Anthony Marwood /
Steven Isserlis /
Thomas Adès

Performers

• Anthony Marwood, Violin
• Steven Isserlis, Cello
• Thomas Adès, Piano

Program

• JANÁCEK Violin Sonata
• LISZT Romance oubliée
• LISZT La Lugubre Gondola
• THOMAS ADÈS Lieux retrouvés (US Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the Aldeburgh Festival, and Wigmore Hall)
• POULENC Sonata for Cello and Piano
• RAVEL Piano Trio in A Minor
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  Program is approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Anthony Marwood
  
  Anthony Marwood is the violinist of the award-winning Florestan Trio, with whom he has performed all over the world and recorded most of the mainstream trio repertoire.
  
  He was named Instrumentalist of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2006 and is a frequent soloist with orchestras around the world. In the next year, he will make his debuts with the Boston, Saint Louis, New Zealand, and Melbourne symphony orchestras, and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic. He has been invited to return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
  
  Mr. Marwood also enjoys a flourishing career as a director and is currently Artistic Director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Next year he will direct Les Violons du Roy in Canada, the Scottish Ensemble, and at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. He is a regular collaborator with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. His passion for theater resulted in tours with the Academy of a fully staged production of Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat, in which he acted the role of the Soldier in addition to playing the violin part; his performance, directed by Lawrence Evans, was picked as one of the highlights of the year by the Daily Telegraph.
  
  This season, Mr. Marwood premieres two new concertos: one by Steve Mackey, and one from New Zealander Ross Harris. Thomas Adès wrote his 2005 concerto “Concentric Paths” for Mr. Marwood, and he has performed the work on numerous occasions, giving the US premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the French premiere in Paris, and the Russian premiere in St. Petersburg. Mr. Adès and Mr. Marwood have recently released a recording of Stravinsky’s complete music for violin and piano on the Hyperion label.
  
  Mr. Marwood plays on a beautiful 1736 violin by Carlo Bergonzi.

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• Steven Isserlis
  
  Acclaimed worldwide for his technique and musicianship, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.
  
  His 2009–2010 season includes appearances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer, the Philharmonia Orchestra with Vladimir Ashkenazy, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with André de Ridder, Philharmonia Baroque with Nicholas McGegan, the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées with Philippe Herreweghe, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra with Yan Pascal Tortelier. Mr. Isserlis also takes a strong interest in historically informed performance and has played with many of the foremost period instrument orchestras.
  
  Recent seasons have seen Mr. Isserlis perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Simon Rattle and Beethoven’s complete works for cello and keyboard with fortepianist Robert Levin. As a chamber musician, Mr. Isserlis is renowned for his consummate collaboration with fellow artists and for his ingenuity and innovation in programming.
  
  Mr. Isserlis is a keen exponent of contemporary music, and he has worked with many composers on new commissions since giving the world premiere of John Tavener’s Protecting Veil at the BBC Proms in 1989. In 2006, he gave the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Cello Concerto at the Salzburg Festival; at the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival, he premiered Thomas Adès’s Lieux retrouvés in a performance with the composer.
  
  With an award-winning discography, Mr. Isserlis’s recordings reflect his diverse interests in repertoire. His recent release of Bach’s complete solo cello suites on the Hyperion label met with the highest critical acclaim and won many awards, including Gramophone’s Instrumental Disc of the Year.
  
  Steven Isserlis plays the Marquis de Corberon (Nelsova) Stradivarius of 1726, kindly loaned to him by the Royal Academy of Music.

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• Thomas Adès
  
  Renowned as both a composer and a performer, Thomas Adès works regularly with the world’s leading orchestras, opera companies, and festivals. Appointed to the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer Chair at Carnegie Hall for 2007–2008, he was featured as composer, conductor, and pianist throughout that season.
  
  Engagements in 2009–2010 include a major composer and artist focus with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with which he has developed a particularly close relationship; piano recitals in Vancouver and at the Barbican, where Mr. Adès will perform the premieres of his new piano work Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face; and his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with whom he will perform Sibelius’s The Tempest, Tchaikovsky’s The Tempest, and scenes from his own The Tempest.
  
  The many orchestras he has conducted include the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Symphony Orchestra, and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. A number of international festivals have chosen to present special focuses on his music. Among these have been Helsinki’s Musica Nova (1999), the Salzburg Easter Festival (2004), Radio France’s Festival Présences (2007), the Barbican’s Traced Overhead (2007), the Mariinsky Theatre’s New Horizons Festival in St. Petersburg (2007), and the Stockholm International Composer Festival (2009).
  
  Born in London in 1971, Mr. Adès studied piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Between 1993 and 1995, he was composer in association with the Hallé Orchestra, which resulted in his compositions The Origin of the Harp (1994) and These Premises Are Alarmed for the opening of Bridgewater Hall in 1996. Asyla (1997) was a Feeney Trust commission for Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which toured the work and performed it on Mr. Rattle’s last concert as music director in 1998. Mr. Rattle subsequently programmed Asyla in his opening concert as Music Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker in September 2002.

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