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.

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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.

A voice from the audience at the Chicago Symphony Hall

The orchestra was wonderful! Such a talented group of young people, and such a consistently high quality performance!  We thought it was quite remarkable!
It was clear that the orchestra members are the "cream of the crop" of young instrumentalists. They were so together, with nimble fingers and beautiful expression.  It was a joy to hear them!

Preparing for rehearsasls at Cary Hall, New York