Past Performances - The Sydney Youth Orchestra

Brahms Symphony No 3

The Sydney Youth Orchestra performs Brahms Third Symphony, kicking off the 2019 season for SYO conducted by Alexander Briger

Culminating two weeks of hard work and learnings in the UK, the 2019 UK Tour ended on a high, with SYO performing at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. Performing Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 under the baton of esteemed conductor Geoffrey Paterson, the performance is a fantastic testimony to the musicians’ hard work.

Chamber Music Festival

Pre-COVID planning had SYO and Chief Conductor Alexander Briger AO performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto with SSO Concertmaster Andrew Haveron as soloist, plus the Fourth Symphony of Tchaikovsky. Now, with crowd restrictions applying both to the number of players on the Verbrugghen Hall stage and listeners in its auditorium, one big concert for symphony orchestra will become five shorter ones with smaller groups.

Celebration of Stravinsky

The Orchestra starts the year with a celebration of a great twentieth-century musical revolutionary on the fiftieth anniversary of his death – Igor Stravinsky.

Alice Chance Colourburst

The return of large, symphonic repertoire to the stage calls for something special. In this first program of 2022, The Sydney Youth Orchestra celebrates the power and scale of the symphony orchestra with an ethereal, World Premiere work by Alice Chance, Colourburst.

Symphonie Fantastique

Berlioz’s monumental Symphonie Fantastique, conducted will be conducted by Max McBride. Revealing plenty about Berlioz’s opium use and unsettling obsession with actress Harriet Smithson, this slightly twisted, autobiographical work is a true behemoth; originally scored for four sets of timpani and four harps, you get the sense that Berlioz was really trying to make an impression. We think it works. Evidently, so did Bernstein – check it out.