For Immediate Release
Oct. 30, 2013
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSIC DIRECTOR TO DEBUT AS CONDUCTOR IN PHILADELPHIA AND LOS ANGELES
PITTSBURGH—In November 2013, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck will lead performances of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Both engagements are debuts for Honeck, who has led the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2007.
On Nov. 14-16, Honeck will lead the Philadelphia Orchestra in “From Vienna to the New World,” a journey with which the Austrian conductor is quite familiar. The program features works by composers who were influenced by the music and spirit of foreign cultures, including Antonín Dvoøák’s “New World” Symphony, which was inspired by the composer’s three-year stay in the United States; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, which is punctuated by a Turkish-style dervish; and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, which was originally based on a French stage comedy. More information or tickets can be found at www.philorch.org.
Honeck will cross the country to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Nov. 21-23 in a program of Dvoøák at the inspiring Disney Concert Hall. Featuring the composer’s Carnival Overture, tuneful, dancing Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 8. More information and tickets can be found atwww.laphil.com.
Manfred Honeck was appointed the ninth music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in January 2007, and began his tenure at the start of the 2008-2009 season. After a first extension in 2009, his contract was extended for the second time in February 2012, now through the 2019-2020 season. Honeck was born in Austria and studied music at the Academy of Music in Vienna. An accomplished violinist and violist, he spent more than 10 years as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. He began his career as conductor of Vienna's Jeunesse Orchestra, which he co-founded, and as assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. In 2010, Honeck was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. Apart from his numerous tasks as conductor, he has been Artistic Director of the “International Concerts Wolfegg” in Germany for more than 15 years. Honeck served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2011, a position he will resume from 2013 to 2016. As a guest conductor, Honeck has worked with major orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic and in the United States with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Editors Please Note:
Thursday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 15, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.
“FROM VIENNA TO THE NEW WORLD”
VERIZON HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
MANFRED HONECK, conductor
CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, violin
Johann Strauss Jr.: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Antonín Dvoøák: Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
Thursday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 22, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m.
“ZIMMERMAN PLAYS DVOØÁK”
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES, CA.
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
MANFRED HONECK, conductor
FRANK PETER ZIMMERMAN, violin
Antonín Dvoøák: Carnival Overture
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 8
Photo Credit: Felix Broeder
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Louise Sciannameo, Vice President of Public Affairs Phone: 412.392.4866 | email: lsciannameo@pittsburghsymphony.org
Joyce DeFrancesco, Director of Media Relations Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: jdefrancesco@pittsburghsymphony.org
Oct. 30, 2013
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MUSIC DIRECTOR TO DEBUT AS CONDUCTOR IN PHILADELPHIA AND LOS ANGELES
PITTSBURGH—In November 2013, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck will lead performances of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Both engagements are debuts for Honeck, who has led the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2007.
On Nov. 14-16, Honeck will lead the Philadelphia Orchestra in “From Vienna to the New World,” a journey with which the Austrian conductor is quite familiar. The program features works by composers who were influenced by the music and spirit of foreign cultures, including Antonín Dvoøák’s “New World” Symphony, which was inspired by the composer’s three-year stay in the United States; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, which is punctuated by a Turkish-style dervish; and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, which was originally based on a French stage comedy. More information or tickets can be found at www.philorch.org.
Honeck will cross the country to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Nov. 21-23 in a program of Dvoøák at the inspiring Disney Concert Hall. Featuring the composer’s Carnival Overture, tuneful, dancing Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 8. More information and tickets can be found atwww.laphil.com.
Editors Please Note:
Thursday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 15, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m.
“FROM VIENNA TO THE NEW WORLD”
VERIZON HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
MANFRED HONECK, conductor
CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, violin
Johann Strauss Jr.: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Antonín Dvoøák: Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
Thursday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 22, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m.
“ZIMMERMAN PLAYS DVOØÁK”
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGELES, CA.
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
MANFRED HONECK, conductor
FRANK PETER ZIMMERMAN, violin
Antonín Dvoøák: Carnival Overture
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 8
Photo Credit: Felix Broeder
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Louise Sciannameo, Vice President of Public Affairs Phone: 412.392.4866 | email: lsciannameo@pittsburghsymphony.org
Joyce DeFrancesco, Director of Media Relations Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: jdefrancesco@pittsburghsymphony.org
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