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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, 3/11-3/12/08
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Back to Press Release List > 02/06/2008 - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, 3/11-3/12/08
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS LEADS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
IN TWO PERFORMANCES AT CARNEGIE HALL ON MARCH 11 AND 12
March 11 Concert Features Violinist Gil Shaham Performing Schuman’s Violin Concerto;
March 12 Features Soprano Deborah Voigt Singing Strauss’s Four Last Songs
Carnegie Hall presents the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas on Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. The first concert on March 11 offers William Schuman’s Violin Concerto with soloist Gil Shaham and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, "Eroica". On March 12, the orchestra is joined by soprano Deborah Voigt for a performance of Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Barber’s Andromache's Farewell; also on the program are Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. Prior to the March 12 concert there will be a pre-concert talk at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with James Hepokoski, Professor of Music at Yale University.
At age 35, violinist Gil Shaham has firmly established himself as a veteran virtuoso of the instrument. In the 2007–2008 season, Mr. Shaham makes appearances with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 2007, his dream of bringing together friends and colleagues for chamber music came to fruition with a tour of Brahms programs, culminating in a series of concerts in Zankel Hall. He has recorded more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs, which have earned many awards including multiple Grammy Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diaposon d'or, and Gramophone Editor's Choice, among others. Mr. Shaham’s recent recordings have been produced for his own label Canary Classics. In 1990, he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. He plays a 1699 'Countess Polignac' Stradivarius and lives in New York City with his wife, the violinist Adele Anthony, and their two children. On May 4, Mr. Shaham returns to Carnegie Hall to perform in a chamber music concert with pianist Yefim Bronfman, as part of Mr. Bronfman’s Perspectives series.
Soprano Deborah Voigt has performed leading roles in many of the world’s great opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Royal Opera House, and Vienna State Opera among many others. Highlights of her 2007–2008 season include her career role debut as Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier in Barcelona; her first company Isolde in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and the reprisal of Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre, both at the Metropolitan Opera. A devotee of cabaret and Broadway classics, Ms. Voigt opened Lincoln Center’s “American Songbook” series in January 2008. Ms. Voigt has received accolades in such Italian roles as Amelia, Aida, Lady Macbeth, Tosca, and Leonora, as well as Cassandre in Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Her discography of complete operas ranges from Tristan und Isolde to Die Frau ohne Schatten. Ms. Voigt’s many awards and honors include first prizes in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition and Philadelphia’s Luciano Pavarotti Voice Competition, and France’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was named Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year in 2003 and received a 2007 Opera News Award for distinguished achievement in the art form.
Michael Tilson Thomas made his conducting debut with the San Francisco Symphony in 1974 and was appointed its Music Director in September 1995. A Los Angeles native, he studied piano with John Crown and composition and conducting with Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California and has worked with Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen, and Copland on premieres of their compositions. In 1969, at twenty four, Mr. Thomas won the Koussevitzky Prize and was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ten days later he came to international recognition, replacing Music Director William Steinberg in mid concert at Lincoln Center. He has toured the world with the London Symphony Orchestra, of which he became Principal Conductor in 1988 and now serves as Principal Guest Conductor. Until 2000, he was co Artistic Director of the Pacific Music Festival, which he and Leonard Bernstein inaugurated in Sapporo, Japan, in 1990, and he continues to serve as Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, which he founded in 1987. Mr. Thomas's recordings have won numerous international awards, including Grammy Awards for San Francisco Symphony recordings of Mahler, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. On television, he has been featured with the San Francisco Symphony in PBS’s Great Performances, in a series with the London Symphony Orchestra for the BBC, and in PBS documentaries with the New World Symphony, among others. In June 2004, he and the San Francisco Symphony launched Keeping Score: MTT on Music on PBS. Mr. Thomas’s awards include being named Conductor of the Year by Musical America (1995), France’s Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Artist of the Year by Gramophone (2005), and he has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The San Francisco Symphony is considered to be a leading presence among American orchestras and maintains an active touring program, with award winning recordings and innovative broadcast and education projects. The orchestra appears regularly in Europe, Asia, and cities in the US, including annual performances at Carnegie Hall. Its commitment to music education has resulted in the groundbreaking television, radio, and multimedia project Keeping Score; a nationally syndicated radio series on avant-garde American composers entitled American Mavericks; an award-winning children’s website, sfskids.com; and Adventures in Music, a nationally acclaimed in-school music education program for San Francisco schools. The San Francisco Symphony gave its first concerts in 1911 and has grown in acclaim under a succession of music directors that include Henry Hadley, Alfred Hertz, Basil Cameron, Issay Dobrowen, Pierre Monteux, Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstedt, and Michael Tilson Thomas. A series of recordings by Mr. Thomas and the orchestra for RCA Red Seal has also won praise, and their collection of Stravinsky ballets for the label received three Grammy Awards.
Program Information
Tuesday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
Gil Shaham, Violin
WILLIAM SCHUMAN Violin Concerto
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, "Eroica"
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Wednesday, March 12 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
Deborah Voigt, Soprano
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105
RICHARD STRAUSS Four Last Songs
SAMUEL BARBER Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70
Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage with James Hepokoski, Professor of Music, Yale University.
Sponsored by Bank of America, Carnegie Hall's Proud Season Sponsor
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