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#LETSPLAYNYP MAY 23—JUNE 11, 2016 16 1 A WIDE-RANGING EXPLORATION CONTENTS PROGRAMS & PAVILIONS 2 OF TODAY’S MUSIC EXTRAS 7 THE PARTNERS 8 THE BIENNIAL AT A GLANCE 10 28 EVENTS 100+ COMPOSERS 100s OF MUSICIANS LET’S PLAY 12 12 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

A flagship project of the , the NY PHIL BIENNIAL CREATING TODAY, INSPIRING TOMORROW is a wide-ranging exploration of today’s music that brings together an international roster of composers, performers, and curatorial voices for Two years have passed since we embarked on an experiment we decided with leading institutions of music education from far and wide, because the to call the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, borrowing a word from the world of Philharmonic has focused an even greater spotlight on our ability to inspire concerts presented both on the campus and with partners ambitious visual art exhibitions to convey our own aspiration to present the rising generation of professional musicians. We are delighted to be an imaginative, varied, provocative, and surprising snapshot of the current providing this platform for Colorado’s Aspen Music Festival in venues throughout the city. The second NY PHIL BIENNIAL, taking state of our art form. Our biennial is not a survey, nor is it a “Best of” list. It and School, Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Academy, Switzerland’s LUCERNE place May 23–June 11, 2016, features diverse programs — ranging from is an array of “pavilions”: distinct, even idiosyncratically curated collections FESTIVAL, and others. This biennial is giving these young musicians a of works by today’s composers that reflect the tastes, interests, and points platform on which they can both perform and also share their perspectives, solo works and a chamber opera to large-scale symphonies — by more of view of a variety of artists and music programmers, all of whom share a preferences, and priorities. passion for discovery and belief in the value of collaboration. I gave up counting the number of composers represented when I than 100 composers, more than half of whom are American; present some These collections arise from, and reflect, a sound world that is wider than reached 100. Like last time, these creators range in age and eminence, from ever. New works may be tonal, or serialist, or a combination of the two — icons like and György Ligeti to children just discovering their of the country’s top music schools and youth choruses; and expand to an approach that seemed irreconcilable half a century ago. They can be own compositional voices. And while they hail from a fascinating variety more New York City neighborhoods. A range of events and activities has performed by acoustic instruments, the unaccompanied human voice, or by of countries — from Brazil to Iceland, from Turkey to South Korea — this computer. Composers have an unprecedented flexibility in the media through biennial has a prominently American accent: more than half of the been created to engender an ongoing dialogue among artists, composers, which they create. That is what makes the juxtaposition of programs crafted composers are from the . There will be more than 50 World by a variety of sophisticated curators so fascinating and compelling. Premieres, not to mention dozens of U.S. and New York Premieres. The NY and audience members. Partners in the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL include To balance the need to choose with a determination to embrace — even PHIL BIENNIAL is intended to be a citywide celebration, so in addition to revel in — this diversity, we have joined with partners who also delight in traditional settings such as and the Rose Theater at Jazz National Sawdust; 92nd Street Y; Aspen Music Festival and School; new music, but who act on that delight with alternate viewpoints, interests, at Lincoln Center, we now venture into new spaces like the new Whitney Interlochen Center for the Arts; League of Composers / ISCM; Lincoln and sensibilities. Clearly, the first NY PHIL BIENNIAL, in 2014, struck a Museum of American Art in the Meatpacking District and Williamsburg’s chord, because afterward we were approached by a gratifying number National Sawdust. Center for the Performing Arts; ; MetLiveArts; New of musicians and organizations — many based across the country and in In scanning through these pages I am proud because, as is the case with Europe — clamoring to be part of the second. With his rare combination of many truly exciting ideas, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL has taken on a life of York City Festival; Whitney Museum of American empathy as a composer, insight as a performer, and eagerness as a learner, its own and created its own set of necessities and demands. It has been a Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in- joy to rise to the challenge posed by the warmth with which the inaugural Art; WQXR’s Q2 Music; and Yale School of Music. Residence, was the ideal colleague in poring over all the possibilities, and adventure was received. This project fulfills my highest aspirations for helping to craft a second biennial with more partners curating an even manifesting the pioneering role the New York Philharmonic plays in the Major support for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, greater variety of musical pavilions than were on display in 2014. world of music. The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Francis Goelet Fund. To accommodate this surge of enthusiasm by musicians, performing Additional funding is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation and Honey M. Kurtz. arts organizations, and museums — and the audiences keen for yet more Esa-Pekka Salonen is The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence. immersion in the new — we expanded the biennial to 28 events presented by the New York Philharmonic and our 12 partners. I know that Matthew ALAN GILBERT VanBesien, the Philharmonic’s President, is as excited as I am to collaborate New York Philharmonic Music Director CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND LINCOLN CENTER’S GREAT PERFORMERS AS PART OF THE PROGRAMS & PAVILIONS LINCOLN CENTER–NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC OPERA INITIATIVE

PRESENTED BY 92ND STREET Y THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2016, 7:30 P.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016, 7:30 P.M. CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016, 7:30 P.M. LUCERNE FESTIVAL, AND METLIVEARTS

MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016, 8:30 P.M. ILAN VOLKOV, CONDUCTOR RAMIN GRAY, DIRECTOR JACK QUARTET BEN CLARK, ASSOCIATE SET DESIGN, AFTER AN IDEA BY JOHANNES SCHÜTZ CHRISTINA CUNNINGHAM, COSTUME DESIGN Cenk ERGÜN Sonare (New York Premiere) FRANZ PETER DAVID, LIGHTING DESIGN FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Derek BERMEL Intonations (World Premiere) LEON BAUGH, MOVEMENT DIRECTOR Cenk ERGÜN Celare (New York Premiere) CO-PRESENTED BY YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND WQXR’S Q2 MUSIC NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Ligeti Forward, Program I Marc SABAT Euler Lattice Spirals Scenery (New York Premiere) PRODUCTION BY THE ROYAL OPERA ALAN GILBERT, CONDUCTOR DAVID FULMER, CONDUCTOR (CHIN) 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue MUSIC Gerald BARRY The Importance of Being Earnest CONOR HANICK, Cenk Ergün’s Celare and Sonare have been made possible by the (U.S. Stage Premiere–Co-Commissioned Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, ENSEMBLE OF THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016, 7:00 P.M. by Philharmonic and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music MUSICIANS FROM THE YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Director, and Barbican Centre, ) Alexandre LUNSQUI Kinetic Study 2 JESSICA PRAY, SOPRANO Alexandre LUNSQUI Three Short Pieces DOUGLAS DICKSON, PIANO Simon Wilding, bass (Lane / Merriman) Fantaisie mécanique Benedict Nelson, baritone (Algernon Moncrieff) György LIGETI Piano HELGA DAVIS, HOST Paul Curievici, tenor (John Worthing) Stephanie Marshall, mezzo-soprano (Gwendolen Fairfax) Charles IVES Five songs for voice and piano: Alan Ewing, bass (Lady Bracknell) Disclosure, Mists, West London, Hilary Summers, contralto (Miss Prism) SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016, 7:00 P.M. World’s Wanderers, and Memories Claudia Boyle, soprano (Cecily Cardew) Christopher THEOFANIDIS Kaoru for two flutes Kevin West (The Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.) CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND NATIONAL SAWDUST Toward the Setting Sun (Vers le soleil Ligeti Forward, Program II couchant) (New York Premiere) Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 10 Columbus Circle CONDUCTOR Hannah LASH Leaves, Space (New York Premiere) ALAN GILBERT, where you go for 12 singers (New DAVID FULMER, CONDUCTOR (FUJIKURA) York Premiere) JAY CAMPBELL, Martin BRESNICK And I Always Thought for , ENSEMBLE OF THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016, 7:00 P.M. violin, and piano (New York TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Premiere) Marc-André DALBAVIE Axiom Hilary PURRINGTON For your judicious and pious György LIGETI Cello Concerto Shared Madness consideration for mezzo-soprano, Dai FUJIKURA ice viola, and piano (New York , VIOLIN Premiere) HELGA DAVIS, HOST The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, 44 Charlton Street SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016, 2:00 P.M. Works by more than 30 composers, which taken together explore the shared creative space between composer and performer in the 21st PRESENTED BY NATIONAL SAWDUST Ligeti Forward, Program III century, with a concentration on virtuosity. Presented over two nights, the following ALAN GILBERT, CONDUCTOR composers’ contributions will be heard in their DAVID FULMER, CONDUCTOR (GRISEY) World Premieres: PRESENTED BY THE LEAGUE OF COMPOSERS / ISCM MIVOS QUARTET

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016, 7:00 P.M. PEKKA KUUSISTO, VIOLIN Samuel ADAMS, Timo ANDRES, Matt AUCOIN, Jean-Baptiste BARRIÈRE, Derek BERMEL, Lisa BIELAWA, Daníel BJARNASON, ENSEMBLE OF THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI BROOKLYN RIDER David BRUCE, Chris CERRONE, Anthony CHEUNG, Bryce Gérard GRISEY Talea DESSNER, Zosha DI CASTRI, , Michael GORDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Mark GREY, John HARBISON, Vijay IYER, Gabriel KAHANE, Program to include: Remedy of Fortune Phil KLINE, David LANG, David LUDWIG, James MATHESON, LOUIS KARCHIN, MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR Colin JACOBSEN BTT (World Premiere) György LIGETI John ZORN The Alchemist Missy MAZZOLI, Eric NATHAN, Marc NEIKRUG, Andrew CHARLES WUORINEN, CONDUCTOR (WUORINEN) NORMAN, Christopher ROUNTREE, Kaija SAARIAHO, Sean Tyondai BRAXTON Arp Rec 1 (New York Premiere) The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium SHEPHERD, Noam SIVAN, Augusta Read THOMAS, and ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT, PIANO The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Julia WOLFE OF THE LEAGUE OF COMPOSERS Ligeti Forward is supported by Swiss Re — Partner LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI. Additional generous funding is provided by Julia Lanigan.

National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Huck HODGE Alêtheia (New York Premiere) Felipe LARA Fringes (U.S. Premiere) Sempre Diritto! Charles WUORINEN Flying to Kahani for piano and chamber orchestra 2 Miller Theatre at , 2960 Broadway 3 PROGRAMS & PAVILIONS CONTINUED MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016 ! TS 5:00 P.M. EN V E F HOLLANDS, PUBLIQuartet The Scheherazade Project O S Y & Amy KHOSHBIN (indie-rock duo Hollands; PUBLIQuartet; A D visual artist Amy Khoshbin) 3

8:00 P.M.

Mark ZAKI Windows (for video) Nicholas CLINE water-witching (for tenor saxophone) CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND NATIONAL SAWDUST CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Maurice WRIGHT Wo Klingend? (for four-channel fixed media) AND INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Fred SZYMANSKI Turbulence — Convections (for video) Elizabeth HOFFMAN Fastenings (Maja Cerar, violin) Hubert HOWE Inharmonic Fantasy No. 4 (for video) & Sylvia PENGILLY CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AND NATIONAL SAWDUST Marc AINGER Windswept (Madeleine Shapiro, cello; Ann Stimson, flute) SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016, AT 11:00 A.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Clemens VON REUSNER HO (for eight-channel fixed media) JOSHUA GERSEN, CONDUCTOR NA SUN, VIOLIN Grant LUHMANN Arborea (for violin) ANNA URREY, FLUTE PETER KENOTE, VIOLA Young Americans Jeffrey HASS Three Easy Recipes (for video) CHRISTOPHER ROUNTREE, CONDUCTOR John NICHOLS III The Pillar II (Scott Deal, percussion) LIAM BURKE, CLARINET ALEXEI YUPANQUI GONZALES, CELLO National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn HOWARD WALL, HORN MAX ZEUGNER, BASS INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY ORCHESTRA KYLE ZERNA, PERCUSSION ALMA MICIC, VOCALIST INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY DANCE COMPANY SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016 ANNA RABINOVA, VIOLIN TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2016 Machine (New York Premiere) 3:00 P.M. JON DEAK, CO-HOST Hannah LASH Chaconnes (World Premiere) 5:00 P.M. THEODORE WIPRUD, CO-HOST Thomas DEMPSTER melt (for four-channel fixed media) Ashley FURE Bound to the Bow (World Premiere) Gerald ECKERT Klangräume (Beatrix Wagner, piccolo) Immediacy of Nowness Nico MUHLY So Far So Good (New York Premiere) Damon LEE Stumm (for video) Reiner KRÄMER Stück für querflöte, saxofon und Very Young Composers of the New York Philharmonic: The Good So Far Fernando LAUB Consummation (for ad-hoc electroacoustic device) CHOREOGRAPHER computer in drei Teilen (for flute, Voices for the Future CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, Andrew BABCOCK Ventriloquy (for two-channel fixed media) alto saxophone and computer) Aidan NG (age 12, NYC) Whitewashed Window Tania LEÓN Axon (Maja Cerar, violin) Ted MOORE discreet and discrete (for alto David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center (World Premiere) Paul HEMBREE Apocryphal Chrysopoeia (for laptop) saxophone and laptops) Taehyun WON (age 13, Seoul, South Korea) Future of Space Clelia PATRONO Tension and Release (for video) Mikel KUEHN Crack (for alto saxophone and electro- (World Premiere) Jérémie JONES Silver Fix & Complex Systems (for four-channel acoustic accompaniment) Chi-Chi EZEKWENNA (age 11, NYC) Incredibly Dangerous, fixed media) Paul David THOMAS A Thread Unwound (for flute, alto Curiously Marvelous Aaron EINBOND Xylography (for cello) saxophone, and two computers) (World Premiere) Andrew WALTERS Red Plastic Bell Abstract (for eight-channel fixed Joshua CLAUSEN James Carville and Mary Matalin Are Angie ANDRADE (age 13, Caracas, Venezuela) El Huracán de la Unión media) Impressive (for flute and electronics) (World Premiere) Margaret SCHEDEL QfefQ (reACT: Francesca Arnone, flute; Mikylah (Patricia Surman, flute; Jeffery Kyle Mia MICIC (age 14, NYC) The Wings of a Butterfly Myers McTeer, violin) Hutchins, alto saxophone; Reiner (World Premiere) Krämer and Ted Moore, computers) Aino HARTONEN (age 12, Helsinki, Finland) Two Worlds (World Premiere) Nina MOSKE (age 12, NYC) we will always be humans (World Premiere) 7:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. Angélica NEGRÓN (VYC Teaching Artist) This Person (World Premiere) Sundog ii (for eight-channel fixed media) Kari VÄKEVÄ Eric LYON Little History of Photography Paola PRESTINI (VYC Founding Teaching Artist) Tomorrow’s Labyrinth Christopher BAILEY Composition for S#|††¥ Piano... (Shiau-uen Ding, (World Premiere) (Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet) piano) Stuart CUNNINGHAM Noise Without Noise (for two-channel National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Ari FRANKEL inErnest (for video) fixed media) Ari FRANKEL enCaged (for video) James DASHOW in Pure Duration 7 (for alto Very Young Composers is sponsored, in part, by The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Inc., Muna & Basem Hishmeh, Hanna KIM Yellow Forest (for two laptops) saxophone) The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Solender. Ken UENO Vedananupassana (Maja Cerar, violin) Ragnar GRIPPE Spider’s Web (for two-channel fixed This concert is made possible, in part, through the generosity of contributors CROSSWORD SOLUTION media) to the Very Young Composers’ 20th-anniversary Kickstarter campaign. Charles NICHOLS At the Boundary (for string quartet) Lawrence FRITTS Musicometry I (Esther Lamneck, clarinet) Tuo WANG IDB (Emilio Guarino, double bass) Eric EVANS Homoousios (Cassie Lear, flute) Paolo GATTI Poltergeist (Maja Cerar, violin) Phill NIBLOCK Timepiece / Maize (for video and two- or Maja CERAR & Autopoesis (Maja Cerar, violin) four-channel audio) Liubo BORISSOV Yasuhiro OTANI Reverie (Yasuhiro Otani, electric guitar) Wang-chin LI River (Yi-An Huang, ) 10:00 P.M. Joshua MAILMAN Material Soundscapes Collide (Arthur Kampela, guitar) Ghost Voices Michael GOGINS Scrims (for video) Annie GOSFIELD Captured Signals and Radio Ephemera Howie KENTY The Halls Within the Mirror (Rebekah (for sampler and guitar) Norris, soprano) Annie GOSFIELD Long Waves and Random Pulses (for violin and fixed media) Shelley HIRSCH & Book Bark Tree Skin Line Stage 1 4 Joke LANZ 5 PROGRAMS & PAVILIONS CONTINUED

CO-PRESENTED BY THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART AND THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016, 7:00 P.M. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016, 7:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016, 4:00 P.M. ALAN GILBERT, CONDUCTOR BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TIMOTHY WEISS, CONDUCTOR DIANNE BERKUN MENAKER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR TIMOTHY WEISS, CONDUCTOR SPENCER LANG, TENOR SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS SPENCER LANG, TENOR Pierre BOULEZ Messagesquisse ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL’S ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE LISA BIELAWA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL’S Eric Bartlett, solo cello; Patrick Jee, Qiang Tu, VALÉRIE SAINTE-AGATHE, MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE Sumire Kudo, Maria Kitsopoulos, Alexei Yupanqui Thomas KOTCHEFF bang Z (New York Premiere) Gonzales, Wendy Sutter, cello THEO BLECKMANN, VOCALIST Stephen HARTKE The Blue Studio (New York Premiere) Steven STUCKY The Stars and the Roses Steven STUCKY Second (New York Premiere) Nina C. YOUNG Rising Tide (New York Premiere) HOTEL ELEFANT, AMPLIFIED STRING QUARTET Esa-Pekka SALONEN Catch and Release Per NØRGÅRD No. 8 (U.S. Premiere) Steven STUCKY The Stars and the Roses Philip GLASS / “Father Death Blues” from Hydrogen David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center (New York Premiere) David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center Arr. L. Bielawa & Jukebox (New York Premiere of This performance is made possible by Edward Jay Wohlgemuth. Christopher STARK Mercy Bell (New York Premiere) P. Glass choral arrangement) Esa-Pekka SALONEN Catch and Release (New York Carla KIHLSTEDT Herring Run (New York Premiere) Premiere) Theo BLECKMANN Final Answer (World Premiere) so quietly (World Premiere) Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street Caroline SHAW Mary KOUYOUMDJIAN Become Who I Am Gabriel KAHANE Back of the Choir (World Premiere) EXTRAS EXHIBIT PLAY DATES

8:30 P.M. Biennial Backstory: Messiaen’s Stick around after select NY PHIL BIENNIAL THE KNIGHTS Aesthetics and Influence at the concerts for NY PHIL BIENNIAL Play Dates, COLIN JACOBSEN, CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Philharmonic post-concert meet-ups with composers and CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMOINIC performers over cocktails. And for the Play Dates ERIC JACOBSEN, CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR following David Geffen Hall concerts, David AND LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The New York Philharmonic Archives celebrates BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS the NY PHIL BIENNIAL by looking back at the Geffen Hall Café in the lobby will be transformed into Bar Biennial. DIANNE BERKUN MENAKER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR groundbreaking music of Olivier Messiaen and SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS his principal interpreters, former Music Directors MAY 11 AT DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. Boulez, a student MAY 24 AND 31, AND JUNE 3, 5, 6, AND 7 LISA BIELAWA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT NATIONAL SAWDUST VALÉRIE SAINTE-AGATHE, MUSIC DIRECTOR of Messiaen, opened the door to Messiaen’s WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016, 7:30 P.M. compositions with an unprecedented focus MAY 25 AT THE JEROME L. GREENE NICHOLAS PHAN, TENOR on contemporary music in the 1970s and the PERFORMANCE SPACE COLIN JACOBSEN, VIOLIN Insights at the Atrium: start of the Philharmonic’s first contemporary JUNE 4 (with Lincoln Center’s Great Performers) AND 9 “NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A Player’s Guide” music series, Prospective Encounters. Mehta AT ROSE THEATER AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER (June 9 between the double bill) PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Lisa BIELAWA My Outstretched Hand (World Premiere) further championed him, by commissioning the ALAN GILBERT, HOST massive Éclairs sur L’Au-Delà…, which would JUNE 5 (with LUCERNE FESTIVAL and MetLiveArts) AT THE Nico MUHLY Impossible Things (U.S. Premiere) METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART LISA BIELAWA, MARTIN BRESNICK, JAY be the composer’s last completed work, and Colin JACOBSEN If I Were Not Me (World Premiere) JUNE 5, 10, AND 11 AT BAR BIENNIAL IN DAVID CAMPBELL, , COLIN by performing more Messiaen works than any GEFFEN HALL Aaron Jay KERNIS Remembering the Sea — Souvenir de la Mer (World Premiere) JACOBSEN, AARON JAY KERNIS, JENNIFER Philharmonic conductor to date. The focus both Music Directors gave to the music of their time FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Timo ANDRES Comfort Food (New York Premiere) KOH, DIANNE BERKUN MENAKER, HILARY For the latest Play Date information visit set the groundwork for future Philharmonic nyphil.org/biennial. PURRINGTON, and CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS, contemporary music festivals. ALAN GILBERT, CONDUCTOR Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, 10 Columbus Circle SPEAKERS JOSEPH ALESSI, The exhibit is located in the Bruno Walter MARTIN GRUBINGER, PERCUSSION A preview of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL Gallery on the Grand Promenade of David NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Geffen Hall, between doors 4 and 5. It is open David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center to David Geffen Hall ticket holders during Highlights from Alan Gilbert and the New York Trombone Concerto (World Premiere–New Columbus Avenue at 62nd Street concert hours. Philharmonic’s biennial performances will be York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the broadcast on WFMT’s Relevant Tones with Seth Shanghai Symphony Orchestra) Boustead (available at www.relevantones.com) and released on the New York Philharmonic’s digital John CORIGLIANO Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra (New York Premiere) recording series, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2015–16 Season, available from all Opportunities to experience the NY PHIL BIENNIAL online include: major digital download services. David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center MAY 11: INSIGHTS AT THE ATRIUM: “NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A PLAYER’S GUIDE” — VIDEO ON NYPHIL.ORG/BIENNIAL William Bolcom’s commission is made possible with generous support MAY 23: JACK QUARTET — LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST ON 92Y.ORG from Edward Stanford & Barbara Scheulen. Select biennial moments will also MAY 24: 24-HOUR NY PHIL BIENNIAL MARATHON — AUDIO ON Q2MUSIC.ORG be video-streamed live on the MAY 24 AND 31: SHARED MADNESS — LIVE AUDIO STREAM ON Q2MUSIC.ORG Philharmonic’s Facebook page via MAY 25: YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC’S NEW MUSIC NEW HAVEN — LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST ON Q2MUSIC.ORG Facebook Live; follow our social JUNE 3, 4, AND 5: LIGETI FORWARD — LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST ON METMUSEUM.ORG media channels to find out when 6 MEDIA For more information and updates, visit nyphil.org/biennial and follow the New York Philharmonic on Twitter and Facebook. to tune in. 7 THE PARTNERS

The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) is dedicated to

showcasing the best electroacoustic music and video art from all over the world

in New York City, through a multi-day festival in different venues throughout the

city. The festivals include electroacoustic music recorded alone in up to eight Located in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the non-profit National Sawdust is a dynamic 92nd Street Y is a center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, an incubator LUCERNE FESTIVAL encompasses channels, works involving live electronics, works combining musical instruments home for artists and new music of all kinds. It is a place for exploration and discovery — where for creativity. Founded in 1874, it seeks to create, provide, and disseminate programs of or voices with recorded or live electronics, video and multimedia works, and audio emerging and established artists can share their music with serious music fans and casual a series of internationally leading distinction that foster the physical and mental growth of people throughout their lives. From listeners alike. In a city teeming with venues, National Sawdust is a singular space founded festivals in the realm of classical music. and video installations. its New York headquarters, 92Y offers thousands of programs, including talks with leaders in with an expansive vision: to provide composers and musicians across genres with a setting in Each year three distinct festivals take The festival solicits works from electroacoustic music composers not just every field; outstanding performing, visual, and literary arts presentations and classes; fitness which they can flourish, and a place where they are given unprecedented support and critical place: the Easter Festival, the Summer and sports programs; and activities for children and families. from New York or the United States, but internationally. It uses a peer-reviewed resources essential to create, and then share, their work. Festival, and the Piano Festival. ABOUT METLIVEARTS Through these programs, 92Y creates community far beyond its four walls, bringing people selection process to ensure the best works are presented. The festival presents A diversity of world-class artists, arts organizations, and institutions are collaborating LUCERNE FESTIVAL was founded in The groundbreaking live arts series from all over the world together through innovations like the award-winning #GivingTuesday not just audio, but also video and multimedia works, as well as installations that with National Sawdust’s creative and executive director, the composer Paola Prestini, as 1938 and Michael Haefliger has been at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Social Good Summit. Along with live webcasts and a growing online archive of free curators. In addition to hosting rehearsals, performances, recordings, and broadcasts in its executive and artistic director since explores contemporary performance offer the most innovative new-music programming.nycemf.org talks and performances, it is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into state-of-the art facilities, National Sawdust commissions new works and arranges workshops 1999. Each year the most acclaimed action all over the world. through the lens of the Museum’s and residencies. It aims to be a resource not only for the community of musicians, but also for symphony come to Lucerne Since the launch of its Concerts Series in 1936, 92Y has enjoyed international renown for its exhibitions and unparalleled gallery audiences in search of remarkable musical experiences at accessible ticket prices. to perform: these include such music presentations. The program now encompasses chamber music, solo recitals, the annual spaces with singular performances For the local community, National Sawdust creates progressive public programs and ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic, Jazz in July festival, Lyrics & Lyricists™, The Art of the Guitar, contemporary music, and family and talks. MetLiveArts invites artists, educational initiatives. Other offerings include talks, publications, and mentorship programs Vienna Philharmonic, and Royal concerts. It promotes new music through commissions, and nurtures artists at all stages of for composers and musicians, and for related fields. Designed by Brooklyn’s Bureau V, National performers, curators, and thought- their careers. Concertgebouw Orchestra . Sawdust is constructed within the existing shell of a century-old sawdust factory, preserving leaders to explore and collaborate All of 92Y’s programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values: the capacity of civil The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, the authenticity of Williamsburg’s industrial past while providing a refined and intimate setting within The Met, leading with new dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a which was founded in 2004 by Claudio for the exploration of new music. At the venue’s core is a flexible chamber hall, acoustically commissions, World Premieres, and commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. Abbado and Michael Haefliger, brings designed by the renowned engineering firm Arup to provide the highest-quality experience of site-specific durational performances 92Y.org. internationally acclaimed orchestral both unamplified and amplified music. nationalsawdust.org musicians to Lucerne each summer for that have been named some of the a two-week period. Starting in 2016 most “Memorable” and “Best of” Riccardo Chailly will be the orchestra’s performances in New York City by new music director. Along with the , New Yorker, cultivating the traditional repertoire, and Broadway World. contemporary music plays an essential The Aspen Music Festival and School is the United More than 630 top music students from more James Conlon, James Levine, Leonard Slatkin, Since 1949 Aspen has had a proud history role at LUCERNE FESTIVAL in terms of States’ premier classical music festival, presenting than 40 countries come each summer to play in five and Joshua Weilerstein; composers William Bolcom, of commitment to new American music and it ABOUT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART programming and education. Equally more than 400 events during its eight-week orchestras, sing, conduct, compose, and study with Philip Glass, David Lang, Augusta Read Thomas, is a pleasure to partner with the New York The Met presents more than 5,000 summer season. The institution draws top classical renowned artist-faculty members. , and Joan Tower; vocalists Jamie important is the development of Philharmonic on its visionary NY PHIL BIENNIAL. musicians from around the world to this Colorado Renowned alumni include violinists Joshua Bell, Barton, Danielle de Niese, Sasha Cooke, Renée emerging talent in the areas known as years of art from around the world The two AMFS programs, with each work a New York The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and mountain retreat for an unparalleled combination of Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Robert McDuffie, Midori, Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, and Tamara Wilson; cellists LUCERNE FESTIVAL YOUNG and the for everyone to experience and enjoy. Premiere, feature pieces by Aspen students, artist- philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875−1942), houses the foremost performances and music education. Many events Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Gil Shaham; pianists Lynn Harrell and Alisa Weilerstein; guitarist Sharon LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY. The The Museum lives in three iconic are free and seating on the David Karetsky Music Ingrid Fliter, Orli Shaham, Conrad Tao, Yuja Wang, Isbin; performer Peter Schickele; and bassist faculty, and alumni, with a special place for the great collection of American art from the 20th and 21st centuries. The core of the Lawn is always free. Wu Han, and Joyce Yang; conductors , Edgar Meyer. Steven Stucky. aspenmusicfestival.com Academy, which was founded by Pierre sites in New York City — the main Boulez and Michael Haefliger, will be building on Fifth Avenue, at The Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of under a new directorship starting in Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity 2016, with artistic director Wolfgang Millions of people also take part in and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a Rihm and principal conductor Matthias The Met experience online. steadfast commitment to artists themselves, the Whitney has long been a powerful Pintscher. As LUCERNE FESTIVAL Since it was founded in 1870, The The League of Composers / ISCM is the nation’s oldest organization devoted to contemporary ALUMNI, participants of the Academy music. Dating back to 1923, it merged with the U.S. section of the International Society for Met has always aspired to be more force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what continue to have an impact in Lucerne Contemporary Music (ISCM) in 1954. Its concerts draw on a remarkably rich heritage, and include such than a treasury of rare and beautiful is innovative and influential in American art today. The Whitney also has a rich and around the world through first-class groundbreaking premieres as Arnold Schönberg’s Die glückliche Hand, Béla Bartók’s Village Scenes, concert projects. The KKL Luzern, a objects. Every day, art comes alive in history that dates back to the 1960s of presenting performance in relation to visual ’s Piano Sonata, and Anton Webern’s Symphony. The organization more recently Created in 1964, Interlochen Arts Academy is one part of the nationally recognized nonprofit Interlochen complex designed by Jean Nouvel and the Museum’s galleries and through presented the American premieres of György Ligeti’s Horn Trio, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Harlequin, art, which has continued to evolve at the Museum’s new building on 99 Gansevoort Center for the Arts. Since its inception, the Academy has been committed to excellence in the arts and celebrated for its outstanding acoustics its exhibitions and events, revealing and ’s On Conversing with Paradise. The League’s mission is to engage audiences Street. As part of the Museum’s commitment to presenting work by contemporary academics, creating an atmosphere of support in which students can achieve the highest possible artistic, and its architecture alike, serves as the both new ideas and unexpected by presenting performances of new music of the highest caliber written by both emerging and intellectual, and ethical standards as individuals and as responsible members of a diverse community. central venue for LUCERNE FESTIVAL. connections across time and across composers, the Whitney is delighted to host the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at established living composers, with an emphasis on American composition. Situated on a 1,200-acre campus in northwestern Michigan, Interlochen Arts Academy is the nation’s lucernefestival.ch cultures. metmuseum.org The Orchestra of the League of Composers was established in 2009 by ISCM President David the Museum as part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL. whitney.org first fine arts boarding high school, uniting 500 talented and motivated young artists each year who study Gordon, composer / conductor Louis Karchin, and flutist Sue Ann Kahn. It presented its debut concert music, theatre, comparative arts, dance, visual arts, creative writing, motion picture arts, and challenging at Miller Theatre on June 10, 2009, in a program of music by Elliott Carter, Christopher Dietz, Julia academics in a college-like setting. Dedicated to providing university-level academic instruction combined with arts instruction from accomplished professionals, the Academy is a fast-paced environment that Wolfe, Charles Wuorinen, and Alvin Singleton. Since its founding, it has commissioned ten new works challenges students, focuses talents, and develops creativity. The 82 outstanding artists and educators and presented 23 New York or World Premieres. It has collaborated with soloists such as cellist Fred who make up the Interlochen Arts Academy faculty instruct a curriculum that prepares students to take Sherry, baritone Evan Hughes, soprano Kate Lindsay, Philharmonic Principal Oboe Liang Wang, and Q2 Music — WQXR’s online platform dedicated to contemporary classical composers, prominent roles in any professional endeavor. violist Paul Neubauer. The New York Times and other publications have praised the orchestra for its innovative ensembles, and musical discovery — is proud to partner with the NY PHIL Thanks to a collaborative effort between New York Philharmonic President Matthew VanBesien, himself “boundary-erasing spirit,” “stylistically omnivorous programming,” and its “polished” performances. BIENNIAL and its mission to serve audiences for 21st-century classical music. Its an alumnus of Interlochen Arts Camp, and Interlochen President Jeffrey Kimpton, the Academy Orchestra The orchestra is honored to participate in the NY PHIL BIENNIAL. leagueofcomposers.org programming includes immersive festivals, insightful commentary from hosts such Established in 1894, the Yale School of Music continues a position of international leadership in the training will perform in Young Americans as part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL. This is a tremendous opportunity for as composer Phil Kline and vocalist Helga Davis, full-length album streams, live the students and a milestone for the Academy, which is the only high school invited to participate in the of performers and composers. A professional graduate school and the only school of music in the Ivy League, webcasts, and exclusive concert audio from local and national venues, as well biennial. interlochen.org the Yale School of Music maintains a highly selective admissions process, admitting approximately 200 as special events in front of live audiences at The Jerome L. Greene Performance students who come to study with a distinguished faculty. The School of Music has a high international Space at WQXR. Q2 Music produces Meet the Composer with host Nadia Sirota, profile: approximately 40 percent of students come from countries outside the United States, and the School a Peabody Award–winning interview podcast that mines the brains of today’s engages globally in partnerships with leading conservatories, festivals, and opera companies. leading composers, as well as LPR Live, a podcast that shares dynamic new-music performances from ’s Le Poisson Rouge. Q2 Music is streamed Alumni of the Yale School of Music hold major positions throughout the music world. Yale graduates live, 24 / 7, at www.wqxr.org/q2music and is also available via the free WQXR App. perform with and conduct preeminent American and international orchestras, and voice alumni earn renown Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Lincoln Center’s Great Performers offers classical and contemporary music performances from the world’s in professional opera companies. Reflecting the School’s strong chamber music program, many graduates outstanding symphony orchestras, vocalists, chamber ensembles, and recitalists. Since its initiation in 1965, the series, presented by have founded or joined prominent chamber ensembles. Yale composition alumni enjoy noted success, with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA), has expanded to include significant emerging artists and premieres of groundbreaking continual premieres of new music. Along with artistic accomplishment, Yale School of Music graduates provide strong leadership in guiding the course of numerous academic and cultural institutions. productions, with offerings from October through June in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and other performance spaces around New York City. LCPA Our program for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL represents the Yale School of Music composition program — its maintains a strong commitment to contemporary programming, including composer commissions and residencies. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, past, present, and future. It begins with songs by our historically most distinguished student, Charles Ives, performances, tours, and educational activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals, which also include American Songbook, Lincoln Center Festival, MUSIC and concludes with a song by a very promising student (and fellow New Englander) Hilary Purrington. In Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winningMETLIVEARTS Live From Lincoln Center, which between, we offer a set of New York Premieres by the School’s composition faculty: Martin Bresnick, Aaron 8 airs nationally on PBS. www.LCGreatPerformers.org Jay Kernis, David Lang, Hannah Lash, and Christopher Theofanidis. music.yale.edu. 9 THE BIENNIAL AT A GLANCE

WED. MAY 11 WED. JUNE 01 WED. JUNE 08 7:30 P.M. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 7:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M. New York Philharmonic; Ilan Volkov, conductor 7:00 P.M. Insights at the Atrium: “NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A PLAYER’S GUIDE” ORCHESTRA OF THE LEAGUE OF COMPOSERS At Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL AT THE WHITNEY At David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center Orchestra of the League of Composers; Louis Karchin and Charles Wuorinen, conductors; CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND LINCOLN CENTER’S GREAT PERFORMERS AS PART Aspen Music Festival and School’s Aspen Contemporary Ensemble; Timothy Weiss, conductor; CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Anne-Marie McDermott, piano OF THE LINCOLN CENTER–NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC OPERA INITIATIVE Spencer Lang, tenor New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert and artists At Miller Theatre at Columbia University Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest At Whitney Museum of American Art from across the new-music spectrum preview highlights of PRESENTED BY THE LEAGUE OF COMPOSERS / ISCM CO-PRESENTED BY THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL AND THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL. Works by Huck Hodge***, Felipe Lara**, Paul Moravec, Works by Thomas Kotcheff***, Stephen Hartke***, Nina C. Young***, Charles Wuorinen SUN. JUNE 05 Steven Stucky***, Christopher Stark***, Esa-Pekka Salonen*** MON. MAY 23 THURS. JUNE 02 2:00 P.M. THURS. JUNE 09

8:30 P.M. LIGETI FORWARD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

7:30 P.M. Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI; Alan Gilbert and David Fulmer, conductors; JACK QUARTET PERFORMS WORLD AND NEW YORK PREMIERES Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Mivos Quartet 7:00 P.M. JACK Quartet THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST At The Metropolitan Museum of Art BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS AND SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS At 92nd Street Y New York Philharmonic; Ilan Volkov, conductor CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, AND METLIVEARTS Brooklyn Youth Chorus and San Francisco Girls Chorus; Dianne Berkun Menaker, Valérie PRESENTED BY 92ND STREET Y At Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center Ligeti Forward, Program III: works by Gérard Grisey, John Zorn, Sainte-Agathe, conductors; Theo Bleckmann, vocalist; Hotel Elefant, amplified string quartet Works by Cenk Ergün***, Derek Bermel*, Marc Sabat*** CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND LINCOLN CENTER’S GREAT PERFORMERS AS PART György Ligeti At Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center OF THE LINCOLN CENTER–NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC OPERA INITIATIVE PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest‡ Works by Philip Glass***, Carla Kihlstedt***, Theo Bleckmann*, TUES. MAY 24 Caroline Shaw*, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Gabriel Kahane* 3:00 P.M. FRI. JUNE 03 INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY ORCHESTRA: YOUNG AMERICANS 7:00 P.M. Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and Dance Company; Christopher Rountree, conductor JENNIFER KOH’S SHARED MADNESS At David Geffen Hall 8:30 P.M. 7:00 P.M. CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Jennifer Koh, violin; Helga Davis, host THE KNIGHTS WITH BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS AND At National Sawdust LIGETI FORWARD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Program to include works by Jennifer Higdon***, Hannah Lash*, SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND NATIONAL SAWDUST Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI; Alan Gilbert and David Fulmer, conductors; Ashley Fure*, Nico Muhly*** Short works, premiered over two evenings, Conor Hanick, piano The Knights with Brooklyn Youth Chorus and San Francisco Girls Chorus; Eric Jacobsen, Shared Madness*: conductor; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Colin Jacobsen, violin exploring the idea of virtuosity. Composers include Samuel Adams, At The Metropolitan Museum of Art CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, AND METLIVEARTS At Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center Timo Andres, Matt Aucoin, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Derek Bermel, PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Ligeti Forward, Program I: works by Alexandre Lunsqui, 3:00 P.M., 7:00 P.M., 10:00 P.M. Lisa Bielawa, Daníel Bjarnason, David Bruce, Chris Cerrone, Works by Lisa Bielawa*, Nico Muhly**, Colin Jacobsen*, Anthony Cheung, Bryce Dessner, Zosha Di Castri, Philip Glass, Unsuk Chin, György Ligeti NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL At National Sawdust Aaron Jay Kernis*, Timo Andres*** Michael Gordon, Mark Grey, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, Gabriel CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AND NATIONAL SAWDUST Kahane, Phil Kline, David Lang, David Ludwig, James Matheson, Works involving live electronics, including computer processing and Missy Mazzoli, Eric Nathan, Marc Neikrug, , 7:00 P.M. Christopher Rountree, Kaija Saariaho, Sean Shepherd, Noam laptop orchestras; works combining live instruments or voices with FRI. JUNE 10 Sivan, Augusta Read Thomas, Julia Wolfe (see also May 31) BROOKLYN RIDER: NYC’S DOWNTOWN MUSIC SCENE fixed media or live electronics; video and multimedia works; and At National Sawdust sound installations PRESENTED BY NATIONAL SAWDUST 7:00 P.M. Program to include works by Colin Jacobsen*, John Zorn, ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS BOLCOM AND CORIGLIANO WED. MAY 25 Tyondai Braxton*** MON. JUNE 06 New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor; Joseph Alessi, trombone; Martin Grubinger, percussion

At David Geffen Hall 7:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M., 8:00 P.M. PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC’S NEW MUSIC NEW HAVEN 7:30 P.M. NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Works by William Bolcom*, John Corigliano*** Musicians from the Yale School of Music; Jessica Pray, soprano; Douglas Dickson, piano; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST At National Sawdust Helga Davis, host New York Philharmonic; Ilan Volkov, conductor CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AND NATIONAL SAWDUST At The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space At Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center Works involving live electronics, including computer processing and CO-PRESENTED BY YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND WQXR’S Q2 MUSIC CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND LINCOLN CENTER’S GREAT PERFORMERS AS PART SAT. JUNE 11 Works by Charles Ives, Christopher Theofanidis, Aaron Jay OF THE LINCOLN CENTER–NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC OPERA INITIATIVE laptop orchestras; works combining live instruments or voices with fixed media or live electronics; video and multimedia works; and Kernis***, Hannah Lash***, David Lang**, Martin Bresnick**, Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest Hilary Purrington* sound installations 4:00 P.M. ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: SALONEN AND STUCKY Aspen Music Festival and School’s Aspen Contemporary Ensemble; Timothy Weiss, conductor; SAT. JUNE 04 Spencer Lang, tenor TUES. MAY 31 TUES. JUNE 07 At David Geffen Hall

CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL 11:00 A.M. 5:00 P.M., 8:00 P.M. Works by Steven Stucky, Esa-Pekka Salonen 7:00 P.M. VERY YOUNG COMPOSERS OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC JENNIFER KOH’S SHARED MADNESS NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL New York Philharmonic Musicians and Teaching Artists At National Sawdust Jennifer Koh, violin; Helga Davis, host At National Sawdust CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AND NATIONAL SAWDUST At National Sawdust CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND NATIONAL SAWDUST Works involving live electronics, including computer processing and CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND NATIONAL SAWDUST Voices for the Future: program to include works by Very Young 7:00 P.M. Short works, premiered over two evenings, laptop orchestras; works combining live instruments or voices with ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS BOULEZ, STUCKY, AND NØRGÅRD Shared Madness*: Composers and Teaching Artists fixed media or live electronics; video and multimedia works; and exploring the idea of virtuosity. Composers include New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor Samuel Adams, sound installations Timo Andres, Matt Aucoin, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Derek Bermel, At David Geffen Hall Lisa Bielawa, Daníel Bjarnason, David Bruce, Chris Cerrone, PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Anthony Cheung, Bryce Dessner, Zosha Di Castri, Philip Glass, 7:00 P.M. Works by Pierre Boulez, Steven Stucky***, Per Nørgård** Michael Gordon, Mark Grey, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, Gabriel LIGETI FORWARD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Kahane, Phil Kline, David Lang, David Ludwig, James Matheson, Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI; Alan Gilbert and David Fulmer, conductors; Missy Mazzoli, Eric Nathan, Marc Neikrug, Andrew Norman, Jay Campbell, cello Christopher Rountree, Kaija Saariaho, Sean Shepherd, Noam At The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sivan, Augusta Read Thomas, Julia Wolfe (see also May 24) CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, AND METLIVEARTS Ligeti Forward, Program II: works by Marc-André Dalbavie, György Ligeti, Dai Fujikura

10 KEY: * World Premiere ** U.S. Premiere ‡ U.S. Stage Premiere *** New York Premiere 11 LET’S PLAY Turn this newspaper into an origami carousel horse!

Discover the many charms of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL through our crossword challenge. Every answer is somewhere in this book, and there’s no shame in flipping through it to complete this puzzle. The first five (5) to solve it and post a photo of their correct solution with #letsplaynyp to Twitter or Instagram will win a prize. (See page 4 for the full solution — but don’t just copy it!) 1. Cut newspaper into a 2. Turn the paper over. Fold 3. Using the creases you square piece, in any size the paper in half, crease well have made, bring the top By Edward Lovett, Digital Publications Editor, New York Philharmonic you favor. Fold the paper in and open, and then fold again 3 corners of the model down half, crease well and open, in the other direction. Your to the bottom corner. 50. Composer Matt, whose piece and then fold again in the creases should look like this. Flatten model. will be performed May 24 or 31 other direction. 51. Piece by Yale composer Christopher Theofanidis

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