Mar. 5, 6 & 7, 2021
Beethoven’s Pastoral Plus Bronfman
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Fabien Gabel leads Beethoven’s beloved symphonic ode to nature and country life, the Pastoral Symphony No. 6. The Symphony welcomes back the extraordinary Yefim Bronfman for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which opens with powerful virtuosity and stormy intensity, then gives way to lyrical beauty and sunny high spirits. The concerts begin with award-winning composer Stella Sung’s Fanfare for Brass Ensemble.
This event is part of the French Cultures Festival coordinated by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Houston.
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Estimated running time: 1 hour {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Fabien Gabel|,|bio|:|Gabel first attracted international attention in 2004 winning the Donatella Flick competition in London, which subsequently led to his appointment as the LSO\u2019s assistant conductor for two seasons. Since then, the LSO has engaged him regularly as a guest conductor.\nBorn in Paris into a family of accomplished musicians, Gabel began studying trumpet at the age of six, honing his skills at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique de Paris, which awarded him a First Prize in trumpet in 1996, and later at the Musik Hochschule of Karlsruhe. He went on to play in several Parisian orchestras under the direction of prominent conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, and Bernard Haitink. In 2002, Fabien Gabel pursued his interest in conducting at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman, who invited him to appear as a guest conductor at the Festival in 2009. He has worked as an assistant to Bernard Haitink and Sir Colin Davis. In 2020, Gabel was awarded the rank of Chevalier (Knight) by the Conseil de l\u2019Ordes des Arts et des Lettres, a recognition given by France\u2019s Ministry of Culture.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Yefim Bronfman|,|bio|:|Internationally recognized as one of today\u2019s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors, and recital series. His commanding technique, power, and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike.\nIn the wake of world-wide cancellations beginning in Spring 2020 his 2020\u201321 season will begin in January with the Concertgebouworkest, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and London\u2019s Philharmonia with appearances in Spain, Germany, Paris, Zurich, and London. In North America he can be heard in recital in San Francisco, La Jolla, and Aliso Viejo and with orchestras in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Montreal.\nMr. Bronfman works regularly with an illustrious group of conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohn\u00e1nyi, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Mariss Jansons, Vladimir Jurowski, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jaap Van Zweden, Franz Welser-M\u00f6st, and David Zinman. Summer engagements have regularly taken him to the major festivals of Europe and the US. Always keen to explore chamber music repertoire, his partners have included Pinchas Zukerman, Martha Argerich, Magdalena Ko\u017een\u00e1, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Emmanuel Pahud, and many others. In 1991 he gave a series of joint recitals with Isaac Stern in Russia, marking Mr. Bronfman\u2019s first public performances there since his emigration to Israel at age 15.\nWidely praised for his solo, chamber, and orchestral recordings, Mr. Bronfman has been nominated for six Grammy Awards, winning in 1997 with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their recording of the three Bartok Piano Concerti. His prolific catalog of recordings includes works for two pianos by Rachmaninoff and Brahms with Emanuel Ax, the complete Prokofiev concerti with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, a Schubert\/Mozart disc with the Zukerman Chamber Players, and the soundtrack to Disney\u2019s Fantasia 2000. His most recent CD releases are the 2014 Grammy nominated Magnus Lindberg\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 commissioned for him and performed by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Alan Gilbert on the Da Capo label; Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto No.1 with Mariss Jansons and the Bayerischer Rundfunk; a recital disc, Perspectives, complementing Mr. Bronfman\u2019s designation as a Carnegie Hall \u2018Perspectives\u2019 artist for the 2007\u201308 season; and recordings of all the Beethoven piano concerti as well as the Triple Concerto together with violinist Gil Shaham, cellist Truls M\u00f8rk, and the T\u00f6nhalle Orchestra Z\u00fcrich under David Zinman for the Arte Nova\/BMG label.\nNow available on DVD are his performances of Liszt\u2019s second piano concerto with Franz Welser-M\u00f6st and the Vienna Philharmonic from Schoenbrunn, 2010 on Deutsche Grammophon; Beethoven\u2019s fifth piano concerto with Andris Nelsons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the 2011 Lucerne Festival; Rachmaninoff\u2019s third concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle on the EuroArts label, and both Brahms Concerti with Franz Welser-M\u00f6st and The Cleveland Orchestra (2015).\nBorn in Tashkent in the Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at the Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, under Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists, in 2010 he was further honored as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University and in 2015 with an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}
S. SUNG Fanfare
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
