Lincoln Center's 'White Light Festival'
NEW YORK -- Get ready for worldwide entertainment!
Lincoln Center's fifth White Light Festival will run from October 7 through November 11, 2014. It will include 30 performances, films, and events - also featuring eight premieres.
Plus, new works and debuts by artists and companies from the United States, Australia, Germany, Pakistan, Poland, the U.K. and South Africa - including the Lincoln Center debut of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
The multidisciplinary Festival spans 12 venues, and numerous musical traditions and genres. Other Festival components include pre- and post-performance artist discussions and the popular post-performance White Light Lounges, where performers and audience members can meet.
For complete information about the 2014 White Light Festival, visit http://aboutlincolncenter.org.
Some artists and companies information:
St. Matthew Passion: Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, co-presentation with the Park Avenue Armory
Peter Sellars, a renowned American stage and opera director, has garnered rave reviews for his work at Lincoln Center, most recently with the New York premiere of John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary, presented as part of Lincoln Center's Great Performers 2012/13 season. Founded in 1882, the Berliner Philharmoniker is among the top orchestras in the world. Led by Principal Conductor Simon Rattle since 1999, the Philharmoniker has received Grammy, Gramophone, Classical BRIT, and ECHO Klassic awards and frequently tours around the world. Sir Simon Rattle has been chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonie since September 2002. He was twenty-five when he began his close association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), initially as principal conductor and artistic adviser, then as music director.
Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York City by enabling artists to create-and audiences to experience-unconventional work that cannot be mounted in traditional performance halls and museums. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall-reminiscent of 19th century European train stations-and array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory offers a new platform for creativity across all art forms.
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Chalk and Soot: John Heginbotham, Colin Jacobsen, Brooklyn Rider and Carla Kihlstedt
Founded in 2011, Dance Heginbotham is a performance group devoted to the presentation of dance and theatrical work created by Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer John Heginbotham. The company's work features highly structured, technically rigorous, and theatrical choreography, frequently set to the music of contemporary composers. Hailed as "the future of chamber music" (Strings), Brooklyn Rider offers eclectic repertoire in gripping performances that continue to attract legions of fans and draw rave reviews from classical, world, and rock critics alike. John Heginbotham's choreography was performed at last summer's Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, with the premiere of Manhattan Research, a LCOOD commission.
The Washington Post hailed Colin Jacobsen as "one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene." An eclectic composer who draws on a range of influences, he was named one of the top 100 composers under 40 by NPR listeners.
Carla Kihlstedt is a composer, violinist, and vocalist, and a veteran of folk/pop, contemporary classical, improvised and experimental music.
Baryshnikov Arts Cener (BAC) is the realization of a long-held vision by artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov who sought to build an arts center in Manhattan that would serve as a gathering place for artists from all disciplines.
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Vespers: Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey, Judith Simonis, Robert Franke
Rundfunkchor Berlin, the oldest radio choir in Germany, is considered one of the finest choral groups in the world.
Simon Halsey is one of the world's leading conductors of choral repertoire, regularly leading prestigious orchestras and choirs worldwide.
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Ecstatic Journeys: Rizan-Muazzam Qawwali, pre-concert lecture at New York Society for Ethical Culture
Rizwan and Muazzam come from a direct family line of Qawwali music that spans over five centuries. The group also features five secondary singers leading the choral response and vigorous hand claps, two harmonium players and a tabla player.
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The Rite of Spring: Basil Twist, Orchestra of St. Luke's
In addition to his own stageworks, Basil Twist has engaged in many collaborative projects, including staging puppetry for theater, opera, and dance.
Now in its 39th season, Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) is one of America's foremost and most versatile orchestras, regularly collaborating with the world's greatest artists and performing approximately 70 concerts each year-including its Carnegie Hall Orchestra Series, Chamber Music Series at The Morgan Library & Museum and the Brooklyn Museum, and summer residency at the Caramoor Music Festival.
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How Like an Angel: Yaron Lifschitz, Robert Hollingworth, Union Theological Seminary
Circa has been creating inventive circus performances since its creation in 2006. Since then, the group has toured 24 countries across five continents, bringing with it a love of the circus that moves the heart, mind and soul.
I Fagiolini was last seen in the 2007 Lincoln Center Festival with The Full Monteverdi. The acclaimed British vocal group was founded in 1986 at Oxford University and maintains a core repertoire of Renaissance and contemporary solo-voice ensemble works.
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Curlew River
Benjamin Britten's church parable, inspired by Japanese Noh theatre,
Ian Bostridge appeared in the U.S. premiere of Deborah Warner's staging of Leos Janacek's Diary of One Who Vanished for Lincoln Center's 2001 Great Performers series. Netia Jones is a director and video designer of opera and staged concerts. She is director of Lightmap, a mixed media partnership with which she has created performance, installation and film projects in the UK, Europe, and the USA.
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One True Vine
Mavis Staples, hailed as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone, is the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Heritage Fellowship Award.
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Cathedrals of Sound
The Gewandhaus Orchestra is the oldest civic symphony orchestra in the world, with a history stretching over 250 years. Its distinguished reputation and enduring influence on the history of music, its countless appearances on every continent of the globe since 1916 and hundreds of recordings have made the Orchestra one of the most beloved of our time.
Riccardo Chailly is a dynamic and sometimes controversial conductor known for his devotion to contemporary music, and for his attempts to modernize approaches to the traditional symphonic repertory.
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Winterreise
William Kentridge returns to Lincoln Center following the U.S. premiere of his production of Monteverdi's Il ritorno di Ulisse with Handspring Puppet Company and Ricercar Consort in March 2004, and the New York premiere of Zeno at 4 a.m., a shadow oratorio, with Handspring Puppet Company, in the fall of 2001, based on the novel Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo.
Matthias Goerne, an internationally sought-after vocalists and frequent guest at renowned festivals and concert halls, has collaborated with leading orchestras all over the world.
