Camilla Tilling and Emanuel Ax | October 31, 2023 | House Program

ABOUT CAMILLA TILLING
Undoubtedly one of Sweden’s most remarkable
voices, Camilla Tilling’s beguiling tone and unfailing
musicality have secured her position as a firm
favourite with conductors, audiences and critics
alike across a career that has now spanned more
than two decades. She has been a steady presence
on the world’s leading opera, concert and recital
stages while simultaneously building an impressive
discography that includes orchestral works by
Haydn with Bernard Haitink, Handel and Purcell with
Emmanuelle Haïm, Grieg with Paavo Järvi, Brahms
with Marek Janowski and Cherubini with Riccardo
Muti in addition to recital collections of Gluck,
Mozart, Strauss, Schumann, Grieg and many other
composers.
Tilling stands out as one of the world’s most soughtafter
concert performers, collaborating regularly
with today’s foremost conductors including recent
appearances under Gustavo Dudamel with both
Het Concertgebouw Orkest and Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony
No.4, under Esa-Pekka Salonen with London
Philharmonia Orchestra in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder,
with Gianandrea Noseda and Washington National
Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony
No.9, with Omer Meir Welber and Orchestre national
de France in Dutilleux’s Correspondances and
under François-Xavier Roth with London Symphony
Orchestra in Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder. Tilling
has toured extensively in Peter Sellar’s stagings of
Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion with
Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle and she
enjoyed an enduring collaboration with the late Sir
Bernard Haitink under whose baton she sang her first
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis at Teatro alla Scala and
she was the Strauss soprano of choice for his historic
final concerts with Radio Filharmonish Orkest at
Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 2019.
Recent operatic highlights include the Governess
(The Turn of the Screw) at Glyndebourne
Festival, Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) at Salzburg
Mozartwoche, Donna Clara (Der Zwerg) at
Bayerische Staatsoper, Debussy’s La Damoiselle
élue at Madrid’s Teatro Real and Blanche de la
Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Suor Angelica
and Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) at Royal Swedish
Opera. As Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) Tilling is
in regular demand with recent productions at Teatro
Real Madrid, Semperoper Dresden, Finnish National
Opera and with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
under Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Last season Camilla Tilling expanded her already
extensive and varied repertoire with the premiere
of Daniel Nelson’s Chaplin Songs with Swedish
Radio Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Manze,
Osvaldo Golijov’s Three Songs with David Danzmayr
conducting the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and
Irgen-Jensens’ song cycle Japanischer Frühling with
Christian Blex and Karajan-Akademie of Berliner
Philharmoniker, a work she repeats in the current
season under Tabita Berglund with Kristiansand
Symfoniorkester. Elsewhere in the current season,
Camilla Tilling’s varied commitments include
performances of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass under the
baton of Rafael Payare with Orchestre Symphonique
de Montreal, Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with Perry So
and Navarra Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn’s
oratorio Paulus with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de
Espana under Masaaki Suzuki.
ABOUT EMANUEL AX
Born to Polish parents in what is today Lviv, Ukraine,
Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with
his family when he was a young boy. Mr. Ax made
his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists
Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein
International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975
he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists,
followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.
Mr. Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording
artist since 1987 and following the success of
the Brahms Trios with Kavakos and Ma, the trio
launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record
all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies arranged
for trio of which the first two discs have recently
been released. He has received GRAMMY® Awards
for the second and third volumes of his cycle of
Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of
Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma
of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and
piano. In the 2004/05 season Mr. Ax contributed
to an International EMMY® Award-Winning BBC
documentary commemorating the Holocaust that
aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz. In 2013, Mr. Ax’s recording Variations
received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording
of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano).
Mr. Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates
of music from Skidmore College, New England
Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia
University. For more information about Mr. Ax’s
career, please visit www.EmanuelAx.com.