoon 

Grafenegg 

EUYO’s Principal Venue Partner 

Amsterdam 



Schlosshoff 

Prelude Concert: 

Musicians of the EUYO 

Emily Davis 

violin 

Charlotte MacClure 

violin 

Clément Holvoet 

viola 

Samuel Espinosa 

viola 

Dana de Vries 

cello 

Bruckner 

String Quintet 

in F major 


Reitschule 

Pre – concert Talk 

With Ursula Magnes 


Wolkenturm 

Grafenegg Festival 


conductor 


violin 

Paul Watkins 

cello 

Kai Frömbgen 

oboe 


bassoon 

Haydn 

Sinfonia 


B-flat major 

Bruckner 

Symphony No. 

7 in E major 


Reitschule 

Late Night Session 

Informal music and conversation with 

the players of the EUYO and guests 


The Royal Concertgebouw 

Robeco SummerNights 


conductor 


violin 

Paul Watkins 

cello 

Kai Frömbgen 

oboe 


bassoon 

By invitation only 

Haydn Sinfonia 


B-flat major 

Bruckner Symphony 

No. 7 in E major 

Address by 

Geert Mak 

National Guest 

Performers The 

Leerorkest with 

EUYO alumni 


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Vasily 

Petrenko 

Conductor 

Photo © Tarlova 

EUYO > CONDUCTORS 

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Vasily Petrenko is one of today’s most sought-after 

dynamic, young conductors. Petrenko was born in 1976 

and began his music education at the St Petersburg Capella 

Boys Music School. He then studied at the St Petersburg 

Conservatoire and participated in masterclasses with 

such major figures as Ilya Musin, Mariss Jansons, and Yuri 

Temirkanov. Following considerable success in a number 

of international conducting competitions including the 

Fourth Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St Petersburg, 

and First Prize in the Sixth Cadaques International 

Conducting Competition in Spain. Following this, he was 

appointed Chief Conductor of the St Petersburg State 

Academic Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2007. 

To add to his list of positions, the 2015/16 season marks his 

appointment as Chief Conductor of the European Union 

Youth Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the State 

Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony 

Orchestra). He maintains his role as Chief Conductor of the 

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (appointed in 2013/14), Chief 

Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 

and Principal Guest Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, 

where he began his career as Resident Conductor from 1994 

to 1997. Petrenko also served as Principal Conductor of the 

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2009-2013. 

Petrenko has worked with many of the world’s most 

prestigious orchestras; recent highlights include Petrenko’s 

first summer tour with the EUYO as Chief Conductor, 

a UK Tour with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and 

return visits to the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, 

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique 

de Radio France, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 

and Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Europe and further 

afield with orchestras in the US and Canada. 

With over thirty operas in his repertoire, Petrenko made his 

operatic debuts in 2010 at Glyndebourne Festival Opera 

(Macbeth) and the Opera de Paris (Eugene Onegin). In recent 

seasons he has also conducted Pique Dame at Hamburg State 

Opera, Boris Godunov at the National Reisopera, Eugene 

Onegin, La Bohème and Carmen at the Mikhailovsky Theatre 

and the Zurich Opera, Tosca and Parsifal with the Royal 

Liverpool Philharmonic, and Der Fliegende Holländer with 

the Oslo Philharmonic and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. 

Petrenko is an established recording artist, recently 

completing a Shostakovich symphony cycle for Naxos 

Records with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 

(collated as a boxset in the autumn of 2015), which has 

garnered worldwide acclaim. He achieved significant success 

with his recording of Tchaikovsky’s piano concertos and 

Manfred Symphony, which won the 2009 Gramophone 

Award for Best Orchestral Recording. Petrenko and the 

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra recently embarked upon 

recording the full cycle of Scriabin symphonies. 

In October 2007 Vasily Petrenko was named Young Artist of 

the Year at the annual Gramophone Awards, and in 2010 he 

won the Male Artist of the Year at the Classical Brit Awards. 

He is only the second person to have been awarded Honorary 

Doctorates by both the University of Liverpool and Liverpool 

Hope University (in 2009), and an Honorary Fellowship of 

the Liverpool John Moores University (in 2012), awards 

which recognise the immense impact he has had on the 

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the city’s cultural scene.

Bernard 

Haitink 

Conductor 

Photo © Todd Rosenburg 

Bernard Haitink’s conducting career began 62 years 

ago with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in his native 

Holland. He went on to be Chief Conductor of the 

Concertgebouw Orchestra for 27 years, as well as Music 

Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, The Royal 

Opera, Covent Garden, and Principal Conductor of the 

London Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the 

Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is Patron of the Radio 

Philharmonic, and Conductor Emeritus of the Boston 

Symphony, as well as an honorary member of both the Berlin 

Philharmonic and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. 

The 2015/16 season began with concerts at The Barbican 

with the London Symphony Orchestra, followed by a tour 

to Japan. Other engagements during the 2015/16 season 

included a Schumann cycle with the Chamber Orchestra of 

Europe in Amsterdam, Lugano and Vienna, his debut with the 

orchestra and chorus of La Scala, Milan, and performances in 

the US with the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic 

and Chicago Symphony orchestras. During the summer 2016 

Festival season he will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of his 

first appearance at both the BBC Proms and the Lucerne 

Festival. He marks these anniversaries with performances 

with the London Symphony Orchestra at The Proms, and with 

the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra 

of Europe at the Lucerne Festival. He also tours with the 

European Union Youth Orchestra, of which he is Conductor 

Laureate, celebrating the 40th anniversary of their creation. 

He is committed to the development of young musical talent, 

and as well as his annual Conducting Masterclass at the 

Lucerne Easter Festival he gave conducting classes this season 

at the Hochschule der Kunst, Zurich, and the Juilliard School. 

Bernard Haitink has an extensive discography for Phillips, 

Decca and EMI, as well as the many new live recording 

labels established by orchestras themselves in recent years, 

such as the London Symphony, Chicago Symphony and 

Bayerischer Rundfunk. He has received many awards and 

honours in recognition of his services to music, including 

several honorary doctorates, an honorary knighthood and 

Companion of Honour in the United Kingdom, and the 

House Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands. 

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Soloists 

Photo © Umberto Nicoletti 


Piano 

EUYO > SOLOISTS 

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Katia and Marielle Labèque are sibling pianists renowned 

for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their 

musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose 

to international fame with their contemporary rendition 

of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold 

records in classical music) and have since developed 

a stunning career with performances worldwide. 

They are regular guests with the most prestigious orchestras 

such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston 

Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig 

Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los 

Angeles Philharmonic, Filarmonia della Scala, Philadelphia 

Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle and Vienna Philharmonic, 

under the direction of Semyon Bychkov, Lionel Bringuier, 

Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Sir John 

Eliot Gardiner, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Kristjan Järvi, Paavo 

Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Georges 

Prêtre, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard 

Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and Jaap van Zweden. 

They have appeared with Baroque music ensembles such as 

The English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 

Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini, Musica 

Antica with Reinhard Goebel and Venice Baroque with 

Andrea Marcon, and recently toured with the Orchestra 

of the Age of Enlightenment & Sir Simon Rattle. 

Katia and Marielle have had the privilege of working 

with many composers including Thomas Adès, Louis 

Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Philip Glass, 

Osvaldo Golijov, György Ligeti, and Olivier Messiaen. 

The Labèques play in festivals and renowned venues 

worldwide including the Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg 

Musikhalle, Munich Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival 

Hall, La Scala, Berlin Philharmonie, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, 

Lucerne, BBC Proms, Ravinia, Tanglewood and Salzburg. A 

record audience of more than 33,000 attended a gala concert 

with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle 

at Berlin’s Waldbühne, now available on DVD (EuroArts). 

For their own label, KML recordings, they have just 

released Sisters with a selection of musical pieces 

from their personal and professional lives. 

In May 2015 the show « Love Stories » with the new 

piece Star-Cross’d Lovers, written by David Chalmin, 

was premiered at the Paris Philharmonie. This original 

composition for two pianos, electric guitar and drums is 

based on the Shakespearean drama Romeo and Juliet. The 

choreography for 7 dancers was created by world-renowned 

break-dancer Yaman Okur (Madonna, Cirque du Soleil). 

They will present this show again in Paris in June 2016 at 

Chatelet, and they will tour in July and October 2016. 

On the 26th May 2015, they gave the world premiere 

of Philip Glass’s new Concerto written for them, in Los 

Angeles at Walt Disney Hall with Los Angeles Philharmonic 

Orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel.

Photo © Wesely Julia 

Julian Rachlin 

Violin 

Julian Rachlin is one of the most exciting and respected 

violinists of our time. Over the last 27 years, he has 

been captivating audiences around the world with his 

distinctively rich sound, superb musicianship and outstanding 

interpretations. He has established close relationships with 

many of the most prestigious conductors and orchestras. 

Always willing to expand his musical horizons, Julian is 

also praised as a viola player and conductor. For 12 years, 

Julian has been leading the internationally renowned 

“Julian Rachlin & Friends” festival in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 

a platform for creative and vibrant projects with leading 

musicians and actors. Besides delighting his audiences with 

his musical performances, Julian is also receiving recognition 

as a young philanthropist for his charity work as a UNICEF 

Goodwill Ambassador and his educational outreach. 

In the 2015/16 season, Mr. Rachlin opened the seasons of 

the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly, 

and of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with Vladimir 

Ashkenazy. He then toured Europe and North America with 

the Orchestre National de France and Daniele Gatti as the 

orche stra’s 2015/16 Artist in Residence. Other highlights 

include performances at the Lucerne Festival with the 

Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, 

and at the Edinburgh Festival with the Leipzig Gewandhaus 

Orchestra and Herbert Blomstedt. Forthcoming engagements 

include concerts with the Israel Philharmonic and Gianandrea 

Noseda, the Munich Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, the St. 

Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov as well as North 

America tour with the China Philharmonic and Long Yu. 

As conductor, Mr. Rachlin performs his first season as 

Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia 

and conducts, among others, the Dusseldorf Symphony, 

Israel Philharmonic and Prague Philharmonia. Julian Rachlin’s 

return engagements as conductor include collaborations 

with the English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera 

Italiana, Camerata Salzburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and 

Slovenian Philharmonic. In the coming season, he will make 

his conducting debut with the State Academic Symphony 

Orchestra of Russia, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Trondheim 

Symphony, Strasbourg Philharmonic and China Philharmonic. 

In recital and chamber music, he is heard this season 

with Itamar Golan, Evgeny Kissin and Mischa Maisky. 

Born in Lithuania in 1974, Julian immigrated to Vienna in 1978. 

He studied violin with Boris Kuschnir at the Vienna Conservatory, 

and with Pinchas Zukerman. After winning the “Young Musician 

of the Year” Award at the Eurovision Competition in 1988, 

he became the youngest soloist ever to play with the Vienna 

Philharmonic, making his debut under Riccardo Muti. At the 

recommendation of Mariss Jansons, Julian Rachlin has been 

studying conducting with Sophie Rachlin. Since September 1999, 

he has been on the violin faculty at the Konservatorium Wien 

University. His recordings for Sony Classical, Warner Classics and 

Deutsche Grammophon have all been met with great acclaim. 

Julian Rachlin plays the 1704 “ex Liebig” Stradivari, on 

loan to him courtesy of the Dkfm. Angelika Prokopp 

Privatstiftung, and a 1791 Lorenzo Storioni viola. His 

strings are kindly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld. 


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Photo © Nina Large 

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Violin 

The Florentine violinist Lorenza Borrani has been a leader 

of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2007. She 

has performed as director, concert master, soloist and 

chamber musician in the most important concert halls and 

seasons in Europe and around the world, including, in the 

last two years, The Berlin Philharmonie, The Edinburgh 

Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Styriarte Graz, Citè de la 

Musique in Paris, London’s Southbank Centre, The Koln 

Philarmonie, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. 

From 2005 she has played with Orchestra 

Mozart, with whom she performed as a soloist 

under the direction of Claudio Abbado. 

As well as an international career as a soloist under the 

direction of conductors including Yuri Harohnovich, 

Emmanuel Krivine, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Claudio 

Abbado, she has also worked with notable chamber musicians 

including Isabelle Faust, Janine Jansen, Hélène Grimaud, 

Daniel Hope, the Emmerson Quartet, András Schiff, Pierre- 

Laurent Aimard, Irina Schnittke, Tabea Zimmermann, Mario 

Brunello, Christian Tetzlaff, and Pavel Gililov. Lorenza 

also teaches at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where 

she originally studied under the guidance of Piero Farulli, 

Alina Company, Zinaida Gilels and Pavel Vernikov. 

In 2007 she founded the Spira Mirabilis 

Project (www.spiramirabilis.com) 

Lorenza plays on a Santo Serafino violin (1745), 

courtesy of the Fondazione ProCanale di Milano. 

Paul Watkins 

Cellist 

Paul Watkins, an alumnus of the EUYO (1988 – 1989), enjoys a 

distinguished career both as a cellist and as a conductor, and in 

the 2009–10 season became the first ever Music Director of the 

English Chamber Orchestra. As solo cellist he performs regularly 

with all the major British orchestras including the London 

Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, London’s Philharmonia, 

and City of Birmingham Symphony. Outside the UK he has 

performed with the Netherlands Philharmonic, Melbourne 

Symphony, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and the RAI National 

Symphony Orchestra of Turin. Recent highlights include his 

debut at Carnegie Hall performing Brahms’ Double Concerto 

with Daniel Hope, and appearances with the Royal Flemish 

Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Philharmonia, 

and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He also premiered 

(and was the dedicatee of) Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new 

concerto with the Royal Flemish, Tampere, and Royal Liverpool 

Philharmonic Orchestras and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. 

A dedicated chamber musician, he was a member of the Nash 

Ensemble from 1997 to 2013, and joined the Emerson String 

Quartet in 2013. He has given solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall, 

Amsterdam Concertgebouw, South Bank Centre, Manchester’s 

Bridgewater Hall, and Queens Hall in Edinburgh. In 2009 he 

signed an exclusive contract with Chandos Records. Recent 

releases include the Delius, Elgar, and Lutoslawski concertos, 

and discs of British and American music for cello and piano. 

In 2014 he was appointed artistic director of the Great Lakes 

Music Festival of Detroit. Mr. Watkins plays a cello made by 

Domenico Montagnana and Matteo Goffriller in Venice, c.1730.

Photo © Susanne Diesner 

Kai Frömbgen 

Clarinet 

Born in Koblenz in 1977, Kai had his first oboe lesson at 

the Luxemburg Conservatoire with Norbert Mattern. He 

received the first prize of the federal competition “Jugend 

musiziert” three times, in 1991, 1993 and 1995. After 

passing his A-levels, he started studying with Professor 

Christian Wetzel at the School of Music and Drama 

“Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” in Leipzig. He received 

scholarships from the Foundation of the German People, 

the Villa Musica and the Richard Wagner Society. 

Kai played in the European Union Youth Orchestra for two 

years, in 1998 and 1999. In 1999, he was offered the principal 

oboe position in the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz 

and he then became the principal oboe of the Bamberger 

Symphonikern – Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie in 2003. 

Kai is a keen chamber musician and performs with Frank- 

Peter Zimmermann, Christian Zacharias, Mirijam Contzen, 

Christoph Eschenbach and the wind ensemble Sabine 

Meyer. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, he was the principal 

oboe of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, directed by 

Claudio Abbado. Kai Frömbgen became a member of 

the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in January 2012. 


Bassoon 

Stefan Schweigert, born in Kaiserslautern in 1962, started 

playing the bassoon in the age of 10 as a pupil of Alfred 

Rinderspacher. From 1981 he studied at the Musikhochschule 

Hannover with Klaus Thunemann. Since 1985 he has 

been Principal Bassoon of the Berliner Philharmoniker. 

He has appeared as a soloist with his orchestra, and 

also with other ensembles including Camerata Bern. 

He is a member of András Schiff’s ‘Cappella Andrea 

Barca’ and has worked on a number of occasions with the 

Chamber Orchestra of Europe and participated in Gidon 

Kremer’s Chamber Music Festival at Lockenhaus several 

times. For many years he played in Sabine Meyers wind 

ensemble, the Scharoun Ensemble Berlin and with different 

chamber music groups of the Berliner Philharmoniker. 

Schweigert has taught at the Berliner Philharmoniker’s 

Orchestra Academy since 1987 and at the 

Musikhochschule Freiburg from 2004 to 2006. 

In 2012 Kai was appointed Professor at the Musikhochschule 

in Saarbrücken and since 2014, he has also been a Professor 

at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. 


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The Orchestra 

CONCERT 

MASTER 

Emily Davis 

BRITISH 

David Pablo 

Bellido Herrero 

SPANISH 

Koninklijk Conservatorium 

Den Haag 

Yoana Ducros 

FRENCH 

Royal Academy of 

Music, London 

Caspar Horsch 

DUTCH 

Conservatorium 

van Amsterdam 

Mireille Kovac 

FRENCH 

Conservatoire Royal 

de Bruxelles 


Music, London 

VIOLIN 

Sara Colombi 

ITALIAN 

Elisabeth 

Gansch 

AUSTRIAN 

Gema 

Jurado Blanca 

SPANISH 

Anna 

Karolina 

Kuk 

Josefina 

Alcaide 

MUK-Musik und Kunst 

Privatuniversität 

der Stadt Wien 

Kunstuniversität Graz / 

Universität für 

Musik und darstellende 

Kunst Wien 

Conservatorio Superior 

de Música de Castilla 

y León, Salamanca 

POLISH 

Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola 

Szymanowskiego w Katowicach 

PORTUGUESE 

Conservatorium van Amsterdam 

Marina 

Arrufat Grau 

SPANISH 

Eleonora 

Consta 

BRITISH 

Royal College of Music, London 

Samuel 

García García 

SPANISH 

Hochschule für Musik und 

Theater ‘Félix Mendelssohn 

Bartholdy’, Leipzig 

Tobias Kausel 

AUSTRIAN 

Kunstuniversität Graz 

Elias Lassfolk 

FINNISH 

Sibelius-Akatemia, Helsinki 

Kunstuniversität Graz 

EUYO > THE ORCHESTRA 

Kristin Baird 

AMERICAN 

New World Symphony, Miami 

Global Exchange Guest 

Siobhán Doyle 

IRISH 

Royal Northern College 

of Music, Manchester 

Rosa Hartley 

BRITISH 


Amalie 

Kjældgaard 

DANISH 

Universität für Musik und 

darstellende Kunst Wien 

Alexander 

Lesch 

GERMAN 




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VIOLA 

David 

López Ibañez 

SPANISH 


Emma Oldfield 

BRITISH 


Magdalena 

Sammer 

AUSTRIAN 



Anastasia Vaina 

GREEK 


Music, London 

Theodor 

Andreescu 

ROMANIAN 

Universitatea Națională de 

Muzică din București 

Charlotte 

MacClure 

BRITISH 

Royal Welsh College of 

Music and Drama, Cardiff 

Colm O’Reilly 

IRISH 


Music, London 

Paula Sanz 

Alasà 

SPANISH 


Herlinde 

Verjans 

BELGIAN 


Antwerpen 

León van 

den Berg 

DUTCH 

Conservatoire National 

Supérieur de Musique 

et de Danse de Paris 

Özge Özerbek 

Jacqueline 

Martens 

BRITISH 


CYPRIOT 

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi State 

Conservatory, İzmir, Turkey 

Emma van 

Schoonhoven 

DUTCH 

Universität der Künste Berlin 

Hannah Visser 

DUTCH 

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg 

Ariadna 

Boiso Reinoso 

SPANISH 


Jakub 

Przybycień 

Kaia Voitka 

Kosma Műller 

POLISH 

POLISH 

Hochschule der Künste Bern 

Minadora 

Šernaitė 

ESTONIAN 


Akademia Muzyczna 

im. Ignacego Jana 

Paderewskiego w Poznaniu 

LITHUANIAN 

Lietuvos Muzikos ir 

Teatro Akademija 

Aurora Cano 

Soto 

SPANISH 



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CELLO 

Samuel 

Espinosa 

SPANISH 

Hochschule für Musik “Carl 

Maria von Weber” Dresden / 


Raphaela 

Pachner 

AUSTRIAN 

Anton Bruckner 

Privatuniversität, Linz 

Guillem 

Selfa Oliver 

SPANISH 

Hochschule für Musik 

und Tanz Köln 

Valerie Fritz 

AUSTRIAN 

Universität Mozarteum 

Salzburg 

Tonka 

Javorović 

CROATIAN 

Muzička akademija 

Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 

Clément 

Holvoet 

BELGIAN 

Arts² École supérieure des 

Arts, Brussels / École Normale 

de Musique de Paris 

Nina Poskin 

BELGIAN 


Sofia Silva 

Sousa 

PORTUGUESE 


Music, London 

Côme Giraudon 

FRENCH 

Conservatoire à Rayonnement 

Régional de Paris 

Johannes 

König 

GERMAN 


und Theater München 

Ilina Ilieva 

BULGARIAN 

National School of Music 

“Lyubomir Pipkov”, Sofia 

Morag 

Robertson 

BRITISH 


Anna 

Tarnowska 

POLISH 

Akademia Muzyczna im. 

Karola Szymanowskiego w 

Katowicach / Universitetet 

i Stavanger, Norway 

Hilary E. Glen 

AMERICAN 

New World Symphony, Miami 

Global Exchange Guest 

Anna Maria 

Litvinenko 

AMERICAN 

The Juilliard School, New York / 


Global Exchange Guest, 

Sphinx Organization 

Alma Möller 

SWEDISH 


Brussel 

Wiktor Rudzik 

POLISH 

Akademia Muzyczna 

im. Ignacego Jana 

Paderewskiego w Poznaniu 

Šimon Truszka 

SLOVAKIAN 

Konzervatórium Košice 

Lucy Hoile 

BRITISH 

Royal Northern College 

of Music, Manchester 

Guilherme 

Nardelli 

Monegatto 

BRAZILIAN 


Indiana University Jacobs 

School of Music 

Global Exchange Guest, 

Sphinx Organization 

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Sinéad 

O’Halloran 

IRISH 

Robert Schumann Hochschule 

für Musik, Düsseldorf 

Anik 

Schwall 

LUXEMBOURGISH 

Zürcher Hochschule der 

Künste (Zürich, Schweiz) 

Domingos 

Freire de 

Andrade 

Romana Ribeiro 

PORTUGUESE 

Escuela Superior de Música 

Reina Sofía, Madrid 

Salvador 

Morera Ortells 

SPANISH 

Escola Superior de 

Música de Catalunya 

Victor Savca 

ROMANIAN 

Universitatea Națională 

de Muzică din București 

Evaldas Petkus 

LITHUANIAN 

Lietuvos Muzikos ir 

Teatro Akademija 

Dana 

de Vries 

DUTCH 

Christoph Haaß 

GERMAN 

Lilas Réglat 

FRENCH 




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ESTONIAN 

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CZECH 

Akademie múzických 

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Wincor 

AUSTRIAN 

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FINNISH 


Rui Pedro 

Rodrigues 

PORTUGUESE 


Hanns Eisler Berlin 

Luzia Vieira 

PORTUGUESE 


und Theater Hamburg 



DOUBLE 

BASS 

Veerle 

Schutjens 

DUTCH 


Sofía Bianchi 

Maestre 

SPANISH 



Lucía Mateo 

Calvo 

SPANISH 

Conservatorio Superior 

de Música de Castilla 

y León, Salamanca 

Andreu 

Sanjuan Albado 

SPANISH 




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FLUTE 

OBOE 

CLARINET 

BASSOON 

Jacob Bagby 

Géraldine 

Clément 

Mercedes 

Guzmán 

Marten Altrov 

ESTONIAN 

Javier Biosca 

Bas 

BRITISH 


BELGIAN 


Brussel 

SPANISH 



Eesti Muusika – ja 

Teatriakadeemia 

SPANISH 



Flávio Barbosa 

Emma Halnan 

BRITISH 


Music, London 

Micha 

Häußermann 

GERMAN 

Universität der Künste Berlin 

Benjamin 

Christ 

FRENCH 



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Nikolaj 

Vestmar 

Henriques 

DANISH 

PORTUGUESE 

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste 

Staatliche Hochschule für 

Musik und Darstellende 

Kunst Mannheim 

Anna Drysdale 

BRITISH 


Music, London 

Tommaso 

Pratola 

ITALIAN 

Haute École de Musique 

de Genève 

Alex Hilton 

BRITISH 


Music, London 

Daniel Roscia 

ITALIAN 

Conservatorio di Musica 

F.A. Bonporti di Trento 

Mihael Mitev 

SLOVENIAN 

Akademija za glasbo, Ljubljana 

HORN 

Oliver Johnson 

BRITISH 

Guildhall School of Music 

and Drama, London 


Marek 

Szymański 

POLISH 


Antwerpen / Akademia 

Muzyczna im. Karola 

Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu 

Antonio 

J. Juárez 

SPANISH 

Staatliche Hochschule für 

Musik und Darstellende 

Kunst Mannheim 

Timo Tromp 

DUTCH 

Hochschule für Musik, Theater 

und Medien Hannover 

Joel Ashford 

BRITISH 


Sophia Keiler 

AUSTRIAN 

Musikhochschule Stuttgart 

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TROMBONE 

TUBA 

Jonathan 

Maloney 

BRITISH 

Royal Northern College of 

Music, Manchester / Royal 

College of Music, London 

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BRITISH 


Alejandro 

García Sánchez 

SPANISH 


Jonathan 

Borksand 

Hanke 

DANISH 

Gyula Lajhó 

HUNGARIAN 

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Egyetem, Budapest 

Det Kongelige Danske 

Musikkonservatorium, 

København 

Carles Pérez 

i Esteve 

SPANISH 



Carlos Leite 

PORTUGUESE 

Escola Superior de Música, 

Artes e Espectáculo, Porto 

José Luna 

Agudo 

SPANISH 

Musikene: Centro Superior 

de Música del País 

Vasco, San Sebastián 

PERCUSSION 

Camille Bialas 

Nikolai Jakob 

Petersen 

DANISH 



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HARP 

FRENCH 

Matilda Lloyd 



København 

BRITISH 

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SLOVENIAN 


TRUMPET 

Trinity College, Cambridge 

University 

Nejc 

Zahrastnik 

Andrew McCoy 

BRITISH 

Guildhall School of Music 

and Drama, London 

BASS 

TROMBONE 

Ulf Breuer 

GERMAN 


und Theater München 

Héloïse de 

Jenlis 

FRENCH 

Conservatoire Royal 

de Bruxelles 

KEYBOARD 

SLOVENIAN 


Carolina Alves 

PORTUGUESE 




Alexander 

Kelly 

BRITISH 


Music, London 

Jonathan 

Jakshøj 

DANISH 



København 

Maria Inês 

Costa 

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Awards 

Each season the European Union Youth Orchestra gives three or more players one of its 

Awards, which reward a variety of skills ranging from musicianship to the creation of an 

atmosphere of harmony and understanding. 

If you would like to sponsor an Award, create an Award in memory of someone who 

shared the Orchestra’s values, or know of a Corporation that would be honoured to put 

their organisation’s name to an Award, please do not hesitate to get in touch with our 

Development and Communications Manager, Charlotte Hamilton at charlotte@euyo.eu 

or by telephone: 0044 79668 88917 

The Ian Stoutzker Award 

Generously offered by the Orchestra’s Co-Chairman and Orchestra Board Chairman Ian Stoutzker, CBE, this will provide one 

or more musicians with an award for performance excellence and embodying the EUYO spirit of cultural understanding, 

cooperation and harmony. 

As a young man Mr. Stoutzker trained at the Royal College of Music under Albert Sammons, before eventually choosing a new 

path at the London School of Economics. It has been said of him, ‘Perhaps no musician has ever done so much for music after 

choosing a new career.’ The Orchestra is delighted to benefit from his remarkable commitment and generous guidance. 

The award for the 2015–2016 season was given to our Austrian cellist, Klara Wincor and our Portuguese horn player, 

Flávio Barbosa. 

Klara Wincor 

Austrian, Cello 

Co-Recipient of The Ian 

Stoutzker Award 

“Playing with the EUYO is something different. Not just because 

the individual level of playing is almost frighteningly high, but 

because of the energy which comes with it. I had the most 

emotional concerts of my life with the EUYO and also the most 

physically exhausting and at the same time elating concerts. 

Being the recipient of The Ian Stoutzker Award this year is a 

great honour and I couldn't be happier about it, as it is a sign 

of support and trust in me. I am very lucky to currently have a 

good instrument on loan, so I decided to use the Award when I 

need to travel with my cello, to cover the cost for an extra seat 

when flying. This will enable me to travel to masterclasses and 

auditions which I would not consider attending otherwise.” 

Flávio Barbosa 

Portuguese, Horn 

Co-Recipient of The Ian 

Stoutzker Award 

“Playing in the EUYO in the last summer tour was 

more than a simple youth orchestra experience. 

The high artistic and human level of my colleagues, 

tutors and conductors was one of the most important 

achievements of my life. Besides the amazing musical 

experience, sharing a month with so many wonderful 

cultures gave me a new perspective on the world. 

Feeling all energy and will of playing together was very 

important for my musical and human development. 

Being awarded The Ian Stoutzker Award was very 

important for me, and a recognition of my effort. This 

prize gave me the opportunity to continue my studies 

in Zürich, a very important goal in my life. 

EUYO > AWARDS 

I would like to thank all tutors, staff and colleagues 

for all the teachings, sharing and the help that make 

me a better musician and a better human being.” 

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The Aleksandar 

Pavlović Award 

Set up in 2008 with a generous donation from the 

Orchestra’s Co-founders Lionel and Joy Bryer, the award 

is a tribute to Aleksandar Pavlović, the long-standing 

and former Artistic Director of the International Youth 

Foundation and violin tutor to the European Union Youth 

Orchestra. He is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of 

Music, University of Arts in Belgrade and Visiting Professor 

at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has also 

led master classes in the USA, Greece and the UK. 

The Aleksandar Pavlović Award was presented 

at the end of the 2015 Summer Tour to Nikolaj 

Vestmar Henriques. Now on his fourth EUYO 

tour, Nikolaj has been a dedicated and exemplary 

member of the Orchestra since Summer 2014. 

The award is presented annually. 

The Lionel Bryer 

Memorial Fund Award 

Created in 2011, the Lionel Bryer Memorial Fund Award, is 

designed to support a young musician who has demonstrated 

huge musical talent and potential, but whose development 

and career would benefit greatly from financial assistance. 

Lionel Bryer was a highly successful London dental surgeon 

who, inspired by a love of music and the desire to foster good 

relations with other countries by educating young people in 

their cultures, co-founded the International Youth Foundation 

along with his wife, Joy. Through it they also co-founded 

the Aberdeen International Youth Festival and the European 

Community Youth Orchestra (now the European Union 

Youth Orchestra). Originally from South Africa, Lionel was a 

talented violinist and sportsman, as well as a Rhodes Scholar. 

The award is presented annually and in the 

summer of 2015, was awarded to Danish 

trumpeter, Victor Koch Jensen. 

Nikolaj Vestmar 

Henriques 

Danish, Bassoon 

Recipient of The 

Aleksandar Pavlović Award 

“One of the most unique things I discovered through playing 

with the EUYO is that there are so many ways to play well. 

Even though we are from different countries and are taught 

differently, we can all learn from each other. It gives you the 

opportunity to be the musician that you want to be. No one 

expects you to play a certain way, they expect to hear YOU 

play, and I find the orchestra very unique in that way. This 

enables us all to grow as musicians within the Orchestra. 

I feel extremely lucky and very grateful to be chosen to receive 

this award. Many people who have been awarded this prize 

before, are people that I admire personally and professionally. 

It motivates me to continue to pour all my energy and soul 

into my work on the bassoon. I'll use the money that I've 

received for a complete overhaul of my instrument.” 

Victor Koch Jensen 

Danish, Trumpet 

Recipient of The Lionel Bryer 

Memorial Fund Award 

“Receiving the Lionel Bryer Memorial Fund Award marks 

an absolute highlight of my time with the EUYO. 

To be awarded this special prize is a tremendously 

generous financial boost, that gives me the possibility 

to go for lessons as well as auditions abroad. 

Looking back on my time with the Orchestra, I can't believe 

how many extraordinary friends I have met, how many epic 

and tear-provoking concerts we've played, and how strong 

the bonds we have tied in doing so. The EUYO creates a 

vital stepping stone for young musicians like myself, and I 

simply cannot imagine where I would have been without 

it, not just as a musician, but also as a human being. 

Mr. & Mrs. Bryer started something truly unique 

when they founded this orchestra, and I'm extremely 

grateful that I got to be a part of it.” 

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Dr Peter Stark 

Rehearsal Director 

One of the finest teachers of conducting 

and orchestral trainers in the world. 

His work with young musicians is renowned. He has taught 

over five hundred individual students and has decades of 

experience working with young orchestras. Whilst Professor 

of Conducting at the Royal College of Music, London, his 

work also takes him all over the world; in the last year 

masterclasses in the conservatoires of St Petersburg and 

Beijing and concerts in China, Norway and the Middle East. 


Violin 1 

Lorenza has been leader of the Chamber 

Orchestra of Europe since 2007. She 

has been director, concert master, soloist and chamber 

musician in the most important concert halls and seasons 

in Europe and worldwide. As well as an international career 

as a soloist under the direction of conductors including Yuri 

Harohnovich, Emmanuel Krivine, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and 

Claudio Abbado, she has also worked with notable chamber 

musicians. Lorenza teaches at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole 

and in 2007, she founded the Spira Mirabilis Project. 

Oliver Kipp 

Violin 2 

An EUYO player from 1987 – 1993, 

Principal 2nd violin of the NDR Radio 

Philharmonic since 1998 and member of the “Hyperion 

Trio”. Founded in 1999, the Trio boasts an outstanding 

reputation in Germany and the international music world, 

performing an extraordinarily broad repertoire. 

Roger Benedict 

Viola 

Roger Benedict is Principal Viola of the 

Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Artistic 

Director of the orchestra’s highly regarded orchestra academy, 

alongside his work as a Professor at the Sydney Conservatorium. 

He was formerly Principal Viola of the Philharmonia in London 

and a Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music. 

He is also active as a conductor and appears regularly with 

major orchestras in Australasia, and with emerging artists 

of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO), 

Southbank Sinfonia and the Australian Youth Orchestra. 

Gregor Horsch 

Cello 

Gregor Horsch was appointed 

first Principal cellist of the Royal 

Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1997. He combines this position 

with a career as a soloist and chamber musician. He has been 

a teacher at the conservatories of The Hague, Amsterdam and 

at the RNCM in Manchester and since 2009 he is Professor 

at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. 

Wies de Boevé 

Double Bass 

Sub-Principal Double Bass of the 

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen 

Rundfunks and regular guest player with the Berlin 

Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 

Amsterdam and the Staatskapelle Berlin, among others. 

Wies won many international music competitions and was 

most recently awarded with the first prize at the Deutscher 

Musikwettbewerb, being the first bass player ever to 

win this competition. He studied with Duncan McTier, 

Janne Saksala, Božo Paradžik, Esko Laine and Matthew 

McDonald and was an EUYO player from 2007 – 2008. 

Rien de Reede 

Woodwind 

Rien de Reede was a flautist in the 

Concertgebouw Orchestra for thirty-seven 

years. Besides this he taught flute at the Royal Conservatory 

for almost the same length of time. As Head of Chamber 

Music in this school and as an Artistic Programmer for the 

Chamber Music Series for the members of the Concertgebouw 

Orchestra he was able to express his love and interest 

in this field, searching for programmatic innovation. 

Peter Gane 

Lower Brass 

One of Britain’s leading brass specialists, 

Peter is founder and former president 

of the British Trombone Association and has a long-standing 

association with the NYO and the EUYO where he has been 

a Professor of trombone since 1977 and 1984 respectively. 

He has taken masterclasses and workshops in many 

conservatoires and professional groups across Europe and 

the USA. He was presented with the Neill Humfield Award 

for excellence in trombone teaching by the International 

EUYO > TUTORS 

33

Trombone Association (1996) and the British Trombone 

Society’s outstanding contribution award (2013). A Professor 

at the Guildhall School since 1971, he later was elected 

a Fellow of the School and was Head of Wind, Brass and 

Percussion from 1988 – 2008. He still contributes to the 

specialist brass and wind programmes. Peter is Artistic 

Adviser to the Combret Music Festival, Aveyron, France. 

Jeff Bryant 

Horn 

Jeff was Principal and Solo Horn with 

the London Symphony and Royal 

Philharmonic Orchestras with whom he recorded the Mozart 

concerti and the Britten Serenade. He is Professor of Horn 

at the Royal College of Music, London. Jeff also tutors the 

horn section of ICULTURE Orchestra, based in Poland. 

John Miller 

Trumpet 

Head of the School of Wind, Brass and 

Percussion, Royal Northern College 

of Music, Manchester. Prior to joining the RNCM in 1999, 

John worked extensively in London as a member of the 

Philharmonia Orchestra from 1977 to 1994, and as a freelance 

musician working regularly with prestigious ensembles such as 

the London Sinfonietta and the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. 

John is a founder member of the Wallace Collection brass 

ensemble with which he continues to perform and record. 

Sam Walton 

Percussion 

Sam Walton performs with many of 

the UK’s finest orchestras. He is Co- 

Principal Percussion in the London Symphony Orchestra 

and Principal Percussion in the John Wilson Orchestra. He 

is a member of the Colin Currie Group, and has recorded 

extensively for film and television. He is a Professor 

at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall. 

Adelheid Blovsky-Miller 

Harp 

Former Professor of Harp at 

the University of Music and 

Performing Arts in Vienna, former harpist at the 

Vienna State Opera Orchestra. Artistic Director of the 

International Harp Competition ‘Franz Josef Reinl’. 

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Chloe Vansoeterstede 

Rehearsal Conductor 

Graduating from the Royal Academy 

of Music (RAM), London as a viola 

player (2014), Chloe then studied conducting at the Royal 

Northern College of Music. She studies with Clark Rundell, 

Mark Heron, and assists at the BBC Philharmonic, Royal 

Liverpool Philharmonic and the Hallé. Chloe is a RAM 

Fellow with the Stella Quartet and created the chamber 

orchestra, Arch Sinfonia (2012). She has conducted the 

United Strings of Europe chamber orchestra and recorded 

with the Solingen Orchester in Germany and Rotterdam. 

Chloe has performed with the EUYO, the Pacific Music 

Festival and the Aurora Orchestra for their BBC Proms. 

Lara Sullivan 

Violin 1 

Lara graduated from the Royal 

Academy of Music (RAM) in 2014, 

completing her master’s degree with Maurice Hasson. 

A member of the EUYO 2009-2014, she now plays with 

Spira Mirabilis, Camerata Ireland as well as ensembles in 

London. Lara is a chamber fellow at the RAM with the 

Stella Quartet, which enjoys a busy outreach and recital 

season with the Open Academy department and Wigmore 

Hall. As an EUYO alumni tutor, she has worked closely 

with the EMCO and the Malta Youth Orchestra. Lara 

currently teaches at the junior department of the RAM. 

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Anne Hopfmüller 

Violin 2 

Anne was a member of the EUYO from 

2010–2013. She studied performance 

and pedagogy in Vienna and Graz before moving to London, 

where she graduated from the Royal Academy of Music 

with distinction in 2014. She has since enjoyed playing 

frequently with orchestras in the UK and Austria such as 

Welsh National Opera, BBC Concert Orchestra, RSO Wien 

and European Union Chamber Orchestra, covering opera, 

symphonic repertoire and chamber music. Anne is also an 

enthusiastic teacher and has recently moved back to Vienna. 

Sofie van der Schalie 

Viola 

Sofie studied at the Conservatory of 

Amsterdam with Marjolein Dispa and 

was co-principal of the EUYO 2011 – 2014. She has been 

successful in competitions such as the Princess Christina 

Conours (1st prize) and the National Viola Competition 

(finalist). She currently plays with Dutch orchestras: 

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Chamber 

Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, the Radio Philharmonic 

Orchestra, and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Sofie teaches violin and viola at the Music and Dance 

school in Amstelveen. In the season 2015/2016 Sofie is 

an Acadamist at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 

Andrei Mihailescu 

Double Bass 

Principal double bass of the EUYO 

2009 – 2013, Andrei graduated from 

the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), London, studying with 

Duncan Mctier, Graham Mitchell, and Chi-chi Nwanoku. 

Andrei is a master’s student at the HMT Munich, studying 

with Nabil Shehata and collaborates with the Chamber 

Orchestra of Europe, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Deutsches 

Symphonie Orchestra Berlin, the Orchestra of the Age of 

Enlightenment, London Sinfonietta and Spira Mirabilis, 

amongst others. He has appeared as a soloist at the Grafenegg 

Musikfest and the George Enescu Festival. Andrei teaches 

double bass at the RAM, EMC and Malta Youth Orchestra. 

Magnus Koch Jensen 

Woodwind 

Magnus won the position as Principal 

bassoonist with Det Kongelige 

Kapel in 2012. Besides his job he has played in most of 

the Danish orchestras, but also in NDR Elbphilharmonie 

Orchestra and at the Hamburg State Opera. Magnus is 

co-founder of the award winning wind quintet “Carl Nielsen- 

Kvintetten” with whom he is making an effort to promote 

the wonderful music of the Danish national composer, 

Carl Nielsen. He was a member of the EUYO from 2010- 

2012 and remains a big supporter of the Orchestra. 

Romain Lapeyre 

Cello 

Romain graduated with a master’s 

degree from the Royal Academy of 

Music, studying with David Strange. Principal cellist of the 

EUYO 2010 – 2014, He was recipient of the Zara Nelsova 

Award, Harold Craxton Prize, Herbert Walenn Prize and the 

Lionel Bryer Memorial Fund Award. Romain has worked 

closely with the EMCO, the Malta Youth Orchestra and 

the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra. A member of the 

Bastide Piano Trio, he is Principal cello of the Chamber 

Orchestra of Toulouse and teaches music in Paris. 

Katy Woolley 

Brass 

Katy was appointed Principal horn in 

the Philharmonia Orchestra (where she 

has also appeared as soloist) and has forged a formidable 

reputation performing the most demanding horn parts 

for the world’s top conductors. Katy has studied with 

Sue Dent, Simon Rayner and in Berlin with Christian- 

Friedrich Dallmann. She graduated from the Royal College 

of Music and was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal by 

HRH Prince Charles. Katy was Principal horn in the EUYO 

and is now a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music 

and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. 

EUYO > TUTORS 

35

Honorary Patrons 

European Parliament 

President of the European Parliament, 

Honorary President of the EUYO 

Martin Schulz 

European Commission 

President of the European Commission, 

Head of the Honorary Patrons 

Jean-Claude Juncker 

European Commission 

High Representative of the European 

Union for Foreign Affairs and Security 

Policy and Vice-President of the European 

Commision, Honorary Patron 

Federica Mogherini 

European Committee of the Regions 

President of the European Committee 

of the Regions, Honorary Patron 

Markku Markkula 

Heads of State / Heads of Government 

Austria 

Federal President 

Alexander Van der Bellen 

Federal Chancellor 

Christian Kern 

Belgium 

HM King Philippe 

Prime Minister 

Charles Michel 

Bulgaria 

President 

Rosen Plevneliev 


Boyko Borisov 

roatia 

ent 

da Grabar-Kitarović 

Minister 

Tihomir Orešković 

Cyprus 

President 

Nicos Anastasiades 

Czech Republic 

President 

Miloš Zeman 


Bohuslav Sobotka 

Denmark 

HM Queen Margrethe II 


Lars Løkke Rasmussen 

Estonia 

President 

Toomas Hendrik Ilves 


Taavi Rõivas 

Finland 

President 

Sauli Niinistö 


Juha Sipilä 

France 

President 

François Hollande 


Manuel Valls 

Germany 

Federal President 

Joachim Gauck 

Federal Chancellor 

Angela Merkel 

Greece 

President 

Prokopios Pavlopoulos 


Alexis Tsipras 

Hungary 

President 

János Áder 


Viktor Orbán 

Ireland 

President 

Michael D. Higgins 

Taoiseach 

Enda Kenny 

Italy 

President 

Sergio Mattarella 


Matteo Renzi 

Latvia 

President 

Raimonds Vējonis 


Māris Kučinskis 

Lithuania 

President 

Dalia Grybauskaitė 


Algirdas Butkevičius 

Luxembourg 

HRH Grand Duke Henri 


Xavier Bettel 

Malta 

ident 

rie Louise 

eiro Preca 


Joseph Muscat 

Netherlands 

HRH Princess Beatrix 


Mark Rutte 

Poland 

President 

uda 

r 

dło 

Portugal 

President 

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa 


António Costa 

Romania 

President 

Klaus Iohannis 


Dacian Ciolos 

Slovakia 

President 

Andrej Kiska 


Robert Fico 

Slovenia 

President 

Borut Pahor 


Miro Cerar 

pain 

HM King Felipe VI 


Mariano Rajoy Brey 

Sweden 

HM King Carl XVI Gustaf 


Stefan Löfven 

United Kingdom 

HM Queen Elizabeth II 


David Cameron 

Honorary Committees 

Austria 

Cyprus 

France 

Italy 

Poland 

Spain 

EUYO > HONORARY PATRONS / COMMITTEES 

36 

Thomas Drozda 

Federal Minister for Arts 

and Culture, Constitutional 

Affairs and Media 

Sebastian Kurz 

Federal Minister for Europe, 

Integration and Foreign Affairs 

Sonja Hammerschmid 

Federal Minister for 

Education and Women 

Belgium 

Sven Gatz 

Flemish Minister for 

Culture, the Media, Youth 

and Brussels Affairs 

Joëlle Milquet 

Vice Minister President of the 

French-speaking Community 

and Minister responsible 

for education, culture and 

childhood for the Frenchspeaking 

Community 

Isabelle Weykmans 

Minister for Culture, 

Employment and Tourism 

Didier Reynders 

Deputy Prime Minister and 

Minister of Foregin Affairs 

and European Affairs 

Bulgaria 

Daniel Pavolv Mitov 

Minister of Foreign Affairs 

Vezhdi Letif Rashidov 

Minister of Culture 

Croatia 

Predrag Šustar 

Minister of Science, 

Education and Sports 

Zlatko Hasanbegović 


Miro Kovač 

Minister of Foreign and 

European Affairs 

Ioannis Kasoulides 


Costas Kadis 

Minister of Education and Culture 


Lubomír Zaorálek 

Foreign Minister 

Kateřina Valachová 

Minister for Education, 

Youth and Sport 

Petr Drulák 

Deputy Minister of 

Foreign Affairs 

Denmark 

Bertel Haarder 


Kristian Jensen 

Minister for Foreign Affairs 

Estonia 

Marina Kaljurand 


Indrek Saar 


Jürgen Ligi 

Minister of Education 

and Research 

Finland 

Sanni Grahn-Laasonen 

Minister of Culture and Education 

Timo Soini 


Lenita Toivakka 

Minister for Foreign Trade 

and Development 

Jean-Marc Ayrault 

Foreign Minister 

Audrey Azoulay 

Minister of Culture and 

Communication 

Germany 


Federal Government 

Commissioner for Culture 

and the Media 

Manuela Schwesig 

Federal Minister of Family 

Affairs, Senior Citizens, 

Women and Youth 

Frank-Walter Steinmeier 

Federal Minister for 

Foreign Affairs 

Greece 

Aristeidis Mpaltas 

Minister of Culture and Sports 

Athanasia 

Anagnostopoulou 

Deputy Minister for Education, 

Research and Religious Affairs 

Nikos Kotzias 


Hungary 

Péter Szijjártó 

Minister of Foreign 

Affairs and Trade 

Zoltán Balog 

Minister of Human Capacities 

Ireland 

Heather Humphreys 

Minister for Arts, Heritage 

and the Gaeltacht 

Charles Flanagan 

Minister for Foreign 

Affairs and Trade 

Paschal Donohoe 

Minister for Transport, 

Tourism and Sport 

Paolo Gentiloni 

Minister of Foreign Affairs and 

International Cooperation 

Dario Franceschini 

Minister of Heritage and 

Cultural Activities and Tourism 

Latvia 

Dace Melbārde 


Edgards Rinkěvičs 


Lithuania 

Šarūnas Birutis 


Linas Antanas 

Linkevičius 


Luxembourg 

Xavier Bettel 

Prime Minister, Minister 

of Culture 

Guy Arendt 

Secretary of State for Culture 

Jean Asselborn 


Malta 

Owen Bonnici 

Minister for Justice, Culture 

and Local Government 

Evarist Bartolo 

Minister for Education 

and Employment 

Netherlands 

Bert Koenders 


Jet Bussemaker 

Minister for Education, 

Culture and Science 

Witold Waszczykowski 


prof. dr hab. Piotr Gliński 

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister 

of Culture and National Heritage 

Portugal 

Miguel Honrado 

Secretary of State for Culture 

Luís Filipe de Castro 

Mendes 


Augusto Santos Silva 


Romania 

Lazăr Comănescu 


Aura Carmen Răducu 

Minister of European Funds 

Vlad Alexandrescu 


Slovakia 

Miroslav Lajčák 


Marek Mad’arič 


Slovenia 

Tone Peršak 


Karl Erjavec 


Iñigo Méndez 

de Vigo y Montojo 

Minister of Education, 

Culture and Sports 

José Manuel García- 

Margallo y Marfil 


and Cooperation 

Sweden 

Margot Wallström 


Alice Bah Kuhnke 


and Democracy 


Philip Hammond 

Secretary of State for Foreign 

and Commonwealth Affairs 

John Whittingdale 

Secretary of State for 

Culture, Media and Sport 

David Lidington 

Minister for Europe 

Ed Vaizey 

Minister of State for Culture 

and the Digital Economy 

Baroness Rawlings of 

Burnham Westgate

National Associates 

Austria 

Wiener Jeunesse Orchester 

Renate Böck 

Estonia 

Eesti Muusika – ja Teatriakadeemia 

Kai Kiiv 

Latvia 

Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija 

Maija Sīpola 

gal 

l das Artes 

Carlos Moura-Carvalho 

Belgium 

BOZAR 

Ulrich Hauschild 

garia 

School of Music Lyubomir Pipkov 

hi Arnaoudov 

atia 

Jeunesses Musicales Croatia 

Mira Surjak 

Cyprus 

Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation (CSOF) 

Egly Pantelakis 

Board President 


ARS/KONCERT, / spol. s. ro. 

Lenka Šimečková 

Denmark 

Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium 

Jakob Errboe Holtze 

Finland 

Sibelius-Akatemia 

Anna Rombach 

France 

Orchestre Français des Jeunes 

Pierre Barrois 

Germany 

Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin 

Prof. Robert Ehrlich 

Greece 

Thessaloniki Concert Hall 

George-Emmanuel Lazaridis 

Hungary 

Kreatív Európa Nonprofit Kft. 

Gábor Mondik 

Ireland 

National Youth Orchestra of Ireland 

Carol-Ann McKenna 

Italy 

RAI 

Mihaela Liliana Schefer 

Lithuania 

Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija 

Giedrė Antanavičienė 

Mindaugas Kazlauskas 

Interim Contact 

Luxembourg 

Ministère de la Culture 

Marco Battistella 

Malta 

Philharmonic Orchestra 

a Blanco 

Netherlands 

NJO 

Miranda van Drie 

Poland 

Department of Artistic Schools 

and Cultural Education, Ministry of 

Culture and National Heritage 

Eliza Kujan 

Romania 

Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) 

Irina Iacob 

Slovakia 

Music Centre Slovakia 

Igor Valentovič 

Slovenia 

a, Department of 

uction 

ak 

Subdireccion General de Musica y Danza, 

Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte 

José Rodriguez del Pino 

Sweden 

Academy of Music 

and Drama, University of Gothenburg 

Tobias Granmo 


National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 

Sarah Alexander 

Capital Sounds – National Guest Performers 

Capital Sounds – National Guest Speakers 

Bratislava 

Slovensky Mládežnícky 

Orchester 

An orchestra of the finest young 

musicians in Slovakia aged 16-28 

years, being formed as Slovakia’s 

national youth orchestra by Music 

Centre Slovakia, with the assistance 

and inspiration of the EUYO. 

Ljublijana 

Duo Scaramouche 

Duo Scaramouche, Neža Koželj 

and Nadja Rus, are an acclaimed 

Slovenian piano duo taught by 

Professor Miha Haas. Neža Koželj 

and Nadja Rus are students of 

Professor Hinko Haas at the 

Academy of music in Ljubljana and 

have studied extensively abroad. 

They have twice been gold medal 

and first prize winners in the 

Slovenian state competition. 

Warsaw 

I, Culture Orchestra 

I, CULTURE Orchestra consists 

of outstanding young musicians 

from Poland and the Eastern 

Partnership countries. Formed 

in 2011 by the Adam Mickiewicz 

Institute – a state founded cultural 

institution dedicated to promote 

Polish culture worldwide, the 

Orchestra exists to use the act 

of performing music to bring 

together people from these 

countries. By rehearsing and 

performing together these young 

musicians communicate and learn 

to trust each other in ways that 

resonate beyond the concert hall. 

Berlin 

Vision String Quartet 

Founded in 2012, this is a unique 

quartet that plays original 

compositions and arrangements of 

many different styles, as well as the 

conventional, classical literature. 

The quartet won the 2016 

Mendelssohn Prize and comprises 

Jakob Encke (violin), Daniel Stoll 

(violin), Leonard Disselhorst 

(cello) and Sander Stuart (viola). 

Amsterdam 

The Leerorkest 

The Leerorkest is an innovative 

music education programme in 

which every child gets the chance 

to learn a musical instrument at 

school. The Stichting Leerorkest 

(Leerorkest Foundation) 

provides the organisational 

and pedagogical structure for 

the Leerorkest orchestras in 

Amsterdam and in several other 

cities in Holland and Belgium. As 

of 2016 there were 36 orchestras 

active in Amsterdam, involving 

18 primary schools and 3 high 

schools from all across the city. 

Bratislava – 

Mrs Alžbeta Rajterová 

Widow of composer and conductor 

Ľudovít Rajter, whose Suite 

Miniature shall be the opening 

piece of the EUYO concert 

and a champion of the Arts. 

Ljubljana – 

Mitja Bervar, 

President of the 

National Council of the 

Republic of Slovenia 

Warsaw – 

Dr Artur Szklener, 

Director of the Fryderyk 

Chopin Institute 

Since 1997 Artur Szklener 

has taught at the Institute of 

Musicology of the Jagiellonian 

University and since 2001 

has been associated with the 

Fryderyk Chopin Institute in 

Warsaw as Research Program 

Coordinator, Deputy Director 

for Research and Publishing, 

and since 2012, its Director. 

Berlin 

Federal Government 

Commissioner for 

Culture and Media, 


The Federal Government 

Commissioner for Culture 

and Media, a member of the 

Parliament of the Federal Republic 

of Germany, and Chairman of 

the Committee for Culture and 

Media from 2009 until 2013. 

Amsterdam 

Geert Mak 

Geert Mak is a Dutch journalist 

and a non-fiction writer in the field 

of history. His ten books about 

Amsterdam, Netherlands and 

Europe have earned him great 

popularity. Geert Mak participates 

actively in Dutch public debate, as 

a staunch defender of the values 

of an open and tolerant society. 

EUYO > NATIONAL ASSOCIATES 

37

Partners, supporters 

and friends 

The European Union Youth Orchestra wishes to thank the 28 EU Member States, as well as its 

residency hosts, Principal Corporate Partner, other corporate collaborators, trusts, foundations 

and individuals, whose support is invaluable in helping the Orchestra achieve its mission. 

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Principal Corporate Partner 

Principal Venue Partner

Residency 

Partner 

Global 

Associates 

Orchestra Associate Partners 

Network Associate Partners 

Trusts / Foundations 

Friends of the EUYO 

Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation 

Bellinger-Donnay Charitable Trust 

Kirby Laing Foundation 

The Lynn Foundation 

Modiano Charitable Trust 

The Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust 

Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy 

Sir Harold and Lady Atcherley 

Tania Bryer 

Dirk Engelmann 

Friends of Clumber Studios 

Peter and Cynthia Hardy 

Maestro Gianandrea Noseda 

Dr Onno Ruding 

Claude Wasserstein 

Dame Mary Archer 

Fred and Marianne Emery 

Derek Gleeson 

Dr Eckhart von Hahn 

David Heald Edna Laird 

Franz Mikorey 

Argirios Vainas 

Nicola Wallis 

Rien de Reede 

Stefania Cora 

David Ramos 

Clara de la Torre 

Henry Wickens 

William Palmer 

Lianne Hackett 

Marko Kassenaar 

Peter Ahrens 

Michele Sanzo 

Colin Currie (percussion instruments) 

The EUYO would also like to thank those 

organisation and individuals who wish to 

remain anonymous 

EUYO > PARTNERS, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS 

39

Governance 

Trustees, Board 

and Management 

CO-FOUNDER 

& PRESIDENT 

Joy Bryer 

TRUSTEES 

Co-Chairman 


ORCHESTRA BOARD 

Chair 


EXECUTIVE 

Chief Executive 


Librarian & IT Manager 

Chris Turner 

TOURING STAFF 

Tour Manager 

Colin Window 

CHIEF CONDUCTOR 


CONDUCTOR 

LAUREATE 

Bernard Haitink CH,KBE 

FOUNDING MUSIC 

DIRECTOR 

Claudio Abbado 

Sir John Tusa 

Lesley King-Lewis 

Anthony Sargent CBE 

Martijn Sanders 

Ilaria Borletti Buitoni 

Trustee Emeritus 

Robert Albert 

Sir John Tusa 

Anthony Sargent CBE 

Martijn Sanders 


ADVISORY BOARD 

Chair 

Étienne Davignon 

Tassilo 

Metternich-Sándor 

Executive & 

Finance Manager 

Riitta Hirvonen 

Development & 

Communications Manager 

Charlotte Hamilton 

Projects & 

Orchestra Manager 

Christina Hemmer 

Development Officer 

Marianne Wright 

Partnership Coordinator, 

Towards 2020 

Nicolas Klimis 

Executive Assistant 

Carol Cristiani 

Bookkeeper 

Mei-Mei Siew 

Stage Management 

Zoe Fagg 

Transport Manager 

Max van Duuren 

Nurse 

Christine Phelps 

Communications Assistant 

Charlotte Pearce 

Keep in touch 

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