SUSANNA MALKKI LEADS ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN IN FIRST NEW YORK

							                                                                                    Date: April 10, 2009
                                                                             Press Contact: Eva Chien
                                                                  212-875-5386; echien@lincolncenter.org


        SUSANNA MÄLKKI LEADS ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN IN FIRST NEW YORK
             APPEARANCE AS MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE ACCLAIMED ENSEMBLE

Two Great Performers Concerts—May 8 and 9—in the New Alice Tully Hall, are highlighted by works
               of György Ligeti; works by three young composers are also featured


                                   Rising young conductor Susanna Mälkki, who made her US
                                   conducting debut at last year’s Mostly Mozart Festival, returns to
                                   Lincoln Center on May 8 and 9 in her first New York appearance as
                                   Music Director of the renowned Ensemble intercontemporain.
                                   Founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez, the Paris-based ensemble has
                                   been at the forefront of musical developments of our time as a
                                   champion of the modernist canon. The concerts pair works of
20th/21st-century master György Ligeti with those of three young contemporary composers: long-time
Ensemble intercontemporain collaborators Michael Jarrell and Bruno Mantovani, and Ligeti student
Unsuk Chin.

The Ensemble’s first concert in the new and acclaimed Alice Tully Hall on May 8 at 8 p.m. features Ligeti’s
The Mysteries of the Grand Macabre (the 1991 version arranged for soprano and ensemble by Howarth)
with Yeree Suh, and his Chamber Concerto and Piano Concerto; as well as Swiss composer Michael
Jarrell’s Assonance V with cellist Eric-Maria Couturier and Korean-born composer Unsuk Chin’s
Akrostischon-Wortspiel. Originally composed as an opera, The Mysteries of the Grand Macabre premiered
in 1977 and had numerous European performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was revived in
1997 for the Salzburg Festival. The second concert, on May 9 at 8 p.m. features Ligeti’s Melodien and
Violin Concerto with Hae-Sun Kang and French composer Bruno Mantovani’s Le sette chiese.

A pre-concert discussion with Susanna Mälkki and WNYC’s John Schaefer will take place at 6:45 p.m. on
May 8 at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor. An interview with Mälkki
discussing all four composers can be heard online at www.LincolnCenter.org.

Tickets for each concert are priced at $30, 40 and 50 and may be purchased by calling CenterCharge, 212-
721-6500, online at www.LincolnCenter.org, and at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office, West 65th Street and
Broadway.
Susanna Mälkki
Music Director of Ensemble intercontemporain since 2006, Susanna Mälkki very quickly obtained recognition on the
international conducting circuit. Her versatility and broad repertoire have taken her to symphony orchestras, chamber
orchestras, contemporary music ensembles and opera. She was Artistic Director of the Stavanger Symphony
Orchestra until the end of 2005. Born in Helsinki, Susanna Mälkki had a successful career as a cellist before studying
conducting under Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam at the Sibelius Academy. From 1995 to 1998, she was principal
cello at the Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden - an orchestra she now guest conducts regularly.

Very committed to contemporary music, she had worked regularly with many ensembles before conducting the
Ensemble intercontemporain for the first time in an all-Birtwistle programme at the Lucerne Festival in 2004. The
concert was the catalyst for her appointment as Music Director. In March 2007, she conducted the thirtieth
anniversary concert of the Ensemble alongside with Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös. In 1999, she conducted the
Finnish premiere of Thomas Ades's Powder Her Face at the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki and was subsequently
invited by the composer to conduct further performances during a series at the 1999 Almeida Festival in London, and
on tour in the UK.

Other opera commitments have recently included Neither by Morton Feldman, from a text by Samuel Beckett in
Copenhagen, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss and Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin at the Finnish National
Opera. She also conducted Saariaho's La Passion de Simone in Vienna (2006) for the world premiere and in New
York, at the Lincoln Center (August 2008). In spring 2010 Susanna Mälkki will conduct the world premiere of a ballet
by Bruno Mantovani at the Paris Opera.

In recent seasons, Susanna Mälkki has conducted many prestigious orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Munich Philharmonic, City of Birmingham
Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio France Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, BBC Symphony
(London), NDR Hamburg and Montreal symphony. Current and future seasons abound with new projects, including
concerts, recordings and academy workshops with various ensembles and musical institutions: Detroit, Atlanta and
Saint Louis orchestras, BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, Bayerischer Rundfunk, NHK (Tokyo), Swedish
Radio and Radio France orchestras, San Francisco Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carnegie Academy at
Carnegie Hall.

Susanna Mälkki trained at the Sibelius Academy and London’s Royal Academy of Music and began her professional
music career as principal cellist of Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony. She worked as an assistant with Thomas Adès
for several years and developed a relationship with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham
Contemporary Music Group. A noted opera conductor with the Copenhagen and Finnish National Opera companies,
she has also served as guest conductor with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and
the Berlin Symphony orchestras, among others. “Susanna Mälkki means business…and once launched, there is no
turning back. Through swift, clear knife cuts, this amazing Finn sits exactly on top of each note galvanizing those
under her control to follow suit,” said The Times, London.

Ensemble intercontemporain
In 1976, Pierre Boulez founded the Ensemble intercontemporain with the support of Michel Guy (who was Minister of
Culture at the time) and the collaboration and Nicholas Snowman. The Ensemble’s 31 soloists share a passion for
20th-21st century music. They are employed on permanent contract, enabling them to fulfill the major aims of the
Ensemble: performance, creation and education for young musicians and the general public. Under the artistic
direction of Susanna Mälkki, the musicians work in close collaboration with composers, exploring instrumental
techniques and developing projects that interweave music, dance, theater, film, video and visual arts. New pieces are
commissioned and performed on a regular basis. These works enrich the Ensemble’s repertory and add to the
corpus of 20th century masterworks. The Ensemble is renown for its strong emphasis on music education: concerts
for kids, creative workshops for students, training programs for future performers, conductors, composers, etc. Based
at the Cité de la Musique (Paris) since 1995, the Ensemble performs and records in France and abroad, taking part
in major festivals worldwide. The Ensemble is financed by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and receives
additional support from the Paris City Council.
Michael Jarrell
Born in Geneva in 1958, Michael Jarrell studied composition at the Geneva Conservatory with Eric Gaudibert and at
various workshops in the United States (Tanglewood, 1979). He completed his training with Klaus Huber at the
Freiburg Staatliche Hochschule für Musik im Brisgau. Starting in 1982, his works have received numerous prizes: prix
Acanthes (1983), Beethovenpreis from the city of Bonn (1986), Marescotti prize (1986), Gaudeamus (1988),
Henriette Renié (1988), and Siemens-Förderungspreis (1990). Between 1986 and 1988, he was in residence at the
Cité des Arts in Paris and took part in the computer music course at Ircam. He resided at the Villa Médicis in Rome
during 1988/89, and then joined the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in 1989-90. From October 1991 to June 1993, he was
composer in residence with the Lyon Orchestra. Beginning in 1993, he became professor of composition at the
Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. In 1996, he was "composer in residence" at the Lucerne festival, and then was
heralded by the Musica Nova Helsinki Festival, which dedicated the festival to him in 2000. In 2001, the Salzburg
Festival commissioned a concerto for piano and orchestra entitled Abschied. The same year, he was named
"Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres". In 2004, he was named professor of composition at the Geneva Conservatory.
His opera Galilei, after the La Vie de Galilée by Brecht, commissioned by the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, was
premiered in January 2006.

2007 brought the composition and premier of Nachlese I and II, the first from a cycle of three pieces for string quartet.
Concertante style continues to inspire him: ...un temps de silence... was premiered in Geneva in March 2007 by
Emmanuel Pahud with the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande conducted by Heinz Holiger. Nachlese III, a double
concerto pour clarinet, cello and orchestra was premiered on November 1 in Cologne (commissioned by the WDR).
The chamber opera Cassandre, premiered in 1994 at the Châtelet theatre in Paris, pursues an international career
with translations in German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Russian.

Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin was born in 1961 in Seoul, Korea. Following lessons in piano and music theory from a very early age,
her studies continued at the National University Seoul, including composition with Sukhi Kang. She appeared as
pianist at the Pan Music Festivals and in 1984 her composition Gestalten (Figures) was selected for the ISCM World
Music Days in Canada, and in 1986 for the UNESCO 'Rostrum for Composers.' In 1985 she moved to Europe when
she received the DAAD stipend for study in Germany, and took composition lessons with György Ligeti in Hamburg
until 1988. Since then, Unsuk Chin has lived and worked in Berlin. In 2004 Unsuk Chin won the prestigious
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for her Violin Concerto.

Unsuk Chin's compositions have been performed at numerous festivals and concert series in Europe, the Far East
and the USA. Her most widely performed work is Akrostichon–Wortspiel for solo soprano and ensemble,
programmed in 15 countries to date by such leading ensembles as Ensemble Modern conducted by George
Benjamin, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Simon Rattle, the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam,
Asko Ensemble, Ictus Ensemble, and the new music groups of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Philharmonia
Orchestra. Other works include Fantaisie mécanique and Xi, both commissioned by the Ensemble
Intercontemporain, ParaMetaString commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, a Piano Concerto written for Rolf Hind, and
Miroirs des temps, commissioned by the BBC for The Hilliard Ensemble and the London Philharmonic. Kalá for
soloists, chorus and orchestra was co-commissioned by the Danish Radio Symphony, the Gothenburg Symphony
and the Oslo Philharmonic orchestras and premiered under the baton of Peter Eötvös in March 2001.

Chin was Composer in Residence with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2001/02 culminating in the
commission of a Violin Concerto, premiered in January 2002 with Viviane Hagner as soloist and Kent Nagano as
conductor. The concerto has since been performed in ten countries, in Europe, Asia and North America. Other recent
works include a Double Concerto (2002) for piano, percussion and ensemble, commissioned by the Ensemble
Intercontemporain and Radio France, and snagS & Snarls (2003-04) for soprano and orchestra commissioned by
Los Angeles Opera. Cantatrix Sopranica (2004-05) for two sopranos, countertenor and ensemble was co-
commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, St Pölten Festival (Austria),
Ensemble Intercontemporain and musikFabrik. Chin was appointed Composer in Residence with the Seoul
Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006. She was awarded the 2005 Arnold Schönberg-Preis and the 2007 Heidelberger
Künstlerinnenpreis.

In 2007, Chin was featured composed at the festivals in Manchester, Umea, Torino/Milan and Strasbourg. Her opera
Alice in Wonderland received its world premiere on 30 June 2007 at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, in a
production directed by Achim Freyer and conducted by Kent Nagano. Future projects comprise a Cello Concerto
commissioned by the BBC for soloist Alban Gerhardt, a Concerto for Sheng and Orchestra commissioned by the
Suntory Hall Tokyo and new works for Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Chin also belongs to the
composers taking part in the music project "into" by Ensemble Modern and the Siemens Arts Program.

Chin's music can be heard on a Deutsche Grammophon disc containing Akrostichon-Wortspiel, Fantaisie mécanique,
Xi and Double Concerto performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain. The Violin Concerto and her most recent
orchestral composition Rocana will be released in early 2009 in a new recording with Viviane Hagner and the
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal conducted by Kent Nagano.

Bruno Mantovani
Bruno Mantovani was born on 8 October 1974. Following studies at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM), where he was
awarded five first prizes in the categories analysis, aesthetics, orchestration and musicology, he trained in computer
science at the Paris Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination (IRCAM) before launching his
international career. He has worked with such famous soloists as Emmanuel Pahud and Jean-Guihen Queyras, the
composers Pierre Boulez, Laurence Equilbey, Péter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki, Jonathan Nott and Pascal Rophé, the
ensembles TM+, Ensemble intercontemporain and Quatuor Danel as well as with such orchestras as the Bamberg
Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony
Orchestra of London, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris and NHK Symphony Orchestra of
Tokyo.

He has composed some 50 works in a number of different genres, ranging from solo pieces to opera. They have
been performed in the following concert halls, among others: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Boston’s Jordan
Hall, the Kölner Philharmonie, the KKL in Lucerne, the auditorium of Radio Madrid, La Scala in Milan, Teatro San
Carlo in Naples, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York as well as the Cité de la musique, Salle Gaveau and
Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Mantovani has received several awards at international competitions:
Stuttgart in 1999, Tribune internationale des compositeurs de l’UNESCO in 2001, Sacem’s Prix Hervé Dugardin and
Prix Georges Enesco in 2000 and 2005, respectively, the Prix André Caplet de l’Institut de France in 2005, SACD’s
Prix Nouveau Talent Musique in 2007 and the Stiftung Forberg-Schneider’s Belmont Prize in 2007. He has been
composer in residence at the October in Normandy Festival in 2001, in Bologna as part of the Association Française
d’Action Artistique’s Extra-Mural Villa Medici Festival in 2002, at the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) in 2004-
05, at the Festival de Besançon for three years between 2006 and 2008 and with the Orchestre national de Lille from
2008 to 2010. In 2006 the Festival Musica in Strasbourg dedicated a portrait to him in connection with his work
L’Autre Côté (“The Other Side”), an opera on which collaborated with the librettist François Regnault and which was
staged by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota. The work was composed for seven singers, choir, solo percussion and large
orchestra. Bruno Mantovani’s works are published by Editions Henry Lemoine in Paris.

Yeree Suh
Yeree Suh has quietly established herself as versatile soprano in repertoire spanning from Monteverdi to Italian
Belcanto and contemporary music. Since completing her Bachelor of Music at the Seoul National University with
Prof. Dr. Hyunjoo Yun, studied in opera at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Prof. Harald Stamm (with Summa
cum laude), Meisterexamen with Prof. Regina Werner at the Music College in Leipzig and in early music at the
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Prof. Gerd Türk.

Yeree Suh has sung Matthias Pintscher’s ‘with lilies white’ under the baton of Kent Nagano with Deutsche
Symphonie Orchester (Europe Premiere) and made her début with René Jacobs as Ninfa in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo for
the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in 2003 and at the Deutsche Staatsoper-Berlin in 2004. She has reprised the
role of Ninfa again for the Deutsche Staatsoper-Berlin in 2007 and the role of La musica in L’Orfeo in Basel theater,
the role of Dafne in Apollo e Dafne for Händelfestspiele Halle under Andrea Marcon with Venice Baroque Orchestra.

She has also performed Draghi’s La lira d’Orfeo (Lisida) and Campra’s Orfeo Nell’Inferni (L’Ombre) with Enrico
Onofri, for the Brühler Schlosskonzerten in Haydn’s L’isola disabiata (Silvia) and Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e
disinganno (Belezza)under the baton of Andreas Spering, WDR-TV recording with Pergolesi’s Stabat mater with the
Köln Chamber Orchestra, Schütz’s Seven last words of Christ with Ton Koopman, Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate with
the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in South America, Handel’s Messiah with Bach Collegium Japan under Masaaki
Suzuki, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with Munchner Philharmonicker, Mendelssohn’s Sommernachtstraum under
Philippe Herreweghe, Unsuk Chin’s Snags and Snarls with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov.
She has sung already lots of contemporary works also with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, with Nieuw Ensemble in
Amsterdam and in the Venice Biennale, with OrchestrUtopica in Lisbon and in 2007 she has performed Luis Tinoco’s
Search songs (World Premiere) with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Future engagements include her début for the role of Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo in Praha National Opera Theater,
the role of Gretel in Haensel and Gretel in Prinzregententheater Munich, the role of Ariadne in Wolfgang Rihm’s
Ariandne in Theater Basel, CD-Recording Bach’s Easter Oratorio with La Petite Bande under Sigiswald Kuijken.

Eric Maria Couturier
Born in 1972, Éric-Maria Couturier studied cello and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique et de danse de Paris and graduated with the jury’s unanimous highest honors. He has distinguished himself
as prizewinner at several international competitions (Rostropovitch, Trapani, Trieste, and Florence) and has been
awarded scholarships by the Natexis and Pendleton Foundations. He was a member of the Orchestre de Paris and
solo cellist at the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, before joining the Ensemble intercontemporain in 2002.
He is performing with the dancer Richard Siegal from Forsyth’ company, they played in New York in January 2008 for
the Danspace Project. In 2009 Eric-Maria Couturier will perform with Maurizio Pollini in Paris’ salle Pleyel and in
Milan at the Scala.

Dimitri Vassilakis
Dimitri Vassilakis began studying music in Athens, where he was born in 1967. He continued his training at the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he graduated with the jury’s unanimous highest
honors in piano (under the tutelage of Gérard Frémy), in chamber music and accompaniment. He also received
guidance from Monique Deschaussées and György Sebök. He has been a soloist with the Ensemble
intercontemporain since 1992. Dimitri Vassilakis premiered Incises, the most recent piano piece by Pierre Boulez,
with whom he has worked, and took part in the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Boulez's Répons and sur
Incises. He has also worked with composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen and
György Kurtàg. His recording Le Scorpion, with the Percussions de Strasbourg, of a score by Martin Matalon won the
Académie Charles-Cros Grand Prix in the category “Best Contemporary Music Recording 2004”. He has taken part in
many Festivals including Salzburg, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Warsaw Autumn Festival,
Ottowa Chamber Music and the London Proms. He has performed in venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic (under
the direction of Sir Simon Rattle), the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the
Concertgebow in Amsterdam, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. His repertoire spans the gamut from Bach to
emerging contemporary composers and includes the complete piano works by Pierre Boulez and Iannis Xenakis. He
recently recorded the Goldberg Variations by Bach for the Quantum label as well as a collection of études by Fabiàn
Panisello and György Ligeti for the Neos label.

Hae-Sun Kang
Hae-Sun Kang began playing the violin at the age of three in her home country of South Korea. At the age of 15 she
moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where she herself now
teaches. She received further inspiration from Yfrah Neaman, Franco Gulli, Wolfgang Schneiderhahn, Herman
Krebbers, Josef Gingold and Yehudi Menuhin. She has won prizes at several international violin competitions,
including Rodolfo Lipizer (Italy), the ARD Music Competition Munich, Carl Flesch (London) and Yehudi Menuhin
(Paris). In 1993 she became concertmaster of the Orchestre de Paris, where her playing caught the attention of
Pierre Boulez. In the following year, she became solo violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain.

Hae-Sun Kang has premiered many important works for her instrument, including violin concertos by Pascal
Dusapin, Ivan Fedele and Michael Jarrell (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra). She is regularly invited to perform the violin concerto of fellow
Korean Unsuk Chin. She has played the violin concertos of Matthias Pintscher and Beat Furrer with the Orchestre
National de Belgique and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. In 1997, she premiered Pierre Boulez'
Anthèmes 2 for solo violin and electronics in Donaueschingen. Since then she has performed this work, which she
also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, in concert halls and at festivals all over the world, including Salzburg,
Helsinki, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique Paris and New York's Carnegie Hall.

In her solo recitals Hae-Sun Kang frequently presents new pieces written especially for her, most recently Beat
Furrer's new work for solo violin (Ultraschall Festival Berlin, 2007), Unsuk Chin's Double blind? (Théâtre des Bouffes
du Nord Paris, 2007) and - in two solo concerts in the series Festspiel+ at the Munich Opera Festival 2008 - Georges
Aperghis' solo work The Only Line.

In the current season, Hae-Sun Kang will again take the stage in orchestral concerts as well as solo recitals. Under
the direction of Susanna Mälkki, she will appear at New York's Lincoln Center performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto.
She continues her close collaboration with composers with the premiere of a work by Marco Stroppa for violin and
electronics at the Festival Printemps des Arts in Monaco in April 2009. Moreover, she will premier a new piece by
Bruno Mantovani for violin and piano at the festival Messiaen 2009 and Philippe Manoury is writing a violin concerto
for her commissioned by the SWR Stuttgart.


                             LINCOLN CENTER GREAT PERFORMERS presents

Friday, May 8, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, West 65th Street and Broadway
Ensemble intercontemporain
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Yeree Suh, soprano
Eric-Maria Couturier, cello
Dimitri Vassilakis, piano
Ligeti (arr. Howarth):            Mysteries of the Macabre, for soprano and ensemble
Michael Jarrell:                  Assonance V
Ligeti:                           Chamber Concerto
Unsuk Chin:                       Akrostischon-Wortspiel
Ligeti:                           Piano Concerto
A pre-concert discussion with Susanna Mälkki and WNYC’s John Schaefer will take place at 6:45 p.m. at
the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets: $30, 40, 50

Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, West 65th Street and Broadway
Ensemble intercontemporain
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Hae-Sun Kang, violin
Ligeti:                           Melodien
Ligeti:                           Violin Concerto
Bruno Mantovani:                  Le sette chiese
Tickets: $30, 40, 50

Tickets are available by calling CenterCharge, 212-721-6500, online at www. LincolnCenter.org, or at the
Alice Tully Hall Box Office, West 65th Street and Broadway.
Ensemble intercontemporain is made possible in part by The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of
FACE with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance, SACEM, and the Florence Gould
Foundation.
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