{"id":6704,"date":"2017-01-12T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T14:01:22","slug":"european-guitar-and-mandolin-youth-orchestra-egmyo-workshop-and-concerts-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=6704","title":{"rendered":"European Guitar and Mandolin Youth Orchestra (EGMYO) – Workshop and Concerts 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer the EGMYO (European Guitar and Mandolin Youth Orchestra)<\/strong> has met in Germany for a workshop and two concerts.<\/p>\n

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The workshop was organized by the Bund Deutscher Zupfmusiker<\/strong> (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<\/span> Otzenhausen (EAO) in Saarland in Germany.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EGMYO 2016 – The Movie<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

The second playlist EGMYO 2016<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

The program was composed of some very interesting compositions for plucked strings orchestra, including two pieces with accordion solo.<\/p>\n