2014 Series
Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic
Royal Philharmonic
Pinhcas Zukerman, conductor & violin / Amanda Forsyth, cellist
Pacific Symphony
Carl St. Clair, conductor / Alexander Toradze, piano soloist
St. Peterburg Philharmonic
Nikolai Alexeev, conductor/ Vilde Frang, violin soloist
Haifa Orchestra
Boguslaw Dawidow, conductor/ Roman Rabinovitz, piano soloist
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, soloist & Music Director
LA Philharmonic
James Conlon, conductor/ Garrick Ohlsson, piano soloist
Orchestras, conductors and soloists that have performed for Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic audiences:
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - 1996, 1997, 2007,2014
The American Youth Symphony - 1981, 1985, 1989, 1995, 2000, 2003
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - 1988
The BBC Concert Orchestra - 2013
The BBC Philharmonic - 1995, 1998
The Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra - 2001
The Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1996, 2011
The Budapest Festival Orchestra - 2006
The California Chamber Symphony - 1982
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra - 2012
China National Symphony - 2013
The China Philharmonic Orchestra - 2006
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - 1992, 1997, 2007
The Cleveland Orchestra - 1991, 2012
The Czech Philharmonic - 2000, 2003, 2008
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra - Philippe Entremont
Dresden Staatskapelle - 1996, 2001
Dublin Philharmonic - 2009
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - 2009
The Gewandhaus Orchestr of Leipzig - 1991, 2010
The Glendale Symphony Orchestra - 1981
Haifa Orchesrta - 2014
The Henry Mancini Orchestra - 1984
The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra - 2003
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 1989, 1998, 2012
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, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
Minnesota Orchestra - 1992, 1997
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra - 1992, 2005
Moscow State Radio Symphony - 2004, 2010
Munich Philharmonic - 2009
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, 2010
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, 2012
Russian National Orchestra - 1993, 1998, 2001, 2013
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 1993, 1996, 1999, 2010, 2013
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, 2009
Sejong Chamber Orchestra - 2009
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - 2010
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
Tchaikowski St. Petersburg - 2012
The Utah Symphony Orchestra - 1986, 2006
Vancouver Symphony - 2013
The Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna - 1987
The Warsaw Philharmonic - 1987, 1997
The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne - 2002
Conductors: Nikolai Alexeev, 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, Ricardo Chailly, Edward Chivzhel, Myung-Whun Chung, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Andrew Davis, Bogustaw Dawidow, James DePreist, Sir Edward Downs, Carmen Dragon, Gustavo Dudamel, 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, Alexei Kornienko, Emmanuel Krivine, Erich Leinsdorf, Roman Leontiev, Shao En, Keith Lockhart, Lorin Maazel, Henry Mancini, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Mehli Mehta, Zubin Mehta, Robert Minczuk, Ludovic Morlot, Riccardo Muti, Garcia Navarro, Heiichiro Ohyama, Eijo Oue, Seiji Ozawa, Christof Perick, Michel Plasson, Mikhail Pletnev, Valery Polyansky, Carlo Ponti, Jr., Andre Previn, David Robertson, Mstislav Rostropovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gerard Schwarz, Yasuo Shinozaki, Kenneth Sillito, Joseph Silverstein, Yuri Simonov, Vassily Sinaisky, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Spivakov, Carl St. Clair, Giancarlo Guerrero, Henri Temianka, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Robin Ticciati, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Bramwell Tovey, Alexander Treger, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Hans Vonk, Edo de Waart, Franz Welser-Most, 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, Sophie Schao, Jurnjakob Timm, Alisa Weilerstein
Flute - Mark Sparks
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, Richard Goode, Janet Guggenheim, Armen Guzelimian, Byron Janis, Jeffrey Kahane, Lang Lang, Olga Kern, Martin Kasik, Juliana Markova, Evgeni Mikhailov, Marc Neikrug, Andrew Christopher von Oeyen, Lambert Orkis, Vladimir Ovchinikov, Jon Kimura Parker, Benjamin Pasternack, Alexander Pirozhenko, 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, Daniil Trifinov, Illana Vered, Lars Vogt, Ralph Votapek, Yuja Wang, Earl Wild, Jon Kimura Parker
Violinists - Joshua Bell, Nina Bodner, Iona Brown, Alexei Bruni, Renaud Capucon,Chuanyun Li, Christian Funke, Sidney Harth, Leila Josefowicz, Leonidas Kavakos, Nigel Kennedy, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Nathan Milstein, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Alexei Nabiolin, Itzhak Perlman, Vadim Repin, Ruggiero Ricci, Gil Shaham, Joseph Silverstein, Henryk Szeryng, Arabella Steinbacher, Alexander Treger, Eugene Ugorski, Maxim Vengerov, Lars Vogt, Bing Wang, Sidney Weiss, Chee-Yun, Nikolai Znaider, 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, Kelley O'Connor (Mezzo-soprano), Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Irina Rubtsova
Tenor - Gwyn Hughes Jones, Nolan Van Way
