[ meetings ]


[ meetings (upcoming) ]


EFNYO General Assembly in Paris, November 19-21, 2010

The meeting will focus on the reports and evaluation of the EFNYO mobility pilot project MusXchange. This will include an analysis of the interim results of the co-organisers and feedback from the musicians' questionnaires.

On Saturday November 20, 15.00-18.30h, a public event of EFNYO will take place at the Cité de la Musique, which will involve a panel discussion on the importance of mobility for the career development of young professional artists. The event will be co-hosted by the Association Francaise des Orchestres (AFO) within their programme "Orchestres en Fête".



[ meetings (previous) ]


EFNYO organises two General Assemblies annually for full and associate members and guests. These meetings take place on two days and have full agendas. According to the working programme 2010 the EFNYO organised its first General Assembly in Madrid, followed by a board meeting between June 13-14, 2010 in Vienna.


EFNYO General Assembly in Madrid, March 05-07, 2010

The EFNYO held its first General Assembly in 2010 between March 05-07 in Madrid. The meeting was hosted by the JONDE, the national youth orchestra of Spain, and took place at the Auditorio Nacional de la Música.

Next to EFNYO full and associate members, we welcomed the following guests: José Manuel López López and Jesús Clavero representing the Auditorio Nacional de la Música, Paul MacAlindin of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Sophia Welz of the South African National Youth Orchestra and Marie Benell of the Aldeburgh Festival (GB).

The discussion focused mainly on the collaboration between EFNYO and the Auditorio Nacional de la Música and further concert halls in Spain. Furthermore our guests were invited to present their youth orchestra initiatives. The Youth State Orchestra of Armenia was welcomed as new associate member. The orchestra was founded in November 2005, its members are students of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. It has been financed by the Ministry of Culture since 2008. The founder and artistic director of the orchestra is young violinist and conductor, Sergey Smbatyan.

Following the working group meeting on the EFNYO pilot project MusXchange in December 2009 in Utrecht, NL, participants discussed further steps regarding the implementation and evaluation of the project.

Election of the board 2010/11:
President: Renate Böck (Wiener Jeunesse Orchester)
Vice-President: Pierre Barrois (Orchestre Francais des Jeunes)
Treasurer: Saulo Muniz-Schwochert (Joven Orquesta Nacional de Espana)
Secretary: Maria Karwowska (Sinfonia Iuventus)



EFNYO General Assembly in Warsaw, October 09-11, 2009

The EFNYO General Assembly took place between October 09-11, 2010 in Warsaw, PL, and was hosted by the new EFNYO member Sinfonia Iuventus Warsaw.

Local guests participating at the meeting included Elzbieta Penderecka of the Ludwig van Beethoven Association, Elisa Kujan representing the Department of International Relations, Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Aleksandar Laskowski and Lukas Strusinski of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Robert Kamyk of TVP Cultura.

Next to the focus on the collaboration with Polish promoters, the agenda included the presentation of new national and international youth orchestra initiatives: Anna Ter-Hovakimyan of the Youth State Orchestra of Armenia, Paul MacAlindin of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Olive Kan of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Kim Gaynor of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Matthew Jones of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, Konstantin Peiper of the Junges Klangforum Mitte Europa and Agnieszka Ostapowicz of the Junge Deutsch-Polnische Philharmonie Niederschlesien.


General Assembly of EFNYO in Zilina/ SK, April 24-26, 2009

In 2009 the first general assembly of EFNYO took place between April 24-26, 2009 in Zilina, Slovakia within the framework of the Central European Music Festival.

The meeting was attended by a majority of full and associate members, as well as the following guests: Maria Karwowska of Sinfonia Iuventus Warsaw, Thomas Hummel and Alexa Nieschlag of Baltic Youth Philharmonic, Jerome Thiebaux of the Orchestre National de Lyon and Elisabeth Grabner, a music coach and mental trainer from Austria. The extension of the EFNYO to new EU countries is one of EFNYO's major concerns and therefore the EFNYO was pleased to welcome three new members: the Sinfonia Iuventus Warsaw, the National Youth Orchestra of Cyprus and the Baltic Youth Philharmonic.
A major topic of the meeting was "How to shape the careers of future orchestra musicians" and therefore we had invited the following guests from Slovakia: Olga Smetanova and Ivana Korbackova of the Music Centre Bratislava, Marian Lejava, artistic director and conductor of the Academy of Music Bratislava and Vladimir Salaga, orchestra director of the Zilina Sinfonietta.

Agenda:

• Election of the board 2009/10:
  The following board members were elected:
  President: Renate Böck (Wiener Jeunesse Orchester)
  Vice-President: Pierre Barrois (Orchestre Francais des Jeunes)
  Treasurer: Saulo Muniz-Schwochert (Joven Orquesta Nacional de Espana)
  Secretary: Maria Karwowska (Sinfonia Iuventus)
  Member of the board: Stefano Fantini (Orchestra Giovanile Italiana)
  
  
• New members:
  
  Sinfonia Iuventus Warsaw
  The new full member of EFNYO is the Polish orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus Warsaw. Founded in 2007, the orchestra works with students and graduates of music academies from all over Poland. The orchestra offers full-time positions and musicians become permanent employees until they reach the age of 30. The aim of the orchestra for the year 2009 was to focus on education and continue to cooperate with great artists.
  
  Baltic Youth Philharmonic
  The new associate member Baltic Youth Philharmonic was founded in cooperation with the Usedom Music Festival (Germany) and involves the ten countries around the Baltic Sea. The concerts take place on the island of Usedom but also in other Baltic countries. The founding conductor of the initiative, Kristjan Järvi has the aim of enhancing musical and human exchange: "A New Voice in the North". The orchestra held its first audition in March 2009 and is open to all musicians enrolled at a music academy in one of the countries around the Baltic Sea.
  
  Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra
  The Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra was established in 1987 and has been taken over by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation, an initiative of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, in 2007. As Cyprus still lacks the tradition of Western European Music which also inlcudes training for orchestra and studying orchestral instruments, the national government intended to improve the situation by supporting the idea of a national youth orchestra. The musicians rehearse every Saturday morning and during the summer months, two residential courses are organised. The first course is a master class, and during the second one the best students form an international youth symphony orchestra. The coaches come from all over Europe.
  
  
  
Working Group Meeting "Network Development" April 2009 in Zilina, Slovakia

The meeting took place during the EFNYO General Assembly in Zilina and focused on network development especially to Slovakian music institutions. As the meeting took place within the framework of the Central European Music Festival, EFNYO members had the opportunity of meeting representatives of the Cultural Ministry and were able to launch an initiative for the foundation of a National Youth Orchestra in Slovakia.

Working Group Meeting "EFNYO PR and Communication" June 2009 in Berlin, Germany

The corporate identity of the EFNYO needs reshaping and clear presentation. Information about our activities must be distributed more effectively and attractively to defined target groups. The main question "What are the aims of the federation?" resulted in three answers: to represent a label of quality, to form a platform of exchange of information for managers/musicians, and to establish a reference point for institutions related to the sectors of music education, music profession, and cultural politics. The next steps to be taken will be to re-write our mission statement, to find a new slogan, to redesign the website, to find new communication tools and to extend our relationship to journalists and media, and link these to any future event or publication of the federation.

Working Group Meeting "Project development with promoters and festivals" September 2009 in Madrid, Spain

With the aim of reinforcing the contacts established at the EFNYO General Assembly in Vienna in November 2008, the federation focused on the project presented by Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez, artistic director of the Auditorio Nacional de Musica de Madrid. He launched the idea of creating a cycle of youth orchestra concerts in Madrid with the possibility of follow-up concerts in various Spanish concert venues. For this purpose, Jose Manuel invited a series of directors of Spanish auditorios to participate in the meeting in order to present this project and the idea of involving the member orchestras of EFNYO. EFNYO was asked to coordinate activities by acting as an information platform between the orchestras and the Spanish auditorios.
In order to develop and strengthen the contacts to the directors of Spanish concert halls, EFNYO decided to hold its next General Assembly between March 5-7, 2010 in Madrid to give all our members the opportunity to establish personal contacts to promoters in Madrid and other cities in Spain, such as Zaragoza, Barcelona, Valencia, Murcia, Oviedo, Cuenca, Valladolid, San Sebastian, etc.