miller theatre at columbia university school of the arts of philip glass's piano concerto no....
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Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts
opens the 2017 - 18 Season with
Bach + Glassfeaturing
Simone Dinnerstein A Far Cry
Thursday, September 28, 2017, 8:00 p.m.
Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Tickets: $35-$65 • Students with valid ID: $7-$39
www.millertheatre.com/events/bachglass
From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey:“It is with great excitement that we open the 2017-18 season with the New Yorkpremiere of Philip Glass's Piano Concerto No. 3, a wonderful contribution to the
year-long celebration of his 80th birthday. The acclaimed Boston-based chamberorchestra A Far Cry commissioned this new work, and I'm thrilled to present them intheir Miller debut. The remarkable pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to the Millerstage for the occasion, and we welcome her back two more times this season,continuing the exploration of the music of Bach and Glass.”
Simone Dinnerstein, left; A Far Cry, right
Opening Night Thursday, September 28, 2017, 8:00 p.m.
Bach + GlassMiller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)
“Bach articulated the language of music in the most complete and richest and complexform that any single person has ever been able to do,” says Philip Glass, the iconicAmerican composer whose own prodigious body of work and fascination with form andrepetition compares to that of Bach. During his studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris inthe mid-60s, Glass worked intensively with counterpoint and the music of Bach. His loveand admiration for Bach has only intensified, as seen in works like Songs and Poems forSolo Cello and his Partita for Solo Violin.
In Miller’s 2017-18 Season Opener, the acclaimed pianist and Bach specialist SimoneDinnerstein and Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry (in its Millerdebut) will perform the New York premiere of a new piano concerto that Glass has writtenespecially for them. As a follow up to Bach + Glass, Simone Dinnerstein will perform arecital that pairs Glass with Schubert at Miller Theatre on January 18, 2018.
PROGRAM: Glass: Piano Concerto No. 3 (2017) New York Premiere
Glass: Symphony No. 3 (1995) Bach: Keyboard Concerto in G minor, BWV 1058
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
ARTISTS: Simone Dinnerstein, piano
A Far Cry
Upcoming Concerts in Miller Theatre’s Bach SeriesSingle tickets: $35-$65
Series season tickets: $84-$140
Goldberg Variations Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord
Thursday, October 26, 8:00 p.m.
Bach Piano Concertos Simone Dinnerstein • Awadagin Pratt • Dan Tepfer • Philip Lasser
Thursday, December 7, 8:00 p.m.
Simone Dinnersteinwww.simonedinnerstein.com
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who ismotivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. The NewYork-based pianist gained an international following with the remarkable success of herrecording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 onthe U.S. Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many "Best of2007" lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The NewYorker.
Dinnerstein’s performance schedule has taken her around the world since her acclaimedNew York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in 2005, to venues including theKennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie,Sydney Opera House, Seoul Arts Center, and London's Wigmore Hall; festivals that include
the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen, Verbier, and Ravinia festivals; andperformances with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, StaatskapelleBerlin, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, CzechPhilharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, MinnesotaOrchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra,Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra a Sinfonica Brasileira, and the TokyoSymphony.
Dinnerstein has played concerts throughout the U.S. for the Piatigorsky Foundation, anorganization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. She gave thefirst classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system at the AvoyellesCorrectional Center, and performed at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women ina concert organized by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, Dinnerstein foundedNeighborhood Classics, a concert series open to the public hosted by New York publicschools which raises funds for their music education programs.
Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin.She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in Londonwith Maria Curcio. She is on the faculty of the Mannes School of Music and is a SonyClassical artist.
A Far Cryafarcry.org
A Far Cry stands at the forefront of an exciting new generation in classical music.
According to The New York Times, the GRAMMY nominated self-conducted orchestra“brims with personality or, better, personalities, many and varied.” A Far Cry was foundedin 2007 by a tightly-knit collective of 17 young professional musicians — the Criers — andsince the beginning has fostered those personalities, developing an innovative structure ofrotating leadership both on stage and behind the scenes. By expanding the boundaries oforchestral repertoire and experimenting with the ways music is prepared, performed, andexperienced, A Far Cry has been embraced throughout the world with hundreds ofperformances coast to coast and across the globe, and hundreds of thousands of onlineviews of live streaming concerts and YouTube archives. "Dreams and Prayers” and “Law ofMosaics”, the first albums from A Far Cry's in-house label, Crier Records, have collectivelygarnered a GRAMMY nomination and critical acclaim from The New Yorker’s Alex Ross.The Criers are proud to call Boston home, and maintain strong roots in the city, rehearsingat their storefront music center in Jamaica Plain and fulfilling the role of ChamberOrchestra in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Collaborating with localstudents through an educational partnership with the New England Conservatory, A FarCry aims to pass on the spirit of collaboratively-empowered music to the next generation.
Columbia University’s Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall.
Directions and information are available online at www.millertheatre.com
or via the Miller Theatre Box Office, at 212.854.7799.
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