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Haochen Zhang Performs Rachmaninoff

Mar 31 - Apr 02

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Limited Availability

Van Cliburn Competition winner Haochen Zhang performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, beloved from beginning to end, especially for its instantly recognizable second movement. Anna Rakitina, who replaces Tugan Sokhiev in her Philharmonic debut, also conducts Prokofiev’s most popular symphony, which the composer called “a hymn to free and happy Man,” and Lili Boulanger’s exquisite, Impressionistic miniature.

Haochen Zhang Performs Rachmaninoff
 
DATE / TIME

Thu

7:30 PM

31

Mar

2022

Fri

8:00 PM

1

Apr

2022

Sat

8:00 PM

2

Apr

2022

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Location

Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

Duration

2 Hours with Intermission

Program

L. Boulanger

D’un matin de printemps

Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 2

Listen

Prokofiev

Symphony No. 5

Artists

  • Anna Rakitina

    Conductor

    Anna Rakitina serves as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under its music director, Andris Nelsons; only the second woman to hold this position, she has become a much-loved member of the orchestra’s family. Previously, she served as a 2019–20 Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducting youth concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall as well as education and community programs such as Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA).

    Rakitina made her highly acclaimed Tanglewood debut in the summer of 2021, and this season appears again on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s subscription series. Additional 2021–22 season highlights include debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national de Lille, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and, in these concerts, the New York Philharmonic. In the 2022–23 season she will appear with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler-Orchester, and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, among others.

    She has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lucerne Festival Strings, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Jenaer Philharmonie, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony, Meiningen Court Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, The Critical Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Chamber Orchestra, and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.

    Born in Moscow to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, Anna Rakitina began her musical education as a violinist. She later studied conducting at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Stanislav Diachenko, who served as assistant to Gennady Rozhdestvensky. She studied conducting in Hamburg, Germany, with Ulrich Windfuhr, beginning in 2016 and graduated with a diploma in 2018. During her studies she conducted stage performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Iolanta, Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, and she wrote her PhD thesis on Rachmaninoff.

    As a participant in the Lucerne Festival Academy Conducting Fellowship, Rakitina took part in masterclasses with Alan Gilbert in 2016 and Bernard Haitink in 2017. She has also participated in masterclasses led by Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Jurowski, and Johannes Schlaefli.

    Learn more about Anna Rakitina
  • Haochen Zhang

    Piano

    Since his gold medal win at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, in 2009, Haochen Zhang has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including The Philadelphia, San Francisco Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, London Symphony, Mariinsky, China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Singapore Symphony orchestra, He has also appeared at festivals including the BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival, Easter Festival in Moscow, and the Aspen Music Festival. He has worked distinguished conductors, including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Long Yu, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Gianandrea Noseda, and Lorin Maazel.


    Learn more about Haochen Zhang

Special Thanks

Haochen Zhang’s appearance is made possible through the Lawrence and Ronnie Ackman Family Fund for Distinguished Pianists.

The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Virtuoso Piano Performance Series has provided major support for Haochen Zhang’s appearances during the New York Philharmonic’s 2021–22 season.

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