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MOVIE AT THE SYMPHONY: HOME ALONE IN CONCERT PERFORMED BY YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY BRETT MITCHELL, conductor MEMBERS OF COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, TAYLOR MARTIN, assistant conductor Friday, November 29, 2019, at 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Presents A JOHN HUGHES Production A CHRIS COLUMBUS Film

HOME ALONE MACAULAY CULKIN JOE PESCI DANIEL STERN JOHN HEARD and CATHERINE O’HARA Music by JOHN WILLIAMS Film Editor RAJA GOSNELL Production Designer JOHN MUTO Director of Photography JULIO MACAT Executive Producers MARK LEVINSON & SCOTT ROSENFELT and TARQUIN GOTCH Written and Produced by JOHN HUGHES Directed by CHRIS COLUMBUS Soundtrack Album Available on CBS Records, Cassettes and Compact Discs

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Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film Home Alone with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end credits.

Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

Film screening of Home Alone courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. © 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

A note from the Composer Home Alone Ever since Home Alone appeared, it has held a unique place in the affections of a very broad public. Director Chris Columbus brought a uniquely fresh and innocent approach to this delightful story, and the film has deservedly become a perennial at Holiday time.

I took great pleasure in composing the score for the film, and I am especially delighted that the magnificent Colorado Symphony has agreed to perform the music in a live presentation of the movie.

I know I speak for everyone connected with the making of the film in saying that we are greatly honored by this event… and I hope that tonight’s audience will experience the renewal of joy that the film brings with it, each and every year.

John Williams

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PRODUCTION CREDITS Home Alone in Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Director of Operations: Rob Stogsdill Production Manager: Sophie Greaves Production Assistant: Elise Peate Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Supervising Technical Director: Mike Runice Technical Director: Nick Pierce Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for Home Alone has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Twentieth Century Fox, Chris Columbus, David Newman, John Kulback, Julian Levin, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Colorado Symphony.

CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS AND 9 MINUTES WITH A 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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PHOTO: ROGER MASTROIANNI

BRETT MITCHELL, conductor Hailed for delivering compelling performances of innovative, eclectic programs, Brett Mitchell was named the fourth Music Director of the Colorado Symphony in September 2016. He served as the orchestra’s Music Director Designate during the 16/17 season and began his four year appointment in September 2017.

Mr. Mitchell concluded his tenure as the Associate Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra in August 2017. He joined the orchestra as Assistant Conductor in 2013 and was promoted to Associate in 2015, becoming the orchestra’s first Associate Conductor in over three decades and only the fifth in its 98 year history.

In this role, he led the orchestra in several dozen concerts each season at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and on tour. Mr. Mitchell also served as the Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO), which he recently led on a four-city tour of China, marking the ensemble’s second international tour and its first to Asia. In May, 2019 he returned to the Cleveland Orchestra to lead subscription performances of An American in Paris.

In addition to his work in Cleveland and Denver, Brett Mitchell is in consistent demand as a guest conductor. Recent and upcoming guest engagements include subscription debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Dallas, San Antonio, Vancouver and New Zealand symphonies and the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias in Spain, as well as debuts with the Grant Park Music Festival in downtown Chicago and the Indianapolis Symphony during the orchestra’s summer festival at Conner Prairie. He has also appeared with the Detroit, National, Houston, Milwaukee and Oregon symphonies, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra among others.

From 2007 to 2011, Brett Mitchell led over one hundred performances as Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony. He also held Assistant Conductor posts with the Orchestre National de France, where he worked under Kurt Masur from 2006 to 2009, and the Castleton Festival, where he worked under Lorin Maazel in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, Mr. Mitchell completed a highly successful five-year tenure as Music Director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, where an increased focus on locally relevant programming and community collaborations resulted in record attendance throughout his tenure.

As an opera conductor, Brett Mitchell has conducted nearly a dozen productions, principally during his tenure as Music Director of the Moores Opera Center in Houston, where he led eight productions from 2010 to 2013. His repertoire spans the core works of Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute), Verdi (Rigoletto and Falstaff), and Stravinsky (The Rake’s Progress), to contemporary works by Adamo (Little Women), Aldridge (Elmer Gantry), Catán (Il Postino and Salsipuedes), and Hagen (Amelia).

In addition to his work with professional orchestras, Mr. Mitchell is also well-known for his affinity for working with and mentoring highly talented young musicians aspiring to be professional orchestral players. His work with COYO during his Cleveland Orchestra tenure was highly praised and he is regularly invited to work with the orchestra at the Cleveland Institute

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MOVIE AT THE SYMPHONY BIOGRAPHIES of Music as well as at summer orchestral training programs such as the Texas Music Festival, National repertory Orchestra, Interlochen and Sarasota Music Festival.

Born in Seattle in 1979, Brett Mitchell holds degrees in conducting from the University of Texas in Austin and composition from Western Washington University, which selected him as its 2014 Young Alumnus of the Year. He studied at the National Conducting Institute and was selected

by Kurt Masur as a recipient of the inaugural American Friends of the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship. Mr. Mitchell was also one of five recipients of the League of American Orchestras’ American Conducting Fellowship Program from 2007 to 2010.

JOHN WILLIAMS, composer In a career spanning more than 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 for more than one hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, Memoirs of a Geisha, Home Alone, and The Book Thief. His 45-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, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, The BFG, and The Post. Mr. Williams has composed themes for four Olympic Games. He served as music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra for fourteen seasons and remains their Laureate Conductor. He has composed numerous works for the concert stage including two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by many of America’s most prominent orchestras. Mr. Williams has received five Academy Awards and 51 Oscar nominations (making him the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars), seven British Academy Awards, twenty-four Grammys, four Golden Globes, and five Emmys. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. In 2004, he received the Kennedy Center Honors, and in 2009 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 a composer was honored with this award.

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MOVIE AT THE SYMPHONY BIOGRAPHIES TAYLOR MARTIN, Colorado Symphony Chorus assistant conductor Taylor Martin is an avid conductor and sought-after educator in the greater Denver area. Taylor has served as Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus since 2017, and will be making his Colorado Symphony debut conducting a new and engaging presentation of Handel’s Messiah in December of 2019. While with the Colorado Symphony Chorus Taylor has prepared the chorus for The Flaming Lips, Video Games Live, Zelda Symphony of the Goddess, among many other productions. Since 2016 Taylor has served as the Artistic Director of the innovative chamber choir, ELUS Vocal Ensemble. Taylor’s passion for creative and thought-provoking programming has led the ensemble to great acclaim for their immersive presentations of repertoire ranging from great orchestral masterworks to new, imaginative works for unaccompanied choir. Taylor serves on the faculty of the Metropolitan State University of Denver as the Director of the University Basso Choir, and maintains a long-standing relationship as a Teaching Artist for the non-profit, El Sistema Colorado.

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Barber Piano Concerto performed by Olga Kern

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Brett Mitchell, conductor Olga Kern, piano MISSY MAZZOLI Holy Roller BARBER Piano Concerto, Op. 38 SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, “Organ Symphony”

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MOVIE AT THE SYMPHONY BIOGRAPHIES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS The 2019/20 Colorado Symphony concert season marks the 36th season of the Colorado Symphony Chorus, celebrating their official 35th Anniversary in the autumn of 2019 with a performance of Verdi’s Requiem. 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 185 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 seven recordings the Chorus has made is a NAXOS release of Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 4, as well as a remarkable recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The Chorus is also featured on a Hyperion release of the Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis. Most recently, the Colorado Symphony and Chorus released a world-premiere recording of William Hill’s The Raven. In 2009, in celebration of their 25th anniversary, 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. In 2016 the chorus returned to Europe for concerts in Paris, Strasbourg, and Munich. From Evergreen to Brighton, and Boulder to Castle Rock, singers travel each week to rehearsals and performances in Denver, totaling about 80 a year. The Colorado Symphony and Denver community continue to be grateful for the excellence and dedication of this remarkable all-volunteer ensemble. For an audition appointment, visit the symphony website for an online sign up form. www.coloradosymphony.org

COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS Duain Wolfe, Founding Director and Conductor; Mary Louise Burke, Associate Conductor; Travis Branam, Taylor Martin, Assistant Conductors; Brian Dukeshier, Hsiao-Ling Lin, Danni Snyder, Pianists; Eric Israelson, Barbara Porter, Chorus Managers; SOPRANO Kimberly Black Kerry Cote Claudia Dakkouri Barb Porter Garlyn Saddler Sue Von Roedern Joan Zisler

ALTO Barb Deck Evin Worthington Danni Snyder Lisa Townsend

TENOR John Gale Ken Kolm Todd McCracken Shane Mosser Hannis Thompson

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BASS Bob Friedlander Eric Israelson Gene Nuccio Ken Quarles Russ Skillings

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ARETHA: A TRIBUTE PERFORMED BY YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor CAPATHIA JENKINS, vocalist RYAN SHAW, vocalist SYDNEY HARPER, RADJULARI, RANDY CHALMERS, backup vocals Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

VARIOUS/arr. TYZIK

Hot Soul Medley

DON COVEY/arr. SHOUP

Chain of Fools

BURT BACAHRACH/HAL DAVID arr. ALTHOUSE

I Say A Little Prayer

DESYLVA/BROWN/HENDERSON arr. RHODES; orch. STEVENS

Birth of the Blues

PAUL SIMON/arr. HOLCOMBE

Bridge Over Trouble Water

SAGER/HAMLISCH arr. SUCH

Nobody Does It Better

TRADITIONAL/arr. WALDIN What A Friend We Have in Jesus/Climbing Higher Mountains KATHERINE BATES/SAM WARD arr. SHOUP

America the Beautiful

OTIS REDDING/ arr. SUCH

Respect

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SYMPHONY POPS 2019/20 VARIOUS/arr. NORRIS

Salute to Ray Charles

ASHFORD/SIMPSON

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

WOODS/CAMPBELL/CONNELLY arr. PAYNE

Try a Little Tenderness

GOFFIN/KING/WEXLER arr. WALDEN

(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

JAMES BROWN/BETTY NEWSOME arr. WALDIN

It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World

JAMES BROWN/arr. KADLEC

I Got You (I Feel Good)

STEVIE WONDER/arr. NAULAIS

Sir Duke

DINO FEKARIS/FREDDIE PERREN arr. FLEISCHER

I Will Survive

TRADITIONAL/arr. PODD

Amazing Grace

CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR AND 31 MINUTES WITH A 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, resident conductor Australian conductor Christopher Dragon is in his fifth season with the Colorado Symphony. For three years he previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, which gave him the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch. Dragon works regularly in Australia and has guest conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.

His 2015 debut performance at the Sydney Opera House with Josh Pyke and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was released on album by ABC Music and won an ARIA the following year. Dragon’s international guest conducting includes the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has also conducted at numerous festivals including the Breckenridge and Bangalow Music Festivals, with both resulting in immediate re-invitations. At the beginning of 2016 Dragon conducted Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony as part of the Perth International Arts Festival alongside Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. Dragon began his conducting studies in 2011 and was a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program in Australia under the guidance of course director Christopher Seaman. He has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Leonid Grin, Paavo and Neeme Järvi at the Järvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

CAPATHIA JENKINS, vocalist The Brooklyn-born and raised singer/actor, Capathia Jenkins, most recently released the critically acclaimed CD Phenomenal Woman the Maya Angelou Songs with her collaborator Louis Rosen and they sold out the world-famous Birdland Theatre in NYC for three nights. She starred as ‘Medda’ in the hit Disney production of Newsies on Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in The Civil War, where she created the role of Harriet Jackson. She then starred in the Off-Broadway 2000 revival of Godspell, where she wowed audiences with her stirring rendition of ‘Turn Back, O Man’ which can still be heard on the original cast recording. She returned to Broadway in The Look of Love and was critically acclaimed for her performances of the Bacharach/David hits.

In 2007 she went back to Off-Broadway and starred in (mis) Understanding Mammy–The Hattie McDaniel Story for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She was also seen in Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

An active concert artist, Ms. Jenkins has appeared with numerous orchestras around the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony (with Marvin Hamlisch), National Symphony, Cincinnati Pops (with John Morris Russell), Philly Pops, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and many others. She was a soloist with the Festival Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic multiple times. Capathia had the great honor of

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SYMPHONY POPS BIOGRAPHIES performing in the ‘Broadway Ambassadors to Cuba’ concert as part of the Festival De Teatro De La Habana. She has appeared several times at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops and also sang in a Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch at the Library of Congress.

Her television credits include 30 Rock, The Practice, Law & Order SVU, The Sopranos, and Law & Order. She can be seen in the film Musical Chairs directed by Susan Seidelman. Ms. Jenkins was also seen in The Wiz in a live performance on NBC. She can be heard on the following film soundtracks: Nine, Chicago, and Legally Blonde 2. www.capathiajenkins.com

RYAN SHAW, vocalist Ryan Shaw is a three-time GRAMMY-nominated artist. He most recently appeared as Judas in the Lyric Opera House’s (Chicago) US debut of the critically acclaimed London’s Regents Park production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which won the Olivier for “Best Musical Revival”. He also starred as the original Stevie Wonder in Motown the Musical on Broadway. He has also starred on London’s West End as the Soul of Michael Jackson in Thriller Live. As a recording artist Ryan has toured the world and shared the stage with such artists as Van Halen, Bonnie Rait, Joss Stone, John Legend, B.B. King, Bruce Hornsby, and Jill Scott, to name a few.

On television, Ryan has been a guest artist on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen’s Really Big Show, Last Call With Carson Daly, and The Martha Stewart Show. His music has been featured on FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance and ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, Grey’s Anatomy, and Lincoln Heights. His music has also been featured in the films My Blueberry Nights starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, and Natalie Portman; and the Sex In the City soundtrack. As a concert soloist, Ryan Shaw made his Radio City Music Hall debut at the Dream Concert benefit to build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Monument in Washington DC. His Carnegie Hall appearances include an Elton John and Bernie Taupin Tribute, and A Celebration of The African American Cultural Legacy curated by Jessye Norman. Ryan has also been honored to be the second artist in history to be asked to perform a return engagement at the Central Park Summer Stage Gala (second to Stevie Wonder). He has also been a featured artist with the Houston Symphony for their R&B Mixtape concert as well as the soloist for the Houston Symphony’s 4th of July Celebration. Ryan then returned to Carnegie Hall to headline the Nat King Cole Centennial Concert. Upcoming concert engagements include The Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Tucson Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, and Calgary Philharmonic, among many others.

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FAMILY

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2019/20 SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR:

DRUMS OF THE WORLD PERFORMED BY YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY PERCUSSIONISTS STEVE HEARN JOHN KINZIE MICHAEL TETREAULT ELIZABETH VAN WIRT Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 2:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall

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Three Camps

TRADITIONAL

Downfall of Paris

BRIAN PRECHTL

Grand is the Seen

ELIOTT COLE Postludes 5.

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EMANUEL SEJOURNE

Martians Tribes

LORD BURGESS arr. PAUL MUZENRIDER

Jamaica Farewell

DAVID PALCH, JEFF PORCARO, arr. PAUL MUNZENRIDER

Africa

JOHN CAGE

Third Construction

ED ARGENZIANO

Stinkin’ Garbage

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES STEVE HEARN, assistant principal timpani and percussionist Assistant principal timpani/section percussion with the Colorado Symphony, Steve Hearn is also the principal timpanist of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and a founding member of the Lumos Percussion Group. He has appeared with the Strings in the Mountains, Grand Teton, and Cabrillo music festivals, and has been a featured concerto soloist with the Colorado Symphony and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, among others. Steve previously held the position as Percussionist/Timpanist in the U.S. Army Field Band, Washington, D.C., were he toured the 48 continental states performing concerts with the Concert Band and Chorus. Active as an educator, chamber musician, and drum set specialist, he was the assistant to Robert van Sice at Rotterdam’s Conservatory of Music and was the Director of Percussion Studies at New Mexico State University. He has performed recitals and chamber music in Holland, Belgium, Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., as well as given master classes in nearly all 50 states.

JOHN KINZIE, principal percussionist Prior to joining the Colorado Symphony as Principal Percussionist in 1985, John Kinzie was Principal Percussionist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, a position he won at the age of 19. John has appeared with Strings in the Mountains, The National Repertory Orchestra, and the Grand Teton music festivals, and has been a featured soloist with the Toledo Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Yale School of Music, Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Colorado Symphony on numerous occasions. He also performs with the Colorado Symphony chamber group “Once Upon a Time,” a group formed to inspire the imaginations of young schoolchildren and to excite them about music. In 1996, John became the head of the percussion division of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, where he teaches percussion and timpani performance as well as percussion ensemble, master classes, and percussion pedagogy and repertoire.

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES MICHAEL TETREAULT, percussion Michael Tetreault holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and a Master of Music Degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK. He holds positions as Principal Timpanist of the Central City Opera and Fort Collins Symphony, and as Percussionist with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Boulder Philharmonic. He is also on the percussion faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Tetreault has performed domestically and abroad with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Colorado Symphony, Colorado Ballet, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra (Dublin), Ulster Orchestra (Belfast), and the Halle Orchestra (Manchester). As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Roomful of Teeth, Quattro Mani, Alarm Will Sound, and Ann Murray. He has performed at festivals in England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany, and France, and has recorded extensively for Albany Records, Bis Records, Warner Bros. Records, Bridge Records, Sony Classical, RTE Radio/TV, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 JAN 24-26 FRI-SAT 7:30 SUN 1:00 n

Brett Mitchell, conductor Lukáš Vondráček, piano Dancers from Colorado Ballet COPLAND Suite from Billy the Kid BERNSTEIN Facsimile RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES ELIZABETH VAN WIRT, percussion Elizabeth Van Wirt (née Galvan) performs regularly as an orchestral percussionist, chamber musician, and soloist. Recent engagements include the Colorado Symphony, New World Symphony, Grammy-nominated choral ensemble Seraphic Fire, and the Florida Grand Opera. Elizabeth is also principal percussionist of the South Florida-based Nu Deco Ensemble, an innovative twenty-first century orchestra. Elizabeth was the third prize laureate of the prestigious Universal Marimba Competition 2011 in Belgium. She is recorded as a soloist on Ney Rosauro’s disc “Early Mallet Works” and most recently featured on the 2016 album “Onyx,” released by the Society of Composers, Inc. In addition to her varied performance career, she has maintained a schedule of teaching private lessons and in classroom settings, as well as the collegiate level (Miami Dade College, 2011 – 2015). She holds two degrees from the University of Miami Frost School of Music and a Masters Degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Elizabeth currently lives in Denver, Colorado, and is a proud Yamaha Performing Artist.

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