NEWSLETTER

AUTUMN / WINTER 2019

ELENA SCHWARZ ANJA BIHLMAIER “A conducting tour de force” Operatoday.com Appointed Chief Conductor of Residentie Orkest Schwarz enters her second year in the newly created role of Associate Conductor to the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Fast-rising German conductor Anja Bihlmaier is attesting to the success of her earlier assistantships in appointed Chief Conductor of the Residentie Australia. Guest engagements include a third visit to the Orkest The Hague from August 2021 for Ensemble MusikFabrik whilst other highlights introduce her an initial period of three years. Her position to the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre National Bordeaux- coincides with the opening of the new hall in Aquitaine, Sinfonie Orchester Biel-Solothurn, Orquestra September 2021. Sinfónica do Porto, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in a range of Having made a strong impression in Germany repertoire including Shostakovich Symphony No 1, Stravinsky and Scandinavia including with the Royal Pulcinella, Prokofiev Symphony No 3 and works by Sikora, Joan Stockholm Philharmonic, Gothenburg Tower and George Benjamin. Symphony and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Bihlmaier makes her UK debut A host of effusive reviews acknowledged Adam Maor’sThe in subscription with the City of Birmingham Sleeping Thousand as the “hit show” at the Festival d’Aix en Symphony Orchestra and soloist Renaud Provence in July with Schwarz being praised for her “visible Capuçon. Elsewhere she conducts the RTE precision and total command” Operatoday.com. Co-production National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and performances bring it to Luxembourg and Lisbon’s Gulbenkian returns to the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Foundation in January. Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and Volksoper Nikolaj Lund Priska Ketterer Wien (Carmen and Die Fledermaus).

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LEONARD ELSCHENBROICH AUGUSTIN HADELICH STEVEN OSBORNE

“Superb music-making” Editor’s Choice Gramophone “Upper stratum of violin virtuosos” Strad Beethoven late piano sonatas is Gramophone’s Recording of the Month “Pianist and Cellist create mystery and intensity in Beethoven” Recognized as one the great violinists performing today, Augustin “This is Beethoven with no safety net, thrillingly alive. The cover – Rodin’s Chamber Choice BBC Music Magazine Hadelich’s engagements this season see him collaborating with Hand of God – seems the perfect fit” BBC Radio 3 Record Review, A string of superlatives greeted the release of Elschenbroich’s cycle of leading orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra/Schuldt, WDR Disc of the Week Beethoven Cello Sonatas (Onyx) affirming his reputation as a cellist of Sinfonieorchester/Macelaru, Boston Symphony/Nelsons, New York Superlatives in abundance described Steven’s latest release on Hyperion, exceptional musicianship and charisma. Philharmonic/van Zweden, Cleveland Orchestra/van Zweden, Finnish Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Opp 109, 110 & 111, gathering numerous Audiences in Budapest and at the Bath Mozartfest witness him perform Radio Symphony/Altinoglu, Danish National Symphony/Kochanovsky accolades including Recording of the Month in Gramophone, Disc of the Week on BBC Radio 3 and Disc du jour on Radio France. Beethoven live in recital, whilst other chamber music performances bring and the Oslo Philharmonic/Mena. him back to the Wigmore Hall with clarinettist Michael Collins. Concerto The 2019/20 season sees Osborne as Artist in Residence with the engagements see him collaborate with the London Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing concertos by Mozart and Bournemouth Symphony, Martinu Symphony and the Virginia Symphony Rachmaninov. Continuing his personal tribute to Messiaen in recognition Orchestra in the US. As dedicatee of Mark Simpson’s Cello Concerto, he of the 75th anniversary of the composer’s monumental Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus, he gives further performances in Tokyo and London gives the German premiere with the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra (International Piano Series). In February he collaborates again with Paul under Marko Letonja. Lewis for a programme of French duets in Europe and North America. Zohar Ron Leah Nash Michal Novak AVI AVITAL CARLOS KALMAR MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA World Premiere of Sollima Mandolin Concerto Bremen and Dublin Symphonic Canvas Avital’s mission to expand the mandolin repertoire reveals its latest Kalmar has forged a number of notable artistic partnerships with distinguished Harth-Bedoya’s curiosity for less well-known repertoire extends beyond his creation in January when he gives the world premiere of Giovanni concerts with his own Fort Worth Symphony and Norwegian Radio Orchestras. Sollima’s Mandolin Concerto with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale soloists; he collaborates once more with Marc-André Hamelin in January and della RAI. Increasingly present as a concerto soloist, the coming conducts the Bremen Philharmonic in works by Haydn, Ravel and Gershwin Returning for his third visit to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, he conducts months see Avital appear with the Orchestre National de Lyon, before returning to Dublin to conduct the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Bacewicz Concerto for String Orchestra alongside Glazunov and Dvořák, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra della Ireland. with the Orchestre National de Lyon he conducts works by Michael Torke and Svizzera Italiana, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar Ravi Shankar. In a programme of Nordic music in Fort Worth, he conducts the US and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Audiences at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago where Kalmar is Music premiere of Icelandic composer Maria Sigfúsdóttir’s Clockworking. He releases two A new collaboration with cellist Giovanni Sollima Mediterraneo launches Director enjoyed his performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis: “Kalmar led new CDs of orchestral works by composer Jimmy López Bellido with the Fort Worth in Bremen in September followed by a tour in Italy (Florence, Rimini, a performance that was strong on all levels, conveying the heaven-storming drama Symphony Orchestra entitled Symphonic Canvas and an all-Ginastera recording Mestre). Avital is featured as Portrait Artist at Bozar in Brussels as surely as the moments of glowing spiritual intimacy” (Chicago Classical Review). with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra for label LAWO. throughout the season.

Marco Borggreve Marco Borggreve Christa Holka RONALD BRAUTIGAM CLARA-JUMI KANG ADAM WALKER Mozart with Aurora Tchaikovsky in Japan and Korea L’Aube Enchantée A master of the classical repertoire, Ronald Brautigam returns to London Following engagements with the Nagoya and Kanagawa Philharmonic Adam Walker begins the season with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Blendulf to perform Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor K466 with the Aurora Orchestras in June, Clara-Jumi Kang returns to Japan to perform Tchaikovsky performing Nielsen and Brett Dean’s Siduri Dances, a piece he has a strong Orchestra under the baton of Nicholas Collon, a partnership which with the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra/Vedernikov. She brings affinity with having given the world premiere in 2011. A performance at the meets again in The Hague later in the autumn for performances with Tchaikovsky to Korea where she tours with the Mariinsky Orchestra/Gergiev as Lammermuir Festival with guitarist Sean Shibe explores a fascinating selection the Residentie Orkest. Other concerto engagements in the Netherlands well as performing with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra/Myung-Whun Chung. include Het Gelders Orkest and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, of repertoire ranging from the tango rhythms of Piazzolla through to the whilst further afield he returns to the USA for performances with the Acclaimed for her “noble clarity and high-class musicianship”, former Indianapolis exquisite raga sound world of Ravi Shankar’s L’Aube Enchantée. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart. Violin Competition Gold Medallist plays Sibelius with the Macao Orchestra/ Jia and Beethoven with the Warsaw Philharmonic/Boreyko in Europe and Chamber music takes Walker to the Beethoven-Woche Bonn, the Belfast Beethoven in the USA with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra/Arming. International Chamber Music Festival and New York, continuing his work with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Elsewhere, concerto highlights include Ibert with the Ulster Orchestra.

Kaupo Kikkas Benchmark Britten recordings Marco Borggreve The Doric String Quartet’s benchmark recording of the complete Britten String Quartets for Chandos has been gathering glittering reviews across the board. Recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in conjunction with a series of performances at the Britten Weekend, the disc was Album of the Week in The Sunday Times, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and saw the Quartet praised in BBC Music Magazine for its “extraordinary affinity” with Britten’s music. The Dorics bring Britten to the Wigmore Hall performing the complete Quartets on the composer’s birthday.

Elsewhere, highlights of the Quartet’s schedule feature performances at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall and the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale as well as a Japanese tour including Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. They launch the 2020 Beethoven celebrations with a performance of John Adams’s Absolute Jest DORIC STRING QUARTET with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Carneiro. DUDOK QUARTET AMSTERDAM Anushka Menon Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Kaupo Kikkas ANOUSHKA SHANKAR EUGENE TZIGANE CHLOË HANSLIP Orchestral arrangements in Lugano Conducts Mahler 9 An American Flavour Associate Artist at the South Bank Centre, Anoushka features across the With a passion for Mahler, Eugene Tzigane brings this cornerstone of the A strong advocate of 20th/21st century repertoire, Chloë spends the campus this season embracing its most intimate venue in December for orchestral repertoire to Dublin for his return to conduct the RTE National autumn immersed in the music of John Adams with the Kymi Sinfonietta/ experimental Purcell Room sessions. Audiences will witness the creative Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Olari Elts and Barber with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra/Garrett process in action during workshops where composer and guest musicians Keast. tease out ideas and reveal new work. He opens the season in Japan conducting the Kanagawa Philharmonic and returns for his fourth visit in quick succession to the Helsingborg Symphony Elsewhere she plays Mendelssohn with Gävle Symphony Orchestra/Gérard Orchestral collaborations bring her to Lugano with the Orchestra della Orchestra, this time for a programme including Clara Schumann Piano Korsten and as a regular guest with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Svizzera Italiana performing a programme of her works in arrangements by Concerto and Brahms Symphony No 3. performs the same concerto at Cadogan Hall. Jules Buckley and to the Orchestre National de Lyon/Harth-Bedoya in January to perform Sitar Concerto No 2 by Ravi Shankar spearheading a year-long celebration of the great sitarist’s centenary.

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Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Jean-Baptiste Millot STEFAN JACKIW VADYM KHOLODENKO VIVI VASSILEVA Stravinsky focus Scriabin with Cincinnati Symphony Debut Album Release This autumn, Stefan Jackiw brings the Stravinsky Violin Concerto Kholodenko’s reputation in Scriabin is attested by a prestigious Diapason Vivi Vassileva has signed an exclusive record deal with Outhere Music France for their to European orchestras including the Helsinki Philharmonic/Graf, d’Or de l’année for his solo disc of Scriabin (Harmonia Mundi) and he performs Alpha Classics label. Her debut album release Singin’ Rhythm features works by Guillo Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Karabits and the Slovenian the composer’s Prometheus in January with the Cincinnati Symphony/Langrée. Espel, Eric Sammut, Oriol Cruixent and Keiko Abe, most of them premiere recordings, Symphony/Milanov. Winter sees performances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra/ alongside some rarely heard or premiere arrangements and compositions by Vivi Vassileva herself. BBC Radio 3 Record Review hailed the album as “a very exciting and He kicks off the Beethoven 2020 celebrations with the RTE National Søndergård, NCPA Beijing/Myung-Whun Chung, RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and a return to Bournemouth Symphony/Ion Marin also a very lyrical disc…there is a real sense of wanting to hang on to the importance of Symphony Orchestra performing the Violin Concerto under the melody as well as with the energy that comes with the rhythmic playing”. baton of Leonard Slatkin, whilst back in the USA, highlights include following his “jaw-dropping” jump-in last March (Bournemouth Echo). Recital performances with the Baltimore, Portland and San Diego Symphony programmes include works by Saariaho, Schubert, Beethoven and Godovsky Studies on Chopin Etudes with performances in New York and London. The coming months see Vassileva perform Avner Dorman’s Frozen in Time with the Orchestras. Philharmonische Orchester Hagen and a return visit to the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra to reprise Oraculum, the concerto written for her by Oriol Cruixent.

New York and London Debut US & Japanese Tours The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam makes significant debuts on both sides of the The vision string quartet makes debut tours to both the USA and Japan. Atlantic this autumn; in the USA they give two New York performances at the The Japanese tour includes performances in Kyoto and Tokyo, (Oji Hall and Park Avenue Armory whilst in Europe they make their UK debut at London’s Musashino Cultural Hall) where their programme of Haydn and Bacewicz Wigmore Hall. alongside their own jazz compositions will be televised by NHK.

The Quartet returns to important Dutch venues including Muziekgebouw Their debut US tour sees performances at New York’s Frick Collection and Eindhoven, De Doelen Rotterdam, Amsterdam Muziekgebouw and in Washington DC, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal and Princeton. Concertgebouw. In January they perform at the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale where they give the world premiere of a festival commission by Dutch The Quartet’s recent performance of Beethoven Op 132 at the Wigmore Hall, composer Joey Roukens. Another festival highlight sees the Quartet give the first Tim Klöcker performed from memory with palpable tension and stillness, provoked a strongly performance of their own arrangement of Messiaen’s Oraison; originally scored enthusiastic response from the audience. Their next European engagements for six ondes martenots this arrangement sees the Quartet explore the gliding take them to the Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and their first sound world of the ondes using the expressiveness of acoustic instruments. Norwegian appearances in Oslo, Bergen and Bodø. Conductor highlights: Winter 2019/20 Record Shelf

ANJA BIHLMAIER 5 Sept Norrköping Symphony Orchestra SCHUBERT Ov Die Zauberharfe, SCHUBERT songs (various), MAHLER Symphony No 4 28 Sept, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 19, 22, Norrlandsoperan HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel 25 Oct

2019 30 Oct City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra BIZET Carmen Suite No 2, CHAUSSON Poème, RAVEL Tzigane, DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 22 Nov RTE National Symphony Orchestra HILLBORG Exquisite Corpse, STRAUSS Four Last Songs, BRAHMS Symphony No 1 5, 6, 8 Dec Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken J S BACH Brandenburg Concerto No 2, SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No 3, MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 1

31 Dec, 1 Jan, STRAUSS Die Fledermaus 24 Feb Volksoper Wien

4, 9, 13, 17, 21, 24 Volksoper Wien BIZET Carmen Jan, 5 Feb

2020 1 Feb Residentie Orkest Final of the Oscar Back Violin Competition 13, 14, 15 Feb Nord Nederlands Orkest DE VLIEGER (world premiere), REICH Music for Ensemble and Orchestra, LISZT Totentanz, BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 1. 2. 5 Mar Lahti Symphony Orchestra LILI BOULANGER D'un soir triste, D’un matin du printemps, MOZART Flute concerto in G K313, DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA 13, 14, 15 Sept Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra MEYN Remix, RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3, BRAHMS Symphony No 4 21 Sept New World Symphony Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien Op 45, LOPEZ Peru Negro, RAVEL La valse, STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier 11, 12, 13 Oct Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra MAHLER Symphony No 3

2019 17 Oct Peabody Symphony Orchestra BRAHMS Academic Festival Ov, NIELSEN Flute Concerto, DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 23 Oct Norwegian Radio Orchestra R STRAUSS Four Last Songs, MAHLER Symphony No 4 14 Nov Norwegian Radio Orchestra RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol, MOZART Piano Concerto in G K453, WINTER-HJELM Symphony No 1 10, 11, 12 Jan Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra SIGFÚSDÓTTIR Clockworking (US premiere), GRIEG Piano Concerto, SIBELIUS Symphony No 2 15 Jan Norwegian Radio Orchestra BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra, FRANK MARTIN Concerto for 7 Winds, Timpani, Percussion & Orchestra, TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 23, 24 Jan BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra, GLAZUNOV Violin Concerto in A Op 82, DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 2020 31 Jan, 1 Feb Orchestre National de Lyon TORKE Ash, SHANKAR/GLASS Offering, SHANKAR Sitar Concerto No 2 3. 4. 13 Feb Norwegian Radio Orchestra HINDEMITH Mathis der Mahler, SARASATE Zigeunerweisen, RAVEL Tzigane, DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 CARLOS KALMAR 27, 28, 29, 30 Sept Oregon Symphony Orchestra BETTISON Remaking a Forest (world premiere), MOZART Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503, BRAHMS Symphony No 2 25, 26, 27, 28 Oct Oregon Symphony Orchestra GABRIELA LENA FRANK Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto, BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5

2019 16, 17, 18 Nov Oregon Symphony Orchestra MOZART Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216, MAHLER Symphony No 6 23, 24, 25 Nov Oregon Symphony Orchestra SIBELIUS The Tempest 12 , 13, 14 Jan Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra HAYDN Symphony No 45 ‘Farewell’, RAVEL Piano Concerto in G, GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue, RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole 24 Jan RTE National Symphony Orchestra AARON JAY KERNIS Musica Celestis, MOZART Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271, BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 GABRIELLA SMITH Commission (world premiere), PAGANINI Violin Concerto No 1, MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures 2020 7, 8, 9, 10 Feb Oregon Symphony Orchestra at an Exhibition 14, 15, 16 Mar Oregon Symphony Orchestra WAGNER Ov & Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser, CAROLINE SHAW Partita for 8 Voices, BERIO Sinfonia

ELENA SCHWARZ 5. 6. Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da LOUISE FARRENC Ov No 2 in Eb, CLARA SCHUMANN Piano Concerto, LILI BOULANGER D’un matin du printemps, GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE Le marchand 20 Sept Música d’oiseaux, JOAN TOWER Fanfare No 6 for the uncommon woman 5 Oct WDR Sinfonieorchester BOROWSKI Werk für Kammerorchester (2019), BENJAMIN Duet for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, KRÜGER Werk für Kammerorchester (2019) 31 Oct Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine MUSSORGSKY (arr RIMSKY-KORSAKOV) Night on a Bald Mountain, GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No 1, DUKAS Sorcerer’s Apprentice, PROKOFIEV Symphony No 3 2019 1. DORIC STRING QUARTET – Britten (Chandos) 14 Dec Orchestre Pasdeloup ELŻBIETA SIKORA Wanda Landowska (French premiere), LISZT Totentanz, BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 'Eroica' Shortlisted: 2019 Gramophone Award 21, 22 Dec Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn SAINT-SAËNS Oratorio de Noël, HONEGGER Une Cantate de Noël 8 Jan Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg MAOR The Sleeping Thousand 2. DUDOK QUARTET AMSTERDAM – Haydn Opus 16 Jan Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon MAOR The Sleeping Thousand 20s Vol 1 (Resonus) 31 Jan, 6 Feb Lucerne Symphony Orchestra BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto, Symphony No 1, GERSHWIN arr ELLIOT An American in Paris, BERNSTEIN arr ELLIOT West Side Story (medley)

2020 21 Feb Ensemble Musikfabrik BERND SCHULTHEIS Das Wachsfigurenkabinett 3. HARTH-BEDOYA - Jimmy López Bellido (MSR Classics)

12 Mar Norwegian Radio Orchestra LIGETI Melodies, PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 2, SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 1 4. OSBORNE – Beethoven (Hyperion) 19, 20 Mar Opéra National de Lorraine LIADOV The Enchanted Lake Op 62, PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 1, RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol, PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 'Classical' Shortlisted: 2019 Gramophone Award EUGENE TZIGANE 7 Sept Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra RAVEL La valse, MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 in d K466, SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 5. SCHWARZ - Lisa Streich (Kairos) 25, 26 Sept Helsingborg Symfoniorkester BRAHMS Symphony No 3, ROBERT SCHUMANN Julius Caesar Ov, CLARA SCHUMANN Piano Concerto 2019 25 Oct RTE National Symphony Orchestra MAHLER Symphony No 9 6. VASSILEVA – Singin’ Rhythm (Alpha Classics)