Debut of the Young Mozart Orchestra

International Mozarteum Foundation

Debut of the Young Mozart Orchestra on February 2 at the Mozart Week - February 2 at 5 pm in the Great Hall

The concert "Junges Mozart Orchester and Friends" is the starting signal for the “Orchesterakademie Salzburg” project, which will be expanded soon to include a children's orchestra (Mozart Children's Orchestra) and a youth orchestra (Junges Mozart Orchester).

The Salzburg Orchestra Academy was founded last year by the Musikum in cooperation with the Mozarteum Foundation and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg as the successor to the Mozart Children's Orchestra.

After intensive rehearsals, this year's Mozart Week will see the debut of the new ensemble, the Young Mozart Orchestra. This will allow the young musicians to get a taste of international festival music. The concert on February 2 at 5 pm in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation under the direction of Anna Handler will be performed by the JuJazzO youth jazz orchestra and the Barock'n'Roll dance ensemble.

Concertgoers can expect a lively program:

The adaptation of motifs from The Magic Flute for big band and quintet is based on arrangements by students and teachers of the Institute for Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz for the Mozart Year 2006. "The Magic Flute" by Reinhard Summerer (trombonist, arranger, composer and teacher at the KUG) treats the material with care. It places it in a modern context that includes not only jazz but also folk music elements. He skillfully explores what a 21st-century Mozart might sound like.

The dance ensemble Barock'n'Roll performs Mozart's Contretanz KV 609/3 and the minuet from Salieri's Concertino da camera in G major for flute and string orchestra. The dancers use the baroque dance forms minuet and contra dance, which were part of bourgeois dance culture and enjoyed great popularity at public and private events.

The world premiere "477a. Begegnungszonen für kleines Orchester", a work commissioned by Helmut Schmidinger for the Junge Mozart Orchester, creates zones of encounter between the two composers through the use of musical motifs by Mozart and Salieri.

The concert ends with Mozart's "little" G minor Symphony K. 183.