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in action in Sri Lanka again Stemming from their previous visits to Sri Lanka in 2001 and 2002 the EUCO will once again thrill local audiences and classical music lovers. EUCO concerts will be held on November 24 and 25 at 7.15 pm at the Galadari Hotel and Bishop’s College Auditorium respectively. The concerts will include music from Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Telemann, Albinoni, Nielsen and Dvorak and guarantee to be “the Ultimate Musical Experience of 2004”. Guest Director of the EUCO Mark Gothoni will also perform solo on violin. Other soloists include Mark Paine and Samuele Bertocci on horns and Jesus Garrigues and Arco van Zon on oboes. The EUCO’s visit to Sri Lanka is organised and sponsored by the European Commission in Colombo, Galadari Hotel and Jetwing Travels. Tickets are priced at reasonable rates to encourage music enthusiasts to experience classical music at its best. Tickets for both performances are now on sale at the Galadari Hotel. The EUCO gave its first concerts in 1981 and has since gained a worldwide reputation as a musical ambassador for the European Union. Regular tours take it worldwide and performances have included those in the presence of Queen Noor of Jordan, the King and Queen of Belgium and its own Patron, Queen Sofia of Spain. In 1999 EUCO gave a concert to mark the 77th birthday of King Sinhanouk of Cambodia in the Royal Palace at Phnom Penh and in 2000 performed for the birthday of Princess Galyani in Bangkok. An annual schedule of some 70 concerts includes many prestigious halls such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Frankfurter Alte Oper, Brussels’ Palaris des Beaux Arts and Symphony Hall in Birmingham. The Orchestra has appeared at international festivals such as Val Gardena, Flanders, Echternach, Bodensee and Mecklenburg Vorpommern and regularly tours within Europe. With assistance from the European Commission, EUCO intercontinental tours regularly cover Asia, both South and Central America and the Middle East. At the invitation of the European Commission Delegation, it toured Mexico six times and in 1996 was the first “European” Orchestra to give concerts in Belize and Cuba. In 1997 EUCO’s tour of Canada celebrated 500 years since the landing of John Cabo and in 1998 EUCO toured India in celebration of 50 years of Indian Independence and the British Presidency of the EU. Following two successful visits to Sri Lanka, EUCO returned in 2002 to the Indian sub-continent, as well as to the Persian Gulf and Vietnam. The Orchestra has performed with many distinguished artistes including Cyprien Katsaris, James Galway, Serverino Gazzeloni, Lazar Berman, Mischa and Igor Oistrakh and commissions works from leading European composers. It has to its credit 18 CDs on ASV, Carlton, Hyperion, Koch and Regent. The Orchestra performs with the support of the European Community budget line, “Support to organisations which promote European Culture.” |
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