Podcast appearances and mentions of Alan Gilbert

3D-Audio aus den 1950er Jahren - Dutilleux's Zweite Sinfonie spielt mit Klangeffekten und Raumwirkung. Yaltah Worlitzsch stellt das Werk, das seiner Zeit weit voraus war, in der Kurzeinführung für unterwegs vor. Nicht verpassen: Hören Sie das Werk in den Konzerten des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters unter der Leitung von Alan Gilbert am 8., 9. und 11. Mai in der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. https://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/elbphilharmonieorchester/gilbert820.html Schon gewusst? Zahlreiche Konzerte der NDR Ensembles finden Sie auf YouTube im Channel "ARD Klassik" oder in der ARD Mediathek. https://www.youtube.com/@ARDKlassik https://www.ardmediathek.de/kultur_klassik Abonnieren Sie "Klassik to Go" und finden Sie weitere spannende Angebote des NDR in der ARD Audiothek! https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/klassik-to-go/10778959/

I gotta hand it to Alan Gilbert. 

Alan Gilbert is Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera. Gramophone's James Jolly caught up with him during a run of Wagner's Die Walküre in Stockholm, where he lives. They talked about his Hamburg-based orchestra, the role today of a radio orchestra and also about the work orcherstra and conductor have just released (on the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester label to stream and download), Brahms's Third Symphony.

Klingende Autobiografie samt musikalischem "Stinkefinger" - Strauss' Sinfonische Dichtung "Ein Heldenleben", kurz und kompakt vorgestellt in der Konzerteinführung für unterwegs von Yaltah Worlitzsch. Nicht verpassen: Das NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester spielt das Stück unter der Leitung von Alan Gilbert am Freitag, 28. März, ab 21 Uhr im Livestream. https://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/elbphilharmonieorchester/ax114.html Schon gewusst? Zahlreiche Konzerte der NDR Ensembles finden Sie auf YouTube im Channel "ARD Klassik" oder in der ARD Mediathek. https://www.youtube.com/@ARDKlassik https://www.ardmediathek.de/kultur_klassik Abonnieren Sie "Klassik to Go" und finden Sie weitere spannende Angebote des NDR in der ARD Audiothek! https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/klassik-to-go/10778959/

Neue Musik spielt in der Programmgestaltung der Elbphilharmonie seit Beginn eine herausgehobene Rolle. Zum einen bietet der Große Saal mit seiner glasklaren Akustik und einer von allen Sitzplätzen aus ausgezeichneten Sicht aufs Bühnengeschehen ideale Voraussetzungen für das unmittelbare Erleben des klanglich Außergewöhnlichen. Zum anderen scheint die moderne Architektur eine Zeitgenossenschaft auch der Musik geradezu herauszufordern. Alle zwei Jahre aber verwandelt sich der Große Saal für eine ganz besondere Konzertserie in eine weltweit einzigartige Klanggalerie der Moderne: Beim Festival »Elbphilharmonie Visions« stehen ausschließlich Orchesterwerke des 21. Jahrhunderts auf dem Programm. 2025 stammt die Musik der sieben Konzerte von 16 Komponist:innen aus unterschiedlichen Generationen, vom jungen Preisträger Alex Paxton (*1990) bis zum Altmeister Helmut Lachenmann (*1935). Spiritus rector dieses Fests der allerneuesten Musik im Cinemascope-Format ist Alan Gilbert, der seit 2019 Chefdirigent beim NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters ist. Im »Elbphilharmonie Talk« spricht Gilbert über seine Freude an der Verantwortung für die Musik unserer Zeit. Dabei versucht er auch die Frage zu ergründen, weshalb auch Leute, die zeitgenössischer Bildener Kunst gegenüber absolut offen und neugieirg sind, oft dennoch Berührungsängste mit moderner Musik haben. Auch beschreibt er den aufregenden Vorgang, wie sich in ihm als Dirigent allein aus dem Studium der Partitur eines noch nie zuvor aufgeführten Werks eine so konkrete Klangvorstellung herauskristallisiert, dass er den tatsächlich entstehenden Klang des Orchesters in den Proben nur noch nachzujustieren braucht. Natürlich geht er auch auf die Entstehung des Festivals an sich ein, auf seine Erfahrungen als Chefdirigent des New York Philharmonic, dem er in den Zehnerjahren eine ähnliche Biennale der Neuen Musik gegönnt hat. Im Gespräch wird Alan Gilberts Leidenschaft und Hingabe an die Musik unserer Zeit derart greifbar, dass man eigentlich sofort alles stehen und liegen lassen will, um sich in der Elbphilharmonie das eine oder andere Konzert des Festivals »Elbphilharmonie Visions« zu gönnen. Nein, nicht nur das eine oder das andere. Alle.

Sie dachten, Arnold Schönberg sei nichts für Sie? Dann hören Sie die "Gurre-Lieder"! Mit der Kurzeinführung von Julius Heile können Sie sich auf das gigantische Jugendwerk des späteren Revoluzzers der Musikgeschichte schon mal einstimmen. Erfahren Sie mehr über das Werk mit gigantischer Besetzung in dieser Folge Klassik to Go. Nicht verpassen! Alan Gilbert dirigiert Schönbergs Gurre-Lieder mit dem NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester am Mittwoch, 11. September 2024, und Freitag, 13. September 2024, jeweils um 20 Uhr bei der Opening Night in der Elbphilharmonie - am Freitag, 13. September, ab 20 Uhr auch im Livestream zu sehen! https://www.ndr.de/orchester_chor/openingnight606.html Schon gewusst? Zahlreiche Konzerte der NDR Ensembles finden Sie auf YouTube im Channel "NDR Klassik" oder in der ARD Mediathek. https://www.youtube.com/@NDRKlassik https://www.ardmediathek.de/kultur_klassik Abonnieren Sie "Klassik to Go" und finden Sie weitere spannende Angebote des NDR in der ARD Audiothek!

Trauermarsch statt Hochzeitsglocken: Wie Gustav Mahler mit seiner 5. Sinfonie alle überraschte, erfahren Sie in der Folge Klassik to Go von Yaltah Worlitzsch. Nicht verpassen! Alan Gilbert dirigiert Mahlers Fünfte mit dem NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester am Sonntag, 7. Juli 2024, um 20 Uhr beim Eröffnungskonzert des Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivals - ab 20.15 Uhr auch im Livestream zu sehen! https://www.ndr.de/elbphilharmonieorchester/shmf1012.html Schon gewusst? Zahlreiche Konzerte der NDR Ensembles finden Sie auf YouTube im Channel "NDR Klassik" oder in der ARD Mediathek. https://www.youtube.com/@NDRKlassik https://www.ardmediathek.de/kultur_klassik Abonnieren Sie "Klassik to Go" und finden Sie weitere spannende Angebote des NDR in der ARD Audiothek!

Chillout Classic w Radiu Spin #40 Tematem jest czterdziestka. W audycji przestawiam utwory na różny sposób związany z numerem 40. Czasem to opus, czasem czterdziesta symfonia a czasem czasy lat czterdziestych, czy tempo 40. Miłego słuchania. 1. J.S. Bach - Wariacje Goldbergowskie, Aria i 1,2,3 wariacja, Andreas Schiff. 2. F. Chopin - Polonez op.40 nr 2 g-moll, Artur Rubinstein. 3. W.A. Mozart - 3 koncert fortepianowy D-dur KV 40, cz.2 Andante, Murray Perahia, English Chamber Orchestra. 4. W.A. Mozart symfonia 40 g-moll ,cz.1 Molto Allegro, Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre. 5. Harold Arlen - Over The Rainbow, Judy Garland 6. Leigha Harline - When You Wish Upon a Star, Cliff Edwards. 7. Max Steiner - Temat Tary z Przeminęło z wiatrem, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra. 8. Herman Hupfeld - As Time Goes By, Billy Holiday. 9. A. Dworzak - IX Symfonia e- moll, cz. 2 Largo, New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert.

Alan Gilbert, Vice President for Policy at Purchaser Business Group on Health, discusses whether CVS's new pharmacy reimbursement model will provide transparency and decrease drug prices; and HHS has created regulations requiring more transparency on AI used in clinical settings. STAT News Article: CVS's new drug payment plan won't lower patients' prices, experts warn CNN News Article: CVS will change the way it prices prescription drugs Politico News Article: HHS takes first stab at AI regs  

Today's episode is the second half of my conversation with a long-time friend, Kevin Fitzgerald, current Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony.Last week we spoke about preparing for job applications and auditions, and today we will continue the conversation and hear all the behind the scene stories of navigating the business.As 2021 Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellow and four-time recipient of Career Assistance Grants from The Solti Foundation U.S., Kevin Fitzgerald is at the forefront of the next generation of conductors. Recently, Kevin was invited as one of the twenty conductors to participate live in the 2023 Mahler Competition with the Bamberg Symphony.In addition to his post as Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony, Fitzgerald has recently guest conducted the Rochester Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh. In his commitment to uplifting communities through music, Fitzgerald conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 2017 with musicians from the Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids Symphonies to raise over $10,000 for the International Rescue Committee and Freedom House Detroit. In 2016, he also co-organized and conducted an impromptu performance called “Requiem for Orlando,” which featured over 400 volunteer musicians in a dedicated performance for victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.Since then, he has participated in masterclasses with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, Andris Nelsons and Alan Gilbert at Tanglewood among many others. Kevin is based in Raleigh, NC, with his husband, violist Kurt Tseng, and their two dogs Bennie and Chipper. Kevin also teaches and coaches conductors privately online and in person.All About Chaowen Ting & The Conductor's Podcast (Website)

In today's episode, you will hear the first half of my conversation with a long-time friend, Kevin Fitzgerald, current Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony. We went way back to my years at the Eastman School of Music, and it's such a pleasure to speak with him on the topic of preparing for job applications and auditions.As 2021 Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellow and four-time recipient of Career Assistance Grants from The Solti Foundation U.S., Kevin Fitzgerald is at the forefront of the next generation of conductors. Recently, Kevin was invited as one of the twenty conductors to participate live in the 2023 Mahler Competition with the Bamberg Symphony.In addition to his post as Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony, Fitzgerald has recently guest conducted the Rochester Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh. In his commitment to uplifting communities through music, Fitzgerald conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 2017 with musicians from the Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids Symphonies to raise over $10,000 for the International Rescue Committee and Freedom House Detroit. In 2016, he also co-organized and conducted an impromptu performance called “Requiem for Orlando,” which featured over 400 volunteer musicians in a dedicated performance for victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.Since then, he has participated in masterclasses with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, Andris Nelsons and Alan Gilbert at Tanglewood among many others. Kevin is based in Raleigh, NC, with his husband, violist Kurt Tseng, and their two dogs Bennie and Chipper. Kevin also teaches and coaches conductors privately online and in person.All About Chaowen Ting & The Conductor's Podcast (Website)

Die gebürtige Münchnerin hat in der Carneggie Hall in New York gesungen und an vielen weiteren Bühnen weltweit. Nun singt sie beim SHMF-Eröffnungskonzert als Solistin in Lübeck am 1. Juli in Felix Mendelssohns "Elias" eröffnet. Neben zwei der international renommiertesten Profichöre und dem NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester ist ein großes Solistenensemble zu erleben. Dazu gehört die Sopranistin Christine Landshamer, die an vielen Häusern weltweit gastiert und mit namhaften Dirigenten wie Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck oder Christian Thielemann bereits zusammengearbeitet hat. Auch mit Alan Gilbert, Chefdirigent des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters, der beim Eröffnungskonzert am Pult stehen wird. Vorher ist Christina Landshamer zu Gast in NDR Kultur à la carte.

"Every time on stage when we connect with the choral music and I see the students moved or touched by choral music, that's the moment I fall in love with choral music. The love of choral music is affirmed again and again by the connection you make with these humans and the music."Xiaosha Lin is currently assistant professor and director of choral activities at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Prior to her appointment at Whitworth, she served as Director of Choral Activities at the University of Toledo and Assistant Conductor at Hong Kong Baptist University.Known as a dynamic conductor with her engaging rehearsal approach and expressive conducting, Lin was selected as a conducting fellow in several prestigious programs where she worked with Simon Carrington, Edith Copley, David Hayes, and Lucinda Carver. She was one of the semi-finalists in the national ACDA Graduate Student Conducting Competition in Kansas City, MO. As a chorister, she has performed regularly at the Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center under the batons of Yannick Nézet Séguin, Alan Gilbert, Simon Rattle, and Jane Glover. Lin is a sought-after conductor, adjudicator, and choral clinician in both the U.S. and China, where she was invited to workshops and clinics for all levels of choirs. She has frequently adjudicated in middle and high school choral festivals in Pacific Northwest and Midwest regions. Lin's international background makes her an open-minded, sensitive, and well-rounded musician and educator. She is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community through choral music. She recently received the Inclusive Excellence Faculty Award for the 2022-2023 academic year at Whitworth University and currently serves as a member of the Diversity Initiative Committee at WA-ACDA.Lin received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting at Michigan State University, Master of Music in Choral Conducting at Westminster Choir College, Master of Arts in Music at Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong), and Bachelor of Music Education at Xinghai Conservatory of Music (China).   To get in touch with Xiaosha, you can find her on Instagram (@xiaosha_lin) or email her at xlin@whitworth.edu. Choir Fam wants to hear from you! Check out the Minisode Intro Part 2 episode from May 22, 2023, to hear how to share your story with us. Email choirfampodcast@gmail.com to contact our hosts.Podcast music from Podcast.coPhoto in episode artwork by Trace HudsonPracticing Connection: Working together to help families and communities thrive.Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch host this exploration of personal and collective...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Teaching While Queer PodcastTeaching While Queer Podcast is a space for LGBTQIA+ educators, administrators, and...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Synopsis When you listen to classical music like Bach or Mozart, you are taking a trip in a time machine.  Or, as Shirley MacLaine might put it, “Classical music is the soundtrack of your previous lives.”American composer Sebastian Currier goes even further, and says:“It's only a little bit of an exaggeration to say that music is made of nothing BUT time ­­– well, and air too … melodic or rhythmic gestures are made of a series of events moving forward in time. …  the rest is air. A musician bows a string, blows air in a cylinder, strikes a metal object, and a series of sound waves take that information to our ears … It has always been fascinating to me that an art form that is so penetrating … is made of such ephemeral stuff.”So no surprise Currier gave the title Time Machines to his work for violin and orchestra that premiered in New York City on today's date in 2011.  The German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter was the soloist performing with the New York Philharmonic led by Alan Gilbert, and they made a live recording of the new work. Music Played in Today's Program Sebastian Currier (b. 1959) Time Machines Anne-Sophie Mutter, vn; New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor (r. live June 2, 2011). DG 477 9359

NDR-Chefdirigent Alan Gilbert hat eine lange, große Karriere vorzuweisen. Das Gesprächs-Leitmotiv deswegen: Mut.

With Nick away in Northland on a family holiday, Kelvin leads the discussion today, joined by Alan Gilbert, who is CoreLogic's Head of Banking and Finance Solutions.The discussion runs through construction costs, the active buyer groups in the market at present, as well as migration trends, and upcoming rental figures.The looming CPI release on Thursday 20th is also covered off, which is a really key release in terms of the next steps for the RBNZ's OCR tightening cycle.Alan then steps in to talk us through some recent work CoreLogic did around Auckland's floods (x2) and mapping the effects from satellite imagery.Check out the monthly video hereSign up for news and insights or contact on LinkedIn, Twitter @NickGoodall_CL or @KDavidson_CL and email nick.goodall@corelogic.co.nz or kelvin.davidson@corelogic.co.nzSign up for news and insights or contact on LinkedIn, Twitter @NickGoodall_CL or @KDavidson_CL and email nick.goodall@corelogic.co.nz or kelvin.davidson@corelogic.co.nz

City Lights in conjunction with Naropa University and Nightboat Books present Anne Waldman with Emma Gomis, joined by Alan Gilbert, Cedar Sigo, and Eleni Sikelianos, celebrating the publication of "New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive," edited by Anne Waldman with Emma Gomis and published by Nightboat Books. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. You can purchase copies of "New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/story-anthologies/new-weathers-poetics-from-the-naropa-a/ Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, literary curator, cultural activist, has been a prolific and active poet and performer many years, creating radical hybrid forms for the long poem, both serial and narrative, as with "Marriage: A Sentence," "Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble," "Manatee/Humanity," and "Gossamurmur," all published by Penguin Poets. She is also the author of the magnum opus "The Lovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment" (Coffee House Press 2011), a feminist “cultural intervention” taking on war and patriarchy which won the PEN Center 2012 Award for Poetry. Recent books include: "Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet To Born" (Coffee House 2016) and "Trickster Feminism" (Penguin, 2018). She has been deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publishers Weekly for her ethos as a poetic investigator and cultural activist, and was awarded the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in 2015. She has also been a recipient of numerous honors for her work including The Shelley Award for Poetry (from the Poetry Society of America), a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Elizabeth Kray Award from Poets House, NYC in 2019. She was one of the founders of the Poetry Project at St Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, and its Director a number of years and then went on to found The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg and Diana di Prima in1974 and went on to create its celebrated MFA Program. She has continued to work with the Kerouac School as a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Artistic Director of its Summer Writing Program. During the global pandemic she and co-curator Jeffrey Pethybridge have created the online “Carrier Waves” iteration of the famed Summer Writing Program. She is the editor of "The Beat Book" and co-editor of "Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action," and "Beats at Naropa" and most recently, "Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics." She is a Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets. Emma Gomis is a Catalan American poet, essayist, editor and researcher. She is the cofounder of Manifold Press. Her texts have been published in Denver Quarterly, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, and Asymptote among others and her chapbook "Canxona" is forthcoming from b l u s h lit. She was selected by Patricia Spears Jones as The Poetry Project's 2020 Brannan Poetry Prize winner. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was also the Anne Waldman fellowship recipient, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge. To learn more about the other participants, visit: https://citylights.com/events/on-new-weathers-poetics-from-the-naropa-archive/ This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

Alan Gilbert discusses leading engineering teams, the difference between engineering management and leadership, and other aspects of engineering as part of building successful products. awh.net

Die Musik des 21. Jahrhunderts ist ein Abenteuer. Alan Gilbert, Chefdirigent des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters, hat das Festival "Elbphilharmonie Visions" initiert. Jetzt geht das neue Festival an den Start. Chantal Nastasi stellt es in "Klassik to Go extra" vor.

Elpriser slår hårt mot kulturscener och kyrkor, Alan Gilbert utnämns hovkapellmästare, årets Oxford-engelska nyord, Börje Salming hedras med skulptur av is, och NRK lägger ned anrikt sportprogram.

I'm no fan of horror films - too scary for me - but, in any case, nothing really scares us more than the thoughts in our heads! I do love scary music though and Béla Bartók wrote the best. Music for strings, percussion and celesta is unusual, gripping, terrifying and thrilling. It's also brilliant at clearing my mind of any 'unneccessary' thinking. Listening time 40 mins (podcast 11', music 29'). Listen to the complete music, played by the awesome Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer on Spotify or Youtube, or Susanna Mälkki conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic on Apple Music (where you have to find the tracks after track 1, sorry) Sometimes, especially with unfamiliar, complex, music I find it's good to have something to watch - it can help guide our ears a bit, and make concentration easier. There's are two exellent filmed performances on youtube: this one shot during the pandemic with no audience, with the Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Vasily Petrenko, and this one from The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Alan Gilbert. It's got a noisy audience, but the France Musique cameracrews are allowed to move around the stage, which makes for much more interesting video than you often get with orchestras on tv. Which means they catch things like this fantastic smile of musical- and colleague- enjoyment from the harpist too: Watch these few seconds anyway! You can buy the recordings as downloads, here (Fischer) (& here (Mälkki))   What do you think? Let me know with an easy voicemail or comment at Cacophonyonline.com, Facebook or Twitter. If you'd like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways: - share this episode - share the 100 second trailer - buy us a cuppa at ko-fi.com - subscribe/ review and keep listening!   Thanks for listening!

In kürzester Zeit hat sich der tschechische Dirigent zu einer der inspirierendsten Persönlichkeiten seiner Generation am Pult einen Namen gemacht. Er ist inzwischen Chefdirigent des Norwegischen Rundfunkorchesters in Oslo und ab September zudem Chefdirigent und künstlerischer Leiter des Radio-Symphonieorchesters in seiner Geburtsstadt Prag. Popelkas musikalische Karriere begann als Kontrabassist. Seine Ausbildung erhielt er am Prager Konservatorium und an der Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. Bis 2020 war Petr Popelka stellvertretender Solo-Kontrabassist der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden. Parallel widmete er sich vermehrt dem Dirigieren, erhielt Impulse u.a. von Péter Eötvös, Alan Gilbert und Jaap van Zweden. Mit drei Konzerten in Norddeutschland - in Lübeck, Wismar und Hamburg - kehrt Petr Popelka nun als Gastdirigent zum NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester zurück. Auf dem Programm stehen Werke von Weber, Mahler, Liszt und Wagner. Mahlers Rückert-Lieder werden dabei interpretiert von der Sopranistin Christiane Karg.

Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, designed by Harzog and du Meuron, and occupying a prime position in the old docks area of the city, opened its doors five years ago. Since then it has welcomed about 3.3 million concertgoers to the hall and 4.5 million visitors to the Plaza viewing platform. The result is that the concert audience in Hamburg has actually tripled over the past five years. More than 3400 educational events with 200,000 participants and almost 10,000 guided tours to date demonstrate how the Elbphilharmonie has succeeded in attracting people of all age groups. In this latest Gramophone Podcast, produced in association with Hamburg Marketing, James Jolly spoke to the Elbphilharmonie's General and Artistic Director, Christoph Lieben-Seutter, and the Chief Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert, about the effect of the hall not just on the city but also in Continental Europe. To find out more about what Germany's second city has to offer, visit hamburg-travel.com

This week on the podcast we interview Mr. Austin Pancner, CEO and founder of The Functional Musician and bass trombonist for The Orchestra Now. Austin is one of the most prominent and pioneering musician injury coaches on the scene right now, and is consistently breaking new ground with his injury prevention and recovery methods. While he is a trombonist, his philosophies and insights are applicable to all instruments, and even other disciplines. With a strong focus on a holistic approach to personal health and wellness as it relates to your instrument, he walks us through his “Four Pillars to Performing Without Pain” and offers advice and resources to those in different stages of an injury cycle. -- Transition music: Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi, Alan Gilbert & New York Philharmonic Intro/Outro music: I Will Go Sailing No More, Randy Newman, Lawson Gardner Instagram: @8thposition @dabaldwin903 @lawson.gardner2

Belgian trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts is a paramount musical force with an all-inclusive love for music that knows not how to discriminate. Praised for his outstanding technical capabilities and sensitive musicality, his repertoire encompasses every epoch, from baroque music to contemporary music to jazz. With a flourishing solo career of recitals as well as concerts with the world's leading symphony orchestras, Jeroen Berwaerts still finds time to devote himself to chamber music. Born in 1975, Jeroen Berwaerts' musical talents had already been awarded with prizes from various competitions such as the Concours Maurice André (1991) and Concours Européen de Jeunes Trompettistes (1992) when he began studies in Karlsruhe with celebrated trumpet-virtuoso Reinhold Friedrich. He was also an award-winner at the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 1997 and won the 2nd grand prize as well as the "Prix Feeling" (a special prize for best interpretation) at the Maurice André Trumpet Competition. Jeroen Berwaerts' open-mindedness and resplendent playing have brought him invitations to play at internationally acclaimed music festivals, including Ars Musica in Belgium, Takefu International Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival, as well as frequently at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival where in 2005 he performed the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's Voyage VII for trumpet and ensemble. He has also performed as a soloist with many well-renowned orchestras including the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover and the Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen under conductors such as Alan Gilbert and Yakov Kreizberg. Since winning the position of Principal Trumpet of the NDR Radio Symphony Hamburg in 1999, he has been invited to appear on several occasions as soloist with the orchestra. Following many years as a member of the Canadian Brass, Jeroen Berwaerts now plays with the Stockholm Chamber Brass. Over thirty compositions have been written for the ensemble, which performs mostly original compositions or arrangements of both contemporary and more traditional repertoire. Amidst his burgeoning trumpet career, Jeroen Berwaerts completed Jazz vocal studies at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. He has developed several programs for trumpet and piano where he uniquely combines classical, jazz, trumpet and voice. His first solo CD In the Limelight provides a stunning take on trumpet repertoire of the Romantic period. RCA also released a live-CD featuring the Posthornserenade by Mozart under the baton of Günther Wand. Since 2008, Jeroen Berwaerts has been a Professor of Trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover. Jeroen Berwaerts is Yamaha Artist. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artssalon/support

It's a larger than life-sized bike ride today through the forests of Northern Minnesota as we celebrate the life and times of the legendary, giant axe wielding maniac and his hot blue ox, Paul and Babe Bunyan. Included: Bobby Bare, Johnny Cash, Alan Gilbert (who??) and Monty Python. among many others.

Marco Fusi is a violinist/violist, and a passionate advocate for the music of our time.Among many collaborations with emerging and established composers, he has premiered works by Billone, Sciarrino, Eötvös, Cendo and Ferneyhough. Marco has performed with Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Alan Gilbert, Beat Furrer, David Robertson, and frequently plays with leading contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, MusikFabrik, Meitar Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Linea, Interface (Frankfurt), Phoenix (Basel) and Handwerk (Köln); Marco has recorded several solo albums, published by Kairos, Stradivarius, Col Legno, Da Vinci, Geiger Grammofon.Marco also plays viola d'amore, commissioning new pieces and collaborating with composers to promote and expand existing repertoire for the instrument.A strong advocate and educator of contemporary music, he lectures and workshops at Columbia University, University of California – Berkeley, Basel Musikhochschule, New York University, Boston University, Royal Danish Academy of Music – Copenhagen, Cité de la Musique et de la Danse – Strasbourg, University of Chicago.Marco teaches Contemporary Chamber Music at the Milano conservatory “G. Verdi” and is Researcher in Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp.More about Marco FusiOrder Marco Fusi's new recital CD of Scelsi's music (Kairos Records)MUSICAL EXCERPTS IN ORDERGiacinto Scelsi, Divertimento n° 2 (1954)Giacinto Scelsi, Divertimento n° 4 (1955)SUPPORT THIS PODCASTPatreonDonorboxORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV'S NEWEST RELEASEIridescent NotationLINKSYouTube channelOfficial WebsiteTwitterInstagramEdition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev's scoresEPISODE CREDITSPodcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe StirnweissSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/samuelandreyev)

I'm very exciting to have international violin soloist Leila Josefowicz on the show for the second time. Leila shares incredible wisdom in our conversation, including: Her outlook for how things are going to be like in the coming months How her recent incredible project at The Metropolitan Museum of Art unfolded, from where it originated to the vision coming to reality The significance of her performing Bach, and how she sees Bach as the music of infinite possibilities What she calls the performance headspace Thoughts about performance preparation and performance anxiety What having fun in performance means to her And many other wonderful musings !   This discussion is a window on the way artists like Leila approach a project - the power of the intention and the thoughtfulness they put behind each decision. How each aspect is carefully evaluated, weighed, and curated, and very angle crafted with care and love.   Partita   for Leila Josefowicz   Unseen in the field a sapling trembled naked. You touched   its slim trunk with flayed fingertips, tenderly and hard,   and it gave forth a cry, oh. Sun ran like water on line upon   line of buds. Bare, you stood, electric, head in this world,   feet planted. We heard what we never knew before. _________ Natania Rosenfeld Writer Independent Scholar Professor Emerita of English, Knox College     Frustrated with your playing?  Unsatisfied with you career?  Ready for a change? Whatever your challenge, you don't have to go at it alone, and I can help.  Visit www. https://www.mindoverfinger.com/workwithme to learn more and book your call and let's discuss how to get you from where you are to where you want to be!   THE MUSIC MASTERY EXPERIENCE will be back in June 2021!  This is my LIFE CHANGING, highly personalized group coaching program where I show you how to implement mindful & effective practice techniques, how to make them habits, and how to get RESULTS. Save your spot at http://www.mindoverfinger.com/mme and get access to some really cool bonuses!     MORE ABOUT LEILA JOSEFOWICZ: Website: https://www.leilajosefowicz.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Leila+Josefowicz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeilaBJo Leila Josefowicz at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Condo Concerts: Fred Sherry String Quartet: In Performance: Leila Josefowicz at Hauser & Wirth  Leila's first conversation on the Mind Over Finger Podcast: Episode 82 - The Art of Authentic Music Making Biography Leila Josefowicz's passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programmes and enthusiasm for performing new works. In recognition of her outstanding achievement and excellence in music, she won the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, joining prominent scientists, writers and musicians who have made unique contributions to contemporary life. Highlights of Josefowicz's 2019/20 season include opening the London Symphony Orchestra's season with Sir Simon Rattle and returning to San Francisco Symphony with the incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen to perform his Violin Concerto. Further engagements include concerts with Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, where she will be working with conductors at the highest level, including Susanna Mälkki, Matthias Pintscher and John Adams.   A favourite of living composers, Josefowicz has premiered many concertos, including those by Colin Matthews, Steven Mackey and Esa-Pekka Salonen, all written specially for her. This season, she will perform the UK premiere of Helen Grime's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska. Other recent premieres include John Adams'Scheherazade.2 (Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra) in 2015 with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, and Luca Francesconi's Duende – The Dark Notes in 2014 with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki. Josefowicz enjoyed a close working relationship with the late Oliver Knussen, performing various concerti, including his violin concerto, together over 30 times. Alongside pianist John Novacek, with whom she has enjoyed a close collaboration since 1985, Josefowicz has performed recitals at world-renowned venues such as New York's Zankel Hall, Washington DC's Kennedy Center and London's Wigmore Hall, as well as in Reykjavik, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. This season, they appear together at Washington DC's Library of Congress, New York's Park Avenue Armory and Amherst College. She will also join Thomas Adès in recital to perform the world premiere of his new violin and piano work at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the Japanese premiere at the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation. Recent highlights include engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Boston and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras. In summer 2019, Josefowicz took part in a special collaboration between Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Ballet, and Company Wayne McGregor featuring the music of composer-conductor Thomas Adès. Josefowicz has released several recordings, notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips/Universal and Warner Classics and was featured on Touch Press's acclaimed iPadapp, The Orchestra. Her latest recording, released in 2019, features Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted byHannu Lintu. She has previously received nominations for Grammy Awards for her recordings of Scheherazade.2 with the St Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson, and Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.     Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe for access to my weekly live videos and to exchange with a community of like-minded musicians   Visit www.mindoverfinger.com and sign up for my newsletter to get your free guide to an exceptionally productive practice using the metronome.  This guide is the perfect entry point to help you bring more mindfulness and efficiency into your practice and it's filled with tips and tricks on how to use that wonderful tool to take your practicing and your playing to new heights.   If you enjoy the show, leave a review on Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast provider!  I genuinely appreciate your support!     THANK YOU: A HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly, who works really hard to make this podcast as pleasant to listen to as possible for you! Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Thank you to Susan Blackwell for the introduction!  You can find out more about Susan, her fantastic podcast The Spark File, and her work helping creatives of all backgrounds expand their impact by visiting https://www.susanblackwell.com/home.   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/

El invitado de hoy es Javi Martínez, clarinete solista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española. Javi inició sus estudios musicales de clarinete en la Escuela Municipal de Música de Meco y posteriormente ingresó en el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). Más adelante estudió en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. A lo largo de su carrera musical ha estudiado y realizado cursos de perfeccionamiento con: Vicente Alberola, Antony Pay, Joan Enric Lluna, Justo Sanz, Javier Balaguer, Enrique Pérez, Eduardo Raimundo, Robert Bianciotto, Pablo Fernández, Francisco Tasa, … Ha pertenecido a las siguientes jóvenes orquestas: Joven Orquesta Nacional de España (JONDE ), Orquesta-escuela de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Joven Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid (JOCMA), Academia Orquesta Nacional de Lyon y Joven Orquesta de MMCK de Tokio. Fue invitado dos años consecutivos al Festival Music Master Course in Kazusa realizado en Tokio (Japón), curso de música de cámara y orquesta dirigida por el prestigioso director de orquesta Alan Gilbert (director titular de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Nueva York). Como solista ha colaborado con distintas agrupaciones interpretando obras de C. M. Von Weber, Ponchielli y Dondeyne. En el año 2011 fue semifinalista del Concours Debussy International Clarinet Competition. Además ha sido invitado para tocar con otras orquestas como Les Dissonances en Francia, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orquesta de Cadaqués, Orquesta Andres Segovia, Plural ensemble, Banda Municipal de Madrid… En este episodio hablaremos de: Sus inicios con la música y cómo empezó con el clarineteDe sus profesores principalesDe su día a día en la orquesta de RTVE y cómo vive el proceso de grabación y retransmisión de conciertos en directoHablaremos del solo de las variaciones concertantes de Ginastera, uno de los solos de orquesta más difíciles del repertorio y del cuál tiene una grabación de un concierto en directo, dejo el enlace en las notas del programa para que lo podáis escuchar.De qué manera se prepara y estudia cuando tiene que tocar un repertorio tan difícil técnicamenteDe la 10ª de Shostakovich y muchas cosas más Este es el enlace a la grabación del solo de las Variaciones Concertantes de Ginastera interpretado por Javi Martínez y la RTVE. Recuerda que en academiadeclarinete.com tienes a tu disposición clases grabadas en vídeo con ejercicios, técnicas, repertorio y todo lo que necesitas para mejorar como clarinetista. Échale un vistazo al apartado de Masterclasses, donde nuevos profesores irán colaborando regularmente para hacer de esta academia un lugar de referencia y aprendizaje para toda la comunidad de clarinetistas de habla hispana. Clases nuevas y nuevos profesores irán colaborando regularmente para hacer de esta academia un lugar de referencia y aprendizaje para toda la comunidad de clarinetistas de habla hispana. Accede a todo el contenido en academiadeclarinete.com y sigue aprendiendo con grandes clarinetistas desde donde tú quieras, y a tu ritmo. Descarga gratis la Guía de estudio del Clarinetista. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//forms.aweber.com/form/75/1002537775.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "aweber-wjs-lxvwl76h6"));

Tom Service celebrates the musical legacy of British band leader Ivy Benson in the company of former band members Joyce Terry, Claudia Lang-Colmer, and Carol Gasser, as well as the author Janet Tennant whose new biography, Sax Appeal, is published this month. Ivy rose to fame in the 1940s with her All Girl Band. She and her band members risked their lives entertaining Allied troops in war-torn Europe and battled the inequalities between male and female musicians back home. Tom speaks to Alan Gilbert, the chief conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, about musical performances during the pandemic. And Tom hears from the multi-media musical entrepreneur ThatViolaKid, otherwise known as Drew Alexander Forde, who has made viola practice, conservatoire training, Bartok and Shostakovich, and covers of Alicia Keys and Gnarls Barkley into musical YouTube phenomena.

I'm very excited to have world-renowned violinist Leila Josefowicz on the show for you today! As you'll hear in our discussion, Leila is a profoundly passionate and dedicated musician who approaches her craft with great depth and she shares incredible wisdom with us. Among many things, Leila elaborates on: The power of memorization What the “practice of violin playing” means to her How exploring new repertoire helped her transition out of her “child prodigy” years Her advice to all musicians suffering from lack of motivation The importance of desire and dedication in the cultivation of talent How our need to feel comfortable while performing is counterproductive Vivid mindful practice This is a particularly powerful conversation, and I know you'll find inspiration and incredible value in this episode.   MORE ABOUT LEILA JOSEFOWICZ: Website: https://www.leilajosefowicz.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeilaBJo   Find all the details for Leila's World Premiere performance of ‘la linea evocativa. un disegno per violino solo' by Matthias Pintscher HERE. On the occasion of ‘George Condo. Internal Riot' we are honored to host classical violinist Leila Josefowicz in the gallery to perform a new piece of original music in response to ‘George Condo. Internal Riot,' an exhibition of the artist's new paintings and works on paper that runs through 23 January 2021 at Hauser & Wirth New York. ‘Music is such a huge part of my life, without it I don't know if I'd ever have painted anything. There are so many great pieces of music that have inspired me to paint…My favorite thing is to put on a record in the studio and to still be painting without noticing the fact that the music has stopped playing for hours and is just running through my head.'–George Condo The performance comes at an incredibly challenging time for professional musicians. Condo is deeply aware of the adversity they face, and this specially organized event signifies his support for live music and for new ways in which it can reach people. Join us on Friday 20 November 2020 11 am PST / 2 pm EST / 7 pm GMT.  Click here to register. The performance will be streaming live from New York City on hauserwirth.com     Leila's last Pre-Covid performance in Prague, Performing the Alban Berg Violin Concerto with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra:  https://prso.czechradio.eu/leila-josefowicz-and-prso-8179758   Biography Leila Josefowicz's passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programmes and enthusiasm for performing new works. In recognition of her outstanding achievement and excellence in music, she won the 2018 Avery Fisher Prize and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008, joining prominent scientists, writers and musicians who have made unique contributions to contemporary life. Highlights of Josefowicz's 2019/20 season include opening the London Symphony Orchestra's season with Sir Simon Rattle and returning to San Francisco Symphony with the incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen to perform his Violin Concerto. Further engagements include concerts with Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, where she will be working with conductors at the highest level, including Susanna Mälkki, Matthias Pintscher and John Adams.   A favourite of living composers, Josefowicz has premiered many concertos, including those by Colin Matthews, Steven Mackey and Esa-Pekka Salonen, all written specially for her. This season, she will perform the UK premiere of Helen Grime's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska. Other recent premieres include John Adams'Scheherazade.2 (Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra) in 2015 with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, and Luca Francesconi's Duende – The Dark Notes in 2014 with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki. Josefowicz enjoyed a close working relationship with the late Oliver Knussen, performing various concerti, including his violin concerto, together over 30 times. Alongside pianist John Novacek, with whom she has enjoyed a close collaboration since 1985, Josefowicz has performed recitals at world-renowned venues such as New York's Zankel Hall, Washington DC's Kennedy Center and London's Wigmore Hall, as well as in Reykjavik, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. This season, they appear together at Washington DC's Library of Congress, New York's Park Avenue Armory and Amherst College. She will also join Thomas Adès in recital to perform the world premiere of his new violin and piano work at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the Japanese premiere at the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation. Recent highlights include engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Boston and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras. In summer 2019, Josefowicz took part in a special collaboration between Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Ballet, and Company Wayne McGregor featuring the music of composer-conductor Thomas Adès. Josefowicz has released several recordings, notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips/Universal and Warner Classics and was featured on Touch Press's acclaimed iPadapp, The Orchestra. Her latest recording, released in 2019, features Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted byHannu Lintu. She has previously received nominations for Grammy Awards for her recordings of Scheherazade.2 with the St Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson, and Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.     Visit www.mindoverfinger.com and sign up for my newsletter to get your free guide to an exceptionally productive practice using the metronome.  This guide is the perfect entry point to help you bring more mindfulness and efficiency into your practice and it's filled with tips and tricks on how to use that wonderful tool to take your practicing and your playing to new heights. You can check out amazing books recommended by my podcast guests, as well as my favorite websites, cds, the podcasts I like to listen to, and the practice and podcasting tools I use everyday by visiting: www.mindoverfinger.com/resources!   And click here for details on how to work with me: https://www.mindoverfinger.com/workwithdrg   And don't forget to join the Mind Over Finger Tribe for additional resources on practice and performing!   If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support!     THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Thank you to Susan Blackwell for the introduction!  You can find out more about Susan, her fantastic podcast The Spark File, and her work helping creatives of all backgrounds expand their impact by visiting https://www.susanblackwell.com/home. Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/

In this episode, I have the great pleasure of speaking about all things mindful practice with international cello soloist Alisa Weilerstein. Alisa has attracted widespread attention for her playing that combines natural virtuosity and technical precision with impassioned musicianship.  In this episode, Alisa shares insight on: How her parents nurtured a natural unfolding and healthy progression of her career Practicing: focusing efficient practice, intentional breaks and time off management (so important for long term sustainability + physical and mental health!) Her approach to learning a piece The importance of keeping musicality part of the technical work (as she said “Keeping everything married”) How practicing mindfully is the key for her to get rid of nerves and feel comfortable in performance How she plays mock performance for friends How to develop a natural rubato using the metronome … and much more!   It's an information and inspiration packed episode and I hope you enjoy and find value in our discussion!   MORE ABOUT ALISA WEILERSTEIN alisaweilerstein.com twitter.com/aweilerstein facebook.com/AlisaWeilerstein instagram.com/alisaweilerstein/   Alisa Weilerstein is one of the foremost cellists of our time. Known for her consummate artistry, emotional investment and rare interpretive depth, she was recognized with a MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship in 2011. Today her career is truly global in scope, taking her to the most prestigious international venues for solo recitals, chamber concerts, and concerto collaborations with all the preeminent conductors and orchestras worldwide. “Weilerstein is a throwback to an earlier age of classical performers: not content merely to serve as a vessel for the composer's wishes, she inhabits a piece fully and turns it to her own ends,” marvels the New York Times. “Weilerstein's cello is her id. She doesn't give the impression that making music involves will at all. She and the cello seem simply to be one and the same,” agrees the Los Angeles Times. As the UK's Telegraph put it, “Weilerstein is truly a phenomenon.”   Bach's six suites for unaccompanied cello figure prominently in Weilerstein's current programming. Over the past two seasons, she has given rapturously received live accounts of the complete set on three continents, with recitals in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, Berkeley and San Diego; at Aspen and Caramoor; in Tokyo, Osaka, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, London, Manchester, Aldeburgh, Paris and Barcelona; and for a full-capacity audience at Hamburg's iconic new Elbphilharmonie. During the global pandemic, she has further cemented her status as one of the suites' leading exponents. Released in April 2020, her Pentatone recording of the complete set became a Billboard bestseller and was named “Album of the Week” by the UK's Sunday Times. As captured in Vox's YouTube series, her insights into Bach's first G-major prelude have been viewed almost 1.5 million times. During the first weeks of the lockdown, she chronicled her developing engagement with the suites on social media, fostering an even closer connection with her online audience by streaming a new movement each day in her innovative #36DaysOfBach project. As the New York Times observed in a dedicated feature, by presenting these more intimate accounts alongside her new studio recording, Weilerstein gave listeners the rare opportunity to learn whether “the pressures of a pandemic [can] change the very sound a musician makes, or help her see a beloved piece in a new way.”   Earlier in the 2019-20 season, as Artistic Partner of the Trondheim Soloists, Weilerstein joined the Norwegian orchestra in London, Munich and Bergen for performances including Haydn's two cello concertos, as featured on their acclaimed 2018 release, Transfigured Night. She also performed ten more concertos by Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Strauss, Shostakovich, Britten, Barber, Bloch, Matthias Pintscher and Thomas Larcher, with the London Symphony Orchestra, Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Tokyo's NHK Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Houston, Detroit and San Diego symphonies. In recital, besides making solo Bach appearances, she reunited with her frequent duo partner, Inon Barnatan, for Brahms and Shostakovich at London's Wigmore Hall, Milan's Sala Verdi and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. To celebrate Beethoven's 250th anniversary, she and the Israeli pianist performed the composer's five cello sonatas in Cincinnati and Scottsdale, and joined Guy Braunstein and the Dresden Philharmonic for Beethoven's Triple Concerto, as heard on the duo's 2019 Pentatone recording with Stefan Jackiw, Alan Gilbert and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.   Committed to expanding the cello repertoire, Weilerstein is an ardent champion of new music. She has premiered two important new concertos, giving Pascal Dusapin's Outscape “the kind of debut most composers can only dream of” (Chicago Tribune) with the co-commissioning Chicago Symphony in 2016 and proving herself “the perfect guide” (Boston Globe) to Matthias Pintscher's cello concerto un despertar with the co-commissioning Boston Symphony the following year. She has since reprised Dusapin's concerto with the Stuttgart and Paris Opera Orchestras and Pintscher's with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and with the Danish Radio Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony, both under the composer's leadership. It was also under Pintscher's direction that she gave the New York premiere of his Reflections on Narcissus at the New York Philharmonic's inaugural 2014 Biennial, before reuniting with him to revisit the work at London's BBC Proms. She has worked extensively with Osvaldo Golijov, who rewrote Azul for cello and orchestra for her New York premiere performance at the opening of the 2007 Mostly Mozart Festival. Since then she has played the work with orchestras around the world, besides frequently programming his Omaramor for solo cello. Grammy nominee Joseph Hallman has written multiple compositions for her, including a cello concerto that she premiered with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and a trio that she premiered on tour with Barnatan and clarinetist Anthony McGill. At the 2008 Caramoor festival, she premiered Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Violoncello and Piano with the composer at the keyboard, and the two subsequently reprised the work at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Washington's Kennedy Center and for San Francisco Performances.   Weilerstein's recent Bach and Transfigured Night recordings expand her already celebrated discography. Earlier releases include the Elgar and Elliott Carter cello concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin, named “Recording of the Year 2013” by BBC Music, which made her the face of its May 2014 issue. Her next album, on which she played Dvořák's Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic, topped the U.S. classical chart, and her 2016 recording of Shostakovich's cello concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Pablo Heras-Casado proved “powerful and even mesmerizing” (San Francisco Chronicle). She and Barnatan made their duo album debut with sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninoff in 2015, a year after she released Solo, a compilation of unaccompanied 20th-century cello music that was hailed as an “uncompromising and pertinent portrait of the cello repertoire of our time” (ResMusica, France). Solo's centerpiece is Kodály's Sonata for Solo Cello, a signature work that Weilerstein revisits on the soundtrack of If I Stay, a 2014 feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz in which the cellist makes a cameo appearance as herself.   Weilerstein has appeared with all the major orchestras of the United States, Europe and Asia, collaborating with conductors including Marin Alsop, Daniel Barenboim, Jiří Bělohlávek, Semyon Bychkov, Thomas Dausgaard, Sir Andrew Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Mark Elder, Alan Gilbert, Giancarlo Guerrero, Bernard Haitink, Pablo Heras-Casado, Marek Janowski, Paavo Järvi, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru, Zubin Mehta, Ludovic Morlot, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Peter Oundjian, Rafael Payare, Donald Runnicles, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Osmo Vänskä, Joshua Weilerstein, Simone Young and David Zinman. In 2009, she was one of four artists invited by Michelle Obama to participate in a widely celebrated and high-profile classical music event at the White House, featuring student workshops hosted by the First Lady and performances in front of an audience that included President Obama and the First Family. A month later, Weilerstein toured Venezuela as soloist with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra under Dudamel, since when she has made numerous return visits to teach and perform with the orchestra as part of its famed El Sistema music education program.   Born in 1982, Alisa Weilerstein discovered her love for the cello at just two and a half, when she had chicken pox and her grandmother assembled a makeshift set of instruments from cereal boxes to entertain her. Although immediately drawn to the Rice Krispies box cello, Weilerstein soon grew frustrated that it didn't produce any sound. After persuading her parents to buy her a real cello at the age of four, she developed a natural affinity for the instrument and gave her first public performance six months later. At 13, in 1995, she made her professional concert debut, playing Tchaikovsky's “Rococo” Variations with the Cleveland Orchestra, and in March 1997 she made her first Carnegie Hall appearance with the New York Youth Symphony. A graduate of the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Weiss, Weilerstein also holds a degree in history from Columbia University. She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) at nine years old, and is a staunch advocate for the T1D community, serving as a consultant for the biotechnology company eGenesis and as a Celebrity Advocate for JDRF, the world leader in T1D research. Born into a musical family, she is the daughter of violinist Donald Weilerstein and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, and the sister of conductor Joshua Weilerstein. She is married to Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, with whom she has a young child.     Visit www.mindoverfinger.com and sign up for my newsletter to get your free guide to a super productive practice using the metronome!  This guide is the perfect entry point to help you bring more mindfulness and efficiency into your practice and it's filled with tips and tricks on how to use that wonderful tool to take your practicing and your playing to new heights! Don't forget to visit the Mind Over Finger Resources' page to check out amazing books recommended by my podcast guests, as well as my favorite websites, cds, the podcasts I like to listen to, and the practice and podcasting tools I use everyday!  Find it here: www.mindoverfinger.com/resources!   And don't forget to join the Mind Over Finger Tribe for additional resources on practice and performing! If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support!     THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/    

World-renowned violinist, former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, discusses his career as studio musician in film recordings in L.A. and his collaborations with John Williams Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto L.A. Studio Legends is a new series of podcast talks on The Legacy of John Williams dedicated to legendary orchestra musicians from the Los Angeles area who performed in hundreds of film soundtrack recordings, including many by composer John Williams. These artists are not only responsible for playing in some of the most iconic movie scores in the history of cinema: they're some of the truly finest and talented orchestra players of the 20th and 21st century. The first guest of this new series is certainly a musician who can be defined in a class of himself, who also enjoyed a global recognition throughout his distinguished career: world-renowned violinist Glenn Dicterow. Glenn Dicterow has established himself as one of the most prominent American concert artist of his generation and lived through a varied and storied career through more than four decades. He has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 34 years (from 1980 to 2014) and served as that orchestra leader under esteeemed music directors Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur and Alan Gilbert. Before landing the position in New York, Dicterow was member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, starting in 1971 as associate concertmaster, and then becoming concertmaster there before turning 25. During those years, he also worked extensively as a studio musician for film and television soundtracks recorded in Los Angeles (along with many other L.A. Phil members, including his father Harold Dicterow), playing in literally hundreds of scores, including many by John Williams. Among the works he did for him, Dicterow played in the violin section for The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws 2 and 1941. After becoming concertmaster of the NY Phil, Dicterow continued to work as featured soloist for film soundtracks including Altered States by John Corigliano, The Untouchables by Ennio Morricone and Interview with the Vampire by Elliot Goldenthal. In this wide-ranging conversation, Glenn talks about his long and distinguished career both as concertmaster of one of the world's leading ensembles and his life as a studio musician, where you can face unexpected challenges. Dicterow offers his own views on how the style of playing in Hollywood orchestras evolved through the years, and how it ties with its European roots. Dicterow talks extensively about his friendship and collaboration with John Williams throughout the years, but also spends time talking about his experiences with the legendary Leonard Bernstein. For more information and the full list of musical excerpts featured in the episode, visit thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com

You could say that when you listen to classical music, you are taking a trip in a time machine. Or, as Shirley MacLaine might put it, “Classical music is the soundtrack of your previous lives.” The contemporary American composer Sebastian Currier goes even further, suggesting (quote): “It's only a little bit of an exaggeration to say that music is made of nothing BUT time - well, and air too … melodic or rhythmic gestures are made of a series of events moving forward in time. … And the rest is air. A musician bows a string, blows air in a cylinder, strikes a metal object, and a series of sound waves take that information to our ears … It has always been fascinating to me that an art form that is so penetrating … is made of such ephemeral stuff.” Sebastian Currier even gave the title “Time Machines” to one of his works, a piece for violin and orchestra, that received its premiere performance in New York City on today’s date in 2011 with the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter as the soloist, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert. Each of the work’s seven movements explores some aspect of the relationship between the perception of music and time, ranging from “Fragmented Time” at its opening to “Harmonic Time” at its close.

You could say that when you listen to classical music, you are taking a trip in a time machine. Or, as Shirley MacLaine might put it, “Classical music is the soundtrack of your previous lives.” The contemporary American composer Sebastian Currier goes even further, suggesting (quote): “It's only a little bit of an exaggeration to say that music is made of nothing BUT time - well, and air too … melodic or rhythmic gestures are made of a series of events moving forward in time. … And the rest is air. A musician bows a string, blows air in a cylinder, strikes a metal object, and a series of sound waves take that information to our ears … It has always been fascinating to me that an art form that is so penetrating … is made of such ephemeral stuff.” Sebastian Currier even gave the title “Time Machines” to one of his works, a piece for violin and orchestra, that received its premiere performance in New York City on today’s date in 2011 with the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter as the soloist, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert. Each of the work’s seven movements explores some aspect of the relationship between the perception of music and time, ranging from “Fragmented Time” at its opening to “Harmonic Time” at its close.

Conductor and violinist, Alan Gilbert, chats to Simon Morris about growing up in a family of violinists and his thoughts on life and music as a conductor during these unprecedented times.

Det har gått 20 år sedan Bach collegium Japan och Masaaki Suzuki spelade in Matteuspassionen för första gången. Så hur bra är den nya versionen? Och så lyssnar vi på Valkyrian och Elgars cellokonsert. Vilken höjdarvecka! Veckans skivor: Matteuspassionen Bach collegium Japan och Masaaki Suzuki BIS (BIS-2500) Betyg: 4 Elgars cellokonsert Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Londons symfoniorkester och Sir Simon Rattle  Decca (4850241) Betyg: 4 Wagners Valkyria Sir Simon Rattle och Bayerska radions symfoniorkester BR Klassik (900177) Betyg: 4 I panelen sitter musikprofessorn Mattias Lundberg, musikbibliotekarien Evabritt Selén och Yehya Alazem, chefredaktör på nättidskriften Capriccio. Dessutom har Sofia Nyblom träffat dirigenten Alan Gilbert, som snart blir musikchef på Kungliga operan i Stockholm. På hans CV står sedan tidigare chefdirigent för Elbphilharmonie i Hamburg, musikchef för New York-filharmonikerna och chefsdirigent för Kungliga Filharmonikerna.

In this episode, international soloist Stefan Jackiw talks to us about his journey overcoming a serious injury.  He tells us how he got injured, the steps he took to heal, the mental impact it had on him, and how he stays injury free. He also elaborates on: What his musicology studies brought to his playing What collaborating with other musicians mean to him Establishing strong fundamentals on the instrument How he maximizes his practice time His injury story: How it happened Facing the stigma attached to being an injured musician The mental impact it had on him and the new mindsets he developed as a result The reflection he did, the changes he implemented and how he overcame it How he modified his setup and technique as a result How he remains injury free The very important concept of surrendering in practicing How our level of stress and the amount of pressure we tolerate affects our playing How to plan practice     Don't forget to visit the Mind Over Finger Resources' page to check out amazing books recommended by my podcast guests, as well as my favorite websites, cds, the podcasts I like to listen to, and the practice and podcasting tools I use every day!  Find it here: www.mindoverfinger.com/resources!   And join the Mind Over Finger Book Club in the Tribe!  We meet HERE, and we're currently discussing The Inner Game of Golf by Tim Gallwey!   Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter to get your free guide to a super productive practice using the metronome!  This guide is the perfect entry point to help you bring more mindfulness and efficiency into your practice and it's filled with tips and tricks on how to use that wonderful tool to take your practicing and your playing to new heights! TURN THE METRONOME ON AND START PRACTICING BETTER AND LEARNING FASTER RIGHT NOW!  GET YOUR FREE METRONOME GUIDE TODAY AT www.mindoverfinger.com!!!!     MORE ABOUT STEFAN JACKIW: Website: https://stefanjackiw.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stefan+jackiw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanjackiwviolin/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StefanJackiw/   Stefan Jackiw is one of America's foremost violinists, captivating audiences with playing that combines poetry and purity with an impeccable technique. Hailed for playing of "uncommon musical substance" that is “striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (Boston Globe), Jackiw has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, among others. This season, he will re-unite with Juraj Valcuha to make his debut with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin performing Korngold's Violin Concerto. He also returns performing Stravinsky to the Bournemouth Symphony with Kirill Karabits, the Helsinki Philharmonic with Hans Graf, and the RTÉ National Symphony in Dublin with Leonard Slatkin.  Other highlights include performances with the San Diego Symphony and Rafael Payare, the Indianapolis and Baltimore Symphonies with David Danzmayr, and the Omaha Symphony. In recital, Stefan continues touring the complete Ives Sonatas with Jeremy Denk, with whom he has recorded the sonatas for future release on Nonesuch Records. He also appears on tour with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, exploring works for violin and harpsichord and featuring a new commission by Lester St. Louis, and continues to perform alongside pianist Conrad Tao and cellist Jay Campbell as part of the Junction Trio, with stops this season in Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Ohio, California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, and more. Highlights of recent seasons include his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra and Juraj Valcuha, with whom he also re-united for performances in Dallas, Detroit, and Luxembourg; performances of Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall with Mikhail Pletnev, as part of a multi-city tour with the Russian National Orchestra; as well as performances with the St. Louis Symphony under Nicholas McGegan, the Minnesota Orchestra under Ilyich Rivas, the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Indianapolis Symphony under Krzysztof Urbanski, and the Pittsburgh Symphony under Valčuha. Other highlights in Europe included his performances with the Netherlands Radio Symphony and Ludovic Morlot at the Concertgebouw. In Asia, Stefan has appeared with the Tokyo Symphony at Suntory Hall under the direction of Krzysztof Urbanski, and the Seoul Philharmonic under Venzago. He has also toured Korea, playing chamber music with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica. In Australia, Stefan toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra play-directing Mendelssohn. He also gave the world premiere of American composer David Fulmer's Violin Concerto No 2 “Jubilant Arcs”, written for him and commissioned by the Heidelberg Festival with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under Matthias Pintscher. Recital highlights have included his performances of the complete Ives violin Sonatas with Jeremy Denk at Tanglewood and Boston's Jordan Hall, and performance of the complete Brahms violin sonatas, which he has recorded for Sony. He also recently recorded the Beethoven Triple with Inon Barnatan, Alisa Weilerstein, Alan Gilbert and Academy St. Martin in the Fields. Jackiw has performed in numerous important festivals and concert series, including the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and the Washington Performing Arts Society. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with such artists as Jeremy Denk, Steven Isserlis, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gil Shaham, and forms a trio with Jay Campbell and Conrad Tao. At the opening night of Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in New York, Jackiw was the only young artist invited to perform, playing alongside such artists as Emanuel Ax, Renée Fleming, Evgeny Kissin, and James Levine. Born to physicist parents of Korean and German descent, Stefan Jackiw began playing the violin at the age of four. His teachers have included Zinaida Gilels, Michèle Auclair, and Donald Weilerstein. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, as well as an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, and is the recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. He lives in New York City.     If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support! Visit www.mindoverfinger.com for information about past and future podcasts, and for more resources on mindful practice. Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe here!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe/     THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/

Karina Canellakis hat gerade einen echten Lauf. Seit einigen Monaten ist die Amerikanerin neue Chefdirigentin des Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in den Niederlanden und parallel Erste Gastdirigentin des Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchesters in Berlin. Dazu kommt ein randvoller Terminkalender hier, da und dort. Doch in die Wiege wurde ihr nicht der Taktstock gelegt, sondern eine Geige. Erst nach einigen Jahren in Top-Orchestern – unter anderem als Akademistin bei den Berliner Philharmonikern - merkte Canellakis, dass sie an einem anderen Notenpult richtiger wäre. Einer ihrer wichtigsten Lehrer an der Juilliard School war Alan Gilbert: wie sie aus New York, wie sie Kind einer Musikerfamilie. Jetzt ist Canellakis zu Gast in Hamburg: Debüt-Konzert in der Elbphilharmonie, dort, wo Gilbert inzwischen Chef des NDR-Orchesters ist.

„Ich verspüre keinen Druck von außen, der stärker wäre als meine eigene Selbstkritik.“ Für Alan Gilbert beginnt die Hamburger Konzertsaison mit einem dreiwöchigen Marathon. Als neuer Chefdirigent des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester stellt sich der gebürtige New Yorker in mehreren Konzerten seinem Publikum vor. Viele dürften ihn noch aus seinen elf Jahren als Ersten Gastdirigenten des Orchesters kennen, bei dem er nun die mit Spannung erwartete Nachfolge von Thomas Hengelbrock antritt. Welche Zieler er hat, berichtet der Amerikaner in der aktuellen Folge des Klassik-Podcast vom Hamburger Abendblatt.

Kan musikkens og klassikernes følelsesmæssige kraft skabe bevidsthed om bæredygtighed? Alan Gilbert, én af international musiklivs top-dirigenter deltog i Det Kgl. Biblioteks del af Östersjöfestivalen – Baltic Sea Festival. Gilbert er tidligere chefdirigent for New York Philharmonic, og nuværende chef for NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. Han talte med Nikolaj Koppel om den klassiske musiks følelsesmæssige kraft - og om musikken kan mobilisere os til handling i forhold til nogle af de store samfundsspørgsmål som fx klimakrisen. Men han talte også om at arbejde som klassisk musiker og om de klassiske mesterværker over for den nykomponerede musik. Podcasten er et resultat af Det Kgl. Biblioteks samarbejde med Östersjofestivalen, der er et stort nordisk/baltisk samarbejde, som i år forbinder Østersølandene på en ny måde. På festivallen kombineres musik og samtaler, hvor nogle af regionens mest interessante personligheder mødes for at snakke om bæredygtighed og musik. Festivallen fortsætter indtil lørdag den 31. august. Se mere på www.berwaldhallen.se/ostersjofestivalen/

Rex Surany is the new Principal bass of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He is also working as an assistant teacher in cooperation with Harold Robinson, the Principal Bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra, at the Juilliard School.   His musical education began with piano lessons when he was 7 years old. After two years of piano, he switched exclusively to double bass with Robert Peterson of Trenton, New Jersey. In 2002, upon completing the Vance repertoire with Peterson, Rex then started to study Rabbath Method with Nicholas Walker, double bass Professor at Ithaca college, and joined the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra under maestro Joseph Primavera's direction.   Rex's first year of college, in 2006, was spent at The Colburn School in Los Angeles. There he studied with David Moore and Paul Ellison. After a year, he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where, in addition to studying double bass, he found and pursued interests in composing, transcribing, and arranging that continue today.   A few weeks after graduating from Curtis, in May 2012, Rex became a temporary member of the New York Philharmonic with Alan Gilbert as Music Director. While Rex was working at “The Phil”, he spent a lot of his relief and vacation time traveling to Berlin to study the Berlin Philharmonic tradition and German bow technique with Matthew McDonald and Janne Saksala; first principal basses. After two years of working in New York, studying in Berlin, and auditioning in North America, Europe, and even Scandanavia, Rex finally won his first audition for a section position at the Metropolitan Opera in 2014. And only one year later, he won the principal position.   Rex has won numerous accolades in both solo and orchestral bass realms. In June 2009, he was awarded 2nd prize of the ISB (International Society of Bassists) Orchestral Competition. The following summer, he was and the 3rd prize-winner of the 2010 Bradetich Foundation International Solo Competition. In 2011, Rex was the 2nd prize-winner at the ISB Solo competition. Rex has performed with many orchestras including: the Pittsburgh Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Haddonfield “Symphony in C”, the Boston Symphony, the American Ballet Theatre, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan opera. He has given master classes and recitals at Ithaca College, Brigham Young University, and Fort Lewis College.   Listen to Contrabass Conversations with our free app for iOS, Android, and Kindle! 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In this episode, I chat with with Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist with the NY Philharmonic.  We have a great conversation about attention and presence, in both practice and performance. Among other things, we discuss his journey to the NY Phil, the importance of absolutely loving music in choosing it as a career, how to nurture focus and make practice more efficient, and how to work towards having more flow in performance. Anthony elaborates on: His musical path, from the Southside of Chicago to the NY Phil The various institutions he attended – the Merit School, the Interlochen Academy, and the Curtis Institute How important the community that surrounds us is as we develop as musicians/artists/people How to nurture focus: The importance of how loving what you do is in fostering focus The quote that really articulated that concept for him How focus starts from figuring out if you truly love what you do Cultivating quality presence, awareness, and curiosity in the practice room are the keys to solid focus How to make practice efficient How he primes and prepares for a practice session How wanting to practice, having a plan, being aware, and being methodical are at the core of a good practice session How he “tricks” himself to practice (which is similar to the trick I talk about in this blog entry: https://www.mindoverfinger.com/blog/commit-to-ten) How listening to music is important Focus in performance: How to work towards flow and overcome mistakes How important it is to develop our public speaking and self-marketing skills Why we should develop an interest in a hobby outside of music   MORE ABOUT ANTHONY: Website: http://www.anthonymcgill.com/ Find some YouTube videos about Anthony HERE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcgillclarinet/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mcgillab/   Biography Clarinetist Anthony McGill is one of classical music's most recognizable and brilliantly multifaceted figures. He serves as the principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic — that orchestra's first African-American principal player — and maintains a dynamic international solo and chamber music career. Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (The New York Times), as well as for his “exquisite combination of technical refinement and expressive radiance” (The Baltimore Sun), McGill also serves as an ardent advocate for helping music education reach underserved communities and for addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in classical music. McGill was honored to take part in the inauguration of President Barack Obama, premiering a piece written for the occasion by John Williams and performing alongside violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianist Gabriela Montero.   McGill's 2018-19 season includes performances of concertos by Bolcom, Copland, Mozart, and Strauss with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and Austin Symphonic Band. He will also collaborate together with soprano Miah Persson in a performance of Schubert's “The Shepherd on the Rock” together with Iván Fischer and the New York Philharmonic. Additional performances include a collaboration with the Dover Quartet for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and a recital with soprano Julia Bullock for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, along with collaborations with the Brentano Quartet for Princeton University and a tour of Asia with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.   McGill appears regularly as a soloist with top orchestras around North America including the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Baltimore Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony. As a chamber musician, McGill is a favorite collaborator of the Brentano, Daedalus, Guarneri, JACK, Miró, Pacifica, Shanghai, Takacs, and Tokyo Quartets, as well as Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Gloria Chien, Yefim Bronfman, Gil Shaham, Midori, Mitsuko Uchida, and Lang Lang. He has led tours with Musicians from Marlboro and regularly performs for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Festival appearances include Tanglewood, Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Music@Menlo, and the Santa Fe, Seattle, and Skaneateles Chamber Music Festivals.   In January 2015, McGill recorded the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto together with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, which was released on DaCapo Records. He also recorded an album together with his brother Demarre McGill, principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, and pianist Michael McHale; and one featuring the Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintet with the Pacifica Quartet that were both released by Cedille Records.   A dedicated champion of new music, in 2014, McGill premiered a new piece written for him by Richard Danielpour entitled “From the Mountaintop” that was commissioned by the New Jersey Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Orchestra 2001. McGill served as the 2015-16 Artist-in-Residence for WQXR and has appeared on Performance Today, MPR's St. Paul Sunday Morning, and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. In 2013, McGill appeared on the NBC Nightly News and on MSNBC, in stories highlighting the McGill brothers' inspirational story.   A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, McGill previously served as the principal clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera and associate principal clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In-demand as a teacher, he serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, Bard College's Conservatory of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. He also serves as the Artistic Advisor for the Music Advancement Program at the Juilliard School, on the Board of Directors for both the League of American Orchestra and the Harmony Program, and the advisory council for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York.   If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support! Visit www.mindoverfinger.com for information about past and future podcasts, and for more resources on mindful practice. THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a huge thank you to my producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/   Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe here!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe/

Er wird neuer Dirigent des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters und kam für einen kleinen Abstecher zum Gewandhausorchester nach Leipzig: Alan Gilbert. Über die Kunst, Musik zu erzählen, spricht er bei MDR KLASSIK.

#001: In this episode, AWH’s Ryan Frederick sits down with Alan Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Orange Barrel Media. Alan shares his insights on how to successfully lead innovative product teams, as well as how his engineering background has shaped the way he approaches the product creation process. http://orangebarrelmedia.com/ http://awh.net/

When two people who really love something talk about what they love, the exuberance is contagious.  Alec Baldwin, a New York Philharmonic board-member since 2011, and Alan Gilbert, the outgoing Music Director, both really love the Phil.  When Gilbert took over in 2009, he was just 42, one of the youngest orchestra-directors in the country.  He wanted to inject enough new programming to keep the institution vital, even as the most dedicated orchestra-concertgoers nationwide average 60 years old and prefer the old standbys:  29% of ticket-buyers say that more contemporary music could keep them away from the box office.  But Gilbert found the perfect balance, and Baldwin invited him on to Here's the Thing to say thanks.  Gilbert, the child of two Philharmonic musicians, tells Alec about what it was like to grow up to lead it -- and about the ups and downs of his eight-year tenure.  Plus, the two men discuss which pieces overwhelm them with emotion, and the art of directing an orchestra: why are conductors even necessary, and what makes for a great one? 

Hur gör tonsättare när de trollar fram den ljuvaste musik ur ord och bild? Vi möter Victoria och Daniel, inte kungligheterna utan de två tonsättarna Daniel Börtz och Victoria Borisova-Ollas. I fjärde programmet Ord och bild blir musik möter vi Victoria och Daniel   tonsättarna Daniel Börtz och Victoria Borisova-Ollas. Hur tonsätter han en målning av Goya? Hur komponerar hon en ny version av en gammal psalmtext som redan en manlig, död, vit mästare gjort klassisk? Han är sprungen ur den skånska myllan, hon är född i Vladivostok i Ryssland och utbildad i Moskva och London. Båda har en stark relation till språket och har gjort musik till både nutida och klassiska textförlagor. Skillnaden mellan att tonsätta klassisk och ny text är inte så stor. Det väsentliga är att den går att förankra i min egen tid. Men jag kan inte tonsätta en flummig text späckad av beskrivningar, utan föredrar det stramare, berättar Daniel Börtz, en av våra främsta opera- och oratorietonsättare. Operan Backanterna från 1991, regisserad av Ingmar Bergman, är baserad på Euripides talpjäs. Börtz skrev även musiken till oratoriet Hans namn var Orestes från 2004, baserad på Aischylos pjästrilogi Orestien. Operan Goya, om bildkonstnären, med musik av Daniel Börtz och libretto av Magnus Florin, hade sin urpremiär vid Göteborgsoperan 2009. Tonsättare funderar över detsamma som alla konstnärer: höjdpunkter, lågpunkter, lyriska passager och annat. Ett operaverk som bara går på och går på kommer ingenstans. Det är spelet mellan dagrar och mörker som skapar ett spännande, levande konstverk, berättar Daniel Börtz.   I mitt fall blir det sällan musik utan texter, vilka ofta ger mig inspiration till mina stycken, men jag skriver nästan aldrig för sång. Det sjungna ordet kan göra allt övertydligt, säger Victoria Borisova-Ollas. När jag läser en dikt hör jag genast olika tempi och orkesterklangens färg. Sedan kommer den inlärda tekniken in och jag är som en byggandsarbetare bakom partituret. Victoria Borisova-Ollas komponerade musik till en scenföreställning utifrån författaren Salman Rushdies 600-sidiga roman Marken under hennes fötter. Det blev 90 minuters musik där myten om Orfeus och Eurydike har en central plats. Men här är det Eurydike som räddar Orfeus tillbaka till livet. 2009 uppfördes Borisova-Ollas tonsättning av Psalm 42 i bl a Berlin. Stycket var beställt av den internationella Bachakademin i Stuttgart med anledningen av firandet av Felix Mendelsohn 200 år. Uppdraget var att skriva ny musik till en text som också Mendelsohn använt. Vi borde prata mindre om bra och dåligt, nyskapande och traditionellt. Man skall istället vårda det egna uttrycket. Alla människor kommer från olika källor, säger Victoria Borisova-Ollas.   SPELLISTA: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman nr 1Joan Tower Marin Alsop, Colorado Symphony Orchestra Tower_ Fanfares For The Uncommon Woman, Etc _ Alsop, Et Al   Wings of the Wind Victoria Borisova Ollas Mats Rondin, m fl. The Triumph of Heaven Phono Suecia PSCD 171    Dionysos: Kvinnor Från Det Fjärran Asien Daniel Börtz  Sylvia Lindenstrand, Hovkapellet, Kjell Ingebretsen, m fl. Daniel Börtz - Ingmar Bergman  Backanterna CAPRICE CAP 22028 1-2    Hans Namn Var Orestes - Part 2 Sc. 4: Dom Mig Nu Skyldig Eller Frikänn Mig Daniel Börtz Alan Gilbert, Adrian Dolata, Etc.; Alan Gilbert: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Börtz: Hans Namn Var Orestes (His Name Was Orestes) [Disc 2] BIS-CD-1653/54   Goya premiär Daniel Börtz Anders Larsson, Katarina Giotas, dir Joakim Unander, gbgoperans kör och orkester SR Liveinspelning, premiär 26/9 2009    Wings of the Wind Victoria Borisova Ollas Mats Rondin, m fl. The Triumph of Heaven Phono Suecia PSCD 171    The Ground Beneath Her Feet Victoria Borisova-Ollas, musik. Kemp, Edward /efter Salman Rushdie/ Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester (ork) - Willén, Niklas (dir) - Lixenberg, Loré (mezz) - Persson, Olle (bar) - Sallmander, Reuben (rec) P2 Live klassiskt: 2008-05-22, Berwaldhallen   The Ground Beneath Her Feet U 2 U 2 The Ground Beneath Her Feet     The Ground Beneath Her Feet Victoria Borisova-Ollas, musik. Kemp, Edward /efter Salman Rushdie/ Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester (ork) - Willén, Niklas (dir) - Lixenberg, Loré (mezz) - Persson, Olle (bar) - Sallmander, Reuben (rec) P2 Live klassiskt: 2008-05-22, Berwaldhallen   Psalm 42 Felix Mendelssohn Michel Corboz, dir. Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra Mendelssohn Psalms Apex 2564616922       Wie der Hirsch schreit nach frischen Wasser - Psalm 42 Victoria Borisova-Ollas RIAS Choir & Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Hans-Christoph Rademann, dir. Caroline Stein, sopran. Christoph Fischesser, bas. Jonathan dela Paz Zaens, berättare. Konzethaus Berlin 15/9 2009 Kulturradio Berlin RBB

July 4, 2017 - Segment 2 - We hosted an archive episode of the Marc Steiner Show when Dr. Alan Gilbert joined us to talk about his compelling book Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence.

Alan’s back, to help us bring you Procedurally Generated Content. What the hell is that? Well it might be our every day reality, but we’ll start simple where you may or may not be aware of it ... games! We’ll do a little on roleplaying like D&D, and then dive into video games like Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto. Then it gets weird ... small talk, genetic algorithms, music, DNA, jet engine design, and more. Nope, we didn’t leave out zombies, the Library of Babylon, or a deeper philosophical conversation on what genetic algorithms mean for the intrinsic nature of good and evil. Wow ... this went all over the place. We hope you enjoy!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zengineering-podcast/support

Hello Zengineers! We're back with our second guest episode of Season 2. Have you ever been listening and thought, "These guys are really really good looking, but what they just said is total BS!" Well, our good friend Alan Gilbert has come on to help us kick off a new Error Correction Program here at Zengineering Podcast. We revisit quantum computing, historical number systems, and even touch on the Sacajawea One Dollar Coin ... what? Hope you enjoy, and have a great week! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zengineering-podcast/support

Alan Gilbert believes that conducting an orchestra is a process of “letting go together.” When the energy between a conductor and an orchestra is right, he says, it’s almost impossible to tell who’s leading who. After eight seasons at the helm of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert is ready to step down. In his wake, he leaves a formidable legacy of experimentation that expanded not just what an orchestra can and will do, but who it’s for. Gilbert and Davis sat down in his office to talk about what he means by serving a community, the moments in performance he lives for, and how maybe he could've benefited from throwing tantrums and showing his stress more. “You have to set something motion that is so inevitable that it goes that way and you don’t have to continue to do anything in order for it to go that way, because that is the only possible way it could go. And then you just follow. But what you’re doing is that you’re following something that you created. You’ve set it in motion and it’s exactly what you want but you don’t have to look as if you’re making it happen as it happens.” —Alan Gilbert on successful conducting Subscribe to Helga on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and follow Helga Davis on Facebook.

Tonsättaren Madeleine Isaksson tar sig över den melankoliska avgrunden genom att arbeta med musiken. Tonsättaren Daniel Börtz: Mina verk har en mörk grundfärg och mot den avtecknar sig allt det andra. Hur kan du lägga ner så mycket möda på att skildra krigets fasor; lidande ansikten och lemmar som massakreras, frågar målaren Goyas käresta Doña Leocadia i operan Goya, tonsatt av Daniel Börtz. Den store bildkonstnären ger inget svar i operan. De flesta av mina verk har en mörk grundfärg och mot den avtecknar sig allt det andra. Min musik uppstår ur en djup oro över det som händer runtomkring i världen. Försoningstanken är den stora inspirationen i mitt skrivande, berättar tonsättaren Daniel Börtz.   För den i Paris bosatta tonsättaren Madeleine Isaksson är komponerandet en hängbro med vilken hon tar sig över den melankoliska avgrunden. Hängbron är en utgångsbild för Madeleine Isakssons CD Failles, vilket är franska och betyder spricka eller glipa i en berghäll. När jag arbetar med musiken försvinner det farliga med avgrunden. Det är jätteskönt att skriva djupa toner, att gå ned i de mörka registren och flyta omkring där, förklarar Madeleine Isaksson. Professor Christopher Gillberg är expert på neuropsykiatriska tillstånd. Han förklarar varför Mozart förmodligen hade en skugga av Tourettes syndrom och varför tonsättarna Bela Bartok och Allan Pettersson med all säkerhet var högt begåvade personer med autism. Även professor Karin Johannisson och hjärnforskaren Fredrik Ullén medverkar. Dessutom lyssnar vi på en argentinsk och tre ryska pianister med erfarenheter av djupa depressioner: Martha Argerich, Sergej Rachmaninov, Vladimir Horowitz och Svjatoslav Richter.Musiklista:"Fire and Improvisation"Emil JonasonEmil JonasonLIVE i Konserthuset, Stockholm 25/9 2004 RehabAmy WinehouseAmy Winehouse, m fl      CP-SkräckMadodds (Fredrik Mbuyamba)MadoddsPrivat inspelning "Fire and Improvisation"Emil JonasonEmil JonasonLIVE in Konserthuset 25/9 2004 Konsert För Piano & Orkester Nr 3 D-Moll Op 30Sergej RachmaninovMartha Argerich | Riccardo Chailly | Berlin-Radions Symfoniorkester Konsert For Piano Op30 - 1930 - 091021Sergej RachmaninovVladimir Horowitz, piano. London Symphony Orchestra. Albert Coates, dirigent Vogel als ProphetRobert SchumannSvjatoslav Richter, piano            Les sept vallées, dal 7, Utmattningen dalMadeleine IsakssonKerstin Frödin, blockflöjtSR P2 Live Nu 20070910 Failles IMadeleine IsakssonChrichan Larson, cello. Kerstin Frödin, blockflöjt. Jonas Bylund, trombonFaillesPHONO SUECIA PSCD 134 Failles IIMadeleine IsakssonChrichan Larson, cello. Kerstin Frödin, blockflöjt. Jonas Bylund, trombonFaillesPHONO SUECIA PSCD 134 Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492. OvertureW A MozartSir Colin Davies, dir. London Symphony OrchestraAn Evening with MozartPHILIPS 442 663-2 Trollflöjten die zauberflote_ nr 21f 1791Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (C) Schikaneder, Emanuel (A)  Böhm, Karl (Dir) Berliner Philharmoniker (Ork) Peters, Roberta  /Nattens Drottning/ (Sop) Lear, Evelyn /Pamina/ (Sop) Otto, Lisa  /Papagena/ (Sop) Hillebrecht, Hildegard /Första Damen/ (Sop) Ahlin, Cv                           Bartók: Violin Concerto #2 In B Minor, SZ 112 - 2. Andante TranquilloBéla BartókKyung-Wha Chung; Georg Solti: London Symphony OrchestraBartók: Violin ConcertosDECCA 425 015-2 Magyar Képek Sz97: 2. Medvetánc: Allegro Vivace - Ungerska bilder BjörndansBéla BartókPierre Boulez: Chicago Symphony Orchestra       Bartók: Divertimento, Dance Suite, Hungarian Sketches, Two Pictures          DG 445 825-2 Bartók: Violin Concerto #2 In B Minor, SZ 112 - 2. Andante TranquilloBéla BartókKyung-Wha Chung; Georg Solti: London Symphony OrchestraBartók: Violin ConcertosDECCA 425 015-2 Konsert for violin & orkesterAllan PetterssonIsabelle van Keulen, violin. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Thomas Dausgaard, dirigent Hans namn var Orestes: 1. PrologueDaniel BörtzDan Laurin, recorder Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, choir Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra Alan Gilbert, conductor. Anita Björk m fl       ORESTESBIS-CD-1653/54 Hans namn var Orestes: 1. PrologueDaniel BörtzDan Laurin, recorder Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra Alan Gilbert, conductor. Anita Björk m flORESTESBIS-CD-1653/54             Goya_Akt 2Daniel BörtzAnders Larsson, Katarina Giotas, dir Joakim Unander, Göteborgsoperans kör och orkesterSR P2 Live 2009 

Violinverk av Nielsen med Helsingborgs symfoniorkester och Cecilia Zilliacus, det är en av skivorna som recenseras denna vecka. Dessutom blir det musik av Verdi, Haydn och Martin. I panelen sitter Bodil Asketorp, Magnus Lindman, Sofia Nyblom och programledaren Johan Korssell som betygsätter följande skivor: JOSEPH HAYDN Pianokonserter Hob. XVIII:3, 4 och 11 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano Manchester Camerata Gábor Takács-Nagy, dirigent Chandos CHAN 10808CARL NIELSEN Verk för violin (Vol 2) Violinkonsert op 33 m.m. Cecilia Zilliacus, violin Helsingborgs symfoniorkester Daniel Blendulf, dirigent dB Productions DBCD 162BOHUSLAV MARTINU Rapsodi-konsert, Tre madrigaler m.m. Maxim Rysanov, viola m.fl. BBC Symfoniorkester Jirí Belohlávek, dirigent Bis BIS 2030GIUSEPPE VERDI Aida Anja Harteros, Jonas Kaufmann m.fl. Santa Cecilia-akademins kör och orkester Antonio Pappano, dirigent Warner Classics 0825646106639Simon Rattle intervjuas av Albert EhrnroothUnder sin tid som chefsdirigent för Birminghams symfoniorkester kreerade Simon Rattle en komplett utgåva av Sibelius symfonier. Nu har han varit chefsdirigent för Berlins filharmoniker i 13 år och det är åter dags att skåda en box med de sju symfonierna. Utgiven på eget märke.Andra nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar- Haydns klaverkonserter med pianisten Marc-André Hamelin tillsammans med Les Violons du Roy under dirigenten Bernard Labadie inspelad på Hyperion. - Nielsens violinkonsert med Nikolaj Znaider som solist med New Yorks filharmoniker ledda av Alan Gilbert på Dacapo; violinisten Vilde Frang och Danska radions symfoniorkester under Eivind Gullberg Jensen på Warner Classics samt med Emil Telmányi som spelar tillsammans med Danska radions symfoniorkester dirigerad av Egisto Tango inspelad 1947 på skivmärket Danacord. - Verdis opera Aida med Leontyne Price i titelrollen och med Georg Solti på pulten framför Rom-operans orkester på Decca; sopranen Renata Tebaldi och Wiens filharmoniker ledda av Herbert von Karajan på märket Alto; Cristina Gallardo-Domas som Aida tillsammans med  Wiens filharmoniker och dirigenten Nikolaus Harnoncourt på skivmärket Warner Classics samt på DVD med Nina Stemme och dirigenten Adam Fischer på plats framför Zürich-operans orkester på märke Bel Air.

When Reynold Levy became president of Lincoln Center in 2002, the organization was “a community in deep distress, riven by conflict,” according to New York magazine. No surprise that the title of Levy’s new memoir is They Told Me Not to Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center. While much of Levy’s book offers an upbeat look at Lincoln Center's $1.2 billion redevelopment and its years of balanced budgets, he also surprised many with his scathing take on the management blunders at some of Lincoln Center's resident organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera. On this edition of Conducting Business Levy tells host Naomi Lewin why he chose to write in such forthright terms – and name names: “When governance goes astray, when management is not being held accountable, they get themselves into deep trouble. Because this whole sector is relatively unregulated, it’s important to call attention to the public those that are not so well-governed or well-managed.” Levy, who stepped down from the Lincoln Center presidency last year, elaborates on the “self-inflicted wound” that led to the collapse of City Opera in 2013; the “shocking” lack of due diligence by the Philharmonic when it tried to merge with Carnegie Hall in 2003; and the still-uncertain outcome of last summer’s labor strife at the Met. He names five things the Met and its unions could do right now to improve the company’s finances, and he considers Alan Gilbert's surprise announcement to leave the Philharmonic. Levy also tells us what he is most proud of as he looks back at the redevelopment of Lincoln Center’s 16-acre campus. Listen to the full interview above and share your reactions in the comments box below.

Conductor of the mighty New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, joins Sean to talk about the orchestra's residency at the Barbican, and the all-consuming demands made on an American Musical Director.

The conductor an orchestra chooses says a lot about how it sees its mission in the 21st century. Factors to consider include taste in repertoire, age, nationality, race, gender, fundraising skills -- and of course, musicianship. The New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestras in Washington, DC are about to grapple with all of this as they look for successors to Alan Gilbert and Christoph Eschenbach, who are both leaving their music director jobs in 2017. This week, we ask three industry watchers what are – or what should be – chief considerations for these orchestras as they begin their searches. Joining us are Zachary Woolfe, a freelance classical music critic for the New York Times; Anastasia Tsioulcas, who covers classical music for NPR Music; and Nick Matthias, a senior vice president at IMG Artists, who manages a number of top conductors. Segment Highlights Christoph Eschenbach leads the National Symphony Orchestra (Scott Suchman/NSO)  For Matthias, "chemistry must be evident right from the word go, right from the point the conductor meets the orchestra in a rehearsal. Of course, no one has any control over the chemistry aspect at all. This is something very special. Once the conductor walks out on that podium, it's out of all of our hands." Woolfe emphasizes the importance of fundraising and outreach skills. "Especially with the New York Philharmonic," he said, "you're looking at the prospect of somebody who's going to have to be a key person in the raising of a substantial nine figures for the renovation of Avery Fisher Hall." That person must excite both the musicians and the board. Some observers have suggested that New York or Washington would benefit from a woman or minority conductor in order to better reflect their diverse communities. Tsioulcas notes that while women conductors have made particular strides among regional orchestras, "I'm not sure that anyone – aside from a couple very established [women] conductors – is established enough to pivot into such a prominent role as the New York Philharmonic. We may still be a decade or more away from that, I'm sorry to say." Listen to the full segment at the top of this page, take our poll, and tell us in the comments below: What qualities do you think are most important in selecting a new music director? .chart_div { width: 600px; height: 300px; } loadSurvey( "most-needed-next-ny-philharmonic-c", "survey_most-needed-next-ny-philharmonic-c");  

Pop-parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic on being weird (and Weird, and “Weird”) … “Boyhood” star Patricia Arquette’s stolen Santa Clauses …  How singer Jenny Lewis kicks people out … A trademark-licensing dispute that lead to a big hit … Visiting a magical-realist Virgin Islands with author Tiphanie Yanique … New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert counts coughs to judge […]

Pop-parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic on being weird (and Weird, and “Weird”) … “Boyhood” star Patricia Arquette’s stolen Santa Clauses …  How singer Jenny Lewis kicks people out … A trademark-licensing dispute that lead to a big hit … Visiting a magical-realist Virgin Islands with author Tiphanie Yanique … New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert counts coughs to judge […]

Mother Nature is unpredictable, as WQXR was reminded last summer in a broadcast of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Central Park. Heavy rain arrived halfway through a Haydn symphony and musicians and station recording engineers were forced to pack it in quickly. Of course, outdoor summer concerts present many hazards: relentless mosquitoes, noisy airplanes, chatty audiences, and stages baked by the afternoon sun. Bad weather can also lead to substandard performances, with wayward intonation and unfocused playing. It can occasionally be dangerous for players and their instruments (varnish on string instruments turns sticky; seams can come unglued). Last year, the New York Philharmonic performed only half of a concert at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx due to the heat, and the crowd got ugly, booing and chanting "We want Dvorak." Despite these challenges, many orchestras say the concerts absolutely necessary. In this podcast we look at the challenges of al fresco performing with these three guests: Robin Pogrebin, culture reporter, New York Times, who recently covered the New York Philharmonic's parks concerts Nardo Poy, a violist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Tito Muñoz, conductor and music director of the Phoenix Symphony The New York Philharmonic at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx on July 17, 2012 (Kim Nowacki/WQXR). Segment Highlights: Pogrebin on the value of outdoor concerts: "Something that seems bucolic and relatively simple actually has a complex operation that enables it behind the scenes. Speaking with Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, he said 'it's one of the most important things we do.' There is this real emphasis now on culture for the people." Poy on extreme heat and humidity: "For the musicians, the most difficult part is if it rains or if it's so hot and humid, it makes it really difficult to play. The extreme humidity, I've experienced anywhere including when Orpheus was in Cartagena, Colombia. We had so much condensation on our instruments, it made it impossible for the bow to  grab the string and get the tone out." Muñoz on bug infestations: "I don't know if you've ever seen fish flies but they just swarm. We unfortunately got hit by that during one of our concerts. We actually had to stop the concert because it was getting so bad. Every page that I turned I was crunching about a hundred of these bugs." Poy on a particularly heavy rainstorm: "The sound of the water hitting the top of the tent literally wiped out the sound of any music. Poor Mark, having learned this concerto, basically half of it was inaudible. We refer to it as the Marcel Marceau performance." Muñoz on the upside of an outdoor dance performance: "As the lights were coming up, [the dancers] were hearing the crickets and that set the scene even more realistically for them. In a way, it sometimes adds to the performance." Pogrebin on rain policies: The Philharmonic does not call off a concert for rain until the musicians get in the van to go to the venue. So it's really down to the wire because they want the show to go on." Weigh in: Listen to the segment above and share your outdoor music war stories in the comments box below:

In recent months, symphony orchestras have returned to the music of J.S. Bach with a vengeance. The New York Philharmonic is in the midst of a month-long Bach festival with the expressed goal of reclaiming the master's music for modern instruments. At the Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Brandenburg Concertos are on the calendar this spring. The orchestra also plans to re-record the Bach transcriptions of Leopold Stokowski – those sumptuous, technicolor arrangements that had been considered passé (if enjoyably so). "There's been a weird phenomenon for a long time that has made it pretty rare to see Bach on symphony orchestra programs," said New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert in a recent video explaining the orchestra's project. He goes on to question the "exclusivity" of suggesting "there was one only one right way to play Bach." All of this is a far cry from the period-instrument movement's expressed goals to rediscover how Baroque music might have sounded using original instruments and performance practices. For years, if not decades, period-instrument players had gained the upper hand by researching appropriate tempos, ornamentation and instruments. In this podcast, host Naomi Lewin asks three guests about this phenomenon. "I think [orchestras] are panicking," said Monica Huggett, a leading baroque violinist and conductor. "In London, where I worked most of my career, the big orchestras stopped playing Bach because in the end, there was so much good historical performance that they really didn't need to do it any more and people really didn't want to hear it any more." James Oestreich, the consulting classical music editor at the New York Times, sees things differently. "I wouldn't agree that the large orchestras are panicking," he said. "I think they've lost their balance to some extent. I think they've lost confidence in the repertory to some extent. To hold up the music scene in a world capital like London or New York and say this should set standards for who performs what, I don't think is fair." Oestreich adds that the New York Philharmonic played lots of Bach in the 1990s, and the orchestra is "perhaps overselling" the novelty of its current festival. Lewin also asks a prominent New York pianist whether she's trying to reclaim Bach for the modern instrument. "I'm not doing anything unique by playing Bach on the piano," said the pianist Simone Dinnerstein. "I think that I just have more omnivorous tastes and think that Bach sounds very interesting and different when played in many different ways on many different instruments with modern orchestras, on authentic instruments." Weigh in: Do you enjoy the sound of Bach played on modern or on period instruments? Please leave your comments below. Guests: James Oestreich, the consulting classical music editor and a freelance writer for the New York Times. Monica Huggett, a leading baroque violinist and conductor who teaches at Juilliard. Simone Dinnerstein, a pianist who has made a number of Bach recordings. Her latest, called “Night,” with the singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, features a modern rendering of Bach. .chart_div { width: 600px; height: 300px; } loadSurvey( "bach-period-instruments", "survey_bach-period-instruments");

With Mark Lawson. Jack Whitehall, Greg Davies, Niamh Cusack and Frances de la Tour are among the performers and artists who share memories and reflections on working with close members of their families. Christmas is the time when people are most likely to spend time with their closest relatives. But for some in showbusiness the holidays are not a rare family reunion but a continuation of a professional relationship or, for writers and comedians, an encounter with the relatives who have been the source of their best material. Comedians Greg Davies, Jack Whitehall and Sarah Millican regularly exploit cringeworthy family moments in the service of comedy. They describe how it feels to perform the material with the family members in question in the audience. Actress Niamh Cusack reflects on the experience of appearing in Chekhov's Three Sisters with two of her sisters and her father, and Andy and Frances de la Tour discuss working together in Alan Bennett's People, and why they are banned from laughing while watching each other perform. Singer Donny Osmond reveals why he and sister Marie's chemistry on stage does not necessarily reflect the reality off-stage and the conductor Alan Gilbert explains why having his violinist mother in the orchestra prevents the other musicians from indulging in a much-loved pleasure. Producer Ellie Bury.

Alan Gilbert speaking on Condoleezza Rice

VIDEO: Ryu Goto Plays Kreisler and Ÿsaye in the WQXR Café Ryu Goto opened his Café Concert with Fritz Kreisler's Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow), a bittersweet waltz that evokes a kind of aristocratic grace from another era. But Goto is hardly a violinist stuck in the past. As he launched into his second piece, Ÿsaye’s Sonata No. 6, he seemed to adopt a martial arts-like stance in his posture – a byproduct his years of training towards a black belt in karate. “It’s probably influenced by karate,” the 23-year-old violinist acknowledged. While avoiding finger injuries, Goto said karate has provided him with a necessary sense of balance and "mental maintenance." Having a well-rounded childhood was key for an artist who hails from a kind of classical royalty. The son of two violinists, Goto was born in New York and began playing at age three. His teachers included violinists Yoko Takebe (the mother of Alan Gilbert), Cho-Liang Lin, and his own mother, who remains an active presence in his career. His sister is Midori, the celebrated violinist who rose to child stardom in the 1980s. Goto’s burgeoning solo career has been carefully groomed both in the U.S. and Asia, and he has been particularly active in Japan, his family’s homeland. Yet he didn’t follow the straight-and-narrow path of a child prodigy either. Instead of entering a conservatory, he studied physics at Harvard University, where he took on a full slate of extracurricular activities, including golf, lacrosse and guitar (he told one interviewer that he developed a freer style of playing by watching Jimi Hendrix). Goto admits that “my mother was much more liberal with my education like that than with my sister." At the same time, the younger Goto said he learned from watching his sister and “what it means to be a professional, what it means to be a violinist." “I got the impression that being a musician isn’t the be all and end all,” he continued. “But she’s gone above and beyond that kind of categorization. She’s become almost something more – a humanist kind of thing.” Goto alludes to his sister’s involvement with nonprofit organizations including her own Midori and Friends, a nonprofit organization providing concerts for underprivileged and hospitalized children. In 2010 Goto launched the Ryu Goto Excellence In Music Award, an annual $1000 scholarship for high school-age musicians in New York City. The program is administered with the New York City Department of Education. Does Goto ever hope to combine his background in physics with music? “I was a very bad student so I probably wouldn’t be qualified to talk about physics,” he said, laughing. But he has put his love of karate to professional use. The composer Tan Dun enlisted him as a soloist in his Martial Arts Trilogy, a multimedia work with orchestra. Last summer he gave the piece's New York premiere at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. “It certainly helped that I have an image ready for this piece,” he said of his training, adding, “I love the movies and I’ve done karate forever.” Video: Amy Pearl; Sound: Edward Haber; Text: Brian Wise  

New York-based composer Sebastian Currier visits to talk about his music and work, including recent collaborations with Anne-Sophie Mutter. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters Quiet Time, Cassatt String Quartet Time Machines, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic

With Mark Lawson. Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse theatre, discusses her choice of first production, the lack of women running theatres despite a plenitude of acclaimed female directors and whether she's brought a woman's eye to the venue's décor. Conductor Alan Gilbert is Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and is the first New York-born musician to hold the post. He reflects on his role, and on the experience of conducting his mother, who is a violinist with the orchestra. In the week that Angelina Jolie's controversial directorial debut was screened in Sarajevo, depicting Serbian atrocities during the Bosnian War, and Sean Penn has accused Britain of colonialism in deploying Prince William to the Falklands, actor Michael Simkins considers whether actors should speak out on political issues. A new exhibition focuses on the creative relationship between the artists Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson during the 1930s. Richard Cork reflects on how friendships between artists have influenced both their work and their reputations. Producer Philippa Ritchie.

Stile Antico, Mariusz Kwiecien and Alan Gilbert: The Gramophone Podcast, February 2012

On the Wednesday, April 13th broadcast, at 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern, my special guest commentator is Alan Gilbert, Vice President, Business Development, AxSys Health Corp, a unit of AxSys Group founded in 1997. AxSys Health's goal is to utilize information and communications technology to improve the delivery of healthcare.  For details see: http://bit.ly/eQEDg6 Gilbert recently published the thoughtful piece titled: 'Today’s McGyver Approach to Coordinated Care Technology Falls Short', we'll discuss his thoughts in this piece as well as the trends in the move towards collaborative, patient centered care coordination. Quoting Alan: 'Aetna's acquisition of Medicity, Ingenix's acquisition of Axolotl, and the IBM/ActiveHealth Management partnership are three recent indicators of the changing healthcare IT vendor landscape - one that is in the process of consolidating to more sharply focus on the needs of collaborative and coordinated care. These merger and partnership agreements validate the need for an overall technology platform to support the rapid rise of healthcare models like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the revitalization of established approaches such as Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs).' The market is consolidating, while the 'proposed rules' governing ACO's have only recently entered the 60 day comment period. We expect some of those comments to be rather 'lively'. For the complete article, see: http://bit.ly/gj6UOG Please join us for insights from Alan Gilbert.

Recipient of the 1997 NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, Alan Gilbert discusses his first year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. [28:49]

Recipient of the 1997 NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, Alan Gilbert discusses his first year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. [28:49]

Recipient of the 1997 NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, Alan Gilbert discusses his first year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. [28:49]

Recipient of the 1997 NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, Alan Gilbert discusses his first year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. [28:49]