FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATED May 28, 2015 April 6, 2015 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC GLOBAL ACADEMY FIRST ANNUAL PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY in SHANGHAI Part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership ALAN GILBERT and CHARLES DUTOIT To Conduct Five Concerts Including YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT Soloists To Include JOSHUA BELL and EMANUEL AX Philharmonic Musicians To Lead MASTER CLASSES, LESSONS, and COACHINGS July 4–10, 2015 FIRST PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY at MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ALAN GILBERT To Conduct Philharmonic DEBUT at SANTA BARBARA BOWL Soloists To Include Soprano JULIA BULLOCK and Tenor BEN BLISS New York Philharmonic and Academy Festival Orchestra Side-by-Side Readings Five Philharmonic Musicians To Serve as VISITING ARTISTS August 1–8, 2015 In the summer of 2015 the New York Philharmonic will undertake its first performance residencies in Shanghai, as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership, and at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Both collaborations are part of the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, customized collaborations with partners worldwide that offer intensive training of pre-professional musicians by New York Philharmonic members, often, as in these instances, alongside regular performance residencies by the full Orchestra. Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership The New York Philharmonic’s first of four annual performance residencies in Shanghai will take place July 4–10, 2015, with five concerts, including a Young People’s Concert, and activities associated with the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA), including master classes, lessons, and coachings. Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct three concerts at the Shanghai Symphony Hall during the Orchestra’s residency: an all-American program featuring works by Barber, Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, and Sousa — including Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra, with Joshua Bell as soloist — on July 4, 2015; a Young People’s Concert on July 9, 2015, titled Journey to New York and celebrating music composed in and about New York; and a concert featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14, with Emanuel Ax as soloist, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 on July 10, 2015. Mr. Gilbert will repeat the all-American program with Joshua Bell as soloist on July 6, 2015, at the Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre. In addition, Charles Dutoit (more) New York Philharmonic Global Academy / 2 will conduct a concert on July 5, 2015, featuring Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Emanuel Ax as soloist; Stravinsky’s Petrushka; and Ravel’s La Valse at the Shanghai Symphony Hall. Also during the residency, New York Philharmonic musicians will take part in educational activities and training as part of the SOA. The four-year Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership, a joint endeavor of the New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, was launched in September 2014. In addition to establishing the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) — in partnership with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and under the leadership of founding president Long Yu — the New York Philharmonic will give annual performance residencies in Shanghai through the 2017–18 season. The SOA’s inaugural class of 22 students began in the 2014–15 season with two weeks of coaching and master classes, culminating with an opening concert at Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Hall featuring musicians from the New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Shanghai Orchestra Academy, led by Long Yu. Also in the inaugural season, Philharmonic musicians returned to teach at the SOA in November 2014 and March 2015. In the 2015–16 season, the partnership’s second year, groups of Philharmonic musicians will again travel to Shanghai to train students as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy several times over the course of the season. Additionally, for the first time select SOA students will travel to New York City to train and play with New York Philharmonic musicians as Zarin Mehta Fellows, and the full Orchestra will return to Shanghai in the summer of 2016 for the second of its four consecutive summer performance residencies. Music Academy of the West Partnership The New York Philharmonic’s first performance residency at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara will take place August 1–8, 2015, as part of a four-year partnership that began in the summer of 2014. The Philharmonic will also participate in side-by-side orchestra readings with the Music Academy’s Academy Festival Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic musicians will serve as visiting artists and engage in educational activities with Music Academy students. Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in its debut at the Santa Barbara Bowl on August 3, 2015, featuring an all-American program of works by Barber, Copland, Gershwin, and Sousa, as well as Bernstein’s West Side Story Concert Suite No. 1 featuring soprano Julia Bullock and tenor Ben Bliss; the latter is a 2012 alumnus of the Music Academy of the West. In addition, Philharmonic Acting Concertmaster Sheryl Staples, Principal Cello Carter Brey, Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill, Principal Tuba Alan Baer, and Associate Principal Percussion Daniel Druckman will join Music Academy faculty members — including Philharmonic Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps — in a chamber music concert that includes the West Coast Premiere of Steve Reich’s Quartet for vibraphones and pianos, and works by Ponchielli, Joseph Turrin, and Dohnányi, August 4, 2015, at the Lobero Theatre as part of the Music Academy Festival Artists Series. These five Philharmonic musicians will also serve as visiting artists for one week, August 1–8, 2015, training Music Academy fellows in collaboration with Academy faculty, including through master classes, chamber music coaching sessions, private lessons, and lectures. (more) New York Philharmonic Global Academy / 3 Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Courtney Lewis will serve as a guest conductor at the Music Academy, leading an Academy Festival Orchestra concert, on July 18, 2015, at the Granada Theater, spotlighting the winners of the Concerto Competition as well as Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Alan Gilbert will serve as one of three inaugural Luria Foundation Artists in Residence, part of a program designed to bring noted industry innovators to the Music Academy each summer to teach and perform in multiple areas and disciplines, inspiring creativity and fresh thinking among fellows. Mr. Gilbert will teach a solo piano masterclass at the Academy on August 3, 2015. The Music Academy of the West is the first American partner in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy. This collaboration combines training of Music Academy fellows by Philharmonic musicians; biennial performances by the Philharmonic at the Music Academy Summer Festival; and Academy Festival Orchestra performances at Music Academy Summer Festivals led by Mr. Gilbert. The partnership began with Alan Gilbert and Philharmonic musicians teaching in Santa Barbara in July 2014; the partnership inaugurated the Global Academy Fellowship Program, through which ten instrumentalists from the Music Academy of the West, selected as Zarin Mehta Fellows through auditions, traveled to New York to train and play with the Philharmonic, January 3–13, 2015. The 2015–16 season activities will include the second visit of Music Academy students traveling to New York as Zarin Mehta Fellows; Philharmonic musicians again serving as visiting artists in collaboration with Academy faculty in Santa Barbara through master classes, chamber music coaching sessions, private lessons, and lectures; and Alan Gilbert returning to conduct the Academy Festival Orchestra. In 2017, in Santa Barbara, the Philharmonic and the Academy Festival Orchestra will perform together, led by Alan Gilbert, to commemorate the Music Academy of the West’s 70th anniversary. Twelve New York Philharmonic musicians are alumni of the Music Academy. Artists Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in September 2009, the first native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence, and the Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; and the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music by a wide range of contemporary and modern composers inaugurated in spring 2014. As New York magazine wrote, “The Philharmonic and its music director Alan Gilbert have turned themselves into a force of permanent revolution.” In the 2014–15 season Alan Gilbert conducts the U.S. Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto, a Philharmonic co-commission, alongside Mahler’s First Symphony; La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema; Verdi’s Requiem; a staging of Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake, featuring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard; World Premieres; a CONTACT! program; and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He concludes The Nielsen Project — the multi-year initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and concertos, the first release of which was named by The New York Times as among the Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 — and presides over the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour. His Philharmonic- tenure highlights include acclaimed productions of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The (more) New York Philharmonic Global Academy / 4 Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen