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Press Kit 2015.Indd ADVERTISE WITH US CHAMBER ORCHESTRA dvertise your business in our Season Program Book and become part of the OF NEW YORK AChamber Orchestra of New York’s music community! Advertisement space is available for full, half, quarter page and booster/logo ads. For questions regarding advertising, please contact our Orchestra Manager, Ms. Santa Maria Pecoraro. Th ank you for your interest in supporting the Chamber Or- chestra of New York! SALVATORE DI VITTORIO MUSIC DIRECTOR IN TUNE WITH NEW YORK CityMD Is Proud To Support The Chamber Orchestra Of New York PRESS KIT 2015 16 1 WELCOME FROM OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR SUPPORT THE ORCHESTRA hamber Orchestra of New York is a not-for-profi t organization under Section ear Friends: C 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All donations are tax-deductible to D the fullest extent allowable by law. Our tax identifi cation number is 13-4318954. Welcome to the Chamber Orchestra of New York’s Th e Orchestra warmly invites you to make a donation in support of our concert Eighth Concert Season, 2015/2016! seasons. Special contributions can be made for specifi c purposes such as: With our debut concert at Zankel Hall in 2007, we were • Music Library Archive Sponsorships thrilled when we returned to Carnegie Hall for regular per- • Concert or Season Sponsorships formances during our 2012/2013 Season. And now the or- • Orchestra Principal Chair or Music Director Chair Sponsorships chestra plans to make Carnegie Hall its performance home for years to come. If you wish to donate today, including by credit card, visit the orchestra table Th is season our programs will include masterworks of outside the hall. Make all checks payable to: Chamber Orchestra of New York. great composers such as Gershwin and Tchaikovsky, J.S. Please indicate in your correspondence if you wish to remain anonymous. Bach and Schubert, Puccini and Mahler, Respighi and Mo- zart; and we will feature composition premieres of guest Mail your tax-deductible contribution to: composers Emiliano Imondi, Dirk and Andrea Mor- Brossé Chamber Orchestra of New York ricone. 404 E. 76th Street, Suite 5E Season highlights include: New York, NY 10021 • Pianist Di Wu and trumpeter Th omas Boulton in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto For questions regarding concert program donations, endowments and planned N. 1, and Emiliano Imondi’s Respighi Prize winning composition, Th ree Varia- giving, please contact our Orchestra Manager, Ms. Santa Maria Pecoraro.Th ank tions on a Gregorian Th eme - on December 12th you for your interest in supporting the Chamber Orchestra of New York! • New York Premiere of Dirk Brossé’s Black, White and In Between, performed by Swiss-Italian violinist Irene Abrigo, and the U.S. Premiere of Vaughan Wil- liams’s Burley Heath - on February 11th • New York Premiere of fi lm composer Andrea Morricone’s Cinema Paradiso Suite (after father and renowed fi lm composer Ennio Morricone), in a program of clas- sical works featured in fi lms - on April 16th CONTACT US • and a World Premiere of my own La Villa d’Este a Tivoli, a free transcription of Franz Liszt’s Fountains of Villa d’Este, in a program inspired by Th e Morgan Mu- seum’s exhibition City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics - on June 23rd or general questions, to hire the orchestra, or further information, please contact Fus by phone 646-397-1879, email [email protected], or write: Join us for our season concerts, and become a regular member of the Chamber Or- chestra of New York experience! Chamber Orchestra of New York 404 E. 76th Street, Suite 5E Salvatore Di Vittorio New York, NY 10021 For further information about the Orchestra, visit our website www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org For Public Relations: Jeff rey James Arts Consulting 45 Grant Avenue Farmingdale, NY 11735 Tel: 516-586-3433 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.jamesarts.com 2 15 PATRONS Chamber Orchestra of NY graciously recognizes its generous contributors. As of 8/31/2015. FOUNDATIONAL & GOVERNMENT SPONSORS 14 3 MISSION hamber Orchestra of New York, the our programming presents great works C city’s most dynamic young profes- of the 20th and 21st centuries, including sional orchestra, was founded in honor fi lm scores and rarely performed gems, of Ottorino Respighi - the preeminent alongside ancient music. Th e orchestra early twentieth century Italian composer also serves as the premier ensemble in whose compositions bridge the classi- the United States devoted to the Italian cal and modern traditions. In this spirit, repertoire. ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA stablished in 2006, the Chamber Or- Pace Gallery, and Gilder Lehrman Hall E chestra is the fi rst auditioned young at Th e Morgan Library & Museum. professional orchestra in the history of Over the next seasons, the orches- New York. Its triumphant debut was held tra’s Board developed to include many on October 11, 2007 at Zankel Hall/ esteemed artists as well, such as violist Carnegie Hall. Following the Inaugural Evan Wilson (Former Principal Viola, Season 2007/08 fi nale concert, Vivien Los Angeles Philharmonic), fi lm com- Schweitzer of Th e New York Times poser Ennio Morricone, conductors Alan wrote: “Th e musicians played…producing Gilbert (Music Director, New York Phil- a polished, rich sound…a stirring perfor- harmonic) and Andrew Litton (Music mance [of Mahler’s Adagietto and]...a Director, Bergen Philharmonic-Norway) voluptuous rendition of Tchaikovsky’s as well as soloists Lynn Harrell, Cho- Souvenir….” Th e ensemble has served as Liang Lin, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg orchestra-in-residence of “Music Under and Alicia Zizzo. Honorary Board mem- the Dome” series at the Church of St. bers include Respighi family descendents Jean Baptiste, and also performed at the Elsa and Gloria Pizzoli, Respighi archive Italian Cultural Institute of New York, curator/cataloguer Potito Pedarra and Big Screen Plaza/Eventi Hotel, Caspary musicologist Luigi Verdi. It now boasts Auditorium/Th e Rockefeller University, an elite ensemble of gifted musicians, Merkin Concert Hall/Kaufman Center, including fi rst concertmaster Kelly Hall- 4 13 MUSICIANS Tompkins (New Jersey Symphony) and on the international level, listed for several second concertmaster Daniel Khalikov weeks on Gramophone Top 20 Classical 2015/2016 SEASON (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra). Chart in London, honored as WQXR During the Second Season 2008/09, Classical Radio NY “Album of the Week” MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR Ottorino Respighi’s great nieces Elsa and and “Album of the Month” in Italy (for Salvatore Di Vittorio Gloria Pizzoli and archive curator/cata- June and July 2011). Th e music has also loger Potito Pedarra entrusted Music Di- aired on RAI, BBC radio, and dozens VIOLIN 1 rector Salvatore Di Vittorio with the task of stations in the U.S. and abroad. Over Kelly Hall-Tompkins, First Concertmaster of editing, orchestrating and completing thirty positive reviews have been written Daniel Khalikov, Second Concermaster several early orchestral works of Respighi in praise of the orchestra’s recordings. Kiwon Nahm BASSOON for publication, in their fi rst printed edi- As part of its Fourth Season 2011/12, Nicholas Pappone Stephanie Corwin, Principal tions under the Ottorino Respighi Pub- the Chamber Orchestra championed per- Bella Horvath Natalie Pilla lications Series of Edizioni Panastudio in formances of four newly printed critical Italy. As part of the commission, Di Vit- editions of music by not only Respighi, VIOLIN 2 FRENCH HORN torio was invited to complete Respighi’s but Alessandro Scarlatti and the restora- Russell Kotcher, Principal Dan Wions, Principal rediscovered fi rst Violin Concerto (in A tion of Claudio Monteverdi’s Lamento di Sarah Charness Aleksander Ozolins Major). Th e orchestra then premiered Arianna (Ariadne’s Lament) for mezzo- Lavinia Pavlish Respighi’s Violin Concerto, Aria and soprano and orchestra. Th e orchestra’s TRUMPET Suite for strings with Di Vittorio’s homage Fifth Season 2012/13 was highlighted VIOLA Thomas Boulton, Principal Overture Respighiana during the Th ird by the recording of its third Naxos CD, Maggie Snyder, Principal Hugo Moreno Season 2009/10. In 2010, the Chamber including Respighi’s Th e Birds, Trittico Santa Maria Pecoraro Orchestra established Th e Respighi Prize Botticelliano, Serenata and Suite in G for TROMBONE Music Competition in collaboration with organ. It’s Sixth Season 2013/14 marked VIOLONCELLO Burt Mason, Principal the City of Bologna (Respighi’s birth- the orchestra’s championing of the early Adrian Daurov, Principal place), and also received the prestigious music of Vaughan Williams, which the Michael Midlarsky PERCUSSION/TIMPANI Google Grant for online marketing. In ensemble extended into its Seventh Sea- David Mancuso, Principal 2011, the orchestra had another break- son 2014/15 with an all Vaughan Wil- CONTRABASS Chris Thompson through with the release of its debut CDs liams program in its debut at the Adelphi Victoria Tsvetkova, Principal on Naxos Records (Respighi, 8.572332 Performing Arts Center in Long Island, HARP and Di Vittorio, 8.572333). Th e Naxos NY—also the home of its Naxos record- FLUTE Kristi Shade recordings were immediately successful ings. Chelsea Knox, Principal Mira Magrill (Piccolo) HARPSICHORD/ORGAN/CELESTA Aymeric Dupré la Tour OBOE Slava Znatchenii, Principal Merideth Hite (English Horn) CLARINET Ben Baron, Principal Anton Rist The city’s most dynamic young professional orchestra! 12 5 ADMINISTRATION ARTISTIC DIRECTION Sinfonias Nos. 1 and 2 Salvatore Di Vittorio, Music Director & Conductor ADMINISTRATION Salvatore di Vittorio Salvatore Di Vittorio, Executive Director Santa Maria Pecoraro, Orchestra Manager Shanan Estreicher, Operations Manager Stephen D. Hans, Esq., Legal Counsel Jeff rey James, Public Relations Consultant “Di Vittorio proves himself with this CD Tiff any Estreicher, Graphic Designer to be a composer of beautiful music” Bella Glozman, Senior Assistant to Operations - Fanfare Moto Suzuki, Assistant to Operations 8572333 • 747313233373 BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Birds EXECUTIVE BOARD President (Vacant) Kim J.
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