Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The Soldier's Tale

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)

Sunday, April 7, 2024 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT)

Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY, United States

$34-$77

Georg Philipp Telemann — Intrada-Suite for 2 Violins, TWV 40:108 "Gulliver's Travels" (from Der Getreue Musik-Meister)
Maurice Ravel — Chansons madécasses ("Madagascan Songs"), M. 78 (for voice, flute, cello, & piano)
Ottorino Respighi — Il tramonto for voice and string quartet (for mezzo-soprano & string quartet)
Igor Stravinsky — L'Histoire du soldat ("The Soldier’s Tale")

Stories and tales come alive with dazzling effect when set to music. From Telemann in his most outlandish mode, to Ravel at his most exotic, to the Respighi of operatic intensity, to Stravinsky in his incomparable theatrical vein, this concert is an extraordinary sonic anthology of adventures and tragedy.

About Joseph Conyers, double bass

Joseph Conyers was appointed assistant principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2010 and has been acting associate principal since 2017. He previously held tenures with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; the Grand Rapids Symphony, where he served as principal bass; and the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.

Mr. Conyers has performed with many orchestras as soloist, including the Alabama, Flagstaff, and Richmond symphony orchestras; the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; and the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, having won second prize at the 2004 Sphinx Competition. In 2008 John B Hedges wrote a concerto for him—Prayers of Rain and Wind—commissioned by the Grand Rapids Symphony.

Mr. Conyers is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Other chamber music festivals and collaborations have included the Ilumina Festival, the Festival Internacional de Música de Esmeraldas, and chamber music festivals in Savannah, Charlottesville, Kingston, and Lexington.

In 2019 Mr. Conyers received the Sphinx Organization’s Medal of Excellence. In 2018 he received the C. Hartman Kuhn Award from the Philadelphia Orchestra and was named one of Musical America’s 30 Professionals of the Year. In 2015 he was the recipient of the inaugural Young Alumni Award from the Curtis Institute of Music, and in 2007 was named one of “30 Leaders 30 and Under” by Ebony magazine. In 1999 he was one of the first guests on a pilot taping of NPR’s From the Top.

Mr. Conyers has served as adjunct faculty at Calvin University and Clark Atlanta University. He is currently on the faculty at Temple University and has been music director of Philadelphia’s All City Orchestra since 2015. He has taught at numerous summer music festivals including the Philadelphia International Music Festival, the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy, and the National Repertory Orchestra. He has given master classes and lectures across the country, including at the Colburn School, the Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Yale University, Ohio State University, the University of Georgia, and Peabody Conservatory.

Mr. Conyers is the founder of the nonprofit Project 440. Through its nationally recognized curricula, Project 440 uses music as a tool to engage, educate, and inspire young musicians, providing them with care and life skills to become tomorrow’s civic-minded, entrepreneurial leaders.

Mr. Conyers received his bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with both Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer. Other mentors have included David Warshauer, Daniel Swaim, and Albert Laszlo. He performs on the “Zimmerman/Gladstone” 1802 Vincenzo Panormo double bass, which he has affectionately named “Norma.”

https://www.philorch.org/your-philorch/meet-your-orchestra/musicians/joseph-conyers/