FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATED June 15, 2016

February 16, 2016

Contact: Katherine E. Johnson

(212) 875-5718; johnsonk@nyphil.org

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TO RETURN TO BRAVO! VAIL

FOR 14th-ANNUAL SUMMER RESIDENCY, JULY 22–29, 2016

Music Director Alan Gilbert To Lead Three Programs

Bramwell Tovey, Juraj Valčuha, and Timothy Brock Also To Conduct

CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S CITY LIGHTS: Complete Film with Score Performed Live

Soloists To Include

The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Eric Owens,

Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi,

Soprano Heidi Melton and Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano,

Violinist Leila Josefowicz, and Pianists Yefim Bronfman and Javier Perianes

Chamber Concert Featuring New York Philharmonic Musicians

The New York Philharmonic will return to Bravo! Vail in Colorado for the Orchestra’s 14th-

annual summer residency there, featuring six concerts July 22–29, 2016. Music Director Alan

Gilbert will conduct three programs, July 27–29, featuring works by Beethoven, Mozart,

Prokofiev, William Bolcom, Richard Strauss, and Wagner. The residency will also feature a

complete screening of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights with the Orchestra performing Chaplin’s

score live, conducted by Timothy Brock (July 23). Bramwell Tovey will conduct a Spanish-

themed program featuring works by Massenet and Falla (July 22), and Juraj Valčuha will lead

works by Kodály, Liszt, Dvořák, and Ravel (July 24). The soloists appearing during the

Orchestra’s residency are bass-baritone Eric Owens, the Philharmonic’s 2015–16 season Mary

and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence; Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi; pianists Yefim

Bronfman and Javier Perianes, the latter in his Philharmonic debut; violinist Leila Josefowicz;

soprano Heidi Melton; and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano. In addition, Philharmonic

musicians will perform in a chamber concert presented on Bravo! Vail’s Chamber Music Series

(July 26). The New York Philharmonic has performed at Bravo! Vail each summer since 2003.

Alan Gilbert will lead the concert on Wednesday, July 27, which will feature William Bolcom’s

Trombone Concerto, with Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi as soloist, and R. Strauss’s Ein

Heldenleben, featuring concertmaster solos by Philharmonic Concertmaster Frank Huang in his

first summer at Bravo! Vail. On Thursday, July 28, Mr. Gilbert will conduct Prokofiev’s Violin

Concerto No. 1, with Leila Josefowicz as soloist, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica.

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Alan Gilbert will also conduct an all-Wagner program on Friday, July 29, featuring Prelude and

Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, and the Ride of the Valkyries and the Final Scene from Act III

of Die Walküre, with mezzo-soprano Heidi Melton and bass-baritone Eric Owens (the

Philharmonic’s 2015–16 season Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence) as soloists.

Bramwell Tovey will return for his 13th summer with the New York Philharmonic at Vail to

conduct the residency’s opening program, Friday, July 22, featuring Massenet’s Ballet Music

from Le Cid; Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, with pianist Javier Perianes in his

Philharmonic debut; and Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat (complete ballet), with mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnson Cano.

On Saturday, July 23, the Philharmonic will present a complete screening of Charlie Chaplin’s

City Lights with the Orchestra performing Chaplin’s score live, conducted by Timothy Brock,

who restored the score for live performance.

On Sunday, July 24, Juraj Valčuha will conduct the Philharmonic in works with Austro-

Hungarian ties: Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and

Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, Dvořák’s The Water Goblin, and Ravel’s La Valse.

In addition, on Tuesday, July 26, New York Philharmonic musicians will perform a chamber

version of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, arranged by Eisler, Stein, and Rankl, on Bravo! Vail’s

Chamber Music Series.

Bravo! Vail was founded by John Giovando and violinist Ida Kavafian in 1987. Pianist Anne-

Marie McDermott became artistic director in 2011, and Jennifer Teisinger assumed the role of

executive director in January 2016. New York Philharmonic concerts will be performed in the

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and will start at 6:00 p.m., with the exception of the performance

of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights on July 23, which will begin at 8:00 p.m. The chamber music

concert featuring New York Philharmonic musicians will be held at the Donovan Pavilion and

will also start at 6:00 p.m.

Artists

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, collaborations

with partners worldwide offering 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 five 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

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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 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), and a Foreign Policy Association Medal for his commitment to cultural

diplomacy (2015).

Grammy and Juno Award–winning conductor/composer Bramwell Tovey was appointed music

director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) in 2000. Under his leadership the VSO

has toured to China, South Korea, the U.S., and across Canada. Mr. Tovey is also the artistic

adviser of the VSO School of Music, a state-of-the-art facility and recital hall that opened in

downtown Vancouver in 2011. His tenure has included complete symphonic cycles of works by

Beethoven, Mahler, and Brahms, as well as the establishment of an annual festival dedicated to

contemporary music. In 2018, the VSO’s centenary year, he will become the orchestra’s music

director emeritus. Mr. Tovey’s the 2015–16 season guest appearances include the Montreal,

Melbourne, Pacific, and New Zealand symphony orchestras and The Philadelphia Orchestra and

New York Philharmonic, reprising programs with the latter two at Bravo! Vail. The summer of

2016 also includes returns to the Blossom Music Center, Ravinia Festival, and Hollywood Bowl.

In the winter of 2016 he conducted Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt with Calgary Opera. As a

composer, Bramwell Tovey won the 2003 Juno Award for Best Classical Composition for his

choral and brass work Requiem for a Charred Skull, and he has received commissions from the

New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, and Calgary Opera,

which premiered his first full-length opera, The Inventor, in 2011. A recording of the work by

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the VSO with the University of British Columbia Opera and the original cast was made for

Naxos and will be released this season. In 2014 his trumpet concerto, Songs of the Paradise

Saloon, was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Alison Balsom as soloist, who

performed the work again with The Philadelphia Orchestra in December 2014. Bramwell Tovey

has appeared as piano soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic,

Royal Scottish Orchestra, and the Sydney, Melbourne, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Toronto

symphony orchestras. In the summer of 2014 he played and conducted Gershwin’s Rhapsody in

Blue at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and in Saratoga with The

Philadelphia Orchestra. He has performed his own Pictures in the Smoke with the Melbourne and

Helsingborg Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Bramwell Tovey

made his New York Philharmonic debut in October 2000 leading a Young People’s Concert; he

will have most recently appeared with the Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in March–April

2016 leading works by Massenet and Falla.

Conductor and composer Timothy Brock specializes in early 20th-century concert works and

live performances of silent film. As a silent-film score conductor and preservationist, his leading

work includes the restoration of Shostakovich’s only silent-film score, to New Babylon (1929);

Satie’s dadaist score to Entr’acte (1924); and Antheil’s music for Ballet mécanique (1924). Since

1999 Mr. Brock has served as score preservationist for the Charles Chaplin family; to this day he

is the foremost authority on the music of the actor/filmmaker, having made 12 live-performance

revised and critical editions of the scores of all Chaplin’s major films, including City Lights,

Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Kid, and The Circus. At age 23 Mr. Brock began composing

new scores for silent film with G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929), and has since written almost

30 orchestral scores for notable orchestras and institutions including the Orchestre National de

Lyon, Cinémathèque Française, Wiener Konzerthaus, Cineteca di Bologna, Los Angeles

Chamber Orchestra, Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid, and the Cité de la Musique de Paris. The

Chaplin family commissioned Mr. Brock to write an original score to celebrate the centennial of

Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), the very first appearance of the “Gentleman Tramp” (often

called The Little Tramp). In 2016 Mr. Brock will conduct the Vienna Radio Symphony

Orchestra in the World Premiere of his long-awaited new score for Fritz Lang’s science-fiction

epic Frau im Mond (1929), commissioned by the Vienna Konzerthaus. His concert works

include three symphonies, three concertos, a cantata, two operas, and orchestral pieces. Timothy

Brock is a regular guest of major orchestras worldwide, including the BBC, BBC Scottish, and

Chicago symphony orchestras, Orchestre National de Lyon, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Orchestra

Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra della Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Brock has created a concert series of programs of

Entartete Musik (“degenerate music,” by composers banned by the Third Reich), including

works by Schulhoff, Schreker, Zemlinsky, Krása, Klein, and Haas. He gave the North American

Premieres of Eisler’s Kleine Sinfonie, Niemandslied, and Kuhle Wampe as well as Schulhoff’s

Symphony No. 2, and one of the first performances of Ullmann’s opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis,

written within the Terezin ghetto in 1944. Mr. Brock had also included his own string orchestral

transcriptions of the string quartets of Haas. Mr. Brock led Chaplin’s The Gold Rush with

Members of the New York Philharmonic in 2011 and 2012 performances at Alice Tully Hall. He

made his Philharmonic debut leading the program “Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times: The Tramp

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at 100” in September 2014 as part of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the

Philharmonic. He will have most recently led the Philharmonic in the score to Chaplin’s City

Lights with a complete screening of the film at David Geffen Hall in May 2016.

Chief conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Torino, since 2009, Juraj

Valčuha studied composition and conducting in Bratislava, St. Petersburg (with Ilya Musin), and

Paris. In 2005 he made his debut with the Orchestre National de France, and in subsequent

seasons he has regularly conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, Munich and Rotterdam

Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Dresden

Staatskapelle, and Orchestre de Paris. In North America he has appeared with the New York and

Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras; the Boston, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and

National symphony orchestras; and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. In Europe he

has conducted Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Filarmonica

della Scala, and Orchestra della Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as well as Orchestra della

RAI on tours to Vienna’s Musikverein and Berlin’s Philharmonie. He also led opera productions

of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly as well as Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges in Florence.

His 2014–15 engagements included a European tour with Orchestra della RAI, with stops in

Munich, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Zurich, and Basel; returns to the San Francisco, Cincinnati, and

Pittsburgh symphony orchestras and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London; and debuts with the

Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Konzerthaus

Orchestra. On the operatic stage, he conducted Puccini’s Turandot at Teatro di San Carlo in

Naples and at the Rome Opera, as well as Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna.

In 2015–16 he returns to the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco and Pittsburgh Symphony

Orchestras, Minnesota Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony,

Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra,

and Florence’s Maggio Musicale. He will also tour Europe with the Bamberg Symphony and

Orchestra della Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and conducts Wagner’s Parsifal at

Budapest Opera. Highlights of his 2016–17 season will include his Chicago Symphony

Orchestra debut as well as returns to the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre

National de France, and the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, National, and Montreal symphony

orchestras. He will also conduct Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame in Florence, Richard Strauss’s

Elektra in Naples, and Britten’s Peter Grimes in Bologna. Juraj Valčuha made his New York

Philharmonic debut in December 2012 conducting works by Weber, Richard Strauss, and

Rachmaninoff, featuring pianist André Watts as soloist; he will have most recently appeared with

the Philharmonic in February 2016 leading works by Kodály, Liszt, Dvořák, and Ravel.

Awarded the National Music Prize in 2012 by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, Javier

Perianes’s international career spans five continents, with performances in venues ranging from

London’s Royal Festival Hall to New York’s Carnegie Hall; Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

to Berlin’s Philharmonie; and Moscow Conservatory’s Great Hall to Suntory Hall Tokyo.

Highlights of the pianist’s 2015–16 season include concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic,

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony

Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands

Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and

Orchestra of St. Luke’s (at Carnegie Hall), as well as a month-long tour of orchestras in Australia

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and New Zealand. During the 2014–15 season he made debuts with the Orchestre de Paris, San

Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony.

Conductor collaborations past and future include Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Zubin

Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Daniel Harding, Yuri Temirkanov, Juanjo

Mena, Pablo Heras-Casado, Josep Pons, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Robin Ticciati, Thomas

Dausgaard, and Vasily Petrenko. Javier Perianes records exclusively for harmonia mundi. His

catalog includes Schubert’s Impromptus and Klavierstücke; Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s keyboard

sonatas; Mompou’s Música callada, … les sons et les parfums, which focuses on works by

Chopin and Debussy; and Moto perpetuo, a selection of Beethoven’s sonatas. Mr. Perianes’s

recording of Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain and selected solo works received a Latin

Grammy Nomination, and his November 2014 recording of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words

has received unanimous critical praise. He has most recently released a live recording of Grieg’s

Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo.

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano received a 2012 Richard Tucker Career Grant and a

2014 George London Award. She joined The Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at

The Metropolitan Opera in 2008, and made her Met debut in the 2009–10 season. As First Prize

winner of the 2009 Young Concert Artist International Auditions, she made recital debuts with

her husband, pianist Christopher Cano, at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Kennedy Center,

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in

Philadelphia. Ms. Cano has appeared with the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic

orchestras; the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Utah symphony orchestras; and

Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others, working with conductors such as James Levine, Manfred

Honeck, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Andrew Davis. This season, Ms. Cano bows

as Emilia in Verdi’s Otello at The Metropolitan Opera, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni

with Arizona Opera, and Orfeo with Des Moines Opera. Her orchestral engagements include the

Verdi Requiem with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with

The Cleveland Orchestra and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9

with the Minnesota Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony, and Enrique Granados’s Dante and

Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody with the Monterey Symphony. Ms. Cano makes her recital debut at The

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performing Brahms’s Two Songs, appears at Houston

Da Camera Society with pianist Thomas Sauer and cellist Colin Carr, and performs with

Christopher Cano at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City and for Electric Earth

Concerts in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her summer festival appearances have included title

roles in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Saratoga Opera and Bizet’s Carmen at the Savannah Voice

Festival, and a recital at Boston’s Outside the Box Festival. In 2014 Jennifer Johnson Cano

released her debut recital recording, Unaffected: Live from the Savannah Voice Festival. Jennifer

Johnson Cano made her New York Philharmonic debut in November 2010 performing in

Mendelssohn’s Elijah, conducted by Alan Gilbert; most recently she appeared as part of the

February 2013 Chinese New Year Concert, led by Long Yu.

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.

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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 June 2016 in the World Premiere–Philharmonic Co-Commission of

William Bolcom’s Trombone Concerto, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, as part of the NY

PHIL BIENNIAL.

Leila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for violin is reflected in her

diverse programs and enthusiasm for performing new works. She frequently collaborates with

leading composers, such as John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colin Matthews, and Steven

Mackey, all of whom have written concertos especially for her. Ms. Josefowicz works with

orchestras and conductors at the highest level around the world. In 2008 she was awarded a

prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, joining prominent scientists, writers, and musicians who have

made unique contributions to contemporary life. Highlights of her 2015–16 season include

engagements with the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Tokyo Metropolitan

Symphony, and Sydney Symphony orchestras; the Orquesta Nacional de España; and the Finnish

Radio Symphony Orchestra, including on tour in Vienna, Salzburg, and Innsbruck. In North

America, she performs with The Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Los

Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and National Symphony

Orchestra. She also appears in recital at New York’s Zankel Hall as well as in Berkeley and

Denver. Leila Josefowicz joined the New York Philharmonic for the World Premiere of Adams’s

Scheherazade.2 — Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra in March 2015, led by Music

Director Alan Gilbert. She also gave the World Premiere of Luca Francesconi’s concerto Duende

— The Dark Notes in 2014 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by Susanna

Mälkki; Ms. Josefowicz, Ms. Mälkki, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra reprised the work at the

BBC Proms in July 2015. Recent highlights include performances with the Chicago, Cincinnati,

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Baltimore, and Melbourne symphony orchestras, as well as Ottawa’s National Arts Centre

Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Zurich’s

Tonhalle Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. She has

released several recordings, notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips/Universal, and Warner

Classics, and was featured on Touch Press’s acclaimed iPad app, The Orchestra. Her latest

recording, Salonen’s Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by

the composer, was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award. Leila Josefowicz made her New York

Philharmonic debut performing Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 1, led by Marin Alsop, at Central

Park’s Great Lawn during the July 2006 Concerts in the Parks.

At the center of Yefim Bronfman’s 2015–16 season is a residency with the Dresden

Staatskapelle, which includes all the Beethoven concertos conducted by Christian Thielemann in

Dresden and on tour in Europe. Mr. Bronfman will also perform Bartók concertos with the

London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev in Edinburgh, London, Vienna, Luxembourg,

and New York. Recital performances will include the complete Prokofiev sonatas over three

programs in Berlin and at Carnegie Hall and Cal Performances. As a regular guest, Mr.

Bronfman will return to the Vienna, New York, and Los Angeles philharmonic orchestras; the

Mariinsky, Cleveland, and Philadelphia orchestras; and the Boston, Montreal, Toronto, San

Francisco, and Seattle symphony orchestras. Following the success of their first U.S. tour last

spring, Mr. Bronfman will rejoin violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and cellist Lynn Harrell in May

for a European tour that takes them to Madrid, Berlin, Moscow, and Milan. Mr. Bronfman was

awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1991 and the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in piano performance

from Northwestern University in 2010. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, one

of which he won with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their recording

of the three Bartók Piano Concertos. He was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award with Alan

Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic for the recording of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto

No. 2, commissioned by the Philharmonic for him. Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union in

1958, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973. He made his New York

Philharmonic debut in May 1978 performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with violinist Shlomo

Mintz and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He served as the Orchestra’s 2013–14 Mary and James G. Wallach

Artist-in-Residence, and will have most recently appeared with the Philharmonic at David

Geffen Hall in February 2016 performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, led by Juraj Valčuha.

As the 2015–16 Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic,

bass-baritone Eric Owens appears as soloist throughout the season, and is expanding the role of

the Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Residence by curating programs and participating in educational

activities. Mr. Owens’s 2015–16 season features orchestral engagements including performances

of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the St. Louis Symphony, led by Markus Stenz, and with

the Minnesota Orchestra, led by Osmo Vänskä; Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortileges with the

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen; Brahms’s A German Requiem

with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, led by Mr. Stenz; and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with The

Cleveland Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst. He will also join Music of the Baroque as

Simon in concert performances of Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus conducted by Jane Glover.

Operatic highlights of Mr. Owens’s season include his return to The Metropolitan Opera as Orest

in a new production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, which will be broadcast on the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning Live in

HD series to movie theaters around the world, and he will host The Met’s Live in HD broadcast

of Verdi’s Otello. He returns to Santa Fe Opera for his role debut as La Roche in a new

production of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio directed by Tim Albery, and to Washington National

Opera as Stephen Kumalo in Weill’s Lost in the Stars. At the Kennedy Center in Washington,

D.C., he will perform an evening of jazz standards featuring the music of Billy Eckstine and

Johnny Hartman, and he will also appear in recital under the auspices of the McCarter Theatre,

Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, Oberlin College and Conservatory, Troy

Chromatic Concerts, and Curtis Institute of Music. Eric Owens made his New York

Philharmonic debut in June 2003 singing selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, led by

then Philharmonic Music Director Lorin Maazel, during the Orchestra’s residency at Sardinia’s

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. He will have most recently appeared with the Philharmonic in May

2016 performing selections from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn in subscription

performances, led by John Storgårds, and at a Young People’s Concert, led by Assistant

Conductor Courtney Lewis.

In the 2015–16 season dramatic soprano Heidi Melton makes her Vienna Philharmonic debut

singing Brünnhilde’s “Immolation Scene” from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, conducted by

Valery Gergiev, at Vienna’s Musikverein and Carnegie Hall. She will sing Sieglinde in concert

performances of Wagner’s Die Walküre with the Hong Kong Philharmonic led by Jaap van

Zweden, to be recorded by Naxos, and returns to Deutsche Oper Berlin as Venus/Elisabeth in

Wagner’s Tannhäuser, with Donald Runnicles, and to Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe for her

first performances as Isolde in a new Christopher Alden production of Wagner’s Tristan und

Isolde, conducted by Justin Brown. Ms. Melton then makes her English National Opera debut in

a new production of Tristan and Isolde conducted by Edward Gardner. Notable symphonic

engagements include her Italian debut conducted by Kirill Petrenko with Sinfonica Nazionale

della RAI in Torino as Gutrune/Third Norn in a concert performance of Götterdämmerung; BBC

Proms as Elisabeth in a concert performance of Tannhäuser with Donald Runnicles and the BBC

Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Dallas Symphony led by Jaap van Zweden, BBC Scottish

Symphony with Donald Runnicles, and Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano in Act

One of Die Walküre; the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Act I of Die Walküre and Isolde’s

“Liebestod” under Marin Alsop and Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Markus Stenz; the

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Jan van Gilse’s Eine Lebensmesse; the Festival de

Lanaudière as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Orchestre

Métropolitain; the Aspen Music Festival and Robert Spano in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8,

Symphony of a Thousand; Real Filharmonía de Galicia in Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder

conducted by Paul Daniel; and the Verdi Requiem for Donald Runnicles’s farewell concert as

music director of San Francisco Opera. Heidi Melton made her New York Philharmonic in

January 2016 performing works by R. Strauss and Wagner, alongside Eric Owens and led by

Music Director Alan Gilbert.

About the New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic plays a leading cultural role in New York City, the United States,

and the world. This season’s projects will connect the Philharmonic with up to 50 million music

lovers through live concerts in New York City and on its worldwide tours and residencies; digital

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recording series; international broadcasts on television, radio, and online; and as a resource

through its wide range of education programs and the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy

Digital Archives. The Orchestra has commissioned and/or premiered works by leading

composers from every era since its founding in 1842 — including Dvořák’s New World

Symphony, John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize–winning On the Transmigration of Souls, dedicated to

the victims of 9/11, and Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Renowned around the globe,

the Philharmonic has appeared in 432 cities in 63 countries — including the groundbreaking

1930 tour of Europe; the unprecedented 1959 tour to the USSR; the historic 2008 visit to

Pyongyang, D.P.R.K., the first there by an American orchestra; and the Orchestra’s debut in

Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2009. The New York Philharmonic serves as a resource for its community

and the world. It complements its annual free concerts across the city — including the Concerts

in the Parks, Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer — with Philharmonic Free Fridays and a wide

range of education programs — among them the famed, long-running Young People’s Concerts

and Philharmonic Schools, an immersive classroom program that reaches thousands of New

York City students. Committed to developing tomorrow’s leading orchestral musicians, the

Philharmonic has established the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, collaborations with

partners worldwide offering training of pre-professional musicians, often alongside performance

residencies. These include the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership and

collaborations with Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West and The Shepherd School of

Music at Rice University. The oldest American symphony orchestra and one of the oldest in the

world, the New York Philharmonic has made almost 2,000 recordings since 1917, including

several Grammy Award winners, and its self-produced digital recording series continues in the

2015–16 season. Music Director Alan Gilbert began his tenure in September 2009, succeeding a

distinguished line of 20th-century musical giants that includes Leonard Bernstein, Arturo

Toscanini, and Gustav Mahler.

About Bravo! Vail Bravo! Vail, Colorado’s premier international seven-week summer music festival, brings

internationally acclaimed musicians to venues throughout the Vail Valley and draws guests from

around the world. The only festival in North America to host four of the world’s finest orchestras

in a single season, Bravo! Vail celebrates its 29th season June 23–August 6, 2016 under the

direction of artistic director Anne-Marie McDermott and executive director Jennifer Teisinger.

The 2016 season features residencies by the New York Philharmonic, Academy of St Martin in

the Fields, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, plus popular

concerto artists and a wide array of stellar chamber music performances.

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Eric Owens is The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

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Official lodging for the New York Philharmonic while at Bravo! Vail is provided by Antlers at

Vail, Manor Vail Lodge, and the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort and Spa.

Tickets

Packages for Bravo! Vail go on sale Tuesday, February 16 and start at $132 for Pavilion seating.

There are seven orchestra packages in total, each comprising a carefully curated selection of

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three or four orchestral concerts. Concertgoers can also purchase Full Amphitheater Packages,

which start at $910 for Pavilion seating. Each Full Amphitheater Package includes all 20

orchestral concerts.

Green Passes, offering lawn access to all 20 orchestral concerts, will also be on sale beginning

February 16. Early Bird rates for Green Passes are valid through June 2. Early Bird pricing: $180

for adults, $85 for students.

All single tickets for Bravo! Vail will be on sale to the general public starting April 11. Single

tickets start at $28, and children 12 and under pay $5 for lawn admittance to all orchestral

concerts at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater.

Tickets are available from the Bravo! Vail Box Office on the Bravo! Vail website, bravovail.org,

or (877) 812-5700. Box Office hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (MDT), Monday through Friday.

See attached schedule.

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More information is available at nyphil.org/vail

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2016 New York Philharmonic Residency at Bravo! Vail

Concert Schedule

Date Location/Artists Program

Friday,

July 22

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Javier Perianes*, piano

Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano

MASSENET: Ballet Music from Le Cid

FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat

(complete ballet)

Saturday,

July 23

8:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Timothy Brock, conductor

CHAPLIN: City Lights

(live score with complete film)

Sunday,

July 24

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Juraj Valčuha, conductor

Yefim Bronfman, piano

KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta

LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 2

DVOŘÁK: The Water Goblin

RAVEL: La Valse

Tuesday,

July 26

6:00 p.m.

Bravo! Vail’s Chamber Music Series

Donovan Pavilion

New York Philharmonic musicians

BRUCKNER/Arr. Eisler, Stein, Rankl:

Symphony No. 7

Wednesday,

July 27

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Joseph Alessi, trombone

William BOLCOM: Trombone Concerto

R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben

Thursday,

July 28

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Deirdre Baker, conductor (opening work)

Leila Josefowicz, violin

J. STRAUSS: Radetzky March

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Friday,

July 29

6:00 p.m.

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Heidi Melton, soprano

Eric Owens, bass-baritone

WAGNER: Prelude and Liebestod from

Tristan und Isolde

WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries and Final

Scene from Act III of

Die Walküre

* denotes New York Philharmonic debut

ALL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE