Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival to Feature the NY Philharmonic, 7/22-29

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.

-Vail is a summer home-away-from-home for the Orchestra, for Alan Gilbert - this will  be his fourth consecutive summer in Vail - and for artists such as Bramwell Tovey who  have joined us in this beautiful Rocky Mountain setting before,? said New York  Philharmonic President and Executive Director Zarin Mehta. -Vail audiences clearly  have been delighted by the wonderful chemistry between Alan and the musicians, a  rapport that has been celebrated worldwide.?

Music Director Alan Gilbert launches the Philharmonic's 2011 residency with an opening  night concert on Friday, July 22, 2011, featuring Dvo?ák's Violin Concerto, with Veronika Eberle as soloist, followed by Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica. On  Saturday, July 23, Mr. Gilbert will lead Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish, with  Augustin Hadelich as soloist, and Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Mr. Gilbert's final 2011  concert in Vail, on Sunday, July 24, will feature Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme  of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra, with Alexander Romanovsky as soloist, followed by  Tchaikovsky's Act II of The Nutcracker.

Single tickets for the New York Philharmonic's performances at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music
Festival are $24 (Lawn), $63 (Reserved), and $85 (Premium) and may be purchased from the
Bravo! box office at (877) 812-5700 or online at www.vailmusicfestival.org. Children 12 and
under receive free lawn admittance to all orchestral concerts at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater.

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