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Mozart's Birthday Celebration
Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 8:00pm
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 2:30pm
Andreas Delfs, conductor
Sponsored by: M&T Bank
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Program Information
Mozart - Symphony No.39
Mozart - Symphony No.40
Mozart - Symphony No.41 "Jupiter"
To commemorate the two-hundred and fifty third birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the BPO welcomes renowned maestro Andreas. The inspired concert offering will feature Mozart's last three symphonies, Nos. 39, 40 and 41, which were composed in Vienna in a near-miraculous interval of just six weeks in the summer of 1788. In these wonderful masterworks we are escorted through a journey of the human spirit – from optimism and joy, through darkness and tears, to hope and sheer delight.
Artist Profile
Andreas Delfs began the study of piano and music theory at age 5 and joined the roster of the Flensburg Stadttheater as conductor and composer at 17. He studied with Christoph von Dohnányi and Aldo Ceccato at the Hamburg Conservatory and served as a staff conductor at the Lüneburg Stadttheater. At 20 he became the Music Director of the Hamburg University Orchestra, the youngest person ever to hold this post, and Musical Assistant at the Hamburg State Opera. Guest conductor at the Bremen State Theatre in 1981, he graduated from Hamburg Conservatory that same year. Enrolling at The Juilliard School upon the recommendation of von Dohnányi, he studied with Jorge Mester and Sixten Ehrling, and won the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship on the way to receiving his master's degree in 1984.
Andreas Delfs has held chief artistic posts with several distinguished institutions both in North America and Europe. At an early age he was Music Director of the celebrated Orchestre Suisse des Jeunes, from 1986 to 1995. He was also Music Director of the Bern (Switzerland) Opera, resident conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony (during the tenure of Lorin Maazel as music director). In Europe, he served as General Music Director of Hannover, Germany from 1995 to 2000), conducting that city's symphony orchestra and opera company, where he led the European premiere of American composer John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles (commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera), in addition to premiering many works by Europe's most distinguished composers such as Hans Werner Henze and György Ligeti. Most recently, he was music director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2001 to 2004, and remains its artistic consultant through the end of the current season.
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