Fresh. Local. Music.

59th Season | Maestro Alasdair Neale’s 10th Anniversary

Jeremy Constant

Featured Artist | Jeremy Constant, violin | Ingenious Interplay | Concert No. 4

FEATURED ARTIST & CONCERTMASTER,

JEREMY CONSTANT LOVES

MUSIC & FLIGHT

The Marin Symphony’s fourth program

in its 59th Season of Fresh Local Music

features concertmaster Jeremy Constant

Sunday, March 4, and Tuesday, March 6,

2012. Featured artist Jeremy Constant

is originally from Canada, where he won

the Grand Prize in the 1979 Du Maurier

competition. He has studied in New York

with Ivan Galamian and violinist Itzhak

Perlman. Jeremy moved to the San

Francisco Bay Area after participating in

the Carmel Bach Festival with Sandor

Salgo, founder of the Marin Symphony.

”Featured Artist | Jeremy Constant, violin | Ingenious Interplay | Concert No. 4

BACH & PÄRT

“ This concert is very unusual in that I’m a soloist on every

piece in the program, except one. I’ll be playing the

Brandenburg concerti and Arvo Pärt Fratres. It’s a very cool

piece. The Brandenburgs are really well known, well loved,

and immediately enjoyable pieces. The interesting thing

about the pairing of the Brandenburgs and the Fratres—the

Fratres is a very meditative piece. It’s extremely spiritual.

The connection is that Bach was first and foremost a

religious composer. The counterpoint and running lines of

Bach’s music can take you into that same head space.

Jeremy Constant expresses insights into the upcoming performance.

”Featured Artist | Jeremy Constant, violin | Ingenious Interplay | Concert No. 4

FLYING & MUSIC

“ Because it’s so different. My flying friends seem

surprised that I like the engineering aspect of it,

the flight-testing aspect, the analytical aspect.

You do this and this will happen. It’s something

you can predict, and if you’re not getting the right

results, you’ve done something wrong.

ANOTHER SIDE OF JEREMY...

Though his virtuoso performances take flight through his hands and the ex-

Heberlein Stradivarius, donated to the San Francisco Symphony expressly for

his use, music is not Jeremy’s only passion. Flying is a release for him.

”Featured Artist | Jeremy Constant, violin | Ingenious Interplay | Concert No. 4

FLYING & MUSIC

“ That’s totally different than music.

Music is interpretive, creative,

generative… The whole idea is to

not do it like someone else has.

It’s a communicative process.

Ultimately you’re telling a story.

You want to affect someone’s

emotions. What I like about flying

is that it is tapping into different

parts of my personality,

different parts of my brain.

”Featured Artist | Jeremy Constant, violin | Ingenious Interplay | Concert No. 4

FLYING & MUSIC

“ I have to say while in performance

you may be so nervous you feel

like you’re going to die, but it’s a

death you can live with. Flying is

an endeavor of real consequence.

I kind of like that. In music there

are many, many, many things that

are ambiguous — especially when

you play in an orchestra. It’s a

collaborative process.

Ingenious InterplayPROGRAM 4

Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 3pmTuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7:30pm

Alasdair Neale, conductorJeremy Constant, violin

Bach Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5

Arvo Pärt Fratres

Arvo Pärt Cantus In Memory of Benjamin Britten

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Photo: James Hall

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