Westchester Philharmonic 2018 – 2019 Season
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Westchester Philharmonic 2018 – 2019 Season 2018–2019 Season Welcome elcome to the 2018–2019 season! It has become a hallmark of the Westchester Philharmonic that we introduce new faces and new music, side-by-side with familiar artists and great masterworks of the classical canon. This season, our 36th, opens with just such masterwork: Ravel’s heart-wrenching Pavane, Haydn’s famed “Drumroll” symphony, and the towering First Symphony of Johannes Brahms, all led by Principal Conductor Jaime Laredo. December’s Winter Pops will be one big music party, as we introduce four artists who are new to Westchester audiences but much in-demand everywhere else: The esteemed conductor (and Rockland County native) Rachael Worby, with the genre-defying trio Time for Three, featuring violinists Nicolas Kendall and Charles Yang, and bassist Ranaan Meyer. Our Friends & Family concert in February is designed to reach younger minds while remaining utterly stimulating and satisfying for seasoned concert-goers. This year, Maestra Worby will take you on a special journey through the mind of Leonard Bernstein, without playing a single note composed by him. This being the 101st anniversary of Bernstein’s birth, we’ve dubbed it “Lenny 101.” Joining Worby and the Phil is Savion Glover, a bona fide legend of tap dance, for Gould’s Tap Dance Concerto and a rollicking, other-worldly rendition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Fasten your seatbelt. Our April finale uses a far simpler idea: All-Beethoven, with Pamela Frank joining Maestro Laredo for the composer’s famed violin concerto, and ending with the iconic Fifth Symphony. If you love music and adventure, fun and pathos, a chance to learn, or just a chance to listen with no other purpose…you have come to the right place. Welcome to today’s concert. And welcome to the “Phil Family”. Board of Directors Neil Aaron – Tony Aiello – Millicent Kaufman, Chair – Christina Maurillo Mary Neumann, Vice Chair – Numa Rousseve, Treasurer – Hannah Shmerler Murray Stahl, Vice Chair – Lisa A. Tibbitts – Ruth Toff – Joshua Worby WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 3 2018–2019 Season Meet the ORCHESTRA Musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic Jaime Laredo, Principal Conductor VIOLIN CELLO FRENCH HORN Robert Chausow, Eugene Moye, Principal Peter Reit, Principal Concertmaster Roberta Cooper Will De Vos Michael Roth, Lanny Paykin Larry DiBello Principal Second Violin Sarah Carter Nancy Billmann Robin Bushman, Eliana Mendoza Associate Concertmaster Maureen Hynes TRUMPET Martin Agee Maxine Neuman Lowell Hershey, Principal Diane Bruce Lorraine Cohen Victor Heifets BASS Wayne duMaine Elizabeth Kleinman Jordan Frazier, Principal Barbara Long Jack Wenger TROMBONE Wende Namkung Gregg August Hugh Eddy, Principal Elizabeth Nielsen Jered Egan Mike Seltzer Laura Oatts Dorothy Strahl FLUTE TUBA Sander Strenger Laura Conwesser, Principal Marcus Rojas, Principal Moira Tobey Rie Schmidt Carlos Villa Sheryl Henze PERCUSSION Carolyn Wenk-Goodman Ben Herman, Timpani Deborah Wong OBOE Jim Saporito, Principal D. Paul Woodiel Melanie Feld, Principal Kathy Halvorson HARP VIOLA Sara Cutler, Principal Kyle Armbrust, Principal CLARINET Sandra Robbins John Moses, Principal KEYBOARD Liuh Wen Ting Stephen Hart Chris Oldfather, Principal Ah Ling Neu Leslie Tomkins BASSOON LIBRARIAN Jessica Troy Frank Morelli, Principal Kristen Butcher Harry Searing PERSONNEL MANAGER Jonathan Hass & Neil Balm WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 5 Jaime Laredo, Principal Conductor erforming for over six decades international prominence. With 2009 marking before audiences across the globe, the 50th anniversary of his prize, he was Jaime Laredo has excelled in the honored to sit on the Jury for the final round multiple roles of soloist, conductor, recitalist, of the Competition. pedagogue, and chamber musician. Since his stunning orchestral debut at the age of eleven In the 2017-18 Season, Mr. Laredo tours the with the San Francisco Symphony, he has won United States as conductor, soloist and as a the admiration and respect of audiences, critics member of the award-winning Kalichstein- and fellow musicians with his passionate and Laredo-Robinson Trio, which continues its polished performances. That debut inspired 40th Anniversary celebration. This season one critic to write: “In the 1920’s it was on violin, he reprises André Previn’s Double Yehudi Menuhin; in the 1930’s it was Isaac Concerto for Violin and Cello, with his Stern; and last night it was Jaime Laredo.” wife, cellist Sharon Robinson in Vermont. His education and development were greatly Performances of this work have received raves influenced by his teachers Josef Gingold and since its 2016 premiere. It was commissioned Ivan Galamian, as well as by private coaching specifically for the duo by the Cincinnati, with eminent masters Pablo Casals and Kansas City, Austin, Detroit, Pacific and George Szell. At the age of seventeen, Jaime Toronto symphony orchestras, as well as the Laredo won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and of Belgium Competition, launching his rise to the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 7 Jaime Laredo A new double concerto by Chris Brubeck Recent conducting and solo engagements have is their next collaboration. Additionally, taken Mr. Laredo to the Chicago Symphony Laredo’s remarkable sound can be heard on Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the New viola in Mozart Sinfonia Concertante on tour World Symphony and Scottish Chamber throughout Vermont and at Carnegie Orchestra in addition to the New York String Hall with Pamela Frank, his friend and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the Vermont onetime student. Symphony. Festival engagements have taken him across the globe from the Chautauqua Mr. Laredo continues to tour and record as a Music Festival in New York to Seoul Spring member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Festival in Korea. Trio. Founded by Mr. Laredo, Sharon Robinson, and pianist Joseph Kalichstein in A recent project titled Two x Four celebrated 1976, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio the relationship between the teacher and the recently celebrated their 40th Anniversary student through music. With his colleague with Beethoven Cycles and a specially and former student Jennifer Koh, Mr. Laredo commissioned work entitled, “Pas de Trois” and Ms. Koh performed the Double Concerti written for them by Pulitzer Prize-winning for Two Violins by J.S. Bach, works by composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; this season’s Philip Glass, and two newly commissioned performances of the work include the La Jolla concerti by composers Anna Clyne and David Music Society SummerFest and Chamber Ludwig with the Delaware Symphony, the Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. IRIS orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Vermont The Trio performs regularly at Lincoln Center, Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and Town and with the Curtis Orchestra on tour at the Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Kennedy where they are the ensemble in residence. Center and The Miller Theater of Columbia They have toured internationally to cities University. The recording of this acclaimed that include Lisbon, Hamburg, Copenhagen, project was released by Cedille Records London, Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Helsinki, in 2014. Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, and Melbourne. Among, its numerous awards, the Other conducting and performing highlights Trio was named Musical America’s Ensemble of include the Chicago Symphony, Boston the Year in 2002. In addition to his performing Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, work, Mr. Laredo’s season includes conducting Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York engagements with the Vermont Symphony, Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Orchestra. 2017 also marks the sixth year St. Louis Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and of Laredo’s tenure as a member of the violin Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Abroad, he has performed with the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the English In past seasons, Mr. Laredo and Ms. Robinson Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. performed in recital in the U.S., Canada and Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal Philharmonic on tour in Bolivia, including performances of and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which he Richard Danielpour’s Inventions on a Marriage. led on two American tours and in their Hong The 2011 work was commissioned specifically Kong Festival debut. His numerous recordings for the duo and was dedicated to and inspired with the SCO include Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by their marriage, and explores in “musical (which stayed on the British best-seller charts snapshots” the bond of long-term relationships. for over a year), Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Italian and Scottish symphonies, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and recordings of Rossini overtures and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll. 8 WESTCHESTER PHILHARMONIC | 2018–2019 SEASON Jaime Laredo For fifteen years, Mr. Laredo was violist of the Recognized internationally as a sought-after piano quartet consisting of renowned pianist violin teacher, Mr. Laredo has fostered the Emanuel Ax, celebrated violinist Isaac Stern, education of violinists that include Leila and distinguished cellist Yo-Yo Ma, his close Josefowitz, Hillary Hahn, Jennifer Koh, Ivan colleagues and chamber music collaborators. Chan, Soovin Kim, Pamela Frank and Bella Together, the quartet recorded