Each year, the AYO Style Workshop focuses on a different aspect of performance style, taking a
deeper look into a specialised area of music-making to help increase your confidence and
enjoyment of playing. In 2011 the AYO Style Workshop will be led by Jonathan Williams, one of
Europe’s most highly respected French Horn players and a sought-after leader of wind
development programs. He will take you through an advanced level exploration of styles,
methods, and nuances of wind playing, sharing his experience as Principal Horn of the
Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

THE MUSIC DIRECTOR: Jonathan Williams

Jonathan Williams was born near London in 1957. He began playing the horn in 1967, and from 1975 to 1979 he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester .

His first post was principal horn of Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet. From 1982 he has been Principal Horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom he has recorded Mozart's four horn concertos with Alexander Schneider and has been soloist with many conductors, including Abbado, Berglund, Harnoncourt, Norrington, Elliot Gardner, Korsten, Holliger, Ivan Fischer, Andrew Davies, Myung - Whun Chung and Sandor Vegh.

With the Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe he recorded for Phillips the complete Strauss wind ensemble repertoire and in Mozart's anniversary year the complete series of Mozart's wind music.

He formed The Gaudier Ensemble with colleagues from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom they record for Hyperion Records .

From 1993 to 1997 he was Principal Horn of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In 2001 he formed with composer Carlo Crivelli the Orchestra Citta Aperta based in Italy, which
he conducts regularly and is Artistic Director. The Orchestra has recently formed its own Academy in Italy .

He has worked with many youth orchestras in England, Italy, Spain, Germany, Venezuela and  Japan.

Since 2009 he has been Artistic Leader of the Min Ensemble in Norway.

TUTORS

Diana Doherty has been Principal Oboe of the Sydney Symphony since 1997, a position she had previously held with the Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne.  Diana was born in Brisbane and completed her Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, where she was awarded the M.E.N.S.A prize for top graduating student. During this time she also won the ‘Other Instruments’ section of the ABC Instrumental and Vocal Competition and was named ‘Most Outstanding Competitor Overall’ for 1985.

Diana Doherty is widely regarded as one of the most talented Australian instrumentalists working today. She is an outstanding soloist and chamber musician. Notable successes include performing Ross Edwards’ Concerto for Oboe with the New York, Liverpool, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, and appearances with Australia and New Zealand’s leading Symphony Orchestras, Musica Viva, the Seymour Group, Four Winds and Townsville Chamber Music Festivals, ACO and Ensemble Kanazawa, Japan.
 
Between 1990 and 1997, Diana was Principal Oboe in the Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne. Since then she has performed regularly as a soloist, at many international festivals, including Prague Spring Festival, MusicaRiva festival in Italy, Bratislava Music Festival, and the ‘Young Artist in Concert’ Festival in Davos, Switzerland. In 1994 she was soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra on its tour to China.

Diana has won many awards and prizes, including joint winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, first prize at Prague Spring Festival Competition, a MO award for Classical/Opera performer of the year and an Aria for her performance of the Ross Edwards Oboe Concerto.

In 2009, in addition to her work with the Sydney Symphony, Diana appeared with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and toured to Tokyo for the Young Concert Artists Week. This year, she tours Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and performs several times in recital, including at the Sydney Opera House.

Diana’s performances are featured on nine CDs to date: Concertos by Haydn, Mozart, Martinu and Zimmerman with the Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne, released in Europe on Pan Classics; Romantic Oboe Concertos with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra under Werner Andreas Albert, Blues for DD (a recital programme of folk and jazz influenced works with pianist David Korevaar); the CD Souvenirs presenting beautiful melodies for oboe; the Ross Edwards Oboe Concerto;  Carl Vine’s Oboe Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; the Bach Concerto for violin and oboe with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (all for ABC Classics); Koehne’s Inflight Entertainment (Naxos 2005) and recently released on ABC Classics, Works for oboe and oboe damore by JS Bach with Ironwood and Linda Kent.

Photograph: Diana Doherty. Credit James Doherty


Matthew Wilkie

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Biography to come

THE REPERTOIRE

MOZART Serenade in C Minor, K.388
FRANCAIX Sept Dances
STRAUSS Serenade in E flat Major, Op.7
STRAUSS Suite in B flat Major, Op.4

BARBER Summer Music, Op.31
HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik, Op.24, No.2
JANÁCEK Mládi, JW 7/10
NIELSEN Wind Quintet
SCHOENBERG Wind Quintet, Op.26
LIGETI Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet


Applications for 2011 have now closed.

AYO Style Workshop is made possible by the generous support of the Colonial Foundation Trust.