National Music Camp

1. Alexander Orchestra encore - Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4
(Gallery/Video Gallery)

After a stunning performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4, the Alexander Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Renes received a standing ovation. The audience was rewarded with an encor

2. Like children in a lolly shop: WAM participants visit the National Library
(News/Latest)

...m Byrd mass and a copy of the first edition of Musica Fever and some items of the extensive Australian Youth Orchestra’s archives. After having feasted on the many wonders of both the National ...

3. Composers in Time
(About WAM/Writings)

...came the foundation for a five to eight minute work for untuned percussion and any combination of a 14-piece orchestral ensemble. Their compositions were written for performance by ensembles (made up ...

4. Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...n Juan’s lovers. Halfway into the piece another Don Juan theme is introduced by horns soaring over the orchestra, representing not only Don Juan’s masculine impetuousness but also his hero...

5. Digital Rhythm Clock
(About WAM/Writings)

...edřich SMETANA – The Moldau 7.     Béla BARTÓK – Concerto for Orchestra, 2nd movement, ‘Guoco della coppie’ 8.     Pyotr Il&#...

6. Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...ely noticeable in the opening chords. Also unusual is Vaughan Williams’ splitting of the normal string orchestra into three groups – you will notice some of the players form a secondary or...

7. Béla BARTÓK (1881-1945)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

Concerto for Orchestra, BB.123 [1943] I    Introduzione II   Giuoco delle coppie III   Elegia IV  Intermezzo interrotto V  Finale Concerto for O

8. Philip Arkinstall: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

...een when I first came to camp, in the early 1990s. It was in Sydney, at Kings School. I was in the Alexander orchestra. I remember it was really hot and we went to the pool every afternoon. But the en...

9. Kate Salvatore: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

... Arkinstall was playing principal clarinet. It was the first time I had played [clarinet] in a full symphony orchestra. I went with my friend Louise McCarthy on viola, we were both from country Victor...

10. Janis Laurs: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

...r (First National Music Camp 1963)   Cello tutor (First National Music Camp 1963)   Why are youth orchestras important? The young students remind you of passion and enthusiasm, where someti...

11. Genevieve Lang: Alumni Profile
(About WAM/Writings)

... Camp [as a harpist] three years consecutively, from 1993-95. In 1994, in Geelong, I was in two of the three orchestras. I learnt to be self-sufficient, an independent unit.  It’s what I en...

12. W. F. BACH (1710-1784)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...ompositions belongs in the realm of the improviser’s art; a palpable sense of the unexpected. No other orchestral composer before Haydn so consistently toys with our sense of musical expectation...

13. Elliott GYGER (born 1968)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

Deep and dissolving verticals of light: nocturnal concerto for orchestra [1994]   Deep and dissolving verticals of light: nocturnal concerto for orchestra [1994] Deep and dissolving verticals of

14. Anton WEBERN (1883-1945)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...This leaning towards pre-set compositional structures is evident from Webern’s Opus 1, Passacaglia for Orchestra. The work takes its title and form from the Baroque musical structure, in which a...

15. Henry PURCELL (1659-1695)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...in the occasional amusing disagreement between parts. Because of this, the musicians of the Tuckwell Chamber Orchestra have each rehearsed from a full score of the work, ensuring they are aware of the...

16. Radio Feature: Inside Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra
(Gallery/Audio)

Inside Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra ABC Classic-FM, 8:55pm, 16 January 2010 WAM2010_radiofeature_wk2 Saturday night’s recital concludes with a performance of Bartok’s modern maste

17. Orchestral Concert Week 2
(Gallery/Photo Gallery)

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18. Orchestral Concert Week 1
(Gallery/Photo Gallery)

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19. Radio Feature: Who Comes to Camp?
(Gallery/Audio)

...lin tutor Lachlan Bramble; conductor Lutz Koehler; Musical Director Tim White, and the Australian Youth Orchestra’s CEO Colin Cornish. This feature was produced by Anne-Marie Mou...

20. Banquet in six courses: a report on the first Staff Concert
(News/Latest)

... horn (one of the most famous solos for the instrument) which compelled one to consider the impact a lack of orchestral “padding” can have on the way these lines are performed. From here ...

21. A Night Not To Be Missed... Or Else
(News/Latest)

... deconstruction of all four movements of the symphony, with occasional vignettes highlighting members of the orchestra. © Hugh Davidson ...

22. A Gripping Death
(Snippets/Snippets)

... as to claim that she clung to his body the whole time. At this year’s National Music Camp, the Bishop Orchestra will be performing the ‘Prelude and Liebestod (Love Death)’ from Wagn...

23. The Power of Rhythm
(News/Latest)

...at this year’s National Music Camp [NMC]. As principal percussionist with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Tim has naturally chosen rhythm as the theme of this year’s camp: “A...

24. An orchestral appetiser
(Gallery/Video Gallery)

Individual parts lie open on music stands, pencils are sharpened, the orchestra is tuned and the musicians quietly await their conductor to lead them to the music – it’s time for another r

25. Bedrich SMETANA (1824-1884)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...e as conductor of the Royal Provincial Czech Theatre, where his output was consequently operatic rather than orchestral. It was while writing his fourth opera, Libuše (1869-72), inspired by nat...

26. Josef SUK (1874-1935)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...rings ranks with those of Dvořák and Tchaikovsky among the finest examples of writing for string orchestra.  Seventy-five years after Suk’s death, it is time to acknowledge Suk&...

27. John ADAMS (born 1947)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra [1985] The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra [1985] Composers love commissions, but the sign of a successful composer is having more commissions than

28. Sergey PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
(About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

...e palpable mutual loathing of The Montagues and the Capulets, the exuberance of The Young Juliet (a spritely orchestral vivace), the comic introspections of Friar Laurence (played aptly by the bassoon...

29. “We’re ready for you”: student cricket captain Pauperis
(News/Latest)

...tegy for this year’s game. Initial training sessions occurred at the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute (AISOI) in late November. Here at NMC, the students have undergone an i...

30. Interpreting Words
(News/Latest)

...ms. Copland set this poem in 1949 but christened his work The Chariot, and scored it for soprano and chamber orchestra. The iambic accompaniment evokes Death’s carriage, steadily cantering &lsqu...

31. Ronald Gaynor: An Orchestral Personality
(About WAM/2010 Participants)

...n independent (and essential) line in the music, and one that is inevitably noticed when it emerges from the orchestral texture. “It’s not often in the spotlight, but what it has to say ca...

32. 16 Jan 8pm
(News/Concerts Promo)

National Music Camp Orchestras    Saturday 16 January 2010 8:00 – 10:00pm (direct FM broadcast) Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University Chamber Orchestra -

33. Saturday 9 January, 4:30pm
(News/Concerts)

  Saturday 9 January 2010 4.30 – 6.00pm (delayed FM broadcast)   Chamber Orchestra - Howard Penny EDWARDS - Veni Creator Spiritus Bishop Orchestra - Lutz Koehler SMETAN

34. Saturday 9 January, 8pm
(News/Concerts)

  Saturday 9 January 2010 8:00 – 10.00pm (direct ABC-Classic-FM broadcast) Chamber Orchestra – Howard Penny SUK - Serenade for Strings, Op.6 Alexander Orchestra - Lawrence

35. Saturday 16 January, 4:30pm
(News/Concerts)

  Saturday 16 January 2010 4.30 – 6.00pm (delayed FM broadcast)   Chamber Orchestra - Howard Penny PURCELL - The Double Dealer, Z592 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Fantasia on a theme of Thom

36. 9 Jan 4:30pm
(News/Concerts Promo)

National Music Camp Orchestras  Saturday 9 January 2010 4.30 – 6.00pm (delayed FM broadcast) Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University   Chamber Orchestra - Howard Pen

37. 16 Jan 4:30pm
(News/Concerts Promo)

National Music Camp Orchestras Saturday 16 January 2010 4.30 – 6.00pm (delayed FM broadcast) Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University     Chamber Orchestra - Howard P

38. 9 Jan 8pm
(News/Concerts Promo)

National Music Camp Orchestras   Saturday 9 January 2010 8:00 – 10:00pm (direct FM broadcast) Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University Chamber Orchestra – H

39. Saturday 16 January, 8pm
(News/Concerts)

  Saturday 16 January 2010 8:00 – 10:00pm (direct FM broadcast)   Chamber Orchestra - Howard Penny  WF BACH - Sinfonia in F major ‘Dissonant’ Bishop Orc

40. Welcome to National Music Camp 2010!
(Home/Home)

Each summer, for over 60 years, the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp has brought together the world’s most inspiring conductors and tutors with the country’s finest

41. Welcome to National Music Camp 2010!
(Home/Home)

Each summer, for over 60 years, the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp has brought together the world’s most inspiring conductors and tutors with the country’s finest

42. Welcome to National Music Camp 2010!
(Home/Home)

Each summer, for over 60 years, the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp has brought together the world’s most inspiring conductors and tutors with the country’s finest

43. Birth of the AYO
(Snippets/Snippets)

The first public appearance of the Australian Youth Orchestra was at 3.15pm precisely, on Wednesday 6th March 1957 in the "Great Restaurant" of the cafeteria of David Jones department stor

44. Camp founders
(Snippets/Snippets)

The Bishop and Alexander Symphony Orchestras are named after the founders of National Music Camp: John Bishop and Ruth Alexander.         The Bishop and Alexander Symphony Or

45. Contact AYO & visiting National Music Camp
(Static Content)

National Music Camp is an activity of Australian Youth Orchestra. National Music Camp 2010 takes place in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. For directions to Llewellyn Hall, School of Musi

46. Radio Features
(Static Content)

...ds About Music participants produce two radio features, which are broadcast in conjunction with the Saturday orchestral concerts.   This year's features will be broadcast on the evening...

47. National Music Camp Crossword
(Archived/News/Latest)

Missing camp already? Why not have a go at this crossword!

48. Campers' Musical Memories
(Archived/News/Latest)

2009 Campers reminisce about their most formative musical experiences...  

49. Dining Hall Etiquette
(Archived/News/Latest)

There is no doubt: the dining hall experience is quintessential college living.  Few other situations boast the opportunity to dine with 300 of your closest friends, or test endurance and stamina

50. Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
(Archived/About WAM/Concert Program Notes)

Danse sacrée et danse profane [1904] There are all manner of situations under which a composer will write a piece of music. Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane was commission