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Johnsonk@Nyphil.Org DAVID ROBERTSON to RETURN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2016 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected] DAVID ROBERTSON TO RETURN TO NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Conducting Works by ELGAR, John WILLIAMS, and HOLST PRINCIPAL TUBA ALAN BAER TO MAKE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SOLO DEBUT Performing JOHN WILLIAMS’s Tuba Concerto Saturday Matinee Concert To Feature Prokofiev’s Quintet Music by VERY YOUNG COMPOSERS from Afghanistan, Syria, Netherlands, and New York City Performed by Philharmonic Musicians May 26–28, 2016 David Robertson will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct John Williams’s Tuba Concerto, featuring Principal Tuba Alan Baer in his Philharmonic solo debut; Holst’s The Planets; and Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro. “This piece has such a sound track quality to it; that’s what really drew me into it,” Alan Baer said. “E.T. is very visible. It could fit right into the movie. In the third movement you hear a lot of fanfare — like The Empire Strikes Back.” Alan Baer will perform John Williams’s Tuba Concerto on an F tuba he helped create. The New York Times recently wrote of Alan Baer’s performance with the Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, led by Semyon Bychkov in February 2016: “Alan Baer, the tuba player, deserves mention … having provided a firm, sonorous basis for those lovely brass chorales.” John Williams’s music will be heard earlier in the week when he is honored at the New York Philharmonic Spring Gala, A John Williams Celebration, May 24, 2016, with the Orchestra performing music from the Oscar-winning film composer’s iconic scores, led by David Newman, along with clips from select films. The Saturday Matinee Concert on May 28 at 2:00 p.m. opens with Prokofiev’s Quintet — performed by Principal Associate Concertmaster Sheryl Staples, Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young, Principal Bass Timothy Cobb, Principal Oboe Liang Wang, and Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill — followed by Holst’s The Planets, conducted by David Robertson. The concert will be followed immediately by New York Philharmonic musicians performing original compositions by students in the Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program — created by Very Young Composers Founder and Director Jon Deak — led by Assistant Conductor Joshua Gersen. The children whose works will be featured hail from Afghanistan, (more) David Robertson / Alan Baer / 2 Syria, the Netherlands, and New York City. Audience members will be invited to contribute to organizations that benefit child refugees around the world: Doctors Without Borders, the International Rescue Committee, and the New York Philharmonic Education Fund. Related Events Pre-Concert Insights Composer Daniel Felsenfeld will introduce the program. Pre-Concert Insights are $7, and discounts are available for three (3) or more talks and for students. They take place one hour before these performances in the Helen Hull Room, unless otherwise noted. Attendance is limited to 90 people. Information: nyphil.org/preconcert or (212) 875-5656. Artists David Robertson launched his 11th season as music director of the St. Louis Symphony in the fall of 2015; he has also served as chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since January 2014. Highlights of the 2015–16 season with the St. Louis Symphony include a California tour featuring Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux étoiles..., with video imagery by photographer Deborah O’Grady, and soloist Timothy McAllister performing John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto. The concerto was part of the latest St. Louis Symphony recording, City Noir, on Nonesuch, which received the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance. Other highlights for Mr. Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony are the U.S. Premiere of Tan Dun’s Contrabass Concerto and John Adams’s most recent symphony for violin, Scheherazade.2 — Dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra, performed by Leila Josefowicz (co- commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw). The Scheherazade.2 performances are being recorded live by Nonesuch for future release. To celebrate his decade-long tenure with the St. Louis Symphony in 2014–15, David Robertson showcased 50 of the orchestra’s musicians in solo or solo-ensemble performances throughout the season. Other highlights included a concert performance of Verdi’s Aida featuring video enhancements by S. Katy Tucker, and a return to Carnegie Hall with a program featuring the music of Meredith Monk. In 2013–14 David Robertson led the St. Louis Symphony at Carnegie Hall in Britten’s Peter Grimes on the Britten centennial. In March 2015, David Robertson led a performance of Holst’s The Planets with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and a “Global Orchestra,” in which musicians around Australia performed along through the Internet. Born in California, David Robertson was educated at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where he studied horn and composition before turning to conducting. He received Columbia University’s 2006 Ditson Conductor’s Award, and he and the St. Louis Symphony are recipients of several major awards from ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras, including the 2008–09 Award for Programming of Contemporary Music as well as the 2005–06 Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming. Musical America named David Robertson Conductor of the Year in 2000. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and that same year he received the Excellence in the Arts award from the St. Louis Arts and Education Council. In 2011 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. David Robertson made his Philharmonic debut in April 2001 leading a program of Wagner, Schoenberg, and Beethoven; he most recently appeared in January 2015, leading Emanuel Ax and a program of Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Stravinsky, and Bartók. (more) David Robertson / Alan Baer / 3 Alan Baer joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Tuba in June 2004. Previously, he served as principal tuba of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, with which he performed as a featured soloist nearly every year, and of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. His other performing credits include The Cleveland Orchestra, Peninsula Music Festival of Wisconsin, New Orleans Symphony, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Ojai Festival Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed in Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, and Brazil. Alan Baer’s teachers have included Rudy Emilson, Dr. Gary Bird, Ronald Bishop, and Tommy Johnson. He received his bachelor of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and was awarded its Alumni Achievement Award in 2005. He has appeared in recitals and master classes at colleges and universities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has held teaching positions at California State University, Long Beach, and at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Mr. Baer currently serves as Director of Brass Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes School of Music. He is a representative of the Buffet Musical Instrument Group, and performs exclusively on Meinl- Weston tubas. Alan Baer is a member of the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet. These performances mark his New York Philharmonic solo debut. Founded in 1873 by Leopold Damrosch, the Oratorio Society of New York is one of the city’s oldest musical organizations. From its earliest days, the Society played an integral role in the musical life of the city, presenting its own concerts and performing at musically and historically significant events. It also created a fund to finance building a concert hall. When Andrew Carnegie became the Society’s fifth president in 1888, he adopted the cause, enlisting architect William Tuthill, a fellow board member, to design a “Music Hall” that would provide a suitable artistic home for the Society. In 1891, singing under Tchaikovsky’s baton, the Society — as well as the New York Symphony (one of the forebears of today’s New York Philharmonic) — helped inaugurate the concert hall that came to be known as Carnegie Hall. It has appeared there ever since. Throughout its history, the Society has sung the traditional repertory — it has performed Handel’s Messiah every December since 1874 — as well as infrequently performed and contemporary works. In May 2016 it will present the New York Premiere of Marjorie Merryman’s Jonah and Haydn’s Missa Angustiis (Nelson Mass) at Carnegie Hall, and in November 2015 it presented the Carnegie Hall premiere of Juraj Filas’s Requiem: Opera Spei. In the summer of 2015 it presented a series of concerts in Germany. In March 2003 the Society received the UNESCO Commemorative Medal and the Cocos Island World Natural Heritage Site Award for its series of benefit concerts in Costa Rica. It made its European debut in 1982 and has since performed in Europe, Asia, and Latin and South America. On its 100th anniversary the Society was presented with the Handel Medallion, New York City’s highest cultural award, in recognition of these contributions. The Oratorio Society’s Women’s Chorus is drawn from the Society’s full membership. The Women’s Chorus also performed in the New York Philharmonic’s 2013 The Planets — An HD Odyssey. The Oratorio Society’s relationship with the Philharmonic dates to January 1877, when the ensemble participated in a program led by Leopold Damrosch; it most recently appeared on a July 2013 Summertime Classics concert conducted by Bramwell Tovey. Kent Tritle, music director of the Oratorio Society of New York, is also director of choral activities at the Manhattan School of Music; director of cathedral (more) David Robertson / Alan Baer / 4 music and organist at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine; and music director of Musica Sacra, New York’s longest continuously performing professional chorus.
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