BRASS AND PERCUSSION OF THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
AKRON BICENTENNIAL
TUESDAY, APRIL 22
PETER BOYER
MICHAEL SACHS
Choreographer:
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Tuesday Musical’s 2025-2026 Akron Concert Series
Pianist Marc-André Hamelin — Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. “A performer of nearsuperhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs around the globe with the leading orchestras and conductors of our time and now joins us at EJ Thomas Hall for our season opener and Annual Margaret Baxtresser Piano Concert. Experience a true master at work.
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons at 300 — Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 p.m. In a concert tour that’s selling out around the country, France’s heralded Les Arts Florissants celebrates the 300th anniversary of this beloved work with a virtuosic program that also includes other Baroque gems. Featuring Théotime Langlois de Swarte, of whom the reviewer at Gramophone said gives “performances so special that I feel a changed man from listening.”
Christmas with Cantus — Sunday, November 30, 3 p.m. Blending narration and song, the acclaimed vocal ensemble presents The Velveteen Rabbit and The Polar Express, alongside an abridged romp through The Nutcracker and other timehonored carols and new classics. Happening the Sunday afternoon after Thanksgiving, this is your family’s perfect start to the holiday season.
West Eastern Divan Ensemble, led by Michael Barenboim — Tuesday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. Led by Michael Barenboim, these Arab and Israeli musicians — principal players of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra — are defying fierce political divides to perform together. This powerful concert features works by Schubert and Boulez, plus a new work commissioned for solo violin and performed by Barenboim.
Imani Winds & Boston Brass — Tuesday, February 10, 7:30 p.m. Bach, Piazolla, Sandoval! Boston Brass and 2024 Grammywinner Imani Winds join forces to showcase their jointly commissioned music of CubanAmerican trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval. Add in works by J.S. Bach, tango master Astor Piazzolla, modern masters Paquito D’Rivera and Lalo Schifrin, and more for this rollicking “super band” collaboration.
Renée Fleming in Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene — Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m. The world’s most famous soprano, Renée Fleming brings her legendary voice to Akron for a program of Romantic and contemporary songs — plus an exploration of our evolving connection to nature, accompanied by a backdrop of a beautiful film from National Geographic. Also known as a leading advocate for the study of the powerful connections between the arts and health, Fleming will also participate in a “Music and the Mind” program the day before the concert. A grand season finale!
Akron Concert Series at EJ Thomas Hall
EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall—The University of Akron
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Akron Bicentennial Celebration
featuring
Brass & Percussion of The Cleveland Orchestra
Michael Sachs, music director, trumpet, Conrad Jones, trumpet, Michael Miller, trumpet, Lyle Steelman, trumpet, Jack Sutte, trumpet, Sarah Viens, trumpet, Shachar Israel, trombone, Luke Sieve, bass trombone, Richard Stout, trombone/euphonium, Brian Wendel, trombone Craig Knox, tuba, Yasuhito Sugiyama, tuba, Kristin Andlauer, horn, Hans Clebsch, horn, Meghan Guegold Hege, horn, Richard King, horn, Michael Mayhew, horn, Nathaniel Silberschlag, horn, Marc Damoulakis, percussion, Thomas Sherwood, percussion, Tanner Tanyeri, percussion, Paul Yancich, timpani
Peter Boyer, composer/conductor
Daniel Hege, conductor
Canzon per Sonar Septimi Toni No. 2
Trio in a Rudimental Style
O Magnum Mysterium
Trio Per Uno
Lincolnshire Posy
I. Lisbon
II. Horkstow Grange
III. Rufford Park Poachers
IV. The Brisk Young Sailor
V. Lord Melbourne
VI. The Lost Lady Found
Giovanni Gabrieli (1554/1557-1612)
arr. Timothy Higgins (b. 1982)
Yasuhito Sugiyama, conductor
Joe Tompkins (b. 1970)
Gabrieli arr. Higgins
Michael Sachs, conductor
Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic (b. 1962)
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
arr. Higgins
Intermission
Festive Fanfare (For Akron’s Bicentennial)
World Premiere
Peter Boyer (b. 1970)
Peter Boyer, conductor
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
I. Promenade arr. Elgar Howarth (1935-2025)
II. Gnomus
III. Promenade
IV. Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle)
V. Promenade
VI. Tuileries (Children’s Quarrel after Games)
VII. Bydło (The Polish Oxcart)
VIII. Promenade
IX. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
X. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
XI. The Market at Limoges
XII. Catacombs
XIII. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (With the Dead in the Language of the Dead)
XIV. Baba Yaga (The Hut on Chicken Legs)
XV. The Great Gate of Kiev
Daniel Hege, conductor
Festive Fanfare (For Akron’s Bicentennial) by Peter Boyer was commissioned by Tuesday Musical’s Myers Foundation New Music Fund, created in 2019 with support from the Louis S. and Mary Schiller Myers Foundation and Stephen Myers. The late Mr. and Mrs. Myers were Akron residents and longtime patrons of the visual and performing arts. The fund is also supporting this week’s education residency by composer Peter Boyer.
Support for tonight’s concert also comes from The Gertrude F. Orr Advised Trust of Akron Community Foundation and The Bunnie & Jerome Sachs Family Foundation. Percussion instruments have been provided by The University of Akron’s School of Music. Support for tomorrow’s professional recording of Festive Fanfare (For Akron’s Bicentennial) for free, open-access use comes from the Akron Bicentennial Commission
Be kind to the patrons around you — and to this evening’s musicians. Please silence your cell phones and limit the taking of photos and videos.
Among Tuesday Musical’s generous season supporters:
Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation, Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank Trustee, Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust, Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation, Helen S. Robertson Fund of Akron Community Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation, Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation, Welty Family Foundation
Program Notes
Canzon per Sonar Septimi Toni No. 2
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli composed his Canzon septimi toni for the majestic St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, where he was organist and principal composer from 1585 until his death. The Canzon comes from a collection of music for brass that Gabrieli composed for church use and published in 1597 under the title Sacrae symphoniae. This was the first collection devoted exclusively to Gabrieli’s works, and it reflects his experience as a church musician. The pieces in the collection are for various combinations of trumpets and trombones, whose players would have been placed antiphonally inside St. Mark’s to take advantage of the church’s acoustics and to clarify the dialogic musical structure of works such as the Canzon. The Canzon septimi toni (so-called because it is written in the Mixolydian church mode, which is based on G, the “seventh tone”) shows Gabrieli developing musical material in dialogue between instrumental groups.
Trio in a Rudimental Style
Joe Tompkins
Written for three snare drums and three bass drums, this piece was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Percussion section on April 3, 2002. It is written in a funkinfluenced rudimental style and features each player in turn as a soloist.
O Magnum Mysterium
Giovanni Gabrieli
The most important composers in Venice in the 16th century were two Gabrielis: Andrea and his nephew Giovanni. As organists of St. Mark’s Basilica, both exploited the special acoustics of that extraordinary building. By placing choirs of singers and instrumentalists in some of St. Mark’s many different choir lofts, they obtained brilliant echo effects that even modern audio equipment cannot duplicate. Giovanni’s O magnum mysterium, part of a larger motet, was written for the Christmas season. The words marvel that lowly animals — the ox and the ass — were the first to see the
newborn Jesus. This naïve, touching text made O magnum mysterium a favorite for motet settings at the time.
Trio Per Uno Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic
Trio Per Uno by Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic consists of three movements. The opening requires a bass drum (lying flat) played with timbale sticks by all three players. In addition to that sound, a pair of bongos and china-gongs are used by each player.
Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger
A piano prodigy turned composer, Percy Grainger was known for his strange personal habits, colorful prose, and equally unusual music.
Born in Australia, he began studying piano at an early age. He came to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War I and enlisted as an Army bandsman, becoming an American citizen in 1918. He went on to explore the
frontiers of music with his idiosyncratic folk song settings, his lifelong advocacy for the saxophone, and his music machines that predated electronic synthesizers.
Commissioned in 1937 by the American Bandmasters Association, Lincolnshire Posy is considered Grainger’s masterwork for wind band. It is based on folk songs that he collected in Lincolnshire in 1905-06. He intended it as a collection of “musical wildflowers” reflective not only of the songs but of the singers who sang them to Grainger.
Grainger recorded each singer on wax cylinders, using those recordings as reference to faithfully recreate each tune. The work debuted with three movements on March 7, 1937, performed by the Milwaukee Symphonic Band composed of members from worker bands from the Blatz and Pabst Blue Ribbon breweries.
Unlike other composers who attempted to alter and modernize folk music, such
— an insecure grasp of musical form, of traditional harmony, and of orchestration — it is no wonder he suffered from profound insecurity. A victim of alcoholism, he died at 46 but left a remarkably rich legacy: authentic, bold, earthy, and intensely vivid Russian music.
Pictures at an Exhibition proved to be a welcome rarity in Mussorgsky’s anguished experience — a composition born quickly and virtually painlessly. Reporting to his friend Vladimir Stasov about the progress of the original piano suite, Mussorgsky exulted: “Ideas, melodies, come to me of their own accord. Like roast pigeons in the story, I gorge and gorge and overeat myself. I can hardly manage to put it all down on paper fast enough.”
The fevered inspiration was activated by a posthumous exhibit in 1874 of watercolors and drawings by the composer’s dear friend Victor Hartmann, who had died unexpectedly the previous year at the age of 39. Mussorgsky’s enthusiastic and reverent
homage to Hartmann takes form as a series of musical depictions of 10 of the artist’s canvases, all of which hang as vividly in aural space as their visual progenitors occupied physical space.
Promenade: Mussorgsky depicts himself roving through the exhibition — now leisurely, now briskly — to come close to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly thinking of his departed friend.
Gnomus: Hartmann’s sketch, now lost, is thought to represent a design for a nutcracker displaying large teeth. The lurching music, in contrasting tempos with frequent stops and starts, suggests the movements of the gnome.
Promenade: A placid statement of the promenade melody depicts the viewer walking from one display to the next.
Il vecchio castello (The Old Castle): This movement is thought to be based on a watercolor depiction of an Italian castle.
Third Coast Percussion with Jessie
Third Coast Percussion with Jessie Montgomery, violinist and composer
Third Coast Percussion with Jessie Montgomery, violinist and composer
The GRAMMY-winning percussion quartet are joined by GRAMMY-winning composer and acclaimed violinist Jessie Montgomery in a program of works by Lou Harrison, Tigran
The GRAMMY-winning percussion quartet are joined by GRAMMY-winning composer and acclaimed violinist Jessie Montgomery in a program of works by Lou Harrison, Tigran
The GRAMMY-winning percussion quartet are joined by GRAMMY-winning composer and acclaimed violinist Jessie Montgomery in a program of works by Lou Harrison, Tigran
Hamasyan, Jlin, Philip Glass, and Montgomery
Hamasyan, Jlin, Philip Glass, and Montgomery
Hamasyan, Jlin, Philip Glass, and Montgomery.
Wednesday, April 30 | 7:30 p.m. | Finney Chapel
Wednesday, April 30 | 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30 | 7:30 p.m. | Finney Chapel
Peter Boyer, composer and conductor
Grammy-nominated Peter Boyer is one of the most frequently performed American orchestral composers of his generation. His works have received more than 800 public performances by more than 300 orchestras, and tens of thousands of broadcasts by classical radio stations around the United States and abroad. He has conducted recordings of his music with three of the world’s finest orchestras: the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia
Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Those recordings have received millions of plays on such streaming services as Apple Music and Spotify.
Boyer’s major work Ellis Island: The Dream of America, for actors and orchestra, has become one of the most-performed American orchestral works composed in the past 25 years, with over 300 performances by 125 orchestras since its 2002 premiere.
Boyer’s recording of Ellis Island on the Naxos American Classics label was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. In 2017, Ellis Island was filmed live in concert with the Pacific Symphony, conductor Carl St.Clair, and a cast of stage and screen actors for PBS’ Great Performances, America’s preeminent performing arts television series. The PBS national broadcast premiere was in June 2018, telecast on more than 300 stations. Boyer has received commissions from several highly prestigious American institutions and ensembles, including the Kennedy Center
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His music has been performed in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall (seven different works, two premieres) and The Juilliard School at Lincoln Center, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center and the U.S. Capitol, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Bowl and Royce Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Tanglewood Music Center, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, Cleveland’s Severance Music Center, Dallas’s Meyerson Symphony Center, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, Cincinnati’s Music Hall, and Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Concert Hall; and has been recorded in London’s Abbey Road Studios (two albums) and AIR Studios (two projects). His music appears on record labels including Naxos (four recordings), BSO Classics, Cedille, Koch International Classics, Albany, and Fanfare Cincinnati. Boyer’s music has shared programs with such renowned performers as Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, and Lang Lang.
In 2019 Boyer received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is officially recognized by both houses of Congress as one of the most prestigious American awards, and has been
presented to seven U.S. Presidents, as well as U.S. Secretaries of State, Supreme Court Justices, members of Congress, military leaders, and prominent Americans from many fields. Past medalists in the arts have included Renée Fleming, Quincy Jones, Rita Moreno, Gregory Peck, Itzhak Perlman, Chita Rivera, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Simon, to name a few.
In addition to his work for the concert stage, Boyer’s career has included work in the film and television music industry. He has contributed orchestrations (orchestral arrangements) to more than 35 feature film scores from all the major movie studios, for leading Hollywood composers including James Newton Howard (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 1, 2 & 3, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Red Sparrow, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms), Michael Giacchino (Jurassic World, Inside Out, Star Trek, Up, Cars 2, Mission: Impossible III, Super 8), Thomas Newman (Finding Dory, the James
Bond film Skyfall), the late James Horner (The Amazing Spider-Man, Living in the Age of Airplanes), Alan Menken (Mirror Mirror), Mark Isham (Dolphin Tale, The Conspirator), Heitor Pereira (Minions), Harry GregsonWilliams (Arthur Christmas), and Aaron Zigman (Wakefield, The War With Grandpa).
Boyer also was an orchestrator for Pixar in Concert, which has been performed by major orchestras worldwide, and for Titanic Live (Horner). Boyer has arranged music for two Academy Awards (Oscars) telecasts and composed music for The History Channel. His music has appeared in documentary films, short films, and — through the A&E Networks Production Music Library — a wide variety of television programs.
Boyer’s work has been profiled and/or reviewed by the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, USA TODAY, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Orange County Register, Symphony Magazine, BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, CNN.com, and
many others. His multiple national awards have included two BMI Composer Awards, the NYYS First Music Carnegie Hall commission, and the Lancaster Symphony Composer’s Award.
He has conducted performances with orchestras including the Pasadena Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Springfield (MA) Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and Rhode Island Philharmonic, as well as recording sessions on the major scoring stages of London and Los Angeles. He also has served as assistant conductor for The Lord of the Rings in Concert, represented by CAMI Music, for productions in five countries on three continents.
Boyer was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1970, and began composing at the age of 15. His first major composition was a large-scale Requiem Mass in memory of his grandmother, composed while a teenager. He was named to the first All-USA College Academic Team, comprised of “the 20 best
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and brightest college students in the nation,” by USA TODAY in 1990. Boyer holds degrees from Rhode Island College (B.A.), which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004, and The Hartt School at the University of Hartford (M.M., D.M.A.), which named him Alumnus of the Year in 2002. He also studied privately with John Corigliano and completed the Film and Television Scoring program at the USC Thornton School of Music, where his teachers included the late Elmer Bernstein. Boyer holds the Helen M. Smith Chair in Music at Claremont Graduate University. He resides in Altadena, in the San Gabriel Foothills just north of Los Angeles.
Michael Sachs, trumpet and music director
Michael Sachs joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal trumpet in 1988. Praised by critics for demonstrating “how brass playing can be at once heroic and lyrical” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer), he is recognized internationally as a leading soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, teacher, author, and clinician. He is the longest-serving principal trumpet in the history of The Cleveland Orchestra, now celebrating his 37th season.
Since joining The Cleveland Orchestra, Sachs has been a featured soloist on numerous occasions. Among his many solo appearances with the orchestra, highlights include the world premiere of John Williams’ Concerto for Trumpet (written for and dedicated to Sachs), Michael Hersch’s Night Pieces for Trumpet and Orchestra, and Matthias Pintscher’s Chute d’Etoiles
Franz Welser-Möst conducting. Additional solo work has included appearances with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Auckland (New Zealand) Philharmonia, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His orchestral discography includes more than 200 recorded works with The Cleveland Orchestra and a critically acclaimed recital disc with organist Todd Wilson, Live from Severance Hall, released in 2005. His world premiere performance and recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Elegy for those we lost for trumpet and harp (with his wife, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis) was first seen on The Cleveland Orchestra’s Adella streaming platform and later released as a single on the Azica label in 2021.
Since 2015 Sachs has served as music director of the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. In addition to conducting the festival’s chamber orchestra, his featured performances are a staple of each year’s programming. As a lead artistic administrator and performer for the National Brass Ensemble (NBE), he spearheaded the NBE’s 2014 Gabrieli recording project and subsequent 2015 concert in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, as well as the 2022 NBE academy, recording, and concert at San Francisco’s Davies Hall, which included a 75-minute Wagner Ring compilation and several world premieres. NBE’s latest recording, Deified, was released on the Pentatone label in 2023.
He was the featured soloist in the U.S. and New York City premieres of Hans Werner Henze’s Requiem, and most recently, Sachs performed the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Concerto for Trumpet (written for and dedicated to Sachs) with Music Director
Starting last fall, Sachs joined the trumpet faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music. From 1988 until 2023, he served as chair of the Brass Division and head of the Trumpet Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music. From 2018-2022 he was also lecturer of trumpet at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. In addition to serving on the faculty of leading summer
Originally from Santa Monica, California, Sachs attended UCLA, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History before continuing studies at The Juilliard School of Music. His former teachers include Ziggy Elman, Mark Gould, Anthony Plog, and James Stamp.
More information on Michael Sachs is at MichaelSachs.com.
Daniel Hege, conductor
Daniel Hege served for 11 seasons as the music director of the Syracuse Symphony and in June 2009 was appointed music drector of the Wichita Symphony. He held the position of principal guest conductor of the Tulsa Symphony from 2015–2021, and in May 2018 was appointed as music director of the Binghamton (New York) Philharmonic. Hege has guest conducted the Detroit, Seattle, Indianapolis, Oregon, Colorado, San Diego, Columbus and Phoenix symphonies, as well as the Calgary Philharmonic, among others. International engagements include performances with the Singapore Symphony
and the St. Petersburg Symphony at the Winter Nights Festival. He has also worked with the Syracuse Opera, leading productions of Madame Butterfly, La Traviata, Tosca and Don Pasquale. Past and upcoming guest conducting engagements include appearances with the Rochester, Buffalo, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Naples philharmonics; the Louisville, Sarasota and Florida orchestras; and the Houston, Edmonton, Pacific, Puerto Rico, Hartford, Stamford, Omaha, Madison, Tucson, Spokane and Springfield (Massachusetts) symphonies.
He received a B.A. degree in 1987 from Bethel College, Kansas, majoring in music and history. He continued his studies at the University of Utah, where he received a M.M degree in orchestral conducting, founded the University Chamber Orchestra, and served as assistant conductor of the University Orchestra as well as music director of the Utah Singers. He subsequently studied with Paul Vermel at the Aspen Music Festival and in Los Angeles with noted conductor and pedagogue Daniel Lewis.
A native of Colorado, Daniel Hege is proud of his Native America Heritage; he is Nez Perce, a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, and his grandfather, Boyd Eagle Piatote, was a jazz musician and composer.
Lifting up students embarking on music careers
Tuesday Musical’s 2025 Scholarship Competition awarded scholarships last month to 26 music majors throughout Ohio to help them achieve their careers aspirations as music educators and performers.
Now in its 69th year, the adjudicated competition is widely regarded as the best of its kind in Ohio.
Nearly 130 applicants from 12 schools applied to compete this year for 29 scholarships ranging from $750 to $2,000 each and totaling a record-breaking $41,050.
New for 2025 is a 2nd-place award in the organ category. Two other scholarships are newly named and anonymously endowed: the Barbara Kingsbury Eaton Scholarship in the voice category and the George Pope Scholarship in the woodwinds category. Both are named for longtime Tuesday Musical board members and supporters. The 3rd-place piano scholarship has been renamed and endowed as the Jerry Davidson and Clarenz J. Lightfritz Scholarship.
Mark Greer and George Pope co-chair Tuesday Musical’s scholarship committee, assisted by staff member Austin Ferguson. Our thanks go to the donors, volunteers, judges, teachers, and staff members for making the annual competition possible.
Final Round/Winners Concert on May 4
You are invited to be in the audience when this year’s top winners compete again in the competition’s Final Round/Winners Concert on Sunday, May 4, 2:30 p.m. at The University of Akron’s Guzzetta Recital Hall, 157 University Ave. (across from EJ Thomas Hall).
Two additional adjudicated scholarships — one for $1,000 and one for $2,000 — will be awarded. The audience will also pick the winner of the John M. Ream Jr. DDS People’s Choice Award of $500.
The May 4 concert and post-concert reception are free; no tickets or reservations needed. More at 330-761-3460 and tuesdaymusical.org/education.
Winners of Tuesday Musical’s 2025 Scholarship Competition
Brass — adjudicated by Tucker Jolly, The University of Akron, retired
■ 1st Place, Arden J. Yockey Scholarship, $2,000: Sakda Pharchumcharna, tuba, Bowling Green State University
■ 2nd Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $1,500: Joseph Barnhouse, tuba, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
■ 3rd Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $1,000: Nicholas Patton, tuba, The University of Akron School of Music
Piano — adjudicated by Sungeun Kim, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
■ 1st Place, Marilyn Fischer & Joan Marie Scherer Scholarship, $2,000: Philippe Gagne, Cleveland Institute of Music
■ 2nd Place, Marguerite Thomas & Gertrude Lancaster Scholarship, $1,500: Zelin Luan, University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music
■ 3rd Place, Jerry Davidson and Clarenz J. Lightfritz Scholarship, $1,000: Jackson Hunt, Oberlin Conservatory
■ 4th Place, William Bingham Foundation Scholarship, $750: Liming Yang, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Strings — adjudicated by Chris Jenkins, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
■ 1st Place, Drs. Frederick A. and Elizabeth M. Specht Scholarship, $2,000: Maude Cloutier, violin, Cleveland Institute of Music
■ 2nd Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $1,500: Maria Elli Petridou, cello, Oberlin Conservatory
■ 3rd Place, Barbara Ainsworth Porter Scholarship, $1,000: Quingzhuo Li, violin, Cleveland Institute of Music
■ 4th Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $750: Aurora Miller, violin, Oberlin Conservatory
■ Howard E. Leisinger Viola Prize, $2,000: Kiarra Saito-Beckman, viola, Cleveland Institute of Music
Voice — adjudicated by Joanne Uniatowski, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
■ 1st Place, Arden J. Yockey Scholarship, $2,000: Logan Wagner, tenor, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
■ 2nd Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $1,500: Yifei Huang, soprano, Cleveland Institute of Music
■ 3rd Place, Barbara Kingsbury Eaton Scholarship, $1,000: Junyue Gong, mezzosoprano, University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music
■ 4th Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $750: Gloree Wood, soprano, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music
Woodwinds — adjudicated by Mary Kay Robinson, freelance musician
■ 1st Place, Arden J. Yockey Scholarship, $2,000: Choyi Lee, flute, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
■ 2nd Place, Ann, Emily & Jeffrey Gleason/ Travis & Caitlin Rea Scholarship, $1,500: Shreya Girish, flute, Case Western Reserve University
■ 3rd Place, George Pope Scholarship, $1,000: Aron Kooijman, clarinet, Kent State University Glauser School of Music
Classical Guitar — adjudicated by François Fowler, Youngstown State University
■ Margaret Watts Hunter Scholarship, $2,000: Solis Dornan, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Marimba/Classical Steel Pan — adjudicated by Kevin Lewis, Case Western Reserve University
■ Dr. Larry D. Snider Scholarship, $2,000: Marie Conti, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Organ — adjudicated by Valerie Thorson, freelance musician (organ competition held March 15 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Akron)
■ 1st Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $2,000: JoEllen West, Cleveland Institute of Music
■ 2nd Place, Tuesday Musical Scholarship, $1,000: Owen Reyda, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Music Education — adjudicated by Patricia Grutzmacher, Kent State University, retired
■ Gertrude Seiberling Scholarship, sponsored by the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs, $1,400: Lauren Meadows, voice, The Ohio State University
■ Winifred Collins Scholarship, sponsored by the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs, $1,400: Harley Nunez, percussion, The University of Akron School of Music
■ William Bingham Foundation Scholarship, $1,000: Julia Stratton, bassoon, The University of Akron School of Music
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Judy Nicely
Jamie Wilding and Caroline Oltmanns
Pauline Persons
Anne Marie Schellin
Richard and Susan Schrop
Phil Schuchter
Betty and Joel Siegfried
James Simon
Joe Skubiak
Robert and Meg Stanton
Elinore Stormer
Marc and Julie Weagraff
Jorene Whitney
Susan Yingling
Carol and Bob Zollars
These generous donors have chosen to honor special people in meaningful ways. List as of April 1, 2025.
In Memory of Jesse Anderson Albrecht
Pittman Family Fund of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois and Barbara Pittman
In Memory of Margaret Baxtresser
Floy and Lee Barthel
Earl and Judy Baxtresser
In Honor of Bobbie Eaton
Judi and Jerry Brenner
Fred and Elizabeth Specht
In Memory of William Eaton
Doris St. Clair
In Memory of Jaymi Blossom Feeney
Robin Dunn Blossom
In Honor of Barbara Feld
Rees Roberts
In Honor of Austin and Richard Ferguson
David Hunt
In Honor of Bob and Beverley Fischer
Frank Comunale
In Memory of Mary Ann Griebling
Dorothy Lepp
In Memory of Joy Hagelin
The Hagelin and Wolf families
In Memory of Betty Howell
Nancy Bagwell
Bill Cervenik
Thomas and Barbara Cook
Sylvia and Howard Johnson
Sue and Ken Keller
Point Comfort Association
Tuesday Musical Staff
In Honor of Karla Jenkins and Cynthia Snider
Frank Comunale
In Memory of Martha Kelly
Frank Comunale
In Memory of JoAnn
Marcinkoski
Jennifer Altieri
Sally Ann Anderson
Bobbie Eaton
Terry M. Harsney
DuWayne and Dorothy Hansen
Sylvia and Howard Johnson
Cynthia Knight
Dorothy Lepp
Bruce and Linda Meyer
Claudia, Brian, and Barbara Simon
Jena and Kyle Wright
In Honor of Anita Meeker
Frank Comunale
In Memory of Lori Mirkin
Alan Mirkin
In Honor of Charles and Elizabeth Nelson
Frank Comunale
In Honor of George Pope
Fred and Elizabeth Specht
In Memory of Rosemary Reymann
Cynthia Knight
In Memory of Robert Roach
Majorie Donahue
In Memory of Dr. Bruce and Lola Rothmann
Elizabeth Rusnak
Mickey Stefanik
In Memory of their parents
Nathan and Cecilia Speelman
In Memory of Cindy Stefanik
Mickey Stefanik
In Memory of Dr. Kenneth Swanson
Mickey Stefanik
In Honor of Tuesday Musical’s staff
Barbara Eaton
Anita Meeker
In Memory of Virginia Wojno
Bob and Beverley Fischer
Shirley Workman
2024-2025 Board of Directors
Executive Committee
President Claire Purdy
Vice President/President Elect James Wilding
Treasurer Paul Mucha
Secretary Sally Childs
Governance Committee Chair Linda Liesem
Committee Chairs
Artistic Planning Cynthia Snider
Brahms Allegro Jennifer Stenroos Development Louise Harvey
Finance Paul Mucha
Hospitality Bobbie Eaton
Membership Fred Specht
Member Programs Stanislav Golovin
Scholarship Co-Chairs Mark Greer, George Pope
Education Co-Chairs Teresa Good, Michele Monigold At-Large Members Theron Brown, Diane Klein, Bryan Meek, Marianne Miller, Landon Nyako, Marc Weagraff, Shirley Workman
Staff
Executive Director Cynthia Snider
Director of Finance and Audience Services Karla Jenkins
Director of Artistic Operations
and Educational Engagement Austin Ferguson
Marketing Consultants Brett Della Santina, Jim Sector
Social Media Assistant Amie Cajka
Program art direction by Live Publishing Co.