MUSIC OF THE ROLLING STONES

Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 7:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Martin Herman, conductor

MiG Ayesa, vocalist

PROGRAM ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE

This performance is supported in part by FIRST MIDWEST BANK, a division of OLD NATIONAL BANK.

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours. All programs are subject to change.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available on iTunes and at mso.org. MSO Binaural recordings (digital only) available at mso.org.

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Martin Herman

Conductor

Martin Herman has appeared as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras in North America, Europe, Australia, and Canada. His most recent engagements include the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra with Windborne’s Music of the Rolling Stones and Music of the Eagles. He recently guest conducted Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal and continues as music director and arranger for Classical Mystery Tour in recent performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Sydney Opera House, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Florida Orchestra. Herman also served as music director and conductor with Downtown Opera in Long Beach, California, conducting premieres of new operas in the U.S. and the Czech Republic. In the fall of 2009, he was conductor and music director at LaMaMa Theatre in New York City where he led performances of his one-act opera, The Doctor, based on Chekhov’s short stories. He has served as assistant conductor with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and conductor of the Berkeley Young Musicians Program Orchestra and U.C. Berkeley Summer Orchestra. Additionally, Herman has conducted several orchestra crossover projects in Amsterdam and Berlin.

Herman studied conducting and composition at Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley, and spent two years in Paris, France, on a Fulbright Grant and U.C. Berkeley Ladd Prix de Paris where he worked as conductor and composer with the New American Music in Europe and American Music Week festivals. He has received recognition for his work in the promotion of international cultural exchange from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York City.

MiG Ayesa

Vocalist

MiG Ayesa started his career in Australia in Buddy. He was then chosen to join the London cast including a Royal Variety Performance for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Ayesa’s other West End credits include We Will Rock You, Rent, Thriller Live, and Seasons of Larson. His Broadway credits include Burn The Floor and Rock of Ages, which he also joined on the first U.S. national tour and in the Philippines. Back in Australia, his credits include Grease, Cinderella, Aladdin, West Side Story, Rent, Fame, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and a UK and Australian tour of The Music Of Queen: Rock and Symphonic Spectacular. He reprised the role of Galileo for the 10th Anniversary World Arena Tour of We Will Rock You and as one of the Tenors of Rock at their resident headline show in Las Vegas and on the high seas. Ayesa also sailed with Rock Rhapsody, as well as headlining his own one man show, MiG Rocks The Boat.

In the Philippines, Ayesa played Robert Kincaid in the first international production of The Bridges of Madison County, and starred with Lea Salonga and Tanya Manalang for the major concert event Curtains Up, as well as his own concert celebrating Shangri-la’s 25th Anniversary, and most recently originated the role of Jamie Crimson in the world premiere production of All Out of Love.

Ayesa starred as Joe King in the TV series The Ferals. His other TV credits include Fil It Up, Mission: Top Secret, Hits and Memories, The Midday Show, IMT, Carols In The Domain, It’s About Time, Carols By Candlelight, People’s Choice Awards, Vidiot, Good Morning Australia, and Hey Hey It’s Saturday, as well as various commercials including a global campaign for Ray Ban.

Ayesa’s film credits include Queen of the Damned and Subterano. A finalist in the global hit TV show Rockstar: INXS, Ayesa released his self-titled debut album through Decca/Universal and was an original cast member of Handel’s Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise. As well as releasing his second album, More Than Ever, Ayesa has also penned theme songs for various TV shows as well as writing Fill My Cup for FWD, along with his own fundraising awareness campaign for the victims of Philippine floods with United As One.

Brent Havens

Arranger

Berklee-trained arranger and conductor Brent Havens has written music for orchestras, feature films, and virtually every kind of television. His TV work includes movies for networks such as ABC, CBS, and ABC Family Channel Network, commercials, sports music for networks such as ESPN, and even cartoons. Havens has also worked with the Doobie Brothers and the Milwaukee Symphony, arranging and conducting the combined group for Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary Birthday Party Finale attended by over 150,000 fans. He has worked with some of the world’s greatest orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London, the CBSO in Birmingham, England, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, Orchestra of Opera North in Leeds, England, and countless others.

Havens recently completed the score for the film Quo Vadis, a Premier Pictures remake of the 1956 gladiator film. In 2013, he worked with the Baltimore Symphony and the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens to arrange and produce the music for the Thanksgiving Day halftime show between the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers, adapting both classical music and rock songs into a single fourminute show. Havens is arranger/guest conductor for all of the symphonic rock programs for Windborne Music.