Posted on March - 29 - 2010
Cleveland Orchestra to tour Asia as part of 2010-2011 season
A trip to Asia is one of the highlights of the Cleveland Orchestra’s 2010-2011 season, which was announced today.
The eight-concert, four-city Asian tour begins with a performance in Sapporo, Japan, on Nov. 10 and ends with a program at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea on Nov. 21. The centerpiece of the tour is a Cleveland Orchestra Residency at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with four concerts at that acclaimed venue.
The orchestra first performed in Japan in 1970 and most recently appeared there in 1998. Its most recent appearance in Seoul came in 1978.
Music director Franz Welser-Mst and orchestra officials said the 2010-11 season again will feature new series successfully introduced in 2009, including Fridays@7, Musically Speaking and the Celebrity Series, alongside fully staged opera. The orchestra also will start a two-week Baroque Festival in Severance Hall.
Mr. Welser-Mst opens his ninth season with the orchestra with a program including Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” in two subscription concerts at Severance Hall and at a Cleveland Metropolitan School District high school.
Also during the 2010-11 season, Mr. Welser-Mst will conduct John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic Symphony;” Bach’s “Mass in F major (BWV 233);” Bartk’s “Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta;” and Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8, among others.
Artist-in-residence Ton Koopman will lead a two-week Baroque Festival with the orchestra at Severance Hall in April and May of 2011; the festival will include works by Bach and Handel. Mr. Koopman is the founder and conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, artistic director of the French Festival “Itinraire Baroque” and a professor at the University of Leiden.
The orchestra’s annual Miami residency continues in its fifth season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Details of the residency will be announced at a later date.
In January 2011, the orchestra will participate in what it describes as “an intensive residency” at Indiana University. The Indiana residency will include master classes, coaching, arts administration seminars and other community and educational activities. Plans call for every principal musician in The Cleveland Orchestra to teach a class for IU students. Students also will have an opportunity to take part in side-by-side rehearsals with the orchestra.
The orchestra will tour to Hill Auditorium, on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Feb. 1, 2011, and to Symphony Center in Chicago on Feb. 2. The orchestra will appear in two programs at Carnegie Hall in New York, on Feb. 4 and 5. At the end of the tour, the orchestra performs at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Mr. Welser-Mst will lead all performances.
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