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Message from the CEO
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Reflecting success and looking ahead
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This edition of E-Newsbeat marks the beginning of a busy, new year for Australian Youth Orchestra.
During 2008 we saw over 330 young musicians participate in a dozen programs, including those designed for the emerging, gifted, school-aged student, and those which nurture the development of pre-professional musicians. Our partnerships with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra continued to offer valuable pre-professional development and the Style Workshop allowed forty of the best AYO musicians to explore a specialised repertoire area.
We would not have achieved our goals in 2008 without the commitment and expertise of our wonderful staff. I give my sincere thanks also to the Directors of the AYO Board, who have given so much of their time to AYO in many ways. In particular, I would like to give special thanks to Virginia Gordon who has recently announced her resignation from the Board. Virginia's contribution over the last seven years has been invaluable and her passion and expertise will be missed.
We cannot plan confidently to deliver the highest quality training without the support of the Australian Government and our sponsors, Foundation supporters and individual donors. My thanks to you all for helping us offer programs of excellence to musicians around Australia. Particular thanks to our Principal Sponsor, Accenture; the Colonial Foundation Trust, whose generous support enables the delivery of four valuable programs; Macquarie Group Foundation for their visionary support of our national audition program; and Sheldon Trainor, the Founding Donor of the International Tour Fund who continues to generously support the AYO's touring program.
Stay tuned to our website, www.ayo.com.au in the coming weeks for all the news from National Music Camp as it happens.
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Program Reports
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Alumni Almanac
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Upcoming Programs
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National Music Camp 2009 |
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 4-18 January, 2009
Australian Youth Orchestra’s annual training program, National Music Camp, will take place at Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music in January 2009.
National Music Camp is a thriving community of more than 250 of Australia’s best young musicians, arts administrators, composers and music journalists, who take part in a busy two-week schedule of rehearsals, industry experience, tutorials and concert performances.
Australian clarinettist, Paul Dean, will direct the three National Music Camp Orchestras in 2009. He will be joined by internationally acclaimed conductors, James Judd, François-Xavier Roth, violinist Fionnuala Hunt and some of the best musicians from Australia and abroad.
Over the two weeks in January the orchestras and ensembles will perform a series of free concerts at Elder Hall and St Peter's Cathedral.
See the left-hand column for more details on the National Music Camp Free Concert Series.
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The eve of the AFL Grand Final weekend was always going to be a challenging time to get local Bendigo residents to a brass concert. Yet, the regional community responded with all the warmth and encouragement you would expect to see at a Saturday afternoon home-game! The Capital, Bendigo’s performing arts centre, was full of enthusiastic audience members, keen to herald in the Grand Final weekend with a fanfare! The Young Australian Concert Artists (YACA) Brass Quintet did not disappoint. 
Violinist, Rachael Beesley, graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music (1989) and a Graduate Diploma of Arts in Music (1991) and in 1999 a Master of Music specialising in Early Music from the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands.
