Join the New York Youth Symphony for their final concerts of the 2011/2012 Season!
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7:30pm
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
Join us at Symphony Space to hear new works by the students of the 2011-2012 Making Score program. The original compositions will be performed by musicians from the award-winning New York Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Program and Jazz Band Classic.
Kyle Blaha, director
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 7:30pm
The Allen Room at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz Band Classic honors songs from New York City with music by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, and Frank Sinatra. Also featured is a big band salute to Broadway. The world premiere of the First Music commission The Adjacent Possible by Evan Weiss will be performed.
Matt Holman, director
Ann Hampton Callaway, vocalist
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Sunday, May 27, 2:00pm
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at
Carnegie Hall
Ryan McAdams leads his final concert with the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler Symphony No. 5 and the First Music commission On the Hunt by Elizabeth Kelly.
Ryan McAdams, music director
Genghis Barbie, horn quartet
The Roy and Shirley Durst Début Series
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This program will also be performed on May 13 at 2pm at Colden Auditorium at Queens College with Guest Conductor George Stelluto. Tickets are $5 Adult/$3 Student and are available for purchase at the door only.
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Through its First Music program, the New York Youth Symphony has selected seven of America’s emerging orchestra, chamber music, and jazz composers under age 30 to write commissions for the NYYS’ 50th Anniversary Season. The works will be premiered by NYYS student musicians on their performances at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, and Weill Recital Hall. In its 29th year, First Music has been widely acknowledged as one of the leading forces in the United States for bringing the work of gifted young composers to the public’s attention. Past recipients of the First Music commission include Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Torke, Kevin Puts, and Derek Berel, among others.
The First Music commissions for the 2012/2013 Season are:
Orchestra
Gabriel Zucker: November 25, 2012, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
Paul Dooley: March 24, 2013, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
John Glover: May 26, 2013, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
Chamber Music
Andrew Evans McManus: April 30, 2013, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Jazz Ensemble
Michael Conrad: December 10, 2012, Dizzy’s Club at Jazz @ Lincoln Center
Casey Dickey: March 18, 2013, Dizzy’s Club at Jazz @ Lincoln Center
Christopher Zuar: May 20, 2013, The Allen Room at Jazz @ Lincoln Center
This year’s Chamber Music/Orchestra Jury was chaired by Grammy award-winning composer Steven Mackey, and included Daniel Felsenfield, Judd Greenstein, and Joshua Gersen. The Jazz Jury was chaired by Rufus Reid, a leading string bass player with over 250 recordings in his discography, and included Matt Holman, Todd Stoll, and Noriko Ueda.
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 Leslie Garfield, Chair, and Slade Mills, President of the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), announced that Joshua (JD) Gersen will lead the orchestra into its 50th season as newly appointed Music Director. Mr. Gersen, currently serving as Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony, will succeed Ryan McAdams, who is currently in his fifth year with the NYYS.
In making the announcement on behalf of the Search Committee and the entire Board, Messrs. Garfield and Mills said, “We are delighted that Mr. Gersen will join our organization as our sixteenth Music Director. He comes to us at this exciting moment in our history with an impressive resume of accomplishments in his early career. Joshua is joining an illustrious roster of New York Youth Symphony Music Directors, including Leonard Slatkin, David Alan Miller, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Mischa Santora, Paul Haas, and of course our esteemed present leader, Ryan McAdams.”
On behalf of the Search Committee, NYYS Executive Director Shauna Quill noted that “Joshua Gersen’s passionate commitment to the development of young artists was a key factor in the Committee’s decision to invite Mr. Gersen to be our next Music Director. The orchestra musicians were deeply impressed with Mr. Gersen’s technical command of the podium, as well as his knowledge of classic repertoire and enthusiasm for conducting contemporary music.”
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