National Youth Orchestra 2013 Inaugural Tour Details Announced

Carnegie Hall recently announced details for the inaugural July 2013 tour by the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Beginning this summer, annually brings together some of the most talented young orchestral players from across the United States, ages 16-19. Carnegie Hall recently announced details for the inaugural July 2013 tour by the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. Beginning this summer, annually brings together some of the most talented young orchestral players from across the United States, ages 16-19. The NYO-USA’s 2013 summer schedule includes five performances in the US and abroad from July 11-21.

Capping a two-week summer residency at Purchase College, SUNY in Purchase, New York, world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev will lead the NYO-USA in its first public performance at Purchase’s Performing Arts Center on Thursday, July 11. From there, the orchestra embarks on its first tour, traveling to the nation’s capital to make its debut at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, July 13.

Following these two engagements, Maestro Gergiev and the NYO-USA will travel overseas for two concerts in Mr. Gergiev’s home country: in Moscow, at The Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on Tuesday, July 16 and, in St. Petersburg, at the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall on Thursday, July 18. The orchestra’s first tour culminates with a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, July 21, part of the BBC Proms. The NYO-USA’s Proms performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and recorded for a later television broadcast, scheduled to air on BBC Four on July 26.

The orchestra’s concert program for all summer 2013 performances includes Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell as soloist; Shostakovich’s Symphony No, 10 in E Minor; and Magiya, a new work by American composer Sean Shepherd, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and BBC Radio 3, specifically for NYO-USA. As part of their travel schedule, the NYO-USA players will also have the exciting opportunity to tour the cities in which they will be performing, as well as the chance to interact with local young musicians at stops along the way.

James Ross, associate director of The Juilliard School’s conducting program and director of orchestral activities at the University of Maryland, will lead the NYO-USA faculty in 2013. The 2013 faculty members will be: Robert Chen, concertmaster, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Alison Harney, principal second violin, St. Louis Symphony; Carrie Dennis, principal viola, Los Angeles Philharmonic; John Sharp, principal cello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Jeffrey Turner, principal bass, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; Jeffrey Khaner, principal flute, The Philadelphia Orchestra; Elaine Douvas, principal oboe, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Ricardo Morales, principal clarinet, The Philadelphia Orchestra; William Short, principal bassoon, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; William VerMeulen, principal horn, Houston Symphony; David Krauss, principal trumpet, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; R. Douglas Wright, principal trombone, Minnesota Orchestra; Carol Jantsch, principal tuba, The Philadelphia Orchestra; Cynthia Yeh, principal percussion, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Jauvon Gilliam, principal timpanist, National Symphony Orchestra.