New York Philharmonic to Return to Bravo! Vail for 14th Annual Summer Residency

The New York Philharmonic will return to Bravo! Vail in Colorado for the Orchestra's 14th- annual summer residency there, featuring six concerts July 22-29, 2016.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct three programs, July 27-29, featuring works by Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, and Wagner.

The residency will also feature a complete screening of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights with the Orchestra performing Chaplin's score live, conducted by Timothy Brock (July 23). Bramwell Tovey will conduct a Spanish-themed program featuring works by Massenet and Falla (July 22), and Juraj Valcuha will lead works by Kodaly, Liszt, Dvorak, and Ravel (July 24).

The soloists appearing during the Orchestra's residency are bass- baritone Eric Owens, the Philharmonic's 2015-16 season Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in- Residence; pianists Yefim Bronfman and Javier Perianes, the latter in his Philharmonic debut; violinist Leila Josefowicz; soprano Heidi Melton; mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano; and Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill. In addition, Philharmonic musicians will perform in a chamber concert presented on Bravo! Vail's Chamber Music Series (July 26). The New York Philharmonic has performed at Bravo! Vail each summer since 2003.

Alan Gilbert will lead the concert on Wednesday, July 27, featuring Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, with Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill as soloist, and R. Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, featuring concertmaster solos by Philharmonic Concertmaster Frank Huang in his first summer at Bravo! Vail. On Thursday, July 28, Mr. Gilbert will conduct Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, with Leila Josefowicz as soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica. Alan Gilbert will also conduct an all-Wagner program on Friday, July 29, featuring Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, and the Ride of the Valkyries and the Final Scene from Act III of Die Walkure, with mezzo-soprano Heidi Melton and bass-baritone Eric Owens (the Philharmonic's 2015-16 season Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence) as soloists.

Bramwell Tovey will return for his 13th summer with the New York Philharmonic at Vail to conduct the residency's opening program, Friday, July 22, featuring Massenet's Ballet Music from Le Cid; Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, with pianist Javier Perianes in his Philharmonic debut; and Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat (complete ballet), with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano.

On Saturday, July 23, the Philharmonic will present a complete screening of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights with the Orchestra performing Chaplin's score live, conducted by Timothy Brock, who restored the score for live performance.

On Sunday, July 24, Juraj Valc?uha will conduct the Philharmonic in works with Austro- Hungarian ties: Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, with pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Koda?ly's Dances of Gala?nta, Dvor?a?k's The Water Goblin, and Ravel's La Valse.

In addition, on Tuesday, July 26, New York Philharmonic musicians will perform a chamber version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, arranged by Hanns Eisler, on Bravo! Vail's Chamber Music Series.

Bravo! Vail was founded by John Giovando and violinist Ida Kavafian in 1987. Pianist Anne- Marie McDermott became artistic director in 2011, and Jennifer Teisinger assumed the role of executive director in January 2016. New York Philharmonic concerts will be performed in the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater and will start at 6:00 p.m., with the exception of the performance of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights on July 23, which will begin at 8:00 p.m. The chamber music concert featuring New York Philharmonic musicians will be held at the Donovan Pavilion and will also start at 6:00 p.m.

Music Director Alan Gilbert began his New York Philharmonic tenure in 2009, the first native New Yorker in the post. He and the Philharmonic have introduced the positions of The Marie- Jose?e Kravis Composer-in-Residence, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, and Artist-in-Association; CONTACT!, the new-music series; the NY PHIL BIENNIAL, an exploration of today's music; and the New York Philharmonic Global Academy, collaborations with partners worldwide offering training of pre-professional musicians, often alongside performance residencies. As The New Yorker wrote, "Gilbert has made an indelible mark on the orchestra's history and that of the city itself."

Alan Gilbert's 2015-16 Philharmonic highlights include R. Strauss's Ein Heldenleben to welcome Concertmaster Frank Huang; Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala; and five World Premieres. He co-curates and conducts in the second NY PHIL BIENNIAL and performs violin in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. He leads the Orchestra as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership and appears at Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West. Philharmonic-tenure highlights include acclaimed stagings of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Jana?c?ek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson (for which Mr. Gilbert was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction), and Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake starring Marion Cotillard; 24 World Premieres; The Nielsen Project, a performance and recording cycle; Verdi Requiem and Bach's B-minor Mass; the score from 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside the film; Mahler's Resurrection Symphony on the tenth anniversary of 9/11; and nine tours around the world. In August 2015 he led the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the U.S. Stage Premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin, co-presented as part of the Lincoln Center-New York Philharmonic Opera Initiative.

Pictured: Alan Gilbert conducting the NY Philharmonic in Vail, Colorado. Photos by Zach Mahone.