2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL Announces Webcasts, Broadcasts, and Recordings

A range of performances and events from the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL will be made available through live video webcasts, live audio streams, and on-demand video and audio, several in partnership with WQXR's Q2 Music, which will also feature a 24-hour biennial marathon on May 24. Biennial highlights will later be featured on a radio broadcast on WFMT's Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead, and on a release of biennial highlights on the Philharmonic's digital recording series Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2015-16 Season.

VIDEO WEBCASTS

The opening concert of the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL, featuring the JACK Quartet at 92nd Street Y, will be video webcast live on 92Y.org on Monday, May 23, 2016, at 8:30 p.m. Presented by 92nd Street Y, the program will feature the New York Premieres of Cenk Ergu?n's Sonare and Celare; the World Premiere of Derek Bermel's Gin, Jazz, and Dreams; and the New York Premiere of Marc Sabat's Euler Lattice Spirals Scenery.

The NY PHIL BIENNIAL program by the Yale School of Music's New Music New Haven, featuring works by Yale School of Music composers past and present, will be video webcast live from The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, with audio streamed on WQXR's new-music channel, Q2 Music, on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. Q2 Music host Helga Davis will be joined by Music Director Alan Gilbert along with select composers for on-stage interviews. The live webcast will be available at q2music.org and wnyc.org.

The three Ligeti Forward performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be video webcast live on metmuseum.org on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m.; and Sunday, June 5 at 2:00 p.m. The video will also be available later for on-demand viewing. Co-presented by the New York Philharmonic, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, and MetLiveArts, Ligeti Forward features Alan Gilbert and David Fulmer conducting the Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI in three of Gyorgy Ligeti's concertos - the Piano Concerto, performed by Conor Hanick; Cello Concerto, performed by Ligeti Forward curator Jay Campbell; and Violin Concerto, performed by Pekka Kuusisto - alongside works by Unsuk Chin, Gerard Grisey, Alexandre Lunsqui, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Dai Fujikura, and John Zorn.

Video of the May 11 Insights at the Atrium event "NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A Player's Guide" - hosted by Music Director Alan Gilbert and featuring artists from across the new-music spectrum previewing highlights of their biennial programs - will be available on-demand after the event, leading up to and during the biennial, on nyphil.org/biennial. Panelists will include cellist Jay Campbell; violinist Jennifer Koh; composers Martin Bresnick, John Corigliano, Aaron Jay Kernis, Hilary Purrington, and Christopher Theofanidis; composer and violinist Colin Jacobsen; composer and San Francisco Girls Chorus artistic director Lisa Bielawa; and Brooklyn Youth Chorus artistic director and conductor Dianne Berkun Menaker.

Select moments from NY PHIL BIENNIAL events will be video streamed live on the New York Philharmonic's Facebook page via Facebook Live; the live streams will be announced in advance on the Philharmonic's social media channels.

AUDIO STREAMS

Live audio of Jennifer Koh's two Shared Madness programs will be streamed on Q2 Music, on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. and Tuesday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m. Q2 Music's Helga Davis will host the concert and audio streams. Co-presented by the New York Philharmonic and National Sawdust, the two programs feature Ms. Koh performing the World Premieres of short works for solo violin by more than 30 composers, which taken together explore the shared creative space between composer and performer as well as virtuosity in the 21st century. Jennifer Koh began Shared Madness as a "thank you" to Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, new-music advocates and commissioners whose generosity helped her purchase the instrument on which she will perform during these recitals and who agreed to accept music in lieu of funds as repayment for the violin.

Q2 Music will stream a 24-hour NY PHIL BIENNIAL marathon on May 24, 2016, hosted by Q2 Music host Phil Kline. The marathon will include audio from "NY PHIL BIENNIAL: A Player's Guide," performance highlights from the 2014 biennial, and music by composers featured in the 2016 biennial.

RADIO AND DIGITAL DOWNLOADS

Highlights from Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic's NY PHIL BIENNIAL performances will be broadcast on WFMT's nationally syndicated new-music program Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead, available at www.relevantones.com, in the summer of 2016. The broadcast will pull from the biennial programs featuring the World Premiere of William Bolcom's Trombone Concerto, with Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi as soloist, and the New York Premiere of John Corigliano's Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra, with Martin Grubinger as soloist in his Philharmonic debut (June 10, 2016); and Boulez's Messagesquisse, performed by Philharmonic cellist Eric Bartlett as soloist with an ensemble of Philharmonic cellists, the New York Premiere of Stucky's Second Concerto for Orchestra, and the U.S. Premiere of Per Nørga?rd's Symphony No. 8 (June 11, 2016). The broadcast date will be announced at a later time.

Highlights from the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL will be released on the New York Philharmonic's digital recording series, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2015-16 Season. Accompanied by digital liner notes, the recordings will be available for download from all major digital download services including iTunes, Amazon.com, and Google Play (ranging from $9.99 to $13.99 per album) and by streaming on Spotify. Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2015-16 Season is produced by the New York Philharmonic and distributed by The Orchard, the Philharmonic's digital recordings technology partner and the leading digital distributor of classical music. The release date will be announced at a later time.

About the NY PHIL BIENNIAL

A flagship project of the New York Philharmonic, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is a wide- ranging exploration of today's music that brings together an international roster of composers, performers, and curatorial voices for concerts presented both on the Lincoln Center campus and with partners in venues throughout the city. The second NY PHIL BIENNIAL, taking place May 23-June 11, 2016, will feature diverse programs - ranging from solo works to a chamber opera to large scale symphonies - by more than 100 composers, more than half of whom are American; present some of the country's top music schools and youth choruses; and expand to more New York City neighborhoods. A range of events and activities will engender an ongoing dialogue among artists, composers, and audience members. Partners in the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL include National Sawdust; 92nd Street Y; Aspen Music Festival and School; Interlochen Center for the Arts; League of Composers/ISCM; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; LUCERNE FESTIVAL; MetLiveArts; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; Whitney Museum of American Art; WQXR's Q2 Music; and Yale School of Music.

About the Hosts:

Helga Davis (Q2 Music broadcast of Yale School of Music's New Music New Haven at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, and Jennifer Koh's Shared Madness programs at National Sawdust) is a principle actor in the 25th anniversary re-staging of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's seminal work Einstein on the Beach. In 2012 Ms. Davis appeared twice in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, in both Glass's Einstein on the Beach and Maya Beiser's Elsewhere with music by Missy Mazzoli. She made her second appearance at the Barbican Centre in May 2012 starring in an opera written for her by Paola Prestini, Oceanic Verses, with libretto by Donna DiNovelli and video by Ali Houssani (Voom Portraits, Robert Wilson). In the summer of 2013 she traveled to Antwerp and Hamburg to work on a new opera by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, with a libretto by Andrew Ondrejcak. Ms. Davis's past work has included The Blue Planet (2008), a multimedia theater piece written by Peter Greenaway and directed by Saskia Boddeke, and was a co-star in The Temptation of St. Anthony directed by Robert Wilson, with libretto and score by Bernice Johnson Reagon of Sweet Honey in the Rock. In February 2008 Ms. Davis conducted a special feature interview with artist Kara Walker for the WNYC program Morning Edition on the eve of Ms. Walker's Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective.

Seth Boustead (Relevant Tones) is a Chicago-based composer, radio host, and arts manager, as well as a writer, concert producer, in-demand speaker, and visionary with the goal of revolutionizing how and where classical music is performed and how it is perceived by the general public. Since receiving his master of music degree in composition from the Chicago College for the Performing Arts in 2002 he has gone on to forge a unique and highly personal musical identity through pieces that are regularly performed and heard on radio broadcasts around the world. Mr. Boustead is the founder and executive director of Access Contemporary Music, a non-profit organization with the mission of integrating musical creativity into everyday life, and he is the host of Relevant Tones, the only internationally syndicated radio program about contemporary composers. Aired by stations across the United States and in Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines, Relevant Tones is heard by approximately 250,000 listeners every week. Find more at www.sethboustead.com.

Weekday Q2 Music host Phil Kline (Q2 Music 24-hour NY PHIL BIENNIAL marathon) is a composer who makes music in many genres and contexts, from experimental electronics and sound installations to songs, choral, theater, chamber, and orchestral music. He founded the rock band The Del-Byzanteens with Jim Jarmusch and James Nares, collaborated with Nan Goldin on the sound track to The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, and played guitar in the Glenn Branca Ensemble. His early compositions include Bachman's Warbler for harmonicas and twelve tape loops (1992) and Unsilent Night, which debuted in the streets of Greenwich Village in 1992 and is now performed annually around the world. Other compositions include Zippo Songs, a song cycle based on poems Vietnam veterans inscribed on their Zippo lighters; The Blue Room and Other Stories, written for string quartet Ethel; and Exquisite Corpses, commissioned by Bang on a Can All-Stars. More recent works include the choral mass John the Revelator, written for vocal group Lionheart; a piano sonata, The Long Winter, written for Sarah Cahill; and scores for three evening-length dance pieces by Wally Cardona: Everywhere, Site, and Really Real. The sound installation World on a String opened the season at the Krannert Center in September 2007, and Ethel performed SPACE for string quartet and electronics at Alice Tully Hall's gala reopening in 2009. Phil Kline is currently working on an opera, Tesla in New York, in collaboration with Jim Jarmusch, and Out Cold, a song cycle for Theo Bleckmann and ACME.

Q2 Music is WQXR's online music channel dedicated to contemporary classical composers, innovative ensembles, and musical discovery. Its programming includes immersive festivals, insightful commentary from hosts such as composer Phil Kline and vocalist Helga Davis, full-length album streams, live webcasts and exclusive concert audio from local and national venues, and special events in front of live audiences at The Greene Space at WQXR. Q2 Music produces Meet the Composer with host Nadia Sirota, a Peabody Award-winning podcast that mines the brains of today's leading composers, as well as LPR Live, a podcast that shares dynamic new-music performances from Greenwich Village's Le Poisson Rouge. Q2 Music is streamed live 24/7 at www.wqxr.org/q2music and is also available via the free WQXR App.