NEWS RELEASE
The Cleveland Orchestra announces added
Beethoven performances at the Arsht Center,
January 28, 2010, including a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth
Residency activities to take place at seven Miami-Dade County Public Schools,
including a full orchestral performance at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School on January 26
Single tickets are now on sale
CLEVELAND, December 16, 2009 – The Cleveland Orchestra announces details of the first two weeks of its 2010 Miami Residency activities. Single tickets are now on sale for programs in the Orchestra’s fourth Miami Residency season, which includes a series of subscription concerts at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County as well as music education and outreach activities in the Miami-Dade community.
Cleveland Orchestra Concerts at the Arsht Center
Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will lead the Orchestra in five concerts at the Arsht Center. Repertoire for the first week of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2010 Miami Residency includes Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, and Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz as soloist for concerts on January 22 and 23. The second weekend of the residency (January 28-30) celebrates Beethoven. It begins with a newly added performance of Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3, Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra with Concertmaster William Preucil as soloist, and Symphony No. 5 on Thursday, January 28, and continues with a program on Friday, January 29 (repeated on Saturday, January 30), of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”), Leonard Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra) with pianist Joela Jones, and Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del destino. The Orchestra will offer engaging pre-concert lectures to enhance the Friday and Saturday concerts. Immediately after the Thursday program, a new post-concert chamber music performance, “Beethoven with a Twist,” will be held in an intimate, club-like setting featuring musicians from the Orchestra performing in Carnival Studio Theater.
These Cleveland Orchestra performances are presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The January 28, 29, and 30 concerts are sponsored by Northern Trust.
Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency Expands Educational and Community Collaboration Programs in the Miami-Dade Community
The Orchestra’s Miami Residency continues to develop through expanded education and community programs that serve thousands in the Miami-Dade area. The Orchestra’s residency activities in Miami were conceived and made possible with the leadership of the Musical Arts Association of Miami, the Miami-based support organization dedicated to fundraising for the Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency.
A new component of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency in 2010 is an in-school performance by the entire ensemble, titled “Meet the Orchestra,” at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School, a Miami-Dade County Public School. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and the full Orchestra will participate in this historic event.
Other educational activities in January include curriculum-based programs with “I Have a Dream” students at Hibiscus Elementary School in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district and with students from various schools at Coconut Grove Cares/The Barnyard, and an orchestral and teacher workshop at Coral Reef Senior High School. Numerous in-school activities are planned, including coaching sessions with orchestral students at New World School of the Arts as well as “Musical Rainbows,” lively programs that introduce children to instruments of the orchestra, one at a time, at four Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Activities with Miami-Dade County Public Schools are supported by an Access to Artistic Excellence grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2010, community partnerships will expand beyond inaugural partners (the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, University of Miami Frost School of Music, New World Symphony, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools) to include Coconut Grove Cares/The Barnyard, the Miami-Dade County Department of Public Affairs, Miami Music Project, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Overtown Youth Center, Sunday Afternoons of Music, Arts for Learning, Miami Music Mentors, and the Archdiocese of Miami.
Since the beginning of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency in 2007, The University of Miami Frost School of Music has been an important institutional partner. In 2010, Frost School of Music residency activities will include choral conducting coaching sessions with Cleveland Orchestra Director of Choruses Robert Porco, a chamber composition reading session, and a series of masterclasses and forums, including a Music Education Forum led by Cleveland Orchestra Director of Education and Community Programs Joan Katz Napoli.
Support for the Miami Residency is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. The 2010 Miami Residency sponsors are Feldman Gale, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Northern Trust. The residency media partners are Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, WLRN, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald.
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About the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is one of the world’s leading performing arts organizations and venues. Made possible by Miami-Dade County’s largest ever public/private-sector partnership, the Center plays host to three resident companies (Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet and New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy) in addition to numerous South Florida arts organizations that perform in its theaters regularly. Since opening in 2006, the Center has emerged as a leader in offering and presenting world-class programming that mirrors South Florida’s diversity, as a catalyst for development in Miami, and as a host of impactful community and educational programs.
Designed by world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the venue is comprised of the 2,400-seat Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, the 2,200-seat John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall, the black box Carnival Studio Theater, a restored Carnival Art Deco Tower, the Peacock Foundation, Inc. Studio, the Peacock Foundation, Inc. Education Center, and the outdoor Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts. Events impresario and restaurateur Barton G. Weiss brought his signature style to the Center in 2009 with PRELUDE BY BARTON G, a full-service upscale restaurant open six days a week.
Visit www.arshtcenter.org for more information.
A calendar for The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2010 January Miami Residency follows this release, along with a biography of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. Biographies of Leila Josefowicz, Joela Jones, and William Preucil, as well as photos of the Orchestra, conductor, and soloists, are available upon request.
Media Contact: Ana Papakhian, (216) 231-7476 or (216) 370-2595, anap@clevelandorchestra.com
JANUARY 2010
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI RESIDENCY
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Activities with educational partners are open to students at those institutions, unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, January 21 - Friday, January 29, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Cleveland Orchestra Musician Masterclasses & Educational Forums
Musicians and administrators from The Cleveland Orchestra will lead masterclasses and forums with students at the Frost School of Music. The Cleveland Orchestra’s Director of Choruses, Robert Porco, will work with Frost School of Music choral conducting students in rehearsals and coachings.
Frost School of Music
University of Miami, Coral Gables
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 1:10 - 3:45 p.m.
WORKING REHEARSAL WITH NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ORCHESTRAL ENSEMBLES
New World School of the Arts
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor Tito Muñoz works with high-school orchestra musicians at the New World School of the Arts, a magnet arts high school that is an educational partnership of Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Miami Dade College; and the University of Florida.
New World School of the Arts
401 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 11 a.m.
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ LIVE INTERVIEW
NBC 6/ WTVJ South Florida Today
Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a 2008 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “genius grant” award winner, as well as a recipient of both the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and a United States Artists Cummings Fellowship. An international soloist and Grammy-nominated recording artist, Ms. Josefowicz is appearing with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County on January 22 and 23.
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
R. STRAUSS – Don Juan
ADÈS – Violin Concerto
BRAHMS – Symphony No. 2
Pre-Concert Conversation at 7:00 p.m.
This performance is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Media Partners: Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Tickets: $40-$155
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
clevelandorchestramiami.com
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 10 a.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA INVITATION-ONLY REHEARSAL FOR DONORS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
Rehearsal open to donors by invitation, and to Frost School of Music students, New World Symphony fellows, and music students from Florida International University and New World School of the Arts.
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 8 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
R. STRAUSS – Don Juan
ADÈS – Violin Concerto
BRAHMS – Symphony No. 2
Pre-Concert Conversation at 7:00 p.m.
This concert program will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM in Cleveland. Host for the broadcast will be Robert Conrad. National radio broadcasts of The Cleveland Orchestra are sponsored by UBS.
This performance is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Media partners: Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Tickets: $45-$155
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
clevelandorchestramiami.com
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 10 a.m.
MUSICAL RAINBOW PROGRAM
David Lawrence Junior K-8 Center
Mary Kay Fink, piccolo and flute
Carolyn Warner, piano
“Musical Rainbows” are a colorful way to introduce young children in kindergarten up to third grade to the instruments of the orchestra, one at a time. Using narration, instrument demonstrations by a Cleveland Orchestra musician, and a variety of musical selections, the programs engage children in music-making through singing, clapping, and interactive fun.
David Lawrence Junior K-8 Center
Bay Vista Boulevard, North Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 1:30 p.m.
MUSICAL RAINBOW PROGRAM
Miami Shores Elementary School
Mary Kay Fink, piccolo and flute
Carolyn Warner, piano
“Musical Rainbows” are a colorful way to introduce young children in kindergarten up to third grade to the instruments of the orchestra, one at a time. Using narration, instrument demonstrations by a Cleveland Orchestra musician, and a variety of musical selections, the programs engage children in music-making through singing, clapping, and interactive fun.
Miami Shores Elementary School
10351 NE 5th Avenue, Miami Shores
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Monday, January 25, 2010, 4 - 5 p.m.
LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC
“I HAVE A DREAM” – MIAMI
Hibiscus Elementary School
Cleveland Orchestra musician Mark Atherton, bass, will present “Growing Things,” in which students in the “I Have a Dream” – Miami program will learn how both music and living things grow and change.
Hibiscus Elementary School
18701 NW 1st Avenue, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CONCERT – “MEET THE ORCHESTRA”
Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will perform an Education Concert titled “Meet the Orchestra” at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School, a Miami-Dade County Public School
Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School
7977 West 12th Avenue, Hialeah
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 4 p.m.
LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC
The Barnyard
Cleveland Orchestra musician David Alan Harrell, cello, will present a program from the Orchestra’s Learning Through Music curriculum for students in the after-school program at the Barnyard Community Center.
Coconut Grove Cares/The Barnyard
3870 Washington Avenue, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 10 a.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA OPEN REHEARSAL FOR STUDENTS
Rehearsal open to Frost School of Music students, New World Symphony fellows, and music students from New World School of the Arts, Florida International University, and selected high schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district.
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
William Preucil, violin
BEETHOVEN – “Leonore” Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN – Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 5
Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in this performance featuring Beethoven’s dramatic Fifth Symphony and two shorter works by Beethoven. This concert will be performed without intermission.
This performance is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Media Partners: Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Tickets: $35 -$90
9 p.m.
BEETHOVEN WITH A TWIST
Carnival Studio Theater, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Cleveland Orchestra musicians perform chamber music by Beethoven in a club-style setting where patrons can enjoy libations and upscale snacks while listening.
Tickets: $45
This performance is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
clevelandorchestramiami.com
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 11:30 a.m.
MUSICAL RAINBOW PROGRAM
Norma Butler Bossard Elementary School
Daniel McKelway, clarinet
Carolyn Warner, piano
“Musical Rainbows” are a colorful way to introduce young children in kindergarten up to third grade to the instruments of the orchestra, one at a time. Using narration, instrument demonstrations by a Cleveland Orchestra musician, and a variety of musical selections, the programs engage children in music-making through singing, clapping, and interactive fun.
Norma Butler Bossard Elementary School
15950 SW 144th Street, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2 p.m.
MUSICAL RAINBOW PROGRAM
Jack David Gordon Elementary School
Daniel McKelway, clarinet
Carolyn Warner, piano
“Musical Rainbows” are a colorful way to introduce young children in kindergarten up to third grade to the instruments of the orchestra, one at a time. Using narration, instrument demonstrations by a Cleveland Orchestra musician, and a variety of musical selections, the programs engage children in music-making through singing, clapping, and interactive fun.
Jack David Gordon Elementary School
14600 Country Walk Drive, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Joela Jones, piano
VERDI – Overture to La Forza del destino
BERNSTEIN – “The Age of Anxiety,” Symphony No. 2
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)
Pre-Concert Conversation at 7:00 p.m.
This performance is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Media Partners: Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Tickets: $45-$160
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
clevelandorchestramiami.com
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
ORCHESTRAL AND TEACHER WORKSHOP
Coral Reef Senior High School
Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor Tito Muñoz works with the Coral Reef High School Orchestra and teachers in preparation for upcoming Education and Family Concert performances in March at the Arsht Center.
Coral Reef Senior High School
10101 SW 152 Street, Miami
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Joela Jones, piano
VERDI – Overture to La Forza del destino
BERNSTEIN – “The Age of Anxiety,” Symphony No. 2
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)
Pre-Concert Conversation at 7:00 p.m.
This concert program will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM in Cleveland. Host for the broadcast will be Robert Conrad. National radio broadcasts of The Cleveland Orchestra are sponsored by UBS.
This performance is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Media Partners: Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Tickets: $50-$160
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
clevelandorchestramiami.com
Franz Welser-Möst
Music Director
Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst is in his eighth year as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra. His long-term commitment extends to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his direction, the Orchestra holds residencies in the United States and Europe, champions living composers, partners with Northeast Ohio public schools and conservatories, and has re-established itself as an operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Möst becomes General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2010.
Under Mr. Welser-Möst’s leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra holds ongoing residencies at Vienna’s famed Musikverein hall and Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival, along with an annual Miami Residency. In 2009-10, Mr. Welser-Möst and the Orchestra begin an Indiana University Residency, and in 2011, launch a biennial residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, featuring The Cleveland Orchestra in Vienna State Opera productions.
Under Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has presented eleven world and fourteen United States premieres. In 2009, Mr. Welser-Möst led a Zurich Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro at Severance Hall. He and The Cleveland Orchestra will continue the Mozart/Da Ponte operas in Cleveland with Mozart’s Così fan tutte in 2009-10 and Don Giovanni in 2010-11.
Recent and upcoming international engagements include a new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf at the Vienna State Opera. During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Welser-Möst leads additional Ring performances, as well as Wagner’s Tannhaüser and Parsifal, with the Vienna State Opera. In the summer of 2009, Franz Welser-Möst appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms, and the Lucerne Festival. He also conducted the Berlin Philharmonic at the 2009 Salzburg Easter Festival.
Following his 1989 American debut and prior to his appointment in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Möst regularly guest-conducted the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia. Mr. Welser-Möst was music director of the London Philharmonic from 1990 to 1996. Across his decade-long tenure with the Zurich Opera, culminating in three seasons as General Music Director (2005-08), Mr. Welser-Möst led more than 40 new productions. In the spring of 2010, he leads Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten and Mozart’s Così fan tutte in Zurich.
Mr. Welser-Möst’s recordings and videos have won the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations. Mr. Welser-Möst has led The Cleveland Orchestra in video recordings of live performances of the Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, and 9. Mr. Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra released a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon in 2007.
Mr. Welser-Möst has been recognized by the Western Law Center for Disability Rights and is an honorary member of the Vienna Singverein. Musical America named him the 2003 Conductor of the Year.
