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EUROPE / SPRING 2015 TOUR AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC APRIL 16–MAY 1, 2015

TOUR TO INCLUDE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC’S RETURN TO DUBLIN AFTER 19 YEARS Orchestra To Return to LONDON, , COLOGNE, AMSTERDAM, LUXEMBOURG, and FRANKFURT

Second International Associate Residency at London’s BARBICAN CENTRE To Feature Reprise of 2013 ’s Staging of PETRUSHKA, Highlights from CONTACT!, the New-Music Series, and Education Component Including YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT and VERY YOUNG COMPOSERS

WORLD PREMIERE in Cologne of Peter EÖTVÖS’s Senza sangue, Co-Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and KölnMusik, with and RUSSELL BRAUN

Esa-Pekka SALONEN’s Nyx

Performances at PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS in Its Inaugural Season

JOYCE DIDONATO To Perform RAVEL’s Shéhérazade

Credit Suisse Is the Exclusive Tour Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic

NEW YORK — Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic on the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour, April 16–May 1, 2015. The two-week tour — the Philharmonic’s eighth international concert tour, the sixth to Europe, under Alan Gilbert’s leadership — will feature twelve orchestral concerts and one contemporary chamber music concert in six countries, with performances in Dublin, Ireland; London, England; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Luxembourg; Paris, France; and Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany. The soloists are mezzo-

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EUROPE / SPRING 2015 Tour / 2 soprano Joyce DiDonato (Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, and Paris), and mezzo- soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and baritone Russell Braun (Cologne). Tour highlights include two performances of Giants Are Small’s theatrical reimagining of Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka, adapted from the Philharmonic’s 2013 A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (London); Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx (London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Cologne); the World Premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Senza sangue, co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and KölnMusik, with Anne Sofie von Otter and Russell Braun as soloists (Cologne); and a concert featuring highlights from the Philharmonic’s recent concerts as part of CONTACT!, the new- music series (London).

The tour marks the Philharmonic’s second residency at the Barbican Centre under the auspices of its International Associates initiative. As part of the residency, the Philharmonic will present its acclaimed staging, in collaboration with Giants Are Small, of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, including during a Young People’s Concert; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Ravel’s Shéhérazade with mezzo- soprano Joyce DiDonato; and a CONTACT! concert featuring highlights from recent CONTACT! performances. The residency will also feature some of the Philharmonic’s signature educational projects, including a performance of works by Very Young Composers of New York and London, a Young People’s Concert featuring the theatrical staging of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and an interactive installation by Musicjelly — the London-based visual sampling project that experiments with the use of video and new media in music composition and performance — featuring Philharmonic musicians. In addition, Alan Gilbert will present the annual Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture, speaking on Orchestras in the 21st Century: A New Paradigm, April 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Milton Court Concert Hall. The Philharmonic’s last International Associate residency at the Barbican Centre occurred during the EUROPE / WINTER 2012 tour and totaled four concerts, including a Young People’s Concert, and a series of educational and outreach activities.

EUROPE / SPRING 2015 marks the New York Philharmonic’s twelfth concert tour and seventh European tour under the aegis of Credit Suisse. A complete schedule of EUROPE / SPRING 2015 performances appears at the end of this press release.

“This will be my sixth European tour with the New York Philharmonic, so I wanted to present programs and projects that reflect the artistic vision that has become integral to our activities at home in ,” said Music Director Alan Gilbert. “The Philharmonic musicians are astoundingly versatile, allowing us to bring to European audiences everything from to Esa-Pekka Salonen. I look forward to returning to cities we have visited before — including Cologne, where we will premiere Peter Eötvös’s new opera, and Paris, where I’m excited to perform in the newly opened Philharmonie — and to making new musical friends in my first-ever performance in Dublin. And our residency in London will capture many of our signature projects, including Giants Are Small’s staging of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and a chamber concert featuring highlights of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series.”

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“It is always momentous when the New York Philharmonic travels to Europe,” said President Matthew VanBesien, “but the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour is particularly meaningful, as it demonstrates our belief in collaboration with like-minded institutions and our commitment to being a cultural resource to our hometown and around the world. All of this tour’s performances result from a warm, collaborative spirit with our partners, and I am particularly proud of the comprehensive series of informative and inspiring education activities that will take place at London’s Barbican Centre. The combination of performance and classroom activity is a model of how music can strengthen ties across borders.”

“I am looking forward to traveling on my first New York Philharmonic tour as Chairman,” said Chairman Oscar S. Schafer. “I know that hearing Alan Gilbert and our Philharmonic musicians perform for the sophisticated and appreciative audiences of these cultural capitals will bring a fresh appreciation for how truly top-notch they are. I thank and congratulate Credit Suisse, the Exclusive Tour Sponsor; their support allows the New York Philharmonic to further advance its commitment not only to be a great orchestra for New York City, but a musical and cultural ambassador around the world.”

“We are delighted to deepen our long-standing relationship with the New York Philharmonic by acting as Exclusive Tour Sponsor for their EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour,” said Gael de Boissard, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. “Alan Gilbert and the exceptionally talented musicians of the Orchestra have developed a program which is sure to delight audiences whether they are revisiting classical pieces or experiencing the Orchestra for the first time. Coupled with unique educational experiences in schools, the magic of the Orchestra will appeal to a whole new generation as a result of this tour.”

The EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour begins with a performance in Dublin at the National Concert Hall on April 16, marking the New York Philharmonic’s first visit to the city in 19 years. The Orchestra then heads to London for its second residency at the Barbican Centre under the auspices of its International Associates initiative; concerts will take place at the Barbican Centre on April 17–19. The tour continues in Amsterdam at the Royal Concertgebouw on April 21–22; Luxembourg at Philharmonie Luxembourg on April 23; Paris at the newly established Philharmonie de Paris on April 25–26; Frankfurt at the Alte Oper on April 28; and concludes in Cologne at the Kölner Philharmonie on April 30–May 1.

Tour Programs The repertoire for EUROPE / SPRING 2015 will feature highlights from many of the initiatives introduced during Music Director Alan Gilbert’s tenure — including theatrical collaboration, CONTACT!, commissions, and educational initiatives — in addition to canonic masterworks.

EUROPE / SPRING 2015 opens in Dublin with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Ravel’s Shéhérazade, sung by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales; and Richard Strauss’s Suite. The same program will be performed in London, Amsterdam, and Paris. The Orchestra will also perform Nyx by Esa-Pekka Salonen (who will begin a three-year tenure as the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis

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Composer-in-Residence in the 2015–16 season) in Cologne; Ravel’s Shéhérazade, with Joyce DiDonato, in Luxembourg; Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales in Luxembourg, Frankfurt, and Cologne; and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite in Frankfurt and Cologne. The Philharmonic will also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in Amsterdam and Luxembourg.

In London the Philharmonic will present two performances of its acclaimed staging, in collaboration with Giants Are Small, of Stravinsky’s Petrushka; the first performance will take place at the Young People’s Concert and the second will also include Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite — which the Orchestra will also perform in Paris and Cologne — and Debussy’s Jeux — which the Orchestra will also perform in Paris. Directed and conceived by and produced by Edouard Getaz, Petrushka blends music with dance, live animation, pre-recorded video, puppetry, and circus arts, and spotlights Philharmonic musicians juggling, acting, and dancing. Featured in the pre-recorded footage will be principal dancer Sara Mearns; opera star Eric Owens (the bass-baritone who will begin his tenure as the Philharmonic’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence in the 2015–16 season) as The Moor; and opera, Broadway, and film performer as Petrushka. The performance in London will mark the production’s European premiere, and the Philharmonic’s first time reprising a Giants Are Small production and performing it on tour. The Orchestra will perform Stravinsky’s Petrushka (the original 1911 version) without staging at the Philharmonie de Paris and in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Cologne.

Also in London, Philharmonic musicians will perform highlights from recent CONTACT! concerts: Daníel Bjarnason’s Five Possibilities; Timo Andres’s Early to Rise; Missy Mazzoli’s Dissolve, O My Heart; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Homunculus for string quartet; and Shulamit Ran’s Mirage for five players.

The tour will conclude in Cologne, where the Philharmonic will present the World Premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Senza sangue, featuring mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and baritone Russell Braun. The Orchestra will give the work’s U.S. Premiere upon its return to New York. The Philharmonic co-commissioned the work with KölnMusik as part of The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, awarded every two years to a composer for extraordinary artistic endeavor in the field of new music. Mr. Eötvös is one of the three composers (along with Anthony Cheung and Franck Krawczyk) with whom the late Henri Dutilleux shared the inaugural Prize in 2011 and who were each commissioned to write a work for the Orchestra to premiere. Also in Cologne, the Orchestra will perform Stravinsky’s Petrushka (the original 1911 version), Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

Creative Learning Activities As part of the Philharmonic’s second residency at the Barbican Centre, an installation by Musicjelly in the Barbican’s Fountain Room, April 15–19, will allow users to compose and construct their own New York Philharmonic performance, find out how a piece of deconstructs, and discover more about the Philharmonic musicians before hearing them perform. In addition, on Sunday, April 19, 1:00–4:00 p.m., free family events will take place in

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Barbican foyers before the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert, including an ensemble of Philharmonic musicians and graduate students from London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama performing music by Very Young Composers of New York City and London. This will precede a Young People’s Concert, in which Alan Gilbert will lead the Philharmonic in its acclaimed staging, created in collaboration with Giants Are Small, of Stravinsky’s Petrushka. The Very Young Composers based in New York and London have been corresponding through Musical Postcards, in which students from different countries share stories and musical ideas; in the London collaboration, this communication is actually manifest through physical postcards, which will be on display at the Barbican. Very Young Composers allows students with or without musical backgrounds to create, notate, and hear their own music performed by Philharmonic musicians; the initiative, which began in New York City, is being rolled out in cities throughout the world, often in conjunction with Philharmonic tours.

In Dublin, Philharmonic musicians will coach the Irish Youth Orchestra in sectional rehearsals and will visit with beginning string students in low-income neighborhoods.

Artists Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in September 2009, the first native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence, and the Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; and the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music by a wide range of contemporary and modern composers inaugurated in spring 2014. As New York magazine wrote, “The Philharmonic and its music director Alan Gilbert have turned themselves into a force of permanent revolution.”

In the 2014–15 season Alan Gilbert conducts the U.S. Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto, a Philharmonic co-commission, alongside Mahler’s First Symphony; La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema; Verdi’s ; a staging of Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake, featuring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard; World Premieres; a CONTACT! program; and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He concludes The Nielsen Project — the multi-year initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and concertos, the first release of which was named by The New York Times as among the Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 — and presides over the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour. His Philharmonic- tenure highlights include acclaimed productions of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring and Emma Thompson, and Philharmonic 360 at Park Avenue Armory; World Premieres by Magnus Lindberg, John Corigliano, Christopher Rouse, and others; Bach’s B-minor Mass and Ives’s Fourth Symphony; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film; Mahler’s Second Symphony, Resurrection, on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and eight international tours.

Conductor laureate of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. His 2014–15 appearances include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, , The , and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

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He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming’s recent Decca recording Poèmes, on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. His recordings have received top honors from the Chicago Tribune and Gramophone magazine. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The , where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. In May 2010 Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and in December 2011, Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music.” In 2014 he was elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, winner of the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, has gained international prominence in operas by Rossini, Handel, and Mozart, and for her wide-ranging discography. This season Ms. DiDonato holds residencies at New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Barbican Centre. She recently completed a recital tour of South America, and appeared in concert and recital in Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Toulouse, Mexico City, and Aspen, as well as at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall. This season she performs in her native Kansas City, at The Metropolitan Opera, at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, with , and with the Berlin Philharmonic and . Last season’s operatic engagements included Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Met, and . An exclusive recording artist with Erato/Warner Classics, Ms. DiDonato’s most recent recording, Stella di Napoli, presents little-known gems alongside music by Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti. Her Grammy Award–winning Diva Divo comprises arias by male and female characters, celebrating the rich dramatic world of the mezzo- soprano. Her recordings Drama Queens and ReJoyce!, a retrospective of her first ten years of recordings, were released in 2013. Her honors include the Gramophone Artist of the Year and Recital of the Year awards, two German Awards as Female Singer of the Year, and induction into the . Joyce DiDonato made her Philharmonic debut in 2006 in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, conducted by Lorin Maazel; she joined Russell Braun for the 2009 World Premiere of Peter Lieberson’s The World in Flower, conducted by Alan Gilbert, and she most recently performed in Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic in February 2012.

Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter’s long and exclusive relationship with produced numerous acclaimed recordings, including , a collaboration with . Her first recording for Naïve Classique, Love Songs with jazz pianist (2010) was followed by the Grammy-nominated Sogno Barocco with Leonardo García-Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea, and Berlioz’s Les Nuits d'été with and Les Musiciens du . Her fourth recording for Naïve, Douce France, is a double CD of mélodies and chansons, released in October 2013. Recently, Ms. von Otter has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and David Robertson, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Daniele Gatti, and the National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach. For the recent Wagner bicentenary she performed Wesendonck Lieder with Orchestre national du

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Capitole de Toulouse, led by Minkowski, and with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by Paavo Järvi, and she appeared with and the Berlin Philharmonic, led by the late , for a televised performance of Das von der Erde on the centenary of Mahler’s death. This season’s highlights include a new production of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio at Lyric Opera of Chicago, led by Andrew Davis; Leocadia Begbick in Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, led by Mark Wigglesworth; and Waltraute in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at the Vienna Staatsoper, led by Rattle. On the concert stage she performs Schubert orchestrated songs with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Jukka Pekka Saraste, and Zemlinsky’s Maeterlinck Lieder with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Sakari Oramo. Anne Sofie von Otter made her Philharmonic debut in September 1987 performing in Berlioz’s , led by ; she most recently performed with the Orchestra in Bach’s Mass in B minor, led by Alan Gilbert in March 2013.

Baritone Russell Braun has received acclaim for his appearances as Chou En-lai in John Adams’s Nixon in China; Prince Andrei in Prokofiev’s War and Peace; The Traveller in Britten’s Death in Venice; and the title roles in Britten’s Billy Budd, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Tchaikovsky’s , and Mozart’s Don Giovanni at The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Vienna Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as the and Glyndebourne festivals. This season features his debut as Ford in the Canadian Opera Company (COC) production of Verdi’s Falstaff, the title role of Don Giovanni with COC, Lescaut in The Met’s production of Massenet’s Manon, Britten’s War Requiem with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’s A German Requiem with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, and Fauré’s Requiem with the Calgary Philharmonic. Recent highlights include debuts as the Duke of Nottingham in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux and as Conte di Luna in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with COC; Chou En- lai in Nixon in China and Olivier in Richard Strauss’s Capriccio at The Met; Jaufré Rudel in ’s L’Amour de loin with the Oslo Philharmonic; Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at COC; Gounod’s Faust at The Met; and Manon at . His discography features the 2015 Opera Award–nominated recording of Offenbach’s Fantasio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mark Elder (Opera Rara); the Grammy-nominated disc of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Dorian); the International Opera Award–nominated recording of Dietch’s Le Vaisseau Fantôme (Naïve); JUNO Award winners Mozart Arie e Duetti (CBC) and Apollo e Dafne (Handel); and a JUNO-nominated recording of Schubert’s Winterreise (CBC). DVDs include the ’s Romeo et Juliette, , Nixon in China (Nonesuch), Capriccio (Decca), and Alexina Louie’s comic opera Burnt Toast. Russell Braun previously appeared with the New York Philharmonic alongside Joyce DiDonato in the 2009 World Premiere of Peter Lieberson’s The World in Flower, conducted by Alan Gilbert.

Since its founding in 2007 by American director/visual artist Doug Fitch, Swiss filmmaker/producer Edouard Getaz, and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy, Giants Are Small has become one of the most groundbreaking and critically acclaimed New York City production companies. Collaborating with some of today’s finest orchestras and outstanding talents, Giants Are Small is known for its extraordinary range of genre-bending fusions of

(more) EUROPE / SPRING 2015 Tour / 8 theater, live filmmaking, and music. In 2010 Giants Are Small created a production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Alan Gilbert, which was cited as 2010’s best opera of the year by The New York Times, New York magazine, and Time Out New York. The Philharmonic collaboration continued with the 2011 production of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (New York magazine’s “Best Classical Event of the Year”) and A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (2013, and later screen in movie theaters worldwide); and HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL (with Alan Gilbert conducting forces from The Juilliard School). The 2015 production of Petrushka during the Orchestra’s EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour marks the company’s fourth collaboration with the Philharmonic. In 2008 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Giants Are Small presented a new version of Prokofiev’s with the in a production that merged live classical music, live animation, and video effects in real time. In 2014 Giants Are Small Discovery was launched; these exploratory productions, drawing on diverse musical genres, apply its signature treatment to smaller scale works in a range of cultural spaces; Dadabomb and Gloria – A Pig Tale were the first two works presented under this label. In co- production with Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon, Giants Are Small is currently developing Peter+Wolf in Hollywood, which will result in an iPad app, CD, digital album, and live show.

Visual artist, designer, and director Doug Fitch’s Giants Are Small productions for Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic include Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (cited as the top opera of 2010 by The New York Times, New York magazine, and Time Out New York), Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (2011, New York magazine’s “Best Classical Event of the Year”), A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (2013, later screened in movie theaters worldwide); and HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale (2014, with forces from The Juilliard School as part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL). This fall Mr. Fitch was the inaugural WBFO visiting artist at SUNY, where he created an opera of images, How Did We...? In 2013 he directed and performed in the premiere of Matthew Suttor’s musical setting of Blaise Cendrar’s poem La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France with the Taos Chamber Music Group. He has created productions for Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and , and directed projects for Canada’s National Arts Centre, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and Tanglewood (Elliot Carter’s What Next?, screened at The ). Doug Fitch’s creative life began with his family’s touring puppet theater. While studying visual arts at Harvard University, he collaborated with director , including on of Wagner’s . He also studied cooking at Paris’s La Varenne and design at Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France. He emerged as an architectural designer in the 1980s, and collaborated with Mimi Oka on edible art installations called Orphic Feasts, leading to their book, Orphic Fodder. Other projects have included ’s Civil Wars (at the American Repertory Theatre) and of The Muppets (in England). In co- production with Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon, Mr. Fitch, Edouard Getaz, and Frederic Gumy are developing Peter+Wolf in Hollywood for an iPad app, CD, digital album, and live show.

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Edouard Getaz is co-founder and producer of Giants Are Small. Born in 1973 in Lausanne, Switzerland, he is now a New York–based producer and director. Mr. Getaz has produced a wide variety of events, from major fashion shows to music festivals and large historical celebrations, including several New York Philharmonic projects: Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat (2005, directed by Doug Fitch), Le Grand Macabre (2010), The Cunning Little Vixen (2011), and A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (2013). Petrushka is the fifth creation produced by Mr. Getaz (who is the show’s video director). With Doug Fitch, Mr. Getaz has also created Giants Are Small’s adaptation of Peter and the Wolf with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall (2008). In co-production with Universal Music / Deutsche Grammophon, and with his partners Doug Fitch and Frederic Gumy, he is currently developing: Peter+Wolf in Hollywood, which will result in an iPad app, CD, digital album, and live show. Mr. Getaz has directed two short films, Virgin Red (2005) and Freud’s Magic Powder (2009, in co-production with the Swiss National Television); both were premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and selected for major festivals worldwide. For Citibank’s 200th anniversary in 2011 Mr. Getaz directed the music video Proud, which won major awards (including the PR Week Award). He has directed video campaigns for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the International Olympic Committee. Edouard Getaz holds a master in law from the Fribourg University and a certificate in film directing and production from New York University.

About the New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic plays a leading cultural role in New York City, the United States, and the world. This season’s projects will connect the Philharmonic with up to 50 million music lovers through live concerts in New York City and on its worldwide tours; digital downloads; international broadcasts on television, radio, and online; and as a resource through its wide range of education programs. The Orchestra has commissioned and/or premiered works by leading composers from every era since its founding in 1842 — including Dvořák’s New World Symphony, Copland’s Connotations, and John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize–winning On the Transmigration of Souls, dedicated to the victims of 9/11. Renowned around the globe, the Philharmonic has appeared in 432 cities in 63 countries — including the groundbreaking 1930 tour of Europe; the unprecedented 1959 tour to the USSR; the historic 2008 visit to Pyongyang, D.P.R.K., the first there by an American orchestra; and the Orchestra’s debut in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2009. The New York Philharmonic serves as a resource for its community and the world. It complements its annual free concerts across the city with a wide range of education programs — among them the famed, long-running Young People’s Concerts and Philharmonic Schools, an immersive classroom program that reaches thousands of New York City students. Committed to developing tomorrow’s leading orchestral musicians, the Philharmonic has established the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions at home and abroad to create projects that combine performance with intensive training by Philharmonic musicians. These include collaborations with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music as well as Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. The oldest American symphony orchestra and one of the oldest in the world, the New York Philharmonic has made almost 2,000 recordings since 1917, including several Grammy Award winners, and its self- produced download series continues in the 2014–15 season. Music Director Alan Gilbert began his tenure in September 2009, succeeding a distinguished line of 20th-century musical giants that includes , , and . (more) EUROPE / SPRING 2015 Tour / 10

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Credit Suisse Sponsorship Extraordinary and lasting relationships develop over time, which is why Credit Suisse adopts a long-term approach to its partnerships. Classical music is one of Credit Suisse’s key themes in sponsoring cultural engagements worldwide. An integral part of our commitments involves supporting our partners’ educational programs for young talent, to ensure cultural diversity in the future. The Bank’s current global sponsorship portfolio includes the National Gallery in London, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Sydney Symphony, and the Lucerne Festival, among others.

* * * Credit Suisse is the Exclusive Tour Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Major Underwriting support generously provided by Didi and Oscar Schafer, Daria L. and Eric J. Wallach, and the Mary and James G. Wallach Family Foundation.

* * * Additional Underwriting support generously provided by Harold Mitchell, AC; Joan and Joel I. Picket; Phoebe and Bobby Tudor; and the New York Philharmonic International Advisory Board.

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EUROPE / SPRING 2015 ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Concert Schedule All information is subject to change. Date Location Program Thursday National Concert Hall Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx April 16 Dublin, Ireland RAVEL Shéhérazade 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite Friday Barbican Centre Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx April 17 London, England RAVEL Shéhérazade 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite Saturday Milton Court Concert Hall Daníel BJARNASON Five Possibilities April 18 London, England Pascual Martínez Forteza, clarinet; 8:00 p.m. CONTACT! Nathan Vickery, cello; Eric Huebner, Musicians from the New York Philharmonic piano Timo ANDRES Early to Rise Fiona Simon, Sharon Yamada, violin; Robert Rinehart, viola; Eileen Moon cello Missy MAZZOLI Dissolve, O My Heart Anna Rabinova, violin Esa-Pekka SALONEN Homunculus for string quartet Sharon Yamada, Fiona Simon, violin; Dawn Hannay, viola; Patrick Jee, cello Shulamit RAN Mirage for five players Quan Ge, violin; Sumire Kudo, cello; Yoobin Son, flute/piccolo; Alcides Rodríguez, clarinet; Eric Huebner, piano Sunday Barbican Centre STRAVINSKY Petrushka (staged) April 19 London, England 4:00 p.m. Young People’s Concert Alan Gilbert, conductor Doug Fitch, director/designer Edouard Getaz, producer A Production by Giants Are Small Tom Lee, puppetry director Sunday Barbican Centre BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite April 19 London, England DEBUSSY Jeux 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor STRAVINSKY Petrushka (staged) Doug Fitch, director/designer Edouard Getaz, producer A Production by Giants Are Small Tom Lee, puppetry director

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Tuesday Royal Concertgebouw Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx April 21 Amsterdam, Netherlands RAVEL Shéhérazade 8:15 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite Wednesday Royal Concertgebouw STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911 April 22 Amsterdam, Netherlands version) 8:15 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 Thursday Philharmonie Luxembourg RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales April 23 Luxembourg, Luxembourg RAVEL Shéhérazade 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10 Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano Saturday Philharmonie de Paris Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx April 25 Paris, France RAVEL Shéhérazade 8:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite Sunday Philharmonie de Paris STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911 April 26 Paris, France version) 4:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor DEBUSSY Jeux BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite Tuesday Alte Oper Frankfurt STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911 April 28 Frankfurt, Germany version) 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite Thursday Kölner Philharmonie STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911 April 30 Cologne, Germany version) 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite Friday Kölner Philharmonie Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx May 1 Cologne, Germany BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Peter EÖTVÖS Senza sangue (World Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co- Russell Braun, baritone Commission, with the support of the Kravis Prize for New Music, with KölnMusik)

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