Anne-Sophie Mutter to Premiere TIME MACHINE at NY Philharmonic, 6/2

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence at  the New York Philharmonic, will join the Orchestra, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert,  The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, for three concerts featuring the World Premiere of  Sebastian Currier's Time Machines and Beethoven's Romance No. 2 for Violin and  Orchestra, Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 3, at 2:00 p.m., and  Saturday, June 4, at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Gilbert will conclude the program with Bruckner's  Symphony No. 2.

This is the final orchestral program of Ms. Mutter's New York Philharmonic residency.  Her last appearance of the season, on June 5, 2011, will be a recital of works by Debussy,  Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Sarasate with pianist Lambert Orkis. Ms. Mutter began her  residency on November 14, 2010, with an all-Beethoven chamber program; by the end of  the season she will have performed two chamber concerts, three orchestral programs, and one recital, most coupling established repertoire with newer works. -I feel greatly  privileged to have the opportunity to present such varied works for violin and orchestra in New York,? she has said.

Time Machines by Sebastian Currier (b. 1959) - a composer whom Ms. Mutter has championed - is a seven-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, written for and dedicated to her. Each of the seven movements explores some aspect of the relationship between the perception of music and time. For more information about Ms. Mutter's residency, go to nyphil.org/mutter.