MSM Announces 2015-16 Performance Season

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Among the 2015-16 JAZZ highlights, this month will see MSM participate in the Savassi Festival New York, with its focus on the vibrant instrumental music of Brazil (MSM's participation in the festival will include two master classes as well as a performance by the MSM Jazz Philharmonic featuring guest soloists Dave Liebman, saxophone; Gilson Peranzzetta, piano, accordion; and Cliff Korman, piano. InOctober, Justin DiCioccio will lead the MSM Concert Jazz Band's Maiden Voyage Suite: A Tribute to Herbie Hancock, marking the 50th anniversary of Hancock's landmark 1965 album. In November, acclaimed jazz vocalist and MSM alumna, Grammy nominee Jane Monheit (BM '99) will celebrate the Frank Sinatra Centennial in a performance with the MSMJazz Orchestra. Also upcoming Bobby Sanabria leads the MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra in tributes to both funk (in the fall) and the music of the Dominican Republic (in spring). The Hancock, funk, and Dominican tributes will be performed both at MSM's Borden Auditorium and, subsequently, at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Among the many CLASSICAL music highlights, George Manahan will conduct both the MSM Chamber Sinfonia and the MSM Symphony in concerts of work that ranges from Mendelssohn to John Adams. Fall guest conductors include Markus Däunert with the Chamber Sinfonia Strings, and Perry So, who will lead an innovative series of readings and concerts with the MSM Philharmonia. In the spring, guest conductor Ken-David Masur takes the podium for a program featuring Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, and we also look forward to a special guest appearance by Christoph Eschenbach, who will conduct a reading with the Orchestra. The Chamber Sinfonia will end its season in April playing Copland's Suite from Appalachian Spring at Merkin Hall, on the "What Makes It Great?" series, with Rob Kapilow conducting.

On the CHORAL front, Kent Tritle will lead MSM's Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Orchestra in a program of Mozart and Schubert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In November, the Chamber Chorus will perform Tan Dun's Water Passion at the Metropolitan Museum, with the composer conducting. In January, the Chorus will join conductor Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for three performances of Berlioz's Lélio. And later in the season, on February 25, the Chorus and MSM Symphony will return to the Cathedral for a performance of Mahler Symphony No. 8, featuring mezzo-soprano Sara Murphy and bass Adam Lau.

And ahead for MSM's renowned OPERA THEATER… In December, MSM will stage Conrad Susa's 1994 work, The Dangerous Liaisons, conducted by George Manahan and directed by Dona D. Vaughn, while the spring opera will present a French double bill of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges and Ibert's Persée et Andromède (Pierre Vallet, conductor; James Robinson, director).

The MSM seasonwill close with the American Musical Theater Ensemble performing Defying Gravity: The Magical World of Stephen Schwartz.

MSM's roster of MASTER CLASS ARTISTS this season includes singers Thomas Hampson, Stephanie Blythe, and Eric Owens; pianists Richard Goode and Anton Nel; violinists Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Glenn Dicterow; MSM alumni, jazz artists Stefon Harris and Chris Potter; and many others. And throughout the year, the American String Quartet and Windscape (MSM's two faculty ensembles in residence) will present innovative chamber music programs, and several faculty recitals will add luster to the concert season.

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