Boca Raton Philharmonic Symphonia

Philippe Entremont
Principal Conductor

Tim Fain
Violin Soloist
2011 Tim Fain

PROGRAM

MOZART - Serenata Notturna, K.239

PROKOFIEV - Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op.63

SCHBERT - Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major

The exceptional career of Philippe Entremont began at the age of eighteen when he came to international attention with his great success at New York’s Carnegie Hall playing Jolivet’s piano concerto and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Since then, he has pursued a top international career as a pianist, and for the last 30 years, on the podium as well. The 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons will take Entremont all over the world, with many orchestral tours including the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Festival Orchestra, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. He will also guest conduct European and American orchestras as well as perform numerous piano and chamber music concerts. As conductor, he has toured with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra ten times in the United States and seven in Japan; with the Orquestra de Cadaqués, eleven concerts in capitals of countries in Asia; and with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, a tour in Switzerland and Germany. As Principal Guest Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, he has led tours internationally, including the US in 2005 and 2006, conducting from the piano as well as the podium. He returned in both capacities for the Munich Symphony’s highly successful 15-concert US tour in February of 2009.

In 1997, Entremont founded the biennial Santo Domingo Music Festival, of which he is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Festival Orchestra. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquestra de Cadaqués. In 2006, in connection with the “Mozart Year,” he conducted the Tokyo-based Super World Orchestra. Entremont was among the ten world-class pianists chosen to perform in the “Piano Extravaganza of the Century” at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. He served as Music Director of the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra between 1981 and 1986, after which he became Music Director of the Denver Symphony. He was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra until 2002. After having served as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra for almost thirty years, he is now Conductor Laureate for Life. He was Music Director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and is now their Conductor Laureate.

Entremont has directed the greatest symphony orchestras of Europe, Asia and America: Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Minnesota, Seattle, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Montreal, The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra Nacional de España, the Academy of Santa Cecilia of Rome, l’Orchestre National de France, the orchestras of Göteberg, Stockholm, Oslo and Warsaw, the NHK of Tokyo, the KBS Orchestra of Seoul, the Vienna Symphony and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen, to name a few. He has worked with the world’s greatest soloists, both instrumental and vocal.

One of the most recorded artists of all time, Philippe Entremont has appeared on many labels, including CBS Sony, Teldec and Harmonia Mundi, and he has garnered all of the leading prizes and awards in the industry. He has been the recipient of many honors such as the Great Cross of the Austrian Republic Order of Merit, Officer of the French Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, and Commander of the Order of Arts and Lettres. He is President of the International Certificate for Piano Artists, President of the Bel’Arte Foundation of Brussels, and Director of the famed American Conservatory of Fountainebleau, a post formerly held by the legendary Nadia Boulanger.

With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene. A “charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile” (Boston Globe), Fain was featured in the films Black Swan and Bee Season and was selected as one of Symphony magazine’s “Up-and-Coming Young Musicians of 2006.” He recently received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Young Concert Artists International Award.

Fain electrified audiences at his New York concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony, and at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Performing works from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Richard Danielpour and Philip Glass, he has been soloist with the Mexico City and Oxford (UK) Symphonies, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He was soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach. Other recent performances include appearances with the Champaign-Urbana, Wheeling, Illinois and Maryland Symphonies, as well as recitals for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, Howland Chamber Circle, Carmel Music Society, and elsewhere throughout the United States.

He appeared in recital at Amsterdam’s venerable Concertgebouw, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center, Mexico’s Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation, California’s Carmel Mozart Society, University of Georgia, San Diego Art Institute, University of California at Davis, Boston’s Ives Festival, Alice Tully Hall, and the 92nd St Y. A sought-after chamber musician, Tim Fain has performed at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic, and Chamber Music Northwest. Festival performance include Ravinia, Spoleto (Italy), Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bard, Lucerne (Switzerland), Vail Valley, Moab, and Martha’s Vineyard. He has toured nationally with Musicians from Marlboro, and is first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet.

A dynamic and compelling performer in traditional works, he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers. His provocative debut CD on Image Recordings of music for solo violin reflects Fain’s inquisitive passion and intellect by combining old and new in solo works by J.S. Bach, Fritz Kreisler, Kevin Puts, Mark O’Connor, Daniel Ott, and Randy Woolf. He was hailed for his appearance onstage with the New York City Ballet, where he performed alongside the dancers in the company’s acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Double Aria,” and he has also appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in the U.S. and abroad..