Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra
Orchestra
Sunday, 09. August 2026
11:30 a.m., Gstaad Festival Tent
Just like the Amateur Orchestra – and the Festival itself – the Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra is entering a major new chapter in its history. After many years under the dedicated direction of Matthias Kuhn, the baton now passes to an equally passionate conductor: Daniel Geiss, born in Essen and currently active in Neubrandenburg and Belgrade. The highlight of this first public performance: the exceptionally demanding music Igor Stravinsky composed for The Firebird – premiered in 1910 in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes – is regarded as an ideal “masterclass” for young musicians, both technically and in terms of tone colour and expressive power.
Menuhin FESTIVALFREUNDE
Soloists of the Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra
Menuhin Festival Youth Orchestra
Daniel Geiss, Conductor
| Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) | |
| Concerto for 4 Violins in B Minor, RV 580, from “L'estro armonico”, Op. 3 No. 10 (1711) | 10' |
| Peter Tschaikowsky (1840–1893) | |
| “Romeo and Julia”, fantasy overture (1869) | 20' |
| Igor Strawinsky (1882–1971) | |
| “The Firebird”, orchestral suite No. 2 from the ballet music (1919) | 20' |
| 20' | |