Cleveland Orchestra Miami 2014-15 five-program season announced at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Embargoed for release March 16, 2014

The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade
County

Cleveland Orchestra Miami 2014-15 five-
program season announced at the Adrienne
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of
Miami-Dade County
Music Director Franz Welser-Möst to conduct three programs, including a
weekend of Fate & Freedom focusing on music by Beethoven and
Shostakovich, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 6

Cleveland Orchestra Miami Principal Guest Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero
to open the season in November 2014 with music by Tchaikovsky, Rodrigo,
Respighi, and Rimsky-Korsakov

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, prepared by Robert Porco, and the
Miami Children’s Chorus, prepared by Timothy Sharp, with soprano Nadine
Sierra, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and baritone Stephen Powell,
to perform in Orff’s Carmina Burana with Giancarlo Guerrero

MIAMI – The Cleveland Orchestra announced today its 2014-15 programs for the ninth season of
Cleveland Orchestra Miami. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and Cleveland Orchestra Miami Principal
Guest Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero each lead the Orchestra in two concert weekends, November 2014
through March 2015. The Cleveland Orchestra is co-presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the
Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and the Miami Music Association (MMA).

Franz Welser-Möst will conduct two consecutive programs in one weekend, titled Fate & Freedom, in
February 2015 featuring symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich. The first program is Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 6. The second program pairs Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 5 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Mr. Welser-Möst commented, “The dream of
freedom inspired the founding of our society. Political and social freedom is presented so emotionally and
clearly in Beethoven’s music. By listening to the music of Beethoven and Shostakovich in juxtaposition,
we experience their ideas of freedom from different eras, yet from today’s perspective.”

Mr. Welser-Möst conducts two performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 (“Tragic”) in March 2015.
When Mahler played through the piece on the piano for his wife, Alma, after it was completed in 1904, she
said, “Of all his works this was the most personal…. We were both in tears … so deeply did we feel this
music and the sinister premonitions it disclosed.”

Giancarlo Guerrero begins the season leading two concerts in November 2014 with guest artist Miloš
Karadagić in Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra. The program also includes
Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio
Espagnol.

The four-week season concludes with three performances of Orff’s crowd-pleasing Carmina Burana and
Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with Nadine Sierra, soprano, Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor,
Stephen Powell, baritone, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, prepared by Cleveland Orchestra Director of
Choruses Robert Porco, and the Miami Children’s Chorus, prepared by its director,Timothy Sharp. The
opening performance in this series, on March 26, is part of the Arsht Center’s 2014-2015 John S. and
James L. Knight Masterworks Season – Classical Music Series. The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus’s
1975 Sony recording of Carmina Burana with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas won a Grammy® Award
for Best Choral Performance.

COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Cleveland Orchestra Miami is presenting community education and engagement programs that reach
students of all ages, from pre-school to graduate school, during its ninth season in 2014-15. Enriching
Miami-Dade County through world-class orchestral performances, meaningful education concerts for
school children, and collaborations with the University of Miami Frost School of Music, Miami Music
Project, New World School of the Arts, and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Cleveland Orchestra
Miami continues its commitment to bringing the community the highest level of classical music available
today throughout the world.

Each year, Cleveland Orchestra Miami builds its education programs with one goal in mind: to inspire
music exploration. This is accomplished through “Musical Rainbow” concerts for pre-school and early
elementary school children, which take the audience on a musical journey of the exploration of musical
instruments; daytime Education Concerts for elementary students in the John S. and James L. Knight
Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County; and
opportunities for young musicians to advance their orchestral performance craft by working side-by-side
with Cleveland Orchestra musicians, conductors, and guest artists.

SUBSCRIPTION AND TICKET INFORMATION
Subscriptions are on sale now, and start at $135 for a four-concert package. Tickets for individual
performances are available in September. For more information about the variety of subscription
packages offered or for other questions, call 305-949-6722 or visit www.arshtcenter.org or
www.clevelandorchestramiami.com.

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI

Cleveland Orchestra Miami was launched in January 2007 during the inaugural season of the Adrienne
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Cleveland Orchestra Miami is supported by
the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and the Miami Music Association, whose purpose is to
be a positive force in Miami’s cultural life by making Miami a second home for The Cleveland Orchestra.
Each season, The Cleveland Orchestra serves more than 20,000 adults and young people in the Miami-
Dade community through a variety of concerts and community engagement activities created as part of
Cleveland Orchestra Miami. Educational and community programs are an integral part of Cleveland
Orchestra Miami. Since 2007, community partners have included the Adrienne Arsht Center for the
Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, University of Miami Frost School of Music, New World Symphony,
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Arts for Learning, Coconut Grove Cares/The Barnyard, Coral Gables
Congregational Church concert series, Florida International University, Greater Miami Jewish Federation,
“I Have a Dream” Foundation, Miami City Ballet, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs’
Golden Ticket and Cultureshock programs, Miami Music Project, MOCA North Miami, Overtown Youth
Center, Ransom Everglades School, Sunday Afternoons of Music, Temple Beth Am, Archdiocese of
Miami, and Wolfsonian-FIU.

Founded in 1918, The Cleveland Orchestra has become Ohio’s most visible ambassador and one of the
most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. Under the leadership of Music Director Franz
Welser-Möst, the Orchestra participates in unprecedented residencies in the United States and Europe,
including residencies in Miami and at the Musikverein concert hall in Vienna, as well as its newest
residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival. The Orchestra performs at home in two of the world’s
finest concert venues: Severance Hall and Blossom Music Center. Broadening its artistic scope, the
Orchestra incorporates opera, ballet, jazz, world music, film, and popular music into its innovative
programs.

FRANZ WELSER-MÖST
The 2014-15 season will mark Franz Welser-Möst’s thirteenth year as Music Director of The Cleveland
Orchestra, with a long-term commitment extending to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his
direction, the Orchestra is acclaimed for its continuing musical excellence, is presented in a series of
ongoing residencies in the United States and Europe, continues its championship of new composers
through commissions and premieres, and has re-established itself as an important operatic ensemble.
He is also General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera, serving concurrently with his position in
Cleveland. Mr. Welser-Möst maintains an ongoing relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic. He
returned once again to lead that orchestra in the famous New Year’s Concert in 2013, broadcast to
audiences in more than 80 countries.

GIANCARLO GUERRERO

A native of Nicaragua and raised in Costa Rica, Giancarlo Guerrero began his tenure as Music Director of
the Nashville Symphony in 2009, and has led that orchestra in several world premieres and earned four
Grammy® Awards for recordings of works by contemporary composers. He now conducts on five
continents and annually visits Caracas, Venezuela, to conduct the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra
and to work with the young musicians in the country’s much-lauded El Sistema music education program.
Mr. Guerrero served as music director of Oregon’s Eugene Symphony from 2003 to 2009. The 2014-15
season will mark his fourth year as Principal Guest Conductor of Cleveland Orchestra Miami.

THE ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is made possible by the public
support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, the Miami-Dade
County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Tourist
Development Council and the City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency, as well as the
State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and
Culture. The Adrienne Arsht Center also receives generous support from local, state and national
foundations.

Set in the heart of downtown Miami and designed by world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, the Adrienne
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is one of the world’s leading performing arts
organizations and venues. Spotlighting legends and serving as a launch pad for local artists to make their
mark on the international stage, the Center presents nearly 500 events each year across its eight flexible,
state-of-the-art performance spaces. The Center programs 12 signature series, including the largest jazz
series in South Florida, the biggest flamenco festival on the East Coast, and a robust program of new
theatrical works as well as free programming for the community and an arts education program that
serves nearly 30,000 children each year. Since opening in 2006, the Arsht Center, a 501C3 non-profit
organization, has emerged as a leader in presenting innovative programming that mirrors South Florida’s
diversity as well as a catalyst for billions of dollars in new development in the downtown area.

Visit www.arshtcenter.org for more information.

               CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI 2014-15 Season

                                         NOVEMBER 2014

Friday, NOVEMBER 14 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, NOVEMBER 15 at 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Miloš Karadagić, guitar

TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien
RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra
RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol

                                      FEBRUARY 2015
FATE & FREEDOM: Beethoven and Shostakovich

Friday, FEBRUARY 27 at 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6

Saturday, FEBRUARY 28 at 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10

                                        MARCH 2015
Friday, MARCH 6 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, MARCH 7 at 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

MAHLER Symphony No. 6 (“Tragic”)

Thursday, MARCH 26 at 8 p.m.*
Friday, MARCH 27 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, MARCH 28 at 8 p.m.
The Cleveland Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Nadine Sierra, soprano
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Stephen Powell, baritone
Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
  Robert Porco, director
Miami Children’s Chorus
  Timothy Sharp, director

BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms
ORFF Carmina Burana

* The March 26 performance is part of the Arsht Center’s 2014-2015 John S. and James L. Knight
Masterworks Season – Classical Music Series.

All concerts will take place at:

Knight Concert Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132
For more information, please email Miami@clevelandorchestra.com.

Photo by Sonia Garnitschnig

All programs and artists are subject to change.

Contacts:

Ana Papakhian
anap@clevelandorchestra.com 216-370-2595

Charlie Cinnamon
ccinnamon1@aol.com 305-807-5335