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May 23–June 11, 2016
JUNE 10, 2016, AT DAVID GEFFEN HALL:
ALAN GILBERT To Conduct the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
World Premiere of William BOLCOM’s Trombone Concerto with Principal Trombone JOSEPH ALESSI
New York Premiere of John CORIGLIANO’s Conjurer, with Percussionist MARTIN GRUBINGER
As part of the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic
at David Geffen Hall in works by two American composers of the same generation: the
World Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission of a Trombone Concerto by William
Bolcom (United States, b. 1938), with Philharmonic Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi
as soloist, and the New York Premiere of Conjurer by John Corigliano (United States,
b. 1938), with percussionist Martin Grubinger as soloist in his Philharmonic debut.
William Bolcom said of the commission for his Trombone Concerto: “Joseph Alessi’s
recordings have shown a consummate musician with perfect intonation, wide stylistic
sense, lyrical phrasing, and dazzling technique. I hope and intend that Joe’s warmth and
geniality will find their way into this concerto, along with his interpretative breadth.” The
work is a Philharmonic co-commission with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, made
possible with generous support from Edward Stanford and Barbara Scheulen. The
Philharmonic has performed six works by William Bolcom since 1973, including the
World Premiere of his Clarinet Concerto, commissioned by the Philharmonic (1992, with
former Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker and led by Leonard Slatkin) as part of its 150th
anniversary celebration. Joseph Alessi premiered 2012–15 Marie-Josée Kravis
Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Trombone
Concerto, also commissioned for the Orchestra’s 150th anniversary project (1992, led by
Leonard Slatkin), and Melinda Wagner’s Trombone Concerto (2007, led by Lorin
Maazel).
John Corigliano’s Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra and Brass
(2007) uses a marimba, a “keyboard” of un-pitched wooden instruments, tam-tams,
New York Philharmonic Contact: Katherine E. Johnson
(212) 875-5718; johnsonk@nyphil.org
suspended cymbals, vibraphone, and a “talking drum” accompanied by a kick drum.
Corigliano writes: “The effect in performance is that the soloist doesn’t so much as
introduce material as conjure it, as if by magic, from the three disparate choirs: materials
which the orchestra then shares and develops; hence, the title Conjurer.” The
Philharmonic has performed 14 works by John Corigliano (the son of longtime
Philharmonic Concertmaster John Corigliano, Sr.), including four World Premiere–New
York Philharmonic Commissions: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1977, with
Stanley Drucker and led by Leonard Bernstein), Fantasia on an Ostinato (1986, led by
Zubin Mehta), Vocalise (1999, with Sylvia McNair and led by Kurt Masur), and One
Sweet Morning (2011, with Stephanie Blythe and led by Alan Gilbert).
This concert is presented by the New York Philharmonic.
Related Events
Radio Broadcast Highlights from this performance will be broadcast on WFMT’s nationally syndicated
new-music program Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead, available at
www.relevantones.com, in the summer of 2016. The broadcast date will be
announced at a later time.
Play Date
All audience members attending the NY PHIL BIENNIAL concert on June 10 are
invited to the NY PHIL BIENNIAL Play Date, a post-concert meet-up with
composers and performers over cocktails at Bar Biennial in the lobby of David
Geffen Hall (at the site of David Geffen Hall Café).
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The New York Philharmonic invites audience members to be a #biennialist. The five
attendees who attend the most NY PHIL BIENNIAL events and post about it on social
media will win a free pair of tickets to the final concert, featuring the New York
Philharmonic conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, June 11 at 7:00 p.m at David
Geffen Hall. Additional prizes and offerings for #biennialists will be offered; follow the
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About the NY PHIL BIENNIAL
A flagship project of the New York Philharmonic, the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is a wide-
ranging exploration of today’s music that brings together an international roster of
composers, performers, and curatorial voices for concerts presented both on the Lincoln
Center campus and with partners in venues throughout the city. The second NY PHIL
BIENNIAL, taking place May 23–June 11, 2016, will feature diverse programs —
ranging from solo works to a chamber opera to large scale symphonies — by more than
100 composers, more than half of whom are American; present some of the country’s top
music schools and youth choruses; and expand to more New York City neighborhoods. A
range of events and activities will engender an ongoing dialogue among artists,
composers, and audience members. Partners in the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL include
National Sawdust; 92nd Street Y; Aspen Music Festival and School; Interlochen Center
for the Arts; League of Composers/ISCM; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts;
LUCERNE FESTIVAL; MetLiveArts; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival;
Whitney Museum of American Art; WQXR’s Q2 Music; and Yale School of Music. For
complete information about the 2016 NY PHIL BIENNIAL, see press release.
Artist
Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in 2009, the first
native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of
The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach
Artist-in-Residence, and Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; the
NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today’s music; and the New York Philharmonic
Global Academy, partnerships with cultural institutions to offer training of pre-
professional musicians, often alongside performance residencies. As The New Yorker
wrote, “Gilbert has made an indelible mark on the orchestra’s history and that of the city
itself.”
Alan Gilbert’s 2015–16 Philharmonic highlights include R. Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben to
welcome Concertmaster Frank Huang; Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala; and four
World Premieres. He co-curates and conducts in the second NY PHIL BIENNIAL and
performs violin in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. He leads the Orchestra as part
of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership and appears at Santa
Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. Philharmonic-tenure highlights include
acclaimed stagings of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen,
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson (for
which Mr. Gilbert was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music
Direction), and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 24 World
Premieres; The Nielsen Project, a performance and recording cycle; Verdi Requiem and
Bach’s B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film;
Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and nine tours around
the world. In August 2015 he led the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the U.S. Stage
Premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, co-presented as part of the Lincoln
Center–New York Philharmonic Opera Initiative.
Conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and former principal
guest conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Alan Gilbert regularly
conducts leading orchestras around the world. This season Mr. Gilbert makes debuts with
four great European orchestras — Filarmonica della Scala, Dresden Staatskapelle,
London Symphony, and Academy of St Martin in the Fields — and returns to The
Cleveland Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He made his
acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic in 2008,
the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming’s recent Decca recording
Poèmes, on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. His recordings have
received top honors from the Chicago Tribune and Gramophone magazine. Mr. Gilbert is
Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, where he holds the
William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies. His honors include an Honorary Doctor of
Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music (2010), Columbia University’s Ditson
Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of works by
American composers and to contemporary music” (2011), election to The American
Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his
commitment to cultural diplomacy (2015), and being named Officier de l’Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres.
Joseph Alessi was appointed the New York Philharmonic’s Principal Trombone, the
Gurnee F. and Marjorie L. Hart Chair, in the spring of 1985. He began musical studies
with his father, Joseph Alessi, Sr., as a high school student in California, and was a
soloist with the San Francisco Symphony before continuing his musical training at The
Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to joining the Philharmonic, Mr. Alessi was second
trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra for four seasons, and principal trombone of the
Montreal Symphony Orchestra for one season. He has performed as guest principal
trombonist with the London Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, led by Pierre Boulez.
Mr. Alessi is an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. In April 1990 he made
his New York Philharmonic solo debut, performing Creston’s Fantasy for Trombone, and
in 1992 premiered Christopher Rouse’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Trombone Concerto with
the Philharmonic, which commissioned the work for its 150th anniversary celebration.
He has been a guest soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra, Colorado Symphony
Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Mannheim National Theater Orchestra, National
Symphony of Taiwan, and the Hague Philharmonic, among others. He is a founding
member of the Summit Brass ensemble at the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute in Tempe,
Arizona. In 2002 Mr. Alessi was awarded an International Trombone Association Award
for his contributions to the world of trombone music and trombone playing. Mr. Alessi is
currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School; his students occupy posts with major
symphony orchestras in the U.S. and internationally. He has performed as soloist with
several leading concert bands, including the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point,
U.S. Army Band (“Pershing’s Own”), and the U.S. Marine Band (“The President’s
Own”). Mr. Alessi’s discography includes many releases on the Summit record label,
including Trombonastics Fandango (with New York Philharmonic Principal Trumpet
Philip Smith) and conductor/composer Bramwell Tovey’s Urban Cabaret. Joseph
Alessi’s recording of George Crumb’s Starchild on the Bridge record label won a
Grammy Award for 1999–2000. Joseph Alessi made his New York Philharmonic solo
debut in April 1990, performing Creston’s Fantasy for Trombone; he most recently
appeared as soloist in Bramwell Tovey’s The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret for Trombone and
Orchestra, written for Mr. Alessi, at Summertime Classics and at Bravo! Vail in July
2013, both performances conducted by the composer.
Austrian multi-percussionist Martin Grubinger makes his solo percussion performances
“must-see” events. A regular guest with many of the leading orchestras and at the world’s
top venues, he possesses an unusually broad repertoire including solo works, chamber music
with partners including his own Percussive Planet Ensemble, and percussion concertos. In
the 2015–16 season Mr. Grubinger makes his debut with New York Philharmonic and
returns to Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and National
Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He will be artist-in-residence at the Frankfurt
Radio Symphony. He tours a recital program with baritone Thomas Hampson to Munich’s
Gasteig, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. He appears in leading halls
across Europe on a tour with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred
Honeck. Mr. Grubinger was the Leipzig Gewandhaus’s artist-in-residence in 2008–09 and
has followed this with residences with Camerata Salzburg and at the Philharmonie Köln,
Philharmonie München, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. He
has appeared with orchestras including NHK Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, National
Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg
Symphony, and the Munich, Hamburg, Dresden Vienna, and BBC philharmonic orchestras.
He regularly appears as a guest with leading orchestras in the United States, among them
Los Angeles Philharmonic. The growing number of works written for Mr. Grubinger include
Avner Dorman’s Frozen in Time (2007) and Friedrich Cerha’s Concerto (2008), performed
and recorded with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Peter Eötvös on Kairos, as well as
Tan Dun’s concerto, Tears of Nature (2012). In the spring of 2014 he gave the German
premiere of Eötvös’s Speaking Drums with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by the
composer. His versatility is also reflected in his own percussion projects, The Percussive
Planet and the recently premiered Caribbean Showdown.
* * *
Major support for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Francis
Goelet Fund.
* * *
Additional funding is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation and Honey M.
Kurtz.
* * *
William Bolcom’s commission is made possible with generous support from Edward
Stanford & Barbara Scheulen.
Tickets
Tickets for this performance start at $25. Tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org
or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1:00 p.m.
to 6:00 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. To determine ticket availability,
call the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. Ticket prices
subject to change.
For press tickets, call Lanore Carr at the New York Philharmonic at (212) 875-5714, or e-
mail her at carrl@nyphil.org.
For more information about all NY PHIL BIENNIAL events, visit nyphil.org/biennial.
Photography is available for the NY PHIL BIENNIAL at nyphil.org/newsroom/1516/biennial
or by contacting the Communications Department at (212) 875-5700; pr@nyphil.org.
ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS WORLD PREMIERE OF WILLIAM BOLCOM’S
TROMBONE CONCERTO WITH PRINCIPAL TROMBONE JOSEPH ALESSI
Presented by the New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
Friday, June 10, 2016, 7:00 p.m.
Play Date with composers and performers after the concert at Bar Biennial in the David
Geffen Hall lobby
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Joseph Alessi, trombone
Martin Grubinger*, percussion
New York Philharmonic
William BOLCOM Trombone Concerto (World Premiere–New York
Philharmonic Co-Commission with
the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra)
John CORIGLIANO Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String
Orchestra and Brass (New York Premiere)
* denotes New York Philharmonic debut
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ALL PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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