New York Philharmonic Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected] May 23–June 11, 2016 MAY 11, 2016, AT THE DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM AT LINCOLN CENTER: “NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A Player’s Guide” A Free Biennial Preview Night with ALAN GILBERT in Conversation with Jay CAMPBELL, Jennifer KOH, John CORIGLIANO, Aaron Jay KERNIS, Martin BRESNICK, Hilary PURRINGTON, Lisa BIELAWA, Colin JACOBSEN, and Dianne BERKUN MENAKER Video Available On-Demand After the Event The New York Philharmonic will present “NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A Player’s Guide,” a free Insights at the Atrium event Wednesday, May 11, 2016, featuring Music Director Alan Gilbert and artists from across the new-music spectrum in a special preview of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL. Panelists will include cellist Jay Campbell; violinist Jennifer Koh; composers Martin Bresnick, John Corigliano, Aaron Jay Kernis, Hilary Purrington, and Christopher Theofanidis; composer and violinist Colin Jacobsen; composer and San Francisco Girls Chorus artistic director Lisa Bielawa; and Brooklyn Youth Chorus artistic director and conductor Dianne Berkun Menaker. The event takes place at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 62nd Street) and is co-presented with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Related Events On-Demand Video Video will be available on-demand after the event, leading up to and during the biennial, on nyphil.org/biennial Play Date All audience members attending “NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A Player’s Guide” on May 11 are invited to the NY PHIL BIENNIAL Play Date, a post-concert meet-up with composers and performers over cocktails, at the David Rubenstein Atrium. #biennialist The New York Philharmonic invites audience members to be a #biennialist. The five attendees who attend the most NY PHIL BIENNIAL events and post about it on social media will win a free pair of tickets to the final concert, featuring the New York Philharmonic conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, June 11 at 7:00 p.m at David Geffen Hall. Additional prizes and offerings for #biennialists will be offered; follow the New York Philharmonic on its social media channels (instagram.com/nyphilharmonic and twitter.com/nyphil) for more information. About the NY PHIL BIENNIAL A flagship project of the New York Philharmonic, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is a wide- ranging exploration of today’s music that brings together an international roster of composers, performers, and curatorial voices for concerts presented both on the Lincoln Center campus and with partners in venues throughout the city. The second NY PHIL BIENNIAL, taking place May 23–June 11, 2016, will feature diverse programs — ranging from solo works to a chamber opera to large scale symphonies — by more than 100 composers, more than half of whom are American; present some of the country’s top music schools and youth choruses; and expand to more New York City neighborhoods. A range of events and activities will engender an ongoing dialogue among artists, composers, and audience members. Partners in the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL include National Sawdust; 92nd Street Y; Aspen Music Festival and School; Interlochen Center for the Arts; League of Composers/ISCM; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; LUCERNE FESTIVAL; MetLiveArts; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; Whitney Museum of American Art; WQXR’s Q2 Music; and Yale School of Music. For complete information about the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL, see press release. Speakers Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in 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 Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music; and the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions to offer training of pre- professional musicians, often alongside performance residencies. As The New Yorker wrote, “Gilbert has made an indelible mark on the orchestra’s history and that of the city itself.” Alan Gilbert’s 2015–16 Philharmonic highlights include R. Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben to welcome Concertmaster Frank Huang; Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala; and four World Premieres. He co-curates and conducts in the second NY PHIL BIENNIAL and performs violin in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. He leads the Orchestra as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership and appears at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. Philharmonic-tenure highlights include acclaimed stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson (for which Mr. Gilbert was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction), and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 24 World Premieres; The Nielsen Project, a performance and recording cycle; Verdi Requiem and Bach’s B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film; Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and nine tours around the world. In August 2015 he led the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the U.S. Stage Premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, co-presented as part of the Lincoln Center–New York Philharmonic Opera Initiative. Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and former principal guest conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. This season Mr. Gilbert makes debuts with four great European orchestras — Filarmonica della Scala, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony, and Academy of St Martin in the Fields — and returns to The Cleveland Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming’s recent Decca recording Poèmes, on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. His recordings have received top honors from the Chicago Tribune and Gramophone magazine. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. His honors include an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music (2010), Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music” (2011), election to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his commitment to cultural diplomacy (2015), and being named Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. American cellist Jay Campbell has already forged a reputation as a spellbinding artist. Recently named a 2016 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is known for his eclectic musical interests, having collaborated with musicians, including Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, David Lang, John Zorn, and members of Radiohead and Einstürzende Neubauten, and for working with leading new music groups, such as ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Ensemble InterContemporain, Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Argento Ensemble. As a chamber musician, he has worked with members of the Arditti, Takacs, Kronos, and Afiara string quartets. Mr. Campbell has premiered almost 100 works to date, including concertos by Chris Rogerson and Lang. Co-commissioned by the Human Rights Foundation, David Fulmer is composing Genus and Species, a cello concerto, for him by David Fulmer, to be premiered in the 2015–16 season. Mr. Campbell’s association with Zorn has resulted in more than a half-dozen new works for cello. Hen to Pan, a CD with all of Zorn’s compositions for him Zorn, was released in February 2015. Recipient of awards from the BMI and ASCAP foundations, Jay Campbell was also First Prize winner of the 2012 Concert Artist Guild auditions, and Second Prize winner of the 2015 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition. Born in Berkeley, California, he is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at The Juilliard School studying with cellist Fred Sherry. Mr. Campbell previously appeared with the New York Philharmonic as part of a January 2013 Young People’s Concert, led by Joshua Weilerstein. Jennifer Koh is recognized for intense, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance. With an impassioned musical curiosity, she is forging an artistic path of her own devising, choosing works that both inspire and challenge. She is dedicated to performing the violin repertoire of all eras from traditional to contemporary, believing that the past and present form a continuum. Musical America’s 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, Ms. Koh has performed with leading orchestras worldwide and appears frequently at major music centers and festivals as a prolific recitalist. This season, she makes debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony and RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Italy, and returns to the Buffalo Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Deutsche Radiophilharmonie. She performs Anna Clyne’s violin concerto, composed for her, with the Cincinnati Symphony, Princeton Symphony, and the BBC Philharmonic (in its U.K. premiere). She also partners with pianist Shai Wosner in Bridge to Beethoven, a recital series that explores the impact Beethoven has had