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Year 2009 (July)

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1 July 2009
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Mosel Musikfestival
Philharmonie, Grand Auditorium, Luxembourg
Filarmonica della Scala
conductor: Daniel Barenboim
2 July 2009
7.30pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

The Lake Effect” - Summer Festival Tour“
Hildene Meadowlands, Manchester, USA
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Anthony Princiotti
2 July 2009
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

22nd Rheingau Musik Festival
Kurhaus, Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal, Wiesbaden, Germany
Filarmonica della Scala
conductor: Daniel Barenboim
2 July 2009
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Fantastisch !
Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany
Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg
conductor: Wolfgang Seeliger
3 July 2009
7.30pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

“The Lake Effect” - Summer Festival Tour
Grafton Ponds, Grafton, USA
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Anthony Princiotti
3 July 2009
8.00pm
Béatrice et Bénédict (selection) Opéra, Strasbourg, France
Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse
conductor: Emmanuel Joel-Hornak
stage director, decor, costume and lighting: Philippe Arlaud
with artists of the Opéra Studio (formerly Jeunes Voix du Rhin)
4 July 2009
4.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Bad Hersfelder Festspiele
Stiftsruine, Bad Hersfeld, Germany
Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg
conductor: Wolfgang Seeliger
4 July 2009
7.30pm
Symphonie fantastique Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK
The Cambridge Philharmonic Society
conductor: Timothy Redmond
4 July 2009
7.30pm
Harold en Italie Westholme Theatre, Westholme School, Blackburn, UK
Blackburn Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Richard Howarth
David Aspin (viola)
4 July 2009
7.30pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

“The Lake Effect” - Summer Festival Tour
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, USA
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Anthony Princiotti
4 July 2009
7.30pm
Works unspecified

Music by Berlioz, Teleman, Mozart, Albeniz, Vaughn Williams, Gnattali and others

“Art and Chamber Music” Open House
Otis Pottery, East Jordan, MI, USA
Fran Shelly (flute); Joan Holland (harp)
Dorothy Vogel (piano); David Holland (viola)
4 July 2009
8.15pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

Patriotic Pops
Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH, USA
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Albert-George Schram
5 July 2009
2.00pm
Les Troyens
(split between Duisburg and Düsseldorf)

Acts: I and II: La Prise de Troie

Theater Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, with Duisburger Philharmoniker
conductor: John Fiore
producer: Christof Loy
sets: Herbert Murauer
costumes: Michaela Barth
choreographer: Istvan Herczog
chorus master: Gerhard Michalski
Cast:
Kassandra: Annette Seiltgen
Aeneas: Steven Harrison
Ascanius: Kristen Leich
Choroebus: Bruno Balmelli
Pantheus: Günes Gürle
Priamus: Michail Milanov
Hekuba: Nassrin Azarmi
Helenus: Markus Müller
Polyxene: Simone Klostermann
Andromache: Monique Janotta
Astyanax: not yet announced
Hektors Schatten: Sami Luttinen
Ein trojanischer Führer: Karl Thomas Schneider
Ein griechischer Heerführer: Daniel Djambazian
5 July 2009
5.00pm
Les Troyens
(split between Duisburg and Düsseldorf)

Acts: III, IV, V: Les Troyens à Carthage

Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Theater Duisburg, Duisburg
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, with Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
conductor: John Fiore
producer: Christof Loy
sets: Herbert Murauer
costumes: Michaela Barth
choreographer: Istvan Herczog
chorus master: Gerhard Michalski
Cast:
Dido: Jeanne Piland
Aeneas: Steven Harrison
Ascanius: Stephanie Woodling
Anna: Katarzyna Kuncio
Narbal: Thorsten Grümbel
Iopas: Mirko Roschkowski
Pantheus: Günes Gürle
Hylas: Norbert Ernst
1.Soldat: Rolf Broman
2.Soldat: John In Eichen
Priamus Schatten: Michail Milanov
Kassandras Schatten: Maria Herman
5 July 2009
7.30pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

“The Lake Effect” - Summer Festival Tour
Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow, Stowe, USA
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Anthony Princiotti
5 July 2009
7.30pm
Works unspecified

Music by Berlioz, Teleman, Mozart, Albeniz, Vaughn Williams, Gnattali and others

“Art and Chamber Music” Open House
Otis Pottery, East Jordan, MI, USA
Fran Shelly (flute); Joan Holland (harp)
Dorothy Vogel (piano); David Holland (viola)
5 July 2009
8.00pm
Béatrice et Bénédict (selection) Opéra, Strasbourg, France
Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse
conductor: Emmanuel Joel-Hornak
stage director, decor, costume and lighting: Philippe Arlaud
with artists of the Opéra Studio (formerly Jeunes Voix du Rhin)
9 July 2009
7.30pm
Overture Le Corsaire Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Bramwell Tovey
9 July 2009
8.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA, USA
Los Angeles Philharmonic
conductor: Kirill Karabits
9 July 2009
9.00pm

Recorded for broadcast on Mezzo TV on 12 July at 8.30pm local time
La Marseillaise

Invocation à la nature
(from La Damnation de Faust)
Bassin de Neptune, Château de Versailles, Versailles, France
Orchestre de Paris
conductor: Michel Plasson
Roberto Alagna (tenor)
10 July 2009
3.00pm (open rehearsal)

10 July 2009
8.00pm

pre-concert talk at 7.15pm, with Rick Phillips
Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem)






Elora Featival – Opening Concert
Gambrel Barn, Elora, Canada
Elora Festival Orchestra
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Elora Festival Singers
conductor: Noel Edison
Lawrence Wiliford (tenor)
10 July 2009
8.00pm
Overture Le Corsaire Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Bramwell Tovey
11 July 2009
7.30pm
Te Deum The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, UK
English Philharmonic Orchestra
Hertfordshire Chorus
Tees Valley Youth Choir
Pupils from Sacred Heart School, Newcastle
Pupils from Central Newcastle High School
conductor: David Temple
Alan Oke (tenor)
11 July 2009
7.30pm
Overture Les Francs-Juges The Gate, Cardiff, Wales, UK
City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Martin McHale
11 July 2009
8.00pm
Overture Le Corsaire

Performed on the night as encore:

Marche hongroise (from La damnation de Faust)
Pavilion Stage, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, NY, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Bramwell Tovey
11 July 2009
9.00pm
Operatic arias (not specified) Salle Novelty, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Heng Shi (baritone)
Michel Prezman (piano)
12 July 2009
5.30pm
Symphonie fantastique

Liszt transcription

Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux
Orangerie, Sceaux (near Paris), France
Roger Muraro (piano)
12 July 2009
7.00pm
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict Broxbourne Civic Hall, Hoddesdon, UK
Enfield Citadel Band of the Salvation Army
conductor: Jonathan Corry or Tina Shepherd
12 July 2009
7.30pm
Les Nuits d’été


Concert in aid of the Gorton Monastery Restoration Fund
Gorton Monastery, Manchester, UK
Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor: Nicholas Simpson
Sarah Cox (mezzo-soprano)
12 July 2009
9.30pm
Trio for 2 flutes and harp
(from L’Enfance du Christ)

Estate Spazio Musica a Ferrara 2009
Chiostro di San Paolo, P.tta Schiatti, Ferrara, Italy
Trio Ecoensemble:
Morena Mestieri, Paola Fundarò, Anna Bellagamba (flute, oboe, piano)
14 July 2009
4.00pm
Overture Le Corsaire
Les Nuits dété

Aspen Music Festival
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, USA
American Academy of Conducting Orchestra
conductor: not announced (probably an Academy student)
soloists: Voice Competition Winners
15 July 2009
9.00pm
Trio for 2 flutes and harp
(from L’Enfance du Christ)

Charity fund-raising concert organised by the Secours aux Enfant Roumanie (SER), a charitable society from Thézac
Château de Bonaguil, Fumel, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France
Sybille and Olivier Mathieu (flute)
Séverine Ozanne (harp)
16 July 2009
9.00pm
Trio for 2 flutes and harp
(from L’Enfance du Christ)

Charity fund-raising concert organised by the Secours aux Enfant Roumanie (SER), a charitable society from Thézac
Église Notre-Dame, Thézac, France
Sybille and Olivier Mathieu (flute)
Séverine Ozanne (harp)
17 July 2009
8.00pm
Apparitions fantastiques sur un thème d’Hector Berlioz pour orchestre

[Fantastic appearances on a theme by Hector Berlioz for orchestra]

composer: Walter Braunfels (1882-1954)

[The theme is from La Damnation de Faust
Chanson de Méphistophélès, “Une puce gentille …”]

Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum, Montpellier, France
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
conductor: Emmanuel Krivine
18 July 2009
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Festival international de Lanaudière
Amphithéâtre de Lanaudière, Joliette, QC, Canada
Orchestre Métropolitain
conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
18 July 2009
9.45pm
Symphonie fantastique

Les Chorégies d’Orange
Théâtre antique, Orange, Provence, France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
19 July 2009
3.00pm
Ballet des Sylphes

(from La Damnation de Faust)




“Circus Caracho ”
Schlossgärten Blankenburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Amadeuskomplott
– Warnfried Altmann (Saxophone)
– Ingo Fritz (viola)
– Marcel Körner (cello)
– Marco Reiß (violin)
– Yoichi Yamashita (violin)
– Ludwig Schumann (narrator)
19 July 2009
4.00pm
L’Invitation à la valse

La Damnation de Faust
(excerpts):

– Ballet des Sylphes
– Marche Hongroise (Rákóczy March)
– Menuet des Follets

Aspen Music Festival
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Aspen Festival Orchestra
conductor: David Robertson
19 July 2009
6.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail, Colorado, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Alan Gilbert
19 July 2009
9.20pm
Symphonie fantastique

Bassano Operaestate Festival 2009
Castello degli Ezzelini, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice
conductor not announced
24 July 2009
8.30pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain
Harold en Italie

Tanglewood Festival
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
conductor: James Levine
Steven Ansell (viola)
24 July 2009
9.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

« Soirée d’Orchestre »
Château de Verteuil d’Agenais, Verteuil d’Agenais, France
Orchestre du Centre Philharmonique de Verteuil d’Agenais
conductor: Richard Beswick
25 July 2009
7.15pm
Adieu des bergers à la Sainte Famille 
(from L’Enfance du Christ)

Strophes (from Roméo et Juliette)

Concert organised by the Association pour le rayonnement des orgues de la cathédrale (Aroc)
Cathédrale de Bayonne, Bayonne, France
Chœur Henri Duparc 
chorus master: Jean-Paul Salanne
Gilles Boyer (piano)
Éloïse Célac (mezzo-contralto)
26 July 2009
3.00pm
Ballet des Sylphes

(from La Damnation de Faust)




“Circus Caracho ”
Stadtpark Tangerhütte, Neues Schloss, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Amadeuskomplott
– Warnfried Altmann (Saxophone)
– Ingo Fritz (viola)
– Marcel Körner (cello)
– Marco Reiß (violin)
– Yoichi Yamashita (violin)
– Ludwig Schumann (narrator)
26 July 2009
5.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Ravinia Festival
The Pavilion, Ravinia, USA
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
26 July 2009
9.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

« Soirée d’Orchestre »
Château de Duras, Duras, France
Orchestre du Centre Philharmonique de Verteuil d’Agenais
conductor: Richard Beswick
26 July 2009
9.00pm
Les Nuits d’été



Musica d’Estate al Laterano
Cortile del Palazzo Apostolico Lateranense, Rome, Italy
Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Nazionale di Belgrado
[Symphony Orchestra of Belgrade National Theatre]
conductor: Carlo Donadio
Ines Salazar (soprano)
26 July 2009
9.00pm
Overture Le Roi Lear

Festival Valle d’Itria
Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, Italy
Orchestra internazionale d’Italia
conductor: Massimiliano Caldi
27 July 2009
7.00pm
Marche hongroise (from La Damnation de Faust)

arranged for  piano

Festival Verbier
La nuit des pianistes [The night of the pianists]
Salle Médran, Verbier, Switzerland
performed by one or more of the following artists:
Emanuel Ax, Alessio Bax, Nelson Goerner, Oleg Maisenberg
Julien Quentin, Rodion Shchedrin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Simon Trpceski, Yuja Wang
29 July 2009
6.00pm
Overture Le Corsaire

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail, Colorado, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Bramwell Tovey
29 July 2009
9.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

« Soirée d’Orchestre »
Grange de Nègre, Penne d’Agenais, France
Orchestre du Centre Philharmonique de Verteuil d’Agenais
conductor: Richard Beswick
30 July 2009
7.30pm

Live broadcast on BBC Four TV and BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini
Cléopâtre



BBC Proms 2009
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Hallé Orchestra
conductor: Sir Mark Elder
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
30 July 2009
9.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain

« Soirée d’Orchestre »
Salle la Bartère, Casteljaloux, France
Orchestre du Centre Philharmonique de Verteuil d’Agenais
conductor: Richard Beswick
31 July 2009
6.00pm
Symphonie fantastique

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail, Colorado, USA
New York Philharmonic
conductor: Alan Gilbert
31 July 2009
7.00pm
Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) Stiftskirche, Stuttgart, Germany
Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz
Stuttgarter Kantorei
conductor: Kay Johannsen
Burkhart Fritz (tenor)

June 2009   August 2009

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