Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg

03/25/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 03/26/2024 06:17

Guitar concert: students make music with the state youth plucked string orchestra at BTU

Guitar concert: students make music with the state youth plucked string orchestra at BTU

The music degree programs at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) are hosting a special concert on Easter Monday, April 1, 2024, at 3 p.m. in the concert hall on the Cottbus-Sachsendorf campus at Lipezker Straße 47, Building 7.

Young, internationally award-winning guitarists will perform an entertaining program ranging from the Renaissance and Romanticism to folkloristic and jazzy compositions. Admission is free.

In addition to students from the BTU's artistic education program, the Brandenburg/Berlin state youth plucked string orchestra will also be performing. Both the orchestra and the students can look back on a busy concert schedule at home and abroad and have each won first prizes at international competitions.

The program includes a wide variety of compositions, such as Edvard Grieg's 'Peer Gynt Suite', a romantic 'Fantaisie dramatique', which deals with the Crimean War in the 19th century, and Daniel Huschert's 'Crags of Ayrshire', in which a rugged Scottish landscape is set to music with numerous folkloristic elements. Renaissance dances, a Brazilian 'Baião' and jazzy, pop sounds will also be heard.

The Brandenburg/Berlin State Youth Plucked String Orchestra (LJZO) has existed since 1993 as a project and support measure for particularly talented young mandolinists and guitarists, according to information from the Association of German Plucked String Musicians. It rehearses twice a year in work phases lasting several days, which usually end with a concert, and also undertakes concert tours at home and abroad.
The orchestra's repertoire is very varied. It includes folklore, arrangements of baroque to romantic, sometimes symphonic pieces as well as contemporary original works.
National and international awards and prizes crown the successful work of the LJZO.

About the Institute of Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy at BTU and its study programmes:
https://www.b-tu.de/institut-instrumental-gesangspaedagogik

Specialist contact

Bernhard Dolch
Institut für Gesangs- und Instrumentalpädagogik
T +49 (0) 175 8488462
bernhard.dolch(at)b-tu.de

Press contact

Ralf-Peter Witzmann
Kommunikation und Marketing
T +49 (0) 3573 85-283
ralf-peter.witzmann(at)b-tu.de
[Link] The Brandenburg/Berlin state youth plucked string orchestra. Photo: Brandenburg State Music Council
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