The Ensemble Giocoso has been founded in 2012 by members of the mandolin orchestra HARMONIE 1931 from Dinslaken to be able to play more interesting music, pop-songs or new compositions for mandolin orchestra.
The concerts from the last years were filmed and are available as youtube videos.
Program of the concert from 2020
Christopher Grafschmidt – Auf geht’s
Olof Näslund – I Folkton
David Laheurte – Mandoline Project
Claudio Mandonico – Słoneczniki Sinti-Suite
Richard Charlton – Daintree
Pirates of the Caribbean Medley
Dominik Hackner – Danza cubana
John Miles – Music
Claudio Mandonico – Stomp from “Jazz Pop Rock Suite”
The German Bundesjugendzupforchester – The Youth Mandolin Orchestra of Germany – had it’s third meeting in August 2021. The Bundesjugenzupforchester was founded in 2019 by three young mandolin players from Germany: Laura Engelmann, Charlotte Kaiser und Clara Weise
The orchestra is composed of the best young mandolin, mandola and guitar players in Germany. The orchestra is conduced by Lisa Hummel. After several days of hard work the orchestra played two concerts, the second concert was also streamed live at youtube and is available as a video on the youtube channel of the Bundesjugendzupforchester:
In the youtube channel you can as well find videos of the performances of the first two years.
The Program – Das Konzertprogramm 2021
The program of this year was dedicated to female composers, with the exception of the mandolin concerto by Daigo Marumoto. I have taken some screenshots from the performance video to illustrate my post.
Maria Anna Martinez (1744 – 1812) Continuo: Sophie Schlaubitz Sinfonie in C-Dur 1. Allegro con spirito 2. Andante ma non troppo 3. Allegro spirituoso
Kerstin Draken was awarded a special prize – the invitation to the Bundesjugendzupforchester and the performance of the mandolin concerto by Daigo Marumoto – for the best performance at the 2021 competition Jugend musiziert.
Clara Schumann (1819 – 1886) Bearbeitung: Lisa Hummel Drei Fugen über Themen von J. S. Bach 1. Fuge Es – Dur 2. Fuge E – Dur 3. Fuge g – Moll
Miwa Naito (* 1964) Okinawa – Suite Tagelied Matsuri Lullaby for Momo
Louise Farrenc (1804 – 1875) Bearbeitung: Christopher Grafschmidt Symphonie Nr. 1 op. 32 Andante sostenuto – Allegro
On April 7, 2019 I was at a concert of the SWR Sinfonie Orchester in Freiburg. The program was composed of works by Frank Zappa. It began with three pieces from the Yellow Shark project. In 1992 Frank Zappa worked together with the Ensemble Moderne to produce a concert with his works played by a classical orchestra.
Concert of the SWR Sinfonieorchester – Frank Zappa Program April 2019
The mandolin player in Freiburg was Denise Wambsgans.
The world premiere of Yellow Shark took place at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt on Sept. 17, 1992. The recording of this concert is now available at youtube.
The World premiere took place on Sept. 17, 1992
Video – The Yellow Shark 1992
The mandolin player in 1992 was Detlef Tewes. I have made some screenshots from the video showing Detlef Tewes with his mandolin and with Frank Zappa. Jürgen Ruck played guitar and banjo. This concert is really enjoyable and has some great moments, especially in the second part of the concert.
Last summer the EGMYO (European Guitar and Mandolin Youth Orchestra) has met in Germany for a workshop and two concerts.
The workshop was organized by the Bund Deutscher Zupfmusiker (German plucked strings association). Now a set of videos about the workshop and the concerts is available. The workshop took place from July 30 to August 8 in the European Academy Otzenhausen (EAO) in Saarland in Germany.
The participants were about 50 young mandolin and guitar players from whole Europe, from Portugal in the south to Scotland in the north of Europe.
EGMYO 2016 – The Movie presentsthe participants, the team, the accordion-soloist Daniel Roth, the organisation, the rehearsals and the program in detail. The composer Marcel Wengler explains his composition “Konstellationen” which some of the players named the most interesting composition of the program.
The second playlist EGMYO 2016 contains the complete videos of the final concert on August 7, 2016 which took place in the Academy in Otzenhausen. The concert from August 6 in Echternach is also availabe as a video.
The program was composed of some very interesting compositions for plucked strings orchestra, including two pieces with accordion solo.
Norbert Sprongl (1892-1983) – Tanz-Suite op.103
Marcel Wengler (*1946) – Konstellationen and Wedding Dance
Luigi Salamon – Latin Bridge
Kenji Suehiro (*1979) – Meteorshower
Hiromitsu Kagajo (*1961) – Black Out
Bernard van Beurden: 4 Movements for Accordion and Mandolin and Guitar
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion for accordion ansd plucked strings orchestra
Dominik Hackner: Danza Cubana
Giuseppe Manente: Reverie du Poète (arr. Dominik Hackner)
This playlist contains videos of all the compositions performed at the final concert of the EGMYO (European Guitar and Mandolin Youth Orchestra) under conductor Dominik Hackner at the European Academy in Otzenhausen on September 7th, 2016.
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