CSO Saint-Saens Organ Symphony - program 09-30-22

Christopher Warren-Green, conductor Paul Jacobs, organ

Welcome to our fall season!

What a joy it is to be part of Charlotte’s vibrant and burgeoning arts community, especially when we have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow artists and arts organizations whose missions are synergistic with our own.

Tonight, we’re pleased to partner with First United Methodist Church in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Charlotte Chapter of the American Guild of Organists — an organization that uplifts the importance of organ and choral music through scholarships, musician support, and presenting high-quality performances throughout the Charlotte area.

We’re delighted to welcome Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs to Charlotte, and thrilled that Conductor Laureate and Music Adviser Christopher Warren-Green is back on the podium to lead the Charlotte Symphony in works that showcase the power and beauty of the King of Instruments — including Saint-Saëns’ glorious “Organ” Symphony.

If you haven’t already purchased your subscription for the Charlotte Symphony’s new season, I encourage you to explore the stellar lineup of classical, film, pops, and family concerts on offer and curate your own concert experience.

I look forward to seeing you at the Knight Theater for the official start of the Bank of America Classical Series, October 7–8, when we welcome guest conductor Andrew Grams and cellist Inbal Segev for Elgar’s powerful Cello Concerto in E minor.

Thank you for joining us and enjoy the performance.

David Fisk President & CEO

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Did you know that the Charlotte Symphony is much more than what you see on the Belk and Knight Theater stages? Beyond the Classical, Pops, Family, and Movie Series in the theaters, we work to uplift, entertain, and educate our community through inclusive education programs and community performances.

• The CSO has three programs for young musicians: the Youth Orchestra, the Youth Philharmonic, and the Youth Ensemble. CSO musicians participate in coaching throughout the year, and even perform with the young musicians!

• Reaching approximately 15,000 students each season, we also have extensive school programs, including Project Harmony, “Music and the Holocaust,” and “One Musical Family” Education Concerts.

• We perform throughout the region, from community parks and schools to breweries, senior care centers, and places of worship all season long.

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The Charlotte Chapter of the American Guild of Organists was founded on October 31, 1947. The guild seeks to set and maintain high musical standards and to promote understanding and appreciation of all aspects of organ and choral music; to raise the standard of efficiency of organists by examinations in organ playing, in music theory, general music knowledge, and to grant certificates as Fellows, Associates, or Choir Masters to members of the guild who pass examinations. Membership is not limited to organists but is open to all professions and members

of the public with an interest in organs, organ music and choral music. The guild was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1896, with the authority to grant certificates of associate or fellow to members who passed examinations. The Charlotte Chapter exists alongside the city’s longest-standing arts organizations and since 1947 has sponsored choir festivals, organ recitals, choral clinics, clergy-organist events with guest speakers, study groups, scholarships for local young organists, and performance venues for locally and nationally recognized artists. The chapter will be honoring and recognizing its 75th anniversary year from September, 2022 through June, 2023.

Anniversary Vision Statement:

To foster and support an interconnected sense of belonging within the Charlotte community’s diversity of cultures. charlotteago.org

The 1967 M.P. Möller Opus 10260 and the Kathryn Stephenson Pipe Organ Foundation

The 3-manual, 60-rank M.P. Möller organ at First United Methodist Church Charlotte was completed in June 1967 and replaced a 4-manual Hook & Hastings. The September 10, 1967 dedication concert was played by Dr. George Markey of Westminster Choir College. The instrument presents itself as historically and locally unique in construction quality among other instruments of the same era. It represents a creative pinnacle in J.P. Möller tonal design, with inherent versatility towards multiple musical styles from Renaissance polyphony to the smorgasbord of late 20th and early 21st century classical music, making the instrument a true American classic pipe organ. This weekend’s concerts mark the instrument’s 55 th anniversary.

The Kathryn Stephenson Pipe Organ Foundation was established in 2016 in honor of Kathryn Stephenson, who first served as organist at First Methodist, Charlotte, from 19651973 and then later in the early 2000s. She was influential in the design of the Opus 10260.

The Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) organization, has a vision of underwriting a variety of events that highlight the use of the pipe organ through venues such as concerts, educational workshops, and new musical compositions to the benefit of the Charlotte metro arts community and patrons, and to help with the costs associated with the continuous maintenance needed for such a grand instrument.

All contributions are tax-deductible. uptownmo10260.org

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Following twelve years as Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony, Christopher Warren-Green now serves as Conductor Laureate and Artistic Adviser. Maestro WarrenGreen is also Music Director and Principal Conductor of London Chamber Orchestra in the UK and Chair of the Foundation for Young Musicians.

Over the last 50 years Maestro Warren-Green has conducted eminent orchestras around the world. In North America he has conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit, Houston, St Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra. In the UK, he has worked with the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras.

During the 2022–23 season, Maestro Warren-Green returns to Charlotte to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Charlotte Chapter of the American Guild of Organists with Saint-Saëns’s breathtaking Organ Symphony, featuring Paul Jacobs as soloist. In December Warren-Green leads the Charlotte Symphony in his world-renowned interpretation of Handel’s Messiah.

In addition to his international commitments, he has been invited to conduct at the wedding services of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2005, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in 2011 and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2018. He conducted the London Chamber Orchestra on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s 80th birthday and the Philharmonia Orchestra for Her Majesty’s 90th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as well as King Charles III’s 60th birthday concert in Buckingham Palace.

Christopher Warren-Green

conductor laureate & music adviser

A violinist by training, Warren-Green began his career at the age of 19 as concertmaster of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, followed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, having been a Professor there for eight years, and has appeared and presented numerous times on television and radio, most notably for the BBC Proms. He has recorded extensively for Sony, Philips, Virgin EMI, Chandos, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, and records with the London Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics.

BIO organ

Paul Jacobs

Heralded as “one of the major musicians of our time” by Alex Ross of The New Yorker and as “America’s leading organ performer” by The Economist, the internationally celebrated organist Paul Jacobs combines a probing intellect and extraordinary technical mastery with an unusually large repertoire, both old and new. He has performed to great critical acclaim on five continents and in each of the fifty United States. The only organist ever to have won a Grammy Award — in 2011 for Messiaen’s towering “Livre du SaintSacrément,”— Mr. Jacobs is an eloquent champion of his instrument both in the United States and abroad.

No other organist is repeatedly invited as soloist to perform with prestigious orchestras, thus making him a pioneer in the movement for the revival of symphonic music featuring the organ. Mr. Jacobs regularly appears with the Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Pacific

Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Toledo Symphony, and Utah Symphony, among others.

In the 2021-22 season Paul Jacobs made debuts with the Warsaw Philharmonic in the Lou Harrison Organ Concerto led by Alexander Shelley, and with the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic both in recital and with the Horatio Parker Organ Concerto and Guilmant’s Organ Symphony in D Minor led by Giancarlo Guerrero.  He returns to the Chicago Symphony for Handel Organ Concerti led by Dame Jane Glover, and debuts with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in an organ spectacular featuring the Jongen Symphonie Concertante and Paulus Grand Concerto conducted by Gil Rose.  In recital he can be heard with the Pacific Symphony, Parlance Chamber Concerts, the Eccles Organ Festival, and with the Bethlehem Music Series.

BIO

During the 2020-21 season Mr. Jacobs performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Yannick Nezet-Seguin for their digital streaming series including the Poulenc Organ Concerto, as well as chamber versions of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Das Lied von der Erde; with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most for the Poulenc Concerto, and the Jackson (TN) Symphony.  He appeared in recitals with the Madison Symphony, Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota, and in Sun City, AZ.

Mr. Jacobs studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, doublemajoring with John Weaver for organ and Lionel Party for harpsichord, and at Yale University with Thomas Murray. He joined the faculty of The Juilliard School in 2003, and was named chairman of the organ department in 2004, one of the youngest faculty appointees in the school’s history. He received Juilliard’s prestigious William Schuman Scholar’s Chair in 2007. In addition to his concert and teaching appearances, Mr. Jacobs is a frequent performer at festivals across the world, and has appeared on American Public Media’s Performance Today, Pipedreams, and Saint Paul Sunday, as well as NPR’s Morning Edition, ABC-TV’s World

News Tonight, and BBC Radio 3. In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from Washington and Jefferson College.

FIRST VIOLINS

Calin Ovidiu Lupanu, Concertmaster The Catherine & Wilton Connor Chair Joseph Meyer, Associate Concertmaster

Giles, Assistant Concertmaster Ernest Pereira°* Susan Blumberg°° Jane Hart Brendle

Chatham°°

Gamo Jenny Topilow°°

Wilkes-Kim Hanna Zhdan

SECOND VIOLINS Oliver Kot, Principal

Wolfgang Roth Chair Kathleen Jarrell, Assistant Principal

Pepsi-Cola Foundation of Charlotte Chair Carlos Tarazona°

Monica Boboc

Tatiana Karpova

Ellyn Stuart Martha Geissler

Sakira Harley VIOLAS

Geller,

Bunten Merrill Principal

Rea,

Lewis,

Ballena,

DOUBLE BASSES Kurt Riecken, Principal Judson Baines, Assistant Principal Jeffrey Ferdon Jason McNeel

Wang,

Blumenthal Foundation Chair

Orsinger Whitehead

Frechette PICCOLO Erinn Frechette

Ulaky, Principal

Leo B. Driehuys Chair‡ Erica Cice Terry Maskin

HORN

Maskin

Christopher Warren-Green, Conductor

James Lees,

HORNS Byron Johns, Principal The Mr. & Mrs. William H. Van Every Chair Andrew Fierova

Robert Rydel Richard Goldfaden Philip Brindise† TRUMPETS Alex Wilborn, Principal The Betty J. Livingstone Chair Jonathan Kaplan Gabriel Slesinger, Associate Principal The Marcus T. Hickman Chair

TROMBONES John Bartlett, Principal Thomas Burge

BASS TROMBONE Scott Hartman, Principal

TUBA Colin Benton, Principal The Governor James G. Martin Chair

TIMPANI Rose Lipham, Principal The Robert Haywood Morrison Chair PERCUSSION Brice Burton, Principal HARP Andrea Mumm Trammell, Principal The Dr. Billy Graham Chair

This roster lists the full-time members of the Charlotte Symphony. The number and seating of musicians onstage varies depending on the piece being performed.

Non-revolving position

Alternates between first and second violins

Acting member of the Charlotte Symphony

Funded by The Symphony Guild of Charlotte, Inc.

On leave

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Carrie Graham, Director of Artistic Planning

Tim Pappas, Acting Director of Operations Nixon Bustos, Principal Music Librarian Bradley Geneser, Interim Personnel Manager & Assistant Librarian Erin Eady, Operations Coordinator John Jarrell, Stage Manager

The Charlotte Symphony is a proud member of the League of American Ochestras.

Jonathan Kaplan MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Trumpet

Member of CSO since 2017

HOMETOWN: Eagle River, AK

Sergei Prokofiev FAVORITE COMPOSER: FAVORITE HOBBY: Making YouTube videos

Jonathan Kaplan joined the Charlotte Symphony as 2nd Trumpet in the fall of 2017. Originally from Eagle River, Alaska, Kaplan holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and a master’s degree from Rice University. Kaplan has performed as a guest musician with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony. Since the summer of 2019, he also has served as the 2nd Trumpet of the Central City Opera Orchestra, located in historic Central City outside of Denver, CO.

In addition to performing, Kaplan hosts “Jon Talks Trumpet,” a YouTube channel devoted to exploring a variety of trumpet-related topics including equipment, history, repertoire, and ongoing research.

For more information about Charlotte Symphony musicians, visit charlottesymphony.org

One of the premier music organizations in the Southeastern United States and the oldest operating symphony orchestra in the Carolinas, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) connects with more than 100,000 music lovers each year through its lively season of concerts, broadcasts, community events, and robust educational programs. The CSO is committed to its mission of uplifting, entertaining, and educating the diverse communities of Charlotte-Mecklenburg and beyond through exceptional music experiences.

The Charlotte Symphony upholds the highest artistic integrity and takes bold steps to engage with its community through music. Its 62 professional, full-time time musicians perform throughout the region — from community parks and breweries, to places of worship and senior care centers — and offer significant educational support, aimed at serving the under-resourced areas of our community.

The Charlotte Symphony is deeply committed to the notion that music, accessible to all and experienced in its many forms, enriches and unifies our community. The CSO believes in equity and inclusion and strives to be an industry leader in imaginative, relevant programming by intentionally seeking out women conductors, underrepresented in our industry, and conductors, composers, and guest artists of color.

Founded in 1932, the Charlotte Symphony plays a leading cultural role in the Charlotte area and aims to serve the community as a civic leader, reflecting and uniting our region through the transformative power of live music.

OUR MISSION

The Charlotte Symphony uplifts, entertains, and educates the diverse communities of Charlotte-Mecklenburg and beyond through exceptional musical experiences. OUR VISION

Reaching out through the transformative power of live music, the Charlotte Symphony will be a civic leader, reflecting and uniting our region.

For more information, visit us online at charlottesymphony.org

PROGRAM NOTES

Organ Concerto in F Major, hwv 295 “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” (1739)

premiere: April 4, 1739 in London, England born: February 23, 1685 in Halle, Germany died: April 14, 1759 in London, England

Handel completed his F-Major Organ Concerto, HWV 295, on April 2, 1739. Two days later, Handel himself was the soloist in the Concerto’s premiere. The performance took place during an intermission between acts of Israel in Egypt. Handel’s oratorio was also receiving its premiere at the April 4, 1739 concert at the King’s Theater in the Haymarket in London.

The Concerto is in four movements, alternating measured and quick tempos (Larghetto; Allegro; Larghetto; Allegro). The lively second movement, featuring motifs that evoke the sounds of bird calls, inspired the Concerto’s nickname, “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.”

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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL

Organist Paul Jacobs

born: February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany died: November 4, 1847 in Leipzig, Germany

Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Opus 107 “Reformation” (1830)

premiere: November 15, 1832 in Berlin, Germany

Mendelssohn composed his Symphony in D Major between September 1829 and April 1830. He intended the work for the 300th anniversary of the 1530 Augsburg Confession, a document that set forth the basic tenets of the Protestant faith, thereby inaugurating the great Reformation.

The political turmoil in Europe that culminated in the July Revolution led to the cancellation of the planned celebrations of the Augsburg Confession. French conductor FrançoisAntoine Habeneck agreed to premiere Mendelssohn’s new symphony with his Paris Conservatoire Orchestra — but, during the first rehearsal, the musicians objected to the work so strenuously that the premiere was cancelled.

The premiere finally took place in November 1832, under the composer’s direction, at the Singakadamie in Berlin. At that time, the new work was referred to as a “Symphony in Celebration of a Church Revolution”. Later, the Symphony became known as the “Reformation.”

The “Reformation” Symphony is in four movements. The first begins with a slow-tempo introduction (Andante) that twice culminates in the strings’ radiant presentation of the ascending “Dresden Amen.” This leads to the principal, dramatic Allegro con fuoco, in which the “Amen” makes yet another appearance. The charm of the ensuing Allegro vivace stands in stark contrast to the storm and stress of its predecessor. The brief third movement (Andante) is in the character of a song without words. The final movement ensues without pause. It opens with the woodwinds’ invocation of “Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott” (“A Mighty Fortress is our God”), a chorale attributed to Martin Luther. The melody grows in majestic splendor. The ensuing Allegro vivace also features the Luther melody. A final, majestic statement of the chorale provides the stirring conclusion.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

born: October 9, 1835 in Paris, France died: December 16, 1921 in Algiers, Algeria CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Opus 78 “Organ Symphony” (1886)

premiere: May 19, 1886 in London, England

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Third Symphony at the request of the Philharmonic Society of London. Saint-Saëns had been contemplating a new symphony for some time. A few months after the 1885 commission, the composer informed the Philharmonic that the work was: ...well under way. It will be terrifying, I warn you...This imp of a symphony has gone up a half-tone; it didn’t want to stay in B minor and it is now in C minor. It will be a treat for me to conduct it. Will it be a treat, though, for the people who hear it? That is the question. It’s you who asked for it. I wash my hands of the whole thing.

The premiere of the Third Symphony took place in London’s St. James’s Hall on May 19, 1886. The evening was a great personal triumph for Saint-Saëns. The composer led the Philharmonic Society of London in his new Symphony, and was also the soloist in his Fourth Piano Concerto.

The London audience’s response to the Symphony was generally positive. After the concert, Saint-Saëns was given an audience with the Prince of Wales, later crowned King Edward VII. The January 9, 1887 Paris premiere, again conducted by Saint-Saëns, was yet another success. After the performance, as Saint-Saëns descended the podium, composer Charles Gounod proclaimed: “There goes the French Beethoven!”

The Saint-Saëns Third Symphony, with its stunning orchestration and ingenious thematic manipulation, is one of the most important French symphonies of the second half of the nineteenth century. Saint-Saëns did not compose another symphony during the final thirty-five years of his life. As he remarked: “I have given all that I have to give...What I have done I shall never do again.”

PROGRAM NOTES

The Third Symphony comprises two principal sections, each with two parts. Part I begins with a brief slowtempo introduction (Adagio), leading to the principal Allegro moderato, and a restless string figure that will appear in various guises throughout the Symphony. In the slow-tempo portion of Part I (Poco adagio), the organ accompanies the violins, violas and cellos, as they play the affecting principal melody.

The opening portion of Part II (Allegro moderato), serving the function of the traditional scherzo, opens with a dialogue between the strings and thundering timpani. A quicksilver Presto episode introduces, according to the composer, “a fantastic spirit.” The final portion of the Organ Symphony (Maestoso; Allegro) brings the work to a grand conclusion.

Camille Saint-Saëns

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Martha D. Jones

Margot Kaiser

Mr. H.G. Karn & Mrs. Sandra Washburn Madhu Katta

Judy & Ron Kaufman

John J. Kelly, Jr.

Carolyn Wells Kibler

John & Ardis Koch

Mrs. S. Lacy

Ms. Wendy Laxton

Steven Light

John J. Locke

Skip & Ginny Long

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Long III

Bruce & Leigh Marsh

Ms. Rosemarie Marshall & Mr. Lee Wilkins

Joan W. Martin & Pat Burgess

Theodore & Katherine Martinez Ed & Wendy Matthews

Steve & Tammy Matula

Jill Maxwell

Kim & Alan Maxwell

Ms. Judy Mayo James & Stephanie McGarvey Kimberly Moore-Wright

Dr. & Mrs. Michael E. Norman

Dimitris & Jennifer Papageorgiou Rose & Bailey Patrick Bradley & Sharon Patterson Paula & Robert Paul

Mr. Conrad Puckett

Emily & Brian Reinicker

Dr. Livia Robicsek

Mr. & Mrs. Albert E. Rodgers

Nancy Rutledge & Jim Rutledge

Sarah E. Schoedinger

Eileen Scholl

Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Shapiro

Ginny Shaw

Carol Smith

Fred H. Smith

James & Ellie Stephens

Larry Stratemeyer

Brenda Gail Summers

Ms. Sandy Tate Carrie & Jeffrey Teixeira Melissa M. Tolin

Patti Tracey & Chris Hudson

Ms. Nancy Tretsch Sarah & Tim Turner Minyan Wang

Jenny & Henry Ward Ms. Leslie Webster Mr. Erik Weghorst

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Wertheimer

Mrs. Carol Wilson Allen & Clara Wolfe Karen & Charles Wolff

GOVERNMENT & FOUNDATION SUPPORT

Dickson Foundation

$50,000 -

$20,000 - $49,999

DG Brungard Foundation

Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust

The Trexler Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999

Blumenthal Foundation

Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation

Cole Foundation

Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc.

John S. & James L. Knight Foundation

The Maurer Family Foundation

AT&T Foundation

The George W. & Ruth R. Baxter Foundation

The Jack H & Ruth C. Campbell Foundation

The Charlotte Assembly

$5,000 - $9,999 $2,500 - $4,999

Barnhardt/Thomas Trust

Kathryn Stephenson Pipe Organ Endowment Foundation

Stanly County Community Foundation

Winer Family Foundation

The Truist Charitable Fund is a donor-advised fund created by Truist and administered by The Winston-Salem Foundation

The

For

The

The

S. & James L. Knight

& Mrs. Hugh L. McColl, Jr.

Haywood Morrison

C. D. Spangler

Guild of Charlotte, Inc.

Leslie Antoniel,

704.714.5139

Donor

The Charlotte Symphony is supported, in part, by the Infusion Fund and its generous donors.

Multimillion Dollar Commitment City of Charlotte

$1.5 million and above Bank of America

C.D. Spangler Foundation / National Gypsum Company John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Trane Technologies

$600,000 - $1 million Albemarle Foundation Atrium Health

Barings

Duke Energy Honeywell JELD-WEN, Inc. LendingTree Foundation Lowe’s Companies, Inc. Novant Health Red Ventures Truist

$300,000-$600,000

Ally Financial The Centene Charitable Foundation Childress Klein Properties Coca-Cola Consolidated Deloitte EY

The Gambrell Foundation Moore & Van Allen PwC

Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. Rodgers Builders

Wells Fargo

Up to $300,000

Fifth Third Bank Foundation For The Carolinas Deidre and Clay Grubb Leslie and Michael Marsicano Jane and Hugh McColl Nucor Corporation PNC Bank Premier, Inc. Jane and Nelson Schwab

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Linda McFarland Farthing Chair John Williams Vice Chair

Mick Ankrom Treasurer David Fisk President & CEO

Melissa Anderson Thomas Burge* Mike Butterworth Nick Clements Catherine Connor Mary Delk* Denise DeMaio

Richard Krumdieck Yih-Han Ma Alex McKinnon Ulrike W. Miles Glenn Mincey Torsten Pilz Ylida Roberson Robert Rydel* Melinda Snyder Jennifer Sullivan Jenny Tolson* Kevin Walker Shanté Williams, PhD *ex officio

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Richard Osborne, Chair Ruth & Richard Ault

Kat Belk

Arlene & Milton Berkman Jason & Tiffany Bernd

Bragg Robin & Bill Branstrom Derick & Sallie Close Robin Cochran Jeanie & T. Thomas Cottingham III Brian Cromwell

& Pasquale De Martino Alvaro & Donna de Molina

&

Hudson Evans

Gorelick

Elizabeth J. McLaughlin George McLendon Patrick J. O’Leary Debbie & G. Patrick Phillips Paul Reichs Nancy & Charles Robson Patricia A. Rodgers M.A. Rogers Dan & Sara Garces Roselli Katrina & JD Schurter Carolyn Shaw Tom Skains Emily & Zach Smith Bob & Marsha Stickler Cynthia Tyson Braxton Winston Richard Worf Albert Zue