Marin Alsop Conducts The Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a Program Celebrating American Composer John Corigliano's 75th Birthday on February 9

Juilliard celebrates American composer and composition faculty member John Corigliano’s 75th birthday with an all-Corigliano program at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, February 9 at 8 PM. Conductor Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and an alumna of the School, leads the Juilliard Orchestra in Corigliano’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra and his Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus (2004) for large wind ensemble, which was commissioned by the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin for the University of Texas Wind Ensemble with Jerry Junkin, director of bands.

Tickets at $30 (parquet, 1st and 2nd tiers) and $15 (dress circle and balcony) are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, or online at www.carnegiehall.org. Half-price tickets for students and seniors are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office only.

American composer John Corigliano’s numerous scores – including three symphonies and eight concerti among more than one hundred chamber, vocal, choral, and orchestral works – have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. His newest composition is One Sweet Morning, which premiered in September 2011 with the New York Philharmonic and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe. Other recent scores include Conjurer (2008) for percussion and string orchestra, commissioned for and introduced by Dame Evelyn Glennie; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: The Red Violin (2005), developed from the themes of the score to the film of the same name, which won Mr. Corigliano an Oscar in 1999; and Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (2000), for orchestra and amplified soprano, the recording of which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition in 2008. He received the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for his Symphony No. 1 (1991). One of the few living composers to have a string quartet named for him, Mr. Corigliano serves on the composition faculty of Juilliard and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York. His music is published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Marin Alsop is music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where her tenure was extended to 2015. She also became chief conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of this season. As chief conductor, she will steer the orchestra in its artistic and creative programming, recording ventures, and its education and outreach activities. This mirrors her ongoing success in the United Kingdom, where she was principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony from 2002-2008 and is now conductor emeritus. Ms. Alsop also continues her association as conductor laureate of the Colorado Symphony following 12 years as music director, and since 1992, has been music director of California’s Cabrillo Festival which has won the coveted ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music every single year since her appointment. One of Ms. Alsop’s first projects as music director of the Baltimore Symphony is a Dvorák cycle for Naxos. This joins an extensive Naxos discography which includes a Brahms symphony cycle with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and an ongoing series of Bournemouth Symphony CDs of music by Bartók, Bernstein, Orff, and several living American composers. Ms. Alsop can also be heard regularly as a commentator on NPR’s Weekend Edition segment, “Marin on Music,” and on BBC Radio 3.

The first artist to win both Gramophone’s Artist of the Year Award and the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award in the same season, Ms. Alsop was named to a MacArthur Fellowship (the first conductor to receive this prestigious American honor) and also won the Classical Brit Award for Best Female Artist. She has received the Royal Philharmonic Society’s BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award and a European Women of Achievement Award, and in the fall of 2008, was inducted as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ms. Alsop is a regular guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is also one of the few conductors to appear every season with both the London Symphony and the London Philharmonic.

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PROGRAM LISTING: Saturday, February 9, 8 PM, Carnegie Hall Celebrating American Composer John Corigliano’s 75th Birthday Marin Alsop, conductor Juilliard Orchestra All-Corigliano Program

Symphony No. 2 (Composed in 2000; 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music) Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus (2004)

Tickets at $30 (parquet, 1st and 2nd tiers) and $15 (dress circle and balcony) are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, or online at www.carnegiehall.org. Half-price tickets for students and seniors are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office only.