YPHIL Youth Philharmonic Orchestra

why New York City

New York City is considered the capital of the world. With its diverse ethnic fabric and nonstop rhythm, the city represents a beacon to millions of people in the United States and beyond. As home for the United Nations, New York hosts the heads of state during the United Nations General Assembly week in September. YPHIL-International Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will contribute to the achievements of the United Nations by demonstrating to the world leaders that their youth can come together and unite in one symphonic voice.

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Every person on the planet is a note in a greater symphony, telling his or her story of joy, sadness, or peace. All we need to do is listen. Notes may link together, turning into melodies and songs that are powerful and strong. YPHIL-International Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will be the symbol of this voice of world fraternity, leaving behind all conflicts and wars to come together in music. 100 extraordinary and powerful performers of the world will create one symphonic voice.

YPHIL-International Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will raise awareness for global youth issues and empower the youth through music. The participating young musical talents will perform on the same day their presidents represent their countries at the United Nations during the General Assembly meetings in New York City. While global leaders discuss the ways to make the world a more peaceful place, young voices from around the globe will show their leaders that peace and unity are possible, by coming together in a powerful musical platform.

YPHIL-International Youth Philharmonic Orchestra envisions including more than 100 young musicians from more than 70 different countries for its first year. Young musicians between the ages of 18 to 26 will come from a wide range of cultural, linguistic, ethnic and religious backgrounds to take part in this ensemble. Creating this festival of peace and fraternity will empower the voices of our youth, promote peace and dialogue, and raise awareness for universal youth issues. Through new and traditional social media, the Youth Philharmonic will reach out to millions of people to convey its powerful musical message.

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the Orchestra 2015

Special Thanks

JOSE LUIS GOMEZ, CONDUCTOR

MICHAEL AVAGLIANO, CONDUCTOR

PETER BREINER, CONDUCTOR

SEAN J. KENNEDY, COMPOSER

FARUK KANCA, COMPOSER

GJILBERTA LUCAJ, CELLIST

ALEXANDER MARKOV, VIOLINIST

DIANA BROUSSARD, DESIGNER

MICHELLE TABNICK, PR

DARREN SUSSMAN, PR

DANNY GLOVER, ACTOR

Honorary Board

Advisory Board

Artistic Board

YPHIL-International Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will perform its first orchestral piece at the Carnegie Hall in New York City. An internationally recognized and respected conductor will lead the Orchestra.

Young musicians will be selected according to their talent, the instruments they play and the countries they represent. During the selection process, the jury will take geographical diversity in consideration in order to make the orchestra as representative as possible of the world's youth. Selected students will receive online training programs by expert music teachers. After the initial online training, selected young musicians will be brought to New York 22 days before the concert to attend rehearsal camp and program. These young musicians from various countries will be incorporated with an existing 80-member choir and a 30-member ethnic folk dance ensemble to deepen and enhance the music and message.

There will be outdoor and indoor concerts at various locations throughout New York City during the rehearsal period. YPHIL-International Youth Orchestra will finally come together at Carnegie Hall, where they will demonstrate powerfully that youth can come together to promote dialogue, coexistence, peace, and above all unity.

Contemporary composers will create unique pieces for the Youth Philharmonic concert. These pieces will include music from around the world, and each participating young musician will perform his or her local music as part of the orchestra.

An international celebrity will host the concert, which will consist of two programs. Young musicians will perform during the first part, while the celebrity participant will join them at the second half of the performance.

The first concert will take place in Carnegie Hall. All rehearsals and the first concert will be filmed, produced and distributed as a documentary and made available to audiences that cannot attend the event. We hope and aim for the concert to take place in the years that follow at a larger venue such as Madison Square Garden, to accommodate an even larger audience.

On September 2016 at Carnegie Hall, these young musicians will perform together, becoming a voice of the world.

THE ORCHESTRA IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2016.

AFTER SELECTION PERIOD YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO PLAY YOUR PART IN THE YOUTH PHILHARMONIC.

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Sponsors

In 2015 YPHIL Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Project was sponsored by TURKEN Foundation.

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NYU Skirball Hall – Alexander Markov Rock Concerto

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 at 3 PM

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NYU Skirball Hall – Alexander Markov Rock Concerto

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 at 7 PM

New York Public Library at 5th Avenue with Dinner

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2016 Concert program

2015 Concert Program

Mr. Kanca is a multi-talented Turkish born composer, conductor, music teacher, music director, writer, pianist and a businessman. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Ondokuz Mayis University, a master’s degree Music Composition from Robert Schumann Musikhochschule, a second Master’s degree in Music Education from Ataturk University, as well as a PhD in Music Composition from Robert Schumann Musikhochschule and Music Education from Gazi University.

Mr. Kanca’s has taught piano, composition, harmony and musical form at both Ataturk and Gazi Universities. He has performed extensively as a pianist and conductor in Turkey, NY, Italy, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Amsterdam, Finland, and Norway. In 2012, he was the creator, composer and Musical Director of the World Peace Orchestra. He has published three books including Mozart ve Mehter (Mozart and Member of Janissary Band), Din ve Müzik (Religion and Music), and Müziğin Doğuşu (Origin of Music). In January, 2015, he founded Kanca Media, and he is one of the Artistic Board Member of Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.

Internationally celebrated violinist Alexander Markov has been hailed as one of the world’s most captivating and versatile musicians. Whether performing as a soloist with prestigious orchestras at major concert halls around the world, or playing his gold electric violin at the sports arenas in front of 25, 000 people for the NBA, Alexander Markov always makes an instant connection with his audiences. Lord Yehudi Menuhin has written, “He is without doubt one of the most brilliant and musical of violinists…Alexander Markov will certainly leave his mark on the music lovers of the world and in the annals of the violin virtuosi of our day.” Awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1987, Markov made his New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1983.

A Gold Medal winner at the Paganini International Violin Competition, he has appeared as a soloist with some of the world's most celebrated orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, the Montreal Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Markov has performed with such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Franz Welser-Möst and Ivan Fischer, and has been sharing stages with Martha Argerich and other luminaries. Upcoming highlights include a return headlining performance at Carnegie Hall with Matthew Savery conductor performing the Vivaldi “Four Seasons” as well as concerts with orchestras of Mexico, USA and Europe.

Alexander Markov has established a second-to-none reputation in the 19th-century romantic virtuoso repertoire. One of the few violinists in the world who performs the entire set of the 24 Paganini Caprices in a single recital, he is featured in the internationally acclaimed film about great violinists, “The Art of Violin,” directed by the legendary film director Bruno Monsaingeon. His CD release and the video of the 24 Paganini Caprices, distributed world-wide by Warner Classics International, caused a sensation and became a best-seller. In 2006, Warner released the long-awaited DVD of the 24 Paganini Caprices and it instantly became one of the best-selling classical DVD’s on Amazon. Many Caprices were posted by fans around the world on YouTube and some clips have two million hits.

Alexander Markov's musical journey goes far beyond his work as a classical violin soloist. While attending high school he discovered and fell in love with rock music – a love affair that merged with his first love, classical music, when he composed, “The Rock Concerto” in collaboration with James V. Remington, who also custom-designed Markov’s gold, 6-string electric violin. The new, patented electric violin is one-of-a-kind in the world and has a unique sound capable of creating the most extreme contrasts from the soft and sweet to the most powerful and dramatic. The vision of the project is to bridge a gap between rock and classical audiences closer together and to attract young people who otherwise never go to a symphony. The New York debut of The Rock Concerto was held at Carnegie Hall and sold out weeks in advance.

Alexander Markov was born in Moscow and studied violin with his father, concert violinist Albert Markov. By the time he was eight years old, he was already appearing as a soloist with orchestras and in double concertos with his father. The father and son team still perform together in duo-program repertoire in concert halls worldwide. Markov emigrated to the U.S. with his parents and received his United States citizenship in 1982.

Serhat Kaan, who is the founder and chair of YPHIL Orchestra, and the director of TURKEN Foundation, was born in 1989 in Istanbul. After obtaining Industrial Engineering degree with honors, he moved to New York City in 2010 to continue his studies for both masters and PHD degrees on full scholarship from the Ministry of National Education of Turkey.

Serhat Kaan has been actively engaged in philanthropy since 2006, the year he began to serve as the president of the Industrial Engineering Club at Fatih University. His hard work to elevate the prestige of Industrial Engineering Club was recognized by both his college and civil society leaders. Mr. Kaan enjoys a rare combination of technical expertise and political insight. Mr. Kaan’s prior service to the New York City Industries for the Blind proves his commitment in the field of human rights. His leadership role at the WPO Orchestra proves his contributions and involvement in raising awareness for global youth issues.

Mr. Kaan currently holds M.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering and M.A. Degree in International Relations & Politics both from New York University; and is seeking a J.D. Degree in New York City.

Sean J. Kennedy is a multi-faceted musician, equally accomplished on the stage, in the recording studio, and in the classroom. He has released four critically acclaimed CDs: Road to Wailea, Outta' Here, Hey! Where's My Tux?! and Queen Anne’s Revenge (featuring Bob Mintzer and Liberty DeVitto). Due to the success of these recordings, his quartet was invited to open for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck stated that Sean’s drumming, “… sounds like it should—it swings!”

Working as a freelance drumset and percussion artist, Sean has made several appearances on NBC television and ABC’s Good Morning America live from Times Square in New York City. He has performed on drumset and percussion with The Philly POPS! Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, The Strauss Symphony of America, The Allentown Band, The Boston Ballet, and has been the principal drumset player with the Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale since 2005, and can be heard on their CD, Celebrate the Sounds of the Season, as well as the group’s new DVD, Sing Choirs of Angels. He has also been able to perform with some the world's leading rock, jazz and classical musicians such as Bob Mintzer, Liberty DeVitto, Richie Cannata, Will Lee, Frederick Fennell, Elizabeth Pitcairn, Gerald Veasley, Jerry Vivino, Warren Haynes, Donald Nally, Tim Price, and Eric Marienthal.

Kennedy has also appeared on Broadway at the Beacon Theatre, with Tommy Tallarico and the Video Games Live Orchestra, and on some of the nation’s most prestigious stages, including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C.; Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City; The Music Center at Strathmore, in Bethesda, Maryland; Atlanta Symphony Hall in Atlanta, Georgia; The Electric Factory; World Cafe Live; the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall; The Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen at Disneyland. Since June 2011, one of Sean’s jazz groups, The KAV Trio, has been the official band of The Philadelphia Phillies’ pre-game show, Behind the Pinstripes with Scott Palmer, with frequent performances at Citizens Bank Park and on Phillies.com.

A sought-after composer, Sean has been commissioned on several occasions to create regional and state-level audition pieces, and has taught elementary through university-level music students throughout the United States. At home in the Philadelphia area, he is a secondary level instrumental music teacher, as well as a college-level music instructor and has taught consulted and judged marching percussion and jazz ensembles through-out the region.

Further, Kennedy has written two drumset method books with rock drumming legend Liberty DeVitto, titled Camp Jam: Rock Solid: Drums and I Used to Play Drums: An Innovative Method for Adults Returning to Play. Additionally, he has written a jazz improvisation series with famed saxophonist, Richie Cannata, titled Improvising and Soloing—In the Pocket. His latest release from Alfred Music is Sixty Second Solos an exciting introduction to solo percussion performance, already receiving glowing endorsements from the likes Dame Evelyn Glennie Kennedy has a B.S. in Music Education and an M.M. in Percussion Performance from West Chester University, and is an Artist Endorser for Zildjian Cymbals, Vic Firth Drumsticks, Casio Keyboards and Evans Drumheads. He is also a member of the American Federation of Musicians, and is a registered composer, songwriter, and publisher with Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).

Vlad DeBriansky - composer, musician, TV Producer, founder and CEO of American Music Academy. Vlad was born in western Ukraine in 1972 and studied jazz and classical music as a youth. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1996. He released his debut US album, Vladosphere in 2004. The album became a commercial and critical success with its single "Little Star" climbing to #4 place on Adult Contemporary radio chart bypassing Phil Collins and John Mayer. This record earned 4 Grammy nominations.

The following second US album Sun In Capricorn released in 2008 aired mostly on classical music radio stations around the US and received a praise from critics earning a Grammy nomination.

Vlad also worked with such notable artists as: Donna Summer, Katy Perry, Lauryn Hill, Lisa Minelli, Peter Gabriel, and many others. In 2014 Vlad formed a band "Jacks Last Dollar" and its new album "Part I" debuted as #14 on iTunes blues charts in the US. In 2013 he co-produced a popular TV music talent show "Boyuk Sehne" (Böyük Səhnə) aired in Baku, Azerbaijan, where Vlad as Jack Spade was also one of the judges. Inspired by talented young musician, he starts to explore innovational technologies in music education and collaborates with Tutor.com company to develop new approaches on this field.

In 2014 Vlad founded a unique music school – American Music Academy in Kiev, Ukraine. “I’ve always saw music an a universal language. My dream is to create an open environment for talented musicians, where they can open up their potential and develop skills, despite of any geographical borders”.

Ms. Broussard worked with luxury goods companies including Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, and Gucci, and after - started her own line under her name. For the chic, urban female, Broussard creates her collections with the finest materials coupled with intricate, unexpected detailing and a sincere respect for Italian craftsmanship. Bracelets from her collections became favorite accessories of fashion icon Sarah Jessica Parker.

And now (OMG) she prepared a special line for YPO musicians' performance in Carnegie Hall!

A native of Albania, Gjilberta Lucaj began cello studies at age six. At age thirteen she won the National Young Artist Competition. As a result she was the youngest student ever to be chosen to tour in Italy with the Shkoder Symphony Orchestra. The highlights of the tour included playing for Pope John Paul II and receiving a full scholarship from the Padova Conservatorio di Musica. Under a full scholarship, Gjilberta went on to attend the Music Conservatory at SUNY Purchase College, Mannes College of Music and Juilliard. Most recently, Gjilberta received a Masters in Music Education from the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU.

Featured in all major Albanian Newspapers; AlbaniaNews.com, Shekulli.com, Illyria.com, Korrieri.com,GazetaShqiptare.com. Given exclusive performances/interviews for: KBS-America, Time Warner Cable; NDTV.Com, Albania Culture TV, KEFTV.com and FashionTV.com. Toured extensively in Mexico, China, South Korea, Europe and most recently she was invited from the Afghanistan Ministry of Education in collaboration with the American Embassy to perform and teach at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Performed frequently in Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center. Featured in Daily Newspaper, TimeOut NY, Couture Fashion Magazine. Pioneered the soloist performances in USA Couture Fashion Shows in NYC, Tri-State area, PA, Boston and Miami. Recorded and performed for Sony, Avatar Studios, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Ricky Martin.

Most recently Gjilberta was chosen as a member of an All-Star orchestra with members from of New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Metropolitan Opera to partake in the first major Classical and Popular Festival in Barbados. In 2014 she was chosen to perform for the Vice President of USA, Joe Biden in a private fundraising event. She is currently composing the score for two full feature films and enjoys performing worldwide and teaching in NYC.

The Venezuelan-born, Spanish conductor José Luis Gomez was catapulted to international attention when he won First Prize at the International Sir Georg Solti Conductor’s Competition in Frankfurt in September 2010, securing a sensational and rare unanimous decision from the jury. Gomez’s electrifying energy, talent and creativity earned him immediate acclaim from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra where he was appointed to the position of Assistant Conductor, a post created especially for him by Paavo Jarvi and the orchestra directly upon the conclusion of the competition.

Gomez started his musical career as a violinist, and by the age of 11 he was Concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of Zulia State - part of El Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles de Venezuela. He graduated in music and violin from the Manhattan School of Music in New York before embarking on a European orchestral career. Deciding to follow his dream to have more creative input and influence on musical direction he took conducting lessons from Lu Jia, Muhai Tang and John Nelson. After just six months of studying conducting he went on to win the Georg Solti competition. Since then he has worked with the RTVE National Symphony Orchestra of Madrid, Houston Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, Hamburg Symphony, Basel Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Castilla y Leon, Orquesta Sinfonica do Porto, Grand Rapids Symphony, Macao Symphony and the Orchestra 1813 Teatro Sociale di Como with whom he also led performances of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro as part of the ASLCIO Opera Association throughout the region

Recent symphonic highlights included debuts with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Colorado, Vancouver, Edmonton, Pasadena and National Taiwan Symphony Orchestras as well as reinvitations to Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira and Elgin Symphony Orchestra. José also conducted the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in their New Year concert and several educational projects. Opera highlights have included a full run of La Bohème at Frankfurt Opera and a new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Stuttgart Opera, of which he also conducted the revival in the following season. More recently, José has made debuts with Stuttgart Radio, Weimar Staatskapelle, Alabama and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras, and he closed the 13/14 season with a spectacular production of Cavalleria rusticana in Como.

This season includes a European tour of a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni directed by Graham Vick with Teatro Sociale di Como; his debut at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in a revival of a La Forza del Destino; and orchestral debuts with Tucson Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras, and at Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

José Luis Gomez is the Principal Conductor of the orchestral season of the Teatro Sociale di Como.

Known as a conductor, pianist, arranger and composer, Peter Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, the Hungarian State Radio Orchestra, the Nicolaus Esterhazy Orchestra Budapest, the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra National de Lille, France, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, to mention just a few. He is one of the world's most recorded musicians, with over 200 CDs released and record numbers sold ( 1.5 million reached by 2008 alone ) both as albums or online streams.

Some of his most acclaimed recordings include Beatles Go Baroque (over quarter of million CDs sold worldwide) and Elvis Goes Baroque representing the collections of his commercially most successful Baroque arrangements together with Christmas Goes Baroque I and II. His arrangements of national anthems of ALL participating countries were used during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and illegally in Beijing in 2008. He recorded his own arrangements of the anthems of the participating countries of the Rugby World Cup 2011 and a new 10 CD set of the National Anthems of the World 2013 Edition was written to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games in London and was released in July 2013 by Naxos.

More recently Peter recorded his own arrangements of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death and The Nursery, and Tchaikovsky's Operatic Suites from The Voyevoda and The Queen of Spades for Naxos. These recordings, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Peter, are the subject of a new movie documentary entitled Bask also released in October 2012. In addition, September 2012 saw the much anticipated release of Peter's own orchestral arrangements of Debussy's 24 Preludes also for the Naxos label and to much worldwide critical acclaim.

These arrangements have already be chosen for ballet choreography and live concert performances worldwide. The world premiere recording for Naxos of his own arrangements of Janacek’s Six Operatic Suites with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and himself conducting earned similar acclaim, Gramophone stating “ Splendid disc .... conducted with passion and sympathetic understanding .. “ the Chicago Tribune adding “ Breiner fills the void with beautifully crafted symphonic suites based on the music of Jenufa”. All of these albums achieved places on worlwide Top Seller and Best Recording lists. His trio, Triango’s latest album was released in the fall of 2011 by First Impression Music.

Composer

Sevki Faruk Kanca

Violinist

Alexander Markov

Serhat Kaan,

Founder & Chairman

Drumset Artist

Sean J. Kennedy

Composer

Vlad DeBriansky

Fashion Designer

Diana Broussard

Musician

Gjilberta Lucaj

Conductor

José Luis Gomez

Conductor

Peter Breiner

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