Robert Blocker, Dean
Yale Philharmonia Carlos Kalmar, guest conductor
Friday, January 28, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. Woolsey Hall
Program Lili Boulanger 1893–1918
D’un matin de printemps (1917–18)
Béla Bartók 1881–1945
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B major, Sz. 112 I. Allegro non troppo II. Andante tranquillo III. Allegro molto Emily Switzer ’17BA ’19MM, violin
intermission Audience members are asked to refrain from mingling.
Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904
Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 I. Allegro non tanto II. Adagio III. Scherzo (Furiant). Presto IV. Finale. Allegro con spirito
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Artist Profiles Carlos Kalmar, guest conductor Carlos Kalmar was named in May, 2021 as Director of Orchestral and Conducting Programs and Principal Conductor of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Kalmar is also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. In April, 2021, Kalmar stepped down from leading the Oregon Symphony after nearly 20 years as its Music Director. During his uncommonly distinguished tenure in Portland, Kalmar made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall with the Oregon Symphony as part of the inaugural Spring for Music festival. Both his imaginative program, “Music for a Time of War,” and the performance itself were hailed by critics in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Musical America. The concert was recorded and released on the PentaTone label, subsequently earning two Grammy nominations (Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered). The New Yorker critic Alex Ross called the Oregon Symphony’s Carnegie Hall performance under Kalmar “the highlight of the festival and one of the most gripping events of the current season.” That verdict was echoed by Sedgwick Clark, writing for Musical America, who described the performance of Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony as “positively searing... with fearless edge-of-seat tempos, breathtakingly negotiated by all...” Under Kalmar’s guidance, the Oregon Symphony recorded subsequent CDs on the PentaTone label: This England, featuring
works by Britten, Vaughan Williams, and Elgar, and The Spirit of the American Range, with works by Copland, Piston, and Antheil which received another Best Orchestral Performance Grammy nomination, and a Haydn Symphonies disc. Mr. Kalmar’s latest recording, Aspects of America, was nominated for a 2020 Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance. A regular guest conductor with major orchestras in America, Europe, and Asia, Kalmar recently made subscription-series debuts with the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Past engagements have included the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Queensland, New Zealand, and the New World Symphony, as well as the orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville, Seattle and St. Louis. He returns to the Dallas Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony and the Indianapolis Symphony in 2021–22, as well as engagements in Singapore, Ulster, Wroclaw, and Helsingborg. Carlos Kalmar, born in Uruguay to Austrian parents, showed an early interest in music and began violin studies at the age of six. By the time he was fifteen, his musical promise was such that his family moved back to Austria in order for him to study conducting with Karl Osterreicher at the Vienna Academy of Music. He has previously served as the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Spanish Radio/Television Orchestra and Choir in Madrid, as well as the Music Director for the Hamburg Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Vienna’s Tonnkunsterorchester, and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany.
Artist Profiles cont.
Staff
Emily Switzer, violin
Manager Jeffrey M. Mistri
Violinist Emily Switzer is a 2019 graduate of the Yale School of Music and 2017 graduate of Yale University. Former co-concertmaster of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, she is a winner of the 2015 Friends of Music Recital Competition, the 2016 William Waite Competition and a recipient of the 2016 Sharp Prize for Music. She has performed with numerous orchestras including the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Lakewood Symphony, Denver Philharmonic, Littleton Symphony, and Yale Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, she was a winner of the Woolsey Concerto Competition. Recipient of the 2017 Yale Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, the Yale Wrexham Prize and the Fry Cup for Contributions to the Arts, she has studied with Hyo Kang, Wendy Sharp, James Maurer, Kathleen Winkler, Jorja Fleezanis, Alexander Treger and Glenn Dicterow. An avid chamber musician and advocate of new music, she was a winner of the 2018 Yale Oneppo Chamber Music Competition, and in May of 2018 premiered a violin concerto by emerging composer Max Vinetz. She attended Music Academy of the West in 2015 and 2016, and in 2017 participated in their Global Academy Program, a 10-day immersive performance residency with the New York Philharmonic. She is a two-time fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and in 2017 was awarded the program’s Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize. In June 2019 she traveled to Incheon, Korea, with Sejong Soloists as part of the Hic et Nunc music festival. Switzer joined the second violin section of the Minnesota Orchestra in September 2019.
Assistant Manager Samuel Bobinski Office Assistant Matthew Matheny Stage Crew Shania Cordoba Alex Dergal Ryan Goodwin Jihyun Hwang Seojin Kim Makana Medeiros Stephen Perkyns Chris Rogers-Beadle Matthew Rose Declan Wilcox Deng Zhang Library Stephanie Fritz Nicholas Hernandez Jillian Honn Gregory Lewis Freya Liu Zachary Merkovsky Jaimee Reynolds
Yale Philharmonia Roster Peter Oundjian, principal conductor Violin 1 Katherine Arndt Ladusa Chang-Ou Tiffany Wee In Ae Lee Jieming Tang Da Young (Rachel) Lim Julia Hwang Bing Yang Li Gregory Lewis Sophia Steger Andrew Samarasekara Yan Li Violin 2 Michael Ferri Anna Lee Satoka Abo Guan-Ru Lin Jeremy Lap Hei Hao Eunsae Lee Herdís Guðmundsdóttir Freya Liu Boyu Li Zili Sha Viola Florrie Marshall Harris Bernstein Brian Isaacs Madison Marshall Serena Hsu Colin Laursen Emily Rekrut-Pressey
Cello William Suh Stephen Perkyns Hye In Lee Miriam LiskeDoorandish Cheng “Allen” Liang Jihyun Hwang Hans Emil Sollesnes Jonah Ellsworth Double Bass Nicholas Hernandez Zachary Merkovsky Ryan Sujdak Seojin Kim Hector Ponce Xinyun Tu Flute Cameron Cullen¹ ³ Nadira Novruzov Elvin Schlanger² Piccolo Cameron Cullen² Elvin Schlanger¹ ³ Oboe Soo Min Ha³ Jillian Honn Mickenna Keller² Michelle Oh¹ English Horn Jillian Honn² Mickenna Keller¹
Clarinet Alex Dergal³ Lloyd Van’t Hoff Zikang Wang¹ ² Bass Clarinet Lloyd Van’t Hoff¹ ² Bassoon Katia Osorio³ Andy Sledge¹ ² contrabassoon Katia Osorio² Horn Ava Conway Stephanie Fritz³ Torrin Hallett³* Xin He Jaimee Reynolds Kate Warren¹ ² Trumpet Anthony Barrington² Joshua Bialkin Shania Cordoba Connor Holland³ Lizbeth Yanez¹ Trombone Benjamin Dettelback Chandler McLaughlin¹ ² David Seder³ bass trombone Matthew Rose¹ ² ³
Tuba Vivian Kung¹ ³ Timpani Makana Medeiros² ³ Percussion Russell Fisher¹ ² Jacob Guiterrez Harp Mia Venezia² Jane Yoo¹ Celeste Derek Hartman¹ ² ¹ Principal on Boulanger ² Principal on Bartók ³ Principal on Dvořák ³* Asst. Principal on Dvořák
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