Bravo Vail! 2025
12-24 Juin 2025

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We are delighted to make our debut at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival with a three-concert residency on June 19, 21, and 22, 2025, opening the Festival’s 2025 season. The COE will be
led by German conductor and newly appointed music director of the Kansas City Symphony Matthias Pintscher. The Orchestra will also be joined by internationally acclaimed guest artists including pianist Yefim Bronfman, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and violinist Blake Pouliot. The repertoire includes Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 44 « Mourning » and 31 « Hornsignal », Brahms’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Schubert’s Six German Dances (arr. Webern) and Symphony No. 4, as well as Stravinsky’s « Dumbarton Oaks ».

Anne-Marie McDermott, artistic director of Bravo! Vail, said: « I am beyond excited that the Chamber Orchestra of Europe will finally make its Bravo! Vail debut as our international chamber orchestra in 2025. Since beginning this series in 2016 with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, we have presented orchestras from around the world including the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Mexico’s Sinfonica de Mineria. COE is truly unique. Unlike most orchestras, it has no resident hall or an appointed conductor. Its members come from across the European Union, where they hold prominent musical posts, to gather in a variety of cities and perform one-of-a-kind programs with the soloists and conductors of their choosing. What could be better?!”

“It is with enormous pleasure and anticipation that we look forward to joining the 2025 Bravo! Vail Music Festival,” said Simon Fletcher, general manager of the COE. “Our three performances next year are the realization of plans initiated exactly a decade ago; plans that were sadly deflected by the pandemic but are now shining brightly ahead with the promise of a very special and a fun packed residency with exceptional artists Matthias, Yefim, Alisa and Blake at the helm. We look forward to sharing impactful performances full of emotion and spirit, and with the beauty and elemental inspiration of the landscape around Vail added in, we are sure to be able to present outstanding music making for you. The COE rarely visits the US, and we hope you will be intrigued and take this opportunity to hear our special orchestra. We very much look forward to meeting you.”

The first time the COE worked with Matthias Pintscher was in 2018 at the Musika-Musica Festival in Bilbao where we had a three-concert residency featuring our very own principal flute Clara Andrada de la Calle in Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, alongside other orchestral works by Ravel, Martinu, Poulenc, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. We managed to go on tour with Matthias again in February 2020, just before the world stopped, this time with pianist Emanuel Ax, as well as singers Kate Royal, Benoît Rameau and Otto Katzameier who all featured in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Stravinsky seems to be the constant in our projects as the repertoire this year in Vail features Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks. Indeed there is a special connection between Pintscher and Stravinsky, including conducting Stravinsky’s Firebird with several orchestras and having his own work, Chute d’étoiles, inspired by Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

Matthias Pintscher is the newly appointed Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra effective from the 2024/25 season and since 2020/21, is Creative Partner at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He recently concluded a successful decade-long tenure as the Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the iconic Parisian contemporary ensemble, founded by Pierre Boulez, and winner of the 2022 Polar Prize. During his stewardship, Pintscher led this most adventurous institution in the creation of dozens of world premieres by cutting edge composers from all over the world and took the ensemble on tours to Asia, North America and throughout Europe to all the major festivals and concert halls.

Matthias kicked off his 2024-25 season with a tour of Europe with Kansans City Symphony and will continue with returns to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Radiosinfonie Berlin, Gurzenich Orchester Cologne, Barcelona and BBC Scottish symphonies and debuts with the Oslo Philharmonic and Spanish National orchestras.

For a detailed biography, please visit the Askonas Holt website.