Program Announced For Mostly Mozart Festival, Runs 7/28-8/22

Jane Moss, Artistic Director, today announced the programming for the 43rd season of the Mostly Mozart Festival, which runs from July 28 through August 22, 2009, and offers 52 events, including concerts, pre-concert recitals, late-night performances, films, and lectures.

Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée will conduct ten concerts with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the music of Mozart will be featured in 17 programs this summer, along with 14 by his beloved contemporary, Haydn, whose death 200 years ago will be highlighted during the Festival.

The four-week Mostly Mozart Festival will also offer five premieres by composers John Adams and Alberto Grau; choreographer Mark Morris, and film-maker Bruno Monsaingeon. The Festival will feature debuts by nine artists-conductor Robin Ticciati makes his highly-anticipated US debut; pianist Claire-Marie Le Guay and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin make their NY debuts; pianist Yevgeny Sudbin makes his NY orchestral debut; and pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Nicholas Angelich and Stefan Vladar, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, and acclaimed clarinetist Michael Collins make their Mostly Mozart debuts. The Festival will unfold at five venues on the Lincoln Center campus, including a return to the newly transformed and highly acclaimed Alice Tully Hall. Tickets will go on sale for all events on June 6.

John Adams will be in residence during the Festival conducting a number of his works, including the New York premiere of his opera A Flowering Tree. Inspired by Mozart's The Magic Flute, A Flowering Tree will be directed by Peter Sellars and feature a cast of Indonesian dancers and American singers (August 13, 14, 16). The Mark Morris Dance Group returns to the Festival with the Mostly Mozart-commissioned NY premieres of Empire Garden and Visitation, the choreographer's newest collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax (August 19, 20, 21, 22).

Maestro Louis Langrée Leads Ten Concerts with Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
NY Premiere of Artist-in-Residence John Adams' Opera A Flowering Tree
Joshua Bell with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra under Langrée in a Live From "the 50th Anniversary of" Lincoln Center Telecast
Mark Morris Dance Group Returns with Two NY Premieres, Empire Garden and Visitation, with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
In His Mostly Mozart Debut, Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard Leads the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Programs of Mozart, Haydn, and the First Festival Performances of Ligeti and Stockhausen
Young Conductors: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Makes NY Debut; Robin Ticciati's US Debut
US Premiere of Bruno Monsaingeon's Documentary Unquiet Traveller on Pianist Piotr Anderszewski and Screening of Garin Nugroho's Film Opera Jawa