Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Performers

• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
  Paavo Järvi, Music Director and Conductor
• Radu Lupu, Piano

Program

• RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye Suite
• BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3
• BACH (ARR. WEBERN) Ricercare No. 2 from A Musical Offering, BWV 1079
• LUTOSLAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra
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  Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Paavo Järvi, Music Director and Conductor
  
  One of the most sought-after conductors of his generation, Paavo Järvi became the 12th Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in September 2001. His dynamic leadership on the Cincinnati podium has captured international attention, attracting new artists to Cincinnati's historic Music Hall and consistently garnering rave reviews.
  
  Mr. Järvi and the CSO have completed 16 Telarc recordings, including a September 2009 release featuring Holst's The Planets and Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Their recordings have garnered critical acclaim, including a 2008 all-Mussorgsky disc that won a Grammy Award. The CSO's 2006 release of Britten and Elgar was also honored with two Grammys.
  
  Mr. Järvi has more than 30 additional recordings to his credit. He is currently recording a complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie for RCA Red Seal. His Virgin Classics recording of Sibelius's cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Male Choir, and Ellerhein Girls Choir won a 2003 Grammy for Best Choral Performance.
  
  Mr. Järvi is also Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will become the seventh Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris beginning in the 2010–2011 season.
  
  Born in Estonia in 1962, Paavo Järvi studied percussion and conducting at the Tallinn School of Music. He moved to the US with his family at the age of 17 in 1980, and is now an American citizen. His studies continued at the Curtis Institute of Music under Otto-Werner Mueller and Max Rudolf, former music director of the CSO, as well as at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute with Leonard Bernstein.
  
  In 2002, Mr. Järvi began a two-year term as artistic advisor of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and received the Kultuurkapital Award from the Estonian Ministry of Culture for promoting Estonian music in other countries.

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• Radu Lupu, Piano
  
  Radu Lupu is firmly established as one of the most important musicians of his generation, widely acknowledged as a leading interpreter of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert. Since winning the prestigious Van Cliburn (1966) and Leeds (1969) international competitions, Mr. Lupu has regularly performed as a soloist and a recitalist in the musical capitals of the world and at major festivals in Europe and the US. He has appeared many times with the Berliner Philharmoniker since his debut with that orchestra under Herbert von Karajan in 1978, and with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra , including the opening concert of the 1986 Salzburg Festival under Riccardo Muti. He also performs frequently with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and all of the major London orchestras.
  
  Mr. Lupu's first American appearances were in 1972, with The Cleveland Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim in New York, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Carlo Maria Giulini. Concerts with the New York Philharmonic soon followed, and Mr. Lupu has since appeared with all of the foremost American orchestras. This season, his winter tour includes concerts with the orchestras of Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, and Cincinnati, in addition to recitals in Chicago; Washington, DC; and Princeton.
  
  Mr. Lupu's European orchestral engagements include the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis, the Berliner Philharmoniker with Bernard Haitink, and a tour of Germany with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and David Zinman.
  
  Mr. Lupu has made more than 20 recordings for London/Decca, including the complete Beethoven concertos (with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Zubin Mehta); the complete Mozart violin and piano sonatas with Szymon Goldberg; and numerous solo recordings of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert. His 1995 London/Decca releases of Schubert's sonatas, D. 960 and D. 664, and Schumann's Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, and Humoresque, won a Grammy and an Edison award, respectively. He has also recorded with pianists Murray Perahia (Sony Classical) and Daniel Barenboim (Teldec), and soprano Barbara Hendricks (EMI).
  
  Born in Romania in 1945, Mr. Lupu began studying the piano at age six with Lia Busuioseanu. He made his public debut with a complete program of his own music at 12, continuing his studies for several years with Florica Muzicescu and Cella Delavrance. In 1961, he won a scholarship to the Moscow State Conservatory, where he studied with Heinrich Neuhaus and his son, Stanislav Neuhaus. While a student at the conservatory, Mr. Lupu won—in addition to Van Cliburn and Leeds—first prize in the 1967 Enescu International Competition. In 1989 and again in 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Abbiati Prize, given by the Italian Association of Music Critics. He is also the recipient of the 2006 Premio Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Award.

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