harmonic, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orches - tra of Venezuela and The Knights, with The Red which she won the Juno award in 2011 for her Mozart album. Of her Bach Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo, American Record Film with Live Orchestra Guide wrote: “I simply don’t know where else you can go to hear Bach played at this level of artistry. Once again she eclipses WHEN: VENUE: her competition”. FRIDAY, MEMORIAL DECEMBER 8, 2017 AuDITORIuM 7:30 PM Canadian-born violinist LARA ST. JOHN China Philharmonic, the , Tokyo Lara began playing the violin at two years has been described as “something of a and Kyoto Symphonies, and the orchestras old. She made her first appearance as phenomenon” by The Strad and a “high- of Brisbane, Adelaide and Auckland among soloist with orchestra at age four, and her powered soloist” by . many others. European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon when she was 10. She She has performed as soloist with the The wrote “Lara St. John toured Spain, France, Portugal and Hungary orchestras of Cleveland, Philadelphia, San happens to be a volcanic violinist with a at ages 12 and 13, entered the Curtis Institute Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, , Van - huge, fabulous tone that pours out of her at 13, and spent her first summer at Marl - couver, and with the Boston Pops, the like molten lava. She has technique to burn boro three years later. Her teachers have Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Sym - and plays at a constant high heat.” included Felix Galimir and Joey Corpus. phony, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Camer - ata Ireland, Amsterdam Symphony, Lara created her own label, Ancalagon, in She performs on the 1779 “Salabue” Brazilian Symphony, Sao Paulo Symphony, 1999, and has recorded with the Royal Phil - Guadagnini thanks to an anonymous donor.

STANFORD PHILHARMONIA Paul Phillips, and Conductor

VIOLIN I VIOLIN II VIOLONCELLO HARP Iris Otani, Stephanie Atwood, principal Robin Abs, principal Anna Kirk Laurie Kost Aditya Chander Ellen Roper Aaron Levett Angela Wang Andrea Landin TIMPANI / PERCUSSION Alison Wong Peiqian (Paul) Li Samantha Wong Sumeet Singh Andy Kim Kelsey Garcia Cheyenne Ali Sadeghi Josh Payne Sara Johansen Ciauna Tran Ning Lee Joseph Foley CONTRABASS Ben-han Sung VIOLA Cara Turnbull, principal Joseph Noh Tessera Chin, principal Blaine Rister Jennie Yang Pablo Ocampo James Miller Andrew Lan Sean Young Kara Jackson

4 Program Biographies THE RED VIOLIN (1998) of William Perry’s Music for Great Films of the pin , and other Broadway shows), and Vinay Silent Era for Naxos, and last year conducted Parameswaran (Assistant Conductor, Cleve - Film with Live Orchestra live original music by Donald Sosin with the land Orchestra). In 2016, Phillips received the

A FRANÇOIS GIRARD FILM Charlie Chaplin films The Count and The Pawn - prestigious Harriet W. Sheridan Award for MuSIC BY shop to commemorate the 100th anniversary Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and of Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies and the cre - Learning at Brown university. STANFORD PHILHARMONIA ation of the Little Tramp character. LARA ST. JOHN, SOLO VIOLIN An award-winning , Phillips has PAuL PHILLIPS, CONDuCTOR After studies at Eastman, Columbia, and the composed orchestral works, a ballet, choral FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA PRODuCED BY SCHIRMER THEATRICAL university of Cincinnati College-Conserva - music, song cycles, keyboard and chamber tory of Music, Phillips began his career in music, music for theatre, and works for THE RED VIOLIN Germany as Assistant to Michael young audiences in collaboration with A /MIKADO Production Gielen at the Frankfurt Opera and 1st singer-songwriter Bill Harley. Phillips’s two- CARLO CECCHI • IRENE GRAZIOLI JEAN-LuC BIDEAu • GRETA SCACCHI • JASON FLEMYNG • SYLVIA CHANG Appointed Director of Orchestral Studies and Kapellmeister at Stadttheater Lüneburg. act opera Weedpatch , with a by • DON McKELLAR and SAMuEL L. JACKSON Associate Professor (Teaching) of Music at upon his selection for the Exxon/Arts Endow - Harley, will be premiered in March 2018 in Produced By NIV FICHMAN Stanford university in 2017, PAUL PHILLIPS is ment Conductors Program, he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts, by North Cam - Written By DON McKELLAR With FRANÇOIS GIRARD a conductor, composer, and author who has the uS, holding positions with the Greens - bridge Family Opera, which commissioned Directed By FRANÇOIS GIRARD conducted more than 60 orchestras, opera boro Symphony, Greensboro Opera, Mary - it upon selecting Phillips and Harley as the Produced in associated with New Line International Releasing, Channel Four Films, Telefilm Canada, companies, and ballet troupes worldwide, land Symphony, Savannah Symphony, and winners of its first Commission Competition. Citytv/Bravo, Film Financing Fund and Sony Classical. including the San Francisco Symphony, Dal - Savannah Symphony Chorale prior to his The Red Violin film, © by Rhombus Media Inc. used by permission of Rhombus Media Inc., las Symphony, Netherlands Radio Chamber appointment as Director of Orchestras and Phillips’s reduced orchestration of Stravin - under license in the uSA by Lions Gate Ancillary, LLC Orchestra and Choir, Orquesta Sinfónica de Chamber Music at Brown university in 1989. sky’s opera Mavra , published by Boosey & The Red Violin film score by John Corigliano, © by G. Schirmer, Inc., used by permission of G. Schirmer, Inc. and Sony ATV Tunes, LLC Salta (Argentina), Paul Taylor Dance Com - He has also served as Associate Conductor Hawkes, has been performed at Glynde - Schirmer Theatrical Creative Team pany, and Opera Providence, as well as of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Music bourne and other leading opera houses. His Robert Thompson, Producer numerous choruses. His conducting honors Director/Conductor of the Pioneer Valley book A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music Alyssa Foster, Associate Producer include 1st Prize in the NOS International Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. and Literature of Anthony Burgess , a ground - Jeff Sugg, Production Designer Conductors Course (Holland) and Wiener breaking examination of the work of the David Flachs, Score Preparation Meisterkurse Conductors Course (Vienna), Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, British composer-novelist best known as Glen Cortese, Music Advisor and eleven ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Kurt Masur, Otmar Suitner, and Gunther the author of A Clockwork Orange , has been Ronen Shai, Click Track Production Programming of Contemporary Music. Schuller are among the conductors with hailed in the press as “prodigiously Tom Hooper, Score Editing whom Phillips studied at Tanglewood, researched, elegantly written” and “seam - Lara St. John, Consultant Dina Gilbert, Music and Film Synchronization & Score Consultant Phillips has recorded with the Iceland Sym - Aspen, the LA Philharmonic Institute, Music lessly fascinating”. Phillips is also a noted phony Orchestra and Brown university Academy of the West, Mozarteum, music theorist whose article “The Enigma Orchestra, whose Manhattan and other academies in the uS and Europe. of Variations : A Study of Stravinsky’s Final became the #1 best-selling Naxos His own former conducting students include Work for Orchestra” in Music Analysis is recording worldwide upon its release last year. Jonathan Girard (Director of Orchestras, cited by Richard Taruskin in Stravinsky and This program is presented in partnership with Music at Stanford. With the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra university of British Columbia), Charlie Alter - the Russian Traditions as “the best exposition

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE . Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. (Ireland), he has recorded two compact discs man (Musical Director of Next to Normal , Pip - in print of Stravinsky’s serial methods.”

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