The launch of the 2015 New York Philharmonic residency is commemorated by music director Alan Gilbert in a special keynote address on the role of orchestras in the 21st century. Gilbert’s address (first delivered for the Royal Philharmonic Society in April 2015) explores the challenges faced by orchestras today as they balance tradition, innovation, education, and performance in a landscape of changing audience expectations and emerging technologies and media, with new ideas about the centrality of music to social change and civic life.

An interlude reception will follow in the lobby between the keynote address and side-by-side chamber concert that begins at 7:30 PM.

This chamber concert features eight SMTD students playing side-by-side with eight musicians from the New York Philharmonic. This first residency comes to life on stage in this exchange of talent and artistic resources between Ann Arbor and New York

PROGRAM: Mendelssohn- Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, op. 20; Mozart- Serenade for Winds in C minor, K. 388