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Music-making and free concerts in AYO National Music Camp

SINCE 1948, Australia’s most talented young musicians have come together each year to make music and meet new friends (they often marry each other later) at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp.

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Over 220 participants aged 12-30 will come together this January in Canberra to take part in a two-week program of rehearsals, tutorials, public performances, broadcasts and workshops and This year, for the first time, two artists-in-residence will broaden the range of repertoire, performance, practice and career experience offered to participants.

Scottish-born classical accordionist James Crabb and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey are the chosen artists-in-residence who will work closely with musicians to deliver a series of free public concerts at Llewellyn Hall.

Over the two weeks, Crabb and Lacey will also get to know the musicians, to identify their strengths, and to work together to produce a series of concerts that explore a range of repertoire.

Lacey’s musical interests have seen her playing for the Queen in Westminster Abbey, at the Lindau International Convention of Nobel Laureates, as a concerto soloist in the BBC Proms. She has also performed in prisons in the Pilbara, on an oval on Thursday Island and in a shearing shed in north-west Tasmania.

Crabb’s repertoire ranges from original contemporary works to transcriptions from Baroque to the 21st Century. A recognised authority on the music of Astor Piazzolla, he has collaborated with the original members of Piazzolla’s quintet and recorded with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and with Richard Tognetti and the Tango Jam quintet.

Conductors Brad Cohen and Erik Nielsen will lead the ensembles in the AYO National Music Camp across seven free concerts, open to the public.

AYO National Music Camp Free Orchestral Concerts in Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University (seats at the door):

Handel, Elgar, Bach and Schoenberg, 4:30pm & 8pm Saturday January 9 & 16;

Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorak, 8pm Thursday January 14;

works of young composers aged 16-30 years, 5.30pm Friday Jan 15;

Brass and Percussion Ensembles, 8pm Friday January 15.

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