2014-2015 BNY Mellon Grand Classics - September 18-20, 2015

SEPTEMBER 18 & 20, 2015

HEINZ HALL

MANFRED HONECK, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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Saluting the PSO BNY Mellon Grand Classics and celebrating the work of Daniil Trifonov

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PROGRAM September 18 & 20 program............................................................11 September 18 & 20 program notes..................................................14 Manfred Honeck biography..............................................................20 Daniil Trifonov biography..................................................................22 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra biography......................................24 EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL Individuals........................................................................................26 Foundations & Public Agencies.........................................................33 Corporations .....................................................................................34 Legacy of Excellence..........................................................................36 Commitment to Excellence Special Named Gifts.............................38 INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Board of Trustees ................................................................................3 Chairman’s Council & Jack Heinz Society...........................................5 New Leadership Board........................................................................5 Pittsburgh Symphony Association......................................................5 Administrative Staff.............................................................................7 Heinz Hall Information.....................................................................44 Cover photo credit: Felix Broede

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, It is wonderful to be together for the start of the 2015-2016 season, my eighth as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. I want to extend a personal welcome to each of you and also invite you to join me in welcoming new President and CEO Melia Tourangeau.

There is much to look forward to and you will find our concerts filled with dynamic performances and exciting music, from familiar favorites to ground-breaking premieres. The season will be illuminated by the outstanding talent of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s own Noah BendixBalgley, Gretchen Van Hoesen and Michael Rusinek, as well as performances by an amazing array of guest artists.

We welcome the return of legendary pianist and audience-favorite Emanuel Ax, as well as the brilliant pianist sensation Daniil Trifonov who you will hear not only this weekend, but also again this May. The season includes, as well, the debuts of eight exceptional soloists, from the phenomenal technique and expression of violinist August Hadelich who joins us next weekend for the beloved Brahms Violin Concerto to the “wizard of percussion” Martin Grubinger and the extraordinary talent of Western Pennsylvania native and organist phenom Cameron Carpenter. Four celebrated conductors also make their debuts, each of whom will bring their own distinctive stamp of music making and talent to the Heinz Hall stage.

Personal highlights this season for me include my completion of the Beethoven Symphony cycle, performing Beethoven Symphony No. 8 next weekend. I also look forward to our theatrical presentation of Bach’s St. John Passion, a semi-staged production under the acclaimed direction of Sam Helfrich, the first time that this magnificent work has been brought to life by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is also a thrill to present some of the most well-known and well-loved pieces in the repertoire, including a special one-night only performance of Handel’s Messiah this December and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 this spring. We launch our 2016 European Tour in May with two exciting weekends of concerts first here at home, and then return to close the season with Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 5. It is truly a joy to bring this great music to you, right here in our own beautiful and historic Heinz Hall.

As we enter the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 120th anniversary season, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and deep appreciation to Dick Simmons, our great Board Chair, who has been a passionate and unparalleled leader throughout his tenure. I have come to know and truly admire Dick as a person and good friend, and I am incredibly thankful for all that he has done. My special thanks, as well, to Dick’s wife, Ginny, for her warm enthusiasm, kindness and steadfast support.

I would also like to extend a warm welcome to our new Board Chair, Devin McGranahan, and greatly look forward to working together with him as we begin the next chapter in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s history.

I am so proud of the continued success of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the bold and brilliant playing that comes to life with each performance. I invite you to be a part of the excitement and adventure and look forward to sharing the journey with you.

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT & CEO Dear Friends, On behalf of our Board of Trustees and the entire staff of the Pittsburgh Symphony, I would like to thank you for joining us for this season’s first BNY Mellon Grand Classics concert weekend. It would be hard to imagine a more thrilling program! We will be treated to the sights and sounds of our fantastic Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the baton of our celebrated Music Director Manfred Honeck.

Having recently arrived in Pittsburgh from Utah, I am very excited to be experiencing my first symphony concerts as President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Symphony. I am humbled and inspired by the tremendous creative force that defines this orchestra. It is truly a privilege to work to advance its mission — here in Pittsburgh and around the world.

You may notice that, over the summer months, we have completed some renovations in the hall — all designed to enhance your concert-going experience. I hope that, in particular, you are able to enjoy the revitalized lounge area on the Grand Tier level.

Thank you so much for being a part of this wonderful opening weekend and for your support of the Pittsburgh Symphony. You inspire our musicians to perform at the highest level of artistic quality because of your enthusiasm and dedication.

I look forward to many opportunities to greet you in person at Heinz Hall. I will often be in the lobby before concerts, so please stop and say hello.

Sincerely,

Melia Tourangeau President and CEO

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BNY MELLON GRAND CLASSICS | HEINZ HALL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 AT 8:00 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 AT 2:30 PM

Manfred Honeck, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano Pre-concert

Concert Prelude with Assistant Conductor Andrés Franco

John Stafford Smith

The Star-Spangled Banner

Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 4 in A major, Opus 90, “Italian” I. Allegro vivace II. Andante con moto III. Con moto moderato IV. Saltarello: Presto

Intermission

Daniil Trifonov Piano Concerto in E-flat minor

I. Andante — Allegro ma non troppo

II. Andante — Agitato — A tempo

III. Allegro vivace — Andantino — Presto

Mr. Trifonov

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FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Symphony No. 4 in A major, Opus 90, “Italian” (1831-1833, revised 1834-1837)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 3 February 1809 in Hamburg died 4 November 1847 in Leipzig PREMIERE OF WORK

London, 13 May 1833 London Philharmonic Orchestra Felix Mendelssohn, conductor PSO PREMIERE

19 March 1896 Carnegie Music Hall Frederic Archer, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

pairs of woodwinds, horns and trumpets, timpani and strings DURATION

27 minutes

Felix Mendelssohn never learned how to take it easy. As a boy, he was awakened at 5:00 every morning to begin a full day of private tutelage, exercise, social instruction and family activities — the busy regimen he learned as a child shaped the rest of his brief life.

Inactivity was anathema. Two months of bed rest occasioned by a leg injury in London in 1829 were more painful for the confinement they necessitated than for the medical condition. Throughout his days, Mendelssohn preferred travel to quiet life at home: he trooped across Europe, from Vienna to Wales, from Hamburg to Naples, and was welcomed and admired at every stop. Some of his journeys inspired music — the first of his ten trips to Great Britain, for example, which included a walking tour of Scotland (during which he enjoyed “a halfhour of inconsequential conversation” with Sir Walter Scott), gave rise to the “Scottish” Symphony and the Hebrides Overture.

When he was 21, Mendelssohn embarked on an extensive grand tour of the Continent. He met Chopin and Liszt in Paris, painted the breathtaking vistas of Switzerland, and marveled at the artistic riches (and grumbled about the inhospitable treatment by the coachmen and innkeepers) of Italy. “The land where the lemon trees blossom,” as his friend Goethe described sunny Italy, stirred him so deeply that he began a musical work there in 1831 based on his impressions of Rome, Naples and the other cities he visited. The composition of this “Italian” Symphony, as he always called it, caused him much difficulty, however, and he had trouble bringing all of the movements to completion. “For the slow movement I have not yet found anything exactly right, and I think I must put it off for Naples,” he wrote from Rome to his sister Fanny. The spur to finish the work came in the form of a commission for a symphony from the Philharmonic Society of London that caused Mendelssohn to gather up his sketches and complete the task.

The new Symphony was met with immediate acclaim at its premiere on May 13, 1833 in London, one of the series of British successes that helped enshrine Mendelssohn in the English pantheon of 19th-century musical genius as Queen Victoria’s favorite composer. Mendelssohn, however, was not completely satisfied with the original version of the Symphony, and he refused to allow its publication. He tinkered with it again several years later, paying special attention to the finale, but never felt the work to be perfected. It was only after his death that the score was published and became widely available. Despite Mendelssohn’s misgivings, the “Italian” Symphony has become one of the most enduring and popular pieces in the orchestral repertory, declared to be virtually perfect by the demanding British critic and

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scholar Sir Donald Tovey; it was a special favorite of that cantankerous curmudgeon and one-time music critic, George Bernard Shaw.

Mendelssohn cast his “Italian” Symphony in the traditional four movements. The opening movement takes an exuberant, leaping melody initiated by the violins as its principal subject and a quieter, playful strain led by the clarinets as its subsidiary theme. The intricately contrapuntal development section is largely based on a precise, staccato theme of darker emotional hue but also refers to motives from the main theme. A full recapitulation of the exposition’s materials ensues before the movement ends with a coda that recalls the staccato theme from the development. The Andante, in the style of a slow march, may have been inspired by a religious procession that Mendelssohn saw in the streets of Naples, but it also evokes the chorale prelude sung by the Two Armed Men in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The third movement, the gentlest of dances, is in the form of a minuet/scherzo whose central trio utilizes the burnished sonorities of bassoons and horns.

The finale turns, surprisingly, to a tempestuous minor key for an exuberant and mercurial dance modeled on the whirling saltarello that Mendelssohn heard in Rome.

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DANIIL TRIFONOV

Piano Concerto in E-flat minor (2013-2014)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 5 March 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

PREMIERE OF WORK

Cleveland, 23 April 2014 Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra Joel Smirnoff, conductor Daniil Trifonov, soloist THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE INSTRUMENTATION

piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, percussion and strings DURATION

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Daniil Trifonov, the pianist, has garnered international critical and public acclaim such as few artists ever receive, but his earliest musical experience was as a “composer” — improvising on the household piano before he was five. “That’s how my parents actually discovered I had an interest in music,” he explained. Trifonov was born in 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fifth-largest city and an important transportation, economic and cultural hub 250 miles east of Moscow that was also the birthplace of the famed writer Maxim Gorky. (The city was known as Gorky from 1932 to 1990.) The Trifonovs were a musical clan: Daniil’s grandmother was a choir conductor, his mother was a music theory teacher, and his father composed for a rock band early in life but had taken up classical idioms (with a specialty in music for the Russian Orthodox Church) by the time his son arrived. Piano lessons soon revealed the boy’s prodigious talents (he gave his first public performance at age eight) and the family moved to Moscow so he could be enrolled at the Gnessin Academy, one of the country’s elite music schools. Daniil not only made spectacular progress during the ensuing years in his piano studies at the Gnessin with Tatiana Zelikman — he won his first competition prize when he was seventeen — but he also immersed himself in the rich traditions of both Russian music and piano virtuosos through recordings and performances while continuing to nurture his interest in composition with works for keyboard and for chamber groups. Soon after making his North American debut in 2009, Trifonov chose to stay in the United States to study piano with Russian-born Sergei Babayan and composition with Keith Fitch at the Cleveland Institute of Music; he received Artist Diplomas from the school in the former discipline in 2013 (three months after his solo debut at Carnegie Hall) and the latter two years later.

Trifonov composed his Piano Concerto in E-flat minor in 2013-2014 on a commission from the Cleveland Institute of Music as part of its initiative to encourage its students, in the words of the school’s president, Joel Smirnoff, “to both compose and perform, wedding the mastery of performance and composition with a love and respect for the culture of community.” Trifonov’s Concerto, his first large-scale orchestral composition, is a remarkable fulfillment of that vision as well as a continuation of the centuries-old tradition of the composervirtuosos who performed their own works, a lineage that ranges from the troubadours of Medieval France across Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms to Prokofiev, Bartók and Gershwin. Echoes of these last three figure in the work, but it was Sergei Rachmaninoff, the quintessential 20th-century embodiment of the composer-virtuoso, who was the primary influence on Trifonov’s Concerto, which is largely modeled on similar pieces by his Russian predecessor in its scale, instrumental resources, harmonic language, seriousness of purpose

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and no-holds-barred virtuosity. On April 24, 2014, the day after Trifonov premiered the work with the CIM Orchestra conducted by Joel Smirnoff, Zachary Lewis wrote in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist-composer Daniil Trifonov.” As encores that evening, Trifonov played movements from his own Rachmaniniana Suite (2010) and Piano Sonata (2013).

The Concerto’s first movement, an expansive sonata form, is introduced by a wideranging, rising theme (marked “sweet, mysterious” in the score) begun by bass clarinet and continued by oboe. The piano enters with a variant of the introductory motive, which becomes the formal main theme of the exposition when it is taken up with greater urgency by violins and woodwinds. Quiet, lyrical motives played by piano and then bassoons provide a contrast of mood and melody and lead to the development section, which refers briefly to the main and introduction themes before moving on to extended discussions of two new ideas — the first, a broad descending one in dotted rhythms begun by violins; the other, in quick, skittering figurations, initiated by oboe. The recapitulation includes elaborated versions of thematic materials from both introduction and exposition before a brilliant passage of grand pianism brings the movement to a tempestuous finish.

Clarinet and strings provide a soft, gently rocking introduction for the piano’s poetic theme in the Andante. The central section is agitated first by insistent triplet figurations from clarinets and strings and then by fragmented motives from woodwinds and brass to urge the soloist toward the movement’s climax. The mood and music of the opening are restored, but a sudden outburst from the piano prepares for the finale, which follows without pause after a few transitional phrases.

The closing movement is episodic in construction and staggeringly virtuosic in style.

Cleveland critic Zachary Lewis wrote, “A pianist would have to be more than usually daring to take on an episode so jam-packed with crazed scampering, hallucinated dances, and brute stomping. Trifonov, of course, made it all seem easy, not to mention wildly exciting.”

Expressive respite is provided by gentler, contrasting episodes before a flamboyant coda with reminiscences of the introductory motives from the first movement brings the Concerto to a powerful close.

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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Capriccio Italien, Opus 45 (1880)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia died 6 November 1893 in St. Petersburg PREMIERE OF WORK

Moscow, 18 December 1880 Orchestra of the Russian Musical Society Nikolai Rubinstein, conductor PSO PREMIERE

12 November 1896 Carnegie Music Hall Frederic Archer, conductor INSTRUMENTATION

piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two cornets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings DURATION

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For nearly a decade after his disastrous marriage in 1877, Tchaikovsky was filled with self-recrimination and doubts about his ability to compose anything more. He managed to finish the Violin Concerto during the spring of 1878, but then had to wait more than three years for someone to perform it, and did not undertake another large composition until the Manfred Symphony of 1885. His frustration was only increased by staying at home in Moscow, so he traveled frequently and far during those years for diversion. In November 1879 he set off for Rome via a circuitous route that took him and his traveling companion, his brother Modeste, through Berlin and Paris, finally arriving in the Eternal City in mid-December. Despite spending the holiday in Rome and taking part in the riotous festivities of Carnival (Tchaikovsky recorded that this “wild folly” did not suit him very well), the sensitive composer still complained in a letter written on February 17, 1880 to his benefactress, Nadezhda von Meck, that “a worm gnaws continually in secret at my heart. I cannot sleep. My God, what an incomprehensible and complicated mechanism the human organism is! We shall never solve the various phenomena of our spiritual and material existence!”

Though Tchaikovsky was never long parted from his residual melancholy, his spirits were temporarily brightened by some of the local tunes he heard in Rome, and he decided to write an orchestral piece that would incorporate several of them. At the beginning of February he wrote to Mme. von Meck, “I have been working, and during the last few days I have sketched the rough draft of an Italian Caprice based on popular melodies. I think it has a bright future; it will be effective because of the wonderful melodies I happened to pick up, partly from published collections and partly out of the streets with my own ears.” As introduction to the work, Tchaikovsky used a bugle call sounded every evening from the barracks of the Royal Italian Cuirassiers, which was adjacent to the Hotel Costanzi where he was staying. He sketched the Capriccio in a week, but then did not return to the score until he was back in Russia in the spring; the orchestration was completed in mid-May at his summer home in Kamenka. The Capriccio Italien enjoyed a fine success at its premiere on December 18, 1880 by Nikolai Rubinstein and the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society, and audiences demanded its repetition on several subsequent concerts.

Tchaikovsky admitted modeling his Capriccio Italien on Mikhail Glinka’s potpourri of Spanish themes, Night in Madrid, a piece Mili Balakirev had suggested more than a decade earlier that he study for its “masterly fusing-together of sections.” The first section of the Capriccio Italien opens with the brazen trumpet fanfare of the

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Royal Cuirassiers, which gives way to a dolorous melody intoned above an insistent accompanimental motive. There follows a swinging tune given first by the oboes in sweet parallel thirds and later by the full orchestra in tintinnabulous splendor. A brisk folk dance comes next, then a reprise of the dolorous melody and finally a whirling tarantella, perhaps inspired by the finale of Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony. This “bundle of Italian folk tunes,” as Edwin Evans called the Capriccio Italien, ends with one of the most rousing displays of orchestral sonority in all of Romantic music.

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MANFRED HONECK Manfred Honeck has served as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since the 2008-2009 season. Together with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Honeck’s widely celebrated performances and distinctive interpretations continue to receive international recognition. To great acclaim, Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra regularly perform in major music capitals and festivals, among them the BBC Proms, Musikfest Berlin, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Grafenegg Festival, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra also have built a close relationship with the Musikverein in Vienna. Following a weeklong residency in 2012, they will return once again for three performances in the course of an extensive tour of Europe in spring 2016.

Honeck’s successful work with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been extensively documented on recordings with the Reference and Exton labels.

The first SACD released by Reference Records of Strauss tone poems, drew rave reviews. The second recording, of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and the Symphonic Suite from Janáček’s opera Jenůfa, conceptualized by Honeck himself, was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 was released in February 2015 to critical acclaim and additional recordings are completed for future release. Several recordings, among them Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, which won a 2012 International Classical Music Award, are also available on the Japanese label Exton.

As a guest conductor, Honeck has worked with the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris and Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome. In the 20

United States, Honeck has conducted the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

He is also a regular guest at the Verbier Festival. In 2013, Honeck gave his successful debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, resulting in a CD recording of Dvořák together with Anne-Sophie Mutter for Deutsche Grammophon which received an Echo Klassik award in 2014. The 20152016 season sees him return to Bamberg, Stuttgart, Rome, Stockholm and New York, as well as the Munich Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others.

Born in Austria, Honeck received his musical training at the Academy of Music in Vienna.

Many years of experience as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and at the helm of the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra have given his conducting a distinctive stamp. Honeck began his career as assistant to Claudio Abbado in Vienna. Subsequently, he was engaged by the Zurich Opera House, where he was bestowed the prestigious European Conductor’s Award in 1993. Honeck was one of three main conductors of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig and in Oslo, he assumed the post of music director at the Norwegian National Opera and was engaged as principal guest conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2000 to 2006, he was music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm and, from 2008 to 2011, principal guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he resumed for another three years at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season.

From 2007 to 2011, Honeck was music director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart where he conducted premieres including Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Verdi’s Aida, Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Parsifal, as well as

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numerous symphonic concerts. His operatic guest appearances include Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Royal Opera of Copenhagen, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and the Salzburg Festival.

Honeck has received honorary doctorates from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and, most recently, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Moreover, he has been artistic director of the “International Concerts Wolfegg” in Germany for more than 20 years.

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DANIIL TRIFONOV Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has made a spectacular ascent to classical music stardom since winning First Prize at both the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein competitions in 2011 at the age of 20. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of awe. “He has everything and more ... tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that,” stated pianist Martha Argerich, while the Financial Times observes, “What makes him such a phenomenon is the ecstatic quality he brings to his performances. … Small wonder every western capital is in thrall to him.”

Following the August release of Rachmaninoff Variations — his second title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist, recorded with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin — Trifonov remains focused on his compatriot’s music in the 2015-2016 season. He plays complete concerto cycles at the New York Philharmonic’s Rachmaninoff Festival and with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra; Rachmaninoff’s Third for debuts with the Berlin Staatskapelle and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, where he headlines the prestigious Nobel Prize Concert, and with both the Orchestre National de Lyon and the Munich Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev; Rachmaninoff’s Fourth for his subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra; and Rachmaninoff’s Second on an Asian tour with the Czech Philharmonic. Prokofiev’s Third is the vehicle for his debut with the Montreal Symphony, on an extensive North American tour, and Prokofiev’s Second for dates with the Orchestre National de France and the London Symphony Orchestra under Alan Gilbert. He also performs Chopin’s Second with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, Tchaikovsky’s First with the La Scala Orchestra, and Liszt’s First with the Pittsburgh Symphony, at home and on a 10-stop North European tour. An accomplished composer, it is also with the Pittsburgh Symphony that he reprises his 22

own acclaimed concerto. Besides making his recital debut in Los Angeles, Trifonov undertakes an extensive European recital tour that includes stops in the principal venues of Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, Barcelona, and Amsterdam.

He looks forward to residencies in Lugano, Switzerland, and at London’s Wigmore Hall, where he collaborates on piano duos with his former teacher, pianist Sergei Babayan, and on violin and piano duos with Gidon Kremer, whom he rejoins for concertos at the Cologne Philharmonic.

Last season, Trifonov made debuts with the Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle and Toronto Symphonies and returned to orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Washington’s National Symphony and London’s Philharmonia. For his second appearance at the BBC Proms with the London Symphony and on a Japanese tour with the Mariinsky Orchestra, his conductor was Valery Gergiev, with whom he reunited to open the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The pianist toured a solo recital program to such key venues as London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris, Tokyo’s Opera City, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica, and New York’s Carnegie Hall, to which he returned as the final stop on a U.S. duo recital tour with violinist Gidon Kremer.

In 2012-2013, Trifonov made debuts with all the “Big Five” orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra; with European ensembles including Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and London’s Royal Philharmonic; and at London’s BBC Proms. The following season, he collaborated with 19 of the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of Washington, San Francisco and London.

Since making solo recital debuts at Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Japan’s Suntory Hall and the Salle Pleyel in Paris in the 2012-2013 season, Trifonov has given solo recitals at venues including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Boston’s Celebrity Series, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw (Master Piano Series), Berlin’s Philharmonie (the Kammermusiksaal), Munich’s Herkulessaal, Bavaria’s Schloss Elmau, Zurich’s Tonhalle, the Lucerne Piano Festival, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris and the Seoul Arts Center.

Last season saw the release of Trifonov: The Carnegie Recital, the pianist’s first recording as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist; captured live at his sold-out 2013 Carnegie Hall recital debut, the album scored both an ECHO Klassik Award and a Grammy nomination. His discography also features a Chopin album for Decca and a recording of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra on the ensemble’s own label.

world’s most prestigious competitions, taking Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix — an additional honor bestowed on the best overall competitor in any category — in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2013 he was also awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Instrumental Soloist by Italy’s foremost music critics.

Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Trifonov began his musical training at the age of five, and went on to attend Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music as a student of Tatiana Zelikman, before pursuing his piano studies with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has also studied composition, and continues to write for piano, chamber ensemble and orchestra. When he premiered his own piano concerto in 2013, the Cleveland Plain Dealer marveled: “Even having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist-composer Daniil Trifonov.”

Mr. Trifonov last soloed with the Pittsburgh Symphony in November 2013.

It was during the 2010-2011 season that Trifonov won medals at three of the music

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Dr. & Mrs. Allen Hogge Gerald and Diane Holder Mr. David Holmberg Mrs. Milton G. Hulme Elizabeth S. Hurtt Robert W. & Elizabeth C. Kampmeinert Bill & Tricia Kassling Judith & Lester* Lave D. H. Lee Jr. Arthur S. Levine, M.D. & Linda S. Melada Mary Lou & Ted N. Magee Robert & Dana McCutcheon Gerald McGinnis Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Robert D. Mierley Family Foundation II Mary Ellen Miller Morby Family Charitable Foundation James Parrish & Chris Siewers Steven C. & Tami Pederson Catherine & Bill Perez Dr. Tor Richter in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter James W. & Erin M. Rimmel Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer Mr. & Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney Karen Scansaroli Mrs. Virginia W. Schatz Nancy Schepis Michael Shefler Robert & Janet Squires Edward W. Stack & Donna Ann Burnett Subra & Mary Suresh John P. & Elizabeth L. Surma Marcia & Dick Swanson Symphony East Dr. Sharon Taylor & Dr. Philip Rabinowitz Scott & Kaye Wahlstrom Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Seldon Whitaker In Memory of Susan Whitaker Rachel W. Wymard

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Anonymous (5) The Barbara and Marcus Aaron Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Jane Callomon Arkus Joseph E. Bailey, Sr. Lorraine E. Balun, in memory of Phyllis E. Zimmerman Barbara L. Barry Dr. & Mrs. David Beaudreau Nick & Dotty Beckwith Martha L. Berg Gerald & Carolyn Eberly Blaney Marian & Bruce Block Don & Judy Borneman Dana & Margaret Bovbjerg Bozzone Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs.* Kenneth Brand Hugh & Jean Brannan Gary & Judy Bruce Charles* & Patricia Burke Jan Burton Mr. & Mrs. Frank V. Cahouet Gail & Rob Canizares Debra Caplan & David Levenson MD Judy Clough Charles C. Cohen & Michele M. McKenney Bill & Cynthia Cooley Alan & Hazel Cope Rose & Vincent A. Crisanti Ms. Sheryl Ann Cupps George & Ada Davidson Jamini Vincent Davies Ada Davis Robert & Renee Denove Mr. Frank R. Dziama Edith H. Fisher Curt & Kim Tillotson Fleming Mr. William R. Forsythe Chauncey & Magdaline Frazier Janet M. Frissora Dina & Jerry* Fulmer Bruce & Ann Gabler Gary & Joanne Garvin Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Gebhardt Nancy Goeres & Michael Rusinek Dr. & Mrs. Sanford A. Gordon Franklyn & Dale Gorell

Mr. James Gorton & Mrs. Gretchen Van Hoesen George & Jane Greer Mr. & Mrs. George V. Grune Jr. Jim & Marnie Haines Mr. & Mrs. J. Brett Harvey Carolyn Heil Dan & Gwen Hepler Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Hiteshew Dorothy A. Howat Alysia & Robert Hoyt Dr. & Mrs. John W. Hoyt Hyman Family Foundation Alice Jane Jenkins Leo & Marge Kane Gerri Kay* Arthur J. Kerr Jr. Sydelle Kessler Charles & Kathleen Kovac Susan Oberg Lane Dr. Joseph & AnnaMae Lenkey Barry Lhormer & Janet Markel Doris L. Litman Mark & Joan Lombardi Patrick & Alice Loughney Mrs. John Marous James & Jennifer Martin Dr. Richard Martin in memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Dave & Kathy Maskalick Victoria & Alicia McGinnis Margaret J. McGowan Marilyn & Allan Meltzer Montgomery IP Associates Gerald Lee Morosco & Paul Ford Jr. Jim & Susan Morris in Memory of L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. Abby L. Morrison Lesa B. Morrison, Ph. D Barbara & Eugene Myers Constance Nelson Maurice & Nancy Nernberg Dr. & Mrs. Michael L. Nieland Fritz Okie Paul & Nancy O’Neill Charitable Trust Ellen Ormond Dr. Thaddeus A. Osial Jr. & Linda Shooer Osial Robert & Lillian Panagulias

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Partain Ned & Sally Randall Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. James E. Rohr Judy & Stanley Ruskin Dr. Alan Russell Donald D. Saxton Jr. in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Leonard* & Joan Scheinholtz Dr. & Mrs. Harry E. Serene Dr. Stanley Shostak & Dr. Marcia Landy Manny H. & Ileane Smith Marisa & Walter C. Smith Mr. Frederick Steinberg Lowell & Jan Steinbrenner Jeff & Linda Stengel Edward & Rebecca Stephan Theodore & Elizabeth Stern Fred & Maryann Steward Dick & Thea Stover Margaret Tarpey & Bruce Freeman Richard & Sandra Teodori Douglas E. Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Thompson II John & Nancy Traina Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Turner C. Robert Walker Jim Walker & Jonnie Viakley Dr. Ronald J. & Patricia J. Wasilak Dr. Konrad & Mrs. Konrad M. Weis Carolyn & Richard Westerhoff Drs. Barry & Iris Wu Miriam L. Young Harvey* & Florence Zeve Dorothea K. Zikos

ENCORE CLUB $1,500 - $2,499

Anonymous (6) Mrs. E. L. Abernathy Mary Beth Adams Ronald Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Colin Bailey Mr. Francis A. Balog & Dr. Paula Bonino

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Barbara C. & Ralph J. Bean Jr. Fred & Sue* Bennitt Jeanne B. & Richard F. Berdik Dr. Lawson Bernstein Dr. Michael & Barbara Bianco Mr. Michael E. Bielski Paul E. Block Philip & Bernice Bollman Dr. Carole B. Boyd Gary & Connie Brandenberger Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bregenser Lawrence R. Breletic & Donald C. Wobb Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Bridges Jill & Chuck Brodbeck Roger & Lea Brown Mr. & Mrs. David A. Brownlee Howard & Marilyn Bruschi Timothy & Linda Burke Gene & Sue Burns Dr. Bernadette G. Callery* & Dr. Joseph M. Newcomer Susan & Bill Cercone Janet E. Chadwick Kenneth & Celia Christman Sarah Clendenning & Un Kim Mrs. Arthur L. Coburn III Judge Maurice Cohill Jr. Sen. Herbert B. & Linda Conner Sheila Corrall & Ray Lester Ms. Eileen Cox Randall L. Crawford David* & Marian Crossman Marion S. Damick Bruce & Rita Decker Dan & Dee Delaney Angela & Mike DeVanney Frank D. & Mary K. Devono Mr. & Mrs. James R. Drake Michelle Ann Duralia Kevin & Sarah Eddy Linda & Robert Ellison Marlene & Louis Epstein Kelly G. Estes & Hank Snell Donald & Judith Feigert John H. Feist, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Ferlan Mrs. Orlie S. Ferretti Albert L. Filoni 28

Dr. Edward L. Foley J. Tomlinson Fort Mrs. J. William Futrell Dr. Kent Galey & Dr. Karen Roche Gamma Investment Corporation Keith & Susan Garver Beth & Phil Gasiewicz Alice V. Gelormino Mr. & Mrs. David C. Genter Revs. Gaylord & Catherine Gillis Dr. Robert J. & Susan J. Gluckman Kenneth* & Lillian Goldsmith Laurie Graham Rick & Stephanie Green Ernest Grindle William & Victoria Guy Dr. Alberto M. Guzman Mrs. Ellen Hagerty Mr. & Mrs.* George K. Hanna Rev. Diana D. Harbison Paul T. Harper Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Harris Bob & Georgia Hernandez Douglas & Antionette Hill Kelvin Hill & Cheryl Chotiner Dr. Joseph & Marie Hinchcliffe Dr. & Mrs. William Hoffman Micki Huff Joan M. Hurrell Mary Lee & Joe Irwin Barbara Johnstone Jackie & Ley Jones Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia David & Fran Kaplan Rolf & Florence M. Kayser William & Lucille Kenworthy Gloria Kleiman James & Jane Knox Lewis & Alice Kuller George & Alexandra Kusic Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Lang Father Ronald P. Lengwin Claire & Larry Levine Harriet, Barbara, Marc, Scott and Kim Lewis in memory of Elliott (Bud) Lewis Dr. Michael Lewis & Dr. Katia Sycara Elsa Limbach

Ken & Hope Linge Roslyn M. Litman In Memory of Norval W. Lyle Francis & Debbie Lynch Daphne & John Lynn Neil & Ruth MacKay George & Jane Mallory John & Cathy Mary Donna & Stephen Maxwell Mary C. McCormick Jean H. McCullough Dr. & Mrs. James B. McGee Declan McGovern Alan & Marilyn McIvor Jean S. McLaughlin Nessa Green Mines Aaron & Donielle Morgenstern Constance C. Morrison Dr. & Mrs. Etsuro K. Motoyama Harry & Kathleen Nagel Maureen S. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. O’Donnell Paul M. Palevsky, MD & Sharon R. Roseman, MD Seth & Pamela Pearlman Connie & Mike Phillips Mr. & Mrs. E. Kears Pollock Mrs. Mildred M. Posvar Sandy Pysh & Rich Somplatsky Charles & Patricia Ransom Stephen G. Robinson Dr. Lee A. & Rosalind* Rosenblum Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau Rich & Linda Ruffalo Dr. James R. Sahovey Drs. Guy & Mary Beth Salama Tamiko Sampson Thomas & Perri Schelat Joseph Schewe Jr. Esther Schreiber Jolie Schroeder Robert J. & Sharon E. Sclabassi Sean Shannon Preston & Annette Shimer Dr. Ralph T. Shuey & Ms. Rebecca L. Carlin Marilyn G. Shure Constance Silipigni Paul & Linda Silver

Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Mr. Frank Simpkins Dennis & Susan Slevin Bill & Patty Snodgrass Mrs. Alice R. Snyder Marcie Solomon & Nathan Goldblatt The Honorable* & Mrs. William L. Standish Lewis M. Steele & Ann Labounsky Steele Mark Steele Barbara & Lou Steiner Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Stept Mr. Douglas Stirling Dr. & Mrs. Ron Stoller Judith & Steve Thomas Bob & Bette Thomson Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Ticknor Rosalyn & Albert Treger Jane F. Treherne-Thomas Albert & Megan Trezza Cathy & Robert Trombetta Drs. Ben Van Houten & Victoria Woshner Bob & Denise Ventura Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Vest Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Vismor Mr. & Mrs. Burt Wald Mr. & Mrs. Keith Wannamaker Frank & Heide Wenzel Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White James R. Whitehead Ellie & Joe Wymard Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zellefrow Simone Ziegler

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Anonymous (29) Janese Abbott & David Clark Barbara & Otto Abraham Deborah L. Acklin Dr. & Mrs. Siamak Adibi Dr. Lawrence Adler & Judy Brody Jacob Allebach Erin & Kevin Allen Joyce & John Allen Joe & Chris Aloe Richard C. Alter & Eric D. Johnson Craig & Dawn Andersson Anne B. Angerman

The Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger Stanley W. Angrist Dr. Nicole Ansani-Jankowski Joan Apt Yoshio Arai Warren J. Archer & Madeline C. Archer James & Susanne Armour Mr.* & Mrs. David J. Armstrong Dr. Donald & Joann Atkinson Mr. & Dr. Avetta Dr. & Mrs. Alan A. Axelson Ruth Bachman in Memory of James Bachman Sidney Baker Donna L. Balewick MD Bob & Martha Ball Mr. & Mrs. Barry Balliet Diane Banks Dr. Esther L. Barazzone Wendy & David Barensfeld Joe & Sandra Barnes Richard C. Barney Robert & Loretta Barone Robert Bastress & Barbara Fleischauer Martin & Bridgett Bates Robert & Janet Baum John & Betsy Baun Barbara N. Baur Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal Dr. Diana Beattie Dr. Dorothy J. Becker Kenneth & Elsa Beckerman Michael Beer Barbara Nickel Beisel Vange & Nick Beldecos Judith Bell Eleanor H. Berge Ron & Nancy Bergey Dr. Peter & Judy Berkowitz Helen & Don Berman Mrs. Georgia Berner & Mr. James Farber Robert S. Bernstein & Ellie K. Bernstein Fund Ms. Robin Joan Bernstein Don Berry* Marilyn & Guy Berry Henry & Charlotte Beukema Drs. Barbara & Al Biglan

Harry S. Binakonsky, M.D. Rob & Hongwei Bittner Franklin & Bonnie Blackstone Michael & Carol Bleier Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Block Clifford Bob & Joan Miles Steve & Jeanne Boehmer Marianne Bokan-Blair Betsy Bossong Barbara H. Bott & Robert Jennings Dr. & Mrs. A’Delbert Bowen William & Elizabeth Bowers Myles & Joan Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Brand Mr. & Mrs. William H. Brandeis Sue & Mark Breedlove Gerda & Abe Bretton Mary & Russell Brignano Mary L. Briscoe Daniel & Lise Brodkey Anna Brophy Suzanne Broughton & Richard Margerum Mr. & Mrs.* Earle O. Brown Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee Brown Timothy R. Brown & Heidi K. Bartholomew Nancy & John* Brownell Lois R. Brozenick* Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder Dr. Stuart S. Burstein Nicholas Butera & Grace Wagner Michael F. Butler Christopher & Nancy Caldwell James & Judith Callomon John & Kelly Camp Susan Campbell & Patrick Curry Andrés Cárdenes & Monique Mead Dr. Albert A. Caretto Richard & Jeanne* Carter Rebecca J. Caserio M.D. Charles & Donna Cashdollar James P. Cassaro Dr. & Mrs. Richard G. Cassoff Sue Challinor & Matt Teplitz Mr. Flavio & Tatjana M. Chamis Stu & Lori Chandler

Deborah & David Chapman Peggy & Joe Charny Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Chung Ms. Jensina A. Chutz Ralph & Phyllis Cioffi Edward Cipriano William R. Clarkson & Dr. Andrea Velletri Robert & Elizabeth Clemens William & Elizabeth Clendenning Brian Clista Stuart & Cathryn Coblin Christine & Howard Cohen Dr. Richard & Sally B. Cohen Jared L. & Maureen B. Cohon Alan & Lynne Colker In Loving Memory of Johnathan Heath College Estelle Comay & Bruce Rabin Connell Leonard Family The David Conover Family Lin & Anne Cook R. Bruce Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Cleon L. Cornes Patricia J. Cover Barton & Teri Cowan Hanley B. Cox Susan & George Craig Susan O. Cramer Mr. & Mrs. Daniel G. Crozier John D. & Laurie B. Culbertson Kent & Merle Culley Mr. S. A. Cunningham Cynthia Custer Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus Daboo Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Daffner Mr. Enrico & Mrs. Federica Dallavecchia Mrs. Heidi Daley Joan & Jim Darby Norina H. Daubner Dr. & Mrs. K. C. Davides Constance P. Davis Joan Clark Davis Morningside Dental Jim* & Peggy Degnan Charles S. Degrosky* Mrs. Cynthia Del Bianco Dr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Dell’Omo Lynn & David DeLorenzo

Dr. Richard S. DeLuca David & Diane Denis Edward U. DePersis Patrick C. Derrico Dr. & Mrs. Frederick R. DeRubertis Diane Dewalt Mr. & Mrs. Victor DiCarlo Mrs. Tika Dickos Alfred & Eileen Diorio Peter Ditsch Docimo Family Holland & Susan Donaldson Lisa Donnermeyer Michel & Christine Douglas Doris Dowling Anthony V. Dralle Dristas, Thomas & Teresa Mr. David Duffee & Ms. Rebecca Catelinet Mary A. Duggan* David & Lisa Durbin Jeff & Wendy Dutkovic John & Elizabeth Eckenrod Mr. & Mrs. David H. Ehrenwerth Christopher* & Gretchen Elkus Mr. Jack W. & Mrs. Mary Jo Elliott Mrs. Doris B. Ely Eugene & Katrin Engles Jr. Arnold & Eva Engler Mindy & Richard Epstein Francis E. Fairman III Dan & Nancy Fales Tibey & Julian Falk Mr. Carmine Fantini Joan Feldman Dana H. Ferry Janet Fesq Dr. Joseph Fine Dr. A.M. & Jeanne Blend Finton Nancy A. Fitch Paul & Joanna Fitting Charles & Anna Fitz Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Fitzgerald Warren & Joan Fitzpatrick Ms. Ann P. Flaherty Mr. Mark F. Flaherty Mr. & Mrs. James Flanigan Jan Fleisher Iris R. Flinn

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Michael J. Flinn & Eileen Flinn Suzanne Flood Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Fonseca Mr. & Mrs. Edward Fortwangler Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Fraelich Jr. Christina Friday Eleanor Friedman Friends of the PSO Reanette & Steve Frobouck John & Elaine Frombach Dr. & Mrs. James L. Frost Mrs. Fran Frye Dr. & Mrs. Freddie H. Fu Normandie Fulson Mr. Gabriel C. Fusco Michael & Nina Gaffney Dr. & Mrs. Marc E. Garfinkel Hans & Gudrun Garkisch Joan & Stuart Gaul Pete Geissler Mr. & Mrs. William P. Getty Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Getze Barbara & Fred Gilman Mr. David Givens & Mr. Stephen Mellett Mike & Cordy Glenn Virgil Gligor & Alicia Avery Daniel & Marcia Glosser Fund Mr. & Mrs. Ted Goldberg Walter L. Goldburg Bernard Goldstein, M.D. & Russellyn Carruth Thomas W. Golightly* & Rev. Dr. Carolyn J Jones Dr. & Mrs. C. B. Good Richard E. Gordon & June F. Swanson Ms. Rita J. Gould The Graf Family Dr. Lora D. Graves & Dr. Bryan D. Dye David & Nancy Green Lori Greene & Chris Decker Charlotte T. Greenwald Dr. & Mrs. M. Joseph Grennan Mr. & Mrs. Steven Gridley Margaret L. Groninger D.T. Gruelle Specialty Logistics Ormond & Jay Guenard Ms. E. A. Gundelfinger Andrew Gurcak & Elaine Lees 30

Kristine Haig & John Sonnenday John & Judith Hall Mr. & Mrs. Van Beck Hall Robin & Scot Hamilton Wilfred & Susan Hansen Jeanie & Ben Hardesty Susan & David Hardesty Mr. & Mrs. James H. Hardie Mary O. Harrison Mr. Robert Hartman Ms. Christine A. Hartung James & Ann Harty Cal & Donna Hastings Greg Haughey Dr. Bobbie Lee Hawranko DMD Barbara A. Hays Cathy & John Heggestad Dr. & Mrs. Fred P. Heidenreich In Memory of John G. Heidish Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Eric & Lizz Helmsen Paul & Colleen Hennigan Marianne & Marshall Hess Mr. Ralf E. Hess Professor Benjamin E. Hicks Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hill Mr. & Mrs. David Hilty Jean A. Hinrichsen Pete & Rebecca Hoch Mr. Richard Hodos Ms. Donna Hoffman & Mr. Richard Dum Karen & Thomas Hoffman Greg & Amy Hogue Clare & Jim Hoke Philo & Erika Holcomb Katherine Holter Mr. William B. Holtzman Dr. & Mrs. Elmer Holzinger Ms. Madeleine Hombosky Tom & Mary Hooten Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Hooton Thomas O. Hornstein* Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Joseph W. Hostetler Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Huffman Mark Huggins & Bonnie Siefers

Mr. & Mrs. Elwood T. Hughes Jean & Richard Humphreys Robert W. & M. Elise Hyland Anthony C. Infanti Ironmaster, LLC Robert & Rose Marie Izzo Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Jacob Dr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs Lynne & Blair Jacobson Paul & Barbara Jacoby Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Jamison Jr. Stacey L. Jarrell Dr. & Mrs. Edward W. Jew Jr. Dawn M. Johnson Janis & Jonas Johnson Joanne K. Johnson Tom & Wendy Jones in Honor of Chris Wu John & Maureen Joyce Mr. & Mrs. J. Paul Kadlic Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kahlson Alice & Richard Kalla Daniel G. & Carole L. Kamin Dr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kaplan Michael & Dolores Kara Jim Keller & Mary Ellen Hoy Flo & Bob Kenny Rhian Kenny Jayne & Niles Kenyon The Kessler Family Mrs. Greta Keverline Ellen Kiam & William B. Troy Norman L. Kimes Mr. Milton B. Kimura Mr. & Mrs*. James Kirsch Rich & Jan Kleiser Stuart L. & Ann K. Knoop Peggy C. Knott Ms. Marilyn Koch Bob & Susie Kopf Mr. & Mrs. Robert Y. Kopf III Drs. Fotios & Linda Koumpouras Mr. & Mrs. John Krolikowski Phyllis Jo Kubey Rose M. Kutsenkow Mr. Nicholas Kyriazi Betty Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Scott Lammie Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Landay Ronald & Lida Larsen Earl & Marilyn Latterman Robert Lauver & Marina Nielsen

Kathy & Hank Lawrence Marvin & Gerry Lebby Drs. Grace & Joon Lee Ms. Janet Lee & Mr. Matthew Rosengart Joe Leja Diana K. Lemley MD & Paul L. Shay MD Mr. David W. Lendt Robert W. Lenker Dr. Herbert & Barbara Levit Mrs. William E. Lewellen III Anne Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Phillip K. Liebscher Robert & Janet Liljestrand Dr. Claudio A. Lima & Mrs. Kenia Ashby Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Limbach Walter F. Limbach Jim & Sandi Linaberger W. F. Lindgren Tom & Gail Litwiler Jackie & Larry Lobl Margery J. Loevner Don & Hanne Lorch Mrs. Howard M. Love Eddie Lowy & Ricardo CortĂŠs Mr. Anthony G. Lucas & Mr. Andrew Leo Annette Lutz Mr. David A. Lynch & Ms. Dorothy A. Davis Edward J. Lynch In Memory of James Lyne William & Helen Lyons Mrs. Guinevere R. Mabunay Pat & Don MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. William L. MacDonald Mr. & Mrs. Sean Mahoney John K. Maitland Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Malnati Mrs. Doris Malter & Mr. Jeffrey Malter Carl & Alexis Mancuso Drs. Ellen Mandel & Lawrence Weber Mr. & Mrs. Jay R. Mangold Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Donald Marinelli Bud & Barbara Mars Mr. & Mrs. Rodger Marticke Dr. & Mrs. George J. Maruschock Thomas & Elizabeth Massella

Helen F. Mathieson Dr. William Matlack & Leslie Crawford Matlack Karen Matthews Carolyn Maue & Bryan Hunt Ken & Dr. Carol Maurer Sidney McBride Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall Mr.* & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter Patrick & Michelle McCarthy McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. McChesney Mr. Richard E. McClain Mr. Samuel A. McClung* Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Paula & Bob McCracken Mr. Bernard J. McCrory Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Nancy McDonald Mary McDonough Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan Barbara McKenna & Family Alexis & Andrew McKinley Mr. & Mrs. William J. Mehaffey Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon Suzanne Mellon Peter & Memi Melotti Mark & Amy Mendicino Barbara Sachnoff Mendlowitz In Memory of William C. Menges Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Merriman Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mrs. William Metcalf III Mr. & Mrs. Roger Meyer Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Milton M. Michaels Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Anne M. Miller Ms. Laurie Miller Robert & Miriam Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller Jr. Jack Millstein Frank C. & Judy L. Mindicino Mr. & Mrs. M. Lee Minter

Jeffrey Mishler Signe Mitchell Ann & Mark Mizer Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Ruth M. Montgomery Amy & Ira* M. Morgan Bill & Jane Morgan Dr. Harvey M. Morris Dr. & Mrs.* William S. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. W.M. Morrissey Eric Von Morton Brenda & Frank Moses Ms. Ann Marie DeGeorge & Mr. Richard Mueller Michael & Cynthia Mullins Hilde Munck & Eckard Munck Richard & Martha Munsch Mary & Jim Murdy Arthur J. Murphy Jr. Mr. George Mycoff James & Marlee Myers Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Ellen & Ade Neidermeyer Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Suzanne Newpher Patricia K. Nichols Renee K. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Karen Kelley Noble Hide & Julia Miller Nobumori Dr. Sean Nolan Mark & Nikki Nordenberg Charles A. Norton James & Lindsey Nova Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Lee* & John Oehrle Dr. Everett F. Oesterling & Mrs. Joyce Oesterling Mr. & Mrs. Hale Oliver Mr. & Mrs. James O’Neill John Orndorff Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Russell G. & Karen Overfield David R. Owsley Dr. & Mrs. A. H. Panahandeh Dr. Armand J. Panson

Pamela & Ronald Pape Sang C. Park Pauline R. Parker John & Joan Pasteris Carol & Richard Patterson Mr. & Mrs. James Patton Camilla Brent Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Dale & Michele Perelman Irina & Daniel Peris Bill & Stella Perrine Ms. Gail Pesyna Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Judy Petty Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Pfendler Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Bob & Ellen Piper Ed & Mary Ellen Pisula Drs. Mary & Raymond Pontzer Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Mr. Mark Potter Shirley Pow Ann & Mal Powell Richard O. Price Sarah A. Prichard Bob & Mary Jo Purvis Mrs. Jean Purvis Andrew & Liberty Pyros Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan Jr. Fran Quinlan Janet K. Quint John & Gail Rackley Ms. Barbara Rackoff The Rackoff Family, ASKO Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Betty Radvak-Shovlin Susan M. Rakfal, MD James D. & Carol L. Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Mr. Leonard E. Rausch Paul & Dorothy Reiber Frances Reichl Marnie Repasky Mr. & Mrs. Ralph K. Reubi John C.* & Mary A. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs.* James H. Rich Mr. & Mrs. James Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Sam & Diana Robinson

Bette & Howard M. Rom Janice G. Rosenberg Paul & Shereen Rosenberg Dr. Pinchas Rosenberg Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener III Mrs. Louisa S. Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. Joel S. Rozen Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin III Dr. Richard & Heidi Russman Shirley & Murray Rust Mrs. John M. Sadler Mr. & Mrs. Dan D. Sandman Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor Lawrence P. & Sharron A. Schaefer Eric Schaffer & Michelle Gray-Schaffer Albert & Kathleen Schartner Paul & Cathy Schaughency Christopher & Jennifer Scheib Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. & Mrs. Melvin M. Schiff Joe & Nancy Schmitt Mrs. Shirley Schneirov Christian Schörnich Mrs. Carol Schuler Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Larry Schultz Mary Ann Scialabba, PhD Louise & Franco Sciannameo Mr. & Ms. Samuel D. Scott Mr.* & Mrs. Jobst W. Seehausen George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Mr. & Mrs. John M. Seifarth Michael Sexauer Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg George & Carol Shannon Mrs. Sue Shapera Mr. Daniel H. Shapira Mr. & Mrs. Raymond V. Shepherd Jr. Dr. Karen Shulman & Mr. Jay I. Shulman Dr. Charles H. Shultz

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour* Sikov Lee & Myrna Silverman Mr. & Mrs. Lee Silverman Marjorie K. Silverman Mr. & Mrs.* William J. Simpson Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Carol Slomski, MD Bobbie & Keith Smith Don & Beth Smith Kathleen Opat Smith Margaret C. Smith Nancy N. Smith Rep. Sam & Donna Smith Mr.* & Mrs. Christian M. Snavely Mrs. Barney Snyder J. Soffietti David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music & wellness Herbert H. & Barbara South Drs. Horton C.* & Jannene M. Southworth Mr. James Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Alexander C. Speyer III Henry Spinelli Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. St. Clair Janet H. Staab Mr. & Mrs.* Jack Stabile Mr. & Mrs. James C. Stalder Gary & Charlene Stanich Ms. Carrie M. Stanny Dr. James Staples Shirley* & Sidney Stark Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer Jim & Barbara Steffy Charles & Rachel Stegeman MaryJean & John Stephen Jerry Stephens Jayne & Tom Sterling James M. Stevenson Dr. Mervin S. & Marcia M. Stewart Steve Stockton 32

Mr. Ray C. Stoner In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger C. Dean Streator Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. St. Clair Mr. Su & Ms. Van Dusen Judy & Joe Sufrin Peter Sullivan Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra Drs. Gary & Heidi Swanson Joel & Maria Swanson Robert Swendsen & Roberta Klatzky Stu & Liz Symonds in Memory of Roger Sherman Tom & Karen Tabor Mr. & Mrs. Frank Talenfeld Dr. Jocelyn Tan & Dr. Alaa Shalaby Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Tannenbaum Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Dorothea Thompson Mayor John A. Thompson Mary Lloyd & George* Thompson Jill Thomson Mrs. Sonya Thorbecke Jim & Gail Titus Becky & Herb Torbin Father James Torquato Melissa Trax & Adam Kupec Mr. & Mrs. Clifton C. Trees In Memory of Audrey Treloar & Florence & Norman Golomb Lex & Peggy Tsaggaris Jeffrey Turner & Tonya Stefko Eric & Barbara Udren Mary & Gerald Unger Diane & Dennis Unkovic Judy Vaglia Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Dr. Filomena F. Varvaro Mary Vasilakis

Dr. & Mrs. James E. Vaux R. Veatch Cate & Jerry Vockley Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Drs. Joan Vondra & Thomas Chang John & Linda Vuono Jan Wagner Judy Wagner & Mike LaRue Wagner Family Charitable Trust Suzanne & Richard Wagner Kevin & Jennifer Walker John & Irene Wall Waller Family Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Marvin & Dot* Wedeen Phillips Wedemeyer & Jeanne Hanchett Drs. John & Carla Weidman Michael & Cynthia Weisfield Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Jim & Jinny Welker Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Wellinger Jane Wentling Bernard & Sheila Werner Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg Rebecca M. Wharton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Robert Wickesberg & Susan Noffke Mr. Norm Wien Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain Dr. Bruce L. Wilder Ken & Trudie Wilkins Robert & Carole Williams Robert E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Mary Jo Winokur

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Sidney & Tucky Wolfson Dr. & Mrs. D. Scott Wood Michael J. Woodring Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu Dr. & Mrs. John A. Yauch Mark & Judy Yogman Marlene & John Yokim Alice L. Young Hugh D*. & Alice C. Young Maureen Young Mr. Joe Yzurdiaga Frank A. Zabrosky Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren Dr. Audrey Zelkovic Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Michael & Naomi Zigmond David & Patricia Zimba Current as of August 31, 2015 *deceased

FOUNDATIONS & PUBLIC AGENCIES Allegheny County Economic Development Allegheny Regional Asset District The Almira Foundation Bessie F. Anathan Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Benjamin and Fannie Applestein Charitable Trust Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation The Benter Foundation The Sherle and Michael Berger Charitable Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Allen H. Berkman and Selma W. Berkman Charitable Trust Maxine and William Block Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Paul and Dina Block Foundation Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of The Buhl Foundation Jack Buncher Foundation Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Compton Family Foundation The Rose Y. and J. Samuel Cox Charitable Fund Jean Hartley Davis and Nancy Lane Davis Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Dietrich Charitable Trust Peter C. Dozzi Family Foundation Eden Hall Foundation Eichleay Foundation Jane M. Epstine Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Fair Oaks Foundation, Inc. Falk Foundation The Fine Foundation The Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation, Inc. Dorothy M. Froelich Charitable Trust Goldberg Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Grable Foundation Grune Family Foundation Hansen Foundation The Heinz Endowments Elsie H. Hillman Foundation The Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Fund May Emma Hoyt Foundation Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation Eugene F. and Margaret Moltrup Jannuzi Foundation Howard G. and Frances Y. Jones Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation

Lawrence County Martha Mack Lewis Foundation Edward D. and Opal C. Loughney Foundation Thomas Marshall Foundation Massey Charitable Trust Ruth Rankin McCullough Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation McKinney Charitable Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Richard King Mellon Foundation Howard and Nell E. Miller Foundation Phyllis and Victor Mizel Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Montague Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Parker Foundation W. I. Patterson Charitable Foundation Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Anna L. & Benjamin Perlow Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pauline Pickens Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Symphony Association Norman C. Ray Trust RMK Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation The William Christopher & Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Ryan Memorial Foundation Salvitti Family Foundation James M. & Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation The Mrs. William R. Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation W.P. Snyder III Charitable Fund Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer Foundation Tippins Foundation The Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Current as of September 4, 2015

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CORPORATIONS SIGNATURE CIRCLE

SILVER CIRCLE

$75,000 AND ABOVE

$5,000 - $9,999

BNY Mellon EQT Foundation Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield PNC

(Includes corporate annual fund contributions and sponsorships)

A.C. Dellovade, Inc. American Eagle Outfitters Bayer Healthcare R&I The Brown Hurray Plantz Group, Merrill Lynch Management c3controls DIAMOND CIRCLE The Common Plea Catering $40,000 - $74,999 Inc. Lincoln Learning Solutions, ELG Haniel Metals Corp.

Inc. Farmers & Merchants Bank MSA of Western PA Levin Furniture PLATINUM CIRCLE Mascaro Construction $20,000 - $39,999 Company Allegheny Technologies Mylan Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (ATI) Oliver Wyman Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. Peoples Natural Gas Delta Air Lines, Inc. Pirates Charities Federal Home Loan Bank of P.J. Dick, Trumbull & Lindy Pittsburgh Paving First National Bank of PwC Pennsylvania Schreiber Industrial Giant Eagle Development Co. The Kraft Heinz Company Uber Technologies, Inc. Macy’s Triangle Tech Group BRONZE CIRCLE Trib Total Media $2,500 - $4,999 Angelo, Gordon & Co. GOLD CIRCLE BB&T $10,000 - $19,999 Bender Consulting Citigroup Services, Inc. Clearview Federal Credit Berner International Corp.

Union big Burrito Restaurant Dollar Bank Foundation Group Ernst & Young LLP Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Fairmont Pittsburgh & Habitat Restaurant Cipriani & Werner PC Federated Investors, Inc. Dominion Resources FedEx Ground Eat’n Park Restaurants Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Elite Coach Transportation Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Huntington Bank Inc. Koppers PPG Industries Foundation Lighthouse Electric The Frank E. Rath-Spang & Company, Inc. Company Charitable Trust Morton’s The Steakhouse Reed Smith LLP Mozart Management United States Steel Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Pittsburgh Valve & Fitting Company Silhol Builders Supply

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United Bank Wampum Hardware Inc. WPXI-TV CORPORATE COUNCIL CIRCLE $1,000 - $2,499

4moms AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District Coury Financial Group CWA Asset Management Group LLC Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. ESB Bank Flaherty & O’Hara, P.C. Gordon Terminal Service Co. Jendoco Construction Corporation Kerr Engineered Sales Company Lawrence County Tourist Promotion Agency LB Foster Company MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. McKamish, Inc. Nocito Enterprises, Inc. Rothman Gordon PC Sarris Candies, Inc. Six Penn Kitchen Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Stringert, Inc. Trebuchet Consulting LLC TriState Capital Bank United Safety Services, Inc. UPMC & UPMC Health Plan Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh PARTNER LEVEL $500 - $999

Anonymous (1) Allegheny Valley Bank Armada Austrian American Cultural Society, Inc. The Buncher Company BYS Yoga Students Clark Precision Machined Components

Consolidated Communications CrawfordEllenbogen LLC General Wire Spring Co. Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Hamill Mfg. Co. Hertz Gateway Center, LP Jennmar Corporation John B. Conomos, Inc. K & I Sheet Metal, Inc. Lucas Systems, Inc. Marketing Support Network Master Remodelers Metso Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Attorneys at Law Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. Modany-Falcone, Inc. PGT Trucking Pzena Investment Management, LLC Rebecca L. Pounds DDS LLC Saint Vincent Archabbey & College We would like to thank all corporations who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Heinz Hall. Please see our website at pittsburghsymphony.org for a complete listing.

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TO ORDER LUNCH OR FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: PSAMUSIC101@GMAIL.COM / 412.361.3346 / PSA75.ORG

Desserts and beverages provided by the PSA. Enjoy a $9 brown-bag lunch from The Common Plea, or bring your own. Pre-ordered lunches available 11:15AM onwards. To reserve parking, call 412.566.4190 or visit EVERYDates GIFT and IS INSTRUMENTAL 2015-2016 SEASON downtownpittsburgh.com at least 24 hours in advance. times are subject to change.

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LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE

In addition to income from the Annual Fund, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is dependent on a robust endowment to assure its long-term financial stability. Gifts from Legacy of Excellence programs are directed to the endowment to provide for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future.

The Steinberg Society honors donors who have advised the Pittsburgh Symphony in writing that they have made a provision for the orchestra in their will. Members of the Sid Kaplan Tribute program have made a gift to the endowment of $10,000.00 or more to commemorate a particular person or event. Endowed naming opportunities for guest artists, musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for 10 years, 20 years or in perpetuity. For additional information, please call 412.392.3320.

STEINBERG SOCIETY Steinberg Society Anonymous (20) Siamak & Joan Adibi Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger The Joan & Jerome* Apt Families Francis A. Balog Robert & Loretta Barone Scott J. Bell Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Benno & Constance Bernt Michael Bielski Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan Thomas G. Black Barbara M. Brock Lois R. Brozenick* Tom & Jackie Cain Estate of Cynthia Calhoun Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher Mr.* & Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Estate of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene S. Cohen Basil & Jayne Adair Cox In Memory of Stuart William Discount Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly Mary A. Duggan Frank R. Dziama Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Emil & Ruth Feldman* Joan Feldman & William Adams Mrs. Loti Gaffney Keith & Susan Garver Ken* & Lillian Goldsmith Mr.* & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon 36

James A. Gorton Estate of Anna R. Greenberg Estate of Lorraine M. Gross Maureen Guroff Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil Eric & Lizz Helmsen Ms. Judith Hess Estate of Mr. John H. Hill Estate of Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hurtt Philo & Erika Holcomb Mr. & Mrs. Blair Jacobson Esther G. Jacovitz Patricia Prattis Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn* Leo & Marge Kane Lois S. Kaufman Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. Arthur J. Kerr Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting Dr. Laibe A.* & Sydelle Kessler Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Doris L. Litman Penny Locke Estate of Edward D. Loughney Lauren & Hampton Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin* Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall George E. Meanor Mary Ellen Miller Ms. Jean L. Misner* Catherine Missenda* Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick

Donn & Peggy* Neal Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rhonda & Dennis Norman Thaddeus A. Osial Jr. M.D. Estate of Irene G. Otte Judy Petty Estate of Dorothy R. Rairigh Barbara M. Rankin Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Donald & Sylvia Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David M. Roderick Charlotta Klein Ross Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis Ron & Debra Schneider Dr. & Mrs. Harry E. Serene Dr. Charles H. Shultz Michael Shefler Dr. Stanley Shostak & Dr. Marcia Landy Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept Estate of Dr. Raymond & Karla Stept Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Tom & Jamee Todd Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas Gerald and Mary Unger Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh Estate of John & Betty Weiland In memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss Brian Weller

Seldon Whitaker Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Charles L. & Katherine A. Wiley James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer Patricia L. Wurster Estate of Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young Estate of Ruth Yount SID KAPLAN TRIBUTE PROGRAM The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Kaplan in appreciation of generous gifts commemorating family and friends In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from his loving family In Honor of Mariss & Irina Jansons and friendship from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Kessler Honoring my dear friend, Marvin Hamlisch, from Mina Kulber In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont, & Susan Noble

ENDOWED CHAIRS Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor First Violin Chair, given

by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman

Michael & Carol Bleier Viola Vira I. Heinz Chair given in memory of Music Director Chair our parents, Tina & Charles Bleier and Ruth & Shelley Principal Pops Conductor Stein Chair Endowed by Henry & Elsie* Hillman Jane & Rae Burton Cello Chair Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Bass Chair Cynthia S. Calhoun Principal Viola Chair Milton G. Hulme Jr. Guest Conductor Chair Virginia Campbell given by Mine Safety Principal Harp Chair Appliances Company

Donald I. & Janet Moritz and Barbara Weldon Equitable Resources, Inc. Principal Timpani Chair Associate Principal Cello Chair Hilda M. Willis Foundation Flute Chair The Perry & BeeJee Morrison String Thomas H. & Frances Instrument Loan Fund Witmer Assistant Principal Horn The Morrison Family Chair Associate Principal Second Violin Chair Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Jackman by Barbara Jackman Pfouts

Ron & Dorothy Chutz First Violin Chair

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Jones III Guest Keyboard Chair

Johannes & Mona L. Coetzee Memorial Principal English Horn Chair

Virginia Kaufman Resident Conductor Chair, Lawrence Loh

George & Eileen Dorman Assistant Principal Cello Chair

Stephen & Kimberly Keen Bass Chair

Albert H. Eckert Associate Principal Percussion Chair

G. Christian Lantzsch & Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Duquesne Light Company Rinehart Principal Second Violin Oboe Chair Chair

Beverlynn & Steven Elliott Associate Concertmaster Chair

Mr. & Mrs. William Genge and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Lee Principal Bassoon Chair

Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair

Nancy & Jeffery Leininger First Violin Chair

Endowed Principal Piccolo Chair, given to honor Frank Edward D. Loughney and Loti Gaffney Co-Principal Trumpet

Current as of September 4, 2015 *deceased

Pittsburgh Symphony Association Principal Cello Chair Reed Smith Chair honoring Tom Todd Horn Chair

Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation Guest Conductor Chair Martha Brooks Robinson Principal Trumpet Chair Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Silberman Principal Clarinet Chair

Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Tillotson Jr. Fiddlesticks Family Concert Viola Chair Series Endowed by Gerald & Audrey McGinnis Honoring The Center for Tom & Jamee Todd The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie Young Musicians Principal Trombone Chair First Violin Chair William & Sarah Galbraith Second Violin Chair

Ira & Nanette Gordon The Gracky Fund for Education & Community Engagement Susan S. Greer Memorial Trumpet Chair, given by Peter Greer William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education

Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. McGuinn Viola Chair

United States Steel Corporation Assistant Principal Bass Chair

Dr. William Larimer Mellon Jr. Principal Oboe Chair, given Rachel Mellon Walton

by Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given

by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Messiah Concerts Endowed by the Howard and Nell E. Miller Chair Jacqueline Wechsler Horn Chair given in memory of Irving (Buddy) Wechsler EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL 2015-2016 SEASON

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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon .................................................................... Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt..........................................................................................................................Stage Right Door Rae & Jane Burton.......................................................................................................................................... Garden Bench Basil & Jayne Adair Cox.................................................................................................................................. Garden Bench Randi & *L. Van V. Dauler Jr. ...................................................................................Mozart Room Elevator & Garden Bench William S. Dietrich II*....................................................................................... Endowment for PSO Educational Programs Dollar Bank Foundation................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue.........................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Roy & Susan Dorrance ..........................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Foundation............................................................... Community Engagement & EQT Student Side-By -Side Program Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot.........................................................................................................Grand Piano, Paris Festival Goldman Sachs Gives ................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield ......................................................................................... Music and Wellness Program Elsie* & Henry Hillman.................................................The Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances Ms. Seima Horvitz*........................................................................................................................................ Garden Bench David & Melissa Iwinski................................................................................................................................Stage Left Door Robert & Louise Kahn*......................................................................................................................... Schooltime Concerts Lillian Edwards Foundation.................................................................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell .................................................................................................President and CEO’s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.........................................................................................................Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC.............................................................................................................. PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Dr.* & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ...................................................................................................................... Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer......................................................................................................................... Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III ...................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Alece & David Schreiber................................................................................................................................. Garden Bench Harvey* & Florence Zeve ............................................................................................................................. Garden Bench *deceased

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THANK YOU! Thanks to the support of thousands of donors, the 2014-2015 Annual Fund raised more than $8 million — a new record for the Pittsburgh Symphony. Every Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performance is made possible because of our donor family.

We look forward to seeing you this upcoming season!

B E E T H O V E N + C O L D P L AY Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Happy Hour - 5:00 p.m. • Concert - 6:30 p.m.

412.392.4900 pittsburghsymphony.org/fuse

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BACH, BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS September 25-27

Manfred Honeck, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin (debut) AUGUSTIN HADELICH

J.S. Bach: Chaconne (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra premiere) Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 Brahms: Violin Concerto The “Three Bs” return to Heinz Hall as Manfred Honeck introduces us to a fresh Bach transcription for orchestra, Beethoven’s unexpectedly cheerful Symphony No. 8 and Brahms’ renowned concerto for violin. With these performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, Honeck will complete the entire Beethoven Symphony cycle at the Pittsburgh Symphony. Following appearances with the Boston Symphony, and the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, Augustin Hadelich makes his Pittsburgh Symphony debut with this performance. Raved about by The New York Times and Washington Post for his “gorgeous tone” and “poetic communication,” this will be a don’t-miss performance!

Get your tickets NOW!

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Sinatra and Beyond

with Tony Desare

October 2-4, 2015 • Heinz hall 2015 marks Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, and the music of Ol’ Blue Eyes kicks off our 2015-2016 PNC Pops! season.

Singer, songwriter and pianist Tony DeSare gives classic hits like “My Way,” “Luck Be A Lady” and “Moon River” a modern flair with the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Like the olive in a martini, the music of Pittsburgh great Henry Mancini, Dean Martin and other favorites are the perfect complement to Frank Sinatra.

Bring your Rat Pack for a swingin’ night out!

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Anything but common!

CORPORATE ❘ EVENTS ❘ WEDDINGS commonplea-catering.com

COCKTAIL RECEPTIONS

Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres at 5 PM; Speaker at 6 PM These receptions feature guest artists and musical personalities from the season and are free-of-charge to Friends members. All receptions will take place in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Regency Rooms of Heinz Hall from 5 to 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8

Guest Conductor Gustavo Gimeno THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Contrabassoon James Rodgers THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016

Violinist Tim Fain

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016

Guest Conductor Osmo Vänskä THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016

Percussionist Martin Grubinger

PRE-CONCERT DINNERS & BRUNCHES The Friends of the PSO farewell pre-concert dinners will be held the weekend of June 17 & 18, 2016. Brunch will be announced at a later date. When an event is scheduled, members receive an announcement in the mail to return for a reservation.

Please contact Kathy Maskalick at 724-935-0507 with any questions or for more information.

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HEINZ HALL INFORMATION

BOX OFFICE HOURS are Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m; Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Weekend hours vary based on performance times. Tickets may be purchased by calling 412.392.4900 and are also available at the Theater Square Box Office.

CHILDREN are encouraged to attend our youth concerts and Fiddlesticks Family Concerts.

Children age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and lobby video monitors are always options for restless children.

COAT CHECK is available in the Grand Lobby or in the Dorothy Porter Simmons Family Regency Room on the lower level.

CONCIERGE SERVICE is available in the Entrance Lobby to assist with your questions and to help with dining, hotel, entertainment and transportation concerns. [Penny Vennare, Event Supervisor; Ron Ogrodowski, Barbara Smorul, Concierges.]

DRESS CODE for all concerts is at your personal discretion and ranges from dress and business attire to casual wear.

ELEVATOR is located next to the Grand Staircase.

EMERGENCY CALLS can be referred to the concierge desk at 412.392.2880.

FIRE EXITS are to be used ONLY in case of an emergency. If the fire alarm is activated, follow the direction of Heinz Hall ushers and staff to safely evacuate the theater.

GROUPS can receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space.

For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at pittsburghsymphony.org/groups for information.

LATECOMER’S GALLERY is located behind the Main Floor to enjoy the performance until you can be seated. Latecomers will be seated at suitable intervals during the program, at the discretion of the conductor. The gallery is also available for parents with restless children.

LOCKERS are located on the Lower and Gallery levels.

LOST AND FOUND items can be retrieved by calling 412.392.4844 on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

MOBILE DEVICES should be turned off and put away upon entering the theater.

THE MOZART ROOM is available for a grand dining experience catered by The Common Plea, just seconds away from your seats. For reservations: 412.392.4879 or pittsburghsymphony.org/ mozartroom.

PHOTOGRAPHY, video, or audio recording of the performance is strictly prohibited at all times.

PRE-PAID PARKING is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall. Ask about prepaid parking when you order your tickets.

REFRESHMENT BARS are located in the Garden and Overlook rooms and in the Grand Tier Lounge.

Intermission beverages may be ordered prior to performances. Water cups are available in the restrooms.

RESTROOMS are located on the Lower, Grand Tier, Gallery levels, and off the Garden and Overlook rooms; a wheelchair-accessible restroom is on the Main Floor.

SMOKING is not permitted in Heinz Hall. The garden is accessible during performances for this purpose.

SUPPORTING THE PSO AND HEINZ HALL is critical to the financial future of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Ticket sales only cover a portion of our operating costs. To make a tax-deductible gift, please contact our Development department at 412.392.4880 or visit us online at pittsburghsymphony.org

THE FOLLOWING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES:

• Level entrance and route to main floor of auditorium • Accessible seat locations with companion seats* • Portable assistive listening devices: Please see ushers for assistance.

• Braille programs are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics and PNC Pops performances.

• Large print programs are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics, PNC Pops, and Fiddlesticks Family Series performances. *Please contact the box office for the location of these seats.

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CMOA has almost 20 different exhibitions in 2015. #vangogh #hopper #industrialdesign #alwayschanging

30,000 incredible works of art in this place! #sculpture #painting #architecture #design #photography #film

FREE Thursday evenings after 3 in October! Wut.

You can get a membership to ALL FOUR Carnegie Museums for just $6.25 a month! #CheaperThanNetflix #BingeArt

There are more than 70,000 images in CMOA’s Teenie Harris Archives. That’s a lot of pics… and he didn’t even have Instagram.

I want to buy everything in the new CMOA Design Store. EVERYTHING.

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Nicole Eisenman, Prince of Swords, 2013, Courtesy of the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

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