A dream fulfilled!

The tour is now formally over. Thank's to the Swedish Embassy we got a guided tour of the Washington DC landmarks before we took off home.

Approaching Capitolium

The White House

Lincoln Memorial 

The very spot where Martin Luther King delivered his famous speech.
It was quite a dream that took us out on this tour as well, and maybe it has woken up a few new ones...

Thank you all!

A lot more pictures will be made available to the members of the orchestra in a week or so. If you have pictures that you want to share with all the other members of the orchestra, send them to tore2e@gmail.com or upload them somewhere and send me a link. 

Final concert, Strathmore Center in Washington DC

A spectacular hall and a really good audience concluded the tour.

More pictures ->

Great success at Carnegie Hall!

The double bass that Takanari Koyama used in the concert was 400 years old and was once built for a double bass player who used to play with Beethoven. The instrument now belongs to Professor Kurt Muruki.

Hugo Ticciati made a very much appreciated introduction to Tobias Broström's "Samsara".

The orchestra made a good move and delivered it's best performance ever.

More pictures ->

Final preparations at Carnegie Hall

The Swedish National Youth Orchestra welcomes the wonderful kids from the Ten 0'clock Classics!

The Ten O'clock Classics is a non- profit organization providing weekly private music lessons and instruments free of charge to New York city school children.

"Dagens Industri" is writing about the tour and the orchestra

The Swedish newspaper "Dagens Industri" wrote about the tour and the SNUO orchestra on Jan 25th. They mention that the idea of forming an orchestra for extra talanted young Swedish musicians came from conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and that "you hardly can find a more inspiring experience than playing in the Carnegie Hall". Which they are doing tonight Jan 26th at 8.00 PM.

Afternoon off...

... to have a bite of The Big Apple

Empire State Building from street level

New York from the 102nd level

Times Square 

Re-assembly at the Grand Central Station

Master class at Juliard/Metropolitan

Master class with Professor Paul Pollard for the low brass players.