FOR RELEASE: January 23, 2013 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 2013–14 SEASON ALAN GILBERT To Conduct Three Weeks of OPENING CONCERTS OPENING GALA: Osvaldo GOLIJOV’s Azul and PIAZZOLLA/Brunetti’s Suite from La serie del Ángel with YO-YO MA, September 25 YEFIM BRONFMAN To Perform Tchaikovsky on Program with Ravel and Bernstein September 26–28, October 1 U.S. Premiere of Mark-Anthony TURNAGE’s Frieze with BEETHOVEN’s NINTH SYMPHONY October 3–5, 8–9 __________________ YEFIM BRONFMAN, The Mary and James G. Wallach ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE THE BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTOS: A Philharmonic Festival Featuring BRONFMAN, Conducted by ALAN GILBERT CHRISTOPHER ROUSE, The Marie-Josée Kravis COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE WORLD PREMIERE of Symphony No. 4; New York Premieres of REQUIEM and OBOE CONCERTO with Principal Oboe Liang Wang; RAPTURE at Home and on Tour Rouse To Advise on CONTACT!, the New-Music Series, Including New Partnership with 92nd Street Y Inaugural NY PHIL BIENNIAL, May 29–June 7, 2014 Immersive Exhibition of New Music Today 10-Day Experience To Showcase the International Music Scene Through ORCHESTRAL EVENTS, GUEST ENSEMBLES , CONTACT! CONCERTS, and More With Partners Across New York City A FAREWELL to Concertmaster GLENN DICTEROW Violinist’s Favorite Concertmaster Solos — R. Strauss and Tchaikovsky BEETHOVEN’s TRIPLE CONCERTO with Principal Cello CARTER BREY and YEFIM BRONFMAN FREE Chamber Music Recital with Works by KORNGOLD and John CORIGLIANO THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic KUBRICK’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — Complete Film with Score Conducted Live by ALAN GILBERT HITCHCOCK! Conducted by CONSTANTINE KITSOPOULOS ALEC BALDWIN To Serve as Artistic Advisor Later in the Season: PIXAR IN CONCERT — Music and Clips from All 13 Films (Headlines continued on next page) 2 ALAN GILBERT To Conduct MOZART’s Three Final Symphonies THE NIELSEN PROJECT: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5 BRITTEN’s 100th BIRTHDAY: Spring Symphony and Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with Tenor Paul Appleby and Principal Horn Philip Myers THE MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS PRIZE FOR NEW MUSIC Philharmonic Commissions To Enter Repertoire with WORLD PREMIERES by Anthony CHEUNG and 2012 Kravis Emerging Composer Sean SHEPHERD 2013 KRAVIS PRIZE Recipient To Be Named SIR ANDREW DAVIS To Conduct U.S. Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission: Julian ANDERSON’s The Discovery of Heaven and Works by FRANCK and PROKOFIEV BERNARD LABADIE To Conduct MOZART’s REQUIEM and Works by BACH and HANDEL CHARLES DUTOIT To Conduct Krzysztof PENDERECKI’s Concerto Grosso with Principal Cello Carter Brey and Cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Daniel Müller-Schott ESA-PEKKA SALONEN To Conduct New York Concert Premiere of His Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz in Her Subscription Debut and Works by RAVEL and SIBELIUS GUSTAVO DUDAMEL To Conduct Claude VIVIER’s Orion and BRUCKNER’s Symphony No. 9 Third Annual CHINESE NEW YEAR GALA CONCERT with LONG YU and YUJA WANG A BROADWAY CHRISTMAS with BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT with Musical Humorists IGUDESMAN & JOO ASIA / WINTER 2014 TOUR Includes Returns to Tokyo and Seoul ROUSE’s Rapture and LINDBERG’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yefim BRONFMAN ALAN GILBERT To Narrate Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra in Japanese at Tokyo Young People’s Concert Conducting Debuts by VLADIMIR JUROWSKI and PABLO HERAS-CASADO Assistant Conductor JOSHUA WEILERSTEIN in Subscription Debut Pianist PAUL LEWIS and Soprano KATE ROYAL To Make Debuts ALEC BALDWIN To Return as Host of National Radio Broadcasts New York, N.Y. — The New York Philharmonic’s 2013–14 season will be marked by an integration of ongoing artistic initiatives that have become hallmarks of Alan Gilbert’s tenure as Music Director, alongside the introduction of new ideas that will advance the Orchestra and its role in the cultural life of New York City and the world. Artistic partnerships will continue and grow, with cross-pollination in all facets of the season. Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence Yefim Bronfman will perform on CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series, and will be the featured soloist in The Beethoven Piano Concertos: A Philharmonic Festival (the first time an Artist-in-Residence is performing on the Philharmonic’s multi-week festival), which will showcase Beethoven’s complete piano concertos alongside World Premieres by composers commissioned as part of the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. World and New York Premieres by Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse, continuing his two-year term, will be performed at Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, while he curates an informal and adventurous CONTACT! series that will expand its reach through a new partnership with the 92nd Street Y. Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic will travel to Asia for their second tour there together, with concerts in Seoul and Tokyo, among other cities to be announced, and with 3 repertoire including former Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (a Philharmonic commission), with Yefim Bronfman, and Christopher Rouse’s Rapture. This season, the Philharmonic introduces the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, a 10-day, immersive exhibition showcasing the best of today’s new music; bids farewell to Glenn Dicterow in his final season as the Orchestra’s Concertmaster; and presents a new film-music week, THE ART OF THE SCORE. As always, the Philharmonic will present today’s leading artists and conductors performing wide-ranging repertoire, champion contemporary composers and rarely heard works, and perform programs that highlight new perspectives on established works. “From the start I had hoped that the seemingly disparate initiatives we introduced when I arrived would eventually collide, intersect, and intertwine in a natural, organic way,” Music Director Alan Gilbert said. “I am gratified that in the coming season our partnerships with an inspired performer and a complex composer will blend with the cultivation of brand-new music and fresh perspectives on masterpieces of the past to become an exciting mix. This experimentation is made possible by the enthusiasm and excellence of the Philharmonic musicians; my relationship with them deepens and grows every year, and I am grateful to have them as active artistic collaborators.” “It has been a highlight of my tenure thus far to work with Alan on crafting the 2013–14 season,” said Philharmonic Executive Director Matthew VanBesien. “Over the last year, we have been reimagining what an Orchestra can be in the 21st century, and I’m thrilled that some of our ideas are already coming to fruition in the 2013–14 season.” “After four seasons, Alan Gilbert’s initiatives are interacting in beautiful ways to create yet another inspired and creative season,” said Chairman Gary W. Parr. “The Board of Directors and I would like to thank our generous supporters for helping us bring Alan’s vision alive on the concert stage, encourage young composers, collaborate with longtime friends, and bring the dedicated virtuosos that make up this wonderful Orchestra to audiences around the world.” HEADLINES OF THE 2013–14 SEASON ALAN GILBERT To Conduct Three Weeks of OPENING CONCERTS OPENING GALA: Osvaldo GOLIJOV’s Azul and PIAZZOLLA/Brunetti’s Suite from La serie del Ángel with YO-YO MA, September 25 Alan Gilbert opens the New York Philharmonic’s 2013–14 season with three weeks of concerts that exhibit the range of his musical interests and spotlight artistic partners. The Philharmonic’s 172nd season begins September 25, 2013, with an Argentine-flavored Opening Gala featuring Octavio Brunetti’s arrangement of a suite from tango master Astor Piazzolla’s La serie del Ángel and the first Philharmonic performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul, both of which spotlight cellist Yo-Yo Ma in his 53rd appearance with the Orchestra including three Opening Galas. The evening begins and ends with two works by Ravel: his 1918 orchestral transcription of Alborada del gracioso from his solo piano suite Miroirs and the 1928 Boléro. 4 This is Mr. Ma’s first New York performance of Mr. Golijov’s Azul, a work written for him that he originally premiered at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2006. Rather than composing a virtuosic work for one of the world’s greatest cellists, Mr. Golijov decided to take a more contemplative direction. According to Mr. Golijov, the orchestra is an “antenna” for the soloist and is specifically arranged to showcase groups with distinct functions, create a sound world that is sympathetic to communal silence, and enhance the music’s ebb and flow. Alan Gilbert said: “I think Osvaldo Golijov is one of the most important composers working today, and I’ve loved his music for a long time. To work with Yo-Yo Ma is a huge honor, and it’s a dream to have him opening the season. His championing of this music makes a lot of sense to me because I can see the emotional kinship that these two great artists share. When Yo-Yo commissions a new piece, he doesn’t just play it once: he brings it to different orchestras and gives the piece life.” Mr. Ma made his Philharmonic debut in 1978 — the year he won the Avery Fisher Prize — performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, under the baton of Alexander Schneider, alongside violinist Shlomo Mintz and pianist Yefim Bronfman. Yo-Yo Ma last appeared with the Philharmonic in June 2012 performing Henri Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain (A Whole Distant World), conducted by Alan Gilbert, in a concert honoring Mr. Dutilleux as the inaugural recipient of The Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. YEFIM BRONFMAN To Perform Tchaikovsky on Program with Ravel and Bernstein September 26–28, October 1 Yefim Bronfman will begin his season-long tenure as The Mary and James G.