Philadelphia Orchestra Welcomes Two New Members

The Philadelphia Orchestra is pleased to announce that two new members join the Orchestra at the start of the 2013-14 season, Ying Fu as associate concertmaster and Anthony Prisk as second trumpet.

Mr. Fu comes to The Philadelphia Orchestra from the Cleveland Orchestra, where he had been a member of the first violin section since August 2011. He has served as the concertmaster of the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony in Germany and has been a prizewinner of many violin competitions, most recently winning first prize at the 31st "Rodolfo Lipizer" International Violin Competition in Italy in 2012. A native of Shanghai, China, Mr. Fu earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

Mr. Prisk was a member of the Houston Symphony for 11 seasons prior to joining The Philadelphia Orchestra. He has performed internationally with numerous orchestras and music festivals, such as the Los Angeles and Moscow philharmonics, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, and the Montreal, Boston, and New World symphonies. He haswon two international trumpet competitions through the International Trumpet Guild. A native of Chicago, he received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Music degree from McGill University.

Mr. Fu and Mr. Prisk's appointments are the first under Yannick Nézet-Séguin's tenure as music director, who said: "We welcome Ying Fu and Anthony Prisk into The Philadelphia Orchestra with great anticipation. They are among the most talented musicians in the world and will bring an exciting freshness to the ensemble's work together. At the same time, they will fit seamlessly into the overarching culture of the ensemble, keeping alive the legendary connection that has been the hallmark of The Philadelphia Orchestra for generations. We are eager to begin our work together!"

For complete bios of Ying Fu and Anthony Prisk visit http://www.philorch.org/about/musicians.

The Philadelphia Orchestra launches its 2013-14 season with a 15% increase in paid audience capacity since 2010, impressive gains in fundraising and patron retention, and exciting connections between Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the musicians of the Orchestra, and audiences throughout Philadelphia and beyond. Building on the remarkable success of his first season as music director, the Orchestra begins the new season with a spectacular Opening Night Gala featuring virtuoso violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, and with the release of its first recording with Mr. Nézet-Séguin on the Deutsche Grammophon label-Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and favorite orchestral transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski. One week later Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestra open Carnegie Hall's 2013-14 season joined by special guest soloists Joshua Bell and Esperanza Spalding. Artistic highlights in the season include a Philadelphia Commissions Micro-Festival, for which three leading international composers have been commissioned to write solo works for three of the Orchestra's principal players, all presented over one weekend; the next installment in Nézet-Séguin's multi-season focus on requiems with Fauré's Requiem; and a unique, theatrically-staged presentation of Richard Strauss's revolutionary opera Salome, the Orchestra's first-ever co-production with Opera Philadelphia.

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