WITH YOUR COLORADO SYMPHONY
WILBUR LIN , conductor
JESSICA HENDY, vocalist
ALEX GETLIN , vocalist
DAVID BURNHAM , vocalist
SCOTT COULTER , vocalist
JOHN BOSWELL , pianist
Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 7:30pm Boettcher Concert Hall
Program to be announced from stage.
CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR AND 40 MINUTES INCLUDING A 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION.
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
Known for his creative programming and inviting stage presence, Wilbur Lin’s career has taken him to symphony halls and opera theaters across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Taiwan. Currently the Music Director of the Missouri Symphony, Lin was also recently promoted to associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony.
Lin’s 2024/25 season will commence with a production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (Elixir of Love) with the Missouri Symphony and Landlocked Opera Company, followed by concerts with the Colorado, Taipei, Missouri, Ann Arbor, Juneau, and Acadiana symphonies, of which the latter two will be debut performances. In recent seasons, Lin’s highlights included his debuts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Oak Ridge, Ann Arbor, Elgin, Taipei, and Indiana’s Richmond symphonies, a new studio recording with pianist Eric Zuber and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, a digital single release with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, and conducting and covering the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops where he finished his tenure as assistant conductor in 2022.
As a cover conductor, Lin has worked with, notably, the Taiwan Symphony, Cincinnati Ballet, and Minnesota orchestras. In his role as the associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony, Lin also serves as the Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
A graduate of Riccardo Muti's Italian Opera Academy, Lin’s operatic endeavors include conducting Verdi’s Macbeth at Teatro Alighieri (Ravenna, Italy), Le nozze di Figaro and L’elisir d’amore with the Missouri Symphony, Die Zauberflöte and Barber of Seville with the Winter Harbor Music Festival (Winter Harbor, Maine), Menotti’s The Medium and Amelia Goes to the Ball as the conductor of Northern Illinois University, and has coached and performed as a pianist with the Indianapolis Opera, Indiana University Opera Theater, Reimagining Opera for Kids, and the Cincinnati Ballet. In 2022, Lin led a new workshop of Robeson by Scott Davenport Richards at the Cincinnati Opera.
Educated in Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Lin has studied with Arthur Fagen and David Effron at Indiana University, Clark Rundell and Mark Heron at the Royal Northern College of Music, and Apo Hsu at the National Taiwan Normal University. He has also received conducting coaching with, notably, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Muti, Sir Mark Elder, Helmuth Rilling, and has assisted Peter Ounjian, Jun Märkl, Louis Langrée, James Gaffigan, and John Morris Russell, among others.
Jessica Hendy is a critically acclaimed actress, writer and singer. She’s long been known as one of the best belters on Broadway. She earned a GRAMMY® Nomination for her work on the Sondheim Unplugged Vol 3 album in 2023. She wrote and starred in the Off-Broadway musical, Walking With Bubbles, in which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and won the Off-Broadway Alliance award. Walking With Bubbles is based on Ms Hendy’s life and was a critical success in New York City. The cast album is available on all streaming platforms. Ms. Hendy made her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats at the Winter Garden Theatre. She is the only member of that production to have also been cast in the Broadway revival at the Neil Simon Theatre playing the same role. Other Broadway credits include Aida (Amneris), and Amour. She made her Radio City Music Hall debut in The New York Spring Spectacular alongside the world-famous Rockettes. She toured nationally with Cats (Grizabella), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), and in concert with composer Stephen Schwartz, singing “Defying Gravity” from Wicked. Her one-woman cabaret, A Life To Call Your Own received rave reviews in the New York press, and she received a Bistro Award for the review Get Your Tickets Now at Don’t Tell Mama’s cabaret. She played Diana Goodman in the regional premiere of Next To Normal at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, where she earned an Acclaim Award. Other regional theatre credits include Mamma Mia (Donna) at Connecticut Rep, directed by Terrence Mann. North Shore Music Theatre’s Miss Saigon (Ellen), and the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center production of Songs for a New World with Jason Robert Brown. A regular guest singer at Feinstein’s 54 Below, housed in New York’s legendary Studio 54, Ms. Hendy continues to appear in concert with Symphony Orchestras across North America. Ms. Hendy attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and lives in New York City. www.JessicaHendy.com @jesshendy
Alex Getlin is a Manhattan based singer and actress whose voice can “melt stone” (Ben Brantley, The New York Times). A native New Yorker, she made her professional debut at 17 in a solo cabaret show at The Regency Hotel in New York, presented by Michael Feinstein. Broadway World reported that her performance marked the emergence of “a new and rare talent on the entertainment scene.” A graduate of Northwestern University, she was most recently seen in Berkshire Theatre Group’s nationally acclaimed production of Godspell. She has appeared Off-Broadway in the company and original cast recording of Anything Can Happen in the Theater – The Songs of Maury Yeston, after being hand-picked by the Tony award winning composer himself to interpret his music. Getlin, who has been hailed by The New York Times as “a confident, engaging young singer with a big voice,” made her symphonic debut with the Pasadena Pops under the baton of Michael Feinstein in Broadway: The Golden Age, starring alongside Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. She has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall and currently performs with symphony orchestras throughout the country with Spot-On Entertainment. Television credits include NBC’s The Blacklist, CBS’ Shades of Blue and Netflix’s The Break with Michele Wolf.
David Burnham was last seen on Broadway in the mega-hit musical, Wicked, playing Fiyero, the role that he originated in the developmental workshops of the show. He is an original Broadway cast member of the musical The Light in the Piazza, performing both on the Tony Awards and the PBS telecast Live From Lincoln Center. He is the Best Actor recipient of both the prestigious Helen Hayes Award and the Garland Award for his portrayal of Fabrizio on the national tour of The Light in the Piazza. David first gained critical acclaim when, after a two-year search, he was chosen to replace Donny Osmond as Joseph in the national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Drama-Logue Award). He toured nationally in another Andrew Lloyd Webber blockbuster playing Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar with Ted Neeley. Also, in NYC he was in the original cast of the Off-Broadway show The Best Is Yet to Come - The Music Of Cy Coleman. In Las Vegas, he starred in Showstoppers at the Wynn Resort. On film he was the voice of the Prince in the Warner Bros. animated feature The King And I, and can be heard on the soundtracks to Geppetto, Disney’s Home on the Range and Comedy Central’s South Park. David performs with symphonies all over the country and his solo concert has been seen in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has recorded two solo albums, his self-titled CD and One Day. www.davidburnham.com
Scott Coulter is one of New York’s most honored vocalists (five MAC Awards, five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist).
He’s performed at most of NYC’s top rooms including Birdland, 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, and Feinstein’s at The Regency where he spent a record-setting eight months performing the revue 11 O’Clock Numbers At 11 O’Clock which he also co-created, directed and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheatreMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Scott was director and star of A Christmas Carol: The Symphonic Concert in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony. He’s an Emmy® nominee for American Song, star of the Emmy® Award-nominated A Christmas Carol (PBS) and appears on the GRAMMY®-nominated Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions (Best Traditional Pop Album).
Scott regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers including Sheena Easton and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz. Schwartz has said “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.”
Scott is creator, arranger and director of several touring shows for symphonies and performing arts centers as owner/founder of Spot-On Entertainment including Music Of The Knights, The Wonderful Music Of Oz, Blockbuster Broadway! and, for The ASCAP Foundation, Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert. Along with Michael Kerker and ASCAP, he’s a regular producer/director of Michael Feinstein’s Standard Time at Carnegie Hall. Scott recently wrote the book for the new
musical Got To Be There which celebrates the life and music of songwriter Elliot Willensky. Scott, along with Dave Gaebler, is a co-producer of the Jessica Hendy/Brianna Barnes musical Walking With Bubbles (Drama Desk nominee and Off-Broadway Alliance Award winner.) The show’s cast album is produced by Scott Coulter and Vibecke Dahle Dellapolla. Coulter and Gaebler are also on the producing teams of the Broadway musicals Water for Elephants and Suffs (Tony Awards® for Book and Score).
Scott is founder and owner of Spot-On Entertainment and Spot-On Arts Academy and is a resident director of programming at 54 Below (Broadway’s Supper Club) in NYC. He is the Artistic Director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and founder of the Pocono Pops! He’s a proud graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which honored him with the CCM Young Alumni Award (2010) and CCM’s Distinguished Service Award (2020).
John Boswell has served as musical director for Judy Collins, Andy Williams, Bob Newhart, Scott Coulter, Maude Maggart, Faith Prince, Carmen Cusack, Babbie Green, Jason Graae and a host of other fine talents. John played the role of “Moose” in the national tour of Crazy for You and has appeared on The Tonight Show, Today Show, CBS This Morning, Regis And Kathie Lee, General Hospital and was the piano playing hands of Nancy McKeon on the sitcom The Facts Of Life. Recent concerts with symphonies have included Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert, Blockbuster Broadway!, Sheena Easton and Scott Coulter: The Spy Who Loved Me and Music Of The Knights. John has been heard singing in the shows Three Men And A Baby...Grand, Cinema Toast, Broadway Today, Wiseguys and the New York cult hit Cashino. Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Crazy for You, The Secret Garden, LIZA! Steppin’ Out At Radio City Music Hall, Back To Bacharach And David and The Kathy And Mo Show: Parallel Lives. John has eight CDs of original piano music and a ninth on the way. While a student at UCLA, John received the Frank Sinatra Award for popular instrumentalists.
Scott Coulter’s Spot-On Entertainment is a concert production/booking company based in New York City. Owner and founder Scott Coulter is a multi-award-winning performer, director, musical arranger and producer whose creations for theaters, performing arts centers and symphonies include Music of the Knights, Bette Babs & Beyond, The Wonderful Music of OZ, You’ve Got a Friend and Blockbuster Broadway! Special composer tribute shows include Defying Gravity: Stephen Schwartz & Friends and Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert (which is co-produced by Spot-On and The ASCAP Foundation). Spot-On concerts often feature an educational component that results in local artists appearing on stage with members of the Spot-On family. It is our goal to inspire and pass the torch to the next generation.
WILBUR LIN , conductor
ANIMALS FROM THE DZCA
Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 2:30pm
Boettcher Concert Hall
MANCIN
TCHAIKOVSKY
SAINT-SAËNS
BEETHOVEN
FLORENCE PRICE
ARR. TYLER MERIDETH
LEROY ANDERSON
GRIEG
STRAVINSKY
Baby Elephant Walk
Excerpt from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Dance of the Sugar Plum Faries
Excerpts from Carnival of the Animals
X. Aviary
XII. Fossils
XIII. The Swan
XIV. Finale
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastorale”
I. Allegro ma non troppo
Adoration
Waltzing Cat
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
Firebird: Suite (1919 Version)
Berceuse
Finale
CONCERT RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 40 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION.
PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY
Sunday’S concert iS SponSored by pnc bank
WILBUR LIN, conductor
Known for his creative programming and inviting stage presence, Wilbur Lin’s career has taken him to symphony halls and opera theaters across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Taiwan. Currently the Music Director of the Missouri Symphony, Lin was also recently promoted to associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony.
Lin’s 2024/25 season will commence with a production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (Elixir of Love) with the Missouri Symphony and Landlocked Opera Company, followed by concerts with the Colorado, Taipei, Missouri, Ann Arbor, Juneau, and Acadiana symphonies, of which the latter two will be debut performances. In recent seasons, Lin’s highlights included his debuts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Oak Ridge, Ann Arbor, Elgin, Taipei, and Indiana’s Richmond symphonies, a new studio recording with pianist Eric Zuber and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, a digital single release with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, and conducting and covering the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops where he finished his tenure as assistant conductor in 2022.
As a cover conductor, Lin has worked with, notably, the Taiwan Symphony, Cincinnati Ballet, and Minnesota orchestras. In his role as the associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony, Lin also serves as the Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
A graduate of Riccardo Muti's Italian Opera Academy, Lin’s operatic endeavors include conducting Verdi’s Macbeth at Teatro Alighieri (Ravenna, Italy), Le nozze di Figaro and L’elisir d’amore with the Missouri Symphony, Die Zauberflöte and Barber of Seville with the Winter Harbor Music Festival (Winter Harbor, Maine), Menotti’s The Medium and Amelia Goes to the Ball as the conductor of Northern Illinois University, and has coached and performed as a pianist with the Indianapolis Opera, Indiana University Opera Theater, Reimagining Opera for Kids, and the Cincinnati Ballet. In 2022, Lin led a new workshop of Robeson by Scott Davenport Richards at the Cincinnati Opera.
Educated in Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Lin has studied with Arthur Fagen and David Effron at Indiana University, Clark Rundell and Mark Heron at the Royal Northern College of Music, and Apo Hsu at the National Taiwan Normal University. He has also received conducting coaching with, notably, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Muti, Sir Mark Elder, Helmuth Rilling, and has assisted Peter Ounjian, Jun Märkl, Louis Langrée, James Gaffigan, and John Morris Russell, among others.
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