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LADY JEANNE GALWAY,
flute
Born in New York, utist Lady Jeanne Galway is
a graduate of the Mannes College of Music and
has regularly been a soloist in the US with the
orchestras of Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Seattle, and Denver, as well as the National
Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. She
has also given many concerts internationally,
including in London, New York, Milan, Rome,
Vienna, Salzburg, Zurich, Dublin, Belfast, To-
kyo, Beijing and Singapore, o en appearing
alongside her husband and fellow utist Sir
James. Galway is also an accomplished chamber
musician, touring regularly with pianist Jona-
than Feldman and cellist Darrett Atkins as the
Zephyr trio. e trio’s album
Zephyr—Winds of
Romance
combines works by Haydn, Martinů,
and Weber, and the group also recently pre-
miered a new work by Lowell Liebermann, com-
missioned by Sir James. Lady Jeanne Galway has
also made recordings for RCA Victor, BMG
Classics, and Deutsche Grammophon that have
received critical acclaim. With her husband,
she has been awarded
Irish America
Magazine’s
“Spirit of Ireland” award in recognition of
their services to music. Galway devotes much of
her time to working with younger generations,
including the -day Galway Flute Festival in
Switzerland, during which she o ers advice on
both performance and career management. Her
concert engagements have included fundraising
events for such organizations as UNICEF, SOS,
FARA, and Marie Curie Cancer Care, and she is
also a supporter of the Duchess of Kent’s Future
Talent charity. Tonight marks Lady Jeanne Gal-
way’s seventh appearance at Ravinia, where she
rst performed in
.
SIR JAMES GALWAY,
flute
Born in Belfast, Ireland, Sir James Galway stud-
ied music in London and Paris before beginning
his career as an orchestral utist. Prior to his
principal-chair appointment in the Berlin Phil-
harmonic under Herbert von Karajan, he was a
member of the Sadler’s Wells and Royal Opera
House at Covent Garden Orchestras, as well as
the London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic
Orchestras. Since
, Galway has focused his
attention on a solo career that has included a
long list of orchestras, conductors, and cham-
ber-music collaborators. Not just an interpreter
of the classical repertoire of Bach, Vivaldi, and
Mozart, he also regularly performs contem-
porary works, including many commissioned
by or for him from such composers as Mark
Adamo, Elaine Agnew, David Amram, William
Bolcom, John Corigliano, Philip Hammond,
David Heath, Lowell Liebermann, and Lorin
Maazel. At his
Ravinia appearance, he gave
the US premiere of a concerto by
Riverdance
’s
Bill Whelan,
Linen and Lace
, with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra. In
, Galway launched
the “First Flute” interactive online series, which
comprises lessons for beginning ute students
of all ages, ranging from instrument basics to a
“practice room” with downloadable sheet mu-
sic to concert footage. He also holds the -day
Galway Flute Festival with his wife, Lady Jeanne,
in Switzerland in addition to numerous other
classes they give annually. Galway’s discography
includes more than albums, including not
only his regular concert repertoire but also the
soundtracks to the
Lord of the Rings
lm trilogy
and
O’Reilly Street
with the Cuban timba group
Tiempo Libre, with whom he performed at Ra-
vinia in
. In addition to being named to the
Order of the British Empire in
and con-
ferred knighthood in
, he has received the
Grammy President’s Merit Award (
) and
lifetime achievement honors from the Classic
Brits (
), Hollywood Bowl (
), National
Concert Hall of Dublin ( ), and
Gramophone
(
). Sir James Galway rst performed at Ra-
vinia in
and is making his th season ap-
pearance at the festival.
fantasies on “In dulci jubilo” and “I Saw
ree
Ships,” arrangements of the beloved Irish tune
“Danny Boy,” and excerpts from Handel’s
Xerx-
es
, as well as the original composition
Galway
Fair
, which the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
premiered in September
. Overton also has
fashioned duo- ute repertoire for Sir James and
Lady Jeanne Galway, including an arrangement
of Mozart’s
Rondo alla turca
and a Mozart pas-
tiche entitled
e Magic Flutes
.
e Irish Folk
Songs include three traditional tunes arranged
for ute and piano (“Spinning Wheel,” “She
Moved
rough the Fair,” and “ e Star of the
County Down”) and one for ute duo and piano
(“Lanigan’s Ball”).
FRANZ DOPPLER (1821–83)
Andante and Rondo, op.
Franz Doppler was the most distinguished
member of a family of Polish-Hungarian mu-
sicians. His father Joseph, an oboist in Warsaw
and Vienna and a composer, taught Franz to
play ute. Younger brother Karl also became
a respected utist, conductor, and occasional
composer. Karl’s son Árpád developed into a
top-ranking pianist who taught at the Stuttgart
Conservatory and brie y at the Grand Conser-
vatory in New York City.
Franz made his public recital debut at age .
Four years later, he joined the German
eater
in Pest as principal utist and subsequently
held the same position with the Hungarian Na-
tional
eater. During these Hungarian years,
Franz composed numerous ethnically inspired
compositions, including operas, orchestral and
chamber works, piano music, and orchestral
transcriptions of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Franz moved to Vienna in
as principal ut-
ist of the court opera orchestra and conductor
of the opera ballet. He became professor of ute
at the Vienna Conservatory in
, continuing
to write operas and ute compositions, such as
the Andante and Rondo, op.
, for two utes
and piano.
PIETRO MORLACCHI (1828–68)
Il pastore svizzero: Fantasia originale
Italian utist and composer Pietro Morlacchi
has become a rather obscure gure, save for a
handful of operatic fantasies featuring wind
instruments. Having grown up in the Lainate
commune of greater Milan, Morlacchi entered
the Milan Conservatory in
and studied un-
der the tutelage of Giuseppe Rabboni until his
graduation in
.
at same year, Morlacchi
composed his most performed work,
Il pastore
svizzero
(
e Swiss Shepherd
), a brilliant fanta-
sy, or set of variations, on an original theme for
ute and orchestra or piano.
–Program notes ©
Todd E. Sullivan
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