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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 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 (, b. 1968) Piazza dei Numeri on Mario Merz’s Ziffern im Wald; ’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.

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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 in August 2013 with Mr. Pintscher conducting the Scharoun Ensemble, comprised of members of the .

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 , 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 , 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.

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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 , , , 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 ’s ; 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

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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 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. A recent alumnus of The Met Lindemann Young Artist Development program, Mr. Hughes started last season with a personal success as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte directed by Stephen Wadsworth and conducted by Alan Gilbert at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Lincoln Center. Further engagements season included the premiere of a John Glover piece with the New York Youth Symphony. Mr. Hughes performed Aronte in Gluck’s Armide presented by The Met in collaboration with The Juilliard School; he also played Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy, led by Lorin Maazel, and reprised the role in the summer of 2012 at the Castleton Festival, where he also sang the bass solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, both also conducted by Mr. Maazel. In concert he appeared in Schubert’s Mass No. 6 with San Diego Symphony, followed by Matthias Pintscher’s Songs from Solomon’s Garden with the BBC Scottish Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Aspen Music Festival. Evan Hughes attended The Curtis Institute of Music and was a regional winner and a national semi-finalist in the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. These performances mark his New York Philharmonic debut.

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 432 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. 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: 2013–14 Season. The Orchestra has built on its long-running Young People’s Concerts to develop a wide range of education programs, including Very Young People’s Concerts, for pre-schoolers; School Day Concerts, with supporting curriculum for grades 3–12; the School Partnership Program, enriching music education in New York City; Very Young Composers, enabling students to express themselves through original works; Learning Overtures, fostering international exchange among educators; and online resources

5 used in homes and classrooms around the world. Alan Gilbert became Music Director in September 2009, succeeding a series 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 is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * Major support for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is provided by The Francis Goelet Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, and The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.

* * * These concerts are made possible with support from The Francis Goelet Fund and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP.

* * * The May 29 performance of Beyond Recall of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is made possible with generous underwriting support from Julia Lanigan.

* * * Classical 105.9 FM WQXR is the Radio Home of the New York Philharmonic.

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

Tickets Tickets for this performance are $20. Biennial Passes are $95 each and are available by calling (212) 875-5656. Tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, and noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. To determine ticket availability, call the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. Ticket prices subject to change.

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CONTACT! AT THE BIENNIAL: BEYOND RECALL A Co-Presentation of the New York Philharmonic and The Museum of Modern Art

Agnes Gund Garden Lobby The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street

Thursday, May 29, 2014, 10:00 p.m. Saturday, May 31, 2014, 10:00 p.m.

Beyond Recall (Nine U.S. Premieres)

Matthias Pintscher, conductor Jennifer Zetlan, soprano Evan Hughes*, bass-baritone Musicians from the New York Philharmonic

Dai FUJIKURA silence seeking solace on Stephan Balkenhol’s Sphaera / Frau im Fels Vito ZURAJ Insideout on Manfred Wakolbinger’s Connection Bruno MANTOVANI Spirit of Alberti on Marina Abramovic’s Spirit of Mozart Olga NEUWIRTH Piazza dei Numeri on Mario Merz’s Ziffern im Wald Michael JARRELL Adtende, ubi albescit veritas on Christian Boltanski’s Vanitas Johannes Maria STAUD Caldera on Anthony Cragg’s Caldera Mark ANDRE E2 on James Turrell’s Sky-Space Nina ŠENK In the Absence on Erwin Wurm’s Gurken Jay SCHWARTZ M on Markus Lupertz’s Mozart – Eine Hommage

* denotes New York Philharmonic debut

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