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21.01.2022 DAY 1 ON TOUR

19.01.2022 Celebrate the festive season with the Queensland Youth Orchestra Big Band and singer Elizabeth Wentz as they present free community concerts Best of Big Bandat Nebo Memorial Hall Tue 1 Dec, 11.30am

17.01.2022 Morning Music Artist Feature Sophia Jones, aged 14, plays in the first violin section of the Queensland Youth Symphony. She was Concertmaster in QYO’s Junior String Ensemble in 2016 and 2017 and Concertmaster in the Second QYO Orchestra in 2019 having been a soloist with both, and toured in the QYO Chamber Orchestra to North Queensland in 2019. Sophia is a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra and the AYO Young Symphonists. Sophia was awarded the A.Mus.A with Disti...nction in 2018 and the L.Mus.A in 2020. She studies with Alan Smith, Associate Concertmaster of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. An academic merit student at Brisbane State High School, she was Concertmaster of the GPS String Orchestra at the 2018 GPS Junior Music Day of Excellence. Sophia was awarded Highly Commended at the 2019 AUSTA Concerto Competition senior section, and has won several Eisteddfod prizes. She has studied with Kerry Smith, participated in a masterclass with Sophie Till (UK), and been tutored by the Australian National Academy of Music’s Dr Robin Wilson under whose direction she participated in the Sound Thinking Summer School in Brisbane studying a Haydn quartet. Sophia will be performing in our Morning Music on Thursday 3 December at 10:30am where she will play Halvorsen's arrangement of Handel's Passacaglia alongside Joshua Jones on cello. Tickets will sell out quickly and can be found at www.qyo.org.au/morning-music-attendance-registration

14.01.2022 Our Big Band are heading to North Queensland on Sunday for a tour which will involve performances and workshops with local musicians in Mackay, Nebo, Moranbah & Proserpine. On Thursday, Big Band volunteers Kevin, Leanne & Russell arrived to load our truck for tour. Kevin and Leanne are now currently on the road with the truck travelling from Brisbane to meet us in Proserpine when we arrive on Sunday. Excitement is high as we all quickly finish packing our bags for ...the beginning of the tour on Sunday. We will be posting regular updates so keep an eye out on our stories and for our first vlog which will be uploaded on Monday. See more

13.01.2022 Morning Music Artist Feature Alex Raineri is an Australian classical pianist internationally active as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, and lauded by Limelight Magazine for his superb virtuosic skill and musicality. Alex has toured California, South-east Asia, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and Austria. He has been broadcast on BBC3, Radio NZ, California Capital Public Radio, ABC Classic FM and all of the Australian MBS networks. In ...Australia, Alex has featured as a soloist with the Queensland, Tasmanian, Darwin and WA Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, the Queensland Pops Orchestra and festival orchestras. He has performed widely in chamber ensembles. Alex has received several major awards including the Kerikeri International Piano Competition and Australian National Piano Award. The artistic director of the annual Brisbane Music Festival, he is an exponent of contemporary music. Alex will be accompanying the performers in our Morning Music on Thursday 3 December at 10:30am. Tickets will sell out quickly and can be found at www.qyo.org.au/morning-music-attendance-registration

09.01.2022 Morning Music Artist Feature Maree Kilpatrick plays the piano with the Queensland Youth Symphony. A Queenslander who grew up in the rural South Burnett, she completed her A.Mus.A and L.Mus.A, and took a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern Queensland where she graduated with the Dean’s Prize for Music and Faculty and University medals. She spent several months in Europe on a scholarship and two years in New Zealand completing a Masters in Music (Per...formance) at the University of Auckland. Maree now works as a piano tutor and accompanist at St Peter’s Lutheran College and West Moreton Anglican College, and is undertaking Doctor of Musical Arts candidature through Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium. Maree will be accompanying the performers in our Morning Music on Thursday 3 December at 10:30am. Tickets will sell out quickly and can be found at www.qyo.org.au/morning-music-attendance-registration

08.01.2022 And we’re off

07.01.2022 Morning Music Artist Feature Erna Lai has played cello in the Queensland Youth Symphony since 2015, and looks forward to playing new repertoire in QYS next year. Erna began playing the cello at the age of 4. She obtained her Trinity College Associate Diploma with Distinction in 2014 and her Licentiate Diploma in 2018. Erna has competed in the AUSTA Festival and Eisteddfods in Brisbane, Toowoomba, Gold Coast and Ipswich and won many divisions and received several awards... including the Gladys Payne Memorial Award for outstanding instrumentalist in her age group at the 2016 Ipswich Eisteddfod. Chosen to participate in the Melbourne Cello Festival in 2015, she played in Alvin Wong’s masterclass. Last year Erna was granted the Howard and Gladys Sleath Scholarship for best string audition at the University of Queensland where she is now a second year student at the UQ School of Music studying with cello legend Patrick Murphy and playing in the Pulse chamber orchestra. Erna will be performing in our Morning Music on Thursday 3 December at 10:30am where she will play Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso. Tickets will sell out quickly and can be found at www.qyo.org.au/morning-music-attendance-registration

03.01.2022 Morning Music Artist Feature Joshua Jones is Principal Cello of the Queensland Youth Symphony and formerly Principal Cello of QYO’s Junior String Ensemble. He toured China and Europe with the QYS in 2017 and central Queensland in 2018 and 2019 as Principal Cello with QYO’s Chamber Orchestra. Now aged 16, Joshua was awarded the L.Mus.A and the A.Mus.A with Distinction at the ages of 12 and 11 respectively. He attends Brisbane State High School where he was offered an ac...ademic and music merit entry. Joshua is studying with Howard Penny (Australian National Academy of Music) and Karol Kowalik of the Orava Quartet. His several awards have included second prize in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Young Instrumentalist Finals in 2020 and third in 2018 and 2016, and a three-time winner of the AUSTA Concerto Competition in 2014, 2017 and 2019. He was a recitalist in the 2019 National Youth Concerto Competition, and was invited to perform in the QSO’s Chamber Players concert series. He was accepted into the Australian Chamber Orchestra Academy and chamber music program in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020, and has been selected to participate in cello festivals in New Zealand and Melbourne. Joshua will be performing in our Morning Music on Thursday 3 December at 10:30am where he will play Halvorsen's arrangement of Handel's Passacaglia alongside Sophia Jones on violin. Tickets will sell out quickly and can be found at www.qyo.org.au/morning-music-attendance-registration

01.01.2022 Morning Music Artist Feature A classical voice Bachelor of Music candidate at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Dakotah Love is already recognised for her diverse and versatile performance flair as a soprano, cellist (in the Queensland Youth Symphony) and actor. Dakotah is a founding member of the Brisbane based chamber choir Kahexa, is engaged as a soprano at All Saints Anglican Church Brisbane and freelances as a musician throughout Queensland and New So...uth Wales. Earlier this year Dakotah performed with the Song Company in their SongCo LAB, with Gondwana Chorale at the Gondwana National Choral School and in the Queensland Conservatorium’s opera Béatrice et Bénédict, under Maestro Johannes Fritzsch. In 2019, by invitation, she played Rosalina in the world premiere of the opera Lazzi for Brisbane's Dante Alighieri Society, and toured regional Queensland with QYO’s Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, Dakotah was awarded the opportunity to study, perform and teach in Italy in 2019/2020, and in 2019 sang with Gondwana Choirs in the UK and Baltic states under the baton of Stephen Layton at Trinity College, Cambridge. Other professional vocal and cello engagements include working with The Australia Voices and Brisbane City Opera. Most recently, Dakotah performed in the Queensland Conservatorium’s opera Dido and Aeneas and with the Brisbane Baroque Players in their November concert series. Dakotah will be performing in our Morning Music on Thursday 3 December at 10:30am where she will sing Lully's Revenez Amours, Handel's Happy O Thrice Happy We, Mozart's Pupille Amate, and Previn's setting of Emily Dickinson's poem "Will there really be a morning?". Tickets will sell out quickly and can be found at www.qyo.org.au/morning-music-attendance-registration