Das Jugendsinfonieorchester Stuttgart

The Stuttgart Youth Symphony

The Stuttgart Youth Symphony of the Stuttgart Music School offers the opportunity to rehearse and perform works of the symphonic repertoire for young musicians in the greater region of Stuttgart, Germany.

Approximately 70 instrumentalists rehearse weekly and perform 2-3 public concerts each year in and around Stuttgart. The Stuttgart Youth Symphony is open to instrumentalists from the Stuttgart Music School as well as private students over the age of fourteen. Especially talented young musicians may also be able to perform as a soloist with the orchestra.

Concert tours and exchange projects play an important role in our orchestral activities. In 1999, the orchestra traveled to Brazil, in 2002 the orchestra traveled to South Africa, and in 2006, the orchestra gave concerts in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, Australia.

In the Summer of 2008, the Stuttgart Youth Symphony performed 8 concerts on a tour to New Ulm, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Chicago, in the United States of America.

Alexander G. Adiarte, Conductor

The Filipino-American conductor Alexander G. Adiarte was born in Minnapolis, Minnesota in 1975. He graduated with a B.A. in Music from Yale College and an M.M. in Violin from the Yale School of Music. He then completed his Diploma in conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ in Leipzig. In 2003, Adiarte received a Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship, where he participated in master classes with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Kurt Masur.

From 2004-2006, Adiarte assisted in several music theater productions at the Stutgart State Opera. At the Young Opera, he assisted in the productions of Stephen Olivers „Mario and the Magician“, Ernst Toch’s „The Princess and the Pea“, and Joseph Haydn’s „The traveling Ceres“. At the Forum for New Music Theater, he assisted in Lucia Ronchetti’s „Last Desire“, Hans Thomallas „fremd“, and directed the world premiere of Hans Tutschku’s „The Sweetness of our sad Childhood“. Furthermore, he assisted in the Stuttgart State Opera world premiere of Younghi Pagh-Paans opera „Moonshadows“ in Juli 2006.

Adiarte has conducted concerts with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, the New Fromm Players in Tanglewood, and ensemble v.act and ensemble gelberklang in Stuttgart. From 2004-2007, Adiarte was the choir director of five different choirs in the Stuttgart region. Furthermore, he was the music director of the TonArt Symphony Orchestra in Heidelberg. Since 2006, he has been the music director of the Leonberg Symphony Orchestra.

Adiarte has received Scholarships from the „Akademie Musiktheater heute“ of Deutsche Bank and the Richard Wagner Scholarship.

Since August 2007, Alexander G. Adiarte is the Orchestra Director of the Stuttgart Music School, directing the Young Chamber Orchestra of Stuttgart, the Stuttgart Youth Symphony, the String Orchestra, and the Capella Piccola.