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QYS 2013 Concert Series
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Saturday 25 May 3.00pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
QYO3 & BBC Strings

Sunday 26 May 3.00pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
WE with Redeemer Lutheran College

Saturday 1 June 7.00pm
QPAC Concert Hall
Romeo and Juliet
With QYS, piano soloist Quang Hong Luu and conductor John Curro
Repertoire includes Moti Perpetuo by Lehmann, Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto and Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2 by Prokofiev.

Saturday 8 June 5.30pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
JSE & WSSO

Saturday 15 June 5.30pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
QYO2

Sunday 16 June 4.00pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
WS & Canterbury College

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

2013 NYCC

QYO’s National Youth Concerto Competition, Australia’s leading competition for string players aged 17 and under.
New date for the 2013 Finals Week: 5 - 13 October 2013.
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Wind Symphony (WS)

Conductor Warwick Potter

Watch the QYO Wind Symphony play New York from Nigel Hess’s East Coast Pictures.

 

The 70-member Wind Symphony is the leading Wind Orchestra of Queensland Youth Orchestras. Established in 1973, Wind Symphony has developed a fine reputation for outstanding concerts.

Members include students from the Queensland Conservatorium and the UQ School of Music, as well as advanced secondary students, with an age range from 15 to 23.

QYO Wind Symphony performs regularly throughout South-east and regional Queensland. This year the orchestra also participated in the Yamaha National Band Championships for the first time. It has twice won Sunny (Queensland Recording Industry) Awards for best classical CD.

Repertoire in 2013 includes An American in Paris  by Gershwin (arr. van Gils), The Planets by Holst (arr. Patterson), Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks by R. Strauss (arr. Hindsley) and New London Pictures by Nigel Hess. 

 

 

WS Tour to Perth

 

WS on camp in Watson Park

 

Coming up

Sunday 16 June 4.00pm

Concert at Twilight

Old Museum Concert Hall

WS & Canterbury College

Concert Program includes Nigel Hess’ New London Pictures, Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and the world premiere of a new work by former WS member Samantha Wolf.

 

Warwick Potter 

Warwick Potter, QYO Wind Symphony (WS)

Warwick Potter is one of Australia’s leading conductors. He has conducted Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Darwin Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra on multiple occasions. He has just returned from assisting Nicholas Milton with CSO’s world premiere, Symphony No.3 by Andrew Schultz.

Locally, he currently conducts University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra (UQSO), University of Queensland Wind Ensemble and Queensland Youth Orchestras Wind Symphony. He has recently been appointed Coordinator of Winds at University of Queensland where his other duties include lecturing in instrumental conducting, wind/brass performance practice skills, chamber music and advanced conducting.

A committed music educationalist, Warwick has also conducted for MOST, State Honours Education Program, Great Public Schools’ Music Day, Queensland Young Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Youth Symphony in the youth sector. The adult education sector is equally important to him and he has conducted Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra and St.Lucia Orchestra (SLO), the latter of which is Artistic Director for 2013. He was technical consultant for the present Australian Music Examination Board’s bassoon syllabus.

He trained at Royal College of Music, London where he was awarded every bassoon prize including an Exhibition Scholarship. He studied bassoon with Kerrison Camden, Geoffrey Gambold and John Burness. He enjoyed a successful freelance career in the United Kingdom including many concerto appearances after winning the 1992 Hastings National Concerto Competition.

His future engagements include conducting CSO in the final of the 2013 Southern Highlands International Piano Concerto Competition, an enhanced education fortnight with CSO, conducting Rachmaninov’s 2nd symphony with UQSO, a return to the biannual MOST program, leading the forthcoming QYWS tour to Perth as well as further performances with SLO throughout the year.

 

 QYO Wind Symphony (WS) QYO Wind Symphony (WS)

 

WS repertoire 

In 2012, WS performs

Arnold, arr. Paynter Scottish Dances
Bernstein, arr Grundman Candide overture
Coates, arr. Duthoit London Suite
Elgar, arr. Patterson Enigma Variations
Gershwin, arr. Rogers Cuban Overture
Hess Global Variations
Kenton, arr. Wayne Scott Stan Kenton in Concert
Stauffer Fugue ‘n Swing
Strauss, arr. Patterson Don Juan
V.Williams Folk Song Suite

 

In 2011, WS performed

   
Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Eric Coates, arr. Duthoit The Dambusters March
Nigel Hess Thames Journey
Paul Hindemith Symphony in Bb
Gustav Holst First Suite in Eb major Opus 28, No.1
Gustav Holst Second Suite in F major Opus 28, No. 2
Gustav Holst, arr. Jacob Moorside March from Moorside Suite
Gordon Jacob Prelude to Comedy
Rimski-Korsakov Polonaise from Christmas Eve
Ralph Vaughan Williams Toccata Marziale
Various, arr. Lowden Big Bands in Concert
Henry Wood, arr. Duthoit Fantasia on British Sea Songs

 

In 2010, WS performed

Alfred Reed A Festive Overture
Gershwin arr. Barker Gershwin!
Gustav Holst Hammersmith
Holst Second Suite in F, Op.28 No 2
Nicolai The Merry Wives of Windsor -  Overture
Nigel Hess  East Coast Pictures: Shelter Island, New York
Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances
Walton arr. Drijvers “Spitfire” Prelude and Fugue
Walton arr. Duthoit Crown Imperial
Williams arr. Hunsberger Star Wars Trilogy

 

 In 2009, WS performed

Bernstein arr Mason West Side Story: Selections for Orchestra
Bernstein arr Polster West Side Story: Symphonic Dances (Mvts 1 - 4)
Bill Reddie Channel One Suite
Curnow Down Under
Dan Rager Russian Folk Dances
Foster & Shuur You Can Have It
German Traditional  The Old Fisherman
Gershwin arr Brubaker An American in Paris
Gillingham Sails of Time
Grainger Colonial Song
Grainger Molly on the Shore
Hosay And the Multitude with One Voice Spoke
Hultgren Bushdance
Lloyd Fanfare for Freedom
Maslanka Give Us This Day
Norman Dello Joio Satiric Dances for a Comedy by Aristophanes
Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances
Robert Sheldon Chiaroscuro (Symphonic Dances in Shades of Darkness & Light)
Shostakovich Festival Overture
Sparke Sunrise at Angel’s Gate
Stravinsky Selections from The Firebird
Wilson Vortex