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This season, Irvine Barclay Theatre has managed to do the nearly impossible. We’ve curated a season with artists who, collectively, have garnered an extraordinary number of high caliber awards and nominations. 117 Grammy nominations; 49 Grammy Award wins; 21 Tony nominations; 12 Tony Award wins; 18 Emmy nominations; 4 Emmy Award wins, 5 Oscar nominations. Plus, there’s even one Pulitzer Prize and one Royal Knighthood. It’s a season steeped with top-notch artists, including jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, flamenco great Diego el Cigala, and country music star Kathy Mattea. The expanded Jazz@theBarclay, the Broadway/Cabaret series and our signature Contemporary Dance series feature first-class talent from across the nation and around the world. We are also thrilled to showcase the next generation of inspiring talent. With his gift for composing soulful Hawaiian songs, Kalani Pe’a is a rising star. A jazz prodigy, Grace Kelly, the 26-year-old Korean American saxophonist, has headlined at all major jazz festivals, from Montreux to Newport to Montréal. I especially want to thank our season sponsor, City National Bank, for its continued and enthusiastic support. Please take our new Patron Guide, available in the lobby. There is a lot to discover in the coming year. We hope you’ll join us.
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JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS October 2, 2018 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.
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This all-Duke Ellington program will be announced from the stage. Music Director, Trumpet
Trombone
Trumpet
Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
Wynton Marsalis Ryan Kisor Trumpet
Kenny Rampton Trumpet
Marcus Printup Trombone
Vincent Gardner Trombone
Chris Crenshaw
Elliot Mason
Sherman Irby
Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
Ted Nash
Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Victor Goines
Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Gregory Tardy
Baritone and Soprano Saxophones, Bass Clarinet
Paul Nedzela Piano
Dan Nimmer Bass
Carlos Henriquez Drums
Charles Goold
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JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) comprises 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs a vast repertoire ranging from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln Centercommissioned works to rare historic compositions and masterworks by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. The JLCO has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, performing and leading educational events in New York, across the United States, and around the globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists, the JLCO has toured over 300 cities across six continents. Guest conductors have included Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson and Loren Schoenberg. The JLCO has been voted best Big Band in the annual DownBeat Readers Poll for the years 2013 through 2016. 6 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The first release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, was recorded on an historic 2010 trip to Havana by JLCO and was released in October 2015. Big Band Holidays was released in December 2015, The Abyssinian Mass came out in March 2016, and The Music of John Lewis came out in March 2017. Handful of Keys, featuring a group of all-star guest pianists, arrived in September 2017. To date, 14 other recordings featuring the JLCO have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite (2010); Portrait in Seven Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007); Don’t Be Afraid... The Music of Charles Mingus (2005); A Love Supreme (2005); All Rise (2002); Big Train (1999); Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live in Swing City (1999); Jump Start and Jazz (1997); Blood on the Fields (1997); They Came to Swing (1994); The Fire of the Fundamentals (1993); and Portraits by Ellington (1992). Visit jazz.org for more information.
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio programs, television broadcasts, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curricula for students, music publishing, children’s concerts and classes, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops, a record label, and interactive websites. Under the leadership of Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Robert J. Appel, and Executive Director Greg Scholl, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more information, visit jazz.org.
Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, Trumpet, JLCO) is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997, Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 2001, he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and he has also been designated as cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through its CultureConnect program. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Marsalis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home —Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first education, performance and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.
Gregory Tardy (Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet) multireedist and composer, is one of the most versatile jazz musicians of his generation, equally comfortable in a variety of musical and improvisational situations. In 1993, he started performing internationally with the legendary drummer Elvin Jones. After moving to New York City in 1994, he became a sought-after sideman, performing and/or recording with prominent jazz artists, including Andrew Hill, Wynton Marsalis, Jay McShann, Nicholas Payton, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Rashied Ali, Ellis Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Dave Douglas, Brian Lynch, John Patitucci, Ferenc Nemeth, Elio Villafranca, Eddie Palmieri, Andrew Cyrille, Roy Hargrove, James Moody, Rufus Reid, Oliver Lake, Bjork, Common, Willie Jones III, and many more. He has also performed and/or recorded along with many other notable saxophonists, such as Joe Lovano, Mark Turner, Chris Potter, Dewey Redman, Joshua Redman, Ravi Coltrane, Sherman Irby, and others. He also has been featured exclusively as a clarinetist on recordings/performances by Andrew Hill, Tom Harrell, Regina Carter, Ohad Talmor/Steve Swallow, Stefan Harris and Chris Potter. His performance schedule has taken him all over the world, playing at all of the major jazz festivals and on many of the biggest stages in jazz. As a sideman, he has been featured on several DownBeat Album of the Year releases and several Grammy Award-nominated recordings, including a Grammy Award-winning album with Brian Lynch in 2006. Tardy has recorded fourteen albums under his own name, featuring his unique compositions that blend his love of traditional jazz with a more modern style. Tardy has a new project for the Newvelle label, set to be released in 2019. He has also recorded for the famed Impulse! label, as well as the SteepleChase, J Curve, Palmetto, and Dubat labels. Tardy is a New Orleans native who presently resides in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the Associate Professor of Jazz Saxophone at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and is a sought-after private instructor and clinician nationally and internationally.
Chris Crenshaw (Trombone, JLCO) was born in Thomson, Georgia on December 20, 1982. Since birth, he has been driven by and surrounded by music. When he started playing piano at the age of three, his teachers and fellow students noticed his aptitude for the instrument. This love for piano led to his first gig with Echoes of Joy, his father Casper’s gospel quartet group. He started playing the trombone at 11, receiving honors and awards along the way. He graduated from Thomson High School in 2001 and received his bachelor’s degree with honors in jazz performance from Valdosta State University in 2005. He was named Most Outstanding Student in the VSU Music Department and College of Arts. In 2007, Crenshaw received his master’s degree in jazz studies from The Juilliard School, where his teachers included Dr. Douglas Farwell and Wycliffe Gordon. He has appeared as a sideman on fellow JLCO trumpeter Marcus Printup’s Ballads - all night and on Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues. In 2006, Crenshaw joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; and in 2012, he composed “God’s Trombones,” a spiritually-focused work which was premiered by the orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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Vincent Gardner (Trombone, JLCO) was born in Chicago in 1972 and was raised in Hampton, Virginia. After singing, playing piano, violin, saxophone, and French horn at an early age, he decided on the trombone at age 12. He attended Florida A&M University and the University of North Florida. He soon caught the ear of Mercer Ellington, who hired Gardner for his first professional job. He moved to Brooklyn, New York, after graduating from college, completed a world tour with Lauryn Hill in 2000, and then joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Gardner has served as instructor at The Juilliard School, as visiting instructor at Florida State University and Michigan State University, and as adjunct instructor at The New School. He is currently the director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, and he has contributed many arrangements to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and other ensembles. In 2009, he was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center to write The Jesse B. Semple Suite, a 60-minute suite inspired by the short stories of Langston Hughes. In addition, Gardner is a popular instructor at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ongoing jazz education program, Swing University, teaching courses on bebop and more. Gardner is featured on a number of notable recordings and has recorded five CDs as a leader for SteepleChase Records. He has performed with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Connick, Jr., The Saturday Night Live Band, Chaka Khan, A Tribe Called Quest, and many others. Gardner was chosen as the #1 Rising Star-Trombonist in the 2014 DownBeat Critics Poll. Victor Goines (Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, JLCO) is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring throughout the world and recording over 20 albums. As a leader, Goines has recorded seven albums, including his latest releases, Pastels of Ballads & Blues (2007) and Love Dance (2007) on the Criss Cross label, and Twilight (2012) on Rosemary Joseph Records. A gifted composer, Goines has more than 50 original works to his credit, including 2014’s Crescent City, premiered by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He has recorded and/or performed with many noted jazz and popular artists, including Ahmad Jamal, Ruth Brown, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Willie Nelson, Marcus Roberts, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and a host of others. Currently, he is the director of jazz studies and a professor of music at Northwestern University. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1984, and a Master of Music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in 1990. Carlos Henriquez (Bass, JLCO) was born in 1979 in Bronx, New York. He studied music at a young age, played guitar through junior high school and took up the bass while being enrolled in the Music Advancement Program at The Juilliard School. He entered the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of 8 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Music & Art and Performing Arts and was involved with the LaGuardia Concert Jazz Ensemble, which went on to win first place in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in 1996. In 1998, swiftly after high school, Henriquez joined the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, touring the world. He has been featured on more than 25 albums and has performed with artists including Chucho Valdés, Paco De Lucía, Tito Puente, the Marsalis Family, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, Marc Anthony, and many others. He has been a member of the music faculty at Northwestern University School of Music since 2008, and was music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music with Chucho Valdés in 2010. His debut album as a bandleader, The Bronx Pyramid, came out in September 2015 on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records.
Sherman Irby (Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet, JLCO) was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He found his musical calling at age 12. In high school, he played and recorded with gospel immortal James Cleveland. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a B.A. in Music Education. In 1991, he joined Johnny O’Neal’s Atlanta-based quintet. In 1994, he moved to New York City and recorded his first two albums, Full Circle (1996) and Big Mama’s Biscuits (1998) on Blue Note. Irby toured the U.S. and the Caribbean with the Boys Choir of Harlem in 1995, and was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from 1995 to 1997. During that tenure, he also recorded and toured with Marcus Roberts and was part of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program and Roy Hargrove’s ensemble. After a four-year stint with Roy Hargrove, Irby focused on his own group in addition to being a member of Elvin Jones’ ensemble in 2004. After Jones’ passing, he joined Papo Vazquez Pirates Troubadours. From 2003 to 2011, Irby was the regional director for the JazzMasters Workshop, mentoring young children. He has served as artist-in-residence for Jazz Camp West and an instructor for Monterey Jazz Festival Summer Jazz Camp. He is a former board member of the CubaNOLA Arts Collective. He formed Black Warrior Records and released Black Warrior; Faith; Organ Starter; Live at the Otto Club; and Andy Farber’s This Could Be the Start of Something Big. Irby rejoined Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and has since arranged much of the orchestra’s music. He has been commissioned to compose new works, including Twilight Sounds, and his Dante-inspired ballet, Inferno.
Ryan Kisor (Trumpet, JLCO) was born on April 12, 1973 in Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing trumpet at the age of four. In 1990, he won first prize at the Thelonious Monk Institute’s first annual Louis Armstrong Trumpet Competition. Kisor enrolled in Manhattan School of Music in 1991, where he studied with trumpeter Lew Soloff. He has performed and/or recorded with the Mingus Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Carnegie
Hall Jazz Band, the Philip Morris Jazz All-Stars, and others. In addition to being an active sideman, Kisor has recorded several albums as a leader, including Battle Cry (1997), The Usual Suspects (1998), and Point of Arrival (2000). He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1994.
Elliot Mason (Trombone, JLCO) was born in England in 1977 and began trumpet lessons at the age of four with his father. At the age of seven, he switched his focus from trumpet to trombone. At 11 years of age, he was performing professionally, concentrating on jazz and improvisation. At 16, Mason received a full-tuition scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City. Mason is a member of The Juilliard School’s jazz faculty as a jazz trombone professor; and is also on the jazz faculty at New York University. Mason has served as a clinician worldwide, performing workshops, master classes and clinics. Mason is endorsed by B.A.C. musical instruments and currently plays his own co-designed custom line of trombones. Mason has performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau, Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Bobby Hutcherson, Ahmad Jamal, Randy Brecker and Carl Fontana. A member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 2006, Mason also continues to co-lead the Mason Brothers Quintet with his brother, Brad. The Mason Brothers recently released their second album, entitled Efflorescence.
Ted Nash (Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet, JLCO) enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger and educator. Born in Los Angeles into a musical family (his father, Dick Nash and uncle, the late Ted Nash, were both well-known jazz and studio musicians), Nash blossomed early—a “young lion” before the term became a marketing vernacular. Nash has that uncanny ability to mix freedom with accessibility, blues with intellect, and risk-taking with clarity. His group, Odeon, has often been cited as a creative focus of jazz. Many of Nash’s recordings have received critical acclaim, appearing on the “best-of” lists in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and The Boston Globe. His recordings, The Mancini Project and Sidewalk Meeting, have been placed on several “best-of-decade” lists. His album Portrait in Seven Shades was recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and was released in 2010. The album is the first composition released by the JLCO featuring original music by a band member other than bandleader Wynton Marsalis. Nash’s latest album, Chakra, was released in 2013. His most recent big band recording, Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom, won the 2017 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy Award. The album includes “Spoken at Midnight,” which won the 2017 Best Instrumental Composition Grammy Award. Nash’s arrangement of “We Three Kings,” featured on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’ Big Band Holidays album, was nominated for the 2017 Best Instrumental or A Cappella Arrangement Grammy Award.
Paul Nedzela (Baritone and Soprano Saxophones, Bass Clarinet, JLCO) has become one of today’s top baritone saxophone players. He has played with many renowned artists and ensembles, including Wess Anderson, George Benson, The Birdland Big Band, Bill Charlap, Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Michael Feinstein, Benny Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Eric Reed, Dianne Reeves, Herlin Riley, Maria Schneider, Frank Sinatra Jr., The Temptations, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Reginald Veal, and Max Weinberg. Nedzela has performed in Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Come Fly Away, and in major festivals around the world. He has studied with some of the foremost baritone saxophonists in the world, including Joe Temperley, Gary Smulyan and Roger Rosenberg. Nedzela graduated with honors from McGill University in Montréal with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 2006. A recipient of the Samuel L. Jackson Scholarship Award, he continued his musical studies at The Juilliard School and graduated with a Master of Music degree in 2008.
Dan Nimmer (Piano, JLCO) was born in 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With prodigious technique and an innate sense of swing, his playing often recalls that of his own heroes, specifically Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Erroll Garner and Art Tatum. As a young man, Nimmer’s family inherited a piano, and he started playing by ear. He studied classical piano and eventually became interested in jazz. At the same time, he began playing gigs around Milwaukee. Upon graduation from high school, Nimmer left Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois University. It didn’t take him long to become one of Chicago’s busiest piano players. Working a lot in the Chicago scene, Nimmer decided to leave school and make the big move to New York City, where he immediately emerged on the New York scene. A year after moving to New York City, he became a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Nimmer has worked with Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves, George Benson, Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Tom Jones, Benny
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Golson, Lewis Nash, Peter Washington, Ed Thigpen, Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Fareed Haque, and many more. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, The View, The Kennedy Center Honors, Live from Abbey Road, and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center, among other broadcasts. He has released four of his own albums on the Venus label (Japan).
Marcus Printup (Trumpet, JLCO) was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia. His first musical experiences were hearing the fiery gospel music his parents sang in church. While attending the University of North Florida on a music scholarship, he won the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Trumpet Competition. In 1991, Printup’s life changed when he met his mentor, the great pianist Marcus Roberts, who introduced him to Wynton Marsalis. This led to Printup’s induction into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 1993. Printup has recorded with Betty Carter, Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Madeline Peyroux, Ted Nash, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon, and Roberts, among others. He has recorded several records as a leader: Song for the Beautiful Woman; Unveiled; Hub Songs; Nocturnal Traces; The New Boogaloo; Peace in the Abstract; Bird of Paradise; London Lullaby; Ballads All Night; A Time for Love; and his most recent, Homage (2012) and Desire (2013) featuring Riza Printup on the harp. He made a big screen appearance in the 1999 movie Playing by Heart and recorded on the film’s soundtrack. Education is important to Printup, as he is an in-demand clinician teaching middle schools, high schools and colleges across the U.S. He teaches privately at the prestigious Mannes New School of Music. August 22nd has been declared “Marcus Printup Day” in his hometown of Conyers, Georgia.
Kenny Rampton (Trumpet, JLCO) joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2010. In addition to performing in the JLCO, Rampton leads his own groups. He released his debut solo CD, Moon Over Babylon, in 2013. He is also the trumpet voice for the popular PBS TV series Sesame Street. In the summer of 2010, Rampton performed with The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival, and was the featured soloist on the Miles Davis/ Gil Evans classic version of “Porgy and Bess.” Rampton has been a regular member of The Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/ Dynasty, Mingus Epitaph (under the direction of Gunther Schuller), George Gruntz’ Concert Jazz Band, Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Bebo Valdez’ Latin Jazz All-Stars, and The Manhattan Jazz Orchestra. He spent much of the 1990s touring the world with The Ray Charles Orchestra, The Jimmy McGriff Quartet, legendary jazz drummer Panama Francis (and the Savoy Sultans), as well as jazz greats Jon Hendricks, Lionel Hampton and Illinois Jacquet. As a sideman, Rampton has also performed with Dr. John, Christian McBride, The Maria Schneider Orchestra, Charles Earland, Geoff Keezer, and a host of others. Some of Rampton’s Broadway credits include Anything Goes; Finian’s Rainbow; The Wiz; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Young Frankenstein; and The Color Purple. 10 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Charles Goold (Drums), a native New Yorker, is one of the city’s hardest working jazz drummers of his generation. Son of legendary saxophonist Ned Goold, Charles was able to hear, live and embody jazz from the day he was born. He has also performed with a variety of musicians since starting to play professionally at the age of 14 with his father in the famous West Village jazz clubs, Smalls and Fat Cat. Finding success after years of hard work through teaching and performing, Goold auditioned and received a full scholarship to and subsequently graduated from The Juilliard School. With precious knowledge and experience handed down from his elders and attainment of formal education, Goold has been able to perform with the best in the jazz industry. Goold has worked with a wide variety of artists, from classic stalwarts like Jon Hendricks, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, and Andy Bey to more contemporary acts like Wynton Marsalis, Johnny O’Neal, Steve Nelson and a concert with Tony Bennett, Ne-Yo, Savion Glover, and Brandon Flowers of The Killers at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. He also has collaborated with rap legends Talib Kweli and Ghostface Killah, along with performing on the Off-Broadway musical, Old Hats. Most recently, Goold performed at the Lincoln Center Winter Gala with Patti LaBelle, Brian McKnight and Jennifer Holliday. Goold has also had the opportunity to teach a wide variety of prospective students in New York City’s five boroughs and abroad through various European master clinics with The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People program. Artist Representation: Jazz at Lincoln Center Daniel Israel disrael@jazz.org www.jazz.org
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SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR
SONGS OF THE FREE October 6, 2018 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.
CHOIR MANAGEMENT
CHOIR MEMBERS
TOURING CREW
Musical Director
Mirriam Chapole Mlungiseleni Jones George Kaudi Sibongile Makgathe Victor Makhathini Gugu Mbongwa Mazwe Mhlongo Siyabolela Mkefa Original Msimango Semangele Mongatane Maserame Ndindwa Sipho Ngcamu Zanele Ngcamu Linda Sambo Phello Sejake Portia Skosana
Company Manger
Milton Ndlakuse Choir Master
Vincent Jiyane General Manager
Mulalo Mulovhedzi Administrator
Mary Mulovhedzi
Toni Rudov
Stage Manager
Maija Putans
Touring Lighting Designer/ Operator
Andrew Ride
Touring Audio Designer/ Operator
Leon June JR. PRODUCERS
International Producer
Andrew Kay
Associate Producers
Margot Teele & Toni Rudov
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PROGRAM Songs of the Free A Tribute to Nelson Mandela Medley Umandela Uthi Ayihlome Ramasedi Mama Ndiyalila Asimbonanga/Biko Mbombela O Mohao Freedom Medley (Jikijela) Mkhululi Wethu Amazing Grace INTERMISSION
Drumming & Dance Wade In The Water/Bawo Thixo Somandla Nomalanga African Dream Soweto Natural Woman Spiritual Medley Pata Pata I Feel Good Hallelujah Program subject to change.
Message from President Cyril Ramaphosa to the Soweto Gospel Choir for Mandela Centenary Cd There are few things that uplift the soul more then the sound of voices in harmony. Song has been an integral and valued accompaniment to the struggle of the South African people to be free. It has mobilised, inspired and comforted generations of freedom fighters. This album is a worthy tribute to the father of our nation Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela, and a joyous celebration of the free and united nation that we have become. The name Soweto Gospel Choir has become synonymous with excellence, in South Africa and beyond our shores. Formed to celebrate the unique and inspirational power of African Gospel music, this proudly South African ensemble continues to inspire generations of listeners with their stirring and uplifting music.
Music, wrote Plato, “gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.” These are such apt words when reflecting on this country’s history – at times tragic, at times exhilarating, and always deeply infused with the songs of freedom rendered by our people from generation to generation. There is no doubt that music has played an instrumental role in not just the anti-apartheid struggle, but also in chronicling our liberation. To mark the centenary of our country’s founding father, President Nelson Mandela, the Soweto Gospel Choir has released a collection of South Africa’s most famous struggle songs; bringing to these well-known melodies their own unique sound. One cannot but be moved by these soulstirring melodies that tell our story as a country and as a nation.
I congratulate these great ambassadors for South Africa on this achievement; and am confident that like the albums that have gone before, this offering from the Soweto Gospel Choir will be in the pantheon of legendary South African music in the years to come. — Cyril Ramaphosa, President of the Republic of South Africa, 10 July 2018 14 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Soweto Gospel Choir Soweto Gospel Choir returns to North America with a special concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, the Father of their rainbow nation. Hailing from the town of Soweto (an English syllabic abbreviation of South Western Townships), the birthplace of South Africa’s struggle for freedom, Soweto Gospel Choir has thrilled audiences around the world with its stunning blend of African gospel, freedom songs and international classics. The choir had performed for Nelson Mandela on many occasions during his life and sang at his state funeral at home in South Africa in 2013 as well as at his commemorative service at Westminster Cathedral in London. In April 2018, the choir was honored to sing at the memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the FNB Stadium.
Soweto Gospel Choir has performed with internationally renowned artists, including Diana Ross, Celine Dion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pharrell Williams, Bono of U2, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox and Queen, to name a few. They have sung for Oprah Winfrey, President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former President Nelson Mandela.
Soweto Gospel Choir’s first album, Voices of Heaven (2002), went on to reach the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s World Music Chart within 3 weeks of its release in the U.S. Their albums Blessed and African Spirit won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album in 2007 and 2008 respectively. The ensemble’s sixth album, Freedom, was released in September 2018.
Exclusive North American Representation: IMG Artists Dean Schultz 212-994-3500 dshultz@imgartists.com
Soweto Gospel Choir was formed in 2002 to celebrate the unique and inspirational power of African gospel music. Combining earthy rhythms and rich harmonies, the choir sings in six of South Africa’s 11 official languages, drawing on the best talent from the many churches in and around Soweto.
The choir continues to tour the world, performing at prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, the Nelson Mandela Theatre and Royal Festival Hall in London; and at high-profile festivals, including the Edinburgh Festival, the Adelaide Festival, the Hong Kong Festival, the London Festival, and the Montréal Jazz Festival. Soweto Gospel Choir is a proud Ambassador for 46665, former President Nelson Mandela’s AIDS awareness initiative, having performed at the inaugural concert in Cape Town in 2003, and the concerts in Johannesburg in December 2007 and London in June 2008. The choir also has its own charity foundation, Nkosi’s Haven Vukani, which raises money for AIDS orphans organizations.
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ORANGE COUNTY’S FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE
DEC 8 — 24
2018-2019 SEASON at the Barclay
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FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE WELCOME TO THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OF FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE’S 2018–19 SEASON!
I am pleased to welcome you here today for our 2018–2019 season. This year marks our 30th anniversary. We are excited to have you join us as we celebrate a long-lasting tradition of beauty and precision that seems to become richer with time.
Launching our season, Ovation brings you a conceptual tour de force in three pieces. Texture of Time, by Josie Walsh, is a thought-provoking ballet exploring the essence of time as it changes and morphs. Viktor Plotnikov presents Oops, a comical, award-winning piece that has dancers playfully maneuvering skirts in this innocent and carefree ballet. Lastly, Plume, choreographed by Andrea Schermoly, uses the story of birds relaying messages to humans regarding the fragile ecosystem of this beautiful world; this ballet has an inspiring message for us all.
Our season continues with our beloved production of The Nutcracker in December, and the romantic fairy-tale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, in March. The season culminates in August with Festival Ballet Theatre’s 12th Annual Gala of the Stars. This international ballet festival showcases ballet stars from some of the world’s most prestigious dance companies, who perform along with FBT’s own accomplished resident dancers. Festival Ballet Theatre was founded as a non-profit organization in 1988 and has grown to become Orange County’s premier ballet company. We invite you, our cherished patrons, friends and family members to enjoy our 30th Anniversary and 2018–19 season.
Thank you for your ongoing support and for keeping FBT a lively place that is always exhilarating, nurturing and stimulating. We look forward to seeing you throughout the year. Salwa Rizkalla Founder and Artistic Director Festival Ballet Theatre
Board of Directors & Guild Chairs Festival Ballet Theatre Board of Directors Salwa Rizkalla, President Lisa Yamashita, Vice President Willa Bouwens-Killeen, Treasurer
Guild Chairs Cathleen Hunter, Secretary Gada Anis, Member Tom Lydon, Advisor
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CONTEMPORARY CREATIONS October 13 & 14, 2018 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 20-minute intermission.
Artistic Director
Salwa Rizkalla
Lighting Designer & Stage Manager
Don Guy
Assistant to the Artistic Director
Elizabeth Farmen
Costume Coordinators
Marcie Taylor
Graphic Designer
Marianne Hales
Company Photographers
Dave Friedman Skye Schmidt
Texture of Time by Dave Friedman
Willa Bouwens-Killeen Ann Drew
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PROGRAM
Texture of Time Texture of Time is a meditation on the essence of time as it inevitably textures our internal and external terrain throughout its infinite cycles. As we weather the many stages of development, venture through the complex chambers of our heart, the eternal child is never lost, yet deeply woven into our ever-evolving landscape. Direction and Choreography: Josie Walsh Original Music composed and performed by: Jealous Angel Multimedia and Scenic Design: Jim Doyle Visual Art: Gautam S. Rangan Costumes: Heather Lerma Lighting Design: Donald Guy
Texture of Time by Dave Friedman
Innocence: Tatum Backer, Bella Do, Sophia Johncox, Anjoulie Kempton, Amanda Luyks, Silvi Lybbert, Moorea Pike, Sami Santos, Athena Skiathitis, Lily Turner
Femininity: Tamara Alfaro, Emily Eckert, Tara Ghassemieh, Olivia Harrigan, Angela Rebelo, Skye Schmidt Masculinity: Andrew Brader, Zak Ryan Schlegel, Evan Swenson
Heartbreak (Duet): Angela Rebelo and Andrew Brader Flight (Duet): Skye Schmidt and Zak Ryan Schlegel
Gravity (Duet): Tara Ghassemieh and Evan Swenson
Special Thanks to Festival Ballet Theatre and all the beautiful dancers, WET Design, Jennie Lee, Eric Haik, Rodger George Rentals and EVS. INTERMISSION
Oops This comical, award-winning piece was presented on the U.S. tour of YAGP’s 2011 Gala, Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow. It has been performed in Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida, among other states.
The dancers playfully maneuver red pull-on skirts in this innocent and carefree presentation of ballet and modern technique, set to Ponichielli’s iconic Dance of the Hours. It is performed by the inspired young artists of Southland Ballet Academy. The dancers express a range of emotion by using the skirts in creative ways; and both the dancers and the audience experience obvious enjoyment from the delightful lightness of the choreography.
Choreography: Viktor Plotnikov Music: Amilcare Ponchielli
Emma Chen, Elise Cho, Kaili Corsten, Ashley Do, Callista Do, Yuma Kainuma, Sophia Koo, Rachel Lee, Leilah Prevost, Haruna Shirai, Paisley Thanaritiroj, Audrey Weber, Towako Wunsch, Lana Zylstra
Plume
In a world of much beauty, we are reminded how fragile this ecosystem is. The world’s birds fly far and wide bringing back messages of global health. As humans we have to listen…as it is not always the messages we like to hear. We have the means to preserve this beauty before it’s too late.
Choreography: Andrea Schermoly Music: Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi–The Four Seasons Costume Design: Andrea Schermoly Tara Ghassemieh, Skye Schmidt & Andrew Brader, Zak Ryan Schlegel
Jacqueline Blom, Natalie Burkley, Julia Dervieux, Bella Do, Emily Eckert, Sophia Johncox, Anjoulie Kempton, Tess Lethen, Amanda Luyks, Silvi Lybbert, Moorea Pike, Sami Santos, Athena Skiathitis, Bianca Wajack IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE | 19
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ABOUT FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Festival Ballet Theatre is Orange County’s premier, accomplished professional ballet company. Our mission is to enrich Orange County’s artistic and economic vitality, to inspire love and appreciation for dance, and to invigorate ballet by:
Salwa Rizkalla Artistic Director Salwa Rizkalla has contributed to the Orange County community for more than 30 years by presenting excellence in dance performance through Festival Ballet Theatre and providing top-tier classical ballet training at Southland Ballet Academy.
• Presenting a season of exhilarating classical and contemporary performances • Providing a nurturing environment for dancers and choreographers • Offering stimulating educational outreach programs.
With reverence for classic masterpieces and a focus on developing future tours de force, Festival Ballet Theatre is committed to presenting the best of dance, enriching lives, and developing a new generation of audiences and artists.
Festival Ballet Theatre is a well-established nonprofit arts organization founded in 1988 by Artistic Director Salwa Rizkalla. Boasting a roster of impressive, up-and-coming southern California talent, the company’s productions spotlight internationally acclaimed guest artists from prestigious companies.
Aspiring to the peak of artistic excellence for nearly three decades, Festival Ballet Theatre at once attracts the best in professional dance to its home base while exporting its impeccably trained dancers as artistic ambassadors to the nation. Arts Orange County named Festival Ballet Theatre Outstanding Arts Organization of the Year in 2001. For more information on Festival Ballet Theatre, visit www. FestivalBallet.org.
ABOUT SOUTHLAND BALLET ACADEMY
Southland Ballet Academy (SBA) is the official school of Festival Ballet Theatre. Founded in 1983, SBA cultivates, trains and inspires an appreciation for classical ballet from beginner to professional dancer. Since opening its doors as a ballet studio, SBA and director Salwa Rizkalla have secured a national and international reputation and have played a prominent role in grooming world-class dancers. SBA has grown from a modest one-room facility to nine state-of-theart studios in two Orange County locations—Fountain Valley and Irvine. SBA’s International Summer Intensive program is a favorite destination for dancers who enjoy classes taught by world-renowned artistic directors, ballet masters and choreographers. The Intensive culminates in the Inspired Young Dancer Performance that gives the young dancers an opportunity to refine their performance abilities on stage.
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During her professional dancing career, Ms. Rizkalla graced the stage in leading roles in well-known classical ballets as well as in contemporary pieces. She had the privilege of working under the direction of world-renowned choreographers Leonid Lavrovsky and Serge Lifar. As a young dancer, Ms. Rizkalla trained in the Russian Vaganova method and studied with ballet masters of the Bolshoi and the Kirov. As the culmination of her training, Ms. Rizkalla completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ballet Pedagogy. She established Southland Ballet Academy in 1983 and debuted Festival Ballet Theatre in 1988. In addition to teaching and directing, Ms. Rizkalla was a faculty member of several area institutions. Many arts organizations have recognized her service. The Orange County Music and Arts Administrators and Orange County Performing Arts Center jointly recognized her with the Orange County Arts Educator of the Year Award for Secondary Dance (2003); Youth America Grand Prix awarded Ms. Rizkalla Outstanding Teacher accolades since its inception; and Arts Orange County recognized Ms. Rizkalla with the Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award (2014). The Orange County Register named Ms. Rizkalla one of OC’s 100 Most Influential People in 2017.
Ms. Rizkalla has been honored to impact the lives of hundreds of students and their families through her teaching. She is proud to be a dedicated educator, an energetic promoter of the arts, and an active participant in the cultural life of her community.
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHERS
Viktor Plotnikov is a native of Ukraine. He started his dance training at the age of 11 at the Kiev National Ballet Academy and at the St. Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy. He has danced major roles in classical and contemporary ballets and has toured extensively throughout Russia and the United States. Plotnikov’s extensive performance career has led to his choreographic inspiration. Since 1999, he has choreographed works for Boston Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, First State Ballet Theatre, Festival Ballet Providence, New Jersey Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and Richmond Ballet. His awards include: Choreography Prize at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition, Best Choreography Award at the World Ballet Competition in Orlando, Florida, and numerous other recognitions at prestigious ballet competitions worldwide. Plotnikov is currently the resident choreographer for Festival Ballet Providence, having choreographed many commissioned works for the company.
Sleeping Beauty
ORANGE COUNTY’S FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE
MARCH 23 -24
2018-2019 SEASON at the Barclay
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Andrea Schermoly (Andi) was born in South Africa. She trained at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg and competed around the world as a member of the South African Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics Team. She received a full scholarship to the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London and shortly thereafter a full scholarship to the Royal Ballet School. After graduation, she joined the Boston Ballet, where she danced leads in ballets Ginastera by Rudi van Dantzig and Sharp Side of Dark by Jorma Elo. She subsequently joined the Nederlands Dans Theater in Holland and had the extraordinary experience of performing existing repertoire as well as new creations by choreographers such as Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León, Ohad Naharin, Hans van Manen, and Alexander Ekman, among others.
Andi has choreographed for Festival Ballet Theatre, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Ballet Theatre Afrikan, NDT Workshops, Quixotic Fusion Company, Boston Ballet II, Joffrey Ballet School, as well as over 80 solos and group pieces for students and principals attending dance competitions, festivals and galas. She won the Outstanding Choreographer Award in 2012 and 2013 at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP); and in 2014 won the Emerging Choreographer Award—a grant enabling her to choreograph at YAGP’s 15th Anniversary Gala on dancers Maria Kochetkova (principal of San Francisco Ballet) and Joaquin De Luz (principal of New York City Ballet). The piece has since been re-staged at the Buenos Aires International Dance Festival and at the Stars of the 21st Century Gala at Théâtre des Champs Élysees. Andi has choreographed for feature films and commercials in Hollywood, including Beautiful Now, the Budweiser Superbowl commercial and Star Trek: Into Darkness. She has upcoming commissions with Kansas City Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Joburg Ballet and Boston Ballet. Josie Walsh is the artistic director/ choreographer of BalletRED, the Joffrey Ballet School summer intensives in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, The INDUSTRY Dance Academy Ballet program and Project Protégé. Josie has danced professionally with the Joffrey Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre and the Zurich Ballet in Switzerland, where she began her choreographic career. Known as the “renegade” ballerina for her cutting-edge hybrid style of edgy classical and contemporary ballet fusion, Josie transcends boundaries and sets new trends. Josie was named “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine and received the Outstanding Choreography Award at the Youth America Grand Prix. She was NBC’s World of Dance choreographer of season two —Avery and Marcus; and was honored with the “Faces to Watch” endorsement from the Los Angeles Times for her work as artistic director/ choreographer of BalletRED. 22 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Josie directs and choreographs for TV, film and stage. Credits include: Yahoo!; Walt Disney; A&E, STARZ; MGM; CBS; Red Bull; Los Angeles Music Awards; Zurich Opera; music videos for Jealous Angel; Inappropriate Comedy (feature film); Pilgrim (rock opera); Asia Entertainment; Queen Mary Live. Her contemporary ballet commissions include: Dreams with Sammy Hagar for Gala de Danza, Festival Ballet Theatre, State Street Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, Joffrey San Francisco, Joffrey West, Harvard Ballet, Aeolian Ballet, Celebrate Dance, Santa Monica College.
COMPANY DANCERS Andrew Brader was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He trained at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, The HARID Conservatory and the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. He was invited to join ABT as an apprentice and later joined the Houston Ballet. He danced with the Los Angeles Ballet for four seasons, performing principal roles in George Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Serenade, Kammermusik No.2, and original works by Josie Walsh, Sonya Tayeh, among others. Andrew was a Lester Horton Award nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Performance and winner of the Habich-Corey Emerging Choreography Award. He spent two seasons with BalletMet before joining Germany’s Stadt Theater Chemnitz as a soloist. Andrew joined Complexions Contemporary Ballet in 2014. He has performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, The Kennedy Center, the Tel Aviv Opera House, and The Kremlin Palace in Moscow.
Tara Ghassemieh began her training in Huntington Beach, California, at Orange County Dance Center. She has garnered many honors, titles and awards, including first all-around soloist at Showstoppers Nationals, finalist at Youth America Grand Prix in New York City, Teen Miss Dance of America 2004 for Dance Masters of America, and National Training Scholar for American Ballet Theatre. At the age of 16, Tara was offered a full scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and an apprenticeship with Washington Ballet. She has performed numerous ballets with ABT at the Metropolitan Opera House, including Le Corsaire, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. She performed on Broadway in Movin’ Out and was a featured actress on Law and Order SVU, CSI and Gossip Girl. Tara is a guest artist with ballet companies nationwide. She teaches contemporary dance at Southland Ballet Academy.
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Olivia Harrigan began her ballet training at the age of three at Southland Ballet Academy under the guidance of Salwa Rizkalla. She has performed in numerous Festival Ballet Theatre ballets, including Giselle, Coppélia, Don Quixote, Alice in Wonderland, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and various mixed repertoire pieces. Ms. Harrigan is currently attending California State University, Long Beach as a health science major. She is an intern at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach and has an EMT license. She is the public health chair for The Flying Samaritans, a club that sets up a health clinic every month in Valle de las Palmas, Mexico to help the underserved communities. She aspires to become a pathologist.
Angela Rebelo was born and raised in South Africa. She received the highest level of training under Martin Shonberg and Alexey Illin. Angela joined Ballet Theatre Afrikan in 2004 and guested with both Cape Dance Company and Cape Town City Ballet. From 2007 to 2012, Angela was a company member of State Street Ballet; and from 2013 to 2017, she was a professional dancer at Grand Théâtre de Genève. Angela has enjoyed performing in projects with BalletRED, Geneva Dance Events, Inkörper Company and Forceful Feelings. She finds great pleasure in and enjoys devoting her time to teaching and training clients and younger aspiring artists.
Zak Ryan Schlegel is an internationally recognized dance artist, teacher and choreographer. His work ranges from concert, commercial and film to modeling, performance art and cabaret. He grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he attended Fishback Studio of the Dance. He received a BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University; and attained formative training from Rafael Bonachela at Sydney Dance Company. Zak is an artistic director of LA-based AXIOM Dance Theatre with artistic partner and co-founder Denna Thomsen; and is a soloist with Shen Wei Dance Arts in New York City, most recently premiering a new anti-opera, Neither, to critical acclaim. Zak has performed the works of Jennifer Backhaus of Backhausdance, Yin Yue of YYDC, Ryan Heffington, and Kitty McNamee. He is the recipient of the 2014, 2015 and 2017 YAGP Outstanding Choreographer Award.
Skye Schmidt, a native of California, began her ballet training under Salwa Rizkalla in 1998 at Southland Ballet Academy, where she learned from numerous world renowned ballet masters, including Tatiana Legat; acting head of the Mariinsky Ballet,Yuri Fateyev; Vladimir Malakhov; and Alexei Ratmansky. Skye joined Festival Ballet Theatre in 2012 and has since performed principal, soloist and corps de ballet roles in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, and Robert Sund’s Alice in Wonderland, among others. She has originated roles in works by choreographers Lillian Barbeito of Bodytraffic, Andrea Schermoly, Tong Wang and Josie Walsh. Skye graduated from UCI with a B.F.A. in Dance Performance. In 2016, she received the William J. Gillespie Foundation Scholarship for her outstanding efforts in classical ballet at UCI. Skye is an avid photographer and photographs for the Laguna Dance Festival, FBT and UCI. Evan Swenson, a California native, began dancing and performing at the age of seven. He completed his professional training at the Houston Ballet Academy. Evan joined Atlanta Ballet in 2004 and New York Theatre Ballet in 2007. While in New York, he freelanced throughout the city and along the East Coast. In 2008, Evan moved to Los Angeles, where he has continued to freelance, working both in concert and commercial dance. Evan was a model on the Syfy show, Face Off for five seasons. He was featured as the character Dillon in the movie Barbie in the Pink Shoes, and has worked with Coldplay on their True Love music video. In 2011 and 2013, Evan toured with the Long Beach Ballet as a part of the Ballet Ambassadors to China program. He has worked with choreographers including Ben Stevenson, Stanton Welch, Trey McIntyre, Michael Pink, Christopher Hampson, Tom Gold, Lila York, among others.
2018 – 2019 FBT TRAINEES Festival Ballet Theatre is proud to present the members of FBT Trainees, a junior company of student dancers with outstanding potential: Tamara Alfaro, Tatum Backer, Emily Eckert, Sophia Johncox, Anjoulie Kempton, Tess Lethen, Silvi Lybbert, Moorea Pike, Athena Skiathitis, Tiffany Tornay, Lily Turner, Bianca Wajack
Through FBT Trainees, Festival Ballet Theatre secures a talented base of dancers, offers performance opportunities “at home” and nurtures the stars of the future to a professional career in dance.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE DONORS Festival Ballet Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generosity of individuals, businesses and foundations for their contributions to our programs. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $10,000+ Anonymous Salwa & Sabri Rizkalla Technique Inc.
UNDERWRITER $5,000 – $9,999 Anonymous Bobbi Cox Lisa Ann & Tom Lydon Pulmonary Care & Sleep Associates CHOREOGRAPHER $2,500 – $4,999 Anonymous James Carter David Ling Lisa Yamashita
PRINCIPAL $1,000 – $2,499 Anonymous Keiko Ahara The Drew Family Teri & Chris Schmidt
SOLOIST $500 – $999 Anonymous Diana Casey Tiana Dinh Karen & Thomas Hersh Jeffrey & Carole Herzfeld Cathleen & Phil Hunter The Kempton Family Lydia Ringwald Abril & George Turner
ARTIST $250 – $499 Anonymous Becky Lew Photography Willa Bouwens-Killeen Wendy & Daniel Harrigan Julia Kester Stephen Tornay Lana & Steven Weiss Rong Yang & Yao Liu
APPRENTICE $100 – $249 Gift in Honor of Lily Turner Julianne Littlefield Eric Traut James Traut
For information or to join our list of donors, please visit FestivalBallet.org or call 714.962.5440. To make a donation, please send a check payable to: Festival Ballet Theatre, 9527 Garfield Avenue, Fountain Valley, CA 92708.
Festival Ballet Theatre is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Federal ID #33-0283147.
SPECIAL THANKS TO FESTIVAL BALLET THEATRE SPONSORS Festival Ballet Theatre appreciates the generous support of its corporate partners.
Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR OVATION VOLUNTEERS Festival Ballet Theatre thanks all of the parents and volunteers who are integral to the success of this presentation of Ovation. We appreciate all the time and energy you have put into fundraising, costumes, donations, marketing and development. Your efforts are truly priceless in allowing Festival Ballet Theatre to provide this performance.
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GRACE’S JOY PARTY October 19, 2018 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.
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GRACE KELLY Saxophonist, singer, composer, producer and educator — Grace Kelly defies genres. She plays with the heart and passion of an old soul, yet with the genre-bending zest and energy of a 26-year-old.
Kelly is about to release her 12th album as a leader, GO TIME: Brooklyn 2, this fall. “I’m extremely excited to release GO TIME: Brooklyn 2, which features the latter half of the GO TIME: Brooklyn live show inside the Systems 2 recording studio. Fans on our tour and online loved the dynamism and audio quality of the music in the first CD, plus the ability to watch the professionally filmed video footage online whenever they want,” Kelly says. “This second album keeps those same core elements, while pushing the envelope musically to explore the sonic world where jazz meets electronic, contemporary and pop influences.” race Kelly’s 10th CD, T G rying To Figure It Out, was voted as the # 2 Jazz Album of the Year in 2016 by DownBeat magazine’s readers poll.
“Grace Kelly has an electric charisma on-stage that instantly ignites the room,” says band leader Jon Batiste. In December 2015, Jon Batiste snagged Grace as a regular for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s band, Stay Human. “She is one of the most kind-hearted, easy-going people I’ve had the pleasure of working with.” 30 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Kelly wrote her first song at seven years of age, recorded her first CD at 12, orchestrated and performed her original composition with the Boston Pops Orchestra at 14, and performed at The Kennedy Center as part of President Obama’s inauguration celebration at 16. As a bandleader, Grace has performed in over 800 concerts throughout 30 countries at notable venues such as the Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall and at Montréal, Newport and Montreux festivals, as well as in such New York City clubs as Blue Note, Birdland and Dizzy’s. Grace has performed and/or recorded with Harry Connick Jr, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Toots Thielemans, Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Martin Short, Emma Stone, Miley Cyrus, Lin Manuel Miranda, Questlove, Esperanza Spalding, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Ron Carter, David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Huey Lewis, Valerie Simpson, Paul Shaffer, James Cotton, George Clinton and Gloria Estefan, among many others.
Featured by Vanity Fair as a millennial shaking up the jazz world, Kelly’s state-of-the-art brand of electro jazz-pop and inventive digital content is pushing her to the forefront of the fusion scene, alongside names like Snarky Puppy, Jacob Collier, Cory Henry, Robert Glasper, Jon Batiste, and Too Many Zooz. Via F acebook, Instagram and her YouTubechannel, the snackable PopUpvideo series, combining soulful sax solos with unexpected and exotic locales, has over 2 million views,
further establishing her brand as an artistic veteran with a digital novice’s flair for innovation. For Kelly, evolution is part of the jazz artist’s credo.
“I’m a very strong believer that jazz is about improvisation and about creating and spontaneity,” Kelly once said in an interview. “That’s what really drew me to it, but I think there’s plenty of music that can fuse elements of jazz with its own type of sound, whether it’s rock or pop. I’m not into ‘No, this isn’t jazz.’ I like everything that’s good, and I encourage people to think that way.”
Kelly says she has been well served by applying those same jazz concepts to the personal demands of everyday life. “I really take the concept of improvisation and spontaneity in the music, and I live it,” she said. That personal readiness for anything accounts, in part, for the open-spirited nature of her art. “I try to say yes as much as possible,” Kelly says. “If you have a closed idea of what you want in your head, and it’s only going to go this way from A to B to C, you miss a lot of other things that could be popping up. And because you have such a small mind frame, you won’t be able to see those great opportunities.” Raised in a household that exposed her to many forms of music, Grace was drawn to jazz by melodic players like Stan Getz and Paul Desmond. Kelly also found in the music a freedom to express herself in ways she had not found in her classical piano lessons. Born Grace Chung in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1992, Kelly started taking clarinet lessons in the fourth grade, but quickly switched to alto sax at the age of 10. She was soon transcribing Charlie Parker and Miles Davis pieces.
Kelly recorded her first album, Dreaming, when she was 12. Even on that debut release, the music pointed to her future eclecticism by mixing the pure pop of “On My Way Home” with selections like the Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love,” a medley of “Blue Skies” and “In Walked Bud” and the self-composed odd-meter jazz instrumental, “G-Bop.” “My way has always been a mix of music I’ve listened to and loved, including jazz, pop and blues,” Kelly says. “Even when I made that first album, I was a total Broadway kid, so some of that even creeps in.”
Times Too (2005) was an ambitious double disc that mostly paid homage to jazz standards on its first half and explored classic Beatles and Stevie Wonder, along with some innocent and catchy originals, on its second.
Every Road I Walked (2006) followed, further refining Kelly’s ability to blend genres. Self-penned tracks like “Filosophical Flying Fish,” with its second-line groove, and the easily accessible charmer, “Finish Line,” sounded quite at home with a sweet and sensitive reading of “Somewhere Over the
Rainbow,” a winning excursion into bossa nova with “Samba de Verao” and a lightly funky “Summertime.” Kelly, 14 at the time of the album’s release, received the first of her five ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Awards for the title track and was invited to perform with the Boston Pops. For the occasion, she wrote her first full orchestral arrangement of the award-winning piece.
Lee Konitz, the influential composer and alto sax player, who had been Kelly’s teacher and mentor since she was 13, became her collaborator on the 2008 release, GRACEfulLEE, which featured the two stretching out with a stellar band made up of guitarist Russell Malone, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Matt Wilson. An almost 10-minute take on Konitz’s “Thingin’,” the stately, jointly-composed title track and the taut, unaccompanied and improvised miniatures like “Alone Together” and “Buzzing Around” were among the highlights. The album was a critical triumph, drawing a 4 and ½ star review in the jazz bible, DownBeat. The disc ended up in DownBeat’s Best Albums of the 2000s issue. Mood Changes, released in 2009, found Kelly playing tenor, alto and soprano sax on her most self-assured work to that point. The bouncy, swinging “Happy Theme Song” set a celebratory, searching tone, best showcased in smart, inventive arrangements of “Comes Love,” “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “I Want To Be Happy.”
A second auspicious studio collaboration followed when another alto sax legend, Phil Woods, 80 at the time, teamed up with Kelly, then 18, for Man with the Hat (2011). Master and protégée traded ideas on four of the disc’s seven performances, including the swinging title track and a stunning reading of Billy Strayhorn’s “Ballad For Very Sad” and “Very Tired Lotus Eaters.” “We jammed together through ‘I’ll Remember April,’” Woods said of his first musical encounter with Kelly. “How did she sound? I gave her my hat! That is how good she sounded! She is the first alto player to get one. Hooray for the future of jazz and the alto sax!” Kelly added to her musical palette later that year by releasing the reflective jazz-gospel set, Grace, most of which featured her and inspirational jazz pianist George Russell Jr. putting their own stamp on traditional spirituals, without further accompaniment. Among the few exceptions, Kelly’s melodic overdubbed solo piece, “Grace Alone,” and a joyous, infectious “Let There Be Peace on Earth” with percussionist Jamey Haddad from Paul Simon’s band, were every bit as satisfying. By then, the music sounded as if it was coming from a deeper place.
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Kelly graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2011 with a degree in professional music. She has taught residency workshops at the college since 2012. That year also brought Kelly another important opportunity to pass on her musical knowledge: the U.S. State Department sent her, as an ambassador of jazz, on an international speaker’s tour to educate the people of Madagascar and the Comoros Islands about the music. “The folks in the Comoros Islands had never heard of legends like Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis,” Kelly said. “It was a challenging and exciting task.”
song, “Feels Like Home” (from her latest album, GO TIME: Brooklyn 2) was selected as a Grand Prize Winner in the 2018 Session-I John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
Grace Kelly is the winner of the 64th Annual 2016 DownBeat magazine’s critics’ poll as Rising Star Alto Saxophone and #4 Alto Saxophonist. She was named Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2016 Boston Music Awards and received the Alto Saxophonist of the Year award from NYC Jazz Fans Decision 2016. She has also drawn recognition as a singer and songwriter, having won multiple ASCAP Composer Awards. She placed second in the 2017 International Songwriting Competition (Adult Contemporary category). Grace’s new
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The dynamic 2013 Live at Scullers disc offered a countryflavored original, “Kiss Away Your Tears,” among other self-penned performances and a couple of jazz standards. The 2014 EP Working for the Dreamers featured gems like the urban, soft R&B of “Touched By an Angel” and the pulsating electro beat of “Cold Cold Water,” keeping the momentum of change in the foreground of Kelly’s creative agenda.
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Kelly has been featured on Amazon’s Emmy-nominated TV show Bosch, CNN.com; in Glamour magazine’s Top Ten College Women 2011; Forbes; Billboard; Huffington Post; and has made many appearances on NPR. But Kelly says she has never lost sight of a larger picture.
“I think everybody comes to life with a calling,” Kelly says. “I’ve been super blessed that my calling in life has been music and that I found it from an early age. But what I really hope my music brings to people is healing. There’s nothing that makes me feel better than when somebody, after a show, says ‘You lifted me up.’” Is it the main reason she plays? Her response comes without hesitation: “It’s the only reason.”
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EBERSOLE October 20, 2018 | Cheng Hall This performance is presented without an intermission. Sponsored by:
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Christine Ebersole Vocals
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PROGRAM After the Ball (Music and Lyrics by Charles K. Harris)
The Way You Look Tonight (from Swing Time | Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields)
Look at That Face / What Did You Do To Your Face? (“Look at That Face” from The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd | Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; “What Did You Do to Your Face?” | Music & Lyrics by Susan Werner) I’m Old Fashioned (from You Were Never Lovelier | Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer)
Yesterdays/Lazy Afternoon (“Yesterdays” from Roberta | Music by Jerome Kern; Lyrics by Otto Harbach; “Lazy Afternoon” form The Golden Apple | Music by Jerome Moross; Lyrics by John La Touche) Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye) (from Bombo | Music and Lyrics by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo)
My Baby Just Cares for Me (from Whoopee! | Music by Walter Donaldson; Lyrics by Gus Kahn)
S’wonderful (from Funny Face | Music by George Gershwin; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin)
Little Green / Wait Till You See Her (“Little Green” | Music and Lyrics by Joni Mitchell. “Wait Till You See Her” from By Jupiter | Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart) Inchworm (from Hans Christian Andersen | Music & Lyrics by Frank Loesser)
Autumn Leaves (from Les Portes de la nuit | Music by Joseph Kosma. French lyrics by Jacques Prévert; English lyrics by Johnny Mercer) (Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair (Music & Lyrics by Billy Barnes)
Ready to Begin Again (Music by Mike Stoller; Lyrics by Jerry Leiber)
I Do What I Can With What I Got (from Paper Moon | Music by Larry Grossman; Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh) In My Father’s House (Music & Lyrics by Aileen Hanks)
When I Grow Too Old to Dream (The Night is Young | Music by Sigmund Romberg; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE Christine Ebersole has captivated audiences throughout her performing career, from the Broadway stage to television series and specials, films, concert appearances and recordings. Ms. Ebersole received virtually every OffBroadway award and her second Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical for her “dual role of a lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. Other memorable New York stage performances include her starring role this past year as Elizabeth Arden in War Paint (Tony nomination), her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the smash hit revival of 42nd Street; Steel Magnolias; On the Twentieth Century; Camelot; Oklahoma; Dinner at Eight (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations); The Best Man; and Blithe Spirit. Additionally, Christine made her operatic debut with the L.A. Opera in Candide. 34 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Ms. Ebersole has appeared in many feature films, including The Wolf of Wall Street; Amadeus; Tootsie; Richie Rich; Black Sheep; Dead Again; Folks!; Ghost Dad; True Crime; My Girl 2; and The Big Wedding (which also featured an original composition that she wrote for the end credits). She has an extensive list of television credits as well, including Search Party; Sullivan and Son; Royal Pains; Madame Secretary; American Horror Story: Coven; Retired at 35; Ugly Betty; Law and Order: SVU; Boston Legal; Samantha Who; and Will and Grace. She was a series regular on the 1981–82 season of Saturday Night Live. In concert, Ms. Ebersole has appeared in numerous halls throughout the country, including The Kennedy Center, Symphony Hall Boston, The Walt Disney Concert Hall, and
Carnegie Hall. A recording artist as well, Ms. Ebersole has released such albums as: Christine Ebersole: Live at the Cinegrill; In Your Dreams; Sunday in New York; Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward; and Strings Attached. For more information, please visit her website at: www.christineebersole.com.
LAWRENCE YURMAN Lawrence Yurman is a pianist, arranger and conductor with 30+ years of experience on Broadway and beyond. He was most recently the music director and conductor of War Paint starring Ms. Ebersole and Patti LuPone, which enjoyed a successful run at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre as well as a Broadway production last year. Larry previously worked with Ms. Ebersole on the New York productions of Grey Gardens as well as the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit. That show culminated in their collaboration on a host of Noel Coward songs that were subsequently recorded. He was the music director/arranger of the revival of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick, Jr. and provided similar contributions to the Broadway show It Shoulda Been You. Additional Broadway music directing/conducting credits
include Thoroughly Modern Millie; Side Show (1998 orig. prod.); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Guys and Dolls (1992 revival); Les Miserables (orig. prod.); Marie Christine; Arcadia (Lincoln Center Theater); and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Larry provided the accompaniment and arrangements for Ms. Ebersole’s engagement at New York’s Cafe Carlyle, where tonight’s program premiered two years ago. He has relished every opportunity to reprise it with her. Artist Representation: APA Agency Noël Largess (212) 621-3088 www.apa-agency.com
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Irvine Barclay Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of our donors who help support the “big talent” in our “small hall.” Gifts to the Annual Fund for Excellence assist the Barclay in presenting an international roster of performers while keeping tickets reasonably priced. They also support our ArtsReach programs provided to the schools at little or no cost and “family-friendly” programming on stage. The Barclay’s mission also embraces making its beautiful facilities available to diverse community organizations, UCI, and other educational institutions. Thank you to all of our generous donors listed here for their contributions during the previous 12 months! If you would like to join the ranks of those who make it all possible at the Barclay, you may make a donation online at www.thebarclay.org or call 949.854.4607. PUBLIC PARTNERS
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ENCORE CIRCLE ENTHUSIAST $250 – $999 Oscar R. Aguirre Richard Alexander Diane and Dennis Baker Robert and Delphi Ballinger Lindy Balmer Richard Bergstrom Scott and Cheryl Berry Suzanne Boras Ellen Breitman and Brien Amspoker Scott Brinkerhoff Mary Bruce Clifford and Jennifer Cheng Denise Chilcote Susan De La Parra In Memory of Irene DeNoia Don and Debra Drysdale Gary Fabian and Deb Solon Frederic and Aviva Forster Mark A. Franzen Julie Garn Eleanor Jaffy Dave and Peggy Kelleher Leslie Levine Chunhong Li Nancy and Mike Mayer Greg and Laura Mickelson Bruce and Esmeralda Ogilvie PayPal Giving Fund Yvette Pergola
Dorcas Preston Susan Rhodes and Goran Matijasevic Stephen M. Rochford Joel B. Rothman Frank and Deborah Rugani Jeff and Linda Schulein Louise Schwennesen Thelma Seki Hugh Stevenson and Jan Burns Thomas and Marilyn Sutton Target Angelo and Marilyn Vassos Kathy Vickers and Jeremy Freimund John and Judy Vinke Kurt and Ellen Youngs
Cathy Chang Nancy Chase Grace Chen Rita R. Chenoweth Susie Clausen William Cline Richard and Jewel Colfer Coon Household Kathleena Cordano Joe Cowan Anahid Crecelius Madeleine and Alan Crivaro Toby Curry Vivian Daniel Charles Davison Pamela Deily Donald Delaney Nancy Dewsbury Steve Dickler Maria Dona Joan M. Donahue Roger du Plessis Scott and Monica Duggan Lenore Duncan Toni Dwyer Penny Emmons Peggie Fariss Byron Fennema Cathie Fields Roberta Fox Keri Fujii Ellen Fujikawa James and Della Gabelsberg Margaret Gates Michael Gelormino S. Glass Family Anneke Glore Ben and Sandie Goelman Kevin Gomez Kathleen Green Sanjiv and Geeta Grover Cary Hairabedian Ken Hartline Karl and Doretta Haushalter Barbara Helton Dan and Nicole Honigman Anthony Houghton
Charles Hunter Robert Ingold Laurie Jacobsen Karen Kewell Jacoby Kimo Jarrett Gail Judd Arlene Kato Judy Kaufman and George Farkas Bruce Kerr and Ann Patterson Kerry Krisher Paul Kuliev Dr. and Mrs. John LaGourgue In Memory of Dr. Martin Langer Tracy Laulhere Dean Laws Kim Smith Lazarus Robert E. Lee Vicki Lee Hilary Lemansky Neal Littlejohn Anne Llewellyn Claire Mackay Bart Maeda Cory Mann Pablo Martinez Christine A. Marx Duane and Kathleen Mauzey Lauri and Mike Mendenhall Vivian Mendoza Mela and Ricardo Miledi Tom Miller William Miller Lisa Monette Hiroko and Yoshiharu Moriwaki Reiko and Mitsuhiko Nakano Julie Nakata June Nelson Steven Nelson Gregory Newland John Newlander Catherine Ngo Mike and Pat Noggle Daisy Nueva Jane Olin Randall Pacheco Lauren and Richard Packard Mary Phillips
Christopher Pollick Judith Posnikoff Lois Rake Elaine Ramsay Christopher and Lynne Ramsey Brad Rawlins Claudia Redfern Dennis Repp Shane Reyna Joe Risser Keitha Russell Nancy Lee Ruyter Irene A. Sakioka Kazuhiko Sato Frances Segal Tully Seymour Megan Silveira Alison Singer Dorothy J. Solinger Paul Spas Edward Spilsbury Rick Spleen William Spurgeon Steve Stauff Barbara Stirrat Arthur Strauss – Neonatal Associates, Long Beach, CA Ingrid Strayer Rene Suzuki Celia and Julio Taleisnik Cindy Thomas Earleen Thomas Johanna Tilley Gary and Peranza Topjon Winnie Tse George and Abril Turner Tony and Nancy Vasek Michael Voronel John Walker Robert Walters Anne Walthall Brian West Justin White George and Flo-Ree Woodruff Patricia Yeckel Susan Yee Richard and Mary Yoo
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Joanne and Dennis Keith Michael Kerr Robert Labaree and Gillian Finley Don and Grace Laffoon Dr. Martin G. Langer Kathryn Lynch and Robert McDonnell Molly Lynch and Alan Andrews Sharon McNalley Britt Meyer Nancy Meyer John Miller Ed Moen and Janek Schergen John and Marjorie Murray Mr. and Mrs. Mitsuhiko Nakano Carl Neisser Tom and Marilyn Nielsen Anne B. Nutt John and Charlene Pasko James Penrod Janice and Richard Plastino Dolly A. Platt, Ph.D. Edward and Diana Putz
Salwa Rizkalla, Festival Ballet Theatre Barbara Roberts Robinson Foundation Michelle Rohe Andrew Rose Geoffrey and Debbie Sampson Jack and Katy Schellerman Sally Anne and Don Sheridan Igal and Diane Silber Ann Sim Jackie Smiley Elizabeth Stahr Richard and Elizabeth Steele Fund Olivia Stroud Jennifer Szabo Karen and Gary Thorne Barbara and Jack Tingley Lynn Weiser Max and Peggy Weismair Mary Vensel White William Gillespie Foundation
ENCORE CIRCLE SUPPORTER $100 – $249 Michele and Richard Africano Steven and Alexandria Allan Robert Allgeier AmazonSmile Foundation Debbie Aslanian Carol Bardia Stuart Baron Vickie Becker Matthew Bell Scott and Gwen Beltran Linda Berquist Richard H. Bigelow Stephen Biskar Annette Blaney Christopher Blank Michael and Margaret Bodeau Bobby R. and Edith S. Brannon Margaret and James Brumm Douglas T. Burch, Jr. Sandra Bursten Roland and Linda Bye James Byrne Luisa Cano Harold and Eleanor Carpenter Natividad Castillo Terry Causey Keali’i Ceballos
As a partner in the annual National Choreographers Initiative, Irvine Barclay Theatre is also pleased to acknowledge all those who support this important contribution to American dance.
Betty B. and Roy Anderson David Anderson Mrs. Alan V. Andrews Diane and Dennis Baker Ballet Barres West William H. Bardens Dr. Michael Bear Beau Corps Studio Helene Belisle Paul Blank Stacie Brandt Laurie and Bart Brown David and Beverly Carmichael
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