NEWS RELEASE
The Cleveland Orchestra announces
subscription programs for its 2011 Miami Residency
CLEVELAND, March 30, 2010 – The Cleveland Orchestra today announced programming for its fifth Miami Residency season. The Orchestra’s Miami Residency, which began in 2007, includes an annual series of subscription concerts at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, as well as a broad spectrum of music education and outreach activities in the Miami-Dade community.
Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will lead the Orchestra in the first residency week, in January; Giancarlo Guerrero will lead the Orchestra in March, and Jiří Bĕlohlávek will lead the Orchestra’s concerts in April. Repertoire for The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2011 Residency includes Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, and Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard as soloist (January 28-29); Kabalevsky’s Overture to Colas Breugnon, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Ravel’s Boléro, and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, with Augustin Hadelich as soloist (March 4-5); and Haydn’s Symphony No. 96 (“The Miracle”), Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Horacio Gutiérrez as soloist (April 8-9).
Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency
brings expansive range of educational and
community collaboration programs to Miami-Dade
The Orchestra’s residency project is developing and expanding its community programs and will continue to include service to thousands in the Miami-Dade community through educational partnerships. 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 board governing the Orchestra’s Miami Residency.
The Orchestra’s Miami Residency continues to develop through expanded education and community programs that serve thousands in the Miami-Dade area. A new component of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami Residency in 2010 was an in-school performance by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and the Orchestra, titled “Meet the Orchestra,” at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School, a Miami-Dade County Public School.
Other educational activities included 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. Orchestra members participated in numerous in-school educational activities, 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 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 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 included 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.
Miami Residency adds to Orchestra’s
existing long-term performance relationships
in New York, Lucerne, and Vienna
The Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency project commenced in January 2007, during the 2006-07 inaugural season of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. The Orchestra’s residency in Miami includes an annual series of subscription concerts at the Adrienne Arsht Center as well as service to the Miami community through education concerts and activities, and community partnership programs.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s commitment to education and community service began when the Orchestra was founded in 1918, and today more than 70,000 Cleveland-area schoolchildren, teachers, families, young musicians, and adult learners participate in the Orchestra’s educational programs in Cleveland designed to nurture a lifelong love of music. With its Florida-based educational activities, the Orchestra continues to broaden its role with universities and music schools.
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 2011 Miami Residency subscription concerts follows this release, along with biographies of Franz Welser-Möst, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Jiří Bĕlohlávek. Biographies of Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Augustin Hadelich, and Horacio Gutiérrez, as well as photos of the conductors and soloists, are available upon request.
Media Contacts: Jennifer Schlosser, (216) 231-7518 or jschlosser@clevelandorchestra.com
Ana Papakhian, (216) 231-7476 or anap@clevelandorchestra.com
2011 Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency
January, March, and April 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
Friday, March 4, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
KABALEVSKY Overture to Colas Breugnon
ELGAR Enigma Variations
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
RAVEL Boléro
Friday, April 8, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Knight Concert Hall, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Jiří Bĕlohlávek, conductor
Horacio Gutiérrez, piano
HAYDN Symphony No. 96 (“The Miracle”)
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
Venue information
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL 33132
Box Office phone: (305) 949-6722
All concerts start at 8:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted.
All programs, artists, and concert details subject to change.
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 2011, Mr. Welser-Möst and the Orchestra launch a biennial residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, which will feature 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 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 Tannhäuser 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.
Giancarlo Guerrero
Giancarlo Guerrero’s 2009-10 season marks his first as Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. A champion of new music, Guerrero has collaborated with and championed the music of several of America’s most respected composers, including John Adams, John Corigliano, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Daugherty and Roberto Sierra. A new CD on Naxos of music by Michael Daugherty, with the Nashville Symphony, is scheduled for release in September 2009.
Mr. Guerrero’s guest conducting engagements in the 2009-10 season include appearances with the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, New Jersey and Fort Worth, the Pacific Symphony, in Costa Mesa as well as the Curtis Institute of Music. Abroad, he conducts the Symphony Orchestras of Vancouver and Edmonton in the fall and the Slovenian Philharmonic in the spring.
As a guest conductor, Guerrero recently made two important debuts abroad: his European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, where he was immediately invited to return, and his UK Debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has also recently made successful debuts with several major American orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra (where he was invited back for a subscription week and tour), the Seattle Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra (where he returned in the 2007-08 season). Other recent orchestral engagements in North America include appearances with the orchestras of Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Antonio and San Diego; the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and at the Grant Park Festival.
Also in demand in Central and South America, Guerrero conducts regularly in Venezuela with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, with which he has had a special relationship for many years. His debut at the Casals Festival with Yo-Yo Ma and the Puerto Rico Symphony in 2005 was followed by return engagements in 2006 and 2007. He also made his debut at the Teatro Colón in Argentina in 2005. Elsewhere he is a regular guest conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand.
Equally at home with opera, Guerrero works regularly with the Costa Rican Lyric Opera and in recent seasons has conducted new productions of Carmen, La bohème and most recently a new production of Rigoletto. In February 2008, he gave the Australian premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's one-act opera Ainadamar at the Adelaide Festival, to great acclaim.
In June 2004, Guerrero was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award by the American Symphony Orchestra League, which recognizes outstanding achievement among young conductors nationwide.
Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and Northwestern universities. He was most recently the Music Director of the Eugene Symphony. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Guerrero served as Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. He made his Minnesota Orchestra subscription debut in March 2000, leading the world premiere of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria on the Ghosts of Versailles. He returned on subscription every subsequent season during his time there. Prior to his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served as music director of the Táchira Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.
Jiří Bĕlohlávek
Czech conductor Jiří Bĕlohlávek became Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in July 2006. Founder and Music Director Laureate of the Prague Philharmonia, Mr. Bĕlohlávek studied at the Prague Conservatoire and Arts Academy. He appears regularly with major orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Vienna Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, NHK Symphony (Tokyo) and the Orchestre de Paris. In North America, he conducts the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Washington D.C., St. Louis, Toronto, and Minnesota.
In his homeland, Jiří Bĕlohlávek was appointed President of the Prague Spring Festival in 2006. Jiří Bĕlohlávek has been Chief Conductor of the Prague Symphony (1977-89) and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic (1990-1992), with whom he has recorded extensively for Chandos Records. He founded the Prague Philharmonia in 1994, and has recorded and toured extensively with this ensemble, including a televised appearance at the BBC Proms in July 2004. He was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in September 1995, immediately following his debut with the orchestra conducting The Epic of Gilgamesh by Martinu. Highlights of recent seasons included appearances at the Opera de Paris (The Bartered Bride), Teatro Real Madrid (Katya Kabanova), The Metropolitan Opera (Eugene Onegin and Rusalka), and a return to Glyndebourne Festival Opera for a new production of Rusalka. In September 2008, he was presented with a Gramophone award in the Best Opera category for his live recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Broucek. His 2009-10 season includes appearances with, amongst others, the Japan Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic and Czech Philharmonic orchestras. He will also be conducting a new production of Martinu’s Plays of Mary at the National Theatre in Prague.
