CONCERT PROGRAMME2017/18 SEASON

Sun 25 Mar 2018 at 2.30 pm & 4.30 pm

Malaysian Philharmonic OrchestraMalaysian Philharmonic Youth OrchestraFrancis Kan, conductorAlasdair Malloy, presenter

PROGRAMME

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The concert will last approximately 60 minutes without an interval

MENKENMALLOYANDERSONCURZONRAVELMENKENGRIEGMENKEN FJELLHEIM,ANDERSON-LOPEZand LOPEZ TCHAIKOVSKY

Be Our GuestFanfare for Far, Far AwayThe Waltzing CatMarch from the Bowmen (from Robin Hood Suite)Empress of the Pagodas (from Mother Goose Suite)Colours of the WindIn The Hall of the Mountain KingPrince Ali (from Aladdin)A Frozen Fantasy

Sleeping Beauty Waltz

ALASDAIR MALLOYpresenter

Alasdair Malloy is a creative musician crossing musical boundaries working as a concert presenter, percussionist, glass harmonica player, programme deviser and arranger. He is highly acclaimed for producing unique educational and family concert programmes, covering everything from mathematics, science, and sport to magic, mystery and pirates.

As a concert presenter, Malloy regularly appears with the Hallé, Ulster Orchestra, City of Birmingham and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestra of Opera North, Sinfonia Viva, Oxford Philharmonic and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with major orchestras in Europe and Asia. In China, the premiere of his highly acclaimed programme ‘Bugs!!’ won the National Silver award for the best national performance for children, under the umbrella of Shanghai Sunspirit Cultural Development organisation. 2010 saw him make his USA debut with the Charlotte Symphony to great acclaim.

Principal percussionist with the BBC Concert Orchestra for over 25 years, and a regular soloist with them, Malloy incorporates percussion-inspired features within his own programmes. An active percussionist in other genres, he regularly arranges, records and performs with celebrated artists including Jarvis Cocker and Scott Walker. His 20th year of working with Mike Oldfield culminated in his performance at the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony.

As the country’s leading Glass Harmonica specialist, Malloy has performed at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Aldeburgh Festival, St John’s Smith Square and Kings Place, London, and St George’s in Bristol. He premiered David Horne's Vapours and Fireflies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the RLPO respectively, and in 2014, performed in Kraków, Poland, at the opening of the ICE Kraków Congress Centre for which the noted Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner composed a new work. He is regularly invited to record with acclaimed artists such as Icelandic pop star Björk, and can be heard on numerous film soundtracks including two of the Harry Potter films and Hollywood blockbuster Gravity.

In July 2017, Malloy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of Scotland.

FRANCIS KANconductor

Born in Hong Kong, Francis Kan began studying music from a young age. After graduating from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1993, he continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London on a full scholarship. Recommended by Sergio Commissiona, he was appointed as a conducting intern of the Asian Youth Orchestra and with them, toured to Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA.

In 1995, Kan won the International Competition for Young Conductors in Portugal and since then, has been invited to guest conduct many orchestras including the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic and Silvestri Chamber Orchestra. Kan has also worked with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, and has been Principal Conductor of the Union Philharmonic Orchestra, HKUSU, since its inception until 2013. Since 2006, Kan has been the Assistant Conductor of Macao Orchestra. From 2010 to 2012, he was Resident Conductor at the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra. He has worked frequently with the China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra and Harbin Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he led the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra on a cultural exchange performance to South Africa and conducted the opening concert for the ‘Year Of China’, which was highly praised by Luo Shugang, the Minister of Culture of the People’s Republic of China. Also in the same year, he toured Europe with the Macao Orchestra and pianist Zhang Haochen in Zurich, and Budapest. In 2017, Kan performed with the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra at The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China.

PROGRAMME NOTES

A warm welcome to this very special concert which takes us far, far away for some 'Adventures in the Magical Kingdom'. We have a special guest arriving today - The King of the Magical Kingdom himself, and you are all invited to a Grand Ball in his Castle. Before the Ball begins we will meet some of the other guests as they arrive. Some of them you will recognise straight away, others might be in disguise! The music will give you clues.

ALAN MENKEN *Be Our GuestThis comes from the 1991 Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast. An enchantress has cast a spell on a prince turning him into a beast and his servants into household items, and this song is sung by a candlestick while the crockery and kitchen utensils dance in spectacular Broadway style. The song was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to the title song of the film itself.

ALASDAIR MALLOYFanfare for Far, Far AwayA Fanfare is a short piece of music designed to catch your attention or to announce the arrival of someone very important. Please stand up to greet the His Majesty, The King of the Magical Kingdom.

LEROY ANDERSONThe Waltzing CatLeroy Anderson was an American who composed many witty and humorous pieces of music including The Typewriter, the Sandpaper Ballet and one of the most popular pieces of Christmas music, the Sleigh Ride. In The Waltzing Cat he provides a portrait of a sophisticated and graceful moggy moving and meowing in time to the music, but what is the true identity of this first feline guest?

FREDERIC CURZONMarch of the Bowmen(from Robin Hood Suite)Frederic Curzon was a celebrated English composer who wrote many pieces of light, popular music. His Robin Hood Suite has three movements; the first describing Sherwood Forest, home to Robin Hood; the second depicting Maid Marian; and the movement we are going to hear, March of the Bowmen, gives us a heroic impression of Robin and his Merry Men making their way through the forest with their bows at the ready.

MAURICE RAVELEmpress of the Pagodas (from Mother Goose Suite)The French composer Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite has movements which portray fairy tale characters such as Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast and this one, the exotic Empress of the Pagodas who appears in a French fairy tale called The Green Serpent. The pieces were originally written to be played by two people at one piano and then Ravel rewrote all the music for orchestra.

ALAN MENKEN *Colours of the WindThis won the Academy Award in 1995 for Best Original Song and comes from the animated Disney film Pocahontas. Pocahontas is a Native North American girl who has the power to see how everything in nature has a living spirit. In our version today we’ll feature one of our players on an instrument that has the power to open our imaginations and touch our emotions.

EDVARD GRIEGIn the Hall of the Mountain KingEdvard Grieg composed this piece as incidental music for a play based on the adventures of the Norwegian folk hero Peer Gynt. Here he hides in a cave under a great mountain and watches the Trolls arriving one by one to greet the Mountain King. Listen to how the music starts with low instruments very slowly and gets faster and higher as more and more trolls turn up.

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ALAN MENKEN *Prince Ali (from Aladdin)Music from Disney’s 1992 animated version of Aladdin, the story of a young boy who finds and rubs a magic lamp causing a Genie to appear with all sorts of surprising consequences. At this point in the film, the Genie has transformed Aladdin into Prince Ali Ababwa who arrives in the city of Agrabah led by a grand procession hoping to impress the beautiful Princess Jasmine.

FRODE FJELLHEIM, KIRSTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZand ROBERT LOPEZ *A Frozen FantasyBased on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen, this 2013 animated film from Disney won two Academy Awards, one for Best Animated Feature and the other for Best Original Song for “Let It Go”. A Frozen Fantasy includes some of the

favourite songs from the film, including the opening sequence called Eatnem Vuelie which is based on traditional Sámi music from Lapland. PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKYSleeping Beauty WaltzMagic and fairies take to the air with this waltz from the ballet Sleeping Beauty where a baby princess has been put under a curse by an evil fairy that one day she will prick her finger on a spindle and die. However a good fairy changes the curse so that instead she will sleep for 100 years and then be woken by a kiss from a handsome prince. As the princess grows up the curse is forgotten and we join the story as everyone joins in an elegant waltz unaware that they will soon all be asleep for a very long time. A Fairytale Ending *Will our adventures in the Magical Kingdom have a happy, fairytale ending? Will we party and dance all night long with the other guests? You’ll have to listen carefully throughout the concert to find out!

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Note: Sectional string players are rotated within their sections. *Extra musician.

MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

RESIDENT CONDUCTORNaohisa Furusawa

FIRST VIOLINCo-ConcertmasterPeter DanišPrincipalMing GohCo-PrincipalZhenzhen Liang

Runa BaagöeMaho DanišMiroslav DanišEvgeny KaplanMartijn NoomenSherwin ThiaMarcel AndriesiiTan Ka MingPetia Atanasova

SECOND VIOLINSection PrincipalTimothy PetersAssistant PrincipalLuisa Hyams

Catalina AlvarezChia-Nan HungAnastasia KiselevaStefan KocsisLing YunzhiIonut MazareanuYanbo ZhaoAi JinRobert Kopelman

VIOLACo-PrincipalGábor Mokány

Ong Lin KernSun YuanThian Ai WenFan RanEmil Csonka*Rebecca Saxby*Ida Margit Kovács

CELLOCo-PrincipalCsaba KörösAssistant PrincipalSteven RetallickSub-PrincipalMátyás Major

Gerald DavisJulie DessureaultLaurentiu GhermanElizabeth Tan SuyinSejla Simon

DOUBLE BASSSection PrincipalWolfgang Steike

Raffael BietenhaderJun-Hee ChaeNaohisa FurusawaJohn KennedyAndreas Dehner

FLUTESection Principal*Johanna GruskinCo-PrincipalYukako YamamotoSub-PrincipalRachel Jenkyns

PICCOLOPrincipalSonia Croucher

OBOESection PrincipalSimon EmesCo-Principal*Elisa MetusSub-PrincipalNiels Dittmann

CLARINETSection PrincipalGonzalo EstebanCo-PrincipalDavid Dias da SilvaSub-PrincipalMatthew Larsen

BASS CLARINETPrincipalChris Bosco

BASSOONSection PrincipalAlexandar LenkovCo-Principal*Ignacio PerezSub-PrincipalDenis Plangger

CONTRABASSOONPrincipalVladimir Stoyanov

HORNSection PrincipalGrzegorz CurylaCo-PrincipalJames SchumacherSub-PrincipalLaurence DaviesAssistant PrincipalSim Chee Ghee

TRUMPETCo-PrincipalWilliam TheisSub-PrincipalJeffrey Missal

TROMBONESection Principal*Ricardo MollaCo-PrincipalFernando BorjaSub-Principal*Marques Young

TUBAPrincipal*Alexander Hurst

TIMPANISection PrincipalMatthew Thomas

PERCUSSIONSection PrincipalMatthew PrendergastSub-PrincipalsJoshua Vonderheide*Matthew Kantorski*Tan Su Yin

HARPPrincipalTan Keng Hong

PIANOAkiko Daniš

* arranged by Alasdair MalloyConcert Notes by Alasdair Malloy

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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPMANAGEMENTYayuk Yulianawati RilaJalwati Mohd Noor

MUSIC TALENT DEVELOPMENT &MANAGEMENTSoraya Mansor

PLANNING, FINANCE & ITMohd Hakimi Mohd RosliNorhisham Abd RahmanSiti Nur Ilyani Ahmad FadzillahNurfharah Farhana Hashimi

PROCUREMENT & CONTRACTLogiswary RamanNorhaszilawati Zainudin

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATIONSharhida SaadMuknoazlida MukhadzimNor Afidah NordinNik Nurul Nadia Nik Abdullah

TECHNICAL OPERATIONSFiroz KhanMohd Zamir Mohd IsaShahrul Rizal Mohd AliDayan Erwan MaharalZolkarnain Sarman

MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONICORCHESTRA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERNor Raina Yeong Abdullah

GENERAL MANAGERKhor Chin YangSoraya Mansor

GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICETimmy Ong

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION/ ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT/ MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC YOUTHORCHESTRAAhmad Muriz Che RoseSharon Francis LihanFadilah Kamal FrancisShireen Jasin MokhtarKatherine Tan Jia Yiing

MUSIC LIBRARYOng Li-HueyWong Seong SeongMuhamad Zaid Azzim Mohd Diah

EDUCATION & OUTREACHShafrin SabriShireen Jasin Mokhtar

FIRST VIOLINLim Gen WenLee Yan XingDenise MubinElle Chang Su-TingKylie TanAlisha Chan Yi Hung

SECOND VIOLINNgoh Ea SonTimothy SongNicole Leong Ka YengKyvie TanSophia Tan Pinqi

CELLOGoh Wen ChihIsabel lau Kai ZiCharlene Lee AnnCharissa Tan Tian Ai

FLUTEBonnie Kong Tien Li

OBOEMohd Izzat Bukhori AwangTunku Amanina Tunku Ibrahim

CLARINETTan Yi XinEmily Tiow Yu Xian

FRENCH HORNChloe Chai Mei QinMohd Adznan Mokhtar

TRUMPET Nurliyana Abdul Ghafar

TROMBONEAinul Basyirah AznanAbdul Hanif Abdul HamidLow Kim Ven

TUBATan Shun Zhong

PIANO Jovian Wong Liman

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