Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 (QYO3)
Conductor Bradley Voltz
Watch the Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 conducted by Bradley Voltz play the opening of Malcolm Arnold’s Little Suite No. 1 for Orchestra:
Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 has 80 members ranging in age from 10 to 19 years. Under conductor Bradley Voltz, the orchestra performs a variety of repertoire including classical works and medleys from musicals arranged for symphony orchestra. Popular works include Sibelius’ Finlandia and selections from Phantom of the Opera, Romeo and Juliet and Carmen. During the weekly rehearsals, tutorials and camp, the musicians are taught the essential skills to play and perform in a symphony orchestra.
Bradley Voltz
Bradley has conducted the Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 since 1998. He holds a Masters degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Other post-graduate studies include a Graduate Diploma of Music (Performance) (QCM), Graduate Diploma in Further Education and Training (USQ) and a Graduate Certificate in Music Technology (GU). In 1988 he was awarded the prestigious Hugh Neville Smith Scholarship for overseas study. The following year Bradley attended conducting master classes under Sergio Celibedache in Germany and studied with Ezra Rachlin in London.
Bradley has performed as a freelance pianist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Youth Choir and for the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in productions of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, The Pirates of Penzance and The Sound of Music. He has appeared as both conductor and soloist for the University of Queensland Musical Society and the St Lucia Orchestra.
Bradley was Instrumental Coordinator at St Laurence’s College from 1991 to 1997. In 1998 he was appointed Director of Music at Cannon Hill Anglican College, and from 2004 until 2011 held the position of Head of Music at St Joseph’s Nudgee College.
Bradley is a sessional lecturer for the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music and a member of the Board of Examiners of the Australian Music Examinations Board.
Coming up
QYO3 is playing regularly in Concerts at Twilight at the Old Museum Concert Hall. Please find all dates here
QYO3 repertoire
In 2011, QYO3 performed
| Leonard Bernstein | Highlights from West Side Story |
| Antonin Dvorak | Symphony No. 9, op. 95 E minor From the new World |
| Marvin Hamlisch | Selections from A Chorus Line |
| Aram Khachaturian | Adagio from Spartacus |
| Ennio Morricone | Gabriel’s Oboe from the motion picture The Mission (Soloist: Zoe Wright, Flute) |
| Gioacchino Rossini | The Barber of Seville Overture |
| Jean Sibelius | Karelia Ouverture |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Marche Slave |
| Georg Philipp Telemann | Concerto for Viola in G Major (Soloist: John Curro) |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | English Folk Song Suite |
| William Walton | Crown Imperial |
In 2010, QYO3 performed
| Badelt, Klaus (arr. T. Ricketts) | Pirates of the Caribbean |
| Bizet arr D. Stone | Farandole from l’Arlesienne Suite No 2 |
| Coates arr. Andrew | Dambusters March |
| Elgar | Serenade for Strings |
| Haydn | Trumpet Concerto in E flat Major |
| Lloyd Webber | Phantom of the Opera |
| Malcolm Arnold | Little Suite No. 1 op. 53 |
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | Oklahoma |
| Sibelius | Finlandia |
| Stravinsky (arr. M Isaac) | Berceuse and Finale from Firebird Suite |
| Tchaikovsky | from Swan Lake: Scène, Dance of the Swans, Walz |
| Tchaikovsky | Symphony No 5 in E Minor, Op.6 |
| Tchaikovsky arr. Muller | Romeo and Juliet |
In 2009, QYO3 performed
| Anderson | The Typewriter |
| Bach arr. Yang | Toccata & Fugue |
| Berlioz | March to the Scaffold |
| Bernstein | Selections from West Side Story |
| Bernstein arr Mason | West Side Story: Selections for Orchestra |
| Bill Reddie | Channel One Suite |
| Bizet | Carmen Suite (Mvts 2 & 4) |
| Bizet arr Stone | Farandole from L’Arleslienne Suite No. 2 |
| Borodin | Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances |
| Brahms | Academic Festival Overture |
| Copland | Variations on a Shaker Medley |
| Foster & Shuur | You Can Have It |
| Gershwin arr Brubaker | An American in Paris |
| Hamlisch arr Lowden | Selections from A Chorus Line |
| Maslanka | Give Us This Day |
| Mussorgsky | Night on Bald Mountain |
| Puccini | Medley from Madame Butterfly |
| Stravinsky | Selections from The Firebird |
| Tchaikovsky arr Tomlinson | Marche Slave |
| Traditional arr. Yang | English Garden Tea Party |
| Vaughan Williams | English Folk Song Suite (Movts 2 & 3) |
