It gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend the upcoming concerts being presented by AYO. The Programme, conducted by Antun Poljanich: Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 10 Aria As when the dove from Acis and Galatea Aria Lascia chi’o pianga from Rinaldo Aria Tornami a vagheggiar from Alcina Duet ...
Chairman’s Newsletter – September 2016
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend the upcoming concerts being presented by AYO. The Programme: RAVEL Bolero CHEN Yi The Golden Flute TCHAIKOVSKY Music from ‘The Nutcracker’ Conductor Antun Poljanich Soloist Eva Ding,...
Chairman’s Newsletter – June 2016
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend the upcoming free concerts being presented by AYO. The Programme: PROKOFIEV Lieutenant Kijé IBERT Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition CONDUCTOR Antun Poljanich SOLOIST ...
Review of Whangarei Concert, 2 April 2016 – Seen and Heard International
Auckland Youth Orchestra Invites Audience to Pay What It Likes, then Plays a Blinder 17/04/2016 New Zealand Smetana, Spohr, Sibelius: Kenny Keppel (clarinet), Auckland Youth Orchestra, Antun Poljanich (conductor), Forum North, Whangarei, New Zealand. 2.4.2016. (PSe) Smetana– Vltava (from “Ma Vlast”) Spohr – Clarinet Concerto No. 1 Sibelius – Symphony No.2 in D How...
Review of Kerikeri Concert, 3 April 2016 – Turner Centre Facebook
Auckland Youth Orchestra – Sunday 3rd April 2016 Turner Centre·Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Half a century ago the late John Dalton would ensure that the Auckland Youth Orchestra visited Kerikeri every couple of years. How appropriate it is, then, that they should now perform in the Turner Centre’s wonderful auditorium, which is named after...
Review of Whangarei Concert, 2 April 2016 – Northern Advocate
Review: ‘Awesome’ orchestra deserved of donation By Paul Serotsky 4:00 PM Tuesday Apr 5, 2016 Kenny Keppel (clarinet). Review: Auckland Youth Orchestra, Capitaine Bougainville Theatre, Whangarei – April 2. There’s nothing new about Auckland Youth Orchestra’s free concert/voluntary donations scheme. A few years ago, sponsorship enabled them to introduce it at their Auckland concerts....
Chairman’s Newsletter – March 2016
We invite you and your friends to join us at the forthcoming free concerts. Looking back to October 2015 Concert… The final concert of the 2015 season came to an end with a magnificent performance of Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony, a performance which Franco Viganoni, our recording engineer, thought was one of the best he had...
Chairman’s Newsletter – September 2015
Looking back to our May Concert…The day of our last concert was cold, wet, and blustery. I set off for the dress rehearsal feeling quite despondent, thinking: who will want to come out in weather like this to go to a concert? It is not as if anybody has actually had to buy tickets,...
Chairman’s Newsletter – April 2015
How do we design our programme content? Occasionally people ask me how we go about choosing programmes for the AYO. We have an Artistic Planning Committee made up of Antun Poljanich-Music Director, Cameron Stuart-Orchestra Manager, Anne Draffin-Artistic Facilitator, and myself as Chairman. We try to build a programme around a theme, or a major...
Chairman’s Newsletter – February 2015
Chairman’s Welcome to AYO 2015 Here we are at the start of another new year and an exciting new series of AYO concerts. Last year’s concerts continued to attract large numbers of people and in fact the demand for seats at the final concert of 2014 was so great that...
Nelson 2013 Concert Review
Nelson Mail, July 22 2013 Youthful grace and exuberance thrill YOUNG PROFESSIONALS: Some of the members of the Auckland Youth Orchestra, which tours nationally and internationally. Auckland Youth Orchestra, with musical director Antun Poljanich. Winter Festival, Nelson School of Music, yesterday. Reviewed by Judith Paviell It’s a joy for this reviewer to put...