ASIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA

PRESENTED BY:
Cultural Center of the Philippines

DATE/TIME/ VENUE:
August 16 & 17, 2018 | 8:00 PM
Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater)

DESCRIPTION:
Counted “amongst the finest youth orchestras around the world,” (San Francisco Chronicle),
the award-winning Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO), recipient of Japan’s Praemium Imperiale and
Nikkei Asia Prize, performs in Manila as part of its 2018 Concert Tour. The Manila leg concerts
feature internationally-awarded soloists Yu-Chien “Benny” Tseng on violin and Anna Tsybuleva
on piano, with conductors James Judd and Richard Pontzious conducting classical masterpieces
by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Wagner, Barber, Enescu and Gershwin.

PROGRAMME:
CONCERT I – Thursday, August 16, 2018 | 8:00 PM
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Barber Violin Concerto
Rachmaninoff Vocalise
Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
Yu-Chien Tseng, violin
James Judd, conductor
CONCERT II – Friday, August 17, 2018 | 8:00 PM
Wagner Overture to Die Meistersinger
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, selections
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Gershwin An American in Paris
Anna Tsybuleva, piano
Richard Pontzious, conductor

ABOUT THE ASIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA:

Selected annually through a strict audition

process, the 100-plus orchestra members
chosen from a staggering 25,000 musicians,
ranging in age from 17 to 27 who have
auditioned for the AYO represent mainland
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, the
Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. They are
together for six weeks, initially for a three-week Rehearsal Camp in Hong Kong, then for a
three-week international concert tour with celebrated conductors and solo artists. [Read
more…]

ABOUT THE SOLOISTS:

ANNA TSYBULEVA, piano

 Making her debut with the AYO this summer.
 Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015.
 Winner of the International Gilels Piano Competition in Odessa, Ukraine
and in Hamamatsu, Japan in 2012.
 First CD "Fantasien" released in June 2017 received great reviews
from the BBC Magazine and International Piano Magazine.
[Read more…]

TSENG YU-CHIEN, violin

 Winner of the International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in 2015.
 Appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and many others.
 Invited by Valery Gergiev to perform at the White Night Festival in St.
Petersburg.
 First recital CD was recorded in Berlin in October 2016 and was released
in January 2017 by Deustche Gramophone.

[Read more…]

ABOUT THE CONDUCTORS:

JAMES JUDD, principal conductor

Principal Conductor of the Asian Youth Orchestra, the British born conductor
James Judd's music directorships have included Principal Guest Conductor of the
Orchestre National de Lille in France and a groundbreaking 14 years as Music
Director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. His recordings with the Florida
Philharmonic include an all-Walton program and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1
released by Harmonia Mundi to international acclaim. The Mahler CD was
named “Recording of the Month” in Stereophile, received the Gold Medal from
France’s Diapason, and was awarded the “Toblacher Komponierhauschen” at
the Salzburg Festival by the Gustav Mahler Society for the best new Mahler
recording of the year world-wide. [Read more…]
 RICHARD PONTZIUS
Founder / Artistic Director and Conductor

Richard Pontzious founded Hong Kong’s Asian Youth Orchestra in

1987 with the distinguished violinist, conductor and humanitarian
Yehudi Menuhin.
[Read more…]

TICKET INFORMATION:
Ticket Prices:
[OC] Orchestra Center 1,000
[OS] Orchestra Side 800
[BI] Balcony I 400
[BII] Balcony II 200
Discounts:
10% Discount for CCP Members and Subscribers
20% Discount for Senior Citizens, PWD, Government and Military Personnel
50% Discount for Students
For reservation, group sales and other information, please call 832-3704 | 832-3706 or e-mail
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