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02/22/09
Young talent to the forefront
Young Queensland trumpet soloist Shane Hooton displays orchestral talent fit for a fairytale
Queensland-born trumpet soloist Shane Hooton joins the Queensland Youth Symphony for Symphonic Dances on Saturday 28 March, the opening concert to the 2009 Masterpiece Series, featuring Queensland’s youngest orchestral talent performing outstanding music from the twentieth century.
Originally from Gladstone in Queensland, 27 year-old Hooton began playing the trumpet at age nine. Hooton has studied with many of Australia’s best trumpeters including Geoffrey Payne, Yoram Levy, Daniel Mendelow, and John Hoffman.
Former Principal Trumpet of the Queensland Youth Symphony, Hooton has since worked casually with all of Australia’s symphony orchestras, and with the Southern Cross Soloists, X-Collective and the Australian Chamber Brass Ensemble. Since 2006, Hooton has been the Principal Trumpet with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He will perform late composer, author and educator William Lovelock’s Trumpet Concerto.
Symphonic Dances will also feature two great dance-inspired works: Prokofiev’s ballet suite Cinderella Suite No. 2 and Rachmaninoff’s mighty Symphonic Dances. The magic of the Cinderella fairytale is captured evocatively by Prokofiev as he portrays Cinderella’s enchanting transformation from dreamer to debutante.
Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances combine rhythmic vitality with lush melodies reminiscent of the Russian composer’s prolific output. Premiered two years before his death in 1943, the composer said of the work, “I don’t know how it happened; it must have been my last spark.†Both Russian exiles, since their deaths Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff have come to be considered as two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
Members of the Queensland Youth Symphony (QYS) audition annually alongside both new applicants and existing members. The 2009 orchestra features musicians aged up to 24 years, with the youngest current member aged 12 years old.
The current concertmaster, Nicholas Kaye-Smith (15) is also one of youngest in the orchestra’s history. Queensland Youth Orchestras Director of Music and conductor John Curro AM MBE will lead the orchestra’s premiere performance for 2009, in the newly refurbished Queensland Performing Arts Centre Concert Hall.
Tickets for this spectacular concert are available now through Qtix: 136 246 or www.qtix.com.au.
Originally from Gladstone in Queensland, 27 year-old Hooton began playing the trumpet at age nine. Hooton has studied with many of Australia’s best trumpeters including Geoffrey Payne, Yoram Levy, Daniel Mendelow, and John Hoffman.
Former Principal Trumpet of the Queensland Youth Symphony, Hooton has since worked casually with all of Australia’s symphony orchestras, and with the Southern Cross Soloists, X-Collective and the Australian Chamber Brass Ensemble. Since 2006, Hooton has been the Principal Trumpet with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He will perform late composer, author and educator William Lovelock’s Trumpet Concerto.
Symphonic Dances will also feature two great dance-inspired works: Prokofiev’s ballet suite Cinderella Suite No. 2 and Rachmaninoff’s mighty Symphonic Dances. The magic of the Cinderella fairytale is captured evocatively by Prokofiev as he portrays Cinderella’s enchanting transformation from dreamer to debutante.
Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances combine rhythmic vitality with lush melodies reminiscent of the Russian composer’s prolific output. Premiered two years before his death in 1943, the composer said of the work, “I don’t know how it happened; it must have been my last spark.†Both Russian exiles, since their deaths Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff have come to be considered as two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
Members of the Queensland Youth Symphony (QYS) audition annually alongside both new applicants and existing members. The 2009 orchestra features musicians aged up to 24 years, with the youngest current member aged 12 years old.
The current concertmaster, Nicholas Kaye-Smith (15) is also one of youngest in the orchestra’s history. Queensland Youth Orchestras Director of Music and conductor John Curro AM MBE will lead the orchestra’s premiere performance for 2009, in the newly refurbished Queensland Performing Arts Centre Concert Hall.
Tickets for this spectacular concert are available now through Qtix: 136 246 or www.qtix.com.au.
