Ensemble ACJW

Performers

• Barbara Hannigan, Soprano
• Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
• Ensemble ACJW
  Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

Program

• RAMEAU Suite from Les Boréades
• LIGETI Violin Concerto
• LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre
• R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen: A Study for 23 Strings
• 
  Perspectives: Christian Tetzlaff

Bios

• Barbara Hannigan
  
  Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan studied at the University of Toronto with Mary Morrison, at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Meinard Kraak, and privately with Neil Semer.
  
  A frequent guest of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Ms. Hannigan has also performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Opéra national de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, and Asko | Schoenberg.
  
  Ms. Hannigan has worked with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Thomas Adès, Kurt Masur, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Alan Gilbert, Susanna Mälkki, Oliver Knussen, Michael Gielen, and Peter Eötvös. She has also had the privilege of working with composers Louis Andriessen, Pascal Dusapin, Gerald Barry, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the late Henri Dutilleux.
  
  György Ligeti’s compositions carry special weight in Ms. Hannigan’s repertoire. She has performed Mysteries of the Macabre at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Lincoln Center, Berliner Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Ms. Hannigan performed Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles aventures in her 2003 BBC Proms debut with the London Sinfonietta; the composer’s Requiem with the Bamberg Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker, and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; and Le Grand Macabre at La Monnaie and Lincoln Center.
  
  Ms. Hannigan’s operatic roles include Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Despina in Così fan tutte, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress, Dalinda in Ariodante, and the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen. She sang in the world premieres of Dusapin’s Passion, Andriessen’s Writing to Vermeer, Jan van de Putte’s Wet Snow, Michel van der Aa’s solo opera One, Luca Mosca’s Signor Goldoni, and Barry’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. Barry also specifically composed La plus forte for Ms. Hannigan—a full setting of Strindberg’s play for soprano and orchestra.

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• Christian Tetzlaff
  
  Known for his musical integrity, technical assurance, and intelligent interpretations, Christian Tetzlaff is internationally recognized as one of the most important violinists of his generation.
  
  From the outset of his career, Mr. Tetzlaff has performed and recorded a broad spectrum of repertoire. In high demand as a soloist around the world, he has performed with the orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna and Rotterdam philharmonic orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among many others. A dedicated chamber musician, he collaborates with distinguished artists, including Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt, and is the founder of the Tetzlaff Quartet, which he formed in 1994 with violinist Elisabeth Kufferath, violist Hanna Weinmeister, and his sister, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff.
  
  As a 2010–2011 Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist, Mr. Tetzlaff appears with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ACJW with Sir Simon Rattle, the Tetzlaff Quartet, and in a duo-recital with violinist Antje Weithaas. In addition, he leads a Professional Training Workshop for young violinists and pianists.
  
  Mr. Tetzlaff’s highly regarded recordings include recent projects with the Russian National Orchestra and Kent Nagano, the Tonhalle-Orchester and David Zinman, Mitsuko Uchida and the Ensemble Intercontemporain led by Pierre Boulez, and Leif Ove Andsnes. Upcoming recording collaborations include the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Mr. Boulez, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi.
  
  Mr. Tetzlaff lives near Frankfurt with his wife, a clarinetist with the Oper Frankfurt, and their three children. He performs on a violin modeled after a Guarneri del Gesù made by Peter Greiner. In honor of his artistic achievements, Musical America named him Instrumentalist of the Year in 2005.

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• Ensemble ACJW
  
  Ensemble ACJW is an inspirational collective of outstanding young professional musicians from The Academy that has earned accolades from critics and audiences alike for the quality of its performances, as well as its fresh and open-minded approach to performance and programming. In a variety of venues, they have played a wide range of music—from works written centuries ago to those completed days before—with verve and total commitment to their art.
  
  The group performs its own series at Carnegie Hall and regularly appears at Paul Hall at The Juilliard School. As part of a partnership with Skidmore College that began in 2007, Ensemble ACJW gives master classes to university students and performs for the Saratoga Springs community both in concert halls and in informal settings around town.
  
  All Ensemble ACJW members are alumni or current fellows of The Academy, a two-year fellowship program created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson and The Juilliard School’s President Joseph W. Polisi to support young professional musicians develop their careers as top-quality performers, innovative programmers, and dedicated teachers who are fully engaged with the communities in which they live and work.
  
  Fellows of the two-year Academy program—chosen for their musicianship, but also for their leadership qualities and commitment to music education—come from some of the best music schools in the country, including the Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, Mannes College The New School for Music, New England Conservatory, and Yale School of Music.
  
  In addition to performance opportunities at the highest level, a robust program of professional development is an essential part of The Academy. Fellows partner with New York City public schools to share their artistry with—and become central resources for—music classrooms in the five boroughs. In their second year, the fellows also develop innovative, community-based group projects. Among those produced in recent years were a collaboration with residents of a Bronx family apartment complex, a pen-pal program that paired young students with professional musicians, and a performance of George Crumb’s Voice of the Whale in the American Museum of Natural History’s Millstein Hall of Ocean Life.
  
  Exemplary performers, dedicated teachers, and advocates for music throughout the community, the fellows of The Academy that make up Ensemble ACJW are redefining what it means to be a musician in the 21st century. Visit acjw.org to learn more.
  
  
  Sir Simon Rattle
  
  Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Between 1980 and 1998, Mr. Rattle was principal conductor and artistic adviser of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, before becoming its music director. He also conducted leading orchestras in London, Europe, and the US, enjoying a close association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for many years and later with The Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he has recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies and piano concertos (with Alfred Brendel), and is also a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Founding Patron of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
  
  Mr. Rattle became the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker in September 2002. As Artistic Director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, Mr. Rattle has directed the Berliner Philharmoniker in staged productions of Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s Così fan tutte, and Britten’s Peter Grimes. He has also conducted Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle with the Berliner Philharmoniker for the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Easter festivals. Recent opera engagements include Tristan und Isolde for the Vienna State Opera, L’étoile for the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Pelléas et Mélisande for The Metropolitan Opera. He conducts Salome for the 2011 Salzburg Easter Festival and returns to The Netherlands Opera in May 2011 for Der Rosenkavalier.
  
  An exclusive EMI artist for many years, Mr. Rattle has made more than 70 recordings that have received prestigious international awards. Releases with Berliner Philharmoniker include Holst’s The Planets; Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 14; Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite; Debussy’s La mer; Schubert’s Symphony No. 9; Orff’s Carmina Burana; Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4; and Brahms’s Requiem with Dorothea Röschmann and Thomas Quasthoff, which won Best Choral Recording at the 2008 Grammy Awards. His most recent releases are Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (recipient of the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance), Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
  
  Mr. Rattle was knighted in 1994 by the Queen of England, and has received many other distinctions in recognition of his artistic achievements.

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