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COPLAND SYMPHONY NO. 3 symphony orchestras of Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego and New Zealand. Needleman is a founding member of the oboe trio Trio La Milpa, the first American chamber ensemble to perform in Greenland; the woodwind quintet Astral Winds; and Mico Nonet, an improvisational ambient chamber music ensemble involving colleagues from the Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Richmond Symphony and 1970s synthesizers. Needleman’s other chamber music engagements have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall and the Metropolitan Museum in New York; Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; and the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. She has appeared at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Italy’s Spoleto Festival, the Alpenglow Festival and the Newport Music Festival. A participant at the Marlboro Music Festival, she has also appeared on two tours with Musicians from Marlboro. Devoted to the music of our time, Needleman has premiered numerous works and has commissioned works by Luis Prado, Chia-Yu Hsu and David Ludwig. She gave the American premiere of Brenno Blauth’s Concertino. She recorded Christopher Rouse’s Oboe Concerto with the Albany Symphony and David Alan Miller and gave the West Coast premiere of the work with Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival. A Baltimore native, Needleman attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts but left early to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where she received a Bachelor of Music degree as a student of Richard Woodhams. Needleman is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music’s Young Artist Summer Program. She has released a solo album with pianist Jennifer Lim on the GENUIN label.  Katherine Needleman last appeared with the BSO in June 2018, performing Kevin Puts’ Moonlight. About the Concert MOTHERSHIP Mason Bates Born in Richmond, VA, January 23, 1977 Mason Bates’ Mothership is an orchestral work that could only have been born in the 21 st century. It received its world premiere at the famed Sydney Opera House in Australia performed by the YouTube Symphony led by Michael Tilson Thomas on March 21, 2011 and was viewed online on YouTube by nearly two million people worldwide. It skillfully merges the usually divergent worlds of classical symphonic music and the driving rhythms of techno and the up-to-the- moment sounds of electronics. Bates himself straddles that perceived gulf with ease. Holder of a Ph.D. in music from the University of California- Berkeley and recently appointed as the Kennedy Center’s first composer-in- residence, he has also moonlighted as Join Us! Keswick’s Wise & Well Center for Healthy Living is NOW OPEN! Membership Features and Benefits Members-only access to 14,000 square feet of spaces nurturing growth and infinite potential with a mile marker check to ensure you’re on course: • Active/fitness • Classroom and group learning • Visual arts • Culinary arts • Gardening Interested? Contact us at: [email protected] or call us at 410.662.4363 Located across from the Rotunda on the Keswick Campus 700 W 40th St. Baltimore, MD 21211 N OV– D EC 2018 / OV E R T U R E 17