Camilla Tilling and Emanuel Ax | October 31, 2023 | House Program
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ABOUT CAMILLA TILLING<br />
Undoubtedly one of Sweden’s most remarkable<br />
voices, <strong>Camilla</strong> <strong>Tilling</strong>’s beguiling tone <strong>and</strong> unfailing<br />
musicality have secured her position as a firm<br />
favourite with conductors, audiences <strong>and</strong> critics<br />
alike across a career that has now spanned more<br />
than two decades. She has been a steady presence<br />
on the world’s leading opera, concert <strong>and</strong> recital<br />
stages while simultaneously building an impressive<br />
discography that includes orchestral works by<br />
Haydn with Bernard Haitink, H<strong>and</strong>el <strong>and</strong> Purcell with<br />
Emmanuelle Haïm, Grieg with Paavo Järvi, Brahms<br />
with Marek Janowski <strong>and</strong> Cherubini with Riccardo<br />
Muti in addition to recital collections of Gluck,<br />
Mozart, Strauss, Schumann, Grieg <strong>and</strong> many other<br />
composers.<br />
<strong>Tilling</strong> st<strong>and</strong>s out as one of the world’s most soughtafter<br />
concert performers, collaborating regularly<br />
with today’s foremost conductors including recent<br />
appearances under Gustavo Dudamel with both<br />
Het Concertgebouw Orkest <strong>and</strong> Los Angeles<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony<br />
No.4, under Esa-Pekka Salonen with London<br />
Philharmonia Orchestra in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder,<br />
with Gian<strong>and</strong>rea Noseda <strong>and</strong> Washington National<br />
Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony<br />
No.9, with Omer Meir Welber <strong>and</strong> Orchestre national<br />
de France in Dutilleux’s Correspondances <strong>and</strong><br />
under François-Xavier Roth with London Symphony<br />
Orchestra in Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder. <strong>Tilling</strong><br />
has toured extensively in Peter Sellar’s stagings of<br />
Bach’s St Matthew Passion <strong>and</strong> St John Passion with<br />
Berliner Philharmoniker <strong>and</strong> Sir Simon Rattle <strong>and</strong> she<br />
enjoyed an enduring collaboration with the late Sir<br />
Bernard Haitink under whose baton she sang her first<br />
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis at Teatro alla Scala <strong>and</strong><br />
she was the Strauss soprano of choice for his historic<br />
final concerts with Radio Filharmonish Orkest at<br />
Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 2019.<br />
Recent operatic highlights include the Governess<br />
(The Turn of the Screw) at Glyndebourne<br />
Festival, Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) at Salzburg<br />
Mozartwoche, Donna Clara (Der Zwerg) at<br />
Bayerische Staatsoper, Debussy’s La Damoiselle<br />
élue at Madrid’s Teatro Real <strong>and</strong> Blanche de la<br />
Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Suor Angelica<br />
<strong>and</strong> Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro) at Royal Swedish<br />
Opera. As Mélis<strong>and</strong>e (Pelléas et Mélis<strong>and</strong>e) <strong>Tilling</strong> is<br />
in regular dem<strong>and</strong> with recent productions at Teatro<br />
Real Madrid, Semperoper Dresden, Finnish National<br />
Opera <strong>and</strong> with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
under Esa-Pekka Salonen.<br />
Last season <strong>Camilla</strong> <strong>Tilling</strong> exp<strong>and</strong>ed her already<br />
extensive <strong>and</strong> varied repertoire with the premiere<br />
of Daniel Nelson’s Chaplin Songs with Swedish<br />
Radio Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Manze,<br />
Osvaldo Golijov’s Three Songs with David Danzmayr<br />
conducting the Oregon Symphony Orchestra <strong>and</strong><br />
Irgen-Jensens’ song cycle Japanischer Frühling with<br />
Christian Blex <strong>and</strong> Karajan-Akademie of Berliner<br />
Philharmoniker, a work she repeats in the current<br />
season under Tabita Berglund with Kristians<strong>and</strong><br />
Symfoniorkester. Elsewhere in the current season,<br />
<strong>Camilla</strong> <strong>Tilling</strong>’s varied commitments include<br />
performances of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass under the<br />
baton of Rafael Payare with Orchestre Symphonique<br />
de Montreal, Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with Perry So<br />
<strong>and</strong> Navarra Symphony Orchestra <strong>and</strong> Mendelssohn’s<br />
oratorio Paulus with Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de<br />
Espana under Masaaki Suzuki.<br />
ABOUT EMANUEL AX<br />
Born to Polish parents in what is today Lviv, Ukraine,<br />
<strong>Emanuel</strong> <strong>Ax</strong> moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with<br />
his family when he was a young boy. Mr. <strong>Ax</strong> made<br />
his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists<br />
Series, <strong>and</strong> in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein<br />
International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975<br />
he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists,<br />
followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.<br />
Mr. <strong>Ax</strong> has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording<br />
artist since 1987 <strong>and</strong> following the success of<br />
the Brahms Trios with Kavakos <strong>and</strong> Ma, the trio<br />
launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record<br />
all the Beethoven Trios <strong>and</strong> Symphonies arranged<br />
for trio of which the first two discs have recently<br />
been released. He has received GRAMMY® Awards<br />
for the second <strong>and</strong> third volumes of his cycle of<br />
Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of<br />
Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma<br />
of the Beethoven <strong>and</strong> Brahms sonatas for cello <strong>and</strong><br />
piano. In the 2004/05 season Mr. <strong>Ax</strong> contributed<br />
to an International EMMY® Award-Winning BBC<br />
documentary commemorating the Holocaust that<br />
aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of<br />
Auschwitz. In 2013, Mr. <strong>Ax</strong>’s recording Variations<br />
received the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording<br />
of the Year (19th Century Music/Piano).<br />
Mr. <strong>Ax</strong> is a Fellow of the American Academy of<br />
Arts <strong>and</strong> Sciences <strong>and</strong> holds honorary doctorates<br />
of music from Skidmore College, New Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Conservatory of Music, Yale University, <strong>and</strong> Columbia<br />
University. For more information about Mr. <strong>Ax</strong>’s<br />
career, please visit www.<strong>Emanuel</strong><strong>Ax</strong>.com.