Chineke! Junior Orchestra | Glass Marcano | Gerard Aimontche
Schedule
Tue Aug 09 2022 at 07:30 pm
Location
KKL Luzern, Concert Hall | Sursee, LU
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Chineke! Junior Orchestra Glass Marcano, conductor
Gerard Aimontche, piano
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Othello Suite, Op. 79
Stewart Goodyear (*1978)
"Callaloo", Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
This is what the future sounds like! The Summer of "Diversity" at Lucerne Festival will be heralded by the Chineke! Junior Orchestra, which is made up of ethnically diverse musicians between the ages of 11 and 22. This youth orchestra of the Chineke! Foundation was established by Chi-chi Nwanoku, a British double bass player with Nigerian roots who kept wondering why she was the only Black person on the concert podium. It can't stay that way, she told herself, and decided to take action. The Chineke! orchestras represent the highest level of artistic quality and start with groundwork, with education, deploying a sophisticated mentoring system. Not only is familiar repertoire performed at their concerts — so is music by Black composers as well. For this evening, the latter include the British late-Romantic composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the Canadian Stewart Goodyear (b. 1978), whose Caribbean suite Callaloo features Gerard Aimontche, a Black Russian pianist, playing the solo part. A discovery also awaits us on the podium with the young Venezuelan conductor Glass Marcano, who won the La Maestra Competition in Paris in 2020.
Zurich – Main Sponsor and Founding Partner Music for Future
Photo © Raphael Perez
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Where is it happening?
KKL Luzern, Concert Hall, Sursee, SwitzerlandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
CHF 50.0
