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Miller Theatre at School of the Arts

continues its 2017-18 series with

The Tallis Scholars Heinrich Isaac at 500

Directed by Peter Phillips

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 West 46th Street, New York, NY)

Tickets: $40-$55 • Students with valid ID starting at $7

and concludes its 2017-18 Bach series with

Bach Concertos

featuring

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Awadagin Pratt, piano

Dan Tepfer, piano

Philip Lasser, piano

Ensemble Baroklyn

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)

Tickets: $35-$55 • Students with valid ID starting at $7

From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey: “Our annual collaboration with Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars is always a highlight of the season. The ethereal setting of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin is the perfect location for this celebrated ensemble. And the very next evening at Miller Theatre, headlines an exploration of Bach's beloved piano concertos, including works for one, two, three, and four keyboards.” Early Music

December 6, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 West 46th Street, New York, NY) Tallis Scholars: Heinrich Isaac at 500 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Netherlandish Heinrich Isaac, whose career spanned the European continent and encompassed both sacred and secular genres. Though less widely known today than his contemporary , his work has nonetheless been massively influential. The Tallis Scholars return to Miller to celebrate the legacies of these prolific , performing two of Isaac’s alongside selections from Josquin, John Browne, and .

ARTISTS:

The Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips, conductor PROGRAM:

Josquin des Prez: Gaude virgo

Josquin des Prez: Stabat mater

Josquin des Prez: Absalom fili mi

Nicolas Gombert: Lugebat Absalom

Heinrich Isaac: Optime divino

John Browne: Stabat juxta

Heinrich Isaac: Tota pulcra es

Josquin des Prez: Inter natos mulierum

Nicolas Gombert: Regina caeli a 10

Bach

December 7, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) h i Bach Piano Concertos Bach wrote many concertos for throughout his lifetime, and given his attraction to the possibilities of and harmony, it comes as no surprise that one keyboard could not satisfy his imagination. In this program, Simone Dinnerstein teams up with fellow pianists , Awadagin Pratt, and Dan Tepfer for an unparalleled performance of Bach’s concertos for one, two, three, and four keyboards.

ARTISTS:

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Awadagin Pratt, piano

Dan Tepfer, piano

Philip Lasser, piano

Ensemble Baroklyn

PROGRAM:

J.S. Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 (arr. Kurtag)

J.S. Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 (arr. Busoni)

J.S. Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (arr. Busoni)

J.S. Bach: Concerto in C minor for Two , BWV 1060

Dan Tepfer: Algorithmic Improvisation on B.A.C.H.

J.S. Bach: Concerto in C major for Two Pianos, BWV 1061

J.S. Bach: Concerto in F minor for Piano, BWV 1056

J.S. Bach: Concerto in D minor for Three Pianos, BWV 1063

Philip Lasser/Bach: Intermezzo and Fugatine on the E major Prelude and Fugue from The Well­Tempered Clavier Bk. 1

J.S. Bach: Concerto in A minor for Four Pianos, BWV 1065

Yamaha grand pianos and Yamaha Disklavier reproducing piano provided by

Yamaha Artist Services, New York. BIOS

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director Peter Phillips. Through recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serve the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

The Tallis Scholars perform in both sacred and secular venues, usually giving around 70 concerts each year across the globe. In 2013 the group celebrated their 40th anniversary with a World Tour performing 99 events in 80 venues in 16 countries and traveling sufficient air-miles to circumnavigate the globe four times. They kicked off the year with a spectacular concert in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, including a performance of ’ 40-part Spem in alium and the world premieres of works written specially for them by Gabriel Jackson and Eric Whitacre. Their new recording of the Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas by the 16th Century Tudor composer, , was released on the exact anniversary of their first concert in 1973 and enjoyed six weeks at number one in the UK Specialist Classical Album Chart.

The Tallis Scholars’s career highlights have included a tour of China in 1999, and the privilege of performing in the Sistine Chapel in April 1994 to mark the final stage of the complete restoration of the Michelangelo frescoes, broadcast on Italian and Japanese television. The ensemble has commissioned many contemporary composers during their history: in 1998 they celebrated their 25th Anniversary with a special concert in London’s National Gallery, premiering a Sir John Tavener work written for the group and narrated by Sting. A further performance was given with Sir Paul McCartney in New York in 2000. The Tallis Scholars are broadcast regularly on and have also been featured on the acclaimed ITV program The Southbank Show.

Much of The Tallis Scholars' reputation for their pioneering work has come from their association with Gimell Records, set up by Peter Phillips and Steve Smith in 1980 solely to record the group. In February 1994 Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars performed on the 400th anniversary of the death of Palestrina in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, where Palestrina had trained as a choirboy and later worked as Maestro di Cappella. The concerts were recorded by Gimell and are available on both CD and DVD.

Recordings by The Tallis Scholars have attracted many awards throughout the world. In 1987 their recording of Josquin’s Missa La sol fa re mi and Missa Pange lingua received Gramophone magazine’s Record of the Year award, the first recording of early music ever to win this coveted award. In 1989 the French magazine Diapason gave two of its Diapason d’Or de l’Année awards for the recordings of a mass and motets by Lassus and for Josquin’s two masses based on the chanson L’Homme armé. Their recording of Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria and Missa Sicut lilium was awarded Gramophone‘s Early Music Award in 1991; they received the 1994 Early Music Award for their recording of music by ; and the same distinction again in 2005 for their disc of music by John Browne. The Tallis Scholars were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001, 2009, and 2010. In November 2012 their recording of Josquin’s Missa De beata virgine and Missa Ave maris stella received a Diapason d’Or de l’Année and in their 40th anniversary year they were welcomed into the Gramophone Hall of Fame by public vote.

Peter Phillips has made an impressive if unusual reputation for himself in dedicating his life’s work to the research and performance of Renaissance . Having won a scholarship to Oxford in 1972, Peter Phillips studied with David Wulstan and Denis Arnold. He founded the Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has now appeared in almost 2000 concerts and made nearly 60 discs, encouraging interest in polyphony all over the world.

Apart from The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips continues to work with other specialist ensembles. He has appeared with the BBC Singers, the Collegium Vocale of Ghent and the Netherlands Chamber , and is currently working with the Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Intrada of Moscow, Musica Reservata of Barcelona and El Leon de Oro of Orviedo. He gives numerous master-classes and choral workshops every year around the world – amongst other places in Rimini (Italy), Evora (Portugal) and Barcelona (Spain). In 2014 he launched the London International A Cappella Choir Competition in St John's Smith Square, attracting from all over the world.

Peter Phillips has made numerous television and radio broadcasts. Besides those featuring The Tallis Scholars (which include live broadcasts from the 1988, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2014 BBC Proms), he has appeared several times on the BBC’s Music Weekly and on the BBC World Service, on Kaleidoscope (BBC Radio 4), on Today (BBC Radio 4), National Public Radio in the US and on German, French, Italian, Spanish and Canadian radio, where he has enjoyed deploying his love of languages. In 1990 ITV’s The South Bank Show featured Peter’s ‘personal odyssey’ with the Tallis Scholars; while in 2002 a special television documentary was made for the BBC about the life and times of .

Phillips has recently been appointed a Reed Rubin Director of Music and Bodley Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, where the new choral foundation he helped to establish began singing services in October 2008. They gave their first live broadcast on BBC Radio Three’s Choral Evensong in October 2011. In 2005, Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, a decoration intended to honour individuals who have contributed to the understanding of French culture in the world.

American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. The New York-based pianist gained an international following with the remarkable success of her recording of Bach’s . Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many "Best of 2007" lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker.

Dinnerstein’s performance schedule has taken her around the world since her acclaimed New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in 2005, to venues including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Sydney Opera House, Seoul Arts Center, and London's Wigmore Hall; festivals that include the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen, Verbier, and Ravinia festivals; and performances with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, , Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra a Sinfonica Brasileira, and the Tokyo Symphony.

Dinnerstein is a graduate of The where she was a student of . She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio. She is on the faculty of the Mannes School of Music and is a Sony Classical artist.

Among his generation of concert artists, pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras.

In 1992, Pratt won the Naumburg International Piano Competition and two years later was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since then, he has played numerous recitals throughout the US including performances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, and Chicago's Orchestra Hall. His many orchestral performances include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the , Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, National, Detroit, and New Jersey symphonies among many others. As a conductor, Mr. Pratt participated in the American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductor's Guild workshops and the National Conducting Institute, where he worked closely with Leonard Slatkin and conducted the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center. He has also conducted the Toledo, New Mexico, Vancouver, Winston-Salem, Santa Fe, and Prince George County symphonies, the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Concertante di Chicago, and several orchestras in Japan.

Pratt is currently Professor of Piano at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of . He is also the Artistic Director of the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati as well as the Artistic Director of the Art of the Piano Festival at CCM. Awadagin Pratt is a Yamaha artist.

Dan Tepfer has made a name for himself as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging ambition, individuality, and drive — “a remarkable musician” in the words of The Washington Post and one “who refuses to set himself limits” in those of France’s Télérama. The -based Tepfer has performed with some of the leading lights in jazz, including extensively with veteran saxophone luminary Lee Konitz.

As a leader, Tepfer has crafted a discography already striking for its breadth and depth, ranging from probing solo improvisation and intimate duets to richly layered trio albums of original compositions. His 2011 Sunnyside/Naïve album Goldberg Variations / Variations saw the prize-winning pianist performing J.S. Bach’s masterpiece as well as improvising upon it to “build a bridge across centuries and genres” (The Wall Street Journal) in “an impressive feat that keeps coming back to a hearty and abiding respect” (The New York Times).

As a composer, he is a recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for works including Concerto for Piano and Winds, premiered in the Prague Castle with himself on piano, and Solo Blues for and Piano, premiered at Carnegie Hall. Bringing together his undergraduate studies in astrophysics with his passion for music, he is currently working on integrating computer-driven algorithms into his improvisational approach.

Awards include first prize and audience prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition, first prize at the East Coast Jazz Festival Competition, and the Cole Porter Fellowship from the American Pianists Association.

Philip Lasser is a visionary composer native to French and American traditions. His music, direct and undisguised, creates a unique sound world that blends together the colorful harmonies of French Impressionist sonorities and the dynamic rhythms and characteristics of American music. In 1979, he entered Nadia Boulanger’s famed Ecole d’Arts Americaines in Fontainebleau, France, where he began to establish his connection to the French lineage. Following his studies at Harvard College, Lasser lived in , where he worked with Boulanger’s closest colleague and disciple, Narcis Bonet, and legendary pianist Gaby Casadesus. He received his master’s degree from Columbia University while studying with René Leibowitz’s disciple, Jacques-Louis Monod, and his doctorate at The Juilliard School, where he worked with . Since 1994, Lasser has been a distinguished member of the faculty of The Juilliard School. He is also the director of the European American Music Alliance (EAMA).

Lasser’s works can be heard on the Sony Classical, Telarc, New World, Crystal, and BMG RCA/Red Seal labels. His works have been performed worldwide by artists such as Simone Dinnerstein, , Susanna Phillips, Elizabeth Futral, Margo Garrett, and Cho-Liang Lin, as well as the Atlanta, Seattle, and Colorado symphonies, and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Upcoming Miller Theatre Concerts

Pop­Up Concerts

Monday, December 11, 2017, 6:00 p.m.

Ugly Holiday Sweater Party with Genghis Barbie

Free

Family

Saturday, December 16, 2017, 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Carnival of the Animals

Single Tickets: $9-$35

Special Events

Thursday, January 18, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Glass + Schubert

Single Tickets: $35-$55

Composer Portraits

Thursday, February 1, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Raphaël Cendo

Single Tickets: $20-$30

For the complete 2017­2018 season schedule,

please visit www.millertheatre.com

Columbia University’s Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate

at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall.

Directions and information are available online at www.millertheatre.com

or via the Miller Theatre Box Office, at 212.854.7799.

For further information, press tickets, and to arrange interviews,

please contact Aleba & Co. at 212/206-1450 or [email protected].

For photos, please contact Lauren Bailey at 212/854-1633 or [email protected].

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please contact Aleba & Co. at 212/206-1450 or [email protected].

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