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Follow on Google News | New York Repertory Orchestra Benefit Concert with Silk Road Project Cellist, Eric Jacobsen!On Sat. Dec. 18, NYRO hosts its Annual Benefit Concert with music by Samuel Barber, Robert Schumann, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. We are also joined by virtuoso cellist, and Silk Road Project member, Eric Jacobsen.
----- Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010 Time: 8:00pm Place: Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 West 46th Street - between 6th & 7th Avenues) Admission: $10 (...it's a benefit, after all) More info: www.nyro.org ----- Here's the complete program: Samuel Barber: Music for a Scene from Shelley Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto - Eric Jacobsen, cello Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: David Leibowitz, conductor ----- More about the program: NYRO's Annual Benefit Concert will be a celebration of several musical milestones! The birthdays of composers Samuel Barber (born in 1910) and Robert Schumann (born in 1810) are commemorated with some of their most beautiful and expressive music. Samuel Barber's "Music for a Scene from Shelley," a haunting and glorious work based on Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound," conveys the "ideal love in all the spirits of the world." This rarely performed piece is a tour-de-force of tone painting and orchestral color. We celebrate Robert Schumann's 200th birthday with his expressive and contemplative Cello Concerto. A lyrical and highly personal work - structurally unified and achingly beautiful - the Cello Concerto captures the wonderful combination of towering intellect and deep emotion that comes out in Schumann's best works. Back on the NYRO stage by popular demand, internationally acclaimed cellist Eric Jacobsen will be our soloist in the Schumann in a perfect match of performer and music. This should be a landmark performance of this wonderful work. To close the concert, we present Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's eternally popular symphonic suite "Scheherazade." All together, this will be a wonderful celebration of great music, birthday milestones, and all to benefit New York's leading all-volunteer, community-based orchestra - the New York Repertory Orchestra. ----- More about our soloist: Cellist Eric Jacobsen has performed with Rene Fleming on David Letterman and at the inaugural concert at Zankel Hall at Carnegie. Mr. Jacobsen has also appeared with The Silk Road Ensemble at the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics in Shanghai. In addition, Mr. Jacobsen has appeared as soloist with the Riverside Orchestra, the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the Greenwich Village Orchestra, the Lake George Chamber Orchestra and the Woodstock Festival Orchestra, The Children's Orchestra Society, and the Mankato Symphony Orchestra. He regularly performs at Bargemusic, often playing with Steven Beck, with whom Mr. Jacobsen has collaborated with for 10 years. Mr. Jacobsen is a member of Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project and has participated in residencies and performances in Azerbaijan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Switzerland and across the USA including The Art Institute of Chicago and The Hollywood Bowl. He is also the cellist in the Mark O'Connor String Quartet, performing original works by the great American fiddler. In 2006 Eric and his brother Colin (a violinist) formed, with friends Johnny Gandelsman and Nick Cords, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider. Their collaboration with the Iranian Kemanche master, Kayhan Kalhor inspired their first album 'Silent City'. The album includes arrangements and compositions by Mr. Kalhor and Colin Jacobsen. Brooklyn Rider's second album 'Passport' is a compilation of Armenian folk songs, arranged tunes and original compositions. Mr. Jacobsen is the co-artistic director (with his brother Colin) of the orchestra The Knights, which he conducts, having recently recorded two albums for SONY: "Jan Vogler and The Knights, Experience Live from NY" featuring music by Shostakovich and Jimi Hendrix, and "New Worlds" featuring music by Copland, Ives, Golijov, Dvorak, and Gabriella Lena Frank. In May of 2009, Mr. Jacobsen led The Knights at the opening of the Dresden 'Musikfestspiele' with soloists Dawn Upshaw and Christina Courtin. Mr. Jacobsen is also involved in many student projects in universities as well as elementary, middle and high schools. He was recently been appointed to the cello and chamber music faculty of NYU where he has also conducted the orchestra. ----- More about Music Director David Leibowitz: "Music Director David Leibowitz...is not only an excellent conductor, but also an inspiring leader." -- New York Concert Review, October 2010 Celebrated for his innovative programming and exciting performances, conductor David Leibowitz has achieved international acclaim for his work on the concert, opera, and ballet stage. Mr. Leibowitz is the Music Director/Conductor and founder of the award-winning New York Repertory Orchestra NYRO. Some recent highlights of his tenure there have been a fully staged production of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio and a landmark performance of Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 3. As an avid fan and champion of today’s music he has both commissioned and performed local and world premieres by some of today’s most important composers; such as Eduard Tubin, Harold Farberman, Paul Moravec, Stephen Dembski, John Schwabe, Salvador Brotons, William Dickerson, and Terry Pender. Since 2003 Mr. Leibowitz has held the post of Principal Conductor with the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra (NY) and is the Orchestra Director at City College of New York. Recently, he directed the orchestra of the Siena (Italy) Summer Music program and from 2003-2007 was on the conducting staff of the Rome Festival Opera (Italy), leading opera, ballet, and concert performances. He is also on the staff of the International Opera Institute at the Maud Powell Music Festival Maud Powell Music Festival. (IL). Recent operatic highlights include performances of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le nozze di Figaro, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore, Bizet’s Carmen, and Humperdinck’ Throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe he has directed such ensembles as the Pleven Philharmonic (Bulgaria), the Orchester Pro Arte (Vienna), the Masterplayers Orchestra (Switzerland) In the New York City area, he has conducted the Greenwich Village Orchestra, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Centre Symphony Orchestra, Sound Symphony Orchestra, and Music at St. Paul’s (Columbia University). He has been invited back to those ensembles and venues repeatedly. Mr. Leibowitz conducted the Third Street Philharmonia at the Third Street Music School Settlement in New York City from 2003-2005 and he has worked as a conductor and coach with many student and youth orchestras, including the Maud Powell Music Festival Orchestra, the Brooklyn College Orchestra, and the Gemini Youth Orchestra. Mr. Leibowitz received his MA in Performance Practice, Summa Cum Laude, from the City University of New York’s Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. His main studies were in performance, musicology, and composition. He was awarded a teaching fellowship and was named a Presidential Scholar of the University. He has continued his conducting studies with, among others, Herbert Blomstedt, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Jacques-Louis Monod. Mr. Leibowitz was a finalist in the International Masterplayers’ # # # The award-winning New York Repertory Orchestra, NYC's leading all-volunteer orchestra, is composed of talented professional and amateur musicians and presents a series of free concerts each season. Founded in 1991, NYRO strives for exciting performances, provocative programs and the highest artistic level. These qualities have become the hallmarks of this exceptional ensemble. In 2002, NYRO performed the Brahms Requiem in a memorial concert for 9/11 as a participant in the Columbia Remembers program. In addition to its regular season at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, NYRO has participated in the Music at St. Paul’s series at Columbia University and at the Music Festival of the Hamptons. NYRO has performed in the Chinese New Year Global Gala at Radio City Music Hall, broadcast worldwide by NTD Television and was recently given the Omega Ensemble of New York's "Gift to the City" award for ongoing contributions to the musical life of New York. Web site: www.nyro.org End
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