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The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-In-Residence Eric Owens THE MARY AND JAMES G. WALLACH ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ERIC OWENS IN BRIEF The New York Philharmonic has named bass-baritone Eric Owens The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence for the 2015–16 season. In addition to appearing as soloist throughout the season, Mr. Owens will expand the role of the Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence by curating programs and participating in educational activities. Biography Eric Owens began his 2014–15 season by rejoining Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars, and the Berlin Philharmonic for J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Lucerne Festival and BBC Proms, as well as at Park Avenue Armory as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. He performs the Verdi Requiem with the New York Philharmonic and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the latter conducted by Andrew Davis. Mr. Owens’s other orchestral appearances include Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges with the Swedish Radio Symphony led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, whom he will join again with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the same opera as well as for Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, in which Mr. Owens makes his role debut as Golaud. Eric Owens also joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Mr. Owens opened his operatic season by returning to Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he has been appointed their community ambassador, for performances of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, directed by Francesca Zambello. He also appears in his title role debut of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer with Washington National Opera conducted by Phillipe Auguin. This season Mr. Owens makes additional role debuts as King Philip II in Verdi’s Don Carlo at Opera Philadelphia, Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the title role in Verdi’s Macbeth at the Glimmerglass Festival, where he returns as an artist-in-residence. New York Philharmonic Highlights Eric Owens made his New York Philharmonic debut in June 2003 singing selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, led by then Philharmonic Music Director Lorin Maazel, during the Orchestra’s residency at Sardinia’s Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Since Alan Gilbert became Music director this relationship has grown through the Giants Are Small productions of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, in which he appeared as Nekrotzar (May 2010), and A Dancer’s Dream (as The Moor in the prerecorded video component, June 2013), as well as in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (June 2010), J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor (March 2013), and the Verdi Requiem (January 2015). CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF ERIC OWENS’S 2015–16 SEASON IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: GREAT AFRICAN AMERICAN SINGERS AND THEIR LEGACY Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 15, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Thomas Wilkins*, conductor Eric Owens, host and curator Soloists tba The program will include works linked to groundbreaking vocalists William Warfield, Betty Allen, George Shirley, and Marian Anderson, focusing on the history many of these artists had with the Philharmonic and their influence on the generations of African American vocalists that followed; the program will also include orchestral selections by composers such as William Grant Still. HOLIDAYS WITH THE PHILHARMONIC Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Friday, December 18, 2015, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, December 19, 2015, 2:00 p.m. Conductor tba Eric Owens, bass-baritone New York City Gay Men’s Chorus Program to include: HAGUE & DR. SEUSS/Arr. and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” Orch. T. Firth ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ERIC OWENS SINGS STRAUSS AND WAGNER Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Thursday, January 7, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 8, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, January 9, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Heidi Melton*, soprano Eric Owens, bass-baritone SIBELIUS En Saga R. STRAUSS Songs WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries and Final Scene from Act III of Die Walküre * New York Philharmonic debut JOHN STORGÅRDS AND ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ERIC OWENS Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Thursday, May 12, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, May 14, 2016, 8:00 p.m. John Storgårds*, conductor Eric Owens, bass-baritone SCHUMANN Genoveva Overture MAHLER Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Once Upon a Time: “Story and Song” Saturday, May 14, 2016, 2:00 p.m. Conductor tba Eric Owens, bass-baritone Program to include music by Gershwin and Mahler * New York Philharmonic debut ### ALL PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE .
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