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EUROPE / SPRING 2015 TOUR
ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
APRIL 16–MAY 1, 2015
TOUR TO INCLUDE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC’S RETURN TO
DUBLIN AFTER 19 YEARS
Orchestra To Return to LONDON, PARIS, COLOGNE,
AMSTERDAM, LUXEMBOURG, and FRANKFURT
Second International Associate Residency at London’s BARBICAN CENTRE
To Feature Reprise of 2013 GIANTS ARE SMALL’s Staging of PETRUSHKA,
Highlights from CONTACT!, the New-Music Series, and Education Component Including
YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT and VERY YOUNG COMPOSERS
WORLD PREMIERE in Cologne of Peter EÖTVÖS’s Senza sangue,
Co-Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and KölnMusik, with
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER and RUSSELL BRAUN
Esa-Pekka SALONEN’s Nyx
Performances at PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS in Its Inaugural Season
JOYCE DIDONATO To Perform RAVEL’s Shéhérazade
Credit Suisse Is the Exclusive Tour Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic
NEW YORK — Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic on the
EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour, April 16–May 1, 2015. The two-week tour — the Philharmonic’s
eighth international concert tour, the sixth to Europe, under Alan Gilbert’s leadership — will
feature twelve orchestral concerts and one contemporary chamber music concert in six countries,
with performances in Dublin, Ireland; London, England; Amsterdam, the Netherlands;
Luxembourg; Paris, France; and Frankfurt and Cologne, Germany. The soloists are mezzo(more)
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soprano Joyce DiDonato (Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, and Paris), and mezzosoprano Anne Sofie von Otter and baritone Russell Braun (Cologne). Tour highlights include
two performances of Giants Are Small’s theatrical reimagining of Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka,
adapted from the Philharmonic’s 2013 A Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (London);
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx (London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Cologne); the World
Premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Senza sangue, co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and
KölnMusik, with Anne Sofie von Otter and Russell Braun as soloists (Cologne); and a concert
featuring highlights from the Philharmonic’s recent concerts as part of CONTACT!, the newmusic series (London).
The tour marks the Philharmonic’s second residency at the Barbican Centre under the auspices of
its International Associates initiative. As part of the residency, the Philharmonic will present its
acclaimed staging, in collaboration with Giants Are Small, of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, including
during a Young People’s Concert; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Ravel’s Shéhérazade with mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato; and a CONTACT! concert featuring highlights from recent CONTACT!
performances. The residency will also feature some of the Philharmonic’s signature educational
projects, including a performance of works by Very Young Composers of New York and
London, a Young People’s Concert featuring the theatrical staging of Stravinsky’s Petrushka,
and an interactive installation by Musicjelly — the London-based visual sampling project that
experiments with the use of video and new media in music composition and performance —
featuring Philharmonic musicians. In addition, Alan Gilbert will present the annual Royal
Philharmonic Society Lecture, speaking on Orchestras in the 21st Century: A New Paradigm,
April 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s Milton Court Concert Hall.
The Philharmonic’s last International Associate residency at the Barbican Centre occurred during
the EUROPE / WINTER 2012 tour and totaled four concerts, including a Young People’s
Concert, and a series of educational and outreach activities.
EUROPE / SPRING 2015 marks the New York Philharmonic’s twelfth concert tour and seventh
European tour under the aegis of Credit Suisse. A complete schedule of EUROPE / SPRING
2015 performances appears at the end of this press release.
“This will be my sixth European tour with the New York Philharmonic, so I wanted to present
programs and projects that reflect the artistic vision that has become integral to our activities at
home in New York City,” said Music Director Alan Gilbert. “The Philharmonic musicians are
astoundingly versatile, allowing us to bring to European audiences everything from Richard
Strauss to Esa-Pekka Salonen. I look forward to returning to cities we have visited before —
including Cologne, where we will premiere Peter Eötvös’s new opera, and Paris, where I’m
excited to perform in the newly opened Philharmonie — and to making new musical friends in
my first-ever performance in Dublin. And our residency in London will capture many of our
signature projects, including Giants Are Small’s staging of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, and a
chamber concert featuring highlights of CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series.”
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“It is always momentous when the New York Philharmonic travels to Europe,” said President
Matthew VanBesien, “but the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour is particularly meaningful, as it
demonstrates our belief in collaboration with like-minded institutions and our commitment to
being a cultural resource to our hometown and around the world. All of this tour’s performances
result from a warm, collaborative spirit with our partners, and I am particularly proud of the
comprehensive series of informative and inspiring education activities that will take place at
London’s Barbican Centre. The combination of performance and classroom activity is a model of
how music can strengthen ties across borders.”
“I am looking forward to traveling on my first New York Philharmonic tour as Chairman,” said
Chairman Oscar S. Schafer. “I know that hearing Alan Gilbert and our Philharmonic musicians
perform for the sophisticated and appreciative audiences of these cultural capitals will bring a
fresh appreciation for how truly top-notch they are. I thank and congratulate Credit Suisse, the
Exclusive Tour Sponsor; their support allows the New York Philharmonic to further advance its
commitment not only to be a great orchestra for New York City, but a musical and cultural
ambassador around the world.”
“We are delighted to deepen our long-standing relationship with the New York Philharmonic by
acting as Exclusive Tour Sponsor for their EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour,” said Gael de
Boissard, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. “Alan
Gilbert and the exceptionally talented musicians of the Orchestra have developed a program
which is sure to delight audiences whether they are revisiting classical pieces or experiencing the
Orchestra for the first time. Coupled with unique educational experiences in schools, the magic
of the Orchestra will appeal to a whole new generation as a result of this tour.”
The EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour begins with a performance in Dublin at the National
Concert Hall on April 16, marking the New York Philharmonic’s first visit to the city in 19
years. The Orchestra then heads to London for its second residency at the Barbican Centre under
the auspices of its International Associates initiative; concerts will take place at the Barbican
Centre on April 17–19. The tour continues in Amsterdam at the Royal Concertgebouw on
April 21–22; Luxembourg at Philharmonie Luxembourg on April 23; Paris at the newly
established Philharmonie de Paris on April 25–26; Frankfurt at the Alte Oper on April 28;
and concludes in Cologne at the Kölner Philharmonie on April 30–May 1.
Tour Programs
The repertoire for EUROPE / SPRING 2015 will feature highlights from many of the initiatives
introduced during Music Director Alan Gilbert’s tenure — including theatrical collaboration,
CONTACT!, commissions, and educational initiatives — in addition to canonic masterworks.
EUROPE / SPRING 2015 opens in Dublin with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Nyx; Ravel’s
Shéhérazade, sung by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; Ravel’s Valses nobles et
sentimentales; and Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite. The same program will be
performed in London, Amsterdam, and Paris. The Orchestra will also perform Nyx by Esa-Pekka
Salonen (who will begin a three-year tenure as the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis
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Composer-in-Residence in the 2015–16 season) in Cologne; Ravel’s Shéhérazade, with Joyce
DiDonato, in Luxembourg; Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales in Luxembourg, Frankfurt,
and Cologne; and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite in Frankfurt and Cologne. The
Philharmonic will also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in Amsterdam and
Luxembourg.
In London the Philharmonic will present two performances of its acclaimed staging, in
collaboration with Giants Are Small, of Stravinsky’s Petrushka; the first performance will take
place at the Young People’s Concert and the second will also include Bartók’s The Miraculous
Mandarin Suite — which the Orchestra will also perform in Paris and Cologne — and
Debussy’s Jeux — which the Orchestra will also perform in Paris. Directed and conceived by
Doug Fitch and produced by Edouard Getaz, Petrushka blends music with dance, live animation,
pre-recorded video, puppetry, and circus arts, and spotlights Philharmonic musicians juggling,
acting, and dancing. Featured in the pre-recorded footage will be New York City Ballet principal
dancer Sara Mearns; opera star Eric Owens (the bass-baritone who will begin his tenure as the
Philharmonic’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence in the 2015–16 season) as The
Moor; and opera, Broadway, and film performer Anthony Roth Costanzo as Petrushka. The
performance in London will mark the production’s European premiere, and the Philharmonic’s
first time reprising a Giants Are Small production and performing it on tour. The Orchestra will
perform Stravinsky’s Petrushka (the original 1911 version) without staging at the Philharmonie
de Paris and in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Cologne.
Also in London, Philharmonic musicians will perform highlights from recent CONTACT!
concerts: Daníel Bjarnason’s Five Possibilities; Timo Andres’s Early to Rise; Missy
Mazzoli’s Dissolve, O My Heart; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Homunculus for string quartet; and
Shulamit Ran’s Mirage for five players.
The tour will conclude in Cologne, where the Philharmonic will present the World Premiere of
Peter Eötvös’s Senza sangue, featuring mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and baritone
Russell Braun. The Orchestra will give the work’s U.S. Premiere upon its return to New York.
The Philharmonic co-commissioned the work with KölnMusik as part of The Marie-Josée Kravis
Prize for New Music, awarded every two years to a composer for extraordinary artistic endeavor
in the field of new music. Mr. Eötvös is one of the three composers (along with Anthony Cheung
and Franck Krawczyk) with whom the late Henri Dutilleux shared the inaugural Prize in 2011
and who were each commissioned to write a work for the Orchestra to premiere. Also in
Cologne, the Orchestra will perform Stravinsky’s Petrushka (the original 1911 version), Ravel’s
Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite.
Creative Learning Activities
As part of the Philharmonic’s second residency at the Barbican Centre, an installation by
Musicjelly in the Barbican’s Fountain Room, April 15–19, will allow users to compose and
construct their own New York Philharmonic performance, find out how a piece of classical
music deconstructs, and discover more about the Philharmonic musicians before hearing them
perform. In addition, on Sunday, April 19, 1:00–4:00 p.m., free family events will take place in
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Barbican foyers before the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert, including an
ensemble of Philharmonic musicians and graduate students from London’s Guildhall School of
Music & Drama performing music by Very Young Composers of New York City and
London. This will precede a Young People’s Concert, in which Alan Gilbert will lead the
Philharmonic in its acclaimed staging, created in collaboration with Giants Are Small, of
Stravinsky’s Petrushka. The Very Young Composers based in New York and London have been
corresponding through Musical Postcards, in which students from different countries share
stories and musical ideas; in the London collaboration, this communication is actually manifest
through physical postcards, which will be on display at the Barbican. Very Young Composers
allows students with or without musical backgrounds to create, notate, and hear their own music
performed by Philharmonic musicians; the initiative, which began in New York City, is being
rolled out in cities throughout the world, often in conjunction with Philharmonic tours.
In Dublin, Philharmonic musicians will coach the Irish Youth Orchestra in sectional rehearsals
and will visit with beginning string students in low-income neighborhoods.
Artists
Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in September 2009, the
first native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of
The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-inResidence, and the Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; and the NY PHIL
BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music by a wide range of contemporary and modern
composers inaugurated in spring 2014. As New York magazine wrote, “The Philharmonic and its
music director Alan Gilbert have turned themselves into a force of permanent revolution.”
In the 2014–15 season Alan Gilbert conducts the U.S. Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet
Concerto, a Philharmonic co-commission, alongside Mahler’s First Symphony; La Dolce Vita:
The Music of Italian Cinema; Verdi’s Requiem; a staging of Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the
Stake, featuring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard; World Premieres; a CONTACT! program; and
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He concludes The Nielsen Project — the multi-year
initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and concertos, the first
release of which was named by The New York Times as among the Best Classical Music
Recordings of 2012 — and presides over the EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour. His Philharmonictenure highlights include acclaimed productions of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The
Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma
Thompson, and Philharmonic 360 at Park Avenue Armory; World Premieres by Magnus
Lindberg, John Corigliano, Christopher Rouse, and others; Bach’s B-minor Mass and Ives’s
Fourth Symphony; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film; Mahler’s Second
Symphony, Resurrection, on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and eight international tours.
Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest
conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly conducts leading
orchestras around the world. His 2014–15 appearances include the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera, and The Philadelphia Orchestra.
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He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in
2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming’s recent Decca recording
Poèmes, on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. His recordings have received
top honors from the Chicago Tribune and Gramophone magazine. Mr. Gilbert is Director of
Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, where he holds the William Schuman
Chair in Musical Studies. In May 2010 Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of Music
degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and in December 2011, Columbia University’s Ditson
Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American
composers and to contemporary music.” In 2014 he was elected to The American Academy of
Arts & Sciences.
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, winner of the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal
Solo, has gained international prominence in operas by Rossini, Handel, and Mozart, and for her
wide-ranging discography. This season Ms. DiDonato holds residencies at New York’s Carnegie
Hall and London’s Barbican Centre. She recently completed a recital tour of South America, and
appeared in concert and recital in Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Toulouse, Mexico City, and Aspen, as
well as at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall. This season she
performs in her native Kansas City, at The Metropolitan Opera, at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del
Liceu, with The English Concert, and with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. Last
season’s operatic engagements included Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lyric Opera of
Chicago, The Met, and Royal Opera House. An exclusive recording artist with Erato/Warner
Classics, Ms. DiDonato’s most recent recording, Stella di Napoli, presents little-known gems
alongside music by Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti. Her Grammy Award–winning Diva Divo
comprises arias by male and female characters, celebrating the rich dramatic world of the mezzosoprano. Her recordings Drama Queens and ReJoyce!, a retrospective of her first ten years of
recordings, were released in 2013. Her honors include the Gramophone Artist of the Year and
Recital of the Year awards, two German Echo Klassik Awards as Female Singer of the Year, and
induction into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. Joyce DiDonato made her Philharmonic debut in
2006 in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, conducted by Lorin Maazel; she joined Russell Braun for
the 2009 World Premiere of Peter Lieberson’s The World in Flower, conducted by Alan Gilbert,
and she most recently performed in Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with Alan Gilbert and the
Philharmonic in February 2012.
Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter’s long and exclusive
relationship with Deutsche Grammophon produced numerous acclaimed recordings, including
For the Stars, a collaboration with Elvis Costello. Her first recording for Naïve Classique, Love
Songs with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau (2010) was followed by the Grammy-nominated Sogno
Barocco with Leonardo García-Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea, and Berlioz’s Les Nuits
d'été with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble. Her fourth recording for
Naïve, Douce France, is a double CD of mélodies and chansons, released in October 2013.
Recently, Ms. von Otter has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle,
Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and David Robertson, the Boston Symphony
Orchestra and Daniele Gatti, and the National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach.
For the recent Wagner bicentenary she performed Wesendonck Lieder with Orchestre national du
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Capitole de Toulouse, led by Minkowski, and with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, led
by Paavo Järvi, and she appeared with Jonas Kaufmann and the Berlin Philharmonic, led by the
late Claudio Abbado, for a televised performance of Das Lied von der Erde on the centenary of
Mahler’s death. This season’s highlights include a new production of Richard Strauss’s
Capriccio at Lyric Opera of Chicago, led by Andrew Davis; Leocadia Begbick in Weill’s Rise
and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, led by Mark
Wigglesworth; and Waltraute in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at the Vienna Staatsoper, led by
Rattle. On the concert stage she performs Schubert orchestrated songs with the Royal Stockholm
Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Jukka Pekka Saraste, and Zemlinsky’s Maeterlinck Lieder with
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Sakari Oramo. Anne Sofie von Otter made her
Philharmonic debut in September 1987 performing in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, led by
Colin Davis; she most recently performed with the Orchestra in Bach’s Mass in B minor, led by
Alan Gilbert in March 2013.
Baritone Russell Braun has received acclaim for his appearances as Chou En-lai in John
Adams’s Nixon in China; Prince Andrei in Prokofiev’s War and Peace; The Traveller in
Britten’s Death in Venice; and the title roles in Britten’s Billy Budd, Debussy’s Pelléas et
Mélisande, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni at The Metropolitan
Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Vienna Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as the Salzburg and Glyndebourne festivals. This
season features his debut as Ford in the Canadian Opera Company (COC) production of Verdi’s
Falstaff, the title role of Don Giovanni with COC, Lescaut in The Met’s production of
Massenet’s Manon, Britten’s War Requiem with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’s
A German Requiem with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, and Fauré’s Requiem with the
Calgary Philharmonic. Recent highlights include debuts as the Duke of Nottingham in
Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux and as Conte di Luna in Verdi’s Il Trovatore with COC; Chou Enlai in Nixon in China and Olivier in Richard Strauss’s Capriccio at The Met; Jaufré Rudel in
Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin with the Oslo Philharmonic; Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at
COC; Gounod’s Faust at The Met; and Manon at La Scala. His discography features the 2015
Opera Award–nominated recording of Offenbach’s Fantasio with the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment and Mark Elder (Opera Rara); the Grammy-nominated disc of Mahler’s Das Lied
von der Erde (Dorian); the International Opera Award–nominated recording of Dietch’s Le
Vaisseau Fantôme (Naïve); JUNO Award winners Mozart Arie e Duetti (CBC) and Apollo e
Dafne (Handel); and a JUNO-nominated recording of Schubert’s Winterreise (CBC). DVDs
include the Salzburg Festival’s Romeo et Juliette, Dido and Aeneas, Nixon in China (Nonesuch),
Capriccio (Decca), and Alexina Louie’s comic opera Burnt Toast. Russell Braun previously
appeared with the New York Philharmonic alongside Joyce DiDonato in the 2009 World
Premiere of Peter Lieberson’s The World in Flower, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
Since its founding in 2007 by American director/visual artist Doug Fitch, Swiss
filmmaker/producer Edouard Getaz, and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy, Giants Are
Small has become one of the most groundbreaking and critically acclaimed New York City
production companies. Collaborating with some of today’s finest orchestras and outstanding
talents, Giants Are Small is known for its extraordinary range of genre-bending fusions of
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theater, live filmmaking, and music. In 2010 Giants Are Small created a production of Ligeti’s
Le Grand Macabre with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Alan Gilbert, which was
cited as 2010’s best opera of the year by The New York Times, New York magazine, and Time
Out New York. The Philharmonic collaboration continued with the 2011 production of Janáček’s
The Cunning Little Vixen (New York magazine’s “Best Classical Event of the Year”) and A
Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (2013, and later screen in movie theaters
worldwide); and HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL (with Alan
Gilbert conducting forces from The Juilliard School). The 2015 production of Petrushka during
the Orchestra’s EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour marks the company’s fourth collaboration with
the Philharmonic. In 2008 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Giants Are Small presented a new
version of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a production
that merged live classical music, live animation, and video effects in real time. In 2014 Giants
Are Small Discovery was launched; these exploratory productions, drawing on diverse musical
genres, apply its signature treatment to smaller scale works in a range of cultural spaces;
Dadabomb and Gloria – A Pig Tale were the first two works presented under this label. In coproduction with Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon, Giants Are Small is currently
developing Peter+Wolf in Hollywood, which will result in an iPad app, CD, digital album, and
live show.
Visual artist, designer, and director Doug Fitch’s Giants Are Small productions for Alan Gilbert
and the New York Philharmonic include Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (cited as the top opera of
2010 by The New York Times, New York magazine, and Time Out New York), Janáček’s The
Cunning Little Vixen (2011, New York magazine’s “Best Classical Event of the Year”), A
Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (2013, later screened in movie theaters worldwide);
and HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale (2014, with forces from The Juilliard School as part of the
NY PHIL BIENNIAL). This fall Mr. Fitch was the inaugural WBFO visiting artist at SUNY,
where he created an opera of images, How Did We...? In 2013 he directed and performed in the
premiere of Matthew Suttor’s musical setting of Blaise Cendrar’s poem La Prose du
Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France with the Taos Chamber Music Group. He has
created productions for Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Santa Fe Opera, and
directed projects for Canada’s National Arts Centre, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra,
and Tanglewood (Elliot Carter’s What Next?, screened at The Museum of Modern Art). Doug
Fitch’s creative life began with his family’s touring puppet theater. While studying visual arts at
Harvard University, he collaborated with director Peter Sellars, including on of Wagner’s Der
Ring des Nibelungen. He also studied cooking at Paris’s La Varenne and design at Institut
d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France. He emerged as an architectural
designer in the 1980s, and collaborated with Mimi Oka on edible art installations called Orphic
Feasts, leading to their book, Orphic Fodder. Other projects have included Robert Wilson’s Civil
Wars (at the American Repertory Theatre) and Jim Henson of The Muppets (in England). In coproduction with Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon, Mr. Fitch, Edouard Getaz, and
Frederic Gumy are developing Peter+Wolf in Hollywood for an iPad app, CD, digital album, and
live show.
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Edouard Getaz is co-founder and producer of Giants Are Small. Born in 1973 in Lausanne,
Switzerland, he is now a New York–based producer and director. Mr. Getaz has produced a wide
variety of events, from major fashion shows to music festivals and large historical celebrations,
including several New York Philharmonic projects: Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat (2005,
directed by Doug Fitch), Le Grand Macabre (2010), The Cunning Little Vixen (2011), and A
Dancer’s Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky (2013). Petrushka is the fifth creation produced by
Mr. Getaz (who is the show’s video director). With Doug Fitch, Mr. Getaz has also created
Giants Are Small’s adaptation of Peter and the Wolf with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt
Disney Concert Hall (2008). In co-production with Universal Music / Deutsche Grammophon,
and with his partners Doug Fitch and Frederic Gumy, he is currently developing: Peter+Wolf in
Hollywood, which will result in an iPad app, CD, digital album, and live show. Mr. Getaz has
directed two short films, Virgin Red (2005) and Freud’s Magic Powder (2009, in co-production
with the Swiss National Television); both were premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and
selected for major festivals worldwide. For Citibank’s 200th anniversary in 2011 Mr. Getaz
directed the music video Proud, which won major awards (including the PR Week Award). He
has directed video campaigns for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the International Olympic
Committee. Edouard Getaz holds a master in law from the Fribourg University and a certificate
in film directing and production from New York University.
About the New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic plays a leading cultural role in New York City, the United States,
and the world. This season’s projects will connect the Philharmonic with up to 50 million music
lovers through live concerts in New York City and on its worldwide tours; digital downloads;
international broadcasts on television, radio, and online; and as a resource through its wide range
of education programs. The Orchestra has commissioned and/or premiered works by leading
composers from every era since its founding in 1842 — including Dvořák’s New World
Symphony, Copland’s Connotations, and John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize–winning On the
Transmigration of Souls, dedicated to the victims of 9/11. Renowned around the globe, the
Philharmonic has appeared in 432 cities in 63 countries — including the groundbreaking 1930
tour of Europe; the unprecedented 1959 tour to the USSR; the historic 2008 visit to Pyongyang,
D.P.R.K., the first there by an American orchestra; and the Orchestra’s debut in Hanoi, Vietnam,
in 2009. The New York Philharmonic serves as a resource for its community and the world. It
complements its annual free concerts across the city with a wide range of education programs —
among them the famed, long-running Young People’s Concerts and Philharmonic Schools, an
immersive classroom program that reaches thousands of New York City students. Committed to
developing tomorrow’s leading orchestral musicians, the Philharmonic has established the New
York Philharmonic Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions at home and abroad
to create projects that combine performance with intensive training by Philharmonic musicians.
These include collaborations with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory
of Music as well as Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. The oldest American
symphony orchestra and one of the oldest in the world, the New York Philharmonic has made
almost 2,000 recordings since 1917, including several Grammy Award winners, and its selfproduced download series continues in the 2014–15 season. Music Director Alan Gilbert began
his tenure in September 2009, succeeding a distinguished line of 20th-century musical giants that
includes Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini, and Gustav Mahler.
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EUROPE / SPRING 2015
ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
Concert Schedule
All information is subject to change.
Date
Thursday
April 16
8:00 p.m.
Friday
April 17
7:30 p.m.
Saturday
April 18
8:00 p.m.
Sunday
April 19
4:00 p.m.
Sunday
April 19
7:30 p.m.
Location
National Concert Hall
Dublin, Ireland
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Barbican Centre
London, England
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Milton Court Concert Hall
London, England
CONTACT!
Musicians from the New York Philharmonic
Barbican Centre
London, England
Young People’s Concert
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Doug Fitch, director/designer
Edouard Getaz, producer
A Production by Giants Are Small
Tom Lee, puppetry director
Barbican Centre
London, England
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Doug Fitch, director/designer
Edouard Getaz, producer
A Production by Giants Are Small
Tom Lee, puppetry director
Program
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx
RAVEL Shéhérazade
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx
RAVEL Shéhérazade
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Daníel BJARNASON Five Possibilities
Pascual Martínez Forteza, clarinet;
Nathan Vickery, cello; Eric Huebner,
piano
Timo ANDRES Early to Rise
Fiona Simon, Sharon Yamada, violin;
Robert Rinehart, viola; Eileen Moon cello
Missy MAZZOLI Dissolve, O My Heart
Anna Rabinova, violin
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Homunculus for
string quartet
Sharon Yamada, Fiona Simon, violin;
Dawn Hannay, viola; Patrick Jee, cello
Shulamit RAN Mirage for five players
Quan Ge, violin; Sumire Kudo, cello;
Yoobin Son, flute/piccolo; Alcides
Rodríguez, clarinet; Eric Huebner, piano
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (staged)
BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
DEBUSSY Jeux
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (staged)
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Tuesday
April 21
8:15 p.m.
Sunday
April 26
4:30 p.m.
Royal Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Royal Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Philharmonie Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Philharmonie de Paris
Paris, France
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Philharmonie de Paris
Paris, France
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Tuesday
April 28
8:00 p.m.
Alte Oper Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Thursday
April 30
8:00 p.m.
Kölner Philharmonie
Cologne, Germany
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Friday
May 1
8:00 p.m.
Kölner Philharmonie
Cologne, Germany
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
Russell Braun, baritone
Wednesday
April 22
8:15 p.m.
Thursday
April 23
8:00 p.m.
Saturday
April 25
8:30 p.m.
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx
RAVEL Shéhérazade
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911
version)
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
RAVEL Shéhérazade
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx
RAVEL Shéhérazade
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911
version)
DEBUSSY Jeux
BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911
version)
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (original 1911
version)
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx
BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Peter EÖTVÖS Senza sangue (World
Premiere–New York Philharmonic CoCommission, with the support of the
Kravis Prize for New Music, with
KölnMusik)
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