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WELCOME Photo: Chris Beasley
This season is full of compelling music – full of expression, innovation and passion. We hope you find something that resonates with you, and discover something new. September proved to be extraordinary. Valentina Peleggi extended her four-year contract as the Symphony’s Music Director. Our season opened with Carmina Burana, Gladys Knight, and the return of the RSL Designer House. In celebration of Concertmaster Daisuke Yamamoto’s 10th anniversary, he presented the world premiere of Andre Portera’s Violin Concerto. Richmond Symphony Chorus takes the stage with the Symphony in November in a monumental work by Roxanna Panufnik that splits the chorus, and the orchestra in two, and requires two conductors! Relive the joy and power of Menuhin Richmond 2021 with Junior 1st Prize winner Keila Wakao joining the Symphony for The Four Seasons at a concert in local neighborhoods in January. Building on our commitment to commissioning, and celebrating Virginia voices – the season features three additional world premieres, including the first commission from Richmond Symphony Composer-in-Residence, Damien Geter; Adolphus Hailstork’s 2nd piano concerto “The Peaceable Kingdom,” and a new work for the Richmond Symphony Chorus and the Symphony by Richmond native Zachary Wadsworth. The talent in our region is amazing, and we are so proud to showcase it every day! The holiday season brings a special visit by Soul Santa from the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, along with performances of carols and classics during Richmond’s favorite holiday music tradition Let It Snow! And don’t miss the second annual Holiday Brass – tacky Christmas sweaters are highly encouraged. Education and community programs are in full swing and continue to be at the heart of the Symphony’s activities. Five Youth Orchestra Program ensembles learn, rehearse and perform throughout the year. The talent of our local young musicians is amazing. The new Youth Community Strings launched in August, providing free violin instruction to 2nd grade students in the Richmond area. 2023-24 brings compelling new music and timeless classics with soloists and visiting artists who embody the essence of the music they perform, along with the talented musicians of the Richmond Symphony who bring the work to life. On behalf of everyone at the Symphony, we invite you to explore the season and allow yourself to experience connection, the complexity and the delight the music has to offer. Thank you for being a powerful part of the experience of a live orchestra! Lacey Huszcza, Executive Director and Valentina Peleggi, Music Director RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM / 3
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VISION:
Changing lives through the power of music
MISSION:
The Richmond Symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
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The Richmond Symphony is dedicated to joy, connection, expression and collaboration through music. Founded in 1957, the Symphony includes an orchestra of nearly 70 professional musicians and 150 members of the Richmond Symphony Chorus. The Richmond Symphony is overseen by a 30-member Board of Directors and managed by an administrative team of 35. Each season, the Richmond Symphony offers more than 200 public performances for approximately 200,000 patrons through concerts and educational programs. The Symphony also maintains an active touring schedule that brings live symphonic performances throughout central Virginia. Community festivals allow for free outdoor musical experiences and serve thousands of people a year; creating unique opportunities for the public to engage with the Richmond Symphony and encouraging community pride through music and collaboration. Additionally, the Symphony joins with Virginia Opera and Richmond Ballet for presentations each season and collaborates with other arts organizations for special projects.
The Richmond Symphony is partially funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and CultureWorks and the Arts and Cultural Funding Consortium - supported by City of Richmond and the Counties of Hanover and Henrico.
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CONTENTS Valentina Peleggi
8-9
Chia-Hsuan Lin
10-11
Daniel Myssyk
12-13
Damien Geter
14-15
Symphony Board of Directors and Foundation Trustees
16
Richmond Symphony Musician Roster
17
Richmond Symphony Chorus
18-19
Administration
27
Annual Fund Support
28-33
Rennolds Society
35
Richmond Symphony Endowment Gifts
36-37
Tribute Gifts in Honor
38
Tribute Gifts in Memory
39
Richmond Symphony League Gifts of Merit
40
Concert details and artist biographies provided in the inserts for each concert.
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2023–2024 Concert Season
M usic for a c athedral s pace The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Series
Very Rev. Anthony E. Marques, Rector | Daniel Sañez, Artistic Director
Mozart’s Requiem Requiem,, K. 626 (arr. Levin)
featuring the Choir of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart with Three Notch’d Road Baroque
Daniel Sañez, Conductor
Friday, November 17 | 7:30 p.m. FREE tickets at richmondcathedral.org/concerts
Michael Hey, Organist Associate Director of Music and Organist, St. Patrick’s Cathedral | New York, New York
Friday, October 13 | 7:30 p.m.
Commonwealth Catholic Charities Holiday Festival of Music featuring the Richmond Symphony Orchestra
Monday, November 27 | 7:00 p.m. paid tickets via www.cccofva.org
Trio Mediæval
Friday, December 1 | 7:30 p.m.
Sacred Harp featuring Three Notch’d Road with free luncheon
Monday, December 4 | 11:00 a.m. RSVP at richmondcathedral.org/concerts
Advent Lessons and Carols Friday, December 15 | 7:30 p.m. featuring the Choir of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Allen Bean, Organist Director of Music, St. Bridget Catholic Church | Richmond, Virginia
Friday, January 26 | 7:30 p.m.
Carina Brackin, Organist Associate Director of Music, St. Bede Catholic Church | Williamsburg, Virginia
Friday, February 9 | 7:30 p.m.
Free concerts are generously made possible by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart | 823 Cathedral Place | Richmond, VA 23220 | (804) 359-5651 Concert details and updates: richmondcathedral.org/concerts RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM / 7
Valentina Peleggi MUSIC DIRECTOR
Lewis T. Booker Chair
Valentina Peleggi (peh-LEJ-ee) has been Music Director of the Richmond Symphony since the 20/21 season and has already revitalized the orchestra’s artistic output. While focusing on developing the orchestra’s own sound she has also launched new concert formats, joined national co-commission partnerships, started a threeyear composer-in-residence program, launched conducting master classes in collaboration with local universities, and championed underrepresented composers. She sat on the jury of Menuhin Richmond 2021.
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Last season, Valentina conducted a string of debuts in North America, including Dallas and Chicago symphonies, New World, and Kansas City symphonies, and Grant Park Music Festival. She will return to conduct Chicago Symphony at Ravinia in 2024. This season Valentina conducts BBC Scottish Symphony and Ulster orchestras, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and at Teatro Colon and Arena di Verona. Opera (especially bel canto) is a vital part of Valentina’s activity; in May 2024 she makes her debut at Seattle Opera conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In 2022 she returned to Teatro Verdi di Trieste for Rigoletto, also making her debut in a new production of Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires at the Opéra de Lyon. She conducted an acclaimed Rossini’s Le comte Ory with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Garsington Opera in 2021 and was a Mackerras Fellow at English National Opera in 2018 and 2019, where she conducted a wide range of repertoire including Carmen and La Bohème.
“Peleggi conducts with marvelous flair and precision” (The Guardian, July 2021)
Valentina released her first recording in 2021, featuring a cappella works by Villa Lobos in a new critical edition for Naxos guest edited by Valentina and performed by the São Paulo Symphony Chorus. She returns to
São Paulo this season to conduct an a capella concert. While acting Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Chorus, she was concurrently Resident Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Music Director (responsible for Italian repertoire) of the Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo. The first Italian woman to enter the conducting program at the Royal Academy of Music of London, she graduated with distinction and was awarded the DipRAM for an outstanding final concert as well as numerous other prizes and was recently honoured with the title of Associate. She furthered her studies with David Zinman and Daniele Gatti at the Zurich Tonhalle and at the Royal Concertgebouw master classes. She won the 2014 Conducting Prize at the Festival International de Inverno Campos do Jordão, received a Bruno Walter Foundation Scholarship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California and the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship 20152017 under Marin Alsop. Valentina holds a Master in Conducting with honours from the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, and in 2013 was awarded the Accademia Chigiana’s highest award, going on to assist Bruno Campanella and Gianluigi Gelmetti at Teatro Regio di Torino, Opera Bastille Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatro San Carlo. She also assisted on a live worldwide broadcast and DVD production of Rossini’s Cenerentola with the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI. From 2005 to 2015 she was the Principal Conductor and Music Director of the University Choir in Florence and remains their Honorary Conductor, receiving a special award from the Government in 2011 in recognition of her work there. Valentina is passionate about the arts and holds a master’s in Comparative Literature.
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Chia-Hsuan Lin
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Jack and Mary Ann Frable Associate Conductor Chair
Hailed by the Virginia Gazette as “a rock solid” and “animated” conductor, Chia-Hsuan (jahSHWEN) Lin delights audiences throughout the world with her trademark energy and command. Appointed Associate Conductor of the Richmond Symphony in 2016, Lin champions the transformational power of symphonic music through her inspiring concerts for all audiences. This season Lin debuts with St. Louis Symphony, Rochester Symphony (MN), Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. She also returns to conduct the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Williamsburg Symphony, and Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and covers concerts with the New York Philharmonic. Clarke Bustard wrote of Lin’s Brahms Fourth Symphony, “I’ve never heard a more compelling live performance than this
Photo: courtesy Lin
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one.” In another performance, Lin “crafted a Tchaikovsky Fourth that dancers could have danced to,” and “fine details, tone-painting of moody atmospherics, rhythmic fluidity and abundant lyricism came through almost flawlessly.” (Letter V) Other Richmond highlights include Handel’s Messiah, Classics Series, Symphony Pops, family concerts, a side-by-side orchestra of 624 musicians and community members in “Come and Play,” a record crowd exceeding 19,000 for Richmond’s Independence Day Celebration, and a single-day ticket sales record for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in Concert. The former Assistant Conductor of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Lin punctuated the end of her tenure in 2016 “with the command and energy of a soccer star” before a record FWP subscription crowd. (larryhayes.com) Her interactive programs invoke her love of collaboration with audiences; with singing, body-percussion, bell jingling, and call-andresponse all adding to the joy of experiencing live music together. An active guest conductor, she has directed Minnesota Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Richmond Ballet, Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, Academy of Taiwan Strings and Taipei Philharmonic Chorus. As a cover conductor, Lin has worked with the Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and others, with conductors such as Osmo Vänskä, Jahja Ling, Marin Alsop, Gianandrea Noseda, Stéphane Denève, and many more. In 2019, Lin was praised as a last-minute replacement in Williamsburg’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Assuming the podium the day of the concert, the Virginia Gazette reported Lin as “leading them through a thoroughly top-drawer performance” in “an exceptionally absorbing interpretation and rendering.” An advocate for the next generation of diverse musical talent, Lin has collaborated with award-winning artists Paul Huang, Sterling Elliot, Amaryn Olmeda, Kevin Zhu, Inna
Faliks, and Eduardo Rojas. Showcasing new music that often transcends traditional classical boundaries, her list of premieres continues to grow with new works by Texu Kim, Stephen Prutsman, Zachary Wadsworth, PaviElle French, Laura Schwendinger, Steve Heitzeg, and Jennifer Jolley.
delights audiences throughout the world with her trademark energy and command. (Virginia Gazette)
A passionate educator, Lin has worked with university orchestras throughout Virginia, and previously served as Music Director of the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor of Opera at the CCM Spoleto Music Festival in Italy. Innovative projects during her tenure as interim Music Director of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland include unique collaborations with Chris Thile and Michael Stanley. Lin began piano lessons in Taiwan at the age of three. She majored in percussion at the National Taiwan Normal University while playing with the Taipei Percussion Group, only to have a life-altering incident when she was struck by a car. After this she pursued conducting with Apo Hsu and Mark Gibson, and received her Doctorate of Orchestral Conducting at Northwestern University in Chicago with Victor Yampolsky. Lin is married to James Ferree, Principal Horn of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM / 11
Daniel Myssyk ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
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Assistant Conductor of the Richmond Symphony, and conductor of the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, CanadianAmerican conductor Daniel Myssyk (MISSik) was Music Director of the Montrealbased Orchestre de chambre Appassionata from 2000 to 2016. A few years ago, he led his orchestra on its first American tour, which included two concerts in Richmond. The group also toured before enthused audiences in Ontario in January of 2014. In recent years, he has made critically acclaimed appearances with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2015, Myssyk made his debut in Guanajuato (Mexico) where he has been returning regularly over the past years, and also conducted the Michoacan State Orchestra. In 2019, return engagements have brought him back to Canada to conduct the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières and the Orchestre de la Francophonie. Myssyk conducts repertoire from the classical, romantic, modern and contemporary periods with great attention to stylistically appropriate detail. He maintains a continuous engagement with opera in a variety of styles ranging from Mozart to Menotti. Sensitive to the music of our time, he has contributed to the creation of many contemporary North American works, including the worldpremiere of Anthony Brandt’s opera, The Birth of Something, with DACAMERA in Houston. Under his leadership, three recent VCU Opera productions of The Gondoliers (2015), The Old Maid and the Thief (2012), and Hansel and Gretel (2011) won top prizes at the National Opera Association competition. Myssyk’s recordings have received widespread critical acclaim. In 2012, he completed the recording of Czech Serenades with works by Suk and Dvořák. The CD was in nomination for best recording of the year at the “ADISQ” awards, Quebec’s equivalent of the GRAMMY® AWARDS and at the Prix Opus from the Conseil québécois de la musique.
Jean-Yves Duperron of the Classical Sentinel wrote: “Conductor Daniel Myssyk and the members of the Appassionata Chamber Orchestra ply their magic in this music, and shape each and every phrase, and infuse each and every note, with care and sincere expression. I’ve rarely heard these two works played with this much conviction.” In 2010, his CD Idyla (on Fidelio label), was nominated for an Opus Prize as best recording of the year. A CD featuring American trumpet player and VCU colleague Rex Richardson playing Dana Wilson’s Concerto for Trumpet and Strings was released on Summit Records, earning rave reviews from the International Trumpet Guild Journal. His most recent CD, on the Atma label, features works by Quebec composer François Dompierre and has earned excellent reviews from Radio-Canada
His involvement with youth reflects a well-honed passion for music education. and Magazine Son et image. Professor Daniel Myssyk has been Virginia Commonwealth University’s Director of Orchestral Activities since 2007. His involvement with youth reflects a well-honed passion for music education. In addition to his work at VCU, he is a regular collaborator with the All-Virginia State Orchestra and the Hampton Roads Chamber Players, among many others. In the early 2000s, Myssyk was a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School where he spent two summers under the tutelage of David Zinman. A student of Larry Rachleff, he received his master’s degree in Conducting from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in 2006. RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM / 13
Damien Geter COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
Damien Geter (JEE-ter) is an acclaimed composer who infuses classical music with various styles from the Black diaspora to create music that furthers the cause for social justice. His rapidly growing body of work includes chamber, vocal, orchestral, and full operatic works, with his compositions being praised for their “skillful vocal writing” (Wall Street Journal). He is Composer-in-Residence at the Richmond Symphony through the 2024-25 season, and serves as Interim Music Director and Artistic Advisor at Portland Opera, as well as the Artistic Advisor for Resonance Ensemble.
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In the 2023-2024 season, Des Moines Metro Opera presents the full-length world premiere of Geter’s opera, American Apollo, while Virginia Opera holds a workshop of Loving v. Virginia, a new major work cocommissioned by Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony which will premiere as part of Virginia Opera’s 50th Anniversary Season in May 2025. Geter’s Annunciation is featured on Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s concert Montgomery and the 2 Blacknificent 7, and Richmond Symphony will premiere a brand new work to be conducted by Music Director Valentina Peleggi. Additionally, The Recording Inclusivity Initiative records String Quartet No. 1 “Neo-Soul.” Future commissions include premieres at Seattle Opera and Emmanuel Music, and world premiere operatic productions in 2024, 2025 and 2026 at the Des Moines Metro, Virginia, InSeries, and Portland Operas. Geter will also have subsequent premieres at the Richmond Symphony. Last season, COTTON was given its world premiere in Philadelphia followed by its Washington, D.C. premiere at The Kennedy Center, presented by Washington Performing Arts, and his motet was performed by Emmanuel Music. Geter also conducted his own piece, An African American Requiem, at Fort Worth Opera, plus led the performance of ABSENCE: Terence Blanchard with Portland Opera. In 2022, Geter had six premieres as a composer, including his large work, An African American Requiem, in partnership with Resonance Ensemble and the Oregon Symphony with subsequent performances at the Kennedy Center; I Said What I Said for Imani Winds, cocommissioned by Anima Mundi Productions, Chamber Music Northwest, and The Oregon Bach Festival; his one-act opera Holy Ground for Glimmerglass Opera; Elegy for the American Guild of Organists; The Bronze Legacy for Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and the chamber version of American Apollo for Des Moines Metro Opera.
Favorite recent highlights include the commissions Cantata for a Hopeful Tomorrow for The Washington Chorus with subsequent performances at Pacific Chorale, Choral Arts Northwest, Bethune Cookman University, Northern Arizona University, Southwestern University, and Berkshire Choral International, with future performances at Minnesota Choral Artists; The Justice Symphony for the University of Michigan with subsequent performances with The Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center, and future performances at Fort Worth
“skillful vocal writing” (Wall Street Journal)
Opera; Buh-roke for the Portland Baroque Orchestra which will have subsequent performances with the Seattle Symphony; Invisible for Opera Theater Oregon; and String Quartet No. 1 “Neo-Soul” for All Classical Portland and On-Site Opera. His piece 1619 also appeared with On Site Opera as part of their presentation, “What Lies Beneath.” Geter is an alumnus of the Austrian American Mozart Festival and the Aspen Opera Center, and was a semifinalist for the Irma Cooper Vocal Competition. He also toured with the prestigious American Spiritual Ensemble, a group that helps to promote the preservation of the American art form – the spiritual. He is the owner of DG Music, Sans Fear Publishing. Music in Context: An Examination of Western European Music Through a Sociopolitical Lens, the book he coauthored, is available on Amazon, or directly from the publisher, Kendall Hunt. Learn more at www.damiengetermusic.com. RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM / 15
RICHMOND SYMPHONY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Elisabeth Muhlenfeld Wollan
Priscilla Burbank
Elizabeth Cabell Jennings
Brandon Taylor
Lacey Huszcza
Joshua Bennett
William Baites Phil Bennett Julie Brantley John Braymer Ronald Crutcher Gary Flowers Mark Flynn Brennen Keene
Christopher Lindbloom William Mears Patrick Murtaugh Bernie Niemeier Valentina Peleggi Kamran Raika Leon Roday George Ruzek
CHAIR
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
VICE CHAIR
TREASURER SECRETARY
Rick Sample ( in memoriam) Richard Szucs Marcia Thalhimer John Walker Ludi Webber Mark Wickersham Bucci Zeugner
RICHMOND SYMPHONY FOUNDATION TRUSTEES
Ann T. Burks
George Y. Wheeler, III
Randall S. Parks
James B. Hartough
PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT TREASURER
Lacey Huszcza SECRETARY
David B. Bradley J. Alfred Broaddus Jr. Robert L. Chewning Wendell B. Fuller Carolyn H. Garner Elizabeth Cabell Jennings Marlene D. Jones Helen Lewis Kemp
Nico de León Tara H. Matthews David I. Meyers Wallace B. Millner III Richard L. Morrill Ernesto Sampson Anne Marie Whittemore Elisabeth Muhlenfeld Wollan
The Richmond Symphony Foundation is organized and established exclusively for cultural and charitable purposes benefiting the Richmond Symphony through its endowment. Gifts or bequests may be made to the Richmond Symphony Foundation’s endowment, c/o Richmond Symphony, 612 East Grace Street, Suite 401, Richmond, VA 23219. Tax ID Number: 54-1514987 16 / RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM
RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
violin
viola
piccolo
trumpet
Daisuke Yamamoto
Molly Sharp
Catherine Broyles
Samuel Huss
PRINCIPAL The Mary Anne Rennolds Chair
oboe
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Hyo Joo Uh
PRINCIPAL
Ellen Cockerham Riccio +
Zsuzsanna Emödi Wayne Graham Stephen Schmidt Derek Smith Jocelyn Smith
CONCERTMASTER Tom & Elizabeth Allen Chair
Adrian Pintea
PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Myles Mocarski * ACTING PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Jeannette Jang *
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
Anna Bishop* Alana Carithers Catherine Cary Jill Foster Justin Gopal Alison Hall Timothy Judd Susanna Klein Stacy Matthews Emily Monroe Audrey Pride Anna Rogers Susan Spafford Delaney Turner Jocelyn Vorenberg Susy Yim
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
cello Neal Cary PRINCIPAL
Jason McComb ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
Barbara Gaden Adrienne Gifford-Yang Peter Greydanus Ryan Lannan Schuyler Slack Kenneth & Bettie Christopher Perry Foundation Chair
bass Andrew Sommer + PRINCIPAL
Riley Zimmermann
PRINCIPAL
Jennifer Debiec Lawson ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Catherine Broyles
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
trombone
english horn
Evan Williams
Lauren Williams*
Scott Winger Scott Cochran
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
clarinet
tuba
David Lemelin
Conrad Shaw
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
Edward Sundra ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
timpani
e clarinet
James Jacobson PRINCIPAL
Edward Sundra PRINCIPAL
percussion
bass clarinet
Clifton Hardison PRINCIPAL
Sara Reese
Robert Jenkins David Foster
bassoon Thomas Schneider
harp
PRINCIPAL
Lynette Wardle
Felix Ren
PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
contrabassoon horn
Mary Boodell
Daniel Egan *
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Rumano Solano
flute
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Lauren Williams *
Nicholas Ritter
Kelly Ali Peter Spaar
Brian Strawley +
Victoria Chung
ACTING PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
keyboard Russell Wilson PRINCIPAL Quincy & Anne Owen Cole Chair
Dominic Rotella PRINCIPAL
Devin Gossett SECOND HORN The Lucrezia Wheeler Leisinger & George Wheeler Chair
Erin Lano ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Roger Novak
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RICHMOND SYMPHONY CHORUS The Richmond Symphony Chorus is an award-winning ensemble of 150 members from the Richmond region. It performs regularly with the Richmond Symphony, Richmond Ballet, and in stand-alone performances around the community. The chorus members – ages 16 to 85 – are a diverse group of Richmond community members with a shared passion for choral singing. James Erb founded the Richmond Symphony Chorus in 1971 to perform Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under the baton of renowned conductor Robert Shaw. Erb, a professor at the University of Richmond and a scholar of Renaissance music, led the group for 36 years. Repertoire ranges from classical and opera to pops favorites. Conductor Erin Freeman led the chorus from 2007-2021, including performances in Richmond, Wintergreen, Carnegie Hall, and Paris, France. In 2018, the Chorus was featured in the GRAMMY®-nominated recording of the premier performance of Children of Adam by American composer Mason Bates and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem. The Chorus is now in its 52nd active season, with performances of Carmina Burana in August at the prestigious Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and in September in the Carpenter Theatre; the stunning Across the Line of Dreams, a work for split chorus and two conductors by Roxanna Panufnik in November a World Premiere of a new work by Richmond native, Zachary Wadsworth, in February; and the stirring Verdi’s Requiem in June, under the direction of Richmond Symphony Music Director Valentina Peleggi. If you are interested in auditioning for the Chorus, please visit: https://www.rschorus.com/auditions.html 18 / RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM
RICHMOND SYMPHONY CHORUS ROSTER Kevin L. Barger ASSISTANT CHORUS DIRECTOR
Daniel Stipe REHEARSAL ACCOMPANIST
Barbara Batson REHEARSAL ASSISTANT
Carl Eng, Lisa Fusco REHEARSAL ASSISTANTS
soprano
Lauren Lexa Crapanzano MUSIC SECTION LEADER Gabrielle Francesca Bergeret Brittany Brooks Olivia Carlton Leigh Anne Clary Liliana Dunn Courtnei Fleming Melanie Ficke Claire C. Foley Sharon B. Freude Lisa C. Fusco Catrina J. Garland Sarah George Carrie Gregory Amanda Halverson Denise R. Harding Ashleigh Hare Anna Hess Cynthia Stalb Hickman Luci Hughes Ella Nelson Johnson Cammy Koch Nina Lankin Ashley Larson Ashley M. Love Gail A, Lyddane Leslie Maloney Morgan Merkel Haylee Merritt Anne Marie Mills Eve Minter Lucy Wagner Mitzner Terry Moffett Katherine Nelson-Tracey Mallory Porter Stephanie Poxon Samantha P. Sawyer Johanna Scogin Gretchen Steele Olivia Surface Ann Voss Mary Ellen Wadsworth Darlene M. Walker
Emily Anderson Walls Michelle Wittig Allison Yablonski
alto
Kristen Melzer MUSIC SECTION LEADER Andrea J. Almoite Jan Altman Barbara Baker Caroline Bass Barbara C. Batson Kerry Blum Elaina F. Brennan Sarah Capehart Ellen Carleton Laura Altman Carr Linda Castle Pamela Cross Erin Dixon Mary Butler Eggleston Aimee Ellington Kathryn R. Erhardt Maria J. K. Everett Jasmyn Ferguson Elizabeth Goodwin Elizabeth Harper Shannon Hooker Tara Ingersoll Cynthia G. Lee Lauren Maho Elizabeth C. Manning Julia Martin Judy Mawyer Sarah McGrath Melisse Menchel Kyndal Owens Kenna R. Payne Lynne H. Read Pat Reddington Jane Pulliam Riddle Charlotte Rowe Meaghan Rymer Faith Sartoris Katherine Shenk
Jayne Sneed Mary Lou P. Sommardahl Maureen Stinger Wyna Taggart Jane Koenig Terry Janet Tice
tenor
Aaron Todd MUSIC SECTION LEADER Benjamin T. Almoite Rick Axtell Matt Barger Kevin Barger David Carter Dane De Silva Daniel Douglas Ryan Dreyer Josh Ellis Carl J. Eng Ed Galloway Jody Gordon Zachary W. James David Lynch Bill Marshall Charles H. O’Neal James Rakes Henry Robb Craig Ross Shaandro Sarkar McKinley Sprinkle Steve Travers Roger Wooldridge
bass
Matthew Triplett MUSIC SECTION LEADER Thomas Cassidy Don Creach David Crowell Cooley Devyn Curley Frankie Davis Daniels Andrew J. Dolson Josh Frakes Jacob Giancaterino Tom Heaton William Hicklin David Hoover Marc Kealhofer Daniel Kobb Alyx Lewis John F. Luther Martin McFadden Douglass Moyers W. Hunter Old Preston Powers Val Puster Steve Read Arnold L. Stolberg Richard Szucs Jon Teates Paul C. Tuttle Cannon West Stephen V. Wright
*Active membership since the Chorus’s first performance in 1971. The Chorus thanks Epiphany Lutheran Church for the use of its facilities for rehearsals and auditions.
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Trish Poupore
Director of Marketing & Sales Assistant Director of Marketing & Sales
Kira Gay Hiller
Senior Manager of Patron Services & Sales
Lucy Frend
Graphics & Digital Marketing Coordinator
Geneva M. Knight
Patron Services Coordinator
Rachel Maloney
Office & Communications Assistant
Interim Director of Advancement
Donor Relations Director, Richmond Symphony Foundation
Kiaya Smith
Assistant Director of Advancement
Sarah Yount
Stewardship & Special Events Manager
Scott Grim
Grants & Foundation Coordinator
Nai’lah Rowe
Donor Relations Assistant
Education & Community Engagement Walter Bitner
Director of Education & Community Engagement
Jennifer Tobin
Assistant Director of Education & Youth Orchestra Manager
Marcey W. Leonard
Community Partnerships Manager & RSSoM Program Manager
Caitlin Barry
Youth Community Strings Program Manager & Lead Instructor
Anita Williams
Daniel Myssyk
Conductor, Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
Sandy Goldie
Conductor, Youth Concert Orchestra
Melissa Jones
Conductor, Camerata Strings
Matt Wilson
Conductor, String Sinfonietta
Justin Alexander
Conductor, Percussion Ensemble
Dana McComb
Honors and Music Theory Instructor
Education Coordinator
Anna Mitchell
Education Assistant
Artistic Operations Matt Wilshire
Director of Artistic Planning & Orchestral Operations
Jennifer Arnold Artistic Advisor
Brent Bowden
Assistant Director of Operations & Production
Brent Klettke
Production & Special Events Manager
Chia-Hsuan Lin
Associate Conductor
Matt Gold
Orchestra Librarian
Kelly Syiad Ali
Personnel Manager
Ben Chase
Operations Assistant
Joe Taylor
Assistant Librarian
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ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT The Richmond Symphony extends its sincere thanks to the following individuals, businesses, foundations and government agencies for their gifts to the annual fund. This list reflects unrestricted gifts made between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023 to the annual fund and at special events. We have made every effort to list names correctly. If we have made an error, please contact Kiaya Smith at 804.788.4717 ext. 102.
Lead Gifts $100,000+ Altria Group, Inc. City of Richmond Endeavour Legacy Foundation
Pauley Family Foundation on behalf of Katharine & Eugene Hickok Richmond Symphony Foundation Virginia Commission for the Arts
Virtuoso’s Circle $50,000 + E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Perry
Chesterfield County
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Webber
The Garner Family
VAMAC, Inc.
Mr.* and Mrs. Robert E. Hill $25,000 - $49,999 Ms. Priscilla A. Burbank and Mr. Michael J. Schewel
Mr. Jose Murillo and Ms. Caroline Orlando
Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Burks Jr.
R.E.B. Foundation
The Cabell Foundation
Reinhart Foundation Performing Arts Endowment
Dr. and Mrs. William D. Covington Covington Travel CultureWorks & The Arts and Cultural Funding Consortium Dominion Energy Mr.* and Mrs. Ellis M. Dunkum Henrico County Herndon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Jennings III Pate and Bill Mears 28 / RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM
Richmond Symphony League George and Lisa Ruzek Slatten-MacDonald Fund of the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond Taylor Hoffman Ms. Cary Leigh Williams Bucci and John Zeugner
ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT Conductor’s Circle $10,000 - $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Allen Allan and Margot Blank Foundation Mr. Joshua and Dr. Susan Bennett The Clovelly Foundation Louise B. Cochrane Charitable Foundation Community Foundation for a greater Richmond Margaret M. Disharoon Charitable Lead Trust Thomas L. Disharoon Charitable Lead Trust The Fatherree Foundation Mrs. Mary Fisher Dr. William Jackson Frable Stephen M. and Cheryl G. Goddard Family Fund of the Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Hall Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. Jane and Jim Hartough Keiter CPAs Mrs. Anne W. Kenny Mary and Ted Linhart Philip Loubser Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George L. Mahoney
Massey Foundation Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust National Endowment for the Arts Moses B. Nunnally Jr. Charitable Trust B June and Chuck Rayfield Mr. Rick Sample and Ms. Celia Rafalko The Rea Charitable Trust Richard S. Reynolds Foundation Paul and Nancy Springman Dr. Arnold L. Stolberg Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Lange Taylor and Jared Silverman TCV Trust & Wealth Management Marcia and Harry Thalhimer Troutman Pepper LLP Mr. William Urban and Mrs. Anne Kenny-Urban Virginia Holocaust Museum John Warkentin and Courtney Mackey The Weathertop Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Marcus M. Weinstein Anne Marie Whittemore Elisabeth Muhlenfeld Wollan
Concertmaster’s Circle $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous
Pete and Sandra Chase
Mr. A. Marshall Acuff Jr. Mr. Henry Ayon and Ms. Paula Desel
Chesapeake Corporation Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond
William Baites and Robert T. Combs
Christian Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Bennett
Elizabeth R. Cronly
David and Julie Brantley
Mr. Nicomedes de León and Ms. Cecilia Barbosa
Meta and John Braymer Mr. and Mrs. J. Alfred Broaddus Jr.
Margarete and Siegfried Eckhaus Charitable Trust
Dr. Donald S. and Beejay Brown
The Estes Foundation
Elaine and Bill Bugg
Haley Automotive Group
Kevin and Ann Casey
* deceased
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ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT Concertmaster’s Circle $5,000 - $9,999 Allegra Printing
Dr. G. V. Puster Jr. and Dr. Martha Schulman
Mr. Dennis Hedgepeth and Mrs. Laurie Hedgepeth
Robert E. Rigsby
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Mr. D. Brennen Keene KPMG LLP Sheila Leckie Mrs. Joan Losen Chris and Tara Matthews Read F. and Virginia W. McGehee Wallace B. and Tina B. Millner Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Roger Neathawk and Chuck Miller Mary Lloyd and Randy Parks
Mr. and Mrs. Leon E. Roday Joseph and Virginia Sandford Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Sartoris Charol Shakeshaft and Dale Mann Michael and Pat Shutterly The Steele Group Sotheby’s International Realty Chris Szabo and Goenpo Dorji Ruth and Richard Szucs Dr. Nan Taylor and Mr. Brandon Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Tilghman Mr. and Mrs. John L. Walker III Mrs. Henry A. Yancey Jr.
$2,500 - $4,999 Temple and Lynn Bayliss
Waverly Glenn Hurt Fund for the Arts
Bioforce USA
Catherine Ireland
Dr. Erika M. Blanton and Mr. Marion E. Blanton III
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Koertge
Kerry and Joel Blum Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Boeve Mrs. Helga A. Boyan Mr. and Mrs. David B. Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Brinkley III Dr. Jennifer A. Cable and Mr. David Lingerfelt David and Karen Carter Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chewning Mr. Donald L. Creach and Ms. Karen A. Raschke Mr. Ralph R. Crosby Jr. Lewis and Gale Drew Matthew Edwards Marbury and Pattie Fagan Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Fisher III Mark Flynn and Sue Rowland The Honorable Barbara J. Gaden Mrs. Maggie Georgiadis Mr. and Mrs. William H. Goodwin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C.T. Hill Mrs. Penelope B. Holladay Mr. and Mrs. David Horner 30 / RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM
Christopher W. Lindbloom and Nancy G. Powell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Melder Mr. David Meyers Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Morrill New Music USA Bernie and Lisa Niemeier Mrs. Mary Bryan Perkins Cherry Peters Mrs. Fred G. Pollard Helen B. and W. Taylor Reveley III Ms. Beverly Rogers Ruth and Carl Schalm Frank Dellinger and Jim Schuyler Mr. William H. Schwarzschild III Mr. and Mrs. Larry S. Shifflett Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Sioussat Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Tutton Virginia Business Media Veronica Wauford Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wayne Mark W. and Kristin P. Wickersham Ms. Mary Denny Wray
ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT Musician’s Circle $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. David M. Abbott Kelly & Tiff Armstrong Arthur’s Electric Service Inc. Joanne Barreca Matt & Lilli Benko Shelley & Richard Birnbaum Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt Mr. Ramon M. Brinkman Jacquelyn K. Brooks Jim and Marguerite Bruce Mrs. Lissy S. Bryan Mr. J.P. Causey Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Chenault Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Chewning Sandra and John Christian Jaron and Jennifer Clay The Rev. Dr. Vienna Cobb-Anderson Mr. Benjamin Cronly Ronald and Betty Neal Crutcher Mrs. W. Thomas Cunningham Jr. The Rev. Rainey G. Dankel Mr. and Mrs. Bradfute W. Davenport Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Emmanuel N. Dessypris Mr. and Mrs. Allen DeWalle
The Honorable and Mrs. John H. Hager Tom and Beverly Harris Jessica Harris Licia Haws Rev. and Mrs. Charles Hunt Lacey Huszcza & Dan Stott Jo Baird and Joseph Hutchison Glen and Marlene Jones Mr. and Mrs. Crawley F. Joyner III Mr. Michael Patrick Kehoe and Ms. Bevin Joyce Kehoe Ms. Helen Lewis Kemp Jane and Joe Knox Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Kyle Edward and Rebecca Lawson Le Lew Diana Rupert Livingston Mr. and Mrs. H. Morris Logan Mary Frances and Fletcher Lowe Paul and Lissie Lowsley-Williams Kay Mast Sally M. Maynard Lu and Jerry McCarthy Ms. Lynne McClendon Ms. Anna McLaughlin Mr. Charles L. Menges and Ms. Penelope W. Kyle
Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Reich Laura Rice Mr. and Mrs. David L. Richardson Ridgeway Foundation RiverFront Investment Group Mr. Brian C. Lansing and Ms. Maura L. Scott Susan Bailey and Sidney Buford Scott Endowment Trust Mark and Susan Sisisky Spider Management Company, LLC. Mrs. Jane B. Spilman Steinway Piano Gallery Frances and Russ Sterling Bruce Borden Stevens Paul and Bonita Stockmeyer Target Circle Ms. Patricia C. Temple David and Kimberly Terzian Margaret R. Thomas Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond TowneBank Richmond Jim and Eydie Triplett Barbara B. and James E. Ukrop USAA Dr. and Mrs. Thomas V. Van Auken
Mr. and Mrs. Jon Moody
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Van Sickle
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Mooney
Rob and Melanie Walker
Mr. and Mrs. David G. Morgan
Charles and Anne Westbrook
Mrs. Nancy Finch
Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia
Mr. George Wheeler and Mrs. Lucrezia Wheeler Leisinger
John and Nancy Fitzgerald
Jack and Katherine Nelson
Kingsbery W. and Carla C. Gay Family Fund (through Community Foundation)
John Newby
Whitley/Service Roofing & Sheet Metal Company
Dr. Margaret L. DuVall and Dr. Robert E. Petres Joseph and Charlotte Evans Kathryn Fessler and Cathy Vaughn
Paul Gilding and Amy Marschean Jim and Roxane Gilmore Dr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Goldman H & H Aircraft Services, Inc. Mrs. Robert H. Hackler
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Newsom III Mr. and Mrs. Ian A. Nimmo Judith and Mary O’Brien Terry and Linda Oggel Joseph O’Hare & Wallace Beard Ms. Alice Pool Brian and Noel Pumphrey
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Wilkerson Matthew and Susan Williams Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Williams Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Witt Isabella G. Witt Mark Wolfram David and Becky Zuck * deceased
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ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT $500 - $999 Anonymous
Pam and Dale Hartough
Dr. John Reynolds
Ruth and Franco Ambrogi
Drs. Neil W. Henry and Elizabeth S. Hodges
Alice and Ed Rivas
Jen Arnold Ann Askew Allen Belden Jr. Blackwood Development Company, Inc.
Rosemary Hodges Karen and Barry Hofheimer Linda and Roger Hultgren The Huntly Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Robinson Mr. Harold C. Rohrs Mary and Joe Rotella Jon Pildis and Christy Schragal
Matthew Bosher
Martina James
Rosa E. Bosher
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson III
Dr. and Mrs. John Bowman
Janet and Bruce Kay
Martin and Kimberly Brill
Rinda Kieffer
Rozine Bruce
Mr. and Mrs. Heyn v. K. F. Kjerulf
Dr. John B. H. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Lewis
Katherine Smallwood and Robert Gottschalk
Mr. and Mrs. George Calvert
Ben and Laura Lewis
Mary Lou & Charlie Sommardahl
Ms. Jane H. Carlson
Maia Linask & Grant Rissler
Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Sowers III
Neal and Catherine Cary
Ardyth J. Lohuis
Dr. Elliott Spanier
Michael Chang and Robert Herrig
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lott
Wilson and Claudia Sprenkle
Jeff and Donna Coward
Christopher J. Lumpkin
Mrs. John R. Williams Street
Bruce Curran
Jane Lyon
Terry & Sharon Troxell
Drs. Georgean and Mark deBlois
Beth & Ry Marchant
Heidi & Jay Vaiksnoras
Dr. and Mrs. Barbu A. Demian
Doctors Marquina
Thomas J. Vlahakis
John Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Warthen III
Ms. Betty Forbes
J. Dabney and Betty Booker Morriss
Jane G. Watkins
Mrs. Suzanne B. Franke *
Sylvia and Alan Newman
Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign
Krissy and Jay Gathright
Dr. and Mrs. Carl Patow
Jacqueline S. Westfall
Jim and Millie Green
Mr. and Mrs. M. Dale Phillips
Michael Wildasin
Ms. Karen Guliano
Mr. Bob Podstepny
Suzanne P. Wiltshire
Mr. and Mrs. Brenton S. Halsey
Jack and Cindy Reasor
Mr. and Mrs. P W Young
Anonymous
Brad and Frazier Armstrong
Mrs. Myra T. Bennett
Samuel and Helen Adams
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Artz
David H. Berry
Mr. Romulo Alejandro
Sally T. Bagley
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Blain
Mrs. Susan M. Allen
Wesley Ball
Charles and Victoria Bleick
David and Chrissy Allen
Lisa Crutchfield and Olaf Barth
Mr. Brett Bonda
Angela P. & André S. Basmajian
Mr. Lloyd W. Bostian Jr.
Betty Lou and Gregory Beach
Ms. Mary Bowden
Ms. Anne Gordon Downing Jim and Linda Ferree
Mrs. Susan Bailey Scott Ms. Cornelia C. Serota Mr. Richard M. Simon Micheal D. and Mary Beth Slack
$250 - $499
Mr. and Mrs. S. Wyndham Anderson
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ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT
Thomas Bowden
Patricia Harrell
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Rennolds
Mr. and Mrs. David Braymer
Philip Hart
Linda and Michael Rigsby
Joan T. Briccetti
Jean and David Holman
Carrie Robeson
Mrs. Judy S. Brown
Lowrey and Beth Holthaus
Millicent Ruddy
Lisa Caperton
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Jacobs Jr.
Barbara Null and Dan Rusnak
Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Carreras
Dr. and Mrs. Robison B. James
Betty Chui
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Jones
Douglas Sackin and Jessica C. Adelman
Barbara Cotter and Antonio Masullo
Jack Kalbfleisch
Ernesto and Savon Sampson
Leslie Anne Kay
Mr. and Mrs. B. Hagen Saville
Stuart and Jennifer Craft
Lyn and Don Kocen
Karla and Dave Scanlan
Mr. Mark D. Crean
Peggy Kriha Dye
Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Scott
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Dendy III
Maureen LaLonde
Mr. Jeffrey Sedgwick
David and Lisa Dickson
Dr. and Mrs. John Thomas Lanning
Barbara A Slayden
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Dimitriou
Constance M. Lewis
Thomas and Laurie Smith
Andrew J. Dolson and Elizabeth C. Manning
Elbert Lin
Tamara J Smith
Mr. and Mrs. John Dowling
Celia K. Luxmoore and David J. Baker
Jim and Boo Smythe
Mr. Robert Duntley
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Mann III
Jon W Elvert
Yvonne Mastromano
Martin G. and Hope Armstrong Erb
Ms. Marilyn L. Mauck
Marilyn Erickson Dr. J. Mark Evans Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fain Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Fife Family Foundation Inc. Friends of Richmond Symphony Chorus Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Gaenzle Jr. Kathleen and Ronald Garstka
Mrs. Lavern P. Moffat Dr. Dawn G. Mueller Mr. and Mrs. David Naquin Catherine T. Neale Trudy Norfleet Mr. and Mrs. Grayson Page Jill Parker PGA TOUR Charities Ms. Sheryl Phillips Mr. and Mrs. J. Cheairs Porter Jr.
Deborah C Solyan Ray and Connie Sorrell Lynn Spitzer Mr. James H. Starkey III Roger Tarpy and Jean Roberts Andrew M. Thalhimer Morton G. and Nancy P. Thalhimer Foundation Ms. Judith Watson Tidd TKL Products Corp. Mr. Wilson R. Trice Esq. Dr. Lillianne Troeger Kay and William Tyler Ned & Laura Valentine
Mr. and Mrs. William Childs Gay
Mr. Kamran Raika and Dr. Ana C. Raika
Mr. Thomas S. Gay
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Rainey Jr.
Michele and John Walter
Kevin Georgerian
Lynne and Steve Read
Mary Ann Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Hains
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Rector
Mr. William D. Wittorff
Bodil H. Hanneman
Dr. and Mrs. P. Larus Reed III
Gary and Sara Wallace
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU to our sponsor
THIS GENEROUS SUPPORT ALLOWS THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY TO PROVIDE FREE, HIGH QUALITY COMMUNITY EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE RICHMOND REGION.
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RENNOLDS SOCIETY The Richmond Symphony Rennolds Society acknowledges those committed individuals who include the Symphony in their estate plans. These donors carry forward the legacy of support established by Edmund A. Rennolds Jr. and his wife, Mary Anne Rennolds, their family and other benefactors. It’s easy to join the Rennolds Society – enjoy special events for members and help secure the future of the orchestra. For information please contact Trish Poupore, Richmond Symphony Foundation Donor Relations Director, tpoupore@richmondsymphony.com. Anonymous (6)
The Honorable Barbara J. Gaden
James M.* and Lucia M. O’Connell
Tom and Elizabeth Allen
Martin and Kathleen Gary Charitable Fund
Mrs. Hunter R. K. Pettus (Patsy)
Dr. Virginia A. Arnold * Joanne Barreca and Vic Bouril * Mr. Matthew T. Blackwood * Nancy * and Lewis T. * Booker Laura E. McBride Box and Richard E. Box
Ross S. Gibson Jr. * Mrs. Ross S. Gibson Sr. * Paul Gilding and Amy Marschean Jane and Jim Hartough Mr.* and Mrs. Robert E. Hill
Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson III
Drs. Meta and John Braymer
Lawrence Ryan Jones and Mary Lynn Jones
Dr.* and Mrs. O. Christian Bredrup Jr.
Glen and Marlene Jones
Miss Goldie H. Burkholder *
Frank* and Elinor Kuhn
Ann Turner Burks
Celia K. Luxmoore and David J. Baker
Mrs. Royal E. Cabell Jr. * Stephen and Claire Capel Miss Phyllis Cartwright * Neal Cary The Rev. Dr. Vienna Cobb-Anderson Miss Hannah Lide Coker * Waverly M. Cole * Lucille B.* and Robert O.* Cole Dr. John R. Cook * Janet C. Coon Don Creach and Karen Raschke Charles “Chuck” Dabney * Elizabeth R. and Ellis M.* Dunkum Emma Gray Emory * and Howard McCue Jr. * Ruth and James* Erb Marilyn T. Erickson David J. L. Fisk and Anne O’Byrne Marilyn Lipsitz Flax and Robert L. Flax Mark Flynn and Sue Rowland Mrs. Suzanne Franke* Lisa C. Fusco
Jane S. and James T. * Lyon Dr. Edgar E. MacDonald * John B. Mann Bob * and Mary Coleman * Martin Ms. Sarah Maxwell * Emma Gray Emory * and Howard McCue Jr. * Mrs. John H. McDowell * David A. and Charlotte A. McGoye Mr. Dana E. McKnight Lynn and Pierce * McMartin Pate and Bill Mears Jane Milici and Mario DiMarco Roger Neathawk and Chuck Miller Mr. * and Mrs. * William Read Miller Virginia B. and A. Scott Moncure Gerald Morgan Jr.* J. Dabney and Betty Booker Morriss Mr. * and Mrs. *Johnson C. Moss Jr. Margaret I. * and Walter J. * O’Brien Jr.
G. V. Puster Jr. Mrs. Gordon C. Raab * June and Chuck Rayfield Mr.* and Mrs. Charles L. Reed Jr. Edmund A. Rennolds Jr. * Mr. and Mrs. W. Taylor Reveley III Robert E. Rigsby David B. Robinson, CPA Lisa and Leon Roday T. Raysor Salley Jr. * Rick Sample * Eric L. Schellenberger and Joan M. Spyhalski Mrs. Elizabeth G. Schneider * Frank Dellinger and Jim Schuyler Mr. Brian C. Lansing and Ms. Maura L. Scott Lawson and Joanne Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. * Steeber Mr.* and Mrs.* Charles G. Thalhimer Sr. Marcia and Harry Thalhimer Mrs. Nancy White Thomas * Rebecca R. Trader Dr. E. Randolph Trice * Dr. John R. Warkentin Butch and Ludi Webber Robert H. Welch * Perry A. Weyner * George Wheeler and Lucrezia Wheeler Leisinger Cary Leigh WIlliams Dr. Elisabeth M. Wollan Cheryl G. and Henry A.* Yancey, Jr. M.D. John and Bucci Zeugner * deceased
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RICHMOND SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT GIFTS We are deeply grateful for gifts to the Richmond Symphony Endowment, which provides solid foundation for the orchestra. The endowment provides an ongoing source of income to ensure the Symphony’s financial stability well into the future. Richmond Symphony Foundation recognizes endowment gifts in the playbill for the following periods of time: $.5 million or more – 25 years; $100,000 to $499,999 – 15 years; $25,000 to $99,999 – 5 years; $5,000 - $24,999 – 2 years; less than $5,000 – 1 year. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list through June 30, 2023. If, however, there should be an omission or error, we express our sincere regret and ask that you bring it to our attention by phoning (804) 788-4717, x 115.
$500,000+
$250,000 - $499,999
Anonymous The Cabell Foundation Dr. William Jack Frable Mr.* and Mrs. Robert E. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jose L. Murillo James L.* and Lucia M. O’Connell The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation Mr.* and Mrs. Hays T. Watkins The Windsor Foundation Trust
Anonymous Nancy B. Booker Charitable Trust Mr.* and Mrs. Ellis M. Dunkum Cecil R. and Edna S. Hopkins Family Foundation Mrs. John H. McDowell* Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Perry Robert E. Rigsby Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Smith George Wheeler and Lucrezia Wheeler Leisinger
$100,000 - $249,000 Anonymous (3) Mr. Matthew T. Blackwood* Mrs. Lewis T. Booker* Esther Bunzl* Community Foundation for a greater Richmond Dominion Energy Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Goddard Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hartough
Mr. William Urban and Mrs. Anne Kenny-Urban The Linhart Foundation Wallace B. and Tina B. Millner Mr. Gerald Morgan Jr.* Robins Foundation Marcia and Harry Thalhimer Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Webber Bucci and John Zeugner
$25,000 - $99,000 Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Allen Meta and John Braymer Mrs. Elizabeth Moncure Bredrup
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Dr*. and Mrs. O. Christian Bredrup, Jr. Mr. J. Alfred Broaddus Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Burks Jr. David and Karen Carter
RICHMOND SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT GIFTS $25,000 - $99,000 Mr. Ralph R. Crosby Jr. The Garner Family Herndon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Jennings III Mrs. Anne W. Kenny Mary Lloyd and Randy Parks Mr. William H. Schwarzschild III
Wallace and Mary Gray Stettinius Mrs. Charles G. Thalhimer Sr.* Tilghman Family Foundation VAMAC, Inc. Dr. John R. Warkentin
5,000 - $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Brinkley III Nico de León Mrs. Suzanne B. Franke* Mr. and Mrs. D. Brennen Keene Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Morrill Roger Neathawk and Chuck Miller June and Chuck Rayfield
Taylor and Helen Reveley Mr. David Robinson Bob and Anna Lou Schaberg Foundation Veronica Wauford Ms. Anne Marie Whittemore
Up to $4,999 Anonymous
Mrs. Christine E. Szabo
Dr. and Mrs. David F. Gardner
Mrs. Susy Yim
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Lannan
Frances Zehmer * deceased
Read F. and Virginia W. McGehee
CREATE YOUR MUSICAL LEGACY! Join the Rennolds Society TODAY by making the Richmond Symphony part of your estate plans.
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TRIBUTE GIFTS IN HONOR IN HONOR OF KELLY ALI Kirsten E. Franke
IN HONOR OF LISA C. FUSCO Angela P. & André S. Basmajian
IN HONOR OF KEVIN BARGER Ms. Barbara L. Baker
IN HONOR OF MAGGIE GEORGIADIS The Honorable Barbara J. Gaden
IN HONOR OF BILLY BAITES, RS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert T. Combs IN HONOR OF WILLIAM BAITES David Peake IN HONOR OF MASON BATES Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF MARY BOODELL Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF DRS. JOHN AND META BRAYMER Mr. and Mrs. David Braymer IN HONOR OF MARGARET & J. ALFRED BROADDUS JR. Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF DEBBIE AND SAM BRUCE Nancy Wetherbee IN HONOR OF ALANA CARITHERS Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF CATHERINE CARY Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF NEAL CARY David and Kimberly Terzian Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF DAVID AND KAREN CARTER Mr. David Meyers IN HONOR OF ELLEN COCKERHAM-RICCIO Kirsten E. Franke IN HONOR OF TOM & MARGI E. DISHAROON Margaret M. Disharoon Charitable Lead Trust IN HONOR OF ALYSSA EVANS Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF DAVID FISK Ms. Maureen A. Neal IN HONOR OF DAVID FISK & ANNE O’BYRNE Angela P. & André S. Basmajian
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IN HONOR OF TREESA AND MATT GOLD Anonymous IN HONOR OF FAYE HOLLAND Sherri Sledd IN HONOR OF SUSANNA KLEIN Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF JOANNE KONG Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF RYAN LANNAN Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF CHIA-HSUAN LIN Judith and Mary O’Brien IN HONOR OF KIAYA LYNN Ms. Maureen A. Neal IN HONOR OF GEORGE MAHONEY Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Blain IN HONOR OF ANNETTE MARTINO Lauren Straub Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF JUDY MAWYER Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF JASON MCCOMB Kirsten E. Franke IN HONOR OF PAT MURPHY Brandon MacConnell IN HONOR OF VALENTINA PELEGGI Mr. Henry Ayon and Ms. Paula Desel IN HONOR OF TRISH POUPORE Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF SVETLANA RUDAKOVA Marina Hayes IN HONOR OF RICK SAMPLE Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF STEPHEN SCHMIDT Angela P. & André S. Basmajian
IN HONOR OF MOLLY SHARP Kirsten E. Franke Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF FRANCES STERLING Ms. Maureen A. Neal IN HONOR OF THE CHARLES TROXELL FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. E. Jackson Luck IN HONOR OF JOCELYN A. VORENBERG Dr. Richard D. Adelman M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Cleland Kirsten E. Franke Virginia Holocaust Museum Mr. and Mrs. Marcus M. Weinstein IN HONOR OF LYNETTE WARDLE Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF VERONICA WAUFORD Mrs. Henry A. Yancey Jr. IN HONOR OF RUSSELL WILSON Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF MARY DENNY WRAY George Scott Susan Bailey and Sidney Buford Scott Endowment Trust IN HONOR OF DAISUKE YAMAMOTO Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF THE YAMAMOTO FAMILY Maria Elena Gallegos IN HONOR OF SUSY YIM Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN HONOR OF BUCCI ZEUGNER Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II IN HONOR OF THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY CHORUS BASS SECTION Mr. Stephen Wright IN HONOR OF JULIO AND ANGELA ROMAGNOLI Rosella Levasseur IN GRATITUDE FOR THE LABOR OF LOVE IN CREATING THE UPSEMINARY CERTIFICATE! Mr. Romulo Alejandro
TRIBUTE GIFTS IN MEMORY IN MEMORY OF EDWARD G ALTMAN Susan K. Stoneman IN MEMORY OF RALPH MCLEAN “MAC” ANGELL JR. Anonymous Suzanne P. Wiltshire IN MEMORY OF TED BENNETT Mrs. Myra T. Bennett IN MEMORY OF MRS. NANCY BOOKER Meta and John Braymer IN MEMORY OF DR. O. CHRISTIAN BREDRUP Meta and John Braymer IN MEMORY OF MALCOLM BRIGGS Ellis and Phyllis West IN MEMORY OF CLAUDE W. CARMICHAEL SR. Ms. Alice Pool IN MEMORY OF PAULINE KITTRELL CHRISTIAN Sandra and John Christian IN MEMORY OF MRS. FAITH SUSAN CROKER Sean Collins Colin McLetchie Kate Powell IN MEMORY OF MARSHALL H. EARL JR. Alfred and Meredith Scott Nachman-Marks Foundation Trust Mrs. Henry A. Yancey Jr. IN MEMORY OF DR. JAMES ERB Lynne and Steve Read Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN MEMORY OF SUZANNE BERWIN FRANKE Mrs. Myra T. Bennett Meta and John Braymer Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Burks Jr. Dorothy R. Figg Kirsten E. Franke Mrs. Elinor Kuhn Ms. Carrie Larson Sheila Leckie Mary U. McNeer June and Chuck Rayfield Richmond Symphony League Deborah C. Solyan Delores I. Thompson Veronica Wauford
IN MEMORY OF DR. J. GARY Sandra Francisco Peter Francisco MAYNARD AND FLORENCE R. Martha Gilliam GIVENS John Hoogakker Sally M. Maynard Mr. and Mrs. William M. Rider Dianne Hughs Shuler IN MEMORY OF DR. DEAN GOPLERUD IN MEMORY OF DR. MARY JANE Meta and John Braymer SALE AND HER DAUGHTERS PLUM, REBECCA, AND MARY IN MEMORY OF EDWARD E. Susan K. Stoneman HICKERSON JR. Leslie Cash IN MEMORY OF HAROLD AND OJETTA SMITH IN MEMORY OF CORA WILLIS Yvonne Mastromano HONTS Megan Duguay IN MEMORY OF JOHANNA IN MEMORY OF FRANK KUHN DIGESU SPIERS Marsha Moseley Mrs. Joyce Wilson Clemmons Dawn Edford IN MEMORY OF ED VEST Sheila Leckie Marc Vest Richmond Symphony League Marcia and Harry Thalhimer IN MEMORY OF DRS. Veronica Wauford ALEXANDER AND NANCY WAITKUS IN MEMORY OF J.H. “BUDDY” Mr. Mark Waitkus KUHNS Janice Kuhns IN MEMORY OF HAYS WATKINS Marcia and Harry Thalhimer IN MEMORY OF CAROL LEEDES Dawn Barber IN MEMORY OF JERRY L. WAUFORD IN MEMORY OF GOLDEN Anne S Allen RETRIEVER MADISON Brad and Frazier Armstrong Sandra Bailey Frank Beale Mrs. Myra T. Bennett IN MEMORY OF JOANNE Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Burks Jr. MELDER Carreras Jewelers Carreras Mr. and Mrs. Robert Melder Mr. and Mrs. William L. Gray Jr. Lindeve Hostvedt IN MEMORY OF VIRGINIA NELSON Richmond Symphony League Kriss Glass Sheila Leckie Laura Markley IN MEMORY OF ALAN PATERSON Mr. and Mrs. J. Lynn Parsons Debra Sampson Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Perry Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Spiers Jr. Jeff Siffert IN MEMORY OF FRANK RAYSOR Sherri Sledd Mary Sisson-Vaughan Jane L. Bunnell Matthew and Susan Williams Dr. G. V. Puster Jr. and Dr. Martha Jack and Helen Winn Schulman Mrs. Henry A. Yancey Jr. Rob and Melanie Walker IN MEMORY OF GWYN HILL IN MEMORY OF NED AND MARY WESTERFELD ANNE RENNOLDS Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wayne Mr. and Mrs. Hatley N. Mason III Mrs. William T. Reed III IN MEMORY OF LOU WILSON Angela P. & André S. Basmajian IN MEMORY OF JOAN REXINGER Richmond Symphony League IN MEMORY OF DR. MARY JANE SALE Celia K. Luxmoore David J. Baker Susan Dovell
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RICHMOND SYMPHONY LEAGUE GIFTS OF MERIT The Richmond Symphony League is a non-profit corporation with the sole purpose of supporting the operating budget and education programs of the Richmond Symphony. The generosity of the Symphony League’s donors and event attendees allows it to make annual donations to the Richmond Symphony. This listing acknowledges donors during the 2022-23 fiscal year.
GIFTS OF $5,000 Phil and Ann Burks
Chuck and June Rayfield
Penny Tuthill
Elinor Kuhn
George and Lisa Ruzek
Cheryl Yancey
Avery Point by Erickson Senior Living
Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Dean Cahill
Midlothian Tennis Club
Joanne Barreca
Jim and Millie Green
Pre-Con, Inc.
Dave and Linda Berry
Faye W. Holland
Veronica Wauford
David and Julie Brantley
Terry N. and Cheryl Keller
Matthew and Susan Williams
Myra T. Bennett
Alison Wood Eckis
Liberty Homes, Inc.
Mike and Mary Ball
Maria Gallegos
McGriff Insurance Services
Ann and Paul Bolesta
Hoover & Strong
Andy Royalty
Kathy and Tom Dale
Howell’s Heating & Plumbing
Wills Financial Group
GIFTS OF $1,000 - $4,999
GIFTS OF $300
Holiday Brass
Chia-Hsuan Lin CONDUCTOR
Deck the halls - with Holiday Brass.
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A shimmering celebration of holiday hits for the whole family, and right in your neighborhood!
FRIDAY
DEC. 01 7:30pm
Perkinson Center for the Arts
SATURDAY
DEC. 02 7:30pm
St. Christopher School
SUNDAY
DEC. 03 3:00pm
Randolph-Macon College
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU to our ON DEMAND sponsor
This generous sponsorship allows the Richmond Symphony to make excellent quality live recordings of its concerts and provide them to the Richmond community and beyond for years to come. Please see our website for more details on how to access this season’s concerts online. www.RichmondSymphony.com 42 / RICHMONDSYMPHONY.COM
GENERAL INFORMATION CONTACT Richmond Symphony Patron Services 612 East Grace Street, Suite 401 Richmond, VA 23219 804.788.1212 x2 patronservices@richmondsymphony.com HOURS Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Voicemail and email are checked two hours prior to concerts. TICKET INFORMATION • Child tickets are good for ages 3-18. • Discounts are available for College Students with a valid student ID. • Group discounts are available for groups of 8+. Some restrictions apply. Call Patron Services for more information. • Subscribers may exchange tickets for free; some restrictions apply. Review your subscriber guide or contact Patron Services for more information.
LATE SEATING Late arrivals will be seated by ushers at an appropriate break in the music as determined by management. COAT CHECK The Carpenter Theatre offers a free coat check at the Concierge Desk. Altria Theater has a free coat check in the ballroom downstairs. Other venues do not offer a coat check. PHOTOGRAPHY Feel free to take pictures without a flash during the concert and share with us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. We ask that you turn down the brightness of your screen and stay mindful of your neighbors. VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDINGS Due to copyright laws, audio and video recording devices are strictly prohibited inside the concert hall.
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• If you are unable attend a concert contact Patron Services prior to the concert date to donate your tickets and receive a receipt for your taxes.
DONATE • online at richmondsymphony.com • by phone at 804.788.4717 x102 • by mail to the address above Thank you for your support!
TICKETS & SUBSCRIPTIONS Phone: 804.788.1212 x2 Online: richmondsymphony.com In Person: Visit the Altria Theater box office to purchase single tickets to any Richmond Symphony concert. Tickets may also be purchased at the venue at least 1½ hours before any concert (subject to availability).
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Let It Snow Chia-Hsuan Lin CONDUCTOR Desirée Roots VOCALIST (pg. 8)
Greater Richmond Children’s Choir (pg. 6)
Richmond Symphony Chorus (pg. 2)
James River Ringers (pg. 7)
NOV 25
SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
NOV 26
SUN • 3:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
JEFF TYZIK A Christmas Overture (Variations on Deck the Halls) JOSEPH BEAL STEPHENSON arr. Jingle Bell Rock
Desirée Roots VOCALIST MEL TORME STEPHENSON arr. Christmas Song
Desirée Roots JOHN RUTTER Jesus Child
Greater Richmond Children’s Choir TRADITIONAL ARMSTRONG ERB arr. We Wish You A Joyful Holiday
Greater Richmond Children’s Choir JAMES PIERPONT CORBITT arr. Jingle Bells
Desirée Roots JEFF TYZIK Nutcracker Mini Jazz Suite
Sponsored in part by
TRADITIONAL MOKLEBUST arr. The First Noel
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Let It Snow...continued
STEVEN AMUNDSON Glories Ring
James River Ringers INTERMISSION
HANDEL Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus
Richmond Symphony Chorus ROBERT WENDEL Wonderland of Snow
Richmond Symphony Chorus ERIC WHITACRE Lux Aurumque
Richmond Symphony Chorus EDWARD ELGAR Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus IX. “Nimrod” Moderato
Madison Ervin (Nov. 25) Eliana Schmalzbach (Nov. 26) WILLIAMS KESSLER arr. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Desirée Roots NORRIS arr. Christmas Carol Sing-A-long LEROY ANDERSON Sleigh Ride 1:27 approximate program length
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TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
NOV 25
SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
NOV 26
SUN • 3:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
violin 1
cello
bassoon
percussion
Adrian Pintea
Neal Cary
Thomas Schneider
Robert Jenkins
ACTING CONCERTMASTER
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
ACTING PRINCIPAL
Anna Bishop
Jason McComb
Felix Ren
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Matthew Lano
Joanna Huling Davi Lira Reid Stockdill
Ryan Lannan Schuyler Slack
horn
harp
ACTING ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Catherine Cary Alana Carithers Stacy Matthews Susy Yim Timothy Judd Jill Foster
violin 2 Myles Mocarski ACTING PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Jeannette Jang
Kenneth & Bettie Christopher Perry Foundation Chair
Barbara Gaden
bass Riley Zimmermann ACTING PRINCIPAL
Rumano Solano ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Erin Lano Devin Gossett SECOND HORN The Lucrezia Wheeler Leisinger & George Wheeler Chair
Cody Halquist Roger Novak Alex Kovling
Kelly Ali Peter Spaar
trumpet
Delaney Turner Emily Monroe Anna Rogers Audrey Pride Susanna Klein
flute
PRINCIPAL
viola
Rachel Ordaz
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
Molly Sharp PRINCIPAL The Mary Anne Rennolds Chair
Hyo Joo Uh ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Stephen Schmidt Zsuzsanna Emödi Jocelyn Smith Derek Smith
Jennifer Debiec Lawson ACTING PRINCIPAL
Shannon Vandzura ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
oboe Victoria Chung PRINCIPAL
David Garcia
clarinet David Lemelin PRINCIPAL
Eddie Sundra
Karlee Lanum
ACTING PRINCIPAL
piano Russell Wilson PRINCIPAL Quincy & Anne Owen Cole Chair
Samuel Huss Daniel Egan John Pitts
trombone Evan Williams PRINCIPAL
Scott Winger Scott Cochran
tuba Conrad Shaw PRINCIPAL
timpani James Jacobson PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Chanse Morris Correct as of 11/20/23 - 12:00 pm
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TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY CHORUS ROSTER
Kevin L. Barger
Barbara Batson, Carl Eng, Lisa Fusco
ASSISTANT CHORUS DIRECTOR
REHEARSAL ASSISTANTS
Daniel Stipe
REHEARSAL ACCOMPANIST
soprano
Brittany Brooks Olivia Carlton Melanie Barron Ficke Courtnei Flemming Lisa Fusco Catrina Garland Victoria Gochez Carrie Gregory Amanda Halverson Denise Harding Ashleigh Hare Luci Hughes Ella Johnson Cammy Koch Ashley Larson Morgan Merkel Haylee Merritt Anne Marie Mills Eve Minter Terry Moffett Mallory Porter Stephanie Poxon Samantha Sawyer Gretchen Steele Olivia Surface Katherine Nelson Tracey Ann Voss Michele Wittig Allison Yablonski
alto
Jan Altman Barbara Baker Ellen Carleton Sarah Capehart Linda Castle Pamela Cross Erin Dixon Mary Butler Eggleston Aimee Ellington Maria Everett Jasmyn Ferguson Beth Harper Cynthia G. Lee Lauren Maho Sarah McGrath Melisse Menchel Lynne Read Patricia Reddington Jane Pulliam Riddle Meaghan Rymer Faith Sartoris Jayne Sneed Mary Lou Sommardahl Janet Tice
tenor
Ric Anderson Rick Axtell Kevin Barger Dane De Silva Ryan Dreyer Josh Ellis Charles O’Neal Zachary James David Lynch Jim Rakes Craig Ross Shaandro Sarkar McKinley Sprinkle Matthew Smith Aaron Todd Roger Wooldridge
bass
Thomas Cassidy David Cooley Don Creach Josh Frakes Tom Heaton Bill Hicklin David Hoover Donald Irwin Daniel Kobb John Luther Martin McFadden Preston Powers Stephen Read William Bradley Roberts Richard Szucs Jon Teates Matthew Triplett Paul C. Tuttle Cannon West
Correct as of 11/16/23 - 1:00pm
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CHRISTMAS CAROL SING-ALONG
Joy to the world! Joy to the world
And heav’n and nature sing
The Lord is come, let Earth receive Her King.
And heav’n and nature sing
Let every heart prepare him room
And heaven and heaven and nature sing
The First Nowell The first Nowell The first Nowell the angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds In fields as they lay In fields as they lay Keeping their sheep
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell Born is the king of Israel. Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell Born is the king of Israel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Hark! The herald angels sing
Join the triumph of the skies
Glory to the new born King!
With th’angelic host proclaim
Peace on earth and mercy mild
Christ is born in Bethlehem.
God and sinners reconciled.
Hark! The Herald angels sing
Joyful all ye nations rise
Glory to the newborn King!
Silent Night Silent night
Mother and child
Holy night
Holy infant so
All is calm
Tender and mild
All is bright
Sleep in heavenly peace
Round young virgin
Sleep in heavenly peace
We Wish You a Merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas
Good tidings this Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year.
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy new Year
We wish you a merry Christmas
Good tiding to you
We wish you a merry Christmas
Wherever you are
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ABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS
Greater Richmond Children’s Choir
Crystal Jonkman
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Pete Curry
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Anne Williford
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Exie Conner-Holley Grace Crislip Renna Crislip Caitlyn Darlington Cooper Lunde Matilde Quilici Phoebe Widmer Caleb Aryee Mikhail Briggs
Max Goldsmith Chadwick Schmalzbach Christopher Schmalzbach Evan Schmalzbach Malcolm Walker Karis Clemons AnnaLena Duperval
Eliana Schmalzbach Zoe Bartels Andrew Duperval Angel Duperval Madison Ervin Damari Johnson Nynah Ra-El Epiphany Schmalzbach Ember Sturniolo
Now in its 27th season, the critically acclaimed Greater Richmond Children’s Choir has sung on four continents in over 40 languages and is recognized for its commitment to excellence and diversity. Under the guidance of Artistic Director, Crystal Jonkman, and Associate Director, Pete Curry, GRCC offers boys and girls, ages 8 to 18, the opportunity to excel through the graduated study and performance of high-quality choral music with students from all around the region. With generous support from the central Virginia community and beyond, GRCC offers tuition and travel scholarships to more than one third of choristers, making the program accessible to all. Beginner and advanced choristers alike are welcome to join. Begun by VCU in 1997, GRCC became its own standalone nonprofit corporation in 2005, and is grateful to call Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church its rehearsal home. For more information scan the QR code or visit: www.grcchoir.org
Photo: courtesy GRCC
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ABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS
The James River Ringers
Dottie Tweedie
INTERIM DIRECTOR
Jennifer Earle Jamie Floyd Cara Griggs Greg Guinther Laura Hinton
Beth Kamatchi Juanita Lee Anne Ortman Dotty Parker Sarah Partridge
Jennifer Smouse Dena Vandagriff Sandy Welfare
Performing on six-and-a-half octaves of Malmark English handbells, handchimes and various other instruments, The James River Ringers is Richmond, Virginia’s, premier auditioned community handbell ensemble, dedicated to performing quality handbell music of all genres. In the spring of 2023 they moved to River Road Presbyterian Church as artists-in-residence, where the church provides rehearsal and storage space. The group has been in existence since 1995, when a few members began ringing together during summer break from church choirs. Those “ring-a-holics” formed The James River Ringers, chartered as a not-for-profit organization in 1998. Members have come from all parts of the Richmond metropolitan area, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and Harrisonburg. Dottie Tweedie is the founding director, holds the title, Director Emerita, and is back again postpandemic serving as interim director until a new one can be hired. The mission of The James River Ringers is to promote the art of handbell ringing and to present quality handbell music through public concerts, private events, workshops and classes that help to both educate and entertain. The choir provides a training opportunity for individual ringers, as well as organizing and participating in various handbell clinics, festivals and symposia. For more information scan the QR code or visit: www.jamesriverringers.com Photo: courtesy JRR
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ABOUT THE GUEST ARTISTS
Desirée Roots VOCALIST
Photo: courtesy Roots
Desirée Roots’ ability to sing nearly every genre including jazz, gospel, opera and popular music has made her one of the region’s most sought-after performers. She is an educator, recording artist, Grammy®- nominated vocalist as well as a regional and national artist that spreads her talents over theatre, music and vocal coaching. She has shared the stage with Grammy® Award-winning guitarists Buddy Guy and B.B. King; saxophonists Gerald Albright and Boney James; was the opening act for Brian McKnight and was a featured vocalist with the worldfamous Glenn Miller Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra and RVA’s own Richmond Symphony. Her many awards include the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts for “Vocal Excellence in the Commonwealth of Virginia” and a Richmond Theater Critics Circle Award for “Best Actress in a Musical.” In 2017, Desirée wrote a tribute to Virginia’s Ella Fitzgerald in honor of the 100th anniversary of the legend’s birth. Forever Ella is still performed throughout Virginia. She is currently celebrating her two-year anniversary of being appointed the Artistic Director of Community at Virginia Repertory Theatre.
Holiday Brass FRIDAY
SATURDAY
7:30pm
7:30pm
DEC. 01 Perkinson Center for the Arts
DEC. 02 St. Christopher School
SUNDAY
THE NORTH POLE
DEC. 03 3:00pm
Randolph-Macon College
Chia-Hsuan Lin CONDUCTOR Deck the halls - with Holiday Brass. A shimmering celebration of holiday hits for the whole family, and right in your neighborhood!
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Soul Santa SPECIAL GUEST FROM
Once again BHMVA will welcome children from the community to visit with Soul Santa! To register for this free community program, visit the BHMVA website at blackhistorymuseum.org/event/soulsanta-2023/
Holiday Brass Chia-Hsuan Lin CONDUCTOR
2023 DEC 01
FRI • 7:30 pm Perkinson Center for the Arts
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH LAWRENCE, arr. Festive Overture, Opus 96 TRADITIONAL CARMICHAEL, arr. Angels We Have Heard on High RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS HIGGINS, arr. Fantasia on Greensleeves ANTHONY DiLORENZO The Toy Maker PERCY GRAINGER ALLEN, arr. Sussex Mummer’s Carol STEPHEN BULLA Bulla For Brass EDWARD POLA & GEORGE WYLE HUDSON, arr. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year IRVING BERLIN ELKJER, arr. I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas ROY WOOD RALPHSON, arr. I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday NORLAN BEWLEY Santa Wants a Tuba for Christmas ANTHONY DiLORENZO, arr. Christmas Toons LEROY ANDERSON RICHARD, arr. Bugler’s Holiday JAMES PIERPONT LINHAM, arr. Cuban Jingle Bells LEROY ANDERSON RICHARD, arr. Sleigh Ride 1:04 approximate program length
TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
2023 DEC 01
FRI • 7:30 pm Perkinson Center for the Arts
horn
trombone
Erin Lano
Evan Williams
ACTING PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
Devin Gossett
Scott Winger Gil Cruz Scott Cochran
SECOND HORN The Lucrezia Wheeler Leisinger & George Wheeler Chair
Alex Kovling Roger Novak
trumpet Samuel Huss PRINCIPAL
Daniel Egan John Pitts Aaron Lovelady
euphonium Scott Winger
timpani James Jacobson PRINCIPAL
percussion Clifton Hardison PRINCIPAL
Davi Martinelli de Lira Joanna Huling
tuba Conrad Shaw PRINCIPAL
Correct as of 11/29/23 - 1:00 pm
A Tribute to Gospel Legend
RICHARD SMALLWOOD
Dr. Henry Panion III CONDUCTOR
2024 JAN 12-13
FRI, SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
BYRON CAGE (B. 1962) PANION, arr. Presence of the Lord RICHARD SMALLWOOD (B. 1948) ATWATER, arr. Procession of the Levites RICHARD SMALLWOOD ATWATER, arr. Anthem of Praise RICHARD SMALLWOOD PANION, arr. I Love the Lord COMMON (B. 1972), JOHN LEGEND (B. 1978) PANION, arr. Glory from Selma INTERMISSION RICHARD SMALLWOOD PANION, arr. Bless the Lord GLEN BURLEIGH (1949-2007) PANION, arr. Order My Steps RICHARD SMALLWOOD ATKINSON & PANION, arr. Total Praise DONALD LAWRENCE (B. 1961) ATKINSON & PANION, arr. Trust Me 1:22 approximate program length Performance Sponsor
TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
2024 JAN 12-13
FRI, SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
violin 1
cello
bassoon
timpani
Daisuke Yamamoto
Neal Cary
Thomas Schneider
James Jacobson
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
Jason McComb
Felix Ren
ACTING PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
percussion
horn
PRINCIPAL
CONCERTMASTER Tom & Elizabeth Allen Chair
Adrian Pintea ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Stacy Matthews Emily Monroe Audrey Pride Alison Hall Catherine Cary Susan Spafford
violin 2
Jeannette Jang *
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
Delaney Turner Anna Bishop* Alana Carithers Anna Rogers Susy Yim Timothy Judd
viola Molly Sharp PRINCIPAL The Mary Anne Rennolds Chair
Hyo Joo Uh ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Stephen Schmidt Zsuzsanna Emödi Jocelyn Smith Derek Smith
Ryan Lannan Dana McComb Carl Donakowski
bass Riley Zimmermann ACTING PRINCIPAL
Kelly Ali Peter Spaar Matt Gold
flute Mary Boodell PRINCIPAL
Jennifer Debiec Lawson ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
oboe Victoria Chung PRINCIPAL
Kara Poling
Erin Lano ACTING PRINCIPAL
Dominic Brancazio Stephen Slater Roger Novak
Clifton Hardison David Foster Joe Connell
harp Mary Bircher
trumpet Samuel Huss PRINCIPAL
Daniel Egan John Pitts
trombone Evan Williams PRINCIPAL
Scott Winger Scott Cochran
tuba Conrad Shaw PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
clarinet David Lemelin PRINCIPAL
Edward Sundra ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Edna Huang
Correct as of 01/10/24 - 1:00 pm
* temporary appointment
TODAY’S CHOIR AND MUSICIAN ROSTER
A Tribute to Gospel Legend
RICHARD SMALLWOOD
Dr. Henry Panion III CONDUCTOR
SOPRANO Amanda Montague Genovie Page Katrinah Carol-Lewis Mary Fender O’Brien Meredith Robinson Christa Benton Desirée Roots
TENOR Dale Heiskill Charles Spurlock Iris Davis JD Lewis Charlayne Green Billy Dye Michelle Lightfoot
ALTO Angela Crawford Cat Johnson Carla Jackson Jessi Johnson Peterson Allison Lilly Stacie Brown Keisha Wallace
MUSICIANS JL Harris - Piano Jarius Wilson - Hammond B3 Alvin Spratley - Bass Phil Foster - Drums
DR. HENRY PANION III, CONDUCTOR
Henry Panion, III, PhD, holds degrees in music education and music theory from Alabama A & M University and the Ohio State University, respectively, and serves as Director of the Music Technology Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is most known for his work as conductor and arranger for superstar Stevie Wonder, for whose performances and recordings he has led many of the world’s most notable orchestras. The creative force behind Gospel Goes Classical, Dr. Panion made history topping the Billboard charts on both the Gospel and Classical Crossover Charts simultaneously. Other artists for whom Dr. Panion has had the opportunity to conduct and/or arrange include Aretha Franklin, Lionel Richie, The Winans, Yolanda Adams, Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Eugenia Zuckerman, Chet Atkins, The Clark Sisters, Ellis Marsalis, ALABAMA, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Chaka Khan, Kirk Franklin, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Kelly Price, India Arie, Robin Thicke, Tony Toni Tone, LeAnn Rimes, Bootsy Collins and American Idol winners Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, and Ruben Studdard. Dr. Panion has served as Artistic Producer & Conductor for the 50th Anniversary of Selma’s Bloody Sunday TV Special; Producer of the 2020 PBS concert-documentary Dreams of Hope: Birmingham’s Historic 16th Street Baptist Church Welcomes Violins of Hope; and most recently Artistic Director, Composer, and Orchestra Conductor of The World Games 2022 Opening & Closing Ceremonies. As a producer, composer, arranger, and orchestrator, Dr. Panion’s work has produced three Grammy Awards, two Dove Awards, and a host of other national music awards and nominations.
CELEBRATE MLK Dr. Henry Panion III CONDUCTOR Caitlin Edwards VIOLIN
2024 JAN 14
SUN • 3:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
FRANCES SCOTT KEY (1779-1843) ATKINSON & PANION, arr. Star Spangled Banner JAMES P. JOHNSON (1894-1955) ROLAND CARTER, arr. Lift Every Voice and Sing ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK (B. 1941) Three Spirituals: No. 3 Oh Freedom HENRY PANION III (B.1959) Dreams of Hope
Caitlin Edwards VIOLIN HENRY PANION III (B.1959) African-American Spirituals Suite Ain’t A That Good News Here We Are (Give Me Jesus) Ride On King Jesus HENRY PANION III (B.1959) Fanfare & Elegy MARGARET BONDS (1913-1972) Montgomery Variations SAMUEL WARD (1848-1903), KATHRINE BATES (1859-1929) ATKINSON & PANION, arr. America the Beautiful TRADITIONAL ROY RINGWALD, arr. We Shall Overcome 1:00 approximate program length
TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
2024 JAN 14
SUN • 3:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
violin 1
cello
bassoon
timpani
Daisuke Yamamoto
Neal Cary
Thomas Schneider
James Jacobson
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
Jason McComb
Felix Ren
ACTING PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
percussion
Matthew Lano
Clifton Hardison
horn
David Foster Joe Connell Joanna Huling
CONCERTMASTER Tom & Elizabeth Allen Chair
Adrian Pintea ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Catherine Cary Anna Rogers Anna Bishop* Emily Monroe Alana Carithers Susy Yim
Ryan Lannan Adam Carter
bass Riley Zimmermann ACTING PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Erin Lano ACTING PRINCIPAL
Dominic Brancazio Ian Zook Roger Novak
violin 2
Kelly Ali Matt Gold
trumpet
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
flute
PRINCIPAL
Jeannette Jang *
Mary Boodell
viola
PRINCIPAL
Scott Winger Scott Cochran
Kara Poling
tuba
PRINCIPAL The Mary Anne Rennolds Chair
Hyo Joo Uh
Shannon Vandzura Kelly Sulick
trombone
oboe
PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Amelia Merriman
Mary Bircher
Daniel Egan John Pitts
Audrey Pride Stacy Matthews Delaney Turner Alison Hall Jill Foster Molly Sharp
harp
Samuel Huss
PRINCIPAL
Victoria Chung
PRINCIPAL
Evan Williams
Conrad Shaw PRINCIPAL
clarinet
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
David Lemelin
Stephen Schmidt Zsuzsanna Emödi Jocelyn Smith
PRINCIPAL
Edward Sundra ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Daniel Frazelle Correct as of 01/10/24 - 1:00 pm
* temporary appointment
2024 JAN 20 2024 JAN 21
SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre SUN • 3:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
BRAHMS, THE ROMANTIC Valentina Peleggi CONDUCTOR Francesca Dego VIOLIN
DAMIEN GETER (B. 1980) (composer in residence) Sinfonia Americana, (World Premiere) Richmond Symphony Commission FERRUCCIO BUSONI * (1866-1924) Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35a I. Allegro moderato II. Quasi andante III. Allegro impetuoso
INTERMISSION
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 73 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino) IV. Allegro con spirito
1:37 approximate program length
* Busoni 100 Anniversary th
TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
2024 JAN 20 2024 JAN 21
SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre SUN • 3:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
violin 1
viola
bass
horn
Adrian Pintea
Molly Sharp
Riley Zimmermann
Dominic Rotella
ACTING CONCERTMASTER
PRINCIPAL The Mary Anne Rennolds Chair
ACTING PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
Rumano Solano
Micah Redden Erin Lano
Delaney Turner ACTING ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Hyo Joo Uh
Anna Bishop Susy Yim Catherine Cary Jill Foster Alana Carithers Jocelyn Vorenberg Susan Spafford Treesa Gold Laura Frazelle Alyssa Evans
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
violin 2
Jason McComb
Myles Mocarski ACTING PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Jeannette Jang ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
Audrey Pride Alison Hall Emily Monroe Stacy Matthews Anna Rogers Timothy Judd Fiona Hughes Anna Kong
Jocelyn Smith Stephen Schmidt Zsuzsanna Emödi Derek Smith Johanna Beaver Liz O’Hara
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Kelly Ali Peter Spaar Lee Philip John Krause
flute Mary Boodell PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Roger Novak
trumpet Samuel Huss PRINCIPAL
Daniel Egan ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
cello
Jennifer Debiec Lawson ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Michael Chen
Neal Cary
Catherine Broyles
trombone
oboe
Evan Williams
PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
Schuyler Slack
Kenneth & Bettie Christopher Perry Foundation Chair
Ryan Lannan Peter Greydanus Barbara Gaden Charlotte Roberts Dana McComb
Victoria Chung PRINCIPAL
Kara Poling ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Thomas Friedle
clarinet David Lemelin PRINCIPAL
Diana Ruffer ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Edna Huang
bassoon
PRINCIPAL
Scott Winger Scott Cochran
tuba Conrad Shaw PRINCIPAL
timpani James Jacobson PRINCIPAL
percussion David Foster Don Johns
Thomas Schneider PRINCIPAL
Felix Ren ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Naho Zhu Correct as of 01/19/24 - 12 pm
FRANCESCA DEGO, VIOLIN
Italian American violinist Francesca Dego is celebrated for her versatility, compelling interpretations, and flawless technique. Her 23/24 season includes concerto debuts with Utah Symphony, Swedish Radio, Bergen Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, West Australian Symphony, Queensland Symphony Orchestras and reinvitations to the Hallé, CBSO, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestra Haydn and Brucknerhaus Linz. She is Artist in Focus at the Ulster Orchestra. Highlights of recent seasons include concerts across Japan with NHK Symphony conducted by Fabio Luisi, Washington National Symphony, Indianapolis, Orquesta de Castilla y León, and Orchestre de Champs Elysées with Mo. Herreweghe including her debut at La Seine Musicale. Last season she made her recording debut with the London Symphony Orchestra as the first artist to be featured on the new Apple Classical platform in A New Dawn featuring Bologne’s Chevalier de St Georges Concerto no. 2 alongside conductor Jonathon Heyward. Francesca is signed exclusively to CHANDOS Records and her releases of the complete Mozart Violin Concerti conducted by Sir Roger Norrington with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra were received to unanimous critical acclaim including BBC Music Magazine 5* “Record of the Month.” She is a frequent contributor to specialist music magazines. Francesca has also recently published her first book, Tra le Note. Classica: 24 chiavi di lettura, with Mondadori in which she explores how classical music can be listened to and better understood today. Francesca is based in London and plays on a rare Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona 1697).
PROGRAM NOTES
DAMIEN GETER: Sinfonia Americana The Richmond Symphony inaugurated its new model of a long-term composer residency with the tenure of Damien Geter (pronounced JEE-ter), who is now in the middle of the second year of his three-year appointment: it began in 2022 and lasts through the 2024-25 season. Geter’s responsibilities as Composer-in-Residence include curating programs, engaging with local composers, young musicians, and other members of the Richmond community, and mapping out collaborative strategies with other artistic disciplines. His residency moreover encompassed commissions to write new works for the Richmond Symphony. Sinfonia Americana is the first of these and will be followed next year by Loving v. Virginia, an opera co-commissioned by Virginia Opera to mark the company’s 50th anniversary. Currently based in Chicago, Geter has additionally won acclaim as a bassbaritone with a powerful stage presence (Richmond Symphony audiences have heard him as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth, for example). His compositions are widely sought after across the spectrum, from soloists and chamber music ensembles to orchestras, opera companies, and choral organizations. The past few seasons alone have seen the premieres of such major choral-orchestral works as An African American Requiem and The Justice Symphony, the multidisciplinary song cycle COTTON, and the oneact opera Holy Ground. Himself a native of Chesterfield, Geter recalls that many of his earliest musical memories “came from sitting in the Richmond Symphony concert hall as a young person.” He describes Sinfonia Americana, his second symphony following The Justice Symphony, as “an expansion on what has been deemed ‘the American Sound.’” As Geter explains, “America is a place that is defined by so many different cultures. I think it’s important, especially in these times, to maybe think differently about what we deem to be the American sound.” This is a topic he has also been exploring in such other works as American Apollo, his opera about the painter John Singer Sargent and his relationship with his young African American model Thomas E. McKeller.
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The full-length opera is scheduled to be premiered in July by Des Moines Metro Opera. Geter’s sense of mission is grounded in a desire “to create music that furthers the cause for social justice.” Even as a purely instrumental work cast in a single movement, Sinfonia Americana embodies his quest to come to terms with defining what “the American Sound” could mean from his contemporary perspective as a composer. He writes, “The answer, I imagine, lies somewhere in the fact that as I am an American, by default, I have created an American sound—my own—that is influenced by those who came before me who seemed to have success in creating the template for this particular sonic landscape. However, mine grooves a bit, a nod to my Black American culture.” According to Geter, Sinfonia Americana unfolds “in two main parts with a recap.” The melodies he presents in the opening section “are interwoven throughout the piece against differing musical ideas which cause the main tunes to act like a chameleon that is shaped by its surroundings.”
Ferruccio Busoni: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35a This year, the music world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Ferruccio Busoni. Born in a suburb of Florence—the native city of Music Director Valentina Peleggi—Busoni considered his Italian heritage a crucial part of his identity, though Berlin became his home for much of his life. He was encouraged at a very early age by his parents, both of whom were serious musicians. His mixed German Italian heritage and quest to synthesize both Northern and Mediterranean strands—the layered complexity of J.S. Bach with an Italianate lyrical grace—brings to mind a character from a narrative by Thomas Mann. Busoni likewise sought to balance his dual identity as a brilliant pianist in a golden age of virtuosos with his ambitions as a composer. His career straddled the tumultuous years of the early 20th century, when the legacy of Romanticism was confronted by the radical transformations of early Modernism and the shock of the First World War.
Already at the age of nine, Busoni’s enormous talent led to enrollment in the Vienna Conservatory, and he won the praise of no less than Johannes Brahms. The Violin Concerto is a product of the early period when Busoni was still discovering his compositional voice and is in the same key of D major as the Brahms and Beethoven Violin Concertos, both important models. Like those composers, Busoni wrote only one concerto for the instrument. His friendship with the Dutch violinist Henri Petri—a student of Joseph Joachim, for whom Brahms wrote his Violin Concerto—inspired Busoni to write the concerto in 1896-97. Busoni would later expand the concerto genre to unprecedented proportions—even introducing a male choir as part of his sonic apparatus—for his visionary Piano Concerto, introduced in 1904. But even though it calls for a fairly large orchestra, the Violin Concerto is of modest dimensions and designed in the conventional three movements (albeit seamlessly connected one to the next). The solo violin begins participating near the very start, already establishing an eloquent virtuosity as central to its identity. Busoni works with a quintessentially Brahmsian process of developing the simplest of musical ideas into larger, organic forms. The Italian side of his creative personality is especially apparent in the ingratiating melody of the middle Andante section, while the impetuous finale seems to enact what the composer characterized as “a sort of Carnival”—a celebration of gravity-defying virtuosity and exuberant spirits.
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Johannes Brahms burst on the scene determined to breathe new life into the symphony—a genre then undergoing an identity crisis—but struggled mightily to wrestle his First Symphony into being. Its success reinforced a newfound confidence in the now-middle-aged composer. In striking contrast to the First, Brahms completed his Second Symphony with astonishing speed: all told, within a period of about five months in 1877. “Why, it is all blue sky, a babbling of streams, sunshine, and cool green shade!” remarked the surgeon Theodore Billroth, a close friend and supporter of Brahms, when he first encountered the Second Symphony’s
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soundscape. The work has frequently evoked pastoral associations of this sort—a world apart from the tragic solemnity of the First Symphony— which point to the natural beauty of the Austrian lakeside resort where Brahms composed the Second. Valentina Peleggi considers the Second “the most Apollonian” of Brahms’s four symphonies: a masterpiece that reframes the Romantic impulse with a kind of classical balance. But another Brahmsian thumbprint in this music is a subtle undercurrent of sadness or elegiac loss that serves as a counterpart to its overall brightness. Brahms himself hinted at this paradoxical aspect when he teased that the published version should be “printed with a black border,” like a funeral announcement. In terms of Brahms’s musical craft, the Second Symphony is moreover a model study of his genius for developing glorious musical structures organically from the most economical musical “seeds.” The first and most primary of these is heard in the opening seconds deep in the strings: a three-note motif that pivots around the home pitch of D (D—C-sharp—D). The first minute or so already contains the movement’s main thematic ideas—along with its core emotional contrast between the “pastoral” (woodwinds and horns) and the “melancholic” (disturbing rumblings in the timpani, along with interruptions by tuba and trombones). This emotional polarity drives the movement. The work’s elegiac aspect is most explicitly foregrounded in the transportive Adagio, which features an exquisite treatment of the woodwinds. Brahms heightens internal contrasts by shifting the meter and incorporating sudden eruptions of denser textures. A more playful version of the pastoral side of the Second emerges in the third movement, a leisurely Allegretto featuring prominent oboe solos, which is twice interrupted by fast-paced interludes. The first three movements all end quietly, setting the stage for the giddy high spirits of the finale. The three-note motif from the beginning reappears but is now transformed to become part of the animated main theme. In the thrillingly extended final section, the brass section heralds a deliriously joyful final rush that chases away all hints of melancholy as Brahms seems to cast off any vestiges of doubt: about the genre, about his place in history, about the power of music itself. Notes (c)2024 Thomas May
2024 JAN 26 JAN 27 JAN 28
FRI • 7:30 pm Perkinson Center for the Arts SAT • 7:30 pm St. Christopher’s School
SUN • 3:00 pm Randolph-Macon College
Vivaldi / Piazzolla THE FOUR SEASONS Valentina Peleggi CONDUCTOR Keila Wakao VIOLIN
Menuhin Richmond 2021 Junior First-Prize Winner
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) L’estate (Summer), from The Four Seasons for Violin and Orchestra R. 315 I. Allegro non molto, languidezza per il caldo (languid due to the heat)
II. Adagio, toglie alle membra lasse il suo riposo
III. Presto, tempo impetuoso of estate (stormy summer weather)
(fear of lightning and fierce thunder)
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) L’autunno (Autumn), from The Four Seasons for Violin and Orchestra R. 293 I. Allegro, ballo e canto de’ villanelli
(the dances and songs of peasants)
II. Adagio, ubriachi dormienti (the sleeping drunkards) III. Allegro, la caccia (the hunt)
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) arr. L. Desyatnikov Invierno porteño (Winter), from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aries
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) arr. L. Desyatnikov Primavera (Spring), from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aries
The Richmond Symphony extends its gratitude to Chesterfield County and the Perkinson Center for the Arts for their partnership and support.
2024 JAN 26 JAN 27 JAN 28
FRI • 7:30 pm Perkinson Center for the Arts SAT • 7:30 pm St. Christopher’s School
SUN • 3:00 pm Randolph-Macon College
TODAY’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
violin 1
viola
bass
Daisuke Yamamoto
Molly Sharp
Riley Zimmermann
CONCERTMASTER Tom & Elizabeth Allen Chair
PRINCIPAL The Mary Anne Rennolds Chair
ACTING PRINCIPAL
Adrian Pintea
Hyo Joo Uh
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Anna Bishop
Stephen Schmidt
Alana Carithers
Zsuzsanna Emödi
keyboard
Catherine Cary
Jocelyn Smith
Daniel Stipe
Alison Hall Stacy Matthews
cello
Emily Monroe
Neal Cary
violin 2 Jeannette Jang ACTING PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
Audrey Pride ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Anna Rogers
Rumano Solano Kelly Ali
PRINCIPAL
Jason McComb ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
Ryan Lannan Schuyler Slack
Kenneth & Bettie Christopher Perry Foundation Chair
Susy Yim Delaney Turner Timothy Judd
Correct as of 01/23/24 - 11 am
GUEST ARTIST / KEILA WAKAO, VIOLIN
Keila Wakao was awarded the 1st prize and the Junior Composer Award in the 2021 Menuhin International Violin Competition. She was also the 1st prize winner of the Stulberg International String Competition and was awarded the Bach Prize in 2021. In 2023, she was awarded the Aoyama Music Foundation Award in Japan for upcoming artists and is a recipient of Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant in New York. Most recently, Keila won the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition and
performed Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.2 - Andante assai with the BSO in Symphony Hall. orn in 2006, 17-year-old Keila Wakao is from Boston, Massachusetts, and B began playing the violin at the age of three. At age six, the late Mr. Joseph Silverstein accepted Keila as a student. Currently, she is a high school student at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and since she was nine years old, she has been studying with Don Weilerstein, as well as Soovin Kim at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. Keila has also been receiving Kyoko Takezawa’s private instruction in Japan. Named a “VC Artist” by Violin Channel, Keila has performed solos and recitals throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, Singapore and the United Kingdom in venues such as Cadogan Hall (London), Victoria Concert Hall (Singapore), Jordan Hall (Boston), and Carnegie Weill Recital Hall (New York City). At age nine, Keila gave her first solo performance with an orchestra, and since then, she has performed with orchestras including Reading, Eugene, Chattanooga, Adelphi, Kalamazoo, Resound Collective, Baden-Baden, Baltimore Chamber, Boston Civic and Lexington Symphony Orchestras. In 2017, Keila was invited to speak and perform at TEDxBoston, and during the summers of 2018 to 2022, she participated in the Perlman Music Program. In future seasons, Keila will be performing concertos throughout the US, in addition to these appearances with the Richmond Symphony, and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic in Germany. She will also be performing recitals at Key West Impromptu Classical Concerts in Florida, among others. Keila plays on a 1745 fine old Italian violin by G.B Guadagnini on generous loan from the Florian Leonhard Fellowship.
Keila Wakao was the winner of the Junior First Prize of the internationally revered Menuhin Competition 2021, co-hosted virtually by the Richmond Symphony, University of Richmond, City of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Public Media. Thank you to all the sponsors and hosts who made this competition possible.
2024 JAN 28
SUN • 3:00 pm Randolph-Macon College
Vivaldi / Piazzolla THE FOUR SEASONS L’Estate (Summer) Opus 8, No. 2, in G minor I. Allegro non molto Under the heat of the burning summer sun, Languish man and flock; the pine is parched. The cuckoo finds its voice, and suddenly, The turtledove and goldfinch sing. A gentle breeze blows, But suddenly, the north wind appears. The shepherd weeps because, overhead, Lies the fierce storm, and his destiny. II. Adagio; Presto His tired limbs are deprived of rest By his fear of lightning and fierce thunder, And by furious swarms of flies and hornets. III. Presto Alas, how just are his fears, Thunder and lightening fill the Heavens, and the hail Slices the tops of the corn and other grain.
2024 JAN 28
SUN • 3:00 pm Randolph-Macon College
L’Autunno (Autumn) Opus 8, No. 3, in F Major I. Allegro The peasants celebrate with dance and song, The joy of a rich harvest. And, full of Bacchus’s liquor, They finish their celebration with sleep. II. Adagio molto Each peasant ceases his dance and song. The mild air gives pleasure, And the season invites many To enjoy a sweet slumber. III. Allegro The hunters, at the break of dawn, go to the hunt. With horns, guns, and dogs they are off, The beast flees, and they follow its trail. Already fearful and exhausted by the great noise, Of guns and dogs, and wounded, The exhausted beast tries to flee, but dies.
presents
MIXTAPE
SATURDAY
FEB. 03 8:00pm
Carpenter Theatre
RESURRECTION MIXTAPE fuses BIGGIE and 2PAC with Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.
2024 FEB 03
SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
MIXTAPE A fusion of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” and the music of Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) and Tupac Shakur.
ACT ONE MAHLER (1860-1911) Symphony No. 2 Resurrection, Movement IV. Urlicht Movement I Totenfeier, Allegro Maestoso SHAKUR (1971-1996) Me Against the World Hail Mary Hellrazor
WALLACE (1972-1997) Everyday Struggle Party and Bullsh*t Juicy Kick in the Door Notorius Thugs Things Done Changed Who Shot Ya Hypnotize
Ambitionz az a Ridah 2 of Americaz Most Wanted Ghetto Gospel Hit ’Em Up Keep Ya Head Up So Many Tears
INTERMISSION ACT TWO MAHLER (1860-1911) Movement IV. Urlicht - Movement V in Tempo des Scherzos SHAKUR (1971-1996) Only God Can Judge Me I Wonder if Heaven Got A Ghetto California Love How Do U Want It Changes Life Goes On
WALLACE (1972-1997) Respect - Suicidal Thoughts’ Sky’s the Limit Victory Big Poppa
2024 FEB 03
SAT • 8:00 pm Carpenter Theatre
TONIGHT’S RICHMOND SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ROSTER
violin 1
viola
flute
trumpet
Daisuke Yamamoto
Hyo Joo Uh
Jennifer Debiec Lawson
Dovas Lietuvninkas
CONCERTMASTER Tom & Elizabeth Allen Chair
ACTING PRINCIPAL
ACTING PRINCIPAL
ACTING PRINCIPAL
Adrian Pintea
Stephen Schmidt
Tabatha Easley
Michael Chen
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Zsuzsanna Emödi Jocelyn Smith Wayne Graham Johanna Beaver Dorothy Couper Kim Ryan
Grace Wang
Daniel Egan Kevin Paul
cello
Daniel Gurevich
Neal Cary
clarinet
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Audrey Pride Stacy Matthews Emily Monroe Anna Rogers Susan Spafford Jocelyn Vorenberg Timothy Judd Alyssa Evans Treesa Gold
violin 2 Myles Mocarski ACTING PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN
Jeannette Jang ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Bob & Nancy Hill Chair
Anna Bishop Susy Yim Catherine Cary Alison Hall Jill Foster Elizabeth Kilpatrick Satoko Fukasawa Michel Violane
PRINCIPAL
Jason McComb ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Richmond Symphony League Chair
Schuyler Slack
Kenneth & Bettie Christopher Perry Foundation Chair
Ryan Lannan Barbara Gaden Peter Greydanus Charlotte Roberts Dana McComb
bass Riley Zimmermann ACTING PRINCIPAL
Rumano Solano ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Peter Spaar Lee Philip Morgan Daly Matt Gold
oboe Victoria Chung
trombone
PRINCIPAL
Evan Williams
Kara Poling
PRINCIPAL
ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Scott Winger Skye Dearborn Scott Cochran
David Lemelin PRINCIPAL
Eddie Sundra ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
tuba Conrad Shaw PRINCIPAL
Edna Huang
timpani
bassoon
ACTING PRINCIPAL
Thomas Schneider PRINCIPAL
Felix Ren ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Matthew Lano
horn Dominic Rotella
Charles Kiger
percussion Clifton Hardison PRINCIPAL
David Foster Reid Stockdill Don Johns
PRINCIPAL
Cody Halquist Rachelle Jenkins Erin Lano ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL
Roger Novak Mica Redden Jose Toranzo Infante
Correct as of 02/01/24 - 10 am
A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and creative visionary, Steve Hackman is a daring voice intent on redefining art music in the 21st century. Trained at the elite level classically but equally adept in popular styles, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny—he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist. He uses these polymathic abilities to create original music of incisive modernism yet rooted in elevated classicism. His groundbreaking orchestral fusions, such as Brahms X Radiohead and The Resurrection Mixtape (Mahler X Notorious B.I.G. X Tupac Shakur), are introducing the symphony orchestra to its future audience; he has conducted these pieces to sellout houses across the country with the orchestras of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Colorado, Phoenix,
Nashville, Oregon, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Charlotte, Southwest Florida, Alabama, Colorado Music Festival, and the Boston Pops. In 2023 Hackman launched his original music project, THE BRINK, a four-part, 300-minute work incorporating elements as wide-ranging as lyric opera and art-song cycles to conceptual hip-hop and experimental electronica. The work is immersive and experiential in nature, with additional creative direction by Jacob Jonas, wardrobe by Greg Lauren, and visuals by Michael N. Meyer. In the Summer of 2022, in a span of three weeks, Hackman created And I Love Her, the music of the Beatles reimagined. It depicts the music of the Beatles through the lens of the women that inspired them and the female characters they invented through their music and lyrics. Hackman serves as the conductor and curator of the BSO Fusion with the Baltimore Symphony, presenting multiple concerts per year of his fusion productions. He is Creative Director and Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony’s Uncharted Series, one of the most successful millennial-focused concert experiences in the country. Hackman has been instrumental in the development of this concert series since 2010. Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work, including Steve Lacy, Doja Cat and Andrew Bird. He was trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees in Orchestral Conducting and Piano Performance. He recently taught his first course at the Juilliard School entitled “Fusion, Re-imagination and Revelation.” He is active on Instagram under @stevehackmanmusic.
Jecorey Arthur rapper
Jecorey Arthur is a teacher, musician, and activist from Louisville, Kentucky. As a teacher, Arthur has served students of all ages around the world in schools, libraries, community centers, detention centers, and beyond, including a tour to Boys and Girls Clubs of Kentuckiana, a cultural exchange with De Montfort University in England, and an artist-in-residency at New York City’s 92nd Street Y. As a musician, Arthur has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Big Ears Festival, Forecastle Festival, and Switzerland’s Jungfrau Erzählfestival; performed as a soloist with the Stereo Hideout Brooklyn Orchestra and the Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Dallas, San Francisco, San Diego, Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus, Dayton, Florida, Cincinnati, and Oregon Symphony Orchestras; performed as the first hip hop artist with the Louisville Orchestra including world premieres of folk opera The Way Forth and rap opera The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, where he starred as his hometown hero. Arthur has also composed original music for theatre, film, television, radio, podcast, and studio albums. In addition to being on city council, Arthur is currently a music and sociology professor at the Historically Black College and University—Simmons College of Kentucky, an artist roster member of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), a percussion instructor at the Louisville Academy of Music, and an endorsed artist with Salyers Percussion. You can follow Arthur online at @jecoreyarthur.
Denise Carite vocalist
For over a decade, Pennsylvania native Denise Carite has been in the music industry. With Broadway and traditional music sparking the flame in her youth, she then pursued versatility within her craft. Her discipline brought her to her first U.S. tour with John Legend at the early age of 18 years old. She then went on to study music business at Berklee College of Music with a Presidential Scholarship. From then on, there was a career flourish that brought on the opportunity to tour with recording artists Mary J Blige, Anita Baker, Demi Lovato, Eric Benét, American Idol Top 10, Jazmine Sullivan, Usher, and Lalah Hathaway. For TV work she’s been in the House Band on “The Voice” for 11 seasons, one season in the House Band of “To Tell The Truth” hosted by Anthony Anderson, one season of “The Winner Is” hosted by Nick Lachey, one season of “Hollywood Game Night” hosted by Jane Lynch, and Vocal Coached for two seasons of “The Four” on Fox. She was also a featured singer on “Scandal,” and did small ensemble and choir work on “Blackish,” “The Mayor,” select “The Lion Guard” episodes, the OSCARS®, the GRAMMYS®, BET Awards, American Music Awards, and iHeart Radio Awards. She has recorded with Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry, 30 Seconds to Mars, Adam Lambert, Moby, Coldplay, and has sung on the films “Jordan Peele’s Us,” “The Lion King,” “Just Mercy,” “Hidden Figures,” The Boss Baby,” “Monster High: The Great Scarrier Reef,” and is the singing voice of R&B on “Trollstopia”. She has two song placements as a co-writer with Coldplay on “Higher Power” and Daya’s “Sit Still, Look Pretty” debut album. While these life-changing opportunities have fueled her artistic fire, they have simultaneously kept Denise humbled and inspired. Her main goal is to not only apply what she has learned to her own artistic and creative presence, but also share it and help others reach their highest potential. // theladyproductions.com
Marcus Tenney rapper
Based right here in Richmond, Virginia, Marcus Tenney, better known as Tennishu, has been producing, recording and performing music all over the world for the last two decades. Known for being equally proficient on trumpet and saxophone, Tennishu is also a lyricist and a rapper with an extensive catalog of self-released recordings. Whether in the studio hammering out his next solo project or touring the city streets with the progressive powerhouse known as Butcher Brown, Tennishu delivers a potent and consistent experience no matter what he puts into the microphone. His latest release entitled “DrumTapes” uses the drum set as the center piece for creation. This project was inspired by the great drummers that Tennishu has been working with over the years and represents the commitment to sit down and learn how to speak the language of the drum. // tennishu.com
TaRon Lockett drummer
Dallas native TaRon Lockett is a three-time GRAMMY® Nominated drummer/producer has worked with Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Ceelo Green, Prince, Liv Warfield, Willie Nelson, Sheila E, and DJ DNice and currently tours with Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles. // @taronlockett
Bobby Wooten III bassist
Bobby Wooten III is a composer/producer/ instrumentalist raised in Chicago, Illinois. He has written/produced/recorded with David Byrne, Carly Rae Jepsen, Post Malone, Jennifer Lopez, Mac Miller, Jennifer Hudson, Rick Ross, Machine Gun Kelly, and Jake Troth among others. Commercial production credits include Empire TV series, Google, Adidas, LeBron James, and ESPN among others. Bobby composed and produced the score for the 2023 film “Rare Objects.” Broadway credits include “Moulin Rouge!” and the GRAMMY®/Emmy-nominated and Tonywinning production of David Byrne’s “American Utopia,” the latter filmed by Spike Lee. // @bobbywooten3
Richmond’s Finest
THE MUSIC OF PATSY CLINE
2024 FEB 04
SUN • 3:00 pm Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center
LILI BOULANGER (1893-1918) D’un Matin de Printemps PATSY CLINE (1932-1963) South of the Border HANK COCHRAN (1935-2010) & HARLAN HOWARD (1927-2002) I Fall to Pieces ALAN BLOCK (1923-2013) & DON HECHT (1930-2002) Walkin’ After Midnight MOZART (1756-1791) Divertimento in D major, K. 136 [125a] I. Allegro II. Andante III. Presto W.S. STEVENSON (B.1937) & BARBARA VAUGHAN (1946-2008) Gotta Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul INTERMISSION FLORENCE PRICE (1887-1953) Suite of Dances I. Allegretto II. Allegretto III. Allegro molto PATSY CLINE (1932-1963) Wayward Wind ROBERT WILLIS (1905-1975) Faded Love BOB MONTGOMERY (1937-2014) Back in Baby’s Arms PATSY CLINE (1932-1963) Crazy 1:05 approximate program length