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Monday, March 3, 2014

Slatkin Leads PSO Grand Classics Program

For Immediate Release
Feb. 27, 2014

LEONARD SLATKIN LEADS PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS PROGRAM FEATURING GOETHE, DUKAS, CAMILO, RAVEL

PITTSBURGH—Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to Heinz Hall to lead the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a BNY Mellon Grand Classics program featuring French masters and a composer performing his own concerto on March 14-16.

Featured in the Disney film “Fantasia” and based on a poem by Goethe, Paul Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” tells the story of a young apprentice who uses magical spells he has not yet learned to control. Dominican pianist Michel Camilo, whose musical sensibility combines elements of classical, jazz and world music, performs his own Piano Concerto No. 2. Maestro Slatkin finishes the concert with several works that demonstrate Maurice Ravel’s penchant for reinterpreting the music of traditional dance forms, including his famous “Boléro.”

The Saturday night performance is a Behind the Notes program, highlighting Ravel. In this concert, the conductor and orchestra will first discuss and then demonstrate the secrets behind Ravel’s music, taking the audience inside the compositions and revealing fascinating details. Audience members will gain an enriched understanding of the composer and his work, which will show how to listen anew to Ravel’s most popular work, “Boléro.” Please note that Camilo will not be a part of the Saturday performance. Anne Martindale Williams and Noah Bendix-Balgley will be performing solos on Saturday.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets, ranging in price from $25.75 to $109.75, can be purchased by calling the Heinz Hall box office at 412-392-4900 or by visiting pittsburghsymphony.org.

The Pittsburgh Symphony would like to recognize and thank BNY Mellon for its 2013-2014 title sponsorship of BNY Mellon Grand Classics. Fairmont Pittsburgh is the official hotel of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Delta Air Lines is the official airline of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Pianist and composer Michel Camilo was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1954. Fascinated with music since childhood, he composed his first song at the age of five, then studied for 13 years at the National Conservatory. At 16, he became a member of the National Symphony Orchestra. Seeking to expand his musical horizons, he moved in 1979 to New York, where he continued his studies at Mannes and Juilliard School of Music. Camilo made his Carnegie Hall debut with his trio in 1985. Since then, he has become a prominent figure performing regularly in the United States, the Caribbean, Japan and Europe. December 1987 marked his debut as a classical conductor when the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic invited him to conduct a recital featuring the works of Rimsky-Korsakoff, Beethoven, Dvorak and Camilo’s own composition, The Goodwill Games Theme, which won an Emmy Award. That year, he became the musical director of the Heineken Jazz Festival in his native Dominican Republic, a post he held through 1992. In addition to compiling an extensive discography and maintaining a rigorous performance schedule, Camilo has composed and recorded a number of Spanish film scores over the years, and holds honorary degrees from his alma mater, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, and UTESA University of Santiago, Dominican Republic. In 1992, he was named a Knight of the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus by the Dominican Government. In addition to his activities as a composer and pianist, Camilo lectured and performed at many universities and colleges throughout Europe and the United States—including New York University, Berklee School of Music, MIT, William Paterson College (in New Jersey) and Puerto Rico Conservatory.

Leonard Slatkin is music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon, France. Slatkin has received the United State’s 2003 National Medal of Arts, the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Gold Baton and several ASCAP awards. He has received France’s Chevalierof the Legion of Honor, Austria’s Declaration of Honor in Silver and honorary doctorates from The Julliard School, Indiana University, Michigan State University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Slatkin has served as music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has held principal guest conductor positions with the Royal Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Philharmonia Orchestra of London and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Founder and director of both the National Conducting Institute and the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, Slatkin continues his conducting and teaching activities at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School. Born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical family — his parents were the conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, founding members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet — Slatkin began his musical studies on the violin and studied conducting with his father, Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at The Juilliard School.

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is owned and operated by Pittsburgh Symphony, Inc., a non-profit organization, and is the year-round home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The cornerstone of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, Heinz Hall hosts many events that do not feature its world-renowned Orchestra including Broadway shows, comedians, speakers and much more. For a full calendar of upcoming non-symphony events at the hall, visit heinzhall.org.

Editors Please Note:

Friday, March 14 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 16 at 2:30 p.m.

Heinz Hall
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS
LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor
MICHEL CAMILO, piano

Paul Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Michel Camilo Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, “Tenerife”

Maurice Ravel Alborada del gracioso

Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Maurice Ravel Menuet antique
Maurice Ravel Boléro

Saturday, March 15 at 8 p.m.
Heinz Hall
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS: BEHIND THE NOTES
LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor
ANNE MARTINDALE WILLIAMS, cello
NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY, violin

Georges Bizet “Habanera” from Carmen

Maurice Ravel Piece en forme de habanera for Cello and Piano

Ernesto Lecuona Malagueña
Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
I. Prélude à la nuit
II. Malagueña
III. Habanera
IV. Feria

Maurice Ravel "Pavane" from Ma Mère l'Oye [Mother Goose]
Morton Gould "Pavanne" from Symphonette No. 2

Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Manuel de Falla “Asturiana” from Canciones populares Espanolas
Maurice Ravel Alborada del gracioso
Maurice Ravel Boléro

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Contact: Louise Sciannameo, Vice President of Public Affairs
Phone: 412.392.4866 | email: lsciannameo@pittsburghsymphony.org
Contact: Joyce DeFrancesco, Director of Media Relations
Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: jdefrancesco@pittsburghsymphony.org
Twitter: @pghsymphony |Facebook: facebook.com/PittsburghSymphonyOrchestra

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Calling PA Composers

For Immediate Release
Aug. 15, 2013

YOUNG COMPOSERS INVITED TO SUBMIT WORKS TO 10TH ANNUAL PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA READING SESSION

PITTSBURGH—Calling all Pennsylvanian composers! The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is looking for composers to submit new works for its annual Reading Session.

To be eligible, applicants must be residents of Pennsylvania at the time of submissions and applicants must be in the early stages of their careers. (As part of an ongoing partnership, submissions from the West Virginia University will continue to be accepted.) Previous participants may not reapply and submitted works must not have received a performance or a reading by a professional orchestra previously. Only one work per composer will be considered.

Submissions will be evaluated by 2013-2014 Year of Pittsburgh Composers adviser David Stock and read by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin on Saturday, March 15, 2014. Following the session, which is free and open to the public, composers will receive feedback from a panel including Stock, Slatkin and the Pittsburgh Symphony musicians.

Since the 2004-2005 season, the PSO has offered an annual reading of works by young composers from area universities as part of its Composer of the Year program. Last year, the program expanded to include composers statewide. Up to four works will be selected for the reading session, with at least one of the spots reserved for students from the universities that have traditionally participated in the program—Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University and West Virginia University.

The submission deadline for the 10th Annual Reading Session is Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. This is not a postmark deadline; materials must be received by this date to be considered. Selected works will be announced Dec. 6. For complete eligibility details and submission guidelines, visit http://pso.culturaldistrict.org/event/6236/10th-annual-reading-session or call 412-392-4828.

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Contact: Louise Sciannameo, Associate Vice President of Public Affairs
Phone: 412.392.4866 | email: lsciannameo@pittsburghsymphony.org
Contact: Joyce DeFrancesco, Director of Media Relations
Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: jdefrancesco@pittsburghsymphony.org

Friday, November 30, 2012

Anne Akiko Meyers Debuts Bates' Violin Concerto

For Immediate Release
Nov. 27, 2012

VIOLINIST ANNE AKIKO MEYERS MAKES PSO DEBUT WITH WORLD PREMIERE OF MASON BATES’ VIOLIN CONCERTO

Principal Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin leads PSO in program that includes Haydn, Saint-Saëns

Anne Akiko Meyers

PITTSBURGH – Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers makes her debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) when she performs the world premiere of Mason Bates’ Violin Concerto in a weekend of BNY Mellon Grand Classics concerts next month.

Principal Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to Heinz Hall to lead the PSO in the two concerts that also will feature Haydn’s charming Symphony No. 68 and Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 (“Organ Symphony”),

The concerts will begin at 8 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7 and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9. Tickets, ranging from $20 to $93, can be purchased by calling the Heinz Hall box office at 412.392.4900, or by visiting the PSO online at www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

Bates’ Violin Concerto was commissioned by Meyers with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

“I am thrilled to premiere Mason Bates' first violin concerto-actually his first concerto for any instrument,” she remarked. “I have been very interested in his work for some time and asked him to write some cadenzas for the Beethoven Violin Concerto, several years ago.”

Meyers said she enjoys collaborating with composers because “we can discuss technical aspects to help achieve the storyline the composer has so deeply in mind. Understanding the soul of the piece is what's important, and we have done a lot of work via Skype. The premiere feels much like giving birth to a child. I look forward to sharing this beautiful work with audiences soon.”

Added Bates, who is the PSO’s Composer of the Year: “Every note is written with Anne in mind, and Leonard Slatkin who will be at the helm. … I have known (Meyers) for a long time. She has a fiery personality and is an incredible player.”

The PSO would like to recognize and thank BNY Mellon for their 2012-2013 title sponsorship of BNY Mellon Grand Classics. Fairmont Pittsburgh is the official hotel of the PSO. Delta Air Lines is the official airline of the PSO.

Bates is the Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the PSO. Music Alive is a national residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA. Anne Akiko Meyers is one of the world’s premiere concert violinists. A celebrated and versatile soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator, she has collaborated with world-class musicians from both the classical and popular worlds, commissioned and premiered new works, and showcased under-performed works to new audiences. In February 2012, Meyers's eagerly anticipated Bach Air album, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra, will be released on eOne. Air features Bach’s violin concerti and the double concerto, for which Meyers recorded both parts, on her two Stradivari violins, the 1697 “ex-Napoleon/Molitor” and the 1730 “Royal Spanish.”

Leonard Slatkin

Internationally acclaimed American conductor Leonard Slatkin began his appointment as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in September of 2008. August of 2011 marked the start of his tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), France. In addition, Mr. Slatkin continues to serve as Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a post that began in the fall of 2008. Following a 17-year tenure as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Slatkin became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. in 1996. Other positions in the United States have included Principal Guest Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he founded their “Sommerfest”; first Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s summer series at the Blossom Music Festival, a post he held for nine years; Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl for three seasons; and additional positions with the New Orleans Philharmonic and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

Mason Bates (Photo Credit: Mike Minehan)

The music of Mason Bates fuses innovative orchestral writing, imaginative narrative forms, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno. Frequently performed by orchestras large and small, his symphonic music has been the first to receive widespread acceptance for its expanded palette of electronic sounds, and it is championed by leading conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, and John Adams. He has become a visible advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether through institutional partnerships such as his residency with the Chicago Symphony, or through his classical/DJ project Mercury Soul, which has transformed spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing more than a thousand people.

Editors Please Note:
Friday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2:30 p.m.
Heinz Hall

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor
ANNE AKIKO MEYERS, violin

Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 68 in B-flat major
I. Vivace
II. Menuetto: Allegretto
III. Adagio
IV. Presto
Mason Bates Violin Concerto (World Premiere and PSO Co-commission)
Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Opus 78, “Organ Symphony”
I. Adagio – Allegro moderato – Poco adagio
II. Allegro moderato – Presto – maestoso

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Contact: James Barthen, Vice President of Public Affairs
Phone: 412.392.4835 | email: jbarthen@pittsburghsymphony.org

Contact: Ramesh Santanam, Director of Media Relations
Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: rsantanam@pittsburghsymphony.org

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Call for New Works from Composers Expands Statewide

For Immediate Release
Aug. 23, 2012

PSO EXPANDS ANNUAL CALL FOR NEW WORKS BY COMPOSERS STATEWIDE

Deadline for score submission is Monday, Nov. 12; Leonard Slatkin will lead PSO in session of chosen works

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) this year is expanding its annual call statewide for new works by composers in the early stages of their careers.

Since the 2004-2005 season, the PSO has offered an annual reading of works by young composers from area universities as part of its Composer of the Year program.

In its ninth year, the PSO’s annual reading program expands its call for submissions to Pennsylvania residents and anyone attending a college or university in the state. All applicants must be composers in the early stages of their professional careers and residing in Pennsylvania at the time of the submission. Only one work per composer will be considered. Previous participants may not reapply.

Leonard Slatkin

In the 2012-2013 season, the session will be led for the first time by PSO Principal Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin.

Submissions will be evaluated by PSO Composer of the Year Mason Bates in consultation with Mentor Composer Patrick Burke, and Slatkin will lead the PSO in the session from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 23, at Heinz Hall. The session is free and open to the general public. Following the session, composers will receive feedback from a panel, including Bates, Slatkin, Burke, and PSO musicians.

Up to four works will be selected for the reading session, where at least one of the spots will be reserved for a student from the universities that have traditionally participated in the program. These include Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University and West Virginia University.

The submission deadline for the 9th Annual Reading Session is Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. This is not a postmark deadline; materials must be received by this date to be considered. Selected works will be announced Dec. 5.

For complete eligibility details and submission guidelines, visit www.pittsburghsymphony.org/readingsession or call 412.392.4828.

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Contact: James Barthen, Vice President of Public Affairs
Phone: 412.392.4835 | email: jbarthen@pittsburghsymphony.org

Contact: Ramesh Santanam, Director of Media Relations
Phone: 412.392.4827 | email: rsantanam@pittsburghsymphony.org

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Principal Guest Conductor Slatkin Leads PSO

For Immediate Release
March 26, 2012

PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR SLATKIN LEADS PSO

IN STUCKY, SAINT-SAËNS, SUITE FROM PROKOFIEV’S ‘CINDERELLA’

Pianist Stephen Hough performs Saint-Saëns’ “Egyptian” Concerto

PITTSBURGH – Principal Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to Heinz Hall to lead the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) in a series of BNY Mellon Grand Classics concerts March 30-April 1.

The concerts open with PSO Composer of the Year Steven Stucky’s Son et Lumière (Sound and Light), which entertains with its play of colors and shimmering textures.

Pianist Stephen Hough will join the PSO and dazzle the audience with the exotic sounds of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Egyptian” Concerto. Hough’s most recent performance at Heinz Hall was in April 2010. The second half of the program features Slatkin leading the orchestra in his own signature orchestral suite from Sergei Prokofiev’s lush and romantic ballet, Cinderella.

The concerts will begin at 8 p.m., Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 1. Tickets, ranging from $20 to $93, can be purchased by calling the Heinz Hall box office at 412.392.4900, or by visiting the PSO online at www.pittsburghsymphony.org.

The PSO would like to recognize and thank BNY Mellon for their 2011-2012 title sponsorship of BNY Mellon Grand Classics. Fairmont Pittsburgh is the Official Hotel of the PSO. Delta Air Lines is the official airline of the PSO. Bobby Rahal Automotive Group is the official automotive group of the PSO.

With a singular vision that transcends musical fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining prominent scientists, writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporary life. He received the 2008 Northwestern University School of Music's Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance and was named winner of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award. Hough has appeared with most of the major American and European orchestras and plays recitals regularly in the important halls and concert series around the world. Recent engagements include recitals in London, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Sydney and on the main stage of Carnegie Hall; performances with the New York, London, Los Angeles and Czech Philharmonics, the Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Boston, St. Louis, Toronto and Atlanta Symphonies, the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minnesota and Russian National Orchestras; and a worldwide televised performance with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle.

An internationally acclaimed American conductor, Leonard Slatkin began his appointment as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in September 2008. He was named Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), France, beginning with the 2011-2012 season. Slatkin began serving as the PSO’s Principal Guest Conductor in the fall of 2008. Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1974, Slatkin has led virtually all of the major orchestras in the United States, including those of Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Cleveland and Philadelphia. He is a regular guest at major summer festivals such as Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Saratoga and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Slatkin's more than 100 recordings have been recognized with seven Grammy awards and 64 nominations.

Editors Please Note:

Friday, March 30 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 31 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Heinz Hall

PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor

STEPHEN HOUGH, piano

Contact: James Barthen, Vice President of Public Affairs

Phone: 412.392.4835
email: jbarthen@pittsburghsymphony.org

Contact: Ramesh Santanam, Director of Media Relations

Phone: 412.392.4827
email: rsantanam@pittsburghsymphony.org