07/10/16 - 17th October - Brussels: The EUYO plays at the Jean Monnet Annual Conference
Organised by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture, and in the presence of EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics, the EUYO will perform later this month at the Jean Monnet Annual Conference, which brings together professors and researchers on EU Studies from all over the world.
Tying in with the conference theme "Global Governance in times of Global Challenges", members of the The EUYO will perform a programme of especially put together music by 5 non EU composers who together span the Globe in sound:
An Equal Music - Global Sounds for a Global Century - Players of the European Union Youth Orchestra
Tango 'king' Astor Piazzolla from Argentina
Expert folk song writer Zhou Long from China
Celebrated Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
South African conductor, director, lecturer and composer Mokale Koapeng
One of the world's great living compositional icons, Steve Reich, from the USA.