Program - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert

Colorado Symphony 2017/18 Season Presenting Sponsor:

MOVIES • 2017/18 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN™ IN CONCERT COLORADO SYMPHONY JEFFREY SCHINDLER, conductor JOHN WILLIAMS, composer COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, MARY LOUISE BURKE, associate director Friday, January 5, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, January 6, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, January 7, 2018, at 1:00 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

Produced by

Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer

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MOVIES BIOGRAPHIES JEFFREY SCHINDLER, conductor Conductor Jeffrey Schindler enjoys a dynamic international career that takes him from concert podiums around the world to the scoring stages of Hollywood, to the recording studios of London. Whether leading symphonic works of the Masters, multi-million dollar film scores, or cutting edge contemporary and commercial music, Mr. Schindler’s energy and visionary musical storytelling are hallmarks of every performance. Mr. Schindler’s artistry melds imaginative and illuminating performances with expressive and powerful technique, impeccable scholarship, and vibrant energy. Known as a versatile conductor, Mr. Schindler has conducted world-renowned orchestras across the globe. He has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, Seattle Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Nashville Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Silicon Valley, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico, Czech Philharmonic, London Session Orchestra, The Strauss Orchestra of Montreal, Orquesta Internacional de Las Artes in Mexico City, and the AISOI Symphony Orchestra in Australia. Mr. Schindler is one of the only conductors leading concerts of live orchestra to film who has conducted A-list Hollywood motion pictures in the original studio recordings, and is in high demand among film composers. He has led the sessions for many international feature film and television projects including X-men: Apocalypse, X-men: Days of Future Past, Jack the Giant Slayer, The Wolfman, Astroboy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Temple Grandin, Four Christmases, Bernard and Doris, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Hollywood Homicide, and the most successful documentary of all time: the Academy-Award winning March of the Penguins.

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MOVIES BIOGRAPHIES JUSTIN FREER , president/founder/producer, CineConcerts American composer/conductor JUSTIN FREER was born and raised in Huntington Beach, CA. He has established himself as one of the West Coast’s most exciting musical voices and has quickly become a highly soughtafter conductor and producer of film music concerts around the world.

Freer began his formal studies on trumpet, playing in wind ensembles, marching bands and community orchestras. He quickly turned to piano and composition and composed his first work for wind ensemble at age eleven.

Continuing trumpet performance while studying piano and composition, Freer saw multiple wind ensemble, choral and big band performances of his music while still a teenager and gave his professional conducting debut at age sixteen. Continually composing for various different mediums, he has written music for world-renowned trumpeters Doc Severinson and Jens Lindemann and continues to be in demand as a composer and conductor for everything from orchestral literature to chamber music at some of the most well known concert halls, festivals, music clinics and conventions in the world. Major League Soccer called upon Freer to compose and conduct music for the 2011 and 2012 Major League Soccer Championship Cups in Los Angeles, CA. He has served as composer for several independent films and has written motion picture advertising music for some of 20th Century Fox Studios’ biggest campaigns including Avatar, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dragonball Evolution and Aliens in the Attic. As a conductor Freer has appeared with some of the most well known orchestras in the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In upcoming seasons he will guest conduct the Minnesota Orchestra as well as the orchestras of Chicago, Dublin, London, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto and others. Renowned wind conductor and Oxford Round Table Scholar Dr. Rikard Hansen has noted that, “In totality, Freer’s exploration in musical sound evoke moments of highly charged drama, alarming strife and serene reflection.”

In recent seasons his works have been performed by the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble, Texas All-State Symphonic Band, the Grand Symphonic Winds and the wind bands of the University of North Texas, Purdue University, Kansas State University, University of North Dakota, University of Illinois, Indiana University, UCLA, St. Cloud State University, and Cal State University, Los Angeles, among many others. His music has also appeared as a subject of discussion at the Oxford Round Table of Scholars and has been performed throughout the world from New York City’s Carnegie Hall to Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall. Freer has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP, BMI, the Society of Composers and Lyricists and the Henry Mancini Estate. He is the Founder and President of CineConcerts, a company dedicated to the preservation and concert presentation of film, TV and media music set to picture with whom he has produced, curated and conducted full length music score performances live with film for such wide ranging titles as Gladiator, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s A Wonderful Life and most recently Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - he also spent several years as one of the principal conductors for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy In Concert and conducted the European concert run of Titanic. Mr. Freer earned both his B.A.

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MOVIES BIOGRAPHIES and M.A. degrees in Music Composition from UCLA, where his principal composition teachers included Paul Chihara and Ian Krouse. In addition, he was mentored by legendary composer/ conductor Jerry Goldsmith. interaction

BRADY BEAUBIEN, co-founder/producer A Stanford graduate, All-American Athlete turned creative impresario, Beaubien is the founder of Interlace Media – an enterprising motion graphics company with a specialty of integrating theatrical and television media.

The acclaimed Interlace is a premiere CG animation and advertising agency for feature films. They define global campaigns of over 100 major Hollywood movies, including Avatar, X-Men, Rio, Ice Age, and Die Hard franchises.

Beaubien co-founded CineConcerts, a company dedicated to reinventing the experience of theatrical presentation and orchestral music. CineConcerts partners with the greatest theatrical concert halls in the world, including the Sydney Opera House and Royal Albert Hall, to screen classic films while renowned orchestras perform the score for the film in real-time. Currently producing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone In Concert, Gladiator Live, The Godfather Live and Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage. Beaubien also founded Interlace Design, an international architecture and design firm, currently building a new restaurant in Paris and an exclusive residence in Tokyo. His new headquarters – which he designed and built on Melrose Ave - represents a commitment to the metropolitan and interconnected providence of Los Angeles. Advanced materials and technology merge with wood, concrete and glass in an organic and modernist design. Mr. Beaubien has partnered with award winning sushi chef, Nobu Matsuhisa, to bring his new restaurant concept into the building. Mr. Beaubien also designed the restaurant.

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MOVIES BIOGRAPHIES CineConcerts is one of the leading producers of live music experiences performed with visual media. Founded by producer/conductor Justin Freer and producer/writer Brady Beaubien, CineConcerts has engaged millions of people worldwide in concert presentations that redefine the evolution of live experience. Recent and current live concert experiences include Gladiator, The Godfather, It’s a Wonderful Life, DreamWorks Animation In Concert, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 50th Anniversary Concert Tour, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Justin Freer has quickly become one of the most sought-after conductors of film music with a long list of full symphonic live to projection projects. He has appeared with some of the world’s leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. From full-length movie screenings with live orchestra to music-interactive sporting event experiences to original 3D-environment holiday programming, CineConcerts is at the forefront of live entertainment.

JOHN WILLIAMS, composer In a career spanning five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films, including all seven Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and The Book Thief. His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse and Lincoln. His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances. He also composed themes for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards and fifty Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-three Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in December of 2004. In 2009, Mr. Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government. In 2016, he received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute – the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer. In January 1980, Mr. Williams was named nineteenth music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate PROGRAM 5 S O U N D I N G S 2 0 1 7/ 1 8

MOVIES BIOGRAPHIES Conductor which he assumed following his retirement in December, 1993, after fourteen highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Mr. Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by several of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2009, Mr. Williams composed and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” especially for the first inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama, and in September 2009, the Boston Symphony premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled “On Willows and Birches”.

MARY LOUISE BURKE, associate director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Mary Louise Burke is in her 23rd season as Associate Chorus Director of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. In addition to assisting Chorus Director Duain Wolfe, she also prepares the chorus for various Colorado Symphony pops concerts and special chorus projects. Burke is also Associate Director of the Colorado Children’s Chorale, conducting the Concert Choir and acting as vocal coach for the Chorale. With an expertise in vocal technique, Burke frequently does seminars in vocal and choral techniques for area church and community choirs. She is the Vocal Advisor at Montview Presbyterian Church and has taught classes in “Find Your Authentic Voice” at the University of Denver. She has a Doctorate in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado.

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MOVIES BIOGRAPHIES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS The 2016-2017 Colorado Symphony Concert Season marks the 33rd year of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. Founded in 1984 by Duain Wolfe at the request of Gaetano Delogu, then the Music Director of the Symphony, the chorus has grown, over the past three decades, into a nationally-respected ensemble. This outstanding chorus of 180 volunteers joins the Colorado Symphony for numerous performances (more than 25 this year alone), and radio and television broadcasts, to repeat critical acclaim. The Chorus has performed at noted music festivals in the Rocky Mountain region, including the Colorado Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, where it has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony. For over two decades, the Chorus has been featured at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival, performing many great masterworks under the baton of notable conductors Lawrence Foster, James Levine, Murry Sidlin, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, and David Zinman. Among the recordings the Colorado Symphony Chorus has made is a NAXOS release of Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 4. The Chorus is also featured on a recent Hyperion release of the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis.

In 2009, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Chorus, Duain Wolfe conducted the Chorus on a 3-country, 2-week concert tour of Europe, presenting the Verdi Requiem in Budapest, Vienna, Litomysl, and Prague, and in 2016 the Chorus returned to Europe for concerts in Paris, Strasbourg, and Munich. From Evergreen to Lochbuie, and Boulder to Castle Rock, singers travel each week to rehearsals and performances in Denver totaling about 80 a year. The Colorado Symphony continues to be grateful for the excellence and dedication of this remarkable, all-volunteer ensemble! For an audition appointment, call 303.308.2483.

COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS Duain Wolfe, Founding Director and Conductor; Mary Louise Burke, Associate Director; Travis Branam, Assistant Conductor; Taylor Martin, Assistant Conductor; Eric Israelson, Chorus Manager; Barbara Porter, Associate Manager; Brian Dukeshier, Danni Snyder, Accompanists SOPRANO Carissa Anderson Jamie Brown Megan Buness Kim Cowan Katie Hom Angela Hupp

Colleen Keefe Karen Mize Paige Sentianin Sara Persily Natalie Thompson Athena Wilkinson

ALTO Sharon Billings Carrie Buechner Barb Deck Sara Echelberger Madeline Gardner Brienna Jarrell

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Amber Parrish Amanda Pearo Elizabeth Peterson Chelsea Smith Tamiya Stone

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MOVIES CINECONCERTS STAFF Concert Produced by CineConcerts

Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer David Hoffis, Sound Engineer/Production Supervisor Ed Kalnins, Playback Operator and Synthesizer Production Marketing Director: Kory Kelly Press Director: Andrew P. Alderete Worldwide Representation: WME Entertainment

Music Preparation: JoAnn Kane Music Service Music Editing: Ramiro Belgardt and Ed Kalnins Sound RemixingJustin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios

A Very Special Thanks to: Warner Bros. Consumer Products, The Blair Partnership, Mark Graham, Amos Newman, Jamie Richardson, Alex Rabens, and John Williams.

About Warner Bros. Consumer Products Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

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