SYMPHONIC STORIES
SYMPHONIC STORIES
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, October 20, 8pm Sunday, October 22, 3pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, October 21, 8pm
Jun Märkl, conductor Jonathan Biss, piano Lisa Steltenpohl, viola Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello
Camille Saint-Saëns Danse macabre, op. 40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 Allegro maestoso Andante Allegro vivace assai
INTERMISSION
Jonathan Biss
Richard Strauss Don Quixote, op. 35 Introduction Theme and variations Finale
Lisa Steltenpohl Dariusz Skoraczewski
The concert will end at approximately 9:50 pm on Friday and Saturday and at 4:50 pm on Sunday.
The appearance of conductor Jun Märkl is made possible through the major support of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Guest Artist Fund.
About the Artists
Jun Märkl
Jun Märkl is highly recognized as an interpreter of both symphonic and operatic Germanic repertoire, and also for his idiomatic explorations of the French impressionists. His long-standing relationships at the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich and Semperoper Dresden have recently been complemented by his directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon( 2005 – 11) and MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig
( to 2012). From 2014 to 2017, he was Chief Conductor of the Basque National Orchestra. He appears with the world’ s leading orchestras, including the Czech, Munich and Oslo philharmonics; the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; NHK Symphony Orchestra; and Tonhalle Orchester Zürich.
This season, Märkl appears with the Minnesota Orchestra and returns to the St. Louis, Dallas, Atlanta, Indianapolis and Vancouver symphonies in North America. In Europe, he returns to the Brussels, Helsinki and Netherlands Radio philharmonics and the Tonkuenstler Orchestra Vienna. He also returns to the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony, and debuts with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.
Märkl is a regular guest conductor at the state operas of Vienna, Munich and Semperoper Dresden, and was permanent conductor of the Bavarian State Opera until 2006. He made his Royal Opera House debut with Götterdämmerung in 1996 and debuted with Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera in 1998. He conducted complete Ring cycles at the Deutsche Oper and at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, and toured Japan in 2007. In 2016, he conducted Fidelio in Cincinnati and Die Liebe der Danae in Tokyo, where he conducts Lohengrin in 2018.
In 2014, Naxos released two discs with Märkl conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in works by Toshio Hosokawa. A third recording is expected. He recorded the complete Schumann symphonies with the NHK Symphony; Mendelssohn, D’ Albert and Wagner with MDR; and Ravel, Messaien and Debussy with the Orchestre National de Lyon. He was honored by the French Ministry of Culture in 2012 with the“ Chevalier de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.” Recordings of works by Saint- Saëns and Strauss are expected in 2018.
Märkl’ s father was a distinguished concertmaster and his mother, a solo pianist. Märkl studied at the Musikhochschule in Hannover, with Sergiu Celibidache in Munich and Gustav Meier in Michigan. In 1986, he won the conducting competition of the Deutsche Musikrat and a year later won a scholarship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to study at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. He soon had appointments in European opera houses followed by music directorships at the Staatstheater in Saarbrücken( 1991 – 94) and at the Mannheim Nationaltheater( 1994 – 2000).
Jun Märkl last appeared with the BSO in November 2015, performing works of de Falla, Debussy and Ravel.
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