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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to Perform Two World Premiere Concerti for Orchestra During Finale Concert Weekends
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and Music Director Louis Langrée will close out its 2015-16 season at Cincinnati’s Music Hall with back-to-back world premiere weekends. On May 6-7, 2016, the CSO’s concert program will open with Thierry Escaich’s new Concerto for Orchestra, and on May 13-14, 2016, Zhou Tian’s Concerto for Orchestra will receive its premiere. Both works are part of a season-long Concerto for Orchestra commissioning project, which also included a new work by composer Sebastian Currier (premiered Nov. 19 & 21, 2015). All three concerti are being recorded for commercial release on the CSO’s Fanfare Cincinnati label.
Throughout its history, the Orchestra has given American premieres of works by such composers as Debussy, Ravel and Bartók and has commissioned works that have since become mainstays of the classical repertoire, including Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.
These performances will also be some of the final concerts at Music Hall prior to its long-awaited renovation. Following the end of the 2016 May Festival (May 20-28), the concert hall will close for one season of construction. During this time, the CSO will perform at Downtown Cincinnati’s historic Taft Theatre, which has received over $3 million of improvements in preparation for this transition period.
The May 6-7 concerts, conducted by Mr. Langrée, will also feature Saint-Saëns’ lush Symphony No. 3, nicknamed “Organ.” Mr. Escaich will also perform the organ solo during this soaring work, of which the CSO also featured the second movement during its wildly popular LUMENOCITY® concerts in summer 2015, making it quite familiar to Cincinnati audiences. On May 13-14, the CSO’s season closes with Beethoven’s beloved Third Symphony (nicknamed Eroica), along with Mr. Zhou’s new work.
CONCERTS MAY 6-7, 2016
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, Music Director Thierry Escaich, organ
Music Hall
8 p.m. Friday, May 6
8 p.m. Saturday, May 7
Thierry Escaich Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere)
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, Organ
CONCERTS MAY 13-14, 2016
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, Music Director
Music Hall
8 p.m. Friday, May 13
8 p.m. Saturday, May 14
Zhou Tian Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere) Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica
TICKETS
Tickets for these concerts start at just $12 and are available by calling the CSO Box Office at (513) 381-3300 or visiting www.cincinnatisymphony.org.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Thierry Escaich, composer and organist
Composer, organist and improviser Thierry Escaich is a unique figure in contemporary music and one of the most important French composers of his generation. The three elements of Escaich’s artistry are inseparable, allowing him to express himself as a performer, creator and collaborator in a wide range of settings.
Escaich has composed in many genres and forms, always exploring new sound horizons. His catalogue numbers around 100 works which, with their lyrical, rich harmonies and rhythmic energy, have attracted a wide audience. Drawing from the French line of composition of Ravel, Messiaen and Dutilleux, and imbued with references from contemporary, folk and spiritual music, the distinctive sound-world of Escaich’s music is anchored by an obsessive rhythmic drive and an overarching sense of architecture.
This very personal style encompasses both intimate works and large-scale pieces, such as Chaconne for orchestra; oratorio Le Dernier Évangile and a double concerto for violin and cello, Miroir d’Ombres. In 2010 Escaich composed a ballet The Lost Dancer, premiered by the New York City Ballet, and his first opera Claude, on a libretto by Robert Badinter after Victor Hugo's Claude Gueux, was premiered at the Opéra de Lyon in March 2013 to great acclaim. His most recent new works include a Cello Concerto for Emmanuelle Bertrand, a Concerto for Orchestra for the Orchestre de Paris performed at the inauguration of the new Philharmonie de Paris and a double concerto for Lisa Batiashvili and François Leleux co-commissioned by NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg and the New York Philharmonic.
Escaich has composed many works for the organ including solo works, two concerti and the symphonic poem La Barque Solaire for organ and orchestra. Escaich’s Organ Concerto No.1 has been performed by orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, and was selected as a highlight of the organ concerto repertoire in Gramophone: “His concerto exploits the full sonic and colour ranges of orchestra and organ in this thrilling three-movement work, the second movement rising to an awe-inspiring climax only topped by the shattering coda of the finale.” Gramophone, September 2014.
His works are performed by leading orchestras in Europe and North America and by musicians such as Lisa Batiashvili and François Leleux, Valery Gergiev, Lothar Zagrosek, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Paul Meyer, John Mark Ainsley and the Quatuor Voce. Escaich has been Composer-in-Residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lille and the Paris Chamber Orchestra and his music has been honoured by three ‘Victoires de la Musique’ awards (2003, 2006 and 2011). Since 1992, Thierry Escaich has taught composition and improvisation at the Paris Conservatoire, where he himself studied and obtained eight ‘premiers prix’. In 2013 he received the honour of being appointed to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Thierry Escaich’s career as a composer is closely linked to his career as an organist, which has led him to be one of the ambassadors of the great French school of improvisation, in the wake of Maurice Duruflé, whom he succeeded as organist of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. He appears in recitals internationally, combining repertoire pieces with his own compositions and improvisations.
His passion for cinema has led him to perform ‘cine-concerts’, improvised accompaniments on both the organ and piano for silent films such as Phantom of the Opera and Metropolis.
Highlights of the 2015/16 season include Escaich’s debut performing with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and other concerto appearances with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony. As recitalist Escaich performs widely, including at the BBC Proms, Royal Festival Hall, San Francisco Symphony Hall, Mariinsky Theatre and performs improvisations to silent films at the Montreal Symphony Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris and Auditorium de Lyon. Premieres this season include a new orchestral work for the Cincinnati Symphony, a chamber work for the Great Mountains Music Festival and Litanies pour un Jubilé, a piece for choir, organ and ensemble for Strasbourg Cathedral.
Many of Escaich’s works have been recorded by Accord/Universal. Most recently the disc Les Nuits hallucinées (2011), which crowned his residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon, received numerous distinctions, including a 'Choc de l’année' from Classicamagazine as an outstanding release of the year. Most recently a DVD was released of his opera Claude from the world premiere at Opéra de Lyon conducted by Jérémie Rhorer.
Zhou Tian, composer
Described as “absolutely beautiful” and “utterly satisfying” (Fanfare), Chinese-born American composer Zhou Tian's ( JOH TEE-en) works have been commissioned and performed by major orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Cincinnati Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and by leading soloists and ensembles such as pianist Yuja Wang, violist Roberto Díaz, guitarist Jason Vieaux, violinist Caroline Goulding, flutist Jeffrey Khaner, the Eroica Trio, the Arditti and Dover string quartets, the Empire Brass, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. His newest work, Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will receive its premiere under music director Louis Langrée in the orchestra’s 2015-16 season finale.
Critically acclaimed for his lush and distinctive musical voice, Mr. Zhou’s recent premieres include Violin Concerto (“The Infinite Dance”), commissioned by the Atlantic Classical Orchestra for violinist Caroline Goulding; Poem from a Vanished Time, commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony; First Sight, commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra; A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, commissioned by the Green Bay Symphony; Viaje, commissioned by Dolce Suono Ensemble for flutist Mimi Stillman and the Dover Quartet; and Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs, commissioned by Curtis Institute for Curtis On Tour in cities across the US and South America.
Other noted orchestral performances of his works have come from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Meyer, the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, the Houston Symphony under Christoph Köenig, the Indianapolis Symphony under Christoph Eberle, the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Rossen Milanov, Reno Philharmonic under Laura Jackson, Spokane Symphony under Eckart Preu, Winston-Salem Symphony under Matthew Troy, Hawaii Symphony under Sarah Hicks, Asheville Symphony under Daniel Meyer, and American Composers Orchestra under Paul Lustig Dunkel.
Zhou’s large-scale symphonic suite for soloists, orchestra, and chorus, The Grand Canal, was performed during a nationally televised celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The work was also selected as a theme at 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and received its US premiere in 2012 by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov.
Zhou's music has been heard repeatedly at prestigious venues around the world such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Ecoles d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau (France), Usedomer Musikfestival (Germany), Mozarteum Brasileiro (Brazil), and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He has served as composer-in-residence with the Green Bay Symphony and Chicago's Music In the Loft Concert Series. His works have been broadcast on NPR, PBS, and recorded on Cedille, Innova, Archimusic, and Pacific records.
Among Zhou’s many awards and honors are first prize in the Washington International Competition for Composers, first prize in the ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Art Song Competition, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Glick Award, the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, Symphony in C Composers Award, American Composers Orchestra Underwood Readings, Presser Music Award, three ASCAP Young Composers Awards, and an Excellence Award of Large Symphonic Work in the 16th Musical Composition Award given (every five years) by the Ministry of Culture of China. In 2013, the recording of his String Quartet No. 2 “the Great Wall” was nominated for the Best Classical Album and won Best Instrumental Performance at the “Taiwan Grammy” – the 24th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. His recording of “The Grand Canal” was included in the 100 Important Audio and Video Publications of 2009 by General Administration of Press and Publication of China, and exhibited at MIDEM, the world’s leading international event for the music industry in Cannes. Many of his commissions had support from the National Endowment for the Arts. He held composition fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Henri Mancini Institute, and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau.
Born in 1981 in Hangzhou, China, Zhou holds music degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music (B.M.), the Juilliard School (M.M.) and University of Southern California (D.M.A.). He studied composition with Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Rouse, Stephen Hartke, Richard Danielpour, and Donald Crockett. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Colgate University. Visit ZhouTianMusic.com for more.
Louis Langrée, Music Director
The French conductor Louis Langrée is Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the Camerata Salzburg and Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York. During the 2015-16 season, concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra include a Brahms Festival and three world premiere Concertos for Orchestra by Sebastian Currier, Thierry Escaich and Zhou Tian. In January, they also performed in New York as part of the 50th anniversary season of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series. With the Camerata Salzburg Louis will tour Germany and other guest engagements include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (opening their annual Mendelssohn Festival) and performances of Così fan tutte with the Freiburger Barockorchester at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Performances in the 2014-15 season included return engagements with the Orchestre de Paris, Metropolitan Opera in New York (Carmen) at the Wiener Staatsoper (Eugene Onegin). Louis Langrée has conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker in concert in both Vienna and Salzburg. Other recent debuts have included the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, NHK Symphony in Tokyo and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Don Giovanni).
He has worked with many other orchestras around the world including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Sao Paulo, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Budapest Festival orchestras. Festival appearances have included Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche and Whitsun, BBC Proms and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie (1993-98) and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (2001-06).
Louis Langrée was Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1998-2000) and Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1998-2003). He has also conducted at La Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Comique, Opéra-Bastille and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dresden Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre in Geneva and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam.
Louis Langrée's first commercial recording with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra features Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait (narrated by Dr Maya Angelou) and world premieres by Nico Muhly and David Lang. Louis Langrée’s recordings have received several awards from Gramophone and Midem Classical. He was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2014.
CSO TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets start at $12 and are available by phone at (513) 381-3300, on the Internet at www.cincinnatisymphony.org, and in person at: • CSO Box Office at Music Hall, 1241 Elm Street, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. • CSO Box Office at Music Hall 2 hours prior to the performance. • CSO Ignite tickets for CSO concerts are $12. They are available for members of the program ages 18-30 beginning Monday of the performance week at the CSO Sales Office, over the phone at 513-381-3300, or online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org • Senior Tickets (age 62 ) are 25% off and are available the week of the concert in person at the CSO Sales Office, over the phone at (513) 381-3300, or online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org.
Contact:
Chris Pinelo Vice President of Communications (513) 744-3338 – direct (859) 466-1089 - mobile cpinelo@cincinnatisymphony.org
Meghan Berneking Director of Communications (513) 744-3258 – direct (812) 319-4760 - mobile mberneking@cincinnatisymphony.org
Dan Dutcher National Press Representative (917) 566-8413 dan@dandutcherpr.com
Throughout its history, the Orchestra has given American premieres of works by such composers as Debussy, Ravel and Bartók and has commissioned works that have since become mainstays of the classical repertoire, including Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.
These performances will also be some of the final concerts at Music Hall prior to its long-awaited renovation. Following the end of the 2016 May Festival (May 20-28), the concert hall will close for one season of construction. During this time, the CSO will perform at Downtown Cincinnati’s historic Taft Theatre, which has received over $3 million of improvements in preparation for this transition period.
The May 6-7 concerts, conducted by Mr. Langrée, will also feature Saint-Saëns’ lush Symphony No. 3, nicknamed “Organ.” Mr. Escaich will also perform the organ solo during this soaring work, of which the CSO also featured the second movement during its wildly popular LUMENOCITY® concerts in summer 2015, making it quite familiar to Cincinnati audiences. On May 13-14, the CSO’s season closes with Beethoven’s beloved Third Symphony (nicknamed Eroica), along with Mr. Zhou’s new work.
CONCERTS MAY 6-7, 2016
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, Music Director Thierry Escaich, organ
Music Hall
8 p.m. Friday, May 6
8 p.m. Saturday, May 7
Thierry Escaich Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere)
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3, Organ
CONCERTS MAY 13-14, 2016
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, Music Director
Music Hall
8 p.m. Friday, May 13
8 p.m. Saturday, May 14
Zhou Tian Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere) Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica
TICKETS
Tickets for these concerts start at just $12 and are available by calling the CSO Box Office at (513) 381-3300 or visiting www.cincinnatisymphony.org.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Thierry Escaich, composer and organist
Composer, organist and improviser Thierry Escaich is a unique figure in contemporary music and one of the most important French composers of his generation. The three elements of Escaich’s artistry are inseparable, allowing him to express himself as a performer, creator and collaborator in a wide range of settings.
Escaich has composed in many genres and forms, always exploring new sound horizons. His catalogue numbers around 100 works which, with their lyrical, rich harmonies and rhythmic energy, have attracted a wide audience. Drawing from the French line of composition of Ravel, Messiaen and Dutilleux, and imbued with references from contemporary, folk and spiritual music, the distinctive sound-world of Escaich’s music is anchored by an obsessive rhythmic drive and an overarching sense of architecture.
This very personal style encompasses both intimate works and large-scale pieces, such as Chaconne for orchestra; oratorio Le Dernier Évangile and a double concerto for violin and cello, Miroir d’Ombres. In 2010 Escaich composed a ballet The Lost Dancer, premiered by the New York City Ballet, and his first opera Claude, on a libretto by Robert Badinter after Victor Hugo's Claude Gueux, was premiered at the Opéra de Lyon in March 2013 to great acclaim. His most recent new works include a Cello Concerto for Emmanuelle Bertrand, a Concerto for Orchestra for the Orchestre de Paris performed at the inauguration of the new Philharmonie de Paris and a double concerto for Lisa Batiashvili and François Leleux co-commissioned by NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg and the New York Philharmonic.
Escaich has composed many works for the organ including solo works, two concerti and the symphonic poem La Barque Solaire for organ and orchestra. Escaich’s Organ Concerto No.1 has been performed by orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, and was selected as a highlight of the organ concerto repertoire in Gramophone: “His concerto exploits the full sonic and colour ranges of orchestra and organ in this thrilling three-movement work, the second movement rising to an awe-inspiring climax only topped by the shattering coda of the finale.” Gramophone, September 2014.
His works are performed by leading orchestras in Europe and North America and by musicians such as Lisa Batiashvili and François Leleux, Valery Gergiev, Lothar Zagrosek, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Paul Meyer, John Mark Ainsley and the Quatuor Voce. Escaich has been Composer-in-Residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lille and the Paris Chamber Orchestra and his music has been honoured by three ‘Victoires de la Musique’ awards (2003, 2006 and 2011). Since 1992, Thierry Escaich has taught composition and improvisation at the Paris Conservatoire, where he himself studied and obtained eight ‘premiers prix’. In 2013 he received the honour of being appointed to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Thierry Escaich’s career as a composer is closely linked to his career as an organist, which has led him to be one of the ambassadors of the great French school of improvisation, in the wake of Maurice Duruflé, whom he succeeded as organist of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. He appears in recitals internationally, combining repertoire pieces with his own compositions and improvisations.
His passion for cinema has led him to perform ‘cine-concerts’, improvised accompaniments on both the organ and piano for silent films such as Phantom of the Opera and Metropolis.
Highlights of the 2015/16 season include Escaich’s debut performing with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and other concerto appearances with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony. As recitalist Escaich performs widely, including at the BBC Proms, Royal Festival Hall, San Francisco Symphony Hall, Mariinsky Theatre and performs improvisations to silent films at the Montreal Symphony Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris and Auditorium de Lyon. Premieres this season include a new orchestral work for the Cincinnati Symphony, a chamber work for the Great Mountains Music Festival and Litanies pour un Jubilé, a piece for choir, organ and ensemble for Strasbourg Cathedral.
Many of Escaich’s works have been recorded by Accord/Universal. Most recently the disc Les Nuits hallucinées (2011), which crowned his residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon, received numerous distinctions, including a 'Choc de l’année' from Classicamagazine as an outstanding release of the year. Most recently a DVD was released of his opera Claude from the world premiere at Opéra de Lyon conducted by Jérémie Rhorer.
Zhou Tian, composer
Described as “absolutely beautiful” and “utterly satisfying” (Fanfare), Chinese-born American composer Zhou Tian's ( JOH TEE-en) works have been commissioned and performed by major orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Cincinnati Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and by leading soloists and ensembles such as pianist Yuja Wang, violist Roberto Díaz, guitarist Jason Vieaux, violinist Caroline Goulding, flutist Jeffrey Khaner, the Eroica Trio, the Arditti and Dover string quartets, the Empire Brass, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. His newest work, Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will receive its premiere under music director Louis Langrée in the orchestra’s 2015-16 season finale.
Critically acclaimed for his lush and distinctive musical voice, Mr. Zhou’s recent premieres include Violin Concerto (“The Infinite Dance”), commissioned by the Atlantic Classical Orchestra for violinist Caroline Goulding; Poem from a Vanished Time, commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony; First Sight, commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra; A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, commissioned by the Green Bay Symphony; Viaje, commissioned by Dolce Suono Ensemble for flutist Mimi Stillman and the Dover Quartet; and Red Trees, Wrinkled Cliffs, commissioned by Curtis Institute for Curtis On Tour in cities across the US and South America.
Other noted orchestral performances of his works have come from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Meyer, the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, the Houston Symphony under Christoph Köenig, the Indianapolis Symphony under Christoph Eberle, the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Rossen Milanov, Reno Philharmonic under Laura Jackson, Spokane Symphony under Eckart Preu, Winston-Salem Symphony under Matthew Troy, Hawaii Symphony under Sarah Hicks, Asheville Symphony under Daniel Meyer, and American Composers Orchestra under Paul Lustig Dunkel.
Zhou’s large-scale symphonic suite for soloists, orchestra, and chorus, The Grand Canal, was performed during a nationally televised celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The work was also selected as a theme at 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and received its US premiere in 2012 by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rossen Milanov.
Zhou's music has been heard repeatedly at prestigious venues around the world such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Ecoles d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau (France), Usedomer Musikfestival (Germany), Mozarteum Brasileiro (Brazil), and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He has served as composer-in-residence with the Green Bay Symphony and Chicago's Music In the Loft Concert Series. His works have been broadcast on NPR, PBS, and recorded on Cedille, Innova, Archimusic, and Pacific records.
Among Zhou’s many awards and honors are first prize in the Washington International Competition for Composers, first prize in the ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Art Song Competition, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Glick Award, the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, Symphony in C Composers Award, American Composers Orchestra Underwood Readings, Presser Music Award, three ASCAP Young Composers Awards, and an Excellence Award of Large Symphonic Work in the 16th Musical Composition Award given (every five years) by the Ministry of Culture of China. In 2013, the recording of his String Quartet No. 2 “the Great Wall” was nominated for the Best Classical Album and won Best Instrumental Performance at the “Taiwan Grammy” – the 24th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. His recording of “The Grand Canal” was included in the 100 Important Audio and Video Publications of 2009 by General Administration of Press and Publication of China, and exhibited at MIDEM, the world’s leading international event for the music industry in Cannes. Many of his commissions had support from the National Endowment for the Arts. He held composition fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Henri Mancini Institute, and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau.
Born in 1981 in Hangzhou, China, Zhou holds music degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music (B.M.), the Juilliard School (M.M.) and University of Southern California (D.M.A.). He studied composition with Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Rouse, Stephen Hartke, Richard Danielpour, and Donald Crockett. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Colgate University. Visit ZhouTianMusic.com for more.
Louis Langrée, Music Director
The French conductor Louis Langrée is Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the Camerata Salzburg and Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York. During the 2015-16 season, concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra include a Brahms Festival and three world premiere Concertos for Orchestra by Sebastian Currier, Thierry Escaich and Zhou Tian. In January, they also performed in New York as part of the 50th anniversary season of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series. With the Camerata Salzburg Louis will tour Germany and other guest engagements include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (opening their annual Mendelssohn Festival) and performances of Così fan tutte with the Freiburger Barockorchester at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Performances in the 2014-15 season included return engagements with the Orchestre de Paris, Metropolitan Opera in New York (Carmen) at the Wiener Staatsoper (Eugene Onegin). Louis Langrée has conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker in concert in both Vienna and Salzburg. Other recent debuts have included the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, NHK Symphony in Tokyo and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Don Giovanni).
He has worked with many other orchestras around the world including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Sao Paulo, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Budapest Festival orchestras. Festival appearances have included Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche and Whitsun, BBC Proms and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has held positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie (1993-98) and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (2001-06).
Louis Langrée was Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1998-2000) and Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1998-2003). He has also conducted at La Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Comique, Opéra-Bastille and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dresden Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre in Geneva and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam.
Louis Langrée's first commercial recording with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra features Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait (narrated by Dr Maya Angelou) and world premieres by Nico Muhly and David Lang. Louis Langrée’s recordings have received several awards from Gramophone and Midem Classical. He was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2014.
CSO TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets start at $12 and are available by phone at (513) 381-3300, on the Internet at www.cincinnatisymphony.org, and in person at: • CSO Box Office at Music Hall, 1241 Elm Street, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. • CSO Box Office at Music Hall 2 hours prior to the performance. • CSO Ignite tickets for CSO concerts are $12. They are available for members of the program ages 18-30 beginning Monday of the performance week at the CSO Sales Office, over the phone at 513-381-3300, or online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org • Senior Tickets (age 62 ) are 25% off and are available the week of the concert in person at the CSO Sales Office, over the phone at (513) 381-3300, or online at www.cincinnatisymphony.org.
Contact:
Chris Pinelo Vice President of Communications (513) 744-3338 – direct (859) 466-1089 - mobile cpinelo@cincinnatisymphony.org
Meghan Berneking Director of Communications (513) 744-3258 – direct (812) 319-4760 - mobile mberneking@cincinnatisymphony.org
Dan Dutcher National Press Representative (917) 566-8413 dan@dandutcherpr.com
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