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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 3, 2017 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1 (212) 875-5700

SHANGHAI ORCHESTRA ACADEMY AND RESIDENCY PARTNERSHIP

THIRD ANNUAL PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY in

Music Director ALAN GILBERT and Assistant Conductor JOSHUA GERSEN To Conduct Four Concerts, Including YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT Hosted by Dashan YEFIM BRONFMAN To Perform Brahms at Orchestra with in Asian Premiere of The Jungle

VERY YOUNG COMPOSERS Workshop and Performance

Philharmonic Musicians To Lead MASTER CLASSES, LESSONS, and COACHINGS as Part of Shanghai Orchestra Academy

July 2–8, 2017

The travels to Shanghai for its third annual performance residency as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership, July 2–8, 2017. The residency will feature four performances at Shanghai Symphony Hall, including a Young People’s Concert in which select students from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) will perform Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World, alongside the Orchestra; master classes, lessons, coachings, and a side-by-side Philharmonic rehearsal with SOA students of Dvořák’s New World Symphony and Brahms’s Symphony No. 3; and a Very Young Composers workshop and performance. The performances are presented as part of Shanghai’s Music in the Summer Air (MISA) festival. The Philharmonic’s Shanghai partnership is a cornerstone and founding component of the New York Philharmonic Global Academy. Starr International Foundation is the Presenting Sponsor of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World, and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist, on July 2, 2017, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 on July 3, 2017. He will also lead the Philharmonic and Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in the Asian Premiere of Marsalis’s The Jungle (Symphony No. 4), commissioned and premiered by the Philharmonic in December 2016 as the first of The New York Commissions, part of the Philharmonic’s 175th anniversary season, July 7, 2017. The concert will also include Copland’s Quiet City, featuring Principal Christopher Martin and English horn player Grace Shryock. (more)

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Assistant Conductor Joshua Gersen will conduct a Young People’s Concert on July 4, 2017, at Shanghai Symphony Hall, hosted in Mandarin by media personality Dashan, featuring selections from Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World, as well as works by Very Young Composers of New York City and Shanghai inspired by Dvořák’s New World Symphony and its theme of home: Aye Ni Ilu (Life Is a Rhythm) by 12-year-old Isai Rabiu of New York — a second-generation immigrant of Nigerian, African American, and Native American descent — and Memories of Marnyi Stone by 14-year-old Feng Shuya of Shanghai.

The New York Philharmonic will also present a Very Young Composers workshop led by Artistic Director, Very Young Composers, Jon Deak and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Teaching Artists, as well as musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. The workshop will culminate in a performance of the Very Young Composers’ works on July 8, 2017, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Hall.

The Shanghai performances of Dvořák’s New World Symphony and the Very Young Composers works inspired by it are part of The New World Initiative, the Philharmonic’s season-long, citywide project revolving around Dvořák’s New World Symphony and its theme of home on the occasion of the Philharmonic’s 175th anniversary season. Through performances, community outreach, and education projects, The New World Initiative honors the Orchestra’s hometown and its role as an adopted home to many. Dvořák wrote the New World Symphony while he was living here in New York City, and the Philharmonic gave the World Premiere of the work in December 1893, marking the Orchestra’s first World Premiere of a work written in New York City that would become part of the standard repertoire.

Before the Orchestra’s residency begins, New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Frank Huang, in conjunction with the concertmasters of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, will lead the Shanghai Orchestra Academy String Festival. The festival will include a performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, led by Mr. Huang, and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, featuring Mr. Huang, members of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Orchestra Academy students, and other students from around on June 28, 2017, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Hall. Also during the String Festival, Mr. Huang will lead master classes and co- present a lecture on the role of the concertmaster alongside Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concertmasters Pei Li and Guillaume Molko.

A joint endeavor of the New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra launched in September 2014, the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership includes the establishment of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) — a two-year program designed to address the need for advanced, post-graduate orchestral training in China — in partnership with the Shanghai Conservatory and under the leadership of founding president Long Yu, as well as annual performance residencies by the New York Philharmonic in Shanghai. The 2017 residency marks Alan Gilbert’s final appearances as Philharmonic Music Director in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Orchestra Academy will hold its second-ever graduation ceremony this summer.

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Artists As Music Director of the New York Philharmonic since 2009, Alan Gilbert has 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. The Financial Times called him “the imaginative maestro- impresario in residence.”

Alan Gilbert concludes his final season as Music Director with four programs that reflect themes, works, and musicians that hold particular meaning for him, including Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony alongside Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Wagner’s complete Das Rheingold in concert, and an exploration of how music can effect positive change in the world. Other highlights include four World Premieres, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre, and Manhattan, performed live to film. He also leads the Orchestra on the EUROPE / SPRING 2017 tour and in performance residencies in Shanghai and Santa Barbara. Past highlights include acclaimed stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, ’s Sweeney Todd starring and Emma Thompson (2015 Emmy nomination), and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 28 World Premieres; a tribute to Boulez and Stucky during the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL; The Nielsen Project; the Verdi Requiem and Bach’s B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey, performed live to film; Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; performing violin in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; and ten tours around the world.

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 he returns to the foremost European orchestras, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He will record Beethoven’s complete piano concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Inon Barnatan, and conduct Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, his first time leading a staged opera there. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award, and he conducted Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux étoiles on a recent album recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The , where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. His honors include Honorary Doctor of Music degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music (2010) and Westminster Choir College (2016), Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award (2011), election to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his commitment to cultural diplomacy (2015), Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2015), and ’s Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City (2016).

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Joshua Gersen, music director of the New York Youth Symphony since September 2012, began his tenure as New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductor in September 2015. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, he studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller and was the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony, where he served as assistant conductor to artistic director and led subscription, education, and family concerts. Mr. Gersen made his conducting debut with the San Francisco Symphony in the fall of 2013; he has since led that orchestra numerous times, including filling in for Michael Tilson Thomas on part of a subscription series. Joshua Gersen was the principal conductor of the Ojai Music Festival in 2013; has conducted the Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and orchestras; and has served as a cover conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and many other orchestras throughout the United States. Winner of a Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, he is also a recipient of the 2010 Robert Harth Prize and 2011 Aspen Conducting Prize from the Aspen Summer Festival, where he served as assistant conductor in the summer of 2012. Mr. Gersen is also an avid composer, and his works have been performed by the New Mexico and Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras as well as the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra and at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. He received his bachelor of music degree in composition from the New England Conservatory, studying with Michael Gandolfi. Mr. Gersen’s work as a composer has led to an interest in conducting contemporary music; he has led World Premieres with the New World Symphony and New York Youth Symphony, and has collaborated with many composers including John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Steven Mackey, Mason Bates, and Michael Gandolfi. Since becoming an Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Gersen has led the Orchestra in 17 Young People’s Concerts and Young People’s Concerts for Schools. He made his New York Philharmonic debut leading a Young People’s Concert in December 2015; he will have most recently appeared with the Orchestra leading Henry Mancini’s score to Breakfast at Tiffany’s as the complete film is screened.

Pianist Yefim Bronfman works regularly with conductors , Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, , Christoph von Dohnányi, , Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, , Vladimir Jurowski, , , Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, , Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, and David Zinman. Acknowledging a relationship of more than 30 years, Mr. Bronfman opened the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2016–17 season with in October, and participated in that orchestra’s 80th birthday celebrations in December. Mr. Bronfman returns to the New York Philharmonic (where he served as the 2013–14 season Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, Houston, and Dallas symphony orchestras, among many others. A cross-country series of recitals will culminate in the spring with a program at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium. In Europe he tours extensively in recital and with orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels, and Leipzig. Continuing his long-standing partnership with Pinchas Zukerman, the duo will appear in Copenhagen, Milan, Naples, Barcelona, Berlin, and St. Petersburg in March. Mr. Bronfman’s chamber music partners have also included , Magdalena Kožená, Anne-Sophie Mutter, , and many others. Mr. Bronfman was awarded the Avery (more)

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Fisher Prize in 1991, and the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in piano performance from in 2010. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, one of which he won for his recording of the three Bartók Piano Concertos with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen. He was nominated for a 2013 Grammy for the recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, commissioned for him by the Orchestra. Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union in 1958, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in May 1978 performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside violinist Shlomo Mintz and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conducted by Alexander Schneider. He most recently appeared with the Orchestra in the February 2017 celebration of Music Director Alan Gilbert’s 50th birthday, performing Allegro con brio, from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

Born and raised in Canada, Mark Rowswell began studying Chinese in the mid-1980s, first at the and later at University. While in Beijing, he became interested in , a traditional form of comedic dialogue, and soon began appearing on national television under the stage name Dashan. Repeated performances on television programs watched by audiences in the hundreds of millions gradually turned Dashan into a household name across China, and his media career expanded from comedy to dramatic acting to hosting cultural, diplomatic, educational, and commercial programs and events. Over time, Dashan came to be seen as a cultural ambassador between China and the West and as a symbol of finding common ground between cultures, “a foreigner but not an outsider.” In recent years Dashan has returned to his comedic roots, combining traditional Chinese comedy with modern stand-up in a groundbreaking solo show, Dashan Live. Dashan made his New York Philharmonic debut as host and narrator of the Young People’s Concert as part of the Philharmonic’s 2016 performance residency in Shanghai.

Christopher Martin joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Trumpet, The Paula Levin Chair, in September 2016. He served as principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) for 11 seasons, and enjoyed a distinctive career of almost 20 years in many of America’s finest orchestras, including as principal trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and associate principal trumpet of The Philadelphia Orchestra. He has appeared as soloist multiple times nationally and internationally with the CSO and its music director, Riccardo Muti. Highlights of Mr. Martin’s solo appearances include the 2012 World Premiere of Christopher Rouse’s concerto Heimdall’s Trumpet; Panufnik’s Concerto in modo antico, with Mr. Muti; a program of 20th-century French concertos by André Jolivet and Henri Tomasi; and more than a dozen performances of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Other solo engagements have included the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Festival, the Atlanta and Alabama Symphony Orchestras, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. Christopher Martin’s discography includes a solo trumpet performance in ’s score to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), the National Brass Ensemble’s Gabrieli album, and CSO Resound label recordings, including the 2011 release of CSO Brass Live. Dedicated to , Mr. Martin has served on the faculty of Northwestern University and has coached the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In 2010 he co-founded the National Brass Symposium with his brother Michael Martin, a trumpeter in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in 2016 he received the (more)

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Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation from the American Bandmasters Association for outstanding contributions to the wind band genre. Christopher Martin and his wife, Margaret — an organist and pianist — enjoy performing together in recital. Christopher Martin made his New York Philharmonic solo debut in October 2016, performing Ligeti’s The Mysteries of the Macabre, led by Alan Gilbert; he most recently appeared with the Orchestra as soloist in Copland’s Quiet City alongside Grace Shryock and led by Music Director Alan Gilbert.

Grace Shryock is principal English horn in the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Massachusetts and an oboist in the Albany Symphony Orchestra who frequently performs English horn in the New York Philharmonic. Previously, Ms. Shryock was the principal English horn and assistant principal oboe with the Richmond Symphony. She has also made appearances with the Baltimore and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and The Knights, as well as many other orchestras on the East Coast. She can be heard on recordings by the New York Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Albany Symphony Orchestra — for which she served as principal oboe in the Grammy- nominated recording of Christopher Rouse’s Kabir Padavali — as well as in the scores to numerous feature films. Ms. Shryock has served as associate oboe teacher at the Manhattan School of Music and oboe instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University, and she has conducted master classes at the Mannes School of Music, New York University, Cornell University, and Brooklyn College. from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ms. Shryock studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory. Grace Shryock made her New York Philharmonic solo debut in December 2016–January 2017 performing Copland’s Quiet City alongside Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin and led by Music Director Alan Gilbert.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) comprises 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center managing and artistic director, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs a vast repertoire ranging from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln Center–commissioned works to rare historic compositions and masterworks by , , , , Mary Lou Williams, , Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. JLCO has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, performing and leading educational events in New York, across the United States, and around the globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists, JLCO has toured to more than 300 cities across six continents. Guest conductors have included , , , Chico O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, , and . JLCO has been voted best in the annual DownBeat Readers’ Poll for the past three years (2013–15). In 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The first release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, was recorded on JLCO’s historic 2010 trip to Havana and was released in October 2015. was released in December 2015, and The Abyssinian Mass was released in March 2016. To date, 14 other recordings featuring JLCO have been released and distributed internationally: Vitoria Suite (more)

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(2010), Portrait in Seven Shades (2010), Congo Square (2007), Don’t Be Afraid ... The Music of Charles Mingus (2005), A Love Supreme (2005), All Rise (2002), Big Train (1999), Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999), Live in Swing City (1999), Jump Start and Jazz (1997), (1997), They Came to Swing (1994), The Fire of the Fundamentals (1993), and Portraits by Ellington (1992). Trumpet player and composer Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in , he began classical trumpet at 12, entered The Juilliard School at 17, and then joined and . He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since made more than 80 jazz and classical albums, earning him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year, a feat he repeated in 1984. A teacher and advocate for music education, Mr. Marsalis has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and has authored six books. In 1997 he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, and he is a former United Nations Messenger of Peace and cultural ambassador for the U.S. in the State Department’s CultureConnect program. He was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, which raised more than $3 million to benefit those affected by Hurricane Katrina in the Greater New Orleans area. Mr. Marsalis made his New York Philharmonic debut performing trumpet concertos by Vivaldi and Haydn, conducted by then Music Director Zubin Mehta, on November 21, 1985; his most recent appearances with the Orchestra will be in June 2017 as part of Alan Gilbert Season Finale: A Concert for Unity.

* * * Starr International Foundation is the Presenting Sponsor of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership.

* * * Very Young Composers is sponsored, in part, by Muna and Basem Hishmeh; Mr. and Mrs. A. Slade Mills, Jr.; The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund; the Solender Family Funds; and the UJA-Federation of New York. Additional support is provided by gifts made in honor of Susan W. Rose.

* * * Citi. Preferred Card of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Emirates is the Official Airline of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. (more)

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Concert Schedule

Date Location/Artists Program

Sunday, Shanghai Symphony Hall DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9, From the New World July 2 Alan Gilbert, conductor BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 7:30 p.m. Yefim Bronfman, piano

Monday, Shanghai Symphony Hall MAHLER: Symphony No. 7 July 3 Alan Gilbert, conductor 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Shanghai Symphony Hall Music by Very Young Composers of New York July 4 Young People’s Concert and Shanghai 7:30 p.m. Joshua Gersen, conductor Isai RABIU: Aye Ni Ilu (Life Is a Rhythm) Dashan, host FENG Shuya: Memories of Marnyi Stone New York Philharmonic joined by DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9, From the New World Shanghai Orchestra Academy students

Friday, Shanghai Symphony Hall COPLAND: Quiet City July 7 Alan Gilbert, conductor Wynton MARSALIS: The Jungle 7:30 p.m. Christopher Martin, trumpet (Symphony No. 4) (Asian Premiere) Grace Shryock, English horn Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Saturday, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Works by Very Young Composers of Shanghai July 8 Chamber Hall 7:45 p.m. Very Young Composers of Shanghai

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