THE 2009 Sasol South African National Youth Orchestra course kicks of today at the University of Pretoria and three local students will play in one of four orchestras. They are Lynsey Hart (horn) and Christine-Marie Louw (violin), from Paarl and Petrus Coetzee (violin) from Wellington.
To kickstart the course, locally and internationally acclaimed musicians have come to Gauteng from as far as New York for some fantastic chamber concerts.
The course ends with a bang that comes from the energy, passion and electricity of the musicians of the SA National Youth Orchestras.
On Thursday 2 July in the Linder Auditorium in Parktown, the SA National Youth Concert Orchestra will take to the stage with the German prize-winning pianists Cara Hesse and Laura Pauna.
Later the evening the SA National Youth Orchestra will be conducted by Swedish dynamo, Stefan Solyom, making his debut in South Africa fresh from the opera house of Paris, with Junnan Sun as soloist.
First on the programme will be the National Youth String Orchestra, conducted by Australia’s Stephen Phillips, with Samson Diamond, one of South Africa’s most talented violinists, studying at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, as soloist.
On 3 July all the 230 musicians will band together for a mass performance music by Queen and Abba, following the National Youth Wind Orchestra and the National Youth Concert Orchestra.
