Orchestral Music Concert - Puchheimer Jugendkammerorchester
02.08.2024. - 21:00
Puchheimer Jugendkammerorchester (PJKO) was founded in1993 in Puchheim, a small town west of Munich (Germany). It is a youth orchestra of 35 string players (average age 17), all prizewinners in the German “Jugend Musiziert” competition.
The PJKO has also participated successfully in numerous national and international competitions. At the European Youth Music Festival in Neerpelt (Belgium) it won first prize “summa cum laude” in 2002 and 2007; first place at the German Orchestra Competition (DOW) in 2004 and 2016; and in 2007 and 2010 it won first place “with outstanding success” at the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival in Vienna (Austria). Since its founding, there have been exchanges and cooperations with youth orchestras and choirs from Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, Latvia, and Italy.
The conductor of the PJKO is Peter Michielsen. He studied violin in Amsterdam with Davina van Wely and came to Munich to study musicology at the university there. Before that he played freelance in many different orchestras, including the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Amsterdam Bach Soloists as well as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with Ton Koopman.
