Experience a symphonic shift
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Society’ s instrumentalist of the year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone awards, the Diapason D’ or de l’ Année, and the South Bank Show Classical Music award.
Mr. Lewis performs regularly as soloist with orchestras throughout the world and is a frequent guest at such international festivals as Lucerne, Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Schubertiade, Salzburg, Edinburgh and London’ s BBC Proms, where in 2010, he became the first pianist to perform a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle in one season. His recital career takes him to venues such as London’ s Royal Festival Hall, Alice Tully and Carnegie halls in New York, Vienna’ s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Tonhalle Zurich, Palau de Musica Barcelona, Symphony Hall Chicago, Oji Hall in Tokyo and Melbourne’ s Recital Centre.
Mr. Lewis’ extensive discography for Harmonia Mundi includes solo works by Mussorgsky and Schumann, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and Schubert’ s major piano works from the last six years of his life— including the three song cycles with tenor Mark Padmore.
Recent releases include the Brahms D minor Piano Concerto with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding.
Paul Lewis studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before going on to study privately with Alfred Brendel. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Southampton and the University of Edge Hill. Mr. Lewis and his wife, cellist Bjørg Lewis, share artistic directorship of Midsummer Music, an annual chamber music festival in Buckinghamshire, UK.
Paul Lewis is making his BSO debut.
About the concert:
Symphonies of Wind Instruments( 1947)
Igor Stravinsky
Born in Oranienbaum, Russia, June 17, 1882; died in New York City, April 6, 1971
On March 25, 1918, the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy died after a long struggle with cancer. Among the many mourning him was his friend Igor Stravinsky, who considered Debussy his most important influence up to that time. In tribute to him, Stravinsky wrote one of his greatest and most innovative works— and the culmination of his Russian period— Symphonies of Wind Instruments. It began as a chorale for piano that he sent to the French musical journal La Revue musicale for a special edition containing musical tributes to Debussy by many renowned international composers. Between 1919 and 1920, the piece expanded, scored for
This spring, Washington Performing Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts join forces to launch a future-facing festival of symphonic innovation in the nation’ s capital.
Join boundary-breaking music makers from across the country for an eclectic re-invention of the orchestral experience for the 21 st century— from concert hall performances and club shows to musical guided hikes and more. Wide-ranging in repertoire, the festival features classics in new contexts, new works by today’ s most exciting composers, and multimedia immersive experiences perfect for audiences both seasoned and new.
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christopher Theofanidis’ s multimedia oratorio
BOULDER PHILHARMONIC“ Nature and Music” program with aerial dance troupe
March 27 – April 2, 2017
Experience a symphonic shift
Concert Hall performances just $ 25— plus many free community events!
THE KNIGHTS Brooklyn-based chamber orchestra with the San Francisco Girls Chorus
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY Works by contemporary composers Mason Bates and Caroline Shaw
Generous support of the SHIFT Festival is provided through a matching grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and by Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather.
Additional support is provided by Abramson Family Foundation, Betsy and Robert Feinberg, Morton and Norma Lee Funger, and Daniel R. Lewis.
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Co-presented by Washington Performing Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts In cooperation with the League of American Orchestras
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