For immediate release Contact Glenn Petry (212) Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in

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1 For immediate release Contact Glenn Petry (212) Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in gpetry@21cmediagroup.com Alan Gilbert (photo: Chris Lee) Alan Gilbert New York Philharmonic New Yorker has made an indelible mark on the orchestra s history and that of the city itself Esa-Pekka Salonen Eric Owens Inon Barnatan Foreign Policy Association Medal guest

2 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in conducting debuts Staatskapelle Dresden, the Fields Page 2 of 9 La Scala Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in London Symphony Orchestra, upcoming Philharmonic highlights Ein Heldenleben Das Lied von der Erde; Gran Partita perhaps the most ambitious and extensive contemporary-music festival yet overseen by an American orchestra New York Times Norgard Quartet for the End of Time I couldn t be more thrilled to continue my work with the, and to begin a new era for the orchestra with our new Concertmaster, Frank Huang. I m extremely excited by the enormous range of music we will be playing this season from favorite works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, and Richard Strauss to a host of contemporary works in our second NY PHIL BIENNIAL. There really is no other orchestra in the world that can play such a wide variety of repertoire with such style and authority. I am also enormously grateful for the extraordinary enthusiasm for what we do that we constantly receive from our audiences. Carl Nielsen Gramophone New York Times Gilbert s tenure thus far New York Times one of the great successes of Alan

3 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 3 of 9 CONTACT! Opera News commitment to contemporary music will be a vital part of his legacy his Joan of Arc at the Stake one of the [orchestra s] most spectacular offerings so far Classical Voice America Written on Skin Event of the New York summer season, Washington Post New York the Cultural New York Times Glagolitic Mass Don Giovanni Gran Partita Sweeney Todd Guardian Des canyons aux étoiles Live From Lincoln Center

4 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 4 of 9 Alan Gilbert: engagements Except where noted, all concerts take place at David Geffen Hall in New York, NY. Sep 15, 17, 18 Milan, Italy Teatro alla Scala Filharmonica della Scalla (debut) BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral BARTÓK: Bluebeard s Castle in concert (with John Relyea, Bluebeard; Ildikó Komlósi, Judith) Sep 24 (Opening Gala) GRIEG: Piano Concerto (with Lang Lang, piano) Sep 25 & 26 Esa-Pekka SALONEN: LA Variations STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben (with Frank Huang, violin) Sep 30 BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Emanuel Ax, piano) Oct 1 & 3 BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Marc NEIKRUG: Canta-Concerto (with Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; world premiere of NYPO commission) BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Emanuel Ax, piano) Oct 2 Tilles Center for the Performing Arts BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Emanuel Ax, piano) Oct 7 Carnegie Hall s Opening Night Gala Magnus LINDBERG: Vivo (world premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

5 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 5 of 9 TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Evgeny Kissin, piano) RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 Oct 9 11 Ann Arbor, MI (Hill Auditorium) Residency: University Musical Society at the University of Michigan Oct 9: Magnus LINDBERG: Vivo BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Inon Barnatan, piano) Oct 10: Esa-Pekka SALONEN: LA Variations STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben (with Frank Huang, violin) Oct 16 BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire Overture TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Maurizio Pollini, piano) Oct Dresden, Germany Staatskappelle Dresden (debut) KURTÁG: Grabstein für Stephan, Op. 15c SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin) TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 Oct 29 & 30 Hamburg, Germany NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin) BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Eroica Oct 31 Bremen, Germany NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin) BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Eroica Nov 4 7 MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136/125a MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 2 (with Philip Myers, horn)

6 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 6 of 9 MOZART: Serenade for 13 Winds, Gran partita Dec 10 & 11 Munich, Germany Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Christopher ROUSE: Rapture MOZART: Piano Concerto C minor, K 491 (with Lars Vogt, piano) NIELSEN: Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, Sinfonia espansiva (with Christina Landshamer, soprano; Michael Nagy, baritone) Dec 12 & 13 London, England Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (debut) BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Inon Barnatan, piano) Haydn: Symphony No. 99 Dec 29 & 30; Jan 2 SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 4 MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto (with Joshua Bell, violin) SIBELIUS: Finlandia Dec 31 OFFENBACH: Selections from Gaîté parisienne RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess SIMONS: C est ça la vie, c est ça l amour from Toi c est moi OFFENBACH: Ah! que j aime les militaires from La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein OFFENBACH: Ah! quel dîner from La Périchole PIAF & LOUIGUY: La Vie en rose SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals (with Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Inon Barnatan and Makoto Ozone, piano) Jan 7, 8, 9, 12 SIBELIUS: En Saga R. STRAUSS: Selected Songs WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries and Final Scene from Act III of Die Walküre (with Heidi Melton, soprano; Eric Owens, bass-baritone) Jan 9 SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 4 Jan 14 16

7 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 7 of 9 RESPIGHI: Church Windows Magnus LINDBERG: Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin; U.S. premiere of NYPO co-commission with London Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, and Swedish Radio Symphony) STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring Jan Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Jan 22: Gunma, Japan John ADAMS: The Chairman Dances SHOSTAKOVITCH: Cello Concerto No 2 (with tba, cello) TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 Jan 26 & 27: Tokyo, Japan (Suntory Hall) TAKEMITSU: Twill by Twilight SIBELIUS: En Saga WAGNER (arr. Gilbert, after Leinsdorf): A Ring Journey Jan 30: Tokyo, Japan (Metropolitan Theatre) BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Inon Barnatan, piano) Feb 19 Paris, France Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Magnus LINDBERG: Violin Concerto No. 2 (with Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin) SCHUMANN: Symphonie No. 1 Feb 25 & 26 Leipzig, Germany Gewandhausorchester (In celebration of 150th anniversary of Sibelius s birth) DUTILLEUX: Métaboles SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1, Spring Symphony SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 (with Leif Ove Andsnes, piano) SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 7 March 3, 5, 6 Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Orchestra SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture DVORÁK: Piano Concerto (with Stephen Hough, piano) NIELSEN: Symphony No. 6

8 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 8 of 9 March 13 New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art s Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing (Messiaen Week) MESSIAEN: Quartet for the End of Time (on violin with Carter Brey, cello; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Inon Barnatan, piano) March SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto (with Leonidas Kavakos, violin) SHOSTAKOVICH: Suite from The Age of Gold Esa-Pekka SALONEN: Karawane (with New York Choral Artists / Joseph Flummerfelt; New York premiere of NYPO co-commission with Zurich s Tonhalle Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) April 3 7 London, UK London Symphony Orchestra (debut) Barbican Centre April 3 NIELSEN: Maskarade Overture SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 3 Anders HILLBORG: Exquisite Corpse TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto (with Joshua Bell, violin) April 7 SIBELIUS: En Saga PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Daniil Trifonov, piano) NIELSEN: Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, Inextinguishable April SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 7 MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (with Stefan Vinke, tenor; Thomas Hampson, baritone) April Franck KRAWCZYK: Trophée (world premiere of NYPO commission, with the support of the Kravis Prize for New Music) SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto (with Carter Brey, cello) BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 May 30 New York, NY Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

9 Alan Gilbert: 7th season at NY Phil, plus 4 major European debuts in Page 9 of 9 (Annual Free Memorial Day Concert) SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 7 BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 Spring 2016 New York, NY Second NY PHIL BIENNIAL A kaleidoscopic exploration of today s music by a wide range of composers through concerts and events presented with cultural partners in venues across NYC. William BOLCOM: Trombone Concerto (with Joseph Alessi, trombone; world premiere of NYPO cocommission with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra) Esa-Pekka SALONEN: New work (world premiere of NYPO commission) Per NORGARD: Work tba 21C Media Group, September 2015