Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1

Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 · Elfman: Violin Concerto, 'Eleven Eleven'

ARTISTS: JoAnn Falletta (Conductor); Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Stewart Goodyear (piano)
COMPOSER: Adolphus Hailstork; Danny Elfman
LABEL: Naxos
CAT ID: 8.559925 (UPC: 636943992524)

GRAMMY® CATEGORY:
Best Classical Instrumental Solo

This recording presents brand new concertos from two vibrant and contrasting American composers. Adolphus Hailstork’s First Piano Concerto draws on his African American heritage to create a work brimming with energy and high spirits. The Violin Concerto “Eleven Eleven” by Danny Elfman – renowned for his many film scores including Batman – has its roots in the composer’s rock, film and television background, but also illustrates his love for the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

JoAnn Falletta

GRAMMY Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has guest conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in America, Canada and throughout Europe, Asia and South America. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. Credited with bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and international prominence, she is a leading recording artist for Naxos, and won her most recent GRAMMY Award in 2021 as conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in the Best Choral Performance category. She won her first individual Grammy Award as conductor of the London Symphony in the Best Classical Compendium category for Spiritualist by Kenneth Fuchs. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan with the BPO received two Grammys in 2008. From 2011 to 2014 she served as principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, with whom she made her BBC Proms debut and recorded six highly acclaimed Naxos albums. She was the first woman and the first American to fill this post. Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as a member of the National Council on the Arts, is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards and was named Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year 2019.

For more information, visit https://www.joannfalletta.com/

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Founded in 1935, the GRAMMY Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) is Buffalo’s leading cultural ambassador, presenting more than 120 classics, pops and youth concerts each year. Since 1940, the orchestra’s permanent home has been Kleinhans Music Hall. In March 2018, the BPO became the first American orchestra to perform at the Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, Poland. In 2022, they made their 24th appearance at Carnegie Hall celebrating the life and works of Lukas Foss, former BPO music director. Over the decades, the BPO has matured in stature under leading conductors William Steinberg, Josef Krips, Lukas Foss, Michael Tilson Thomas, Julius Rudel, Semyon Bychkov and Maximiano Valdés. During the tenure of JoAnn Falletta, the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of radio broadcasts and recordings, including the release of around 50 albums of diverse repertoire on the

Naxos and Beau Fleuve Records labels. The Philharmonic’s recording of John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (Naxos 8.559331), featuring soprano Hila Plitmann, received GRAMMY Awards for Best Classical Vocal Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and its recording of Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua (Naxos 8.559885-86) received a GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance.

For more information, please visit: www.bpo.org

Stewart Goodyear

Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser, and composer. He has performed with many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world, including the Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim, The Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Christoph Eschenbach, and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jun Märkl and Kristjan Järvi. Some of the orchestras and chamber music organizations that have commissioned Goodyear are the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Orchestre Metropolitain. Goodyear’s discography includes the complete sonatas and piano concertos of Beethoven, as well as concertos by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Rachmaninov, and four albums of solo works. His recordings have been released on the Marquis Classics, Steinway & Sons, Orchid Classics, and Bright Shiny Things labels. Highlights of the 2022–23 season include performances with the Nashville, Colorado, Baltimore, and Vancouver symphonies.

www.stewartgoodyearpiano.com

Dr. Bernd Gottinger

Dr. Bernd Gottinger has been producing and engineering classical music records for various international and national recording labels for over thirty-five years. In 2020 he was nominated by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences for “Best Producer/Classical.” His recording of Richard Danielpour’s “The Passion of Yeshua” won a GRAMMY award in the category of “Best Choral Performance” the same year. He holds degrees from The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and The Juilliard School and received his Ph.D. from New York University in 2007. A committed educator in the field of audio engineering, Dr. Gottinger is currently a tenured professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia where he has been Director of the Sound Recording Technology degree program since 1999.