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02-01 Keren Ann:GP 1/23/12 9:35 AM Page 1 Wednesday Evening, February 1, 2012, at 8:30 Keren Ann (Lincoln Center debut) Nolita Quartet Maxim Moston, Violin Antoine Silverman, Violin Danielle Farina, Viola Anja Wood, Cello This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall Please make certain your cellular phone, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 02-01 Keren Ann:GP 1/23/12 9:35 AM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for American Songbook is Upcoming American Songbook Events provided by The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward in The Allen Room : Memorial Fund, Logicworks, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Thursday, February 2, at 8:30 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Thurston Moore Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Friday, February 3, at 8:30 Public support is provided by the New York State Hello, Gorgeous! Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne Council on the Arts. Saturday, February 4, at 8:30 and 10:30 Artist hospitality is provided by Zabar’s and Gavin Creel & Stephen Oremus Zabars.com . Wednesday, February 8, at 8:30 MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Bill Callahan First Republic Bank is the Official Sponsor of the Thursday, February 9, at 8:30 Fashion Lincoln Center Online Experience. tUnE-yArDs Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Friday, February 10, at 8:30 Sunday, February 12, at 6:30 United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Elaine Paige Center . Saturday, February 11, at 8:30 and 10:30 WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Laura Benanti Lincoln Center . The Allen Room is located in Frederick P. Rose Hall, William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center . For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information. We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces, not during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 02-01 Keren Ann:GP 1/23/12 9:35 AM Page 3 Lincoln Center Meet the Artists de Rouen, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel, and performed in four different opera houses in France. Lady & Bird released a self-titled I L E studio album in 2003 and a live recording of A R S their performance with the Iceland I T I Symphony Orchestra in 2009. For more M A Keren Ann information, visit kerenann.com. Keren Ann Zeidel (born March 10, 1974) is a Maxim Moston sound designer, singer, songwriter, com - Maxim Moston (violin) maintains an active poser, producer, and engineer based largely career as a freelance violinist in New York in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York. She has City , performing with numerous orchestras lived and recorded in France and the United and chamber music groups and in States for many years, although she retains Broadway pits. He has performed in many her Dutch and Israeli citizenships. of the world’s cultural capitals as violinist and musical director of Antony and the Keren Ann has released six solo records to Johnsons, as well as in Hal Willner’s bril - date: 101 (2011), Keren Ann (2007), Nolita liant Leonard Cohen tribute, Came So Far (2005), Not Going Anywhere (2003), La dis - for Beauty , featured in the film Leonard parition (2002), and La biographie de Luka Cohen: I’m Your Man . Philipsen (2000). Many of her songs have been performed by internationally acclaimed Mr. Moston’s arrangements can be heard artists, including Henri Salvador, Jane Bir- on numerous albums, from those of his kin, Françoise Hardy, Rosa Passos, Jacky Ter- friends Edison Woods, Ana Silvera , and rasson, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Benjamin Joan as Police Woman to worldwide Biolay. In 2008 she composed, with Tibo releases by Antony and the Johnsons, Javoy, the entire sound design for the Rufus Wainwright, Keren Ann , and Linda European television channel ARTE. In April Thompson. His orchestration of William 2011 she collaborated with Questlove of Basinski’s Disintegration Loop 1.1 pre - The Roots for a unique project called the miered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Philly-Paris Lockdown. on the tenth anniversary of the events of September 11 and was met with glowing Keren Ann’s music has been featured in reviews. Mr. Moston first met Keren Ann in diverse films and television series such as 2004 during her residency at the Living Grey’s Anatomy , Six Feet Under , Big Love , Room and is delighted to continue making and Deux jours à tuer . Her original sound - music with her. track for Benoit Petre’s first feature, Chantal and Friends , included cover ver - Antoine Silverman sions of French oldies from the 1960s. She Antoine Silverman (violin) has recorded, is currently composing the soundtrack for performed, and arranged music for legends Eytan Fox’s next feature film. such as Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks, Moby, Steve Tyrell, Barbra Streisand, Rod Keren Ann is a member of the band Lady & Stewart, Peter Murphy, Ben Folds, the Bird with Bardi Jóhannsson. The duo Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, Lou Reed, recently wrote and composed the opera Audra McDonald, Lenny Kravitz , and count - Red Waters , which was produced by Opéra less others. He has soloed with the Boston 02-01 Keren Ann:GP 1/23/12 9:35 AM Page 4 Lincoln Center Pops and plays regularly with the New York turn of the 19th century up through the pre - City Ballet and Westchester Philharmonic. sent, American Songbook spans all styles He is concertmaster and music coordinator and genres, from the form’s early roots in of the Broadway show Spider-Man: Turn Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecti - Off the Dark . Mr. Silverman is currently the cism of today’s singer-songwrit ers. American violin soloist for the international tour of Songbook also showcases the outstanding Philip Glass’s opera Einstein on the Beach , interpreters of popular song, including playing the title role of Einstein onstage. established and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers. Danielle Farina American Songbook presentations include major concert programs in venues around Danielle Farina (viola) enjoys a varied career Lincoln Center. as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, teacher, and recording artist. Lincoln Center for the Formerly with the Lark Quartet and the Performing Arts, Inc. Elements Quartet, Ms. Farina performs reg - ularly with a number of ensembles in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts New York area. She is on the faculty of (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presen - Vassar College, SUNY –Purchase, and The ter of artistic programming, national leader Juilliard School’s pre-college division. in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Anja Wood Center campus. As a presenter of more than 400 events annually, LCPA’s series Anja Wood (cello) has recorded and per - include American Songbook, Great Per- formed with Pearl Jam, Barbra Streisand, formers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln the Dixie Chicks, Rod Stewart, Michael Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Jackson , and countless others. She plays Swing, and the White Light and Mostly with the Westchester Philharmonic, and Mozart Festivals. The Emmy Award– was the principal cellist of Sarasota Opera winning Live From Lincoln Center extends Orchestra for five seasons and the assistant Lincoln Center’s reach to millions of principal of Hudson Valley Philharmonic for Americans nationwide. As a leader in arts four years. She currently plays cello for and education and community relations, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway. LCPA takes a wide range of activities beyond its halls through the Lincoln Center American Songbook Institute, as well as offering arts-related In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American symposia, family programming, and acces - Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of sibility. And as manager of the Lincoln popular American song. Designed to highlight Center campus, LCPA provides support and affirm the creative mastery of America’s and services for the Lincoln Center com - songwriters from their emer gence at the plex and its other resident organizations. 02-01 Keren Ann:GP 1/23/12 9:35 AM Page 5 Lincoln Center Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Bill Bragin, Director, Public Programming Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Jill Sternheimer, Associate Producer, Public Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Associate Producer, Contemporary Programming Ann Crews Melton, House Program Coordinator Regina Grande, Assistant to the Artistic Director Julia Lin, Programming Associate For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design 02-01 Keren Ann:GP 1/23/12 9:35 AM Page 6 UPCOMING EVENTS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER FREDERICK P. R OSE HALL JANUARY 2012 Dianne Reeves February 24-25, 8pm IRENE DIAMOND EDUCATION CENTER Among the reasons Dianne Reeves has been at the top of the jazz world for over two decades is her fearlessness Swing University to explore new directions.