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EUROPE / SPRING 2013 ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC MAY 2–17, 2013

TOUR TO INCLUDE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC’S RETURN TO ISTANBUL AFTER 18 YEARS AND DEBUT IN IZMIR, TURKEY Orchestra Also To Perform in Zurich, Switzerland; Munich, Essen, Dortmund, Berlin, and Dresden, Germany

TOUR TO CULMINATE IN AUSTRIA WITH CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE VIENNA KONZERTHAUS

Orchestra To Give European Premiere of Prospero’s Rooms by The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence CHRISTOPHER ROUSE

ORCHESTRA TO PERFORM MAGNUS LINDBERG’S SITE-SPECIFIC KRAFT AT VOLKSWAGEN’S DIE GLÄSERNE MANUFAKTUR, DRESDEN

The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence EMANUEL AX To Perform MOZART’s Piano Concerto No. 25

Violinist JOSHUA BELL To Perform BERNSTEIN’s Serenade; Cellist JAN VOGLER To Perform BLOCH’s Schelomo

CREDIT SUISSE IS THE GLOBAL SPONSOR OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

NEW YORK — The New York Philharmonic will present EUROPE / SPRING 2013, its sixth international concert tour under the leadership of Music Director Alan Gilbert, May 2–17, 2013. The wide-ranging European tour will feature thirteen concerts in four countries, beginning with the Philharmonic’s debut in Izmir, Turkey, and its return to

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Istanbul, before continuing on to Zurich, Switzerland; Munich, Essen, Dortmund, Berlin, and Dresden, Germany; and Vienna, Austria. Distinguished guest soloists performing on the tour include the Philharmonic’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, pianist Emanuel Ax (Izmir, Istanbul, Essen, Dortmund, Berlin, and Vienna) and violinist Joshua Bell (Istanbul, Zurich, Munich, Dresden, and Vienna). Also featured in Dresden is composer and pianist Magnus Lindberg, who will bring his groundbreaking work Kraft to Volkswagen’s Die Gläserne Manufaktur (Volkswagen Transparent Factory) with clarinetist Chen Halevi, electronics artist Juhani Liimatainen, and Philharmonic Principals Carter Brey, Christopher S. Lamb, and Markus Rhoten and Philharmonic Associate Principal Daniel Druckman. The other concert in Dresden will feature cellist Jan Vogler performing Bloch’s Schelomo at the city’s Semperoper.

EUROPE / SPRING 2013 will be the Orchestra’s fifth tour of Europe under the leadership of Mr. Gilbert, following their acclaimed visit in February 2012. EUROPE / SPRING 2013 will also mark the New York Philharmonic’s tenth concert tour and sixth European tour under the aegis of Credit Suisse. A complete schedule appears at the end of this press release.

“New York Philharmonic tours show audiences away from home the brilliance, nuance, and passion that these musicians infuse in their performances of a wide range of repertoire,” said Music Director Alan Gilbert. “Our visit to Europe this May reflects many of the ideas and approaches that have become central to our New York activities, such as our partnership with our Artist-in-Residence Emanuel Ax, who plays Mozart with elegance and truth. I also can’t wait to conduct the European premiere of Prospero’s Rooms by our current Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse, and to rediscover Magnus Lindberg’s raucous, theatrical Kraft at Volkswagen’s Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden.”

“In his four years of Music Directorship, Alan Gilbert has created an excitement and enthusiasm that provides a strong platform on which to build new and reinforce longstanding European partnerships,” said Executive Director Matthew VanBesien. “We are excited to revisit familiar musical capitals such as Berlin and Zurich and to make a historic debut and return in Turkey. Moreover, we are honored to be a part of the Vienna Konzerthaus’s centennial celebration. While the locations will vary, one thing remains constant: Our commitment to showing the world what goes on at home for the Philharmonic thanks to Alan and the Orchestra’s singular command of both new and standard repertoire."

“As America’s leading cultural ambassador, the New York Philharmonic continues to forge new territory and maintain a standard of excellence in familiar cities as part of its unrivaled touring efforts,” said Chairman Gary W. Parr. “The ability to do so is thanks in no small part to our Global Sponsor, Credit Suisse. Their similar sense of cultural ambassadorship allows Alan Gilbert to share his musical vision with the world alongside musicians such as Joshua Bell, the great violinist who is also on our board, and cellist Jan Vogler, with whom the Philharmonic premiered a commission in Dresden in 2005.”

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“Credit Suisse is proud to support the New York Philharmonic and its EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour, our sixth visit to Europe with this world-renowned Orchestra in our six years as exclusive Global Sponsor,” said Pamela Thomas-Graham, Head of Talent, Branding and Communications at Credit Suisse and a member of the bank’s Executive Board. “We are once again delighted that this year’s tour will visit countries so important to Credit Suisse, including Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, and Austria. We are looking forward to the many opportunities available for our clients and employees to experience all that the New York Philharmonic’s musicians and Music Director Alan Gilbert have to offer.”

Tour Programs The repertoire for EUROPE / SPRING 2013 will offer a blend of Austrian classics, American masters, innovative contemporary music, and two landmarks of the Russian Romantic era.

The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Emanuel Ax opens the tour in Izmir with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, a piece that he will also perform with the Philharmonic in its home, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, in April; Mr. Ax also plays the work in Istanbul, Essen, Dortmund, Berlin, and Vienna. The Orchestra also performs Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, Linz (the first work that Gilbert ever conducted for Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein) in Istanbul and Dresden, and continues its Austrian focus with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 in Izmir and Essen. All three works will also be heard in Vienna as part of the Philharmonic’s celebration of the Konzerthaus’s centenary, further reinforcing the American-Austrian dialogue that has been present in the Orchestra’s history since Gustav Mahler assumed the post of Music Director in 1909.

The Philharmonic’s tour also highlights American works, chief among them the European Premiere of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Prospero’s Rooms, following the work’s World Premiere in New York by the Orchestra in April. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, the piece reflects the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” and will be heard in Istanbul, Zurich, Munich, Dresden, and Vienna. These cities will also hear violinist Joshua Bell performing Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), which was described by the composer himself as his most important serious work, and recorded by Mr. Bell in 2001.

In addition to cellist Jan Vogler performing Bloch’s Schelomo at the Dresden Semperoper (a work he also performs with the Orchestra in New York and Ann Arbor this season), the Philharmonic’s time in that city will also feature a unique performance of Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft, which was given its New York Premiere in October 2010 by the Orchestra. A taste of the unusual and adventurous repertoire for which the Orchestra has become renowned under Mr. Gilbert, Kraft will be heard at Volkswagen’s Die Gläserne Manufaktur and, in keeping with the composer’s original intent, will use repurposed locally-sourced metal, in this case provided by Volkswagen specifically for this concert. In addition to Lindberg himself at the piano, Kraft’s soloists include

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Philharmonic Principal Percussion Christopher S. Lamb and Associate Principal Percussion Daniel Druckman, Principal Timpani Markus Rhoten, and Principal Cello Carter Brey, as well as Chen Halevi on clarinet and Juhani Liimatainen on electronics.

Orchestra favorites on the Philharmonic’s tour include Ravel’s orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition — to be played in Istanbul, Dresden, and Vienna — and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Pathétique, which will be performed in Istanbul, Zurich, Munich, Dortmund, Berlin, and Vienna.

Tour Itinerary and Details The EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour will launch with the Philharmonic’s debut in Izmir as part of the Izmir International Festival at the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Centre on May 2. The tour continues with two performances in Istanbul, the Philharmonic’s first visit to the city in 18 years, with the Istanbul Music Festival at the Haliç Congress Centre May 3 and 4. Following that, the Orchestra moves to Zurich for a concert at the Tonhalle May 6, and then travels to Munich for a performance at the Gasteig May 7. The Orchestra then performs at the Philharmonie in Essen on May 8 and the Konzerthaus Dortmund on May 9.

Next, the Philharmonic returns to Berlin for a performance at the Konzerthaus on May 11, marking the Orchestra’s first appearance in the hall since 1988 when it was part of East Germany and known as the Berlin Schauspielhaus. Previous Berlin performances in 1993, 1996, 2000, 2005, and 2011 took place at the Philharmonie.

The tour continues in Dresden with a concert at the Semperoper on May 13 followed by their performance at Volkswagen’s Die Gläserne Manufaktur on May 14. Both the Berlin and Dresden concerts take place under the auspices of the Dresden Music Festival. Finally, the Philharmonic closes its tour and celebrates the centennial of the Vienna Konzerthaus with three concerts in the hall on May 15, 16, and 17.

Artists New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert began his tenure in September 2009. The New York Times has said: “Those who think classical music needs some shaking up routinely challenge music directors at major orchestras to think outside the box. That is precisely what Alan Gilbert did.” The first native New Yorker to hold the post, he has sought to make the Orchestra a point of civic pride for the city and country.

Mr. Gilbert combines works in fresh and innovative ways; has forged important artistic partnerships, introducing the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in- Residence and The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence; and introduced an annual multi-week festival and CONTACT!, the new-music series. In 2012–13, he conducts world premieres; presides over a cycle of Brahms’s complete symphonies and concertos; continues The Nielsen Project, the multi-year initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and concertos; conducts Bach’s Mass in B minor and an all-American program, including Ives’s Fourth Symphony; and leads the Orchestra on

EUROPE / SPRING 2013 — 5 the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour. The season concludes with June Journey: Gilbert’s Playlist, four programs showcasing themes and ideas that Alan Gilbert has introduced, including the season finale: a theatrical reimagining of Stravinsky ballets, directed and designed by Doug Fitch and featuring New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns. Last season’s highlights included tours to Europe (including the Orchestra’s first International Associates residency at London’s Barbican Centre) and California, and Philharmonic 360, the Philharmonic and Park Avenue Armory’s acclaimed spatial-music program featuring Stockhausen’s Gruppen, building on the success of previous seasons’ productions of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, each acclaimed in 2010 and 2011, respectively, as New York magazine’s number one classical music event of the year.

Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies and the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies at The Juilliard School, Mr. Gilbert is Conductor Laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, and he conducts leading orchestras around the world. His honors include an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, a Grammy Award (for the DVD of his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut leading John Adams’s Doctor Atomic), and Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music.”

Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Canada with his family when he was a young boy. He studied at The Juilliard School and Columbia University, capturing public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize. In 2011 Mr. Ax was named an Honorary Member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York on the occasion of his 100th concert with the Orchestra. He is now the Philharmonic’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in Residence.

With the New York Philharmonic, he will perform repertoire ranging from Bach to Christopher Rouse and will appear on the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour. Also this season, he returns to the orchestras in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, Washington, and Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2012 Mr. Ax held a two-week residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrating the piano and its repertoire; other highlights of his 2011–12 season included return visits to the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; the symphonies of Boston, Houston, Toronto, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cincinnati; and the San Francisco Symphony, with which he collaborated in the “American Mavericks” festival.

Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987; his newest recital disc consists of works from Haydn through Schumann to Copland, reflecting their different uses of the “variation” concept. He has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas and for his series of Grammy- winning recordings with Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and

EUROPE / SPRING 2013 — 6 piano. Emanuel Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities. Mr. Ax made his New York Philharmonic debut in September 1977, when he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, Sir Andrew Davis conducting. Prior to the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour, he will have appeared with the Orchestra April 24–27, 2013, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, conducted by Alan Gilbert.

Violinist Joshua Bell is an Avery Fisher Prize recipient and Musical America’s 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year, and was recently named music director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In summer 2012, he and Edgar Meyer premiered a new concerto for violin and double bass by Mr. Meyer at Tanglewood, Aspen, and the Hollywood Bowl. Mr. Bell launched the San Francisco Symphony’s 2012–13 season, followed by appearances with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston, Seattle, Cincinnati, and Detroit symphony orchestras.

Additional fall highlights include a South African tour, a European tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and a recital tour with pianist Sam Haywood. In 2013 Mr. Bell tours Europe with the New York Philharmonic and the U.S. with The Cleveland Orchestra, and he performs with the Tucson, Pittsburgh, San Diego, and Nashville symphony orchestras. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, he has recorded more than 40 CDs, garnering Mercury, Grammy, Gramophone, and Echo Klassik Awards. His discography encompasses critically-acclaimed performances of most of the major violin concerto and solo repertoire, including the Oscar-winning sound track to The Red Violin. Recent releases include French Impressions with pianist Jeremy Denk, At Home with Friends, the Defiance sound track, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Joshua Bell received his first violin at age four, and at age 12 he began serious study with Josef Gingold at Indiana University. Two years later he came to national attention in his debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, followed by his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17. Mr. Bell is senior lecturer at the Jacobs School of Music at his alma mater, Indiana University.

Cellist Jan Vogler has performed with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi, David Robertson, and Manfred Honeck, and orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Montreal, and Cincinnati symphony orchestras, as well as the Mariinsky Theatre, Dresden Staatskapelle, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Stuttgart Radio, and Vienna Symphony orchestras. A passionate recitalist and chamber musician, he performs regularly with pianists Hélène Grimaud and Martin Stadtfeld and with violinist Mira Wang. Recent performances of new works include compositions by Tigran Mansurian (WDR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov), John Harbison (Boston Symphony Orchestra), and Udo Zimmermann (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra).

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A prolific and award-winning recording artist, Mr. Vogler records exclusively for Sony Classical. A recording of his Bach’s complete Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, performed on the Stadivari cello, is scheduled to be released in March 2013. With The Knights and Eric Jacobsen he recorded Experience: Live from New York, which includes Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix, in a special arrangement for cello and orchestra. This live CD was recorded at (Le) Poisson Rouge, formerly the Village Gate, home to many Hendrix concerts.

A cello prodigy at age 6, Jan Vogler first studied with his father, Peter Vogler, and subsequently with Josef Schwab in Berlin, as well as Heinrich Schiff and Siegfried Palm. At 20 he became principal cello of the Dresden Staatskapelle, and was named the youngest concertmaster in the history of the orchestra. He has won the Echo Klassik Award (the German equivalent of the Grammy) and the 2006 European Cultural Award. Mr. Vogler is the general director of the Dresden Musikfestspiele, and co-founder and artistic director of the Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival. He plays the 1707–10 Stradivarius Ex Castelbarco/Fau and the 1721 Domenico Montagnana Ex-Hekking cellos. Mr. Vogler made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2005, performing the Orchestra-commissioned Berceuse for Dresden by Colin Matthews in both Dresden and New York. This season, he performs Bloch’s Schelomo with the Philharmonic in New York and on tour in both Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Dresden.

Magnus Lindberg was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1958. Following piano studies he entered the Sibelius Academy where his composition teachers included Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen. The latter encouraged his pupils to look beyond the prevailing Finnish conservative and nationalist aesthetics, and to explore the works of the European avant-garde. This led around 1980 to the founding of the informal grouping known as the Ears Open Society including Mr. Lindberg and his contemporaries Eero Hämeeniemi, Jouni Kaipainen, Kaija Saariaho, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, which aimed to encourage a greater awareness of mainstream modernism. Mr. Lindberg made a decisive move in 1981, travelling to Paris for studies with Vinko Globokar and Gérard Grisey. During this time he also attended Franco Donatoni’s classes in Siena, and made contact with Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Karl Höller.

Mr. Lindberg’s compositional breakthrough came with two large-scale works, Action- Situation-Signification (1982) and Kraft (1983–85), which were inextricably linked with his founding with Salonen of the experimental Toimii Ensemble. After a period in which his works combined experimentalism, complexity and primitivism, in the late 1980s his music transformed itself towards a new modernist classicism, in which many of the communicative ingredients of a vibrant musical language were re-interpreted afresh for the post-serial era. His output has positioned him at the forefront of orchestral composition, including the concert-opener Feria (1997), large-scale statements such as Fresco (1997); Cantigas (1999), Concerto for Orchestra (2002–03), and Sculpture (2005); and concertos for cello (1999), clarinet (2002) and violin (2006). Recent works include Seht die Sonne (2007), commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle and the San Francisco Symphony, and his first choral-orchestral work, GRAFFITI, premiered in Helsinki in May 2009. His music has been recorded on the Deutsche

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Grammophon, Sony, Ondine and Finlandia labels. In 2003 Mr. Lindberg was awarded the prestigious Wihuri Sibelius Prize. He is published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Magnus Lindberg was The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic between 2009 and 2012, with new works premiered by the orchestra including the concert opener EXPO, premiered in September 2009 to launch Alan Gilbert's tenure as the Orchestra’s Music Director. Al largo for orchestra and Souvenir for ensemble were first performed in 2010, and Piano Concerto No. 2 was premiered by Yefim Bronfman in 2012. Mr. Lindberg was the pianist when Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic gave the New York Premiere of Kraft in 2010.

Carter Brey was appointed Principal Cello, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Chair, of the New York Philharmonic in 1996. He made his official subscription debut with the Orchestra in May 1997 performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations under the direction of Music Director Kurt Masur, and has since performed as soloist each season.

From the time of Mr. Brey’s New York and Kennedy Center debuts in 1982, he has been regularly hailed by audiences and critics for his virtuosity, flawless technique, and complete musicianship. He rose to international attention in 1981 as a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition. The winner of the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, Avery Fisher Career Grant, Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award, and other honors, he also was the first musician to win the Arts Council of America’s Performing Arts Prize.

Mr. Brey has appeared as soloist with virtually all the major orchestras in the United States, and performed under the batons of prominent conductors including Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, Sergiu Comissiona, and Christoph von Dohnányi. His chamber-music career is equally distinguished: he has made regular appearances with the Tokyo and Emerson String Quartets as well as The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at festivals such as Spoleto (both in the United States and Italy), and the Santa Fe and La Jolla Chamber Music Festivals. He presents an ongoing series of duo recitals with pianist Christopher O’Riley; together they have recorded Le Grand Tango: Music of Latin America, a disc of compositions from South America and Mexico released on Helicon Records. On another CD he collaborated with violinist Pamela Frank and violist Paul Neubauer in Aaron Jay Kernis’s Still Movement with Hymn (on Decca’s Argo label). He recently recorded all of Chopin’s works for cello and piano with pianist Garrick Ohlsson (currently available on Hyperion).

Carter Brey was educated at the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Kates, and at Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. His violoncello is a rare J.B. Guadagnini made in Milan in 1754.

Percussionist Daniel Druckman is active as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, and recording artist, concertizing throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Composer’s

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Orchestra, New York Philharmonic’s Horizons concerts and San Francisco Symphony’s New and Unusual Music Series, as well as in recital in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Tokyo. He has been a member of the New York Philharmonic since 1991, where he serves as Associate Principal Percussion, The Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ulrich Chair, and has made numerous guest appearances with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Da Capo Chamber Players, American Brass Quintet, Group for Contemporary Music, Orpheus, Steve Reich and Musicians, and Philip Glass Ensemble. Mr. Druckman has also participated in chamber music festivals at Santa Fe, Ravinia, Saratoga, Caramoor, Bridgehampton, Tanglewood, and Aspen.

An integral part of New York’s new music community, both as soloist and as a member of the New York New Music Ensemble and Speculum Musicae, Mr. Druckman has premiered works by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Oliver Knussen, Poul Ruders, Joseph Schwantner, Ralph Shapey, and Charles Wuorinen, among many others. Recent appearances include collaborations with Alan Feinberg at Dartmouth College, with Fred Sherry at Bargemusic, with Dawn Upshaw at Carnegie Hall, and solo concerts at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre and Merkin Concert Hall in New York. Recent solo recordings include Elliott Carter’s Eight Pieces for Four Timpani on Bridge Records and Jacob Druckman’s Reflections on the Nature of Water on Koch International. Daniel Druckman is a faculty member of The Juilliard School, where he serves as chairman of the percussion department and director of the percussion ensemble.

He was born and raised in New York City. The son of composer Jacob Druckman, he had invaluable exposure to music and musicians at an early age. He attended The Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Morris A. Goldenberg Memorial Scholarship and the Saul Goodman Scholarship, receiving both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music in 1980. Additional studies were undertaken at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he was awarded the Henry Cabot Award for outstanding instrumentalist.

Grammy Award–winning percussionist Christopher S. Lamb has been hailed as a dynamic and versatile performer. After joining the New York Philharmonic as Principal Percussionist, The Constance R. Hoguet Friends of the Philharmonic Chair, in 1985, he made his solo debut with the Orchestra in the World Premiere of Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto, one of several commissions celebrating the Philharmonic’s 150th anniversary. He has since performed the work to critical acclaim with orchestras throughout the United States and in 2011 won a Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Soloist for his recording of it with the Nashville Symphony.

Mr. Lamb also gave the World Premiere of Tan Dun’s Concerto for Water Percussion, the second work commissioned for him by the New York Philharmonic, and has performed it to rave reviews on the Philharmonic’s tour to South America, as well as in Asia and Europe with such notable orchestras as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. In the United States, he has performed the work with the Boston, Baltimore, and the Pacific symphony orchestras. New York Philharmonic

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Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur selected Mr. Lamb’s performance of Tan Dun’s Concerto for Water Percussion for release in the Orchestra’s collection of recordings highlighting his tenure as Music Director. The third commission for Mr. Lamb by the New York Philharmonic, Susan Botti’s Echo Tempo for Soprano, Percussion, and Orchestra, was given its World Premiere by Ms. Botti, Mr. Lamb, and the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Mr. Masur.

A faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music since 1989, Christopher Lamb has led clinics and master classes throughout the United States and on almost every continent. In 1999 he was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Award to lecture and conduct research in Australia. During his five-month residency at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, he presented master classes and seminars titled “A Comprehensive Examination of Orchestral Percussion,” which has grown into a model for the art of teaching percussion. In 2010 Mr. Lamb was invited to join the faculty of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as an international fellow.

Mr. Lamb has recorded chamber works on the New World, Cala, and CRI labels, and his Grammy Award–winning performance of Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto is available on the Naxos label. Christopher Lamb is a former member of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.

Markus Rhoten joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Timpani, The Carlos Moseley Chair, in September 2006. Prior to this appointment he was the principal timpanist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, led by Eliahu Inbal.

Born in 1978 in Hanover, Germany, Mr. Rhoten attended the College of Arts in Berlin, and continued his studies as an apprentice with the National Opera Orchestra Mannheim. Subsequently, he was awarded a stipend for the Academy of the Bavarian Symphony Radio Orchestra in Munich, and in 2002 became principal timpanist of that ensemble. He has also worked with conductors Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Charles Dutoit, among others. Mr. Rhoten has performed with the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Opera Orchestra, North German Radio Philharmonic, Lower Saxony Staatsoper Orchestra, and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

Clarinetist Chen Halevi has performed as soloist with major orchestras in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, European Soloists, Heilbronn Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Jerusalem Radio Orchestra, Leipzig’s MDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, and Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He participates frequently at festivals around the world, including the Marlboro, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Schleswig-Holstein, Davos, and Verbier Chamber music festivals. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Pinchas Zuckerman and Christoph Eschenbach, as well as with numerous well-known string quartets. Chen Halevi has had a number of works dedicated to him by eminent composers; a recent highlight is Doppelgaenger, a new

EUROPE / SPRING 2013 — 11 clarinet concerto by Sven Ingo Koch, commissioned by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In 2007 Mr. Halevi founded ClaRecords to commission, produce, and record new pieces from leading and emerging composers. ClaRecords also works with specialists in other artistic fields to stimulate dialogue between different forms of art in the 21st century. Upcoming projects include Winds-Unlimited, a period instrument wind group exploring woodwind repertoire from the Classical and Romantic periods. With composer and bandoneón player Marcelo Nisinman, Mr. Halevi has formed TangoLab, a group of four diverse but complementary musicians who share a passion for expanding the horizons of tango.

A native of the Negev Desert in Israel, he studied the clarinet with Yitzchak Kazap and Richard Lesser, continuing with Mordechai Rechtman and Chaim Taub for his chamber music studies. Chen Halevi is currently clarinet professor at the Trossingen Hochschule für Musik in Germany, and gives master classes around the world. Since 2007 he has been a faculty member in the summer master classes at The Banff Centre in Canada.

Juhani Liimatainen was born in Keuruu, Finland, in 1952. Between 1977 and 2002 he worked at the Experimental Studio of YLE (Finnish Broadcasting) where, among other responsibilities, he maintained and developed the studio, taught composers and musicians, and oversaw the design and execution of live electronics for studio and concert productions.

He has done studio work with composers such as Paavo Heininen, Magnus Lindberg, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kaija Saariaho, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Since 2002 Mr. Liimatainen has been professor of sound design at the Theatre Academy of Finland. He is a longtime member of the Toimii Ensemble, where he has been responsible for sound reproduction, live electronics, tapes, and videos, and with which he has appeared frequently as part of the solo group in Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft. He has also worked with the Avanti! orchestra and the Finnish Theater Orchestra, among other ensembles, and has performed with the groups Free Okapi, Son Panic and HumppAvanti!

Juhani Liimatainen’s sound design and compositional work includes numerous theatrical productions, operas, festivals, and recordings.

About the New York Philharmonic Founded in 1842, the New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and one of the oldest in the world; on May 5, 2010, it performed its 15,000th concert — a milestone unmatched by any other symphony orchestra in the world. The Orchestra has always played a leading role in American musical life, championing the music of its time, and is renowned around the globe, having appeared in 431 cities in 63 countries — including its October 2009 debut in Vietnam and its February 2008 historic visit to Pyongyang, DPRK, earning the 2008 Common Ground Award for Cultural Diplomacy. The Philharmonic’s concerts are broadcast on the weekly syndicated radio program The New York Philharmonic This Week, streamed on nyphil.org, and have been telecast annually on Live From Lincoln Center on U.S.

EUROPE / SPRING 2013 — 12 public television since the series’ premiere in 1976. The Philharmonic has made almost 2,000 recordings since 1917, with more than 500 currently available. The first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live, the Philharmonic released the first-ever classical iTunes Pass in 2009–10; the self-produced recordings continue with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2012–13 Season. The Orchestra has built on the long-running Young People’s Concerts to develop a wide range of education programs, including the School Partnership Program, enriching music education in New York City, and Learning Overtures, fostering international exchange. Alan Gilbert became Music Director in September 2009, succeeding Lorin Maazel in a distinguished line of 20th-century musical giants that goes back to Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini. Credit Suisse is the New York Philharmonic’s exclusive Global Sponsor.

Credit Suisse AG Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies (referred to here as ‘Credit Suisse’). As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, wealth management, and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions, and innovative products to companies, institutional clients, and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. The registered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Credit Suisse Sponsorship Extraordinary and lasting relationships develop over time, which is why Credit Suisse adopts a long-term approach to its partnerships. Classical music is one of Credit Suisse’s key themes in sponsoring cultural engagements worldwide. An integral part of our commitments involves supporting our partners’ educational programs for young talent, to ensure cultural diversity in the future. The Bank’s current global sponsorship portfolio includes the National Gallery in London, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Sydney Symphony, and the Lucerne Festival, among others.

* * * Credit Suisse is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Christopher Rouse is The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence.

* * * Emanuel Ax is The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

* * * Guest artist appearances with the New York Philharmonic are made possible through the Hedwig van Ameringen Guest Artists Endowment Fund.

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Programs of the New York Philharmonic are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Additional New York Philharmonic Contacts Olivia Giovetti, Tour Communications Associate +1 (212) 875-5705; [email protected]

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EUROPE / SPRING 2013 ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

Concert Schedule

All information is subject to change Date Location Program Thursday Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Centre MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 May 2 Izmir, Turkey BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 8:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Friday Haliç Congress Centre Christopher ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms May 3 Istanbul, Turkey BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) 8:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Joshua Bell, violin Saturday Haliç Congress Centre MOZART: Symphony No. 36, Linz May 4 Istanbul, Turkey MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 8:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor MUSORGSKY/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Emanuel Ax, piano Monday Tonhalle Christopher ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms May 6 Zurich, Switzerland BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Joshua Bell, violin Tuesday Gasteig Christopher ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms May 7 Munich, Germany BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Joshua Bell, violin Wednesday Philharmonie MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 May 8 Essen, Germany BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Thursday Konzerthaus MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 May 9 Dortmund, Germany TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique 6:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Saturday Konzerthaus MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 May 11 Berlin, Germany TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

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Monday Semperoper MOZART: Symphony No. 36, Linz May 13 Dresden, Germany BLOCH: Schelomo 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor MUSORGSKY/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Jan Vogler, cello Tuesday Die Gläserne Manufaktur Christopher ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms May 14 Dresden, Germany BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Magnus LINDBERG: Kraft Joshua Bell, violin Magnus Lindberg, piano Carter Brey, cello Christopher S. Lamb, percussion Daniel Druckman, percussion Markus Rhoten, timpani Chen Halevi, clarinet Juhani Liimatainen, electronics Wednesday Konzerthaus MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 25 May 15 Vienna, Austria BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Thursday Konzerthaus BERNSTEIN: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) May 16 Vienna, Austria TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor Joshua Bell, violin Friday Konzerthaus Christopher ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms May 17 Vienna, Austria MOZART: Symphony No. 36, Linz 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert, conductor MUSORGSKY/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition # # #