ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN 2014–15 SEASON

Pianist Inon Barnatan will make his New York Philharmonic debut as the inaugural Artist-in- Association, a new position that will highlight an emerging artist over the course of several consecutive seasons through concerto and chamber music appearances, building a relationship between the artist, the Philharmonic, and its audiences.

Inon Barnatan has performed with many of the country’s most esteemed orchestras and conductors. In 2009 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant. His album Darknesse Visible was named one of the top classical recordings of 2012 by The New York Times and Instrumental CD of the Month in BBC Music Magazine. In fall 2013 he released a CD of Schubert’s late works on Avie.

Highlights of Mr. Barnatan’s 2013–14 season include engagements with the Atlanta, Bangor, and Oregon symphony orchestras and the Boulder and Fresno Philharmonic orchestras. In September 2013 he gave the world premiere of a solo work by Matthias Pintscher at London’s Wigmore Hall, and he will again join Mr. Pintscher to perform Beethoven’s Fourth with the Utah Symphony. Mr. Barnatan will give solo and chamber recitals at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, The Hague, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Society, and the Frédéric Chopin Society (in St. Paul, Minnesota), as well as with the Jerusalem Quartet in Vancouver. He will also tour Europe with cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

Mr. Barnatan took part in Lincoln Center’s CMS Two program from 2006 to 2009 and remains a regular performer on the Chamber Music Society’s programs. In 2009 he was the first musician other than the society’s artistic directors to be invited to program concerts, curating The Schubert Project, a festival of Schubert’s late works; the project was also performed at the Concertgebouw, Festival de México, and the Library of Congress.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started playing piano at age three and made his orchestral debut at eleven. In 1997 he began studies at Royal Academy of Music and in 2004 pianist Leon Fleisher invited Mr. Barnatan to study and perform Schubert sonatas as part of a Carnegie Hall workshop.

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CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF INON BARNATAN’S 2014–15 SEASON

SATURDAY MATINEE CONCERT WITH ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN

Avery Fisher Hall

Saturday, February 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.

David Zinman, conductor Musicians from the New York Philharmonic Inon Barnatan, piano

DVO ŘÁK Piano Quintet, Op. 81 RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN IN RAVEL

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20, 2015, 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Inon Barnatan*, piano

Esa-Pekka SALONEN RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN IN RAVEL

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts C.W. Post Campus Long Island University Brookville, New York

Saturday, March 21, 2015, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Inon Barnatan, piano

Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx RAVEL Piano Concerto in G major RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite

* denotes New York Philharmonic debut

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