Concerts in Iowa City, IA; Stillwater, OK; and Ann Arbor, MI,
will feature Concertmaster David Kim, Principal Tuba Carol Jantsch,
and works by Missy Mazzoli and Wynton Marsalis
(Philadelphia, January 19, 2022)—In its first tour since November 2019, The Philadelphia Orchestra will travel to the Midwest U.S. under the batons of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, March 9–12, 2022. The four-concert tour is the first for the full Orchestra since the Tour of Asia in fall 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and includes performances in Iowa City, IA; Stillwater, OK; and Ann Arbor, MI, featuring Concertmaster David Kim and Principal Tuba Carol Jantsch as soloists. The Orchestra last performed in Iowa City and Ann Arbor in 2018 and will make its debut in Stillwater.
“We are overwhelmed with gratitude to travel once again and reunite with audiences in the Midwest,” said Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. “For our first tour since the start of the pandemic, it is especially important that we share an authentic representation of who we are—as musicians, as an institution, and as citizens. Our work has been informed and transformed by the impact of the pandemic, the social justice movement in America, and the drive toward creative equity and inclusion in the world of orchestral music. We look forward to sharing deeply moving music by GRAMMY-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli and a newly commissioned and recently premiered Tuba Concerto by our dear friend Wynton Marsalis, introducing Nathalie Stutzmann as our new family member and Principal Guest Conductor, and highlighting musicians of the Orchestra as soloists.”
Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann will conduct three concerts including Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 featuring Concertmaster David Kim, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 (“Great”) at the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City, IA (March 9); Oklahoma State University’s McKnight Center for the Performing Arts in Stillwater, OK (March 10); and the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI (March 12).
“Working with The Philadelphia Orchestra at home has been an absolute joy,” said Stutzmann. “I’m looking forward to further deepening our relationship through our travel and performances together in the Midwest.”
Nézet-Séguin will join the Orchestra in Ann Arbor for a program featuring Wynton Marsalis’s Tuba Concerto with Principal Tuba Carol Jantsch, a University of Michigan alumna, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 (March 11). Additionally, musicians of the Orchestra will participate in residency activities with University of Michigan students.
“Ever since The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performance at the University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium in 1913, and as the orchestra-in-residence for the University Musical Society’s Ann Arbor May Festival for nearly 50 years, visiting this glorious campus has felt like coming home,” said Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc., President and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky. “Sharing our vision through the Philadelphia Sound is part of who we are and we cannot wait to connect with old friends and new audiences during this long-awaited return to touring.”
The Philadelphia Orchestra is known for its distinguished touring history, widely recognized as one of the most-traveled American symphonic ensembles. The Orchestra has toured the United States extensively, with over 100 U.S. tours throughout its history. In 1936 it became the first American orchestra ever to make a transcontinental tour.
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Iowa City, Iowa
March 9, 2022, at 7:30 PM CST—Wednesday Evening—Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor
David Kim Violin
Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Schubert Symphony No. 9 (“Great”)
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Stillwater, Oklahoma
March 10, 2022, at 7:30 PM CST—Thursday Evening—McKnight Center for the Performing Arts at Oklahoma State University
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor
David Kim Violin
Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Schubert Symphony No. 9 (“Great”)
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 11, 2022, at 8:00 PM CST—Friday Evening—Hill Auditorium, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor
Carol Jantsch Tuba
Marsalis Tuba Concerto—Philadelphia Orchestra Co-Commission
Brahms Symphony No. 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 12, 2022, at 8:00 PM CST—Saturday Evening—Hill Auditorium, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor
David Kim Violin
Mazzoli Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Schubert Symphony No. 9 (“Great”)
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