The Alumni Teaching Programme was developed as part of the Orchestra’s Towards 2020 programme. It was launched because whenever recent EUYO alumni players performed side by side with those younger and less experienced than them, there was a noticeable powerful and often inspirational teaching effect observed. In these cases, the presence of a young teacher meant that the young player felt close enough in age and ability to be inspired to try to develop to a similar level as the EUYO alumni teacher.
The programme is part of the Orchestra’s strategy of scaling the work of the EUYO by connecting it with increasing numbers of young players across Europe, and so multiplying ambition, opportunity and aspiration. Alumni teaching projects have happened since 2015 in countries including Austria, China, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Myanmar, Romania, and the UK. For details on how to engage EUYO alumni teachers please contact Stefania Sajeva, EUYO Executive Co-ordinator.
Past EUYO Alumni teaching projects
May 2019: Yangon, Myanmar Europe meets Myanmar |
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In occasion of the Europe Day celebrations, the EUYO has been invited in the Far East by the Delegation of the European Union to Myanmar. A quintet of EUYO alumni, as part of their teaching programme, visited the country and played with the Orchestra for Myanmar, the New Children's Choir and the Singers from Mr Roger's Orphanage, Kachin Baptist Church, and ISY as well as with The Strand Singers.
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Fionnuala Ward | Piano | Irish | |
Amalie Kjældgaard Kristensen | Violin | Danish | |
Tonka Javorović | Cello | Croatian | |
Herlinde Verjans | Violin | Belgian | |
Sofie Van der Schalie | Viola | Dutch | |
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August 2018: Birmingham, UK Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra |
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Over 200 young musicians from 15 European countries came together with 6 international conductors, 50 teachers, musicians from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and one of the world’s finest violinists, for a summer residency in Birmingham. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality |
Marc Aixa Siurana | Percussion | Spanish | |
Minna Svedberg | Viola | Swedish | |
Amalie Kjældgaard Kristensen | Violin | Danish | |
Victor Koch Jensen | Trumpet | Danish | |
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July/August 2017: Athens, Greece Sistema Europe |
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On 1st August 2017, 343 young musicians between the ages of ten and thirty came together on stage at the mythical Odeon of Herodes Atticus theatre under the Acropolis. In a joint performance of the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra (SEYO) they performed in front of 4.400 people to close the Hellenic Festival, a major music event held in Athens since 1955. The performance was the culmination of the 4th Sistema Europe Summer Residency held from the 19th of July to the 2nd of August in Athens, bringing together young talents and thirty teachers from twenty-eight countries that have implemented Sistema and Sistema-inspired programmes for "social action through music”. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Lara Sullivan | Violin | Irish | |
Timo Tromp | Clarinet | Dutch | |
Marc Aixa Siurana | Percussion | Spanish | |
Romain Lapeyre | Cello | French | |
Giorgia Cervini | Viola | Italian | |
Robert Smith | Trumpet | British | |
Lukas Hirzberger | Bass Trombone | Austrian | |
Nikolaj Henriques | Bassoon | Danish | |
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July - August 2016: Grafenegg, Austria European Music Campus Orchestra |
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Grafenegg and the European Union Youth Orchestra present the European Music Campus (EMC), a unique centre of musical dialogue and support for exceptional talents. Located in Lower Austria’s Grafenegg Castle, this programme offers musicians, performers and audience members the opportunity to experience and participate in dynamic music making and lively debate. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Sofie Van der Schalie | Viola | Dutch | |
Lara Sullivan | Violin | Irish | |
Romain Lapeyre | Cello | French | |
Andrei Mihailescu | Double Bass | Spanish | |
Matt Bain | Violin | British | |
Magnus Koch Jensen | Bassoon | Danish | |
Katy Wooley | Horn | British | |
Chloé van Soeterstède | Conductor | French | |
January 2016: La Valletta, Malta Malta Youth Orchestra |
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The Malta Youth Orchestra (MYO) aims to skill Malta’s talented young orchestral musicians, while giving them opportunities to develop their ambition and aspirations. Operating in collaboration with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Academy, the MYO nurtures a sense of professionalism in our young musicians, through regular rehearsals, workshops, masterclasses and performances with local and international music tutors. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Matt Bain | violin | British | |
Anne Keckeis | cello | Austrian | |
Enrique Toribio Nido | double bass | Spanish | |
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September 2015: Thessaloniki, Greece EUYO meets Megaron Youth Symphony Orchestra |
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REACT is a new audience development project in Thessaloniki that will serve as a model for developing skills amongst long-term unemployed young people and creating its own youth orchestra, the Megaron Youth Symphony Orchestra. Experienced young musicians from the EUYO worked alongside them, and also performed for diverse public in unexpected venues through the REACT programme: hospitals, schools, bars, and the seaside promenade and meat market. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality |
Pavel Hudec | Double Bass | Czech | |
Matt Bain | Violin | British | |
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August 2015: Milan, Italy Sistema Europa Summer camp |
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200 musicians from 10 to 20 years, 27 countries of origin, 30 teachers, 8 days of intensive tests, 2 concerts at the Teatro alla Scala and at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi. These are the numbers of the third edition of the Summer camp of the SEYO-System Europe Youth Orchestra, which was held in Milan from 21st to 30th August. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Romain Lapeyre | Cello | French | |
Lukas Hirzberger | Bass Trombone | Austrian | |
Giorgia Cervini | Viola | Italian | |
Marc Aixa Siurana | Percussion | Spanish | |
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July - August 2015: Grafenegg, Austria European Music Campus Orchestra |
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Grafenegg and the European Union Youth Orchestra present the European Music Campus (EMC), a unique centre of musical dialogue and support for exceptional talents. Located in Lower Austria’s Grafenegg Castle, this programme offers musicians, performers and audience members the opportunity to experience and participate in dynamic music making and lively debate. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Lara Sullivan | Violin | Irish | |
Romain Lapeyre | Cello | French | |
Maria Demetz | Oboe | Italian | |
Peter Vallebo | Trumpet | Danish | |
Judith de Haas | Violin | Dutch | |
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May 2015: Thessaloniki, Greece REACT Thessaloniki |
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REACT is a new audience development project in Thessaloniki that will serve as a model for developing skills amongst long-term unemployed young people and creating its own youth orchestra, the Megaron Youth Symphony Orchestra. Experienced young musicians from the EUYO worked alongside them, and also performed for diverse public in unexpected venues through the REACT programme: hospitals, schools, bars, and the seaside promenade and meat market. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Sarah Sew | Violin | British | |
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March 2015, La Valletta, Malta Malta Youth Orchestra |
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The Malta Youth Orchestra (MYO) aims to skill Malta’s talented young orchestral musicians, while giving them opportunities to develop their ambition and aspirations. Operating in collaboration with the MPO Academy, the MYO nurtures a sense of professionalism in our young musicians, through regular rehearsals, workshops, masterclasses and performances with local and international music tutors. |
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality |
Kerem Hasan | Piano/Conductor | British | |
Sofie Van der Schalie | Viola | Dutch | |
Lara Sullivan | Violin | Irish | |
Romain Lapeyre | Cello | French | |
Andrei Mihailescu | Double Bass | Spanish | |
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July 2014, Grafenegg, Austria European Music Campus Orchestra |
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Grafenegg and the European Union Youth Orchestra present the European Music Campus (EMC), a unique centre of musical dialogue and support for exceptional talents. Located in Lower Austria’s Grafenegg Castle, this programme offers musicians, performers and audience members the opportunity to experience and participate in dynamic music making and lively debate.
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Participants | Instrument | Nationality | |
Kerem Hasan | Piano / Conductor | British | |
Sofie Van der Schalie | Viola | Dutch | |
Lara Sullivan | Violin | Irish | |
Matteo Sampaolo | Flute | Italian | |
Romain Lapeyre | Cello | French | |
Andrei Mihailescu | Double Bass | Spanish | |
Matt Bain | Violin | British | |
Benjamin Christ | Clarinet | French | |
Magnus Koch Jensen | Bassoon | Danish | |
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For details on how to engage EUYO alumni teachers please contact Stefania Sajeva, EUYO Executive Co-ordinator