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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARTIST and PROGRAM UPDATES February 7, 2018 Contact: Katherine E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARTIST and PROGRAM UPDATES February 7, 2018 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5700; [email protected] NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TO RETURN TO BRAVO! VAIL FOR 16th ANNUAL SUMMER RESIDENCY, JULY 20–27, 2018 Bramwell Tovey To Conduct Programs Celebrating LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Former Philharmonic Music Director David Robertson, Joshua Weilerstein, and Hans Graf Also To Conduct Soloists To Include Concertmaster Frank Huang, Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, Pianists George Li and Louis Lortie, Organist Kent Tritle, and Vocalists Annaleigh Ashford, Santino Fontana, and Laura Osnes The New York Philharmonic will return to Bravo! Vail in Colorado for the Orchestra’s 16th annual summer residency there, performing six orchestral concerts July 20–27, 2018. Bramwell Tovey will conduct two programs celebrating Leonard Bernstein, former Philharmonic Music Director, on the centennial of his birth: Bernstein on Broadway (July 20), and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms in addition to works by Copland and Gershwin, with Mr. Tovey leading from the piano (July 21). David Robertson will also conduct two programs: one featuring works for keyboard and organ (July 22), and the other a French- themed program featuring Concertmaster Frank Huang as soloist (July 25). Joshua Weilerstein, former Philharmonic Assistant Conductor, will lead a program featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein, his sister, as soloist (July 26). The final program will feature Hans Graf conducting works by Ravel and Rimsky- Korsakov (July 27). The New York Philharmonic String Quartet will perform in the festival’s Chamber Music Series (July 24). The other soloists include pianists George Li and Louis Lortie and Philharmonic organist Kent Tritle. The New York Philharmonic has performed at Bravo! Vail each summer since 2003. Friday, July 20: Bramwell Tovey will return for his 15th summer with the Philharmonic at Bravo! Vail to conduct the residency’s opening program, Bernstein on Broadway. The program celebrates Bernstein’s musical theater contributions with songs from On the Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story, and Candide, all of which were nominated for or won Tony Awards, performed by Annaleigh Ashford, Santino Fontana, and Laura Osnes. Saturday, July 21: Bramwell Tovey will lead Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue from the piano, and conduct Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and selections from Copland’s Old American Songs with the Colorado Symphony Chorus, directed by Duain Wolfe. The program will open with Gershwin’s “Oh Kay” Overture. Bernstein championed Rhapsody in Blue, leading the Philharmonic in the work from the piano 37 times; Gershwin performed his work with the Orchestra eight times. Bernstein led the Philharmonic in the World Premiere of his Chichester Psalms in July 1965. (more) Bravo! Vail / 3 Sunday, July 22: David Robertson will conduct Copland’s An Outdoor Overture, Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with George Li in his Philharmonic debut, and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, Organ, featuring Philharmonic organist Kent Tritle. The Philharmonic gave the U.S. Premieres of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in January 1846, led by Philharmonic founder Ureli Corelli Hill, and Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony in February 1887, led by Walter Damrosch. Tuesday, July 24: the New York Philharmonic String Quartet performs Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76, No. 2; Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9; and Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2. Wednesday, July 25: David Robertson’s second program will feature Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole with Concertmaster Frank Huang as soloist, Debussy’s La Mer, Ravel’s Boléro, and Berlioz’s Le Corsaire Overture. The Philharmonic gave the U.S. Premiere of Ravel’s Boléro in November 1929, led by Arturo Toscanini. Thursday, July 26: Joshua Weilerstein, former Philharmonic Assistant Conductor, will lead a program featuring Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Alisa Weilerstein, his sister, as soloist; George Walker’s Lyric for Strings; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 27: the final program of the residency will feature Hans Graf conducting Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with Louis Lortie as soloist; Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade; and Ravel’s orchestration of Debussy’s Sarabande et Danse. Bravo! Vail was founded by John Giovando and violinist Ida Kavafian in 1987. Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott became artistic director in 2011, and Jennifer Teisinger assumed the role of executive director in January 2016. New York Philharmonic concerts will be performed in the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and will start at 6:00 p.m. The chamber music concert featuring the New York Philharmonic String Quartet will be held at the Donovan Pavilion and will also start at 6:00 p.m. Artists Grammy and Juno award–winning conductor and composer Bramwell Tovey is the new principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, a position he began in January 2018. He was appointed music director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) in 2000, and his tenure concludes in the summer of 2018. Under his leadership the VSO has toured to China and South Korea, and across Canada and the United States. His VSO innovations have included the establishment of the VSO School of Music (of which he is artistic advisor), the VSO’s annual festival of contemporary music, and the VSO Orchestral Institute at Whistler. In 2018–19, the VSO’s centenary season, he assumes the role of music director emeritus. His 2017–18 season guest appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Sydney, Melbourne, St. Louis, and Toronto symphony orchestras. He will also make debuts with the Houston Symphony and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. Also a composer, in 2003 Bramwell Tovey won the Juno Award for Best Classical Composition for his choral and brass work Requiem for a Charred Skull; his song cycle Ancestral Voices, written for acclaimed Kwagiulth mezzo-soprano Marion Newman, was premiered in June 2017. His trumpet concerto Songs of the Paradise Saloon was commissioned by the Toronto Symphony for principal trumpet Andrew McCandless, and was performed in 2014 by (more) Bravo! Vail / 3 Alison Balsom and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra. A recording of his opera The Inventor, commissioned by Calgary Opera, featuring the original cast members of UBC Opera and the VSO, is scheduled for release. Mr. Tovey was the recipient of the Oskar Morawetz 2015 Prize for Excellence in Music Performance and was previously music director of Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL). He won the Prix d’or of the Academie Lyrique Française for his recording of Jean Cras’s 1922 opera Polyphème with OPL, and toured with the orchestra to China, South Korea, the United States, and throughout Europe. In 2013 he was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Canada for services to music. Since 2006 he has been artistic director of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. In 2017 he joined the faculty of Boston University, where he teaches conducting and oversees its extensive orchestra program. Mr. Tovey made his New York Philharmonic debut leading a Young People’s Concert in October 2000, and he led his first subscription concert in March 2002, comprising works by Haydn, Stravinsky, Webern, and Mozart. Most recently, in December 2017, he conducted the Orchestra in New Year’s Eve: Bernstein on Broadway, broadcast on Live From Lincoln Center. David Robertson is in his fourth season as chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and his 13th season as music director of the St. Louis Symphony. His past positions have included principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony, music director of the Orchestra National de Lyon and Paris’s Ensemble Intercontemporain, and resident conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony. Recent highlights with the St. Louis Symphony include a California tour featuring Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux étoiles... with video imagery by photographer Deborah O’Grady, co-commissioned with the Sydney Symphony; the U.S. premiere of Tan Dun’s The Wolf; and John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 with Leila Josefowicz. Mr. Robertson is a frequent guest of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, Israel Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. Upcoming engagements include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre national de France, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the NCPA Orchestra, Beijing. An advocate for living composers, Mr. Robertson has conducted world premieres with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonica della Scala, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra, among others. With more than 60 operas in his repertoire, he has performed with leading companies in Lyon, Hamburg, Munich, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Barcelona, Bologna, and Cardiff and at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and The Metropolitan Opera, and he has led the resurgence of operas in concert at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Having worked with labels including Sony and Deutsche Grammophon, his Nonesuch
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