Welcome from the Conductor
YOW's senior orchestra is now nearly two years old and is part of the wider Orchestras Central family which supports and develops orchestral music in the Waikato. After a busy and exciting 2019, we are delighted to be performing again at the St Pauls Collegiate Chapel. This programme showcases our talented young people who come together to rehearse every week. The concert is their opportunity to share the result of this hard work with you. Tim Carpenter Timothy has a Masters of Music in conducting (first class honours). He holds a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music in Cello with Distinction, a Bachelor of Music from the University of Waikato and an Honours degree in performance organ from the University of Auckland. He has been a member of the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra, the New Zealand Youth Choir and is currently a member of Voices New Zealand. As well as at University, Timothy has attended conducting master classes overseas and worked with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In the past he has conducted the Auckland Youth Orchestra, OPUS Chamber Orchestra, the Trust Waikato Symphony Orchestra and directed the orchestras at St Kentigern Collegiate.
Assistant Conductor: Catherine Polglase
Catherine Polglase is a freelance violinist and violin teacher. She studied violin at Auckland University with David Nalden, completing a BA in Music and History and studied baroque violin with Graham McPhail. Catherine is a member of NZ Barok and leader of Vox Baroque performing monthly cantatas as part of St Peters Cathedral Cantata Vespers. In 2017 Catherine was selected to be part of CMNZ Nelson Bach Residency working with Julliard 415 under Maasaki Suzuki. Catherine is a Suzuki violin teacher and also runs a Suzuki Early Childhood Education music class in her Hamilton studio.
Youth Orchestras Waikato: YOW Senior Orchestra Violin 1 Sarah Cathcart+ Matilda Griffiths Samara Nation Joanne Song Laura Goodman Bella Scott Isabella Ranum Scott Cathcart Catherine Polglase Violin 2 Daniel Loy* Jovan Xin Kezia Schuitemaker Marionne Montesa Ethan O'Donnell James Vickery
Cello Nathanael Loy* Veronica Bagley Ashley Koo Christopher Cammish Double Bass Michaelia Gui* Haonan Zhu George King Steve Smith Flute Joshua Lee* Alice Jin Irina Kishi-Rychkova Marina Aleksic Fionna Sun
Violin 3 Zachary Nation Jarren Xin
Oboe Euan Safey* Sarah Larscheid
Viola Dion Xue* Matilde Brandimarti Chris Nation
Clarinet Chloe Park* Bryan Kim Andrew Kang
+ Concert Master *Section Leader
Bass Clarinet Benjamin Haworth
Bassoon Michelle Kong* Annabelle Carrington French Horn Campbell Smith* Lisa Wilkinson Ben Back Trumpet Tomas Metz* Elliot Leigton-Slater Bill Stoneham Trombone Gustav Jooste Robert Lummus Ludwig Gross Tuba Lucas Goodwin Timpani/Percussion Seamus Eade Percussion David Su Jessie Lee Geon Choi Daniel Bainbridge-Smith
Programme
Rossini William Tell Overture Mozart 3rd Movement Horn Concerto E flat major Bruckner 3rd Movement Symphony No. 7 Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Brower, Duke and Hayes arr. Brubaker World of Warcraft trad. Hark the Herald Angel's Sing trad. Jingle Bells Leroy Anderson Sleigh Ride William Tell Overture Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Rossini, born in 1792, was an Italian composer most noted for his operas, of which he wrote 39. He was extremely productive, writing 34 operas in the period of 1810–1823, and this output of so many successful operas gained him notoriety and significant wealth and fame. Rossini, however, withdrew completely from writing operas for the last 40 years of his life, only writing a few religious works and songs for voice and piano during his retirement. William Tell was Rossini’s last opera written before his retirement, the premier for which he received a standing ovation from the public. The overture to this opera has become extremely popular as a stand-alone concert piece and the finale has been used countless times in pop-culture, most notably in The Lone Ranger. Horn Concerto in E Flat, K.495 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart III Rondo Allegro Vivace
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer who was famed for his prodigious talent in performance and composition, having written his first symphony at age 8. Alongside his numerous other concertos, symphonies, operas and sonatas, Mozart wrote 4 concertos for Horn. He wrote these concertos for his childhood friend and skilled horn player Joseph Leutgeb who had developed widespread fame for his playing and was a musical inspiration for Mozart. This particular movement, the Rondo of his fourth Horn concerto is perhaps the most widely known from these concertos with its lively 6/8 pulse and jovial melody. Symphony no.7 Movement 3 Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner, born in 1824 in Austria, was a composer and organist who is known today mostly for his Symphonies and Masses. Although his writing is often not particularly melodious, he is renowned for creating large-scale, epic symphonies, most of which averaging around an hour long. He wrote his Symphony No. 7 in E major between the years 1881-1883 and its premier in 1884 was a great success for Bruckner, and from then on it has become one of his best-known symphonies. The 3rd movement, Scherzo, begins and ends with a spirited, dance-like rhythm with a slower, more lyrical middle section.
Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland From the concert stage to the gridiron halftime show, the Montreal Olympics and television commercials, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man has challenged performers and excited listeners. The score was written in 1943 "for the common man, who, after all, was doing all the dirty work in the war and in the army. He deserved a fanfare." Copland later used it as an integral part of his Third Symphony. World of Warcraft Russell Brower, Derek Duke and Jason Hayes World of Warcraft, released in 2004, is what’s known as an MMORPG, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. It is a video game in which players from all over the world explore a world of magic and adventure with thousands of others online. The musical score was written by multiple composers; of which, the music of Russell Brower, Derek Duke and Jason Hayes feature in this arrangement. In this arrangement the music draws the listener into a fantastical realm of battle, lament, and medieval tavern song Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, completed in 1948, is an instantly recognisable staple of the Christmas music repertoire. Featuring sleigh bells and whip cracks, the piece evokes the feeling of riding through snow in a horse-drawn sleigh at Christmas time. However, Anderson had not originally envisioned it to represent Christmas time, only as a musical depiction of winter long ago. The subsequent lyrics written for it two years later in 1950 by Mitchell Parish fail to even mention Christmas. Nevertheless, it enjoyed immediate success, being broadcast on radio widely throughout the United States and it has become one of America’s most celebrated pieces of Christmas music.
Save the Dates 29 March 2020 13 September 2020 15 November 2020
Concert - Cambridge Avantidrome Concert - Gallagher Academy Concert - St Pauls Collegiate
NB concert dates subject to change
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