ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN IN BRIEF In the 2015–16 season pianist Inon Barnatan will enter his second season as the New York Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Association; this position, which he inaugurated in 2014–15, highlights an emerging artist over the course of several consecutive seasons through concerto and chamber music appearances, building a relationship between the artist, the Philharmonic, and its audiences. In addition to the Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence and Composer-in-Residence, this position further expands the Philharmonic’s dedication to long-term relationships with exceptional artists. Biography Equally commanding in solo and chamber performances, Inon Barnatan, an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, has performed recitals at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, among other venues. He is a member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and frequently performs as a recital partner of cellist Alisa Weilerstein. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Atlanta, Dallas, Cincinnati, Houston, and San Francisco symphony orchestras. As New York Philharmonic Artist-in-Association, in the 2014–15 season Mr. Barnatan makes his Philharmonic subscription debut in March 2015 with Music Director Alan Gilbert conducting, after collaborating with Philharmonic musicians in two chamber music performances. Other season highlights include appearances with the Los Angeles and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Orchestre national de France, and the Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. In recital, he performs at London’s Wigmore Hall, Chicago’s Harris Theater, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and in New York City with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Jerusalem Quartet, and Howland Chamber Music Circle. Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started piano at the age of three and made his orchestral debut at eleven. His studies have connected him to some of the last century’s most distinguished pianists and teachers: he studied with Professor Victor Derevianko (a student of Heinrich Neuhaus), and continued studies with Maria Curcio (a student of Artur Schnabel) and Christopher Elton at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He has since studied with and been mentored by Leon Fleisher. New York Philharmonic Highlights Inon Barnatan began his Artist-in-Association tenure in December 2014, when he joined cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Philharmonic musicians for a chamber music concert at 92nd Street Y as part of Dohnányi / Dvořák: A Philharmonic Festival. Also during the 2014–15 season, he will perform Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, Op. 81, with Philharmonic musicians (February 7, 2015) and will make his debut with the Orchestra performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, conducted by Alan Gilbert (March 19–20 and 24, 2015). CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF INON BARNATAN’S 2015–16 SEASON UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN OCTOBER 9–11, 2015 The New York Philharmonic will launch its five-year residency partnership with the University Musical Society (UMS) at the University of Michigan. The first residency will include three New York Philharmonic performances at Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium: a work by Magnus Lindberg, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Artist-in-Association Inon Barnatan, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 (October 9, led by Alan Gilbert); The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen’s L.A. Variations and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (October 10, led by Alan Gilbert); and Leonard Bernstein’s score to On the Waterfront while the complete film is screened (October 11, led by David Newman). JAAP VAN ZWEDEN AND ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION INON BARNATAN Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Thursday, October 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2015, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2015, 8:00 p.m. Jaap van Zweden, conductor Inon Barnatan, piano BRITTEN Sinfonia da Requiem MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: NEW YEAR’S EVE Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Thursday, December 31, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Live From Lincoln Center Alan Gilbert, conductor Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano Inon Barnatan, piano Makoto Ozone, piano Program to include: SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess OFFENBACH Selections from Gaîté parisienne MESSIAEN WEEK QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME WITH ALAN GILBERT AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART’S TEMPLE OF DENDUR IN THE SACKLER WING The Metropolitan Museum of Art Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing 1000 Fifth Avenue Sunday, March 13, 2016, 3:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert, violin Carter Brey, cello Anthony McGill, clarinet Inon Barnatan, piano MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time ### ALL PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE .