Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie
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The Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie (IJOA), or International Youth Orchestra Academy, is an international range orchestra for young people, based in Pleystein
, Bavaria
. It has special associations with the Bayreuth Easter Festival
. The organization has three aims: to help and support children suffering from cancer in those regions and areas where the concerts of the IJOA orchestra take place; the promotion of young musicians; and to develop the international understanding of the musicians, who come from different backgrounds from all over the world, and meet to make music and play together in one orchestra.
and Dr. Andreas Göldel in co-operation with the director Prof. August Everding
and the Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
. Each year the Academy invites international applications, and forms an orchestra of about 110 musicians from over 30 nations worldwide.
, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
, the ROS Frankfurt-am-Main, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
During the two weeks' workshop, the players then also come together in tutti rehearsals with the conductor. The conductors include Miguel Gómez-Martínez, Christoph Ulrich Meier and Bob Ross. Since the foundation, the Orchestra has given about 260 concerts in Germany and Europe. The programme usually includes (among other works) a great symphonic piece of the 19th century.
The young musicians also have the opportunity to play in the opera orchestra - the Bayreuth Easter Festival
presented an opera for the first time in 2007, conducted and directed by Christoph Ulrich Meier - or at Festival-Brass (directed and conducted by Bob Ross, Blechschaden). In addition there are Jazz and Salon orchestra workshops.
Scholarships
Talented musicians who cannot afford to participate in the Academy have the opportunity to obtain a scholarship. Most of the scholarships are made possible by the Friends of the Bayreuth Easter Festival ("Freunde des Bayreuther Osterfestivals e.V").
(Rosenthal-Theater), Leipzig (Thomaskirche) and Bielefeld
(Neustädter Marienkirche).
The Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie records its concert program professionally. Since 2006 the recordings are made in co-production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk
(Bavarian Broadcasting). The proceeds of the CD are applied to the purposes of the social and cultural foundation of the Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie.
Pleystein
Pleystein is a municipality in the district of Neustadt , in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 18 km east of Weiden in der Oberpfalz, and 11 km west of Rozvadov....
, Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
. It has special associations with the Bayreuth Easter Festival
Bayreuther Osterfestival
The Bayreuther Osterfestival is an Easter Festival held at Bayreuth in Germany. It has the three aims of raising money for cancer charities, providing experience and opportunities for young musicians, and the promotion of international understanding...
. The organization has three aims: to help and support children suffering from cancer in those regions and areas where the concerts of the IJOA orchestra take place; the promotion of young musicians; and to develop the international understanding of the musicians, who come from different backgrounds from all over the world, and meet to make music and play together in one orchestra.
Background
The Academy was founded in 1994 by Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. SchubertUlrich S. Schubert
Ulrich Sigmar Schubert is a professor of Chemistry at Jena University. He was born in Tübingen in 1969. He studied chemistry at the Universities of Frankfurt and Bayreuth and the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond . His Ph.D. work was performed under the supervision of Professor Eisenbach ...
and Dr. Andreas Göldel in co-operation with the director Prof. August Everding
August Everding
August Everding was a German opera director and administrator. He studied at the Universities of Bonn and Munich, where launching his career in the 1950s...
and the Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...
. Each year the Academy invites international applications, and forms an orchestra of about 110 musicians from over 30 nations worldwide.
Workshops
In workshops lasting two weeks, the intended concert programme is studied by the young musicians in their orchestral sections, under the guidance of coaches who are themselves renowned musicians. The coaches are drawn from the Musik Hochschule in CologneCologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
, the ROS Frankfurt-am-Main, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
The Münchner Philharmoniker is a German symphony orchestra located in the city of Munich. It is one of Munich's three principal orchestras, along with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian State Orchestra...
, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
During the two weeks' workshop, the players then also come together in tutti rehearsals with the conductor. The conductors include Miguel Gómez-Martínez, Christoph Ulrich Meier and Bob Ross. Since the foundation, the Orchestra has given about 260 concerts in Germany and Europe. The programme usually includes (among other works) a great symphonic piece of the 19th century.
The young musicians also have the opportunity to play in the opera orchestra - the Bayreuth Easter Festival
Bayreuther Osterfestival
The Bayreuther Osterfestival is an Easter Festival held at Bayreuth in Germany. It has the three aims of raising money for cancer charities, providing experience and opportunities for young musicians, and the promotion of international understanding...
presented an opera for the first time in 2007, conducted and directed by Christoph Ulrich Meier - or at Festival-Brass (directed and conducted by Bob Ross, Blechschaden). In addition there are Jazz and Salon orchestra workshops.
Scholarships
Talented musicians who cannot afford to participate in the Academy have the opportunity to obtain a scholarship. Most of the scholarships are made possible by the Friends of the Bayreuth Easter Festival ("Freunde des Bayreuther Osterfestivals e.V").
Performance and Recording
After the workshop the IJOA orchestra goes on tour. The pieces studied during the workshop will be played, among other places, in Bayreuth (Margravial Opera House), SelbSelb
Selb is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, on the border with the Czech Republic, 20 km northwest of Cheb and 23 km southeast of Hof.-Notable people:...
(Rosenthal-Theater), Leipzig (Thomaskirche) and Bielefeld
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is an independent city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 323,000, it is also the most populous city in the Regierungsbezirk Detmold...
(Neustädter Marienkirche).
The Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie records its concert program professionally. Since 2006 the recordings are made in co-production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Broadcasting] is the public broadcasting authority for the German Freistaat of Bavaria, with its main offices located in Munich. BR is a member of ARD.- Legal foundation :...
(Bavarian Broadcasting). The proceeds of the CD are applied to the purposes of the social and cultural foundation of the Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie.
Participating nationalities (up to October 2007)
Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Republic of Belarus, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, the Ukraine, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Taiwan, Turkey, USA, Vietnam.CDs of the IJOA
- CD 2007 Tchaikowsky Symphony No 5; J.S. Bach - Violin concerto in A minor (BWV 1041) (Co-production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk).
- CD 2006 Bruckner - Symphony No 7 (Co-production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk).
- CD 2005 Bruckner - Symphony No 4; Wagner - Prelude to TannhäuserTannhäuser (opera)Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg...
. - CD 2004 Mahler - Symphony No 2, "Resurrection."
- CD 2003 Wagner - Overture to LohengrinLohengrin (opera)Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself...
; Mahler - "Adagio" from Symphony No 5; Tchaikowsky - Symphony No 4. - CD 2003 Salon orchestra and Jazz.
- CD 2002 Wagner - Overture to Tannhäuser; Mahler - Songs from Des Knaben WunderhornDes Knaben WunderhornDes Knaben Wunderhorn is a collection of German folk poems edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and published in Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, between 1805 and 1808...
; DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
- Symphony No 8. - CD 2001 Wagner - Overture to Der fliegende Holländer; Mahler - Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5; Dvořák - Symphony No 9, From the New World.
- CD 2000 Wagner, Tchaikowsky, Mahler, Grieg, William ByrdWilliam ByrdWilliam Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
, Hazell, Premru. - CD 1999 Mozart - Overture to The Magic FluteThe Magic FluteThe Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
; Mahler - Rückert-LiederRückert-LiederRückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert...
; Tchaikowsky - Symphony No 6. - CD 1997 Mahler - Symphony No 4; Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
-Bartholdy - Violin concerto in E minor. - CD 1996 Mahler - Symphony No 5
- CD 1995 Brahms - Academic Festival OvertureAcademic Festival OvertureAcademic Festival Overture , Op. 80, by Johannes Brahms, was one of a pair of contrasting concert overtures — the other being the Tragic Overture, Op. 81, written to balance it as its pair...
; Mahler - Symphony No. 1, The Titan.