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Milestones<br />
From Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, New York to Nicosia, Moscow to Mumbai, Seoul to São Paolo<br />
and beyond, the EUYO has performed so far in 4 Continents, 43 countries, 177 cities and 224<br />
venues, including cities in all 28 EU Member States. A regular visitor to many of the world’s<br />
greatest concert halls including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the BBC Proms, and the<br />
Edinburgh, Lucerne and Salzburg festivals, the Orchestra’s Principal Venue Partner and most<br />
important home has, since 2014, been at Grafenegg as part of the Grafenegg Festival.<br />
Below are a few of the landmark projects of the first 40 years of the Orchestra.<br />
Herbert von Karajan conducting<br />
EUYO in Salzburg 1980<br />
Daniel Barenboim in<br />
rehearsal with EUYO 1981<br />
Leonard Bernstein © Jack Mitchell<br />
and Jessye Norman, Soprano<br />
Mstislav<br />
Rostropovich<br />
1978<br />
Inaugural tour conducted<br />
by Founding Music Director<br />
Claudio Abbado, to<br />
Amsterdam, Bonn, Paris,<br />
Luxembourg, Brussels,<br />
Milan and Rome<br />
1980<br />
Herbert von Karajan conducts<br />
the Orchestra in Salzburg with<br />
soloist Anne-Sophie Mütter<br />
1981<br />
EUYO performs under the<br />
baton of Daniel Barenboim<br />
1982<br />
<strong>Tour</strong> to Mexico<br />
1984<br />
<strong>Tour</strong> to China and Hong Kong<br />
1985<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Tour</strong> including<br />
London, Athens, Hiroshima,<br />
Budapest, Vienna, Berlin,<br />
Copenhagen, Amsterdam,<br />
Lucerne, Paris and Vienna<br />
with conductors Claudio<br />
Abbado, Leonard Bernstein<br />
and Eiji Oue, and soloists<br />
Jessye Norman, Karita Mattila,<br />
Christa Ludwig, Barbara<br />
Hendricks and Mi Dori<br />
1987<br />
Concerts in Bari, Rome,<br />
Ravenna, Brussels, Paris,<br />
Dublin, London, Oxford with<br />
conductor James Judd, and<br />
soloists Sir Yehudi Menuhin<br />
and Dmitris Sgouros<br />
1988<br />
<strong>Tour</strong> to USA performing<br />
in New York, Washington<br />
D.C. and Boston<br />
EUYO > MILESTONES<br />
2000<br />
Vladimir Ashkenazy<br />
succeeds Bernard<br />
Haitink as the EUYO’s<br />
Music Director<br />
2004<br />
The Orchestra returns<br />
to Brazil to celebrate<br />
the city of São Paulo’s<br />
450th anniversary<br />
2007<br />
Concerts in Berlin (TV<br />
broadcast concert celebrating<br />
50th Anniversary of the<br />
signing of the Treaty<br />
of Rome), Garmisch-<br />
Partenkirchen, Bolzano,<br />
Zurich, Genova, Bologna,<br />
Astana & Almaty (Kasakhstan)<br />
with Conductor Vladimir<br />
Ashkenazy and soloists<br />
Sir James Galway, Janine<br />
Jansen, Lady Jeanne Galway,<br />
Zsolt-Tihamer Visontay,<br />
Aiman Musakhodzhaeva<br />
and Amir TebenIkhin<br />
2008<br />
<strong>Tour</strong> to Japan,<br />
China and Korea<br />
2010<br />
EUYO performs at<br />
Shanghai Expo<br />
2012<br />
Second tour to USA including<br />
performances at Carnegie<br />
Hall and Kennedy Center<br />
in concerts conducted by<br />
Vladimir Ashkenazy with<br />
soloists Reinhold Friedrich,<br />
Khatia Buniatishvili, Vilde<br />
Frang, Pinchas Zukerman,<br />
Itzhak Perlman, Yefim<br />
Bronfman and Mark Kaplan<br />
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