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38-602: BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme (also known as the NGA scheme) was launched in 1999 by Adam Gatehouse as part of the BBC 's commitment to young musical talent. Each autumn six or seven young artists at the beginning of careers on the national and international music scenes join the scheme for a two-year period. Since 2006 a jazz artist has also been invited every other year. The artists are given performance opportunities, including Radio 3 studio recordings, appearances and recordings with

76-540: A number of New Generation Artists have also featured on BBC Music Magazine cover CDs. In 2006 Welsh pianist Gwilym Simcock was invited as the first jazz artist to join the New Generation Artists scheme. This continues every other year with jazz trumpeter Tom Arthurs joining in 2008 and jazz reeds player Shabaka Hutchings in 2010. In 2008 Iranian harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani joined as the scheme's first artist playing an early instrument, though he has also made

114-1087: A per-performance basis. The Philharmonic long enjoyed a reputation for championing new music and for ambitious, innovative programming. In addition to performing classical standards, the Brooklyn Philharmonic commissioned an sixty-five new works from living composers as well, and debuted a hundred and sixty-six world premieres . Guest performers with the Brooklyn Philharmonic have, among others, included Yehudi Menuhin , Aaron Copland , Leonard Bernstein , Itzhak Perlman , Lorin Maazel , Peter Serkin , Michael Tilson Thomas , Jessye Norman , Robert Merrill , Alicia de Larrocha , James Galway , Victoria de Los Angeles , Roberta Peters , Claudio Arrau , Richard Stoltzman , Leonard Rose , Byron Janis , Laurie Anderson , Elvis Costello , Lynn Harrell , Tania León , Yasiin Bey, Erykah Badu and André Watts . The Philharmonic garnered 21 ASCAP awards for innovative programing. It

152-643: A rebirth with the hiring of conductor Alan Pierson as Artistic and music director. Pierson is a founder of the highly regarded ensemble Alarm Will Sound and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Eastman School of Music . The orchestra's new focus was to be on Brooklyn itself, its extraordinary diversity, and the excitement of its new status in the world imagination. For his first season in 2011–12, Pierson conceived three series of programs, each developed with and performed in

190-580: A serious mark as an interpreter of 20th-century music and newly commissioned compositions. On 26 September 2012 seven new artists were announced which included the scheme's first guitarist Sean Shibe. Several New Generation Artists are also former participants in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the New Generation Artists scheme, over fifty New Generation Artists past and present performed 12 concerts during

228-638: A specific Brooklyn community: the Downtown Brooklyn series focused on that neighborhood's history, the Brighton Beach series delved into that community's Russian roots and traditions, and the Bed-Stuy series drew on the legacy of rap and DJ artists whom that neighborhood had produced. Critics responded enthusiastically to the Philharmonic's rebirth, its programming, and its performances: Alex Ross described

266-402: Is confusion among the public as to whether we are part of BAM, or independent, and over time we've tried closer and looser affiliations. We find that decentralization works better. But the orchestra also likes the alignment with BAM and its image of being willing to try new things." Harvey Lichtenstein, then director of BAM and the driving force in the 1990 agreement, asserted, "basically, I think

304-799: The BBC Orchestras and appearances at several music festivals, including the Cheltenham Music Festival and the BBC Proms . They also regularly appear at the Edinburgh International Festival , Aldeburgh Festival , East Neuk Festival , Gregynog Festival , London Festival of Baroque Music and the York Early Music Festival . Artists also appear at London's Wigmore Hall in the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert series, as well as at

342-694: The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme (NGA), which aims to boost the careers of six or seven selected young classical performers or groups each year with concerts, recordings and Radio 3 broadcasts. He continued to direct the scheme until 2013, when he left Radio 3. Prominent musicians who participated in the scheme include the pianists Benjamin Grosvenor , Igor Levit , Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne , violinist Alina Ibragimova , trumpeter Alison Balsom , percussionist Colin Currie , mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and

380-513: The Belcea Quartet . Jonathan Lennie, writing in Time Out in 2009, called it "a tribute to his intuition ... that practically all of the 60 NGAs have lived up to their potential." Meurig Bowen , director of the Cheltenham Music Festival , commented that his "gift for detecting signs of greatness early on in musicians' careers has proved to be second-to-none." Gatehouse served on the jury of

418-666: The Brooklyn Philharmonic . The most recent one was the now-defunct Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, an American orchestra based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn , in existence from the 1950s until 2012. In its heyday it was called "groundbreaking" and "one of the most innovative and respected symphony orchestras of modern times". The Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn was formed in 1857 under Theodore Eisfeld , who served as its inaugural conductor until 1861. The Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn held concerts at

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456-859: The Dutch National Ballet (1978–89) and of the Dutch National Youth Orchestra (1980–90). He was also the artistic advisor to the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (1988–91). He has been the conductor of the Ipswich Symphony Orchestra since 2000. Other orchestras that he has conducted as a guest include the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra , Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra , La Fenice , Lamoureux Orchestra , Orchestre de Bordeaux Aquitaine , Royal Ballet and

494-580: The Guildhall School of Music , where he studied conducting under Vilem Tausky, Sir Adrian Boult and André Previn . Gatehouse started his professional conducting career as the musical director of the Ballet Rambert (1974–78). He was also the founding conductor of the Wolsey Orchestra (1972–76), then an amateur chamber orchestra. He then became the principal conductor and musical director of

532-661: The Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012 and 2015, and in 2015, he took over from Fanny Waterman as the artistic director of the competition, initially jointly with Paul Lewis, and from 2019, as the sole director. Martin Cullingford, writing in Gramophone magazine, commented that "Gatehouse's role in launching the BBC New Generation Artists scheme ... well places him to help discover

570-509: The Sage Gateshead and other UK concert venues. As part of the scheme Radio 3 has also collaborated with record companies, including nine co-production CDs with EMI Debut series, three of which ( Belcea Quartet , Simon Trpceski and Jonathan Lemalu ) have won Gramophone Awards for the best Debut CD of the year. There have also been co-productions with Harmonia Mundi , Decca , BIS , Sony Classical , Onyx, Signum and Basho Music , while

608-622: The Tenerife Symphony Orchestra . In 2013, he conducted the world première of and the Crowd (wept) , an opera by composer Erick Flores and librettist Afsaneh Gray about Jade Goody , the late reality television star. In 1991, Gatehouse gave up full-time conducting to join Radio 3 , the BBC 's classical music radio station, at first as a producer and subsequently as the editor for live music. He made radio programmes, including documentaries on

646-486: The 2012–13 season culminated in two sold-out shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music . In spite of the Brooklyn Philharmonic's popular and critical success in its two seasons under Pierson, the orchestra was unsuccessful in attracting donor and institutional funding sufficient to maintain its business model. A WQXR blog post about the Philharmonic's financial difficulties noted that "several Philharmonic musicians blame

684-518: The Athenaeum in Brooklyn Heights, then the largest concert venue in the borough, until it moved to the newly opened Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1861, where it remained until 1891. The Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn was the driving force in the establishment of BAM. in 1861 the orchestra was conducted once by Johann Strauss II in 1861 who is said to have impulsively snatched a violin from one of

722-461: The Brooklyn Philharmonic and BAM was sufficiently intertwined that it had once again become "practically speaking a subdepartment of BAM." In 1990 this relationship was formalized to a greater degree, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic served as resident orchestra for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) from then until 2005, performing frequently in BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House with 2,109 seats as well as in

760-585: The Brooklyn Philharmonic expired in June 2010. According to one critic, "the orchestra saw its overall quality fall off drastically under music director Michael Christie." Faced with daunting deficits and declining subscribership, as well as with Board retirements and resignations, the organisation was forced to cancel the 2010–11 season entirely. In 2010, despite these fiscal challenges, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Board and management committed to attempting

798-688: The Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev , which received Sony Radio Awards . He founded the BBC Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert series in 1998, which was broadcast on Radio 3, and continued to run it until 2013. He also founded the London Symphony Orchestra 's lunchtime concert series at St Luke's . He was also responsible for special Radio 3 programming on several composers, including composer weeks for Schubert and Tchaikovsky . In 1999, he founded

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836-627: The bank holiday weekend Saturday 29th - Monday 31 August at the Cadogan Hall in London, as part of the 2009 BBC Proms . Adam Gatehouse Gatehouse was born in London, and attended the Lycée Francais de Londres and the Royal College of Music , where he studied piano and clarinet. His first degree is in music and English which he studied at Dartington Hall and Exeter University. He then went to

874-575: The borough." The Philharmonic performed at the Brooklyn Public Library in the 189 seat Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture as well as in the Brooklyn Museum in the 460 seat Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium. In 2010, it was "squeezed financially out of BAM" altogether. In 2011, it announced plans to focus on Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brighton Beach and Downtown Brooklyn. Pierson remarked, "We really want to go back to BAM. I know

912-585: The early 1980s. Between 1941 and 1943 a new orchestra was formed called the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, an offshoot of the earlier Brooklyn Civic Orchestra, but it was not able to sustain itself and expired after 1943. In 1954, the Director of BAM, Julius Bloom, led the incorporation of another new orchestra also known as the "Brooklyn Philharmonia" in concert with noted conductor JM & Siegfried Landau and arts impresario Marks Levin. Landau gave

950-772: The first BAM burned down on 30 November 1903, the Boston Symphony series was held at the Baptist Hall of the Pilgrim church until the new BAM opened in 1908. After 1938 the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn was "almost nonexistent" and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences continued to present the Boston Symphony by itself through the 1972–73 season, although the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn continued to sponsor modest chamber music concerts at BAM and elsewhere until

988-425: The institution has to stand on its own two feet, artistically, financially and administratively." The BAM residency ended in 2005, and while the Brooklyn Philharmonic did continue to perform there on occasion, for the most part it "evaporated . . to a trickle of community-oriented chamber-music events" around Brooklyn. With the hiring of a new director, the Philharmonic "intends to establish enduring bases throughout

1026-541: The largest educational programs specifically aimed at financially disadvantaged children in New York City . The Philharmonic's "Smart Arts Academy", to cite one example, provided free daily music, arts, dance, theater, sports, movie making, and enrichment activities to about 250 students per school annually totaling some 6,000 students from New York's most financially challenged public schools. The Philharmonic's educational programs were supported by funds obtained by and for

1064-795: The next generation of keyboard greats." He was also a jury member for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2009 and 2013. In 2006, he founded the Festival de Valloires , a week-long chamber music festival held at Argoules , France, which he also directed. He serves on the Artistic Committee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust , a charitable trust that gives grants to young musicians. Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra There have been several organisations referred to as

1102-469: The oldest living orchestras in the New World," it had no organisational connection to the earlier Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn, with which it existed concurrently for almost thirty years. Foss's successor, Dennis Russell Davies , expanded the orchestra's programming to encompass festival-themed weekend programs. Robert Spano , the orchestra's next music director, was credited with markedly improving

1140-581: The orchestra a focus on contemporary and infrequently performed classical music. In 1982, the Brooklyn Philharmonia changed its name to the "Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra" while under the direction of American composer Lukas Foss , who was well-noted for his "Meet the Moderns" series, having received permission to adopt the name from the then still extant but much diminished Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn. Although it sometimes claimed to be "one of

1178-593: The orchestra players miss it terribly." Starting in 1974 the Philharmonic began performing in Prospect Park in the summer, and performed annually at many of New York's longest running art festivals, including Celebrate Brooklyn as well as at New York's largest church, Cathedral of St. John the Divine . The Brooklyn Philharmonic first performed at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1964, just two years after

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1216-435: The orchestra's "first season under Alan Pierson" as "remarkably innovative, perhaps even revolutionary", and The New York Times praised Pierson's and the Philharmonic's "remarkable," "brilliant" performance, and wrote that on its new path, the Philharmonic "has the potential to be not just a good orchestra but also an important one." The orchestra's performances around Brooklyn were well attended by enthusiastic audiences, and

1254-537: The orchestra's current troubles on the radical shift away from its traditional symphonic formats." The orchestra again suspended performances in late 2013. The orchestra's administrative offices were located in the artistic enclave of Dumbo in downtown Brooklyn. Like the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra , the Brooklyn Philharmonic was considered "freelance" in that its musicians were not employed full-time, but rather paid on

1292-550: The orchestra. The earliest Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn was one of the principal founders of BAM. The last Brooklyn Philharmonic (then the Brooklyn Philharmonia) was in turn founded under the auspices of BAM in 1954, where it had its first home. The two institutions were not legally separated until 1971, although the Philharmonia/Philharmonic continued to perform at BAM. Over time the relationship between

1330-441: The other players to join in during The Blue Danube . After the departure of Eisfeld, Theodore Thomas served as conductor until 1891, a celebrated tenure. After the departure of Thomas, the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn no longer sponsored its own orchestra, choosing instead to sponsor the Boston Symphony at BAM, which it did from 1891 onwards and from 1895 in conjunction with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. After

1368-526: The same institution's Harvey Lichtenstein Theater with 874 seats. A 1998 article in The New York Times observed, "the association with BAM has been a mixed blessing. It has helped define the orchestra's artistic personality, but it is also the root of several current problems." The president of the Philharmonic's board at the time remarked, "our relationship with BAM has gone through its ups and downs. There

1406-537: The sound of the group while continuing its focus on unique programming. Spano's successor, Michael Christie , added the concept of thematic programming to the orchestra's schedule. Christie's first Brooklyn Philharmonic concert as music director was in February 2006. In September 2007, the Brooklyn Philharmonic announced the extension of Christie's contract with the orchestra through the 2009–2010 season, with an evergreen clause to allow for yearly renewal. His contract with

1444-778: Was routinely reviewed by critics and journalists from The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , the New York Post , the Brooklyn Eagle , and the Brooklyn Paper as well as radio stations WQXR and WNYC , among other media outlets. During the tenure of Executive Director Gregg Gustafson, the Brooklyn Philharmonic appeared multiple times on the television show Late Night with David Letterman . Brooklyn Philharmonic recordings are widely available for download on iTunes , among other places. The Brooklyn Philharmonic developed, financially supported and staffed some of

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