The Six-Concert Series Presented Throughout the 2019/20 Season:

Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at 8PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2019, at 8PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 8 PM
Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at 8 PM
Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at 8 PM
Saturday, June 6, 2020, at 8PM

Los Angeles, CA (October 28, 2019) - The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series at Walt Disney Concert Hall continues its tradition of providing audiences with intellectually daring forays into new music with its 2019/20 season. Overseen by LA Phil Creative Chair John Adams and performed by the LA Phil New Music Group, the Green Umbrella series invents the future of sound with each unique partnership of living composers and masterful musicians. The 2019/20 season advances this vision with a vibrant palette of innovative performances, with each conductor collaborating with guest artists to curate their respective programs.

The series gets underway November 5 with a cello-centric performance co-curated by Adams and rising star cellist Jay Campbell. Though the two had never met before Adams approached Campbell to work on the program, they quickly established a creative rapport to develop the lineup. The resulting program includes LA Phil co-commissioned world premieres from Sky Macklay and Marc Sabat, along with an Eric Wubbels work for cello and piano and Tristan Perich’s work for solo cello and electronics.

The next concert in the series, December 10, honors the music and life of Oliver Knussen, a long-standing friend to the LA Phil. LA Phil Principal Guest Conductor Susanna Mälkki and violinist Leila Josefowicz, both of whom also had long-standing ties with the composer, have put together an evening featuring three of his creations surrounded with chamber-sized music by his friends, colleagues and students Colin Matthews, Helen Grime, Huw Watkins and Jonathan Harvey.

Going into the new year, the series continues on February 4, 2020, with two of the LA Phil’s 2017 Reykjavík Festival stars, composer/conductor Daníel Bjarnason and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. The two join together for an all-Nordic concert featuring composers from Denmark, Finland, and their Icelandic homeland, including Bjarnason’s Possibilities and a world premiere from Thurídur Jónsdóttir, plus a U.S. premiere by the Danish Bent Sørensen.

Next, Ted Hearne’s LA Phil-commissioned Place has its West Coast premiere March 24, as part of the LA Phil’s Power to the People! festival. The program, created by Hearne, Patricia McGregor and Saul Williams, examines gentrification and the complexities of what we call home. Beth Morrison Projects is a co-producer and co-commissioner.

The series continues with the collaboration between composer Du Yun and conductor David Bloom of the New York-based group Contemporaneous on April 21. Yun, whose LA Phil-commissioned Thirst had its world premiere at an LA Phil concert during the 2018/19 season, returns with another new work to accompany two additional world premieres on the program. The wide-ranging lineup begins with Carlos Gutierrez Quiroga’s Jintili for tiny pan flutes and loofahs.

The Green Umbrella’s 2019/20 series concludes with an all-Steve Reich program on June 6. The Noon-to-Midnight anchoring concert culminates with the premiere of a collaboration between Reich and artist Gerhard Richter, conducted by Brad Lubman. Richter provides a computer-generated film of his painting 946-3, resulting in a stream of images interpreted by music and a musical composition visualized by film images.

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

2019/20 GREEN UMBRELLA SERIES

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

John Adams & Jay Campbell

Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 8PM

LA Phil New Music Ensemble

John Adams, conductor

Jay Campbell, cello

Co-curated by John Adams and Jay Campbell

Gabriella SMITH Carrot Revolution for string quartet

Marc SABAT Partite Requiem (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Eric WUBBELS gretchen am spinnrade for cello and piano

Sky MACKLAY Swarm Collecting (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative)

Tristan PERICH Formations for solo cello and electronics

A Tribute to Oliver Knussen

Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 8PM

LA Phil New Music Ensemble

Susanna Mälkki, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, violin

John Novacek, piano

Co-curated by Susanna Mälkki and Leila Josefowicz

Colin MATTHEWS Hidden Variables

KNUSSEN Reflection

Helen GRIME A Cold Spring

Huw WATKINS Piano Quartet

KNUSSEN Ophelia Dances, Book 1

KNUSSEN Two Organa

HARVEY Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

Bjarnason & Ólafsson

Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 8PM

LA Phil New Music Ensemble

Daníel Bjarnason, conductor

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

István Várdai, cello

Co-curated by Bjarnason and Ólafsson

Bent SØRENSEN The Weeping White Room

Kaija SAARIAHO  7 Papillons for solo cello

Daníel BJARNASON 5 Possibilities for piano, cello and clarinet

Thurídur JÓNSDÓTTIR new work for ensemble (world premiere, LA Phil Commission)

Bent SØRENSEN Mignon – Papillons for piano and strings (U.S. premiere)

Power to the People!

Place (in/SIGHT)

Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 8PM

LA Phil New Music Ensemble

Co-created by Ted Hearne, Patricia McGregor and Saul Williams

Ted Hearne, composer and conductor

Saul Williams and Ted Hearne, libretto

Patricia McGregor, director

Tim Brown and Sanford Biggers, scenic and video design

Pablo Santiago, lighting design

Jody Elff, sound design

Rachel Myers, costume design

Steven Bradshaw, Sophia Byrd, Josephine Lee, Isaiah Robinson, Sol Ruiz, Ayanna Woods, vocalists

Ted HEARNE Place (West Coast premiere, LA Phil commission)

Co-produced and co-commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects

Du Yun & David Bloom

Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 8PM

LA Phil New Music Ensemble

David Bloom, conductor

Co-curated by David Bloom and Du Yun

Carlos Gutierrez QUIROGA Jintili

Vicente ALEXIM Impulses

Aida SHIRAZI Lullaby for Shattered Angels

Mazz SWIFT new work (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from The Hillenburg Family)

DU YUN new work (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Rajna SWAMINATHAN new work (world premiere, LA Phil commission)

Steve Reich Premiere (in/SIGHT)

Saturday, June 6, 2020, 8PM

LA Phil New Music Ensemble

Brad Lubman, conductor

Steve REICH Double Sextet

Steve REICH Runner

Steve REICH Reich/Richter (West Coast premiere, LA Phil commission)

film by Gerhard Richter & Corinna Belz

For more information and full artists biographies, please visit laphil.com

Tickets for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2019/20 season are available for purchase at laphil.com, in person at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office, or by phone at 323 850 2000.

About the Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music from all genres – orchestral, chamber, and Baroque music, organ and celebrity recitals, new music, jazz, world music, and pop – at two of L.A.’s iconic venues, Walt Disney Concert Hall (laphil.com) and the Hollywood Bowl (hollywoodbowl.com). The LA Phil’s season at Walt Disney Concert Hall extends from September through June and throughout the summer at the Hollywood Bowl. With the preeminent Los Angeles Philharmonic at the foundation of its offerings, the LA Phil aims to enrich and transform lives through music, with a robust mix of artistic, learning, and community programs.

Sophie Jefferies, sjefferies@laphil.org, 213 972 3422

Lisa White, lwhite@laphil.org, 213 972 3408

Photos: 213 972 3034