<div style="text-align: center"> <div style="text-align: center"> <div style="text-align: center"> <div><font color="#3f3f3f" size="3"><font face="Verdana"><b><span style="line-height: 1.5">Songs on the String_Violinist&nbsp;</span></b></font><b style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana"><span style="line-height: 1.5">Gil Shaham</span></b></font></div></div> <div style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana" color="#002060" size="2"><b><span style="line-height: 1.5">Virtuoso Series ¥± - the 694th Subscription Concert</span></b></font></div> <div style="text-align: center"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">Listen for the songs carried by the May breeze. The charismatic Gil Shaham, who captured Korean audiences¡¯ hearts back in 2010 in a concert with Mariss Jansons, returns with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Shaham has been praised as ¡°the outstanding American violinist of his generation¡± by the Time magazine. Expect to be carried away by his delicate, intelligent, and passionate performance. The second half of the concert is Mahler¡¯s sweeping Fifth Symphony. The funeral march by trumpet in the introduction is followed by an intense surge of anxiety and fear that was prevalent at the time, but such negative emotions transform into positive ones at the end of the work. In the fourth movement, Adagietto, experience musical beauty escalated by its brevity and an extreme contrast of moods as the KBS Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Yoel Levi delicately paint many layers of human emotions on a musical canvas.&nbsp;</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana"> <div style="text-align: left"><b style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5"><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: left"><b style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5"><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: left"><b style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">Conductor / Yoel Levi</b></div></font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">- Earned Master of Arts from the Tel Aviv Academy of Music</span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">- Attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London</span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Studied with Mendi Rodan, Franco Ferrara, and Kiril Kondrashin&nbsp;</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- First prize winner at the International Competition for Young Conductors, Besancon (1978)</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Assistant Conductor of Lorin Maazel and resident conductor at the Cleveland Orchestra</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1988-2000)</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Principal Conductor of the Brussels Philharmonic (2001-2007)</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Principal Conductor of the Orchestre National d'ile de France (2005-2012)</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (first Israeli conductor in this post)</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Conductor at the podium of many of world¡¯s leading opera houses, including the Teatro Communale in Florence,&nbsp;</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp; the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Orchestre National de France &nbsp;</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Released about 40 recordings with ensembles including Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp; London Philharmonic,&nbsp;</font><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">Philharmonia Orchestra</span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Named ¡°Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres¡± by the French Government in 2001</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana"><b>Violin / Gil Shaham</b></font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Studied at the Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang, and at Aspen with Jens Ellermann,</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp; studied at Columbia University</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Has performed with prestigious orchestras around the world, including the Vienna Philharmonic,&nbsp;</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp; Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, France¡¯s Orchestre de Paris,&nbsp;</font><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">Berlin Radio Symphony,</span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">&nbsp; Chicago Symphony, BBC Symphony, and London Symphony, to name a few</span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Summer season engagements include appearances at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Caramoor,</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp; Blossom Music Festivals, and the Hollywood Bowl</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- His recordings have earned multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d¡¯Or,&nbsp;</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">&nbsp; Gramophone Editor¡¯s Choice</span></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990 and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize in 2008</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><font face="Verdana">- Named ¡°Instrumentalist of the Year¡± by Musical America in 2012</font></div> <div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">- Pla</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5">ys the 1699 ¡°Countess Polignac¡± Stradivarius</span></div></div></div>