California born conductor Rebecca Miller shares the podium with Bard Music Festival’s Music Director Leon Botstein in two concerts - Friday, August 6th’s “The Exemplary Musician,” and Friday, August 13th’s “Crosscurrents: Salon and Concert Hall.”
The August 6 opening concert celebrates Nadja Boulanger and the talents of women composers, pairing several of Nadia Boulanger’s own compositions with music by some of her most distinguished female students.
The August 13 performance continues to celebrate Boulanger, and highlights the importance of salons as a haven for the Parisian avant-garde. Rebecca Miller conducts Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto, a work Nadia Boulanger led the first performance of, having influenced the commission of the work for the private salon of Washington’s Bliss family at its eponymous D.C. estate, as well as the American premiere of Boulanger’s student and fellow recording artist, Romanian composer Dinu Lipatti’s Concertino for Piano.
Bard Music Festival
"Nadia Boulanger and Her World"
August 6, 2021 at 5:00 PM
“The Exemplary Musician”
Fischer Centre, Sosnoff Theater, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Lili BOULANGER Faust et Hélène
Rebecca Miller, conductor
The Orchestra Now
Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Guerrero, tenor;
Joshua Hopkins, baritone
Other works on program by Nadia Boulanger, Priaulx Rainier Louise Talma, Grazyna Bacewicz, and Julia Perry. The concert also includes Music Director Leon Botstein, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, soprano Joélle Harvey, tenors Nicholas Phan and Matthew White.
Friday, August 13 at 7 pm
“Crosscurrents: Salon and Concert Hall”
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
STRAVINSKY Dumbarton Oaks
LIPATTI Concertino for Piano (US Premiere)
Rebecca Miller, conductor
The Orchestra Now
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Other works on program by Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Honegger, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. The concert also includes Music Director Leon Botstein, pianist Anna Polonsky, cellist Tony Rymer.
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About Rebecca Miller
Chief Conductor of Sweden’s Uppsala Kammarorkester and Associate Conductor of the UK’s Southbank Sinfonia California-born conductor Rebecca Miller enjoys an international reputation for her compelling, insightful, and energetic presence on the podium and for her ability to communicate with audiences of all ages. A champion of unjustly-neglected female composers, she is also renowned for her extensive work with young musicians.
Amongst her recent guest-conducting engagements are BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, Additional guesting engagements include the Houston Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Reno Philharmonic, Bakersfield Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Chicago College of the Performing Arts, Bard Music Festival, Huntsville Symphony, Williamsport Symphony, and Musiqa Houston, and with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Israel.
First-prize winner in the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition, she has conducted throughout Mexico, including repeated engagements with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional and Orquesta Filarmonica del UNAM, and the state orchestras of Yucatan, Aguascalientes, and Sinaloa. In 2017, Rebecca was also featured in the Bruno Walter National Conductors Preview with the Nashville Symphony.
Active in the recording arena, Ms. Miller has made recordings with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (CPE Bach Symphonies / Signum Records, which made the final shortlist for a 2014 ‘Gramophone Award’), with the BBC Concert Orchestra (Henry Hadley Orchestral works / Dutton Epoch), with the BBC Scottish Symphony (piano concertos by Amy Beach, Dorothy Howell, Cecil Chaminade / Hyperion Records), and three CDs with the Royal Northern Sinfonia (Haydn Symphonies / Signum Records; George Frederick Bristow’s ‘Jullien Symphony’ / New World Records; Concertos by Aaron Jay Kernis / Signum Records).
Rebecca is passionate about her work with young musicians - she has worked with the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Wales, and Great Britain, and with the Chicago College of the Performing Arts, and the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (Teresa Carreño), much to the acclaim of its late founder José Antonio Abreu. She was conductor at the Royal Academy of Music’s Junior Department for many years, where she formed the groundbreaking and unique JA Classical Orchestra.
As Director of Orchestras at Royal Holloway University of London, she has been widely acclaimed for building the orchestral programme to new heights - starting an orchestral scholarship programme, initiating a side-by-side programme with the London Mozart Players, securing high-profile engagements (including ‘Magna Carta 800 at Runnymede’ a project with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Temple Church Choir, performed in the the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and 4000 dignitaries and honoured guests), and establishing a new initiative called ‘Music ’, which aims to build bridges through music with interdepartmental projects and interdisciplinary research.
Previously, Rebecca served previously as Resident Conductor of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and American Conducting Fellow of The Houston Symphony, and Assistant Conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. She holds a B.Mus. in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, an M.Mus in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University, and for two years was the Paul Woodhouse Junior Fellow in Orchestral Conducting at London’s Royal College of Music. www.rebeccamiller.net
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