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Sir André Previn, Conductor |
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Conductor, composer, and pianist Sir ANDRÉ PREVIN has received a
number of awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments.
He holds both the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, was a Kennedy Center
honoree for his lifetime achievements, and was knighted by Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. This past year he was presented with the “Glenn
Gould Prize” in Toronto on March 14, 2006.
Maestro Previn has received several Grammy awards for his recordings. He
was honored at the 47th Grammy Awards in February 2005 for the recordings
of his violin concerto “Anne-Sophie” and Bernstein's Serenade
featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter together with the Boston and London Symphony
Orchestras. Musical America named him “Musician of The Year”, and his first opera “A
Streetcar Named Desire” was awarded the “Grand Prix du Disque”.
A frequent guest with the world's major orchestras - both in concert and
on recordings - Sir André Previn appears annually with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Vienna Philharmonic, to
name a few. Sir André Previn has held the chief artistic posts with such
orchestras as the Houston Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic.
In October 2006 Maestro Previn appeared in Oslo conducting Orff's “Carmina Burana”, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4. His opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, will be performed in Vienna during March 2007. He also conducted the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra this season and will return to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April 2007 where his double concerto for violin and contrabass will be premiered with Anne Sophie Mutter and Roman Patkolo as soloists. Previn will also appear at Tanglewood in July both as conductor and pianist as well as for a jazz evening. In September 2007 Maestro Previn will spent 3 weeks in Tokyo conducting the NHK Symphony featuring three different programs in 6 concerts. Later this year he will return to the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on tour with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist. To close the year he will perform at the Blue Note in New York.
In 1998 Sir André Previn conducted the premiere performance of his opera A Streetcar Named Desire with the San Francisco Opera with Renée Fleming as Blanche Dubois. The opera, featuring a libretto by Philip Littell, is based on the play by Tennessee Williams. It was subsequently broadcast on television and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. In June 2003 André Previn again performed the work together with the London Symphony Orchestra and original cast. In May of 2004 he began another series of performances with the Washington Opera.
As a pianist, André Previn often performs together with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lynn Harrell. As a jazz pianist he also performs with David Finck. Sir André has performed recitals with Renée Fleming at Lincoln Center and with Barbara Bonney at Carnegie Hall and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and regularly gives chamber music concerts with the Emerson String Quartet, as well as with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic.
Sir André Previn has enjoyed a number of successes as a composer. The Emerson String Quartet recently performed the premiere of a commission work in Carnegie Hall with Barbara Bonney. This work and his first opera “A Streetcar Named Desire” followed the latest compositions as did a work for violin and piano (“Tango Song und Dance”) and a violin concerto commissioned by Boston Symphony Orchestra. Both works were written for Anne-Sophie Mutter, who has performed and recorded them. During the 1999/2000 season the Vienna Philharmonic performed the premier of the contracted work “Diversions” and subsequently recorded it. Sir André Previn's second opera “Brief Encounter”, a commission from the Houston Grand Opera will be premiered in Houston in May 2009. His harp concerto, commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony will be premiered in March 2008 and a double concerto for violin and viola written for Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yuri Bashmet will be premiered in New York in 2009.
Other compositions include a piano concerto for Vladimir Ashkenazy, a cello sonata for Yo-Yo Ma and song cycles for Janet Baker, Kathleen Battle, Barbara Bonney and Anthony Dean Griffey. Sir André Previn is currently working on new song cycles for Barbara Bonney and Renée Fleming,and a clarinet sonata for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Thomas Martin.
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André Previn records for Deutsche Grammophon.
