Violinist Philippe Quint Announces 2021-2022 Season Highlights

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 Grammy-Nominated Violinist Philippe Quint

Announces 2021-2022 Season Highlights

Piazzolla Centennial Concerts in NYC, Chicago & Orange County

Quint's Acclaimed Charlie Chaplin’s Smile Show with the
Szczecin Philharmonic and Jerusalem Symphony

Debuts with the New World Symphony and Orquesta Sinfonica
de Galicia, as well as a Return to Colmar International Music
Festival for a Recital with Pianist José Gallardo

"Quint’s tonal opulence, generously inflected with subtle
portamentos, sound like a throwback to the glory days of Fritz
Kreisler” – BBC Music Magazine

www.philippequint.com

New York, NY (October 14, 2021) — Multiple GRAMMY Award-nominated violinist Philippe Quint announces highlights of his 2021-2022 international season. Quint says, “It is absolutely thrilling to be able to share music live once again. More than ever before, the return to concert stages will finally allow the long-awaited, transcendent synergies between audiences and performers. I am delighted to be able to present both of my multimedia programs, Charlie Chaplin's Smile and Astor Piazzolla at 100: Between Angels and Demons on tour, as well as some of my favorite war horse violin concertos including the Tchaikovsky, Barber, Korngold, and Mendelssohn."

Quint’s newest multimedia show, Astor Piazzolla at 100: Between Angels and Demons, receives its New York premiere at Aspect Chamber Series with the Quint Quintet on October 28, its Chicago premiere at North Shore Chamber Music Series with pianist Jun Cho on November 27, and a special performance with the Quint Quintet and members of the Joffrey Ballet on May 18, 2022 presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County in Irvine, CA. In this musical portrait of a legendary composer, Quint’s narration leads the audience through a celebration of Piazzolla’s life on the centennial year of his birth through visual and musical depictions of the composer’s musical influences and personal relationships with figures such as Alberto Ginastera, Duke Ellington, Igor Stravinsky, Nadia Boulanger, and J.S. Bach. Breaking boundaries and revolutionizing traditional tango, Piazzolla introduced the world to tango nuevo: a fusion of tango, jazz, klezmer, and classical music. This defined him as the single most important figure in the history of the genre. Watch the trailer for Between Angels and Demons.

Quint’s critically acclaimed show Charlie Chaplin's Smile: A Musical Tribute to Charlie Chaplin, inspired by his wildly successful album debut on the Warner Classics label Chaplin’s Smile, features Quint as a performer in four new orchestral arrangements of music by Charlie Chaplin from his most celebrated films – Modern Times, City Lights, Monsieur Verdoux, and The Kid – as well as orchestra-only arrangements of Debussy’s Clair De Lune and Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5. Throughout the project, Quint acts as narrator of stories based on Charlie Chaplin’s My Autobiography with visuals created by Quint and producer Elliot Forrest. The program will be performed with the Szczecin Philharmonic led by Rune Bergmann on May 27 and 28, 2022 and the Jerusalem Symphony conducted by Steven Sloane on July 1, 2022. Watch excerpts from the European premiere of Charlie Chaplin's Smile with Bochumer Symphoniker and conductor Steven Sloane.

Philippe Quint makes debuts this season with the New World Symphony conducted by Richard Kaufman on March 19, 2022 and Spain’s Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia led by Thierry Fischer on April 1 & 2, 2022. He also returns to the Colmar International Music Festival for a recital with pianist José Gallardo in the summer of 2022.

About Philippe Quint
One of the most versatile and imaginative artists on the concert stage today, multiple Grammy Award-nominated violinist Philippe Quint is internationally recognized for his unique approach to classical core repertoire, rediscovering neglected works, and championing contemporary composers through commissioning and premiering new works. BBC Music Magazine recently described him as “truly phenomenal,” adding that “Quint’s tonal opulence, generously inflected with subtle portamentos, sounds like a throwback to the glory days of Fritz Kreisler.”

An American violinist of Russian heritage, Philippe Quint is constantly in demand and appears regularly with major orchestras and conductors worldwide at venues ranging from the Gewandhaus in Leipzig to Carnegie Hall in New York, while making frequent guest appearances at the most prestigious festivals including Verbier, Aspen, Colmar, Hollywood Bowl, and Dresden Festspiele. Quint’s concerto appearances in recent seasons have taken him to the London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Philharmonic of Russia, Detroit Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Weimar Staatskapelle, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, China National Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Komische Oper Orchestra, and Leipzig’s MDR performing under the batons of such renowned conductors as Kurt Masur, Edo De Waart, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrew Litton, Marin Alsop, Tugan Sokhiev, Ludovic Morlot, James Gaffigan, Carl St. Clair, Michael Stern, Cristian Macelaru, Kristjan Jarvi, Krzysztof Urbanski, Jorge Mester, Jahja Ling, Krzysztof Urbanski, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Tugan Sokhiev, Tito Munoz, Steven Sloane, and Bramwell Tovey.

Quint’s chart topping discography comprises 18 award-winning commercial releases. He most recently made his debut on the Warner Classics label with a CD titled Chaplin’s Smile, a compilation of 13 original arrangements of songs by Charlie Chaplin that received worldwide acclaim in publications such as Forbes, Gramophone, Limelight Magazine, The Strad, and Strings Magazine. Previous releases include CDs of the Mendelssohn and Bruch Violin Concertos paired with Beethoven’s Romances with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería led by Carlos Miguel Prieto; original arrangements of Bach’s works by composer and pianist Matt Herskowitz titled Bach XXI; Opera Breve with pianist Lily Maisky; the Glazunov and Khachaturian Violin Concertos with the Bochumer Sinfoniker led by Steven Sloane; and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Sofia Philharmonic led by conductor Martin Panteleev, paired with Anton Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2, Op. 35; all on the Avanti Classics label. Other critically acclaimed albums on the Naxos label include the world premiere recording of John Corigliano's Red Violin Caprices, Korngold’s Violin Concerto (Prieto/Mineria), William Schuman’s Violin Concerto, Ned Rorem’s Violin Concerto, Miklos Rozsa’s Complete Works for Violin and Piano with pianist William Wolfram, Bernstein’s Serenade (Alsop/Bournemouth), and a unique compilation of works by Paganini arranged by Fritz Kreisler.

Philippe Quint is the first classical artist to star in the lead role of a major independent film, Downtown Express co-starring Nellie McKay from producer Michael Hausmann (Gangs of New York, Brokeback Mountain, and Amadeus) and multiple Emmy Award-winning director David Grubin. The 2012 film premiered in New York and Los Angeles as well as at a number of national and international film festivals including Woodstock, New York, Houston, Mons (Belguim), Cuba, Vermont, and Florida.

Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia), Philippe Quint studied at Moscow's Special Music School for the Gifted with the famed Russian violinist Andrei Korsakov. After moving to the US from Soviet Union in 1991, he earned both Bachelor's and Master's degrees from The Juilliard School. His distinguished pedagogues and mentors included Dorothy Delay, Cho-Liang Lin, Masao Kawasaki, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt, and Felix Galimir. Among his many honors, Quint was the winner of the Juilliard Competition and a Career Grant Recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi, Bagby, and Clarisse Kampel Foundations. He was also the winner of the 2014 Ambassador of Arts award, presented by Brownstone and Gateway Organizations at the United Nations. He plays the magnificent 1708 "Ruby" Antonio Stradivari violin on loan to him through the generous efforts of The Stradivari Society®. Learn more at www.philippequint.com.

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*Photo of Philippe Quint by John Gress