WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Sponsoring a concert, supporting a performer’s appearance, and assisting at our entry tables are just a few ways you can help bring Copland House’s American musical adventures to this majestic estate. As the only ongoing U.S. series to exclusively showcase our nation’s rich musical heritage, Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 3 PM we are re-imagining the concert experience, bringing America’s leading composers to Westchester, and previewing tomorrow’s classics in dynamic, up-close performances – all for only a modest price. Help us continue to make these world-class activities as accessible as possible with a tax-deductible CULTIVATE 2013 gift to Copland House, POB 2177, Peekskill, NY 10566. MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE NEXT EVENTS: Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Derek Bermel and Carol McConnell, clarinet; Sunday, July 14 at 3 PM Curt Macomber, violin; Michael Boriskin and Blair McMillen, piano A Bastille Day Celebration Lyndhurst, 635 South Broadway, Tarrytown Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1941-42) LEONARD BERNSTEIN Toast France’s answer to the Fourth of July, with a musical visit to a 1920s Parisian salon! Features music by Grazioso (1918-1990) Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud, Stravinsky, and Copland. Andantino – Vivace e leggiero Tickets: Available online after 6/10/13; www.lyndhurst.org/music or 914-631-4481 Includes meet-the artists reception. Aubade (2013)* NATHAN SHIELDS Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged. (b. 1983)

Sunday, July 28 from 2pm to 5pm Albatross (2013)* LOREN LOIACONO An Open House at Copland House (b. 1989) Visit Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in Cortlandt Manor, enjoy a mini-concert in his own studio, and sample hors d‘oeuvres and light refreshments. Secret Dimensions (2013)* TAKUMA ITOH Tickets by invitation only for Friends of Copland House. For more information or to become a member, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] (b. 1984) Sunday, September 22 at 5:30 PM ...and again... (revised 2013)* LOUIS CHIAPPETTA A Cut Above: A Culinary & Musical Gala (b. 1989) th Celebrating Copland House’s 15 Anniversary Theme and Absurdities (1993) DEREK BERMEL Porter House restaurant, with renowned Chef Michael Lomonaco (b. 1967) Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, New York City Gala Tickets: $500 and up; sponsorships from $625 and up. Nacre (2013)* WILLIAM DOUGHERTY For more info, contact 914-788-4659 or [email protected] (b. 1988) Saturday, September 28 at 8 PM Opening Night Celebration:Copland House’s 15th Anniversary Bald Mountain Breakdown (2013)* TYLER CAPP Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco (b. 1983) A cavalcade of Copland’s greatest hits, commissions, and revivals, with surprise guests. Tickets: $50 *WORLD PREMIERE, composed especially for CULTIVATE 2013 Includes meet-the artists reception. Advance ticket purchase/reservations strongly encouraged. Major support for CULTIVATE comes from the ASCAP Foundation (Bart Howard Fund), For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected] Westchester Community Foundation (Valentine and Clark Scholarship Fund), and John G. Strugar. Additional support comes from Leslie Cecil and Creighton Michael, Edward Dworetzky, and the Friends of Copland House. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR 2013-14 SEASON ! For more info, contact 914.788.4659 or [email protected]. Special thanks to Jill Brooke and Gary Goldstein, Terry and Jerry Feldman, Susan Geffen, Marian Hamilton, Leslie Cecil and Creighton Michael, and Colleen and John Sorte for providing housing.

Audience seating generously provided by O. Anthony Maddalena

Yamaha Piano generously provided by Faust Harrison Pianos, White Plains, NY Special thanks Robert Astorino, Westchester County Executive, and to the dedicated Merestead www.faustharrisonpianos.com, 914-288-4000 team of the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation (Conservation Director John Baker, Tom Comito, Rick Woodward, and Edison Duma) Recording Engineer: Joseph Patrych, Patrych Sound Studios Merestead performances are broadcast by WWFM and webcast by wwfm.org ABOUT THE COMPOSERS: Clarinetist of Music from Copland House, his many honors include the Alpert Award in the Arts, LEONARD BERNSTEIN’s multi-faceted gifts appeared early, and almost immediately after completing Rome Prize, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, American Music Center’s Trailblazer Award, his studies at Harvard, Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, and Tanglewood, he began his and Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and residencies at Yaddo, meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the classical music world. Before he was 30, his first symphony was Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Bellagio, Copland House, Sacatar, and Civitella Ranieri. performed by the Boston Symphony, his first musical (On the Town) was produced on Broadway, The music of WILLIAM DOUGHERTY (Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Honorary Fellow) has been he made his legendary, last-minute conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, and he performed by the Orchestre National de Lorraine, BBC Singers, London Chorus, Ligeti String Quartet, had begun recording as pianist and conductor for America’s leading classical label (RCA Victor). Lontano Ensemble, and other ensembles at London’s Southbank Centre, Philadelphia’s Kimmel As Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969, he was the first American to Center, Trinity Chapel in Fontainebleau, and elsewhere. His works have been broadcast on BBC oversee a major U.S. orchestra. He was also the first major conductor to harness the then-new Radio 3 and the Financial Times podcast FT Science. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Music power of television in the 1950s through his Omnibus and now-legendary Young People’s Concerts and recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, he is currently studying at Switzerland’s Music Academy series with the New York Philharmonic, when he solidified his reputation as one of America’s most of Basel. charismatic and influential musicians. His international reputation spread when he began long-term associations with the Vienna Philharmonic and London Symphony in the 1960s. Though best known TYLER CAPP (Friends of Copland House Fellow) writes relentless, tonally-charged, trans-stylistic for his beloved Broadway musicals, especially West Side Story, he created audacious, memorable works in an attempt to reconcile his diverse influences with the curious predicament of being compositions in every medium, and is the author of several important books about music, including a concert music composer in the 21st century. He has had commissions from the University of The Unanswered Question, his Norton Lectures at Harvard. Delaware Wind Ensemble, Piotr Szewczyk’s 2009 Violin Futura Project, and Missouri Music Teachers Association. His Stranger Variations may be heard on Bridge Records’ Stony Brook Soundings, Vol. II. 2011 Copland House Resident NATHAN SHIELDS (Westchester Community Foundation Valentine A graduate of the University of Delaware and Stony Brook University, he is a doctoral student at the and Clark Fellow) has won two BMI Carlos Surinach commissions. A native New Yorker, his other University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. recent highlights include the 2011 Presser Music Award and 2012 ASCAP Young Composer Award, residencies at Yaddo and Ucross, and performances by the Jupiter and JACK Quartets, Horszowski ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: Trio, and East Coast Contemporary Ensemble at New York’s DiMenna Center, Lincoln Center’s Rose Pianist and Copland House Artistic and Executive Director MICHAEL BORISKIN has performed in Room, Boston’s Jordan Hall, the Cathedral of St. Severin in Paris, and elsewhere. over 30 countries, at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, BBC, London’s Wigmore The music of LOREN LOIACONO (ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fellow) has been featured on Hall, Berlin and South West German Radios, Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Teatro Colon in NPR and performed by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Buenos Aires, and Vienna‘s Arnold Schoenberg Center, and with leading international orchestras Yale Philharmonia, 5th House Ensemble, and Argento Ensemble. A Yale graduate and Cornell and chamber ensembles. He has recorded widely on BMG/Conifer, Harmonia Mundi, New World, Doctoral student, she has received prizes and fellowships from ASCAP, Minnesota Orchestra Albany, Bridge, and SONY Classical, which recently re-released his acclaimed CD of Gershwin’s Composers Institute, National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and the Atlantic, complete piano-and-orchestra works. Lake Champlain, Bang on a Can, Norfolk, and Aspen Festivals, and was a recent alternate for the Cellist ALEXIS PIA GERLACH has performed with conductors Mstislav Rostropovich, James DePriest, American Composers Orchestra Underwood Readings. She is also a founding member and current and Peter Oundjian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Charleston and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, development director of Kettle Corn New Music. and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and at the Marlboro, Caramoor, and Aspen Festivals. Featured among “100 Composers under 40” on WQXR and NPR Music, TAKUMA ITOH (Friends With her Trio Solisti, she performs on major concert series around the U. S., and is heard on the of Copland House Fellow) has received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy ensemble’s four CDs. As a founding member of Concertante, she appears throughout America, and of Arts and Letters, five ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and the ASCAP/CBDNA commissioned and premiered Arcana by Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts. Frederick Fennell Prize. His music has been performed by the Albany Symphony, New York Youth Violinist CURTIS MACOMBER is a member of the Manhattan String Quartet, DaCapo Chamber Symphony, Symphony in C, Poland’s Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, Australia’s Syzygy Ensemble, Players, and Speculum Musicae, and is founder of the Apollo Trio. Previously, he was first violinist of Argento Chamber Ensemble, and the Shanghai, St. Lawrence, and Momenta Quartets. His works the award-winning New World String Quartet, for many years Harvard’s ensemble-in-residence. He can be heard on Blue Griffin and Albany Records. A graduate of Cornell and Rice Universities, and has recorded extensively, including the violin sonatas of Edvard Grieg (Arabesque), violin sonatas of University of Michigan, he teaches at the University of Hawaii. Amy Beach and John Corigliano (Koch), and Songs of Solitude (CRI). He is a member of the chamber LOUIS CHIAPPETTA (Westchester Community Foundation Valentine and Clark Fellow) participated music faculty of The Juilliard School and the violin faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. in Carnegie Hall’s 2012 Weill Music Institute, during which his Loops, Clocks, and Shadows Clarinetist CAROL McGONNELL has performed at the inaugural concert of Zankel Hall, on Lincoln was premiered. Other recent projects include a performance of his Chroma by the American Center’s Great Performers Series, and with Ensemble Modern, Camerata Pacifica, Carnegie Hall’s Composers Orchestra at its Underwood New Music Readings and a collaboration with the London Zankel Band, BBC Ulster Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and the Metropolitan Contemporary Dance School. A recipient of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Museum Artists in Concert. She is founding member of the Argento Chamber Ensemble, and is Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Cleveland Institute of artistic director of Music for Museums, involving the Gardner, Getty, and Metropolitan Museums. Music’s Donald Erb Prize, he has been commissioned by the Kaija Saariaho Commissioning Fund for He has also been heard on the Irish National Radio, BBC, and NPR, and National Gallery of Ireland, a piece for the Finnish Radio Symphony. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, he received and has taught at Fontainebleau’s French American Academy. a Fulbright grant and was a postgraduate scholar at the London’s Guildhall of Music and Drama. With a repertoire spanning five centuries, BLAIR MCMILLEN’s recent engagements include the CULTIVATE Director and Grammy-nominated composer and clarinetistDEREK BERMEL has been American Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Miller Theatre, Orchestra widely hailed for his creativity, theatricality, and virtuosity. He has had commissions from the of St. Luke’s, Caramoor, CalArts, Institute for Advanced Study, and his Carnegie Hall debut as Pittsburgh, National, Saint Louis, and Pacific Symphonies, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chamber Music soloist, with conductor David Robertson. He has commissioned or premiered many new works, has Society of Lincoln Center, WNYC Radio, Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations, eighth blackbird, recorded for Naxos and Centaur, is the pianist for the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Guarneri Quartet, Music from Copland House and Music from China, and violinist Midori, among Players, and is a faculty member at Bard College and Conservatory. others. Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and Founding