Junior String Ensemble (JSE)

Conductor Chen Yang

Watch QYO’s Junior String Ensemble play conductor Chen Yang’s arrangement of the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute:

 

 

Watch QYO’s Junior String Ensemble play conductor Chen Yang’s arrangement of Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia:

 

The Junior String Ensemble (JSE) is the youngest of the Queensland Youth Orchestras but is renowned for the high quality of its performances. In 2011, the ensemble has 65 players aged 8 to 15 years. JSE regularly performs joint concerts with other QYO, youth and school ensembles. In 2011, JSE is performing in combined concerts with the Western Suburbs String Orchestra, the Pine Rivers Area String Orchestra, St. Hilda’s School String Ensemble and the Gold Coast Youth Orchestra String Ensemble.

In 2009, JSE toured to Dalby, Roma and Toowoomba, performing three school concerts and two public concerts at Roma State College and Westhaven RSL Care Community Hall, Toowoomba. In September 2009, JSE performed as part of Deep Blue orchestra’s Young Blue performance at Brisbane’s 150th birthday celebrations at the Riverstage.

JSE performs a wide range of repertoire, much of which is skillfully arranged by conductor Chen Yang.

 

 

 

Upcoming Concerts

JSE is playing regularly in Concerts at Twilight at the Old Museum Concert Hall. Please find all dates here

 

 

 

JSE repertoire

In 2011, JSE performed:

Johann Sebastian Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Arcangelo Corelli	Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 6
Graeme Wright Denniss	Pastor Raoul from Uncommon Denominator
Antonin Dvorak	Song of the Moon from the Opera Rusalka
Alberto Ginastera	Danza Final
Edvard Grieg	Wedding at Troldhaugen
Charles Gounod	Nubian Dance, Ballet Music from the Opera Faust
George F Handel	Hallelujah from the Oratorio The Messiah
Giacomo Puccini	Intermezzo from the opera Manon Lescaut
Piotr Tchaikovsky	Pas de Deux from the ballet The Nutcracker
Richard Wagner	Siegfried’s Funeral Music from the opera Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

 

In 2010, JSE performed:

Bizet  arr Yang	Habanera from Carmen
Borodin arr. Yang	In the Steppes of Central Asia
de Falla arr. Yang	Ritual Fire Dance
Dvorak arr. Sieving	Symphony No 8 - Allegretto Grazioso
Grieg	In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite
Jarvela	Storm Rider
Mozart arr. Yang	Queen of the Night Aria, from the Magic Flute
Saint-Saens arr. Yang	Danse Macabre
Sharp	Til the Work is Done
Tchaikovsky  arr Yang	Walz from The sleeping beauty
Traditional arr. Del Borgo	The Irish Suite- Irish Washerwoman
Vivaldi  arr Yang	Concerto fro Strings in A major RV 158 (1st mvt.)
Vivaldi  arr Yang	Gloria in Excelsis
Vivaldi arr. Yang	Concerto for String in D Minor
Vivaldi arr. Yang	The Four Seasons: Summer

 

In 2009, JSE performed:

Bach arr Isaac	Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major (Mvt 1)
Bach arr Yang	Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Bernstein arr Mason	West Side Story: Selections for Orchestra
Bill Reddie	Channel One Suite
Borodin	Prince Igor: Polovetsian Dances
Chin	The Bells of Ghengis Khan
Delius arr C Yang	“La Calinda” from the opera Koanga
Dvorak arr Yang	Serenade in D minor
Foster & Shuur	You Can Have It
Gershwin arr Brubaker	An American in Paris
Handel arr Yang	“For Unto Us a Child is Born” from “The Messiah”
Jarvela	Ancient Odyssey
Maslanka	Give Us This Day
Mozart arr. Hoffman	Amadeus
Nolck arr Chin	Flight of the Furies
Puccini arr Yang	Nessun Dorma
Rotar	Tilt Train - World Premiere
Saint-Saens arr Yang	“Danse Bacchanale” from “Samson & Delilah”
Sharp	La Llorona
Strauss	Radetzky March, op. 228
Stravinsky	Selections from “The Firebird”
Tchaikovsky arr Dackow	1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky arr Yang	“Scene” and “Dance of the Cygnets” from Swan Lake
Trad. arr Maddick	The Minstrel Boy
Trad. arr Yang	Irish Air & Reel
Traditional arr. Yang	English Garden Tea Party
Vivaldi arr C Yang	Sinfonia Al Rustica