Mariss Jansons to Conduct Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons returns with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for two back-to-back concerts this May in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. On Friday, May 4 at 8:00 p.m., the orchestra performs Rossini'sWilliam Tell Overture; Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 in N*E*R*D Major, Op. 19, featuringFrank Peter Zimmermann; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, "Eroica." The following evening, Saturday, May 5 at 8:00 p.m., the orchestra and Maestro Jansons perform Mahler's massive Symphony No. 7 in E Minor.

As part of the seventh annual Carnegie Hall Livebroadcast and digital series, the May 4 performance will be broadcast live on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York and streamed online at wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, and hosted by WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon, select Carnegie Hall Live broadcasts throughout the season feature live web chats, including Twitter commentary from the broadcast team backstage and in the control room, connecting national and international fans to the music and to each other.

About the Artists
Frank Peter Zimmermann is widely regarded as one of the foremost violinists of his generation. Praised for his selfless musicality, brilliance and keen intelligence, he has been performing with all the major orchestras in the world for well over three decades, collaborating on these occasions with the most renowned conductors. His many concert engagements take him to prestigious concert venues and international music festivals in Europe, the United States, Japan, South America, and Australia.

During the 2017-2018 season, Mr. Zimmermann is the "artist-in-residence" of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. Further highlights include concerts with his Trio Zimmermann in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, and Madrid and at the summer festivals of Salzburg, Edinburgh, and Schleswig-Holstein; concerts in Amsterdam and on tour in Seoul and Japan with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti; a concert at Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons; concerts with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Bernard Haitink; a European tour with the Berliner Barock Solisten; performances with conductor Daniel Harding with Orchestre de Paris and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; and a week of concerts in China with the Shanghai and Guangzhou symphony orchestras and the China Philharmonic Orchestra (opening of the Beijing Music Festival), all conducted by Long Yu.

Mariss Jansons ranks among the outstanding podium personalities of our time. His orchestral work is recognized not only through his busy touring activities but also for his worldwide television and radio broadcasts worldwide, and for his extensive discography. Mr. Jansons has been Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir since 2003. He served as Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam from 2004 until 2015.

As Chief Conductor, Mariss Jansons has led a number of critically-acclaimed concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at home and abroad. Mr. Jansons and the orchestra make regular appearances in the most important musical capitals of the world, including New York, London, Tokyo, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Zürich, Brussels, and other cities, as well as at such festivals as Salzburg, Lucerne, the London Proms, Edinburgh Festival, and the Berlin Festival. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, under Mariss Jansons, is invited annually to serve as Orchestra in Residence at the Easter Festival in Lucerne.

From 1979 to 2000, Mr. Jansons was Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, which he shaped into a top international orchestra. He also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1992-1997) and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1997-2004). He embarked on several tours to the most important music centers with his orchestras in Oslo and Pittsburgh, and made regular visits to the festivals in Salzburg, Lucerne, and the London Proms, among others.

Mr. Jansons has successfully collaborated with all the major orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Of particular significance are his collaborations with the Vienna and Berliner Philharmoniker orchestras. Mr. Jansons has conducted these orchestras regularly in Vienna and Berlin as well as on tour throughout Europe, the United States and Japan. He is also a regular guest artist at the Salzburg Festival.

Founded by Eugen Jochum in 1949, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO)-the orchestra of Munich's public radio and television broadcaster, Bayerischer Rundfunk-is considered one of the world's leading orchestras, renowned throughout Europe and abroad. Its international prominence continues to grow through an intensive touring schedule that takes the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra to Asia as well as North and South America. The orchestra owes its extraordinary range of repertoire and sound spectrum to the program preferences of its previous chief conductors as well as to the great flexibility and acumen of each individual musician.

Many renowned guest conductors, such as Clemens Krauss, Erich and Carlos Kleiber, Charles Munch, Ferenc Fricsay, Otto Klemperer, Karl Böhm, Günter Wand, Sir Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Sanderling, and Wolfgang Sawallisch have left indelible imprints on the BRSO. The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was also the only German orchestra regularly conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Today, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin are among the significant partners who frequently conduct the orchestra in Munich. In addition, the BRSO has, in recent years, pursued new approaches to early music and now regularly collaborates with such experts in historical performance practice as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Giovanni Antonini, and Thomas Hengelbrock.

Besides the numerous performances heard on Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich and surrounding cities within the station's broadcast range, the BRSO is heard worldwide as part of its numerous and extensive concert tours. The BRSO has toured virtually every European country, Asia, as well as North and South America. It makes regular appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall and in the renowned concert halls in Japan's musical capitals. The BRSO, under the direction of its current Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons, has also served as orchestra in residence at the Easter Festival in Lucerne since 2004.

Program Information
Friday, May 4 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mariss Jansons, Chief Conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Violin

GIOACHINO ROSSINI William Tell Overture
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 in N*E*R*D Major, Op. 19
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, "Eroica"

The Trustees of Carnegie Hall gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Linda and Earle S. Altman in support of the 2017-2018 season.
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Saturday, May 5 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mariss Jansons, Chief Conductor

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 7 in E Minor

This concert is made possible, in part, by the Mary Jane Harris Fund for Orchestral Planning.

Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.

Ticket Information
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Photo of Maestro Jansons by Anne Dokter

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