1st China Tour

26 December 2005 to 10 January 2006

 

Tha Amadeus Orchestra was invited to China for the first time in 2005. During an extremely tiring but very rewarding tour, the orchestra played 11 concerts in 16 days, in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hohhot and Shanwei.

 

Programme

Mozart - Overture to Marriage of Figaro, 1st movement of Sinfonia Concertante & Overture to Don Giovanni, Elgar - Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1, Tchaikovsky - Chinese Dance & Valse des Fleurs, J Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz, J Strauss Jnr - Thunder and Lightening Polka & Pizzicato Polka, Li Huan Zhi - Spring Festival Overture, Elgar - Enigma Variations, Rossini - William Tell Overture, J Strauss Jnr - Radetsky March, Brahms - Hungarian March No. 1

 

Conductors - Philip Mackenzie and Greg Batsleer

Leader - Victoria Sayles

Soloists - Michael O'Donnell, Angus Meryon, Hannah Mackenzie, Polly Beaven

 

See the official photographs of the trip

 

The full itinerary!

 

List of Players

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