FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2017 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5700;
[email protected] 2017–18 ARTISTIC PARTNERSHIPS BEGIN In Program Conducted by PAAVO JÄRVI NEW YORK PREMIERE of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence ESA-PEKKA SALONEN’s Gambit RACHMANINOFF’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence LEIF OVE ANDSNES SIBELIUS’s Symphony No. 5 Saturday Matinee Concert To Feature LEIF OVE ANDSNES, Concertmaster FRANK HUANG, and Principal Cello CARTER BREY Performing Grieg’s Andante con moto, for piano trio, and Shostakovich’s Piano Trio in E minor October 12–14 and 17, 2017 The New York Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Leif Ove Andsnes will both launch their 2017–18 Philharmonic residencies in a Scandinavian-themed program led by Paavo Järvi. The Orchestra will perform the New York Premiere of Gambit by the Finnish Esa-Pekka Salonen, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and the program will conclude with Finnish composer Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5. The concerts take place Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 13 at 11:00 a.m.; Saturday, October 14 at 8:00 p.m.; and Tuesday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. In the Saturday Matinee Concert on October 14 at 2:00 p.m., Leif Ove Andsnes collaborates with two key figures from the New York Philharmonic: Concertmaster Frank Huang and Principal Cello Carter Brey.