Live Webcast Of Alan Gilbert And NY Philharmonic Press Conf.

On Monday, January 12, 2009 - 11:00 A.M. (EST) there will be a live webcast of the Alan Gilbert and NY Philharmonic 2009-10 press conference.

From the stage of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Home of the New York Philharmonic

Alan Gilbert AND THE New York Philharmonic
2009-10: THE INAUGURAL SEASON
Alan Gilbert (Music Director, September 2009) is joined by Magnus Lindberg, Composer-in-Residence; Thomas Hampson, Artist-in-Residence; Valery Gergiev (on video), Conductor, Philharmonic Festival; Douglas Fitch, director; and New York Philharmonic Chairman Paul B. Guenther and President and Executive Director Zarin Mehta.In June 2007 Alan Gilbert was named music director of the New York Philharmonic, beginning in the 2009-10 season. He will be one of the youngest music directors in the Orchestra's history, and the only native New Yorker to hold the post.

Since 2004 Mr. Gilbert has been principal guest conductor of Hamburg's NDR Symphony Orchestra (NDRSO). He was recently named conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was chief conductor and artistic advisor from 2000 to 2008.

Mr. Gilbert made his New York Philharmonic debut in 2001 as the Diamond American Conductor, and has returned to lead the Orchestra numerous times, including during the Philharmonic festival Charles Ives - An American Original in Context in 2004, and, most recently, in March 2008, when he led the World Premiere of Marc Neikrug's Quintessence: Symphony No. 2, a New York Philharmonic Commission.

In the 2008-09 season Mr. Gilbert's Philharmonic schedule will include two events that are part of the citywide festival Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds. First, on November 14, 2008, a concert at Carnegie Hall will celebrate Bernstein's Philharmonic debut; then, on November 24, 2008, a performance with the Juilliard Orchestra, presented by the Philharmonic, will feature Bernstein's Symphony No. 3, Kaddish. One of Mr. Gilbert's two programs in the spring of 2009 includes the World Premiere of Peter Lieberson's The World in Flower, a New York Philharmonic Commission. Other 2008-09 highlights include his Metropolitan Opera debut, leading John Adams's Doctor Atomic, and his return to both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Highlights of Mr. Gilbert's 2007-08 season included his Vienna Staatsoper debut; concerts with his alma mater - Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music - at both the Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall; a tour with the NDRSO to Cologne, Vienna, Prague, and Ljubljana, Slovenia; and returns to The Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, and Paris's Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

In 2006 Mr. Gilbert led the Santa Fe Opera in the first United States production of Thomas Adès's Tempest during that company's 50th anniversary season. Mr. Gilbert was the first music director in the history of the Santa Fe Opera. Alan Gilbert's parents, Yoko Takebe and Michael Gilbert, both violinists in the New York Philharmonic (his father is now retired), were his first teachers. Mr. Gilbert studied at Harvard University, The Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School.

Click here Monday, January 12, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. to watch the press conference

http://nyphil.org/0910webcast/