Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra in Europe

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John Koshak, Music Director at the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra in Orange, California traveled this summer with Music Celebrations International as part of the American Celebration of Music in both Italy and Austria. The following is John’s description of his experience:

“Thank you for a terrific and first class concert tour! … What a pleasure it was to conduct my orchestra in top professional level venues with great audiences in five of the world’s greatest cities———–Rome, Florence, Venice, Salzburg and Vienna.

John, I really appreciate your and MCI’s professional way of working with orchestras and providing us with the best possible concert tour. With every email and phone call I had with Carol Navarro… I knew that I was working with a person who truly cared about the level of our concert tour experience and looked at every detail of the tour to make certain that it would be outstanding and it was. We had first class hotels, wonderful meals and terrific guided tours. Again, all was on a very high level with the goal of providing my students and their families with the concert tour of a lifetime!

To any conductor, musician, orchestra, band or choir, most important is the music and the performance experience. In this area MCI excels! You have top professionals arranging the venues, promoting the concerts and providing the best performance experiences possible with the highest regard to professional standards. In Italy with Simona Belluzzi and in Austria with Maria Oehmichen, you had two of the best professional Concert Managers in Europe making all the concert arrangements, from selecting venues, promoting the concerts, working with the local concert hall managers, and in every way possible providing the OCYSO and me personally with wonderful concert experiences. The concert halls were full and the audiences amazingly responsive. You can imagine how thrilled my young musicians felt performing concerts in beautiful surroundings and receiving 10 to 12 curtain calls at each performance! It was a magical moment in each of their lives and I want to thank you and say Bravo MCI!

I look forward to working with you on future tours and I recommend that fine music organizations across the country also arrange their next tour with MCI.”

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