Second Queensland Youth Orchestra (QYO2)

 Conductor Sergei V Korschmin

QYO2 is a full size symphony orchestra with 100 members ranging in age from 12 to 23. The main stage for QYO2 is at the Old Museum Concert Hall, were QYO2 plays three Concerts at Twilight a year. The repertoire includes a wide range of original works from the classical, romantic and modern periods. In 2010 QYO2 performs Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8, Grieg’s Symphonic Dances Op. 64 and Ma Vlast (My Fatherland) by Smetana.

Tours throughout Queensland and Australia mark some of the highlights of the 2010 QYO2 program. In four performances in Sydney (26-29 June) and a concert at the Redland Performing Arts Centre (Cleveland) on 31 June QYO2 showcases its outstanding performance.

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 Second Queensland Youth Orchestra.

Coming up

Saturday 31 July 2010 2pm: Concert at the Redland Performing Arts Centre: