Jeffrey Kahane will perform as soloist with the New York Philharmonic in Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 24, and 25, conducting the Orchestra from the piano Friday, and Saturday, March 26 and 27 at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Kahane has previously performed this dual role for Mozart piano concertos with the New York Philharmonic - in December 2003 (Piano Concerto No. 22), and in February 2006 (Nos.17 and 20), his most recent appearance with the Orchestra.
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• Pre-Concert Talk
Composer/conductor Victoria Bond will introduce the program one hour before each performance. Tickets are $5 in addition to the concert ticket. Attendance is limited to 90 people. Information: nyphil.org or (212) 875-5656
• New York Philharmonic Podcast
Mark Travis, a producer for the WFMT Radio Network since 1999 and the producer of the 52-week-per-year nationally syndicated radio series, The New York Philharmonic This Week will host 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 or from iTunes.
• National Radio Broadcast
This concert will be broadcast the week of April 5, 2010,* on The New York Philharmonic This Week, a radio concert series syndicated nationally to more than 295 stations by the WFMT Radio Network. The 52-week series, hosted by the Emmy Award-winning 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 105.9 FM WQXR on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m.
*Check local listings for broadcast and program information.
Highlights of Mr. Kahane's 2009-10 season include appearances at the Aspen, Mostly Mozart, and Oregon Bach festivals; a concerto performance with Houston Symphony Orchestra; and conducting Haydn's Creation with the Utah Symphony. His recordings include works of Gershwin and Bernstein with cellist Yo-Yo Ma (SONY); Paul Schoenfield's Four Parables with the New World Symphony conducted by John Nelson (Decca/Argo); R. Strauss's Burleske with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc); and the complete Bach Brandenburg Concertos (playing harpsichord) with the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling (Haenssler). He has also recorded the complete works for violin and piano by Schubert with Joseph Swensen (RCA), and Bernstein's Age of Anxiety (Virgin Records), which was nominated by Gramophone for their "Record of the Year" award. A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Jeffrey Kahane's early piano studies were with Howard Weisel and Jakob Gimpel. He was the first prize winner at the 1983 Rubinstein Competition, a finalist at the 1981 Van Cliburn Competition, and the recipient of a 1983 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He received the first Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award in 1987.
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