Vienna Philharmonic commissioned by the Mozarteum in Salzburg; a new Carnegie Hall com- mission for the Emerson String Quartet and Barbara Bonney; and a second opera, based on the novel Silk by Alessandro Barrico and also commissioned by San Francisco Opera, where the pre- miere is scheduled for September 2002. Now an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist, he has made recordings of symphonic music, chamber music, and jazz for all the major labels. In

1996 he was awarded a Knighthood (KBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. Previn moved from his native Berlin to California as a child. He studied composition with Joseph Achron and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and conducting with Pierre Monteux. He has had a lifelong interest in chamber music and as a teenager began to concentrate his efforts on the symphonic world in con- ducting and composition. Mr. Previn has appeared regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall and atTanglewood since his Tanglewood debut in 1977.

Janice Watson Making her Tanglewood debut this evening, soprano Janice Watson made her Boston Symphony debut in performances of Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony under Roger Norrington's direction in March 1994. Ms. Watson was a student

at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and first came to prominence as winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award; she has now sung with the

leading orchestras and opera companies throughout Great Britain and is a reg- ular soloist at the BBC Promenade concerts and the Edinburgh Festival. She has also sung at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Gulbenkian Founda- tion in Lisbon, the Tonhalle in Zurich, and the Musikverein in Vienna. Recent engagements have included the City of London Sinfonia under Richard Hickox, the London Symphony under both Bernard Haitink and Riccardo Chailly, and the London Philharmonic also under Mr. Haitink. Her recital work has included appearances in London's Wigmore Hall, in Paris, and at the Edin- burgh and Wexford festivals. Recordings include Orff 's Carmina burana, Poulenc's Gloria, Howells's Missa Sabrinensis, the role of Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes under Richard Hickox, and Helena in Britten's A Midsummer Nights Dream under Sir Colin Davis. This season's operatic engagements include Elettra in Idomeneo in Santa Fe, Ellen Orford for Welsh National Opera, Pamina at the Bavarian State Opera, Arabella in San Francisco, and Ellen Orford in her debut at the Vienna State Opera. Future engagements include debuts as Micaela with Lyric Opera of Chi- cago, as Ellen Orford with Netherlands Opera, as Countess Almaviva at the Monnaie in Brussels, and as Micaela with the Metropolitan Opera. She returns to English National Opera for the Countess and to San Francisco Opera as Jenufa and as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg.

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