EUYO Summer Tour 2025 – Grafenegg Summer Sounds
Where else for the opening concert of the biggest tour of our season to take place, than our home of Grafenegg? As part of Grafenegg’s multifaceted Summer Sounds series, the EUYO, former EUYO Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko, and cello soloist Pablo Ferrández played Stimmungsbilder – ‘Mood Pictures’ – an intense programme of Shostakovich and Dvořák.
PROGRAM
Dmitri Shostakovich · Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 (1959)
Antonín Dvořák · Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 (1889)
European Union Youth Orchestra – International
Vasily Petrenko – Conductor
Pablo Ferrández – Cello
Organizer
The European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) is a youth orchestra whose members are selected from the 27 member states of the European Union. Founded in 1976, it has served as a bridge between Europe’s music academies and the professional music world for generations of young musicians. The EUYO is regarded as one of the finest youth orchestras in the world, praised for its “extraordinarily high standards” and for performing at major European festivals such as the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Festival, and Young Euro Classic.