NEWS RELEASE
Cleveland Orchestra announces Miami Residency
activities for March 2010
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts concerts featuring pianist Ingrid Fliter
March 26-27 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
Orchestra presents Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery program for schools and families
Collaboration with MOCA, the New World Symphony, and
University of Miami Frost School of Music on March 25
CLEVELAND, March 4, 2010 – The Cleveland Orchestra announces details of the third and final week of its 2010 Miami Residency activities, including subscription, education, and family 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. Single tickets are on sale for all programs in the Orchestra’s fourth Miami Residency season.
Cleveland Orchestra Concerts at the Arsht Center
On March 26 and 27, Vladimir Ashkenazy will lead the Orchestra in performances of Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Glazunov’s Nocturne from Chopiniana, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Ingrid Fliter as soloist. The Orchestra will also perform two daytime Education Concerts for students on Thursday, March 25, and a Family Concert on Saturday, March 27. These performances will take place at the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The Cleveland Orchestra’s subscription series is presented by the Musical Arts Association of Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
Family and Education Concerts
On Saturday, March 27, at 2:00 p.m., The Cleveland Orchestra will perform Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery, a Family Concert for children ages 7 and up, at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall. Vivaldi, Venice, and violins all figure prominently in this engaging story based on the award-winning Classical Kids recordings. This concert brings together The Cleveland Orchestra and professional actors to tell the story of Katarina, a gifted orphan sent to study music at the Pietà orphanage in Venice. There, she comes under the tutelage of the great music director and composer Antonio Vivaldi, and discovers clues to her past and a vanishing Stradivarius violin. Audiences will enjoy more than 20 excerpts of Vivaldi’s most popular and important works, including The Four Seasons,Violin Concerto in A minor, and more. Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor James Feddeck will lead the program.
The same program will be performed for elementary school students in Miami-Dade County in concerts on Thursday, March 25, at 10:00 a.m. and noon, at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Teachers at participating schools will receive repertoire-specific curriculum materials including CDs, teacher guides, and student newspapers to help them prepare students for the concert.
In January, a Teacher Workshop entitled Very Vivaldi provided music educators from throughout the Miami-Dade school district with flexible lesson plans and ready-to-use resources that link to the concert repertoire, modeled by MDCPS music specialist Cheryl M. Kelley from Norma Butler Bossard Elementary School. In addition, the Coral Reef Senior High School Orchestra, under the direction of Al Hudson, and guest conductor Tito Muñoz from The Cleveland Orchestra, performed selections from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
Cleveland Orchestra Education Concerts in Miami, as well as related curriculum materials and professional development workshops for teachers, are supported in part by a National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence grant.
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.
Overall, The Cleveland Orchestra will reach nearly 9,000 people with educational and community engagement activities over the course of the 2010 residency, including nearly 4,000 students from more than 40 Miami-area public and private schools who will attend March Education Concerts.
In 2010, community partnerships have expanded 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 Cultural Affairs, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Overtown Youth Center, “I Have A Dream” Foundation, 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 January 2010, Frost School of Music residency activities included choral conducted coaching sessions with Cleveland Orchestra Director of Choruses Robert Porco, a chamber composition reading session, and a series of masterclasses and forums.
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. Education programs are supported in part by Peacock Foundation, Inc., and Papa John’s Pizza. The residency media partners are Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, WLRN, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald.
Chamber Concert at MOCA North Miami in Partnership with the New World Symphony and the University of Miami Frost School of Music
The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency has spearheaded a partnership between four collaborating arts organizations to present a one-time-only event combining contemporary art and music at MOCA North Miami on Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. In January, The Cleveland Orchestra held a reading of graduate student compositions at the Frost School of Music of the University of Miami. During the session, the compositions were adjudicated by Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor Tito Muñoz and New World Symphony Director of Chamber Music Programs Michael Linville. Premiering in the program will be Lamentos de un Presidiario and Fugitive Gestures, two chamber works written by winners Liza Seigido and Valentin Bogdan, student composers from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. The students’ chamber music will be performed against the backdrop of Ceal Floyer’s minimal constructions and Cory Arcangel’s multimedia art at MOCA by members of The Cleveland Orchestra and the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy. The performance will also showcase diverse 20th- and 21st-century chamber music.
Concert Tickets
Individual tickets for Cleveland Orchestra subscription concerts are available through the Arsht Center Box Office at (305) 949-6722 or online at arshtcenter.org.
Music lovers interested in Cleveland Orchestra performances in Miami can be added to the priority mailing list by emailing miami@clevelandorchestra.com or calling (305) 372-7747.
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.
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A calendar for The Cleveland Orchestra’s March 2010 Miami Residency follows this release, along with a biography of Vladimir Ashkenazy. A biography of Ingrid Fliter, as well as photos of the Orchestra, conductor, and soloist, are available upon request.
More information about The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency is available at clevelandorchestramiami.com.
Media Contact: Ana Papakhian, (216) 231-7476 / anap@clevelandorchestra.com
MARCH 24-27, 2010
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI RESIDENCY
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
Activities with educational partners are open to students at those institutions, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, March 24 – Saturday, March 27, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Cleveland Orchestra Musician Masterclasses
Musicians from The Cleveland Orchestra will lead masterclasses with students at the Frost School of Music.
Frost School of Music
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com
Thursday, March 25, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA EDUCATION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery
James Feddeck, conductor
Vivaldi, Venice, and violins all figure prominently in this engaging story-concert, based on the award-winning Classical Kids recordings, which brings together The Cleveland Orchestra and professional actors to tell the story of Katarina, a gifted orphan sent to study music at the Pietà orphanage in Venice. There, she comes under the tutelage of the great music director and composer Antonio Vivaldi, and discovers clues to her past and a vanishing Stradivarius violin. Audiences will enjoy more than 20 excerpts of Vivaldi’s most popular and important works, including The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in A minor, and more.
Venue Information:
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL 33132
Box Office phone: (305) 949-6722
www.arshtcenter.org
Miami-Dade County Public Schools reserve tickets through District Music Supervisor Robert T. Davis.
Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. (Galleries open 7:00-9:00 p.m.)
MUSIC AT MOCA
FOUR ORGANIZATIONS JOIN FORCES
FOR A SPECIAL CHAMBER MUSIC EVENT IN NORTH MIAMI
Members of The Cleveland Orchestra and the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, will jointly perform 20th- and 21st-century chamber music at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Thursday, March 25, 2010. The program will feature the premiere of two chamber works written by student composers from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami amidst the backdrop of Ceal Floyer’s minimal constructions and Cory Arcangel’s multimedia art. This is the first time that all four organizations will collaborate together for an event.
Reservations Required: Call (305) 893-6211 or email rsvp@mocanomi.org.
Tickets are $10 for MOCA members, City of North Miami residents and city employees, and Cleveland Orchestra donors and subscribers, and $15 for non-members.
Venue Information:
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
770 N.E. 125th Street
North Miami, FL 33161
Phone: (305) 893-6211
www.mocanomi.org
Friday, March 26, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
Ingrid Fliter, piano
GLAZUNOV Nocturne from Chopiniana
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Tickets from $40
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, WLRN, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Venue Information:
Knight Concert Hall
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL 33132
Box Office phone: (305) 949-6722
www.arshtcenter.org
Saturday, March 27, 2010, at 2:00 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA FAMILY CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery
James Feddeck, conductor
Vivaldi, Venice, and violins all figure prominently in this engaging story-concert, based on the award-winning Classical Kids recordings, which brings together The Cleveland Orchestra and professional actors to tell the story of Katarina, a gifted orphan sent to study music at the Pietà orphanage in Venice. There, she comes under the tutelage of the great music director and composer Antonio Vivaldi, and discovers clues to her past and a vanishing Stradivarius violin. Audiences will enjoy more than 20 excerpts of Vivaldi’s most popular and important works, including The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in A minor, and more.
Tickets from $17.25
Venue Information:
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL 33132
Box Office phone: (305) 949-6722
www.arshtcenter.org
Saturday, March 27, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT
Knight Concert Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor
Ingrid Fliter, piano
GLAZUNOV Nocturne from Chopiniana
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Pre-Concert Conversation at 7:00 p.m. with Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor James Feddeck
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.
Tickets from $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.
Media partners: Classical South Florida 89.7 FM, WLRN, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald
Venue Information:
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL 33132
Box Office phone: (305) 949-6722
www.arshtcenter.org
