ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON 2019 MASTER SERIES 6 Symphonic Dances August Fri 16, 8pm Sat 17, 6.30pm PRESENTING PARTNER Adelaide Town Hall 2 MASTER SERIES 6 Symphonic Dances August Dalia Stasevska Conductor Fri 16, 8pm Louis Lortie Piano Sat 17, 6.30pm Adelaide Town Hall John Adams The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra Ravel Piano Concerto in G Allegramente Adagio assai Presto Louis Lortie Piano Interval Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op.45 Non allegro Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) Lento assai - Allegro vivace Duration Listen Later This concert runs for approximately 1 hour This concert will be recorded for delayed and 50 minutes, including 20 minute interval. broadcast on ABC Classic. You can hear it again at 2pm, 25 Aug, and at 11am, 9 Nov. Classical Conversation One hour prior to Master Series concerts in the Meeting Hall. Join ASO Principal Cello Simon Cobcroft and ASO Double Bassist Belinda Kendall-Smith as they connect the musical worlds of John Adams, Ravel and Rachmaninov. The ASO acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and future. 3 Vincent Ciccarello Managing Director Good evening and welcome to tonight’s Notwithstanding our concertmaster, concert which marks the ASO debut women are significantly underrepresented of Finnish-Ukrainian conductor, in leadership positions in the orchestra. Dalia Stasevska. Things may be changing but there is still much work to do. Ms Stasevska is one of a growing number of young women conductors Girls and women are finally able to who are making a huge impression consider a career as a professional on the international orchestra scene. conductor as a genuine possibility. Last week, she gave her first concerts Institutions of higher education and at the BBC Proms in her role as Principal training are changing. The number of role Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony models and mentors is still very small but Orchestra. growing. And orchestras around the world are now more alert to not falling victim to I refer to Ms Stasevska’s gender if only age-old biases. to highlight an example of the gender blindness that has afflicted our profession Last week, the ASO was very pleased to for decades (if not centuries). be able to collaborate once again with Simone Young, one of the world’s leading Generally speaking, Australian orchestras conductors, a trailblazing Australian fare reasonably well on gender parity. and the first woman ever to conduct the The gender balance resulting from Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. orchestral auditions – conducted behind screens to best safeguard the Last year, we were thrilled to work with anonymity of candidates – is often held Karina Canellakis, who has since been up in management textbooks as a model appointed Chief Conductor of the of merit-based recruitment. Indeed, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra membership of the ASO is evenly split and Principal Guest Conductor of the between women and men. Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. However, has the system equally We will soon announce our 2020 Season, prepared both men and women to but I’m pleased to be able to share with best represent themselves in the blind you this evening that it will include the auditions? Regardless of the screen, debuts of at least three exciting young it is the inherent confidence, systemic female conductors. support and role modelling that allows Programming is another area of gender one to perform at their best. This is blindness that we’ll be turning our also an area where we have room for attention to – and I look forward to continuous growth and development updating you on our plans in the throughout our music education. months ahead. Enjoy the concert. 4 Dalia Stasevska Conductor Dalia Stasevska’s charismatic and Away from the concert stage, Dalia is dynamic musicianship is establishing her a keen supporter of young musicians. as a conductor of exceptional versatility. In her Finnish homeland she founded the Kamarikesä Festival in Helsinki, of Recent engagements have included which she is also the Artistic Director. Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Deutsches Dalia Stasevska was born into a Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and, last Finnish-Ukrainian family of painters. Summer, she opened the 2016 Helsinki Originally educated as a violinist, Festival where she conducted both violist and composer at the Tampere the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Conservatoire and the Sibelius Academy. Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras As a conductor her teachers include in a programme featuring two new Jorma Panula, Leif Segerstam, Hannu commissions by Magnus Lindberg Lintu, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Susanna (Two Episodes) and Lauri Porra. Mälkki, Mikko Franck and Sakari Oramo. In 2017/18 Dalia will return to the Oslo Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony orchestra to celebrate the Finnish 100th Independence Anniversary, and will debut with Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of Opera North and Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. She will also continue her relationship with the Trondheim Symfoniorkester. A passionate opera conductor, Dalia will return to Finnish National Opera in autumn 2017 for a revival of The Cunning Little Vixen following her triumphant debut there. She will also make her debut with Norwegian Opera in spring 2018 conducting Lucia di Lammermoor directed by David Alden. In 2016/17 she conducted the Finnish National Ballet and their production of Seven Brothers by Eero Ojanen. 5 Louis Lortie Piano For over three decades, French- complete Liszt Annees de Pelerinage Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has which was named one of the ten best performed world-wide, building a recordings of 2012 by the New Yorker reputation as one of the world’s great magazine, and all of Chopin’s solo pianists. He extends his interpretative works. His recording of the Lutoslawski voice across a broad spectrum of Piano Concerto with Edward Gardner repertoire rather than choosing to and the BBC Symphony received high specialise in one particular style, and praise, as did a recent Chopin recording his performance and award-winning which was named one of the best recordings attest to his remarkable recordings of the year by the New York musical range. Times. Recently released albums are Chopin Waltzes (“This is Chopin playing Mr. Lortie is in demand internationally. of sublime genius” – Fanfare Magazine), As Artist in Residence of the Shanghai Saint-Saens’ Africa, Wedding Cake, and Symphony, he performed four different Carnival of the Animals with Neeme Jarvi programs with them throughout the 2017- and the Bergen Philharmonic, and with 2018 season. He also performed with Helene Mercier, Rachmaninov’s complete the symphony orchestras of Sao Paulo, works for two pianos and the Vaughn- Perth, BBC, Dallas, Taipei, Philadelphia, Williams Concerto for Two Pianos. Budapest, Detroit, Ottawa and Toronto, For the Onyx label, he has recorded and many recitals including two at two acclaimed albums with violinist the Wigmore Hall in London and one Augustin Dumay. presented by the Chicago Symphony. Louis Lortie is the Master in Residence Upcoming concerts include returns at The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel to the New York Philharmonic, and to of Brussels. His long-awaited LacMus the orchestras of Atlanta, Milwaukee, International Festival (www.lacmusfestival. Dallas, BBC, Hamburg NDR, Sao Paulo, com) on Lake Como, Italy, made its debut Vancouver Toronto, Sydney, Adelaide in 2017. He studied in Montreal with and New Zealand. His complete Liszt Yvonne Hubert (a pupil of the legendary Annees de Pelerinage will be heard at Cal Alfred Cortot), in Vienna with Beethoven Performances, Berkeley; and to celebrate specialist Dieter Weber, and subsequently Beethoven’s 250th birthday year in 2020, with Schnabel disciple Leon Fleischer. he performs complete Beethoven sonata In 1984, Mr. Lortie won First Prize in cycles and all of the Beethoven concertos the Busoni Competition and was also in North America and in Europe. prizewinner at the Leeds Competition. He has made over 45 recordings for the Mr. Lortie has lived mostly in Europe in Chandos label, covering repertoire from the last decades with homes in Berlin, Mozart to Stravinsky, including a set of Canada and Italy. the complete Beethoven sonatas, the 6 ASO Members Offer Upgrade your stay Book a studio apartment at Adina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury and receive a complimentary upgrade to a one bedroom apartment. 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