Harju County Band

Эстония

Harjumaa Youth Wind Orchestra (Estonia) is a brass orchestra consisting of young musicians from Harju County. The orchestra has been active since 1996. In 2000 they established a non-governmental organization with the same name. The conductors of the orchestra are Harry Illak, Sirly Illak- Oluvere, Olev Roosa, Lauri Metus, Grett Semidor and Juri Schleifman. Contests, awards: 1. prize, gold diploma at EST-NOK’11 (2011, Estonia), 1. prize, gold diploma at EST-NOK’05 (2005, Estonia), 1. prize, Grand Prix at the Helmut Orusaar Wind Orchestra Competition (2002, Estonia), 2. prize at the CISM (International Confederation of Music Societies) International Wind, Orchestra Competition in Prague (2011, Czech Republic), Gold diploma at EST-NOK’07 (2007, Estonia), Estonian Choral Association’s award “Wind Orchestra of the Year” 2003, Silver diploma at Wind Orchestra Competition Turniir (2006, Estonia), Harjumaa Youth Wind Orchestra has performed at Musse Combo festival in Visby, (Sweden), Ledøje-Smørum (Denmark), Szombathely (Hungary), Malgrat de Mar (Spain), Confolens (France), Husavik (Iceland), Panevežises (Lithuania), Talsi city 775” (Latvia), Finnish-Estonian Song Festival in Pori (Finland), Salo Song Festival (Finland), Stavanger (Norway), Prague (Czech Republic) and Kokkola (Finland). Harjumaa Youth Wind Orchestra has organized a wind orchestra festival “Harju County Brass Day” in 2009 and 2014 Recordings: CD “Oleme teel” (“We are on our way”) in 2005, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the orchestra.