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No. 3,
2007-08 Season
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Classical Series
Fantastique Dutoit
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Friday, January 25, 2008 at 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
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Charles Dutoit
One of the world’s foremost conductors, Charles Dutoit is noted for his performances of French, Russian, and 20th century music. Dutoit began his studies at the Lausanne Conservatory in violin, piano, and orchestral conducting, and later continued his education in Geneva.
In 1958 he received his diploma in conducting and went to Alceo Galliera at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. In 1959, he took additional training in orchestral conducting in Tanglewood. From 1957 to 1959 Dutoit worked as a violist in Europe and South America before returning to Switzerland to conduct. In 1959 he was appointed as a guest conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
From 1964 to 1966, he worked as a conductor for Radio Zurich, and from 1965-1967, he conducted ballet at the Vienna Opera. He succeeded Paul Kletzki as the head of the Bern Symphony Orchestra (1968-1978). In addition to his work in Bern, he directed the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico from 1973 to 1975 and the Symphony Orchestra of Göteborg from 1975 to 1978.
In 1977 Dutoit obtained the major appointment of his career: music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until 2002. He quickly elevated the Montreal to international acclaim. He notably improved the orchestra’s scheduling of Classical-era works, particularly the symphonies of Haydn. He is also noted for the championing of new Canadian music.
Dutoit has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s concert series at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and has also directed the orchestra’s summer series at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia. In 1990, Dutoit became music director of the Orchestre National de France. Since September 1996, he has been the principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and as of September 1998, also their music director.
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Jean-Philippe Collard
Although pianist Jean-Philippe Collard’s name is as French as his birthplace, Mareuil-sur-Ay, Champagne, his repertoire knows no geographical boundaries. In addition to his complete mastery of French concerto literature, his interpretations of works by Bartók, Brahms, Gershwin, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky have met with great acclaim.
Born into a musical family, Collard was admitted to the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris at a young age. At the age of 16 he was unanimously awarded the Conservatory’s First Prize, and subsequently he has won many others, including the Grand Prix du Concours National des Artistes Soloistes, Prix Albert Roussel, Prix Gabriel Faure, Prix du Concours International Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaud, and Grand Prix du Concours International Cziffra. Collard was named Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur in 2003.
In addition to recitals throughout Europe, North and South America, Russia and the Far East, Collard has appeared as soloist with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Zurich Tonhalle, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras; the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon; London’s Philharmonia Orchestra; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the New York, BBC, Royal, Los Angeles and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras; and the BBC, San Francisco, London, Vienna, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Boston orchestras.
He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Semyon Bychkov, Marek Janowski, Eugen Jochum, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Simon Rattle and Charles Dutoit.
He has also performed at the London Proms Concerts, and the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Bad Kissingen, Salzburg, Bath, Caramoor, Newport, and Saratoga festivals.
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