75th anniversary - The Phillips Collection

PHILLIPS MUSIC
75TH ANNIVERSARY
2015 / 2016 Season
WELCOME
Commitment to excellence is embodied in all we present at
The Phillips Collection, drawing audiences who are curious to
experience our concerts, exhibitions, and public programs.
That belief in quality and the preservation of personal encounters with
music and visual art is also the foundation of our Sunday Concerts series,
and the starting point of our 75th anniversary celebration. The 75th
season is a critical institutional milestone; it is a time to honor decades of
exceptional music programming, and to inspire us to engage and provide
essential support to ensure its future. All of us—audience, donors, and staff
alike—are guardians of a long and illustrious tradition. Through listening,
participating, and creating, we guarantee its continued vitality, while
exploring new vistas and possibilities.
Dorothy Kosinski
DIRECTOR
Welcome to our 75th season anniversary!
Audiences and artists have been coming together at the Phillips well before
1941, when Phillips Music became a series of 30+ concerts. Throughout
2015/2016, we commemorate our 75th season of presenting enthralling
performances in the Music Room’s idyllic chamber music environment.
Among the highlights—notwithstanding a reenactment of the iconic
1955 US debut of Glenn Gould—we pay special tribute to the outstanding
musicians of the US military for their role in keeping Phillips Music
continually running during World War II. I hope you’ll join us throughout this
remarkable season as we traverse many musical landscapes together.
Caroline Mousset
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
MUSIC STAFF Caroline Mousset | Director of Music María Teresa Roca de Togores | Music Assistant
Edward J. Kelly | Recording Engineer
Roberto Alcaraz | Music Operations Assistant
Alex Nelson | Music Intern
The Phillips Camerata, May 30, 2014
A GRAND 75TH ANNIVERSARY
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The seasons of chamber music concerts must be carried on.
They have been in complete accord with my policy for the
paintings, adding the contemporary to the classic, and the
regional to what has proved to be universal and for all times.
Duncan Phillips,1965
It was Duncan Phillips’s personal
assistant Elmira Bier who spearheaded
Phillips Music from 1941–1972. Bier
put into practice the same principles
that guided Duncan Phillips: to take
risks, encourage emerging artists, and
seek unusual pairings in works of art.
Phillips Music continues to celebrate
these principles in developing a
program that embraces all genres of
music for audiences of all ages.
The Phillips has planned myriad events this
season to celebrate the past, present, and
future of Phillips Music:
· Two concerts honor the excellence and
dedication of our military musicians
· Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear
reenacts Glenn Gould’s program from his
historic 1955 US debut at the Phillips
· Reflecting the multiplicity of artistic
voices in the permanent collection,
American composer Nico Muhly curates
a series of concerts
· An exclusive appearance of eminent
pianist Emanuel Ax, who first performed
at the Phillips in 1967 when he was an
18-year-old student of Mieczysław Munz
· In association with The Library of
Congress, the commission of new works
for violin and piano from American
composer Frederic Rzewski
· Building on the success of Leading
European Composers, Phillips Music
broadens its scope to create Leading
International Composers
· The grand finale performance of the
anniversary season features members
of The Phillips Camerata in a program
following the first performance of the
series in 1941
Alina Ibragimova, March 8, 2015
JOIN THE CELEBRATION
PHILLIPS MUSIC SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
SEPTEMBER 11 l
Prelude Concert: The Phillips Camerata
His Excellency Gérard Araud,
The Ambassador of France,
hosts the anniversary Prelude
Concert and reception at his
Residence. The performance
features members of The
Phillips Camerata performing
chamber music of the French
repertoire.
75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CO-CHAIRS
Lynne and Joseph Horning
Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman
Anne and Ronald Abramson
The commemoration, recognition, and reflection of the past 75
years of Phillips Music secures a strong roadmap for the future.
Proceeds from the 75th anniversary season will sustain the
Invitation to this program is
a benefit offered to season
sponsors.
programs in place while helping build new initiatives.
We invite you to join our Co-Chairs in celebrating the 75th anniversary
season by making a gift in support of Phillips Music through one of the
following ways:
75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON SPONSORSHIP
Sponsorship opportunities begin at $5,000. Sponsors receive recognition in
75th anniversary season promotional materials and enjoy benefits including
exclusive seating to Sunday Concerts and invitations to two signature
programs: the 75th season Prelude Concert and a Benefit Concert by
Emanuel Ax.
MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND
A current or legacy gift to endow Phillips Music allows the Phillips to
expand its impact, engage still more diverse communities, build creative
conversations with partners around the globe, and interact with a broader
community of artists. Endowment gifts are fully tax-deductible.
Benefit Concert: Emanuel Ax, piano
PHILLIPS CHAMBER SOCIETY
Consider adding a $1,500 season subscription to any category of museum
membership. Benefits include free admission and guaranteed seating at
Sunday Concerts and Leading International Composers, as well as advance
e-mail notice of concert programming. ($945 tax-deductible)
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For more information on supporting Phillips Music, contact the
Development Department at 202.387.2151 x250.
Tickets to this program are complimentary for season sponsors and are also available
for purchase.
Emanuel Ax is among the most highly regarded pianists in the world. He gave his
American debut at The Phillips Collection in 1967, seven years before winning the first
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition. For the 75th season, Ax presents,
among others, Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and works by C. P. E. Bach.
For more information about these programs, contact the
Development Department at 202.387.2151 x250
SUNDAY CONCERTS
OCTOBER 18
l Lynn Harrell, cello
Performances begin promptly at 4 pm unless otherwise noted. General admission seating is
first-come, first-served beginning 45 minutes prior to concert start time. Tickets are $30,
$15 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance
reservations are strongly recommended; reserve online until 12 hours before each concert.
Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music to reserve tickets and view up-to-date concert details.
Select performances are broadcast on Classical WETA 90.9 FM on Monday evenings at 9 pm.
All artists and programs are subject to change.
OCTOBER 4
l Olivier Cavé, piano
OCTOBER 11 l
Swiss-Italian pianist Olivier
Cavé opens the 2015/2016 75th
anniversary season, presenting
a handsomely proportioned
program of Haydn and Scarlatti
sonatas, alongside three works by
Albéniz. Leading Haydn scholar
Elaine Sisman, Professor of Music
at Columbia University, joins Cavé
for a post-concert discussion.
Distinguished American cellist Lynn
Harrell makes his Phillips debut
with pianist Victor AsunciÓn.
Recipient of the Piatigorsky Award,
the inaugural Avery Fisher Prize,
and winner of two Grammy Awards,
Harrell holds a discography of
more than 30 recordings and has
performed worldwide with every
major orchestra and conductor. Harrell
and AsunciÓn present a magnificent
Sunday Concert: Schumann’s
Fantasiestücke; Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C
Major, BWV 1009; Debussy’s Sonata;
Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 in D
Major; and Chopin’s Introduction and
Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3.
Sharon Isbin, guitar
Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique
and versatility, multiple Grammy Award winner
Sharon Isbin has been hailed as “the pre-eminent
guitarist of our time.” She is also the winner of
Guitar Player’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award,
the Toronto and Madrid Queen Sofía competitions,
and was the first guitarist ever to win the Munich
Competition. Her expansive Phillips program
includes works by Granados, Tárrega, Albéniz,
MacCombie, and Mangoré.
OCTOBER 25
l Jasmin Toccata Project
Jasmin Toccata Project features an encounter between
European Baroque and traditional Persian music.
Percussionist Keyvan Chemirani, lutenist Thomas
Dunford, and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau create bridges
between these different musical worlds as they juxtapose
pieces of the great Baroque masters—Scarlatti, Purcell,
Dowland—with virtuoso Persian compositions of sublime
rhythmic richness.
In partnership with Mission
Culturelle et Universitaire
Française aux Etats-Unis
FRENCH EMBASSY
IN THE UNITED STATES
HIGHER EDUCATION,
ARTS, FRENCH LANGUAGE
NOVEMBER 1 l
Ji Young Lim, violin
Twenty-year-old South Korean Ji Young
Lim rocketed to fame recently as first
prize laureate of the 2015 International
Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
Currently a student at Korea National
University of the Arts, Lim has performed
in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea,
Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Pianist Rohan De Silva joins her for her
Washington debut, which presents works
by Mozart, Grieg, Brahms, and Hubay.
NOVEMBER 8 l
“The President's Own” United States
Marine Band Ensemble
NOVEMBER 15 & 22, 12:30 PM & 4 PM l
Carducci Quartet: Shostakovich 15
Aside from Beethoven, perhaps
no composer has put so much
of themselves into their
quartets as Dmitri Shostakovich.
Spanning the 1930s to the 1970s,
Shostakovich’s string quartet
catalogue reflects the difficulties
of life in Soviet Russia, World War
II, and the Holocaust. Bringing
penetrative musical insight,
authority, and passion, the
internationally praised Carducci
Quartet commemorates
the 40th anniversary of the
composer’s death with its
Shostakovich 15 project. The
Phillips presents the Carducci
Quartet in a marathon cycle of all
15 quartets over two consecutive
Sundays. Wendy Lesser, author
of Music for Silenced Voices:
Shostakovich and his 15 Quartets,
introduces the cycle at the
performance on November 15.
Purchase one Sunday (two
concerts) for $55 or the complete
four-concert cycle for $100;
no individual concert tickets
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT
To honor the museum’s history of presenting uniformed musicians and to mark the 70th
anniversary of the end of World War II, the Phillips presents the virtuoso musicians of the
US Marine Band in a program centered on Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
The monumental work, composed during his imprisonment in Nazi Germany, itself reaches
75 years from its January 15, 1941, premiere. “The President's Own” is America's oldest
continuously active professional musical organization.
This concert is free; reservations required. Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music for more information.
NOVEMBER 29 l
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
South African fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout makes his Phillips debut with solo
music of Mozart and C.P.E. Bach. Bezuidenhout gained international recognition at
age 21 after winning first prize in the Bruges Fortepiano Competition. Amidst a ninevolume recording project of the complete keyboard works of Mozart, Bezuidenhout
regularly appears with the world’s foremost early music festivals and concert halls.
DECEMBER 6 l
Schumann Quartett
Following debuts at London’s Wigmore
Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein, the
Schumann Quartett makes its Phillips
debut with a program featuring
Beethoven’s first Op. 18 quartet, Bartók’s
second quartet, and the poignant
Brahms Quartet Op. 51, No. 2 in A minor.
In February 2014, the Quartett received
the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music
Prize for String Quartet award. The
ensemble joined the prestigious ranks of
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center in April 2015.
DECEMBER 13 l
Shai Wosner, piano
Israeli-American pianist Shai Wosner returns to the
Phillips with a superbly balanced recital of Chopin,
Dvořák, Gershwin, and Schubert. Wosner’s virtuosity
and perceptiveness have made him a favorite among
audiences and critics, who have called him a “highly
intelligent player in his prime” (The Washington Post)
with a “keen musical mind and deep musical soul”
(NPR’s All Things Considered).
DECEMBER 20 l
Escher Quartet
For the final concert of 2015, the
Escher Quartet brings a stellar program
of Janáček’s “Kreutzer” Quartet,
Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E minor, and
Zemlinsky’s second quartet. Members
Adam Barnett-Hart, Aaron Boyd, Pierre
Lapointe, and Brook Speltz are Artists of
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center. The group has been Quartetin-Residence at Canada’s National Arts
Centre, Stony Brook University, and the
Perlman Chamber Music Programme.
JANUARY 10 l
Stewart Goodyear, piano
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT
The Phillips Collection celebrates the US
debut of Glenn Gould. Toronto-born pianist
Stewart Goodyear, in his Washington, DC,
premiere, presents a reenactment of Gould’s
iconic 1955 program. This commemorative
concert replicates Gould’s original program
of Gibbons, Sweelinck, Bach’s fifth Partita,
Webern’s Variations, Beethoven’s E Major
Sonata Op. 109, and Berg’s first sonata.
A pre-concert talk at 3 pm with former
Washington Post chief music critic Tim Page
introduces this momentous occasion, and a
reception follows.
In partnership with the Glenn Gould Estate
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[Glenn Gould] gave the recital in
Washington: Sweelinck, Gibbons, Bach,
et al. Paul Hume of The Washington Post
was there. Hours later, Hume filed a
piece for the next day’s paper. “January
2 is early for predictions,” he allowed,
“but it is unlikely that the year 1955 will
bring us a finer piano recital than that
played yesterday afternoon at the Phillips
Gallery. We shall be lucky if it brings us
others of equal beauty and significance,”
Unstintingly, he concluded: “Gould is a
pianist with rare gifts for the world. It
must not long be delayed hearing and
according him the honor and audience he
deserves. We know of no pianist anything
like him of any age.”
Excerpt from Paul Elie,
Reinventing Bach (2012)
THREE CONCERTS GUEST CURATED BY NICO MUHLY
JANUARY 24 l
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENTS
Composer-pianist Nico Muhly discusses his selection—
inspired by the art at the Phillips—of Timo Andres,
Nadia Sirota, and the Arditti Quartet, performing French
classics and premieres of contemporary pieces.
“There is something very wonderful about the French
elements of the Phillips’s collection—from Degas to
Daumier to Dufy. As a stranger living in Paris, I think
Stravinsky really ‘got’ but then managed to reproduce
in his own way an essence of Frenchness. Much of
Stravinsky’s Neoclassical period is explicitly informed
by Paris’s palimpsestic classicism—an obelisk in a
planned square, a little gesture of a side street next to a
Haussmann boulevard. I insisted on the Britten because
I love it, but also because it builds on a Renaissance
song (by Dowland) and expands on it in a style specific
to Britten’s own age. The Dutilleux is one of the high-water marks, for me, of the modern
string quartet rep[ertoire]. . . . If you want to get a picture of the modern musician, I feel like
the Ardittis, Timo, and Nadia are a great place to start—all are fearless, creative interpreters.”
JANUARY 17 l
Tessa Lark, violin
& Timo Andres, piano
Pianist Timo Andres returns to The
Phillips Collection with violinist
Tessa Lark in a program centered
on Stravinsky’s Duo Concertante
and Suite Italienne. Andres will
also feature his own compositions
alongside Muhly’s. Recent highlights
for Andres include solo recitals at
Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, and
(le) Poisson Rouge; performances
in Los Angeles featuring a new
work for the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra; and a performance of
his re-composition of the Moxart
"Coronation" Concerto. Winner
of the prestigious Naumburg
International Violin Award in 2012,
Tessa Lark is one of the most
captivating artistic voices of her time.
Nadia Sirota, viola
“A one-woman contemporaryclassical commissioning machine”
(Pitchfork), violist Nadia Sirota is best
known for her singular sound and
expressive execution, coaxing works
and collaborations with Nico Muhly,
Daníel Bjarnason, Valgeir Sigurðsson,
Judd Greenstein, and Missy Mazzoli.
Her program includes world premieres
by Mathew Fuerst and Alex Freeman,
Washington premieres by composercollaborators Bryce Dessner and
Richard Reed Parry, plus music by
Nico Muhly, Marcos Balter, and more.
JANUARY 31 l
Arditti Quartet
World-renowned for its championing of
new music, the formidable Arditti Quartet
makes its Phillips debut performance. Since
its founding in 1974, the ensemble has won
numerous awards, most notably the Ernst
von Siemens Music Prize in 1999 for lifetime
achievement—a prize sometimes known as
"the Nobel Prize of music,” and the Arditti
Quartet is the only group to have received it.
The Quartet performs an all-French program
of Dutilleux and Ravel, as well as the
Washington premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s
Quatour V (2004–2005), one of several of
his quartets written for Arditti.
FEBRUARY 7 l
Sandrine Piau, soprano
A celebrated figure in the world
of Baroque music, leading French
soprano Sandrine Piau makes her
Phillips Collection debut with works by
Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc,
Strauss, and Wolf with pianist Susan
Manoff. In recent years Piau has
performed at the Salzburg Festival,
Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Covent
Garden Festival, Musikverein, Salle
Pleyel, Concertgebouw, and with the
world’s most prestigious orchestras
including Berlin Philharmonic, Munich
Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
FEBRUARY 21 l
Acclaimed for her passionate, powerful
performances, Bella Hristova is “a player
of impressive power and control” (The
Washington Post). Hristova won the Young
Concert Artists International Auditions and
received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career
Grant in 2013, given to instrumentalists based
on musical excellence. She makes her Phillips
debut with pianist Gloria Chien, performing
Poulenc’s Op. 119 sonata, two Sibelius
Humoresques, Beethoven’s C minor Sonata,
and Ludwig’s Swan Song.
FEBRUARY 28 l
FEBRUARY 14 l
Várjon-Baráti-Várdai Piano Trio
The Phillips Collection introduces the Várjon-Baráti-Várdai Trio in their
Washington, DC, premiere. Supreme Hungarian musicians—Dénes
Várjon, István Várdai, and Kristóf Baráti—individually hailed all over the
world for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and
expressiveness, come together to perform giants of the chamber music
repertoire: Beethoven’s first piano trio, Dvořák’s “Dumky,” and the
Brahms B Major Trio.
Bella Hristova, violin
Steven Osborne, piano
One of Britain’s prevailing pianists,
Steven Osborne is renowned
for his fresh approach to a wide
variety of repertoire both old and
new. He is also the recipient of
the 2009 Gramophone Award for
his recording of Britten. Osborne
presents works by Schubert,
Debussy, and a selection of
Rachmaninoff’s Études Tableaux.
MARCH 6 l
Jordi Savall, viol
With a busy schedule of over 140 concerts
a year, Jordi Savall is one of the most
important champions of early music. He
has been devoted to the rediscovery of
abandoned musical treasures for more
than 40 years. His Phillips debut program,
titled “The Spirit of the Viol,” features
composers Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe,
Marin Marais, Tobias Hume, and works
from the Celtic tradition.
MARCH 13 l
Christopher Park,
piano
German-Korean Christopher Park
stunned the 2014 jury of the Stiftung
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival,
which presented him with the illustrious
Leonard Bernstein Award. After
making his debuts with the Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the
Vienna Symphoniker, and the Lausanne
Chamber Orchestra in 2015/2016, Park
makes his US debut at the Phillips with
a stellar concert of pianistic treasures:
Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major Op. 10,
No. 3 and Sonata in G Major Op.14
No. 2, Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka, and
Schumann’s Fantasie Op. 17.
MARCH 20 l
Sandbox Percussion/
Amphion Quartet
Hailed for its “suspenseful and virtuoso
playing” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the
Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the
2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh
Competition. Brought together by a love of
chamber music, Sandbox Percussion captivates
audiences with performances that are both
visually and aurally stunning. The Sandbox/
Amphion program at the Phillips features a
performance of Andy Akiho’s LIgNEouS for
marimba and string quartet, and the east coast
premiere of a new multi-movement percussion
quartet by David Crowell.
MARCH 27 l
Richard Goode, piano
Richard Goode is among the most respected
artists of the last 50 years. Goode performs
a transcendent all-Bach solo program,
including the sixth French suite, the
complete sinfonias, the second partita, and
the Italian Concerto.
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Every time we hear [Richard Goode],
he impresses us as better than we
remembered, surprising us, surpassing
our expectations, and communicating
perceptions that stay in the mind.
Gramophone
APRIL 3 l
Valentin Uryupin, clarinet & Stanislav Khristenko, piano
Praised in the media around the globe,
Ukrainian-born Stanislav Khristenko
is one of America’s most eminent
young artists. He joins Russia’s most
internationally acclaimed clarinetist
and accomplished conductor,
Valentin Uryupin, who makes his US
debut. Together, the duo presents a
unique program including Poulenc’s
Clarinet Sonata, Widmann’s Fantasie
for clarinet solo (1993), and two of
Uryupin’s arrangements for clarinet
and piano: Schubert’s “Arpeggione”
Sonata and Prokofiev’s Sonata for
Flute and Piano, Op. 94.
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Moving between ebullient industry to soulsearching intimacy, Ingolf Wunder displays a poise
and tonal command way beyond his tender years.
The Independent
Paul Huang, violin
Hailed by The Washington Post
as “an artist with the goods for a
significant career,” TaiwaneseAmerican Paul Huang won the 2012
Young Concert Artists International
Auditions and a 2015 Avery Fisher
Career Grant. He is recognized
for his intensely expressive music
making, distinctive sound, and
effortless virtuosity. With pianist
Jessica Xylina Osborne, Huang
performs works by Vitali, Stravinsky,
Pärt, and Franck.
Ingolf Wunder, piano
Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder won second
prize in the 2010 International Chopin Piano
Competition, in addition to taking Best Prize
for Concerto and Best Prize for PolonaiseFantasy. The Deutsche Grammophon
artist presents a titanic program, including
Schubert’s last Sonata in B-flat Major D. 960,
Chopin’s metaphysical Polonaise-Fantaisie
Op. 61, and Liszt’s brilliant and Goliathan
Hexaméron variations on the march from
Bellini’s opera I Puritani.
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APRIL 24 l
Lawrence Power, viola
& Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Lawrence Power is one of the most prestigious violists performing today and has
been shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award.
Simon Crawford-Phillips is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and holds
teaching positions at the Royal Academy and the Gothenburg Academy of Music
and Drama. Program to be announced.
MAY 1 l
Jennifer Koh, violin & Ursula Oppens, piano,
with Frederic Rzewski, composer-pianist
75TH ANNIVERSARY COMMISSION: FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Continuing the vital practice of commissioning
music from today’s composers, and in
celebration of the anniversary seasons of both
institutions, The Phillips Collection and the
Library of Congress have joined forces and
commissioned new works for violin and piano
from prominent composer Frederic Rzewski.
The commissions will premiere on back-toback days.
MAY 8 l
Metropolis Ensemble
The Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, led by conductor Andrew Cyr, “a
prominent influence in the world of newly emerging music” (The Washington Post),
presents its groundbreaking site-specific project Brownstone. This magical “concertinstallation” features three electro-acoustic works where audience members leave their
chairs behind to experience The Phillips Collection from a new perspective. Music by
Polish-American composer Jakub Ciupinski and Pulitzer-Prize nominated Chris Cerrone.
APRIL 30: Part 1 at the Library of Congress
MAY 1: Part 2 at The Phillips Collection
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In the rarefied, ivory-tower world of
new music, the formidable American
composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski
comes as a blast of fresh air . . . this is a
man who engages with the real world.
The Telegraph
Brussels-based American composer-pianist
Frederic Rzewski is among the major figures
of postwar music. He is best known for his
composition The People United Will Never Be
Defeated!, which premiered at the Kennedy
Center in 1976 by four-time Grammynominated pianist Ursula Oppens.
In 2009, Jennifer Koh introduced Bach and
Beyond, a series of three recitals that explore
the history of the solo violin repertoire from
Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas to modern
day composers.
In association with
MAY 15 l
United States Navy Band
Sea Chanters Chorus & Quarterdeck Consort
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT
Continuing its long history of presenting military music ensembles, Phillips Music proudly
presents the US Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus and Quarterdeck Consort. The Sea
Chanters perform patriotic selections by Eric Whitacre, Peter Wilhousky, René Clausen,
Irving Berlin, and Mark Hayes. The Quarterdeck Consort, an octet of vocalists drawn from
the Sea Chanters, specializes primarily in early sacred and secular a cappella chamber music.
This concert is free; reservations required. Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music for more information.
MAY 22, AUDITORIUM l
JACK Quartet,
multimedia performance
Music and concept: Roger Reynolds
Visual design: Ross Karre
Audio design: Paul Hembree
The JACK Quartet performs a
new rendering of Pulitzer-Prizewinning composer Roger Reynolds’s
multimedia work-in-progress,
FLiGHT I: Imagining (2012-2016). The
musical composition accompanies a
recitation of poems going back to the
early, tragic days of flight—Icarus of
Greek mythology and his wax wings
melting under the sun—along with
a medley of drawings and projected
photographs and videos.
Co-sponsored by James Madison
University, the National Gallery of Art,
and The Phillips Collection
MAY 29 l
The Phillips Camerata
75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT
The grand finale performance of the 75th
season comes full circle to follow the first
performance of the inaugural series in 1941.
Led by conductor Yaniv Dinur, the Phillips
Camerata presents Stravinsky’s Dumbarton
Oaks Concerto and works by Chopin and
Mendelssohn.
The Phillips Camerata, May 31, 2015
THURSDAY CONCERTS
OCTOBER 29, 6 PM l
Dennis Russell Davies, piano,
and Maki Namekawa, piano
Ever since they first played together in 2003, Dennis Russell Davies and Maki
Namekawa have been touring the world, including performances at Lincoln
Center with the US premiere of Philip Glass’s Four Movements for Two Pianos,
Ars Electronica festival in Linz (Austria), Morgan Library New York, the Festival
lnternational de Musique de Colmar (France), Festwochen in Gmunden and the
Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany). Davies is the chief conductor of the Bruckner
Orchester Linz and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. Namekawa is an active soloist
having recently performed Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate at Carnegie Hall and the
Musikverein in Vienna. Namekawa was recently chosen by Philip Glass to be the
first interpreter on recording of his complete piano Etudes.
MARCH 17, 6 PM & 7:15 PM, IN-GALLERY CONCERT l
Washingtonian composer Steve Antosca
presents a delicate balance . . . , a twomovement composition exploring the
delicate expressions and sounds produced
from a small ensemble with voice and
computer processing. Presented in
conjunction with the museum’s spring
2016 exhibition Seeing Nature: Landscape
Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen
Collection, the work includes strategic
placement of surround-sound audio,
allowing for the specialization and creation
of antiphonal groupings of pointillist
sounds to generate an environment of
acoustic intimacy.
MARCH 31, 6:30 PM l
Sayaka Shoji,
violin
The Phillips presents violinist Sayaka Shoji,
first-prize winner of the 1999 Paganini
Competition. A Deutsche Grammophon
recording artist, Shoji has performed with
the Berlin Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony
Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and
Trondheim Symfoniorkester. She exhibits
her dramatic prowess with pianist and S&R
Artist-in-Residence Ryo Yanagitani in a
program of Schumann, Bloch, Janáček, and
Beethoven. Both musicians are winners of the
annual S&R Washington Award.
In partnership with
Steve Antosca Ensemble
LEADING INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS
In 2009, European embassies in Washington, DC, and The Phillips Collection joined forces to
create an unprecedented concert series: Leading European Composers. Presenting some of
the greatest living composers of our time, this series is unique in that the composers introduce
their works with performers they select. The George Washington University joined the
partnership in 2013, enriching the series with educational programming. This season, Phillips
Music broadens its scope to create Leading International Composers, infusing the season
with the best of global contemporary music.
DECEMBER 17, 6:30 PM l
Avner Dorman, Israel
Avner Dorman (b. 1975) writes music of intricate
craftsmanship and rigorous technique, expressed
with a soulful and singular voice. A native of Israel
now living in the United States, Dorman draws
on a variety of cultural and historical influences
in composing. His works utilize an exciting and
complex rhythmic vocabulary, as well as unique
timbres and colors. Much of Dorman’s music
finds its inspiration in the music of Israel and the
surrounding region, extending the “Eastern”
boundaries as far as the Indian subcontinent.
The scales and the rhythms emanating from
the traditional classical music of the peoples of
the Mediterranean meet a modern, repetitive
minimalism, prevailing also in the music tradition of
the Middle East.
Dorman has chosen world-renowned Israeli
pianists Orli Shaham and Alon Goldstein, Israeli
percussionist Tomer Yariv, 2012 Naumburg
International Violin Award-winner Tessa Lark, and
saxophonist Amanda Heim to perform a concert of
his chamber music.
In collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in
Washington, DC.
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Avner Dorman’s music works
its magic by melding far-flung
influences and making them
sound natural together.
The New York Times
APRIL 14 , 6:30 PM l
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Iceland
Anna Thorvaldsdottir ( b. 1977) is
a composer who frequently works
with large sonic structures that
tend to reveal the presence of a
vast variety of sustained sound
materials, reflecting her imaginative
listening to landscapes and nature.
Her music portrays a flowing world
of sounds with an enigmatic lyrical
atmosphere.
Thorvaldsdottir’s music is frequently
performed internationally, and has
been featured at major venues
and festivals such as Lincoln
Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival,
the Composer Portraits Series at
New York’s Miller Theatre, ISCM
World Music Days, Norway’s Ultima
Festival, Klangspuren Festival,
Beijing Modern Music Festival,
Reykjavik Arts Festival, Tectonics,
and the Kennedy Center. Her works
have received many nominations
and awards—most notably the
prestigious 2012 Nordic Council
Music Prize for her work Dreaming,
and The New York Philharmonic’s
Kravis Emerging Composer Award.
Her portrait album Aerial was
released in November 2014.
Ensemble to be announced.
In collaboration with the Embassy
of Iceland in Washington, DC.
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There’s something beautifully refined
about the music of . . . Thorvaldsdottir—
in it, seemingly skeletal structures
sprout fragments of dramatic melodies,
textures evocative of nature . . . , and
harmonies that open up the heavens.
Chicago Reader
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