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CONTACT! at the BIENNIAL: MATTHIAS PINTSCHER to Conduct BEYOND RECALL, U.S Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected] National Press Representative: Julia Kirchhausen (917) 453-8386; [email protected] MAY 29 AND 31, 2014, AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: CONTACT! AT THE BIENNIAL: MATTHIAS PINTSCHER To Conduct BEYOND RECALL, U.S. PREMIERES of Music Inspired by Sculptures Selected for the Salzburg Art Project With Soprano Jennifer Zetlan and Bass-Baritone Evan Hughes As part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher conducts and curates Beyond Recall, May 29 and 31, 2014, in The Museum of Modern Art’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. The program, co-presented by the New York Philharmonic and The Museum of Modern Art, features nine works inspired by a work of art residing in Salzburg and created through the Kunstprojekt Salzburg (Salzburg Art Project), which brings contemporary art to the Austrian city’s public spaces. This program of all U.S. Premieres will be performed by New York Philharmonic musicians, soprano Jennifer Zetlan, and bass-baritone Evan Hughes in his Philharmonic debut as part of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series. Matthias Pintscher — appointed music director of Paris’s Ensemble Intercontemporain beginning with the 2013–14 season — selected the composers and determined which composer should respond to which Salzburg Art Project art work. The program will include Dai Fujikura’s (Japan, b. 1977) silence seeking solace on Stephan Balkenhol’s Sphaera / Frau im Fels; Vito Zuraj’s (Slovenia, b. 1979) Insideout on Manfred Wakolbinger’s Connection; Bruno Mantovani’s (France, b. 1974) Spirit of Alberti on Marina Abramovic’s Spirit of Mozart; Olga Neuwirth’s (Austria, b. 1968) Piazza dei Numeri on Mario Merz’s Ziffern im Wald; Michael Jarrell’s (Switzerland, b. 1958) Adtende, ubi albescit veritas on Christian Boltanski’s Vanitas; Johannes Maria Staud’s (Austria, b. 1974) Caldera on Anthony Cragg’s Caldera; Mark Andre’s (France, b. 1964) E2 on James Turrell’s Sky-Space; Nina Šenk’s (Slovenia, b. 1982) In the Absence on Erwin Wurm’s Gurken; and Jay Schwartz’s (United States, b. 1965) M on Markus Lupertz’s Mozart – Eine Hommage. 2 Beyond Recall is a project by the Salzburg Foundation, based on the concept formulated by Bernd Heinrich Dinter and under the musical and curatorial direction of Matthias Pintscher. The program received its World Premiere at the Salzburg Festival in August 2013 with Mr. Pintscher conducting the Scharoun Ensemble, comprised of members of the Berlin Philharmonic. Matthias Pintscher said: “I am very excited to bring Beyond Recall to the NY PHIL BIENNIAL for its U.S. premiere. I have had the honor of selecting young composers who I think represent today’s musical composition in all its diversity to write pieces that directly relate to nine of the Salzburg Art Project’s installations. The artistic outcome of this collaboration between visual and sonic artists is fascinating. As a passionate contemporary art lover, I feel very enthusiastic about curating this outstanding project. It is an honor to now be bringing it to the world’s epicenter of contemporary art: New York City.” Bernd Heinrich Dinter said: “Salzburg’s rich musical history inspired me to create a series of compositions, each of which spoke to a particular commissioned artwork of the Salzburg Art Project. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with Matthias Pintscher as the curator of this project, and particularly gratifying to see it come to New York as part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL so soon after its premiere this past summer.” CONTACT!, established by Music Director Alan Gilbert in the 2009–10 season, highlights the works of both emerging and established contemporary composers, performed by smaller ensembles of Philharmonic musicians in intimate venues outside the Lincoln Center campus. A flagship project of the New York Philharmonic envisioned by Music Director Alan Gilbert, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is a kaleidoscopic exploration of today’s music showcasing an array of curatorial voices through concerts presented with cultural partners throughout New York City. Modeled on the great visual art biennials, the inaugural NY PHIL BIENNIAL, taking place May 28–June 7, 2014, brings the public together with a diverse roster of more than 50 composers, ranging from elementary school students to icons, for concerts of symphonies, concertos, staged opera, chamber music, and solo works, many of which will be premieres. Meet-up events, lectures and panel discussions, and online interactivity are planned to encourage audience members to directly engage with composers, scholars, and artists. The 2014 NY PHIL BIENNIAL partners include 92nd Street Y, The Museum of Modern Art, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Juilliard School, Gotham Chamber Opera, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Bang on a Can, American Composers Orchestra, and Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School High School. For complete information about the 2014 NY PHIL BIENNIAL, see press release. Related Event Broadcast On May 31 at 7:00 p.m. ET selections from this program will be broadcast on WFMT’s nationally syndicated new-music program Relevant Tones, available at blogs.wfmt.com/relevanttones, and posted for on-demand streaming by Q2 Music, WQXR’s online stream dedicated to contemporary music, available at wqxr.org/q2music. 3 Artists Matthias Pintscher is equally accomplished as conductor and composer, having created significant works for some of the world’s leading orchestras, and regularly conducting throughout Europe, U.S., and Australia. He is the music director of the Ensemble Intercomporain, a role he began in the 2013–14 season, and he continues his partnership with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as its artist-in-association. Recent and upcoming conducting debuts include the Atlanta, Colorado, National (Washington, D.C.), New World, and Quebec symphony orchestras; Los Angeles Philharmonic; National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa; and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Highlights this season in addition to these performances with the New York Philharmonic include tours to Geneva, Cologne, and Holland with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and appearances with the NDR, Dresden, Naples, and Slovenian philharmonic orchestras, as well as with the Utah Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, Paris Opera Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, and concerts in Chicago and Tel Aviv. As a composer, Mr. Pintscher found success at an early age and is the recipient of numerous prizes, including most recently the 2012 Roche Commission. His music is championed by some of today’s finest performing artists and conductors, and has been performed by orchestras such as The Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; BBC, Chicago, London, and NDR symphony orchestras; and Berlin Philharmonic, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, and Orchestre de Paris. The New York Philharmonic has previously performed two of his works: Towards Osiris, in 2010, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, and Songs from Solomon’s Garden, performed on CONTACT!, the new-music series, in 2010, baritone Thomas Hampson as soloist and Alan Gilbert conducting. Mr. Pintscher works regularly with leading contemporary music ensembles and since 2011 has directed the music segment of Impuls Romantik Festival in Frankfurt. He also served as artistic director of the Heidelberg Atelier of the Heidelberg Spring Festival since 2007, now known as the Heidelberg Young Composers’ Academy. His works are published by Bärenreiter-Verlag. Recordings can be found on Kairos, EMI, ECM, Teldec, Wergo, and Winter & Winter. Matthias Pintscher has conducted two previous New York Philharmonic presentations: he was one of three conductors to lead Stockhausen’s Gruppen in Philharmonic 360 at Park Avenue Armory, and led Mahler in Emanuel Ax’s November 2012 chamber music event co-presented with Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. Soprano Jennifer Zetlan is swiftly garnering recognition for her artistry and captivating stage presence. She has debuted on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Florida Grand Opera. On the concert stage she has performed with the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, and The Juilliard Orchestra, and she has been heard at Carnegie Hall in recital and with Oratorio Society of New York, Musica Sacra, and the New York Youth Symphony. Ms. Zetlan opened the 2013–14 season at The Metropolitan Opera singing the role of Rebecca in the U.S. Premiere of Nico Muhly’s Two Boys; other season engagements include the Mozart Requiem with the Oratorio Society of New York, and Handel’s Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She returns to Seattle Opera after great success last season, this time as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Ms. Zetlan closes the season at the Lexington Philharmonic performing Osvaldo 4 Golijov’s Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Ms. Zetlan made her Philharmonic debut in 2008 as part as Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, Kaddish, conducted by Alan Gilbert; she returned in 2012 as part of Mozart’s Mass in C minor, led by Mr. Gilbert, and joined the Orchestra later that summer for its residency at Bravo! Vail. This season American bass-baritone Evan Hughes returned to The Metropolitan Opera as Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and became a member of the Junges Ensemble at the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, where he sang various leading roles, including Don Alfonso (in Mozart’s Così fan tutte) and Don Basilio (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville). In the summer he will make his Santa Fe Opera debut as Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen and Don Fernando in Beethoven’s Fidelio. On the concert stage he will appear alongside Susan Graham and Brian Zeger on The Metropolitan Museum’s recital series in a program devoted to French songs of the time of the sculptor Carpeaux.
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