Coming up . . .

17 March 2012 5.30pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
With QYO Junior String Ensemble and QYO3.

18 March 2012 3.00pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
With QYO Wind Ensemble and Glennie School, Toowoomba.

24 March 2012 5.30pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
With QYO2.

25 March 2012 4.00pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
With QYO Wind Symphony and Big Band. Please note: the concert starts at 4.00pm.

Sat 31 March 2012 7pm
QYS - Don Juan
QPAC Concert Hall
The first concert of QYS in 2012, featuring Strauss’ famous tone poem Don Juan, Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto (Soloist Oliver Scott) and Symphony No. 12 by Shostakovich.

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The Old Museum

Brisbane’s youth performing arts centre and home of QYO.

2012 NYCC

QYO’s National Youth Concerto Competition, Australia’s leading competition for string players aged 17 and under. Applications are now open for 2012.

Book tickets for QYS

Find out everything about the QYS 2012 Concert Series and purchase your tickets here.

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 Voltz, QYO, Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 (QYO3)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, a position he held for six years. Bradley is currently 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

 

  QYO, Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 (QYO3)

 

QYO3 repertoire

In 2011, QYO3 performed

 
Leonard BernsteinHighlights from West Side Story
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9, op. 95 E minor From the new World
Marvin HamlischSelections from A Chorus Line
Aram KhachaturianAdagio 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 TchaikovskyMarche Slave
Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto for Viola in G Major (Soloist: John Curro)
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsEnglish Folk Song Suite
William WaltonCrown 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)

 

 

 QYO, Queensland Youth Orchestra 3 (QYO3)