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SHANGHAI ORCHESTRA ACADEMY AND RESIDENCY PARTNERSHIP

Shanghai Orchestra Academy Musicians Selected for 2016 New York Philharmonic GLOBAL ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM June 11–17, 2016

SECOND ANNUAL PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY in SHANGHAI ALAN GILBERT, Assistant Conductor JOSHUA GERSEN, and TIMOTHY BROCK To Conduct Five Concerts Including YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT and CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S CITY LIGHTS Soloists To Include DANIIL TRIFONOV and GIL SHAHAM New York Philharmonic PRINCIPAL BRASS QUINTET To Perform FREE Outdoor Concert VERY YOUNG COMPOSERS Workshop and Performance Philharmonic Musicians To Lead MASTER CLASSES, LESSONS, and COACHINGS as Part of Shanghai Orchestra Academy, Which Graduates Its First Class July 2–8, 2016

The Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership continues this summer when students from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy travel to New York City to participate in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program as the first international Zarin Mehta Fellows, June 11–17, 2016, and the New York Philharmonic travels to Shanghai for its second annual performance residency, July 2–8, 2016.

A joint endeavor of the New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra launched in September 2014, the collaboration 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 — 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 through the 2017–18 season. The SOA will graduate its first class on July 5. The Shanghai partnership is a cornerstone and founding component of the New York Philharmonic Global Academy.

“The results of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership have already exceeded our hopes,” said New York Philharmonic President Matthew VanBesien. “Now we are (more)

Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership / 2 looking forward to welcoming four talented young students from the Academy to New York, as our first international Zarin Mehta Fellows. The students will be able to experience life as a Philharmonic musician during one of the most exciting weeks of our year: the free Concerts in the Parks. We are also looking forward to our return to Shanghai in July for the New York Philharmonic’s second residency, during which we will be building on the rewarding connection with our partners, students, and audience members that has been forged throughout the past two seasons.”

New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program Four students from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) have been selected to participate in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program — in which select students travel to New York to train and play with Philharmonic musicians, a week-long immersion in the life of an orchestral musician — as the first international Zarin Mehta Fellows. The students are: Aolie Wu, violin; Tong Ba, viola; Shuang Lv, ; and Hui Zhang, bassoon. Auditions were held at the Shanghai Orchestra Academy in March 2016 by a panel of New York Philharmonic musicians.

The students will participate in a week of activities in New York June 11–17, 2016, including individual lessons with Philharmonic musicians and training and playing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, alongside the Orchestra at the Concerts in the Parks, Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer. Led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, these performances will take place in Central Park, Manhattan, and Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

The New York Philharmonic Global Academy Fellowship Program is a key component of the New York Philharmonic Global Academy. Previous participants have come from Music Academy of the West and The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

About the Shanghai Orchestra Academy 2016 Zarin Mehta Fellows Tong Ba, 29, was born in Liaoning, China. During her four years at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Ms. Ba has received numerous domestic awards. She performed as a soloist in the Young Euro Classic Festival, and in 2008 she was invited by Japanese violist Nobuko Imai to participate in Viola Space Japan. Ms. Ba obtained her master’s degree with First Class Honors from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2011 and performs with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. She has performed chamber music with violinists Chao-Liang Lin, Xiao-Dong Wang, and former Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow. A second-year student at the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, Ms. Ba studies with Philharmonic Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps, violist Robert Rinehart, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra principal viola Zhen Wei.

Hui Zhang, 24, was born in Harbin, China. She was the principal bassoon of the Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra as an undergraduate and was delegated by the Conservatory to perform in the Sydney Conservatorium. She was accepted by both the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) and Shanghai House, has toured around the country, and visited Italy with House. A second-year student at SOA, she studies with Philharmonic Principal Bassoon Judith LeClair, Associate Principal Bassoon Kim Laskowski, bassoonist Roger Nye, and former Shanghai Symphony Orchestra principal bassoon Zhaolu Liu. (more) Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership / 3

Aolie Wu, 24, was born in Xinjiang, China. Mr. Wu studied with Lina Yu at the middle school affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He was appointed concertmaster of the Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 he joined the Asian Youth Orchestra, with whom he toured. In June 2015 he was invited by conductor Guoyong Zhang to play Yi Chen’s Violin Concerto with the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra. As a student at the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA), he has performed with the China Philharmonic Orchestra and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. A first-year student at SOA, he studies with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Guillaume Molko and has had lessons with former Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, Principal Associate Concertmaster Sheryl Staples, Assistant Concertmaster Michelle Kim, Stefan Wagner, Rodrigo Reichel, Yijin Li, and Nan Xie.

Shuang Lv, 28, was born in Hangzhou, China. After studying with Professor Sun Minghong at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he now performs with the Shanghai Huju Opera Theater. Last summer, he played in the New York Philharmonic in the Young People’s Concert. He has also taken master classes with Albrecht Mayer, David Walter, Hansjorg Shenllenbeger, Christian Schmitt, Nora Cismondi, Diana Doherty, and Elaine Douvas, and performed with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Hangzhou Philharmonic orchestras. A second-year student in the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, Mr. Lv studies with Philharmonic Principal Oboe Liang Wang and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra principal oboe Xin Zhang.

Second Annual Performance Residency in Shanghai The New York Philharmonic’s second annual performance residency in Shanghai will take place July 2–8, 2016, with four performances in addition to a Young People’s Concert; activities associated with the Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA), including master classes, lessons, coachings, and a side-by-side Philharmonic rehearsal with Academy students; a Very Young Composers workshop and performance; and a free, public, outdoor concert featuring the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet. The performances are presented as part of Shanghai’s Music in the Summer Air (MISA) festival.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Daniil Trifonov as soloist, and R. Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, July 2, 2016, at Shanghai Symphony Hall and July 4, 2016, at the Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre. The July 4 program will also include Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture. Alan Gilbert will also lead Boulez’s Messagesquisse, with Philharmonic cellist Eric Bartlett as soloist along with Philharmonic cellists Patrick Jee, Qiang Tu, Sumire Kudo, Maria Kitsopoulos, and Alexei Yupanqui Gonzales and guest cellist Wendy Sutter as the ensemble; Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham as soloist; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, July 8, 2016, at Shanghai Symphony Hall.

Assistant Conductor Joshua Gersen will conduct a Young People’s Concert on July 3, 2016, at Shanghai Symphony Hall, hosted by media personality Dashan, featuring Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Dashan; selections from R. Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks; and music by Very Young Composers of New York and Shanghai: Lucas Alexander’s Circle of Time and Qian Yibing’s String-Strike.

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The Philharmonic will present a complete screening of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, July 7, 2016, at Shanghai Symphony Hall with the Orchestra performing Chaplin’s score live, conducted by Timothy Brock, who restored the score for live performance.

The New York Philharmonic will also present a Very Young Composers workshop led by Young Composers Advocate 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 on July 8, 2016, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Hall.

The Shanghai Orchestra Academy will hold its first-ever graduation ceremony on July 5, 2016, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Hall. Alan Gilbert and Long Yu will participate in the ceremony. Zarin Mehta Fellows Tong Ba, Shuang Lv, and Hui Zhang will be among the graduates of the SOA’s first class.

The New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet will perform a free concert featuring works by Handel, Bernstein, Gershwin, and more on July 5, 2016, on the lawn of the People’s Square.

Artists Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in 2009, the first native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of The Marie- Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, and Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music; and the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions to offer training of pre-professional musicians, often alongside performance residencies. As The New Yorker wrote, “Gilbert has made an indelible mark on the orchestra’s history and that of the city itself.”

Alan Gilbert’s 2015–16 Philharmonic highlights include R. Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben to welcome Concertmaster Frank Huang; Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala; and four World Premieres. He co-curates and conducts in the second NY PHIL BIENNIAL and performs violin in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. He leads the Orchestra as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership and appears at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. Philharmonic-tenure highlights include acclaimed stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring and Emma Thompson (for which Mr. Gilbert was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction), and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 24 World Premieres; The Nielsen Project, a performance and recording cycle; Verdi Requiem and Bach’s B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film; Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and nine tours around the world. In August 2015 he led the in the U.S. Stage Premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, co-presented as part of the Lincoln Center–New York Philharmonic Opera Initiative.

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Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and former principal guest conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. This season Mr. Gilbert makes debuts with four great European orchestras — Filarmonica della Scala, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Symphony, and Academy of St Martin in the Fields — and returns to The Cleveland Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming’s recent Decca recording Poèmes, on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. His recordings have received top honors from the Chicago Tribune and Gramophone magazine. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. His honors include an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music (2010), Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music” (2011), election to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his commitment to cultural diplomacy (2015), and being named Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Conductor and composer Timothy Brock specializes in early 20th-century concert works and live performances of silent film. As a silent-film score conductor and preservationist, his leading work includes the restoration of Shostakovich’s only silent-film score, to New Babylon (1929); Satie’s dadaist score to Entr’acte (1924); and Antheil’s music for Ballet mécanique (1924). Since 1999 Mr. Brock has served as score preservationist for the Charles Chaplin family; to this day he is the foremost authority on the music of the actor/filmmaker, having made 12 live-performance revised and critical editions of all Chaplin’s major films, including City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Kid, and The Circus. At age 23 Mr. Brock began composing new scores for silent film with G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929), and has since written almost 30 orchestral scores for notable orchestras and institutions including the Orchestre National de Lyon, Cinémathèque Française, Wiener Konzerthaus, Cineteca di Bologna, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid, and the Cité de la Musique de Paris. The Chaplin family commissioned Mr. Brock to write an original score to celebrate the centennial of Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), the very first appearance of the “Gentleman Tramp” (often called The Little Tramp). In June 2017 Mr. Brock will conduct the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the World Premiere of his long-awaited new score for Fritz Lang’s science-fiction epic Frau im Mond (1929), commissioned by the Wiener Konzerthaus. His concert works include three symphonies, three concertos, a cantata, two , and orchestral pieces. Timothy Brock is a regular guest of major orchestras worldwide, including the BBC, BBC Scottish, and Chicago symphony orchestras, Orchestre National de Lyon, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra della Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Brock has created a concert series of programs of Entartete Musik (“degenerate music,” by composers banned by the Third Reich), including works by Schulhoff, Schreker, Zemlinsky, Krása, Klein, and Haas. Mr. Brock gave the North American Premieres of Eisler’s Kleine Sinfonie, Niemandslied, and Kuhle Wampe; Schulhoff’s Symphony No. 2; and one of the first performances of Ullmann’s opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, written from within the Terezin ghetto in 1944. He had also included his own string-orchestra transcriptions of the string quartets of Haas. Mr. Brock led Chaplin’s The Gold Rush with (more) Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership / 6

Members of the New York Philharmonic in 2011 and 2012 performances at Alice Tully Hall; he made his Philharmonic debut leading “Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: The Tramp at 100” in September 2014 as part of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic. He will have most recently led the Philharmonic in Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights in May 2016.

Joshua Gersen, music director of the New York Youth Symphony, began his tenure as New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductor in September 2015. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, he recently finished his tenure as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony, where he served as assistant conductor to artistic director . He was principal conductor of the Ojai Music Festival in 2013; has conducted the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville symphony orchestras; and has served as a cover conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and many other orchestras throughout the U.S. 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. His 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 composers including John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Steven Mackey, Mason Bates, and Michael Gandolfi. Joshua Gersen made his New York Philharmonic debut conducting a Young People’s Concert in December 2015. He will have most recently led the Philharmonic in Disney Fantasia Live in Concert in May 2016.

Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity, Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has made a spectacular ascent to classical stardom. Since taking First Prize at both the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein competitions in 2011 at the age of 20, he has appeared with most of the world’s foremost orchestras and given solo recitals at many of its most prestigious venues. Following the release of Rachmaninov Variations, recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with The Philadelphia Orchestra, in the 2015–16 season Mr. Trifonov is spotlighted in both the New York Philharmonic’s Rachmaninoff: A Philharmonic Festival and the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Rachmaninov Piano Concerto Cycle. He also plays Rachmaninoff concertos in debuts with the Berlin Staatskapelle, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (where he anchors the Nobel Prize Concert), Philadelphia Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, and Orchestre National de Lyon, and on the Czech Philharmonic’s tour of Asia. He is performing Prokofiev in his Montreal Symphony debut and returns to the Orchestre National de France and London Symphony Orchestra, and Chopin with the San Francisco Symphony, Tchaikovsky with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, and Liszt with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at home and on a North European tour. An accomplished composer, Mr. Trifonov reprises his own acclaimed piano concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony. In addition to making his Los Angeles recital debut, he undertakes a European recital tour and residencies in Lugano and at London’s Wigmore Hall. Last season saw the release of Trifonov: The Carnegie Recital, the pianist’s first recording as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, which scored a Grammy nomination and an ECHO Klassik Award. His discography also features a Chopin album for Decca and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Daniil Trifonov studied at Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2013 he won Italy’s Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Instrumental Soloist. Daniil Trifonov made his New York Philharmonic debut in September (more) Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership / 7

2012 performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert. Most recently, in November 2015, he was the spotlighted soloist in Rachmaninoff: A Philharmonic Festival, featuring Mr. Trifonov performing three of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini over the course of three consecutive all-Rachmaninoff programs, each led by a different conductor.

Highlights of Gil Shaham’s 2015–16 season include performances with the , Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston, New World, Singapore, and Chicago symphony orchestras; residencies with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Carolina Performing Arts; and an extensive North American tour with The Knights to celebrate the release of Violin Concertos of the 1930s, Vol. 2. He also continues touring J.S. Bach’s complete unaccompanied sonatas and partitas with appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall and key North American venues in a special multimedia collaboration with photographer/video artist David Michalek. Mr. Shaham already has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, including bestsellers that have ascended the charts in the U.S. and abroad. These recordings have earned multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice. His recent recordings are issued his own Canary Classics label, which he founded in 2004, and include 1930s Violin Concertos Vols. 1 & 2; J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Violin; Nigunim: Hebrew Melodies; Haydn Violin Concertos and Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Sejong Soloists; Sarasate: Virtuoso Violin Works; Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and J.S. Bach’s complete works for solo violin. A passionate advocate for new music, Mr. Shaham has also premiered works by composers including William Bolcom, David Bruce, Avner Dorman, Julian Milone, and Bright Sheng. Gil Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008 he received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius. Gil Shaham made his New York Philharmonic debut in September 1985 at the age of 14 performing Bizet/Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy at a Young People’s Concert conducted by ; he most recently appeared with the Orchestra in July 2013 at Bravo! Vail performing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, led by Bramwell Tovey.

Born and raised in Canada, Mark Rowswell began studying Chinese in the mid-1980s, first at the University of Toronto and later at Beijing University. While in Beijing, he became interested in xiangsheng, a traditional form of comedic dialogue, and was soon appearing on national television under the stage name Dashan. Repeated performances on television programs with 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.

The New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet enjoys worldwide exposure and an international reputation. The members of the group are Acting Principal Trumpet Matthew Muckey, Acting Associate Principal Trumpet Ethan Bensdorf, Associate Principal Horn Richard (more) Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership / 8

Deane, Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi, and Principal Tuba Alan Baer. The ensemble’s debut came at the invitation of the Canadian Brass, when the two quintets joined in a 1983 concert in Ottawa, Canada. The two groups have since collaborated at the summer festivals of Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, Great Woods, and Mostly Mozart; with their brass colleagues from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and The Philadelphia Orchestra on five recordings and one educational video; and for performances in cities throughout Canada and the United States. Since 1995 the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet has hosted an annual New York Philharmonic Holiday Brass concert at Lincoln Center, with the Canadian Brass as its inaugural guest. The Principal Brass Quintet also joined forces with the Salvation Army’s New York Staff Band in two Gala Festivals at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. In addition, the ensemble performed with the Empire Brass at the Carnegie Hall Centennial Gala in May 1991. The New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet has been a regular encore feature on the Orchestra’s tours, with appearances in Europe, South America, Asia, and in the U.S., as well as at the Orchestra’s residencies in Cagliari, Italy and Vail, Colorado; the group also represented the Philharmonic for special occasions such as the opening of the Upper West Side Apple Store (in 2009), the opening of UNIQLO’s Fifth Avenue flagship store (2014), and a free performance at Zurich’s Main Station as part of the Orchestra’s EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour. The ensemble has performed solo concerts throughout the U.S. and Japan, and in the cities of Luxembourg and Monterrey (Mexico).

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

* * * The Global Academy Fellowship Program, in association with the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, is supported in part by The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation, an anonymous donor, and other gifts made toward the Zarin Mehta Fund.

* * * Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from 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.

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Concert Schedule

Date Location/Artists Program

Saturday, Shanghai Symphony Hall PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2 July 2 Alan Gilbert, conductor R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben 7:30 p.m. Daniil Trifonov, piano

Sunday, Shanghai Symphony Hall PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf July 3 Young People’s Concert: Music by Very Young Composers of New York and 7:30 p.m. Joshua Gersen, conductor Shanghai Dashan, host and narrator Lucas ALEXANDER: Circle of Time QIAN Yibing: String-Strike R. STRAUSS: Selections from Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Monday, Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre BEETHOVEN: Fidelio Overture July 4 Alan Gilbert, conductor PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2 7:30 p.m. Daniil Trifonov, piano R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben

Tuesday, People’s Square HANDEL/Arr. C. Seipp La Réjouissance (Rejoicing), July 5 New York Philharmonic Principal from Music for the Royal Fireworks 7:30 p.m. Brass Quintet GLINKA/Arr. S. Sutherland Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla BERNSTEIN/Arr. A. DiLorenzo On the Town Suite ELLINGTON/Arr. D. Kosmyna “It Don’t Mean a Thing” GERSHWIN/Arr. S. Bulla The Quintessential Gershwin Brian BALMAGES Music for Brass John KANDER/Arr. R. Elkjer “New York, New York”

Thursday, Shanghai Symphony Hall CHAPLIN: City Lights July 7 Timothy Brock, conductor (live score with complete film) 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Shanghai Symphony Hall BOULEZ: Messagesquisse July 8 Alan Gilbert, conductor Eric Bartlett, solo cello; Patrick Jee, Qiang Tu, 7:30 p.m. Gil Shaham, violin Sumire Kudo, Maria Kitsopoulos, Alexei Yupanqui Gonzales, Wendy Sutter§, cello MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Eroica

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