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Rachmaninoff 3 Fri, April 5, 10:30am Sat, April 6, 8pm Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller, conductor Carol Wincenc, flute CHABRIER Suite Pastoral GEOFFREY GORDON Flute Concerto (World Premiere) RACHMANINOFF Symphony No.3 Andrea Hample hample@konzertdirektion.de (+49) (0) 304782699 http://www.konzertdirektion.de/index.php?id=275&L=1 http://www.christoph-‐mathias-‐mueller.com/ Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller was born in Switzerland. He studied violin at the Musikhochschule Basel and then conducting at the University of Cincinnati (USA). In 1995, he went as a Conducting Fellow to Tanglewood, Massachusetts, and worked there with Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, and Leon Fleisher. In 1996, he was appointed Assistant of Vladimir Ashkenazy at the Deutsches Symphonie-‐ Orchester Berlin with whom he also debuted as a professional conductor. From 2001 until Easter 2005, Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller was the Assistant Conductor of Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester which he also conducted in concerts at the Lucerne Easter Festival and at the Olympic Committee in Lausanne. Moreover, Claudio Abbado appointed Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller as Assistant Conductor of the Lucerne Festival Or¬ches¬tra. He has been holding this position since the orchestra was founded in summer 2003. In 2000, Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller won the International Conducting Competition in Cadaqués/ Spain. Since than, he guest conducted the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Tonhalle-‐Orchester Zurich, the Rundfunk-‐ Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Radio-‐Sinfonie-‐Orchester Frankfurt, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the Ensemble Modern. Recently, Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller conducted amongst others the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, the BBC Welsh National Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-‐Baden and Freiburg, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Stavanger Symfoniorkester as well as the Staatskapelle Weimar. He gave guest performances in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Staatsphilharmonie in Brno, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, Konzerthaus Dortmund and Musikverein Vienna, in Danzig and Seoul and again returned to conduct the Russian National Orchestra. He directed the Bremen Philharmonic, the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in the new production of the “Fledermas” and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller works closely together with soloist as Frank-‐Peter Zimmermann, Sol Gabetta, Emmanuel Pahud, Reinhold Friedrich, Simone Kermes, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Lauma Skride, Nina Corti, Christian Quadflieg, and Wen-‐Sin Yang. Since the season 2005/2006, Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller has been the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra. Among the CDs which were produced under the direction of Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller the recording with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon may be pointed out especially. Recently a recording of Giovanni Bottesini’s concerto for doublebass with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and a CD with the complete works for violin and orchestra by Max Reger, including the concerto ochestrated by Adolf Busch, have been released. Soon, he will record a CD with Reinhold Friedrich and release a recording including Beethoven’s E
Rachmaninoff 3 Fri, April 5, 10:30am Sat, April 6, 8pm Christoph-‐Mathias Mueller, conductor Carol Wincenc, flute CHABRIER Suite Pastoral GEOFFREY GORDON Flute Concerto (World Premiere) RACHMANINOFF Symphony No.3 Diane Saldick diane.saldick@verizon.net http://www.dianesaldick.com/ainstr/cw/cw.html Carol Wincenc is one of the most respected and acclaimed flutists performing today. She appears with orchestras worldwide and has premiered works written for her by numerous prominent composers. In the 2009-‐2010 season, she celebrated her 40th anniversary as a performer with the Carol Wincenc Ruby Anniversary Series, a three-‐concert series in New York taking place at Merkin Concert Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, and The Juilliard School featuring the premieres of six newly-‐commissioned works by Joan Tower, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, Shih-‐Hui Chen, Andrea Clearfield, and Jonathan Berger. Ms. Wincenc's musicianship is matched by a deep commitment to expanding the flute repertoire. With the Detroit Symphony, she gave the world premiere of a flute concerto written for her by Pulitzer-‐Prize winner Christopher Rouse. Ms. Wincenc also gave the world premiere of Henryk Gorecki's Concerto-‐Cantata at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the U.S. premiere with the Chicago Symphony. She is in demand for her interpretation Lukas Foss's Renaissance Concerto for Flute and Orchestra -‐ a work written for her, and has premiered concerti by Peter Schickele, Joan Tower, Paul Schoenfield and Tobias Picker, who composed The Rain In the Trees, a double concerto for her and soprano Barbara Hendricks inspired by the rainforest poems of W.S. Merwin. Recent appearances have included performances of Christopher Rouse's Flute Concerto with the Rockford Symphony (IL), the Santa Rosa Symphony (CA), and ProMusica Columbus. In the past two seasons, she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In the summer of 2007, Ms. Wincenc received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Brevard Music Center and inaugurated the new Barrere Flute Studio at the Chautauqua Institution with a solo recital. Ms. Wincenc has appeared with the St. Louis, Atlanta, and Seattle Symphonies; the Los Angeles and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras; and at the Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor, Marlboro, Sarasota, and Music @ Menlo festivals. Overseas, Ms. Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, and at the Aldeburgh, Budapest, Tivoli, and Frankfurt international music festivals. Equally sought after as a chamber musician, Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets; performed with sopranos Jessye Norman and Elly Ameling; pianist Emanuel Ax; and cellist Yo-‐Yo Ma. Carol Wincenc is flutist with the New York Woodwind Quintet. Carol Wincenc is a prolific recording artist; she was nominated for a Grammy Award for the 2005 Naxos recording of works by Yehudi Wyner with Richard Stoltzman and other renowned colleagues. Her recording of Christopher Rouse's Flute Concerto for Telarc with Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony won the highly coveted Diapason d'Or. Ms. Wincenc is a professor of flute at both the Juilliard School of Music and Stony Brook University. She often serves as a judge for prestigious competitions, including, in 2009, the Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and the Kobe International Flute Competition. Lauren Keiser Music Publishers are releasing The Carol Wincenc 21st Century Series for Flute, which features the artist's favorite flute repertoire. The Carol Wincenc Signature Editions compilations are published by Carl Fischer. Carol Wincenc is a native of Buffalo, New York. She began studies on the violin at four and the flute at age nine. As a teenager she studied with Italian virtuoso Severino Gazzelloni and then with Robert Willoughby at Oberlin. She also studied with legendary French flute master Marcel Moyse at the Marlboro Music Festival. Post-‐graduate studies were at the Manhattan School of Music and at Juilliard under Arthur Lora. Ms. Wincenc was First Prize Winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute Competition in 1978.
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