It’s one of Norway’s biggest violin talents who takes the stage together with the Buskerud Youth String Orchestra at the spring concert ” Youth-symphony” in the Harmonie Concert hall on Sunday March 3^rd

15-year old Alexander Rybak was born in Minsk in Belarus and comes from a musicial family. The family emigrated to Norway in 1993. Alexander proved early a talent for music. He was a student of professor Isaac Schuldman at Norway’s Music College during the years from 1996 – 2001. The last year he has sought inspiration in the music community at Barratt Due with Alf Richard Kraggerud and Pjotr Janowsky as teachers.

 

He has gained recognition in Master Class with Henning Kraggerud, Detlef Hahn, Stephan Barratt-Due, Stephen Shipps, Ilya Konovalov, Camilla Wicks and Eduard Grach.

 

” It is a great joy for the Buskerud Youth String Orchestra, to present one of Norway’s biggest violin talents” – says the conductor of the orchestra, Thode Fagelund, before the concert in cooperation with “Musikkens venner ” in Drammen.

50 young musicians

The Buskerud Youth String Orchestra has since its beginning in 1991, had many challenging and exciting assignments, with Aage Kvalbein being soloist in Haydns cello concert as the peak and a successful collaboration with the Chinese violinist Sheng Zhong Hua.  Several of the string-players have felt for symphonic challenges. At the spring concert “Youth-symphony”, the orchestra has gathered around 50 young musicians from Buskerud’s own area, from Ullevål and Marienlyst String Orchestra and from Vestfold and Telemark. Friends from the orchestra’s annual summer course.

The horn-group is gathered from current and previous music students from St. Hallvard high school and from marching bands in the area. With a programme containing something for every taste: Schuberts ” 3^rd symphony nr. 3 in D-major, Wieniawskys “Legend”, C. Saint-Säens “Introduction et Rondo Capricciosso» and «West Side Story» av L. Bernstein/J.Mason.