City Scenes broadcast on BBC Radio 3
- On February 23, 2022
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The January 3, 2022 concert of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, featuring City Scenes, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on February 22, and available for online listening afterwards.
Sian Edwards conducts a programme that ends with Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances. Before it come two much newer pieces, Dani Howard’s Coalescence – which explores how the human race has attempted to ‘outsmart’ nature over the centuries, and Karim Al-Zand’s City Scenes, which captures the beauty and chaos of life in a city.
Galilee Chamber Orchestra plays Luctus Profugis at Carnegie
- On February 22, 2022
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The Galilee Chamber Orchestra will play Luctus Profugis as part of their North American Tour in March 2022. The work will receive its New York premiere in a concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18th, followed by a performance on March 22 at Toronto’s Koerner Hall. The group is Isreal’s first professional orchestra of both Arab and Jewish musicians and the tour represents the group’s US debut. The concerts will be conducted by pianist and conductor Saleem Ashkar. The program will be broadcast on WQXR on Carnegie Hall Live on March 18th, and following that, available for on-demand streaming.
Dog Days Dirge
- On January 15, 2022
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A short impromptu film from a December recording session for Stomping Grounds. Michael Clark (piano), Sam Park (violin) and Thomas Frey (clarinet) are featured here in Dog Days Dirge, the second movement. A recording is set to be released in 2022.
Recording The Leader
- On January 15, 2022
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December featured a series of recording sessions for an upcoming CD release, including one devoted to The Leader, a chamber opera based on a short one-act play by Eugène Ionesco. The recording featured much of the original cast from the Opera in the Heights premiere in February 2020 (immediately before the pandemic closed all performances!). Conducted by Eiki Isomura and starring Mark Diamond (baritone) as the Announcer, Megan Berti (mezzo-soprano) as the Female Admirer and Aidan Smerud (bass-baritone) at the Male Admirer.
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain plays City Scenes
- On December 26, 2021
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The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain will present City Scenes in a concert at the Barbican on Monday, January 3rd, 2022, 
under the direction of Lee Reynolds. The concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 22 February on Radio 3 in Concert at 7.30pm and will be available for 30 days on BBC Sounds.
It’s time to get connected!
Join us in this boundary-breaking performance as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain open up the music they love to audiences across the UK, packed with pulsing dance rhythms and a feeling of freedom and release.
Expect a burst of youthful energy and an inclusive, inspiring concert experience as we kick off 2022 with a bang.
PROGRAM
Ravel La Valse
Dani Howard Coalescence
Karim Al-Zand City Scenes
Conducted by NYO’s Associate Conductor,
Lee Reynolds
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Sian Edwards conductor
