77TH SEASON OF

CONCERTS

Upcoming Events of the SeventySeventh Season of The William Nelson 

Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin Concerts

Unless otherwise noted, concerts 

are held in the West Building, West 

Garden Court.

East Coast Chamber Orchestra

An Ancient Walkabout

Featuring works by Bach, Purcell, 

and Britten 

April 14, 3:30

Living Art Collective Ensemble (LACE)

Elisa Monte Dance

DJ Twelve45

The Lunar Effect 

Celebrating By the Light of the Silvery 

Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs 

from the 1850s to Apollo 11

Music by Louise Farrenc, Clara 

Schumann, and Pauline Viardot

April 21, 3:30

Duo Sonidos

Sound Sketches

Location will be posted the 

day of the concert.

April 26, 12:10

The Brandee Younger Trio

Harpist Brandee Younger performs in 

the avant-garde tradition of her forebears, 

Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.

April 28, 3:30

General Information

Admission to the National Gallery of Art 

and all of its programs is free of charge, 

except as noted.

The use of cameras or recording 

equipment during the performance 

is not allowed.

Please be sure that all portable electronic 

devices are turned off.

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Concerts are made possible in part 

through the generosity of donors to the 

National Gallery of Art through The Circle. 

Reserved seating is available in recognition 

of their support. Please contact the 

development office at (202) 842-6450 or 

circle@nga.gov for more information.

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The department of music produced 

these program notes. Copyright © 2019 

Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, 

Washington

Cover Mina Lowry, Man with Cello

(detail), 1935 /1942, National Gallery of Art, 

Washington, Index of American Design

national gallery of art | april 7, 2019

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PROGRAM Born in Israel, Haimovitz has been honored with the Avery Fisher Career Grant 

(1986), the Grand Prix du Disque (1991), and the Diapason d’Or (1991). He is the first 

cellist to receive the prestigious Premio Internazionale “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” 

(1999). Haimovitz studied at the Collegiate School in New York and also at the Juilliard 

School, in the final class of Leonard Rose, after which he continued his cello studies 

with Ronald Leonard and Yo-Yo Ma. In 1996, he received his bachelor’s degree, magna 

cum laude, from Harvard University. He performs on a cello made in 1710 in Venice by 

Matteo Goffriller.

Vijay Iyer 

Composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was named Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year 

for 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018, and Artist of the Year in Jazz Times’s Critics’ Poll and 

Readers’ Poll for 2017. He received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Doris Duke 

Performing Artist Award, and a 2011 Grammy nomination. He has released twenty-one 

albums, including Far from Over (ECM, 2017), with the Vijay Iyer Sextet, which topped 

numerous year-end critics’ polls and was cited by Rolling Stone as “2017’s jazz album 

to beat”; A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016), in duo with legendary 

composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and named Best New Music by Pitchfork; 

Break Stuff (ECM, 2015) with the Vijay Iyer Trio, winner of the German Record Critics’ 

Award for Album of the Year; the live score to the film Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi

(ECM, 2014), by filmmaker Prashant Bhargava; and Holding It Down: The Veterans’ 

Dreams Project (Pi Recordings, 2013), his third politically searing collaboration with 

poet-performer Mike Ladd, named Album of the Year in the Los Angeles Times. 

Iyer’s compositions have been commissioned and premiered by Bang on a Can 

All-Stars, the Silk Road Ensemble, ETHEL, the Brentano Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, 

Imani Winds, the American Composers Orchestra, the International Contemporary 

Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum, Matt Haimowitz, and Jennifer Koh. Iyer 

is the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University 

and the director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. 

Matt Haimovitz, cello

Vijay Iyer, piano

April 7, 2019 | 3:30

West Building, West Garden Court

The program will be announced from the stage.

THE MUSICIANS

Matt Haimovitz

Renowned as a musical pioneer, cellist Matt Haimovitz has been praised by the New 

York Times as a “ferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and 

uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles,” and by the New Yorker as 

“a remarkable virtuoso” who “never turns in a predictable performance.” Haimovitz 

has inspired classical music lovers and countless new listeners by bringing his artistry 

to concert halls and clubs, outdoor festivals and intimate coffeehouses, and any place 

where passionate music can be heard. Haimovitz mentors an award-winning studio 

of young cellists at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and is now the first 

John Cage Fellow at The New School’s Mannes School of Music.

Haimovitz made his debut in 1984, at the age of thirteen, as soloist with Zubin 

Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. At seventeen, he made his first recording with 

the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon. He has gone on to 

perform on the world’s most esteemed stages, with such orchestras and conductors 

as the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, the English 

Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with 

Leonard Slatkin, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Kent Nagano.