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BSO Mobile Club Join the BSO Mobile Club and be notified of performance reminders, premiums and special offers directly to your cell phone.    Enroll Online!       Or    Text "BSO" at 72648 There is no cost to join the BSO Mobile Club, however standard text messaging charges may apply from your cellular service provider. Podcast Stay in tune with the latest audio and video podcasts from the current and past BSO and Boston Pops seasons.    BSO Podcast    Boston Pops Podcast Supported by Firefox 2.0, IE 7.0, and Safari 2.0		André Previn conductor, composer, and pianist Conductor, composer, and pianist André Previn has received a number of awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments. He continues to redefine the possibilities in his extraordinary career. Mr. Previn is one of the most distinguished musicians of our time. He holds both the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, received the Kennedy Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, was honored as Musical America’s “Musician of the Year” in 1999, and was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. He received the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto in 2006. In May 2008, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the London Symphony Orchestra. Sir André Previn has received several Grammy Awards, most recently in 2005 for the recordings of his violin concerto “Anne-Sophie” and Bernstein’s Serenade featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter together with the Boston and London Symphony Orchestras. A frequent guest with the world’s major orchestras – both in concert and on recordings – André Previn has worked frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Vienna Philharmonic. In addition, he has held the chief artistic posts with such orchestras as the Houston Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic. As a pianist, Mr. Previn enjoys recording and performing song recitals, chamber music and jazz. He performed recitals with Renée Fleming at Lincoln Center and Barbara Bonney at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Mr. Previn performs and teaches annually at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he works with student orchestras, conductors and composers, and enjoys coaching chamber music. He regularly gives chamber music concerts with the Emerson String Quartet, as well as with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. André Previn has enjoyed a number of successes as a composer. His first opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque. During the 1999-2000 season, Mr. Previn had new works premiered and recorded by the Vienna Philharmonic (Diversions) and Renée Fleming (The Giraffes Go To Hamburg and Three Songs of Emily Dickinson). Other recent compositions include a work for violin and piano (Tango, Song, and Dance) and his violin concerto “Anne-Sophie” commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His double concerto for violin and double bass for Anne-Sophie Mutter and Roman Patkoló was premiered by the Boston Symphony in April 2007. In March 2008, the Pittsburgh Symphony premiered Mr. Previn’s harp concerto under his direction. The European premiere will be given by the Vienna Philharmonic in 2009. His new work, Owls, will be premiered under his direction by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in October 2008.  Mr. Previn’s second opera, Brief Encounter, a commission from the Houston Grand Opera, will be premiered in Houston in May 2009.  Also in 2009, his double concerto for violin and viola written for Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yuri Bashmet will be premiered in New York.  Mr. Previn has also composed a cello sonata for Yo-Yo Ma, a piano concerto for Vladimir Ashkenazy, songs for mezzo-soprano Janet Baker, and soprano Barbara Bonney. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Carnegie Hall will present André Previn in the spring of 2009 for four concerts: a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra for which he will both conduct and perform as soloist (April 7), a performance by the Previn Jazz Trio (February 29), an evening of his compositions performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Renée Fleming (April 26), and a chamber music concert with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lynn Harrell, and Mr. Previn at the piano, featuring the world premiere of his new trio (April 22). Other highlights of his current and upcoming season include concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra with Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale de Santa Cecilia and concerts this summer in Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony. André Previn records for Deutsche Grammophon. His concert music is published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and Chester Music Ltd.