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| The European Youth Big Band 2008 on Tour Swinging Europe - The European Youth Jazz Orchestra is an orchestra composed of professional musicians from European and North American countries, touring the Continent for three weeks - each year in the spring - presenting new written big band music under the aegis of the Danish-based organization Swinging Europe and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Each year the band has a completely new line-up: new musicians, new composers and a new conductor. The actual tour: 22nd of April - 9th of May 2008. EYJO 2008 The German band leader and composer Niels Klein will lead the EYJO 08. Musicians for the EYJO 08 Lead Trumpet: Christoph Moschberger - Germany Trumpet: Eivind Nordseth Lnning - Norway Trumpet: Konstantins Jemeljanous - Latvia Trumpet: Kalevi Louhivuori - Finland Lead Alto Saxophone: Tara Davidson - Canada Alto Saxophone: Petr Kalfus - Czech Republic Tenor Saxophone: Kristian Brink - Sweden Tenor Saxophone: Jure Pukl - Slovenia Baritone Saxophone: Kasper Wagner - Denmark Trombone: Fidel Fourneyron - France Trombone: Andreas Tschopp - Switzerland Trombone: Antonis Andreou - Greece Bass Trombone: Bernhard Neumaier - Austria Guitar: Quentin Ligois - Belgium Piano: Alexandru Racovita - Romania Bass: Robert Landfermann - Germany Drums: Matt Jacobson - Ireland Tour plan EYJO 08 Tue. April 22nd: Arrival and rehearsals at RemisenBrande, Brande (DK) Wed. April 23rd: Rehearsals Thu. April 24th: Rehearsals Fri. April 25th: RemisenBrande, Brande (DK) - Pre debut Sat. April 26th: Silkeborg Jazzklub at Silkeborg Hjskole, Silkeborg (DK) - Debut Concert Sun. April 27th: Gustav Heinemann Brgerhaus / KITO, Bremen-Vegesack (D) Mon. April 28th: Studio 4 at Flagey, Brussels (B) Tue. April 29th: Porgy en Bess, Terneuzen (NL) Wed. April 30th: Heilig-Geist-Spital , Nurnberg (D) Thu. May 1st: Kulturzentrum Tempel, Karlsruhe (D) Fri. May 2nd: Jazzclub Regensburg, Regensburg (D) Sat. May 3rd: Stadtgarten, Cologne (D) Sun. May 4th: WDR - Klaus von Bismarck Saal, Cologne (D) Mon. May 5th: Domicil, Dortmund (D) Tue. May 6th: Abbaye de Neumnster, Luxembourg (L) Wed. May 7th: Saarlndische Rundfunk, Studio 1, Saarbrcken (D) Thu. May 8th: Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld (D) Fri May 9th: Moers Festival, Moers, Germany (D) The two people behind the whole project are Erik Moseholm and Birgit Vinge. In 2008 it will be the 11th time that they have organized the “Swinging Europe" concept. In 1998 they commissioned Pierre Dorge from Denmark to conduct, followed by Francois Theberge (France), Helge Albin (Sweden), Benjamin Herman (The Netherlands), Django Bates (UK), Bruno Tomasso (Italy) and Pedro Moreira (Portugal). Then in 2005 the EBU Big Band and “Swinging Europe" were merged. Since then the EBU's jazz producers have taken turns in choosing the composers and conductors - Vic Vogel (Canada) 2005, Barrie Forgie (UK) 2006 and Lars Moller (Denmark) 2007. The project is kindly supported by the Culture Programme of the EU-Commission, the Danish Ministry of Culture and the Ikast-Brande Municipality. EYJO is official partner of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 . write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |