Jazz Set

             Thomas Young, vocalist

Milhaud  Creation du Monde

Shostakovich  Jazz Suite No. 1

Gershwin  Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version)
            Jonathan Yates, pianist

Shake off the wintertime blues with a program of hot and exciting jazz! Thomas Young, one of the original Three Mo’ Tenors, will sing several favorite jazz standards, followed by the NSO playing French and Russian re-interpretations of
jazz. To conclude, our new Music Director plays and conducts the original jazz band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Mozart  Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major, K. 16

Mozart  Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626

The Choirs of St. Paul’s On The Green; Southern Connecticut Camerata

Mozart’s Requiem Mass is one of the most profound utterances in the history of classical music. Popularized by the movie Amadeus and unfinished at the time of the composer’s death, it contains some of Mozart’s most affecting music. The NSO will be joined by the remarkable choirs of St. Paul’s on the Green and the Southern Connecticut Camerata in what promises to be a momentous evening. To show the great musical distances Mozart traveled in his brief 35 years, the Requiem will be paired with his charming first symphony, which he wrote at the age of 8.

Jonathan Yates

 He has earned high praise as a conductor, solo pianist and collaborative artist for his musicianship, intellect and the remarkable variety of his musical endeavors. He made his professional orchestral conducting debut at 23, leading  the National Symphony Orchestra in a Millennium Stages Concert. The following year he made his Carnegie Hall debut as a pianist in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop. He recently made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut as the  Music Director of the Norwalk Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Jonathan serves as the founding Music Director of Camerata Notturna, one of New York City’s most exciting young chamber orchestras. In that capacity, he has collaborated with some of the country’s most respected musicians, including Kim Kashkashian, David Finckel, Colin Carr, Gilbert Kalish and William Purvis, and given local and regional premieres of preeminent composers including Augusta Read Thomas, Huang Ruo, Zhou Long, Chester Biscardi, and Chen Yi. Indeed, as an ardent devotee of the music of our time, he has conducted new music concerts with the  Argento Chamber Ensemble and the Knights, and was the recipient of an ASCAP award for adventurous programming. Last season he, the clarinetist Charles Neidich, and Camerata Notturna presented a 102^nd birthday tribute to Elliot Carter that featured the New York premiere of Mr. Carter’s Sound Fields, with the composer in attendance. Under the guidance of Yo-Yo Ma, he was also a participant in the Silk Road Ensemble’s Tanglewood Workshops. Highlights of Jonathan’s ample operatic experience have included leading the world premiere of Michael Webster’s opera Hell at Performance Space 122, as well as conducting Orfeo ed Euridice and Paride ed Elena of Gluck at the California Music Festival.

He has been heard as a chamber musician at the 92nd Street Y, Miller Theater, Bargemusic and Merkin Hall, as well as at the Caramoor Festival and on the Ravinia Festival Rising Stars Series. He has performed as a concerto soloist with orchestras in North America, Europe and Asia, and has given solo recitals for the La Jolla Music Society, at the National Museum of American History (on fortepiano), and on the University of Chicago Concert Series. He served as Apprentice Conductor of the Chicago Youth Symphony, and for two years as Music Director of the Harvard University Bach Society Orchestra. As a past and founding member of the Amelia Piano Trio, he was presented by Isaac Stern in Weill Recital Hall and at Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan, and was a finalist for the Walter F. Naumburg Chamber Music Prize.

Jonathan received his Graduate Diploma in conducting from the Juilliard School, where he studied with James DePreist and Otto-Werner Mueller, and was the holder of the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship. He received his Master of  music from State University of New York, where he worked with Gilbert Kalish, and his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where he studied with Robert Levin. He currently serves on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, where he conducts the orchestra and teaches Italian, French and German Vocal Diction.