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Lanzetta Conducts Beethoven on MidAmerica Season Opener at Carnegie Hall | February 17, 2 PM
GIUSEPPE LANZETTA TO LEAD BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH SYMPHONY ON OPENING CONCERT OF MIDAMERICA PRODUCTIONS 2019 SEASON
February 17 Will Mark Seventh Carnegie Hall Appearance by MAP’s Principal Guest Conductor
NEW YORK, NY, January 30, 2019 – MidAmerica Productions will welcome back its Principal Guest Conductor, Giuseppe Lanzetta, on Sunday, February 17th, on the occasion of the opening concert of MidAmerica’s 36th concert season in New York. The performance will begin at 2 pm.
One of Maestro Lanzetta’s favorite composers, Beethoven, has figured on four of his previous Carnegie Hall appearances with MidAmerica. Now, he will lead one of the German master’s most iconic works – the Fifth Symphony – following in the footsteps of more than 100 illustrious predecessors who each put his (or her) stamp on this masterpiece in this equally iconic concert hall.
Peter Tiboris, General Director of MidAmerica Productions, says, “Giuseppe Lanzetta and I are not only close, personal friends, but colleagues and guest conductors in each other’s venues. He is a marvelous musician and actively involved in music making and production at the highest level of Italy’s music institutions. He is an excellent conductor.”
Sharing the Playbill
The February 17 concert at Carnegie Hall will also feature guest conductor Bradley Vogel, who will lead Ola Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass with a choir of more than 100 voices drawn from three participating choruses from the state of Kansas, all of them (plus Maestro Vogel) making their Carnegie Hall debuts:
- WHS Crusader Choir, Wellington, KS (Jessica Coldwell, Director)
- Berean Singers, Elbing, KS (Sara Morris, Director)
- Tabor College Concert Choir, Hillsboro, KS (Bradley Vogel, Director)
Also on February 17, chorus members from five states will come together to perform Morten Lauridsen’s modern-day classic, Lux Aeterna, under the baton of Tucker Biddlecombe, who will be making his Carnegie Hall debut. Members of these six ensembles will comprise the formidable chorus for Lux Aeterna:
- Blair Children’s Chorus Young Men’s Chorus, Nashville, TN (Mary Biddlecombe, Director)
- East Orange Campus High School Chamber Singers, East Orange, NJ (Libby Gopal, Director)
- Marlborough Chamber Choir, Los Angeles, CA (Angela Lin, Director)
- Central Bucks High School-West Choir, Doylestown, PA (Joseph Ohrt, Director)
- Watson Creek Choral Project, Furlong, PA (Joseph Ohrt, Director)
- Chiles High School Chorus, Tallahassee, FL (Corey Sullivan, Director)
Purchase Tickets
Concerts in the Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage are $150, $100, and $50. Tickets may be obtained by contacting CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue in New York, NY, or by going online to www.carnegiehall.org). For more information, contact molly.waymire@piptix.com
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Giuseppe Lanzetta, Conductor
Giuseppe Lanzetta has served as guest conductor for some of the world’s most important orchestras, including the Orchestra Della Toscana (Florence), the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin), and several in Mexico City, among them the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, The Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, The Mineria Symphony Orchestra and The Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México (Symphony Orchestra of the State of Mexico).
Maestro Lanzetta has conducted at the 2003 International Festival of Krakow in Heidelberg; and led the Wiener Kammersolisten and Ungarische Kammerphilharmonie in the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. He has been Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Pro Arte di Messina, Italy, and Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of Grosseto, Greece.
Choirs he has conducted include Teatro Comunale di Firenze, University Choir Louvain (Belgium) and Choir Madrigale Bucharest. Renowned soloists under his baton have included German child prodigy/rock violinist David Garrett, cellist Anner Bylsma, and Italian-French pianist Aldo Ciccolini.
An advocate for the education of young musicians, Lanzetta serves as Chair of Orchestral Exercises at the Conservatory of Music of Santa Cecilia, considered the most prestigious school of music in Rome. He also teaches several master classes as part of the Florence Conducting Masterclass series.
In 1981, Maestro Lanzetta founded the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina (Florence Chamber Orchestra) and remains its Principal Music Director. Consisting of 40 musicians, the orchestra has performed over 1,850 concerts throughout Europe as well as North and South America, and has a repertoire containing both symphonic works and chamber music. International critics have singled out the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina as "one of the best chamber orchestras of Europe."
Due to their significant cultural standing, Lanzetta and the orchestra have received countless honors, including the “Blessed Angelico Medal, Universal Patron of Artists” prize (2005); the Florence Music del’Arte award (2006), the prestigious prize “a life for music” (2010); the Official Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Giorgio Napolitano (2012); the Galileo Award for Entrepreneurship in Music (2013) and the Bel San Giovanni for the international career breakthrough (2015).
Born in Montecorvino Rovella, province of Salerno, in the Campania region of southwest Italy, Lanzetta attended the Luigi Cherubini Music Conservatory in Florence, where he studied choral music, choral conducting and sacred vocal polyphony. In the course of his education, Lanzetta studied conducting under some of the great masters -- most notably Sir Georg Solti, the long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He perfected his craft at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy) and studied choral conducting with the Bulgarian masters Georgi Robev and Samuil Vidas.
This MidAmerica Productions concert marks the seventh time Lanzetta will perform in Carnegie Hall, having previously conducted at the historic venue in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Maestro Lanzetta serves as Principal Guest Conductor for MidAmerica Productions.
About MidAmerica Productions
Maestro Peter Tiboris created and conducted his first concert in New York on January 7, 1984, at Lincoln Center, featuring The American Symphony Orchestra, soloists, and three choruses, the Louisiana Chorale of Acadiana, Camerata Singers of Baton Rouge, and Collegiate Chorale of New York. Although he didn’t realize it at the time, Mr. Tiboris had just started his own successful production company, MidAmerica Productions, which would become the foremost independent producer of choral concerts in Carnegie Hall.
During its 36 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, soloists, and choral and instrumental ensembles from the U.S. and abroad to appear at New York’s top venues, including Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Weill Recital Hall, and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; and Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) at Lincoln Center. In addition to presenting instrumental and classic choral works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers with approximately 92 World Premieres, 21 United States Premieres and 99 New York Premieres.
Additionally, MidAmerica Productions has presented concerts in numerous U.S. cities and in countries throughout the world, including Greece, England, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, France and Russia.
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