FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATED July 2, 2013

April 24, 2013

Contact: Katherine E. Johnson

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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TO RETURN TO BRAVO! VAIL

FOR 11th-ANNUAL SUMMER RESIDENCY, JULY 19–26, 2013

Music Director Alan Gilbert To Lead Two Programs in Vail

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Ted Sperling, and Bramwell Tovey Also To Conduct the Orchestra

Soloists To Include Violinists Augustin Hadelich and Gil Shaham,

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Principal Cello Carter Brey,

Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi, and Vocalists Betsy Wolfe and Andrew Samonsky

The New York Philharmonic will return to Bravo! Vail in Colorado for the Orchestra’s 11th-

annual summer residency there, performing six concerts July 19–26, 2013. Music Director Alan

Gilbert will conduct two programs, July 19 and 21, leading works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky,

Ravel, Liszt, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Additional concerts will be led by conductors Rafael

Frühbeck de Burgos (July 20), Ted Sperling (July 24), and Bramwell Tovey (July 25–26), in

works by Lalo, Berlioz, Gershwin, Bernstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Copland, Bramwell

Tovey, Dvořák, John Adams, Sibelius, and Holst, among others. The Orchestra’s residency will

feature appearances by violinists Augustin Hadelich and Gil Shaham, pianist Jean-Yves

Thibaudet, Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Brey and Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi, and

vocalists Betsy Wolfe and Andrew Samonsky. The New York Philharmonic has performed at

Bravo! Vail each summer since 2003.

“Last summer I discovered that Bravo! Vail is a magical setting for the New York

Philharmonic’s performances — no wonder Alan and our musicians love coming here every

summer,” said Philharmonic Executive Director Matthew VanBesien. “The Philharmonic looks

forward to deepening our collaboration with Anne-Marie McDermott and now with Jim Palermo

as he fully takes the reins of this engaging and ambitious festival. During the Orchestra’s 11th

residency at our summer home-away-from-home we are offering an unusually wide range of

programs, showing to our good friends in Colorado the New York Philharmonic’s versatility as

well as mastery.”

Music Director Alan Gilbert will launch the Philharmonic’s 2013 residency with an opening

night concert on Friday, July 19, 2013, featuring Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, with Principal Cello

Carter Brey as soloist, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Alan Gilbert will also conduct the

program on Sunday, July 21, leading Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso; Liszt’s Totentanz, with

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pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, featuring

Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow in his final Philharmonic appearance at the festival.

On Saturday, July 20, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole,

featuring Augustin Hadelich as soloist, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Mr. Hadelich made

his critically acclaimed Philharmonic debut at Bravo! Vail in July 2010, when he replaced a

soloist who fell ill. Praising the performance, The Denver Post said that Mr. Hadelich “easily

confirmed his place on the shortlist of today’s top violin virtuosos.”

Bramwell Tovey will return for his tenth summer with the New York Philharmonic at Vail to

conduct two programs. The first, Thursday, July 25, will feature Copland’s Four Dance Episodes

from Rodeo; Mr. Tovey’s The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret, with Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi

as soloist; and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. The next evening, Friday, July 26, Mr. Tovey will

lead John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, featuring violinist

Gil Shaham; and Holst’s The Planets, featuring Women of the Evans Choir, Catherine Sailer,

director.

Ted Sperling will conduct Broadway Night with the Philharmonic, Wednesday, July 24. The

program will feature vocalists Betsy Wolfe and Andrew Samonsky singing songs from popular

musicals ranging from Bernstein’s West Side Story and Gershwin’s Girl Crazy to Rodgers &

Hammerstein’s Carousel and Stephen Sondheim’s Company, woven together to tell a unified

narrative of a romance from beginning to end.

Bravo! Vail was founded by John Giovando and violinist Ida Kavafian. Its artistic director since

2011 is pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, and James Palermo is now its executive director. All of

the New York Philharmonic concerts will be performed in the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and

will start at 6:00 p.m.

About the Artists

Music Director Alan Gilbert began his tenure at the New York Philharmonic in September

2009, launching what New York magazine called “a fresh future for the Philharmonic.” The first

native New Yorker in the post, he has introduced the positions of The Marie-Josée Kravis

Composer-in-Residence and The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, an annual

multi-week festival, and CONTACT!, the new-music series, and he has sought to make the

Orchestra a point of civic pride for the city and country.

In 2012–13, Alan Gilbert conducts world premieres; presides over a cycle of Brahms’s complete

symphonies and concertos; leads the EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour; and continues The Nielsen

Project, the multiyear initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s symphonies and

concertos, the first release of which was named by The New York Times as among the Best

Classical Music Recordings of 2012. The season concludes with Gilbert’s Playlist, four

programs showcasing themes he has introduced, including the season finale: a theatrical

reimagining of Stravinsky ballets with director/designer Doug Fitch and New York

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City Ballet Principal Dancer Sara Mearns. Last season’s highlights included tours of Europe and

California, several world premieres, Mahler symphonies, and Philharmonic 360, the

Philharmonic and Park Avenue Armory’s acclaimed spatial-music program featuring

Stockhausen’s Gruppen, about which The New York Times said: “Those who think classical

music needs some shaking up routinely challenge music directors at major orchestras to think

outside the box. That is precisely what Alan Gilbert did.”

Mr. Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies and holds the William Schuman

Chair in Musical Studies at The Juilliard School. Conductor Laureate of the Royal Stockholm

Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Symphony

Orchestra, he regularly conducts leading orchestras around the world. 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. In May 2010 Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary

Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and in December 2011, Columbia

University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award for his “exceptional commitment to the performance of

works by American composers and to contemporary music.”

A regular guest with North America’s top orchestras, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts the

orchestras of Boston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Montreal, Cincinnati, and St. Louis in the

2012–13 season. He appears annually at the Tanglewood music festival and regularly with The

Philadelphia Orchestra and the National, Chicago, and Toronto symphony orchestras.

Born in Burgos, Spain, Mr. Frühbeck studied violin, piano, music theory, and composition at the

conservatories in Bilbao and Madrid and conducting at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik, where

he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize. From 2004 to 2011

he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic, and in 2012 he begins

his post as chief conductor of the Danish National Orchestra. He has made extensive tours with

the Philharmonia of London, London Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Madrid, and

Swedish Radio Orchestra. He has toured North America with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra,

Spanish National Orchestra, and the Dresden Philharmonic.

In 2011 Mr. Frühbeck was named Conductor of the Year by Musical America. He has received

the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna, Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Republic of Austria and

Germany, Gold Medal from the Gustav Mahler International Society, and Jacinto Guerrero Prize,

Spain’s most important musical award. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of

Navarra in Spain and has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando

since 1975.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos has recorded for the EMI, Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, Spanish

Columbia, and Orfeo labels. Several of his recordings are considered classics, including his

interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St. Paul, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina

burana, Bizet’s Carmen, and the complete works of Manual de Falla. He most recently appeared

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with the Philharmonic in October 2012, conducting two programs featuring works by Lalo,

Berlioz, Mozart, and Mahler.

Ted Sperling is a conductor, music director, arranger, singer, pianist, and violinist. He was

music director and conductor of the first Broadway revival of South Pacific, which won seven

2008 Tony Awards and played to sold-out houses at Lincoln Center Theater. In 2005 he won

Tony and Drama Desk Awards (with Adam Guettel and Bruce Coughlin) for his orchestrations

of The Light in the Piazza, for which he was also music director.

Mr. Sperling was music director and conductor of the 2009 Tony Award–nominated revival of

Guys and Dolls. Other Broadway credits as music director/conductor/pianist include Dirty Rotten

Scoundrels, The Full Monty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Kiss of the

Spider Woman, Angels in America, My Favorite Year, Falsettos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood,

Les Misérables, Roza, and Sunday in the Park with George. He was an original cast member of

the Broadway musical Titanic. His Off Broadway credits as music director include A Man of No

Importance, Wise Guys, A New Brain, Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Falsettoland, and Romance

in Hard Times.

Ted Sperling’s work as a stage director includes the world premieres of four musicals — See

What I Wanna See, V-Day, Charlotte: Life? or Theater?, and Striking 12 — as well as a revival

of Lady in the Dark. He conducted the scores for the films The Manchurian Candidate and

Everything Is Illuminated and directed the short film Love Mom, starring Tonya Pinkins, which

has been shown in five international festivals. He was a recipient of the 2006 Ted Shen Family

Foundation Award for leadership in musical theater and is the director of the Music Theater

Initiative at the Public Theater as well as creative director of 24-Hour Musicals.

Mr. Sperling maintains an active concert career. His recent performances include two sold-out

programs with the New York Philharmonic; The Mikado and The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie

Hall with The Collegiate Chorale; Brooklyn Village with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and

Brooklyn Youth Chorus; a Leonard Bernstein tribute for New York City Opera; and concerts

with the Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, National Opera, Alabama Symphony,

and Westchester Philharmonic orchestras. Artists with whom he has performed include Audra

McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Deborah Voigt, Paulo Szot, Idina Menzel, Patti LuPone,

Victoria Clark, and Michael Bublé. He appears with the Philharmonic in June 2013 leading An

Enchanted Evening with Paulo Szot.

A musician of striking versatility, Grammy-winning conductor Bramwell Tovey is

acknowledged around the world for his artistic depth and his warm, charismatic personality on

the podium. His tenures as music director with the Vancouver Symphony, Luxembourg

Philharmonic, and Winnipeg Symphony orchestras have been characterized by his expertise in

operatic, choral, British, and contemporary repertoire.

Mr. Tovey, who is entering his 13th season as music director of the Vancouver Symphony and

continues as founding host and conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics

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series, also continues his association with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

In 2008, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic co-commissioned him

to write Urban Runway, which the New York Philharmonic premiered on Summertime Classics

that year and which was subsequently programmed by a number of orchestras in the United

States and Canada. Mr. Tovey has worked as guest conductor with orchestras in the U.S. and

Europe including the London Philharmonic, London Symphony, and Frankfurt Radio orchestras.

His North American guest appearances have included the orchestras of Baltimore, Philadelphia,

St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Seattle, and Montreal as well as ongoing performances with the

Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which commissioned and premiered his trumpet concerto in 2009

as a preview of his first full-length opera, The Inventor, premiered in Calgary in 2011. In 2011 he

returned to The Philadelphia Orchestra for its summer series in Saratoga, New York, and made

debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra (where he returns again this summer) and the Boston

Symphony Orchestra, to which he returned in the winter of 2012 and will revisit this summer. He

will also tour the West Coast with the Vancouver Symphony in the winter of 2013.

Bramwell Tovey’s honors included a fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music in London,

honorary doctorates from the universities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, British Columbia, and

Kwantlen University College, as well as a Royal Conservatory of Music Fellowship in Toronto.

In 1999 Mr. Tovey received the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction, a

Canadian prize awarded to artists for outstanding contributions in the performing arts. Before his

appearances at Bravo! Vail this summer, Bramwell Tovey leads the New York Philharmonic’s

Summertime Classics programs in July 2013.

Carter Brey was appointed Principal Cello, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Chair, of the

New York Philharmonic in 1996. He made his official subscription debut with the Orchestra in

May 1997 performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations under the direction of then Music

Director Kurt Masur. He has since appeared as soloist each season, and was featured during The

Bach Variations: A Philharmonic Festival, when he gave two performances of the cycle of all six

of Bach’s cello suites. He rose to international attention in 1981 as a prizewinner in the

Rostropovich International Cello Competition. The winner of the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial

Prize, Avery Fisher Career Grant, Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award, and other honors, he

also was the first musician to win the Arts Council of America’s Performing Arts Prize.

Mr. Brey has appeared as soloist with virtually all the major orchestras in the United States, and

performed under the batons of prominent conductors including Claudio Abbado, Semyon

Bychkov, Sergiu Comissiona, and Christoph von Dohnányi. He has made regular appearances

with the Tokyo and Emerson string quartets as well as The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln

Center and at festivals such as Spoleto (both in the United States and Italy), and the Santa Fe and

La Jolla Chamber Music festivals. He presents an ongoing series of duo recitals with pianist

Christopher O’Riley; together they have recorded Le Grand Tango: Music of Latin America, a

disc of compositions from South America and Mexico released on Helicon Records.

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Mr. Brey was educated at the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Laurence Lesser and

Stephen Kates, and at Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was a Wardwell

Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. His violoncello is a rare J. B. Guadagnini made in Milan in 1754.

Praised for his tone, communication, and technical brilliance, Augustin Hadelich has confirmed

his place in the top echelon of young violinists. After his debut with the New York Philharmonic

under Alan Gilbert at Bravo! Vail in 2010, he was immediately re-engaged by the Orchestra to

return to Vail in 2011 and appear at the Caramoor Fall Festival in New York in September 2011.

His most recent performance with the Philharmonic was in October 2012, in subscription

concerts conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Recent and upcoming highlights include

debuts with the Boston (at Tanglewood), Dallas, National (Washington, D.C.), New Jersey, St.

Louis, and Toronto symphony orchestras, as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, St.

Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Netherlands Philharmonic at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.

Mr. Hadelich has also appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and

the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Seattle, and Vancouver

symphony orchestras. He has also performed extensively in Europe, South America, and the Far

East.

Mr. Hadelich has recorded two CDs for AVIE: Flying Solo, comprising masterworks for solo

violin (including the Bartók solo sonata), and Echoes of Paris, featuring French and Russian

repertoire influenced by Parisian culture of the early 20th century. For Naxos, he recorded

Haydn’s complete violin concertos with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and Telemann’s

complete Fantasies for Solo Violin.

The 2006 gold medalist of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Mr. Hadelich

has also received an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009) and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in

the UK (2011). In 2012 he received Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, for which he was

nominated by the New York Philharmonic.

Born to German parents but raised in Italy, Augustin Hadelich holds an artist’s diploma from

The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. He plays on the 1723 “Ex-

Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous

efforts of the Stradivari Society.

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s career includes 30 years of performances and more than 40

recordings. Highlights of his 2011–12 season included performances of Ravel and Liszt

concertos with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Diego Symphony; playing Liszt and

Brahms Lieder with mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager at Carnegie Hall; tours of Europe

with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw and the U.S. with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,

performing works by Saint-Saëns; and recitals in Germany and France celebrating the 150th

anniversary of Debussy’s birth. He last appeared with the New York Philharmonic in January

2013, playing Grieg’s Piano Concerto under the baton of Manfred Honeck. In 2012 he appeared

in A New Yorker’s New Year’s Eve, performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue,

conducted by Alan Gilbert and televised on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center.

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Mr. Thibaudet is a recording artist for Decca. His recordings have earned the Schallplattenpreis,

Diapason d’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Gramophone Award, two ECHO Klassik

awards, and the Edison Prize. In the spring of 2010 he released Gershwin, a collection of the

composer’s works performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, led by Marin Alsop. His

most recent album is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, where he began his piano studies at age five and

made his first public appearance at age seven. At age 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire to

study with Aldo Ciccolini and Lucette Descaves, a friend and collaborator of Ravel. At age 15

Mr. Thibaudet won the Premier Prix du Conservatoire and three years later won the Young

Concert Artists Auditions in New York City. In 2001 the Republic of France awarded him the

Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2010 the Hollywood Bowl inducted him

into its Hall of Fame. Known for his style and elegance, Mr. Thibaudet wears a concert wardrobe

designed by Vivienne Westwood.

Betsy Wolfe can be seen as Cathy in the revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at

Second Stage Theatre. Earlier this season, she appeared in Roundabout Theater Company’s

Broadway revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Miss Deirdre Peregrine/Rosa Bud, a role

she created for the revival. She was previously seen as Beth in Merrily We Roll Along at New

York City Center Encores! Ms. Wolfe created the role of Mary Ann Singleton in American

Conservatory Theater’s world premiere production of Tales of the City, a musical based on

Armistead Maupin’s novels with music by the Scissor Sisters that was originally workshopped at

the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference. Her other Broadway

credits include Everyday Rapture with Sherie Rene Scott, also performed Off Broadway; 110 in

the Shade; and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She can be heard on recordings

for Merrily We Roll Along, 35MM, 110 in the Shade, Everyday Rapture, and Stage Door

Canteen. Ms. Wolfe starred in the San Francisco and Boston companies of The 25th Annual

Putnam County Spelling Bee. Her regional credits include Tommy at Dallas Theater Center and

Ragtime at Paper Mill Playhouse. She has been a guest artist for more than 25 symphony, pops,

and philharmonic orchestras across the U.S. and internationally. At age 23 she made her concert

debut at Carnegie Hall as a headliner with the Cincinnati Pops under conductor Erich Kunzel.

Ms. Wolfe was a guest soloist for the New York City Ballet, performing at Lincoln Center and

The Coliseum in London. She holds a BFA in musical theater from Cincinnati Conservatory of

Music.

Andrew Samonsky was seen on Broadway in the Tony Award–winning production of Rodgers

& Hammerstein’s South Pacific as Lt. Joseph Cable; he was also seen in the Live From Lincoln

Center PBS broadcast of the show. Recently he performed on Broadway as Neville Landless in

Roundabout Theater Company’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and as Kenneth Ormiston

in Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple MacPherson. Off Broadway he played the

role of Frank Russell in Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist, for which he received a

Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He appeared in the

New York City Center’s Encores! productions of Fiorello! (as Neil) and Merrily We Roll

Along (as Tyler). Regionally, he was in the world premiere of Little Miss Sunshine (as Frank

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Hoover) at La Jolla Playhouse and of Tales of the City (as Beauchamp Day) at American

Conservatory Theater. He is currently starring as Richard in the world premiere production

of Somewhere in Time, a musical based on the cult favorite movie, at Portland Center Stage in

Portland, Oregon.

Joseph Alessi was appointed the New York Philharmonic’s Principal Trombone, The Gurnee F.

and Marjorie L. Hart Chair, in 1985. He began musical studies in his native California with his

father, Joseph Alessi, Sr., 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, he was

second trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra and principal trombone of the Montreal

Symphony Orchestra.

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, Seoul Philharmonic, Mannheim National

Theater Orchestra, 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 having greatly influenced

the field of trombone playing.

Mr. Alessi is currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School. 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

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. He will

perform the World Premiere of the orchestral version of Bramwell Tovey’s The Lincoln Tunnel

Cabaret, as part of the Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series, conducted by Mr. Tovey, in

July 2013.

Gil Shaham is sought after as a concerto, recital, and ensemble artist by the world’s leading

orchestras, venues, and festivals. In the 2012–13 season he continues his long-term exploration

of violin concertos of the 1930s, playing concertos by Barber, Bartók, Berg, Britten, Prokofiev,

and Stravinsky with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and

the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Kansas City, and NHK symphony orchestras. He is

performing other repertoire with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the

Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Seattle symphony orchestras. The season also includes recital tours in

the United States, Europe, and Japan that highlight two works recently written for him by

William Bolcom and Avner Dorman. Mr. Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo

CDs to his name, including bestsellers that have appeared on record charts in the U.S. and

abroad, winning him multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and

Gramophone Editor’s Choice. His recent recordings are produced on the Canary Classics label,

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which he founded in 2004; they comprise Sarasate: Virtuoso Violin Works, Elgar’s Violin

Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Butterfly Lovers and Tchaikovsky’s Violin

Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A, The Prokofiev Album, The Fauré Album, Mozart in

Paris, and works by Haydn and Mendelssohn. The coming season will feature the release of the

first of a series of the 1930s concertos, as well as a recording of Hebrew melodies with his sister,

pianist Orli Shaham, that will include the new Dorman work.

Mr. Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008 he received the

Avery Fisher Award. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in September 1985 at the age

of 14 performing Bizet/Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy at a Young People’s Concert conducted by

Zubin Mehta; his most recent appearance with the Orchestra was in December 2012, performing

Barber’s Violin Concerto conducted by David Zinman. He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac”

Stradivarius.

The Evans Choir is a chamber choir made up of professional singers in the Denver area and

select students from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. Under the direction of

founder-conductor Catherine Sailer, the ensemble performs repertoire from the Renaissance to

the avant-garde. The Evans Choir has appeared with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Central

City Opera (Guo Wenjing’s Poet Li Bai), Asian Performing Arts of Colorado (Tan Dun’s Water

Passion According to Saint Matthew), Colorado Ballet, Playground Ensemble, Quattro Mani

(Brahms’s A German Requiem), Star Wars: In Concert at Pepsi Center, Joeseph Galema

(Duruflé’s Requiem), and composer Morten Lauridsen. The Evans Choir performed with the

Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Bravo! Vail in 2012. This is its first performance with the New

York Philharmonic.

About the New York Philharmonic

Founded in 1842, the New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United

States and one of the oldest in the world; on May 5, 2010, it performed its 15,000th concert — a

milestone unmatched by any other symphony orchestra in the world. The Orchestra has always

played a leading role in American musical life, championing the music of its time, and is

renowned around the globe, having appeared in 431 cities in 63 countries — including its

October 2009 debut in Vietnam and its February 2008 historic visit to Pyongyang, DPRK,

earning the 2008 Common Ground Award for Cultural Diplomacy. The Philharmonic’s concerts

are broadcast on the weekly syndicated radio program The New York Philharmonic This Week,

streamed on nyphil.org, and have been telecast annually on Live From Lincoln Center on U.S.

public television since the series’ premiere in 1976. The Philharmonic has made almost 2,000

recordings since 1917, with more than 500 currently available. The first major American

orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live, the Philharmonic released the first-ever

classical iTunes Pass in 2009–10; the self-produced recordings continue with Alan Gilbert and

the New York Philharmonic: 2012–13 Season. The Orchestra has built on the long-running

Young People’s Concerts to develop a wide range of education programs, including the School

Partnership Program, enriching music education in New York City, and Learning Overtures,

fostering international exchange. Alan Gilbert became Music Director in September 2009,

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succeeding Lorin Maazel in a distinguished line of 20th-century musical giants that goes back to

Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini. Credit Suisse is the New York Philharmonic’s exclusive

Global Sponsor.

About Bravo! Vail The only festival in North America to host three of the world’s finest orchestras in a single

season, Bravo! Vail celebrates its 26th season June 28–August 3, 2013, under the leadership of

artistic director Anne-Marie McDermott and executive director James W. Palermo. The 2013

season features residencies by the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the

Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as well as popular concerto artists and a wide array of stellar

chamber music performances. Bravo! Vail’s offerings of great music, social interaction, and the

natural beauty of the Vail Valley are enhanced by a renewed effort to reach core target markets

— year-round residents, second-home owners, and visitors to the Vail Valley, including

Denver/Front Range visitors — who love sharing a great musical experience in a spectacular

natural setting with friends. The festival, originally titled Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, was

created in 1987 by John Giovando, an attorney with a love of classical music, and acclaimed

violinist Ida Kavafian, who together had already established a successful chamber music festival

in New Mexico. Through world-class performances, dedicated leadership, and generous support

from the community, Bravo! Vail has grown from a handful of attendees to an annual audience

of more than 60,000. More than 50 acclaimed soloists visit the Vail Valley each summer to

perform in chamber ensembles and as soloists with resident orchestras.

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Credit Suisse is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

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The Vail Marriott Mountain Resort and the Antlers at Vail are official hotels of the New

York Philharmonic while in residence at Bravo! Vail.

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Programs of the New York Philharmonic are supported, in part, by public funds from the New

York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the

National Endowment for the Arts.

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2013 Bravo! Vail Residency / 11

Tickets

Packages for Bravo! Vail, on sale now, start at $189 for three New York Philharmonic concerts

in reserved Amphitheater Seating, and are available either as a three-concert package (by

orchestra or by night of the week), or a Create Your Own package (with the option of picking

three or five concerts from any orchestra),which start at $201 for Pavilion seating.

All single tickets for Bravo! Vail will be on sale to the general public starting May 2, with the

exception of The Linda and Mitch Hart Soireé Series, which is available only to Bravo! Vail

Donors of $5,000+ prior to June 1. Single tickets start at $27; children 12 and under pay only $5

for lawn admittance to all orchestral concerts at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater.

Green Passes for the lawn at Bravo! Vail go on sale Wednesday, May 15; Early Bird rates for

Green Passes are valid May 15–31. Early Bird pricing: $170 Adult, $85 Child (ages 12 and

under).

Tickets are available from the Bravo! Vail Box Office at Bravo! Vail’s new website,

www.bravovail.org, or (877) 812-5700. Box Office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (MDT)

Monday through Friday.

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Photography is available in the New York Philharmonic’s online newsroom, nyphil.org/newsroom,

or by contacting the Communications Department at

(212) 875-5700; PR@nyphil.org.

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2013 New York Philharmonic Residency at Bravo! Vail

Concert Schedule

Date Location/Artists Program

Friday,

July 19

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Carter Brey, cello

DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Saturday,

July 20

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos,

conductor

Augustin Hadelich, violin

LALO: Symphonie espagnole

BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique

Sunday,

July 21

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso

LISZT: Totentanz

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade

Glenn Dicterow, violin

Wednesday,

July 24

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Ted Sperling, conductor

Betsy Wolfe, vocalist

Andrew Samonsky, vocalist

Broadway Night with the Philharmonic

GERSHWIN: Overture from Girl Crazy (orchestra)

BERNSTEIN/Stephen SONDHEIM: “Something’s

Coming” from West Side Story

GERSHWIN: “The Man I Love” from Lady, Be

Good

BOCK/HARNICK: “Tonight at Eight” and “Will He

Like Me” from She Loves Me

Benj BASEK/Justin PAUL: “First Date/Last Night”

from Dogfight

Burt BACHARACH/Hal DAVID: “She Likes

Basketball” from Promises, Promises

BERNSTEIN/COMDEN & GREEN: “A Little Bit in

Love” from Wonderful Town

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: “If I Loved You”

from Carousel

BERLIN: “I Got Lost in His Arms” from Annie Get

Your Gun

LOESSER: “I’ve Never Been in Love Before” from

Guys and Dolls

BERLIN: “An Old-Fashioned Wedding” from Annie

Get Your Gun

Stephen SONDHEIM: “Getting Married Today”

from Company

BERNSTEIN/Stephen SONDHEIM: “One Hand,

One Heart” from West Side Story

LANE/HARBURG: “The Begat” from Finian’s

Rainbow

Stephen FLAHERTY/Lynn AHRENS: “Our

Children” from Ragtime

Stephen SONDHEIM “Not a Day Goes By” from

Merrily We Roll Along

RODGERS & HART: “It Never Entered My Mind”

from Higher and Higher

Stephen SONDHEIM: “Could I Leave You” from

Follies

LERNER & LOEWE: “How to Handle a Woman”

from Camelot

ARLEN & MERCER: “Come Rain or Come Shine”

from St. Louis Woman

BERNSTEIN/Stephen SONDHEIM: “Somewhere”

from West Side Story

Thursday,

July 25

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Karen Herman, conductor

(Opening Work) Joseph Alessi, trombone

SIBELIUS: Selection from Finlandia

COPLAND: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

Bramwell TOVEY: The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret

DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 8

Friday,

July 26

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Gil Shaham, violin

Women of the Evans Choir

Catherine Sailer, director

John ADAMS: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto

HOLST: The Planets

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