Summer Tour 2016

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.
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