2008 Programme

For a copy of the 2008 programme please call Jenny or Ruth on 01224 213800 or email info@aiyf.org

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The following is a daily listing of all the Festival 2008 events - for more information on a specific event, click the events tab above.

All tickets available from www.boxofficeaberdeen.com unless otherwise stated.

Monday 28 July

John Godber's Teechers
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm
In a pre-Fringe special preview, local young company present Teechers.
Former drama teacher and Grange Hill scriptwriter, John Godber's fascinating play catapults you back to your good old
school days with a raw and riotous look at a modern comprehensive.
The Festival are pleased to support this award winning production prior to its run in Edinburgh
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available
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Wednesday 30 July

Festival Welcome Ceilidh with Bodega
Music Hall
8pm
Some tickets may be available to the public - please call 01224 213800 for details

West Lothian Youth Theatre, Salmagundi Training Company: Monsters
7.30pm
Webster Theatre, Arbroath
http://www.webstertheatre.co.uk
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Thursday 31 July

Festival Welcome Ceremony
Music Hall
11am
Some tickets may be available to the public - please call 01224 213800 for details

West Lothian Youth Theatre, Salmagundi Training Company: Monsters
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm
In the Bathgate Hills a civil war rages between the Monster's Militia and the British
Government Army. Stephan's gang has been hiding out in a disused hall and they don't
know why or how the war started. Roxy and her gang of escaped child soldiers find them.
She has been fighting for 4 years, since she was 12 and has finally found her chance to
escape. She can't afford to let Stephan and his gang of innocents get in her way. But the
fighting is getting closer and the Monster Army want their soldiers back …
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Homestead Choir and National Youth Choir of Scotland West Lothian
Holburn West Church
7.30pm
A wonderful choral evening with talented singers from Scotland the USA, with a varied programme including; American traditional and spiritual music, Gershwin, Copland, classical favourites including Elgar and Mozart and Scottish folk songs, using arrangements by Aberdeen's own Ken Johnston.
Tickets: £9.
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland with Mark Lockheart
Beach Ballroom
7.30pm
Directed by Malcolm Edmonstone and Andrew Bain.
Experience the future of Jazz music in Scotland.
The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland performs a programme of contemporary, boundary pushing music
with renowned saxophonist and jazz improviser Mark Lockheart.
Sponsored by Shell
Tickets: £12
Concessions: £8

Later at the Lemon Tree: The Chair plus others
9pm
Lemon Tree
Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

NYCoS West Lothian
7.30pm
Peterculter Parish Church
Tickets available from Peterculter Parish Church

Cie Ph/f/ase & On the Runn
7.30pm
Lochgelly Centre
Tickets available from Lochgelly Centre

Ensembles from the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong - tbc
7.30pm
Portsoy Church Hall

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Friday 1 August

West Lothian Youth Theatre, Salmagundi Training Company: Monsters
Lemon Tree Studio
3pm
Monsters is set in Livingston in 2022, in the kind of future that we hope will never happen in Scotland,
but which is reality for far too many children and young people all over the world.
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall
7.30pm
The award winning Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra will present a powerful and spellbinding
programme including a piece by contemporary Swiss composer, Maeder, and what has been
described as a "magnificent musical masterpiece of the twentieth century", Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
Conductor: Kai Bumann
Soloist: Esther Hoppe (violin)
Maeder "Vier Pflanzen im Frühling" - (a contemporary Swiss composer)
Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E Minor
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Tickets:
Balcony £15, £13
Stalls £13, £9, £6
Concessions: £3 off
Special Ticket Offer: buy tickets for the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong,
and get a ticket for Music and Song from 3 Continents for half price.

Scottish Youth Theatre: Geordie
His Majesty's Theatre
7.30pm
The culmination of SYT's Summer Festival.
Based on the novel by the late David Walker, Geordie, tells the story of a boy from the Highlands who, in the face of adversity, overcomes his weaknesses to become a champion athlete and a young man to make Scotland, his mum and of course wee Jean back home, very proud. A tale of personal triumph with a distinctly Scottish flavour, this heart-warming musical story is adapted for the stage by David Cosgrove and Stuart Thomas, directed by Mary McCluskey (Artistic Director of and Chief Executive of Scottish Youth Theatre).
Tickets:
Dress Circle and Front Stalls £12
Family Ticket (any 4 family members) £36
UC and Rear Stalls £8
Family Ticket (any 4 family members) £24
Concessions: £3 off

Later at the Lemon Tree: The Fortunate Sons, Fuse[d], + tbc
Lemon Tree
9pm
Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

Inverurie Gala: Mitchell School of Drama, Cie Ph/f/ase and Georgia Dance Theatre Legacy
7.30pm
Inverurie Town Hall
Tickets available from www.thebooth.co.uk

Joel Sebunjo & Shenzhen City Dancing Team (tbc)
7.30pm
Universal Hall, Findhorn
Tickets available from www.thebooth.co.uk

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Saturday 2 August

Scottish Youth Theatre: Geordie
His Majesty's Theatre
2.30pm and 7.30pm
Tickets:
Dress Circle and Front Stalls £12
Family Ticket (any 4 family members) £36
UC and Rear Stalls £8
Family Ticket (any 4 family members) £24
Concessions: £3 off

Mary Garden Opera Masterclasses
Kings College Chapel
4.30 - 6.30pm and 7.30 - 9.30
Free

Project Y - Y Dance.
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm
YDance brings together the best young dancers Scotland has to offer for Project Y - Scotland's
National Youth Dance Company. These exciting young performers present an innovative programme
of new work created by British choreographers Alan Greig (Artistic Director, X Factor Dance Company),
Andy Howitt and Anna Kenrick (YDance) and guest American choreographer Duncan McFarland.
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Music and Song from Three Continents
Music Hall
7.30pm
A magical musical evening of song and music from three continents. A range of vocal and instrumental
styles including traditional choirs, drumming and folk styles from North America, Europe and Africa.
Featuring:
African Showtime Dancers
FUSED
Homestead Choir
Joel Sebunjo
NYCoS West Lothian
Qristina & Quinn Bachand
Tamana Pioneers Steel Orchestra
Tickets:
Stalls (tabled) £13
Balcony £10
Concession £3 off

Later at the Lemon Tree:
Lemon Tree
9pm
Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

Cie Ph/f/ase & Georgia Dance Theatre Legacy
7.30pm
Webster Theatre, Arbroath
Tickets available from www.webstertheatre.co.uk

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Sunday 3 August

Soloists from RSAMD - Alan John and Christopher
St Mary's Church, King Street
3pm
Program includes:
Johannes Brahms Sonata Movement in c minor
Claude Debussy Soanta for Violin and Piano
Martinu Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
Plus a selection of transcriptions of George Gershwin Preludes and Porgy and Bess.
Tickets: £4
Chamber Series Season Ticket Available

Kinetic Youth Theatre presents: KY8
Lemon Tree Studio
5pm
This Summer, the most feared postcode in Fife is coming to a town near you.
Kinetic Youth Theatre presents "KY8" - A theatrical Odyssey, portraying thirty years of, decay, decline
and degeneration in a once thriving costal town. A unique blend of live performance, film and animation
that challenges the preconceptions of an infamous postcode through the eyes of the next generation.
An all star cast of thieves, hoodies, girl gangs, 50ft Neds, and the entire population of Levenmouth
unite to deliver a hilarious, poignant and inspirational production.'
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Youth Music Theatre UK : The Silver Bough
Aberdeen Grammar School
8pm
A silver branch of the mystic apple tree, laden with fruit, is your passport to the Otherworld....
Based on the books by F. Marian McNeill, Scottish composer Gerard McBurney, Creative Director
of Chicago Symphony Orchestra and composer for Théâtre de Complicité and playwright Iain Finlay Macleod create a work celebrating and exploring Scotland's long association with pagan festivals and creatures.
From banshees to kelpies, changelings to witches, the Horned God to the Cailleach, one-eyed genius
of winter, this fascinating and innovative production begins its development with Youth Music Theatre: UK
featuring 40 of the finest young actors and musicians from across Scotland and the UK.
Fabulous physical ensemble work, fantastical characters, and a cycle of extraordinary songs will transport
the audience into a world of moon magic, spells, rites, rituals and Otherworlds that promise to be irresistibly enchanting....
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Mary Garden Gala Concert
Kings College Chapel
7.30pm
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Later at the Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree
9pm
Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

Homestead High School Choir
7.30pm
Brechin Cathedral

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Monday 4 August

Youth Music Theatre UK : The Silver Bough
Aberdeen Grammar School
2.30pm & 8pm
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Soloists from ACMS: Jack Fawcett and Craig Paton
St Mary's Church, King Street
3pm
The programme will include marimba, vibraphone and xylophone; solo pieces on accordian and arrangements on both accordian and percussion.
Tickets: £4
Chamber Series Season Ticket Available

Contacting the World: Afro Reggae Cultural Group & Space 3
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm
Contact is delighted to be part of this year's international youth arts festival in Aberdeen.
This year, two companies from its pioneering theatre exchange project for young people -
Contacting the World, will be performing in Aberdeen. Afro Reggae from Brazil and Space 3
from Manchester have been collaborating for just under a year on inspiring each other to create
new performance work. These performances were first seen in Liverpool together with ten other
theatre companies from around the world in July as part of the city's European year of culture.

Afro Reggae Cultural Group: Rua Paris 10A
Here or in any other place in the world, Paris Street 10A is about addressing and resolving existential questions.
With naturalist characters, the stage becomes a street with characters inspired by the Theatre of the Absurd.
Performed in Portuguese.

Space 3: Buy:Sell
What is the last thing in the world you would sell? What would drive you to do it?
Space 3 invite you to the marketplace - where battling voices, brightly coloured-cloth and the smell of food
teases cash from palms. A place where you have to keep your wits about you - else you could be tricked into
parting with the things you hold dearest.
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Linksfield Show
7.30pm
Linksfield Community Centre
Free

Grampian Youth Orchestra
The Sanctuary, Queen's Cross Church
7.30pm
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Cie Ph/f/ase & Georgia Dance Theatre Legacy
Aberdeen Arts Centre, 7.30pm
Cie Ph/f/ase is known for its new, exciting and original choreography, entertaining whilst pushing
boundaries and expectations. Georgia Dance Theatre Legacy create visually impressive clash of
traditional and modern, incorporating fantastic costumes and high energy moves.
If you want to be moved, challenged and entertained, then this is the show for you.
Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Later at the Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree
9pm
Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

Extended Programme

Turriff Show
Tamana Pioneers Steel Orchestra

Perth Concert Hall
7.30pm
Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong & Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra

Inverurie West Church
7.30pm
Jamie Safiruddin Quartet & Joel Sebunjo

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Tuesday 5 August

The Norman Cooper Chamber Music Competition
Trinity Hall
3pm

Public Final: Tuesday 5 August 2008

The Chamber Music Competition has been running since the Festival began. It is open to any chamber ensemble taking part in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, as well as local young musicians who live or study in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire or Moray.

Past winners include:
Cuarteto Toldra (Alejandro Munoz, Manuel Jesus Cabrera,
Ana González, Carlos González)

Tickets: £4
Chamber Series Season Ticket Available

Contacting the World
Afro Reggae Cultural Group & Space 3
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Aike Raes
Aberdeen Arts Centre, 7.30pm

Dance - Copy to follow

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

The Blue Lamp
8pm
The Jamie Safiruddin Quartet & Joel Sebunjo

The Jamie Safiruddin Quartet
A youthful, energetic blend of Jazz, Groove, Funk & Fusion. The four piece band consisting of Keyboards, Tenor Saxophone, Electric Bass & Drums, plays a mixture of original compositions, jazz standards, and unusually chosen covers played in a unique and refreshing manner. The style of material they choose from can vary massively so come with an open mind. The four young men draw on a massive range of influences, new and old to create this exciting fusion.

Joel Sebunjo
Joel Sebunjo is a master multi-instrumentalist and vocalist born in Uganda and raised in Senegal. His music reflects the diversity of his musical journey that saw him come in contact with genres such as Mbalax, Malian Blues, Ndaga, salasa and Rhai .

Tickets: £10
Concessions: £8

Later at the Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree
9pm

Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

Extended Programme

Aboyne Theatre, 7.30pm
Shenzhen Dancing Team from China

Dalrymple Hall, Fraserburgh
7.30pm
Tamana Pioneers Steel Band & African Showtime Dancers

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Wednesday 6 August

Ogston Music Prize Winner: Petra Paskova
Trinity Hall, 3pm

The Ogston Music Prize recognises outstanding musical performance. The award has been created by Professor Derek Ogston CBE LLD FRSE, a former Senior Vice-Principal of the University of Aberdeen. Petra Paskova is the first winner of the prize.

Tickets: £4
Chamber Series Season Ticket Available

Good Vibrations!
Beach Ballroom, 3.00pm

From the lively sounds of the Caribbean to the exotic beats of Africa, Good Vibrations is a family friendly exploration of drumming and rhythm making. Come and join us and try playing the steel drums!

Featuring:
African Showtime Dancers, Ghana
Bankhead Academy Steel Band, Aberdeen
Tamana Pioneers Steel Orchestra, Trinidad

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available
Family tickets available

Garidge Theatre Company and Mitchell School of Drama: Lottie
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm

We join Lottie, born in a North East poorhouse and meet the people around her who dream of different lives, a different world.

'We come into this world - crying and afraid
Born into a life - that someone else has made'

Explore your local heritage through this comic and touching new play, based on the lives of real people. Original script by Charles Barron and the company , with music and lyrics by Ashley Forbes. Directed and choreographed by Rhona Mitchell.

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Shenzhen City Dancing Team
Aberdeen Arts Centre, 7.30pm

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Mary Garden Opera: Benjamin Britten's The Little Sweep
Haddo House
7.30pm

Young Sam is sold into service as a sweep to two cruel masters. He is discovered and hidden by the children of a big house he has been cleaning. Will they be able to help him escape from his cruel employers?

Part of Britten's Entertainment for Young People, this production is a full theatrical experience with lots of dramatic opportunities, choral singing and even an audience song or two. It is a great way of introducing young audiences to the conventions of opera with a simple yet affecting story with which they can sympathise and identify.
This special production is a collaboration between Haddo Junior Choirs, AIYF & RSAMD.

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5

Later at the Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree
9pm

Tickets: £4
£1 off If you have been to another Festival show same day.

Extended Programme

Webster Theatre, Arbroath
7.30pm
Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Hong Kong

Glen Tanar Ballroom, 7.30pm - - - - possibily date to be changed
Homestead High School Choir

Thursday 7 August

Ian Watt & George Duthie
Trinity Hall, 3pm

An exciting programme of original music for piano and guitar by two of Aberdeen's brightest young talents.

George Duthie Piano
Ian Watt Guitar

Weber Divertimento, Op. 38
Carulli Gran Duo in A major, Op. 65
Castelnuovo -Tedesco Fantasia, Op. 145
Diabelli Grand Sonata Brillante in D minor, Op. 102

Tickets: £4
Chamber Series Season Ticket Available

Mary Garden Opera: Benjamin Britten's The Little Sweep
Haddo House
3pm & 7.30pm

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5

Garidge Theatre Company and Mitchell School of Drama: Lottie
Lemon Tree Studio
7pm

Tickets: £9
Concessions: £5
Festival Fan Ticket Available

Ceòl Mòr Traditional Music Big Band
Beach Ballroom
7.30pm

"Imagine a younger version of The Unusual
Suspects, say 25+ strong, mix in commitment and
musical passion, add a few exciting new commissions
and you have 'Ceòl Mòr'."

Fiona Mackenzie at Celtic Connections

Ceòl Mòr is the Aberdeen International Youth Festival's young traditional big band, made up of some of the most promising young traditional musicians from not only Scotland, Canada and the USA.

Ceol Mor will perform original and innovative arrangements of traditional Scottish songs and music as well as original work exploring the margins between traditional music, jazz and contemporary classical music, including a new piece for voices, as well as reviving 'The Wife o Kelso', a piece commissioned by Ceol Mor from Corrina Hewat, which was premiered at last year's festival, and performed again at Celtic Connections earlier this year.

Tickets: £12
Concessions: £8