Alan Gilbert News

The New York Philharmonic's A Concert for New York, a free performance led by Music Director Alan Gilbert of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, given in remembrance and renewal on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, will be telecast in the U.S. on Sunday, September 11, 2011, on PBS's Great Performances at 9:00 p.m.

Augustin Hadelich makes his New York debut with The New York Philharmonic led by Alan Gilbert to open the third annual Caramoor Fall Festival.

In remembrance and renewal, THIRTEEN'S Great Performances will broadcast A Concert for New York, performed by the New York Philharmonic on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, taped the previous night at a free concert in Avery Fisher Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. The broadcast will be hosted by NBC News special correspondent and author Tom Brokaw.

Kent Tritle begins the 2011-2012 season as the newly-appointed Director of Cathedral Music and Organist of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

The New York Philharmonic will launch the eighth season of its concert broadcast series, The New York Philharmonic This Week, beginning the week of September 26, 2011.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala. Conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, the program will open with Samuel Barber's The School for Scandal Overture of 1931, and will also feature selections from Richard Strauss's Salome and Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, as well as Barber's Andromache's Farewell.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.* for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala.

Michael Barrett, CEO and General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, presents the third annual Caramoor Fall Festival on September 23, 24 and 25.

The New York Philharmonic's A Concert for New York, a free performance led by Music Director Alan Gilbert of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, given in remembrance and renewal on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, will be telecast in the U.S. on Sunday, September 11, 2011, on PBS's Great Performances at 9:00 p.m.

Internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15th with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Alan Gilbert, as a special gift to New York City (tickets required for entry).

Internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15th with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Alan Gilbert, as a special gift to New York City (tickets required for entry).

The free concert offered by internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15, 2011, will be recorded in high definition by THIRTEEN's GREAT PERFORMANCES. Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of music director Alan Gilbert, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, with special guest artists to be announced, the gala event is a special gift to New York City.

SECRETS OF NEW YORK will spotlight the group on their Prohibition segment (NYC TV, Channel 25 on Time Warner and channel 22 on Cablevision, And at nyc.gov/media) Tune in and check it out.

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music, New Jersey's leading community music school, named a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 Season.

PBS will commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11th with a special series of new and encore programs leading up to and continuing beyond Sunday, September 11. Programs in news and public affairs, science, and the performing arts are planned as part of the remembrance. Beginning at 4:00 p.m. on September 11, the entire PBS schedule will be devoted to special programming.

PBS will commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11th with a special series of new and encore programs leading up to and continuing beyond Sunday, September 11.

The New York Philharmonic will return to Colorado's Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival for its ninth annual summer residency, for six concerts, July 22-29, 2011. Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will conduct three concerts, leading works by Dvo?ák, Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. The Orchestra's residency will also feature appearances by conductors Ludovic Morlot and Bramwell Tovey, as well as violinists Gil Shaham, Veronika Eberle (New York Philharmonic debut) and Augustin Hadelich, and pianists Alexander Romanovsky (debut), Kirill Gerstein, and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (debut). The New York Philharmonic has performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival each summer since 2003.

Case Scaglione, age 28, and Joshua Weilerstein, 23, have been named New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductors for the 2011-12 season. They will assist Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, and all guest conductors throughout the season, and will lead educational events, including School Day Concerts and Young People's Concerts.

After conducting four highly successful performances of Janáek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Music Director Alan Gilbert reflects on crossing boundaries between art forms, how orchestras define themselves, and what the Philharmonic means to the public it serves, while looking back over a season that included a wide range of highlights for Mr. Gilbert, from Mozart's Symphony No. 40 to Magnus Lindberg's Kraft.