CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy to showcase talent at Town Hall, Birmingham
The members of the CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy will be showcasing their talent at Town Hall, Birmingham on 10 August 2008 in an exhilarating programme including music by Beethoven, Rodrigo, Pärt and Ligeti.
The CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy is a new sister-group of the acclaimed CBSO Youth Orchestra – a 50-piece chamber orchestra hand-picked from the Youth Orchestra’s 110 members. The Academy gave a small-scale inaugural concert last September at CBSO Centre, Birmingham, and received an enthusiastic response, with The Birmingham Post describing its playing as “jaw-droppingly brilliant”. This year’s performance, under the baton of CBSO Assistant Conductor Michael Seal, sees it step onto the larger Birmingham stage with its first ever performance in Birmingham’s newly-renovated Town Hall.
The programme is specially designed to showcase the qualities of the Academy’s young players, including Beethoven’s ebullient Seventh Symphony and György Ligeti’s flamboyant but rarely-heard Concert Romanesc.
Joining the CBSO Youth Orchestra on stage will be the acclaimed young Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski, as soloist in Rodrigo’s hugely popular Concierto de Aranjuez (best known from its use in the film Brassed Off).
Tickets cost £12 for adults and £6 for children and are available from Symphony Hall Box Office on 0121 780 3333 or visit www.cbso.co.uk.
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