Bangkok--6 Jun--D&M MUSIC STUDIO On Friday, June 20, at 7:30 PM in the auditorium of Srinakarinwirot Prasarnmitr University on Soi 23 Sukhumvit Road ( Soi Prasarnmitr ) D&M Music Studio, in cooperation with Goethe Institut Thailand, is pleased to present “Beethoven, the Great Master” featuring the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra ( Macau YSO) consisting of 70 musicians from Macao and Hong Kong , China under the baton of internationally renowned violinist Leung Kin Fung (www.leungkinfung.com). of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. The program will include Egmont Overture, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61. and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 The Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra (Macau YSO) was founded in 1997 by a group of music teachers and former players from the Macao Chamber Orchestra. The Macau YSO draws its members from the local university, and from secondary and primary schools. Since its inception, the orchestra has given more than one hundred public performances. The Macau YSO has also performed with youth orchestras from overseas such as the Taiwan Fine Art Orchestra, Taiwan Shindian High School Orchestra, HK Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, and Australia SBS Youth Orchestra, among others. Having been invited by the organizers, the Macau YSO joined the American violinist Itzhak Perlman during his visit to Shanghai participating in several TV programs that include “The Television Concert of Itzhak Perlman and Thousand Violin Children.” During its tour of Hong Kong in 2004, the orchestra performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, becoming the first local orchestra to perform in that venue. It was also invited to perform in the 28th Harbin Summer Music Concert in August 2006. The orchestra has performed in many cities and countries. In 2007, the MYSO made its first international tour performing in Guangzhou (PRC) at the Xian Xing-Hai Concert Hall, in Australia (Sydney, Hobart, Brisbane) and in Singapore at the Victoria Hall. In March 2008, the Macau YSO joined the EOS Symphony Orchestra from the China Central Music Conservatory to perform in Beijing at the recently opened National Grand Theater Concert Hall under the baton of Hu Yongyan. The Macau YSO was also selected to participate in the “8th World Choral Festival Vienna & Salzburg 2008”, becoming the first youth orchestra from China to perform with the Vienna Boys Choir at the Wiener Musikverein and the Salzburg Mozarteum. In addition to its main objective of providing music education and musical entertainment to the local youth, the orchestra prides itself in introducing many local talents to audiences through two annual events: the orchestra’s “Anniversary Concert” and the “New Generation”. Since the performance of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony in the year of its inception (1997) to the recent European tour in 2008, extraordinary progress has been demonstrated by the orchestra’s young players. Macau YSO has received wide critical acclaim. Tickets are priced for the evening concert at 800 ,500 and 250 baht for students all free seating are available at Robinson Piano Showroom (5th floor Siam Discovery Center), Kita Music School, Yen Ar-kard Road Tel. 02-678-7120-1. Tel: 02-658-1080-1 or available at the door or call K. Mongkol at 081-682-8000 Mongkol Chayasirisobhon D&M MUSIC STUDIO 467 Soi Mahadthai 2, Ladprao 130 Road, Bangkapi, Bangkok 10240(Thailand) Mobile: 081-682-8000 or 086-506-8000 e-mail: [email protected]