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orchestras. Few conductors bring such
musicianship and engagement to the
world’s great podiums —from Berlin,
Amsterdam and Tel Aviv, to New
York, Chicago and Sydney. He has also
appeared at some of the great annual
gatherings of music and music-lovers:
from the BBC Proms and the Prague
Spring Festival, to the Edinburgh Festival
and the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mozart
Festival, where he was Artistic Director
from 2003 to 2005. Oundjian was
Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010
and Artistic Director of the Caramoor
International Music Festival in New York
between 1997 and 2007. Since 1981,
he has been a Visiting Professor at the
Yale School of Music and was awarded
the university’s Sanford Medal for
distinguished service to music in 2013.
Peter Oundjian last appeared with the
BSO in January 2019, conducting works
of Mozart and Brahms.
Music in the
Garden!
BRAHMS VIOLIN CONCERTO
Jonathan Carney
BSO Concertmaster
Jonathan Carney is in
his 18 th season with the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra after 12
seasons in the same position with
London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Born in New Jersey, Carney hails from
a musical family with all six members
having graduated from The Juilliard
School. After completing his studies with
Ivan Galamian and Christine Dethier,
he was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship
to continue his studies in London at the
Royal College of Music.
After enjoying critically acclaimed
international tours as both concertmaster
and soloist with numerous ensembles,
Carney was invited by Vladimir
Ashkenazy to become concertmaster
of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
in 1991. He was also appointed
concertmaster of the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra in 1994 and
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the Basque National Orchestra in
1996. Recent solo performances have
included concertos by Bruch, Korngold,
Khatchaturian, Sibelius and Nielsen, as
well as the Brahms Double Concerto and
Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending,
which was featured as a live BBC
broadcast from London’s Barbican Hall.
He has made a number of recordings,
including concertos by Mozart, Vivaldi
and Nielsen; sonatas by Brahms,
Beethoven and Franck; and a disc of
virtuoso works by Sarasate and Kreisler
with his mother Gloria Carney as
pianist. New releases include Beethoven’s
“Archduke” and “Ghost” trios, the cello
quintet of Schubert and a Dvořák disc
with the Terzetto and four Romantic
pieces for violin.
Carney is passionate about music
education and currently serves
as Artistic Director for the Maryland
Classic Youth Orchestras. He is also
an artist-in-residence at the Baltimore
School for the Arts, one of the country’s
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