Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Music Director

OROZCO-ESTRADA MUSIC DIRECTOR ROY AND LILLIE CULLEN CHAIR

Energy, elegance, and spirit—these are the qualities that distinguish Andrés Orozco-Estrada as a musician. Since the 2014–15 season, he has been music director of the Houston Symphony and principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Beginning in the 2020–21 season, he will be chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony. Andrés conducts many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre National de France, and American orchestras in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago. He has also directed successful concerts and opera performances at the Glyndebourne and Salzburg festivals. Highlights of the 2019–20 season included performances with the Vienna Philharmonic at the BBC Proms and the Lucerne Festival, as well as tours to China, South Korea, and Japan. With the Houston Symphony, he presented a two-week Schumann Festival featuring the composer’s symphonies, concertos, choral works, and chamber music. He also conducted three concerts at the Wiener Musikverein, leading the Vienna Symphony as principal conductor designate. Andrés is particularly committed to new concert formats in which spoken commentary and visual elements complement the music as he rediscovers known repertoire together with the audience—be it a Spotlight concert with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra or a Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra family concert. His CD releases at Pentatone have attracted critical praise. His Dvořák cycle with the Houston Symphony was praised by Pizzicato as a “vital Dvořák with warm colors.” With the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, recordings of Stravinsky's Firebird and The Rite of Spring were hailed as “beguiling” by Gramophone, and the same publication recently described him as “a fine Straussian” in a review of their recent recording of the Alpine Symphony from his Richard Strauss cycle. In addition, his interpretations of all the Brahms and Mendelssohn symphonies are available on recordings. Born in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés began his musical education with the violin. He received his first conducting lessons at 15 and began study in Vienna in 1997, where he was accepted at the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts in the conducting class of Uroš Lajovic, a student of the legendary Hans Swarowsky. Andrés has since lived in Vienna.

ROSTER ORCHESTRA Steven Reineke Principal POPS Conductor Robert Franz Associate Conductor Betsy CookWeber Director, Houston Symphony Chorus Yue Bao Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation Conducting Fellow Andrés Orozco-Estrada Music Director Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair

FIRST VIOLIN Yoonshin Song, Concertmaster

Max Levine Chair Eric Halen, Co-Concertmaster

Ellen E. Kelley Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster

Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker Tong Yan MiHee Chung Sophia Silivos Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin

SECOND VIOLIN MuChen Hsieh, Principal Amy Semes, Associate Principal Hitai Lee Mihaela Frusina Annie Kuan-Yu Chen Jing Zheng Martha Chapman Tianjie Lu Anastasia Ehrlich Tina Zhang* Boson Mo +

VIOLA Vacant Position, Principal Joan DerHovsepian, Associate Principal George Pascal, Assistant Principal* Wei Jiang Linda Goldstein Sheldon Person Fay Shapiro Daniel Strba Jarita Ng Phyllis Herdliska

CELLO Brinton Averil Smith, Principal

Janice and Thomas Barrow Chair Christopher French, Associate Principal Anthony Kitai Louis-Marie Fardet Jeffrey Butler Maki Kubota* Xiao Wong Charles Seo Jeremy Kreutz +

DOUBLE BASS Robin Kesselman, Principal Timothy Dilenschneider, Associate Principal Mark Shapiro Eric Larson Andrew Pedersen Burke Shaw Donald Howey FLUTE Aralee Dorough, Principal

General Maurice Hirsch Chair Matthew Roitstein, Associate Principal Judy Dines Kathryn Ladner PICCOLO Kathryn Ladner OBOE Jonathan Fischer, Principal

Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Anne Leek, Associate Principal Colin Gatwood Adam Dinitz ENGLISH HORN Adam Dinitz CLARINET Mark Nuccio, Principal Thomas LeGrand, Associate Principal Christian Schubert Alexander Potiomkin E-FLAT CLARINET Thomas LeGrand BASS CLARINET Alexander Potiomkin

Tassie and Constantine S. Nicandros Chair BASSOON Rian Craypo, Principal Isaac Schultz, Associate Principal Elise Wagner Adam Trussell CONTRABASSOON Adam Trussell HORN William VerMeulen, Principal

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan

Community-Embedded Musicians David Connor, double bass Rainel Joubert, violin Patricia Quintero Garcia, violin Alexa Sangbin Thomson, viola

Orchestra Personnel Manager Michael Gorman Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Relyn Myrthil Librarian Thomas Takaro Assistant Librarians Aspen McArthur Stage Manager Stefan Stout Assistant Stage Manager José Rios Stage Technicians Nick DiFonzo Justin Herriford Armando Rodriguez

+ Rotating Chairs *On Leave

Endowed Chair Robert Johnson, Associate Principal Brian Thomas Nancy Goodearl Ian Mayton TRUMPET Mark Hughes, Principal

George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair John Parker, Associate Principal Robert Walp, Assistant Principal Richard Harris TROMBONE Allen Barnhill, Principal Bradley White, Associate Principal Phillip Freeman BASS TROMBONE Phillip Freeman TUBA Dave Kirk, Principal TIMPANI Leonardo Soto, Principal Matthew Strauss, Associate Principal PERCUSSION Brian Del Signore, Principal Mark Griffith Matthew Strauss HARP Megan Conley, Principal KEYBOARD Scott Holshouser, Principal

ExecutiveCommittee

John Rydman President Steven P. Mach Chairman Janet F. Clark Immediate Past President

Michael W. Adler Chair, Development Barbara J. Burger Chair, Finance Brad W. Corson Chair, Governance & Leadership Evan B. Glick Chair, Popular Programming Mary Lynn Marks Chair, Volunteers & Special Events Billy McCartney Chair, Education Robert Orr Chair, Strategic Planning

Mike S. Stude Chairman Emeritus Paul R. Morico General Counsel

Barbara McCelvey Secretary John Mangum^ Executive Director/CEO

Fran Fawcett-Peterson President, Houston Symphony League Manolo Sánchez Chair, Marketing & Communications Ed Schneider Chair, Community Partnerships Miles O. Smith Chair, Artistic & Orchestra Affairs William J. Toomey II President, Houston Symphony Endowment Bobby Tudor At Large Jesse B. Tutor Chair, Audit

Andrés Orozco-Estrada^ Music Director Adam Dinitz^ Musician Representative Mark Hughes^ Musician Representative Mark Nuccio^ Musician Representative Burke Shaw^ Musician Representative Christine Kelly-Weaver^ Assistant Secretary ^Ex-Officio

Farida Abjani Michael W. Adler Marcia Backus Janice Barrow ** Gary Beauchamp Tony Bradfield Bill Bullock Barbara J. Burger Janet F. Clark Viviana Denechaud Michael Doherty Terry Cheyney Rick Jaramillo Sippi Khurana, M.D. Rochelle Levit, Ph.D. Cora Sue Mach ** Steven P. Mach Rodney Margolis** Jay Marks ** Mary Lynn Marks Billy McCartney Barbara McCelvey Paul R. Morico Robert Orr John Rydman** Miles O. Smith Anthony Speier Mike S. Stude ** William J. Toomey II Bobby Tudor ** Betty Tutor ** Jesse B. Tutor ** Judith Vincent Margaret Alkek Williams ** Scott Wulfe Jonathan Ayre David J. Beck James M. Bell Jr. Devinder Bhatia, M.D. Nancy Shelton Bratic Terry Ann Brown** Eric Brueggeman Ralph Burch Dougal Cameron John T. Cater** Michael H. Clark Virginia Clark Evan D. Collins, M.D., MBA Brad W. Corson Andrew Davis, Ph.D. Denise Davis Tracy Dieterich Bob Duff Joan Duff Kelli Cohen Fein, M.D. Jeffrey B. Firestone Eugene A. Fong Aggie L. Foster Julia Anderson Frankel Ronald G. Franklin Evan B. Glick Maureen Higdon Gary L. Hollingsworth Stephen Incavo, M.D. Brian James Tammie Johnson I. Ray Kirk, M.D. David Krieger Andrew Go Lee, M.D. Ulyesse J. LeGrange** Carlos J. López Michael Mann, M.D. Jack Matzer Jackie Wolens Mazow Alexander K. McLanahan ** Marilyn Miles Shane A. Miller Janet Moore Leslie Nossaman Scott Nyquist Edward Osterberg Jr. Gloria G. Pryzant David Pruner Tadd Pullin Miwa Sakashita Manolo Sánchez Ed Schneider Christian Schwartz Helen Shaffer ** Michael E. Shannon** Robert B. Sloan, D.D. Theol. Jim R. Smith Quentin Smith Tad Smith Ishwaria Subbiah, M.D. L. Proctor (Terry)

Thomas III Shirley W. Toomim Margaret Waisman, M.D. Fredric A. Weber Mrs. S. Conrad Weil Robert Weiner Vicki West Steven J. Williams Frank Wilson David Wuthrich Ellen A. Yarrell Robert Yekovich

Ex-Officio

David V. Flores Kusum Patel Jessie Woods **Lifetime Trustee

GOVERNING DIRECTORS TRUSTEES Ex-Officio

Vicki Buxton Brad W. Corson Adam Dinitz Fran Fawcett-Peterson Evan B. Glick Mark Hughes Christine Kelly-Weaver John Mangum Mark Nuccio Andrés Orozco-Estrada Manolo Sánchez Ed Schneider Burke Shaw

PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY

Mrs. Edwin B. Parker Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. H. M. Garwood Joseph A. Mullen, M.D. Joseph S. Smith Walter H. Walne H. R. Cullen Gen. Maurice Hirsch Charles F. Jones Fayez Sarofim John T. Cater Richard G. Merrill Ellen Elizardi Kelley John D. Platt E.C. Vandagrift Jr. J. Hugh Roff Jr. Robert M. Hermance Gene McDavid Janice H. Barrow Barry C. Burkholder Rodney H. Margolis Jeffrey B. Early Michael E. Shannon Ed Wulfe Jesse B. Tutor Robert B. Tudor III Robert A. Peiser Steven P. Mach Janet F. Clark

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Griffith Lawhon Mrs. Olaf LaCour Olsen Mrs. Ralph Ellis Gunn Mrs. Leon Jaworski Mrs. Garrett R.

Tucker Jr. Mrs. M. T. Launius Jr. Mrs. Thompson

McCleary Mrs. Theodore

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Kelley Jr. Mrs. John W. Herndon Mrs. Charles Franzen Mrs. Harold R.

DeMoss Jr. Mrs. Edward H.

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