Adelaide Youth Orchestra Announces Annual Gala Concert

A spectacular Gala Concert featuring not just one - but three World Premiere Fanfares and one recent favourite, all written by ADYO alumni, performed by the four ADYO orchestras.

If you're a fanfare fan, this is a must see.

There's nothing more attention grabbing than a fanfare. It's the ultimate announcement that something impressive is about to happen and it does at this Gala Concert.

This flurry of fanfares introduces three aspiring composers, emanating from the ADYO stables, and their world premiere works written especially for the very orchestra that they were once a members of.

The composers: Jakub Jankowski; David Lang; and Emily Tulloch are all young established musicians, making names for themselves in the world of music. Each fanfare will be performed by an ADYO orchestra, with 250 musicians performing.

The concert opens with David Lang's world premiere Fanfare for a Warrior performed by the Adelaide Youth Wind Orchestra conducted by Alwin Kidney.

Many different ensembles and artists have performed David's music, including the Adelaide Chamber Singers, Adelaide Wind Orchestra and the Australian String Quartet. His composing has taken him around Australia and twice to the USA for the 2012 Atlantic Music Festival in Maine and the 2016 Composing in the Wilderness course in Alaska.

The Wind Orchestra will also perform other works including Eric Whitacre's exquisite Lux Aurumque.

ADYO alumni - Sebastian Phlox's Fanfare - Prologue, in only its 3rd performance is performed by The Adelaide Youth Sinfonia conducted by Minas Berberyan along with Khachaturian's catchy Waltz and Hungarian March by Berlioz.

Sebastian has had works premiered by many eminent musicians and ensembles. These include the Australian String Quartet, pianist Anna Goldsworthy, the Soundstream Collective and leading members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

He is principal organist at Crafers Church of the Epiphany.

Emily Tulloch's World Premiere fanfare Yucatecan Fanfare will be performed by The Adelaide Youth Strings conducted by Martin Butler OAM.

Emily Tulloch is a South Australian musician working as a violinist, composer-arranger, educator and arts worker. Emily has been a member of Zephyr Quartet since 2005, and with the ensemble has created critically acclaimed and award-winning shows, performed across Australia and internationally, received two Ruby Awards for Innovation and two APRA/AMCOS Australian Art Music Awards. In 2017 Emily took on the role of Music Programs Manager at Nexus Arts.

Also on the Youth Strings program is the popular Palladio by Karl Jenkins and Richard Meyer's Steampunk

Rounding off this brilliant program of new fanfares and popular classics in the Gala Concert is the World Premiere of Jakub Jankowski's Verso la Fanfara performed by the The Adelaide Youth Orchestra conducted by Keith Crellin OAM.

In 2016 he was commissioned by Musica Viva Australia to compose a String Octet for the Elias and Goldner Quartets, for Musica Viva Festival anda new cello sonata for German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and Serbian pianist Aleksandar Madžar, as part of their Australia wide Musica Viva tour last year.

The fanfare is followed by the all-time favourite William Tell Overture by Rossini.
Gala Concert - Fanfare 3:00pm Sunday 18 November 2018,
Adelaide Town Hall, King William Street, Adelaide
Tickets: Adult $35, Concession/Student/Child $20
Bookings: Book here or phone 08 8361 8896