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Justin Dello Joio is the seventh generation of composers in the Dello Joio family. Born and raised in New York City, he displayed a precocious musicality from a very early age and went on to earn B.M., M.M. and D.M. degrees in composition at The Juilliard School. Since his first forays into composition at the age of 6, his teachers have included Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Hall Overton, Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions and David Diamond. He also studied piano, with Mieczylaw Munz and Constance Keene, and jazz piano with Sir Roland Hanna. Winner of a multitude of awards, grants and fellowships, perhaps one of his greatest achievements is the enormous respect in which he is held by the many artists who champion his works, Garrick Ohlsson not least among them. In October 2023, the American Academy of Arts and Letters will present a concert celebrating winners of their prestigious Virgil Thompson Awards, one of which was won by Dello Joio for his one-act chamber opera Blue Mountain. Since the completion and world premiere of Oceans Apart, Dello Joio has been working on a Koussevitsky/Library of Congress commission for a piece for violin and piano entitled
Troubled Sleep. He is Professor of Orchestration at The Juilliard School and Faculty Composer in Residence at New York University. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. He commands an enormous repertoire which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterful performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date, he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, the most recent being Oceans Apart, commissioned for him by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its inaugural concert in 1881, realizing the dream of its founder, Henry Lee Higginson, who envisioned a great and permanent orchestra in his hometown of Boston. Among the many legendary conductors who have led the orchestra over the years are Arthur Nikisch, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Seiji Ozawa and the great Serge Koussevitsky, who passionately shared Major Higginson’s dream of “a good honest school for musicians,” and in 1940 founded the Berkshire Music Center (now called the Tanglewood Music Center). Today, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its current music director Andris Nelsons continue to fulfill and expand upon Higginson's vision, not only through their concert performances and educational offerings, but also through their expanding use of electronic media.
Grammy Award-winning conductor Alan Gilbert has been Chief Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra since fall 2019 and Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera since spring 2021. Gilbert also holds positions as Principal Guest Conductor of Japan’s Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. In 2017, he concluded an eight-year tenure as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic that was widely regarded as transformative. The first native New Yorker to hold the post, he succeeded in “building a legacy that matters and…helping to change the template for what an American orchestra can be” (New York Times).
Carter Brey was appointed principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996 and made his subscription debut as soloist with that orchestra the following year. He has appeared as soloist with many of America's major symphony orchestras, and collaborated with such ensembles as the Tokyo, Emerson, and Harlem string quartets. He has performed and recorded with such pianists as Christopher O’Riley and Garrick Ohlsson, and violinist Leila Josefowicz. Mr. Brey is also cellist in the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, which debuted in 2017 and performs widely throughout the U.S.
Pianist, arranger, collaborative artist, composer, educator and media personality Christopher O'Riley follows his passions into a fractal array of innovative directions, ever striving for the truest and deepest human connection, through performance, collaboration, communion. Living by the Duke Ellington adage, “There are only two kinds of music in the world; good music and the other kind” O'Riley spotlights the greatness inherent in all great music, self-evident in his all-embracing genre-fluid range of projects.
The American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the era’s premier chamber music ensembles. “The most distinguished” of brass quintets (American Record Guide), the group has earned its stellar reputation through its celebrated performances, genre-defining commissioned works, and ongoing commitment to the education of generations of musicians. Since its founding in 1960, the American Brass Quintet has performed on five continents, made nearly 60 recordings, and premiered more than 150 contemporary works for brass.
A versatile musician and conductor, Colin Fowler works in many areas of the music scene in New York City. He is a veteran of numerous Broadway shows, including the Tony Award winning musicals 42nd Street, In the Heights, and Jersey Boys. A seasoned church musician, he has previously served as the Music Director at the Park Avenue Synagogue and Calvary Baptist Church, and has led and conducted services at Trinity Wall Street, St. Thomas Church, Church of the Resurrection, and Marble Collegiate Church. As a classical soloist and collaborative artist, he has performed and recorded with many world-renowned musicians and ensembles, including Deborah Voigt, the American Brass Quintet, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since 2013 he has been Music Director of the Mark Morris Dance Group.
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