Orchestra Campus under Professional Direction In 2001, Germany's international broadcasting service Deutsche Welle and the Beethoven Festival (Internationale Beethovenfeste Bonn) organized a highly successful joint project. Each year a highly qualified young orchestra from one of the many regions of the world is invited to travel to Bonn and present its own interpretation of Beethoven's music and a work by a composer from its own country during a Festival concert. Last year's highly successful visit from the Ukrainian Student Orchestra will now be followed by Turkey. In September 2002, the National Conservatory Orchestra of Istanbul University will come to Bonn to perform the Pastorale Symphony, Mozart's A-major Piano Concerto KV 488, and two works by Turkish composers: the very popular Köçekçe by Ulvi Cemal Erkin and a work by Özkan Manav, this year's winner of the Festival's hotly contested € 5000 composition prize. The concert will be held at 8 pm on Sunday, 15 September 2000, in Beethoven Hall; Ramiz Malik-Aslanov will conduct the orchestra, and the young Turkish pianist Fazil Say, recipient of many prizes, will be the soloist. The new thing about this year's project is the week-long orchestra campus. It will enable the Turkish orchestra to learn more about other interpretations of Beethoven, to study repertoire pieces under renowned conductors and to demonstrate their progress in a series of open rehearsals. The Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, the German choral and orchestral conductor Helmuth Rilling, and the German conductor-scholar Peter Gülke have agreed to conduct the various stages of the rehearsals. All three musicians are closely associated with the Beethoven Festival: Peter Gülke held a highly-acclaimed lecture at the 2000 Festival, and over the last two years Helmuth Rilling has given celebrated concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stuttgart Bach Collegium, and the chorus and orchestra of the European Music Festival in Stuttgart. This year Rilling will conduct a concert performance of Fidelio with the last-named ensemble on 14 September. Finally, on 8 September, Krzysztof Penderecki will conduct the Beethoven Hall Orchestra in a performance of his Cello Concerto (with the cellist David Geringas) and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.