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Alan Gilbert To Conduct SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE with YO-YO MA Alongside the New York Philharmonic in Concerts Celebrating the Silk Road Ensemble’s 15TH ANNIVERSARY Program To Include The Silk Road Suite and Works by DMITRI YANOV-YANOVSKY, R. STRAUSS, AND February 19–21, 2015

FREE INSIGHTS AT THE ATRIUM EVENT “Traversing Time and Trade: Fifteen Years of the Silkroad” February 18, 2015

The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma will perform alongside the New York Philharmonic, led by Alan Gilbert, for a celebration of the innovative world-music ensemble’s 15th anniversary, Thursday, February 19, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, February 20 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, February 21 at 8:00 p.m.

Titled Sacred and Transcendent, the program will feature the Philharmonic and the Silk Road Ensemble performing both separately and together. The concert will feature Fanfare for Gaita, Suona, and Brass; The Silk Road Suite, a compilation of works commissioned and premiered by the Ensemble; Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s Sacred Signs Suite; R. Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration; and Osvaldo Golijov’s Rose of the Winds. The program marks the Silk Road Ensemble’s Philharmonic debut.

“The Silk Road Ensemble demonstrates different approaches of exploring world traditions in a way that — through collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination — allows each to flourish and evolve within its own frame,” Yo-Yo Ma said. “Maestro Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic pursue a similar approach, weaving together differing artistic expressions, embracing all while maintaining their integrity. The Philharmonic is an ideal partner to celebrate the Silk Road Ensemble’s anniversary and we look forward to a lively collaboration.”

“Yo-Yo Ma has become a close musical colleague, and it’s always a privilege to be onstage with this giant,” Alan Gilbert said. “He has taken his unbounded curiosity and

(more) Silk Road / 2 enthusiasm for all kinds of music and made it possible for people to experience, say, “Yo-Yo Ma has become a close musical colleague, and it’s always a privilege to be onstage with this giant,” Alan Gilbert said. “He has taken his unbounded curiosity and enthusiasm for all kinds of music and made it possible for people to experience, say, Persian or Appalachian music. This collaboration with Yo-Yo and the Silk Road Ensemble — bringing instruments rarely seen onstage at the New York Philharmonic and with who bring a completely different skill-set — is extremely powerful and is totally in line with what we’ve been trying to do. I’m really happy that Yo-Yo is here to amplify and support that.”

The New York Philharmonic’s free Insights at the Atrium series will present “Traversing Time and Trade: Fifteen Years of the Silkroad,” Wednesday, February 18, 2015, at 7:30 p.m., at which members of the Silk Road Ensemble discuss the global music traditions and ages that inspire them. The event takes place at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Columbus Avenue at 62nd Street) and is co-presented with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Founded in 2000 by cellist and artistic director Yo-Yo Ma, the Silk Road Ensemble is the performing arm of Silkroad, which Mr. Ma founded in 1998 to connect artists and audiences from around the globe, following the cultural tradition of the historical Silk Road.

Yo-Yo Ma will join the Orchestra and conductor Long Yu the following week, on February 24, 2015, as one of the soloists in the fourth-annual Chinese New Year Concert and Gala.

Related Events  Philharmonic Free Fridays The New York Philharmonic is offering 100 free tickets for young people ages 13–26 to the concert Friday, February 19 as part of Philharmonic Free Fridays. Information is available at nyphil.org/freefridays. Philharmonic Free Fridays offers 100 free tickets to 13–26-year-olds to each of the 2014–15 season’s 18 Friday evening subscription concerts; it is part of Share the Music!, a new initiative to support expanded access to the New York Philharmonic.

 Insights at the Atrium — “Traversing Time and Trade: Fifteen Years of the Silkroad” Members of the Silk Road Ensemble, speakers Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 7:30 p.m. David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Columbus Avenue at 62nd Street) Meet members of the Silk Road Ensemble and the global music traditions and ages that inspire them. What can we learn from cultures far removed from our own, and what does it sound like when the Philharmonic collaborates with them? Insights at the Atrium events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Subscribers, Friends at the Affiliate level and above, and Patrons may secure guaranteed admission by emailing [email protected]. Space is limited.

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Artists Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in September 2009, the first native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis -in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence, and the Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; and the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music by a wide range of contemporary and modern inaugurated in spring 2014. As New York magazine wrote, “The Philharmonic and its music director Alan Gilbert have turned themselves into a force of permanent revolution.”

In the 2014–15 season Alan Gilbert conducts the U.S. Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Concerto, a Philharmonic co-commission, alongside Mahler’s First Symphony; La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema; Verdi’s Requiem; a staging of Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake, featuring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard; World Premieres; a CONTACT! program; and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He concludes The Nielsen Project — the multi-year initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and concertos, the first release of which was named by The New York Times as among the Best Recordings of 2012 — and presides over the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour. His Philharmonic- tenure highlights include acclaimed productions of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson, and Philharmonic 360 at Park Avenue Armory; World Premieres by Magnus Lindberg, John Corigliano, Christopher Rouse, and others; Bach’s B-minor Mass and Ives’s Fourth Symphony; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film; Mahler’s Second Symphony, Resurrection, on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and eight international tours.

Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. His 2014–15 appearances include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, The , and The Philadelphia 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 Tribune and Gramophone magazine. Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The , where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. In May 2010 Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and in December 2011, Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music.” In 2014 he was elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Inspired by his curiosity about the world and eager to forge connections across cultures, disciplines, and generations, cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the nonprofit organization Silkroad in 1998. The Silk Road Ensemble was formed in 2000 as a way of bringing together innovative performers and composers representing traditions from around the world. Silkroad is a collective of rooted explorers, inclusive independents, storytelling musicians, passionate learners,

(more) Silk Road / 4 connected nomads, and cultural entrepreneurs. With the belief that exploring our differences enriches our humanity, the project seeks the point at which education, business, and the arts come together to spark new ways of looking at the world. Silkroad strives to create unexpected connections, collaborations, and communities in pursuit of meaningful change. Through performances and the creation of new music, cultural partnerships, education programs, and cross-disciplinary collaborations, Silkroad seeks to create meaningful change at the intersection of the arts, education, and business.

Since 2000 the Silk Road Ensemble has been redefining classical music for 21st-century audiences. Representing a global array of cultures, Silk Road Ensemble members co-create art, performances, and ideas. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma established the nonprofit organization Silkroad and the Ensemble to explore the role of the arts in fostering cross-cultural understanding, deepening learning, and promoting innovation. Silk Road Ensemble performers and composers hail from more than 20 countries. Passionate about learning from one another’s traditions, these rooted explorers perform on instruments ranging from world percussion to Western strings to the Chinese pipa (lute) and sheng (mouth organ), the Japanese shakuhachi (bamboo flute), the Galician gaita (bagpipe), Indian (paired drums), and Persian kamancheh (spike fiddle), among others. Under the artistic direction of Mr. Ma, these storytelling musicians celebrate the multiplicity of approaches to music from around the world. They also develop new repertoire that responds to the new realities of our global society. In engaging, high-energy performances, the Silk Road Ensemble draws on a rich tapestry of traditions that make up our shared cultural heritage, creating a new musical language — a uniquely engaging and accessible encounter between the foreign and the familiar that reflects our many-layered contemporary identities. The Silk Road Ensemble has performed in more than 100 cities in over 30 countries, in venues including , Suntory Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Ensemble performances have also highlighted the Nobel Prize celebrations in Stockholm, the Sir Bani Yas Forum in the United Arab Emirates, the Special Olympics in Shanghai, the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, and London’s BBC Proms. The Ensemble has recorded five , including the most recent CD, A Playlist Without Borders, and Live From Tanglewood DVD. The Sound of Silk, a documentary about the ensemble by the Academy Award–winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, is in production and is expected to premiere in 2015. These performances mark the Silk Road Ensemble’s Philharmonic debut.

Trained in his native and a graduate of The Juilliard School and the City University of New York, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh has won international acclaim as a composer, performer, improviser, and recording artist in a wide range of musical genres. His discography includes three albums with his ensemble HEWAR, sound tracks for film and dance, a duo with pianist Dinuk Wijeratne, and an album with his New York–based - quartet. Mr. Azmeh also champions the contemporary music of as artistic director of the Damascus Festival Chamber Music Ensemble.

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Jeffrey Beecher, principal bass with the Symphony Orchestra, has performed with many leading orchestras in addition to touring the world with the Silk Road Ensemble. He studied at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, and completed his studies at The Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Beecher currently serves on the faculties of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto.

Mike Block is a pioneering multi-style cellist, singer, composer, and educator living in . In addition to his solo performances and multiple duo collaborations with the likes of violinist , tabla player Sandeep Das, and percussionist Tupac Mantilla, he is the director of Silkroad’s new Global Workshop, a summer music camp that will hold its first sessions in June 2015. In 2012 Mr. Block was appointed associate professor at the .

Violist Nicholas Cords has devoted his career to the advocacy of music drawn from a strikingly broad historic and geographic spectrum. Having played with the Silk Road Ensemble since its inception, Mr. Cords is also a founding member of the string quartet , a member of The Knights, and performs internationally as an acclaimed soloist and guest chamber musician. His recent solo recording, Recursions, features music ranging from Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber to his own compositions. A prize-winning violist in his student days at The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music, he currently teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University in New York.

Sandeep Das is one of the world’s leading tabla virtuosos. A favorite disciple of the legendary tabla master Pandit -ji of the Benaras , he has built a diverse international career, collaborating with a variety of genre-crossing artists. Mr. Das is founder of Harmony and Universality through Music (HUM), an ensemble promoting global understanding through performance and education. He has composed for and performed with the Silk Road Ensemble since the group’s founding in 2000, and is a Grammy-nominated recording artist.

Born in to a musical family, violinist and composer Johnny Gandelsman combines his classical training with a restless desire to reach beyond the concert hall in exploring contemporary music. As a concert soloist and a founding member of the quartet Brooklyn Rider, Mr. Gandelsman has premiered dozens of new works and has released albums by The Knights, the Silk Road Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider, and others on his label, In a Circle Records.

Percussionist and composer Joseph Gramley, a native of Oregon, has performed internationally as a soloist and with major symphony orchestras. During more than a dozen years with the Silk Road Ensemble, he has collaborated with renowned musicians from , , , Japan, Korea, and Central Asia. Mr. Gramley teaches at his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Michigan, and directs the Summer Percussion Seminar at The Juilliard School, where he completed his graduate studies.

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Hu Jianbing has earned wide recognition for his artistry as a sheng soloist and composer. He graduated from China’s Central Conservatory of Music and toured with the National Traditional Orchestra of China and the Asian Orchestra. In 1998 he moved to New York and founded the Chinese Performing Arts of North America organization, of which he is president. Since 2001 he has performed on several occasions with the Silk Road Ensemble in the and around the world.

A recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, Colin Jacobsen has led a multifaceted life in music as a violinist and composer focused in three groups: the Silk Road Ensemble; the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, which performs at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and SXSW; and The Knights, an innovative orchestra of which he is co-artistic director, which has opened the Dresden Musikfestspiele with guest artist and which was recently featured in a PBS documentary, Meet The Knights.

Iran’s is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh. A native of Tehran, he was a musical prodigy who, while performing, began traveling Iran to explore the music of its many regions. Internationally, he has appeared as soloist with a variety of symphony orchestras and ensembles. Mr. Kalhor is co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan, Ghazal: Persian & Indian Improvisations, and Masters of Persian Music. His compositions are prominent in the Silk Road Ensemble’s repertoire and recordings and have received four Grammy nominations.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma established Silkroad in 1998 to expand on his interest in exploring music as a means of communication and a vehicle for the migration of ideas from across the world’s cultures. Under his artistic direction and with his participation (playing both cello and morin khuur), Silkroad presents performances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble; engages in cross- cultural exchanges and residencies; leads workshops for students; and partners with leading cultural institutions, including its ongoing affiliation with , to create educational materials and programs that stimulate the imagination and promote innovation and learning through the arts.

Galician composer, pianist, and gaita virtuosa Cristina Pato was the first female gaita player to release a solo album (1999), and has since collaborated with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Arturo O’Farril, the World Symphony Orchestra, and Paquito D’Rivera. Her multifaceted career devoted to Galician popular music, classical music, and jazz has led to performances on major stages throughout the world. Ms. Pato is the founder and artistic director of Galician Connection, a world music forum celebrated annually in Galicia. She holds a doctorate of music arts in collaborative from Rutgers University, where she studied on a fellowship from Fundacion Barrie de la Maza.

American percussionist and composer Shane Shanahan has combined his studies of drumming traditions from around the world with jazz, rock, and Western art music. His interest in other cultures has led to extended visits to Turkey, India, Tajikistan, and beyond. Mr. Shanahan has also performed with Philip Glass, Aretha Franklin, , Chaka Khan, Deep Purple,

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Jordi Savall, Glen Velez, and , among others. He frequently hosts workshops and clinics at leading universities and museums, and is lead teaching artist in schools for Silkroad’s arts-in-education initiative, Silk Road Connect.

Percussionist and composer Mark Suter appears as a chamber musician and collaborative artist in both Western classical and world-music arenas. He is associate principal percussionist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and heads the percussion department at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. Specializing in hand percussion, he has studied and performed in Costa Rica, Brazil, Cuba, and Kazakhstan. Mr. Suter is the percussionist/conguero for the Latin Jazz Band Clave Plus, and continues to expand his passions under the tutelage of South Indian master Sri D Rajagopal.

Japanese-Danish performer and composer Kojiro Umezaki, originally from Tokyo, is renowned as a virtuoso of the shakuhachi, but his work also encompasses traditional and technology-based music mediated by various forms of electronics. His recent commissioned works and producer credits include projects for Brooklyn Rider, Joseph Gramley, Huun Huur Tu, and the Silk Road Ensemble. Mr. Umezaki is currently assistant professor of music at University of California, Irvine, where he is a core faculty member of the Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) group.

Michael Ward-Bergeman has brought his music making to many venues around the globe, from local pubs to Carnegie Hall, and on numerous recordings, on television, and on film sound tracks. In addition to his more traditional accordion playing, he has created innovative performance techniques that work in harmony with his use of 21st-century music technology: the hyper-accordion. His work with the hyper-accordion, an acoustic accordion with extended range and expressive capabilities, has been featured in works by Osvaldo Golijov, including 2004’s Grammy-nominated Ayre.

Pipa virtuoso and composer is a virtual ambassador of Chinese music, creating a new role for her lute-like instrument in both traditional and contemporary music. Brought up in the Pudong school of pipa playing, Wu Man became the first person to receive a master’s degree in pipa performance from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is a frequent collaborator with the and has performed with major orchestras around the world, regularly premiering new works. A measure of her achievement is that her instrument, which dates back 2000 years, is no longer considered an exotic curiosity.

Repertoire Fanfare for Gaita, Suona, and Brass was originally written by Cristina Pato and Wu Tong as an open call between gaita (Galician bagpipes) and suona (Chinese horn). This performance will also include Western brass, launching a conversation between traditional wind instruments from opposite sides of the world.

The Silk Road Suite exemplifies the spirit behind Silkroad’s exchange between cultures and disciplines. The suite comprises smaller pieces that blend the numerous traditions represented by

(more) Silk Road / 8 the ensemble: Drag the Goat, the opening movement of ’s Cut the Rug, is influenced Central Asian music, specifically music from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. The next movement — at ease, fairly, eclipse — is the interior section of shakuhachi player/composer Kojiro Umezaki’s Side in Side Out, written to highlight the Ensemble’s array of instruments and inspirations in 2012. Turceasca, which represents the eclectic and inspirational music of the Roma people (who migrated from Central and South Asia to the Romani region of Eastern Europe, carrying with them influences from India and other parts of the Silk Road), uses melodies by the Romanian band Taraf de Haïdouks arranged by Osvaldo Golijov and composer-violist Ljova ().

Sacred Signs (2012) is a concerto by Uzbek composer Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (b. 1963), created in 2012 in honor of the centennial of the groundbreaking premiere of The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky (one of Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky’s favorite composers). The work incorporates many of The Rite of Spring’s compositional and structural principles, types of motion, and textures, and Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky was particularly influenced by Nicholas Roerich’s original set and costume designs, noting that the traditional Russian costumes used in the 1913 Paris premiere were derived from different traditions and cultures, reflecting many elements of non-Russian sources. In Sacred Signs, Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky similarly attempts to reveal parallels between Russian instrumental traditions and seemingly diverse instruments such as sheng, pipa, and kamancheh. Having written for the Silk Road Ensemble on previous occasions, Mr. Yanov- Yanovsky had these individual artists in mind while composing; each movement is dedicated to specific members of the Ensemble. Five of the original ten movements will be performed in these concerts.

Richard Strauss (1964–1949) composed the tone poem Death and Transfiguration in 1890. Inspired by Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which he had heard in 1888, Strauss wrote a description of the work’s narrative, which follows “the last hours of a man who had striven for the highest ideals, presumably an artist. The sick man lies in bed breathing heavily and irregularly in his sleep. Friendly dreams bring a smile to the face of the sufferer; his sleep grows lighter; he awakens. Fearful pains once more begin to torture him, fever shakes his body. When the attack is over and the pain recedes, he recalls his past life; his childhood passes before his eyes; his youth with its striving and passions and then, while the pains return, there appears to him the goal of his life's journey, the idea, the ideal which he attempted to embody in his art, but which he was unable to perfect because such perfection could be achieved by no man. The fatal hour arrives. The soul leaves his body, to discover in the eternal cosmos the magnificent realization of the ideal which could not be fulfilled here below.” The Philharmonic presented the U.S. Premiere of Death and Transfiguration in January 1892, conducted by Anton Seidl at the old Metropolitan Opera House on 39th Street; Lorin Maazel most recently led the work on the Orchestra’s 2005 tour of Europe.

Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) based Rose of the Winds (2007) on the symbol of the compass. The first movement, Wah Habibi (My Beloved) juxtaposes a sacred song with violent contemporary music through the use of traditional Christian Arab and Muslim Arab melodies. Mr. Golijov notes: “It is a blurry changing frontier between Christian and Arab music,

(more) Silk Road / 9 where one note or inflection can make the music Christian or Arab.” Aiinin Taqtiru (My Eyes Weep) is a traditional Christian Arab Easter Song. K’in Sventa Ch’ul Me’tik Kwadalupe (Ritual for the Holy Mother of Guadalupe) is a direct reference to prayers to the Holy Mother of Guadalupe in Chiapas, Mexico, with the instruments blending with a recording of actual indigenous voices. Tancas Serradas a Muru (Walls Are Encircling the Land), a protest song from 18th-century Sardinia, is the final movement of Air to Air. Mr. Golijov notes, “The sentiment of oppressed people struggling to overthrow power can be applied to all persecuted people today.”

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* * * 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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Insights at the Atrium events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Subscribers, Friends at the Affiliate level and above, and Patrons may secure guaranteed admission by emailing [email protected]. Space is limited.

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New York Philharmonic

Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center

Sacred and Transcendent

Thursday, February 19, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 20, 2015, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2015, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor (Yanov-Yanovsky, R. Strauss, Golijov) The Silk Road Ensemble* with Yo-Yo Ma (Pato/Tong, The Silk Road Suite, Yanov-Yanovsky, Golijov) New York Philharmonic (R. Strauss, Golijov)

Cristina PATO and Wu TONG Fanfare for Gaita, Suona, and Brass VARIOUS The Silk Road Suite Dmitri YANOV-YANOVSKY Selections from Sacred Signs Suite R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration Osvaldo GOLIJOV Rose of the Winds

“TRAVERSING TIME AND TRADE: FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE SILKROAD”

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Columbus Avenue at 62nd Street)

Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 7:30 p.m.

Members of the Silk Road Ensemble

Meet members of the Silk Road Ensemble and the global music traditions and ages that inspire them. What can we learn from cultures far removed from our own, and what does it sound like when the Philharmonic collaborates with them?

*denotes New York Philharmonic debut

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