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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Winter/Spring 2019 Season Filled FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s winter/spring 2019 season filled with new musicians, performances, and pop-ups to animate the galleries Helga Davis, Visiting Curator of Performing Arts BOSTON (January 2019) – For the Gardner Museum’s upcoming concert season, George Steel, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Abrams Curator of Music, and Helga Davis, the new Visiting Curator of Performing Arts, have introduced diverse programming designed to further the Museum’s role as a vibrant arts and cultural center in Boston. The winter/spring music season begins Jan. 20, 2019. “This season, I am delighted to welcome performer Helga Davis to the Gardner Museum as our second Visiting Curator of Performing Arts,” says Steel. “Helga is bringing her boundless energy and brilliance—and her relationships with some of the most visionary artists of our time—to plan multi-disciplinary performances and surprise pop-ups throughout the Museum.” As successor to Steel, Davis is the second curator to hold this position as the Museum continues its commitment to expand programming of all art forms and multi-disciplinary cultural experiences. Davis will bring artists and communities together, from Boston and around the world, by creating performances connected to the Museum, its collections, exhibitions, and public purpose. “I am excited to be working in such a beautiful and beloved institution,” says Davis. “My goal is to create and expand programming that makes everyone feel welcome at the Museum, and to introduce artists of all genres and backgrounds in the spirit of Isabella and the people that make up this vibrant community.” Several young and internationally renowned musicians will make their Boston debuts at the Gardner Museum this season, including internationally-renowned pianist and composer Nikita Mndoyants, Korean violin prodigy SooBeen Lee, sought-after pianist Gleb Ivanov; bassist and composer Xavier Foley, winner of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant; and 15-year-old cellist Ifetayo Ali, Sphinx Competition Junior Division First-Place Laureate. In addition to these solo performers, the talented young string ensemble Attacca Quartet will also make its Boston debut. The quartet recently completed an exploration of Haydn’s 68 string quartets and will perform String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2, as well as works by Caroline Shaw, Leonard Bernstein, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Young Baroque band ACRONYM will perform Alessandro Scarlatti’s opera La caduta de’Decemviri (1697), which tells the story of Virginia, the heroine of Roman republicanism during the tyrannical rule of the 10 men (Decemviri), and the wicked Appio Claudio. Helga Davis and George Steel have collaborated on a program, The City of Women, which explores the stories of women from Lucretia to Sandra Bland whose lives and deaths have inspired action against injustice and tyranny. These two musical programs were created to complement the Museum’s special exhibition, Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes, opening Feb. 14, 2019. The exhibition reunites Botticelli’s Story of Virginia and Story of Lucretia for the first time. The spring season will also showcase the Museum’s resident chamber orchestra A Far Cry, period-instrument ensemble Handel and Haydn Society, Musicians from Marlboro, and Borromeo String Quartet. On Saturday, March 23 at 3 p.m., the Museum will host a special event with a live concert recording of Boston’s long-running radio series, From the Top. The series provides a national platform for young performers to be heard playing and talking about their interest and lives. The co-presentation will feature violinist Leila Josefowicz as guest host. Another highlight is the Museum’s initiative to expand Thursday night programming when the Museum is open until 9 p.m. The Museum’s long-standing and popular RISE series returns on Thursday, March 28 with Jazzmeia Horn, a rising star of jazz music and winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute Competition. Latrell James will open the show. On Thursday, April 25, popular R&B trio Moonchild will make their Gardner debut, with Carson Schmidt and Camille Merendail opening. In addition to RISE, the Museum has added a Thursday Evening Concert series. The concerts this season are “sacred steel” gospel music ensemble The Campbell Brothers; a tribute to David Bowie by MIT professor, composer and performer Evan Zipoyrn; and performances by local artists and Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Maimouna Youssef celebrating the power of women. “Our winter/spring music season truly embodies the spirit of Isabella and her desire to promote multi-genre artistic experiences,” says Peggy Fogelman, the Museum’s Norma Jean Calderwood Director. “George and Helga’s programming will bring rising talents and longstanding audience favorites to the Museum.” The Museum’s classical music concerts take place Calderwood Hall on Saturday and Sunday afternoons starting January 20, and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. RISE concerts will also be on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in March and April. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 28. Here is the complete schedule: Nikita Mndoyants, piano Sunday, January 20 at 1:30 p.m. Boston Debut Both pianist and composer, Nikita Mndoyants rocketed to early stardom in 2016 at the beginning of his international career with a remarkable first—winning both the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Prokofiev International Composers Competition. Mndoyants will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s Sonata in E Major, Hob. xvi: 31 (1776); Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 (1822); Johannes Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5 (1853); and Leonard Bernstein’s “For Stephen Sondheim” (1965), “In Memoriam: William Kapell” (1981), and “For My Daughter, Nina” (1981). SooBeen Lee, violin Sunday, January 27 at 1:30 p.m. Boston Debut / Young Concert Artists Winner Called “Korea’s hottest violin prodigy,” SooBeen Lee is making an early name for herself in Boston and around the world. She will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3 (1802); Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 7 (1885); Béla Bartók’s Rhapsody No. 1 (1928); and Leonard Bernstein’s Violin Sonata (1940). Charlie Albright Sunday, February 3 at 1:30 p.m. Charlie Albright plays a program of music both beloved and unfamiliar, including: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14, “Moonlight” (1801); Leoš Janácěk’s Piano Sonata 1.x.1905 (1905); Gian Carlo Menotti’s Ricercare and Toccata (The Old Maid and the Thief ) (1953); Vivian Fine’s Concertante (1944); and Leonard Bernstein’s “For Elizabeth B. Ehrman” (1951). This concert is generously sponsored by Diane Gipson and Charles Rendeiro. ACRONYM Alessandro Scarlatti Sunday, February 10 at 1:30 p.m. Scarlatti’s unrecorded opera, La caduta de’ Decemviri (1697), tells the story of Virginia, the hero of Roman republicanism during the tyrannical rule of the 10 men (Decemviri), and the wicked Appius Claudius. The City of Women Sunday, February 17 at 1:30 p.m. World premiere Gardner Museum Commission Helga Davis, the Gardner’s second Visiting Curator for Performing Arts, collaborates with Abrams Curator of Music George Steel on a program that tells the stories of women, from Lucretia to Sandra Bland, whose lives and deaths have inspired action against injustice and tyranny. The performance includes Oompa’s On Lucretia; Courtney Bryan’s Yet Unheard: In Memory of Sandra Bland (2016); Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Judith (1708); Kate Whitley’s (text by Malala Yousafzai) Speak Out (2017); and Barbara Strozzi’s È giungerà pur mai (1664). Borromeo String Quartet Saturday, February 23 at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 24 at 1:30 p.m. This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn’s six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, an American composer of extraordinary forward-looking music. Borromeo will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 12 (1829) and String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2 (1839); Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet (1931); and Leonard Bernstein’s Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950). Gleb Ivanov, piano Boston Debut Sunday, March 3 at 1:30 p.m. Sergei Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas: Part I Sunday, March 10 at 1:30 p.m. Sergei Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas: Part II Sergei Prokofiev was one of the principal coiners of the musical lingua franca of 20th-century music. His piano sonatas, written between 1909 and 1947, are a dazzling catalog of some of his most fascinating ideas. A Far Cry with Nicole Mitchell, contralto Saturday, March 16 at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17 at 1:30 p.m. The Gardner Museum’s beloved Ensemble-in-Residence returns for this program of four American masterpieces, spanning six decades: Julia Perry’s moving Stabat Mater (1951), John Adams’ giddy and hypnotizing Shaker Loops (1978), Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst (2012), and Sinfonietta No. 1 (1955) by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, a formidable conductor and composer who has collaborated with artists as diverse as Max Roach, Marvin Gaye, Jerome Robbins, and Melvin Van Peebles. From the Top: Live Concert Recording with special guest host Leila Josefowicz, violin Saturday, March 23 at 3 p.m. A co-presentation of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and From the Top Boston’s long-running radio series provides a national platform for young performers to be heard playing and talking about their interests and lives. The Gardner Museum joins forces with this great American project as it welcomes Leila Josefowicz as guest host. Musicians from Marlboro Sunday, March 24 at 1:30 p.m. This program pairs Britten’s string quartet, an homage to Henry Purcell, with a small Bernstein work, written as a gift for Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, from the same period.
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