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SSC's 2007 AYO Delegates

Posted: Monday April 28, 2008 01:40 PM

St. Scholastica’s College (SSC), School of Music has three delegates to the 17^th Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) Camp and Tour 2007.   Sara Maria Gonzales and Christian Tan, violinists and Giancarlo Gonzales, cellist successfully passed the competitive auditions for this year’s AYO music camp and concert tour. The orchestra is composed of the top 103 music students chosen through auditions in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Asian Youth Orchestra was founded by Lord Yehudi Menuhin and Prof. Richard Pontzious in 1990. The purpose of the camp is to promote and share cultural understanding among the young musicians in Asia who will be together for six weeks for rehearsal camp and tour.

Sara is a third year Bachelor of Music major in Violin (BM Violin) student under the tutelage of Prof. Arturo Molina and a member of the Manila Symphony Orchestra II based in St. Scholastica's College. She is a scholar of the St. Scholastica’s Research and Development Foundation (SSRDF), Philippine Research for Developing Instrumental, Soloists (PREDIS), and Arts Council of Cebu.  Sara won the third prize for Violin Category C (no first prize was given) and first prize for the Chamber Music Category in the 2005 National Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.  Christian is a first year music student taking up BM major in violin under Ms. Gina Medina and a scholar of the Sr. Baptista Battig Music Foundation and PREDIS.  He won the third prize for Violin Category B in the 2005 NAMCYA. Giancarlo is a BM major in cello student and a second prize winner of the NAMCYA 2005 Cello Competition Category B.

This year, the AYO will begin with a three-week heavy Rehearsal Camp on July 21 to August 8 where they will be trained by professional musicians from all over the world, which include Mr. William Pu, associate concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Mr. Thanos Adamopoulos who will coach the violin section.  AYO will conduct a concert tour for three weeks from August 9 to September 1, 2007. The orchestra will be under the baton of Finnish conductor, Okko Kamu and AYO's Founder and Artistic Director, Richard Pontzious together with a Korean-Canadian cellist, Soo Bae, who recently won in the Canada Council of Arts Instrument Bank competition.  Soo Bae will use a 1696 Bonjour Stradivari cello. AYO's 2007 tour will include 18 performances in Hong Kong, China and Japan.

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