Andrey Boreyko to Conduct NY Philharmonic; Branford Marsalis is Soloist

Andrey Boreyko will lead the New York Philharmonic in Haydn's Symphony No. 60, Il distratto; Glazunov's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Schulhoff's Hot-Sonate for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, performed by Branford Marsalis in his Philharmonic subscription debut; and R. Strauss's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Wednesday and Thursday, February 16-17, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, February 18, at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, February 19, at 8:00 p.m.

The two works for saxophone were performed by Mr. Boreyko and Mr. Marsalis with the Philharmonic on July 15, 2010, as part of the New York Philharmonic in the Parks Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer, and later that month at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

*Pre-Concert Talk: New York Philharmonic Artistic Administrator John Mangum will introduce the program one hour before each performance in the Helen Hull Room, unless otherwise noted. Pre-Concert Talks are $7; discounts available for multiple concerts, students, and groups. Attendance is limited to 90 people. Information: nyphil.org or (212) 875-5656.

*On the Music: The New York Philharmonic Podcast Elliott Forrest, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, producer, and weekend host on Classical 105.9 FM WQXR, is the host of this podcast. These award-winning previews of upcoming programs - through musical selections as well as interviews with guest artists, conductors, and Orchestra musicians - are available at nyphil.org/podcast and from iTunes.

*National Radio Broadcast: This concert will be broadcast the week of February 28, 2011,* on The New York Philharmonic This Week, a radio concert series syndicated nationally to more than 300 stations by the WFMT Radio Network. The 52-week series, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin, is generously underwritten by The Kaplen Foundation, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation. The broadcast will be available on the Philharmonic's Website, nyphil.org. The program is broadcast locally in the New York metropolitan area on Classical 105.9 FM WQXR on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. Check local listings for broadcast and program information. 

Andrey Boreyko has been the music director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of the 2009-10 season. He is also principal guest conductor of both the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, and he recently signed a five-year contract with the National Orchestra of Belgium as music director, to begin in September 2012. He has been chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Jenaer Philharmonie, Hamburg Symphony, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, as well as principal guest conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He remains honorary conductor of the Jenaer Philharmonie where, during his tenure there, the board of directors of the German Music Publishers' Association awarded him and his orchestra the distinction for the most innovative concert programming for three consecutive seasons.

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, born in 1960, has numerous musical interests, including jazz, blues, and funk, as well as classical music. The three-time Grammy winner has continued to exercise and expand his skills as an instrumentalist, a composer, and as the head of Marsalis Music, the label he founded in 2002 for which he produces his own projects and those of the jazz world's most promising new and established artists. Mr. Marsalis is equally at home on the stages of the world's greatest clubs and in concert halls. In recent years he has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with the Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, and North Carolina symphony orchestras and the Boston Pops, in a growing repertoire that includes compositions by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Mihaud, Ned Rorem, and Vaughn Williams, in addition to
modern classical composers.

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