Medici.tv Streams Live Webcast of NY Philharmonic at Philharmonie de Paris Today

Today, April 25 at 2:30 p.m., EDT, medici.tv (www.medici.tv) will present a free, live webcast of the New York Philharmonic's concert, conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, of 20th- and 21st-century music at the newly opened Philharmonie de Paris, marking the first time an American orchestra is performing at the venue.

The concert, one of twelve on the Orchestra's EUROPE / SPRING 2015 tour, will feature Esa-Pekka Salonen's Nyx; Ravel's Shéhérazade, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales; and R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite. The webcast will be available for free to audiences worldwide for the following 90 days; it will be available for three years for medici.tv subscribers.

This will be the second New York Philharmonic concert from Europe to appear on medici.tv, following the success of the webcast of the Philharmonic's concert at Volkswagen's Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany, during the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour, led by Alan Gilbert and featuring Magnus Lindberg's site-specific work Kraft. Other webcasts of Philharmonic concerts have included the historic performance from Pyongyang, D.P.R.K., in 2008 (the performance was also released on DVD by Euroarts); the 2013 and 2014 Chinese New Year Concert and Gala; A Dancer's Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky, the theatrical reimagining of Stravinsky's The Fairy's Kiss and Petrushka created by Giants Are Small; and Philharmonic 360, the Orchestra's spatial-music program co-produced with Park Avenue Armory in 2012.

This is one of two appearances by Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic at the Philharmonie de Paris; the following evening they will perform Stravinsky's Petrushka (original 1911 version), Debussy's Jeux, and Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin Suite.

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 Dvor?a?k'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 self- produced 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.

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-Jose?e Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence, 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 Philharmonic- tenure highlights include acclaimed productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Jana?c?ek'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.

He made his acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams's Doctor Atomic in 2008, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Rene?e Fleming's recent Decca recording Poe?mes, 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 mezzo- soprano. 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'e?te? with Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic in February 2012.

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CONCERT DETAILS:

New York Philharmonic

Philharmonie de Paris Paris, France

Saturday, April 25, 2015, 8:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT)

medici.tv live webcast

Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano

Esa-Pekka SALONEN Nyx
RAVEL Shéhérazade
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Pictured: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic. Photo by Chris Lee.