Open Rehearsal - Informal Concert
Mikhail Glinka: Overture: Ruslan & Lyudmila
Sergei Rachmaninov: Extracts from Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
The ‘Adopt an Orchestra’ Project in March 2014 brings the EU’s premier young people’s orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra, to the City of Thessaloniki with a radical new idea: that orchestras do not exist just for the sake of conventional classical music audiences, but for entire cities. The EUYO will be in residence at the Megaron rehearsing in public, and performing a concert for new audiences with the invitation, ‘come and join us to hear great music played with great passion in a great venue at the heart of a great city’. This first residency of the EUYO in Thessaloniki precedes the Orchestra’s debut in the United Arab Emirates, and further concerts in 2014 including in Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and the UK.
The EUYO is "Orchestra in Residence" of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall for the year 2014.
The Orchestra is supported by funds from all 28 EU Member States, together with the European Union's own
Culture Programme.