LINCOLN CENTER

New York Philharmonic
Spanish Nights

Bramwell Tovey - Conductor and Host
Joyce Yang - Piano
Virginia Verrez - Mezzo-Soprano

Massenet - Ballet Music from Le Cid
Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Falla - The Three-Cornered Hat (Complete Ballet)

Perfumed palace gardens. Gypsy tunes. Dancing late into the night. The New York Philharmonic whisks you away to a night in Spain with Manuel de Falla’s lush Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Plus castanets, a village love triangle, and flamenco in Falla’s ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, and a tour of beguiling Spanish dances in Massenet’s Le Cid.  ¡Ramos!

Grammy and Juno Award–winning conductor/composer Bramwell Tovey was appointed music director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) in 2000. Under his leadership the VSO has toured to China, South Korea, the U.S., and across Canada. Mr. Tovey is also the artistic adviser of the VSO School of Music, a state-of-the-art facility and recital hall that opened in downtown Vancouver in 2011. His tenure has included complete symphonic cycles of works by Beethoven, Mahler, and Brahms, as well as the establishment of an annual festival dedicated to contemporary music. In 2018, the VSO’s centenary year, he will become the orchestra’s music director emeritus. 

Pianist Joyce Yang came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest contestant at age 19, she won the awards for best performance of chamber music and a new work. A Steinway artist, she received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2010. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, and the Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Sydney symphony orchestras.

French mezzo-soprano Virginie Verrez, is a winner of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a graduate of The Juilliard School. She joins the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in the 2015–16 season, where she will make her debut as the Musician in a new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.