Louis Andriessen: Carnegie Hall Residency Announced
(January 2009)
Louis Andriessen: Carnegie Hall Residency Announced (2009-10)Louis Andriessen has been appointed to hold the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall for the 2009-2010 season. |
Celebrating his 70th birthday in 2009, Andriessen will have works performed by longtime champions, including the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Asko | Schoenberg ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw, and John Adams, as well as protégés and recent muses such as Greetje Bijma, Martijn Padding, and Christina Zavalloni. Spring performances at Carnegie Hall will feature key Andriessen works in their New York premieres, other works by Andriessen as well as composers he has mentored, and a series of intimate late-night concerts devoted to improvisational music—a key influence on the composer himself.
In April 2010, a highlight of Andriessen’s Carnegie Hall residency will be two performances by the Asko | Schoenberg led by conductor Reinbert de Leeuw, the first of which will include the New York premiere of his 2008 opera, La Commedia, presented in a concert version in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. A Carnegie Hall Making Music: Louis Andriessen program showcases both soprano Dawn Upshaw in Andriessen's Dances and the Bang on a Can All-Stars in the New York premiere of a new Andriessen work with video. Also featured in April are piano duo Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams with the American Composers Orchestra, presenting the New York premiere of Andriessen’s The Hague Hacking alongside three world premieres by young North American composers/protégés of Andriessen, and a concert by Ensemble ACJW, featuring Andriessen’s seminal 1974 work De Staat, a raucously intense piece which borrows text from Plato’s "The Republic" and which first brought the composer’s name to wide acclaim, led by composer John Adams, also led the work's American premiere in the 1980s.
As part of his residency, Andriessen also curates a series of late-night improvisatory double-bill concerts in Weill Recital Hall entitled “Three Naughty Boys and Three Crazy Girls,” with tap dancer Savion Glover sharing a program with vocalist Greetje Bijma (accompanied by Andriessen himself on the piano); violinist/vocalist Iva Bittová with saxophonist Evan Parker, and cellist Ernst Reijseger with vocalist Cristina Zavalloni.
Previous holders of the Carnegie Hall Composer’s Chair include John Adams (2003-2007) and Elliott Carter (2008-2009).
Program details follow.
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo
Helena Bugallo, Piano
Amy Williams, Piano
LOUIS & THE NEW GENERATION
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN The Hague Hacking (NY Premiere)
MISSY MAZZOLI These Worlds in Us (World Premiere, new orchestration)
MICHAEL FIDAY HST: In memoriam Hunter S. Thompson (World Premiere)
JOHN KORSUD New work (World Premiere)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 9:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
SAVION GLOVER, Tap Dancer
GREETJE BIJMA, Voice
with Louis Andriessen, Piano
Three Naughty Boys and Three Crazy Girls
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage
ASKO | SCHOENBERG
Claron McFadden, Voice
Jeroen Willems, Voice
Cristina Zavalloni, Voice
Synergy Vocals
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun, Director
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN La Commedia (concert version, NY Premiere)
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
ASKO | SCHOENBERG
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
Barbara Sukowa, Voice
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Zilver
MARTIJN PADDING First Harmonium Concerto
REINBERT DE LEEUW Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (In the Lovely Month of May)
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 9:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
IVA BITTOVÁ, Violin/Vocals
EVAN PARKER, Saxophone
Three Naughty Boys and Three Crazy Girls
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
MAKING MUSIC: LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
Commentary by Louis Andriessen
Dawn Upshaw, Soprano
Heleen Hulst, Violin
Gerard Bouwhuis, Piano
The Zankel Band
Alan Pierson, Conductor
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Jeremy Geffen, Series Moderator
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN Dances
MARTIJN PADDING Mordants
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN New Work with Video (NY Premiere)
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 9:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
ERNST REIJSEGER, Cello
CRISTINA ZAVALLONI, Voice
with Andrea Rebaudengo, Piano
Three Naughty Boys and Three Crazy Girls
Monday, May 10, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
ENSEMBLE ACJW
John Adams, Conductor
Jeremy Denk, Piano
JOHN ADAMS Son of Chamber Symphony
IGOR STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN De Staat
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