James DePreist Conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in Works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Tsontakis on Monday, December 5 at 8 PM at Carnegie Hall
Juilliard Violinist Siwoo Kim is Soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5
Juilliard’s
Principal Conductor James DePreist
leads the Juilliard Orchestra in the
ensemble’s only Carnegie Hall
concert of the season on Monday,
December 5 at 8 PM. The program features Juilliard alumnus George Tsontakis’ Perpetual Angelus; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish”
with Juilliard violinist Siwoo Kim;
and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6,
“Pathetique.” Mr. DePreist conducts the Juilliard Orchestra in two other
concerts this season - on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 8 PM and on Thursday, May
24, 2012 at
8 PM, both in Alice Tully Hall.
Tickets at $30 (parquet, 1st and 2nd tiers) and $15 (dress circle and balcony) are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, or online at www.carnegiehall.org.
American composer George Tsontakis received his doctoral
degree from Juilliard, where he studied composition with Roger Sessions and
conducting with Jorge Mester. He has been composer-in-residence at the Aspen
Music Festival since 1976, and from 1991, he has directed the Aspen
Contemporary Ensemble. In 2006, Mr. Tsontakis was named recipient of the Charles Ives Living, an award given by
the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received the prestigious
Grawemeyer Award for his Violin Concerto No. 2, which was written for violinist
Steven Copes and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and premiered in 2003. Mr. Tsontakis received a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award for Perpetual Angelus. Mr. Tsontakis has
been a faculty member at Bard College since 2003.
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Juilliard violinist Siwoo Kim is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Juilliard, where he studies with Donald Weilerstein and Ronald Copes. He also studied with Robert Mann, and with Roland and Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago. This season, Mr. Kim has been a featured soloist with the Houston, Springfield (MO), and Tulsa symphony orchestras. He has had solo engagements with the Columbus and Westerville symphony orchestras and has appeared on the popular NPR program, From The Top.
As a recitalist, Mr. Kim has performed in a variety of venues from the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna to the Workshop for Music Performance (WMP) Concert Hall in NYC. Mr. Kim performs with the Metropolis Ensemble and the New York Classical Players. His piano trio, Trio Vivo, receives coaching from Joseph Kalichstein and Sylvia Rosenberg.
Mr. Kim has been awarded first place at numerous competitions, such as the Columbus Symphony Young Musician Competition, the Crescendo Music Awards, the Hellam Young Artist Competition, and the Sejong Music Competition. He took second place at the 2010 Corpus Christi International Competition for piano and strings, where he also was awarded special prizes for the best performance of solo Bach and best violin performance. In addition, he was named a top prize winner in the WAMSO Young Artist Competition, the California International Young Artist Competition, and the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition. Mr. Kim performs on a 1728 “Artot” Stradivarius on loan from the Juilliard Historic Stringed Instrument Collection.
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Widely esteemed as one of America's finest conductors, James DePreist is Principal Conductor of the Juilliard Orchestra and Laureate Music Director of the Oregon Symphony. He was recently named Artistic Advisor to the Pasadena Symphony and Pops. He served as Permanent Conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra from 2005 until 2008.
This season, Mr. DePreist appeared with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra on September 17. He conducts the Peabody Symphony at the Peabody Conservatory on April 21 and the Pasadena Symphony on April 28. He also serves on the jury of the Malko Competition for conductors in Denmark. As a guest conductor, Mr. DePreist has appeared with every major North American orchestra, and internationally he has conducted in Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Manchester, Melbourne, Munich, Prague, Rome, Rotterdam, Seoul, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Vienna. He made his London debut with the London Symphony at the Barbican in April 2005.
James DePreist appears regularly at the
Aspen Music Festival, with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, the Philadelphia
Orchestra at the Mann Music Center, and the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln
Center and
Carnegie Hall.
With more than 50 recordings to his credit, James DePreist has a substantial presence in the recording arena. His varied recorded repertoire includes a celebrated Shostakovich series with the Helsinki Philharmonic and 15 recordings with the Oregon Symphony which have helped establish that orchestra as one of America's finest.
James DePreist has been awarded 13 honorary doctorates and is the author of two books of poetry. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and is a recipient of the Insignia of Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland, the Medal of the City of Québec and is an Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco. In 2005 the President of the United States presented James DePreist with the National Medal of Arts, the nation's highest honor for artistic excellence. He is the nephew of the legendary contralto Marian Anderson.
For Listings:Monday, December 5, 2011, 8 PM, Carnegie Hall
James DePreist, conductor
Siwoo Kim, violin
George Tsontakis – Perpetual Angelus
Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish”
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
Tickets at $30 (parquet, 1st and 2nd tiers) and $15 (dress circle and balcony) are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, or online at www.carnegiehall.org.
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