David Robertson Returns to Conduct the Juilliard Orchestra in Ives, Bartók, and Dvořák at Carnegie Hall on Monday, April 2, 2018, at 8pm

Juilliard Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman Is the Soloist in Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3

NEW YORK –– David Robertson, music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, returns to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program of Ives, Bartók, and Dvořák on Monday, April 2, 2018, at 8pm. Mr. Robertson is the newly appointed director of conducting studies and distinguished visiting faculty at Juilliard beginning fall 2018. The program features Ives’ Three Places in New England; Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Juilliard pianist
Tomer Gewirtzman; and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, (“From the New World”). Mr. Gewirtzman is in the Artist Diploma program at Juilliard, where he studies with Sergei Babayan. He also holds a master’s degree from the school.

Tickets at $30 (parquet, 1st tier and 2nd tier) and $15 (dress circle, balcony) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar. Full-time students with valid ID may purchase student tickets at $15 (parquet, 1st tier and 2nd tier) and $7.50 (dress circle, balcony), only at the Carnegie Hall Box Office. 

About David Robertson

David Robertson – conductor, artist, thinker, and American musical visionary – occupies some of the most prominent platforms on the international music scene. A highly sought-after podium figure in the worlds of opera, orchestral music, and new music, Mr. Robertson is celebrated worldwide as a champion of contemporary composers, an ingenious and adventurous programmer, and a masterful communicator whose passionate advocacy for the art form is widely recognized. A consummate and deeply collaborative musician, Mr. Robertson is hailed for his intensely committed music making. 

Currently in his valedictory season as music director of the St. Louis Symphony and his fifth season as chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, he has served in artistic leadership positions at musical institutions including the Orchestre National de Lyon and, as a protégé of Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble InterContemporain, which he led on its first North American tour. At the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he served as principal guest conductor. With frequent projects at the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, where he has lead numerous productions: La Scala; Bayerische Staatsoper; Théâtre du Châtelet; the San Francisco Opera; and more, Mr. Robertson returns to the Met Opera this month to conduct the premiere of Phelim McDermott’s new production of Così fan tutte. 

Mr. Robertson has served as a Perspectives artist at Carnegie Hall, where he has conducted, among others, the Met Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He appears regularly in Europe with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Bayerische Rundfunk and the Dresden Staatskapelle, and at the Berlin Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Proms, and the Musica Viva Festival in Munich.

During his 13-year tenure with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Robertson has solidified the orchestra’s standing as one of the nation’s most enduring and innovative. His established and fruitful relationships with artists across a wide spectrum is evidenced by the orchestra’s ongoing collaboration with composer John Adams. The 2014 release of City Noir (Nonesuch Records)—works by Adams performed by the orchestra with Robertson—won the Grammy Award for best orchestral performance. Mr. Robertson is the recipient of numerous musical and artistic awards; in 2010 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Mr. Robertson is devoted to supporting young musicians and has worked with students at the festivals of Aspen, Tanglewood, Lucerne, at the Paris Conservatoire, Juilliard, Music Academy of the West, and the National Orchestra Institute. In 2014 he led the USA Coast to Coast tour of the National Youth Orchestra of Carnegie Hall.

About Tomer Gewirtzman

Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras in his native Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic; with Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg; and throughout the United States including the symphonies of Shreveport, Charlottesville, Bucks County, and South Arkansas. In recital, he has appeared at London’s Steinway Hall, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York and in Washington, D.C. He has also performed at U.S. music festivals including Bravo! Vail, Aspen, and PianoFest in the Hamptons; New York’s International Keyboard Institute Festival; and at festivals in Italy, Belgium and Germany. At the 2015 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Gewirtzman won first prize and five special performance prizes. Other recognition includes first prize at the Louisiana’s Wideman International Piano Competition, the Piano Prize and Audience Prize at the America-Israel Cultural Foundation's Aviv Competition, and first prizes at many competitions in Israel. Mr. Gewirtzman started his piano studies at the age of 8 with Raaya Shpol at the Rubin Conservatory in Haifa, and continued with Vadim Monastirski from the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. From 2008 to 2011, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces where he combined military service with music studies with Arie Vardi. Mr. Gewirtzman earned his master’s degree from Juilliard, working with Sergei Babayan, where he received the prestigious Kovner Fellowship. He continues his studies at Juilliard in the Artist Diploma program. He holds the Celia Ascher Artist Diploma Fellowship and the Fanya Woll Scholarship.

 

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Program Listing:

Monday, April 2, 2018, 8pm, Carnegie Hall

Juilliard Orchestra

David Robertson, conductor

Tomer Gewirtzman, pianist

Charles IVES Three Place in New England

Bela BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3

Antonin DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, (“From the New World”)

Tickets at $30 (parquet, 1st tier and 2nd tier) and $15 (dress circle, balcony) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar. Non-Juilliard full-time students with valid ID may purchase student tickets at $15 (parquet, 1st tier and 2nd tier) and $7.50 (dress circle, balcony), only at the Carnegie Hall Box Office.