Adelson is deeply committed to music of our time, having worked with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Bernard Rands, Harrison Birtwistle, Magnus Lindberg and Donald Martino. He is currently writing a book for non-musicians on the art of conducting. He lectures widely on subjects as diverse as the links between mathematics and music, critical thinking, great historical cities as centers of culture, and twentieth-century art history.
Adelson has written and conducted young people’s concerts with the New York, Helsinki, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras. He conducted a workshop for composers at the Venice Biennale, taught chamber music at Helsinki University, and led opera, orchestral, and chamber music master classes at the Accademia di Musica in Sassari, Italy. He served as Chief Conductor of the Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat in Helsinki, and as the Principal Conductor of the first annual Rencontres Musicales Européennes in France. In addition, he has also conducted at the Manhattan School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Harvard, Columbia and Brandeis Universities. He has served on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, the State University of New York at Purchase, and Connecticut College. Adelson has conducted Scandinavian produ tions of Puccini’s Turandot and La Bohème, Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, and at the Stockholm Folkopera, the world premiere production of Qu Xiao- Song’s Oedipus.Īn internationally sought-after educator, he teaches conducting worldwide, and leads workshops in orchestral technique for young musicians and music educators. Currently Conductor-Clinician of the New York Philharmonic, he has also conducted the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras, and many other ensembles in Europe and America. Michael Adelson, 2022 Festival Clinician Conductor-Clinician, New York PhilharmonicĬonductor, composer, writer and educator, Michael Adelson is a radical force in the world of music education. All participating ensembles are selected by application process through Music Celebrations. Four auditioned orchestras will be featured in performance at this historic concert venue. Music Celebrations International is pleased to present the Viennese Masters Orchestra Invitational, an exclusive opportunity for orchestras to perform the works of these and other great Viennese masters of music composition on the world’s premier concert stage – the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. Soon, these small theater ensembles expanded thanks to the incredible ingenuity of the many symphonies that Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven composed. As European composers gained more prominence and patronage, they were able to seek greater expression in their work – and since the orchestra afforded great power and a variety of timbres it became the ideal vehicle through which they could express their creativity. Through the early eighteenth century, the orchestra was mostly used as an ensemble to accompany the most popular form of entertainment at the time, the theater, or opera. One of the primary mediums through which these composers expressed their musical creativity was the orchestra.
Collectively, every note these composers penned produced such rich, passionate music that they became known as the “First Viennese School” of music composers – the originators of a new art music that defined what is now known as the Classical Era of Western music. Ludwig Van Beethoven once wrote that, “To play a wrong note is insignificant, but to play without passion is inexcusable.” In a sense, the same can be said of the music Beethoven composed, as well as his fellow prominent contemporaries, Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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