March 10-11
Saturday | 3.11.17 | 7:30 PM
March's concert opens with the world premiere performance of Summer Mountains by Danny Gray, the winning piece of the TCS 3rd annual Composition Competition. Friday's concert features a world premiere viola concerto featuring soloist Sarah Haines, written by Michael Boyman, winner of the 2014-15 TCS Composition Competition. Saturday's concert showcases Gizem Yucel on two tangos by the legendary Astor Piazzolla. Both concerts conclude with Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," in participation with the New York Philharmonic's New World Initiative.
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From the New World Initiative website:
During its 175th anniversary season (2016–17), the New York Philharmonic will celebrate New York City and its role as home to the Orchestra and as an adopted home for many. The New World Initiative (NWI) evolves from a major event in the Philharmonic’s history: the 1893 World Premiere of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World — the first major work composed in New York that became immediately and enduringly popular. The complete work represents a yearning for new beginnings while also looking back to where we came from. Through the NWI, the Philharmonic will engage with New Yorkers citywide by making the New World Symphony a cultural touchstone for as many New Yorkers as possible.
We aim to have as many interpretations of the work reach as many ears as possible and to foster connections in our vast music community by collectively taking ownership of this very New York work. To achieve this, the NWI is creating the opportunity for all New Yorkers to hear and creatively engage with Dvořák’s New World Symphony, understand its significance, and appreciate its role within New York City’s cultural history. We want to focus not only on past accomplishments, but to step outside orchestral routine and make a special contribution that will bring recognition to New York’s vibrant music community.
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The Chelsea Symphony is proud to participate in this project as a member of New York City's musical landscape. TCS's 11th season, "Flight Paths." featuring music written by composers who have visited or immigrated to the United States of America. Programming this year celebrates the diversity of musicians who have been inspired by, and made their mark on, this land we call home.
This performance will be guest conducted in full by TCS co-founder Miguel Campos-Neto
Tickets available on Eventbrite! http://thechelseasymphony.eventbrite.com
Concert will be held at St. Paul's Church, 315 West 22nd Street
Program
Featured Artists
Miguel Campos Neto
Guest Conductor
Friday, 3.10, Saturday, 3.11
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No.9 in E minor, op.95, B.178, "From the New World"
Holding a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from New York’s “Mannes School of Music,” Miguel Campos Neto is in his 12th season as the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Theatro da Paz Symphony Orchestra in Belém, northern Brazil. He also serves as Chief Conductor of its Opera Festival, and the Altino Pimenta Symphony Orchestra, of the Federal University of Pará. For 12 years he served as Chief Conductor of the Vale Musica Youth Orchestra and for 4 years …
Gizem Yücel is a versatile concert violist equally at home in many genres from jazz to experimental. She holds bachelor’s and master's degree in viola performance from Hacettepe University State Conservatory and Bilkent University in her hometown of Ankara, Turkey. After moving to the United States she received her Artist Diploma in viola performance from SUNY Purchase College in New York and her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a cognate in piano and conducting.
Gizem …
Composer and violist Michael Boyman is always searching for the perfect balance of form and expression. An alumnus of the New York Youth Symphony, Michael served as principal violist of the orchestra and was a member of Making Score, the organization's composition program. Michael is a graduate of New York University, where he studied political science and music composition, studying with Justin Dello Joio. He received his Master's Degree in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied …
Sarah Elizabeth Haines is a New York City-based violist, violinist, vocalist, songwriter, and performer. She is a core member of Contemporaneous, leads the Brooklyn-based Americana group Bellehouse with Jessica Clinton, and is violist and vocalist for bands Emanuel and the Fear and Kenyon Phillips + The Ladies in Waiting, with whom she performs in the burlesque circus glam rock opera The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips. She performed in Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy starring Courtney Love and …
Danny Gray is an internationally awarded composer of film, television, multimedia and concert music.
He has composed music for over 600 episodes of television airing on ABC, NBC, History Channel, National Geographic, and Investigation Discovery. Credits include "Dateline," "20/20," "NY Med," "American Pickers," and "On the Case with Paula Zahn." Narrative and documentary film credits include One Penny (dir. Michael DeVita), My Day (dir. Paul Kelly), and the hit YouTube comedy short Hell No (dir. Joe Nicolosi). His film scores …
Conductor
Holding a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting from New York’s “Mannes School of Music,” Miguel Campos Neto is in his 12th season as the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Theatro da Paz Symphony Orchestra in Belém, northern Brazil. He also serves as Chief Conductor of its Opera Festival, and the Altino Pimenta Symphony Orchestra, of the Federal University of Pará. For 12 years he served as Chief Conductor of the Vale Musica Youth Orchestra and for 4 years …