Dawn Upshaw
Emanuel Ax

Performers

• Dawn Upshaw, Soprano
• Emanuel Ax, Piano

Program

• CHOPIN "The Wish," Op. 74, No. 1
• CHOPIN "The Sad Stream," Op. 74. No. 3
• CHOPIN "There Where She Loves," Op. 74, No. 5
• CHOPIN "Out Of My Sight!," Op. 74, No. 6
• CHOPIN Four Mazurkas, Op. 41
• CHOPIN "Melody," Op. 74, No. 9
• CHOPIN "There Is No Need," Op. 74, No. 13
• CHOPIN "My Darling," Op. 74, No. 12
• STEPHEN PRUTSMAN Piano Lessons (US premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
• CHOPIN Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1
• CHOPIN Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
• SCHUMANN "In der Fremde," Op. 39, No. 1
• SCHUMANN "Nachtlied," Op. 96, No. 1
• SCHUMANN "Die Lotosblume," Op. 25, No. 7
• SCHUMANN "Heiß mich nicht reden," Op. 98a, No. 5
• SCHUMANN "Singet nicht in Trauertönen," Op. 98a, No. 7
• SCHUMANN "Die Stille," Op. 39, No. 4
• SCHUMANN "Die Blume der Ergebung," Op. 83, No. 2
• SCHUMANN "Jemand," Op. 25, No. 4
• SCHUMANN "Röselein, Röselein!," Op. 89, No. 6
• SCHUMANN "Mignon," Op. 79, No. 28
• SCHUMANN "Er ist’s," Op. 79, No. 23
• SCHUMANN "Widmung," Op. 25, No. 1
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  Encores:
• OSVALDO GOLIJOV "Lúa Descolorida"
• WOLF "Er ist's"
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  Program is approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Dawn Upshaw
  
  Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer of opera and concert repertoire ranging from the sacred works of Bach to the freshest sounds of today. Her acclaimed performances on the opera stage comprise the great Mozart roles—including Pamina, Ilia, Susanna, and Despina—as well as modern works by Stravinsky, Poulenc, and Messiaen. From Salzburg, Paris, and Glyndebourne to the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Upshaw has also championed numerous new works created for her, including The Great Gatsby by John Harbison; the Grawemeyer Award–winning opera L’Amour de Loin and oratorio La passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho; John Adams’s Nativity oratorio El Niño; and Osvaldo Golijov’s chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre.
  
  Ms. Upshaw’s 2009–2010 season opened with festival concerts in Edinburgh, Montreux, Zurich, and at the BBC Proms with David Zinman and the Tonhalle-Orchester. She premiered a new chamber work by David Bruce commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for its 40th Anniversary Gala at Alice Tully Hall, followed by a new orchestral cycle by Alberto Iglesias with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, where she is an Artistic Partner. She also joined Gustavo Dudamel in his inaugural season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and reprised her celebrated role in El Niño at Carnegie Hall. This spring, she tours Europe and the US with Emanuel Ax, and returns to Carnegie Hall for a festival celebrating the music of Louis Andriessen, among other highlights.
  
  A four-time Grammy Award winner, Ms. Upshaw is featured on more than 50 recordings, including the million-selling Symphony No. 3 by Henryk Gorecki. Her discography also includes full-length opera recordings of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Messiaen’s St. Francois d’Assise, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, El Niño, two volumes of Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne, and a dozen recital recordings. Her most recent release on Deutsche Grammophon is Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, the third in a series of acclaimed recordings of Osvaldo Golijov’s music.
  
  Dawn Upshaw is Artistic Director of the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and a faculty member at the Tanglewood Music Center. She holds honorary doctorate degrees from Yale, the Manhattan School of Music, Allegheny College, and Illinois Wesleyan University. In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist to be awarded the five-year “genius” grant.

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• Emanuel Ax
  
  Born in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. He studied at The Juilliard School and Columbia University, capturing public attention in 1974 when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
  
  In recognition of the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann in 2010 and in partnership with London’s Barbican, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony, Mr. Ax has commissioned new works from composers Thomas Adès, Peter Lieberson, and Stephen Prutsman for three recital programs to be presented in each of those cities with colleagues Yo-Yo Ma and Dawn Upshaw. In addition to this project, he tours Asia with the New York Philharmonic on their first tour with incoming Music Director Alan Gilbert, and tours in Europe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under James Conlon as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony with Manfred Honeck. As a regular visitor in subscription concerts, he returns to Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston during the spring.
  
  Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Recent releases include Strauss’s Enoch Arden, narrated by Patrick Stewart; discs of two-piano music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman; and a disc of Mendelssohn trios with Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman. Mr. Ax has received Grammy Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas, and has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with Mr. Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano.
  
  Mr. Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki, and their two children. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia universities. Please visit EmanuelAx.com for more information.

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