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Christopher Rountree, guest conductor

Program

Ashley Fure
Bound to the Bow

Jean Sibelius
Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Winner of the String Concerto Competition: Haeni Lee, violin

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 1, Op. 64a

Biography

Christopher Rountree is the founder, conductor, and creative director of the path-breaking L.A. chamber orchestra wild Up. The group has been called "Searing, penetrating and thrilling" by NPR's Performance Today and named "Best Classical Music of 2012" by the Los Angeles Times. wild Up started in 2010 with no funding and no musicians, driven only by Rountree's vision of a world-class ensemble that creates visceral, provocative experiences that are unmoored from classical traditions.  Whether he is conducting, composing or curating a program, Rountree’s approach – with its “infectious enthusiasm” (L.A. Times) and “elegant clarity” (New York Times) – is united by extremely high energy and a deeply engaged relationship between a score, musicians and audience.

In the 2017-18 season, Rountree debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and with Washington National Opera, conducting Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up, and returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In the 2016-17 season, Rountree made his debut with San Diego Opera conducting Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen, and with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, returning to Opera Omaha to conduct Jonathan Dove's Flight. Recent highlights include his conducting debut with Los Angeles Opera, conducting the world premiere of David Lang's Anatomy Theater; Atlanta Opera, conducting David T. Little's Soldier Songs; Diavolo Dance Theater's trilogy L'Espace du Temps, for which Rountree did the reductions to Esa Pekka-Salonen's piece of the same name; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW series; Colorado Music Festival; and Interlochen Center for the Arts. Return engagements included performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony (SoundBox), and with Ensemble LPR at (le) poisson rouge.

Rountree has conducted a litany of great ensembles and festivals in the last few years including the Brooklyn Philharmonic; Monday Evening Concerts; the Prototype Festival; Beth Morrison Projects; the American Composers Orchestra; the Winnipeg Symphony; Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic; American Youth Symphony; and the Rose City Chamber Orchestra. With his eclectic style and resume, he's been tapped to curate events for contemporary art institutions, including the Getty Museum, MCA Denver, and the Hammer Museum, where a long-running wild Up residency brought the group to national prominence.

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