CONCERT PERFORMANCE (#1) AT AMMERGAUER HAUS MUSIC PAVILION IN OBERAMMERGAU
July 3, 2014 | 07.30 pm
The “Ammergauer Haus” is one of the event locations in Oberammergau for concerts, theaters, congresses, conferences and ceremoniousness. It offers a conference hall for up to 600 visitors (depending on seating). A large stage area with sound and light technology and a grandstand complete the offer. The house is centrally located and a parking site is nearby. The world-famous Passion Play “village Oberammergau” is embedded in the fascinating mountain scenery of the Alps, Oberammergau offers a symbiosis between nature and culture. Surrounded by lush alpine forests, pretty green meadows and stunning mountain ranges, Oberammergau, is a picture-postcard European holiday destination. The quaint alpine town is renowned for its traditional Bavarian art and culture, and its long-running Passion Play that takes place every 10 years. The next Passion Play is set for 2020.
CONCERT PERFORMANCE (#2) IN MUTH - VIENNA
July 5, 2014 | 08.30 pm
The new concert hall that “Muth” that was opened in December 2012 is the first new concert hall to be built in Vienna in almost a hundred years. It’s a place for all the senses - a fantastic acoustic, ideal sight lines from every single seat, comfortable seating, and much more besides. Right from the start, MuTh is setting out with high ambitions - ambitions for MuTh to function as a bridge across the arts. MuTh aims to create the widest possible range of connections: music and theatre, tradition and experimentation, great artists and those just starting out… above all, to serve as a platform for young talent.
COMPETITION PERFORMANCE (#3) AT THE GOLDEN HALL OF THE MUSIKVEREIN IN VIENNA
July 6, 2014 | 01.30 pm
NBYO to represent Canada and commemorate First World War in international music competition
July 6, 2014 marks launch of “A Dream of Dawn”
The New Brunswick Youth Orchestra (NBYO) returns to Austria in July 2014 as the only Canadian orchestra in the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Competition. On July 6, 2014 in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, the NBYO’s competition entry will be the world premiere of an orchestral work, “A Dream of Dawn”, by respected Canadian composer Kevin Lau. The music was commissioned by the NBYO to mark the centennial of the beginning of World War 1, and its significance to Canada. The music will also be performed at the WW1 Centennial Commemoration 1914-2014 at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna on July 7, 2014.
Through these performances, the NBYO will pay musical tribute to those who paid deeply for the war, and issue an orchestral call to a future built on tolerance, understanding and dialogue. “Our intent in commissioning this orchestral work is not to glorify war or revel in an allied triumph but to educate a current generation about the First World War,” said MacLeod. “We want to honour veterans and their sacrifice and acknowledge what the war cost Canadian families and communities, and the impact the war had on Canada as a nation.” he added. Lau describes the commission as a project of gratitude, a commemoration, through music, of a generation who served and sacrificed. "My intention", said Lau, "is not to paint a musical portrait of war, or to literalize a particular chronology of events, but rather to compliment—in meditative fashion—the reflections of those listeners pondering war in all its paradoxical facets. My goal, through music, is to recognize the horrors of human conflict while affirming our profound search for harmony in ourselves and abroad." And what better way to do this than through music and by harnessing the idealism, genius, hope and promise of our youth to build the world that their first world war counterparts dreamed of?
CONCERT PERFORMANCE (#4) AT THE MUSIC PAVILION IN BAD TATZMANNSDORF
July 6, 2014 | 07.30 pm
Bad Tatzmannsdorf situated in the province Burgenland is one of Austria’s most important spa centers. The town has a lot of different museums and other cultural attractions, the concerts will take place at the Community Hall of Bad Tatzmannsdorf.
WWI CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION 1914 – 2014 A (#5) AT THE DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY VIENNA
July 7, 2014 | 06.00 pm powered by 
a commemorating event to mark the centenary of 1914
The event will take place on the 7th of July at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna between 6.00 and 7.00 pm.
Join us in this commemorating event and listen to keynote speeches by Selma Prodanovic and Philipp Blom and enjoy the musical program performed by the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra and the Colorado Festival Singers, participants of the
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INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER CONCERT (#6) IN PRAGUE’S WORLD-FAMOUS SMETANA HALL
July 9, 2014 | 07:00 pm
The Smetana Hall, located in the Municipal House, is a gorgeous example of Art Nouveau design and brilliant acoustics. This world-famous concert hall has a seating capacity of 1.200 seats and features an original Art Nouveau organ and colourful decor from famous Czech painters and sculptors. The Municipal House is also home to the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
