Imagine performing . . .In the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, followed by a visit to the Great Wall during a tour of China

A concert in the Dvorák Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, followed by a dinner cruise on the Vltava River during a tour of the Czech Republic

At jazz festivals in Modena and Perugia that attract thousands during a tour of Italy

In the Conservatori Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Manuel de Falla in Granada and the Teatro Auditorio de Cuenca during a tour of Spain

Concerts in the Wrocław Filharmonia and in the Concert Hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw during a tour of Poland

A concert in the world-famous Teatro Solis in Montevideo duringa tour of Uruguay

ACFEA provides you with . . .• A dedicated Tour Manager who works with you from the initial proposal until

the end of your tour

• Offices and representatives worldwide, with experienced local staff, to ensure that your tour runs smoothly

• Knowledgeable staff who travel extensively in the places you want to tour

• The most reputable trucking services for transporting your instruments while you are on tour

• Opportunities for your ensemble to perform with local groups

• Distinctive cultural experiences to accent your tour such as homestays, special dinners and unique workshops

• Up-to-date online information – customized for your group – on the Tour Central section of our website

• Personal service throughout, including group presentations, careful handling of all individual travel requests, a pre-departure briefing for the entire group approximately one month prior to your tour and assistance with check-in at your departure airport

ToursPerforming Arts Tours Around the World . 2015

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DC Youth Orchestra Program2014 Tour of ColombiaOn June 24th, the DC Youth Orchestra Program landed in Bogota. The nature of this tour meant that the orchestra would stay in Bogota for the bulk of its trip, spending the first week of its visit in intensive rehearsals and workshops with Batuta, a Colombian youth orchestra program based on El Sistema in Venezuela. This was followed by three joint concerts, with nearly 130 players on stage at each performance, first in the Basilica in Tocancipa, then in the colonial town of Villa de Leyva, and finally in the Auditorio León de Greiff at the National University of Colombia in Bogota. The combined orchestra performed a program of Beethoven, Ginastera and Wagner, followed by an encore of the popular Colombian tune “Colombia Tierra Querida”, which never failed to inspire dancing in the audience (and the violin section!). By the end of the final concert, the bond between the two groups had become so strong that the DCYOP students had to be ripped out of the arms of the Colombians in order to make their flight home!

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra2014 Tour of ChinaACFEA is honored to be the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s exclusive concert tour organizer, and 2014 saw the fifth tour that we have arranged for them. Three have been to Europe, one to South America, and this latest one was to China.

CYSO’s first performance, to a sold-out audience of over 2,000, was in the most prestigious concert hall in China: the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, often referred to as ‘The Egg’ because of its external appearance. Their final concert was in the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, a magnificent complex that fits three performance venues into a beautiful building that resembles an orchid from above; 1,600 people heard them there. In between were concerts in Xi'an’s Concert Hall and the Opera House of the Hangzhou Grand Theatre. All the concerts were attended by large crowds that warmly welcomed these young musicians and their program of Brahms, Bartók, Copland, Stravinsky and Zhou Long (they played The Rhyme of Taigu by this popular Chinese-American composer) was very well received.

El Camino Youth Symphony2013 Tour of the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and HungaryEl Camino’s 2013 tour took the performers to some of the key musical cities in Central Europe, and we were able to arrange concerts for them in some of the world’s most hallowed halls:

• Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum, Prague

• Grosser Saal of the Mozarteum, Salzburg

• Slovak Radio Hall, Bratislava

• Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest

Through the hard work of our colleagues in Europe, we were able to attract very good audiences for each concert: 800 in Prague, a near sell-out in Salzburg, 400 in Bratislava and over 1,000 in Budapest. Both the Salzburg and Bratislava concerts were in aid of local charities, with over €10,000 ($13,500 at that time) being raised in Salzburg. The US embassies in Prague and Budapest lent their support to their respective concerts, and the Cultural Attaché in Budapest joined ECYS for a Fourth of July dinner cruise on the Danube.

ECYS in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest, Hungary

CYSO members on a rickshaw tour in Beijing

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Brunswick Blue Notes2013 Tour of Germany and AustriaIt was mid-May and everything for the Brunswick Blue Notes’s tour of Germany and Austria was ready to go. There was just one problem: it was raining hard in Central Europe and wasn’t showing any sign of stopping. May, 2013 had already been one of the wettest in the last 156 years in Austria, with Germany showing rainfall levels twice the norm. But when the rains didn’t let up, the rivers finally let go.

Most of the Blue Notes’s tour arrangements were okay, with one exception: the little town of Pegau, a half hour south of Leipzig. The theater in which they were to perform was fine, but as it was the only building in the town that wasn’t flooded, it was serving as a refuge for those who needed shelter. It looked as if the whole thing would be canceled, but the concert organizers sprang into action, and soon a concert with the citizens of Pegau turned into a concert for the citizens of Pegau.

The Höfe am Brühl, a brand-new mall in Leipzig, had built an atrium specifically for concerts. With good acoustics and the possibility of exposure from foot traffic, it made for an ideal spot for the concert. Paul Raaen, the director of the Blue Notes, called the concert a “moving performance.”

Founded in 1955, before almost all of our staff were born, we are celebrating our 60th birthday in 2015. Even I, the longest-serving employee in North America, will have 'only' been with the company for 29 years by then, a humbling thought that emphasizes the durability of the organization regardless of any individual.

When we started, tours were much longer (not least because the transatlantic journey was by sea) and much cheaper (I have a brochure for a 1967 tour, 12 years later, advertising 22 days in 8 countries for $745, including airfare). But much has not changed: we are still staffed by musicians, we still inspect every hotel and every performance venue, we still give pre-departure briefings, and we still see groups off at the departure airport. It seems we got a lot right from the very beginning.

I am honored to be part of an institution that has given so much pleasure to so many people for so many years, and very content knowing that, when the time eventually comes for me to retire, the company has a momentum and longevity of its own.

Happy birthday, ACFEA!

ACFEA staff in Savannah, GA during our 2014 Global Summit

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DC Youth Orchestra Program performs in the cathedral in Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Brunswick Blue Notes performs at the Höfe am Brühl in Leipzig, Germany

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PeruRoosevelt High School Jazz Band performs in the Piazza IV Novembre at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia

Chicago Consort performs in the Iglesia Santo Domingo in Cusco

Denver Young Artists Orchestra performs in Brandenburg Cathedral

UC Davis Symphony Orchestra performs in the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona

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Chicago Consort performs in the Iglesia Santo Domingo in Cusco

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Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra performs in the Musikverein for the judges of the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival in Vienna

“It was a pleasure for the Blue Notes to reach out to communities and people in need with our music and made our tour to Germany and Austria a much more meaningful experience that none of us will forget.”

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ACFEA has arranged tours for hundreds of

orchestras and bands from the United States and

Canada. Some of our recent clients

include:

Anchorage Youth Symphony, AK (Director, Linn Weeda) 2012 Tour of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria

Boston Youth Symphony, MA (Director, Federico Cortese) 2012 Tour of Austria and Hungary

Brunswick Blue Notes, CT (Director, Paul Raaen) 2013 Tour of Germany and Austria

California State University Fullerton Jazz Ensemble (Director, Charles Tumlinson) 2013 Tour of the USA

Cascade Youth Symphony, WA (Director, Gerry Marsh) 2014 Tour of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Chicago Consort, IL (Directors, Edward Kreitman and Tom Wermuth) 2012 Tour of Peru

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, IL (Director, Allen Tinkham) 2014 Tour of China

Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, OH (Director, James Feddeck*) 2012 Tour of the Czech Republic and Austria

Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, NH (Director, Anthony Princiotti) 2014 Tour of Hungary, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

DC Youth Orchestra Program (Director, Mariano Vales) 2014 Tour of Colombia

Denver Young Artists Orchestra, CO (Director, Wes Kenney) 2014 Tour of Italy, France and Spain

Edmonds-Woodway High School Bands, WA (Director, Jake Bergevin) 2015 Tour of the USA

Edmonton Singing Strings, AB (Director, Petar Dundjerski) 2014 Tour of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic

El Camino Youth Symphony, CA (Director, Camilla Kolchinsky*) 2013 Tour of the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary

El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras, TX (Director, Andy Moran) 2012 Tour of the USA

Empire State Youth Orchestra, NY (Director, Helen Cha-Pyo) 2012 Tour of China and South Korea

Garfield High School Jazz Band, WA (Director, Clarence Acox) 2014 Tour of France and Italy

Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra, CT (Director, Chris Hisey) 2014 Tour of China

Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra, NY (Director, Gerard Floriano) 2014 Tour of Italy

Hood River Valley High School Band, OR (Director, Mark Steighner) 2015 Tour of the USA

Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra, MI (Director, Andrew Koehler) 2014 Tour of China

Mercer Island High School Bands, WA (Director, Parker Bixby) 2014 Tour of Canada

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, WI (Director, Margery Deutsch) 2012 Tour of the Czech Republic and Austria

Overlake School Band, WA (Director, Steve Mraz) 2013 Tour of the USA

Pacific Lutheran University Jazz and Wind Ensembles, WA (Directors, David Deacon-Joyner and Ed Powell) 2013 Tour of Australia

Princeton University Jazz Ensembles, NJ (Director, Anthony Branker) 2014 Tour of Italy

Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, WA (Director, Scott Brown) 2012 Tour of France, Switzerland and Italy

Suzuki Strings of Hampton Roads, VA (Director, Christina Morton) 2014 Tour of Peru

University of California, Davis Symphony Orchestra (Director, Christian Baldini) 2012 Tour of Spain

University of Richmond Jazz Ensemble, VA (Director, Mike Davison) 2012 Tour of Spain and Portugal

Virtuosi of Houston, TX (Directors, Andrzej Grabiec and Franz Krager) 2015 Tour of France

Youth Orchestra of San Antonio, TX (Director, Troy Peters) 2014 Tour of the USA and Canada

* No longer active director of this group

Overseas Staff & RepresentativesNick Abbott Director of Sales, Europe

Elizabeth Assmann Tour Manager, London

Dan Bucur Regional Representative, Romania

Andrew Cheung Artistic Consultant, Hong Kong

Catherine Clambaneva Tour Manager, London

Helen David Director of Operations, London

Eleanor Etherington Tour Manager, London

Sylvia Garcia Marin Manager, Latin America

Tony Hastings Projects Manager, Europe

Catherine Langston Tour Manager, London

Robert Latimer Manager, Australia and New Zealand

Anna Lavery Tour Manager, London

Clare Lawrence Regional Representative France and Spain

Elfriede Leimer-Rizzotti Regional Representative, Italy

Anders Lindstrom Regional Representative Scandinavia

Pieter Myburgh Manager, South Africa

Alina Peretti Regional Representative, Poland

Sue Peter Regional Representative, Germany

Richard Savage Managing Director of ACFEA Europe

Jeff Sha Manager, China

Becky Shaftoe Senior Tour Manager, London

Tassos Strikos Regional Representative, Greece

Bea van der Kaaij Regional Representative the Netherlands

Olga Yemelyanova Regional Representative, Russia

For short biographies, please visit acfea.com/why-acfea/our-people

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YUHI AIZAWA COMBATTIis a Tour Administrator in the San Francisco office. She grew up in Kanagawa, Japan and has sung in choirs and played piano all her life. Yuhi moved to the United States to attend Westminster Choir College, where she earned a degree in Vocal Performance as well as performed and toured with Westminster Choir and Kantorei. She performs regularly with professional groups in San Francisco, one of which is Volti, the award-winning chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of new vocal music. Yuhi has traveled to Italy, France, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Nicaragua and Australia.

AMANDA BAUMANis a Senior Tour Manager in the Philadelphia office. Amanda has been performing in bands and choirs her entire life, including several ensembles at her alma mater, Duquesne University, and the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, for which she also served as board member for several years. She has travelled extensively in Europe, South America and Asia, but her true passion is Africa, where she met her husband, Maurice.

HUGH DAVIESis President of ACFEA North America, based in the San Francisco office. Born in England, he has a master’s degree from Cambridge, where he sang at King’s College under Sir David Willcocks. Hugh sang professionally in Europe, including with the Monteverdi Choir, before teaching music in Australia. He now performs as a soloist and with several professional ensembles in the Bay Area. Hugh was on the board of Chorus America for nine years, and is currently President of American Bach Soloists.

COLLEEN EVANSis a Tour Administrator in the Philadelphia office. She graduated from American University with degrees in Vocal Performance and Business Administration. Colleen has been singing in choirs since an early age, beginning with the children’s choir at her church, followed by multiple choral groups at her high school. While at American, Colleen sang with the American University Chamber Singers and toured with them throughout Russia. Colleen has also traveled within Europe and Central America and is excited to visit countries she has yet to explore.

RACHEL FLAMMis a Tour Manager in the Seattle office. Originally from the Chicago area, Rachel sang with the Palatine Children’s Chorus for 14 years, touring with them throughout North America and Europe. She graduated with a degree in Music from Carleton College, where she played clarinet and sang as well as studied abroad in Germany and Austria. Rachel has also traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Mexico, South Africa, Israel and Jordan. She currently sings with the Northwest Chamber Chorus.

EMILY FRYE HENRIKSENis a Tour Manager in the Philadelphia office. She grew up in Missouri, where she sang with the St. Louis Children’s Choir for nine years, including on tours to Russia and Scotland. Emily received degrees in Music and Magazine Journalism from Drake University, during which time she traveled to Paris for a study abroad program and toured Europe with the university’s choir. She has also traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.

Unseen but IndispensableThe Tour Managers are ACFEA’s front line, but there are many others in our organization who make our tours happen. We gratefully acknowledge the mighty efforts of:

Bill Barber Group Travel Manager

Christine McLaughlin General Manager

Greg Newell Marketing Manager

Ken Olson Operations Manager

Andréa Wallis Operations Administrator

Our goal is to provide unique opportunities for memorable and life-changing experiences.

North America Staff

JEFFERSON PACKERis a Tour Manager in the San Francisco office and is a lifelong singer and pianist. He began touring internationally as a performer while a student at Harvard, where he received a degree in Music and Romance Languages and Literatures, before going on to pursue a master’s degree in Piano Performance at San Francisco State University. Jefferson has lived in Greece and Italy, and toured Germany and the Czech Republic as Manager of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He is particularly fond of Latin America for his own travels, but there’s nowhere in the world that he wouldn’t like to see, or see again.

JEFFERY THYERis a Tour Manager in the Philadelphia office. He grew up in Indiana and holds a bachelor’s degree in Church Music from Indiana Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in Choral Conducting from Ball State University. Previously, Jeffery was Director of Program Development for Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY), a concert production company in New York City, and Conference Consultant for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). He currently sings with the Greater South Jersey Chorus. Jeffery has traveled to several countries in Europe as well as to Turkey, Mexico and Nicaragua.

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