Institute Announces 2008-09 Edward T. Cone Concert Series

PRINCETON, N.J., September 15, 2008 - The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the schedule for the 2008-09 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, curated by Paul Moravec.  The series, Tradition Redefined, will explore the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in art music, especially of the 20^th and 21^st centuries.

Opening this year's season will be the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra , appearing on Saturday, October 11 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.  In addition to extensive national and international touring, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra presents an annual concert series at Carnegie Hall and appears regularly at major New York venues, including Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - photo by Ken Nahoum

The Grammy Award-winning group has commissioned a new work by Paul Moravec, Brandenburg Gate, which will receive its world premiere at the Institute.  Also on the program will be Haydn's Symphony No. 59 in A Major, known popularly as the "Fire Symphony."

The remaining concerts will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15, featuring cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Geoffrey Burleson; Friday and Saturday, January 9 and 10, 2009, when eighth blackbird will perform; and Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, 2009, when the season will conclude with the return of Trio Solisti, performing with soprano Amy Burton.  Each of these concerts will be held at 8 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall.

Matt Haimovitz photo by Amanda Traul	Geoffrey Burleson photo by Angela Coppola	eighth blackbird photo by Luke Ratray

Concert tickets are free but must be reserved no more than 30 days in advance.  For ticket information, or for further information about the Institute for Advanced Study's Artist-in-Residence Program, call (609) 734-8228 or visit www.ias.edu/air.

Trio Solisti - photo by Robin Holland	Amy Burton - photo by Christian Steiner

About Edward T. Cone

Noted composer, teacher, pianist and author Edward T. Cone earned his undergraduate and MFA degrees at Princeton University and was affiliated with its music department for more than 50 years.  A Founding Friend of the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study, he had a close and long-standing relationship with this institution.  During his lifetime, he was a tireless supporter of the arts and humanities at the Institute and elsewhere.

About the Artist-in-Residence Program

The Artist-in-Residence program was established at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1994 to create a musical presence within the Institute community and to have in residence a person whose work could be experienced and appreciated by scholars from all disciplines.   Pianist Robert Taub was the first Artist-in-Residence from 1994 to 2001, followed by composer Jon Magnussen, who served as Artist-in-Residence from 2000 to 2007. 

Paul Moravec, who served as Artist-in-Residence last year and is Artistic Consultant to the program this year, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2004 for Tempest Fantasy, a thirty-minute "musical meditation" on Shakespeare's play scored for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.  He has composed some 100 orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film and electro-acoustic compositions and is University Professor at Adelphi University.

About the Institute for Advanced Study 

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.  The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental research in the sciences and humanities - the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world.  Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools:  Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science.  It provides for the mentoring of scholars by a permanent Faculty of twenty-seven, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.            

The Institute, founded in 1930, is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 5,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world. Some twenty-two Nobel Laureates and thirty-four out of forty-eight Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf and MacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute.