Announcement of 2021 Award Winners ...
Chairman’s Newsletter – September 2021
September concert series is cancelled ...
Chairman’s Newsletter – August 2021
Read about our upcoming concert series in September ...
Chairman’s Newsletter – May 2021
Read about our upcoming concert series in June… ...
Whitianga Concert Review – March 2021
Mercury Bay Informer, 23 March 2021 Diana Morcom, a patron of Creative Mercury Bay and 2nd from left in the photo, was herself a soloist with AYO in 1954 and 1961 (as Diana Stephenson) performing Beethoven’s piano concertos nos. 1 & 3!...
Chairman’s Newsletter – February 2021
Read about the plans for 2021 and our upcoming concerts in March....
Chairman’s Newsletter – September 2020
An important update regarding the rescheduling of our concerts to October 2020 ...
Latest Recordings – June 2020
See and hear the recordings made at the Town Hall in June, in place of our usual public performance (which was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions). On the programme were: Cowdell’s “Cressida” (featuring Kent Isomura, piano and Kiara Kong, clarinet); Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (Zosia Herlihy-O’Brian, violin, Junghwan Choi, cello, and Modi Deng, piano); and...
Chairman’s Newsletter – August 2020
Read about what’s happening in AYO and concerts coming up in September 2020 ...
Chairman’s Newsletter – June 2020
Read about what’s happening in AYO and what’s coming up in June 2020 ...
Chairman’s Newsletter – February 2020
Read about what’s happening in AYO and concerts coming up in March 2020...
Chairman’s Newsletter – August 2019
Read about concerts in September 2019…...
Announcing the Winner of AYO’s 2019 Composition Competition
AYO is delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 Composition Competition: Kihoon Sung with his work Niflheim. In Norse mythology, Niflheim is one of the nine worlds and is known as the realm of ice. The work depicts this realm before it was completely frozen over. Kihoon has developed his passion for composing...
Review of Whangarei Concert, 22 June 2019 – Seen & Heard International
Seen and Heard International SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, BROADCASTS AND THEATRE Auckland Youth Orchestra’s Exceptional Prokofiev Seventh 01/07/2019 New Zealand Richard Strauss, Jules Mouquet, Prokofiev: Henry Close (horn), Jacob Webster (flute), Auckland Youth Orchestra / Antun Poljanich (conductor). The Old Library, Whangarei, New Zealand, 22.6.2019. (PSe) R. Strauss – Horn Concerto...
Chairman’s Newsletter – June 2019
Read about concerts in June 2019… https://mailchi.mp/44ed568ffe35/ayo-chairmans-newsletter-june-2397317...
Whitianga Concert Review
Mercury Bay Informer, 8 May 2019...
Chairman’s Newsletter – May 2019 Concerts
Read about the upcoming May concerts…...
Chairman’s Newsletter and Invitation to Support
Read about the 2018 Europe tour and the 2019 concerts......
AYO Announces 2019 Composition Competition
We are looking for young composers to write a 7-minute orchestral work or concertino for AYO’s concert series in September 2019. This competition aims to provide an opportunity for young composers’ work to be heard and for the members of the orchestra to play new music. Applicants must be: • under 25 years old...
Interview – RNZ Concert, Upbeat – 17 October 2018
The transformative experience of being a young touring musician From Upbeat, 1:00 pm on 17 October 2018 Listen duration22′ :55″ A group of young musicians from Auckland have discovered what it’s like to be on the road, and they are the better for it. The Auckland Youth Orchestra has just returned from a European tour taking in numerous...