David Robertson Conducts Works by
Wagner, Ligeti, and Adams in Zankel Hall, March 25
Concerts at (Le) Poisson Rouge Continue on April 29 With Special
Guest Caleb Burhans
Program
Information
Thursday, March 15 at 8:00 p.m.
Paul Hall, The Juilliard School
ENSEMBLE ACJW
LEOPOLD MOZART "Agnus Dei" from Lauretanische Litanei
(arr. Richard Harris)
JOHANN GEORG ALBRECHTSBERGER Aria de Passione Domine
GEORGE CRUMB Black Angels
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C Minor,
K.426/546 (arr. Lewicki)
BÉLA BARTÓK Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Tickets: Free
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Wednesday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
ENSEMBLE ACJW
David Robertson, Conductor
Moran Katz, Clarinet
RICHARD WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
GYÖRGY LIGETI Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments
JOHN ADAMS Gnarly Buttons
JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 8 in G Major, "Le Soir"
Tickets: $38, $50
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Sunday, April 15 at 5:00 p.m.
Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ENSEMBLE ACJW
GEORGE PERLE Critical Moments 2
JEAN FRANÇAIX Wind Quintet
JOHANNES BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Avenue (at 189th Street)
For more information: 212-923-5757
The Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series is sponsored
by Target®.
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Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
ENSEMBLE ACJW
GEORGE PERLE Critical Moments II
JEAN FRANÇAIX Wind Quintet
JOHANNES BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Tickets: $25
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Sunday, April 22 at 3:00 p.m.
Ukranian Institute of America
ENSEMBLE ACJW
Program to be announced
Ukranian Institute of America
2 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
Tickets: $10; $8 (Children under 10)
For more information:
212-288-8660
ukrainianinstitute.org
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Sunday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
(Le) Poisson Rouge
ENSEMBLE ACJW
Special Guest: Caleb Burhans
BITE-SIZED ACJW: 1 TRAIN TO SOUTH FERRY
Music by Bach, Reich, Feldman, Lang, Gordon, and Andriesson
For more information call 212-505-3474.
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Thursday, May 3 at 1:00 p.m.
Trinity Wall Street
ENSEMBLE ACJW
RYAN GALLAGHER Oboe Quartet
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516
Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street
New York, NY 10006
For more information:
212-602-0800
trinitywallstreet.org
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Thursday, May 10 at 1:00 p.m.
Trinity Wall Street
ENSEMBLE ACJW
GEORGE PERLE Critical Moments II
JOHANNES BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street
New York, NY 10006
For more information:
212-602-0800
trinitywallstreet.org
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Friday, May 18 at 1:00 p.m.
Trinity Wall Street
ENSEMBLE ACJW
PAUL HINDEMITH Octet
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 5 in D
Major, BWV 1050
Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street
New York, NY 10006
For more information:
212-602-0800
trinitywallstreet.org
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Thursday, May 24 at 1:00 p.m.
Trinity Wall Street
ENSEMBLE ACJW
Cecelia Hall, Mezzo-soprano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano
MAURICE RAVEL Chansons madécasses
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street
New York, NY 10006
For more information:
212-602-0800
trinitywallstreet.org
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Thursday, May 31 at 8:00 p.m.
Trinity Wall Street
ENSEMBLE ACJW
Cecelia Hall, Mezzo-soprano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano
BOHUSLAV MARTINU Nonet, Op. 374
MAURICE RAVEL Chansons madécasses
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
For more information:
212-602-0800
trinitywallstreet.org
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Sunday, June 3, at 5:00 p.m.
Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ENSEMBLE ACJW
Cecelia Hall, Mezzo-soprano
Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Soprano
BOHUSLAV MARTINU Nonet, Op. 374
MAURICE RAVEL Chansons madécasses
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
178 Bennett Avenue (at 189th Street)
For more information: 212-923-5757
The Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series is sponsored
by Target®.
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Sunday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m.
(Le) Poisson Rouge
ENSEMBLE ACJW
Program to be announced
For more information call 212-505-3474.
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Lead Support of The Academy is provided by Goldman Sachs Gives.
Major funding for The Academy–a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard
School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York
City Department of Education–has been provided by Susan and Edward C.
Forst and Goldman Sachs Gives, The Diller-von Furstenberg Family
Foundation, the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, The Irving Harris
Foundation, The Kovner Foundation, Martha and Bob Lipp, Judith and
Burton Resnick, and the Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation.
Additional support has been provided by The Arnow Family Fund, Mr. and
Mrs. Nicola Bulgari, The Edwin Caplin Foundation, the Ella Fitzgerald
Charitable Foundation, Mrs. Nancy A. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse
Jr., the Edward John Noble Foundation, The Joe Plumeri Foundation, and
Suki Sandler.
Additional funding provided by Breguet, in partnership with Henry and
Elizabeth Segerstrom.
The Academy is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York
City Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of
State.
Ensemble ACJW—the performance arm of The Academy—continues its 2011–2012 season with exciting programs of classical and contemporary works at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, as well as a variety of venues throughout New York City, including a new five-concert series at Trinity Church Wall Street this May. On Thursday, March 15 at 8:00 p.m., Ensemble ACJW will perform a free concert at The Juilliard School’s Paul Hall featuring an eclectic program of Leopold Mozart’s "Agnus Dei", Albrechtsberger’s Aria de Passione Domine, Crumb’s Black Angels, Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, and Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.
On Sunday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m., guest conductor David Robertson, Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony, leads Ensemble ACJW in a program spanning more than three centuries of music, from Haydn’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major, “Le Soir”, to Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, to Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto for 13 Instruments and John Adams’s Gnarly Buttons, which features clarinetist and Academy fellow Moran Katz.
Building on the success of Ensemble ACJW’s first two years of concerts at (Le) Poisson Rouge, the fellows continue the series at the Greenwich Village music venue this season. On April 29, the Ensemble, joined by special guest Caleb Burhans, with perform Bach’s Art of Fugue along with works by Reich, Feldman, Lang, Gordon, and Andriesson The final concert of the 2011–2012 season will be at LPR on June 10, with a program to be announced.
On Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, Ensemble ACJW performs George Perle’s Critical Moments II , Jean Françaix’s Wind Quintet, and Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115. The group also offers this program in a free Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert on Sunday, April 15 at 5:00 p.m. at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Manhattan’s Washington Heights community. Ensemble ACJW performs another free Neighborhood Concert at this venue on Sunday, June 3 at 5:00 p.m., performing Martinŭ’s Nonet, Op. 374, Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 featuring mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall and soprano Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie.
Additional highlights this spring include five May performances at New York City’s Trinity Church Wall Street, beginning Thursday, May 3 at 1:00 p.m. with a program of Ryan Gallagher’s Oboe Quartet and Mozart’s String Quintet in G Minor. Ensemble ACJW returns to Trinity Wall Street on Thursday, May 10 at 1:00 p.m., Friday, May 18 at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, May 24 at 1:00 p.m., and Thursday, May 31 at 8:00 p.m., with music by Perle, Brahms, Hindemith, Bach, Ravel, Schoenberg, and Martinŭ.
As part of their second year in The Academy, fellows will participate in community-based performances at multiple nontraditional music venues across New York City through Musical Connections—a program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. The program is designed to bring live music to people coping with challenging social, physical, and emotional circumstances in healthcare settings, correctional facilities, senior-service organizations, and homeless shelters. For more information please visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Musical-Connections/.
The Academy/Ensemble ACJW
Exemplary performers, dedicated teachers, and advocates for music, the fellows of The Academy are redefining what it means to be a musician today.
Created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson and The Juilliard School’s President Joseph W. Polisi, The Academy supports the finest postgraduate musicians in developing careers as top-quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers who are fully engaged with the communities in which they live and work.
Fellows of the two-year Academy program—chosen for their musicianship, but also for their leadership qualities and commitment to music education—come from some of the best music schools in the country, including the Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, Mannes College The New School for Music, New England Conservatory, and Yale School of Music.
As Ensemble ACJW, the fellows are an inspirational musical collective that has earned accolades from critics and audiences alike for the quality of its performances as well as its fresh and open-minded approach, performing a wide range of music—from centuries past to works written days before an event—in a variety of performance venues. The group performs its own series at Carnegie Hall and regularly appears at Paul Hall at The Juilliard School. As part of a partnership with Skidmore College that began in 2007, Ensemble ACJW gives master classes to university students and performs for the Saratoga Springs community in both concert halls and in informal settings around town.
In addition to performance opportunities at the highest level, a robust program of professional development is an essential part of The Academy. Fellows partner with New York City public schools to share their artistry with—and become central resources for—music classrooms in the five boroughs. In their second year, they also develop innovative, community-based group projects. Among those produced in recent years were a collaboration with residents of a Bronx family apartment complex, a pen-pal program that paired young students with professional musicians, and a performance of George Crumb’s Voice of the Whale in the American Museum of Natural History’s Millstein Hall of Ocean Life.
All of these activities make The Academy a dynamic program that is fostering musicians dedicated to making music central to all of our cultural lives. Visit acjw.org to learn more.
Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall. Ticket Information for Carnegie Hall
Tickets are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street, or can be charged to major credit cards by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie Hall website, carnegiehall.org.
For more information on discount ticket programs, including those for students, Notables members, and Bank of America customers, visit carnegiehall.org/discounts.
Ticket Information for The Juilliard School
Ensemble ACJW concerts at Juilliard’s Paul Hall are free, but tickets are required and are available at The Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office at Juilliard, located at 155 West 65th Street; by calling the Box Office at 212-769-7406; or by visiting the Juilliard website: www.juilliard.edu. Tickets frequently are completely distributed on the first day available, but a standby line forms one hour prior to the performance on the day of the concert.
Ticket Information for (Le) Poisson Rouge
For more information, visit www.lprnyc.com or call 212-505-FISH (3474) or the Ticket Hotline at 866-55-TICKETS.
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