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  • WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA

  • WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA is mainly for high school youth. The orchestra plays symphony orchestra music as well as music meant for wind orchestras and string orchestras respectively. Here, you get to take on a bigger responsibility for your section and for how the sections work together. You play different kinds of repertoires and further your knowledge of orchestra work.

    Schedules now available for all tracks. Click on the button below to download.

    PARTICIPANTS

    Age: ca 13–17 years

    Instrument experience: 5–7 years

    Orchestra experience: Good

    Participation fee: 500 SEK/participant

    TRACK INFO

    The track starts on Saturday June 17 and ends with Wind & String in Concert on Tuesday June 20 in the evening.

     

    Participates in the following concerts:

    Festival Concert – Tuesday June 20, Scandinavium
    Wind & String in Concert – Tuesday June 20, Concert Hall

     

    Preparations:

    Participants should be well rehearsed on the sheet music at camp start

    TIME FRAME OVERVIEW

    24H CLOCK, CEST

     

    June 17

    11:45-13:00 Registration open, Konserthuset

    13:30-14:30 Instrument rehearsal, Hvitfeldtska Södra

    14:45-16:00 Tutti rehearsal, Elite

    16:15-17:15 Sectional rehearsal, Elite

    17:30-18:30 Dinner (only for accommodation), Hvitfeldtska matsal

     

    June 18 10:00-17:00

    June 19 09:00-17:00

    June 20 10:45-20:15 Including Festival Concert 15:00-16:30 and Wind & String in Concert 19:30-20:15

  • 13 years or older without adult

    Child under 13 years with adult

    13 years or older with adult

    Adult non-playing/-singing

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    The last application period closed on April 13. Applications for the following year's camp normally open in the late fall.

  • Repertoire

    WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA

     

    WIND

    Holst: First Suite in Eb for Military Band: 3 March

    Erickson: Air for Band

    Van der Roost: A Highland Rapsody

     

    STRING

    Sibelius: Andante Festivo

    Saint-Saëns: Danse Baccanale (arr Hoffman)

     

    TUTTI

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dance (arr Stone)  

    Ginastera: Estancia: 1 Los Trabajadores Agrícolas

    Staern: En strimma hav (world premiere)

    Pachelbel mfl: Canon/Memories (arr Tvete Vik/Dahlgren)

    Toprak: Captain Marvel

     

    More songs will be added.  

     

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  • Conductors

    Marjolein Vermeeren

    Terje Skomedal

    Marjolein has a double degree in flute and wind band conducting. She grew up in the southern Netherlands where there is a big tradition in wind band music, and she has worked a lot with youth orchestras. Marjolein is a flutist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and has attended Side by Side for several years as an instructor for the older participants. She has been a Side by Side conductor since 2020 and is the principal conductor at WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA.

     

    Photo: Francis Löfvenholm

     

    Terje is a violinist from Norway and since 2009 he is the first chair for Violin 2 in Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He is also the concertmaster in BAGS, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra's ownbaroque ensemble. Terje has led WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA in their string orchestra repertoaire since Side by Side 2022.

     

    Photo: Anna Hult

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