2009 Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic Series
San Francisco Symphony - Jan. 29, 2009 - 8pm
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Thomas, Street Song for Symphonic Brass
Liszt, Tasso: Lament & Triumph (Symphonic Poem No. 2)
Tchaikowsky, Symphony No. 5
Los Angeles Philharmonic - Feb. 8, 2009 -5pm
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano soloist
Dubussy, Petite Suite
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2
Rimsky-Korsakov, Schererazade
Munich Philharmonic - Feb. 18, 2009 - 8pm
Phillipe Entremont, conductor
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5, op. 73, (Emperor), Symphony No. 3, op. 55 (Eroica)
Dublin Philharmonic - March 16, 2009 - 8pm
Derek Gleeson, conductor/Finghin Collins, piano soloist
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - March 25, 2009 - 8pm
Eri Klas, conductor / Joyce Yang, piano soloist
Arvo Part, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 in D major
Sejong Chamber Orchestra - April 6, 2009 - 8pm
Gil Shaham, violin soloist
Orchestras, conductors and soloists that have performed for Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic audiences:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - 1996, 1997, 2007
The American Youth Symphony - 1981, 1985, 1989, 1995, 2000, 2003
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - 1988
The BBC Philharmonic - 1995, 1998
The Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra - 2001
The Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1996
The Budapest Festival Orchestra - 2006
The California Chamber Symphony - 1982
The China Philharmonic Orchestra - 2006
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - 1992, 1997, 2007
The Cleveland Orchestra - 1991
The Czech Philharmonic - 2000, 2003, 2008
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra - Philippe Entremont
Dresden Staatskapelle - 1996, 2001
The Gewandhaus Orchestr of Leipzig - 1991
The Glendale Symphony Orchestra - 1981
The Henry Mancini Orchestra - 1984
The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra - 2003
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 1989, 1998
Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre - 2005
The London Philharmonic Orchestra - 1984, 1993, 2006
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra - 1980, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
Los Angeles Philharmonic - 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008
Minnesota Orchestra - 1992, 1997
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra - 1992, 2005
Moscow State Radio - 2004
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg - 1985
New York Philharmonic - 1999
National Orchestra of Spain - 2001
National Philharmonic of Russia - 2007
National Symphony Orchestra - 1983, 1989
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - 1999
Orchestra of St. Lukes - 1995
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse - 1985
Orchestre National de France - 1987, 1990, 1994
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo - 1998
Pacific Symphony Orchestra - 1993, 2002
The Oregon Symphony - 2003
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - 1982, 1999, 2007
Prague Symphony Orchestra - 2005
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - 2004
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - 1989, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2008
Russian National Orchestra - 1993, 1998, 2001
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 1993, 1996, 1999
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra - 1983, 1990
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra - 2002
The San Francisco Symphony - 1990, 2000, 2005
The Seattle Symphony - 1988, 1991, 2008
The Staatskapelle Berlin - 2004
The State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico - 2008
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra - 2008
The Symphonica Toscannini - 2007
The USSR State Symphony - 1991
The State Symphony of Russia - 1994
The Utah Symphony Orchestra - 1986, 2006
The Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna - 1987
The Warsaw Philharmonic - 1987, 1997
The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne - 2002
Conductors: Petr Altrichter, Vladimir Ashkenzay, Daniel Barenboim, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Randall Behr, Joshua Bell, Paavo Berglund, Herbert Blomstedt, Iona Brown, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Semyon Bychkov, Edward Chivzhel, Myung-Whun Chung, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Andrew Davis, James DePreist, Sir Edward Downs, Carmen Dragon, Gustavo Dudemel, Charles Dutoit, Philippe Entremont, Mark Ermler, Ivan Fischer, Claus Peter Flor, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Maria Giulini, Igor Golovchin, Hans Graf, Sir Charles Groves, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Jarvi, Zoltan Kocsis, Sergey Kondrashev, Kazimierz Kord, Emmanuel Krivine, Erich Leinsdorf, Keith Lockhart, Lorin Maazel, Henry Mancini, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Mehli Mehta, Zubin Mehta, Robert Minczuk, Garcia Navarro, Heiichiro Ohyama, Eijo Oue, Seiji Ozawa, Christof Perick, Michel Plasson, Mikhail Pletnev, Valery Polyansky, Carlo Ponti, Jr., Andre Previn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gerard Schwarz, Yasuo Shinozaki, Kenneth Sillito, Joseph Silverstein, Yuri Simonov, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Spivakov, Carl St. Clair, Henri Temianka, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Alexander Treger, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Hans Vonk, Edo de Waart, Kurt Woss, Long Yu, David Zinman and Pinchas Zukerman
Soloists:
Cello - Carter Brey, Colin Carr, Charlie Curtis, Natasha Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Ronald Leonard, Gloria Lum, Yo Yo Ma, Jurnjakob Timm
Guitar - Pepe Romero
Oboe - Stephen Taylor
Pianists - Leif Ove Andsnes, Vladimir Ashenazy, Dickran Atamian, Emanuel Ax, Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, Myung-Whun Chung, Rudolf Buchbinder, Alicia de Larrocha, Misha Dichter, Brigitte Engerer, Philippe Entremont, Anan Feinberg, Jonathan Feldman, Vladimir Feltsman, Rudolf Firkusny, Homero Francesch, Jokob, Gimpel, Mona Golabek, Janet Guggenheim, Armen Guzelimian, Byron Janis, Jeffrey Kahane, Lang Lang, Olga Kern, Martin Kasik, Juliana Markova, Marc Neikrug, Andrew Christopher von Oeyen, Lambert Orkis, Vladimir Ovchinikov, Jon Kimura Parker, Ivo Pogorelich, Daria Rabotkina, Dmitri Ratser, Charles Reiner, Yuri Rozum, Peter Serkin, Brooks Smith, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Kathryn Stott, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Toradze, Illana Vered, Lars Vogt, Ralph Votapek, Earl Wild
Violinists - Joshua Bell, Nina Bodner, Iona Brown, Alexei Bruni, Renaud Capucon, Christian Funke, Sidney Harth, Leila Josefowicz, Leonidas Kavakos, Nigel Kennedy, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Nathan Milstein, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Itzhak Perlman, Vadim Repin, Ruggiero Ricci, Gil Shaham, Joseph Silverstein, Henryk Szeryng, Arabella Steinbacher, Alexander Treger, Eugene Ugorski, Maxim Vengerov, Bing Wang, Sidney Weiss, Chee-Yun, Pinchas Zukerman
Baritone - William Dazeley, Matthias Goerne, William Parker, Sanford Sylvan
Soprano - Christina Ascher, Kathryn Cowdrick, Rita Cullis, Claudia Cummings, Karen Smith Emerson, Judith Howarth, Karita Mattila, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Irina Rubtsova
Tenor - Gwyn Hughes Jones, Nolan Van Way
