July 22, 2011

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April 8, 2011

Amidst all the excitement of Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, look what turned up on YouTube!

Mar 17, 2011 

Edwin Outwater, Music Director here at the KWS, appears as Michael Tilson Thomas' assistant conductor with the YouTube Symphony in Sydney, Australia from March 14^th - 21^st.  Mr. Outwater returns to this position, which he held in 2009's first incarnation of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall, New York. KWS principal bass player Ian Whitman also performed with the YTSO in 2009. This year, KWS violinist Allene Chomyn makes her debut with the all-new orchestra.

The week's concert finale on March 20 at 8 PM EDT (5 AM EST on the same day), will be streamed live on YouTube, and will present an international array of compositions, ranging from works by Bach, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Britten and Ginastera to those by the Australian-born Percy Grainger, contemporary Australian composer Nigel Westlake, and a premiere by former Intersections artist, Mason Bates. 

Throughout the week, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 is celebrating musical education by offering online master classes with orchestras across the globe and on-site classes with Australian musicians during the summit. The program brings the creative multimedia and collaborative qualities of YouTube to the classical music community, using the inherent egalitarianism of the internet to offer unique opportunities to musicians around the world.

Feb. 23, 2011

Feb. 8, 2011

Some KWS musicians and Music Director Edwin Outwater joined a couple of awesome local bands in a workshop a couple of weeks ago. The results were pretty neat!

Group B: Cross-Genre Collaborative Workshop #1 from Dave Mansell on Vimeo.

Group A: Cross-Genre Collaborative Workshop #1 from Dave Mansell on Vimeo.

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