January 17, 2012 Orpheus to Perform with Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie Hall, Saturday, February 11 at 7 p.m. On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra presents an evening of discovery featuring longtime friend and devoted musical partner, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Shostakovich’s celebrated Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet & Strings at Carnegie Hall. Thibaudet chose to [...]
- Alan Kay, Clarinetist and Artistic Director My son Jonnie and I, along with oboists Matt Dine and James Austin Smith, parted from the group temporarily and took the high-speed train from Frankfurt to Düsseldorf on Sunday the 11th. It was a fabulous ride! We hit a top speed of about 279 km/hour (about 173 mph) and were in Düsseldorf [...]
- Alan Kay, Clarinetist and Artistic Director Our 2011 EuroTour began in John F. Kennedy airport with a slightly-delayed Lufthansa flight to Munich. We flew in an Airbus A380, which apparently is the largest aircraft in the world—a flying behemoth, but smooth! Unfortunately, we had a major delay in Munich with our flight to Cologne. We were herded to a [...]
Composer Insight—Andrew Norman There is always risk in live music. We listen to our favorite pieces live not just because we want to hear the tunes we love again, but because those tunes we love come out different every time, and in that silent moment before the music begins we really have no idea what is going to happen. This [...]
On December 6, Orpheus will embark on a weeklong tour of Germany with Albrecht Mayer, making stops in Baden-Baden, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Düsseldorf. As a German native—and principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic—it’s territory that Albrecht Mayer knows well. Yet this will be a different kind of homecoming for the oboe superstar: a concerto performance with Orpheus, which he affectionately [...]
“The world’s leading oboist…makes a feloniously rich sound.” -‘The Guardian’ on Albrecht Mayer’s Voices of Bach “The piece, for eight violins, is pulsing with adrenalin and rich in vigorous bowing effects and antiphonal give-and-take between the players on the left and right sides of the ensemble.” -Allan Kozinn of the ‘The New York Times’ on Andrew Norman’s “Gran Turismo” New [...]
Win a copy of Kahane’s new album Where Are the Arms, acclaimed by The New York Times for its “emotional intelligence along with its extravagant poise.” Email us at marketing@orpheusnyc.org with an answer to the following question: Gabriel Kahane’s grandmother emigrated from Magdeburg, Germany to which US city? This city also happens to be where Orinoco Sketches received its world [...]
In 1939, my paternal grandmother, Hannelore Schaefer, emigrated from Magdeburg, Germany to the United States—Los Angeles by way of New Orleans, by way of Havana, by way of Hamburg. A year later, the German composer Paul Hindemith, too, emigrated to the United States, taking up a teaching post at Yale, where he would remain for the next dozen years. The [...]
New this season, Orpheus teams up with Music Alive Composer-in-Residence Gabriel Kahane for two concerts at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Kahane joins Orpheus as composer, curator, and performer—fusing chamber music, art song, and indie rock into a musical language all his own. Click here for more information and tickets. Click here for more information about Gabriel Kahane.
On December 3, Albrecht Mayer returns to New York with two works that stretch the oboe repertoire. Lost for centuries, Bach’s Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore was reconstructed from the composer’s own keyboard arrangement. Mayer also stakes a claim on Mozart’s delightful Andante, borrowing a favorite flute solo. Click here to purchase tickets.
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