ENSEMBLES 2024

Cloud Concert Youth Orchestra

Cloud Concert Youth Orchestra (CCYO) is a non-profit organization founded by the Australia-China Music Communication and Promotion Association in 2020 during Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown. The CCYO was founded to support and motivate our young musicians to continue their music journey during the global pandemic, to provide them with a positive environment for them to communicate, and to provide a wealth of opportunities to perform. In the past three years, CCYO has hosted over 20 online concerts, which successfully ignited a passion for music in our community. Over 100 families have participated in these concerts and performed online for audiences of over 500 people.

Juan José Navarro

Conductor

Juan José Navarro is a native of Godelleta in Valencia. He graduated as Profesor Superior of the Clarinet with Honours. He has studied and assisted on various clarinet seminars with teachers such as Jean Luis Sajot, Ramón Barona, Roy Jowit, José Tomás, Walter Woykens and J. Vicente Herrera among others. In 1997 on becoming a teacher in the Conservatorio Elemental de Musica of El Ejido and the Conservatorio Profesional of Córdoba he became a member of the Cuerpo de Profesores de Música y Artes Escénicas pertaining to the Junta de Andalucia. Subsequently he attained his current position at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Almeria.

He has led a number of courses for the conducting of wind band and orchestra with teachers such as Salvador Más, Manuel Hernández Silva, Enrique Garcia Asensio, Jerzy Salwarowski, Paollo Belomia and Cesar Álvarez. He obtained the title of Profesor Superior de Dirección de Orquesta with José Miguel Rodilla in the Conservatorio Superior de Música of Murcia, finishing his studies with the highest possible results and graduating with L´Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky. He was nominated by the Conservatorio Superior to perform the duties of assistant director for the Orquesta de Jóvenes de la Region de Murcia.

He has run courses, lectures and given master classes for conducting in Universities as Almería (Spain), Virginia Tech University (Virginia), The University of Illinis (Illinois), Eastern Michigan University (Michigan), University of Northern Iowa (Iowa), University of Maryland (Maryland), University North Caroline Greensboro (North Caroline), Bolzano High Conservatory (Italy),  Luisiana State University (Luisiana), University Jewel College ( Missouri), Kansas University (Arkansas) and in places as Murcia, Galicia, Jaén, Granada and Almería organized by such institutions as the Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria of the University of Almería, the Federación Andaluza de Bandas de Música, the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Música of Almería as well as for the teaching staff at the Centro de Enseñanza al Profesorado.

Juan José Navarro is frequently invited to adjudicate as a member of the board of examiners for composition, orchestra and wind orchestra, chamber music and best young musician as well as for the National Competition of Wind Orchestra in Murcia, the National Competition of Composition in San Pedro del Pinatar, Concorso Internazionale “Tomasso Traetta” (Italy),  the Valencia Wind Bands Competition, the UK´s National Concert Band Festival, George Gershwin International Music Competition (New York), Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Euregio Klassica di Trento (Italy), Elda Winds Competition (Spain), International Music Competition Florestano Rossamunda ( Italy), Lake Como International Conducting Competition (Italy) and the National Orchestra and Wind Orchestra Competition in South Korea.

He got the second prize conducting the San Indalecio Wind Orchestra in the National Competition in Murcia and the first prize conducting the Unión Musical de Godelleta in the Special Section of the Wind Bands Competition of Valencia.

He has been titular musical director for 8 years of the Sinfónica Municipal de Almería.

He is co-founder along with José Miguel Rodilla of the Academia de Dirección de Orquesta y Banda, “Diesis“, which gives classes in Almería, Murcia, Sevilla and Valencia to more than eighty pupils from every part of Spain.

Currently he is teacher at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Música of Almería and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and Choir at the University of Almería.

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Additional Concerts Program