Alan Gilbert News

Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité céleste and Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Thursday, April 28, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 29, at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, April 30, at 8:00 p.m. He will be joined in these concerts by pianist Emanuel Ax, who is performing his 100th concert with the New York Philharmonic on April 28, and who will play Debussy's Estampes for solo piano, and the Messiaen work with the Orchestra.

In May 2011, The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national weekly and international radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin - begins with commercial New York Philharmonic recordings of past performances. They include Bloch's Concerto Grosso No. 1 (conducted by Charles Munch, with pianist Walter Hendl as soloist, recorded 1948); Ben-Haim's Sweet Psalmist of Israel (conducted by Leonard Bernstein, with Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord, and Christina Stavrache, harp, recorded 1959); and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, BabiYar (conducted by Kurt Masur, with baritone Sergei Leiferkus and the Men of the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director, recorded 1993). The following week pianist Emanuel Ax - who is celebrating his 100th performance with the Philharmonic - will play Debussy's Estampes for solo piano, followed by Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité céleste, conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, who will also lead the Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 5.

On March 17, 2011, Music Director Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic performed Takemitsu's Requiem for String Orchestra, in sympathy for the Japanese people.

Violinist Itzhak Perlman will join the New York Philharmonic, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, for a program of works from Hollywood and Vienna, including music from the films Cinema Paradiso, Casablanca, Scent of a Woman, Out of Africa, and Schindler's List (which he played on the film's soundtrack), along with a set of showpieces by Kreisler, Monday, April 11, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. The program will include orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven. As previously announced, this concert replaces Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, narrated by Christopher Plummer, which will be rescheduled.

Rob Gibson, Executive & Artistic Director of Savannah Music Festival (SMF), has announced that Tony Award-winning actor John Rubinstein will join Daniel Hope & Friends on stage at Lucas Theatre of the Arts on April 5 for the world premiere performance of Marc Neikrug's newest work, Death Cell Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial.

Violinist Itzhak Perlman will perform music from Vienna and Hollywood with the New York Philharmonic on Monday, April 11, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert. The program replaces the previously announced Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, narrated by Christopher Plummer. Mr. Plummer has had to reschedule his appearance with the Orchestra due to the extended filming of Barrymore; a new concert date will be announced at a later time. Repertoire for Mr. Perlman's program will be announced shortly.

In April 2011 The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin - begins with the fourth and final program from Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Mr. Salonen leads Haydn's Symphony No. 8, Le Soir; Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Olli Mustonen as soloist; Ligeti's Clocks and Clouds, featuring the Women of New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director; and Bartok's Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin. The following week Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Prokofiev's American Overture for Orchestra, Op 42; the New York Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's In Tempus Praesens, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, with Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, as soloist; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, Little Russian.

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music's 21st annual Gift of Music Gala Benefit Concert, held February 9 at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, N.J., has raised nearly $100,000 toward high-quality, comprehensive music education at the school

Though the music of Gustav Mahler is the cornerstone of Thomas Hampson's 2010-11 season, the baritone will take some time away from the Austrian composer this month to devote his energy to two other great passions: American song and teaching.

Though the music of Gustav Mahler is the cornerstone of Thomas Hampson's 2010-11 season, the baritone will take some time away from the Austrian composer this month to devote his energy to two other great passions: American song and teaching.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Peter Oundjian, who have garnered attention for their remarkable resurgence since Mr. Oundjian was appointed Music Director in 2004, will perform at Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium on Saturday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m.

Join Music Director Alan Gilbert and others as they reveal details of the 2011/12 season and unveil the Philharmonic Digital Archives in a LIVE WEBCAST from The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR, tomorrow, February 3, at 3:00 PM, ET.

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, already known in concert halls around the world and acclaimed for her "dazzling virtuosity" (Financial Times), makes her much-anticipated Deutsche Grammophon debut with this startling program featuring classics by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov as well as works by Kancheli and Part.

Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will lead the New York Philharmonic on the EUROPE/SPRING 2011 tour, May 12-24, 2011. The tour - the fourth with Mr. Gilbert as Music Director - will take the Orchestra to musical capitals of Central Europe, with eleven concerts in nine cities: Basel, Switzerland; Baden-Baden and Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary; Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic. Although Mr. Gilbert has a long history conducting in Europe, and has taken the Orchestra on two previous European tours, this will be his first appearances in all nine cities as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.

Finnish soprano Karita Mattila will join the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert to perform Beethoven's concert aria, 'Ah, perfido!' and songs by Sibelius, on a program that also includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments, Thursday, January 27, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, January 28-29, at 8:00 p.m., and Tuesday, February 1, at 7:30 p.m.

In March 2011 The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national, weekly radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin - begins with a concert conducted by Andrey Boreyko. He leads the Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 60, Il distratto; Glazunov's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Schulhoff's Jazz Concerto (Hot-Sonate) featuring soloist Branford Marsalis; and R. Strauss's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.

Christopher Plummer will narrate Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, with music from Sir William Walton's score for the Laurence Olivier film of Shakespeare's Henry V, conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, Monday, April 11, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. The program will also include music of Shakespeare's time. Joining the New York Philharmonic will be the Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Choir, Kent Tritle, director, and The American Boychoir, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, director.

Following three performances of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with the New York Philharmonic and its music director, Alan Gilbert (Jan 6-8), Thomas Hampson will perform and discuss songs by Mahler - as well as music by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, and American composers - in a front of a live studio audience at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR on Monday, January 10

Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in the New York Premiere of Thomas Adès's multimedia In Seven Days (Concerto for Piano with Moving Image), Thursday, January 6, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, January 7, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, January 8, at 8:00 p.m. The score, which the composer will perform at the piano in his Philharmonic debut, is synchronized with Israeli artist and filmmaker Tal Rosner's kaleidoscopic imagery, projected onto six large screens. Mr. Adès calls it a 'video-ballet in seven movements' that follows the story of creation. The program will also include Mozart's Symphony No. 40, and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, with baritone Thomas Hampson.

Following three performances of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with the New York Philharmonic and its music director, Alan Gilbert (Jan 6-8), Thomas Hampson will perform and discuss songs by Mahler - as well as music by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, and American composers - in a front of a live studio audience at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR on Monday, January 10