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Music Director Riccardo Muti Returns to Cso for Two Weeks of Concerts in February FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: January 14, 2016 Eileen Chambers, 312.294.3092 Photos Available By Request: [email protected] MUSIC DIRECTOR RICCARDO MUTI RETURNS TO CSO FOR TWO WEEKS OF CONCERTS IN FEBRUARY February 11–20, 2016 CSO Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson and CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen Make Solo Appearances with Muti and CSO Muti and Members of CSO Offer Lenten Performance of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross with Archbishop Blase J. Cupich at Holy Name Cathedral on February 19 CHICAGO—Music Director Riccardo Muti returns to Chicago in February for two weeks of concerts and activities February 11-20 during the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 125th anniversary season. Programs include subscription concerts featuring CSO Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson (February 11-14) and CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen (February 18-20), a Lenten performance at Holy Name Cathedral with members of the CSO and Archbishop Blase J. Cupich on February 19 and an Open Rehearsal with the Festival Orchestra of the 2016 Chicago Youth in Music Festival on February 15. On February 11-14, Muti leads a program that highlights the CSO strings in a diverse array of works including György Ligeti’s haunting work for string orchestra, Ramifications, and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for String Orchestra. The previously-announced premiere of CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Elizabeth Ogonek’s new work for strings and percussion commissioned for the CSO has been postponed until a future date to be announced. Replacing the Ogonek work on the program is Arvo Pärt’s Orient and Occident, an intense and evocative work for strings in a first-ever performance by the CSO. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto featuring CSO Principal Clarinet Stephen Williamson as soloist completes the program. On February 18-20, Muti leads the CSO in a program focused on works by two Italian composers, Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella. The Respighi works on the program include the composer’s exuberant symphonic poem, The Fountains of Rome, as well as his Concerto Gregoriano for violin featuring CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen as soloist. Casella’s Symphony No. 3, which was commissioned for the Orchestra’s 50th anniversary by its second music director Frederick Stock, received its world premiere by the CSO in 1941. The piece went on to receive acclaim on the occasion of its Italian premiere where it was declared a "victory for the arts in Italy" by the Giornale d'Italia. The Casella symphony is one of many works in the CSO’s 125th anniversary season that received their world or U.S. premieres by the Orchestra and that are being led by Muti during his residencies this season. In addition to his subscription concerts at Symphony Center, Muti leads members of the CSO in a Lenten performance of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross at Holy Name Cathedral on Friday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. The nine-movement liturgical work recounts Christ’s final moments on the Cross and includes participation by the Most Reverend Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, who offers reflections in between the movements of the work. The CSO will donate a portion of this concert’s ticket revenue to Holy Name Cathedral to support its faith formation, ministry of care and outreach programs. This performance marks Muti and the CSO’s first appearance together at the historic venue since Muti became Music Director in 2010. It also marks the most recent appearance at Holy Name Cathedral led by a CSO Music Director since 1979 when then-Music Director Sir Georg Solti and the CSO performed Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 with Pope John Paul II in attendance. The February 19 performance of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross is one of the CSO’s 125 Concerts in the Community, a season-long series of concerts that honor the Orchestra’s 125th season. More information is available at csosoundsandstories.org/125- concerts-in-the-community Other activities scheduled during Muti’s February 2016 residency in Chicago include an Open Rehearsal with the CSO and soloist Robert Chen for invited community groups on February 18 and an Open Rehearsal with the Festival Orchestra of the 2016 Chicago Youth in Music Festival on Monday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this free public event are required. More information available at www.cso.org/cymfmuti. The 2016 Chicago Youth in Music Festival is a program of the Negaunee Music Institute at the CSO. Bank of America is the global sponsor of the CSO. The CSO gratefully acknowledges and celebrates the following Grand Patrons who have made the CSO’s 125th anniversary season possible: Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock, Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil, Judson and Joyce Green, Kenneth C. Griffin, Verne and Judy Istock, Cathy and Bill Osborn, and Helen and Sam Zell. The February 19 performance is generously underwritten by an anonymous donor, the Julian Family Foundation in Memory of Kenneth A. Julian, Joseph and Judith Konen, Megan and Steve Shebik, Terrence and Laura Truax and Lisa and Paul Wiggin. The CSO’s 125 Concerts in the Community are supported by a generous grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. Tickets for all CSOA-presented concerts can be purchased by phone at 800-223-7114 or 312- 294-3000; online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. Discounted student tickets for select concerts can be purchased, subject to availability, online in advance or at the box office on the day of the concert. For group rates, please call 312-294- 3040. Artists, programs, and prices are subject to change. # # # Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday, February 11, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Friday, February 12, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, February 13, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti, conductor Stephen Williamson, clarinet LIGETI Ramifications MOZART Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 PÄRT Orient and Occident TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 2016 Chicago Youth in Music Monday, February 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m. Festival Orchestra 2016 Chicago Youth in Music Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal Riccardo Muti, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday, February 18, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Friday, February 19, 2016, 1:30pm Saturday, February 20, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti, conductor Robert Chen, violin RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI Concerto gregoriano CASELLA Symphony No. 3, Op. 63 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Friday, February 19, 2016, 7:30pm Special Concert Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Holy Name Cathedral Riccardo Muti, conductor 735 N. State, Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich, participant HAYDN The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross Riccardo Muti Born in Naples, Italy, Riccardo Muti is one of the preeminent conductors of our day. In 2010, when he became the tenth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), he already had more than forty years of experience at the helm of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Teatro alla Scala. He is a guest conductor for orchestras and opera houses all over the world: the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, and many others. Muti studied piano under Vincenzo Vitale at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in his hometown of Naples, graduating with distinction. He subsequently received a diploma in composition and conducting from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, also graduating with distinction. His principal teachers were Bruno Bettinelli and Antonino Votto, principal assistant to Arturo Toscanini at La Scala. After he won the Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition—by unanimous vote of the jury—in Milan in 1967, Muti’s career developed quickly. In 1968, he became principal conductor of Florence’s Maggio Musicale, a position that he held until 1980. Herbert von Karajan invited him to conduct at the Salzburg Festival in Austria in 1971, and Muti has maintained a close relationship with the summer festival and with its great orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, now for forty-five consecutive years. When he conducted the philharmonic’s 150th anniversary concert in 1992, he was presented with the Golden Ring, a special sign of esteem and affection, and in 2001, his outstanding artistic contributions to the orchestra were further recognized with the Otto Nicolai Gold Medal. He is also a recipient of a silver medal from the Salzburg Mozarteum for his contribution to the music of W.A. Mozart. He is an honorary member of Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music), the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Vienna State Opera. Muti succeeded Otto Klemperer as chief conductor and music director of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in 1973, holding that position until 1982. From 1980 to 1992, he was music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and in 1986, he became music director of Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. During his nineteen-year tenure, in addition to directing major projects such as the Mozart–Da Ponte trilogy and Wagner Ring cycle, Muti conducted operatic and symphonic repertoire ranging from the baroque to the contemporary, also leading hundreds of concerts with the Filarmonica della Scala and touring the world with both the opera company and the orchestra. His tenure as music director, the longest of any in La Scala’s history, culminated in the triumphant reopening of the restored opera house with Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta, originally commissioned for La Scala’s inaugural performance in 1778.
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