PHILLIPS MUSIC75TH ANNIVERSARY2015 / 2016 Season

Caroline MoussetDIRECTOR OF MUSIC

WELCOME

Welcome to our 75th season anniversary!

Audiences and artists have been coming together at the Phillips well before 1941, when Phillips Music became a series of 30+ concerts. Throughout 2015/2016, we commemorate our 75th season of presenting enthralling performances in the Music Room’s idyllic chamber music environment. Among the highlights—notwithstanding a reenactment of the iconic 1955 US debut of Glenn Gould—we pay special tribute to the outstanding musicians of the US military for their role in keeping Phillips Music continually running during World War II. I hope you’ll join us throughout this remarkable season as we traverse many musical landscapes together.

Dorothy KosinskiDIRECTOR

MUSIC STAFF Caroline Mousset | Director of Music

Roberto Alcaraz | Music Operations AssistantEdward J. Kelly | Recording Engineer

Commitment to excellence is embodied in all we present at The Phillips Collection, drawing audiences who are curious to experience our concerts, exhibitions, and public programs.

That belief in quality and the preservation of personal encounters with music and visual art is also the foundation of our Sunday Concerts series, and the starting point of our 75th anniversary celebration. The 75th season is a critical institutional milestone; it is a time to honor decades of exceptional music programming, and to inspire us to engage and provide essential support to ensure its future. All of us—audience, donors, and staff alike—are guardians of a long and illustrious tradition. Through listening, participating, and creating, we guarantee its continued vitality, while exploring new vistas and possibilities.

María Teresa Roca de Togores | Music Assistant The Phillips Camerata, May 30, 2014

Alex Nelson | Music Intern

A GRAND 75TH ANNIVERSARY

It was Duncan Phillips’s personal assistant Elmira Bier who spearheaded Phillips Music from 1941–1972. Bier put into practice the same principles that guided Duncan Phillips: to take risks, encourage emerging artists, and seek unusual pairings in works of art. Phillips Music continues to celebrate these principles in developing a program that embraces all genres of music for audiences of all ages.

The Phillips has planned myriad events this season to celebrate the past, present, and future of Phillips Music:

· Two concerts honor the excellence and dedication of our military musicians

· Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear reenacts Glenn Gould’s program from his historic 1955 US debut at the Phillips

· Reflecting the multiplicity of artistic voices in the permanent collection, American composer Nico Muhly curates a series of concerts

· An exclusive appearance of eminent pianist Emanuel Ax, who first performed at the Phillips in 1967 when he was an 18-year-old student of Mieczysław Munz

· In association with The Library of Congress, the commission of new works for violin and piano from American composer Frederic Rzewski

· Building on the success of Leading European Composers, Phillips Music broadens its scope to create Leading International Composers

· The grand finale performance of the anniversary season features members of The Phillips Camerata in a program following the first performance of the series in 1941

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The seasons of chamber music concerts must be carried on. They have been in complete accord with my policy for the paintings, adding the contemporary to the classic, and the

regional to what has proved to be universal and for all times.Duncan Phillips,1965

Alina Ibragimova, March 8, 2015

Emanuel Ax is among the most highly regarded pianists in the world. He gave his American debut at The Phillips Collection in 1967, seven years before winning the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition. For the 75th season, Ax presents, among others, Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and works by C. P. E. Bach.

APRIL 19 l Benefit Concert: Emanuel Ax, piano

The commemoration, recognition, and reflection of the past 75 years of Phillips Music secures a strong roadmap for the future. Proceeds from the 75th anniversary season will sustain the programs in place while helping build new initiatives.

We invite you to join our Co-Chairs in celebrating the 75th anniversary season by making a gift in support of Phillips Music through one of the following ways:

75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON SPONSORSHIPSponsorship opportunities begin at $5,000. Sponsors receive recognition in 75th anniversary season promotional materials and enjoy benefits including exclusive seating to Sunday Concerts and invitations to two signature programs: the 75th season Prelude Concert and a Benefit Concert by Emanuel Ax.

MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUNDA current or legacy gift to endow Phillips Music allows the Phillips to expand its impact, engage still more diverse communities, build creative conversations with partners around the globe, and interact with a broader community of artists. Endowment gifts are fully tax-deductible.

PHILLIPS CHAMBER SOCIETYConsider adding a $1,500 season subscription to any category of museum membership. Benefits include free admission and guaranteed seating at Sunday Concerts and Leading International Composers, as well as advance e-mail notice of concert programming. ($945 tax-deductible)

For more information on supporting Phillips Music, contact the Development Department at 202.387.2151 x250.

His Excellency Gérard Araud, The Ambassador of France, hosts the anniversary Prelude Concert and reception at his Residence. The performance features members of The Phillips Camerata performing chamber music of the French repertoire.

SEPTEMBER 11 l Prelude Concert: The Phillips Camerata

75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CO-CHAIRSLynne and Joseph Horning Frank Islam and Debbie DriesmanAnne and Ronald Abramson

JOIN THE CELEBRATIONPHILLIPS MUSIC SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Invitation to this program is a benefit offered to season sponsors.

Tickets to this program are complimentary for season sponsors and are also available for purchase.

For more information about these programs, contact the Development Department at 202.387.2151 x250

SUNDAY CONCERTS

Performances begin promptly at 4 pm unless otherwise noted. General admission seating is first-come, first-served beginning 45 minutes prior to concert start time. Tickets are $30, $15 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended; reserve online until 12 hours before each concert.

Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music to reserve tickets and view up-to-date concert details. Select performances are broadcast on Classical WETA 90.9 FM on Monday evenings at 9 pm. All artists and programs are subject to change.

Swiss-Italian pianist Olivier Cavé opens the 2015/2016 75th anniversary season, presenting a handsomely proportioned program of Haydn and Scarlatti sonatas, alongside three works by Albéniz. Leading Haydn scholar Elaine Sisman, Professor of Music at Columbia University, joins Cavé for a post-concert discussion.

Jasmin Toccata Project features an encounter between European Baroque and traditional Persian music. Percussionist Keyvan Chemirani, lutenist Thomas Dunford, and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau create bridges between these different musical worlds as they juxtapose pieces of the great Baroque masters—Scarlatti, Purcell, Dowland—with virtuoso Persian compositions of sublime rhythmic richness.

Distinguished American cellist Lynn Harrell makes his Phillips debut with pianist Victor AsunciÓn. Recipient of the Piatigorsky Award, the inaugural Avery Fisher Prize, and winner of two Grammy Awards, Harrell holds a discography of more than 30 recordings and has performed worldwide with every major orchestra and conductor. Harrell and AsunciÓn present a magnificent Sunday Concert: Schumann’s Fantasiestücke; Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009; Debussy’s Sonata; Mendelssohn’s Sonata No. 2 in D Major; and Chopin’s Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3.

OCTOBER 4 l Olivier Cavé, piano

OCTOBER 18 l Lynn Harrell, cello

OCTOBER 25 l Jasmin Toccata Project

Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, multiple Grammy Award winner Sharon Isbin has been hailed as “the pre-eminent guitarist of our time.” She is also the winner of Guitar Player’s “Best Classical Guitarist” award, the Toronto and Madrid Queen Sofía competitions, and was the first guitarist ever to win the Munich Competition. Her expansive Phillips program includes works by Granados, Tárrega, Albéniz, MacCombie, and Mangoré.

OCTOBER 11 l Sharon Isbin, guitar

In partnership with Mission Culturelle et Universitaire Française aux Etats-Unis

FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES

HIGHER EDUCATION,ARTS, FRENCH LANGUAGE

South African fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout makes his Phillips debut with solo music of Mozart and C.P.E. Bach. Bezuidenhout gained international recognition at age 21 after winning first prize in the Bruges Fortepiano Competition. Amidst a nine-volume recording project of the complete keyboard works of Mozart, Bezuidenhout regularly appears with the world’s foremost early music festivals and concert halls.

Twenty-year-old South Korean Ji Young Lim rocketed to fame recently as first prize laureate of the 2015 International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Currently a student at Korea National University of the Arts, Lim has performed in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland. Pianist Rohan De Silva joins her for her Washington debut, which presents works by Mozart, Grieg, Brahms, and Hubay.

Aside from Beethoven, perhaps no composer has put so much of themselves into their quartets as Dmitri Shostakovich. Spanning the 1930s to the 1970s, Shostakovich’s string quartet catalogue reflects the difficulties of life in Soviet Russia, World War II, and the Holocaust. Bringing penetrative musical insight, authority, and passion, the internationally praised Carducci Quartet commemorates the 40th anniversary of the composer’s death with its Shostakovich 15 project. The Phillips presents the Carducci Quartet in a marathon cycle of all 15 quartets over two consecutive Sundays. Wendy Lesser, author of Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and his 15 Quartets, introduces the cycle at the performance on November 15.

Purchase one Sunday (two concerts) for $55 or the complete four-concert cycle for $100; no individual concert tickets

To honor the museum’s history of presenting uniformed musicians and to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Phillips presents the virtuoso musicians of the US Marine Band in a program centered on Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The monumental work, composed during his imprisonment in Nazi Germany, itself reaches 75 years from its January 15, 1941, premiere. “The President's Own” is America's oldest continuously active professional musical organization.

This concert is free; reservations required. Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music for more information.

NOVEMBER 1 l Ji Young Lim, violin

NOVEMBER 29 l Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano

NOVEMBER 15 & 22, 12:30 PM & 4 PM l Carducci Quartet: Shostakovich 15

NOVEMBER 8 l “The President's Own” United States Marine Band Ensemble

75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT

Following debuts at London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein, the Schumann Quartett makes its Phillips debut with a program featuring Beethoven’s first Op. 18 quartet, Bartók’s second quartet, and the poignant Brahms Quartet Op. 51, No. 2 in A minor. In February 2014, the Quartett received the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize for String Quartet award. The ensemble joined the prestigious ranks of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in April 2015.

Israeli-American pianist Shai Wosner returns to the Phillips with a superbly balanced recital of Chopin, Dvořák, Gershwin, and Schubert. Wosner’s virtuosity and perceptiveness have made him a favorite among audiences and critics, who have called him a “highly intelligent player in his prime” (The Washington Post) with a “keen musical mind and deep musical soul” (NPR’s All Things Considered).

The Phillips Collection celebrates the US debut of Glenn Gould. Toronto-born pianist Stewart Goodyear, in his Washington, DC, premiere, presents a reenactment of Gould’s iconic 1955 program. This commemorative concert replicates Gould’s original program of Gibbons, Sweelinck, Bach’s fifth Partita, Webern’s Variations, Beethoven’s E Major Sonata Op. 109, and Berg’s first sonata. A pre-concert talk at 3 pm with former Washington Post chief music critic Tim Page introduces this momentous occasion, and a reception follows.

DECEMBER 6 l Schumann Quartett

DECEMBER 13 l Shai Wosner, piano

JANUARY 10 l Stewart Goodyear, piano

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[Glenn Gould] gave the recital in Washington: Sweelinck, Gibbons, Bach, et al. Paul Hume of The Washington Post

was there. Hours later, Hume filed a piece for the next day’s paper. “January 2 is early for predictions,” he allowed,

“but it is unlikely that the year 1955 will bring us a finer piano recital than that

played yesterday afternoon at the Phillips Gallery. We shall be lucky if it brings us others of equal beauty and significance,” Unstintingly, he concluded: “Gould is a pianist with rare gifts for the world. It must not long be delayed hearing and

according him the honor and audience he deserves. We know of no pianist anything

like him of any age.”

Excerpt from Paul Elie, Reinventing Bach (2012)

For the final concert of 2015, the Escher Quartet brings a stellar program of Janáček’s “Kreutzer” Quartet, Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E minor, and Zemlinsky’s second quartet. Members Adam Barnett-Hart, Aaron Boyd, Pierre Lapointe, and Brook Speltz are Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The group has been Quartet-in-Residence at Canada’s National Arts Centre, Stony Brook University, and the Perlman Chamber Music Programme.

DECEMBER 20 l Escher Quartet

75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT

In partnership with the Glenn Gould Estate

Pianist Timo Andres returns to The Phillips Collection with violinist Tessa Lark in a program centered on Stravinsky’s Duo Concertante and Suite Italienne. Andres will also feature his own compositions alongside Muhly’s. Recent highlights for Andres include solo recitals at Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, and (le) Poisson Rouge; performances in Los Angeles featuring a new work for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; and a performance of his re-composition of the Moxart "Coronation" Concerto. Winner of the prestigious Naumburg International Violin Award in 2012, Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of her time.

“A one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine” (Pitchfork), violist Nadia Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive execution, coaxing works and collaborations with Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Judd Greenstein, and Missy Mazzoli. Her program includes world premieres by Mathew Fuerst and Alex Freeman, Washington premieres by composer-collaborators Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry, plus music by Nico Muhly, Marcos Balter, and more.

World-renowned for its championing of new music, the formidable Arditti Quartet makes its Phillips debut performance. Since its founding in 1974, the ensemble has won numerous awards, most notably the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 1999 for lifetime achievement—a prize sometimes known as "the Nobel Prize of music,” and the Arditti Quartet is the only group to have received it. The Quartet performs an all-French program of Dutilleux and Ravel, as well as the Washington premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Quatour V (2004–2005), one of several of his quartets written for Arditti.

THREE CONCERTS GUEST CURATED BY NICO MUHLY

JANUARY 17 l Tessa Lark, violin & Timo Andres, piano

JANUARY 24 l Nadia Sirota, viola

JANUARY 31 l Arditti Quartet

75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENTS

Composer-pianist Nico Muhly discusses his selection—inspired by the art at the Phillips—of Timo Andres, Nadia Sirota, and the Arditti Quartet, performing French classics and premieres of contemporary pieces.

“There is something very wonderful about the French elements of the Phillips’s collection—from Degas to Daumier to Dufy. As a stranger living in Paris, I think Stravinsky really ‘got’ but then managed to reproduce in his own way an essence of Frenchness. Much of Stravinsky’s Neoclassical period is explicitly informed by Paris’s palimpsestic classicism—an obelisk in a planned square, a little gesture of a side street next to a Haussmann boulevard. I insisted on the Britten because I love it, but also because it builds on a Renaissance song (by Dowland) and expands on it in a style specific

to Britten’s own age. The Dutilleux is one of the high-water marks, for me, of the modern string quartet rep[ertoire]. . . . If you want to get a picture of the modern musician, I feel like the Ardittis, Timo, and Nadia are a great place to start—all are fearless, creative interpreters.”

A celebrated figure in the world of Baroque music, leading French soprano Sandrine Piau makes her Phillips Collection debut with works by Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc, Strauss, and Wolf with pianist Susan Manoff. In recent years Piau has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Covent Garden Festival, Musikverein, Salle Pleyel, Concertgebouw, and with the world’s most prestigious orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Phillips Collection introduces the Várjon-Baráti-Várdai Trio in their Washington, DC, premiere. Supreme Hungarian musicians—Dénes Várjon, István Várdai, and Kristóf Baráti—individually hailed all over the world for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, come together to perform giants of the chamber music repertoire: Beethoven’s first piano trio, Dvořák’s “Dumky,” and the Brahms B Major Trio.

FEBRUARY 7 l Sandrine Piau, soprano

FEBRUARY 14 l Várjon-Baráti-Várdai Piano Trio

Acclaimed for her passionate, powerful performances, Bella Hristova is “a player of impressive power and control” (The Washington Post). Hristova won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2013, given to instrumentalists based on musical excellence. She makes her Phillips debut with pianist Gloria Chien, performing Poulenc’s Op. 119 sonata, two Sibelius Humoresques, Beethoven’s C minor Sonata, and Ludwig’s Swan Song.

One of Britain’s prevailing pianists, Steven Osborne is renowned for his fresh approach to a wide variety of repertoire both old and new. He is also the recipient of the 2009 Gramophone Award for his recording of Britten. Osborne presents works by Schubert, Debussy, and a selection of Rachmaninoff’s Études Tableaux.

FEBRUARY 21 l Bella Hristova, violin

FEBRUARY 28 l Steven Osborne, piano

With a busy schedule of over 140 concerts a year, Jordi Savall is one of the most important champions of early music. He has been devoted to the rediscovery of abandoned musical treasures for more than 40 years. His Phillips debut program, titled “The Spirit of the Viol,” features composers Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Marin Marais, Tobias Hume, and works from the Celtic tradition.

MARCH 6 l Jordi Savall, viol

German-Korean Christopher Park stunned the 2014 jury of the Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, which presented him with the illustrious Leonard Bernstein Award. After making his debuts with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Vienna Symphoniker, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in 2015/2016, Park makes his US debut at the Phillips with a stellar concert of pianistic treasures: Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major Op. 10,No. 3 and Sonata in G Major Op.14 No. 2, Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka, and Schumann’s Fantasie Op. 17.

MARCH 13 l Christopher Park, piano

Hailed for its “suspenseful and virtuoso playing” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. Brought together by a love of chamber music, Sandbox Percussion captivates audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning. The Sandbox/Amphion program at the Phillips features a performance of Andy Akiho’s LIgNEouS for marimba and string quartet, and the east coast premiere of a new multi-movement percussion quartet by David Crowell.

MARCH 20 l Sandbox Percussion/ Amphion Quartet

Richard Goode is among the most respected artists of the last 50 years. Goode performs a transcendent all-Bach solo program, including the sixth French suite, the complete sinfonias, the second partita, and the Italian Concerto.

MARCH 27 l Richard Goode, piano

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Every time we hear [Richard Goode], he impresses us as better than we

remembered, surprising us, surpassing our expectations, and communicating

perceptions that stay in the mind.

Gramophone

Praised in the media around the globe, Ukrainian-born Stanislav Khristenko is one of America’s most eminent young artists. He joins Russia’s most internationally acclaimed clarinetist and accomplished conductor, Valentin Uryupin, who makes his US debut. Together, the duo presents a unique program including Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata, Widmann’s Fantasie for clarinet solo (1993), and two of Uryupin’s arrangements for clarinet and piano: Schubert’s “Arpeggione” Sonata and Prokofiev’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 94.

Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder won second prize in the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, in addition to taking Best Prize for Concerto and Best Prize for Polonaise-Fantasy. The Deutsche Grammophon artist presents a titanic program, including Schubert’s last Sonata in B-flat Major D. 960, Chopin’s metaphysical Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61, and Liszt’s brilliant and Goliathan Hexaméron variations on the march from Bellini’s opera I Puritani.

APRIL 3 l Valentin Uryupin, clarinet & Stanislav Khristenko, piano

APRIL 10 l Ingolf Wunder, piano

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Moving between ebullient industry to soul-searching intimacy, Ingolf Wunder displays a poise and tonal command way beyond his tender years.

The Independent

Hailed by The Washington Post as “an artist with the goods for a significant career,” Taiwanese-American Paul Huang won the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is recognized for his intensely expressive music making, distinctive sound, and effortless virtuosity. With pianist Jessica Xylina Osborne, Huang performs works by Vitali, Stravinsky, Pärt, and Franck.

Lawrence Power is one of the most prestigious violists performing today and has been shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award. Simon Crawford-Phillips is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and holds teaching positions at the Royal Academy and the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. Program to be announced.

APRIL 17 l Paul Huang, violin

APRIL 24 l Lawrence Power, viola & Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano

MAY 1 l Jennifer Koh, violin & Ursula Oppens, piano, with Frederic Rzewski, composer-pianist

75TH ANNIVERSARY COMMISSION: FREDERIC RZEWSKI

Continuing the vital practice of commissioning music from today’s composers, and in celebration of the anniversary seasons of both institutions, The Phillips Collection and the Library of Congress have joined forces and commissioned new works for violin and piano from prominent composer Frederic Rzewski. The commissions will premiere on back-to-back days.

APRIL 30: Part 1 at the Library of Congress

MAY 1: Part 2 at The Phillips Collection

Brussels-based American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski is among the major figures of postwar music. He is best known for his composition The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, which premiered at the Kennedy Center in 1976 by four-time Grammy-nominated pianist Ursula Oppens.

In 2009, Jennifer Koh introduced Bach and Beyond, a series of three recitals that explore the history of the solo violin repertoire from Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas to modern day composers.

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new music, the formidable American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski

comes as a blast of fresh air . . . this is a man who engages with the real world.

The Telegraph

The Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, led by conductor Andrew Cyr, “a prominent influence in the world of newly emerging music” (The Washington Post), presents its groundbreaking site-specific project Brownstone. This magical “concert-installation” features three electro-acoustic works where audience members leave their chairs behind to experience The Phillips Collection from a new perspective. Music by Polish-American composer Jakub Ciupinski and Pulitzer-Prize nominated Chris Cerrone.

Continuing its long history of presenting military music ensembles, Phillips Music proudly presents the US Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus and Quarterdeck Consort. The Sea Chanters perform patriotic selections by Eric Whitacre, Peter Wilhousky, René Clausen, Irving Berlin, and Mark Hayes. The Quarterdeck Consort, an octet of vocalists drawn from the Sea Chanters, specializes primarily in early sacred and secular a cappella chamber music.

This concert is free; reservations required. Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music for more information.

MAY 8 l Metropolis Ensemble

MAY 15 l United States Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus & Quarterdeck Consort

75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT

In association with

Music and concept: Roger ReynoldsVisual design: Ross KarreAudio design: Paul Hembree

The JACK Quartet performs a new rendering of Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds’s multimedia work-in-progress, FLiGHT I: Imagining (2012-2016). The musical composition accompanies a recitation of poems going back to the early, tragic days of flight—Icarus of Greek mythology and his wax wings melting under the sun—along with a medley of drawings and projected photographs and videos.

Co-sponsored by James Madison University, the National Gallery of Art, and The Phillips Collection

The grand finale performance of the 75th season comes full circle to follow the first performance of the inaugural series in 1941. Led by conductor Yaniv Dinur, the Phillips Camerata presents Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and works by Chopin and Mendelssohn.

MAY 22, AUDITORIUM l JACK Quartet, multimedia performance

MAY 29 l The Phillips Camerata75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EVENT

The Phillips Camerata, May 31, 2015

Washingtonian composer Steve Antosca presents a delicate balance . . . , a two-movement composition exploring the delicate expressions and sounds produced from a small ensemble with voice and computer processing. Presented in conjunction with the museum’s spring 2016 exhibition Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Collection, the work includes strategic placement of surround-sound audio, allowing for the specialization and creation of antiphonal groupings of pointillist sounds to generate an environment of acoustic intimacy.

The Phillips presents violinist Sayaka Shoji, first-prize winner of the 1999 Paganini Competition. A Deutsche Grammophon recording artist, Shoji has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Trondheim Symfoniorkester. She exhibits her dramatic prowess with pianist and S&R Artist-in-Residence Ryo Yanagitani in a program of Schumann, Bloch, Janáček, and Beethoven. Both musicians are winners of the annual S&R Washington Award.

In partnership with

MARCH 17, 6 PM & 7:15 PM, IN-GALLERY CONCERT l Steve Antosca Ensemble

MARCH 31, 6:30 PM l Sayaka Shoji, violin

Ever since they first played together in 2003, Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa have been touring the world, including performances at Lincoln Center with the US premiere of Philip Glass’s Four Movements for Two Pianos, Ars Electronica festival in Linz (Austria), Morgan Library New York, the Festival lnternational de Musique de Colmar (France), Festwochen in Gmunden and the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany). Davies is the chief conductor of the Bruckner Orchester Linz and the Sinfonieorchester Basel. Namekawa is an active soloist having recently performed Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate at Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. Namekawa was recently chosen by Philip Glass to be the first interpreter on recording of his complete piano Etudes.

OCTOBER 29, 6 PM l Dennis Russell Davies, piano, and Maki Namekawa, piano

THURSDAY CONCERTS

Anna Thorvaldsdottir ( b. 1977) is a composer who frequently works with large sonic structures that tend to reveal the presence of a vast variety of sustained sound materials, reflecting her imaginative listening to landscapes and nature. Her music portrays a flowing world of sounds with an enigmatic lyrical atmosphere.

Thorvaldsdottir’s music is frequently performed internationally, and has been featured at major venues and festivals such as Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Composer Portraits Series at New York’s Miller Theatre, ISCM World Music Days, Norway’s Ultima Festival, Klangspuren Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Tectonics, and the Kennedy Center. Her works have received many nominations and awards—most notably the prestigious 2012 Nordic Council Music Prize for her work Dreaming, and The New York Philharmonic’s Kravis Emerging Composer Award. Her portrait album Aerial was released in November 2014.

Ensemble to be announced.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Iceland in Washington, DC.

APRIL 14 , 6:30 PM l Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Iceland

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There’s something beautifully refined about the music of . . . Thorvaldsdottir—

in it, seemingly skeletal structures sprout fragments of dramatic melodies,

textures evocative of nature . . . , and harmonies that open up the heavens.

Chicago Reader

LEADING INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS

Avner Dorman (b. 1975) writes music of intricate craftsmanship and rigorous technique, expressed with a soulful and singular voice. A native of Israel now living in the United States, Dorman draws on a variety of cultural and historical influences in composing. His works utilize an exciting and complex rhythmic vocabulary, as well as unique timbres and colors. Much of Dorman’s music finds its inspiration in the music of Israel and the surrounding region, extending the “Eastern” boundaries as far as the Indian subcontinent. The scales and the rhythms emanating from the traditional classical music of the peoples of the Mediterranean meet a modern, repetitive minimalism, prevailing also in the music tradition of the Middle East.

Dorman has chosen world-renowned Israeli pianists Orli Shaham and Alon Goldstein, Israeli percussionist Tomer Yariv, 2012 Naumburg International Violin Award-winner Tessa Lark, and saxophonist Amanda Heim to perform a concert of his chamber music.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC.

In 2009, European embassies in Washington, DC, and The Phillips Collection joined forces to create an unprecedented concert series: Leading European Composers. Presenting some of the greatest living composers of our time, this series is unique in that the composers introduce their works with performers they select. The George Washington University joined the partnership in 2013, enriching the series with educational programming. This season, Phillips Music broadens its scope to create Leading International Composers, infusing the season with the best of global contemporary music.

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Avner Dorman’s music works its magic by melding far-flung influences and making them

sound natural together.

The New York Times

DECEMBER 17, 6:30 PM l Avner Dorman, Israel

PHILLIPS CHAMBER SOCIETY

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THANK YOU

MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND

Mary BlakeIn memory of Sylvia C. Winkelman by Ann and Donald BrownIn memory of Esther Silver Burstein and Louise Bernheimer Ehrman by the Silver-Burstein FoundationThomas CarothersIn honor of Elisabeth Wisner Chisholm by the Chisholm FoundationClark-Winchcole FoundationIn memory of its founder, Dallas Morse Coors by The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing ArtsThe Cosmos Club FoundationHelen and Charles CrowderJames and Donna DevallIn memory of Tamara Dmitrieff by her friendsThe Max and Victoria Dreyfus FoundationFlorence FasanelliMr. and Mrs. Carl M. FreemanThe Friday Morning Music Club and FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationJoseph and Alma GildenhornIn memory of Elmira Bier by Virginia GloverIn honor of John D. Graubert by his wifeGilbert GreenwayRichard A. HermanLynne and Joseph HorningPaul HumeJames JohnstonDavid Lloyd KreegerIn memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Andrew Pollard by Rebecca Pollard LoganGeneviève Guérin MasonIn memory of Harry McClure

Phillips Music is made possible by generous contributions from individuals, as well as corporate and foundation grants. Thank you for helping to ensure that the world's finest musicians, together with promising emerging performers, continue to appear at The Phillips Collection.

The Phillips Collection gratefully acknowledges support from the following partners:

Official Hotel Sponsor

Official Supporter of our International Artists

Cosponsor of Leading International Composers

Official Broadcast Sponsor

AS OF JULY 2015

William and Inna MetlerAlice and Arthur NagleThe Edward John Noble FoundationGerson Nordlinger, Jr.To honor our nation's great composers by F. Warren O‘ReillyIn memory of Nancy Hanks by Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller

For information about how to support Phillips Music, please contact development@phillipscollection.org or 202.387.2151 x250.

In honor of Joyce B. Cowin by Patricia Bennett SagonIn memory of H. Theodore ShoreIn memory of Colonel C. Haskell Small and Ruth B. Small by their familyIn memory of Alice T. Strong by the Hattie M. Strong Foundation

PHOTO CREDITS Phillips Camerata and Alina Ibragimova performance: Joshua Navarro; Phillips Camerata: Pepe Gomez; Emanuel Ax: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Olivier Cavé: Stefan Meyer; Sharon Isbin: J. Henry Fair; Lynn Harrell: Christian Steiner; Jasmin Toccata: Bertrand Pichène; Ji Young Lim: Rami Hyun; US Marine Band: US Marine Band Public Affairs Office; Carducci Quartet: Andy Holdsworth; Kristian Bezuidenhout: Marco Borggreve; Schumann Quartett: Kaupo Kikkas; Shai Wosner: Marco Borggreve; Escher Quartet: Sophie Zhai; Stewart Goodyear: Anita Zvonar; Glenn Gould: Glenn Gould Estate; Nico Muhly: Matthew Murphy; Timo Andres: Jonathan Waiter; Tessa Lark: violinium.com; Nadia Sirota: Samantha West; Arditti Quartet: Astrid Karger; Sandrine Piau: Antoine le Grand; Kristóf Baráti: Pilvax Studio; István Várdai and Dénes Várjon: Balazs Borocz; Bella Hristova: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Steven Osborne: Benjamin Ealovega; Jordi Savall: David Ignaszewski; Christopher Park: Walter Schels; Amphion Quartet: Jackie Zhāng; Richard Goode: Steve Riskind; Stanislav Khristenko: Evgeny Evtyukhov; Ingolf Wunder: Patrick Walter / DG; Paul Huang: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco; Lawrence Power: Giorgia Bertazzi; Simon Crawford-Phillips: Sussie Ahlburg; Frederic Rzewski: Michael Wilson; Jennifer Koh: Juergen Frank; Ursula Oppens: Christian Steiner; US Navy Sea Chanters: US Navy Band; JACK Quartet: Stephen Poff; Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa: Mark Wohlrab Klaview-Festival Ruhr; Steve Antosca: Steven Biver; Sayaka Shoji: Yellow Korner; Avner Dorman: Dan Seltzer; Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Saga Sigurdardottir

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