COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL CONTACT Elizabeth McGuire, Executive Director 303.665.0599, ext.101; [email protected] www.comusic.org; 200 E. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, CO 80026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INTERNATIONAL VIOLINIST VADIM GLUZMAN SCHEDULED FOR SERIES OF CONCERTS SeiSolo Artist-in-Residence Vadim Gluzman joins the Colorado Music Festival for a week of concerts.
"The wonderful Vadim Gluzman was technically exacting, dramatically ferocious and simply staggering throughout." – The Guardian
Boulder, CO – From Sunday, July 17th through Friday, July 22nd, SeiSolo Artist-in-Residence, International violinist Vadim Gluzman joins the Colorado Music Festival for four concerts: a Presenting Series recital, a Chamber Orchestra concert, and a Thursday/Friday repeated concert performance with Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Festival Orchestra. All of these concerts start at 7:30 pm and take place at Chautauqua Auditorium (900 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO).
On Sunday, July 17th, Gluzman leads the CMF Chamber Orchestra in a conductor-less program entitled “Inspired by Bach.” The program begins with Alfred Schnittke’s “Suite in the Old Style,” which recalls the glorious temperament of Johann Sebastian Bach. The program also features Mozart’s lightly-scored and gracefully ornate Violin Concerto No. 3, and his Bach-inspired Adagio and Fugue. Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, a profoundly emotional response to the WWII destruction of Dresden, adds both closure and transformation to the program.
Music Director, Jean-Marie Zeitouni had this to say about this concert and Vadim Gluzman, “First, Vadim Gluzman is among the world’s very best violinists. Also, when Vadim Gluzman plays the Mozart G Major Concerto, it’s like a pure ray of sunlight. In the second half he plays and leads the Shostakovich. The Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, which is a string quartet played as a chamber symphony, is the most intense piece of music of the whole summer. The first half of the concert is about life and liveliness and the sun, and the second half of the program is about death, profoundness and darkness.”
Program: Schnittke Suite in the Old Style, Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 in G Major, Mozart Adagio & Fugue in C Minor, Shostakovich Chamber Symphony
Gluzman will be joined by Boulder piano virtuoso David Korevaar for “Italian Influences,” part of the Presenting Series on Tuesday, July 19th. Gluzman and Korevaar will team up to perform César Franck’s familiar, canonic Violin Sonata – a prayerful, passionate tribute to love. In Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’sPiedigrotta 1924 for solo piano, Korevaar goes it alone to reveal the rhapsodic nuances of Neapolitan folk music. In turn, a sextet of Colorado Music Festival string players come together to show off the contrapuntal prowess of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his “Souvenir de Florence,” initially sketched by the composer while visiting Florence.
Zeitouni's thoughts, “ Let’s not forget that Vadim Gluzman is a Russian trained musician. He’s actually Ukrainian, but the music of Tchaikovsky that’s he’s going to play in this program is the music that is his bones, in his DNA. I think the program itself is very well balanced with the two of them performing the Franck, which is a short sonata but really poetic, really pure. It’s a true dialogue between two souls.”
Program: Franck Violin Sonata in A Major, Castelnuovo-Tedesco Piedigrotta 1924, Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence -more- On Thursday, July 21st and Friday, July 22nd, a program entitled “Russian Passions” with Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Festival Orchestra is scheduled.
Violinist Vadim Gluzman concludes his residency by returning to the stage as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s monumental Violin Concerto – one of the most technically difficult works for the instrument. Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the CMF Orchestra also present Anatoly Liadov’s brief, but transcendent “Enchanted Lake.” For the second half of the program, Modest Mussorgsky’s vivid and ponderous “Pictures at an Exhibition” is paired with stunning new projected animation developed by a team of professors and students at the University of Southern California to celebrate the opening of Frank Gehry’s stunning New World Center in Miami.
“I wanted something that would tie in with the idea of a musical tableau, a musical image. So I chose this piece by Liadov. He wrote very little pieces, and they are all short. But, they are all little munchkins of perfection, and the Enchanted Lake is one of them. It’s a musical tableau about the enchanted lake, a musical depiction of a painting you could see of the enchanted lake, and it is the perfect symphonic poem. The Tchaikovsky concerto, is another picture of heroism with Vadim. And, Mussorgsky's tableau orchestra is also remarkable, and we have the visual animation films to go with it. These are newly made animation films for each of the numbers in the tableau that are from California University,” says Zietouni.
We also cannot forget that Vadim Gluzman will be performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto on the very violin it was written for – the 1690 “ex-Auer” Stradivari. The concerto was written for its owner at the time, Leopold Auer.
“No tricks. No gimmicks—just high art from a thrilling artist capable of fire walking while fiddling on the 1690 “ex- Leopold Auer” Stradivari.” – Strings magazine
Program: Liadov The Enchanted Lake, Tchaikovksy Violin Concerto in D Major, Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Tickets for these concerts are $12.00 - $54.00 ($9.00 - $51.00 Concert Member) for 7/17, 7/21 and 7/22, $12.00 - $45.00 ($9.00 - $42.00 Concert Member) for 7/19 and can be purchased online at w ww.comusic.org or www.chautauqua.com, in person at the Chautauqua Box Office (900 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO) or over the phone by calling 303-440-7666. Free Hop 2 Chautauqua shuttle is available for these concerts.
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About Music Director, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Jean-Marie Zeitouni has emerged as one of the brightest young conductors of his generation. His eloquent yet fiery style, in repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music, has resulted in regular engagements with leading symphony orchestras and opera companies around the globe. Currently Music Director of the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts and Artistic Director of Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal, Zeitouni recently completed tenures as Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, in Ohio, and Principal Guest Conductor of Les Violons du Roy, an ensemble with which he gave more than 250 concerts throughout North America over the last 13 years.
Zeitouni has also held various other positions with leading Canadian organizations, including music director of the Banff Centre “Opera as Theatre” program, associate conductor and chorus master at Opéra de Montréal and music director of its Young Artist Program (Atelier lyrique), chorus master at Opéra de Québec, choir director of the Québec Symphony Orchestra, and director of the orchestra and opera workshop at Laval University. READ MORE -more- About SeiSolo Artisit-in-Resident, Violinist Vadim Gluzman
Vadim Gluzman’s extraordinary artistry brings back to life the glorious violinistic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. His wide repertoire embraces new music and his performances are heard around the world through live broadcasts and a striking catalogue of award-winning recordings exclusively for the BIS label. The Israeli violinist appears regularly with major orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, London Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and San Francisco Symphony; and with leading conductors including Christoph von Dohnányi, Tugan Sokhiev, Andrew Litton, Neeme Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Semyon Bychkov, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Paavo Järvi, Hannu Lintu and Peter Oundjian. His festival appearances include Verbier, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Lockenhaus, and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Illinois, which was founded by Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe, his wife and recital partner. READ MORE
About the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts
Under the artistic leadership of Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni, the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts (CMF & CMA) combines a world-class summer music festival and a community music school under one organizational umbrella. CMF & CMA enriches the lives of tens of thousands of individuals annually by presenting the best of the world’s music through performance and education. Founded in 1976 by renowned Viennese conductor and violinist Giora Bernstein, the Colorado Music Festival is one of the world’s premier summer music festivals, comprising musicians from many of North America’s finest symphony orchestras. CMF & CMA is a member of the League of American Orchestras and the National Guild for Community Arts Education.
Celebrating its 39th season, the 2016 Colorado Music Festival offers a plethora of concerts and educational programs for music lovers of all ages. In addition to Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the virtuosic CMF Orchestra, the season will include expanded collaborations with CMF’s Creative Partner, Senior TED Fellow, and cellist Joshua Roman, SeiSolo Artist-in-Residence and violinist, Vadim Gluzman, and the winner of the 2015 Click Commissioning competition, composer and harpist Hannah Lash.
The Season also includes the return of CMF’s Music Director Laureate Michael Christie, Boulder-favorite pianists Olga Kern, Orion Weiss, and David Korevaar, virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh, Grammy Award-winning mezzo- soprano Kelley O’Connor, jazz legends The Bad Plus, Colorado indie/pop band Paper Bird, and many others.
The Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts is grateful for the generous support of Season Sponsors, Chris and Barbara Christoffersen and to the support of the Colorado Chautauqua Association, and the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.
Thank you to our concerts sponsors: Helen Weil and in Memory of Peter Weil for Italian Influences, Tuesday, 7/19, Robert and Sandy Goldstein for Russian Passions, Thursday, 7/21 and Walker enterprises LLLP for Russian /Passions, Friday, 7/22.
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