Music in Mind by San Diego Symphony

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Photo Credit: Lauren Radack

DEAR FRIENDS, The New Year certainly is off to a wonderful start for the San Diego Symphony! Our Upright & Grand Piano Festival, which began on January 8 and ends on February 8, attracted over 19,000 people attending concerts ranging from orchestral performances to our first “Beyond the Score,” to jazz and recitals. In addition, on January 16, our free community day brought nearly 1,000 people into the Jacobs Music Center to learn all about the piano – to take their first piano lesson; or discover new smart phone apps for making music; or observe how pianos are tuned; or watch and listen as six grand pianos were played by eight hands for a “Monster Piano” performance of Stars and Stripes Forever. Our “Play Me: Pianos in Public Spaces” program, through which we placed ten brightly painted pianos in ten different locations around San Diego, stirred imaginations of young and old, as pianists of every experience level took a moment to make some music on pianos in surprising locations such as Horton Plaza or the downtown MCASD. Music is for everyone, as our first January festival so joyfully demonstrated. MARTHA GILMER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

January was also a seminal month for the San Diego Symphony’s summer concert series as we received a unanimous vote of approval from the Commissioners of the Port of San Diego to move forward with our planning for a new, permanent concert stage at Embarcadero Marina Park South. This new stage and revitalized park space, which we are calling the Bayside Performance Center, is designed to provide a state-of-the-art concert experience along with permanent restrooms, green space and food service amenities. We look forward to working with the Port on developing what we hope will become San Diego’s most iconic bayside structure as well as a community gathering space for generations to come. After such an incredible January, February is equally as exciting! As many of you know, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra is the orchestra that performs for the San Diego Opera. So for much of February, our musicians are extremely busy with opera rehearsals and performances at the Civic Theatre. We encourage all of you to come hear the San Diego Symphony in Puccini’s Tosca, which opens on February 13. While the orchestra is just down B Street, we also offer presentations here at the Jacobs Music Center such as the Moscow Festival Ballet and The Band of the Royal Marines + the Pipes, Drums and Highland Dancers of the Scots Guards early in the month. On February 19, the third of our wildly popular new Jazz @ The Jacobs concerts features the incomparable Dianne Reeves. Our orchestra returns at the end of the month to perform Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with young American guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein. Mr. Weilerstein is the seventh guest conductor to join us this season. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and has performed extensively with major orchestras in Europe. His sister, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, performed with us just this past December in the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello with Concertmaster Jeff Thayer February is also the time when we announce our upcoming Summer Pops season. I hope you will renew your subscription right away! Without giving away any of the “news” about the summer season, I am happy to share with you that we have a wonderful line-up of guest artists… and some surprises. Stay tuned! Sincerely,

Martha Gilmer Chief Executive Officer COVER PHOTO CREDIT: David Hartig S AN DI EG O SYMPHO NY O RCHEST RA WINT ER SEA SO N F E B RUA RY 2 016

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SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JAHJA LING, MUSIC DIRECTOR

MATTHEW GARBUTT

Principal Summer Pops Conductor

SAMEER PATEL Assistant Conductor

VIOLIN Jeff Thayer Concertmaster DEBORAH

PATE AND JOHN FORREST CHAIR

Wesley Precourt Associate Concertmaster Jisun Yang Assistant Concertmaster Alexander Palamidis Principal II TBD Associate Principal II Nick Grant Principal Associate Concertmaster Emeritus Randall Brinton Yumi Cho Hernan Constantino Alicia Engley Pat Francis Kathryn Hatmaker Angela Homnick Ai Nihira* Igor Pandurski Julia Pautz Susan Robboy Shigeko Sasaki Yeh Shen Anna Skálová Edmund Stein John Stubbs Pei-Chun Tsai Jing Yan Joan Zelickman VIOLA Chi-Yuan Chen Principal KAREN AND WARREN KESSLER CHAIR

Nancy Lochner Associate Principal Rebekah Campbell Wanda Law Qing Liang Caterina Longhi Thomas Morgan Ethan Pernela Dorothy Zeavin CELLO Yao Zhao Principal Chia-Ling Chien Associate Principal Marcia Bookstein Glen Campbell Andrew Hayhurst

Richard Levine Ronald Robboy Mary Oda Szanto Xian Zhuo

Douglas Hall

BASS

John MacFerran Wilds Ray Nowak

Jeremy Kurtz-Harris ˆ Principal OPHIE AND ARTHUR BRODY S FOUNDATION CHAIR

Susan Wulff Acting Principal Samuel Hager Acting Associate Principal W. Gregory Berton ˆ P. J. Cinque Jory Herman Margaret Johnston+ Daniel Smith* Michael Wais Sayuri Yamamoto* FLUTE Rose Lombardo Principal Sarah Tuck Erica Peel PICCOLO Erica Peel OBOE Sarah Skuster Principal

TRUMPET Micah Wilkinson Principal

TROMBONE Kyle R. Covington Principal Logan Chopyk Richard Gordon+ Michael Priddy BASS TROMBONE Michael Priddy TUBA Matthew Garbutt Principal HARP Julie Smith Phillips Principal TIMPANI Ryan J. DiLisi Principal Andrew Watkins Assistant Principal PERCUSSION Gregory Cohen Principal

Harrison Linsey Andrea Overturf

Erin Douglas Dowrey Andrew Watkins

ENGLISH HORN Andrea Overturf

PIANO/CELESTE Mary Barranger

DR. WILLIAM AND EVELYN LAMDEN ENGLISH HORN CHAIR

CLARINET Sheryl Renk Principal

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Magdalena O’Neill ASSISTANT PERSONNEL MANAGER TBA

Theresa Tunnicliff Frank Renk

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Courtney Secoy Cohen

BASS CLARINET Frank Renk

LIBRARIAN Rachel Fields

BASSOON Valentin Martchev Principal Ryan Simmons Leyla Zamora

* Long Term Substitute Musician + Staff Opera Musician ˆ On leave

CONTRABASSOON Leyla Zamora

All musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians Local 325.

HORN Benjamin Jaber Principal Darby Hinshaw Assistant Principal & Utility Danielle Kuhlmann Tricia Skye

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Financial support is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.

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FEBRUARY 20 MUSIC IN MIND: BEETHOVEN'S SENSUAL PASTORALE SATURDAY February 20, 2016 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:00pm A CLASSICAL SPECIAL CONCERT

conductor Sameer Patel (see biography on pg. 20) guest speakers Dr. Charles Limb

Dr. Nina Kraus percussion and special guest Steven Schick

Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Trio San Diego Symphony String Quartet Performance at the Jacobs Music Center's Copley Symphony Hall

PROGRAM

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68: Pastorale Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arrival in the Country Scene by the Brook Merry Gathering of the Countryfolk Thunderstorm Shepherd's Song, Glad and Grateful Feelings After the Storm

This concert program is presented in conjunction with the 2016 Convention of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO).

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

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by the League of American Orchestras for the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, an event that showcases emerging and talented conductors to orchestra industry professionals. He was a 2011 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Scholar, an honor given to him by former New York Philharmonic Music Director Kurt Masur. As part of this award, Mr. Patel traveled to Europe to study with and assist Maestro Masur with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Patel was named Assistant Conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in spring of 2015.

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ncreasingly recognized by audiences and musicians for his musicality and passionate communication SAMEER PATE L is one of America’s most engaging young conductors. He recently spent three seasons as Associate Conductor of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, where he conducted the orchestra in over 100 performances and invigorated the orchestra’s engagement with the community. In 2013 Mr. Patel was one of only six conductors selected

Ensemble Zandonai, the Festival Orchestra of Sofia at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Oslo Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra at the Stresa Festival. He has also conducted at the David Oistrakh Festival and the Leigo Music Days Festival in Estonia in appearances with the Estonian National Youth Symphony and the St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra. Mr. Patel began his musical training as a pianist and received both his graduate and undergraduate degrees at the University of Michigan, where he studied conducting with Kenneth Kiesler. He furthered his training internationally with acclaimed conductors Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, David Zinman, Gianandrea Noseda, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Larry Rachleff, JoAnn Falletta, Günther Herbig, Mei-Ann Chen and Marin Alsop. He has held prestigious conducting fellowships with the Boston Philharmonic and the Chicago Sinfonietta, and he credits his time with these organizations for developing his passionate approach to engaging with audiences of all backgrounds and to reimagining the concert experience. Also an enthusiastic advocate for music education, Sameer Patel has worked with school and youth orchestras in North America, South America, and Europe. n

Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Leipziger Sinfonieorchester, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Additionally, Mr. Patel has worked with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Lucerne Festival Strings, Orchestra da Camera di Trento, the

MUCH ADO ABOUT MUSIC: SHAKESPEARE AND THE SYMPHONY SUNDAY April 17, 2016 2:00PM A Family Festival Concert conductor Sameer Patel

“If music be the food of love, play on!” Our season finale concert will feature excerpts from many of the great musical works inspired by the genius of William Shakespeare. The program, in collaboration with the The San Diego Shakespeare Society, will feature music of Prokofiev, Korngold, Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky and, of course, Mendelssohn. Concert will feature short, delightful excerpts from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. Pre-concert activities begin at 1pm!

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FEBRUARY 20 MUSIC IN MIND: BEETHOVEN'S SENSUAL PASTORALE SATURDAY February 20, 2016 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:00pm A CLASSICAL SPECIAL CONCERT

conductor Sameer Patel guest speakers Dr. Charles Limb

Dr. Nina Kraus percussion and special guest Steven Schick

Gilbert Castellanos Jazz Trio San Diego Symphony String Quartet Performance at the Jacobs Music Center's Copley Symphony Hall

PROGRAM LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

This concert program is presented in conjunction with the 2016 Convention of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO).

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GILBERT CASTELLANOS, TRUMPET

I L B E RT C A S T E L L A N O S is the leading top-call jazz musician, band leader, composer, producer, and educator on the local and international circuit. Recognized as a new American master by Downbeat magazine, Mr. Castellanos is also a strong advocate of promoting and educating various communities about Jazz: “America’s classical music,” as he calls it. Mr. Castellanos takes pride in being a member of the prestigious Clayton-Hamiltion Jazz Orchestra, working with one of his mentors, the great John Clayton. He has recorded and performed with a multitude of worldrenowned musicians from Dizzy Gillespie to Michael Bublé to Willie Nelson (to name a few), and even doing a stint on American Idol for millions of listeners. Gilbert Castellanos is series curator for the San Diego Symphony’s new Jazz @ The Jacobs concert series. n

than one hundred-fifty new works. Mr. Schick is music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and artistic director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He was music director of the 2015 Ojai Festival. He maintains a lively schedule of guest conducting including recent appearances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Modern and the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble. Among his acclaimed publications include a book, The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams, and numerous recordings of contemporary percussion music including a three CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis (Mode) and a companion recording of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen in 2014 (Mode). Steven Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music and holds the Reed Family Presidential Chair at the University of California, San Diego. n

DR. CHARLES LIMB, GUEST SPEAKER

ercussionist, conductor and author S T E V E N S C H I C K was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For 40 years he has championed contemporary music by commissioning or premiering more

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DR. NINA KRAUS, GUEST SPEAKER

I N A K R AU S , P H . D. , is a scientist, inventor and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career recording responses from the rabbit auditory cortex and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans.

STEVEN SCHICK, PERCUSSIONIST

Company, the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, the Sundance Film Festival, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the American Museum of Natural History. n

R . C H A R L E S L I M B is the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at UC San Francisco. He is also the Director of the Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center at UCSF and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery. His current areas of research focus on the study of the neural basis of musical creativity as well as the study of music perception in deaf individuals with cochlear implants. He is the past Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Amplification. His work has been featured by National Public Radio, TED, National Geographic, the New York Times, PBS, CNN, Scientific American, the British Broadcasting

Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals, auditory training) or worse (learning disabilities, aging, hearing loss), shape auditory processing. She continues to conduct parallel experiments in animal models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Dr. Kraus has invented new ways to measure the biology of sound processing in humans that provide unprecedented precision and granularity in indexing brain function. With her technological innovations she is now pushing science beyond the traditional laboratory by conducting studies in schools, community centers and clinics. Using the principles of neuroscience to improve human communication, she advocates for best practices in education, health and social policy. n

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PATRON INFORMATION

TICKET OFFICE HOURS Jacobs Music Center Ticket Office (750 B Street) Monday through Friday, 10 am to 6 pm Concert Tuesdays through Fridays: 10 am through intermission Concert Weekends: 12 noon through intermission

be allowed into the concert hall. They must be held by an adult and may not occupy a seat, unless they have a ticket.

SUBSCRIPTIONS San Diego Symphony Orchestra offers an attractive array of subscription options. Subscribers receive the best available seats and (for Traditional subscribers) free ticket exchanges (up to 48 hours in advance for another performance within your series). Other subscriber-only benefits include priority notice of special events and (for certain packages) free parking. For more information, call the Ticket Office at 619.235.0804.

UNUSED TICKETS Please turn in unused subscription tickets for resale to the Ticket Office or by mailing them to 1245 7th Ave., San Diego, CA 92101 (Attn: Ticket Office). Tickets must be turned in anytime up to 24 hours in advance of your concert. A receipt will be mailed acknowledging your tax-deductible contribution.

TICKET EXCHANGE POLICY • Aficionado subscribers may exchange into most Winter series concerts for free! All exchanges are based on ticket availability. • Traditional subscribers receive the best available seats and may exchange to another performance within their series for free. Build Your Own subscribers and Non-subscribers can do the same, with a $5 exchange fee per ticket. • Exchanged tickets must be returned to the Ticket Office 24 hours prior to the concert by one of the following ways: In person, by mail (1245 Seventh Ave., San Diego, CA 92101, Attn: Ticket Office) or by fax (619.231.3848). LOST TICKETS San Diego Symphony concert tickets can be reprinted at the Ticket Office with proper ID. GROUP SALES Discount tickets for groups are available for both subscription and non-subscription concerts (excluding outside events). For further information, please call 619.615.3941. YOUNGER AUDIENCES POLICY Jacobs Masterworks, Classical Specials, and Chamber Music: No children under five years of age will be allowed into the concert hall. Children five and older must have a ticket and be able to sit in an unaccompanied seat. City Lights, Jazz @ The Jacobs, International Passport, Fox Theatre Film Series: No children under the age of two years will be allowed into the concert hall. Children two and older must have a ticket and be able to sit in a seat. Family Festival Concerts: Children three years and older must have a ticket and be able to sit in a seat. Babies and children two years old and younger who are accompanied by a parent will

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GIFT CERTIFICATES Gift certificates may be purchased in any amount at the Jacobs Music Center Ticket Office in person, online, by phone, or by mail. They never expire!

Large-Print Programs: Large-print program notes are available for patrons at all Jacobs Masterworks concerts. Copies may be obtained from an usher. PUBLIC RESTROOMS AND TELEPHONES Restrooms are located on the north and south ends of the upper lobby, and the north end of the lower lobby. An ADA compliant restroom is located on each floor. Please ask an usher for assistance at any time. Patrons may contact the nearest usher to facilitate any emergency telephone calls. COUGH DROPS Complimentary cough suppressants are available to symphony patrons. Please ask our house staff for assistance.

QUIET ZONE Please turn all cellular and paging devices to the vibrate or off position upon entry into Symphony Hall. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated by fellow concertgoers and performers.

LOST & FOUND Report all lost and/or found items to your nearest usher. If you have discovered that you misplaced something after your departure from Jacobs Music Center, call the Facilities Department at 619.615.3909.

RECORDING DEVICES No unauthorized cameras or recording devices of any other kind are allowed inside the concert hall. Cell phone photography is not permitted.

PRE-CONCERT TALKS Patrons holding tickets to our Jacobs Masterworks Series concerts are invited to come early for “What’s The Score?” preperformance conversations beginning 45 minutes prior to all Jacobs Masterworks programs (Fridays and Saturdays, 7:15 pm; Sundays, 1:15 pm).

SMOKING POLICY Smoking is not permitted in Jacobs Music Center, its lobbies or the adjoining Symphony Towers lobby. Ashtrays can be found outside the building on both 7th Avenue and B Street. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND REFRESHMENTS Alcoholic beverages are available for sale in Jacobs Music Center lobbies before the concert and during intermission. Please have valid identification available and please drink responsibly. Refreshment bars offering snacks and beverages are located on both upper and lower lobbies for most events. Food and beverages are not allowed in performance chamber for concerts. LATE SEATING Latecomers will be seated at an appropriate interval in the concert as determined by the house manager. We ask that you remain in your ticketed seat until the concert has concluded. Should special circumstances exist or arise, please contact the nearest usher for assistance. SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS Seating: ADA seating for both transfer and non-transfer wheelchairs, as well as restrooms, are available at each performance. Please notify the Ticket Office in advance at 619.235.0804, so that an usher may assist you. Assistive Listening Devices: A limited number of hearing enhancement devices are available at no cost. Please ask an usher for assistance.

HALL TOURS Free tours of the Jacobs Music Center are given each month of the winter season. Check the “Jacobs Music Center” section of the website, or call 619.615.3955 for more details. No reservations are necessary.

JACOBS MUSIC CENTER TICKET OFFICE 750 B Street (NE Corner of 7th and B, Downtown San Diego) San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619.235.0804 Fax: 619.231.3848 SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE 1245 7th Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619.235.0800 Fax: 619.235.0005

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