Sun, Dec. 15, 2024, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Grand Hall
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to the operetta “Candide”
Wynton Marsalis: Trumpet Concerto
Amy Beach: Symphony in E minor op. 32 “Gaelic”
Dirigentin: Marie Jacquot
Trompete: Selina Ott
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
1st Guest Conductor Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Designated Principal Conductor The Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen
Marie Jacquot has played her way to the forefront of exciting young conductors through numerous first-class debuts with top-class orchestras, her consistent musical work and her joy of discovery in the entire repertoire.
From the 2023/24 season, Marie Jacquot will be Principal Guest Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, with whom she has already appeared at the Bregenz Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Vienna Musikverein. In the 2024/25 season, she will also take on the role of Principal Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen.
Marie Jacquot is already a guest at the Copenhagen Opera in 2023/24 for a new production of "Eugene Onegin". Her debuts this season include the Frankfurt Opera (Die Zauberflöte) and a world premiere by Marc-André Dalbavie at the Dt. Staatsoper Berlin, as well as concerts with the Munich Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Successful debuts and re-invitations in recent seasons include the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the symphony orchestras of BR Munich, WDR Cologne, hr Frankfurt and mdr Leipzig, as well as the DSO Berlin, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Malmö SO and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.
She has also appeared at prominent opera houses in a wide range of repertoire, including the Semperoper Dresden (Eötvös' "Der goldene Drache", "Carmen"), the Staatsoper Stuttgart ("Medée", "Don Giovanni"), the Deutsche Oper Berlin ("La traviata"), the Komische Oper Berlin (Thomas' "Hamlet"), the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg (world première by Thierry Pécou), the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg (world première by Thierry Pécou), the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg (world première by Thierry Pécou) and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (world première by Thomas). Thierry Pécou), the Flemish Opera Antwerp/Ghent ("Le nozze di Figaro") and the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy ("L'amour des trois oranges").
Between 2016 and 2019, Marie Jacquot was First Kapellmeister and Deputy GMD in Würzburg. From 2019, she was First Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg for three years, where she conducted new productions of "La Clemenza di Tito", "Roméo et Juliette" and "The Nutcracker", as well as concerts by the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
After studying trombone in Paris, Marie Jacquot studied conducting in Vienna and Weimar, attended various masterclasses and was a scholarship holder of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council.
In 2016, she was Kirill Petrenko's assistant at the Bavarian State Opera for the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's "South Pole" and subsequently conducted two of her own productions at the Munich Opera Festival.
Her honours include the "Ernst Schuch Prize" in 2019 and a nomination as "Newcomer of the year" at the International Opera Awards.
Selina Ott was awarded the Opus Klassik Prize 2021 (Concert Recording of the Year) for her debut album "Trumpet Concertos" together with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Roberto Paternostro.
In 2018, Selina Ott became the first woman ever in the seventy-year history of the ARD International Music Competition to win first prize in the trumpet category at the age of just 20.
She was immediately invited to play with leading orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She has also performed with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, at the Grafenegg Summer Night Gala with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria under Yutaka Sado, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Collegium Musicum Basel.
As a soloist, she has performed in concert halls such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Musikverein Vienna, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Philharmonie Essen, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Wolkenturm Grafenegg, the Rudolfinum Prague, the Salle Philharmonique de Liège, Die Glocke Bremen and the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
In June 2022, she completed her Master of Arts degree in trumpet with honours, for which she was awarded the appreciation prize of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
In October 2020, her debut album "Trumpet Concertos" was released in collaboration with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Roberto Paternostro with works by Arutiunian, Peskin and Desenclos under the Orfeo label.
In June 2021, her second album with pianist En-Chia Lin was also released on the Orfeo label.
In October 2021, she performed the world premiere of Thomas Wally's trumpet concerto Utopia I: Strange Loops with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop at the opening concert of Wien Modern at the Wiener Konzerthaus.
In March 2022, another album was released in collaboration with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, pianist Maria Radutu and Dirk Kaftan with works by Shostakovich, Weinberg and Jolivet under the Orfeo label.
Selina Ott is a Schagerl Artist.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
What kind of woman is this? Former professional tennis player Marie Jacquot has seemed to be taking the stages by storm for several years now. The Frenchwoman has been principal guest conductor of the Vienna Symphony since the 2023/24 season, and in the 2024/25 season she will also take on the role of chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theater Copenhagen. And for the 2026/27 season she will be chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. This is where the hackneyed phrase comes true: we'll be hearing a lot more about her.
In this Philharmonic concert you will hear a lot of American things from her: number one is obvious - Leonard Bernstein, the elemental force on the desk, which was recently controversially re-experienced in the cinema, created a sparkling work with the operetta "Candide" that is so much fun does like few other pieces in music history. This is followed by the trumpet concerto by the jazzer Wynton Marsalis, who was legendary during his lifetime, in which Selina Ott takes on the solo part. And the finale belongs to an American woman who is said to have been the first woman in her home country to write a symphony.
If this isn't a concert of discoveries!
Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Grand Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
