2008-2009 Season - Next Performances
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
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Rudolf Werthen, conductor
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello |
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Mischa Santora, conductor
Shai Wosner, piano |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
Edward Schultz, flute |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
Korbinian Altenberger, violin |
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José Serebrier, conductor
Boris Garlitsky, violin |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, chorus Susanna Phillips, soprano |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
Sarah Castle, mezzo-soprano James J. Cooper III, cello |
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Scott Yoo, conductor
& violin
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
& piano
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The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Announces 2008-2009 Season
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Masters of All Time, Great Soloists,
Classical Discoveries, Baroque Perspectives
and A Composer’s Portrait
45th Concert Season Soloists include Queen Elisabeth Competition
winner Shai Wosner, London Philharmonic Orchestra
concertmaster Boris Garlitsky, and multifaceted
conductor and violinist Scott Yoo Season includes World Première Commissions by
Sir John Tavener and Vladimir Martynov Ticket prices remain the same as 2008 - 2009 Ensemble-in-residence to perform for second time
at French Embassyin Washington, DC in October
with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras
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The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia announces its 2008 - 2009 concert season, the 5th under the Music Directorship of Maestro Ignat Solzhenitsyn and 45th since its inception. The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will perform ten concert pairs from September through May in the Kimmel Center’s intimate Perelman Theater. This season is again generously sponsored by Blank Rome LLP. This season The Chamber Orchestra has programmed concerts in three main categories and two single-theme concerts. Masters of All Time concerts feature works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Brahms. A pair of Baroque Perspectives concerts features Baroque works from the German and French repertoire. Two Great Soloists performances feature Queen Elisabeth Competition winner pianist Shai Wosner making a return engagement with the ensemble and violinist Boris Garlitsky, concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, featured as part of an ongoing collaboration between the two Orchestras. A special Composer’s Portrait of Sir John Tavener concludes with a world premiére commission, and features the Chamber Orchestra principal cello James J. Cooper III as soloist. Maestro Solzhenitsyn leads the ensemble in a special Classical Discoveries concert featuring works by Mendelssohn, Nielsen, and Martynov. The season concludes with Maestro Solzhenitsyn performing and leading the ensemble from the keyboard in Beethoven’s “Emperor” piano concerto.
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Ticket prices remain the same as 2007 - 2008!
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Subscription packages available now for as little as $115. Individual concert tickets will be available for purchase starting on Tuesday, September 2.
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Opening Week - Sept. 26 & 28, 2008
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The season opens on September 26 & 28, 2008 – the first Friday opening night in the ensemble’s 45-year history. These Masters of All Time concerts feature Maestro Solzhenitsyn leading the ensemble in two Beethoven Symphonies – Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 and Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92. “We open our season with a celebration of Beethoven, the man whose music, like no other, has offered us exhilaration and consolation for two hundred years,” said Maestro Solzhenitsyn. “Come and hear the inexhaustible, irrepressible imagination at work in the Second Symphony, and the unfathomable depths of the Seventh.”
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Haydn | Rameau | Lully - October 26 & 27, 2008
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Rudolf Werthen
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The Baroque Perspectives series opens on October 26 & 27, 2008. Guest conductor Rudolf Werthen will lead the orchestra in this program, which will include the ensemble’s second performance at La Maison Française at the Embassy of France in Washington, DC, on October 28 and are given with the support of the Cultural Services of the Republic of France. Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras will be featured in Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1. French Baroque works by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Le Triomphe de l’amour: Ballet Suite) and Jean-Philippe Rameau (La Poule – L’Eqyptienne) are also on the program. “I am so happy to welcome back the marvelous French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, who stunned our audience with his exquisite Schumann a few seasons ago,” said Maestro Solzhenitsyn. “He is joined by the renowned Rudolf Werthen, who makes his Philadelphia début.” This concert pair is generously sponsored by Drs. Heidi L. Kolberg and F. Joshua Barnett, and Carole and Joseph Shanis.
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Wosner Performs Mozart - November 9 & 10, 2008
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Shai Wosner
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The Great Soloists series opens on November 9 & 10 when two rising stars join the orchestra for a program of true classical refinement. Pianist Shai Wosner makes his return to Philadelphia for his second performance with The Chamber Orchestra to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, “Jeunehomme”, while guest conductor Mischa Santora leads the Orchestra. Other works on the program are Rossini’s Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri and Haydn’s Symphony No. 86 in D Major. Mr. Wosner is a 1999 winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium and is presented here in collaboration with the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
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Mendelssohn | Nielsen | Martynov - December 7 & 8, 2008
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Ed Schultz
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Maestro Solzhenitsyn offers a Classical Discoveries program on December 7 & 8. The Chamber Orchestra continues to explore the enigmatic Carl Nielsen with his Flute Concerto, featuring the orchestra’s own principal flute, Edward Schultz, as soloist. Also on the program is a world première commission by the outstanding Russian minimalist Vladimir Martynov. The program begins and concludes with two Mendelssohn symphonies, Sinfonia No. 3 in E Minor and Sinfonia No. 8 in D Major (version with winds). This concert pair is generously sponsored by Archer and Greiner.
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Young Mozart - January 11 & 12, 2009
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Korbinian Altenberger
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The works of Young Mozart are featured in the second Masters of all Time performance on January 11 & 12. Korbinian Altenberger, the promising young German violinist, returns to the Perelman Theater to perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, “Turkish,” and Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B-flat Major, K. 269. Mr. Altenberger’s appearance is presented in collaboration with Astral Artists and supported by a grant from the Wallace Foundation. As the Maestro said, “Completed by the age of twenty, the four works of Mozart presented here explore the light and shadow of this inexplicable, ineffably dazzling wunderkind genius.” The program also features two Mozart Symphonies – Symphony No. 17 in G Major, K. 129 and Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201. These concerts are generously sponsored by The Simkiss Companies.
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Garlitsky Performs Mozart - January 25 & 26, 2009
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Boris Garlitsky
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Boris Garlitsky, the concertmaster of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, will join guest conductor and composer José Serebrier in the Chamber Orchestra’s second Great Soloists program of the season. “What a special treat to welcome José Serebrier, who will conduct one of his own compositions – a rare sight in our time,” said Maestro Solzhenitsyn. “My compatriot Boris Garlitsky, and then the famous String Serenade of Tchaikovsky, provide a Russian flavor.” The performance will begin with Maestro Serebrier’s Fantasia, will continue with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, K. 207, and will conclude with Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48. This concert pair is generously sponsored by National Analysts Worldwide, and is presented in collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem - February 13 & 15, 2009
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Choral Arts Society
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The Chamber Orchestra again welcomes The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia and baritone Randall Scarlata in a Masters of all Time performance of Brahms’ masterpiece Ein deutsches Requiem on February 13 & 15. Susanna Phillips is the featured soprano. “Uniquely amongst the great Requiems, the transcendent German Requiem is set to Old Testament texts, whose wisdom and power were of great meaning to Brahms,” said Maestro Solzhenitsyn. “The result is an edifice of awesome majesty and luminescent beauty.” The Chamber Orchestra previously worked with The Choral Arts Society in May 2007 in another All-Brahms performance, and Mr. Scarlata appeared with the ensemble last season in works by Ravel and Stravinsky. These concerts are generously sponsored by Binswanger.
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Sir John Tavener Meets Bach - March 20 & 22, 2009
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Sir John Tavener
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On March 20 & 22, Maestro Solzhenitsyn presents A Composer’s Portrait of esteemed English composer Sir John Tavener. The program begins with Prelude and Fugue, Op. 29 by Tavener’s countryman Benjamin Britten, and continues with J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 3 in D Major. Then, three Tavener works will be performed: The World, Eternal Memory, and a World Première Commission, Tu ne sais pas. “Tavener’s portrait is filled out here with a rarely heard work by his great countryman Britten, and by the infectious joy of Bach’s much-loved Third Suite,” said Maestro Solzhenitsyn. Sarah Castle is the featured mezzo-soprano in Tu ne sais pas and The World and Chamber Orchestra principal cello James J. Cooper III is featured in Eternal Memory. This program, including the commissioning and presentation of Sir. John Tavener’s new work, is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and Philadelphia Music Project, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. This concert pair is generously sponsored by Archer and Greiner.
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Handel | Bach | Telemann - April 19 & 20, 2009
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Scott Yoo
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The second Baroque Perspectives performance of the season, on April 19 & 20, will feature works by Handel, Bach, and Telemann. The very gifted violinist and conductor Scott Yoo solos in two the Concerto grosso in A Major, Op. 6, No. 11 by Handel and J.S. Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, and will then pick up the baton to lead the Chamber Orchestra in fascinating works of twentieth-century Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (Concerto grosso No. 1) and prolific German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann (Don Quichotte).
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Beethoven's Emperor - May 10 & 11, 2009
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The 2008 – 2009 Season concludes on May 10 & 11, 2009, with a Masters of All Time concert pair again showcasing great works of Beethoven. The concert pairs two of Beethoven’s great masterpieces: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor” – led from the piano by Maestro Solzhenitsyn – and Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93. “We end the season as we began it, in the company of the incomparable Beethoven: the magnificent Fifth Concerto and the mercurial, witty tempestuousness of the ever-underrated Eighth Symphony,” said Maestro Solzhenitsyn. These concerts are generously sponsored by Brown Brothers Harriman.
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A resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia performs ten concert pairs from September through May in the intimate, 600-seat Perelman Theater. Subscriptions are available in packages of five, seven or ten concerts starting at $115. A special “Run of the House” package, available to new subscribers, offers five concerts for $200, with seating in each level of the Perelman Theater. Individual ticket prices range from $20 to $77. New subscribers can also choose a special “Best Seat Available” subscription featuring all seven Monday night concerts for $200 and seating in the “best available” seat the night of the performance. Individual concert tickets will be available for purchase starting on Tuesday, September 2. Subscribers receive a range of benefits, such as “Ticket Concierge” service, allowing free exchanges* and ticket insurance, early notification of next season’s repertoire and special prix fixe menu offers from local restaurants. Subscribers to the seven- and ten-concert packages will also receive a free “Bring-A-Friend” ticket to a subscription concert of their choice. Subscriptions may be ordered at 215.545.1739, or visit chamberorchestra.org and enter your address to receive a season brochure and to be added to our mailing list. * exchanges are not allowed in the “Best Available Ticket” subscription package, and are subject to availability.
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