2023 SYMPHONIC SESSION
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The symphonic session of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra (MYO) is designed to future professional classical musicians from the Mediterranean. This training session offers an intercultural experience of the orchestra life in rehearsals, concert and on tour within the stimulating frame of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. It provides a high-level musical training where young musicians can benefit from the coaching of experimented artists while working some symphonic repertoire's masterpieces under the baton of young and talented conductor Duncan Ward, nominated as Musical Director since 2020. The pedagogical coaching of this session is also entrusted to musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra. Every year, almost 600 musicians apply to one of our audition organized in about twenty cities of the Mediterranean where some 100 young talents are selected.
DATES
From 7 to 24 July 2023
MENTORS
Musical Director — Duncan Ward
Associate Conductor — Quentin Hindley
Pedagogical coaching — London Symphony Orchestra
MUSICAL PROGRAMME
Betsy Jolas — A Little Summer Suite
Jacques Ibert — Escales
MYO – Medinea Session — Collective Creation
Gamal Abdel Rahim — Variations on an Egyptian Folktune
Camille Saint-Saëns — Concerto n°1 pour violoncelle — Cello: Camille Thomas
Maurice Ravel — La Valse
ANNUAL AUDITIONS
The MYO usually holds annual auditions in about twenty cities of the Mediterranean with the support of different partners leading national youth orchestras. It selects the finest classical musicians of the Mediterranean basin who are destined to work in orchestra.
AUDITIONS AND RECRUITMENTS ORGANISED IN PARTERSHIP WITH
ALBANIA University of Arts of Tirana - Art Academy — ALGERIA National Higher Institute of Music in Algiers (INSM) — BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA Sarajevo Music Academy — CYPRUS Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra — CROATIA Zagreb Academy of Music — EGYPT Cairo Conservatory — FRANCE Darius Milhaud Conservatory of Aix-en-Provence, IESM Europe et Méditerranée, Pierre Barbizet Conservatory of Marseille, Conservatory of Grand Avignon, Pierre Cochereau Conservatory of Nice, CNSMDP — GREECE National Conservatory of Athens — ITALY Milan Conservatory — LEBANON Ghassan Yammine Arts School in Beirut, Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of music — MONACO Music Academy Rainier III — MOROCCO National Conservatory of Music and Choreographic Art of Rabat (CNMAC) — PALESTINE Palestine Youth Orchestra (Edward Saïd Conservatory) — PORTUGAL Lisbon Higher School of Music — SLOVENIA Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana — SPAIN Joven Orquesta Nacional de España — TUNISIA Higher Institute of Music of Tunis — TURKEY Miam Center for advanced studies in music
