21C Artists To Watch: May 2012

May 2012 e-newsletter

In this issue

Edwin Outwater: conductor to the rescue!

Stefan Jackiw: a return to the CSO

Joyce Yang: playing with the masters

Jessica Rivera: blooming in Atlanta

Datebook

May 2: New York, NY

Dan Visconti

Carnegie Hall - Lucy Shelton w/ Da Capo Chamber Players

Dan Visconti: The Clear Light (world premiere)

May 3-5: Boston, MA

Jessica Rivera

Boston Symphony Hall - Boston Symphony

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

May 5: Washington, DC

Stefan Jackiw

Terrace Theater - Kennedy Center

Recital w/ Anna Polonsky

May 5: Washington, D.C.

Dan Visconti

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Lucy Shelton w/ 21st Century Consort

Dan Visconti: The Clear Light

(DC premiere)

May 5 & 6: Spokane, WA

Joshua Roman

Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox - Spokane Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme

R. Strauss: Don Quixote

May 5 & 6: Toronto, ON

Edwin Outwater

Roy Thomson Hall - Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Bernstein: Overture to Candide
John Adams: The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

May 6: Los Angeles, CA

Stefan Jackiw

Maestro Concert Series

Chamber Recital

May 12: Chicago, IL

Edwin Outwater

Symphony Center - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Stookey: The Composer is Dead

May 12: Ashland, OR

Dan Visconti

Triple Helix Piano Trio

Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads

May 13: Mamaroneck, NY

Joyce Yang, Stefan Jackiw

Singer Hall

Recital

May 17: Corvallis, OR

Dan Visconti

Triple Helix Piano Trio

Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads

May 17-19: New York, NY

Joyce Yang

Steinway Hall

Manhattan Festival

May 24-26: Atlanta, GA

Stefan Jackiw

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center Symphony Hall - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy

May 25-27: Kitchener, Canada

Edwin Outwater

Centre In The Square - Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

Michael Oesterle: Perennials

Beethoven: "Triple" Concerto

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

May 27 - June 10: Halifax, Canada

Joshua Roman

Scotia Festival of Music

Residency

May 31 - June 3: Los Angeles, CA

Kelley O'Connor

Walt Disney Concert Hall - LA Philharmonic

Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary

June 3: Chicago, IL

Stefan Jackiw

Symphony Center

Chamber Recital w/Jeremy Denk

June 7-8: Chicago, IL

Stefan Jackiw

Symphony Center - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: "Triple" Concerto

June 7 & 9: Atlanta, GA

Jessica Rivera

Symphony Hall - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Adams: A Flowering Tree (Kumudha)

June 12: New York, NY

Joyce Yang

Century Club

Recital w/ Liang Wang

June 17: Mamaroneck, NY

Joyce Yang

Singer Hall

Chamber Music Recital

June 22: Seattle, WA

Joshua Roman

Town Hall - TownMusic series

w/Mason Bates & an all-cello ensemble

Edwin Outwater: conductor to the rescue!

When American conductor Edwin Outwater got the call to conduct for the world premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank's Holy Sisters with the Berkeley Symphony a mere two days before the concert, his only opportunity to study the score was on the plane ride out to California ("Thank God for the iPad!" he joked in a pre-concert talk). Outwater, who is known for his ability to conduct both standard concert fare and new music with ease, did not fail to deliver on the premiere. Praise poured in from the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News, while the San Francisco Classical Voice wrote: "Outwater's arrival didn't just save the day. His vigorous and focused approach effected an outstanding set of performances from the Symphony players, and evidenced that he's headed for a top-tier future."

In his role as music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS), Outwater is dedicated to expanding the orchestra's core audience through groundbreaking collaborative projects, frequently creating special programs that look at music's relationship with very different topics, such as food and wine, neurology, and quantum physics. Click here to read the Maclean's article about a project Outwater and the KWS created with the Institute for Quantum Computing and click below to watch selections from "Quantum: Music at the Frontier of Science":

Quantum: Music at the Frontier of Science

For more information, visit EdwinOutwater.com or the MusicVine website.

Stefan Jackiw: a return to the CSO

After his recent "sublime performance" of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, rising star violinist Stefan Jackiw reprises the work for his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut under Nicholas McGegan this week (May 24-26). Chicago audiences will also soon have the chance to hear Jackiw when he joins American pianist Jeremy Denk at the city's Symphony Center for "The Collaborative Pianist" (June 3): an innovative recital exploring the piano-player's role in intimate artistic partnerships. Later that week, Jackiw returns to the Chicago Symphony for two performances (June 7 & 8) of Beethoven's "Triple" Concerto with cellist Pavel Gomziakov, pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and conductor Trevor Pinnock.

For more information, visit StefanJackiw.com, the artist's YouTube channel, or the Opus 3 Artists website.

Joyce Yang: playing with the masters

"Her attention to detail and clarity is as impressive as her agility," raved the Washington Post about pianist Joyce Yang's solo recital at Wolf Trap last month. This summer, the young pianist brings these impressive gifts to concerts with two of the greatest chamber ensembles of the last 50 years: the Guarneri Quartet and the Emerson String Quartet. On August 2, Yang joins members of the Guarneri Quartet to play Franck's Piano Quintet at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Just a week later on August 11, Yang returns home to New York and the Mozart Mozart festival for a performance of Schubert's beloved "Trout" piano quintet with the Emerson String Quartet, preceded by a pre-concert solo piano recital featuring Bartók's Out of Doors at Alice Tully Hall.

For more information, visit PianistJoyceYang.com or the Arts Management Group website.

Jessica Rivera: blooming in Atlanta

This spring, soprano Jessica Rivera brought "clarity and grace" to the world premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank's Holy Sisters with the Berkeley Symphony, gave a San Francisco Performances recital "rich in panache," and lent her "clear and agile voice" to the Boston Symphony's performance of Beethoven's Ninth under Bernard Haitink. Now, Rivera reprises the role of Kumudha, which she originated in the 2006 Vienna premiere, in a staged concert production of John Adams's A Flowering Tree with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano (June 7 & 9) before heading to Madrid's Teatro Real to star in a production of Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar.

Click below to listen to Rivera's Kumudha in this multimedia video from Cincinnati Opera's production of A Flowering Tree:

Cincinnati Opera presents 'A Flowering Tree'

For more information, visit JessicaRivera.com, the artist's YouTube channel, or the IMG Artists website.

About 21C Artists To Watch

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.

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