That’s a wrap for our weekend workshop! Winds, strings, and symphony all had so much fun inside and outside rehearsal, working with our wonderful tutors, conductors, and friends to make some awesome music and forge new connections.
That’s a wrap for our weekend workshop!Winds, strings, and symphony all had so much fun inside and outside rehearsal, working with our wonderful tutors, conductors, and friends to make some awesome music and forge new connections.
Tutoring strings we had an alum of the orchestra - Amy! As well as dedicated professionals from the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, and Metropolitan Orchestra, as well as Andrew Watkins for our wind ensemble.Thanks to our regular directors - James, David, Tim, and Kate, for their usual support and dedication to the orchestra.
What the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra (ARCO) said about the weekend -
What a great weekend workshopping with the outstanding young musicians of the Northern Sydney Youth Orchestra in our THIRD annual YMS HIP Workshop, codirected by Rachael Beesley & Nicole van Bruggen!
We covered the research, technique and emotion of Historically Informed Performance, finishing with a family-and-friends open rehearsal conducted by Rachael Beesley in a program of Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn and Emilie Mayer (yay for female composers!)