Supporters as of December 3, 2010 Special thanks to Glenn Schoenfeld for his tireless leadership of Metropolis. $50,000+ Judy and Rick Gilmore Nancy Hubbard Elizabeth and Paul De Rosa Jennifer and Eduardo Loja Olga Jobe June K. Wu Who’s in My Fund? Richard Klein Vern Kousky $15,000+ $250+ Gerard Laffan Argosy Foundation for Allegra Cummings and Fred Redd Kristin Lee Contemporary Music Lillian and Jack Davidson Lily Lim and Mateo Paiva Anne Dunning Joselin Linder $10,000+ Leila Mureebe Candice Madey and Ayal Brenner Crosswicks Foundation Anke Nolting Donald Matheson New York State Council for the Marcy Recktenwald and Ken Eberl Suzanne McClelland Arts Christopher Reiger Zain Mikho Mali Sananikone Gaw and Akarin Andrea and Dennis Roberts David Messer Gaw Helene Salomon Sarah Murkett The Richard Salomon Family Jocelyn Stone Daniel Neer Foundation Rosie Walker and Joe Fig Alexis Neophytides Paul Young and Franklin Evans Vladimir Nicenko $5,000+ Renata Parras Aaron Copland Foundation $100+ Andrey Pavlov Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Clay Andres Glenn Schoenfeld Hall Stephanie Amarnick Gabrielle Rieckhof Mikhail Iliev Ksenija Belsley Rachel Salomon Jill and Steve Lampe Anna Berlin and Ray Lustig Daniel Schofield Allyson and Trip Samson Astrid Baumgardner Andrew Schorr Andrew Cyr, Artistic Director / Conductor Jerome and Jodi Basdevant Jonathan Schorr $2,500+ Robert Bielecki Noah Smith American Chai Trust Asaf Buchner Cara Starke New York City Department of Dominic Carbone Ned Steiner It takes a long time Cultural Affairs Coralie Carlson Susan Steiner Edward Sien Wendy Chang Janet Stradley Meet the Composer Amy Chen Matt Strassler Nick Cohn Lisa Switkin to become a good composer $1,000+ Kaitlin Collins and Colin Ryan Bill Tansey Elisabeth Bell Avery and John Paul Craig Rachel Teoh Avery Conrad Cummings Mary Thibeault Music by Timothy Andres and Robert Schumann Louise Franck Cyr and Michael Witney Earle Asher Remy-Toledo Cyr Lori Fox Lenny Turkel December 9–10–11, 2010 | 111 West 67th Street | New York City Christina and David deForest Brian Friedman Andy Wall Keys Vivian Fung and Charles Francine Walterbeek Maura Fitzpatrick Boudreau Antony Webb Joan and Allan Fisch Umi Hashitsume and Ryan Carol Wernick Jennifer Salomon Francis Eric Wolfe Richard E. Salomon Emanuel Genauer Kim Van Atta Christopher and Sarah Cox Jennifer Gilmore and Pedro Linda and Jack Viertel Barbeito $500+ Dr. Gerhard Gruitrooy $50+ Phoebe Washburn and AJ Jeff Guida Na Young Baek Bocchino Tom Healy Lilah Gaw Mrs. Morris Baker Joseph Hong Mariko Tsuda Andrew Cyr and Kate Gilmore David Hsia Stay Connected metropolisensemble.org [email protected] @metroensemble P.O Box 1315 New York, NY 10013 bit.ly/metroface The Program Welcome from Andrew Cyr December 9 (8pm), December 10 (8pm), and December 11 (3pm) It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this intimate piano recital featuring rising-star composer Timothy Andres. We are thrilled to have Timo perform the world premiere of his new suite, It takes a long time to become a good composer and Schumann’s youthful masterpiece, Metropolis Ensemble Kreisleriana. Timo will also perform his Clamber Music (2010), free variations for two violins Andrew Cyr, Artistic Director and piano with the talented Owen Dalby and Tema Watstein. Timothy Andres, piano Thank you to our host and Metropolis board member, June Wu. This has truly been an amazing Owen Dalby and Tema Watstein, violin watershed year for Metropolis and 2011 promises to bring more exciting developments. I hope Timothy Andres: Clamber Music (2010) you join our growing community of composers, artists, and fans on this incredible journey. Your enthusiasm and support makes our sustained growth possible. Please consider becoming a free variations for two violins and piano Friend of Metropolis or a Sustaining Member today! WORLD PREMIERE Get involved at metropolisensemble.org/support Andres: It takes a long time to become a good composer (2010) * About Metropolis for piano Metropolis Ensemble is a nonprofit professional chamber orchestra and collective of the 1. finest young artists performing today. Led by Artistic Director and Conductor Andrew Cyr, 2. Everyone wants to be something they’re not or, Pierrot on 88th St. Metropolis Ensemble is dedicated to launching the next generation of outstanding composers 3. Everything is an onion and performers and has quickly established a reputation for presenting “new music played 4. Please let me sleep in your entrance hall or, Pantalon & Columbine with the same kind of panache and bravura we usually experience only in performances of standard repertoire” (Esa-Pekka Salonen). 5. Time has told me (homage) Metropolis Ensemble is a major commissioner and creator of new works of contemporary Robert Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 classical music and a leading producer of unique, innovative, and interactive concert experiences. The Ensemble attracts diverse audiences by engaging arts enthusiasts 1. Äusserst bewegt to be active participants in the creation, performance, and perpetuation of our music and 2. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch - Intermezzo I (Sehr lebhaft) - Tempo I - organization. Metropolis Ensemble is equally dedicated to making a difference in our Intermezzo II (Etwas bewegter) - Tempo I community by collaborating with other cultural organizations, nonprofit partners, and schools to serve under-resourced populations. 3. Sehr aufgeregt 4. Sehr langsam Learn more at metropolisensemble.org/about 5. Sehr lebhaft 6. Sehr langsam Grammy News 7. Sehr rasch 8. Schnell und spielend We are pleased to announce that Metropolis Ensemble’s first studio album, a recording of Avner Dorman’s Concertos, was recently nominated for a Grammy Award that honors Avi Avital (mandolin soloist) and Andrew Cyr (conductor) in the “Best Instrumental Soloist (with * Metropolis Ensemble commission Orchestra)” category. The producer of our album, Grammy Award winner David Frost was This concert is generously sponsored in part by Who’s In My Fund? also honored with a “Producer of the Year” Grammy nomination for his work on five albums, including Metropolis’ recording. Listen to the album at metropolisensemble.org/albums The Artists Andrew Cyr, artistic director Owen Dalby, violin Andrew Cyr is a leader in the rapidly growing contemporary Owen Dalby has been described as a “fearless and inquisitive” classical music scene. His enthusiasm for connecting musicians instrumentalist by the San Francisco Classical Voice. Mr. Dalby and composers of the next generation to today’s audiences led him was a top prizewinner at the 2007 Lyon International Chamber to create Metropolis Ensemble in 2006. His work as conductor has Music Competition, and is hailed for his gripping interpretations of been described by Esa-Pekka Salonen as “...precise, rhythmically music from across the stylistic spectrum. On both violin and viola, incisive and fluid. He made complex new pieces sound natural and Mr. Dalby’s varied career involves regular performances with the organic. What a pleasure it is to hear new music played with the Orchestra of St Luke’s, the early music Four Nations Ensemble, same kind of panache and bravura we usually experience only in performances of standard the Clarion Music Society, and the Grand Tour Orchestra. His chamber music partners have repertoire.” Cyr is a native of Fort Kent, Maine, and has holds music degrees from Bates included Dawn Upshaw, the Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Sir Simon Rattle, College, the French National Conservatory (Etudes Supérieures), and Westminster Choir and many others. In the 2009-2010 season Mr. Dalby will perform Lou Harrison’s Concerto College. His primary musical mentors include Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Kenneth Kiesler, for Violin and Percussion Orchestra at Lincoln Center, give world premieres of major works Pierre Grandmaison, and Kynan Johns. Cyr has performed at such venues as Lincoln Center, by James Blachly and Timothy Andres (Look Around You, a solo concerto for violin and viola), Carnegie Hall, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and, in 2008, appeared with the acclaimed Wordless perform chamber music from Hamburg to Honolulu, and will appear regularly at Carnegie Hall Music Series, conducting a remix of The Rite of Spring for a live audience of 10,000 people. with Ensemble ACJW in chamber music and under the direction of composers Thomas Ads and John Adams. Mr. Dalby is a member of The Academy, a post-graduate leadership program Timothy Andres, composer / piano of Carnegie Hall and the Juilliard School that links a performer’s life with arts advocacy and a teaching residency in New York City pubic schools. He received early training at the Crowden School in California and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yale. Timothy Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist. He grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in New York City. His compositions meld a classical-music upbringing with diverse Tema Watstein, violin interests in the natural world, graphic arts, technology, cooking, and photography. He has been praised for his “acute ear” by the Violinist Tema Watstein is pursuing her Masters Degree in New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini and “stubborn nose” by Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, the New Yorker’s Alex Ross. An avid pianist from an early age, Timothy (Timo for short) where she frequently performs with Tactus new music ensemble. She recently graduated from Rice University’s Shepherd School performs widely, focusing especially on music by his contemporaries. “New