Debussy, Sibelius, and a World Premiere: New York Repertory Orchestra Season Finale on May 18: FREE!

NEW YORK - April 13, 2013 - PRLog -- The New York Repertory Orchestra presents its Season Finale on May 18, 2013 – A most exciting conclusion to our biggest and best year to date!

The spectacular violinist Airi Yoshioka returns to the NYRO stage as soloist in the ground-breaking and haunting Violin Concerto by Jean Sibelius. A perennial favorite with audiences, it is still a work that can surprise and move with its beautiful eloquence!

ALSO: We’re thrilled to be able present the World Premiere of Illuminations of the Night by New York composer Peri Mauer. The composer describes her new work as a “...night illumination [of a] changing cityscape...optimistic and invigorated...”

And to end the season on a very high note, we round off the program with the Three Nocturnes by French composer Claude Debussy. One of Debussy's greatest works and one of the most influential pieces of the 20th century, it captures, in three impressionistic episodes, the sights, sounds, and fragrances of the world around us. The New York Repertory Orchestra Women’s Chorus joins in!

Full details:
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Church of St. Mary the Virgin 
(145 West 46th Street)
Admission: FREE ($10 suggested donation)

Here's the full program:
Peri Mauer: Illuminations of the Night – World Premiere*
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes


David Leibowitz, conductor
Airi Yoshioka, violinist

*This work was funded in part by the Composers Assistance Program of New Music USA.

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MORE ABOUT SOLOIST AIRI YOSHIOKA:

Violinist Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician.  Deeply committed to chamber music, she is the founding member of the Damocles Trio and Modigliani Quartet and has performed and recorded with the members of the Emerson, Brentano and Arditti Quartets. The Damocles Trio’s debut disc of complete Piano Trios and Piano Quartet of Joaquín Turina has won a four-star rating from the BBC Music Magazine, Le Monde de la Musique and Diapason.

Her orchestral credits include performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival.  An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and had performed annually in Juilliard’s FOCUS! Festival and is currently a member of Continuum, ModernWorks!, RUCKUS,  Son Sonora, and Azure Ensemble.  Of a performance with the New Juilliard Ensemble, the New York Times wrote, “Airi Yoshioka played the violin solo touchingly”, and of a performance with Continuum of Dallapiccola’s music, the New York Times wrote “Powerfully communicative…violinist Airi Yoshioka [played] a lovely ‘Due Studi.’ The performances were as varied as the music.”  She has premiered dozens of works and her latest recording project of works for violin and electronics includes commissions from such prominent women composers as Tania León, Linda Dusman, Alice Shields and  Milica Paranosic.

While at The Juilliard School, she won the concerto competition.  Among her teachers and coaches have been Jorja Fleezanis, Glenn Dicterow, Joey Corpus, Stephen Clapp, Syoko Aki, Felix Galimir, Paul Kantor, Jerome Lowenthal, and Seymour Lipkin, as well as members of the Juilliard and Tokyo String Quartets.
Her solo and chamber performances can heard on Naxos, New World, Claves, Mode, Albany and Pony Canyon records labels.   

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MORE ABOUT NYRO MUSIC DIRECTOR DAVID LEIBOWITZ:

Conductor David Leibowitz has garnered international acclaim for his work on the concert, opera, and ballet stage and is celebrated for his innovative programming and exciting performances.

Mr. Leibowitz is the Music Director and founder of the award-winning New York Repertory Orchestra. In addition to world and local premieres, some recent highlights of his tenure 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 commissioned, worked with, and performed premieres by some of the most important composers of our time.

Since 1994, Mr. Leibowitz has held the post of Principal Conductor with the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra and is also on the conducting faculty of the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute and the International Opera Institute at the Maud Powell Music Festival. From 2002-2007, he was on the conducting staff of the Rome Festival Opera (Italy), leading opera, ballet, and concert performances, and in 2009, he was named Orchestra Director of Siena (Italy) Summer Music. In the current season, Mr. Leibowitz assumes the post of conductor of the New York Opera Exchange.

Throughout the United States and Europe, he has directed such ensembles as the Pleven Philharmonic (Bulgaria), the Orchester Pro Arte (Vienna), Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the Bach Festival Orchestra (Princeton, NJ) and this past November, Mr. Leibowitz conducted the University of Wyoming (Laramie) Symphony Orchestra.

In the New York City area, he has conducted the Astoria Symphony, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Greenwich Village Orchestra, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Centre Symphony Orchestra, Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Orchestra and Choir, New York Festival Singers, and Music at St. Paul’s (Columbia University).

In 2011, Mr. Leibowitz was an award winner of the American Prize in Orchestral Conducting and Orchestral Programming. He was recently given the “Gift to the City” award from the Omega Ensemble of New York for his ongoing contributions to the musical life of New York City.