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10-13 Mahler:Layout 1 10/3/11 11:38 AM Page 40 The Artists Lorin Maazel served as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 2002 to 2009. In the 2010–11 season he completed his fifth and final year as the inaugural music director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia opera house in Valencia, Spain, and at the start of the 2012–13 season he will become music director of the Munich Philharmonic. Mr. Maazel is also the founder and artistic director of the Castleton Festival, based on his farm property in Virginia, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. The festival is expanding its activities nationally and internationally in 2011 and beyond. Mr. Maazel is also a composer, with a wide-ranging catalogue of works written primarily over the last dozen years. His first opera, 1984, based on George Orwell’s literary masterpiece, had its world premiere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in May 2005, and was revived at Milan’s Teatro 40 New York Philharmonic alla Scala in May 2008. A Decca DVD of the original London production was released in May 2008. A second-generation American born in Paris, France, Lorin Maazel began violin lessons at age five, and conducting lessons at age seven. He studied with Vladimir Baka - leinikoff, and appeared publicly for the first time at age eight. Between ages nine and fifteen he conducted most of the major American orchestras, including the NBC Symphony at the invitation of Arturo Toscanini. In the course of his decades-long career Mr. Maazel has conducted more than 150 orchestras in no fewer than 5,000 opera and concert performances. He has made more than 300 recordings, including symphonic cycles of complete orchestral works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Mahler, Schubert, Tchai - kovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Richard Strauss, winning 10 Grands Prix du Disques. Lorin Maazel has been music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1993–2002); music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony (1988–96); general manager and chief conductor of the Vienna Staatsoper (1982–84, the first American to hold that position); music director of The Cleveland Orchestra (1972–82); and artistic director and chief conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (1965–71). His close association with the Vienna Philharmonic has included 11 internationally televised New Year’s Concerts from Vienna.
10-13 Mahler:Layout 1 10/3/11 11:38 AM Page 41 Robert Langevin joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Flute, The Lila Acheson Wallace Chair, in the 2000–01 season. In May 2001 he made his solo debut with the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Siegfried Matthus’s Concerto for Flute and Harp with Philharmonic Principal Harp Nancy Allen, led by then Music Director Kurt Masur. Prior to the Philharmonic, Mr. Langevin held the Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair of the Pittsburgh Symphony, was an adjunct professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and served as associate principal of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for 13 years. As a member of Musica Camerata Montreal and l’Ensemble de la Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, he premiered many works, including the Canadian premiere of Pierre Boulez’s Le Marteau sans maître. In addition, Mr. Langevin has performed as soloist with Quebec’s most distinguished ensembles and has recorded many recitals and chamber music programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He also served on the faculty of the University of Montreal for nine years. Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Robert Langevin won the prestigious Prix d’Europe, a national competition open to all instruments with a first prize of a two-year scholarship to study in Europe. He subsequently worked with Aurèle Nicolet at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany, from which he graduated in 1979. He also studied with Maxence Larrieu in Geneva, winning second prize at the Budapest International Competition in 1980. Robert Langevin is a member of the Philharmonic Quintet of New York, and has given recitals and master classes throughout the United States and abroad. Nancy Allen joined the New York Philharmonic in June 1999 as Principal Harp, The Mr. and Mrs. William T. Knight III Chair. She maintains a busy international concert schedule as well as heading the harp departments of The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival and School. In addition, Ms. Allen appears regularly with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In May 2001 she was featured in the Philharmonic’s U.S. premiere of Siegfried Matthus’s Concerto for Flute and Harp with then Music Director Kurt Masur and Principal Flute Robert Langevin. Ms. Allen’s performing schedule includes solo appearances at major international festivals, and has featured collaborations with soprano Kathleen Battle, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, and guitarist Manuel Barrueco; and with flutist Carol Wincenc and Philharmonic Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps in their trio, Les October 2011 41
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