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Daniel Kessner

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About the Performance: Following on the stunning success of his Water Passion after St. Matthew, Tan Dun (composer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has created another evening-length oratorio, this time based on stories inspired by the Dunhuang Cave paintings. Program: Tan DUN : Buddha Passion (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission*) Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel conductor Sen Guo soprano Huiling Zhu mezzo-soprano Kang Wang tenor Shenyang bass-baritone Tan Weiwei Female Indigenous Singer Batubagen Male Indigenous Singer Chen Yining Fantan Pipa Soloist and Dancer Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon Artistic Director Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Fernando Malvar-Ruiz Artistic Director SAT / FEB 9, 2019 - 8:00PM Upcoming concerts: www.laphil.com/calendar Upbeat Live schedule, details, and speaker bios: www.laphil.com/ubl

About the Performance: Following on the stunning success of his Water Passion after St. Matthew, Tan Dun (composer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has created another evening-length oratorio, this time based on stories inspired by the Dunhuang Cave paintings. Program: Tan DUN : Buddha Passion (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission*) Artists: Los Angeles Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel conductor Sen Guo soprano Huiling Zhu mezzo-soprano Kang Wang tenor Shenyang bass-baritone Tan Weiwei Female Indigenous Singer Batubagen Male Indigenous Singer Chen Yining Fantan Pipa Soloist and Dancer Los Angeles Master Chorale Grant Gershon Artistic Director Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Fernando Malvar-Ruiz Artistic Director SAT / FEB 9, 2019 - 8:00PM Upcoming concerts: <a href="http://www.laphil.com/calendar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.laphil.com/calendar </a> Upbeat Live schedule, details, and speaker bios: <a href="http://www.laphil.com/ubl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.laphil.com/ubl</a>

Buddha Passion with Daniel Kessner • SAT / FEB 9, 201819

Concert: Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: laphil.com/upbeatlive About the Speaker: Composer-flutist-conductor Daniel Kessner received his Ph.D. with Distinction at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1971, studying with Henri Lazarof. His more than 140 compositions have received over 800 performances worldwide, and 28 works are recorded commercially. Most of his scores are available from Theodore Front Musical Literature at tfront.com. Kessner’s most important awards include the Queen Marie-José International Composition Prize in Geneva (1972), a 2003 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to lecture and perform at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, Germany, a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to perform and lecture in Trondheim, Norway in 2007, and similar residency at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal in 2011. He is now Professor Emeritus at California State University, Northridge, retired after a career of 36 years teaching composition and music theory and directing various ensembles from 1970 through 2006. As a flutist, he has given flute-piano recitals with his wife, Dolly Eugenio Kessner, in France, Italy, Holland, Germany, El Salvador, England, Portugal, Norway, and the Czech Republic, and has performed in numerous chamber music concerts. He has appeared as a guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, the Black Sea Philharmonic of Romania, the Moorpark Symphony Orchestra, and more recently the Trondheim Sinfonietta, among others. He has been an Upbeat Live lecturer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1983. In the spring semester of 2006 he joined the faculty of the University of Hawaii on a one-semester appointment. In the fall of 2006 he accepted a similar position at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. He enjoys an active career as a composer, conductor and flutist.

Concert: Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms Upbeat Live provides historical and cultural context for many concerts, featuring engaging speakers, audio examples, and special guests. These events are free to ticket holders and are held in BP Hall, on the second floor, accessible after your ticket is scanned. For more information: <a href="https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flaphil.com%2Fupbeatlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">laphil.com/upbeatlive</a> About the Speaker: Composer-flutist-conductor Daniel Kessner received his Ph.D. with Distinction at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1971, studying with Henri Lazarof. His more than 140 compositions have received over 800 performances worldwide, and 28 works are recorded commercially. Most of his scores are available from Theodore Front Musical Literature at <a href="http://tfront.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tfront.com</a>. Kessner’s most important awards include the Queen Marie-José International Composition Prize in Geneva (1972), a 2003 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to lecture and perform at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, Germany, a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to perform and lecture in Trondheim, Norway in 2007, and similar residency at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal in 2011. He is now Professor Emeritus at California State University, Northridge, retired after a career of 36 years teaching composition and music theory and directing various ensembles from 1970 through 2006. As a flutist, he has given flute-piano recitals with his wife, Dolly Eugenio Kessner, in France, Italy, Holland, Germany, El Salvador, England, Portugal, Norway, and the Czech Republic, and has performed in numerous chamber music concerts. He has appeared as a guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, the Black Sea Philharmonic of Romania, the Moorpark Symphony Orchestra, and more recently the Trondheim Sinfonietta, among others. He has been an Upbeat Live lecturer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1983. In the spring semester of 2006 he joined the faculty of the University of Hawaii on a one-semester appointment. In the fall of 2006 he accepted a similar position at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. He enjoys an active career as a composer, conductor and flutist.

Upbeat Live - February 24, 2017: Daniel Kessner re: Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms