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Datebook
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Feb. 7-22: Chicago, IL
Susanna Phillips
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Donizetti's Elixir of Love (Adina)
Feb. 9-14: Seattle, Irvine, La Jolla, Albuquerque, River Forest, IL
Brooklyn Rider
On tour
Feb. 11 & 13: Seattle, WA
Stefan Jackiw
Seattle Symphony
Barber: Violin Cto.
Feb. 12: Amsterdam
Inon Barnatan
Concertgebouw
With Rubens Quartet
Feb. 12-March 23: London, UK
Pablo Heras-Casado
English National Opera
Donizetti's Elixir of Love
Feb. 16: Milwaukee, WI
Brooklyn Rider
Frankly Music
Feb. 17: Dresden
Pablo Heras-Casado
Staatskapelle Dresden
Haydn, Hindemith & Mozart
Feb. 18-20: Davis, CA
Stefan Jackiw
Mondavi Center, UC Davis
Russian National Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Violin Cto.
Feb. 19: Berkeley, CA
Stefan Jackiw
Cal Performances
Russian National Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Violin Cto.
Feb. 19: West Long Branch, NJ
Brooklyn Rider
Monmouth University
Feb. 20: Harrisburg, PA
Brooklyn Rider
Market Square Church
Feb. 20: Cerritos, CA
Stefan Jackiw
Cerritos Performing Arts Center
Russian National Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Violin Cto.
Feb. 18-20: San Francisco
Joshua Roman
San Francisco Symphony
Haydn Cello Cto. No. 1
Feb. 21-22: Washington, D.C.
Brooklyn Rider
Dumbarton Oaks
Feb. 22: Trento, Italy
Inon Barnatan
Recital with Liza Ferschtman
Feb. 24: Indianapolis, IN
Brooklyn Rider
Indiana History Center
Feb. 25: Muncie, IN
Brooklyn Rider
Ball State University
Feb. 26 & 28: The Netherlands
Inon Barnatan
Solo recitals
Feb. 27: Tulsa, OK
Joshua Roman
Signature Symphony
Rosza: Cello Concerto
Feb. 27: Portland, ME
Brooklyn Rider
USM Portland
Feb. 28: Orono, ME
Brooklyn Rider
Collins Center for the Arts
March 2: Toronto, ON
Brooklyn Rider
Glenn Gould Studio
March 5-7 Glassboro, Vineland & Pomona, NJ
Stefan Jackiw
Bay Atlantic Symphony
Mozart: Violin Cto. 4
March 6: Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Rider
Evergreen Museum and Library
March 6-13: Minneapolis
James Valenti
Minnesota Opera
Puccini's La bohème (Rodolfo)
March 11: Akron, OH
Brooklyn Rider
FUZE! - Akron Art Museum
March 13: Jonesboro, AR
Brooklyn Rider
Fowler Center, Arkansas State
March 15: NYC
Brooklyn Rider
Angel Orensanz Foundation
Dominant Curve CD release event
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About 21C Artists To Watch
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21C Artists To Watch is an image- and awareness-building
program for artists on the brink of major careers in classical music.
Each month, 21C Media Group publishes an e-newsletter profiling several
members of this select group and highlighting their recent and upcoming
activities. Read past newsletters here.
For inquires regarding any of 21C Artists To Watch, please contact:
Wende Persons
Program Director
21C Media Group
ph (917) 691-1282
click here to e-mail
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Joshua Roman makes San Francisco Symphony debut
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 "Hot Young Cellist To Make SF Symphony Debut" trumpets the San Francisco Sentinel, and that's just the first of two big events this month for cellist Joshua Roman. He'll play Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 at Davies Hall with conductor Herbert Blomstedt Feb. 18-20. Read the San Francisco Classical Voice preview interview, "Cellist Joshua Roman: Going Uphill Fast"), and tune in for the KDFC radio broadcast on March 2.
The second debut is a homecoming for the 26-year-old Oklahoma native. On Feb. 27, Roman will perform Miklos Rosza's Cello Concerto with the Signature Symphony in Tulsa, with a huge group of friends and relatives in attendance, including his sister in the violin section. Roman's mother gave her four children string instruments when they were toddlers and taught them all to play. "It was either that or pre-school," she has said, "and I thought they'd learn more from playing instruments." Roman was home-schooled until he was 16; at 22, he became the Seattle Symphony's youngest principal cellist, a job he left after two years to pursue his burgeoning solo career.
Roman is often hailed as a YouTube star. Watch this video of an impromptu jam session with composer/DJ Mason Bates at Le Poisson Rouge after the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's concert at Carnegie Hall last spring.
For more information, visit JoshuaRoman.com or the Opus 3 Artists web site.
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Stefan Jackiw's recording debut with Brahms
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 In December, Sony Classical released in Asia Stefan Jackiw's debut recording of Brahms's Violin Sonatas, made with the Grammy Award-winning producer Steven Epstein. Listen to sample tracks. In a profile of Jackiw published in the Korea Times, pianist Max Levinson said, "Stefan has a young violinist's fire and energy but also maturity, rare depth and understanding." Read more
Jackiw, who is of Korean-American descent, was in Korea for his recital debut at the Seoul Arts Center, Korea's equivalent of Carnegie Hall. Watch this video from his press conference for the recital and his Brahms CD.
2009-2010 continues as a season of debuts for the 24-year-old violinist. Last month he played Mendelssohn to great acclaim with the Montreal Symphony and Tchaikovsky with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. This month, after his return to the Seattle Symphony in Barber's Violin Concerto, Jackiw tours California with Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. In March Jackiw will perform Mozart with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis, and Bruch with the Cincinnati Symphony.
More more information, visit StefanJackiw's new Web site or the Opus 3 Artists web site.
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Susanna Phillips stars at Lyric Opera of Chicago
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 This month, soprano Susanna Phillips is starring as Adina in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Donizetti's Elixir of Love, sharing the stage not only with Nemorino, but a horse named Bullwinkle (Feb. 7-22). It's a homecoming of sorts for the Alabama native, who trained in the Lyric's Ryan Opera Center program. "She is extremely professional, for someone who is so young and for whom this is a role debut," says Elixir's maestro Bruno Campanella. "She has a beautiful voice and beautiful technique. I think she will have an enormously important career."
Chicago Tribune's John von Rhein concurs, "I was pleased to see Phillips, an alumna of Lyric's Ryan Opera Center whose American career is now firmly launched, getting star billing at her alma mater. Her creamy soprano voice and charming character projection are a good fit with Adina... Phillips' second-act aria, in which the heroine regrets her behavior to Nemorino's face, was touchingly sung, with lovely tonal shadings and coloratura."
Just 28, the fast-rising soprano also recorded her first CD in January with frequent collaborator Myra Huang. The all-French disc includes Messiaen's Poemès pour Mi, which was one of the highlights of her Lincoln Center debut recital at Alice Tully Hall in November. Phillips returns to the studio for an all-American disc this spring.
For more information, visit SusannaPhillips.com or the IMG Artists web site. |
Pablo Heras-Casado makes British opera & Dresden debuts
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 Across the Atlantic, Pablo Heras-Casado is making his British opera debut conducting Elixir of Love at English National Opera (Feb. 12 - March 23). His stage director for Donizetti's musical Valentine is Jonathan Miller. In June the 32-year-old conductor will lead Simon Keenlyside's first Rigoletto at Welsh National Opera. In other opera news, Canadian Opera Company recently announced its 2010-2011 season, headlined by a production of Nixon in China, "and it will be conducted by one of the music world's hottest young conductors, Pablo Heras-Casado," writes Toronto Star's Martin Knelman.
The multifaceted conductor, who was unanimously voted winner of the 2007 Lucerne Festival Conductors' Competition by a jury headed by Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, is making his debut with Staatskapelle Dresden on Feb. 17 at Dresden Semperoper in a program of Haydn, Hindemith and Mozart.
Heras-Casado is also guest conducting half a dozen symphony orchestras this spring in the UK, Denmark, France and Spain, including the BBC Philharmonic and the Danish National Symphony. Each engagement builds anticipation for his debuts at three major U.S. festivals in July and August: Blossom, Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Stay tuned!
For more information, visit PabloHerasCasado.com or the HarrisonParrott web site.
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21C Artists To Watch in the news
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Scanning the Dial, Marty Ronish - 2/10/10 (Brooklyn Rider):
"The string quartet Brooklyn Rider gave Seattle a real shot in the arm last night ... Every time I hear them, they have new ideas, new takes on old standards, and freshly composed works in their repertoire ... The group's energy and youthful enthusiasm were utterly infectious."
The New Yorker, Alex Ross - 2/8/10 (Inon Barnatan):
"A player of uncommon sensitivity," Barnatan is pictured and featured in an article about New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge.
The Record, Kitchener-Waterloo - Stephen Preece - 1/30/10 (Stefan Jackiw): "From the first note of his violin,...there was no question he was made for the part."
Plain Dealer, Donald Rosenberg - 1/27/10 (Inon Barnatan): "Cellist Weilerstein and pianist Barnatan share mastery in Cleveland recital" ... "Functioning as equals, they were more than eager to share the surprises, delights and somber beauty in four substantial works... Their program exemplified chamber-music playing on the highest level."
NPR "Tiny Desk Concert" - 1/26/10 (Brooklyn Rider):
Watch the band up close as the musicians play an impromptu concert at the desk of NPR Music's Bob Boilen.
La Presse, Claude Gingras - 1/15/10 (Stefan Jackiw) Montreal Symphony debut: "Jackiw possède toute la technique requise par ce concerto, l'un des plus difficiles du répertoire. On note également son assurance, sa justesse et l'égalité de sa sonorité."
Soundboard, Toronto, Daniella Lagiglia - 1/13/10 (Brooklyn Rider): "Brooklyn Rider effortlessly blends rich world music traditions with classical musicality and minimalist electronic. It's not everyday that a classical string ensemble receives rave reviews from Pitchfork magazine. Then again, Brooklyn Rider is not your average classical string quartet."
Operaholic Unanimous, Dallas Opera blog - 1/11/10 (James Valenti): [View] photographer Dario Acosta's take on tenor James Valenti (better known to Dallas Opera lovers as the mesmerizing poet Rodolfo in our popular 2009 revival of La boheme): "Smashing! And he sings like a dream, too."
Classical Partners - 10/27/09 (Pablo Heras-Casado)
BBC Philharmonic in Manchester: "Under the young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, who was making his debut with the orchestra, they were nothing short of world beating."
Hub Review, Thomas Garvey - 12/30/09 (Susanna Phillips):
"So here are a few of the past year's best dramatic/operatic performances, which could hold their own, frankly, against those of any actor in town: Susanna Phillips - Donna Anna, Don Giovanni, Boston Lyric Opera. Luminously sung and poignantly acted, I think this may have been the most memorable operatic performance of the year."
Photos: Jeremy Sawatzky (Roman); Lisa-Marie Mazzucco (Jackiw); Ken Howard (Phillips); Miguel Penalver (Heras-Casado) | |
