Festival delle Orchestre Giovanili 2025 | Florence Youth Festival 2025

One of Australia’s leading independent schools for girls, comprising three music sections: Choir, Jazz Orchestra and String Orchestra. The ages of the students range from 13 to 18 years.

We will be able to listen to the best-known pages of pop music, from Quarantotto-Sartori's Con te partirò, brought to success by Andrea Bocelli at the 1995 Sanremo Festival, to the hits of the Artemisia Trio, to the most classic and famous symphonic pages of European and international composers, from Edward Grieg's Holberg Suite to Léo Delibes' Sylvia ballet, to the contemporary composition by Australian-Uzbek composer Elena Kats-Cherain entitled Moon Feather Magic.

An ensemble from Hong Kong, conducted by Kelvin Wan and featuring trumpet soloist Wally Kwok, performing Joseph Haydn's Concerto in E b Major.

Group from Austria, led by Maestro Matthias Seewald, with solo pianist Tobias Jacob performing Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 18.

Made up of over 70 elements, under the baton of Paul McBride, representing Northern Ireland, it will feature solo flutist Harry Douglas, who will perform the Concertino for flute and orchestra by French pianist and composer Cécile Chaminade, as well as violinist Sienna Whiteman, for the Méditation from Jules Massenet's Thaïs.

Dutch string orchestra with its conductor Carel den Hertog, who will perform the best-known Italian pages by Nino Rota and Ottorino Respighi, as well as Hungarian ones by Miklós Rózsa and Russian Peter Ilič Tchaikovsky.

Under the direction of M° Simon Wenger, the Swiss Winterthurer JugendSinfonieOrchester will perform the Symphony No. 1 in D minor op. 63 “Tellsinfonie” by Hans Huber from Locarno, Switzerland, as well as several masterpieces by Aram Ilič Chačaturjan from Georgia.

Dutch ensemble that will weave the most famous soundtracks written by John Williams and Hans Zimmer into the great classics.

95 elements from the Netherlands led by Jurjen Hempel, solo pianist Nikola Meeuwsen, winner of the prestigious International Queen Elisabeth Competition 2025.

Hailing from South Korea and conducted by Yang Kisung, the group will perform masterpieces of Italian opera, interwoven with the most celebrated traditional Korean music by current composers Kim Jin Hwan, Lee Soo-in, and Akira Miyagawa.

From the East to the Old Continent, with the German double ensemble, choral and symphonic, both conducted by Till Schwarz, for a repertoire of folk songs, jazz and pop arrangements, Italian and German symphonic pages.

American ensemble conducted by Taimy Balbuzano, soprano soloist Eglise Gutiérrez, who will perform the great 18th century European classics alongside the famous pages of Leonard Bernstein, William Turner Walton and Michael Simmons.

The Korean ensemble will perform at the Certosa in Florence.

An evocative concert dedicated to the fascinating world of transverse flute sounds.
Solo flutists: Yejin Pak and Juyeon Ji, conductor Won-Sik Kim.

From Belgium, led by Jo Schelkens, with the participation of soprano soloist Klara Segers, they will take us on a discovery of the original repertoire for wind orchestra.

The event will be closed by the Swiss who will offer us Puccini's Capriccio sinfonico, the Sinfonia. 7 in E Major by Anton Brucker and a first Italian performance of Doreen Mary Carwithen's Bishop Rock, written in 1952 by the British composer, known for her soundtracks, as a fresco in music of a splendid seascape.