Coming up . . .

26 May 2012 5.30pm
Concert at Twilight
Old Museum Concert Hall
With QYO3 & Brisbane Boys’ College Strings.

2 June 2012 7.00pm
QYS - The Emperor
QPAC Concert Hall
Program includes Vine’s Celebrare Celeberrime, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 The Emperor with Soloist Jayson Gillham and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

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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 75-member Wind Symphony is the leading Wind Orchestra of Queensland Youth Orchestras. Established in 1973 to cater for the large number of qualified wind and brass players applying for positions within Queensland Youth Orchestras, Wind Symphony has now developed a fine reputation for outstanding concerts.

Repertoire in 2011 includes Holst’s Suite No. 1 in Eb, the famous Symphony in Bb for Wind Orchestra by Hindemith and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. 

QYO Wind Symphony performs regularly throughout South-east and regional Queensland. It has twice won Sunny (Queensland Recording Industry) Awards for best classical CD. Members range in age from 13 to 23.

QYO3 is playing regularly in Concerts at Twilight at the Old Museum Concert Hall. Please find all dates here

 

Coming up

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

 

Warwick Potter 

Warwick Potter, QYO Wind Symphony (WS)Warwick Potter is one of Australia’s leading conductors. In 2011, he has already conducted West Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) in two performances: a concert with Justine Clarke and an education concert in Perth featuring Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite. He holds debut engagements with both Canberra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras this year as well as further return performances with Adelaide, Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.

His career highlights have included conducting WASO in its annual Symphony in the City concert in front of 22,000 people last year, conducting the same orchestra in its collaboration with The Panics in 2010 as well as conducting the Australian premieres of both Takemitsu’s How Slow the Wind and Hindson’s Dangerous Creatures. 2010 also saw his debut both with Queensland Youth Symphony and at the prestigious Stradbroke Chamber Music Festival where he conducted Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with many of Australia’s leading players. In addition to his QYO duties, he is also Conductor - University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra (where he holds the position of Director of Ensembles) and Conductor - Queensland Young Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra.

In 2011, he will adjudicate for Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition in the United Kingdom, ABC/Symphony International Young Performer of the Year and Redlands Eisteddfod. Furthermore, he has been engaged to conduct the 2011 Great Public Schools Music Day Symphony Orchestra as well as Carmina Burana for Queensland Music Festival later this year. He continues to be contracted to Australian Music Examinations Board to help re-write its bassoon syllabus for its mainstream launch in 2012.

As a bassoonist, Warwick trained at Royal College of Music, London winning every prize available to him including an Exhibition Scholarship. He enjoyed a successful freelance career until moving to Australia in 2002. He has toured nationally with Australian Chamber Orchestra on multiple occasions and played Guest Principal Bassoon for both Queensland Symphony Orchestra and WASO.

A committed music educationalist, Warwick is delighted to be conducting QYO Wind Symphony in 2011. It remains a musical genre that is very close to his heart.

 

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

 

WS repertoire 

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