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Friday, October 29, 2021 7:30 PM (CT)
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
214.768.2787
David Fulmer, Guest Conductor
Catharine Lysinger, Soloist
Pre-concert lecture by the conductor: 6:45 p.m. Friday and 1:45 p.m. Sunday
The concert opens with Instances (2012) by Pulitzer-winning modernist American composer Elliott Carter, written a few months before he died at age 103. Carter described the eight-minute work as “a series of short interrelated episodes of varying character.” Next on the program is Mozart’s Concerto for Piano in D minor, K. 466, a dark and stormy work that remains one of the composer’s most popular, with piano faculty member Catharine Lysinger as soloist. Following intermission, the orchestra performs a short, relaxing piece, Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane, based on stately court dances of the 16th century. The concert concludes with Symphony No.7 by Jean Sibelius, which writer James Keller called “music that is in turn lofty, serene, dignified and passionate, music of unearthly beauty.” The concert will be led by David Fulmer, music director and conductor of the Hunter Symphony at Hunter College in New York City. Fulmer is the winner of numerous national and international awards, including a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2016 Koussevitzky Award, and maintains an international career as a composer, performer and conductor. For more information, call 214.768.2787. The Sunday performance will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit https://bit.ly/SMUMeadowsLive.
Pre-concert lecture by the conductor: 6:45 p.m. Friday and 1:45 p.m. Sunday. The pre-concert lectures will take place in the Choral Hall, Room 1180 in the Owen Arts Center. Each lecture will include short performances of the chamber works Derive I by Pierre Boulez and Gra-V by Vasiliki Krimitza.
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Winner of a 2019 Academy Award (now Arts and Letters Award) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, David Fulmer has garnered numerous international accolades for his bold compositional aesthetic combined with his thrilling performances. A Guggenheim Fellow, and a leader in his generation of composer-performers, he earned international attention with the success of his Violin Concerto at Lincoln Center in 2010, resulting in immediate engagement to perform the work with major orchestras and at festivals in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia. Fulmer made his European debut performing and recording his concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Matthias Pintscher in 2011. That same year, Fulmer made his debut at Tanglewood appearing with the work. A surge of recent and upcoming commissions includes new works for the New York Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, BMI Foundation, Concert Artists Guild, Washington Performing Arts, Kennedy Center, Fromm Music Foundation, Koussevitzky Foundation and Tanglewood.
As conductor, Fulmer recently led the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Elision Ensemble, and Sydney Modern Music Ensemble, along with appearances at the New York Philharmonic Biennial, Tanglewood Music Festival and Lucerne Festival. Recent and upcoming highlights include important debuts leading the Ensemble Intercontemporain, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, South Netherlands Philharmonic, Meadows Symphony Orchestra, and St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and assisting concerts and projects with the New York Philharmonic. Fulmer made a triumphant return to the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, which included a collaboration with IRCAM. This season he will return as director, curator and conductor of the Mannes American Composers Ensemble in programs of 20th and 21st century music and will continue his close collaboration with the International Contemporary Ensemble. Appointed music director and conductor of the Hunter Symphony Orchestra, Fulmer will lead the orchestra in his fifth season, featuring the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Debussy, Schubert, Fauré, Florence Price and John Zorn. He made his debut appearance in 2014 on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series at Walt Disney Concert Hall. During the summer seasons, Fulmer has led concerts at the Chamber Music Northwest Festival and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival.
Fulmer was the recipient of both the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Carlos Surinach Commissioning Award from BMI. He is the first American recipient of the Grand Prize of the International Edvard Grieg Competition for Composers. He has also received the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the BMI Composer Award, the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a special citation from the Minister of Education of Brazil, the Hannah Komanoff Scholarship in Composition from The Juilliard School, and the highly coveted George Whitefield Chadwick Gold Medal from the New England Conservatory. Fulmer appears regularly and records often with the premier new music ensembles in New York, including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Argento New Music Project, Speculum Musicae, the Group for Contemporary Music and the New York New Music Ensemble. His work has been recorded by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the New York Philharmonic. He has appeared regularly on the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts. Fulmer is director of orchestral studies at Hunter College and music director and conductor of the Hunter Symphony. He graduated from The Juilliard School.