AN EVENING WITH JOHN WILLIAMS
His 45-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood ’ s most acclaimed and successful films , including Schindler ’ s List , E . T . the Extra-Terrestrial , Jaws , Jurassic Park , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , the Indiana Jones films , Munich , Saving Private Ryan , The Adventures of Tintin , War Horse and Lincoln . His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking , early anthology series Alcoa Theatre , Kraft Television Theatre , Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90 , as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“ The Mission ”), NBC ’ s Meet the Press and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances . He also composed themes for the 1984 , 1988 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games . He has received five Academy Awards and 50 nominations , making him the Academy ’ s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars . He has received seven British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ), 23 Grammys , four Golden Globes , five Emmys and numerous gold and platinum records . In 2003 , he received the Olympic Order ( the IOC ’ s highest honor ) for his contributions to the Olympic movement . He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in December of 2004 . In 2009 , Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences , and he received the National Medal of Arts , the highest award given to artists by the U . S . Government . In 2016 , he received the 44 th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute — the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer .
In January 1980 , Williams was named 19 th music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra , succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler . He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor which he assumed following his retirement in December 1993 , after 14 highly successful seasons . He also holds the title of artistin-residence at Tanglewood . Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage , among them two symphonies and concertos commissioned by several of the
MANFRED ESSER-HAENSSLER CLASSIC KOPIE world ’ s leading orchestras , including a cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra , a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic , a trumpet concerto for the Cleveland Orchestra and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . In 2009 , Williams composed and arranged “ Air and Simple Gifts ” especially for the first inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama , and in September 2009 , the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled “ On Willows and Birches .”
John Williams last appeared with the BSO in June 2013 , conducting a program of his film music .
Johannes Moser
Hailed by Gramophone as “ one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists ,” German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world ’ s
leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic , New York Philharmonic , Los Angeles Philharmonic , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , BBC Philharmonic at The Proms , London Symphony Orchestra , Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest , Tokyo NHK Symphony and the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras with conductors including Pierre Boulez , Semyon Bychkov , Gustavo Dudamel , Valery Gergiev , Mariss Jansons , Paavo Jarvi , Vladimir Jurowski , Lorin Mazel , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti , Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst .
Moser recently won his third Echo Klassik Award for Instrumentalist of the Year , 2017 for his Russian recital disc on the Pentatone label , for which he exclusively records . His latest recordings include concertos by Dvořák , Lalo , Elgar and Tchaikovsky , which have gained him the prestigious Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Diapason d ’ Or . In the 2017 – 2018 season , Moser returns to the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra , Orchestre de la Suisse Romande , Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich , Los Angeles Philharmonic , Danish National Symphony Orchestra , Netherlands Radio , Orchestre National de Lille , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , New World Symphony and the Seattle and San Diego symphonies .
With his newly formed piano trio with Yevgeny Sudbin and Vadim Gluzman , he tours extensively throughout Europe and North America . A dedicated chamber musician , Moser has performed with Joshua Bell , Emanuel Ax , Leonidas Kavakos , Menahem Pressler , James Ehnes , Midori and Jonathan Biss . He is also a regular at festivals including the Verbier , Schleswig-Holstein , Gstaad and Kissinger festivals ; the Mehta Chamber Music Festival ; and the Colorado , Seattle and Brevard music festivals .
Moser has recently been involved in commissioning works by Julia Wolfe , Ellen Reid , Thomas Agerfeld Olesen , Johannes Kalitzke , Jelena Firsowa and Andrew Norman . He takes part in the European Premiere of Gubaidulina ’ s Triple Concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra . In 2011 he premiered Magnetar for electric cello by Enrico Chapela with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel , and in the following season he continued this relationship with the orchestra , performing Michel van der Aa ’ s cello concerto Up-close .
Born into a musical family in 1979 , Moser began studying the cello at eight and became a student of Professor David Geringas in 1997 . He was the top prize-winner at the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition , in addition to being awarded the Special Prize for his interpretation of the Rococo Variations . In 2014 he was awarded with the prestigious Brahms prize .
A voracious reader of everything from Kafka to Collins , and an avid outdoorsman , Moser is a keen hiker and mountain biker in his limited spare time .
Johannes Moser last appeared with the BSO in February 2017 , performing Dvořák ' s Cello Concerto , Marin Alsop , conductor .
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