At the New York Philharmonic, Gilbert has widened the artistic reach of the 172-year-old institution. He initiated annual residencies for composers (with Magnus Lindberg the first appointment) and leading performing artists (this season, violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Inon Barnatan). Semi-staged productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, Janácek's Cunning Little Vixen, and Stravinsky's Petrushka have been presented to critical acclaim and capacity audiences. Gilbert also encouraged the development of two series devoted to contemporary music, CONTACT! devoted to premiering new scores, and the New York Philharmonic Biennial, a curatorial approach to exploring a wide range of contemporary and modern composers, inaugurated in spring of 2014.
Alan Gilbert opens the 2014-15 season with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, where he replaces the orchestra's indisposed music director, Riccardo Chailly, in season-opening concerts and on tour at the Lucerne Festival, Musikfest Berlin, and London's BBC Proms. Other guest engagements this season include guest weeks with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, and the NDR Symphony Hamburg, as well as returns to the Metropolitan Opera, where he will conduct Don Giovanni with Peter Mattei in the title role, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he gives that organization's first-ever performances of Janácek's Glagolitic Mass.
With the New York Philharmonic, Gilbert conducts programs including a pairing of Mahler's First Symphony with the U.S. premiere of Unsuk Chin's Clarinet Concerto; La Dolce Vita: Music of Italian Cinema featuring Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, and Josh Groban; Verdi's Requiem; a staging of Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher featuring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard; and an evening with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. He concludes The Nielsen Project—the multi-year initiative to perform and record the Danish composer's symphonies and concertos, the first release of which was named by the New York Times as among the Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 – and presides over a tour of major European cities.
Gilbert is Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies and holds the William Schuman Chair in Musical Studies at the Juilliard School. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut to great acclaim in 2008 conducting John Adams's Doctor Atomic, the DVD of which received a Grammy Award. Renée Fleming's recent Decca recording "Poèmes", on which he conducted, received a 2013 Grammy Award. His recordings have also received top honors from the Chicago Tribune and Gramophone magazine. In May 2010 Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, and in December 2011 Columbia University's Ditson Conductor's Award for his "exceptional commitment to the performance of works by American composers and to contemporary music." In 2014 he was elected to The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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