AdYO Presents: Distant Shores
Description
Presented by Adelaide Youth Orchestras, Distant Shores is a musical voyage across cultures and landscapes, featuring AdYO's Percussion Ensemble and Symphonic Winds, with special guests Unley Concert Band.
From the lilting Scottish folk melodies of Percy Grainger to the mesmerising rhythms of Alex Stopa's Three Scenes from the Desert, Distant Shores is an immersive journey of discovery - rich, atmospheric, and full of energy.
Don't miss this powerhouse line-up of winds, brass and percussion as they help launch Adelaide Youth Orchestras' 25th year!
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Adelaide Youth Orchestras
Each year Adelaide Youth Orchestras (AdYO) provides world-class development programs and career pathways for South Australia’s brightest young emerging musicians. AdYO services and supports 300 young musicians participating each week during school terms across six ensembles and numerous chamber groups. Since 2001, AdYO has supported more than 2,000 young musicians in over 4,000 individual opportunities to engage with our orchestras.
Unley Concert Band
Unley Concert Band was founded in 1997 and has enjoyed a successful and rich history. As a diverse group of approximately sixty members they aim to offer players and audiences the highest quality of community musicianship in Adelaide. They have had several talented musical directors over the past twenty-seven years of the band. From 2021, our current musical director is Colin Prichard, the principal trombonist of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Unley Concert Band is also an active marching band that perform at many different engagements such as ANZAC commemorative parades, Christmas pageants, and council engagements. The band has won 9 National marching band titles in its history. Over the course of the band’s history we have won various other accolades, placing first in the South Australian A Grade Concert Band Championships 12 years in a row, placing first in the 2016 A Grade National Band Championships, and equal first in the 2017 National Championships as well as numerous placings throughout the past 20 years. In 2009, the band travelled to Europe to participate in commemorative ANZAC services as well as civilian performances across Belgium and France, culminating in the Dawn Service at Villers Bretonneux as well as performing in services in Bullecourt, the La Flamme ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and at the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium 3 times. The band also released a CD, Uniquely Unley, in 2010, and was involved in the South Australian feature film Swerve, released in 2011.
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