2021 Annual Report by Aspen Music Festival and School

ANNUAL REPORT 2021 FISCAL YEAR October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021 ROBERT SPANO Music Director ALAN FLETCHER President and CEO

TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Letters from the President and CEO and Board Chair 5 AMFS IDEA Statement of Commitment 6 Artistic Highlights 16 Uncommon Connections 18 Student Experience 24 Education and Community 28 Benefits 30 2020: The Virtual Season 32 Board of Trustees 34 Artist-Faculty 36 Family of Supporters 48 Financial Overview

COVER AMFS students celebrate on the Tent stage after a euphoric performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, “Ode to Joy.” OPPOSITE A patron reflects the pure elation that many felt when experiencing live music in the Tent once again after a very long pandemic year. ABOVE 2021 Fleming Fellowship Artists Ian Rucker (l) and Joshua Conyers (r) perform during a Saturday Opera Scenes Class at the Wheeler Opera House. PHOTO CREDITS Carlin Ma, Elle Logan Design inspired by original watercolor Ode to Joy by Isa Catto.

The pandemic brought us tests we hadn’t imagined and taught us things about ourselves we didn’t know. This has been true for each of us, and was true as well for the Aspen Music Festival and School as a whole. After the shutdown of March 2020, there were seemingly unending questions. How much did live concerts mean to us? How about playing music with others? Teaching the brightest young musicians of tomorrow? Being together with art? Several years ago, I gave a speech at Convocation where I talked about the challenges of a life in music—and the incomparable rewards. Life isn’t easy, I reminded them, life is a test. When it comes, will you have faith? Will you rise? Over the past two years, that has been our story. When we asked our donors, “Are you with us, even with shuttered halls and virtual events?” they said, “yes.” When we asked faculty, students, and guest performers to work on Zoom, in masks, with complicated protocols, they said, “yes.” When we asked our staff to make intensely complicated plans, and then remake them sometimes the very next day, they said, “yes.” When we asked our audience if they wanted to return, they said, “yes.” The Virtual Festival in 2020, and the live summer Festival in 2021, were each a triumph of faith over fear, and a deep acknowledgment of what the Festival and School means to so many. This report highlights what we learned during this time—the strength of our artistic lineage, of our financial fundamentals, of the spirit of the Festival community. It is my pleasure to share it with you.

Alan Fletcher President and CEO

An arts institution is a collective endeavor. When challenges come, they must be met by all in its community of supporters, acting together. When one commits to involvement, that reflects an abiding belief in the mission to which the commitment is made. So it is with the Aspen Music Festival and School as demonstrated especially by how we all dealt with the summers of 2020 and 2021. You—our board, national council, and other donors—not only kept up your support, you gave more. Likewise, our leadership and staff did the same. Our music director Robert Spano, our CEO Alan Fletcher, our senior and year-round staff, our faculty and guest artists all labored with and under the most difficult circumstances to keep AMFS going. Like you, they showed up for our audiences and our students, as did the students themselves. Together, AMFS kept the music alive. These summers brought challenges, but also solace and joy that was both familiar and unique. As much as I believed in the AMFS before, my faith is now even deeper and stronger. I am proud to share it with you in this report.

Michael Klein Chair, Board of Trustees

The ongoing national dialogue about racism, which intensified during 2020, led the AMFS Board and staff to consider how the Aspen Music Festival and School could best respond more intentionally to the current environment and contribute to lasting, positive change in the world of music and beyond. To fully explore this issue, we engaged in an intensive, months-long process to codify and deepen our organization’s commitment to anti-racist values. The resulting statement of our inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) commitments records what we are prepared to be held accountable for as we continue our work to embody the Aspen Idea: celebrating the union of mind, body, and spirit through music. We believe we must not only be intentional about these commitments, we must also be explicit that they intend to embrace the talents and contributions of AMELIA (African, Middle Eastern, Latin, Indigenous, and Asian) people, lest we continue reflecting a society that privileges White talents and contributions. We have already started our work and plan to achieve the commitments we describe here by September 2022. We will report on our progress quarterly to a newly formed IDEA committee consisting of students, alumni, artist-faculty, staff, and Board members. In addition, we commit to being more open to input from all stakeholders. We understand that diversity and inclusion go hand in hand, and if we are to achieve greater equity, or fairness, as an organization and a field, we must be more inviting of criticism.

INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ACCESS COMMITMENTS Adopted July 2021 1. S TUDENT BODY. Every year we invite a number of AMELIA students who are not able

to afford to attend the AMFS. We believe this reflects structural racism. In the interest of social justice, we are establishing 10–20 additional fellowships for Black, Latin, and Indigenous students. These fellowships will be new and will not reduce the current fellowships available. 2. FACULTY. We recognize a lack of diversity in our faculty. We will provide our students

with the most well-rounded education, including a broad spectrum of musical perspectives, while simultaneously increasing opportunity for AMELIA teaching musicians by making efforts to diversify our faculty at every hiring opportunity. 3. STAGES. As a part of the larger movement to address the lack of diversity on the stages

of classical music, it is our responsibility to find and promote AMELIA musicians. We will particularly focus on the creation of new repertoire, especially larger orchestral works and operas, because that is where we see the greatest deficits. By the summer 2022 season, 75% of our headlining programs will feature an AMELIA soloist, conductor, and/or composer. 4. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. We will diversify our Board by actively recruiting AMELIA members.

Having considered the obstacles to increasing diversity, AMFS commits to a change in our implicit policy that individuals must have a residence in Aspen to serve on our Board. Our goal is to increase AMELIA representation from 6% to 16%. 5. TRAINING. To stay abreast of the ways in which the field is confronting issues of IDEA, we

commit to biannual staff workshops and Board discussions concerning the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, and religious identity. All staff will receive training in how to build a more inclusive culture. 6. MEASUREMENT OF IMPACT. We will annually survey students, artist-faculty, staff, and

Board members to learn how they feel we have lived our deepened commitment to IDEA. This information will be reviewed by a committee to verify that we are making progress. 7. COMMITMENT TO THE ROARING FORK VALLEY. We commit to work in partnership with

local school districts, organizations, and communities to expand access to the arts for all. With a specific goal of more deeply engaging the Latin American community, we will create welcoming environments for all members of the Roaring Fork Valley community to experience music, will produce culturally responsive music programming, and will work to remove barriers to access.

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AMFS STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT TO INCREASE INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ACCESS

ARTISTIC HIGHLIGHTS

The 2021 season revisited the dual themes and musical works that would have been featured during the canceled in-person 2020 season: “Beethoven’s Revolution” belatedly celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth, and “Uncommon Women of Note” exploring ambition, desire, and identity from the perspective of female composers and artists. The summer’s programming also expanded musical horizons by introducing guest artists and works by historic and contemporary composers who identify as African-American, Middle Eastern, Latin, Indigenous, and Asian (AMELIA). This particular programing was the culmination of several years of research by the AMFS’s Artistic Department, and accelerated by a months-long process by staff and Board members to codify and deepen the organization’s commitment to anti-racist values. The Aspen Contemporary Ensemble opened the season with a kaleidoscopic program of works by

composers inti figgis-vizueta, Kaija Saariaho, Pierre Boulez, and, in a fitting tribute to the ensemble’s late former mentor, Sydney Hodkinson’s own Bricks: Concerto Fantasia for Violin and Chamber Sextet. That evening, the Festival introduced Aspen audiences to an electrifying musical prodigy in jazz and classical pianist Matthew Whitaker. Although only twenty, this seasoned performer has been thrilling audiences worldwide with his individual approach and virtuosity. Opening weekend was emblematic of aspirations for the 2021 season. The Aspen Chamber Symphony’s opening concert juxtaposed African American composer Julia Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra, with Inon Barnatan’s euphoric performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto No. 5 and finished with alumnus conductor Leonard Slatkin presenting a delightful glimpse into Beethoven’s creative process for his unforgettable Symphony No. 5 in C minor. Music Director Robert Spano and the Aspen Festival Orchestra brought the crowds in and outside the Tent to their feet with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, featuring four rising stars of the opera world, and the Denver-based Kantorei chorus singing “Ode to Joy” from the distanced 400 section of the Tent. The weekend finished with the return of families and friends to the Festival’s free Fourth of July Concert.

OPPOSITE Music Director Robert Spano conducts the iconic “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125. Because of distancing recommendations from the Festival’s aerosol consultants, the chorus—Denver’s Kantorei under chorus director Joel Rinsema—sang from the Tent’s distanced 400 section. OPPOSITE INSET The soloists for Beethoven’s Ninth: (l–r) 2021 Fleming Fellowship Artist Lauren Decker mezzo-soprano, Will Liverman baritone, Jeanine De Bique soprano, Lawrence Brownlee tenor. RIGHT Pianist Michael Whitaker delighted AMFS audiences and students alike as he made his Aspen debut and spoke with students afterward.

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The Aspen Music Festival and School’s 2021 season marked the triumphant return of live music to the Benedict Music Tent. While a summer of celebration, it offered poignant moments of reflection—on classical music’s past and the Festival’s own pandemic journey of self-examination—and a view of the musical landscape ahead.

New Beginnings and a Parting Summer 2021 marked the inaugural year of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS (AOTVA) program, led by coartistic directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers. The program is designed to provide holistic training not only in staged performance and vocal technique, but also the career development, donor relations, and financial planning that often underpin the careers of self-employed artists. As the AMFS planned for the 2021 season, research indicated that, of all musical instruments, the singing voice produces the most aerosols with the furthest reach. For safety reasons AOTVA reduced its enrollment from the originally envisioned fifty singers to just fifteen Fleming Fellowship Artists, enabling adherence to the recommended minimum 12-foot distancing between singers, other performers, and the audience. The reduced enrollment not only kept singers, coaches, artist-faculty, and patrons safe, but also proved to be an intimate and fulfilling experience for these immensely talented young artists. They demonstrated these bonds in their first performance when they learned—just moments before curtain—that Edward Berkeley, who for thirty years led the Aspen Opera Center, had died unexpectedly. (See In Memoriam, page 41.) The company came together to present a fitting tribute to their mentor—a magical production of his last directorial work: Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Fleming joined the artists on stage to read an original narration written for the performance by Berkeley, and Summers conducted. Later in the season, the company presented an abridged concert version of Handel’s Rodelinda, conducted by longtime artist-faculty member Kenneth Merrill and directed by Omer Ben Seadia. They also delighted AOTVA benefactors with a Cabaret Evening Gala (produced by AOTVA musical theater instructor Rachelle Fleming), which took place on a magically transformed Benedict Music Tent stage. The students also organized and produced a poignant musical tribute to Berkeley, which was livestreamed to his family, friends, and former students.

ABOVE, TOP Sopranist and Fleming Artist Fellow Key’mon Murrah sings the role of King Bertarido in Handel’s Rodelinda. ABOVE, BOTTOM Fleming Artist Fellows Amani Cole-Felder (l) and Ricardo José Rivera (center) sing the roles of Pamina and Papageno as Patrick Summers conducts during the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

Celebrations BEETHOVEN’S 250TH BIRTHDAY With any milestone birthday, the guests make the celebration. As the AMFS belatedly marked Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a deep dive into the composer’s most beloved works, the occasion served as an opportunity to celebrate the return of AMFS alumni and friends to Aspen.

S everal Aspen favorites gave a grand tour of Beethoven’s works for piano. Behzod Abduraimov (far left) performed a spirited rendition of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15 with the Aspen Chamber Symphony, conducted by newcomer Erina Yashima (near left). Yefim Bronfman performed Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor with the AFO conducted by alumnus James Conlon, and Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major in his recital. Andreas Haefliger presented Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, op. 31, no 1, and offered an in-person reprise of Piano Sonata No. 29, in B-flat major op. 108, “Hammerklavier,” which he shared with online AMFS audiences during the pandemic. V ladimir Feltsman (bottom left) presented Beethoven’s 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, bookended by works of Bach and Schubert, while Jeremy Denk built his wide-ranging recital in the Festival’s final week to a supreme finish with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor. V iolinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong picked up where they left off during the AMFS’s summer 2020 Virtual Festival with Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 2, 7, and 9; and in the penultimate Aspen Festival Orchestra concert of the season, Ehnes and conductor Jane Glover brought the Tent audience to its feet with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 61.

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A lumni Stefan Jackiw violin and Alisa Weilerstein cello joined pianist Inon Barnatan for a resounding, livestreamed performance of Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto with the Aspen Festival Orchestra under the baton of conductor Ludovic Morlot, as well as an allBeethoven recital that included the Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13, “Pathétique,” and the “Ghost” Trio.

UNCOMMON WOMEN OF NOTE Glover (a), a long-time AMFS favorite, seemed a standard bearer for the Season’s “Uncommon Women of Note” theme. In her performance with Ehnes, she demonstrated precisely why she is such a revered mentor to AMFS students. Said Aspen Times critic Harvey Steiman, “Glover stood out by finding exquisite balances between ensemble and soloist without losing any of the necessary orchestral energy. Her every phrase had an arc, and she winnowed the ends of those phrases so they did not cover James Ehnes’ refined playing when it sailed into the fiddle’s highest notes.” R ising professionals Gemma New (b) and Erina Yashima (c) and ACA student Maya Johnson (d) sported ponytails and a ballerina's grace while conducting, offering a premonition of uncommon women of note who will grace the podium in the future.

M eanwhile, the 2021 Season celebrated both new and familiar voices throughout the summer. Classical music singer Julia Bullock (e) made her Aspen debut with veteran conductor Nicholas McGegan for a performance of Delage’s Quatre poèmes hindous with the Aspen Chamber Symphony, and the following week delighted her audience with an exquisitely crafted and intimate recital after a thunderstorm forced a last-minute move from the Tent to Harris Concert Hall. A lumna Golda Schultz confirmed once again the promise she demonstrated as a student in a luminous performance of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Anne Trulove’s aria from The Rake’s Progress with the Aspen Chamber Symphony. Renée Fleming (f) took a break from her new role with the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program to perform her friend and Grammy-winning composer Maria Schnieder’s (f) Winter Morning Walks—a work based on Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Ted Kooser’s 2001 anthology of poems by the same name— with Robert Spano and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. S chneider was just one of the many women composers whose works were featured this summer. Others, many of them AMELIA composers, included Julia Perry, Clarice Assad, Hannah Kendall, Jessie Montgomery, Eleanor Alberga, inti figgis-vizueta, Du Yun, Ayanna Woods, and Gabriela Lena Frank.

Returning Friends—Old and New The sheer joy of being together again with colleagues was readily apparent in so many of the 2021 season’s performances. Artist-faculty members Anton Nel piano, Robert Chen violin (right), Zhenwei Shi viola, and members of the Pacifica Quartet joined guest artist and flutist Marina Piccinini (far right) on stage for an exuberant performance of works by women composers Sofia Gubaidulina and Amy Beach, as well as Beethoven’s Serenade in D major.

Conductor Nicholas McGegan gathered a group of stellar faculty, alumni, guests, and students—including Chen, alumna Simone Porter, and rising star Stephen Waarts violins; Nadine Asin flute; Elaine Douvas oboe; Erik Ralske horn; and Stuart Stephenson trumpet—for a spirited rendition of Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 5. Faculty also premiered the season’s newest works. The American String Quartet presented the world premiere of Octavio Vazquez’s Piano Quintet, with the composer himself joining as pianist. The American Brass Quintet premiered the final work composed by AMFS alumnus and Paul Taylor Dance Company director Donald York, who passed away in 2021. John Rojak bass trombone, Jacob Nissly percussion, and Nancy Allen harp joined conductor Timothy Weiss and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble for the premiere of Steven Christopher Sacco’s Quartet for Bass Trombone, Vibraphone, Marimba, and Harp.

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At the first artist-faculty chamber music concert of the season, Bing Wang and Espen Lilleslåtten violin, James Dunham viola, Desmond Hoebig cello, and Nel piano presented a breathtaking rendition of Dvořák’s Piano Quintet in A major, proving that AMFS faculty were back in full force.

Alumni Star Turns Another great delight of the 2021 season was welcoming alumni back to Aspen after a year when so many were unable share their talents with live audiences and so many rising careers came to a halt. A lumni violinist Robert McDuffie (a) delighted audiences with a recital of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 4 and works by Paulus and Mendelssohn (joined by Fleming Artist Ian Rucker baritone and artist-faculty members Derek Wang piano and Brinton Smith cello) and shared an intimate Artist Dinner with patrons. The Tent audience was clearly thrilled to see the familiar chemistry

between alumni violinist Gil Shaham (b) and music director Robert Spano when they performed Barber’s Violin Concerto with the Aspen Festival Orchestra. C onductor Gemma New (c) and pianist Tengku Irfan (c) reunited for the first time since their student days to make their professional debuts with the Aspen Chamber Symphony on July 23. Their shared anticipation and delight in the interplay between soloist and orchestra in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G was apparent to the audience in the Tent, as well as viewers from their home countries of New Zealand and Malaysia, who watched the concert’s livestream. I n his Aspen guest artist debut, cello alumnus Zlatomir Fung (d) effortlessly demonstrated why he was the first American in four decades and the youngest musician ever to win First Place in the Cello Division of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition. He seemed to enjoy himself thoroughly as he teamed up with veteran conductor Hugh Wolff to perform Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Aspen Festival Orchestra. A lumna pianist Joyce Yang (e) and 2019 winner of the Aspen Conducting f

Prize Benjamin Manis (f) shared one of the more memorable moments of the season. Just as they embarked on the quiet, Quasi adagio that begins the second movement of the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1, the heavens opened with a deafening downpour that rendered everything—even Yang’s powerful playing— inaudible. The non-verbal communication between concertmaster Alexander Kerr, Yang, and Manis (who had stepped in at the last moment for the originally scheduled conductor) delighted both livestream and Tent audiences. When the performance resumed after a ten-minute delay, the artists prevailed with a performance more electrifying than the excitement of the thunderstorm.

The AMFS once again partnered with Theatre Aspen to present The Sweetest Sounds, a special evening celebrating the music of Richard Rodgers. Broadway's Andy Einhorn returned to conduct the dazzling event, which featured Broadway talents Christy Altomare (Anastasia), Brandon Victor Dixon (The Color Purple), Aaron Lazar (Phantom of the Opera), and Mandy Gonzalez (Wicked) performing beloved hits from Carousel, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, and other Rodgers mainstays.

ABOVE Wicked star Mandy Gonzalez (foreground) sings "Something Wonderful" from The King and I as (l–r) Altomare, Dixon, Einhorn, and Lazar look on. INSET Governor Jared Polis honored front-line workers at the summer’s joint "Thank You" event for essential workers.

Just prior to the season’s start, the AMFS collaborated with nine other Aspen arts organizations—Anderson Ranch, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Film, Aspen Institute, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen Words, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, Pitkin County Library, and Theatre Aspen—to extend a heart-felt “thank you” to the Roaring Fork Valley essential workers who kept hospitals, grocery stores, and essential services running during the pandemic. Colorado Governor Jared Polis was on hand for the event, which featured performances by artists from many of the participating organizations.

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Community Collaborations

GRAND FINALE Even though the Festival opened with Beethoven’s big birthday bash, its final week was nothing short of a celebration. Violinist Pinchas Zukerman returned with the Zukerman Trio—himself, cellist Amanda Forsyth, and pianist Shai Wosner—for an all-Beethoven recital. The Aspen Chamber Symphony’s final concert featured both a familiar favorite and an exciting new talent with conductor Christian Arming and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The twenty-twoyear-old cellist demonstrated why he has garnered so much international attention with his intense presence and rapt attention to the orchestra around him as he played Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor. He further endeared himself when, after his own performance, he slipped—masked and nearly unnoticed—into the back row of the Tent’s 800 section to watch Arming conduct—with what can only be described as joyful abandon—Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.

Violinist Augustin Hadelich primed audiences for Final Sunday with an unaccompanied recital that left Aspen Times critic Harvey Steiman “slack jawed” and believing “that Bach really was channeling the glory of God” in his Partita in D minor. An AMFS staff member speculated that had Bach ever had the opportunity to hear Hadelich play, he would have said, “That guy. He’s the one I had in mind when I wrote that.” Hadelich joined Robert Spano for the season’s finale, a powerful yet exquisitely nuanced offering of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, followed by the Aspen Festival Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor.

OPPOSITE TOP Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Aspen debut with the Aspen Chamber Symphony.

LEFT Augustin Hadelich (l) and Robert Spano (l) presented a fittingly celebratory end to the 2021 season. LEFT INSET Hadelich amazed audiences in his Benedict Music Tent recital.

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OPPOSITE BOTTOM (l–r) Pinchas Zukerman, Shai Wosner, and Amanda Forsyth perform as the Zukerman Trio in Harris Concert Hall.

UNCOMMON CONNECTIONS

The Festival’s virtual presentations, which began in 2020 as a means of staying engaged with core audiences during the pandemic, grew so popular that regular patrons and audience members who were still uncertain about travel clamored for a continuation of these online offerings. In response, the AMFS presented a selection of six varied 2021 Festival experiences—streamed live from the Benedict Music Tent—along with an unexpected seventh livestream of the Remembrance Concert for Edward Berkeley, organized and performed by AOTVA students. All seven of the livestreams offered a glimpse of the breadth and depth of Festival performances. Over the summer, the livestreams attracted approximately 13,838 views from more than forty different countries. The Aspen Festival Orchestra’s opening weekend performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony earned the highest viewership, while Augustin Hadelich’s performance with the AFO on Final Sunday ranked second but attracted viewers from the most varied representation of countries. The livestreams also established connections with brand new audiences—and donors—from across the United States and around the world, prompting forty-eight donations over the summer. Of those, 71 percent were from donors who had never given to the AMFS before.

LIVESTREAMS BY THE NUMBERS LIVESTREAM PROMPTING THE • MOST DONATIONS • MOST NEW DONORS

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AND OTHER STATES INCLUDING: Alabama, District of Columbia, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland, Texas, Utah, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington

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TOP STATE VIEWERSHIP

Colorado California Texas New York Florida

GEOGRAPHIC RANGE BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY, AFO | July 3 BEETHOVEN’S TRIPLE CONCERTO with Morlot, Jackiw, Weilerstein, and Barnatan, AFO | July 11 MOZART’S THE MAGIC FLUTE | July 17 ASPEN CHAMBER SYMPHONY with Gemma New and Tengku Irfan | July 23 ASPEN CHAMBER SYMPHONY with Benjamin Manis and Joyce Yang | August 13 FINAL SUNDAY with Robert Spano and Augustin Hadelich, AFO | August 22 A REMEMBRANCE CONCERT FOR EDWARD BERKELEY | August 7

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TOTAL VIEWERSHIP

STUDENT EXPERIENCE

The 2021 Student Experience Safety was the sole driver of enrollment decisions for the 2021 season. Through careful planning, the Festival welcomed 264 students versus the typical 640, which allowed students to be housed in single bedrooms without sharing, and the Festival to follow safety recommendations for distancing of musicians on stage. These prompted a change from the AMFS’s typical freedom to perform full symphonies to repertoire that accommodated chamber-sized orchestras—a new challenge met with grace and expertise by the Artistic Department.

Some programs, however, remained affected by restrictions. Because research still indicated that singing voices produce the most aerosols with the farthest reach of any instrument, the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS program welcomed only fifteen Fleming Fellowships Artists, adjusted down from the approximately fifty singers originally planned for, while the Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute was conducted entirely online. With meticulously planned curriculum and technological delivery, the Institute was well-received, particularly for a virtual offering. Although ever-changing and challenging throughout the summer, the AMFS’s careful approach to safely emerging from the pandemic proved successful and satisfying not only for the students who attended during summer 2021, but also the artist-faculty who mentored them, and the overjoyed audiences who attended their performances.

OPPOSITE 2021 Fleming Fellowship Artist Yvette Keong performs with the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra conducted by Aspen Conducting Academy Fellow Jacob Niemann. ABOVE RIGHT Oboe artist-faculty member Titus Underwood chats with a student prior to a performance.

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Once students and faculty arrived on campus, the AMFS implemented COVID testing protocols: every other week for those who were vaccinated, twice per week for unvaccinated, and four times per week for singers. Students, faculty, and staff wore masks in enclosed spaces and onstage—even in the open-air Tent—until mid-season, when improved conditions allowed relief from this requirement.

PLANNING AND PERSERVERANCE The planning involved in bringing music back to Aspen was no small feat. A staff COVID committee closely tracked and abided by ever-changing CDC, state, and local public health guidelines. The AMFS worked with an aerosol expert from the University of Colorado Boulder who tested all teaching and performance spaces and advised Operations and Student Services teams on use and capacity, and consulted with artist-faculty whose institutions around the country were developing COVID protocols of their own. In the Tent, the aerosol expert advised that six-foot minimum distances between orchestra musicians (plus more between aerosol-producing instruments) were the safest. With limited space on stage, the AMFS was faced with two choices: build a stage extension to increase capacity for musicians or reduce enrollment. As winter turned to spring, conditions improved as the vaccine became more widely available. The AMFS was proud to offer the Benedict Music Tent parking lot on Gillespie Street as a pop-up vaccination site, serving thousands from the Aspen community. Conditions continued to improve through the spring and updated recommendations enabled the AMFS safety team to fit more musicians on stage— reducing the minimum distance between strings to three feet and between aerosol producing instruments to six feet or more—and more importantly, to forego the expensive stage extension.

NEW SCHOLARSHIPS CREATED IN 2020 AND 2021 A hallmark of the AMFS is attracting and investing in talented, dedicated student musicians by offering innovative programs with renowned teachers, unparalleled performance opportunities, and financial assistance to make the Aspen experience possible. Over the last two years, many supporters stepped up to ensure that AMFS students continued to receive support and established generous new operating and endowed scholarships. The AMFS is pleased to announce the addition of ten fellowships for Black, Latin, and Indigenous students beginning in 2022. Operating scholarships are awarded on an annual basis and may cover tuition only or support a student in full by including room and board expenses. Endowed scholarships are created through a donation to the AMFS endowment. Each year, a board-approved percentage (between 4 and 5 percent) is drawn from the fund so that the principal continues to grow in perpetuity. The AMFS thanks the many supporters who established these scholarships. Newly endowed scholarships: Deanna J. Anderson Life and Legacy Percussion Fellowship Edward Berkeley Memorial Opera Scholarship Fund Krishna and Arjun Gupta Scholarship Barbara Koval Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund Operating scholarships: he Jorge Mester Conducting Prize – given by Scott Dunn T and Robbie Moray Brooks Smith Memorial Prize for Collaborative Piano – given by Scott Dunn and Robbie Moray Renée Fleming Artist Fellowships General Scholarship – given by Jan and Ron Greenberg Victoria Lea Smith Diversity Scholarship, in honor of Joan Harris I ncreasing Access Scholarships – lead support given by Mike Klein and Joan Fabry

Milestones and Moments  President and CEO Alan Fletcher (far left) celebrated with (l–r) Renata Arado violin, Elaine Douvas oboe, and James Dunham viola who were honored for 25 years of service with the AMFS in summer 2021. We are grateful to our dedicated artist-faculty members. u Students and artist-faculty alike played a significant role in introducing many of the new and newly re-discovered works by AMELIA composers that were featured this season. Dorothy DeLay Fellow Gallia Kastner joined the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra to perform the Violin Concerto in G major, op. 8 by Joseph Bologne – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the 18th-century Guadeloupe-born, Parisian composer of Senegalese descent.

contemporary African American composer Evan Williams’s Lux Aeterna and Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker’s Music for Brass (Sacred and Profane), while director of the AMFS’s classical guitar program Sharon Isbin presented a wide-ranging recital featuring works by composers Villa-Lobos, Leo Brouwer, Lauro, Montaña, and Barrios Mangoré. u The AMFS Percussion Ensemble (bottom right) performed Ode to Breonna, a new work composed by percussion artist-faculty member Timothy Adams Jr. (right) and Triple Point by Grammy-nominated Chicago composer Ayanna Woods. Artist-faculty member Jonathan Haas conducted.  Long-time fans of opera scenes as coached by Edward Berkeley—the long-time opera faculty and 32year director of the Aspen Opera Center—were able to watch him work with Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS students on July 10. Berkeley passed away unexpectedly on July 17. (See In Memoriam, page 41.)

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 The American Brass Quintet’s recital in late July featured

Celebrating the 2021 Student Competition Winners Katherine Audas cello

Oscar Jockel

Jacob Niemann

Low Strings Competition, student of Richard Aaron and Brinton Smith

Returning Conductor Fellowship, student of Robert Spano

Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize, student of Robert Spano

Ellen and Irv Hockaday Scholarship for Piano or Cello and Ruth Coates Roush Scholarship

Lionel Newman Conducting Fellowship

Alan Fletcher Endowed Scholarship, and Aspen Conducting Academy Fellowship in honor of Jorge Mester

Jacob Bass

Aaron Levin Jacob Druckman Prize, student of Stephen Hartke and Christopher Theofanidis

Robert Nunes oboe

Susan and Ford Schumann Scholarship

Allen and Kelli Questrom Foundation Scholarship

Cameron Bonner bassoon

Nathan Little trumpet

Linzi Pan piano

Winds Competition, student of Nancy Goeres

High Brass Competition, student of David Krauss

Piano Competition, student of Yoheved Kaplinsky

Nancy Goeres Bassoon Fellowship and Maestro’s Circle Scholarship

Drs. Alice and Martin Brandfonbrener Student Scholarship and Maestro’s Circle Scholarship

Madame Rosina Lhevinne Scholarship given by Robert A. Harris and Maestro’s Circle Scholarship

Eric Braley clarinet

Alejandro Lombo flute

Winds Competition, student of Joaquin Valdepeñas and Michael Rusinek

Flute/Harp Competition, student of Nadine Asin and Demarre McGill

Elizabeth W. Musser Memorial Scholarship and Aspen Conducting Academy Fellowship

Allen and Kelli Questrom Foundation Scholarship

James Conlon Prize, student of Robert Spano Aspen Conducting Academy Fellowship in memory of Jack Strandberg

Maurice Cohn Aspen Conducting Prize, student of Robert Spano Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize

David Clay Mettens Hermitage Prize for Composition, student of Stephen Hartke and Christopher Theofanidis Susan and Ford Schumann Scholarship

Winds Competition, student of Elaine Douvas and Titus Underwood

Gracie Potter tenor trombone High Brass Competition, student of James Miller and Tim Higgins New Horizons Fellowship given by Kay and Matthew Bucksbaum

Yoomin Seo violin Violin Competition, student of Robert Lipsett Michael and Ellen Pokress Memorial Scholarship for Strings and Maestro’s Circle Scholarship

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STUDENTS

Average age

23 COUNTRIES 38 STATES

FROM AND

2,169,668

IN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Fiona Shea violin

Dorothy and Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship

James Mason Soria tuba Low Brass Competition, student of John Rojak and John Engelkes Seth Kahn Scholarship for Brass and Maestro’s Circle Scholarship

TOP THREE REASONS STUDENTS CHOOSE TO ATTEND THE AMFS 1

Amount of financial aid offered

Opportunity for private study with a particular faculty member

Opportunity to participate in an intensive, high-level program of study

Helen Wargelin French horn High Brass Competition, student of Kevin Rivard and Andrew Bain Neuman Family Foundation Scholarship

NOTE: The Robert Spano Conducting Prize, given by Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass, was awarded to ACA student Piotr Waclawik in 2019 and deferred to 2022. Mr. Waclawik was featured in the 2019 Annual Report.

46%

100%

were returning students

received financial aid, in the form of either a scholarship or a fellowship

95% rated their AMFS summer as “excellent” or “good”

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Dorothy DeLay Fellowship, student of Robert Lipsett

Thanks to the donors who supported education and community programming Alpine Bank of Aspen Christopher Robinson Dana and Gene Powell Denise and David Stookesberry Drs. Amy D. Ronner and Michael P. Pacin Edith Kallas and Joe Whatley Fisher Family Fund at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Golub Family Foundation Gregory Borchert

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY

Hensley and James Peterson Janet and Tom O’Connor Judy Kava Judy Nordhagen Julia Sirmons and Dr. Joseph Pfender Katherine and Dane Chapin Leelee and Bill Harriman Les Dames d’Aspen Mary Klawiter Nancy Meinig - Meinig Family Foundation Nancy Swift Furlotti and the Pettit Foundation Patti and Jay Webster Sandy and Peter Johnson Take Note Colorado Tita and Dan McCarty U.S. Bank

A School Year Like No Other As schools across the nation shuttered their doors, the AMFS's Education and Community Programming team heard desperate pleas from parents looking for ways to keep their kids socially—but virtually—engaged with the teachers who knew them best. In just seven days, the team created and implemented an allvirtual curriculum with classes, concerts, and private lessons. Thirty-six heroic AfterWorks teachers attended virtual training sessions with only a day or two of advance notice so they could pivot quickly to online teaching. Between March 13 and May 1, AfterWorks teachers conducted 90 virtual classes for Beginning Strings, Lead Guitar, and Maroon Bel Canto Children’s Choir students and taught more than 300 virtual private lessons to 140 Beginning Strings students. Lead Guitar’s national team held two live Virtual Showcases that featured Roaring Fork Valley director Nick Lenio and many local students.

Summer 2020 Programming didn’t stop May 1. Thanks to continued support from U.S. Bank and Les Dames d’Aspen, a Virtual P. A.L.S. (Passes and Lessons Scholarship) program provided a musical and creative outlet for seventy local Beginning Strings and Lead Guitar students, who took a total of 346 private Zoom lessons with eighteen local teachers throughout the summer.

Fall 2020 After much research and discussion with local school districts, the AMFS moved forward with virtual, after-school Lead Guitar and Beginning Strings classes in the fall. To make online classes workable, the team organized participants from each school by age, ability, and schedule to create small group cohorts. The low student-teacher ratio allowed for more one-on-one attention that continued virtually through the entire 2020–21 school year. In-person Beginning Strings classes also occurred at Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork for students in grades four through eight. Four AMFS ArtistYear Music Fellows completed a year of AmeriCorps service during the 2020–21 school year. Placed at Title-1 schools in the Roaring Fork Valley, these teaching artist Fellows shared 10,000+ hours of arts education with local students and taught in AMFS Beginning Strings programming.

Spring 2021 Thanks to a 2020–21 school year grant from Take Note Colorado, ArtistYear Fellows Emily Acri and Julia Foran were able to introduce more than seventy first graders at Carbondale’s Crystal River Elementary School to the violin in April. Each student received a violin to use during group classes. Student enthusiasm was so high that after-school “violin clubs” continued into May, and many students went on to participate in summer private lessons through the P. A.L.S. program.

ArtistYear is the first National

AmeriCorps program for artists. The program develops, supports, and places exceptional Fellows as full-time teaching artists in low-income schools. The innovative strategy significantly bolsters arts education for the nation’s most vulnerable youth while improving student academic and socio-emotional development, enhancing school climate and capacity, and developing a new generation of citizen-artists steeped in national service. The AMFS partners with ArtistYear to bring music teaching Fellows to the Roaring Fork Valley. They teach within AMFS AfterWorks programs and bring arts integration and music to Title 1 schools in the Roaring Fork School District.

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2020

Summer 2021 Offerings The ever-popular P. A.L.S. (Passes and Lessons Scholarship) program returned in summer 2021, with 108 students (ages 6–18) taking private lessons from 31 teachers. Thanks to sustained support from US Bank and Les Dames d’Aspen, P.A.L.S. students were granted five private lessons each and had the option to do lessons in-person or online, based on the teacher’s location and the comfort level of all involved. P. A.L.S. kicked off June 3 and ran through August 22, with 385 HOURS spent in private lessons! After being canceled in summer 2020, the AMFS’s immersive early childhood music education program Sing Play Move also returned in 2021 with the theme “Joyful, Joyful! Celebrating the Music of Beethoven and Female Composers.” The weeklong class explored beloved music like Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and works by female composers Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann. Taught by music educator Kate Klotz from Boulder, Sing Play Move featured socially-distanced groups and private class pods with separate instruments and materials for each family, in an open-air environment. Sixty young children (ages birth through Kindergarten) and caregivers from thirtynine families engaged in active music making and exploration with singing, dancing, and play. Tunes and Tales, the long-running collaboration with the Pitkin County and Basalt Regional Libraries, also returned in 2021, with five interactive musical story-time sessions at each of the library locations. In outside settings or inside (with intentionally limited audience capacity), kids were treated to enchanting stories blended with music performed by AMFS students and local musicians.

Taking the Tent on the Road

Glenwood Springs Veltus Park

I-70

Roaring Fork Valley

Carbondale Carbondale Branch Library

Triangle Park in Willits Town Center The Arts Campus at Willits

With most community recital venues limited in size and many patrons still nervous about gathering indoors, the AMFS came up with a creative way to bring the Music Tent experience directly to audiences throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. Partnering with The Concert Truck, a mobile-music venue, and more than twenty local businesses and non-profit organizations, the AMFS presented Music on the GO, a community-oriented concert series at locations throughout the Valley. Over three weeks, The Concert Truck traveled throughout the Valley and presented thirty-three hour-long, “pop-up” events in outdoor locations, featuring performances by forty-five AMFS students and The Concert Truck’s founding artists, Nick Luby and Susan Zhang. ArtistYear Fellows, a few local musicians, and AMFS summer staffers also joined in to perform at a few concerts. Performances ranged from lunchtime events to afternoon and evening pop-ups, with the largest Music on the GO concert drawing 150–200 music lovers of all ages.

OPPOSITE Music educator Kate Klotz makes music with little ones enrolled in Sing Play Move. ABOVE Valley residents enjoy an outdoor Music on the GO concert.

Basalt Basalt Regional Library

Snowmass Village Anderson Ranch Arts Center Snowmass Base Village/ Fanny Hill

Aspen

Aspen Saturday Market, Aspen High School, Aspen Highlands, Christ Episcopal Church, The Gant Aspen, Koch Park, Mollie Gibson (Smuggler Park), Red Brick Center for the Arts, Wagner Park, Wheeler/Stallard Museum

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BENEFITS

The annual Season Benefit, An Uncommon Feast for Uncommon Women, was held August 16 in the Grand Ballroom of Aspen’s historic Hotel Jerome. Mirroring one of the season’s dual themes, the evening celebrated and paid tribute to women in music through a showcase of female composers and performers. Long-time AMFS supporter and Honorary Trustee Joan W. Harris was honored for her immeasurable philanthropic impact on the Aspen Music Festival and School and the many other organizations she supports. The Benefit raised more than $1 million in support of the AMFS and scholarships for its students.

For the first time, the AMFS invited guests to “our home” for the 2021 Artist Dinner series. The four events, featuring pianist Inon Barnatan, violinist Robert McDuffie, and AMFS artist-faculty members Nancy Allen harp, David Halen violin, and Anton Nel piano, were held on the Harris Concert Hall stage for safe and intimate evenings of conversation and music.

OPPOSITE The Hotel Jerome provided a magical setting for An Uncommon Feast for Uncommon Women. OPPOSITE INSET Two AMFS Uncommon Women of Note—Conductor Jane Glover and the Benefit's honoree Joan W. Harris. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP (L–R) •

Fleming Fellowship Artists Joshua Conyers and Erin Wagner performed with pianist and fellowship vocal coach Manuel Arellano at the 2021 Opera Benefit.

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Opera supporters Charles Burson, Joan Fabry, and Bunny Burson

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Maja DuBrul and Antonia Paepcke DuBrul

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D enise Monteleone, Opera Benefit co-chair, and June Schorr

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A MFS trustees Judith Steinberg and Paul J. Hoenmans

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Earlier in July, the 2021 Opera Benefit celebrated the soft launch of the new Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS (AOTVA) program under the leadership of co-artistic directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers. Reimagined as a cabaret evening and produced by Rachelle Fleming, the event took place on the Benedict Music Tent stage featuring multi-talented Fleming Fellowship Artists performing hits from Broadway and cabaret.

2020

THE VIRTUAL SEASON

On May 4, 2020, when AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher announced that the AMFS was cancelling its summer season for the first time since its founding in 1949, he reminded supporters, students, artist-faculty, and staff of the lesson that the pandemic had made apparent to all: “It is in connection and community we are most alive.” That reminder came with Fletcher’s reassurance, “We will come together around music again, in fact sooner rather than later.” As soon as it had become clear that a safe, in-person season was no longer possible, the AMFS staff pivoted to refashion the season—and the AMFS musical community—into a virtual one, giving the AMFS community the opportunity to connect online through programming that represented the AMFS’s mission of education and performance. The Virtual Season introduced the Festival to many who had offered by a seat in the house. The video work in the Festival’s beautifully curated weekly recitals offered viewers a chance to see Daniil Trifonov’s hands on the keyboard from above and Augustin Hadelich performing while accompanied by . . . himself! Virtual Festivalgoers also had opportunities to witness the mentoring process between the AMFS’s professional artistfaculty and talented students in weekly Faculty-Student Showcases. Mr. Fletcher continued his weekly summer High Notes Discussion Series on Zoom with artists and faculty who

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP

were on hiatus from usually busy summer performance and

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Daniil Trifonov’s recital gave viewers a bird’s-eye view of his keyboard technique.

teaching schedules.

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Although not in the Tent, the AMFS was able to present highlights of its annual Fourth of July Concerts, featuring conductor Lawrence Isaacson, via Facebook and the Virtual Stage.

The AMFS was even able to host an online gala—A Tribute

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Composers Julia Wolfe, Laura Schwendinger, Joan Tower, Tania León, Jessie Montgomery, Zosha Di Castri, and Missy Mazzoli came together to talk about their work and their shared experiences as women composers.

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Percussion artist-faculty member Timothy Adams Jr., (l) and Alan Fletcher (r) shared a frank and wide-ranging High Notes Discussion about Adams’s experiences as a Black musician in classical music and his 8:46 Project—an endeavor to bring humanity together through music.

to Robert Spano—marking his ten years as the AMFS’s music director.

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never visited Aspen before, and offered perspectives rarely

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Cornelia Heard

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Michael Klein, Chair

Jamie Helzberg

Joan W. Harris

Charles Wall, Vice Chair

Linda Vitti Herbst

Itzhak Perlman

Sam Brown, Treasurer

Paul Kantor

Robert Spano, Music Director

Carrie Wells, Secretary, Co-President of National Council

Jerry Katcher *

Pinchas Zukerman

Robert J. Hurst, Co-President of National Council

Cathy L. Koplovitz

Alan Fletcher, President and CEO

Jonathan Lee

Barbara Koval, in memoriam Espen Lilleslåtten

Charles Anderson

Anthony Mazza

Nadine Asin

Michael Mermagen

Amy Margerum Berg

Will Mesdag

Edward C. Berkeley, in memoriam

Alexandra Munroe

Martin Carver *

Michael Murray

Marianne Boesky

H. Gael Neeson

Stephen Brint

Janet O’Connor

Warren Deck

Fonda Paterson

Stephen Drimmer

Aaron Podhurst

Nicholas DuBrul

Dan Porterfield, ex-officio

Alan Englander

Dana Powell

Richard Felder

John Rojak

Ann Friedman

Victoria Smith

John Fullerton

Judith Z. Steinberg

Nancy Furlotti

Erika Aronson Stern

Mary Giese

Alia Tutor

Arjun Gupta

Joaquin Valdepeñas

Jonathan Haas Per Hannevold

* Service on Board completed in 2020

OPPOSITE The Benedict Music Tent at night.

LIFE TRUSTEES Paula Bernstein William Bernstein, in memoriam Carolyn Bucksbaum Noël R. Congdon Alfred Dietsch John Doremus, in memoriam Stefan Edlis, in memoriam Gerri Karetsky Nancy Odén, in memoriam Betty Schermer W. Ford Schumann, in memoriam Dennis Vaughn

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Alex Klein

ARTISTFACULTY

Renée Fleming, co-artistic director* Patrick Summers, co-artistic director Edward Berkeley, stage director, in memoriam Omer Ben Seadia, stage director Rachelle Fleming, Musical Theater instructor William Billingham, senior coach ◊ Myra Huang, senior coach Kenneth Merrill, senior coach Sahar Nouri, senior coach Joey Ayau, senior coach Stephen King, voice Carol Vaness, voice ◊ Vinson Cole, voice ◊ PIANO Jean Barr Fabio Bidini ◊ Hung-Kuan Chen Yoheved Kaplinsky Julian Martin Anton Nel Rita Sloan Arie Vardi Virginia Weckstrom* ◊ Wu Han* ◊ Vivian Hornik Weilerstein* ◊

VIOLIN

CELLO

HORN

GUITAR

Renata Arado* Adam Barnett-Hart* Laurie Carney* Laura Park Chen Robert Chen* Ellen dePasquale Simin Ganatra* David Halen* Robert Hanford ◊ Austin Hartman* Cornelia Heard* ◊ Paul Kantor* Masao Kawasaki* ◊ Alexander Kerr Espen Lilleslåtten* Robert Lipsett* Robert McDuffie* Sylvia Rosenberg* ◊ Brendan Speltz Naoko Tanaka* ◊ Almita Vamos* ◊ Bing Wang* Donald Weilerstein* ◊ Peter Winograd*

Richard Aaron Darrett Adkins* ◊ David Finckel ◊ Desmond Hoebig Eric Kim* Wolfram Koessel Michael Mermagen* Brinton Averil Smith* Brook Speltz Brandon Vamos*

Andrew Bain Alexander Kienle* Erik Ralske* Eric Reed* Kevin Rivard

Sharon Isbin*

VISITING COMPOSERS

EMERITUS FACULTY, continued

HARP

Nico Muhly Maria Schneider

TRUMPET

Joan Balter

Catharine Carroll Lees, viola Eugene Levinson, double bass Jorge Mester, music director Theodore Oien, clarinet Antoinette Perry, piano Sylvia Plyler, Aspen Opera Center Louis Ranger, trumpet Ann Schein, piano W. Stephen Smith, voice Dennis Smylie, bass clarinet Paul Sperry, voice Thomas Stubbs, percussion Sabina Thatcher, viola Viviane Thomas, voice George Tsontakis, composition Martin Verdrager, theory David Wakefield, French horn Dick Waller, clarinet Richard Woodhams, oboe Won Bin Yim, violin John Zirbel, French horn

VIOLA Daniel Avshalomov* Choong-Jin Chang Victoria Chiang* Christian Colberg James Dunham Mark Holloway Jeffrey Irvine Masao Kawasaki* ◊ Pierre Lapointe* Zhenwei Shi Ben Ullery Stephen Wyrczynski

DOUBLE BASS Christopher Hanulik* Albert Laszlo* Edgar Meyer* ◊ Timothy Pitts

Kevin Cobb William Gerlach* Louis Hanzlik* David Krauss* Raymond Mase* ◊ Stuart Stephenson* TROMBONE

Nadine Asin* Brook Ferguson Demarre McGill Mark Sparks* ◊

Per Brevig ◊ John Engelkes Timothy Higgins James Miller* Michael Powell John Rojak* Peter Sullivan*

OBOE

TUBA

Elaine Douvas Alex Klein Mingjia Liu* ◊ Titus Underwood*

Warren Deck

FLUTE

CLARINET Michael Rusinek Joaquin Valdepeñas* BASSOON

PERCUSSION Timothy Adams Jonathan Haas* Douglas Howard Jacob Nissly Joseph Pereira Edward Stephan* Cynthia Yeh*

Keith Buncke Steve Dibner Nancy Goeres* Per Hannevold* ◊ Daniel Matsukawa Laurie Wike

OPPOSITE Thanks to AMFS testing protocols, artist-faculty members and students were able to perform onstage without masks as the summer progressed and restrictions lifted. (l–r) Erik Ralske horn, Elaine Douvas oboe, Keith Buncke bassoon, Joaquin Valedepeñas clarinet, and Nadine Asin flute.

Nancy Allen* LUTHIER

ASPEN CONDUCTING ACADEMY Robert Spano, director Nicholas McGegan Ludovic Morlot* Gemma New* Leonard Slatkin* Patrick Summers Scott Terrell* Hugh Wolff* ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE Donald Crockett Timothy Weiss ENSEMBLES IN RESIDENCE American Brass Quintet American String Quartet Escher String Quartet* Pacifica Quartet* SUSAN AND FORD SCHUMANN CENTER FOR COMPOSITION STUDIES Stephen Hartke, composer-inresidence Christopher Theofanidis, composer-inresidence

SERAPHIC FIRE PROFESSIONAL CHORAL INSTITUTE James K. Bass, director Patrick Dupré Quigley Alexis Aimé John Buffett Amanda Crider ARTIST-FACULTY EMERITUS Martha Aarons, flute Adele Addison, voice Robert Biddlecome, trombone Bonita Boyd, flute Bruce Bransby, double bass Elizabeth Buccheri, Aspen Opera Center head of music, vocal coach Earl Carlyss, Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, violin Heidi Castleman, viola Gabriel Chodos, piano Carole Cowan, violin Michael Czaijkowski, composition John Graham, viola William Grubb, cello Thomas Haines, film scoring and audio recording Alan Harris, cello Elizabeth Hynes, voice Jennifer John, violin Joseph Kalichstein, piano

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leave of absence

* AMFS Alumni

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FAMILY OF SUPPORTERS

who have made contributions to the organization between October 1, 2020, and September 30, 2021. This includes support of the Annual Fund, memorial and honorary gifts, Winter Music sponsorships, Beneﬁt and Artist Dinner support, and special projects.

$150,000 AND ABOVE INDIVIDUALS Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Nancy Swift Furlotti and the Pettit Foundation

Annual contributions are the backbone of support necessary for the

Joan Fabry and Michael Klein

realization of the Festival and School’s mission. With these gifts, donors

Nancy Wall and Charles Wall

support our artist-faculty, public concerts, opera productions, student education, guest artist appearances, community engagement programs

$100,000 AND ABOVE

and performances, and many other essential projects throughout the

INDIVIDUALS

year. We are profoundly grateful to our entire family of supporters in

Anonymous

Aspen and beyond.

Kay Bucksbaum Toby D. Lewis H. Gael Neeson Kelli and Allen Questrom BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Wheeler Opera House (City of Aspen)

Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris – in memory of James Levine, a distinguished alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival and School Shirley and Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr. Louis & Harold Price Foundation, Inc. Soledad and Robert Hurst Mona Look-Mazza and Tony Mazza Alexandra Munroe and Robert Rosenkranz Janet and Tom O’Connor Paulson Family Foundation Judith Z. Steinberg and Paul J. Hoenmans The Marc and Eva Stern Foundation, Erika Aronson Stern and Adam Stern, Suzanne Stern Gilison and Steve Gilison BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT The Polonsky Foundation $35,000 AND ABOVE

Arts Grant Program INDIVIDUALS $80,000 AND ABOVE

Anonymous Sasha and Edward P. Bass

INDIVIDUALS Jessica and John Fullerton

Amy Margerum Berg and Gilchrist Berg

Blanche and Gerald Greenberg

Stephen Brint and Mark Brown

Barbara and Jonathan Lee Lisa and Will Mesdag Lynda and Stewart Resnick Tom and Jeannie Rutherfoord $55,000 AND ABOVE OPPOSITE Classical singer Julia Bullock made her Aspen debut with long-time conductor Nicholas McGegan and the Aspen Chamber Symphony.

INDIVIDUALS

Ruth Turnquist Carver The Crown Family Richard Edwards and Kevin Ramnaraine Jane and Michael Eisner, The Eisner Foundation Gail and Alfred Engelberg Linda and Alan Englander Deborah and Richard Felder

Nicholas Paepcke DuBrul and Family

Mary E. Giese

Ann and Tom Friedman

Sharon and Lawrence Hite

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GORDON AND LILLIAN HARDY PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY

The Dana Foundation – Ann and Tom Korologos Leonard and Judy Lauder Marlene Malek

Named for Gordon Hardy’s rich legacy as president of the AMFS for twenty-eight years and his dedication to the music world, the Gordon and Lillian Hardy Planned Giving Society honors those donors who have included our organization in their estate plans.

John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation Nancy Meinig – Meinig Family Foundation Becky and Mike Murray

Martha Aarons Estate of Dr. John E. Amos Pamela Gross and Charles Anderson Nadine Asin Thomas H. Baer Susan Beckerman Estate of Mark A. Bradley Dr. Eugene L. Brand Stephen Brint and Mark Brown Kay Bucksbaum Helen and Phil Burnett Jon Busch Dr. Janet Claman NancyBell Coe and William Burke Noël and Tom* Congdon Evelyn R. David Adelaide and James Davis Sheryl and Michael DeGenring Lee W. Dorsey Estate of Merle Dulien Charles B. Edison Memorial, Mrs. Charles B. Edison* Gary A. Fisher and Judy Fisher Family Trust Audrey A. Sattler and Donald J. Fleisher Alan Fletcher and Ron Schiller Jane and Bill Frazer

Rich and Riley Garvin Mary E. Giese Barbara and Gary Goldstein Estate of Loette Goodell Howard Gottlieb Christine Grad, M.D. Estate of Lillian and Gordon Hardy Shirley and Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr. Casady M. Henry Juliane Heyman Shirley Holst Soledad and Robert Hurst Montae and Richard Johnson Estate of Mary H. Kalmes Linda and Eugene Kalnitsky Jane Kessler* Estate of Bob Klineman The Barbara Koval Trust Estate of Christine H. Leister Dr. and Mrs. Harold Leventhal Nancy R. Levi Estate of Mary Crouch Lilly Phyllis and Saul Lowitt Mona Look-Mazza and Tony Mazza Estate of Elaine and James McDade

Bert Neirick Estate of Heinz G. Neumann Ann and Bill* Nitze Jean and Allen Parelman Merbie and Tom Payne Estate of Virginia Pearce Terry Lee and Bill Perich Lt. Col.* and Mrs. R. L. Pickard Estate of Jean Pokress Marilynn and Charles Rivkin Noyes W. Rogers Betty and Lloyd Schermer Estate of Vera Sears Pamela Shockley-Zalabak Eric Simon Alicia and Alan Sirkin Estate of Freda Gail Stern Norma and Don Stone Marcia Strickland Barbara C. and Robert P. Sypult Estate of Magda B. Tenser Michael Teschner Leslie and Joe Waters Estate of Cynthia and Gerald Weinbrum Laura Werlin Kay and Ken* Whiting

David Newberger

* Denotes deceased supporter

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

Mary Catherine and Trevor Person Dana and Gene Powell Mary and Patrick Scanlan Betty and Lloyd Schermer Gillian and Robert Steel Carol and Mack Trapp Carrie and Joe Wells Beatrice and Anthony Welters BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT Aspen Times Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management The Rob and Melani Walton Foundation $20,000 AND ABOVE INDIVIDUALS Claudia and Richard Balderston Jackie and John Bucksbaum Melinda and Donn Conner Eleanore and Domenico De Sole Joy and Chris Dinsdale Scott Dunn and Robbie Moray Marcy and Leo Edelstein Shannon Fairbanks Virginia and Gary Gerst Patsy Malone and Darby Glenn

Joyce McGilvray

Harriett and Richard* Gold

Lydia Morrongiello

Barbara and Gerald D. Hines

Fonda Paterson

Melony and Adam Lewis Gail and Alec Merriam

Margot and Tom Pritzker Family Foundation

Denise Monteleone and Jim Martin

Kathryn and Richard Rabinow

Sandy and Lee Godfrey

Nicole and Allan Mutchnik

Lois Siegel

Barbara Gold

Drs. Amy D. Ronner and Michael P. Pacin

Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert

Ramona Bruland and Michael Goldberg

BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT

Thorey and Barry Goldstein

The Gant Condominium Association

Julia Hansen

Hotel Jerome

Jamie and Bush Helzberg

Maja DuBrul

Ann F. and Edward R.* Hudson, Jr.

Mountain Chalet-Aspen

Mary Ann Hyde

Pitkin County Dry Goods

Elyse Seidner-Joseph and Kenny Joseph

$8,500 AND ABOVE

Gerri Karetsky and Larry Naughton

Individuals

Marianne and Dick Kipper

Anonymous

Rachel and Rick Klausner

Pamela Gross and Charles Anderson

Cathy and Jonathan Koplovitz

Nadine Asin and Thomas van Straaten

Katharine C. Kurtz, in memory of James B. Kurtz

Barbara and Bruce Berger

Stephen Marcus*

Dr. Pamela Cantor and Mr. Richard Cantor

Jane A. Lehman and Alan G. Lehman Foundation

Diane and Mead Metcalf

The Congdon Family

Jon Busch

Ilene and Jeff Nathan

Ginny Dabney

Janet F. Clark

Sara and Don Nelson

Marsha and David Dowler

Bunni and Paul Copaken

Ann and Bill* Nitze

Nanette Finger

Elissa and Gary Davis

Nedra and Mark Oren

Jane and Bill Frazer

Charles de Bourcy

Jean and Allen Parelman

Jan and Ronald Greenberg

Ann and John Doerr

Merbie and Tom Payne

Maryann and Adrian Gruia

Laura Donnelley

George J. Records

Vinod and Laurel Gupta

Mr. and Mrs. David Dreman/ The Dreman Foundation

Anne and Chris Reyes

Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Charitable Fund

Nadia and Stephen Drimmer

Judy and Gary Rubin

Gail M. Elden

Caryn and Rudi Scheidt, Jr.

Holly* and John Madigan

Judith Barnard and Michael Fain

Leslie and Mac McQuown Bettie McGowin Miller

Fisher Family Fund at the Community Fdtn. for Greater Buffalo

Lisa and David T. Schiff, The Schiff Foundation

Jane and Marc Nathanson

Alan Fletcher and Ron Schiller

The Simms/Mann Family Foundation, Victoria and Ronald Simms BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT Sidney E. Frank Foundation LLWW Foundation National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency Witz Family Foundation $13,000 AND ABOVE INDIVIDUALS Marianne Boesky Deborah and Gabriel Brener Sam Brown and Alison Teal

Ellen and Irv Hockaday

Karen and Jim Frank/J.S. Frank Foundation Barbara and Richard I. Furman

Brenda and James Grusecki

Ellen and Fred Kucker

Renee and Bruce Michelson

Myra and Robert Rich

June and Paul Schorr lll Alece and David Schreiber

IN MEMORIAM It is with sadness that we note the passing of the following AMFS community members who left us during 2020 and 2021, including: TERRY ANDERSON Longtime donor GEORGE L. BAKER Longtime donor and AMFS opera enthusiast JOCK BICKERT 7-year Board member and longtime supporter PEYTON BUCY Longtime supporter KATHARINE (KIT) BRYAN BULKLEY Benefactor of the AMFS’s endowed Bulkley-Flint Scholarship in memory of Katharine MacKenty Bryan MARGO GUBSER GARDNER Longtime AMFS volunteer and donor LEONARD HORWITZ Longtime donor KATHRYN KOCH Longtime donor BARBARA KOVAL 10-year Board member, 20-year National Council member, and patron for more than 50 years HERMAN RICHARD MALTRUD Longtime donor and opera enthusiast WILLIAM (BILL) NITZE Longtime donor and nephew of AMFS founders Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke VIRGINIA PEARCE Past Board member CURT STRAND Past National Council member MIMI STERN WOLF Conductor, composer, and Aspen Opera Center vocal coach BETTY MARY ZATS 20-year AMFS volunteer PAULA ZURCHER Longtime donor and daughter of AMFS founders Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke

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Jane and Gerald Katcher

REMEMBERING MARIANN ALTFELD Thirty-five-year volunteer coordinator for the Festival

JANUARY 1, 1933 – SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Mariann Altfeld studied piano from an early age—walking from her home to the Peabody Institute for her lessons. She graduated from Goucher College with majors in music and physics, and later a master’s degree in special education from Loyola University. She went on to teach elementary school and work with children with hearing and speech challenges and learning disabilities at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and later became a formidable leader and financial underwriter for her family’s real estate development company. After falling in love with Aspen on a ’70s summer getaway and vacationing here for ten years, she and her husband Phillip moved here for good. Family lore says that the first call she made upon settling in was to the Aspen Music Festival and School, offering her time and service as a volunteer. That call blossomed into a relationship that continued for nearly thirty-five years as she served as the AMFS volunteer coordinator and conducted weekly tours of Harris Concert Hall and the Tent. When she retired, she was honored by both the AMFS and the City of Aspen. Mariann Altfeld touched the lives of so many AMFS students, staff, and concert-goers through her service, making sure they fully experienced the wonder and magic of the Festival experience she so cherished. We share our condolences with her family.

Phyllis and David Scruggs

Martha and Bruce Clinton

Jeannie and John Seybold Mr. and Mrs. James A. Star

James W. and Kathleen C. Colllins Family Foundation

Marcia Strickland

Barbara and Herschel Cravitz

Laurie Tisch

Ralph Crispino, Jr.

MaryAnn Tittle

Sylvie and Gary Crum

Edith Kallas and Joe Whatley

Brian and Susan Dickie

Tamara and Frank Woods

Jessica and Mark DiPaola

Alpine Bank of Aspen America-Israel Cultural Foundation Asian Cultural Council Aspen Sojourner Aspen Square Condominium Hotel BMI Foundation Caribou Club, Ltd. Carl’s Pharmacy First Republic Bank Fusion Design and Catering Miners’ Building Hardware U.S. Bank $4,000 AND ABOVE

Muffy and Andy DiSabatino

Forty-year artist-faculty member and thirty-two-year director of the Aspen Opera Center

Debbie and Jerry Epstein Christy Ferer Marcia and Don Flaks Barbara and Gary Goldstein Sherri and Dean Goodwin Dean Greenberg, in memory of Marilyn Greenberg Joan and Rodger Gurrentz, in memory of Susan and Morton Gurrentz Toddi Gutner and Neil Block Leelee and Bill Hariman Hojel-Schumacher Foundation Erica Hartman-Horvitz and Richard Horvitz Shana and Clint Johnstone/ Shenandoah Foundation Sally and Jim Klingbeil Mary Jo and Dick Kovacevich

INDIVIDUALS

Bernard M. Kruger

Tracy and Dennis Albers

Laura and Gary Lauder

Kathy and Frank Argenbright

Elaine LeBuhn

Connie and Buddy Bates

Nancy and Bart Levin/AM Gas

Chuck Bellock

Bertel M. Lewis

J. Michael Bishop

Judy and Sam Linhart

Nancy Blank

Mary Ralph Lowe

Deborah and Mark Breen

Patty and Dr. Robert Mack

Bucy Family Fund – Suzanne D. and M. Peyton* Bucy

William Mayer

Merle Chambers

Jennifer Moses and Ron Beller

Camille and Robert McDuffie

JANUARY 18, 1945–JULY 17, 2021 Ed Berkeley’s friend Richard Bado called him “a word guy”—in contrast to Bado’s own role as the “music guy” in their frequent collaborations. An expert in Shakespearean scansion who once held what he called “a survival job” as a proofreader for none other than The New York Times and who was known for his athletic socks, Berkeley might have seemed an unlikely opera mentor. Yet from that first time, forty years ago, when he flew into Aspen on a twin-engine plane to work with the AMFS’s opera program, Berkeley seemed driven to help students harness their whole beings in the art of bringing words and music to life on stage. For a word guy, he was often known to use them sparingly, in favor of a lifted eyebrow or a weekly Sunday hike up one of Aspen’s mountain trails with students. In his varied career in the world of New York theater and opera, Berkeley studied with Tom O’Horgan, the legendary director of the groundbreaking Broadway musical Hair, and served as artistic director of the Willow Cabin Theater in New York. He directed productions for

New York Shakespeare Festival (working with renowned producer Joseph Papp), Houston Grand Opera, Library of Congress, Williamstown Theater Festival, Old Globe Theater, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, and Spoleto and Ravinia Festivals. He was a faculty member of the Opera Studies program at Juilliard from 1987 to 2021 and served as stage director for the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program since 2019. Kenneth Merrill, Berkeley’s AMFS colleague and friend for more than forty years said, “All of his works seemed like a celebration of life.” And his friend Brian Speck pointed out that Berkeley’s greatest gift was to “help people discover the best in themselves.” Friend Diane Zola recalled, “he nurtured legions of fledgling artists,” by whom, she added, “he was fiercely loved.” We share our condolences with the Berkeley family, and the worldwide family of students, colleagues, friends, and performers who feel his absence.

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BUSINESSES/ FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT

REMEMBERING EDWARD BERKELEY

REMEMBERING SYDNEY ‘SYD’ HODKINSON Fifteen-year artist-faculty member

Laura Taylor and David A. Mulkey, MD

Frias Properties of Aspen, Chuck Frias & Tim Clark

Stephanie and Michael Naidoff

Golub Family Foundation

Janet Rae Naster Memorial Fund

JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery

ZG-Chicks Advised Fund at Aspen Community Foundation

Harriman Construction, Inc.

Jerrold Parker

John P. McBride Family and the ABC Foundation

Patricia Peterson

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal

Cyrena and Lee Pondrom

Take Note Colorado

Lecie and Jack Resneck

JANUARY 17, 1934–JANUARY 10, 2021 Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Syd Hodkinson was a prolific and award-winning composer, conductor, and to the AMFS community, a beloved mentor to the composition students he taught and the young musicians he conducted in Aspen Contemporary Ensemble for fifteen years. Hodkinson earned his Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the Eastman School of Music, beginning his composition studies there with Louis Mennini and Bernard Rogers, and continuing his studies at the Princeton Seminars with Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt. Hodkinson received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Michigan. During his career, he composed more than 250 works for a variety of instruments, ensembles, and contexts. “Something we all strive for in our musical work is to help musicians find their unique self,” said Alan Fletcher, AMFS president and CEO, of Hodkinson. “Syd brought ‘unique’ to a whole new level: There was never anyone like him. His ‘fierce love for all music’ and his particular gift in bringing new music to its finest character made him an unforgettable colleague. His obituary says that ‘he leaves behind many musicians, students, colleagues and friends who valued his passion, teaching and humor,’ but that seems like an understatement. No one who experienced his amazing work will ever forget it, and we will all return to memories of things he said and did that were exactly the perfect thing in their moment. This, in a world where timing is everything, is the highest praise.”

Marilynn and Charles Rivkin Sarah Broughton and John Rowland

$2,000 AND ABOVE

John Rudolph

INDIVIDUALS

Drs. Ruth and Steven Ryave

Anonymous

Lois and Tom Sando

Jana and John Arnoldy

Clare and Marius Sanger

Becky Ayres

Lorraine and Mark Schapiro

Frances F. Blum and Jon Blum

Susie and Barry Schub

Henry Lambert – Carey Bond

Gail Scott and Thomas Quinlan

Dr. Eugene L. Brand

Karen Setterfield and David Muckenhirn

Katherine and Dane Chapin

Karlyn and Don Shapiro

Dorian and Pat Damoorgian

Jane and Larry Sherman

Linda and Ben Davis

Patsy and John Shields

Sheryl and Michael DeGenring

Alana R. Spiwak and Sam Stolbun

Elaine and Claiborne Deming

Billy Stolz

Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Duncan

Andrea and Lubert Stryer

Bernice and Loyal Durand

Barbara C. and Robert P. Sypult

Lesha and Tom Elsenbrook

Alia and Ron Tutor

Marja Engler

Linda and Dennis Vaughn

Ginny and Brad Epsten

Harriet Washton, M.D.

Clara y Mauricio Fabre

BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT

Mary and John Cronin

Susan and George Fesus Pam Finkelman

Aspen Self Storage Warehouses

J. Scott Francis and Susan Gordon Discretionary Fund, Francis Family Foundation

Aspen Skiing Company

Christy and Jonathan Frank

Butterfield & Robinson

Kim A. Gutner, MD, DFAPA

Clark’s Market

Margot and Dick Hampleman

Fred & Elli Iselin Foundation

Mary Ann and Jim Harris

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.

Nancy Stevens

Alexander Henkin

Ishwaria and Vivek Subbiah

Ruth A. Hopfenbeck

Cathy and Peter Toren

Laura and Michael Kaplan

Susan and Richard Ulevitch

Matthew Kuhns

Rivka and Seth Weisberg

Rosemarie Lavender

Marion W. Weiss

Joan Lebach

Maggie Zembruski

Bruce Landon Lee

Barbara and John Zrno

Perry J. Lewis

BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT

Marc Lipton Kristin and Chuck Lohmiller Mr. and Mrs. H. Montgomery Loud

Cornerstone Property Management

Nancy Manderson

Les Dames d’Aspen

Tita and Dan McCarty AMM Charitable Fund

Mountain West Insurance & Financial Services, LLC

Bette and Donne Moen

Steinway & Sons, Inc.

Paula and Herbert R. Molner

The Solid Rock Foundation

Caroline Y. and John Moore

Woody Creek Distillers

Linda Nathanson Navias Family Foundation Donald and Judy Norris Hensley and James Peterson Valerie Richter Anita Roger-Fields Dr. Richard and Jo Sanders Karen and Nathan Sandler Enika and Richard Schulze Madeline and Michael Silverman Sandy and Stephen Stay

REMEMBERING FORD SCHUMANN Former Board chair and trustee, Life Trustee, and benefactor of the Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies MAY 18, 1926–JANUARY 9, 2021 As a creative artist himself, Ford Schumann’s support of the Aspen Music Festival and School and its students was particularly heartfelt because he knew the joy of creating. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, he served in the military prior to entering Williams College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. His first job out of college was as a music librarian for the American Broadcasting Company in New York City; however, he was soon drawn to the visual arts, studying painting at the Arts Students League of New York and he soon became an instructor as well as a widely exhibited painter and sculptor. Shortly after he moved to Aspen in the early 1970s, he joined the Music Associates of Aspen’s Board of Trustees and chaired it in the early 1980s. When he married Susan Harrison in 1980, the two of them made a gift to the AMFS particularly targeted at supporting young composers. “Ford Schumann was passionate and exceptionally knowledgeable about music, with a special love for all that was new,” says AMFS president and CEO Alan Fletcher. He and his wife Susan concentrated their philanthropy on innovation and creativity, establishing the Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies which supports our composers, contemporary ensemble, and commissioning. Ford and Susan not only gave generously, but also established close personal relationships with George Tsontakis, Chris Rouse, Syd Hodkinson, and generations of composition students in Aspen, who loved visiting their splendid ranch (and their corgis) in Old Snowmass.” The AMFS shares its condolences with Ford Schumann’s family.

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL 2021 ANNUAL REPORT

Susan Helm

$800 AND ABOVE

Kathy and Richard Kaplan

Steve Stunda

Ann and Stephen Kaufman

Anne and Bill* Tobey

Lisa See and Richard Kendall

Jill and Tim Wayne

Susan and Steven Beebe

Gail Mizner and Michael Kendrick

Patti and Jay Webster

Katie Bergman

Holly and Steve Kreidler

Beth and Tim Weiss

Kate Bermingham

Jean and Richard Leety

Diane and Gerald Wendel

Dorothy Fait and David Borenstein

Nancy R. Levi

Laura Werlin

Harriett and Robert Breihan

Marilyn Wilmerding

Kathy and Richard Broussard

Margaret and Daniel Loeb, Third Point Foundation

Marian H. Brown

Evi and Evan Makovsky

Shirley Chann, in memory of Earl Kai Chann

Lydia Morrongiello

Amory Cummings

Jane Douglas and Carroll Novicki

Sandra and Lynn Davis

Drs. Lorrie and John Odom

Drs. Nancy Thomas and Roger Davis

Nicole Oringer

Lynne & Jimmy DeWitt Family Fund

Lisa and John W. Overbey

Anne Adderton and Peter Dolan

Dr. David S. Pearlman

Caroline W. Duell

Pam and Jim Porter

Leatrice and Melvin Eagle

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Pugh

Melissa Eisenstat

Noyes W. Rogers

Katherine Faber and Thomas Rosenbaum

EZR Spirit of Giving and Marvin Rosenberg

Edmund Frank and Eustacia Su

Oakleigh and Tobin Ryan

Daniel Frank

Barry Salky, MD

Louise B. Frank

Linda J. Sandell

Mary Ann Frenzel

INDIVIDUALS

Sally Saunders

Robert Fryklund

Kim and Darryl Schall

Anonymous

Ricki and Peter Fuchs

Linda and Robert Schmier

Carolyn and Ron Galfione The Gerson Family

Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation

Jean Golden

Isa Catto Shaw and Daniel Shaw

AJ Grant and Kate Fay

Kitty P. Sherwin

Paula and David Harris

Phyllis and Nathan Shmalo

The Community Foundation – Mortimer and Josephine Cohen Fund

Kristen Henry

Mr. and Mrs. Heinz K. Simon

Judy and Tom Biondini

Dorene and Frank Herzog

Susan Slaughter

Barbara Reid and David Hyman

Laurie Smith and Andy Prodanovic

Sandra M. Moses and Harvey S. Bodker

Susan A. Ingerman and Arlene Siegelman

Harris and Linda Sperling

Kitty Boone

Bill Stirling

Lotta* and Stuart Brafman

William Jentes

Austine Stitt

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Brener

Sherry and Robert Johnson

Norma and Don Stone

Galen Bright and Lucy Tremols

INDIVIDUALS

In what has become something of a summer tradition, the AMFS “Bassoon Band” busks in downtown Aspen.

The JN Trust

Mary Zlot BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT AMFS Artist-Faculty Fund Aspen Skiing Company Family Fund at Aspen Community Foundation Burke Aspen LLC Chef Barclay and Molly Dodge of Bosq Aspen European Caterers, Ltd. McMahan and Associates, LLC National Federation of Music Clubs Sigma Alpha Iota $400 AND ABOVE

Marsha and Bill Adler Carole and Arnold Bailis Edward Baney Phyllis and Sanford Beim

K. Dane and Carter S. Brooksher Thomas Buesch John Cardall Carol and David Clemons Sheila M. Cleworth Kurt and Gene Anne Culbertson John Czuwak Linda Snyder and James Daniel Lucy and Tom Danis Adelaide and James Davis Jeannette Guarner and Carlos Del Rio Mary and Sven Dominick-Coomer Lee W. Dorsey Victoria Adams and James E. DuBose Robert Efroymson Nancy and Mike Estrada The Jack, Karen, Hillary, and Max Friedman Philanthropic Fund of the – Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Lacy Fyrwald Susan and Dick Gessner Nancy Goeres and Michael Rusinek Marilyn and Charles Gold

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason (left) made his guest artist debut on August 20 with Christian Arming and the Aspen Chamber Symphony and thrilled students as he chatted with them afterwards.

Annie and Jim Goodman Katherina Grunfeld

Sandy and Charles Israel

Jeannette Mandelbaum

Marjory M. Musgrave

Anna and Mark Siegler

Anna and Jonathan Haas

Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Cathy Jankovic

Cathy Markle

Nancy and Mark Silverman

Bunny and John Harrison

Sandy and Peter Johnson

Deb and Bill McCanne

Julia Sirmons and Dr. Joseph Pfender

Alicia and Alan Sirkin

Margaret and Mike Simmons

Casady M. Henry

Ralph Jones

Sally and Bruce McMillen

Faith and David Rachofsky

William Heuseler and Felipe Hegg

Lily Josefsberg

Holly and Jere Michael

Patti Richards

JoAnn C. Skillett

Karen and Wayland Hicks

Pamela Joseph

Ann F. Miller

Diana Rumsey

Jodi Grant and Tom Skinner

Dr. Leonard Horwitz

Maury and Gerry Kaplan

Carol Murphy and Michael Miller

Mary Salton

Sandy Smith

David Howell

Lindy and Jason Kearns

Ibby and Jimmy Mills

Margaret Scheyer

Phyllis and Ron Steinhart

Kate Haugen and Carlton Hunke

Dr. Edith W. King and Matthew King

Deb and Keith Oates

Debra and Dennis Scholl

Ann Marie Stieritz Nina Stumpf

William O. Hunt

Geoffrey Lee and Lee Philpott

Glenda and Doug Otten

Drs. Patricia and John Schwarz

Lynne Ramsey and Jeffrey Irvine

Rose Ann and Michael Leiner

Lynda Palevsky

Mary Shafey

Lucia Swanson and Ted Levine

Virginia and Richard Irwin

Dori and Robert Libson

Jan and Jim Patterson

Pamela Shockley-Zalabak

David Tenenberg

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL 2021 ANNUAL REPORT

Mynan and Sam Feldman

Charlotte Gibb and Dale Toetz Rosalind Walter

Peggy Scharlin and Shlomo Ben-Hamoo

Angi Wang

Jill Bernstein

Hanna M. Warren

Dr. William J. Bertschy

Rosalind and Clement Hopp

Sam and Marshall Webb

Anne and Clarence Blackwell

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Horwich

Tina and Brian Weiner

Sandra Blake

Carolyne T. Hyde

Donna and Roger West

Michele Bodner

Carol and Dick Hyman

Mindy Wexler and Ken Small

Margaret and Tommy Booras

Peggy Wise

Linda and Bob Brining

Dr. Susan Rae Jensen and Tom Adams Trainer

Lynn Asbury and John Wronosky

Wendy and Dale Brott

Robin K. Wyatt-Stone

Kate Bulkley

Drs. Phyllis and Richard Yonker

Oni Butterfly

BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT Aspen Constructors, Inc.Michael Tanguay FCI Constructors, Inc. Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theatre for Music and Dance Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation Naughton-Nicholson Foundation Two Leaves and a Bud Tea Company $200 AND ABOVE

Richard Carrigan BJ and Jack Carter Jamie and Joe Chalal Lynda and Ron Charfoos Rika and David Charley Connolly Family Emily and Rick Corleto Pamela M. Cunningham Bobbi and Michael Ortiz Claire and Wayne Dailey E. Lee DeGolyer, III Rhett M. Del Campo Kara Horner and Spencer Denison Maria and Paul Dragoumis

Susan Hilb

Susan and Bernard Pasquariella

Carol Hood Peterson and Brooke Peterson

Marci and Bob Pattillo

Phyllis and David Johnston

Bonnie Pope Gloria and Joe Pryzant Betsy Ratcliff Ann and Gene Reiling Kathy and Mark Rick Susan and John Roach Tania and Bob Roberts

$100 AND ABOVE INDIVIDUALS Jeannette Anderson KD Ashbrook DVM Donald Baldovin Lorian and Chris Bartle Raifie Bass Daniel Becker Daniel Benavent

Karen and Phil Kelton

Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Robinson, Jr.

Kathryn and Jim Kempa

Melanie and Myron Roschko

Richard Berkshire

Meg and Phil Kendall

David A. Roth

Linda Binder

Sylvia Blau and Rabbi Samuel Kenner

Mark Salkind

Jill Lerner and William Bintzer

Marilyn G. and Donald H. Scheffer

Betsy P. Black

Mary Klawiter

Robert Schneider

Leslie and Jack Blanton, Jr.

Roberta and Mel Klein

Susan and Sheldon Schneider

Shirley Bloomfield

Dan Kloster

Dr. and Mrs. Joel Schneider

Gregory Borchert

Susan Sheridan

Rob Bordan

Betty and Rob Shiels Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc.

Jon Boxer Barbara Boyles

Robyn Samuels and Bruce Shragg

Lori and Bob Brandon

Judy Kravitz Marilyn and Earl Latterman Geri and Paul Levin Jeffrey Li Sam and Pete Louras Julie and Robert MacLean Mathilde and Parker Maddux Diane Oshin and Sidney Mandelbaum

Susan Werth and Bernard Silver Lorraine and Pat Spector Denise and David Stookesberry Gretchen Straub

Justin Benavidez

Kathie and Howard Brand Elizabeth Buccheri Shelley Burke and Al Nemoff Nichole Campbell Franci Candlin

INDIVIDUALS

Nancy S. Dunlap

Anonymous

Sylvia and George Falk

David & Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation

BJ and Michael Adams

Lelia and Esteban Ferrer

Mrs. Harriet Mehl

Linda and Denis Trupkin

Sarah C. Brett Smith and Stephen L. Adler

Marilyn Fiedelman

Mary Mendenhall

Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation, Inc.

Sistie Fischer

John Menninger

Sonya and Mark Vogel

Robert C. Anderson

Margot Fleck

Trudy Ann Milcan

Ruth and Bob Wade

Fran and Dr. Dan Arnold

Alan G. Gass

Don E. Miller

Tom Watling

Marilyn Susman and Gary Auerbach

Barbara and Stephen Gilbert

Barbara Fosco and David Missner

Sydney and Steven Cohen

Helene and J John Baran

DeeDee and Herb Glimcher

Irene Weinrot

Beth and Josh Mondry

Kathy and Carter Barger

Sandy and Bill Goodglick

Stephen D. Morton

Amy A. Ernst and Steven J. Weiss

John R. Cohn Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Comm. Foundation

Cathrine Blom and Gordon Baym

Celeste C. Grynberg

The Nassan Family

Barbara and Karl Becker

Flossie and Evan Gull

Michael Behrendt and St. Moritz Lodge

Gail Hartley Sally Greer and David Heil

Melinne Owen

Kathy Hansen and Edward Sweeney

Peggy Carlson Dr. Matthew and Paula Carr Ashley Chod Caroline Christensen Kim Coates NancyBell Coe and William Burke

Sharon Cook

George Newell

BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT

Karin Offield

Hetta Heath & Associates

Sara Corsaro

Gretchen Cooper Montana Crady

Willi Colino Goodman and Barry Goodman

Joan S. Leavenworth Dorothy Julia Lebach

Kathleen de Guaman and Aidan Pope

Dr. and Mrs. Barry S. Strauch

Linda and Clay Crossland Shelly Cyprus

Mary Beth Goodspeed

Lynne and Dan Levinson

Ruth Potter

K. M. Tafejian

Lisa Dancing-Light

Sylvia and Marvin Gordon

Philip R. Levy

Anne Powell Riley

Kendall Taylor

Sandy Simpson and Don Davidson

Naomi Grabel

Denison Levy

Wanda Wray Putnam

Hanne and George Thatcher

Amy Doherty

Judy Kaye and David Green

Mariannn and Richard Thompson

Becky Dombrowski

Nanette and Irving Greif, Jr.

Jennifer and Greg Long

Mary Putney Andy Quiat and Jane Keener-Quiat

Dottie and Sandy Thomson

Thomas Dougherty

Blake Greiner

Ewald Rainer

Ruth Truitt and Douglas Chaney

Susan and James Dubin

Lori Guilander

Clare and Charles Reel

Josefina P. Tuason

Joe Dunn

Sarah Haft

Peter Rispoli

Reine Fedor and Doug Turner

Jessica Earnest

Carol and Howard Hahn

Thorn C. Roberts

John Vogt

Harriet and Charles Edwards

Roslyn Harkavy

Brittanie Rockhill

Jenn Voorhees

Lucy and Dan Ellerhorst

Julia Herman

Alita and Rick Rogers

Jennifer Engel

Susan Hershey

Esta Rose

Jennifer Causing and Peter Waanders

Mark, Valerie, and Liam

Susan and Willliam Hiatt

Jean W. Rueschhoff

Dr. Margaret Waisman

Patti and Joe Farago

Liza Hogan

Patti and Greg Rulon

Mary Jane and Bob Wakefield

Mary Kate Farrell

Shirley Holst

Jude and Terry Ryan

Margaret F. Walker

Michelle Ferguson

Emery Holton

Carol and Jim Salbenblatt

Barbara and Marvin Walker

Caryl Field

Jackson Horn

Nina and Joshua Saslove

Becky and Craig Ward

Ellie and Stuart Fine

Janis and George Huggins

Roland Schmidt

Riley Warwick

Nancy Fleischer

Elizabeth Hughes

Judith J. Schramm

Linda Watchmater

Ed Foran

Paul Jacob

Marlene Schroeder

Wieslawa and Somerset Waters

Linda S. Fossier

Ervin Jindrich

Reina and Alberto C. Serrano

Kristin and Jaren Watumull

Diane and Hutch Foster

Alberta and Reese Johnson

William Shade

Scott Weber

Greer and Bruce Fox

Bruce Johnson

Eve and Howard Shapiro

Linda and Samuel Winn

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Frankel

Trent Jones

Harry and the Shatkin Family

Wendy Wogan

Jean and Gregg Frankel

Linda and John Jonides

Layne Shea

Teri Wolofsky

Prof. Tom Franks

Judy Kava

Susan and Marty Sherwin

Reinhard Wolter

Mallory and Eric Freedman

Chris and Gary Kelly

Melinda and John Wright

Adam Funk

Stacey Kelly

Alice and Charles* Parker

Carolyn and Dick Shohet Jill Shore

Ruth Wright

Alma Garrett

Sun Min Kim

Ginny Car-Skaden Passoth

Jo Ann and Samuel Silverstein

Kathryn Zerbe

Lauren Garrity

Jeff King

Sandra and Fred Peirce

Adrienne Smith

Sara Garton

Kathlyn Kingdon

Bobbie Pepper

Dawnette Smith

Jacqueline Rosen and Dr. Daniel George

Penny Kinsman

Terry Lee and Bill Perich

Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Smith III

Steve Knudson

Essie Perlmutter

Donna and Andy Smith

Barbara Gilmore

Doris La Mar

Bryan Peterson

Mi Ryung Song

Candice Girgis

Marian and Leonard Lansburgh

Nancy Peterson

Pat Spitzmiller

Marcia Goldin

Jodilynn and John Larse

Kathleen Winkler and Timothy Pitts

John Starr

David V. Gollon

Michael Latousek

Susan C. Plummer

Diane and Stephen Stewart

Goodglick Family

Carole and Gary Lazar

Dorothy and Aaron Podhurst

Ruth Stone

Marilyn Lowey Anita and Scott Lupow Carolyn and Martin Manosevitz Julia Marshall Sue and Bill Mason Lisa McCann Victoria and Hunter McGrath Martha Mecom Suzanne and Taber Meyers Cynthia Milling William Mitchell Ari Mizrahi Dick Moebius Ellen and Ed Monarch Melanie Muss and Tracy Nichols Lyn and Doug Nehasil Judy Nordhagen Sue and Paul Ofield Ann Spaeth and Raymond Ollett Robin Amster and Steve Olszewski Peggy and Paul Pace Frank Pajerski

Max Taam

BUSINESSES/FOUNDATIONS/ GOVERNMENT Hirsch Properties LLC Jing Aspen

* Denotes deceased supporter

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL 2021 ANNUAL REPORT

Donald Crockett

FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Rental and miscellaneous income

After a completely virtual season in 2020, the AMFS was thrilled to welcome back students and offer concerts in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMFS decreased student enrollment by 55% to have smaller ensembles, less crowded facilities, and fewer students per dorm room. We also decreased occupancy in our concerts to allow for social distancing. While all these changes decreased AMFS revenue, the organization was fortunate to have a very strong year in fundraising and to have received a government grant to assist with pandemic-related losses.

GOVERNMENT GRANTS

100% of students were on full fellowship in 2021. In addition to this loss of revenue, decreases in student enrollment and empty beds in dormitories led to a decrease in net student fees of approximately $1,600,000.

In both 2020 and 2021 the AMFS was fortunate to receive government funding for pandemic relief. In 2020, the organization received $723,500 in funds from the Payroll Protection Program. The loan was forgiven in November 2020. In 2021, the AMFS received funds of approximately $2M from the Shuttered Venues Operators Grant.

TICKET SALES Due to the need for social distancing, roughly half of the sections in the Tent were only seated at roughly 10% capacity to have six feet in all directions between parties. In addition, we had fewer concerts each week to ensure spaces were safe for rehearsals and performances. All of these changes led to roughly a 25% decrease in ticket revenue from a normal year.

DEVELOPMENT The AMFS raised $7.2M for the operating fund in 2021. These contributions, which included Annual Fund gifts, beneﬁt income, and grants, funded both general operations and special projects. The Board of Trustees was particularly generous and the AMFS received many special gifts to assist in funding the extraordinary expenses of running the program during the pandemic.

EXPENSES In 2021 we experienced significant inflation in housing costs for our staff, faculty, and guest artists. This was consistent with increased rental rates in Aspen over the summer and high demand from tourists. In addition, we had COVID-related expenses for venue safety, PPE, and consultants.

Student fees

14%

17%

OPPOSITE Two violin students busk in downtown Aspen.

Ticket sales

46%

Development (operating)

Other earned income

Student assistance and other school costs

Management and general costs 16% 26%

Ancillary programs 1% Marketing 1% Cost of sales-other earned income Program service

EXPENSES

15%

ENDOWMENT TRANSFER As part of the AMFS’s commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), we transferred $500,000 to endowment to seed a new scholarship fund for Black and Latino students.

Government Grants

12%

REVENUE

28%

Administrative compensation

Faculty compensation

Guest artist compensation

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL 2021 ANNUAL REPORT

STUDENT FEES

Investment income

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL Statement of Revenue and Expenses As of September 30, 2021

September 30, 2021

2021 Budget

2020 Actual

$130,129

REVENUE Student fees

$2,580,166

$2,583,400

Ticket sales

1,145,723

254,400

27,428

Other earned income

478,299

561,500

126,291

Development (operating)

7,224,155

6,865,000

4,759,041

Government Grants

1,932,954

723,500

Investment income

2,197,216

3,285,000

1,449,991

93,373

21,000

45,757

15,651,886

13,570,300

7,262,137

Student assistance

2,531,272

2,534,400

Other school costs

1,352,035

1,322,000

127,961

TOTAL

3,883,307

3,856,400

127,961

2,755,024

2,771,800

2,702,712

1,468,606

1,423,000

481,069

Travel

39,045

31,000

700

Housing

761,143

665,000

39,517

7,075

13,000

2,275,869

2,132,000

521,286

Other income TOTAL REVENUE

EXPENSES Student assistance and other school costs:

Faculty compensation Base and Faculty Relief

Shares, classes, coachings TOTAL Guest artist compensation

376,539

426,000

2,700

4,272,929

4,198,000

4,104,336

Program service compensation

979,131

1,010,200

259,531

Cost of sales-other earned income

431,704

437,000

306,853

Marketing

223,849

340,400

101,581

Programs

247,626

234,000

171,768

2,355,990

2,508,550

1,520,110

15,046,944

15,142,550

7,116,126

604,942

(1,572,250)

146,011

Administrative compensation

Management and general costs

OPPOSITE Students (l–r) Hannah White violin, Alejandro Lombo flute, Liana Hoffman horn, and Alberto Agut clarinet. BACK COVER Concertmaster and artist-faculty member Alexander Kerr (l) gives conductor Hugh Wolff (r) a congratulatory elbow bump after their performance on August 8.

TOTAL EXPENSES NET FROM OPERATIONS Bucksbaum capital contribution Transfer (to)/from endowment Cushion / contingency NET REVENUE

(50,000)

(500,000)

(96,011)

(100,000)

$24,167

($1,722,250)

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