Queensland Youth Orchestra 2 (QYO2)
Conductor Sergei V Korschmin
Watch QYO2 playing Smetana’s The Moldau:
Queensland Youth Orchestra 2 is a full size symphony orchestra with 100 members ranging in age from 12 to 23. The main stage for QYO2 is the Old Museum Concert Hall, where QYO2 plays three Concerts at Twilight a year. The repertoire includes a wide range of original works, mainly from the romantic and modern periods. In 2011, QYO2 is performing Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) and excerpts from Swan Lake, Liszt’s Les Preludes and Tasso, Lament and Triumph, and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto among other works.
Conductor Sergei V Korschmin
Sergei completed studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance. Sergei’s conducting debut came at age seventeen, conducting Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony, with the Moscow Composer’s House Orchestra. In the same year he was the Conductor and Production Director of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin. Sergei later conducted a cycle of works by Beethoven.
As the recipient of the Internal Travel Fellowship from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Sergei participated in music classes at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris (France); the Academy of Music, Weimar (Germany); the Southwest Texas University, (USA), and many master classes. Since moving to Australia, Sergei has lectured at several universities in Queensland. He has held the position of Artistic Director of the Mackay Youth Orchestra, and Artistic Director and Conductor of the Mackay Symphony Orchestra. Sergei is regularly invited both as a conductor and teacher, to tutor and direct vacation workshops and master classes.
Sergei has been guest conductor with the Queensland Youth Symphony and Western Australian Youth Orchestra. Since 2003 Sergei is conductor of the QYO2.
Coming up
QYO2 is playing regularly in Concerts at Twilight at the Old Museum Concert Hall. Please find all dates here
QYO2 repertoire
In 2011, QYO2 performed
| Alexander Borodin | Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor |
| Hector Berlioz | Roman Carnival Overture |
| Franz Liszt | Les Preludes |
| Franz Liszt | Tasso |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64 (Soloist Annabelle Traves) |
| Johann Georg Neruda | Trumpet Concerto (Soloist Alison Marsh) |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Selections from Swan Lake |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 2 Little Russian |
| John Rotar | Toy Suite |
In 2010, QYO2 performed
| Bedřich Smetana | Ma Vlast (My Fatherland) incl. Vlatava (The Moldau) |
| Dvorak | Symphony No 8 |
| Kodaly | Hary Janos |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | Le Coq d’or Suite |
In 2009, QYO2 performed
| Beethoven | Egmont Overture, op. 84 |
| Bernstein arr Mason | West Side Story: Selections for Orchestra |
| Bill Reddie | Channel One Suite |
| Borodin | Polovetzian Dances from Prince Igor |
| Borodin | Symphony No. 2 in B minor |
| Brahms | Hungarian Dances Nos 1 & 3 |
| Copland | Fanfare for the Common Man |
| Foster & Shuur | You Can Have It |
| Gershwin arr Brubaker | An American in Paris |
| Hindemith | Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber |
| Maslanka | Give Us This Day |
| Mozart | Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat, K447 |
| Mussorgsky | Night on Bald Mountain |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | Russian Easter Overture |
| Rossini | William Tell Overture |
| Saints-Saens | Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor (Mvt 1) |
| Tchaikovsky | Act 2 of The Nutcracker ballet |
| Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 5 in E minor |