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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 29, 2016 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected]

VLADIMIR JUROWSKI and DANIIL TRIFONOV TO RETURN TO

MOZART’s Piano Concerto No. 25

RAVEL’s Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet) With Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Choir

November 9–12, 2016

Vladimir Jurowski will return to the New York Philharmonic to lead Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, with Daniil Trifonov as soloist, and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet), with the Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Choir directed by .

The Philharmonic’s relationship with Daniil Trifonov began with his critically acclaimed Philharmonic debut in the 2012–13 season, when, at the age of 21, he performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, led by Music Director . The Philharmonic invited Mr. Trifonov to return in the 2014–15 season to perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, led by Juanjo Mena. He was the featured soloist in Rachmaninoff: A Philharmonic Festival in November 2015, and that same month he joined the Board of the New York Philharmonic, then 24 years old. wrote of his final appearance in the festival: “Mr. Trifonov gave full vent to tenderness and sensitivity … But his playing was more often simply electrifying, and it was greeted by a shouting, standing ovation.” This month it was announced that Daniil Trifonov was selected by Gramophone readers as the recipient of Gramophone magazine’s 2016 Artist of the Year Award.

Vladimir Jurowski is returning following his New York Philharmonic debut in May 2014, when he led Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with Nicola Benedetti as soloist, and selections from Prokofiev’s Cinderella. The New York Times wrote that he drew “a strong performance that was especially memorable for the raw power of the music’s climaxes.”

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Artists Vladimir Jurowski was born in in 1972. He studied at the Music College of the Moscow Conservatory, then relocated to Musikhochschule of Dresden and Berlin in 1990. He made his international debut in 1995 at the Wexford Festival and, later that season, at the Royal Opera, . In October 2015 he was named the next chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, a position he will begin in the 2017–18 season. He was appointed principal guest conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003, and became that orchestra’s principal conductor in September 2007. He is also principal artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, artistic director of the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the George Enescu International Festival, Bucharest. Mr. Jurowski has previously held the positions of first Kapellmeister of the (1997–00), principal guest conductor of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2000–03), principal guest conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (2005–09), and music director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001–13). He works annually with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and appears regularly with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at festivals including the BBC Proms, the George Enescu Festival of Bucharest, Musikfest Berlin, and the Schleswig Holstein and Rostropovich Festivals. He collaborates with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including ’s Royal Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, and the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras, as well as the New York Philharmonic. He has also conducted the and Vienna Philharmonic. Highlights of Vladimir Jurowski’s 2016–17 season and beyond include his return visits to the New York Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Dresden Staatskapelle, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and a performance of Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Royal Concertgebouw. He will lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra in repertoire including Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, and Penderecki’s St. Luke’s Passion, and will bring the orchestra to major cities including Vienna and Budapest, as well as New York’s . Mr. Jurowski has an extensive discography with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and made an array of recordings with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. His tenure at Glyndebourne has been documented in numerous CD and DVD releases, and he has released other DVDs with The Metropolitan Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Mr. Jurowski made his New York Philharmonic debut in May 2014, leading a program of Szymanowski and Prokofiev.

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov received acclaim when he won First Prize at both the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein Competitions in 2011 at the age of 20. The 2016–17 season brings the release of Transcendental, a double album that represents Mr. Trifonov’s third title as an exclusive artist, and is the first time that Liszt’s complete concert études have been recorded for the label. Winner of Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year award, his upcoming performances include Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 125th anniversary gala finale. Having scored his second Grammy Award nomination with Rachmaninoff Variations, he performs Rachmaninoff in his (more)

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Berlin Philharmonic debut led by at the orchestra’s New Year’s Eve concerts, scheduled to air live in cinemas throughout Europe. Mr. Trifonov also performs Rachmaninoff in his debuts with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, returns to the with and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and appears in the ’s Rachmaninoff Cycle tour with longtime collaborator . He is performing Mozart with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland, and Philadelphia orchestras, and with the Dresden Staatskapelle at home and at the Salzburg Easter Festival and London’s BBC Proms. Other engagements include Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra on tour, , Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Filarmonica della Scala on tour with Riccardo Chailly. An accomplished composer, Mr. Trifonov reprises his own concerto in Kansas City. Recital engagements include debuts at London’s Barbican and Melbourne’s Recital Centre and appearances in Berlin, Vienna, Florence, Madrid, Oslo, Moscow, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and — for the fourth consecutive year — New York’s . He gives duo recitals with his former teacher, pianist , in Princeton and Sarasota, and will return to the Tanglewood, Verbier, Baden-Baden, and Salzburg festivals. Mr. Trifonov’s honors include Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in ’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition, all in the 2010–11 season, and Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Instrumental Soloist (2013). Daniil Trifonov made his New York Philharmonic debut in September–October 2012 performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert; most recently, he was the featured soloist in Rachmaninoff: A Philharmonic Festival in November 2015 with conductors Cristian Măcelaru, Neeme Järvi, and Ludovic Morlot.

The Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus membership is primarily made up of freshmen and sophomores at the Manhattan School of Music. The Symphonic Chorus recently performed Haydn’s The Creation, Brahms’s A German , Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Mozart’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in G major, Poulenc’s Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the World Premiere of David Briggs’s transcription for organ, chorus, and soloists of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, J.S. Bach’s B-minor Mass, Mozart’s C-minor Mass, Honegger’s King David, Verdi’s Requiem, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. The Manhattan School of Music Chamber Choir, the school’s premier choral ensemble, has been featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as part of the Conservatory Project, and has sung with the New York Philharmonic in performances of Walton’s Henry V, the Finale Scene from Act I of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Park Avenue Armory as part of Philharmonic 360, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Ives’s Symphony No. 4. The Chamber Choir has also performed Bach’s B-minor Mass, Stravinsky’s Mass, Honegger’s King David, and Mozart’s C-minor Mass, and recently performed David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion and ’s Water Passion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kent Tritle, director of choral activities at the Manhattan School of Music, is one of America’s leading choral conductors. He is also director of cathedral music and organist at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in ; music director of the Oratorio Society of New York, the acclaimed 200-voice volunteer chorus; and music director of Musica Sacra, New York’s longest continuously performing professional chorus. In addition, Mr. Tritle is a member of the graduate faculty of The . An acclaimed (more)

Vladimir Jurowski / Daniil Trifonov / 4 organ virtuoso, he is also the organist of the New York Philharmonic, and is chair of the organ department of the Manhattan School of Music. Kent Tritle founded the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concert series at New York’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, which he led to great acclaim from 1989 to 2011, and was music director of New York’s The , 1996–2004. He hosted The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle, a weekly program on New York’s WQXR, from 2010 to 2014. Kent Tritle has made more than a dozen recordings on the Telarc, AMDG, Epiphany, Gothic, VAI, and MSR Classics labels. The Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Choir and Chamber Choir, led by Kent Tritle, most recently appeared with the Philharmonic together in the September 2011 presentation of Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, with Christopher Plummer narrating while Music Director Alan Gilbert led the Orchestra in Walton’s score for the Laurence Olivier film of Shakespeare’s Henry V.

Repertoire Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) completed his Piano Concerto No. 25 in 1786. The work is the last of his four concertos in C major, as well as the last of the twelve he wrote in Vienna between 1784 and 1786. Completed at the same time as the Symphony No. 38, Prague, this concerto was composed during the height of Mozart’s career, while he was also reveling in the success of The Marriage of Figaro. But after Mozart’s untimely death the concerto ultimately fell into an extended period of neglect, and wasn’t reintroduced into the standard repertoire until the years following World War II. Since then, it has become acclaimed for being one of the greatest works in the repertoire. conducted pianist for the Philharmonic’s first presentation of the concerto in December 1994. Emanuel Ax was the soloist in the most recent performance, led by Alan Gilbert in October 2013 during Mr. Ax’s tenure as The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

The great impresario Diaghilev made the acquaintance of several young composers with whom he would ultimately collaborate on some of his company’s greatest triumphs, including French composer (1875–1937), from whom he commissioned the ballet Daphnis et Chloé. Based on a pastoral romance attributed to fourth-century Greek sophist Longus, Daphnis et Chloé was the largest work Ravel would ever compose; it occupied him from early 1909 until the work’s premiere in 1912. The scenario was devised by Mikhail Fokine, a classically trained dancer and choreographer for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Given its sheer size, the ballet score is much better known by excerpts and when heard in concert is usually represented by one of two suites that Ravel extracted from it. Still, it is the entirety of Daphnis et Chloé — which will be performed on these concerts — that reveals Ravel’s dramatic and atmospheric abilities. The first two scenes portray Daphnis and Chloé’s courtship, and the latter’s abduction by and miraculous escape from a band of pirates. The third scene takes place in a grove sacred to the god Pan, and begins with daybreak following the pirate’s night of terror. The first Philharmonic performance of the complete ballet was during a July 1936 Stadium Concert led by Alexander Smallens, featuring the Philadelphia Ballet Company; the most recent was in February 2009, conducted by .

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* * * Vladimir Jurowski’s appearance is made possible by the Daisy and Paul Soros Endowment Fund.

* * * Daniil Trifonov’s performances this week are made possible by the Lawrence and Ronnie Ackman Family Fund for Distinguished Pianists.

* * * Major support for Philharmonic Free Fridays is provided by The Pratt Foundation.

Additional funding is provided by Jack and Susan Rudin.

Philharmonic Free Fridays is made possible, in part, by a donation from an anonymous donor through the New York Philharmonic’s 2014 Share the Music! campaign.

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* * * Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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New York Philharmonic

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Open Rehearsal — 9:45 a.m. Thursday, November 10, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 11, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, November 12, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Choir Kent Tritle, director

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet)

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