This year’s ninth edition was opened at the beginning of March by a Japanese orchestra from Kyoto.
Doshisha University Orchestra is one of the most prestigious and oldest youth orchestras in Japan. Their performance of his Symphony No. 7 in D minor was given on 5 March in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum. This was accompanied by the Academic Festive Overture Op. 80 by his mentor and friend Johannes Brahms. The recent musical past was represented by Music for Symphony Orchestra by Japanese composer Yasushi Akutagawa, which reflects the influences of Dimitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
The second concert of the series belonged to the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra from Southern California, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year and is recognized as one of the country’s foremost youth orchestras. The orchestra performed works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Giuseppe Verdi under the baton of Jacob Sustaita in Prague’s Smetana Hall on June 29.
The third concert of the series was concluded on 8 July in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum by the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, an American orchestra from the San Francisco area that tours internationally every three years. Among other things,
the Rudolfinum´s tribute to Czech music with Josef Suk’s Fantastic Scherzo for Orchestra, Op. 25, the Unanswered Question by the American composer Charles Ives and the overture to the opera Candide by his compatriot Leonard Bernstein.
Take a look at our gallery of highlights from memorable concerts.
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