Board of Directors of the American Friends of Alan B. Vickery, Chairman Program Klaus Jacobs, Treasurer & Secretary Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann | Beatrice Ducrot | Mike T. Foley | Michael Haefliger | Cynthia Sculco Gala Fundraising Event Valentina Rota, Director of Development of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Cocktails, Private Concert, and Dinner Carnegie Hall, Weill Music Room Monday, May 9, 2016

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5 Welcome 7 American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL 8 Program 9 Yefim Bronfman 10 Musicians from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 12 About the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 15 About LUCERNE FESTIVAL 16 Outstanding Female Artists of the 2016 Summer Festival 24 Lucerne The great and conductor , who passed 26 Make a Contribution Now away on 5 January 2016, founded the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY in 2003. Every summer since then, some 130 young, highly gifted musicians from all around the world have been given the unique opportunity to study contemporary scores and modernist classics in detail through daily rehearsals, workshops, and lessons, after which they present their insights in performance.

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Dear Guests Acknowledgments Almost one-third of the The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY is a unique and top young musicians exceptional Summer Academy where young, highly The fourteenth Gala Fundraising Event of the attending the talented musicians from around the globe are introduced American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL has been LUCERNE FESTIVAL to the secrets of modern and contemporary works. organized with generous support from ACADEMY are graduates of the United 2016 opens a new chapter in the history of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL States’ most-esteemed ACADEMY: takes on the artistic directorship Lead Sponsor of the Gala Event musical conservatories, of this internationally unique campus devoted to music of the and the American present; Matthias Pintscher will support him as Principal Conduc- Friends of LUCERNE tor. In addition, the Academy students will work with star violinist FESTIVAL are very Anne-Sophie Mutter, the multi-percussionist Martin Grubinger, proud to help facilitate and composer-in-residence Olga Neuwirth. Besides Pintscher and their studies in Alan Gilbert – and in keeping with this year’s Festival theme of Lucerne, Switzerland. “PrimaDonna” – no fewer than five maestras will be on the podium: Susanna Mälkki, Konstantia Gourzi, the two emerging conductors Co-Sponsors of the Gala Event Elim Chan and Elena Schwarz, and the American band leader Maria Schneider.

We are delighted that you decided to join our Gala Fundraising Event. It is thanks to your support and commitment that we, the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, will be able to provide financial assistance that makes it possible for exceptionally talented young musicians from the United States to attend the wor- ld-renowned LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY in the summer of 2016.

We wish you an unforgettable and unique night in support of LUCERNE FESTIVAL.

and from the Dinner Committee

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Klaus and Karin Jacobs KPMG LLP Alan B. Vickery Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann Robin Kramer und Albert Behler Chairman of the Board Chairman of the Board LUCERNE Henry Schein, Inc. American Friends FESTIVAL and Foundation Friends Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco of LUCERNE FESTIVAL of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Alan and Christine Vickery Willkie Farr & Gallagher

With special thanks to Bruce and Suzie Kovner Michael Haefliger Valentina Rota for their support of individual students Executive and Artistic Director Director of Development of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY. LUCERNE FESTIVAL American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL © Peter Fischli / LUCERNE FESTIVAL

4 5 The American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL support American friends appearances by such top American as the Boston Symphony (with Andris Nelsons)… American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL © Photo: Marco Borggreve / LUCERNE FESTIVAL Contributions to the Thanks to the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, American Friends of the Festival and the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL LUCERNE FESTIVAL have gained an international standing. The non-profit are collected organization was founded in 2002 in New York. annually at a Gala Fundraising Event Board of Directors of the American Friends of LUCERNE and each donor FESTIVAL: automatically – Alan B. Vickery, Chairman becomes a Friend of – Klaus Jacobs, Treasurer & Secretary LUCERNE FESTIVAL. – Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann – Beatrice Ducrot – Mike T. Foley – Michael Haefliger – Cynthia Sculco

– Valentina Rota, Director of Development

Thanks to the generous support of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, not only could the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA tour the United States in 2007, but it has been possible for the following orchestras to attend the LUCERNE FESTIVAL:

– Boston Symphony Orchestra 2015 – Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2003, 2005, 2008 – The Cleveland Orchestra 2004, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014

– LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (US tour) 2007 – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2009, 2013 – San Francisco Symphony 2010, 2015

– American participation in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 2009, 2010,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

…or the Cleveland Orchestra (with Franz Welser-Möst). 6 © Photo: Georg Anderhub / LUCERNE FESTIVAL 7 schedule of the evening Artists

Program Yefim Bronfman was born in 1958 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1973 he emigrated with his family to Israel, where he continued his piano Cocktails at 6.00 pm training with Arie Vardi at the Rubin Academy of Private Concert and Dinner at 7.00 pm Music in Tel Aviv. He moved to the United States soon thereafter to complete his studies with Rudolf Welcome, and Acknowledgments Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin. His debut Alan B. Vickery, Chairman of the American Friends of LUCERNE with the under Zubin Mehta FESTIVAL in 1978 launched an international career that has led Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann, Chairman of LUCERNE FESTIVAL to collaborations with the leading orchestras and and Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL conductors. In the 2015-16 season, for example, he Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director LUCERNE has given numerous performances as a “Capell FESTIVAL Virtuoso” with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and , with whom he played the Private Concert complete Beethoven piano concertos. He has concertized with the Vienna, New York, and Los Yefim Bronfman piano Angeles Philharmonics; the San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland, and Philadelphia Orchestras; and with the London Symphony Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in Edinburgh, London, Vienna, Luxem- Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 bourg, and New York. From the start of his career, Bronfman has been I. Allegro inquieto – Andantino – Allegro deeply committed to as well, performing with such II. Andante caloroso – Poco più animato – colleagues as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Joshua Bell, and Yo-Yo Ma; Più largamente – Un poco agitato – in May he undertook a European tour with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lynn Tempo I Harrell. Bronfman, who was featured as LUCERNE FESTIVAL’s “artiste III. Precipitato étoile” in 2009, is also a committed performer of contemporary works: in 2007, for example, he premiered Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto and | Intermission in 2012 came the world premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Second Piano Concerto, which he performed during the past season in London and Nicole Jeong and Olivia De Prato violin | Göteborg. Bronfman, who has been an American citizen since 1989 and Beth Meyers and Anne Lanzilotti viola | who received the Avery Fisher Prize in 1991, boasts an extensive discogra- Caroline Stinson and Mariel Roberts cello phy; he won a Grammy Award for his recording of the three Bartók concertos. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 Souvenir de Florence I. Allegro con spirito – Più mosso, vivace assai – Prestissimo IV. Allegro vivace – Più vivace © Peter Fischli / LUCERNE FESTIVAL

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Musicians from the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

“Trailblazing” cellist Mariel Roberts (Feast of Music) is quickly Austro-Italian violinist Olivia De Prato studied at the Universi- gaining recognition as a deeply dedicated interpreter and perform- ty of Music and Arts in Vienna and holds degrees from the Eastman er of contemporary music. Recent performances have garnered and Manhattan Schools of Music. As a passionate performer of praise for her “technical flair and exquisite sensitivity” American( contemporary and improvised music, she regularly performs in Forum), as well as her ability to “couple youthful vision Europe, South America, China, and the United States, including with startling maturity” (InDigest). Mariel Roberts performs inter- appearances at the Bang on a Can Marathon, the Ensemble Modern nationally as a member of the Mivos String Quartet, and she has Festival, June in Buffalo, the Lincoln Center Festival with Steve performed with a variety of other ensembles in venues around Reich and Brad Lubman, the Shanghai New Music Week, and Wien the world as an advocate of living composers. She attended the Modern. She is a member of the New York-based contemporary LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY as a member and guest artist from music ensembles Signal and Victoria and is the co-founder and first 2010 to 2015. violinist of the Mivos String Quartet. Olivia De Prato attended the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY from 2005 to 2007.

A fierce advocate of contemporary music, Brooklyn-based violist Nicole Jeong, who attended the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Anne Lanzilotti, a native of Hawai’i, has distinguished herself from 2009 to 2011, started playing the violin at age 10, and after premiering works by and collaborating with many leading young three years of study she made her solo debut with the Gwangju composers, including Dai Fujikura, Ted Hearne, Andrew Norman, Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea. Ever since then, she has Jagoda Szmytka, and Scott Wollschleger. She has performed appeared in solo, orchestral, and chamber music performances with such renowned new music ensembles as Alarm Will Sound, throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. She is a former mem- Ensemble Interface, the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI, and Ensem- ber of the New Juilliard Ensemble, and she also collaborates with ble Signal and with computer music engineers from IRCAM in numerous living composers. Nicole Jeong has made recordings with Paris. A passionate teaching artist, Anne Lanzilotti is on the faculty Musica Sequenza, John Zorn, and Music@Menlo. She is inspired at NYU Steinhardt. She is a co-founder of and artistic consultant by many of her teachers, such as members of the Emerson, Takács, for Kalikolehua – El Sistema Hawai’i, a free orchestra program for and Orion String Quartets, David Finckel, Wu Han, Colin Carr, underserved youth. She performs on a 1970 Peresson viola. Gil Kalish, Jonathan Feldman, Julian Martin, and Jerome Lowenthal.

Beth Meyers, viola, attended the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Canadian cellist Caroline Stinson performs widely as a in 2004 and 2005. She is a founding member of the flute/viola/harp soloist, recitalist and chamber musician and has appeared at trio janus, which has commissioned over 100 new works for the trio Zankel Hall, the Gardner Museum and the Smithsonian, the Kölner repertoire in their twelve years of performing together. Beth Philharmonie and Cité de la Musique and the Centennial Centre Meyers plays full-time in the Broadway musical Wicked. She is an in Canada. She is a member of the Lark Quartet and serves as active contemporary music violist and also performs as a vocalist Principal Cellist with the Stamford Symphony CT. Her solo CD Lines in performances of Steve Reich’s music as well as with her duo was released on Albany. Caroline Stinson has given masterclasses project DAMSEL with guitarist Monica Mugan. She received both across North America and Europe, teaches cello and chamber her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music at the Eastman music at The Juilliard School and is Co-Artistic Director of Weekend School of Music, where she studied with George Taylor. Chamber Music in the Delaware River Valley.

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About the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY A Master School Each summer around 130 talented young musicians from for new music – that is all over the world are given the opportunity to dedicate what the LUCERNE themselves to a repertoire that is still all too often FESTIVAL ACADEMY overlooked in the world: the music of the is all about. 20th and 21st centuries. Over a period of three weeks they immerse themselves in key works of the modern era through daily rehearsals, workshops, and lessons; they also study and rehearse brand-new scores, many of them composed specifically for the Academy, and experiment with innovative performance formats. The Festival audience in turn benefits from this unconventional A leadership pair: programming replete with discoveries and surprising Wolfgang Rihm is Artistic listening experiences. Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY and Matthias Pintscher This internationally unique campus for contemporary music was provides support as founded in 2003 by the French composer and conductor Pierre Principal Conductor. Boulez and Festival Executive and Artistic Director Michael © Photo: Peter Fischli / LUCERNE FESTIVAL Haefliger. Starting in the summer of 2016 the German composer Wolfgang Rihm will take over as Artistic Director; he will be assisted by Matthias Pintscher as Principal Conductor. Members of the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain, which specializes entirely in the performance of contemporary music, are on the faculty as instrumental teachers and mentors. Other Learning from the masters: the Academy students rehearse with Matthias Pintscher. renowned conductors, composers, and soloists are additionally © Photo: Priska Ketterer / LUCERNE FESTIVAL invited: including such figures as Peter Eötvös, Alan Gilbert, , Sir , Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Martin Grubinger. The works on their “curriculum” are eventually presented to the public in concerts by the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, for which all of the students join together, as well as on various ensemble programs.

The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY naturally also encourages independent artistic initiative on the part of the students and therefore presents Academy participants in projects they themselves have developed and in which they venture to explore connections to other musical forms and styles. It is not only instrumentalists who benefit from the praxis-oriented training offered by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY; this institution is also a destination for conductors and composers. Each year’s list of offerings includes a master class in , while the Roche Young Commissions series provides young composers with commissions for new works. Anxy © Pxy

12 13 The KKL Luzern, LUCERNE FESTIVAL estival (2) designed by Jean Nouvel: a ucerne F cathedral L of music and About LUCERNE FESTIVAL sound, famous

Music that sounds LUCERNE FESTIVAL is one of the most prestigious festivals © Peter Fischli / for its pheno- menal acoustics like its composers worldwide – and has been for over 75 years. Three times and its exquisite imagined it. Musicians per year stars of classical music from across the world architecture who dedicate them- meet on the shores of idyllic Lake Lucerne, in the very alike. selves to their craft with heart of Switzerland, and together they enjoy a celebration devotion and passion. of music: the famous orchestras, the legendary conduc- Audiences who immerse tors, the virtuoso soloists. themselves in a world of sound far removed from The Summer Festival is the largest of the three annual festivals: the stress of daily life. over a four-week period you can experience more than 100 LUCERNE FESTIVAL is events, among them some 30 symphony concerts. Every year what makes all this since 2003 it has been launched by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL possible – and it has ORCHESTRA, which founded in 2003. Starting been doing so for more in the summer of 2016 will helm this splendid than 75 years. ensemble comprising internationally acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, teachers, and members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, which was founded in 2003 by Pierre Boulez and which will be led for the first time this summer by Wolfgang Rihm, the Festival includes its own master school for new music where highly talented young musicians from all over the world dedicate A new era begins: themselves exclusively to the performance of works from the 20th starting in 2016 and 21st centuries. Other events at the Festival involve one or two Riccardo Chailly is the composers-in-residence and “artistes étoiles” who present their LUCERNE FESTIVAL work in a variety of contexts. Each summer is devoted to a ORCHESTRA’s music specific theme that governs the choice of works in the program- director. © DECCA ming. Through such innovative event formats as the 40min series of short concerts LUCERNE FESTIVAL is forging new paths and opening the way toward a wider range of audiences.

Established in 1988, the Easter Festival takes place each spring two weeks before Easter and runs through Palm Sunday, with a special focus given to sacred music, whether in the “Salle blanche” of the KKL or through concerts in the atmospheric ambience of Lucerne’s churches. The youngest of the three festivals, the Piano Festival, has been taking place every year in November since 1998. Celebrated keyboard virtuosos and emerging stars come to Lucerne for nine days to perform recitals, concerts of piano music, and chamber music. And Piano “Off-Stage” complements the classical programming with long nights of jazz in Lucerne’s finest bars.

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Outstanding Female Artists of the 2016 Summer Festival

Soprano Organist Pianist Pianist MEzzo-Soprano Conductor

Diana Damrau, who was Iveta Apkalna, who was Martha Argerich, who Yulianna Avdeeva, Cecilia Bartoli, who Marin Alsop, who was born in 1971, is a native of born in 1976, is a native of was born in 1941 in Buenos who was born in 1985 in was born in 1966 in Rome, is born in 1956 in New York, Günzburg in Bavaria and is Latvia. She studied piano Aires, is the grande dame of Moscow, studied at the considered the prima donna was a student of Leonard today celebrated as a and organ at the Latvian the art of the keyboard. Gnessin Institute in her assoluta of Baroque music. Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. performer of coloratura and Music Academy in Riga, the Following her victory at the native city and at the Zurich Since the end of the 1980s, She gained international bel canto at the major Guildhall School of Music in 1965 Chopin Competition, Academy of the Arts. In 2010 when and recognition when she won companies around the London, and the Academy of she rapidly became an she won the prestigious Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Koussevitzky Prize in world, from the Metropoli- Music in Stuttgart. She has internationally acclaimed Chopin Competition in “discovered” her, she has 1989. From 2002 to 2008 she tan Opera in New York, collaborated in orchestral virtuoso; since the 1980s she Warsaw, where she also been one of the most was Music Director of the where she made her debut concerts with such major has focused entirely on took the prize for Best successful singers of our Bournemouth Symphony in 2005, to La Scala in Milan, conductors as Claudio performing piano concertos Performance of a Chopin time, and over 10 million of Orchestra in Britain, and where she triumphed at the Abbado, Mariss Jansons, and and chamber music. She Sonata. Since then she has her CDs have been sold. She since 2007 she has been opening of the 2013 season Andris Nelsons, and she per- leads her own festivals in performed with many has won five Grammy Music Director of the as Violetta Valéry in Verdi’s forms organ recitals all over Lugano, Switzerland, famous orchestras and at Awards and ten ECHO Baltimore Symphony La traviata. In 2014 she won the world. She is the and in Beppu, Japan. many renowned festivals; Klassik Awards. Since 2012 Orchestra; in 2012 she the Best Female Singer recipient of two ECHO she has also caused a Cecilia Bartoli has been the began her tenure helming Award from International Klassik Awards. Performing at LUCERNE sensation as a passionate first woman to serve as the São Paulo Symphony Opera. FESTIVAL on 15 August 2016 chamber musician. artistic director of the Orchestra. In 2013 Marin Performing at LUCERNE in the First Piano Concerto Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Alsop became the first Performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 3 September by Franz Liszt, accompanied Performing at LUCERNE woman to conduct the FESTIVAL on 7 September 2016 in an organ recital by the West-Eastern Divan FESTIVAL on 21 August 2016 Performing at LUCERNE legendary Last Night of the 2016 in a concert featuring featuring works by Orchestra under Daniel in Chopin’s First Piano FESTIVAL on 3 September Proms. Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Mendelssohn, Kutavičius, Barenboim. Concerto, accompanied by 2016 in a program of the Bavarian Staatsoper Bach, and Reubke. the Chamber Orchestra of works by Porpora and Performing at LUCERNE Orchestra under Kirill Europe under Anu Tali. Hasse, accompanied by FESTIVAL on 26 August 2016 Petrenko. I Barocchisti under Diego with the São Paulo Fasolis. Symphony Orchestra in a program of works by Grieg, Villa-Lobos, and Rachma- ninoff.

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Soprano & Conductor Violinist Cellist Conductor Conductor Violinist

Barbara Hannigan, Vilde Frang, a 29-year-old Sol Gabetta, who was Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Emmanuelle Haïm, Isabelle Faust, who was who was born in 1971 in native of Oslo, Norway, born in 1981 in Córdoba, who was born in 1986 in who was born in 1962, was born in 1972 in Esslingen, Waverley, Canada, is a made her debut at the age Argentina, won the Credit Vilnius, Lithuania, is today’s trained as an organist and Germany, collaborates with soprano and conductor — of 12 with the Oslo Philhar- Suisse Young Artist Award in rapidly rising star in the harpsichordist and began such orchestras as the and, what is truly unique, monic under Mariss Jansons. 2004, which led to her debut female conductors’ scene. her conducting career as an and she practices both of these She studied with Kolja with the Vienna Philharmo- She is the General Music assistant to William Christie the Boston Symphony disciplines at the same time. Blacher in Hamburg, and nic at LUCERNE FESTIVAL. Director of the Salzburg and Simon Rattle. In 2000 Orchestra and with such This acclaimed performer of Anne-Sophie Mutter has Since then she has also Landestheater and she founded her own conductors as Bernard contemporary music has been a committed champi- collaborated with the Berlin Associate Conductor of the Baroque ensemble, Le Haitink and Mariss Jansons. blazed new paths as a on. In 2013 she won the Philharmonic, the Los Los Angeles Philharmonic. Concert d’Astrée, and she The late Claudio Abbado “singing maestra,” whether Credit Suisse Young Artist Angeles Philharmonic, and In September 2016 she will has also conducted the Los also regularly engaged her conducting the Orchestra Award and as a result the Philadelphia Orchestra. become the successor to Angeles Philharmonic and at for his concerts. “Her sound dell’Accademia di Santa performed with the Vienna She has garnered four ECHO Andris Nelsons and Simon Glyndebourne and has passion, grit, and Cecilia, the Toronto Philharmonic at LUCERNE Klassik Awards. Rattle as Music Director of Aix-en-Provence. To date electricity but also a Symphony, or the Munich FESTIVAL; she is the the City of Birmingham she is also the only woman disarming warmth and Philharmonic. In 2014 she recipient of three ECHO Performing at LUCERNE Symphony Orchestra: a who has been invited sweetness,” The New York was “artiste étoile” at Klassik Awards. FESTIVAL on 28 and 29 springboard to helming one several times to conduct the Times has written of her. LUCERNE FESTIVAL. August 2016, each time with of the world’s top ten Berlin Philharmonic. Performing at LUCERNE the Royal Concertgebouw orchestras. Performing at LUCERNE Performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 5 September Orchestra Amsterdam under Performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 4 September FESTIVAL on 23 August 2016, 2016 in a program featuring Daniele Gatti, in cello Performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 8 September 2016 in a concert featuring when she leads the Mahler Bach’s E major Violin concertos by Saint-Saëns FESTIVAL on 21 August 2016 2016 in an all-Handel Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, Chamber Orchestra in Concerto with the Leipzig and Schumann. at the opening of the Special program with the Vienna with the Chamber Orchestra works by Haydn, Berg, Gewandhaus Orchestra Event Day, when she leads Philharmonic. of Europe under Bernard Sibelius, and Gershwin. under Herbert Blomstedt. the Chamber Orchestra of Haitink. Europe in works by Šerkšnytė and Beethoven.

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Conductor Pianist Violinist Composer soprano violinist

Susanna Mälkki, who Gabriela Montero, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Olga Neuwirth, who Sandrine Piau, who was Arabella Steinbacher, was born in Finland 1969, who was born in 1970 in who was born in 1963 in was born in 1968, is born in 1965, is internatio- who was born in 1981 in began her career as Caracas, Venezuela, made Baden-Württemberg, composer-in-residence for nally acclaimed for her Munich, studied with Ana principal cellist of the her debut at the age of eight Germany, was discovered by the 2016 LUCERNE brilliant performances of Chumachenco and was Gothenburg Symphony with the Sinfónica de la Herbert von Karajan in 1976, FESTIVAL. She studied Baroque works. She significantly inspired by Ivry before studying conducting Juventud Simón Bolívar. She after her debut concert at music, painting, and film in collaborates with exponents Gitlis. She received a with Jorma Panula. From studied at the Royal LUCERNE FESTIVAL, and for San Francisco and Vienna of historically informed scholarship from the 2006 to 2013 she was Music Academy of Music in more than 40 years has and has become especially performance practice, Anne-Sophie-Mutter Director of the Ensemble London, was championed ranked among the leading known for her operas including William Christie, Foundation. In 2007 she intercontemporain in Paris, by Martha Argerich, and violin virtuosos of the world, Bählamms Fest and Lost Philippe Herreweghe, and made her U.S. debut with and starting in the summer today concertizes with such commanding a repertoire Highway (based on the Christophe Rousset. She the Chicago Symphony of 2016 she takes over orchestras as the New York ranging from Bach up to the David Lynch thriller). Her regularly performs as a Orchestra, and in 2011 came leadership of the Helsinki and Los Angeles Philharmo- present. In the 2014-15 works have been premiered guest artist on the major her debut at Carnegie Hall Philharmonic Orchestra. nics, as well as the Philhar- season she presented the by such orchestras as the stages of Paris and Vienna in New York. Her discogra- She has been a guest monia Orchestra. Her series “Anne-Sophie Mutter Vienna Philharmonic and and at the Festival phy has garnered many conductor with the Berlin improvisations on themes Perspectives” at Carnegie the London Symphony and d’Aix-en-Provence. international prizes, and Munich Philharmonics, that are suggested to her by Hall in New York. She is an have also been performed at including two the Royal Concertgebouw the audience have become honorary member of the the Salzburg Festival and the Performing at LUCERNE Awards. Orchestra, and the BBC legendary. American Academy of Arts Wiener Festwochen. FESTIVAL on 8 September in Symphony. and Sciences. an all-Handel program with Performing at LUCERNE Performing at LUCERNE Olga Neuwirth’s music can the Vienna Philharmonic, FESTIVAL on 21 August in a Performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 26 August in Performing at LUCERNE be heard on six concerts which will be conducted by program including Vivaldi’s FESTIVAL on 27 August, Grieg’s Piano Concerto, FESTIVAL on 25 August 2016 throughout the Summer Emmanuelle Haïm. Four Seasons with the Festival when she conducts the with the São Paulo in a recital and on 4 Festival. Strings Lucerne. Orchestra of the LUCERNE Symphony Orchestra under September 2016 in violin FESTIVAL ACADEMY in Marin Alsop. concertos by Moret and works by Schoenberg, Berg, accompanied by the Neuwirth, Webern, and Orchestra of the LUCERNE Lachenmann. FESTIVAL ACADEMY under Alan Gilbert.

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conductor Cellist photos: © Philipp Zinniker, Kaupo Kikkas, photos: © Philipp Zinniker, Bilios, Helgeson Harris Greg

Anu Tali, who was born in Alisa Weilerstein, who Tallinn in 1972, founded the was born in 1982 in Nordic Symphony Orchestra Rochester, New York, made in 1997, which is financed her debut at the age of 13 entirely by sponsors. The with the Cleveland ensemble comprises Orchestra and was 15 when musicians from 15 different she gave her first perfor- Northern and Eastern mance at Carnegie Hall in European nations. Since New York. Alongside the 2013 Tali has additionally classical repertoire she served as Music Director of performs contemporary the Sarasota Orchestra in works: Pascal Dusapin and Florida. She has guest Osvaldo Golijov have conducted such leading written new scores for her. ensembles as the Bavarian Weilerstein collaborates A day full of musical power! Radio Symphony Orchestra with all the major American A Special Event Day Featuring Five Female Conductors and the Orchestre National orchestras and with such de France. conductors as Barenboim, Sunday, August 21, 2016 Dudamel, and Nézet-Séguin. Performing at LUCERNE FESTIVAL on 21 August, Performing at LUCERNE when she conducts the FESTIVAL on 16 August 2016 Chamber Orchestra of in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, With Konstantia Gourzi, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Maria Schneider, Europe in works by Tubin, accompanied by the Elena Schwarz and Anu Tali, as well as soloists Yulianna Avdeeva, Chopin, and Prokofiev. Chamber Orchestra of Della Miles and Arabella Steinbacher Europe under Bernard With the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL Haitink. ACADEMY, and the Festival Strings Lucerne

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Make a Contribution Now By making a contribution to the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, a non-profit organization based in the United States, you will help support its mission to have a lasting impact in the U.S. by enabling American orchestras and American students to attend LUCERNE FESTIVAL in Switzerland.

Through your donation you will become part of the inter- national and exclusive circle of the Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL and will be able to take advantage of such attractive benefits as: – Priority ticket access for top-quality concerts at the Easter, Summer, and Piano Festivals – invitations to exclusive and private events in New York, Lucerne, and elsewhere in Europe – invitations to dress rehearsals and exclusive artist interviews with soloists, conductors, and musicians – invitations to participate in a private, unique music journey by accompanying the renowned LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA on its international tours

I would like to make the following contribution:

$ 1,500 $ 2,500 $ 5,000 $ 10,000 Checks should be made payable to American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL. American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL | P.O. Box 326 | Chatham, NJ 07928 | United States of America $ 25,000 $ 50,000 $ 100,000 $ other The American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and First name | Last name your donation is tax deductible.

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City State Zip For more information please contact: Valentina Rota Business Phone Home Phone Director of Development American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL P.O. Box 326 | Chatham, NJ 07928 Mobile Fax t +1 917 710 19 56 | [email protected]

E-mail Executive Director of Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL International Private Fundraising Hirschmattstrasse 13 | CH–6002 Lucerne Please find enclosed a check in the amount of $ t +41 (0)41 226 44 52 | [email protected] | [email protected]

26 27 Board of Directors of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Alan B. Vickery, Chairman Program Klaus Jacobs, Treasurer & Secretary Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann | Beatrice Ducrot | Mike T. Foley | Michael Haefliger | Cynthia Sculco Gala Fundraising Event Valentina Rota, Director of Development of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL Cocktails, Private Concert, and Dinner Carnegie Hall, Weill Music Room Monday, May 9, 2016

Vontobel is a proud partner of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, represented by Vontobel Asset Management Inc. www.lucernefestival.ch and Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG.

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