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John
Adams conducts ACO in "An Adams Apple:
ACO will present Adams with its Distinguished Composer Award. Adams will be the guest of honor at a benefit after-party immediately following the concert.
My
Father Knew Charles Ives
The
Wound-Dresser
Eric
Owens, bass-baritone
Violin
Concerto
Leila
Josefowicz, violin
John
Adams, composer/conductor
Tickets
& Info Benefit tickets -- which include the concert and after-party at the stylish Felissimo Townhouse -- are $275 and $500. www.americancomposers.org/special_events.htm Major support of American Composers Orchestra is provided by ACO Inner Circle, American Symphony Orchestra League, Amphion Foundation, Arlington Associates, ASCAP, ASCAP Foundation, Bay and Paul Foundations, BMI, BMI Foundation, NY City Council Member Gale A. Brewer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Citigroup Foundation, Edward T. Cone Foundation, Consolidated Edison, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Fidelity Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation, Victor Herbert Foundation, Jephson Educational Trust, Jerome Foundation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, John and Evelyn Kossak Foundation, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Neil Family Fund, The New York Community Trust, The New York State Music Fund established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Rodgers Family Foundation, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation, Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, Paul Underwood Charitable Trust, The Sonata and Watchdog Charitable Trusts, The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. ACO programs are also made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. |
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On
Friday, April 27th at 8:00pm Carnegie Hall presents American
Composers Orchestra at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage performing An
Adams Apple: John Adams at 60. For its final Carnegie Hall
concert of the season ACO will celebrate John Adams' 60th birthday
and its own 30th Anniversary season and 2006-07 season
composer-performer focus with an appropriately festive concert -- 
Bass-baritone
Eric Owens' appearances have included performances
with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco
Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony
Orchestra, the National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Minnesota
Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and Detroit Symphony
among others. He has worked with today's leading conductors including
Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christoph von Dohnanyi, John
Nelson, and Robert Spano. Mr. Owens is a winner of a 1999 ARIA award,
the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition, the Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions and the Luciano Pavarotti
International Voice Competition. A native of Philadelphia, Mr. Owens
studied voice at Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music.
In addition to his performing career, he serves on the Board of
Trustees of The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and
Astral Artistic Services.
Violinist
Leila Josefowicz has appeared with many of the
world's most eminent conductors and prestigious orchestras, including
the Minnesota, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the Toronto, Vancouver, St. Louis, Atlanta, Houston,
Dallas, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Milwaukee, Baltimore, New World and National symphonies, among
others. A regular, close collaborator with leading composers of the
day such as John Adams and Oliver Knussen, she is a strong advocate
of new music - a characteristic which is reflected in her diverse
programs and her enthusiasm for premiering new works. Ms. Josefowicz
is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1994,
and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied
with Jaime Laredo and Jascha Brodsky.
Composer/conductor
John Adams was born and raised in New England and began composing at
the age of ten. After earning two degrees from Harvard University, he
moved to Northern California in 1971 and has lived in the San
Francisco Bay area ever since. In 2002 Adams composed On the
Transmigration of Souls for the New York Philharmonic, a work
written in commemoration of the first anniversary of the World Trade
Center attacks, and received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music. As a
guest conductor and as director of music festivals in the US and
Europe he has appeared with orchestras that include the New York
Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the
Concertgebouw Orchestra and the London Symphony. As Artist in
Association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he regularly appears
with that orchestra as conductor in concerts in London's Barbican and
at the annual Albert Hall Proms concerts. Adams currently holds the
Richard and Barbara Debs Composer Chair at Carnegie Hall, concluding
his tenure in June 2007. In addition to the many musical
projects underway, Adams is also at work on a book of observations
about the American musical scene.