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Cocktail Reception

Private Concert with Emanuel Ax and Alumni of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMYFestive Dinner

Gala Fundraising Program of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVALIn honor of Maestro Riccardo Chailly

Carnegie Hall881 7th Ave

New York, NY 10019Tuesday, 8 May 2018

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For more information please contactValentina RotaDirector of Development American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVALP.O. Box 326Chatham, NJ 07928 United States of AmericaE-mail: v.rota@lucernefestival.ch

Executive Director Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL c/o LUCERNE FESTIVALHirschmattstrasse 13P.O. | 6002 LucerneSwitzerlandPhone +41 41 226 44 52 E-mail: v.rota@lucernefestival.ch

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Contents 5 Welcome

7 American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

8 Evening Program

9 Emanuel Ax

10 Alumni of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

12 The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

13 Introducing LUCERNE FESTIVAL

14 About the City: Lucerne

Publisher: Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL | International Private FundraisingHirschmattstrasse 13 | P.O. Box | CH–6002 Luzern

v.rota@lucernefestival.ch

This pamphlet was published in April 2018.Printed in Switzerland | © 2018 by LUCERNE FESTIVAL

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY: Every summer, about 130 talented young musicians, conductors, and composers from all around the world are selected and invited to Lucerne, Switzerland, to dedicate themselves to a repertoire that is be- coming increasingly important for the preservation and continuation of classical music: the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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AcknowledgmentsThe sixteenth Gala Fundraising Event of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL has been organized with generous support from:

Academy CircleThe Kovner Foundation | Alan and Christine Vickery

Student AdvocateBOIES SCHILLER FLEXNER LLP | Henry Schein Inc. | Swiss Re

PatronsJames Capalino and Carlin Vickery | Laurie Cronin | Beatrice Ducrot | Steve Ehrlich | Edmund Frank and Eustacia Su | Steven and Keiko Kaplan | Howard L. Kaye | Elise Kirk | Cynthia Sculco | Gil Shiva | Michael Frazier Thompson

Lead Sponsor of the Gala Event

Co-Sponsors of the Gala Event

Dear GuestsThe upcoming gala fundraising event is being held in honor of Maestro Riccardo Chailly. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s LUCERNE FESTIVAL debut. He was appointed Music Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in 2016 and has been actively shaping the ensemble’s identity ever since.

Through his dynamic preparation, which can last for several months and during which he intensively studies each score he has programmed, Maestro Chailly is a constant inspiration to all of those who work with him. He familiarizes himself with every note, seeking to penetrate the essence of the pieces and to command them entirely. It is this tireless commitment, dedication, and enthusiasm that makes him such an important role model for all students at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY.

We are delighted that you decided to join our elegant gala fund- raising event. It is indeed thanks to your support and commitment that we, the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, will be able to provide the financial assistance to enable exceptionally talented young musicians from the United States to attend the world- renowned LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY in the summer of 2018.

We hope you will have an unforgettable and unique evening in the company of LUCERNE FESTIVAL.

The American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL are proud

to support the LUCERNE FESTIVAL

ACADEMY, up to 40-50% of which

consists of gradu- ates from the leading

conservatories in the United States.

Dr. iur. Hubert AchermannChairman of the Board LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Valentina RotaDirector of Development American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Alan B. VickeryChairman of the Board American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Michael HaefligerExecutive and Artistic DirectorLUCERNE FESTIVAL

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American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

The American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL is a non- profit organization that was founded in 2002 in New York. Their mission is to enable highly talented American music students from the most acclaimed conservatories in the USA to attend the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY.

Board of Directors of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVALAlan B. Vickery, Chairman | Richard Matlaga, Treasurer and Secretary | Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann | Stanley Bergman | Yefim Bronfman | Beatrice Ducrot | Mike T. Foley | Michael Haefliger

Valentina Rota, Director of Development

The American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, and your donation is tax deductible to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Checks should be made payable to American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL: American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL | P.O. Box 326 | Chatham, NJ 07928 | United States of America

Through last year’s Gala Fundraising

and the yearly membership revenues

of the American Friends, enough

donations were raised to enable 10 out of

48 students from the USA to attend the

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY in 2017.

Alumni of the LUCERNEFESTIVAL ACADEMYin concert (MorganLibrary & Museum). © Fadi Kheir/LUCERNE FESTIVAL

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Evening Program

Cocktails at 6.00 pm

Welcome and Private Concert at 7.00 pm

● Alan B. Vickery, Chairman of the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Private Concert

Emanuel Ax piano

Music of Franz Liszt (1811–1886) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). The program will be announced during the event.

Alumni of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY:

Michelle Ross and Xinou Wei violin | Jesús Rodríguez González viola | Jay Campbell (Saint-Säens) and Caleb van der Swaagh (Debussy) cello | Mélanie Genin harp

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Beau Soir for viola and harp

Camille Saint-Säens (1835–1921)The Swan for cello and harp

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and string quartet

Dinner at 7.45 pm

Award Ceremony and Acknowledgments at 8.30 pm

● Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

● Dr. iur. Hubert Achermann, Chairman of LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Foundation Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL

ARTISTS

EMANUEL AX The American pianist EMANUEL AX was born in 1949 to Polish parents in Lviv in the Ukraine, where he took his first piano lessons at the age of six from his father. Following an intermediate stay in Warsaw, the family moved in 1959 to Winnipeg, Canada, and then in 1961 to New York City. It was there that Ax continued his training with Mieczysław Munz at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1973 he won the Young Concert Artists Auditions, a year later the Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, and, in 1979, the Avery Fisher Prize. Since then, during an international career spanning four decades, Ax has performed with such acclaimed ensembles as the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras and the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics; he has also concertized with the Boston and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Alongside his performances as a soloist, chamber music plays a significant role for Ax. For many years he was a duo partner of Isaac Stern, and in 2016 he performed with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the violinist Itzhak Perlman. Ax’s repertoire includes not only the major works of the Classical and Romantic eras but also many compositions of the present day that have been created specifically for him, such as the Piano Concerto by HK Gruber, which he premiered in 2017 with the New York Philharmonic. Within his abundant discography, his recordings of piano sonatas by Haydn are especially noteworthy, having received Grammy Awards in 1995 and 2004; his album Variations, featuring works by Beethoven, Haydn, and Schumann, won the Echo Klassik Award in 2013. Emanuel Ax is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates from Yale University and Columbia University.

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Harpist MÉLANIE GENIN has performed in some of the most prestigious halls in the world under such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Alan Gilbert, and Pablos Heras-Casado. She completed her studies at the Paris Conservatoire, the Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music. An active alumna of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACAD-EMY, she returns to the Festival frequently for various projects and is a sought-after soloist and chamber music partner. Genin also commis-sions pieces from young composers and is committed to bringing comfort to sick children, cancer sufferers, and the terminally ill through her art therapy project “Harpe Porte à Porte.”

Cellist JAY CAMPBELL, the “artiste étoile” of the 2017 Sum-mer Festival, was born in 1989 in Berkeley, California, and studied at the Juilliard School in New York. A significant part of his formation took place at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACAD-EMY, which he attended in the summers of 2010 and 2011. In 2013 he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic, which engaged him in 2016 to curate the “Ligeti Forward” series as part of the NY Phil Biennial. He has collaborated with such composers as Elliott Carter, Matthias Pintscher, Kaija Saariaho, and John Zorn. He is a member of the JACK Quartet and the cellist of a piano trio with Stefan Jackiw and Conrad Tao.

Violist JESUS RODOLFO RODRIGUEZ GONZÁLEZ joined the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in 2008 and became principal violist in 2010. He has performed as a soloist all over Europe with such conductors as Claudio Abba-do, Antonio Pappano, Herbert Blomstedt, and Ingo Metzmacher and with orchestras including the Bratislawa Chamber Orchestra, Gijón Sym-phony Orchestra, and Yale Philharmonia. Having studied at the Oviedo Conservatory in Spain, Yale University, the Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music, he is currently pursuing his doctoral de-gree in Music Arts at Stony Brook University.

Alumni of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY

Violinist XINOU WEI has performed throughout America, Europe, and China. He has collaborated in chamber music with James Ehnes, Wendy Sutter, Victor Rosenbaum, and David Aaron Carpen-ter at Carnegie Hall; is a member of the Mozart Orchestra of New York under Gerard Schwartz; and has served as concertmaster for Long Island Opera, Loft Opera, Central Park Symphony, and Adelphi Orchestra. A respected teacher, he has taught in the Aspen Music Festival and School’s PALS program. His teachers include Oliveira, Majeske, Rosenberg, Thomas Phillips, and Todd Phillips. Having taken part many times in the Aspen Festival, Xinou Wei participat-ed in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY in 2017.

Violinist MICHELLE ROSS, who attended the LUCERNE FESTI-VAL ACADEMY in 2013, is the recipient of a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship and a New Music USA Grant for her compositions. A noted soloist, chamber musician, and guest concertmaster with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and with Teodor Currentzis’ music- Aeterna, she is Artistic Director of Music in the Mountains atop Powder Mountain (Utah) and Chamber Music at Eleventh Street Arts (New York City). She holds a master’s degree in music from Juilliard and a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Columbia University. Her teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Ronald Copes.

Cellist CALEB VAN DER SWAAGH is an alumnus of En-semble ACJW, now known as Ensemble Connect - a pro-gram of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. He is the recipient of the Tanglewood Karl Zeise Memorial Cello Prize and the Manhattan School of Music Pablo Casals Award and was also a grant recipient from the Virtu Foundation. A native New Yorker, he gradu-ated magna cum laude from Columbia University as part of the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange program with a degree in Classics and Medieval & Renaissance Studies. He received his master’s degree with academic honors from the New England Conservatory and later studied at the Manhattan School of Music. His primary teachers are Bonnie Hampton, Laurence Lesser, and David Geber. He participated in the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY in 2012 and 2016.

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The LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMYThe LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY is a unique and exceptional Summer Academy that was founded 15 years ago by the great composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.

Over a three-week period, these students immerse themselves in selected key works of new music through daily rehearsals, workshops, and lessons with internationally renowned conductors and artists such as Alan Gilbert, Heinz Holliger, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Sir Simon Rattle.

The Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY performs its programs during the Summer Festival, and the Alumni of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY tour with their own programs in Europe and the United States.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY charges neither tuition fees nor travel and housing expenses to the participants; so the American Friends of LUCERNE FESTIVAL join with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL in raising funds to cover all these costs. The overall costs for participating students from the United States in 2017 amounted to US $720,000 with costs for each student of US $15,000 (unchanged for 2018).

Thanks to the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, we now

have a worldwide network of over 1,200

Alumni. All of these young and talented

musicians are former participants in

the Academy and come from a total of

about 60 nations.

Matthias Pintscher, Principal Conductor, has been closely associated with the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY. © Fadi Kheir/LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Introducing LUCERNE FESTIVAL LUCERNE FESTIVAL is one of the most prestigious festivals worldwide – and has been so for 80 years. Three times per year, stars of classical music from across the world meet on the shores of idyllic Lake Lucerne, in the very heart of Switzer-land, and together they celebrate music: from famous orchestras and legendary conductors to virtuoso soloists.

The Summer Festival is the largest of the three annual festivals: within a period of just four weeks, you can experience more than 100 events, among them some 30 symphony concerts. Every year since 2003, the Summer Festival has been launched by the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, which Claudio Abbado founded in 2003. Starting in the summer of 2016, Riccardo Chailly began helming this splendid ensemble comprising internationally acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, teachers, and members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala. With the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY, which was founded in 2003 by Pierre Boulez, the Festival includes its own master school for new music. Other highlights of the Festival involve one or two composers-in-residence and “artistes étoiles” who present their work in a variety of contexts. Each summer is devoted to a specific theme that governs the choice of works that are programmed. Through such innovative event formats as the 40min series of short concerts, LUCERNE FESTIVAL is forging new paths and opening access to a wider range of audiences.

Established in 1988, the Easter Festival takes place each spring two weeks before Easter and runs through Palm Sunday, with a special focus given to sacred music. The youngest of the three festivals, the Piano Festival, has taken place every year in November since 1998. Celebrated keyboard virtuosos and emerging stars come to Lucerne for nine days to perform recitals, symphonic concerts featuring the piano, and chamber music. The Piano Off-Stage Festival complements the classical programming with atmospheric nights of jazz in Lucerne’s finest bars.

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Rome

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Czech Republic

Poland

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About the City: LucerneThe city, the lake, the mountains – Lucerne offers a plethora of cultural events and a true taste of nature. And it is a city with tradition: already during the Roman period or even earlier, a small settlement was located at the outlet of Lake Lucerne. The Monastery of St. Leodegar was founded in the 8th century.

Today, Lucerne is far more than a Canton or a city in Switzer-land. It is one of the most charming places in Europe and offers extraordinary experiences in terms of culture and nature. And it is also known for its landmarks: the Chapel Bridge, the Water Tower, the impressive Lion Monument, beautiful churches, and the picturesque old town. The city also offers numerous museums, including the Rosengart Collection displaying works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, the Lucerne Art Museum, and the Richard Wagner Museum in Tribschen.

Switzerland lies in the heart of Europe.

Lucerne can easily be reached via the

international airports of Zurich, Geneva,

Basel, and Bern. Zurich airport is located only

70 km from Lucerne and can readily be

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Surrounded by an impressive mountain landscape and Lake Lucerne, the city also offers unforgettable excursions. These include boat trips on the lake as well as tours to the nearby mountains, such as the Pilatus, with the world’s steepest cogwheel railway, or the Rigi, where Europe’s first mountain railway was installed in 1871.

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