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Dear
Friends, Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The future depends on what you do today.”
Chances are, you are reading this letter while sitting in Chautauqua Auditorium. That means you have already made at least one important choice today—you chose to venture out to experience fantastic music while surrounded by your community.
Decisions like these add up. I believe that experiences such as the one you have chosen today impact us both personally and on a much larger scale. Music helps us relax and find peace, which improves how we interact with the world. Music helps us develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for different cultures, perspectives, and modes of expression, which expands our capacity for empathy. Essentially, music helps us show up as the best possible versions of ourselves—how profound is that?
Tonight (look around!) you are surrounded by hundreds of other individuals whose lives are impacted by music. No matter why they have attended—for entertainment, for enjoyment, for nostalgia, for connection, for education—you have something in common with each of them. Thank you for your unique contribution to this community.
In other notes of thanks, this season we celebrate the Colorado Chautauqua Association’s 125th anniversary. I am grateful for the partnership that welcomes the Festival to perform in beautiful Chautauqua Auditorium, and I applaud the Association’s preservation efforts, which will allow this stunning space to remain a home for exquisite music for years to come.
Thank you also to the musicians who travel from around the world to fill this room with the music we have all come to experience with such joy. To say that we could not do this without you is an understatement—without you, this room is silent.
To our faithful audience, our talented musicians, and the countless hands that make the Festival possible, I say thank you.
Elizabeth McGuire Executive Director Colorado Music Festival
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Tips for Concertgoers
FOOD AND DRINK
Food, drinks other than bottled water, and smoking are not permitted in the Auditorium. For food options before concerts, see the Dining at the Festival page.
RESTROOMS
Located outside the venue on the west side as well as on the south side and lower level of the Dining Hall.
LOST AND FOUND
Located at the Chautauqua Box Office. Neither Colorado Music Festival nor Colorado Chautauqua Association are responsible for the loss of valuables or personal items.
FAMILIES & CHILDREN
Please avoid bringing children under the age of 5 to evening concerts. Our annual Family Concert is specifically for young children, ages 5 and under. Tickets for the Family Concert are required for children occupying their own seat; children under 2 (lap-sitting) may attend without an additional ticket.
More information for families can be found at coloradomusicfestival. org/FAQ
LATECOMERS
Auditorium doors will be closed when the concertmaster or conductor appears on stage, except during evenings of extreme heat. Latecomers will be permitted to take their seats between movements or pieces, as cued by the ushers.
Dining at the Festival
NEW IN 2023: PRE-PURCHASED DINNERS
Chautauqua Dining Hall is offering pre-purchased carry-out dinners for all Colorado Music Festival evening concerts. The window to purchase meals will close 72 hours (3 days) before each concert’s start time. Visit coloradomusicfestival.org/dining to learn more and order.
SNACKS & DRINKS
Snacks and drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, will be available for purchase under the picnic shelter on the south side of the Auditorium 30 minutes prior to doors opening for all of our evening performances. (Outside alcohol is not permitted under the picnic shelter.)
PHONES AND CAMERAS
Please silence your cell phone. Cameras and other recording devices are strictly prohibited within Chautauqua Auditorium.
ACCESSIBILITY
ADA accessible seating is available; please inform the Box Office of your needs when ordering tickets. A limited number of ADAaccessible parking spaces are available on the southwest side of the Auditorium.
HOP 2 CHAUTAUQUA SHUTTLE
Free round-trip shuttle service begins 90 minutes before the concert and resumes after the concert for about minutes. At the end of the performance, all outbound HOP buses will pick up patrons, including guests with accessibility needs, on the east side of the Auditorium and run for 30 minutes after the end of each show. For more information, visit coloradomusicfestival.org/shuttle.
TICKET EXCHANGES
Subscribers may exchange tickets free of charge (quantity based on the type of subscription). There is an additional cost if seating upgrades apply. All exchange requests are subject to availability.
Ticket exchanges can be made by phone at 303-440-7666, through intermission on performance nights, or in person at the Chautauqua Box Office. For box office hours, visit chautauqua.com/concertsevents/box-office/. Exchanges must occur prior to 5 pm on the day of the concert.
Unused tickets may be returned to the Box Office prior to concerts as a tax-deductible donation to the Colorado Music Festival.
PICNIC ON THE LAWN
Order a pre-purchased dinner or bring your own meal to enjoy on the lawn or at one of the many picnic tables. You can also find a selection of snacks, coffee drinks, and homemade ice cream at the General Store, located just west of the Dining Hall.
DINING HALL
Make a reservation at the Chautauqua Dining Hall to enjoy great food and beautiful views. Groups of 14 or more may contact the Chautauqua Dining Hall to set up a pre-selected menu. For reservations, call 303440-3776 or email reservations@chautauquadininghall.com.
BOXED MEALS
Groups of 8 or more can order boxed meals from the Chautauqua Dining Hall.
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CONDUCTOR’S PODIUM
Peter Oundjian
Conductor
The Caryl Fuchs Kassoy & David R. Kassoy Conductor’s Podium
VIOLIN
Juliette Kang
Guest Concertmaster week 1
Philadelphia Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster
The Caruthers Family Foundation in honor of Clara Jucker Chair
Jon Carney
Guest Concertmaster weeks 2-4
Baltimore Symphony, Concertmaster
The Caruthers Family Foundation in honor of Clara Jucker Chair
Kevin Lin
Guest Concertmaster weeks 5-6 Indianapolis Symphony, Concertmaster
The Caruthers Family Foundation in honor of Clara Jucker Chair
Joseph Meyer
Associate Concertmaster
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster
The Mary Ann & Art Rudeseal Chair
Karen Pommerich Assistant Principal Freelance
The Fuchs and Kassoy Families Chair
Kate Arndt*
Freelance
The Arlene Gerwin Chair
Monica Boboc
Charlotte Symphony
Orchestra
The Patricia Magette Memorial Chair
Dominique Corbeil
Wichita Symphony Orchestra
The Louise & Ferd Grauer Chair
Tessa Gotman
Phoenix Symphony
Sarah Kim*
Toronto Symphony, extra player
Oliver Kot Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Principal
The Arlene Gerwin Chair
Douglas Kwon Guest Principal 2nd Toronto Symphony
Natalie Lee
Naples Philharmonic
Lenora Leggatt Cleveland Opera, former Concertmaster
Zhen Liu Orchestra NOW
Aimee Toomes Lopez San Antonio Philharmonic
Erica Miller Guest Principal 2nd Ottawa Symphony, Concertmaster
Lijia Phang Milwaukee Symphony
Jarek Polak Freelance
Emily Richardson Freelance
Kevin Tompkins* Omaha Symphony, Assistant Principal
Helen Vassiliou
New Jersey Symphony
Lisa Vaupel
Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Principal
The John & Kathleen Krampf Chair
Jim Wallenberg Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Dustin Wilkes-Kim
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
VIOLA
DJ Cheek Principal
Fort Worth Symphony, Principal
The Christopher Mueller Chair
Linda Numagami* Assistant Principal Fort Worth Symphony, Acting Associate Principal
Mark Deatherage Phoenix Symphony, Associate Principal
Elizabeth Jaffe
Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Associate Principal
Bruce Owen
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Assistant Principal
The Lee & Palmer Carlin Chair
Valentin Ragusitu Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Principal
Yumi Sagiuchi Shultz Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Borys B. Smolaga
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Principal
The Margot & Christopher Brauchli Chair
CELLO
Julia Yang
Guest Principal weeks 3-4 Merz Trio, Cellist
Austin Huntington Guest Principal weeks 5-6 Indianapolis Symphony, Principal
Britton Riley
Assistant Principal National Symphony
Allison Drenkow*
Charlotte Symphony, Assistant Principal
Morgen Johnson
Phoenix Symphony
The Gale and Sandy Dunlap Chair
Andrew Kolb*
Colorado Springs Philharmonic
Aaron Merritt
Nu Deco Ensemble, Principal
The Harold & Joan Leinbach Chair
David Morrissey
C algary Philharmonic Orchestra
The Becky Roser and Ronald Stewart Chair
Lucia Ticho
Toronto Symphony
BASS
Matt Heller
Principal
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirby Nunez
Assistant Principal
Dallas Opera Orchestra
The Joan & Paul Lavell Chair
David Crowe
Opera Colorado, Principal
The Boulder Office of Arts + Culture Chair
Karl Fenner
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Mark Foley
Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Principal
The TK Smith & Constance Holden Chair
Paul Macres
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean Posekany
Detroit Opera
The Jane Elizabeth Henry Chair
FLUTE
VivIana Cumplido Wilson
Principal Phoenix Symphony, Principal
The Blessing Foundation Chair
Ebonee Thomas*
Guest Assistant Principal/ Piccolo
Dallas Opera
Laura Dwyer
Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra
The Norma Ekstrand Chair
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OBOE
Olav Van Hezewijk
Principal
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Prinicpal
The Joyce P. Thurmer Memorial Chair
Joshua Lauretig
A ssistant Principal/English Horn
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Timothy Gocklin* Akropolis Reed Quintet
CLARINET
Louis DeMartino
Principal
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, Principal
The Hans & Delores Thurnauer Chair
Steve Hanusofski
Assistant Principal/Eb
Clarinet
Phoenix Symphony, Associate Principal
Aidan Mulldoon Wong Bass Clarinet
Vancouver Symphony
BASSOON
Josh Baker Principal Florida Orchestra, Principal
Wenmin Zhang
Assistant Principal North Carolina Symphony, Assistant Principal
Adam Trussell
Bassoon/Contrabassoon
Houston Symphony, Contrabassoon
The Marion Thurnauer & Alexander
Trifunac Chair
HORN
Roy Femenella*
Principal, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, 2nd Horn
The Avenir Foundation Endowed Chair
Andrew Karr
Assistant Principal/3rd
The Florida Orchestra; Associate Principal/3rd
The James Alleman & Barbara Miller Chair
Young Kim* Colorado Ballet
The Diane Barbour & David Coward Chair
Cara Kizer*
Freelance
The George A. Matzkanin & Trish Chepokas Chair
Stephen Laifer* Rochester Philharmonic
TRUMPET
Jeffrey Work Principal Oregon Symphony (Portland), Principal
The Joan & Paul Lavell Chair
Eric M. Berlin Assistant Principal Albany Symphony, Principal
The Jane Houssiere Chair
Derek Lockhart
Detroit Opera
The Lichter Family Chair in Memory of George Lichter
TROMBONE
Amanda Stewart* Principal, St. Louis Symphony, Associate Principal
Michael Hosford Assistant Principal Co-Principal Greenville Symphony Orchestra (SC)
Adam Rainey Bass Trombone Detroit Symphony Orchestra
TUBA
Carson McTeer Principal West Virginia Symphony, Principal
TIMPANI Peter Wilson Principal Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Principal
PERCUSSION
David Yoon*
Principal
Kansas City Symphony, Associate Principal
Gerald Scholl
Assistant Principal Percussion/ Assistant Principal Timpani Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Principal
The Judith Reid and Richard Collins Chair
Rajesh Prasad* North Carolina Symphony, Assistant Principal
HARP
Andrea Mumm Trammell
Principal Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Principal
KEYBOARD
Vivienne Spy
Principal
San Antonio Philharmonic
FELLOWS
Beatrice Hsieh
Violin
New World Symphony
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
Andrew Samarasekara
Violin
Yale University
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
Mario Rivera
Viola
New World Symphony
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
Eliana Razzini Yang
Cello
Juilliard School
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
MARIAN QUARTET
Emma Richman
Violin
Jullliard School
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
Cameren Anai Williams
Violin
Juilliard School
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
Sahana Shravan
Viola
Juilliard School
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
Wangshu Xiang Cello
Juilliard School
The SeiSolo Foundation Chair
GENERAL MANAGER
Alberto Gutierrez
PERSONNEL MANAGER
Lisa Vaupel
The John & Kathleen Krampf Chair
LIBRARIAN
Tim Ressler
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Emily Burst
HOUSING COORDINATOR
Marta Boratgis
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
Larry Brezicka
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Peter Oundjian, Music Director
Recognized as a masterful and dynamic presence in the conducting world, Peter Oundjian has developed a multi-faceted portfolio as a conductor, violinist, professor and artistic advisor. He has been celebrated for his musicality, an eye towards collaboration, innovative programming, leadership and training with students and an engaging personality. Strengthening his ties to Colorado, Oundjian is now Principal Conductor of the Colorado Symphony in addition to Music Director of the Colorado Music Festival.
Now carrying the title Conductor Emeritus, Oundjian’s fourteen-year tenure as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony served as a major creative force for the city of Toronto and was marked by a reimagining of the TSO’s programming, international stature, audience development, touring and a number of outstanding recordings, garnering a Grammy nomination in 2018 and a Juno award for Vaughan Williams’ Orchestral Works in 2019. He led the orchestra on several international tours to Europe and the USA, conducting the first performance by a North American orchestra at Reykjavik’s Harpa Hall in 2014.
From 2012-2018, Oundjian served as Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra during which time he implemented the kind of collaborative programming that has become a staple of his directorship. Oundjian led the RSNO on several international tours, including North America, China, and a European festival tour with performances at the Bregenz Festival, the Dresden Festival as well as in Innsbruck, Bergamo, Ljubljana, and others. His final appearance with the orchestra as their Music Director was at the 2018 BBC Proms where he conducted Britten’s epic War Requiem
Highlights of past seasons include appearances with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Iceland Symphony, the Detroit, Atlanta, Saint Louis, Baltimore, Dallas, Seattle, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. With the onset of world-wide concert cancellations, support for students at Yale and Juilliard became a priority. In 2022/2023 season Oundjian will conduct the opening weekend of Atlanta Symphony, followed by return engagements with Baltimore, Indianapolis, Dallas, Colorado and Toronto symphonies, as well as a visit to New World Symphony.
Oundjian has been a visiting professor at Yale University’s School of Music since 1981, and in 2013 was awarded the school’s Sanford Medal for Distinguished Service to Music. A dedicated educator, Oundjian regularly conducts the Yale, Juilliard, Curtis and New World symphony orchestras.
An outstanding violinist, Oundjian spent fourteen years as the first violinist for the renowned Tokyo String Quartet before he turned his energy towards conducting.
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Joshua Bell + Mussorgsky’s Pictures
ARTISTS
Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
PROGRAM
June 29-30
“Motherboxx Connection”
C arlos Simon from Tales: A Folklore Symphony (b. 1986) for orchestra (2021)
Violin Concerto No. 1
M ax Bruch in G Minor ( 1838-1920)
1 P relude: Allegro moderato
2 Adagio
3 Finale: Allegro energico
With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY® Awardwinning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Having performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, Bell continues to maintain engagements as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and Music
Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Pictures at an Exhibition
M odest Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) ( 1839-1881)
Promenade
1 . G nomus
Promenade
2 . The Old Castle Promenade
3 Tuileries
4 Bydło
Promenade
5 B allet of the Chicks in Their Shells
6 S amuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
7. Limoges
8 . C atacombs
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
9. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
1 0. The Great Gate of Kiev
Bell’s highlights in the 2022-23 season include leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour in South America to Sao Paulo, Bogotá, and Montevideo, as well in Europe, in Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. Joshua appears in guest performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Sofia Philharmonic, Franz Schubert Filharmonia as well as a European tour with pianist Peter Dugan. This season in the U.S., Bell will perform alongside the New York Philharmonic, as well as the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras.
In 2011, Bell was named Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, succeeding Sir Neville Marriner, who formed the orchestra in 1959. Bell’s history with the Academy dates back to 1986, when he first recorded the Bruch and Mendelssohn concertos with Marriner and the orchestra. Bell has since directed the orchestra on several albums, including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Voice of the Violin, For the Love of Brahms, and most recently, Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, which was nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY® Award.
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Bell has performed for three American presidents and the sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He participated in former president Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ first cultural mission to Cuba, joining Cuban and American musicians on a 2017 Live from Lincoln Center Emmy nominated PBS special, Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating renewed cultural diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Bell began the violin at age four, and at age twelve, began studies with his mentor, Josef Gingold. At age 14, Bell debuted with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17 with the St. Louis Symphony. At age 18, Bell signed with his first label, London Decca, and received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the years following, Bell has been named 2010 “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, a 2007 “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, nominated for six GRAMMY® awards, and received the 2007 Avery Fisher Prize. He has also received the 2003 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award and a Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1991 from the Jacobs School of Music. In 2000, he was named an “Indiana Living Legend.”
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Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf +
Goodnight Moon July 2
ARTISTS
Kalena Bovell, conductor
Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, soprano
Janae Burris, narrator
PROGRAM
Carmen Suite No. 1 G eorges Bizet
I . Prélude & Aragonaise ( 1838-1875)
III. Seguedille
V. Les Toréadors
Goodnight Moon Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
“Danse Nègre” S amuel Coleridge-Taylor from African Suite ( 1875-1912)
Peter and the Wolf Sergei Prokofiev ( 1891-1953)
With her distinctive voice as maestra, speaker, and poet, critics praise Panamanian-American conductor Kalena Bovell as “one of the brightest stars in classical music” (Channel 3 News, Connecticut).
Her twin tenets of musical excellence and community access have left an imprint on orchestras across North America, including recognition as a 2022-2024 Awardee of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship. Bovell, highly in demand as a guest conductor, continues to implement these values as Assistant Conductor to the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Memphis Youth Symphony.
Bovell’s 2022-2023 season features a bevy of exciting conducting debuts, including her opera debut in Volcano Theatre, where she will lead a reimagined production of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha September 2022 sees Bovell return to the international stage with the Musikkollegium Winterthur–marking her first performance in Switzerland. To open 2023, Bovell makes her Sphinx debut at SphinxConnect 2023: Impact, followed by debuts with the Albany Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. Residencies this season include UC Redlands in California as well as the Harmony Project in Los Angeles in February 2023.
After making her professional debut as the Chicago Sinfonietta’s Assistant Conductor in 2015, Bovell held cover conducting roles with the St. Louis Symphony and Hartford Symphony. However, her 2018-2019 appointment as the Music Director at the Civic Orchestra of New Haven would serve as a first marker of Bovell’s potential. There, she elevated Civic Orchestra’s musicality and the diversity of its repertoire, all while increasing the size of its roster. Further, she made her mark on the region through numerous guest conducting appearances, including Hartford Opera Theater, leading two short operas in its annual “New in November” festival. Prior to her current appointment with the Memphis Symphony, Bovell debuted as a guest conductor in a memorable 2019 performance with Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. Her relationship with the MSO dates back to 2016, when she served as Assistant Conductor for former Music Director Mei-Ann Chen’s farewell concerts.
A Los Angeles native, Bovell received a Master of Music and Graduate Professional Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from The Hartt School, where she studied with Edward Cumming. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the College of the Performing Arts at Chapman University, which honored her as a Distinguished Alumni in 2021.
In addition to conducting, Bovell is a published author, releasing her first poetry book titled Dear Soul... in 2009. She has increasingly interwoven her poetry with her music career, collaborating with
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Rob McClure’s Conductor Cam series in 2020 to perform her poem “Tethered Voices.”
Kalena makes her home in Memphis, Tennessee, where she enjoys cooking, writing poetry, weight training, and trying new pizza places.
American soprano Jennifer Bird enjoys a busy and varied singing career in the United States and Europe, having built a reputation as a charismatic, intelligent and versatile performer of more than 50 roles in opera, operetta and musical theater, as well as much of the standard oratorio and concert literature.
As the recipient of a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, Bird studied in Germany in the Opernklasse of the Hamburg Musikhochschule where she joined the vocal studio of renowned soprano Judith Beckmann. Soon thereafter she began singing at the Landestheater Coburg and then at the Bremer Theater where she became a pillar of the soloist ensemble, singing major roles in the lyric and lyric-coloratura soprano repertory and, in Coburg, twice earning the Audience Favorite Prize. Engagements followed at the Vienna Volksoper, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Bonn, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Lübeck, Theater Würzburg and Theater Hagen, among others. Bird has sung roles spanning from soubrette to dramatic coloratura, especially in the operas of Mozart (Despina, Pamina, Sandrina, Konstanze), Donizetti (Norina, Adina, Lucia) and Verdi (Gilda and Violetta). Other favorites have included the title role in Berg’s Lulu, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Marguerite in Faust, Musetta in La Bohème, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress and Nedda in I Pagliacci.
Bird serves as chair of the voice department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her current and former students sing regularly with prestigious arts organizations such as the Aspen Music Festival, Des Moines Metro Opera, Music Academy of the West, Wolf Trap, Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance, Central City Opera and the Semperoper Dresden.
Janae Burris (Just For Laughs/NBC First Look) is a comedian, actor and event host in Denver, CO. She is a South Central Los Angeles native and a CalArts alumna. Her favorite moments in standup comedy include performing to a crowd of 10,000 at Red Rocks Amphitheater, being on the road with Josh Blue, and being the first woman of color to be promoted to the Comedy Works Pros list.
Since moving to Colorado, Janae has performed with Local Theater Co., the Catamounts Theater, Colorado Shakespeare Fest, the Denver Center for Performing Arts, and Off Center, where she performed in the world premiere immersive show Theater of The Mind. Janae is a 2021 True West Award recipient for her work in the one woman show Queen’s Girl In The World at Aurora Fox Theater.
She is currently putting finishing touches on her comedy special Long Overdue, and she is a proud camp counselor for Athena Project where she teaches stand-up comedy to teenage girls. Catch her performing weekly at her home club Comedy Works and throughout the Front Range.
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Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3 July 6-7
ARTISTS
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Nicolai Lugansky, piano
PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 3 Sergei Rachmaninoff in D Minor, Op. 30 (1873-1943)
I. Allegro ma non tanto
II. Intermezzo
III. Finale
Symphony No. 3 Sergei Rachmaninoff in A Minor, Op. 44
I. Lento; Allegro moderato
II. Adagio ma non troppo
III. Allegro
Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist who combines elegance and grace with powerful virtuosity, a true incarnation of the Russian tradition on the international classical stage. Recognized as a master of Russian and late romantic repertoire, Lugansky is renowned for his interpretations of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Debussy. He has received numerous awards for recordings and artistic merit.
A regular recitalist the world over, during this season Lugansky appears at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Moscow’s Zaryadye, Théâtre des ChampsElysées in Paris and Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. Lugansky also performs a series of American recitals, including a performance in Chicago, and gives recitals in Florence and Rome as well as numerous performances in Russia. Lugansky regularly performs at the La Roque-d’Anthéron Festival in France, with the last season marking the 23rd consecutive year of appearance.
In June 2019 Nikolai Lugansky received the Russian Federation National Award in Literature and Art for his contribution to the development and advancement of Russian and international classical music culture over the past 20 years. Lugansky was awarded the honour of People’s Artist of Russia in April 2013, which is the highest honorary title for outstanding achievement in the arts.
In addition to performing, Lugansky has been a professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory since 1998. He is also the Artistic Director of the Tambov Rachmaninov Festival and is a supporter of, and regular performer at, the Rachmaninov Estate and Museum of Ivanovka.
Described by Gramophone as “the most trailblazing and meteoric performer of all” Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist of extraordinary depth and versatility. He regularly appears at some of the world’s most distinguished festivals, including the Aspen, Tanglewood Ravinia and Verbier festivals. Chamber music collaborators include Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Mischa Maisky, and Leonidas Kavakos.
Nikolai Lugansky has won several awards for his many recordings. His recital CD featuring Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonatas won the Diapason d’Or, whilst his recording of concertos by Grieg and Prokofiev with Kent Nagano and the Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Lugansky has an exclusive contract with harmonia mundi and his recent disc of Rachmaninov’s 24 Preludes, released in April 2018, met with enthusiastic reviews. He was described as having “an ability to enchant the ear… with a deep feeling for the music” (The Financial Times). His recording of solo piano music by Debussy was released in the 2018 anniversary year.
NICOLAI LUGANSKY
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Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphonic Dances July 9
ARTISTS
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Nicolai Lugansky, piano
PROGRAM
Rhapsody on a Theme Sergei Rachmaninoff of Paganini, Op. 43 ( 1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40
I . Allegro vivace
II. L argo
III. Allegro vivace
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I N on allegro - Lento - Tempo I
II. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse)
III. Lento assai - Allegro vivace
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JACK Quartet: New York Stories July 11
ARTISTS
JACK Quartet
PROGRAM
Structure s for String
M orton Feldman Quartet (1951) ( 1926-1987)
Contritus (2010)
C aleb Burhans (b. 1980)
String Quartet No. 5 (1991) Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Entr’acte (2011)
C aroline Shaw (b. 1982)
Hailed by The New York Times as “our leading new-music foursome,” the JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected experimental string quartets performing today. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and appreciation of new string quartet music. The quartet was selected as Musical America’s 2018 “Ensemble of the Year,” nominated for GRAMMY Awards for recordings in 2018 & 2022, named to WQXR’s “19 for 19 Artists to Watch,” and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as the Fromm Music Foundation Prize.
A major highlight running throughout 2023 will be JACK’s involvement in major celebrations of John Zorn’s 70th birthday including performances of his complete string quartets and new work with regular collaborator Barbara Hannigan. Venues include the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), KunstFestSpiel Herrenhausen, Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), and Cite de la Musique (Paris), among others in anticipation of JACK’s release of a recording of his eight string quartets. Other highlights include a three-concert day at London’s Wigmore Hall, including the European premiere of Catherine Lamb’s divisio spiralis, and a residency at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin with two concerts in spring 2023.
Through intimate relationships with today’s most creative voices, JACK embraces close collaboration with the composers they perform, leading to a radical embodiment of the technical, musical, and emotional aspects of their work. The quartet has worked with artists such as Julia Wolfe, George Lewis, Helmut Lachenmann, and Caroline Shaw, with upcoming and recent premieres including works by John Luther Adams, Catherine Lamb, Liza Lim, Tyshawn Sorey, Wadada Leo Smith, Amy Williams, and John Zorn. JACK’s all-access initiative, JACK Studio, funds collaborations with a selection of artists each year, who receive money, workshop time, mentorship, and resources to develop new works for string quartet.
JACK has performed to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall (USA), Lincoln Center (USA), Berlin Philharmonie (Germany), Wigmore Hall (United Kingdom), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Netherlands), the Louvre (France), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Suntory Hall (Japan), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), and Teatro Colón (Argentina). Additional awards include Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA’s Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
The Remedy of Fortune J ohn Zorn for String Quartet (2016) (b. 1953)
JACK QUARTET
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The Festival continued to celebrate the underrepresented voices of women composers and people of color by commissioning groundbreaking works such as Wang Jie's Flying on the Scaly Backs of Our Mountains. Our live, world-premiere performance reached over 1.1 million listeners on National Public Radio's Performance Today.
The Festival's international reputation for excellence resulted in articles in the New York Times and BBC Music Magazine highlighting the festival and our beautiful Colorado Chautauqua home.
The Festival Fellows program continues to offer eight aspiring musicians from diverse backgrounds orchestral and chamber music performance opportunities with valuable networking and coaching from, Peter Oundjian, guest artists and orchestra musicians.
The Festival worked with VetTix (veterans), Circle of Care (seniors), and Marshall Fire families to provide complimentary tickets to over 1,000 community members.
The Center for Musical Arts provided approximately 700 students, ranging in age from 18 months to 87 years, with weekly lessons, classes, and ensembles. 35% received need-based tuition assistance and we distributed 150 low and no cost instruments through our Instrument Bank.
Our mobile Tiny Stage, nicknamed "Louise" in memory of music champion and beloved colleague Louise Christoph er, delivered free musical experiences to new spaces and underserved members of the community.
The Center's Creative Aging programs including Jazz for Singers, Jazz Ensembles, and Community Band, provided musical and social opportunities for over 100 active adults, including exciting community performance opportunities.
Our LifeSong Chorus, a memory care chorus for early/younger onset Alzheimer's patients and their care partners, provided needed respite, social support, and memory enhancing musical programs to those who benefit the most from the healing power of music.
The Center continues to be the only provider of musical programming at Justice High School for high risk youth, where we teach the marketable skills of electronic composition, recording, sampling, and mixing.
The Center launched a concert series, developed to provide the community access to incredible and affordable performances during the Festival's off season. The 2022-23 series featured a variety of musical genres including Mariachi Sol de Mi Tierra and Silver and Bronze Medalists of the esteemed Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
John Corigliano: Living Legend July 13
ARTISTS
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
John Corigliano, composer
PROGRAM
Gazebo Dances J ohn Corigliano (for orchestra) (1974) (b. 1938)
Overture
Waltz Adagio Tarantella
One Sweet Morning for voice J ohn Corigliano and orchestra (2010)
I . A Song on the End of the World II. Patroclus
III. War South of the Great Wall
IV. O ne Sweet Morning —
Triathlon for saxophone J ohn Corigliano and orchestra (2020)
1 Leaps (soprano saxophone)
2 Lines (alto saxophone)
3 Licks (baritone saxophone)
Possessing a voice of uncommon allure, the Grammy® Awardwinning mezzo-soprano
Kelley O’Connor is one of the most compelling performers of her generation. She is internationally acclaimed equally in the pillars of the classical music canon – from Beethoven and Mahler to Brahms and Ravel –as she is in new works of modern masters – from Adams and Dessner to Lieberson and Talbot.
In the 2022-23 season Kelley O’Connor is Alto Soloist in performances of Mahler’s Second Symphony with Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony and with Louis Langrée and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She joins Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic to open the renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center in a gala performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and other performances of this work bring her together with Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Xian Zhang and the San Francisco Symphony, and with José Luis Gomez and the Tuscon Symphony Orchestra. She returns to the Saint Louis Symphony for performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Stéphane Denève, appears with Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony in Mahler’s Third Symphony, and makes a debut with the Taiwan Philharmonic in Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette led by Jun Märkl. With Sir Donald Runnicles, Kelley O’Connor gives the world premiere of a new work by the Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom at the Grand Teton Music Festival.
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Today’s most celebrated classical saxophonist, Timothy McAllister is an acclaimed soloist, soprano chair of the GRAMMY® winning PRISM Quartet, and champion of contemporary music credited with over fifty recordings and two hundred premières of new compositions by eminent and emerging composers worldwide. McAllister has appeared with more than forty of the world’s most prominent orchestras in over twenty countries, from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms. Following his premiere of John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer, he performed the Concerto and Adam’s
KELLEY O’CONNOR
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TIMOTHY M C ALLISTER
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City Noir on the 2015 GRAMMY® Award-winning recording with the St. Louis Symphony and David Robertson. His recent recordings of Kenneth Fuchs’s saxophone concerto Rush with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra and his reprise of City Noir with the Berlin Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel both appeared on 2019 GRAMMY® Nominated albums, with the Fuchs winning for Best Classical Compendium. Recent performances included the China Premiere of the Adams’s Saxophone Concerto with Edo de Waart and the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Belgium Premiere of Guillaume Connesson’s saxophone concerto A Kind of Trane under Stéphane Denève and the Brussels Philharmonic, on the Deutsche Grammophon label. As guest soloist, other recent engagements include the symphonies of Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Seattle, St. Louis, among many others. In 2022, he premiered John Corigliano’s Triathlon: Concerto for Saxophonist and Orchestra with Giancarlo Guerrero and San Francisco Symphony to widespread acclaim. 2023 featured the U.S. premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)” for alto saxophone and orchestra with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. A widely-respected teacher of his instrument, McAllister is Professor of Saxophone at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, and he appears at summer festivals and courses worldwide. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, having studied with legendary saxophonist Donald Sinta.
John Corigliano continues to add to one of the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of work any composer has created over the last forty years. Corigliano’s scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. Attentive listening to this music reveals an unconfined imagination, one which has taken traditional notions like “symphony” or “concerto” and redefined them in a uniquely transparent idiom forged as much from the post-war European avant garde as from his American forebears. Perhaps one of the most important symphonists of his era, Corigliano has to date written three symphonies, each a landscape unto itself. Scored simultaneously for wind orchestra and a multitude of wind ensembles, Corigliano’s ambitious, extravagant, and grandly barbarous Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus (2004) was commissioned by the University of Texas at Austin Wind Ensemble, who gave its New York premiere in 2005 at Carnegie Hall and presented it on their 2008 tour in Europe. Circus Maximus has since been performed by over 60 different ensembles throughout North
and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Naxos released a stereo recording of Circus Maximus in 2009, and chose the work as the debut recording in its Blu-Ray format in 2010. Symphony No. 2 (2001), a rethinking and expansion of the surreal and virtuosic String Quartet (1995), was introduced by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2000 and earned him the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Symphony No. 1 (1991), commissioned by Meet the Composer for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when he was composer-in-residence, channeled Corigliano’s personal grief over the loss of friends to the AIDS crisis into music of immense power, color, drama, and scope: performed worldwide by over 300 orchestras and recorded three times, this symphony earned him the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Recent scores include a second opera, The Lord of Cries, with a libretto by Mark Adamo based on The Bacchae of Euripides and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Corigliano’s first opera since The Ghosts of Versailles for The Metropolitan Opera in 1991, The Lord of Cries is commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera for premiere in 2021. A new saxophone concerto for the San Francisco Symphony’s 2020-2021 season will be Corigliano’s tenth piece for soloist and orchestra. Conjurer (2008), for percussion and string orchestra, commissioned by an international consortium of six orchestras for Evelyn Glennie, was introduced by the Pittsburgh Symphony in the 2007-2008 season, when the orchestra designated him its Composer of the Year. Conjurer is also performed frequently by soloist Martin Grubinger. For Joshua Bell, Corigliano composed Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: The Red Violin (2005). Developed from the themes of the score to François Girard’s film of the same name, which won Corigliano an Oscar in 1999, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra was introduced by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop and recorded by them in 2007. New string orchestra arrangements created by the composer of Fancy on a Bach Air and the string quartet, Snapshot: Circa 1909, premiered in 2011. In 2015, the Houston Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere of Corigliano’s orchestral arrangement of Stomp
Corigliano serves on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York, which has established a scholarship in his name. Born in 1938 to John Corigliano Sr., a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, and Rose Buzen, an accomplished pianist and educator, Corigliano has lived in New York City all his life. Presently he and his husband, Mark Adamo, have divided their time between Manhattan and Kent Cliffs, New York. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer.
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JFK: The Last Speech - World Premiere July 16
ARTISTS
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano
Eric Owens, narrator
Adolphus Hailstork, composer
PROGRAM
Flatiron Escapades J ordan Holloway (world premiere commission) (b. 1999)
Dreams I Must Not Speak (2022) C arter Pann (world premiere commission) (b. 1972)
I A Collage of Strange Faces
II. The Moors
III. Realization Point, Flagstaff Road, B oulder Colorado 2:48 A.M. (homage to T. N.*)
JFK: The Last Speech Adolphus Hailstork (world premiere) (b. 1941)
*Thomas Newman (film composer)
Janice Chandler-Eteme soon premieres Dr. Adolphus Hailstork’s newest work, JFK: The Last Speech with Peter Oundjian at the Colorado Music Festival and with the Indianapolis and Dallas Symphonies. The celebrated American soprano’s astonishing range of concert literature includes Strauss’ Four Last Songs (Reading, Baltimore, Syracuse, Harrisburg and Utah Symphonies; Florida Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic; Grand Teton and Texas Music Festivals); Philip Glass’ Passion of Ramakrishna (Pacific Symphony); Mahler’s Second Symphony (San Diego, Baltimore, Nashville, Cincinnati, Colorado and Pacific Symphonies; Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra); Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies); Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony (San Diego Symphony), Lokumbe’s Dear Mrs. Parks (Detroit Symphony) and Can You Hear God Crying? (Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia); the Brahms Requiem (San Diego, Baltimore, Colorado Symphonies); Mahler’s Eighth Symphony (Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, American and Montreal Symphonies); Beethoven #9 (Cleveland Orchestra, New Jersey and Houston Symphonies), Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Festival Miami, Baltimore and Annapolis Symphonies), Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (Dallas and Santa Rosa Symphonies) and Britten’s War Requiem (Lincoln and Santa Rosa Symphonies and Evansville Philharmonic). She has performed Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, in staged performances of the complete work at the Opera de Lyon and Dallas Opera, the Bennett concert version under Jeffrey Tyzik with the Milwaukee, Seattle, Detroit and Vancouver Symphonies, Florida Orchestra and at the Vail Music Festival, and in Andrew Litton’s version with the composer conducting the Colorado Symphony. Other forays into operatic literature have included a first-ever Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the National Philharmonic.
Ms. Chandler-Eteme first came to international prominence as a favorite of Robert Shaw and has in the years since collaborated with many renowned and respected conductors, among them Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Andreas Delfs, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Claus Peter Flor, Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Raymond Leppard, Jahja Ling, Andrew Litton, Keith Lockhart, David Lockington, Stuart Malina, Peter Oundjian, Christof Perick, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefan Sanderling, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Edo de Waart and Hugh Wolff. She has been guest soloist with the Los Angeles and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras; Boston, NHK (Japan), Phoenix and Kansas City Symphonies; Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Rochester Philharmonics; and Philadelphia Orchestra. Festival invitations include Bard, Grant Park, Aspen, Prague Autumn and Blossom. Ms. Chandler-Eteme’s recordings include an inspirational solo disc (Devotions), and the Dvořák Te Deum with Zdeněk Mácal and the New Jersey Symphony. She holds degrees from Oakwood College and Indiana University and has studied with Virginia Zeani, Margaret Harshaw, Ginger Beazley and Todd Duncan.
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Bass-baritone Eric Owens has a unique reputation as an esteemed interpreter of classic works and a champion of new music. Equally at home in orchestral, recital, and operatic repertoire, Mr. Owens brings his powerful poise, expansive voice, and instinctive acting faculties to stages around the world.
In the 2022-2023 season, Mr. Owens returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Emile Griffith in James Robinson’s new production of Champion, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and to Los Angeles Opera as Raimondo in Simon Stone’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor. He also debuts at the Wiener Staatsoper in Wagner’s heroic Ring Cycle, first as Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, and as the Wanderer in Siegfried, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. Additional operatic engagements include King Marke at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Opéra National de Paris in a multimedia production of The Tristan Project, led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel and director Peter Sellars. Concert engagements include performances of Mozart opera excerpts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann.
Mr. Owens’s career operatic highlights include both Alberich and Hagen in the Metropolitan Opera’s Ring cycle; Wotan and the Wanderer in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ring cycle directed by Sir David Pountney; Orest in Patrice Chereau’s production of Elektra conducted by EsaPekka Salonen at the Met; the title role of Der Fliegende Höllander and Stephen Kumalo in Weill’s Lost in the Stairs at Washington National Opera; his San Francisco Opera debut in Otello conducted by Donald Runnicles; his Royal Opera, Covent Garden, debut in Norma; Vodnik and Porgy at Lyric Opera of Chicago; the title role in Handel’s Hercules with the Canadian Opera Company; Ramfis in Aida at Houston Grand Opera; Die Zauberflöte for his Paris Opera (Bastille) debut; and the title role of Macbeth at the Glimmerglass Festival.
Mr. Owens has been recognized with multiple honors, including the Musical America’s 2017 Vocalist of the Year award, 2003 Marian Anderson Award, a 1999 ARIA award, second prize in the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. He serves on the Board of Trustees of both the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and Astral Artistic Services.
Adolphus Hailstork received his doctorate in composition from Michigan State University, where he was a student of H. Owen Reed. He had previously studied at the Manhattan School of Music, under Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, at the American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and at Howard University with Mark Fax.
Dr. Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various chamber ensembles, band, orchestra, and opera.
Among his early compositions are Celebration, recorded by the Detroit Symphony in 1976; and Out of the Depths (1977) and American Guernica (1983), two band works which won national competitions. Consort Piece (1995), commissioned by the Norfolk (Va.) Chamber Ensemble, was awarded first prize by the University of Delaware Festival of Contemporary Music.
Significant performances by major orchestras (Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York) have been led by leading conductors such as James de Priest, Paul Freeman, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Jo Ann Falletta and David Lockington. This March, Thomas Wilkins conducted Hailstork’s An American Port of Call with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The composer’s second symphony (commissioned by the Detroit Symphony) and second opera, Joshua’s Boots (commissioned by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the Kansas City Lyric Opera), were both premiered in 1999. Hailstork’s second and third symphonies were recorded by the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra (David Lockington) and were released by Naxos. Another Naxos recording, An American Port of Call (Virginia Symphony Orchestra), was released in spring 2012.
Recent commissions include Rise for Freedom, an opera about the Underground Railroad, premiered in the fall of 2007 by the Cincinnati Opera Company; Set Me on a Rock (re: Hurricane Katrina), for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Houston Choral Society (2008); and the choral ballet The Gift of the Magi, for treble chorus and orchestra (2009). In the fall of 2011, Zora, We’re Calling You, a work for speaker and orchestra, was premiered by the Orlando Symphony. I Speak of Peace, commissioned by the Bismarck Symphony (Beverly Everett, conductor) in honor of (and featuring the words of) President John F. Kennedy, was premiered in November of 2013.
Hailstork’s newest works include The World Called (based on Rita Dove’s poem “Testimonial”), a work for soprano, chorus, and orchestra commissioned by the Oratorio Society of Virginia (premiered in May 2018), and Still Holding On (February 2019), an orchestra work commissioned and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is currently working on his Fourth Symphony and A Knee on a Neck (tribute to George Floyd) for chorus and orchestra.
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Brentano String Quartet July 18
ARTISTS
Brentano String Quartet
PROGRAM
String Quartet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in D Major, K.499 ( 1756-1791)
Allegretto
M enuetto & trio, allegretto
Adagio
M olto allegro
Memento for String Quartet James MacMillan (1994) (b. 1959)
Sonny for String Quartet (2011) James MacMillan
String Quartet in Ludwig van Beethoven B-flat Major, Op. 130 (1827) ( 1770-1827)
Adagio, ma non troppo-Allegro
Presto
Andante con moto, ma non troppo
Alla danza tedesca (Allegro assai)
C avatina (Adagio molto espressivo)
Finale: (Allegro)
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Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. “Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding,” raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism.”
Within a few years of its formation, the Quartet garnered the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and was also honored in the U.K. with the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut. Since then, the Quartet has concertized widely, performing in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York; the Library of Congress in Washington; the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Suntory Hall in Tokyo; and the Sydney Opera House.
In addition to performing the entire two-century range of the standard quartet repertoire, the Brentano Quartet maintains a strong interest in contemporary music, and has commissioned many new works. Their latest project, a monodrama for quartet and voice called Dido Reimagined, was composed by Pulitzer-winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, and had its premiere in spring 2022 with soprano Dawn Upshaw. Other recent commissions include the composers Matthew Aucoin, Lei Liang, Vijay Iyer, James MacMillan, and a cello quintet by Steven Mackey (with Wilhelmina Smith, cello).
The Brentano Quartet has worked closely with other important composers of our time, among them Elliot Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Chou Wen-chung, Bruce Adolphe, and György Kurtág. They have also been privileged to collaborate with such artists as soprano Jessye Norman, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, and pianists Richard Goode, Jonathan Biss, and Mitsuko Uchida. The Quartet has recorded works by Mozart and Schubert for Azica Records, and all of Beethoven’s late Quartets for the Aeon label. In 2012, they provided the central music (Beethoven Opus 131) for the criticallyacclaimed independent film A Late Quartet
Since 2014, the Brentano Quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music. They were formerly the Ensemble-inResidence at Princeton University, and were twice invited to be the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” the intended recipient of his famous love confession.
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Michael Christie Conducts Tchaikovsky 4 July 20-21
ARTISTS
Michael Christie, conductor and Music Director Emeritus
Michelle Cann, piano
PROGRAM
Piano Concerto in G Major M aurice Ravel
I . Allegramente ( 1875-1937)
II. Adagio assai
III . Presto
Piano Concerto Florence Price in One Movement ( 1887-1953)
Symphony No. 4 P yotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in F Minor, Op. 36 ( 1840-1893)
I . Andante sostenuto
II. Andantino in modo di canzona
III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato
IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco
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GRAMMY® awardwinning conductor
Michael Christie, Artistic and Music Director of the New West Symphony, is an innovative conductor, equally at home in the symphonic and opera worlds, who is focused on making the audience experience at his performances entertaining, enlightening and enriching. In his first season in 2019-20, the Los Angeles Times reported that the orchestra is “embracing the mission of refreshing the modern concert experience for a new generation,” and praised their performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade as “far and away the most spectacular playing from what should no longer be considered a regional symphony.”
Christie won a 2019 GRAMMY award (Best Opera Recording) for the world premiere recording of Mason Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with The Santa Fe Opera (PENTATONE), and was featured in Opera News in August 2012 as one of 25 people believed to “break out and become major forces in the field in the coming decade.” At Minnesota Opera, Christie led 24 productions over eight years, with six seasons as its first-ever Music Director (2012-18).
Christie’s conducting career, spanning more than 20 years, has included serving as Music Director of the Phoenix Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic and as Chief Conductor of the Queensland Orchestra, as well as guest appearances leading top orchestras around the world. Christie also served as Music Director of the Colorado Music Festival from 2000-13.
Michael Christie first came to international attention in 1995 when he was awarded a special prize for “Outstanding Potential” at the First International Sibelius Conductors’ Competition in Helsinki. Following the competition, he was invited to become an apprentice conductor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he subsequently worked with Daniel Barenboim as well as at the Berlin State Opera. Christie holds a bachelor’s degree in trumpet from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife Alexis, a physician, and their two children. For more information, visit michaelchristieonline.com.
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Lauded as “technically fearless with…an enormous, rich sound”
(La Scena Musicale), pianist Michelle Cann made her orchestral debut at age fourteen and has since performed as a soloist with prominent orchestras such as the Atlanta and Cincinnati symphony orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.
Ms. Cann’s 2022-23 season includes an appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, return engagements with the Cincinnati and New Jersey symphonies, and debut performances with the Baltimore, National, New World, Seattle, and Utah symphonies. She makes her debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony and performs recitals in New Orleans, Little Rock, Sarasota, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.
A champion of the music of Florence Price, Ms. Cann performed the New York City premiere of the composer’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with The Dream Unfinished Orchestra in July 2016 and the Philadelphia premiere with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in February 2021, which the Philadelphia Inquirer called “exquisite.” She has also performed Price’s works for solo piano and chamber ensemble for prestigious presenters such as Caramoor, Chamber Music Detroit, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, San Francisco Performances, and Washington Performing Arts.
Ms. Cann is the recipient of the 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization, and the 2022 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. Embracing a dual role as performer and pedagogue, Ms. Cann frequently teaches master classes and leads residencies. She has served on the juries of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and at the Music Academy of the West. She has also appeared as cohost and collaborative pianist with NPR’s From The Top.
Ms. Cann studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, where she holds the inaugural Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies.
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Jordan M. Holloway is an American composer, conductor, and violist. His music draws from a diverse array of inspirations, including the natural beauty of his home states of Pennsylvania and Colorado, the colossal and imaginative fantasy soundscapes of such media as Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda, and the current intense and outrageous political climate of the United States. While he very much enjoys writing chamber works, he has a particular passion for orchestral music, of which he has composed two symphonies and multiple tone poems. After graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021 with a double degree in viola performance and composition, Holloway took a year to spend some time and energy on various projects, including his new virtual ensemble, the Dad Village Symphony Orchestra, as well as growing his YouTube channel, which promotes music education content for developing composers. He is currently attending Carnegie Mellon University in pursuit of a Master’s Degree in Composition.
Composer/pianist Carter Pann has written for and worked with musicians around the world, with performances by the London Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony, the Tchaikovsky Symphony in Moscow, many radio symphonies around Europe, the Seattle Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, the youth orchestras of New York and Chicago, and countless wind ensembles. He has worked with Richard Stoltzman, the Antares Ensemble, the Capitol Saxophone Quartet, the West Coast Wind Quintet, the River Oaks Chamber Ensemble, the Takács Quartet and many concert pianists. Awards include a Charles Ives Fellowship, a Masterprize seat in London and five ASCAP awards over the years. His numerous albums encompass solo, vocal, chamber, orchestral and wind ensemble music. Pann was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2016. He loves a good game of chess or poker with his students and friends and currently teaches and conducts the Boulder Altitude Directive contemporary music ensemble at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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All Mozart: “Linz” & Violin Concerto No. 3 July 23
ARTISTS
François López-Ferrer, conductor Grace Park, violin
PROGRAM
The Impresario Overture, K. 486 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756-1791)
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Wolfgang I Allegro Amadeus Mozart
II. Adagio III. Rondo: Allegro
Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K. 546 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 in C Major, Wolfgang K. 425, “Linz” Amadeus Mozart
I . Adagio - Allegro spiritoso
II. Poco adagio III M enuetto
IV. Presto
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Spanish-American conductor François López-Ferrer currently serves as Resident Conductor of the Académie of the Opéra de Paris. Former Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and May Festival, and a 2021-22 Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, López-Ferrer stepped in for Louis Langrée with the CSO in January of 2022 for the US premiere of Mark Simpson’s Violin Concerto with Nicola Benedetti to great critical acclaim.
This season he has made brilliant debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orquesta Nacional de España, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Opéra de Lausanne, Orquesta deValencia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica Radio Televisión Española, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, and Pasadena Symphony, and was featured in the 2022 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He previously served as Associate Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile and Principal Conductor of the Ballet Nacional Chileno.
Upcoming highlights include debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and Tucson Symphony, as well as return engagements to the Orquesta Sinfónica Radio Televisión Española, Pasadena Symphony, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile.
An inaugural apprentice of the Verbier Festival’s 2018 Conductor Mentorship Program, López-Ferrer made a last-minute criticallyacclaimed debut with the Verbier Festival Orchestra jumping in for Iván Fischer in a shared program with Sir Simon Rattle and Gábor Takács-Nagy. He was recipient of a Career Assistance Award from the Solti Foundation U.S., winner of the inaugural 2015 Neeme Järvi Prize awarded at the Menuhin-Gstaad Festival, and a previous member of the Deutsche Dirigentenforum.
López-Ferrer holds a master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne and a bachelor’s in Composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as being “fresh, different and exhilarating” and by Strings Magazine as “intensely wrought and burnished,“ violinist Grace Park captivates audiences with her artistry, passion, and virtuosity. Winner of the Naumburg International Violin Competition, she is one of the leading artists of her generation.
Ms. Park’s upcoming season includes her Carnegie Hall debut performing Barber’s violin concerto at Stern Auditorium. She will also make recital appearances at the Schubert Club, Krannert
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Ms. Park has appeared as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada at venues such as Walt Disney Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Rudolfinum in Prague, Schubert Club, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Jordan Hall. She has performed and participated in festivals such as Music @ Menlo, IMS Prussia Cove, Festival Mozaic, Yellowbarn, and Perlman Music Program, where she has performed with many of today’s celebrated artists.
A devoted and passionate educator, Ms. Park is an alumna of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect and has taught masterclasses and coached at Conservatorio de Musica de Cartagena, Mannes School of Music, Festival Mozaic, Arkansas University, Washington and Lee University, North Dakota State University, and Skidmore College.
As a native to Los Angeles, California, Ms. Park began violin at the age of 5 where she trained at the Colburn School of Music. She continued her studies at Colburn Conservatory and New England Conservatory for her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. Principal teachers are Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Robert Lipsett. She now resides in New York City.
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Brahms, Britten & Poulenc
ARTISTS
Olav van Hezewijk, oboe
Jonathan Carney, violin
DJ Cheek, viola
Julia Yang, cello
Viviana Cumplido Wilson, flute
Joshua Lauretig, oboe
Louis DeMartino, clarinet
Josh Baker, bassoon
Roy Femenella, horn
Vivienne Spy, piano
PROGRAM
Jonathan Carney, violin
Erica Miller, violin
DJ Cheek, viola
Linda Numagami, viola
Julia Yang, cello
Britton Riley, cello
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Phantasy Quartet for Oboe B enjamin Britten and Strings, Op. 2 ( 1913-1976)
Sextet in C Major for Piano Francis Poulenc and Winds, FP 100 ( 1899-1963)
1 . Allegro vivace
2 Divertissement: Andantino
3 . Finale: Prestissimo
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String Sextet No. 2 in J ohannes Brahms
G Major, Op. 36 ( 1833-1897)
1 Allegro non troppo
2 . Scherzo. Allegro non troppo — Presto giocoso
3 . Poco Adagio
4 Poco Allegro
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ARTISTS
Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
PROGRAM
The Rhapsody of M ason Bates
Steve Jobs (2021) (b. 1977)
Cello Concerto No. 1 D mitri Shostakovich in E-flat Major, Op. 107 ( 1906-1975)
I Allegretto
II M oderato
III C adenza
IV. Allegro con moto
Symphony No. 2
J ohannes Brahms in D Major, Op. 73 ( 1833-1897)
I . Allegro non troppo
II. Adagio non troppo
III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)
IV. Allegro con spirito
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Following “a company debut of astonishing vibrancy and assurance” (San Francisco Chronicle) in Rusalka, Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim has been named the Caroline H. Hume Music Director of San Francisco Opera. Her presence in North America was first established with performances of Verdi’s Requiem with the Cincinnati Symphony and La traviata with Houston Grand Opera, with the latter earning her an appointment as the company’s first Principal Guest Conductor in twenty-five years. In San Francisco Opera’s centennial season, Ms. Kim leads the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, as well as productions of La traviata, Madame Butterfly, and Dialogues of the Carmelites. She also conducts SFO’s Opera Ball, Opera in the Park, The Future is Now, and 100th Anniversary concerts. She continues a series of important operatic debuts with La bohème at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and returns to Wiener Staatsoper to conduct that same work. At the Dutch National Opera she will conduct Verdi´s Messa da Requiem with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in a scenic version.
Ms. Kim has enjoyed recent North American successes at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, and Houston Grand Opera, where The New York Times pronounced her “a major star…with great sensitivity and flexibility.” Her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic was quickly followed by debut engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Seattle Symphony, and her triumphant return to Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was hailed by the Business Courier as “impeccable…a dynamic presence, illuminating details of the score with clarity and expressive power.”
Ms. Kim’s recent engagements have also included a new production of Die Fledermaus with English National Opera, Carmen at Opernhaus Zürich, Hänsel und Gretel, Carmen, and Die Fledermaus at Volksoper Wien, Il viaggio a Reims at Teatro Real Madrid, La traviata at Opéra de Marseille, and La bohème with Oper Graz. Concert performances comprise appearances with Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, and Stuttgart Philharmonic, as well as orchestras in Madrid, Marseille, Munich, Lille, Nancy, Milan, Palermo, Turin, Milwaukee, Calgary, and Santiago de Compostela.
Ms. Kim studied composition and conducting in her hometown of Seoul, South Korea, before continuing her studies in Stuttgart, where she graduated with distinction. Directly after graduation, she was awarded the First Prize in the International Jesús López Cobos Opera Conducting Competition at the Teatro Real Madrid.
July 27-28
Brahms 2 + Shostakovich
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Hailed by Gramophone Magazine as “one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists,” German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, BBC Philharmonic at the Proms, London Symphony, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tokyo NHK Symphony, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras with conductors of the highest level including Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Jurowski, Franz Welser-Möst, Christian Thielemann, Pierre Boulez, Paavo Jarvi, Semyon Bychkov, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Gustavo Dudamel.
His recordings include the concertos by Dvořák, Lalo, Elgar, Lutosławski, Dutilleux, and Tchaikovsky, which have gained
him the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Diapason d’Or and Gramophone commented “[Lutosławski and Dutilleux Cello Concertos]…Anyone coming afresh to these masterly works… should now investigate this new release ahead of all others…”.
A dedicated chamber musician, Johannes has performed with Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Jonathan Biss, James Ehnes, Vadim Gluzman, Leonidas Kavakos, Midori, Menahem Pressler, Andrej Korobeinikov, Gloria Campaner, and Yevgeny Sudbin. Johannes is also a regular at festivals including the Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Gstaad and Kissinger festivals, the Mehta Chamber Music Festival, and the Colorado, Seattle, and Brevard music festivals.
Renowned for his efforts to expand the reach of the classical genre, as well as his passionate focus on new music, Johannes has recently been heavily involved in commissioning works by Julia Wolfe, Ellen Reid, Thomas Agerfeld Olesen, Johannes Kalitzke, Jelena Firsowa, and Andrew Norman. In 2011 he premiered Magnetar for electric cello by Enrico Chapela with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and in the following season he continued this relationship with the orchestra performing Michel van der Aa’s cello concerto Up-close
Johannes Moser plays on an Andrea Guarneri Cello from 1694 from a private collection.
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Schumann’s Piano Concerto July
ARTISTS
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Tony Siqi Yun, piano
PROGRAM
Cantus Arcticus, Einojuhani Rautavaara Op. 61 (1974) ( 1928-2016)
1 . The Bog
2 . M elancholy
3 . Swans Migrating
Piano Concerto Robert Schumann in A Minor, Op. 54 ( 1810-1856)
I Allegro affettuoso
II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso
III. Allegro vivace
Symphony No. 96
Franz Joseph Haydn in D Major, “The Miracle” ( 1732-1809)
I . Adagio - Allegro
II. Andante
III M enuet: Allegretto
IV. Vivace
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Hannu Lintu continues his tenure as Chief Conductor of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. The appointment follows a series of hugely successful collaborations with the company –including Tristan und Isolde in 2016, Sibelius’s Kullervo in 2017, Berg’s Wozzeck in 2019 and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos in 2020 – and reflects Lintu’s shifting focus into the field of opera. In the past season he conducted Strauss’ Salome and Britten’s Billy Budd. This season’s productions will include the majority of the house’s rescheduled Ring Cycle which will recommence with Die Walküre in September 2022.
Lintu recently completed his eighth and final season as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor.
Guest highlights of the 2022/23 season include the highly anticipated debut with New York Philharmonic and Atlanta Symphony and returns to St. Louis and BBC Symphony orchestras. Lintu also guest conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.
Lintu studied cello and piano at the Sibelius Academy, where he later studied conducting with Jorma Panula. He participated in masterclasses with Myung-Whun Chung at the L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and took first prize at the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen in 1994.
The Canadian-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun will this season make his subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He first met Maestro NézetSéguin in the final round of the inaugural China International Music
Competition in 2019, where he went on to win First Prize and a Gold Medal performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. Other recent concerto performances have included the Cleveland Orchestra (Tchaikovsky), Toronto Symphony and Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, (Clara Schumann), Buffalo Philharmonic (Tchaikovsky), and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (Beethoven).
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Tony regularly performs solo recitals in both Europe and North America. Recent and future highlights include his debuts at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Luxembourg and in North America the Vancouver Recital Society, Stanford Live, and Gilmore Rising Stars Series. At the Kissinger KlavierOlymp in 2022 he was awarded two prizes.
Tony has a long-standing relationship with the China Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he has toured and also appeared as soloist in
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ARTISTS
Kevin Lin, violin
DJ Cheek, viola
Austin Huntington, cello
Andrea Mumm, harp
Marian String Quartet
Emma Richman, violin
Sahana Shravan, violin
Kevin Lin, violin
Douglas Kwon, violin
DJ Cheek, viola
Austin Huntington, cello
Vivienne Spy, piano
Cameren Anai Williams, viola
Wangshu Xiang, cello
PROGRAM
String Trio in Ludwig van Beethoven C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3 ( 1770-1827)
Danses sacrée et Claude Debussy profane (Sacred and ( 1862-1918) Profane Dances)
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Piano Quintet in Antonín Dvorák A Major, No. 2, Op. 81 ( 1841-1904) ˇ
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Joshua Bell + Debussy’s La Mer August 3
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Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
PROGRAM
The Elements, Suite for Violin and Orchestra
“ Fire”
Jake Heggie (b. 1961)
“ Space” J essie Montgomery (b. 1981)
“ Water”
Edgar Meyer (b. 1960)
The Elements commissioned by Joshua Bell has been generously sponsored by David and Judith Anderson, Antonia Gordon, Kenneth and Susan Greathouse, Joseph and Bette Hirsch, Carol Kaganov, and Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
La Mer
Claude Debussy
I . De l’aube à midi sur la mer ( 1862-1918)
[From Dawn to Noon on the Sea]
II. J eux des vagues [Play of the Waves]
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer [Dialogue of Wind and Sea]
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Joshua Bell + Mahler 1 August 6
ARTISTS
Peter Oundjian, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
PROGRAM
The Element s Suite for Violin and Orchestra
“Air” J ennifer Higdon (b. 1962)
“ Earth” Kevin Puts (b. 1972)
The Elements commissioned by Joshua Bell has been generously sponsored by David and Judith Anderson, Antonia Gordon, Kenneth and Susan Greathouse, Joseph and Bette Hirsch, Carol Kaganov, and Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.
Symphony No. 1 G ustav Mahler in D Major, “Titan” ( 1860-1911)
I L angsam schleppend
II. K räftig bewegt
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IV. Stürmisch bewegt
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Composer Jake Heggie is best known for the operas Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, It’s A Wonderful Life, Three Decembers, Two Remain, and If I Were You He is currently at work on his 10th full-length opera, Intelligence, with Jawole Zollar and Gene Scheer, as well as new works for violinist Joshua Bell, New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Miró Quartet, and Music of Remembrance. The operas and his nearly 300 art songs have been performed extensively on five continents, championed by some of the world’s most beloved artists. With a libretto by the late Terrence McNally, Dead Man Walking has become “the most celebrated American opera of the 21st century” (Chicago Tribune). It has received nearly 80 international productions since its San Francisco Opera premiere in 2000. The Metropolitan Opera has announced productions of Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick for upcoming seasons. Recent premieres have included Lake Tahoe: Symphonic Reflections and Fantasy Suite 1803. In 2021, Heggie and mezzo Jamie Barton premiered the new song cycle What I Miss the Most… featuring new texts by Joyce DiDonato, Patti LuPone, Sister Helen Prejean, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Kathleen Kelly. Jamie Barton is also featured on Unexpected Shadows, a recording of Heggie’s songs released by Pentatone (2022 Grammy nominee). Songs for Murdered Sisters, a cycle to poetry by Margaret Atwood for baritone Joshua Hopkins, was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and premiered in a film by director James Niebuhr (2022 Canadian Juno Award nominee). Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope (texts by Gene Scheer) was composed for mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and violinist Daniel Hope to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz (Pentatone). “Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer” (The Wall Street Journal), Jake Heggie lives in San Francisco with his husband, Curt Branom. www.jakeheggie.com
Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Her music interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, poetry, and social consciousness, making her an acute interpreter of 21st century American sound and experience. Her profoundly felt works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (The Washington Post). Her growing body of work includes solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works. Some recent highlights include Shift, Change, Turn (2019), commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Coincident Dances (2018) for the Chicago Sinfonietta, and Banner (2014)—written to mark the 200th anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner”—for The Sphinx Organization and the Joyce Foundation, which was presented in its UK premiere at the BBC Proms on 7 August 2021.
Summer 2021 brought a varied slate of premiere performances, including Five Freedom Songs, a song cycle conceived with and written for Soprano Julia Bullock, for Sun Valley and Grand Teton Music Festivals, San Francisco and Kansas City Symphonies, Boston and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, and the Virginia Arts Festival; a site-specific collaboration with Bard SummerScape Festival and
Pam Tanowitz Dance, I was waiting for the echo of a better day; and Passacaglia, a flute quartet for The National Flute Association’s 49th annual convention.
Since 1999, Jessie has been affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports young African American and Latinx string players, and has served as composer-in-residence for the Sphinx Virtuosi, the Organization’s flagship professional touring ensemble.
A founding member of PUBLIQuartet and a former member of the Catalyst Quartet, Jessie holds degrees from the Juilliard School and New York University and is currently a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University. She is Professor of violin and composition at The New School. In May 2021, she began her three-year appointment as the Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In demand as both a performer and a composer, Edgar Meyer has formed a role in the music world unlike any other. Hailed by The New Yorker as “...the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” Mr. Meyer’s unparalleled technique and musicianship in combination with his gift for composition have brought him to the fore, where he is appreciated by a vast, varied audience. His uniqueness in the field was recognized by a MacArthur Award in 2002.
As a composer, Mr. Meyer has carved out a remarkable and unique niche in the musical world. One of his most recent compositions is the Double Concerto for Double Bass and Violin which received its world premiere July 2012 with Joshua Bell at the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Meyer and Mr. Bell have also performed the work at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Aspen Music Festival, and with the Nashville and Toronto symphony orchestras. In the 2011-12 season, Mr. Meyer was composer in residence with the Alabama Symphony where he premiered his third concerto for double bass and orchestra. Mr. Meyer has collaborated with Béla Fleck and Zakir Hussain to write a triple concerto for double bass, banjo, and tabla, which was commissioned for the opening of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. The triple concerto was recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin and featured on the 2009 recording The Melody of Rhythm, a collection of trio pieces all co-composed by Mr. Meyer, Mr. Fleck and Mr. Hussain. Mr. Meyer has performed his second double bass concerto with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and his first double bass concerto with Edo de Waart and the Minnesota Orchestra. Other compositions of Mr. Meyer’s include a violin/piano work which has been performed by Joshua Bell at New York’s Lincoln Center, a quintet for bass and string quartet premiered with the Emerson String Quartet and recorded on Deutsche Grammophon, a Double Concerto for Bass and Cello premiered with Yo-Yo Ma and The Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, and a violin concerto written for Hilary Hahn which was premiered and recorded by Ms. Hahn with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra led by Hugh Wolff.
Mr. Meyer began studying bass at the age of five under the instruction of his father and continued further to study with Stuart Sankey. In 1994 he received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 2000 became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize. He is currently Visiting Professor of Double Bass at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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Jennifer Higdon is one of America’s most acclaimed figures in contemporary classical music, receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto, a 2018 Grammy for her Viola Concerto and, most recently, a 2020 Grammy for her Harp Concerto. Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, won the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere and the opera recording was nominated for 2 Grammy awards. In 2018, Higdon received the prestigious Nemmers Prize from Northwestern University which is awarded to those who have significantly influenced the field of composition. Most recently, she was inducted into membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Higdon enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works and her works have been recorded on more than seventy CDs.
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy ® -winning composer
KEVIN PUTS
Kevin Puts has established himself as one of America’s leading composers, gaining international acclaim for his “plush, propulsive” music (The New York Times), and described by Opera News as “a master polystylist.” He has been commissioned and performed by leading organizations around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Opera Philadelphia, Minnesota Opera, and many more, and has collaborated with world-class artists such as Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, and Marin Alsop, among others.
In March 2022 Puts’ fourth opera, The Hours, had its world premiere on the concert stage by the Philadelphia Orchestra under
the baton of Yannick Nezet-Seguin, and was hailed as a “historic event ... with a lush orchestration that hits you in the solar plexus” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Hours premiered to sold-out houses as a fully staged production at the Metropolitan Opera in November 2022 starring sopranos Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato, and was called “a stunning triumph” by Variety Magazine. Other highlights of 2022 included the westcoast premiere of The Brightness of Light featuring Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry with the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. Written for Time for Three, his triple concerto Contact had its world-premiere in March 2022 with the Florida Orchestra and continues to receive additional performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Sun Valley Music Festival and many others. A recording of the piece by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Xian Zhang, conductor was released on the Deutsche Grammophon album Letters for the Future and was awarded Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 2023 Grammy ® Awards.
Puts’ breakthrough opera Silent Night – for which he was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize following its 2011 premiere by Minnesota Opera – has been heralded as “remarkable” (The New York Times) and “stunning” (Twin Cities Examiner). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mr. Puts has received numerous honors and awards for composition. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Composition Faculty at the Peabody Institute, and currently is the Director of the Minnesota Orchestra Composer’s Institute.
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