NY Philharmonic to Return to Colorado’s Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, 7/20-27

The New York Philharmonic will return to Colorado's Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival for its tenth annual summer residency - during the Festival's 25th anniversary season - for six concerts, July 20–27, 2012. Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will conduct three concerts, July 25–27, leading works by Brahms, Mozart, Nielsen, Respighi, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi. Additional concerts will be led by conductors Andrey Boreyko (July 20) and Bramwell Tovey (July 21–22), in works by Bernstein, Brahms, Copland, Falla, Gershwin, Saint-Saëns, and Tchaikovsky. The Orchestra's residency will feature appearances by pianists Anne-Marie McDermott (artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival), Yefim Bronfman, and Benjamin Grosvenor; Principal Associate Concertmaster Sheryl Staples; sopranos Tracy Dahl and Jennifer Zetlan; mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano; tenor Paul Appleby; and baritone Joshua Hopkins. The New York Philharmonic has performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival each summer since 2003.

Conductor Andrey Boreyko will launch the Philharmonic's 2012 residency with an opening night concert on Friday, July 20, 2012, featuring Falla's Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor brujo; Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Benjamin Grosvenor as soloist; and Brahms's Symphony No. 1.

The following evening Bramwell Tovey will return for his eighth summer with the New York Philharmonic at Vail to conduct two programs. The first, on Saturday, July 21, will feature an all-Tchaikovsky program: Festival Coronation March; Piano Concerto No. 2, with Anne-Marie McDermott as soloist; selections from Act IV of Swan Lake; and the 1812 Overture. The next evening, Sunday, July 22, Mr. Tovey will lead the Orchestra in Copland's Billy the Kid Suite; Bernstein's Three Dance Episodes from On the Town, and "Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide; Mr. Tovey's arrangements of Gershwin's "The Man I Love," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "A Foggy Day in London Town," and "Fascinatin' Rhythm," with soprano Tracy Dahl as soloist; and Gershwin's An American in Paris. 

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