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Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto
New York PhilharmonicGuest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero opens the Philharmonic residency with the world premiere of a new work by Nina Shekhar and the Bravo! Vail premiere of Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto written for Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi, in a program that includes Dvořák’s beloved New World Symphony.
The New York Philharmonic returns to Bravo! Vail for its annual summer residency, performing works both fresh and familiar with its signature brilliance and power.
All artists, programs, and pricing are subject to change.
Program Details
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Joseph Alessi, trombone
NINA SHEKHAR The Mother is Standing - Co-Commissioned by the Bravo! Vail Music Festival and the New York Philharmonic (Jaap Van Zweden, Music Director)
CHICK COREA Trombone Concerto
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World
Guest Artists
Giancarlo Guerrero
Joseph Alessi
Giancarlo Guerrero
conductor
Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) was born in Nicaragua. The eight-time Grammy Award winner is Music Director of the Nashville Symphony and the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. Co-creator of the Nashville Symphony’s biannual Composer Lab & Workshop for young and emerging composers, he is well-known as a champion of new music. His 2022/23 season includes returns to the Boston and Cincinnati Symphonies, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.
Joseph Alessi
trombone
Joseph Alessi (trombone)—a California native and New York Philharmonic Principal Trombone, The Gurnee F. and Marjorie L. Hart Chair, since 1985—has premiered many works for trombone including Christopher Rouse’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Trombone Concerto, Melinda Wagner’s Trombone Concerto, and Bramwell Tovey’s The Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret for Trombone and Orchestra, which he performed at Bravo! Vail in 2013 with Tovey conducting. This summer, he reprises Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto, which he premiered with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2021. Alessi is on faculty of The Juilliard School.
Did you know?
The New York Philharmonic returns to Bravo! Vail in 2023 for its 20th annual summer residency, performing works both fresh and familiar with its signature brilliance and power.
All artists, programs, and pricing are subject to change.
