The Cleveland Orchestra announces Fall 2010 Tokyo Residency and Asian Tour
The Orchestra returns to Tokyo in a four-concert Residency at Suntory Hall
Music Director Franz Welser-Mst leads four programs in Japan and South Korea
Mitsuko Uchida is pianist and conductor for Mozart programs and featured soloist in Beethoven program in Japan
Tour includes first Cleveland Orchestra appearances at Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo and Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya, Japan, and at Goyang Arts Center and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea
Music Director Franz Welser-Mst leads four programs in Japan and South Korea
Mitsuko Uchida is pianist and conductor for Mozart programs and featured soloist in Beethoven program in Japan
Tour includes first Cleveland Orchestra appearances at Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo and Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya, Japan, and at Goyang Arts Center and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea
CLEVELAND, March 15, 2010 Music Director Franz Welser-Mst and The Cleveland Orchestra will embark on their tenth international tour together this fall, performing in Japan and South Korea. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will join the Orchestra in Japan. The eight-concert, four-city tour begins with a performance in Sapporo, Japan, on November 10 and ends with a program at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea on November 21. The centerpiece of the tour is a Cleveland Orchestra Residency at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with four concerts at the acclaimed venue.
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida will conduct from the keyboard in all-Mozart programs at Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo (November 10), at Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya (November 12), and in concerts at Suntory Hall in Tokyo (November 14 and 16). Ms. Uchida will also be featured as soloist with Franz Welser-Mst conducting an all-Beethoven program consisting of the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Opus 58, and the Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) in E-flat major, Opus 55, at Suntory Hall on November 18.
Franz Welser-Mst will conduct a second program at Suntory Hall consisting of Debussys Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Takemitsus Dream/Window, and Bruckners Symphony No. 7 in E major on November 17.
The tour concludes with Mr. Welser-Mst conducting two programs in South Korea. On Saturday, November 20, he leads Debussys Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Divertimento in D major, K. 136; and Beethovens Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) at the Goyang Arts Center. On Sunday, November 21, Mr. Welser-Mst conducts Bruckners Symphony No. 7 in E major and two works excerpted from Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes the Four Sea Interludes and the Passacaglia at the Seoul Arts Center.
The Cleveland Orchestra in Asia
The Orchestra first performed in Japan in 1970 and most recently appeared there in 1998, during a tour of Japan and China. The Cleveland Orchestra performed in Seoul, South Korea, for the first time in 1970, and most recently appeared there in 1978.
TOUR FACTS AND HISTORY:
Kitara Concert Hall: The Orchestra has previously played in Sapporo in 1970. This is the Orchestras first performance in Kitara Concert Hall.
This will be the Orchestras first performance in the city of Nishinomiya, at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center.
The Cleveland Orchestra has performed 12 times at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, including concerts for a Beethoven series with Christoph von Dohnnyi, the Orchestras former Music Director, in 1993, during which Mitsuko Uchida appeared as piano soloist. The Orchestra most recently performed at the hall in 1998.
The Orchestra has previously performed in Seoul in 1970 and 1978.
This will be its first time performing at the Goyang Arts Center in Goyang, South Korea, which opened in 2004, and the Seoul Arts Center, in Seoul, which opened in 1988.
Kitara Concert Hall: The Orchestra has previously played in Sapporo in 1970. This is the Orchestras first performance in Kitara Concert Hall.
This will be the Orchestras first performance in the city of Nishinomiya, at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center.
The Cleveland Orchestra has performed 12 times at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, including concerts for a Beethoven series with Christoph von Dohnnyi, the Orchestras former Music Director, in 1993, during which Mitsuko Uchida appeared as piano soloist. The Orchestra most recently performed at the hall in 1998.
The Orchestra has previously performed in Seoul in 1970 and 1978.
This will be its first time performing at the Goyang Arts Center in Goyang, South Korea, which opened in 2004, and the Seoul Arts Center, in Seoul, which opened in 1988.
International tours of The Cleveland Orchestra are supported by the Frances Elizabeth Wilkinson International Touring Fund.
(A detailed tour schedule, brief Orchestra history,
and biographies of Franz Welser-Mst and Mitsuko Uchida follow.)
(A detailed tour schedule, brief Orchestra history,
and biographies of Franz Welser-Mst and Mitsuko Uchida follow.)
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
TOKYO RESIDENCY AND ASIAN TOUR
NOVEMBER 10-21, 2010
TOKYO RESIDENCY AND ASIAN TOUR
NOVEMBER 10-21, 2010
SAPPORO, JAPAN
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Kitara Concert Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Kitara Concert Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
Nishinomiya, JAPAN
Friday, November 12, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Hyogo Performing Arts Center
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K.138
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
TOKYO, JAPAN
Sunday, November 14, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K.138
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Friday, November 12, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Hyogo Performing Arts Center
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K.138
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
TOKYO, JAPAN
Sunday, November 14, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in F major, K.138
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
TOKYO, JAPAN
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
TOKYO, JAPAN
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
TAKEMITSU: Dream/Window
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor/piano
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
TOKYO, JAPAN
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
TAKEMITSU: Dream/Window
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
TOKYO, JAPAN
Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
GOYANG, SOUTH KOREA
Saturday, November 20, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
Goyang Arts Center
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Sunday, November 21, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
Seoul Arts Center
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BRITTEN: Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 7:00 p.m.
Suntory Hall
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
GOYANG, SOUTH KOREA
Saturday, November 20, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
Goyang Arts Center
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K.136
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Sunday, November 21, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.
Seoul Arts Center
Franz Welser-Mst, conductor
BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BRITTEN: Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
A Brief History of The Cleveland Orchestra
Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Mst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each summers Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement.
Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Mst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each summers Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement.
The Cleveland Orchestras educational programs, a cornerstone of the Orchestras original mission, have introduced nearly four million Cleveland-area schoolchildren to symphonic music since 1921. During the 2009-10 season, the Orchestra launched a Community Music Initiative that began with orchestral performances led by Franz Welser-Mst in Cleveland Metropolitan School District public schools. Designed to provide greater access to orchestral music for more of Northeast Ohios citizens than ever before, the Community Music Initiative introduces new programs throughout the year for students from preschool through high school. The season closes in June 2010 with a free retrospective concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer fellowships, featuring new works created through this ongoing program.
The partnership with Franz Welser-Mst, now in its eighth season, has earned The Cleveland Orchestra unprecedented residencies in the United States and in Europe, including one at the Musikverein in Vienna the first of its kind by an American orchestra. The Orchestra returned to Vienna during the 2009-10 season for its fourth Musikverein Residency as part of a nine-concert tour. The Orchestra regularly appears at European festivals, including an ongoing series of biennial residencies at the Lucerne Festival (featuring Roche Commissions, a project involving the Orchestra, the Festival, and Carnegie Hall). In the United States, Mr. Welser-Mst and the Orchestra have toured from coast to coast, including regular appearances at Carnegie Hall, and in January 2007 began an unprecedented long-term residency project in Miami, Florida, where they perform annually at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and provide a wide array of community and educational activities. In addition, the 2009-10 season marks the announcement of a residency at New Yorks Lincoln Center Festival that starts in 2011 and will feature The Cleveland Orchestra in Vienna State Opera productions.
The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens. It has been led by seven music directors (Nikolai Sokoloff 1918-33, Artur Rodzinski 1933-43, Erich Leinsdorf 1943-46, George Szell 1946-70, Lorin Maazel 1972-82, Christoph von Dohnnyi 1984-2002, and Franz Welser-Mst 2002-present), and one musical advisor (Pierre Boulez 1970-72). Expansion to a year-round schedule was made possible in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center, an outdoor facility in nearby Cuyahoga Falls that is home to the Orchestras Blossom Festival. Today, touring, residencies, radio broadcasts, and recordings available by internet download and on DVD and CD provide access to the Orchestras music-making to a broad and loyal constituency around the world.
For additional information, please visit clevelandorchestra.com.
Franz Welser-Mst
Music Director
Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair
The Cleveland Orchestra
Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Mst is in his eighth year as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra. His long-term commitment extends to the Orchestras centennial in 2018. Under his direction, the Orchestra holds residencies in the United States and Europe, champions living composers, partners with Northeast Ohio public schools and conservatories, and has re-established itself as an operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Mst becomes General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2010.
Under Mr. Welser-Msts leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra holds ongoing residencies at Viennas famed Musikverein hall and Switzerlands Lucerne Festival, along with an annual Miami Residency. In 2011, Mr. Welser-Mst and the Orchestra launch a biennial residency at New Yorks Lincoln Center Festival, which will feature The Cleveland Orchestra in Vienna State Opera productions.
Under Franz Welser-Mst, The Cleveland Orchestra has presented eleven world and fourteen United States premieres. In 2009, Mr. Welser-Mst led a Zurich Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro at Severance Hall. He and The Cleveland Orchestra continue the Mozart/Da Ponte operas in Cleveland with Mozarts Cos fan tutte in 2009-10 and Don Giovanni in 2010-11.
Recent and upcoming international engagements include a new production of Wagners Ring cycle with stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf at the Vienna State Opera. During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Welser-Mst leads additional Ring performances, as well as Wagners Tannhuser and Parsifal, with the Vienna State Opera. In the summer of 2009, Franz Welser-Mst appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms, and the Lucerne Festival. He also conducted the Berlin Philharmonic at the 2009 Salzburg Easter Festival.
Following his 1989 American debut and prior to his appointment in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Mst regularly guest-conducted the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia. Mr. Welser-Mst was music director of the London Philharmonic from 1990 to 1996. Across his decade-long tenure with the Zurich Opera, culminating in three seasons as General Music Director (2005-08), Mr. Welser-Mst led more than 40 new productions. In the spring of 2010, he leads Strausss Die Frau ohne Schatten and Mozarts Cos fan tutte in Zurich.
Mr. Welser-Msts recordings and videos have won the Gramophone Award, Diapason dOr, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations. Mr. Welser-Mst has led The Cleveland Orchestra in video recordings of live performances of the Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, and 9. Mr. Welser-Mst and The Cleveland Orchestra released a recording of Beethovens Ninth Symphony on Deutsche Grammophon in 2007.
Mr. Welser-Mst has been recognized by the Western Law Center for Disability Rights and is an honorary member of the Vienna Singverein. Musical America named him the 2003 Conductor of the Year.
Mitsuko Uchida
Mitsuko Uchidas interpretations of a wide range of repertoire have gained her a formidable reputation as a pianist who brings intellectual acuity and musical insight to her performances. She is particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert, both in the concert hall and on CD, but also has illuminated the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez, and Beethoven for a new generation of listeners.
Mitsuko Uchidas interpretations of a wide range of repertoire have gained her a formidable reputation as a pianist who brings intellectual acuity and musical insight to her performances. She is particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert, both in the concert hall and on CD, but also has illuminated the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez, and Beethoven for a new generation of listeners.
Ms. Uchida made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in February 1990, and since that time has performed with the Orchestra at Severance Hall, at the Blossom Festival, and on tour to Europe and Japan. Between 2002 and 2007, she played and conducted from the keyboard an acclaimed series of Mozart piano concertos with The Cleveland Orchestra. Her most recent appearances with the Orchestra included performances of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 at Severance Hall and during the Orchestras fall 2009 European tour and Vienna Musikverein Residency.
Mitsuko Uchidas latest recording with the Cleveland Orchestra features her conducting the ensemble from the keyboard in performances of the Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 (K.488) and 24 (K.491). The recording was a bestseller in the United Kingdom, ranked Top Ten Exceptional Recordings of 2009 by New Yorker Magazine, and Editors Choice by Gramophone Magazine.
Mitsuko Uchida performs throughout the world with many different partners. She was the focus of a Carnegie Hall Perspectives series titled Mitsuko Uchida: Vienna Revisited and took part in Mozart 250th birthday celebrations in Salzburg. She has been artist-in-residence at The Cleveland Orchestra as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, with the Konzerthaus Vienna, and at Salzburg Mozartwoche.
Mitsuko Uchida records exclusively for Decca. In April 2008, BBC Music Magazine presented its Instrumentalist of the Year and Disc of the Year awards to Ms. Uchida. Her recording of Schoenbergs Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez and The Cleveland Orchestra won four awards in 2001, including one from Gramophone for best concerto recording.
Mitsuko Uchida has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to aiding the development of young musicians and is a trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. She is also co-director, with Richard Goode, of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.
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