For Immediate Release: Press Contacts: November 3, 2015 Rachelle Roe, 312-294-3090 Eileen Chambers, 312-294-3092 Photos Available By Request [email protected] PINCHAS ZUKERMAN IS VIOLIN AND VIOLA SOLOIST, LEADING CSO IN A PROGRAM OF WORKS BY BACH, MOZART, TARTINI AND TELEMANN CSO Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong joins Zukerman for Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D Minor CHICAGO—Renowned violinist, violist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman leads the CSO in a program of works by Bach, Mozart, Tartini and Telemann on Thursday, November 19, at 8:00 p.m., Friday, November 20, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, November 21, at 8:00 p.m. Zukerman performs as soloist in the Tartini and Telemann pieces, and CSO Associate Concertmaster Stephanie Jeong joins him for Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043. Zukerman opens the program with Mozart’s lively Overture to The Magic Flute, followed by Telemann’s Viola Concerto in G major, a work which represents the first known concerto for viola, with Zukerman as soloist. Respighi’s orchestration of the Pastorale by Tartini, a piece which received its U.S. premiere by the CSO in 1927, follows. After the Bach, Zukerman and the CSO return to Mozart to close the program with his Symphony No. 39, one of his final three symphonies. Pinchas Zukerman has been consistently hailed as a musical genius, garnering equal regard for both his instrumental prowess as violinist and violist, and skill as a conductor. With unwavering standards for his craft in all realms, Zukerman continues a successful career of more than four decades with over 100 worldwide performances on five continents this year. He begins his seventh season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and in 2016 will begin his tenure as Artist-in-Association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Zukerman expands his extensive discography this year with the addition of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and Double Concerto with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and cellist Amanda Forsyth. Zukerman made his CSO debut as a conductor and soloist in 1998 with a program of works by Mozart that also featured Itzhak Perlman as violin soloist. He appeared with the CSO most recently as a conductor and soloist in April of 2009. Violinist Stephanie Jeong holds the Cathy and Bill Osborn Chair as Associate Concertmaster of the CSO. Jeong is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Best Paganini Concerto Prize in 2008. She is also a three-time winner of the Greenfield Competition with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and winner of the CSO’s own Feinburg Competition at the age of 12. Jeong appeared as a soloist with the CSO in the 2014/15 season in performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with pianist Jonathan Biss and CSO Assistant Principal Cello Kenneth Olsen. She also appeared in a Symphony Center Presents Chamber Music concert with world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2015. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a master’s from The Juilliard School. 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. Bank of America is the Global Sponsor of the CSO. These concerts are made possible by a generous gift from the Zell Family Foundation. # # # Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday, November 19, at 8:00 p.m. Friday, November 20, at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, November 21, at 8:00 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman, conductor, violin and viola Stephanie Jeong, violin MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620 TELEMANN Viola Concerto in G Major TARTINI Pastorale (orch. Respighi) BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, K. 543 Tickets: $34-$221 Pinchas Zukerman Pinchas Zukerman has remained a phenomenon in the world of music for over four decades. His musical genius, prodigious technique and unwavering artistic standards are a marvel to audiences and critics. Devoted to the next generation of musicians, he has inspired younger artists with his magnetism and passion. His enthusiasm for teaching has resulted in innovative programs in London, New York, China, Israel and Ottawa. The name Pinchas Zukerman is equally respected as violinist, violist, conductor, pedagogue and chamber musician. Pinchas Zukerman's 2015-2016 season includes over 100 worldwide performances, bringing him to multiple destinations in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In his seventh season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, he leads the ensemble in concerts at home in the United Kingdom as well as on an extensive U.S. tour. Additional orchestral engagements include the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and New World Symphonies, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for tour dates including New York’s Carnegie Hall. Overseas he visits the Mariinsky, Korean Chamber and San Carlo Orchestras, tours with Salzburg Camerata and Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and returns to Australia for appearances with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane and West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth. Recital appearances in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Australia, and tours with the Zukerman Trio in the US, Italy, Spain, Australia, Japan and throughout South America round out the season. In 2016, he begins his tenure as Artist-in-Association with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Over the last decade, Pinchas Zukerman has become as equally regarded a conductor as he is an instrumentalist, leading many of the world's top ensembles in a wide variety of the orchestral repertoire's most demanding works. A devoted and innovative pedagogue, Mr. Zukerman chairs the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has pioneered the use of distance-learning technology in the arts. In Canada, where he served as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra for the past 17 seasons, he established the NAC Institute for Orchestra Studies and the Summer Music Institute encompassing the Young Artists, Conductors and Composers Programs. Born in Tel Aviv in 1948, Pinchas Zukerman came to America in 1962 where he studied at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian. He has been awarded the Medal of Arts, the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence and was appointed as the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative's first instrumentalist mentor in the music discipline. Pinchas Zukerman's extensive discography contains over 100 titles, and has earned him 2 Grammy awards and 21 nominations. This season sees the release of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and Double Concerto with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and cellist Amanda Forsyth, recorded in live performances at Ottawa’s Southam Hall. Stephanie Jeong Violinist Stephanie Jeong was appointed associate concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2011 by Music Director Riccardo Muti. Prior to joining the CSO, she was a member of the New York Philharmonic from 2010-11. The top prize winner and recipient of the Best Paganini Concerto Prize of the 2008 Paganini Violin Competition in Italy, Jeong made her solo debut at age 12 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as winner of its Feinburg Competition and with the Philadelphia Orchestra as winner of its Albert M. Greenfield Competition. She won the Greenfield Prize again in 2002 and 2006, and performed as featured soloist on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Best of Tchaikovsky series conducted by Rossen Milanov. Jeong made her Aspen Music Festival debut as the winner of Aspen’s AACA Concerto Competition and returned the following year as the winner of the DeLay Fellowship Award, performing the Walton Violin Concerto with the Aspen Concert Orchestra, led by James Gaffigan. She has also appeared as soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and Kansas City Symphony orchestras, among others. Jeong has collaborated in chamber music performances with artists such as violinists Cho-Liang Lin and David Kim, pianist Wu Han and cellist Peter Wiley. She has performed in recital with pianist Hugh Sung at the Raymond F. Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, and he Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City. She recently made her recital debut at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. A native of East Rutherford, New Jersey, Jeong began her studies in New York with Nicole DiCecco at the Suzuki Program Music School. At the age of 3 she moved to Chicago where she studied with Betty Haag Kuhnke at the Betty Haag Academy of Performing Arts. In 1997, at the age of 9, Jeong became one of the youngest students ever accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Aaron Rosand. She received her bachelor’s degree from Curtis and completed her master’s degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Cho-Liang Lin and Ronald Copes. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra: www.cso.org and www.csosoundsandstories.org Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Since 2010, the preeminent conductor Riccardo Muti has served as its 10th music director. Pierre Boulez is the CSO’s Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus, Yo-Yo Ma is its Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant, and Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Ogonek are its Mead Composers-in-Residence.