MUSICAL PROGRAMME
• Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher - Noche de Sollozos
For mezzo-soprano, Angelica Cathariou, and orchestra - World Premiere
Based on Iberian folk music and singing
A Mediterranean Youth Orchestra commission
• Maurice Ohana - Concerto for piano and orchestra
Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano
• Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird
Ballet suite for orchestra (1945)

The Mediterranean Youth Orchestra has once again turned towards Spain, the country that forms a bridgehead between Europe and the African continent. Jean-Claude Pennetier, one of the greatest living pianists, has been invited as soloist to play this profoundly Andalucian concerto Maurice Ohana dedicated to him when it was premiered in 1981. Stravinsky's Firebird was the composer's first major work and reminds us of the importance of this key figure in 20th century music. Finally, in keeping with its musical preferences when it comes to premiering new works, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra have commissioned a work based on Iberian music and singing from the young Spanish composer Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher.

MUSICAL DIRECTION Roland Hayrabedian ORCHESTRA Guest soloists : Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano Angelica Cathariou, mezzo-soprano Orchestra : 72 musicians 12 violins I, 10 violins II, 9 violas, 8 cellos, 3 double-basses, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 4 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 4 percussionnists, 1 harp, 1 piano Countries represented : Albania, Armenia, Brasil, Canada, Cyprus/USA, Croatia, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kosovo (former Yugoslavia), Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Turkey.

COMPOSERS
Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher
Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher was born in Valencia, Spain in 1974 and studied composition with Michael Jarrell at the University of Vienna where, in 1998, he was awarded a diploma in composition and the Graduation First Prize of Honour. His work with the composers Enrique Blanco and Luis de Pablo was of inestimable value to him. He is currently professor of musical analysis at the Advanced Music Conservatory of Grenada. His works have been premiered and played at a number of international festivals: Wien Modern, Hörgänge, Salzburger Festspiele, Gaudeamus, Music Factory Bergen, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Asahikawa and the City of Madrid Cultural Centre. In 2001 the Spanish Radio/Television Orchestra commission him to write a work for them; the result was Telar. In 2002 he composed a Concerto for Bass Clarinet for the Klangspuren Festival and, in 2004, the string quartet El sueño eterno for Jeunesse Austria and the ORF. In 2004 he composed El Gran Inquisidor for the Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium and Mondszene, a work for piano and live electronics. His First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra will be premiered in 2006.
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
The French composer Maurice Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco, into a family of Spanish origin. Most of his musical studies were completed in France and in 1947 he was one of the founders of the Zodiac Group that set itself the task of defending freedom of expression against the stifling aesthetic dogmas then in vogue. His early sources of inspiration were drawn from the Iberian and North African traditions before broadening to include more contemporary resources such as micro-tones and electro-acoustic material in order to break down the barriers between musical genres. Maurice Ohana was first and foremost an independent whose output is marked by a profound sense of poetry.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Russian-born Igor Stravinsky is one of the major figures of twentieth-century music. The premiere in Paris in 1910 of his ballet The Firebird marked the starting-point of an exceptionally brilliant international career as a composer. One of the high-points of this career was the premiere in 1913, by the Ballets Russes of The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky's prodigious ability to adapt to the widest possible diversity of musical language meant that, after a period in which his music was strongly influenced by Russian music of the turn of the century, he was able to adopt styles as varied as neo-classicism, jazz, polytonality and even serial techniques. Stravinsky's contribution to musical language was absolutely decisive, especially in the fields of rhythm, timbre and orchestration.

TRAINING COURSE
Residence in Istres, Provence, from 5 to 21 July
Michel Petrucciani Conservatoire intercommunal de musique (Local music school)
Teaching staff
Roland Hayrabedian, musical director
Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher, composer
Sarah Nemtanu, violin soloist / Orchestre National de France
Bujar Sykja, violin soloist / Academy of Arts, Tirana (Albany)
Raymond Glatard, viola soloist / Orchestre National de France / CNSMD, Paris
François Adloff, cellist / Orchestre Régional de Cannes Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur / ENM, Mouans-Sartoux
Claude Crousier, clarinet soloist / CNR, Marseille
Carlo Colombo, bassoon soloist / Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon / CNSMD, Lyon
Éric Sombret, horn soloist / Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon Provence / ENM, Avignon
Jacques Mauger, trombone soloist / Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris/CNR / guest professor in Rome and Tokyo
Georges Van Gucht, percussion soloist / ENM, Toulon and CNSMD, Lyon

INTERNATIONAL TOUR
from 20 to 31 july
France
Istres, Théâtre de l'Olivier
Apt, Cour Jean Giono - Festival des Tréteaux de nuit
Saint-Martin-de-Crau, Etang des Aulnes - Festival international de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron
Spain
Requena, Auditorio de la Sociedad Musical Santa Cecilia
Cullera, Auditorio Santa Cecilia
Teruel, Iglesia de San Pedro
Benaguasil, Auditorio de la Unión Musical

PARTNERS OF THE SEASON
The 2005 season is supported by :
The French embassies and cultural institutes in the participating countries - Ministries of the arts in the participating countries - Syndicat d’agglomération nouvelle Ouest Provence (Western Provence new township syndicate) - Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers) SACEM