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We invite you to immerse yourself in our varied lineup of live performances, showcasing local talent and renowned artists alike. From captivating theater productions to exhilarating musical performances, there’s something for everyone to enjoy at Segerstrom Center. Each event is an opportunity to celebrate creativity and connect with fellow art enthusiasts.

As we step into March, we are excited to celebrate not only the arrival of spring but also Women’s History Month. This is a wonderful opportunity to honor the incredible contributions of women in the arts and beyond. Join us for a series of captivating live performances that highlight the talent and creativity of women artists.

Your support is vital to our mission, and we are grateful for your continued patronage. Together, let’s celebrate the power of the arts to unite and uplift our community.

Thank you for supporting the Center and the incredible artists who grace our stage. We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming performances.

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Marta S. Bhathal

Deborah Bridges

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Mark Chan

Sandra Segerstrom Daniels

James A. Driscoll

Andra Greene Ellingson

Moti Ferder

John C. Garrett

John Ginger

Jackie Glass

Carole Haes Landon

John H. Phelan Jr. Chair, Board of Directors

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Lawrence M. Higby

Betty Huang

Molly Jolly

Roger T. Kirwan

Harmon Kong

Karla Kraft

Shanaz Langson

Kate Levering-Jahangiri

William F. Meehan

Britt Meyer

Ethan F. Morgan

Rick Muth

Walter Parsadayan

Mark C. Perry

Maria Rigatti

Holly Breaux Schwartz

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Tony Smith

Steven M. Sorenson, M.D.

Connie Spenuzza

John E. Stratman Jr.

Samuel Tang

Kelly Thomson

Laura Vanderhook

Gaddi H. Vasquez

Jaynine Warner

Jane Fujishige Yada

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Directors Emeritus

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Pat L. Poss*

Timothy L. Strader

David H. Troob

Carol L. Wilken*

* in memoriam

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Craig Springer, Chairman, Pacific Chorale

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Calendar of events

April 2025

Tuesday Night Dance: Latin Rhythms

April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 | Free Event

American Ballet Theatre

The Winter’s Tale

April 3–6 | Dance

Silent Disco

April 4 | Free Plaza Event

Chineke! Orchestra with Aaron Azunda Akugbo

April 4 | Philharmonic Society

Emmet Cohen Trio

April 5 | Jazz

Alton Brown Live: Last Bite

April 8 | Special Event

May 2025

Hamilton

April 23–May 4 | Broadway

Beethoven’s Emperor

May 1–3 | Pacific Symphony

Echoes of Time

May 4 | Pacific Symphony

Mutter, Bronfman & Ferrández Trio

May 4 | Philharmonic Society

Tuesday Night Dance: Indian Dance

May 6, 13, 20, 27 | Free Plaza Event

Cheyenne Jackson

April 10–12 | Cabaret

Curse of the Ring

April 10–15 | Pacific Symphony

Naruto The Symphonic Experience

April 13 | Special Event

Root & Rise Yoga

April 13 | Free Plaza Event

Jordi Savall with Hesperion

XXI: Music of Fire & Love

April 16 | Chamber

In Conversation with David Grann

April 16 | In Conversation

What I Did for Love... and All That Jazz

April 18 | Headliners

Earth Day Event

April 19 | Free Plaza Event

Live on Argyros Stage

April 23 | Free Plaza Event

Hamilton

April 23–May 4 | Broadway

Ben Folds

April 25–26 | Pacific Symphony

The Gruffalo’s Child

April 26–27 | Family

Diana Krall

May 9 | Special Event

Cirque Goes Broadway

May 9–10 | Pacific Symphony

Root & Rise Yoga

May 11 | Free Plaza Event

Mamma Mia!

May 13–18 | Broadway

Forbidden Broadway:

Merrily We Stole a Song

May 15–17 | Cabaret

Cathedrals of Sound

May 15–17 | Pacific Symphony

AAPI Heritage Month Event

May 17 & 23 | Free Plaza Event

Tom Jones

May 21 | Special Event

Mozart’s Requiem

May 24 | Pacific Chorale

Los Angeles Philharmonic

May 30 | Philharmonic Society

AAPI Heritage Month Movie

May 30 | Free Plaza Event

Artists, events and dates subject to change; visit www.scfta.org for details and times.

Segerstrom Hall • Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall • Samueli Theater • Julianne and George Argyros Plaza

Photos from the Royal Ballet’s production of The Winter’s Tale , by Tristram Kenton

The Winter’s Tale will warm your heart

After the triumph of Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet Like Water for Chocolate in 2023 and Woolf Works in 2024, the choreographer’s work returns with a lush production of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Originally produced for the Royal Ballet, this is the U.S. premiere by American Ballet Theatre and joins the list of ABT premieres at the Center, with Pacific Symphony performing the score.

Shakespeare’s classic cautionary tale is an exploration on the different types of love— between friends, between lovers, and between family members—and the consequences that can happen when that love isn’t valued or nurtured. But while this play dwells on the jealously and supposed deceit, it ends on a happy, poignant and, at times, comic note. This is, after all, the play in which Shakespeare wrote a stage direction for one of the characters, “Exit pursued by a bear.”

“Wheeldon paints a clear route through a complicated play,” says the Guardian, “pruning away distractions and concentrating on the powerful emotion beneath.” Theartdesk.com says, “The strength of Christopher Wheeldon’s

adaptation … is that he turns every one of the play’s difficulties into an asset.” And, in many ways, the wordless dance can often convey more than the complicated words, as the dancers use both dance and dramatic skills.

Bachtrack.com describes The Winter’s Tale as a daunting undertaking for a choreographer, “but Wheeldon’s ballet is a true modern classic. The narrative is clear, the choreography is interesting. This 10th anniversary revival looks as fresh as the original opening night.”

One of the true gifts of a choreographer is working with the right creative team that understands the sets design, music, and costumes to build the vision in which the ballet will be performed. Reuniting with Wheeldon are scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley and composer Joby Talbot. With the superstar dancers of American Ballet Theatre (and quite possibly the most glorious theatrical tree ever created), audiences will be transported into a magical land where loves does conquer all!

Segerstrom Hall April 3–6

“Cheyenne Jackson … is utter perfection”

So says Broadway World.

And they aren’t the only ones. Theater Pizzazz says, “The sound that comes out of this guy … he’s really something special,” while the Orlando Sentinel says, “Jackson’s sparkling tenor is surpassed only by his gorgeously rich baritone.”

You get the idea. Cheyenne Jackson brings his critically acclaimed 54 Below show, Signs of Life, direct from New York to the Center’s Cabaret Series. A versatile and celebrated performer, Jackson is a Grammy-nominated stage, television, and film actor, singer, and songwriter and he does it all while making it look so easy.

Jackson likes to tell stories, and he has plenty of them. He keeps his audiences in stitches talking about everything from parenting (he and his husband have 8-year-old adopted twins), to

his own parents, and working on TV and on films. Jackson is a natural storyteller and can move seamlessly between the talking and singing for a delightful autobiographical evening.

Some can’t get enough of his beautiful voice. The late, great Broadway star Barbara Cook told Jackson, “Sing more, talk less.” But he loves to talk, and he does it so well! Since moving to Los Angeles and getting busy with films and television, hearing Jackson sing has been a rare public occurrence. But when Stage and Cinema says “That Jackson can sing beautifully is never in question,” you know it will be a special evening. This concert opportunity will sell out fast.

Samueli Theater April 10–12

Alton Brown takes a break

Alton Brown Live: Last Bite comes to the Center next month for one night only. And then that’s it. No more live shows for Alton Brown. For real. No more tours, no more crazy onstage experiments, no more cooking stories or cooking history lessons. Brown is stepping back. “It’s time for me to make my full-time return to male modelling,” he told Hennepinarts.org.

“Last Bite will share the same format as past shows,” he told People magazine. There will be live music, a multifaceted monologue, and a “very large, very unusual culinary demonstration.” His usual campy costumes, history lessons and pop-culture puns will all be there, too.

“Girl Scouts invented s’mores.” Brown loves to toss out food trivia as it comes up in his conversations. Wondering if your cooking oil is hot enough to start frying food? He says drop a popcorn kernel in and see if it pops. If it does, you’re ready.

Brown had a career directing TV commercials when decided he wanted to reinvent the cooking show and headed off to culinary school. When he returned, he created a new television show, Good Eats, an irreverent, science-forward program that kept Brown gainfully employed for 16 seasons.

But that wasn’t enough. He also hosted more television shows than you can shake a salad spinner at, iconic programs like Iron Chef America, Food Network Star, and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown’s live culinary variety shows have toured to sold-out crowds

across the country since 2013, and his tenth book, Food for Thought, a collection of essays and ruminations, was published in February of 2025. Among his various mantle candy are a pair of James Beard awards and a Peabody. He must be exhausted!

We hope that at some point he will miss us and start his shows again, but in the meantime, get your tickets for this one, because it will be a long time before he comes back on stage in a white coat and goggles.

Segerstrom Hall April 8

Plunging into catastrophes for great stories

Writer David Grann looks like a mild-mannered guy. He might be an accountant who takes his kids to the playground on Saturdays, and he once thought of having a career as a novelist.

But, as the saying goes, truth can be stranger than fiction, and as Grann researched stories he soon found himself engulfed in non-fiction accounts of great risk, ventures, and ordeals that he could not at first imagine were real. What will a person do to achieve their dream, even if it means possible death to themselves or the murder of someone else? Grann does not flinch at some of the gory details of the true stories he has uncovered.

Grann will be the featured author in the final presentation of the In Conversation series. Grann breathes new life into historical events, gifting his audience factually accurate tales that read like a thrilling work of fiction. Readers can be surprised at how so much history is still undiscovered.

The name of Grann’s first non-fiction book says it all: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. In the early 20th century, British explorer Percy Fawcett was obsessed with finding an ancient lost city said to be hidden in the Amazon jungle. After numerous attempts, he disappeared in 1925 on his last effort to find identifying evidence.

Grann plunged into Amazonia himself hoping

to find new proof of what might have happened to the renowned explorer. His attempts to uncover evidence of Fawcett and the lost city are fascinating. The Washington Post called the book “a thrill ride from start to finish.”

Grann’s second book, Killers of the Flower Moon: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI, focused on the Osage Nation of Indians in Oklahoma in the early 1920s, and the mysterious murders occurring in the Indian community. The Indians were in fact fabulously wealthy due to the oil boom on their land, and it was no secret that the White men who ran the town wanted this fortune for themselves. It’s an electrifying tale of at least 24 murders, and how the nascent FBI solved the crime. It was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and spent time on The New York Times bestseller list.

His third major book came out in 2023 and stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 26 weeks. The Wager, A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder takes place off the coast of South America. In 1740 the British ship The Wager is wrecked in Patagonia (today’s Argentina). With no rescue in sight, some of the men escaped and receive a hero’s welcome when they wash up in Brazil. Months later, three Wager survivors appear in Chile. Both groups return to England with accusations about each other of mutiny and treachery. “The Wager is one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read,” says a reviewer for The Guardian

As if that weren’t enough time spent at a keyboard, for the past 21 years Grann has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.

In this special evening, Grann reveals what initially inspires him to investigate a story and how he links the (often) forgotten histories to their relevance today. Even a crazed explorer can teach us some lessons.

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall April 16

MUSIC DIRECTOR CARL ST.CLAIR

The 2024-25 season marks Music Director Carl St.Clair’s 35th year leading Pacific Symphony. He is the longest-tenured American-born conductor of a major American orchestra. During St.Clair’s lengthy history, Pacific Symphony has become the largest budgeted orchestra formed in the last 50 years. Pacific Symphony was invited by the League of American Orchestras to become the newest and youngest orchestra among America’s Tier 1 Orchestras. Few orchestras can claim such rapid artistic development.

During his tenure, St.Clair has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished performances and his innovative approaches to programming. In April 2018, St.Clair led Pacific Symphony in its soldout Carnegie Hall debut, celebrating Philip Glass’ 80th birthday at the final concert of Carnegie’s yearlong celebration of the preeminent composer. The concert ended with a standing ovation and with The New York Times calling the Symphony “a major ensemble!” St.Clair led Pacific Symphony on its first tour to China in May 2018, the orchestra’s first international tour since touring Europe in 2006. The orchestra’s European tour included playing concerts in nine cities (including Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lucerne, and Vienna) in three countries appearing before capacity houses and receiving standing ovations and critical acclaim. The Hannoversche Allgemeine raved, “St.Clair and his fabulous orchestra completely won over Hanover… with spirit, a sense of sound, and utterly breathtaking precision” and Cologne’s General Anzeiger exclaimed, “Electrifying…captivating!”

The orchestra made its national PBS debut in June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America, conducted by St.Clair. Among St.Clair’s many creative endeavors are the highly acclaimed American Composers Festival, which began in 2000, and the opera initiative, “Symphonic Voices,” which has included concert-opera productions of Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Aida, Turandot, Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca, Rigoletto, and La Bohème in previous seasons.

St.Clair’s commitment to the development and performance of new works by composers is evident in the wealth of commissions and recordings by the Symphony. Beginning in the 2023-24 season, Viet Cuong was named the Symphony’s Composer-inResidence. The 2016-17 season featured commissions from pianist/composer Conrad Tao and Composerin-Residence Narong Prancharoen, a follow-up to the slate of recordings of works commissioned and performed by the Symphony in recent years. Other commissions include John Wineglass’ Alone Together, William Bolcom’s Songs of Lorca and Prometheus, Elliot Goldenthal’s Symphony in G-sharp minor, Richard Danielpour’s Toward a Season of Peace, Philip Glass’ The Passion of Ramakrishna, and Michael Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore, and The Gospel According to Sister Aimee. St.Clair has led the orchestra in other critically

acclaimed recordings including two piano concertos of Lukas Foss, Danielpour’s An American Requiem, and Goldenthal’s Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Other commissioned composers include James Newton Howard, Zhou Long, Tobias Picker, Frank Ticheli, Sir James MacMillan, Chen Yi, Curt Cacioppo, Stephen Scott, Jim Self (Pacific Symphony’s Principal Tubist), and Christopher Theofanidis.

Internationally, St.Clair has appeared with orchestras throughout the world. He has led orchestras in Asia, Central and South America, and Europe. In January 2024, following a 27-year relationship with Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal (Germany), St.Clair was named Honorary Guest Conductor for Life. In 2023, he concluded a successful 10-year tenure as Music Director with the National Symphony of Costa Rica. From 2008-10, St.Clair was General Music Director for the Komische Oper in Berlin. He also served as General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle (GNTS) in Weimar, Germany, where he led Wagner’s Ring Cycle to critical acclaim. He was the first non-European to hold this position at the GNTS; the role also gave him the distinction of simultaneously leading one of the newest orchestras in America and one of the oldest in Europe.

St.Clair has led the Boston Symphony Orchestra (where he served as Assistant Conductor for several years 1985-90), New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver symphonies, among many.

Carl St.Clair is a strong advocate of music education for all ages and is internationally recognized for his distinguished career as a master teacher. He has been essential to the creation and implementation of the Symphony’s extensive education and community engagement programs. In addition to his professional conducting career, St.Clair has worked with most major music schools across the country. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Chapman University and has served as a Presidential Fellow, working closely with the students of the College of the Performing Arts (2018-22). St.Clair has been named “Distinguished Alumni” at the University of Texas Butler School of Music beginning 2019. And, for over 30 years, he has had a continuing relationship with the USC Thornton School of Music where he is Artistic Leader and Principal Conductor of the orchestral and large ensemble program.

PACIFIC SYMPHONY

Carl St.Clair’s 35th Anniversary Celebratory Season

Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair for the last 35 years, has been the resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall since 2006.

Currently celebrating its 46th anniversary season, the Symphony is the largest orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 50 years and is recognized as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own community of Orange County.

In April 2018, Pacific Symphony made its debut at Carnegie Hall as one of two orchestras invited to perform during a yearlong celebration of composer Philip Glass’ 80th birthday, and the following month the orchestra toured China. The orchestra made its national PBS debut in June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America, conducted by St.Clair. Presenting more than 100 concerts and events a year and a rich array of education and community engagement programs, the Symphony reaches more than 300,000 residents—from school children to senior citizens.

In both 2005 and 2010, the Symphony received the prestigious ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Also in 2010, a study by the League of American Orchestras, Fearless Journeys, included the Symphony as one of the country’s five most

innovative orchestras. The Symphony’s awardwinning education and community engagement programs benefit from the vision of St.Clair and are designed to integrate the orchestra and its music into the community in ways that stimulate all ages.

The Symphony’s Class Act program has been honored as one of nine exemplary orchestra education programs by the National Endowment for the Arts and the League of American Orchestras. The list of instrumental training initiatives includes Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings, and Pacific Symphony Youth Concert Band.

The Symphony also spreads the joy of music through arts-X-press, Class Act, Heartstrings, Lantern Festival Orchestra, Symphony on the Go!, and Symphony in the Cities.

If you would like to make a gift to support the legacy of Carl St.Clair, please consider a gift to the St.Clair Tribute Fund Scan to make your gift today!

MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Carl St.Clair / Music Director

William J. Gillespie Music Director Chair

Alexander Shelley / Artistic and Music Director Designate

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Artistic and Music Director Designate Chair

Enrico Lopez-Yañez / Principal Pops Conductor

Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair

Richard Kaufman / Principal Pops Conductor Laureate

Jacob Sustaita / Assistant Conductor

Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor Chair

FIRST VIOLIN

Dennis Kim

Concertmaster

Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair

Yoomin Seo

Associate Concertmaster

Judy and Wes Whitmore Chair

Jeanne Skrocki

Assistant Concertmaster

Arlene and Seymour Grubman Chair

Michael Siess

Christine Frank

Ayako Sugaya

Ann Shiau Tenney

Joanna Lee

Robert Schumitzky

Agnes Gottschewski

Dana Freeman

Julie Ahn

Paul Manaster

SECOND VIOLIN

Madalyn Parnas Möller *

Elizabeth and John Stahr Chair

Jennise Hwang**

Yen Ping Lai

Yu-Tong Sharp

Ako Kojian+

Linda Owen

Sooah Kim

MarlaJoy Weisshaar

Alice Miller-Wrate

Shelly Shi

VIOLA

Meredith Crawford*

Victor de Almeida**

Carolyn Riley

John Acevedo

Hanbyul Jang

Julia Staudhammer

Joseph Wen-Xiang Zhang

Cheryl Gates

Phillip Triggs

CELLO

Warren Hagerty*

Catherine and James Emmi Chair

Benjamin Lash**

Robert Vos

László Mezö

Ian McKinnell

M. Andrew Honea

Rudolph Stein

Emma Lee

BASS

Richard Cassarino *

Douglas Basye**

Christian Kollgaard

David Parmeter+

Andrew Chilcote

David Black

Andrew Bumatay

Constance Deeter

FLUTE

Benjamin Smolen*

Valerie and Hans Imhof Chair

Sharon O’Connor

Cynthia Ellis

PICCOLO

Cynthia Ellis

OBOE

Jessica Pearlman

Suzanne R. Chonette Chair

Ted Sugata

ENGLISH HORN

Lelie Resnick

CLARINET

Robert Walker*

The Hanson Family Foundation Chair

David Chang

Charlie and Ling Zhang Chair

BASS CLARINET

Joshua Ranz

BASSOON

Rose Corrigan*

Ruth Ann and John Evans Chair

Elliott Moreau

Andrew Klein

Allen Savedoff

CONTRABASSOON

Allen Savedoff

FRENCH HORN

Keith Popejoy*

Adedeji Ogunfolu

Kaylet Torrez**

Henry Bond

TRUMPET

Barry Perkins*

Susie and Steve Perry Chair

Tony Ellis

TROMBONE

Michael Hoffman*

David Stetson

TUBA

James Self*

TIMPANI

Vacant

PERCUSSION

Robert A. Slack*

HARP

Michelle Temple

The Sungaila Family Chair

Principal

Assistant Principal

On Leave

2024-25 Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series

CARMINA BURANA & BACH

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025 @ 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025 @ 8 p.m.

Carl St.Clair, conductor

Benjamin Pasternack, piano

Alisa Jordheim, soprano

Nicholas Phan, tenor

Hugh Russell, baritone

Pacific Chorale

Robert Istad, artistic director

Southern California Children’s Chorus

Lori Loftus, founding director

Pacific Symphony

This concert is being recorded for broadcast on Jul. 3, 2025 on Classical California KUSC.

The 2024-25 season piano soloists are generously sponsored by The Michelle F. Rohé Fund

CARMINA BURANA

Sunday, Mar. 2, 2025 @ 3 p.m.

Carl St.Clair, conductor

Alisa Jordheim, soprano

Nicholas Phan, tenor

Hugh Russell, baritone

Pacific Chorale

Robert Istad, artistic director

Southern California Children’s Chorus

Lori Loftus, founding director

Pacific Symphony

Performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

MORTEN

LAURIDSEN O Magnum Mysterium for a cappella chorus

Pacific Chorale

BACH

Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052

I. Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Allegro

Benjamin Pasternack, piano

—INTERMISSION—

ORFF

Carmina Burana

FORTUNA IMPERA TRIX MUNDI (Fortune, Empress of the World) O Fortuna

Fortune plango vulnera PRIMO VERE (In Springtime)

Veris leta facies

Omnia Sol temperat

Ecce gratum

UF DEM ANGER (On the Green)

Tanz

Floret silva

Chramer, gip die varwe mir

Reie

Were diu werlt alle min IN TABERNA (In the Tavern)

Estuans interius

Olim lacus colueram

Ego sum abbas

In taberna quando sumus

COUR D’AMOURS (The Court of Love)

Amor volat undique

Dies, nox et omnia

Stetit puella

Circa mea pectora

Si puer com puellula

Veni, veni, venias

In trutina

Tempus est iocundum

Dulcissime

BL ANZIFLOR ET HELENA (Blanziflor and Helena)

Ave formosissima

FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI (Fortune, Empress of the World) O Fortuna

Alisa Jordheim, soprano

Nicolas Phan, tenor

Hugh Russell, baritone

Pacific Chorale

Southern California Children's Chorus

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Benjamin Pasternack, piano

r American pianist Benjamin Pasternack is recognized as one of today’s most versatile musicians, performing as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician across four continents. His orchestral engagements include performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the Pacific Symphony, among others. He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf, David Zinman, and Leon Fleisher.

Pasternack has appeared more than 20 times as a soloist with the Boston Symphony, performing at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and on European and South American tours to cities like Athens, Paris, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. He has been a guest artist at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Festival de Menton in France. He has also been featured twice on NPR’s SymphonyCast.

A native of Philadelphia, Pasternack entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 13, studying with Mieczysław Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. He won the Grand Prize at the 1989 World Music Masters Piano Competition in Paris and Nice, earning a $30,000 prize and international engagements. In 1988, he also won the top prize at the Busoni International Piano Competition.

After 14 years on the piano faculty at Boston University, Pasternack joined the piano faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1997.

Alisa Jordheim, soprano

Soprano Alisa Jordheim, praised for her “powerful” and “vocally resplendent” performances (San Francisco Chronicle), has earned acclaim in opera, concert, and recital. Her portrayal of Soeur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Caramoor International Music Festival was described as “sweet-voiced and endearing” (The New York Times). She made a striking role debut as Gilda in Rigoletto with San Diego Opera, where the San Diego Union-Tribune lauded her “huge crystalline voice” and impeccable coloratura.

Jordheim’s recent engagements include her role debut as Musetta in La Bohème with Pacific Symphony, a London concert debut with the Voces8 Foundation, and a return to Amarillo Opera for a recital. She also recorded works by Rami Levin for Acis and performed Ein deutsches Requiem with NEWVoices. Past highlights include Gilda in Rigoletto with Pacific Symphony and Amarillo Opera, Adele in Die Fledermaus with Central City Opera, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.

Nicholas Phan, tenor

American tenor Nicholas Phan, hailed as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers” (Boston Globe), is recognized for his intelligence, stage presence, and musicianship. He performs with leading orchestras and opera companies worldwide and is a passionate advocate for vocal chamber music. In 2010, he co-founded the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago (CAIC), where he serves as artistic director, promoting art song and vocal chamber music.

A celebrated recording artist, Phan’s Stranger: Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly earned a 2022 GRAMMY® nomination for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. He was previously nominated for Clairières (2020) and Gods and Monsters (2017), making him the first singer of Asian descent nominated in the category’s history. His extensive discography includes GRAMMYnominated recordings of Pulcinella with Pierre Boulez and Roméo et Juliette with Michael Tilson Thomas.

Phan has collaborated with top orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, and Bavarian Radio Orchestra. He has appeared at major festivals such as Ravinia, Tanglewood, BBC Proms, and Edinburgh. His opera credits include leading roles with Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and Glyndebourne.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Phan is a recipient of the Paul C. Boylan Distinguished Alumni Award and the Christopher Kendall Award. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

Hugh Russell, baritone

Hugh Russell has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, LA Phil, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), Cincinnati Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and many others.

He has worked with many eminent conductors, including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jaap van Zweden, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Manfred Honeck, Edo de Waart, Kent Nagano, Donald Runnicles, Steuart Bedford, Michael Christie, Hans Graf, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Rossen Milanov.

Operatically, he has performed in productions at LA Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Atlanta Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Arizona Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Manitoba Opera, the Wexford Festival, and Angers-Nantes Opera. Russell has performed in recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and numerous appearances with the New York Festival of Song.

A Fulbright Scholar, Jordheim has researched Scandinavian singing diction, published on the subject, and performed Scandinavian repertoire internationally. She holds a D.M.A. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and resides in Milwaukee with her husband, David Cohen, Associate Principal Trumpet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

As a pianist, he performed with Stephanie Blythe at Seattle Opera’s 50th-anniversary celebration and also collaborated with Christine Brewer for Illinois Humanities. In the coming season, Russell will perform with pianist Craig Terry and return to North Carolina Opera as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He will also rejoin the New Mexico Philharmonic to present his signature work, Orff’s Carmina Burana.

ABOUT PACIFIC CHORALE

The GRAMMY® Award-winning Pacific Chorale, an Orange County treasure, has “risen to national prominence” (Los Angeles Times) since its founding in 1968. Known for artistic innovation and a commitment to expanding the choral repertoire, the resident choir at Segerstrom Center for the Arts has premiered over 40 works, including commissions from John Adams, Jake Heggie, Morten Lauridsen, Tarik O'Regan, and Eric Whitacre.

Under Artistic Director Robert Istad, Pacific Chorale presents its own concert series and maintains a long-standing partnership with Pacific Symphony, with whom it debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2018. The choir also regularly performs with the LA Phil, winning the 2022 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 under Gustavo Dudamel. Other collaborations include the Boston Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and San Diego Symphony.

Pacific Chorale has toured extensively, most recently performing in Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom with the Bath Philharmonia and Free State Orchestra of Bavaria. Previous tours have taken the choir to 19 countries, with appearances alongside the London Symphony, Munich Symphony, and China National Symphony.

Committed to accessibility, Pacific Chorale has a discography of 14 recordings and extensive free digital content, including its acclaimed concert film The Wayfaring Project. The organization also provides robust choral education programs for students and the community.

Robert Istad, artistic director

Robert Istad, a GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor who “fashions fluent and sumptuous readings” (Voice of OC) with his “phenomenal” artistry (Los Angeles Times), was appointed Pacific Chorale’s Artistic Director in 2017. Under his leadership, the chorus continues to expand its reputation for excellence for delivering fresh, thoughtprovoking interpretations of beloved masterworks, rarely performed gems and newly commissioned pieces. In July 2023, he led Pacific Chorale’s first international tour in seven years, conducting performances at leading venues in Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom. His artistic impact can be heard on two recent recordings featuring Pacific Chorale, including the 2022 GRAMMY® Award-winning Mahler: Symphony No. 8 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel on Deutsche Grammophon (2021), for which he prepared the chorus. It won Best Choral Performance and also garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album, Classical. Additionally, Istad conducted the Pacific Chorale’s recording All Things Common: The Music of Tarik O’Regan released on Yarlung Records (2020). He regularly conducts and collaborates with Pacific Symphony, Berkshire Choral International, and Yarlung Records. His extensive credits also include recording for Sony Classical and guest conducting Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Tesserae Baroque, and Freies Landesorchester Bayern. Istad has prepared choruses for such renowned conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Williams, John Mauceri, Keith Lockhart, Nicholas McGegan, Vasilly Sinaisky, Sir Andrew Davis, Bramwell Tovey, Carl St.Clair, Eugene Kohn, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, George Fenton, and Robert Moody. An esteemed educator, Istad is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he was

recognized as CSUF’s 2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year. He conducts the University Singers and manages a large graduate conducting program, in addition to teaching courses on conducting and performance practice. Istad, who is on the Executive Board of Directors of Chorus America and serves as Dean of Chorus America’s Conducting Academy, is in demand as guest conductor, lecturer, and clinician.

ABOUT THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

CHILDREN’S CHORUS

The Change to Southern California Children's Chorus (SCCC) was founded in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of “enhancing children’s lives through distinguished choral music education and world-class performance.” SCCC currently serves nearly 300 children, ages 5 through 20. Through a program emphasizing musical aptitude, teamwork, discipline, self-confidence, and personal growth, SCCC strives to develop the entire character of its young singers.

A recipient of three Emmy® Awards, SCCC has gained international acclaim for the quality of its music education program. Its choruses frequently perform at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts and have thrilled audiences at Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Westminster Abbey, and the White House. Additionally, SCCC has contributed singers for Touchstone and MGM films, television productions and commercials, orchestral, adult choral, and opera productions, rock music recordings, and numerous Disney events, both televised and live. Its Emmy-winning performances include a collaboration with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith in a stirring rendition of “Dream On” for ESPN’s E:60 special Boston Strong, as well as a live performance of “What a Wonderful World” with Esperanza Spalding at the 84th Annual ACADEMY AWARDS®.

SCCC’s sequential choral program consists of six choirs led by a highly skilled and experienced faculty. As a tuition-based organization, SCCC remains committed to accessibility, offering scholarships and financial assistance to families in need. To keep membership affordable, SCCC engages in fundraising activities and relies on tax-deductible community contributions and support from grant-making organizations.

Lori Loftus, founding director

Lori Loftus is the founding director of the Southern California Children’s Chorus (SCCC), leading a faculty that serves young singers ages 5 to 18 in six choral levels. Under her leadership, SCCC has been recognized with three Emmy Awards for its distinguished choral music education and performances on prestigious stages, including Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House. A frequent guest keyboardist with Pacific Symphony since 1976, Loftus performs regularly on the organ at Segerstrom Hall and harpsichord for annual performances of Messiah with the Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony.

In 2007, she received the Outstanding Alumni Award for Excellence in Choral Music from California State University, Fullerton, and in 2022, the Titan of Music Award from CSUF’s School of Music. Beyond music, Loftus enjoys tournament golf, raising monarch butterflies, and traveling. She and her husband, John, have six grandchildren and two Siamese cats who bring her great joy.

Pacific Chorale

Robert Istad / Artistic Director and Conductor

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Artistic Director Chair

Kibsaim Escárcega / Assistant Conductor

SOPRANO

Rebecca Hasquet

Section Leader

Lauren Adaska

Amy Bandy

Cristen Bornancini

Alexandria Burdick

Andria Nuñez Cabrera

Chelsea Chaves

Jessica Dalley

Sophia Do

Rosiana Falzon

Stephanie Garcia Cochran

Amy Glinskas

Jenna Hansen

Saousan Jarjour

Hannah Kim

Corinne Larsen Linza

Susan M. Lindley

Jenny Mancini

Maria Cristina Navarro

Hien Nguyen

Mia Noriega Searight

Deborah Pasarow

Melanie Pedro

Sarah Schaffner-Pepe

Linda Wells Sholik

Sarah Sweerman

Ruthanne Walker Rice

Anne Williams

Victoria Wu

ALTO

Jane Hyun-Jung Shim

Section Leader

Emily Border

Mary Clark

Kathryn Cobb-Woll

Denean R. Dyson

Ivanna Evans

Jacline Evered

Marilyn Forsstrom

Mary Galloway

Kathryn D. Gibson

Emma Ginzel

Erin Girard

Kathleen Thomsen Gremi-

llion

Sandy Grim

Brandon Harris

Bonita Jaros

Hyocheong Kim

Kristen Kleinhans

Logan Mintz-Hernandez

Nancy Morgan

Michele M. Mulidor

Pat Newton

Kathleen Preston

Elizabeth Provencio

Suzanne Rahn

Kaleigh Sanchez

Laurel Sanders

Lauren Shafer

Rachel Steinke

Grace Stewart

Abby Tyree

Bonnie Yoon

Rhett M. Del Campo / President and CEO

Alex Nelson / VP, Artistic Production and Operations

David Clemensen, DMA / Collaborative Pianist

TENOR

Nicholas Preston

Section Leader,

Roger W. Johnson Memorial Chair

Jephte Acosta

Mike Andrews

Sheridan Ball

Nate Brown

Chris Buttars

Abraham Cervantes

Craig Davis

Michael Elson

Marius Evangelista

David Evered

Vincent Hans

Steven M. Hoffman

Craig S. Kistler

Christopher Lindley

Greg Long

David López Alemán

Ricardo Martinez

Gerald McMillan

David Melendez

Lance Padilla

Jared Pugh

Daniel M. Ramon

Bryce Rivera

Lissandra Tong

Jeff Wang

Frank Watnick

Christiaan Westerkamp

W. Faulkner White

BASS

Ryan Thomas Antal

Section Leader, Ron Gray Legacy Chair

Kyle Boshardy

Robert David Breton

Mac Bright

Louis Ferland

Karl Forsstrom

Randall Gremillion

Tom Henley

Jared Hughes

Jens Hurty

Alex Jacobson

Jared Daniel Jones

Matthew Kellaway

Jonathan Krauss

Dylan Leisure

Connor Licharz

Tom Mena

John Middlebrooks

Martin Minnich

Emmanuel Miranda

Kenneth Moore

Ryan Morris

Jason Pano

Seth Peelle

Raphael Poon

George Reiss

Ben Reyes

Joshua P. Stansfield

PROGRAM NOTES

Morten Lauridsen

OMagnumMysterium

Born: Feb. 27, 1943 in Colfax, Washington, USA

Composed: 1994

Premiered: Dec. 18, 1994 by the Los Angeles Master Chorale (the dedicatee)

Instrumentation: solo chorus

Approximate duration: 6 minutes

The deeply spiritual composer Morten Lauridsen, a native of the Pacific Northwest, writes music inspired by his love of nature and the mysteries of creation. He worked as a Forest Service firefighter and lookout (on an isolated tower near Mt. St. Helens) and attended Whitman College before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen. He began teaching at USC in 1967 and has been on their faculty ever since.

In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts and received the National Medal of Arts in 2007. In the White House ceremony bestowing the award, Lauridsen's presidential citation noted "his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide." He was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001.

A recipient of many grants, prizes, and commissions, Lauridsen chaired the Composition department at the USC Thornton School of Music from 1990-2002 and founded the School’s Advanced Studies program in Film Scoring. He has held residencies as guest composer/lecturer at over seventy universities and has received honorary doctorates from Whitman College, Oklahoma State University, Westminster Choir College and King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Lauridsen now divides his time between Los Angeles and the northern coast of Washington State.

Lauridsen's musical approaches are diverse, ranging from direct to abstract in response to various characteristics such as subject, language, style, structure, and historical era. His Latin sacred settings, such as the Lux Aeterna and motets, often reference Gregorian chant plus Medieval and Renaissance procedures while blending them within a freshly contemporary sound. The musicologist and conductor Nick Strimple said he was "the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic, (whose) probing, serene work contains an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered ...” This mystical quality abounds in O Magnum Mysterium (Oh Great Mystery).

Johann Sebastian Bach Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in

D minor, BWV 1052

Born: Mar. 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, Germany

Died: Jul. 28, 1750 in Leipzig, Germany

Composed: 1734-38

Premiered: Unknown; first confirmed performance was in first decade of the 19th century by harpsichordist Sara Levy (great aunt of Felix Mendelssohn) in Berlin with the Sing-Akademie

Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: Mar. 18, 2021, recorded and streamed as a virtual concert, with Carl St.Clair conducting and Claire Huangci as soloist

Instrumentation: strings and solo keyboard

Approximate duration: 24 minutes

Bach died before the modern piano was developed. But his mastery of the organ and the harpsichord, his freewheeling concerto transcriptions, and his fascination for the new musical technologies of his day all suggest that he would have pounced on the dynamic possibilities of the modern piano, just as he would’ve delighted to hear this concerto on the harpsichord.

Though musicologists once suspected that this concerto might originally have been composed for the violin, more recent scholarship indicates he had the harpsichord in mind. In the comprehensive BWV catalog of Bach’s compositions, numbers 1052 through 1065 are classified as harpsichord concertos, and when played on that instrument they flash with energy, fleet passagework and intertwined voices. For the modern pianist, the expressive possibilities are greater than they were for the harpsichord soloist of Bach's day—offering control of a wider dynamic range opening to a much louder sound, the possibility of legato phrasing, and notes that sustain instead of quickly decaying in the air. But the concertos' initial challenges remain as they do in all of Bach's keyboard works: accurate articulations of rapid, excitingly showy passagework are crucial, and all of Bach's twining contrapuntal voices must be clearly delineated. On the harpsichord, the passagework glitters.

Bach was living in Leipzig and was in his late 40s or early 50s when he composed this concerto, one of a group in which he freely mixes new material with transcriptions from earlier works. Such borrowing was a common artistic practice of the day; composers borrowed not only from themselves, but from each other. One of Bach's favored sources was Vivaldi, whose concertos numbered in the hundreds. Once Bach had completed his harpsichord concertos, he continued the recycling process, reworking individual movements in sacred cantatas.

The concerto is constructed in the typical threemovement form, fast, slow, fast, and is based on the master's violin concerto in E Major, which also survives in its original form. But in grandeur and dignity it surpasses most of its neighbors in the catalog, and is considered one of his most majestic concertos. We can hear this in the stately themes that open and close its outer movements, which start in the effervescent manner of Vivaldi but move on to more solemn musical statements. According to Bach scholar Richard D. P. Jones, the concerto is imbued with “a sense of huge elemental powers.”

Carl Orff

Carmina Burana

Born: Jul. 10, 1895 in Munich, German Empire

Died: Mar. 29, 1982 in Munich, West Germany

Composed: 1935-36

Premiered: Jun. 8, 1937 by the Frankfurt Opera in Frankfurt, Germany

Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: Sep. 28, 2019 with Carl St.Clair conducting

Instrumentation: three flutes including piccolo, three oboes including English horn, three clarinets including bass clarinet and e-flat clarinet, three bassoons including contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, two pianos, strings, solo soprano, tenor, baritone, and chorus including children's choir

Approximate duration: 67 minutes

Born in Munich to a distinguished Bavarian military family in 1895, Carl Orff grew up steeped in German cultural traditions and demonstrated his musical talent early. At a young age he learned to play the piano, organ, and cello and composed songs. He graduated from the Munich Academy of Music when he was 18 with a portfolio of early compositions that showed the influence of Debussy's innovations, then turned to the more Viennese experiments of Schoenberg, Strauss, and Pfitzner. But the year of his graduation was 1914, and Orff was coming of age in the shadow of World War I. Jobs as Kapellmeister at the Munich Kammerspiele and at theaters in Darmstadt and Mannheim honed his gifts in performance practice and music drama. In 1917 and 1918, as the war drew to a close, Orff was in his early 20s and was engaged in military service.

The development of Carmina Burana wove together all the main threads of Orff's early creative life: his gift for theatrical spectacle, his scholarly interest in medieval forms, and the return to musical innocence of his work in music education with Dorothee Günther (whom he eventually married). The oratorio's texts are the result of sympathetic work by an earlier scholar: a collection of lyrics dating from the 12th and 13th centuries discovered

at a monastery in Upper Bavaria by the musicologist J.A. Schmeller in 1847. Schmeller applied title Carmina Burana, referencing both the monastic order and the region of upper Bavaria where they were found.

The poetry of Carmina Burana was produced by poets including defrocked priests and minnesingers at a time when the church had a near-monopoly on music and poetry. In pushing the boundaries of acceptable artistic expression, it counterbalances the austerity of religious tradition with the earthiness of the here and now. Its humor can seem startlingly modern today. Written mostly in Latin with some in early forms of German and even a bit of early French, its lusty verses celebrate the pleasures of loving and drinking, and comment with ribald frankness on the vicissitudes of everyday life. Carmina Burana originally incorporated costumes for its vocalists as well as an elaborate set. It rarely includes these elements today. To analysts such as Hanspeter Krellmann and John Horton, this visual spectacle comports with Orff's aural spectacle: driving, emphatic rhythms, gleaming orchestration and declarative intensity of musical utterance.

The startlingly explicit lyrics of Carmina Burana have at various times been strategically condensed and expurgated. Sexy descriptions, such as one lover's removal of another's underwear, share time with raunchy double entendres, such as the description of a knight's lance rising at the sight of his lady. As is so often the case, censorship has accomplished less than nothing to desensitize these passages, only adding to their fascination. The music, for its part, is not just brazen in shoving the poetry's sensuality in our faces; it does so with glee, making everything it touches seem innocent. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the "In taberna" chorale (In the Tavern), a drinking song that describes the raucous behavior in a local tavern where everyone is present, accounted for, and drinking — the bumpkin, the sage, the pauper, the sick man, the bishop and the deacon, the old woman, and the mother among them. The music proceeds with a naive, bouncy double-rhythm that acquires the momentum of an avalanche.

Proceeding through sections on springtime, drinking, and love, Carmina Burana forms a perfect arch, ending where it began—addressing "Fortune, Empress of the World" and complaining melodramatically about her fickleness. But if fortune is indifferent to merit, at least it has spared Orff's most celebrated composition—a work that has become, with Handel's Messiah, one of the most widely performed oratorios ever written.

Michael Clive is a cultural reporter living in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. He is program annotator for Pacific Symphony and has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and U.K. and hundreds of program notes for orchestras and opera companies. Operahound.com

SYMPHONY 101: INSPIRATION

Sunday, Mar. 9, 2025 @ 3 p.m.

Alan Chapman, host

Composers find inspiration in many places: literature, visual art, nature, music by other composers, and even insomnia. With many musical examples and vibrant visuals, KUSC midday host Alan Chapman explores these sources of inspiration and how they are translated into music.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts: Samueli Theater

Alan Chapman is a composer/lyricist, pianist, radio producer/host (Classical California KUS, Los Angeles,) and educator. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned a Ph.D. in music theory from Yale University. He is currently a member of the music theory faculty of the Colburn Conservatory. He was a longtime member of the music faculty at Occidental College and has also been a visiting professor at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. His analytical work has appeared in the Journal of Music Theory and in The New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill, winner of the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing on music. Well known as a pre-concert lecturer, Chapman presents the Preview Talks for Pacific Symphony's Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series. His lectures have been presented by virtually every major performing organization in Southern California. He has been heard globally as programmer and host of the inflight classical channels on United and Delta Airlines. Chapman is also active as a composer/lyricist. His songs have been performed and recorded by many artists around the world and have been honored by ASCAP, the Johnny Mercer Foundation, and the Manhattan Association of Cabarets. His children’s opera Les Moose: The Operatic Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle was commissioned by Los Angeles Opera. Peter and Mr. Wolf, the story of an eighth-grader’s tribulations in finding a science project, was premiered by Chamber Music Palisades with Chapman as narrator. He is much in demand as a creator of original musical material for special events.

Chapman frequently appears in cabaret evenings with his wife, soprano Karen Benjamin. They made their Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 and performed at Lincoln Center in 2006. Their CD, Que Será, Será: The Songs of Livingston and Evans, features the late Ray Evans telling the stories behind such beloved songs as “Mona Lisa” and “Silver Bells.” Their other collaborations include Music of the People, a concert of art song settings of 19th-century American music, and Movie Music Magic, a program of cinematic favorites.

Pacific Symphony Pops is Underwritten by Sharon

J. and Thomas E. Malloy Family

MUSIC OF PHIL COLLINS AND GENESIS

Friday, Mar. 14, 2025 @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025 @ 8 p.m.

Stuart Chafetz, conductor

Aaron Finley, vocalist

Brook Wood, vocalist

Brian Kushmaul, drum set

TONY BANKS/ PHIL COLLINS/ MIKE RUTHERFORD "Turn It on Again"

BANKS/COLLINS/RUTHERFORD "Follow You, Follow Me"

BANKS/COLLINS/RUTHERFORD "That’s All"

BANKS/COLLINS/RUTHERFORD "No Reply at All"

PHIL COLLINS "I Missed Again"

PHIL COLLINS "One More Night"

PHIL COLLINS "Another Day In Paradise"

PHIL COLLINS "I Don’t Care Anymore"

PHIL COLLINS "Sussudio"

—INTERMISSION—

BANKS/COLLINS/RUTHERFORD "Abacab"

BANKS/COLLINS/RUTHERFORD "Invisible Touch"

PHIL COLLINS "In the Air Tonight"

PHIL COLLINS "Hold On My Heart"

BANKS/COLLINS/RUTHERFORD "Throwing It All Away"

PHIL COLLINS "Don’t Lose My Number"

PHIL COLLINS "Take Me Home"

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Stuart Chafetz, conductor

Stuart Chafetz is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Columbus Symphony and Principal Pops Conductor of the Chautauqua and Marin Symphonies.

Chafetz, a conductor celebrated for his dynamic and engaging podium presence, is increasingly in demand with orchestras across the continent and this season Chafetz will be on the podium in Baltimore, Detroit, Naples, Buffalo, Vancouver, Calgary, North Carolina, and Seattle. He enjoys a special relationship with The Phoenix Symphony where he leads multiple programs annually.

He’s had the privilege to work with renowned artists including Violent Femmes, Ne-Yo, Ben Folds, Natalie Merchant, Leslie Odom, Jr., En Vogue, Kenny G, David Foster with Catherine McPhee, The O'Jays, Chris Botti, 2 Cellos, Hanson, Rick Springfield, Michael Bolton, Kool & The Gang, Jefferson Starship, America, Little River Band, Brian McKnight, Roberta Flack, George Benson, Richard Chamberlain, The Chieftains, Jennifer Holliday, John Denver, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hampson, Wynonna Judd, Jim Nabors, Randy Newman, Jon Kimura Parker, and Bernadette Peters.

He previously held posts as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. As Principal Timpanist of the Honolulu Symphony for 20 years, Chafetz would also conduct the annual Nutcracker performances with Ballet Hawaii and principals from the American Ballet Theatre. It was during that time that Chafetz led numerous concerts with the Maui Symphony and Pops. He's led numerous Spring Ballet productions at the world-renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

When not on the podium, Chafetz makes his home near San Francisco, CA, with his wife Ann Krinitsky. Chafetz holds a bachelor’s degree in music performance from the CollegeConservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a master’s from the Eastman School of Music.

leading man Brian Howard in It Shoulda Been You, directed by David Hyde Pierce. Among his other work in New York, he participated in a lab production of George Takei’s new musical, Allegiance. In the fall of 2016, Finley took over the role of Charlie Price in Kinky Boots. He has been performing a pops symphony concert celebrating the music of the 1980s and Phil Collins across North America. Currently, Finley can be seen in the smash hit Moulin Rouge on Broadway.

Brook Wood, vocals

Brook Wood is a versatile singer based in New York City. In the summer of 2021, she was seen honoring the music of Queen and Journey at Prima Theatre in Lancaster, PA. In 2020, she made her debut with The Philly Pops in their POPS Rocks Phil Collins and Genesis and has appeared with several acclaimed symphonies including, most recently, the San Diego Symphony at the Rady Shell.

Wood is currently touring with some of Broadway's best in Neil Berg's 50 Years of Rock and Roll across the U.S. She originated the role of JP Morgan in the Adirondack Theatre Festival's production of Nikola Tesla Drops The Beat. She was also seen in the PATH Fund's Rockers on Broadway at Le Poisson Rouge benefiting Tom Kitt. She also toured with “Post Modern Jukebox On Deck” onboard Holland America Line in 2019. Wood is a native of Indianapolis, IN and a proud graduate of Indiana University.

Brian Kushmaul, percussion

Brian Kushmaul is the Principal Percussionist for the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. He regularly performs with orchestras in Buffalo, Columbus, Saint Louis, and Pittsburgh. He teaches drumming for the Chautauqua Institution’s “I Can Drum” School Residency and has also taught at the University of Evansville, University of Louisville, and University of Trinidad and Tobago.

Aaron Finley, vocals

Born and raised in Montana, Aaron C. Finley’s career has spanned from coast to coast as a professional actor and singer. Educated at Pacific Lutheran University in Seattle, he quickly became a top-tier talent in the Pacific Northwest, appearing in productions Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus/ Judas), Rent (Roger), Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik), Hairspray (Link Larkin), It Shoulda Been You (Greg Madison), and The Gypsy King (Drago). Among his other regional roles, Finley originated the role of Billy in the new musical Diner, based on the Barry Levinson film, with music and lyrics by Sheryl Crow and direction by Kathleen Marshall.

Finley made his Broadway debut in 2013, starring as Drew Boley in Rock of Ages. In 2015, he took over the role of

As a drumset artist, he has performed with Dave Grusin, Eddie Daniels, Len Boogsie Sharpe, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Phoenix Symphony, and he has recorded with the Central Standard Time Jazz Quartet and Al Sur flamenco ensemble. He currently resides in Western New York.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Arthur Ong* Chair

Susan Anderson* Co-Chair, Development Committee

Diana Martin* Co-Chair, Development Committee

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

DIRECTORS

Sally Anderson*

Susan Anderson*

Leona Aronoff-Sadacca*

Lindsay Ayers

Richard Bridgford

Eric Chamberlain

Jo Ellen Chatham*

Patrick Chen

Alayne Cortes

Bob Davey

William Dolan

Lucy Dunn

John Evans*

Barbara Foster*

Maria Francis

Mike Gordon*

Nick Guanzon-Greenko

Andy Hanson

Janine Heft

LIFE DIRECTORS

Sally Anderson

James Baroffio

Frances Bass

Suzanne Chonette

John Daniels

Jim and Jane Driscoll

Susie and Steve Perry

John R. Evans* Immediate Past Chair

Mark Nielsen* Vice Chair, Finance & Treasurer

Andria Strelow* Secretary

Michelle Rohé

Sally E. Segerstrom

Brian T. Hervey

Arnold Holland

Michelle M. Horowitz

James Newton Howard

Donald Hu

Jerry Huang

Reza Jahangiri

Patrick Johnson

Seth Johnson*

Edward Kim

Johanna Kim

Joann Leatherby*

Agnes Lew

Robin Liu

Phil Lyons*

Diana Martin*

Patricia McAuley*

David Melilli

Liz Merage

Catherine Emmi

Douglas Freeman

Ron Hanson

Hans Imhof

Barbara Sue Johnson

Abbas Mohaddes*

Haydee Mollura

Maurice Murray

Tawni Nguyen

Stacey Nicholas

Mark Nielsen*

Arthur Ong*

Anoosheh Oskouian*

Karin Pearson

John Peller

Judy Posnikoff*

Michelle Rohé

Chiyo Imai Rowe

Yassmin Sarmadi

Scott Seigel*

Evan B. Siegel

Hon. H. Warren Siegel

Ron Simon

Al Spector

Janice Johnson

Damien Jordan

Michael Kerr

William Podlich

Ronna Shipman

BOARD OF COUNSELORS

CarolAnn Tassios*

Chair

Stanley Angermeir

Dr. Fernando H. Austin

Lori Bassman

Sally Bender

William Bonney

Virginia Boureston**

Eileen Cirillo

Ronna Coe

Timothy Cotter, M.D.

Susan Crowson*

Dr. Robert F. Davey

Peter J. Desforges

Bridget Ford*

Marilyn Forsstrom

Kenneth Freed

Jack Goffman

Stevan J. Gromet*

Peter Haaker

Don Hecht

Betsy Jenkins

Tom Jenkins**

Carole Johnson

Marsha Johnson

Dennis Keith

Curt Knauss

Kenneth Labowe, M.D.

Milton Legome

Marilyn Liu

Ellen R. Marshall*

Goran Matijasevic

Dru Maurer*

John E. Forsyte* President & CEO

Ted and Rae Segerstrom

Walter B. Stahr

Andria Strelow*

M.C . Sungaila*

CarolAnn Tassios*

Andy Thorburn

Christopher Tower*

David Troob

Bart Van Aardenne*

Framroze (Fram) Virjee

Henry Walker

Judy Whitmore*

Nancy Wong

Jane Yada

Charlie Zhang

Segerstrom Center Liaison

Jane Yada

Doug Simao

Janice Smith

Elizabeth Stahr

Eve Steinberg

William Thompson

Musician

Representatives to the Board of Directors

Cynthia Ellis

László Mező

Robert Schumitzky

*Executive Committee

Ann McDonald

Lynn McMaster

Peter Moriarty

Kenneth Muzzy

Carla Neeld*

Dot Nelson*

Lauren Packard

Catherine Pazemenas

Rick Schweickert

Sean Sutton

Steven Tollefsrud

Stewart Woodard

Karen Thorburn*

Lucia Van Ruiten

Robert Zasa

Robert Zaugg

*Leadership Committee

**Deceased

ENDOWMENT SOCIETY

A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE

Since 1978, Pacific Symphony has been vital to Orange County's cultural scene, offering world-class performances and engaging educational programs. With over 75 dedicated musicians and more than 100 concerts annually, we strive to enrich lives throughout Southern California.

JOIN US IN SECURING THE FUTURE

We invite you to invest in our Endowment to sustain and grow these programs.

THE PHIL AND MARY LYONS CHALLENGE

We are excited to announce the $10 Million Challenge from Phil and Mary Lyons, providing a dollar-for-dollar match for all pledges made to the endowment before June 30, 2027. This means your contribution will effectively double, bringing us closer to our $100 million endowment goal. Participate in this challenge to honor your love of music while ensuring a vibrant future for Pacific Symphony.

IMPACTFUL PROGRAMS

Your support sustains our signature concert series, including the Classical and Pops Series, and education initiatives like Class Act and Heartstrings, reaching thousands of young musicians and underserved communities.

ENDOWMENT CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions can be made through cash, securities, or estate planning. Our endowment currently stands at over $40 million, with a goal of $100 million by 2035 to secure long-term financial stability.

NAMING OPPORTUNITIES

Establish a named endowment or musician chair:

• $500,000: Section Musician Chair

• $1 million: Principal Chair for 15 years

• $2.5 million: Associate/Assistant Principal Chair in perpetuity

• $3.5 million: Principal Chair in perpetuity

YOUR GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

By contributing to our endowment, you ensure that Pacific Symphony continues to inspire future audiences.

LET’S SHAPE THE FUTURE OF MUSIC TOGETHER

For more information on how to contribute, please contact Emily Rankin, Vice President for Development at ERankin@pacificsymphony.org or (714) 876-2398.

DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

PACIFIC SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT SOCIETY

PHILLIP N. AND MARY A. LYONS HONORARY CO-CHAIRS

Permanent gifts to provide program funds for future generations.

MAESTRO’S VISIONARIES

($10,000,000+)

Phil and Mary Lyons

CONDUCTOR’S VISIONARIES

($5,000,000 - $9,999,999)

Charlie and Ling Zhang

Judy and Wes Whitmore

SYMPHONIC VISIONARIES

($2,000,000 - $4,999,999)

Catherine and James* Emmi

William J. Gillespie*

Eleanor* and Michael Gordon

Mary and Peter Muth*

Susie and Steve Perry

Pat and Bill Podlich

Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation

ORCHESTRAL VISIONARIES

($1,000,000 - $1,999,999)

Suzanne and David Chonette

Rondell and Joyce Hanson

Hans and Valerie Imhof

Dot & Rick Nelson

Elizabeth and John* Stahr

COMPOSER’S VISIONARIES

($500,000 - $999,999)

Dorothy B. Stillwell*

M. William Dultz*

Stacey Nicholas

CONCERTMASTER'S VISIONARIES

($250,000 - $499,999)

Anonymous

William E. Boehringer II

Margaret Corkett

Michael W. Dewey

Mary E. Moore

Paul and Elisabeth Merage

Joseph* and Karalyn Schuchert

Theodore and Janice Smith

William and Nancy Thompson

SONATA VISIONARIES

($100,000 - $249,999)

Anonymous

Christine Poochigan-Avakoff*

Stanley Behrens

John and Ruth Ann Evans

Roger W.* and Janice M. Johnson

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Roger and Gail* Kirwan

Marcy Arroues Mulville*

Annette Rosenthal*

Julia Rappaport*

Fred and Wendy Salter

William and Nancy Thompson

COUNTERPOINT VISIONARIES

($25,000 - $99,999 )

Sally Anderson and Tom Rogers

Susan and Sam* Anderson

Kim and Dawn Burdick

Damien and Yvonne Jordan

Roy Garrett and Dianne Belcher

Mark Chapin Johnson and Barbara Johnson

Donald* and Dorothy Kennedy

Randall* and Suki McCardle

David and Tara Troob

Ben and Cheryl Trosky

Henry Walker

Samuel and Mary Gayle Wolgemuth

Wallace and Elizabeth Wong

* In Memorium

DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

CRYSTAL SOCIETY

The Crystal Society recognizes those donors who over time have made a commitment of $1 million or more. We extend our thanks to the following donors for their extraordinary support.

Anonymous (3)

Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Ahmanson Jr.

Susan and Samuel* Anderson

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Leona Aronoff-Sadacca

Chevron

Suzanne and David Chonette

City of Santa Ana

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Driscoll

M. William Dultz*

Catherine Emmi

Ruth Ann and John Evans Freedman Foundation

Lynn and Douglas Freeman

William J. Gillespie*

Eleanor and Michael Gordon

The Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom

Family Foundation

Joyce and Rondell Hanson

David L. Horowitz Family

Valerie and Hans Imhof

The James Irvine Foundation

Janice M. Johnson

Mark Chapin Johnson

Damien and Yvonne Jordan

Phil and Mary Lyons

Sharon and Tom Malloy

Tiffany and Joseph Modica

Mary Moore

Mary M. Muth*

National Endowment for the Arts

Stacey E. Nicholas

The Nicholas Endowment

The Opus Foundation

The Orange County Register

Rev. and Mrs. Steven L. Perry

Sheila and Jim Peterson

Patricia and William Podlich

Judith Posnikoff

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Redmond

The Segerstrom Foundation

Sally E. Segerstrom

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Mr. Douglas Simao and Ms. Kate Peters

MARCY ARROUES MULVILLE LEGACY SOCIETY

Sandi and Ronald Simon

Janice and Ted Smith

Wilbert D. Smith

Elizabeth and John* Stahr

State of California

Target

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Thompson

Tara and David Troob

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Tu

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walker

Judy and Wes Whitmore

Charlie and Ling Zhang

Zion Charity Foundation

*In Memorium

The Marcy Arroues Mulville Legacy Society honors those who generously make provisions for support of Pacific Symphony in their wills, trusts, financial plans or other planned gifts and gifts of future support. We salute those who have made extraordinary commitments to assure that Pacific Symphony will continue to grow and serve the Orange County community beyond their lifetimes.

Anonymous (3)

Dr. and Mrs. Julio Aljure

Leona Aronoff-Sadacca

Eric Baur*

Fredrick M. Borges, Esq.

Rosalind Britton

Maclay* and Claire* Burt

In memory of Frank Carr

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Champion

Jo Ellen Chatham

Alfred J. Chilson & Jamie P. Chilson

Grégory Pierre Cox

Jann* and Walter* Dietiker

Ben* and Patricia* Dolson

Gerald* and Eva Dongieux

David M. Doyle

Catherine and James* Emmi

Lois V. Fahey*

Hani Feller

Bridget Ford

Petrina Noor Friede

Philip and Katie* Friedel

Denise and Al Frink

Gloria Gae Gellman

William J. Gillespie*

Gary Good and Jackie Charnley

Ildi and Stephen* Good

Eleanor and Michael Gordon

Mr. and Mrs. Rondell B. Hanson

Dr. David E. Hartl*

Mildred Hicks

Roger W.* and Janice M. Johnson

Richard Alan Keefe

Kim and Nancy Kelley

Mr. and Mrs. William Klein

Gayle* and Roger Kirwan

James Lathers*

Mr. Gordon L. Lockett*

John and Loreen Loftus

Phil and Mary Lyons

Joan L. Manuel

Pat and Rick McAuley

Suki and Randall* McCardle

William and Lynn McMaster

Mrs. Carole S. Miller

Carlos* and Haydee Mollura

Marcy Arroues Mulville*

Mary M. Muth*

George W. Neiiendam

Dot and Rick Nelson

Jean E. Oelrich

Bill* and Linda Owen

Marjorie L. Phillips*

Patricia and William Podlich

Mr. and Mrs. Osdale-Popa

Christine Poochigan-Avakoff*

Mark and Russell Ragland

Drs. Julia* and Irving* Rappaport

Drs. Barbara* and Roger Rossier

Chiyo and Stanton Rowe

Elinor Schmidt*

Ernest and Donna Schroeder

O. Carl Schulz*

Dwight Spiers*

Bill C. Thornton*

Scott and Leslie Siegel

W. Bailey and Lenda Smith

The Estate of Sol and Polly Sloan

Wilbert D. Smith*

Louis G. Spisto

Elizabeth and John* Stahr

Ronald and Cathleen Stearns

Joseph* and Linda Svehla

Lillian Tallman-Neal*

CarolAnn Tassios

Jane Pickford Taylor*

Andrew and Karen Thorburn

Carole and Michael Wade

Jill Watkins

Ruth Westphal*

Vina Williams*

Kim and Allen Yourman

Robert and Janet Zaugg

Charlie and Ling Zhang

Madeline and Leonard Zuckerman

*deceased

DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

BOX CIRCLE CLUB

The Box Circle Club is a members‑only experience with exclusive seating and reception areas. Please call (714) 876 2396 for more information about becoming a Box Circle Club member.

Mary Ann Adams

Sarah Anderson and Thomas Rogers

Susan Anderson

Timothy and Diane Andrews

Leona Aronoff-Sadacca

Dr. Fernando Austin

Hana Ayala

Jennifer Toma Bainum

Richard Boureston

Barbara and Alexander Bowie

Andrene and Dale Bresnan

Sue and Rich Bridgeford

Dede Brink

Carolyn Brown

Jane and Michael Burke

Linda and David Bush

Carol and Eugene Choi

Suzanne and David Chonette

Carlota and Daniel Ciauri

Rebecca Cooper

Alayne Cortes

John Daniels

Suzanne DeRossett

Suzanne and Peter Desforges

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Claudia Erticci

Ruth Ann and John Evans

Peggy and Jon Feder

SYMPHONY 100

Bridget L. Ford

Lynn and Douglas Freeman

Petrina Friede

Carolyn and John Garrett

Margaret Gates

Eleanor and Michael Gordon

Rona & Stevan Gromet

Rondell and Joyce Hanson

Lucille Harrison

Drs. Donald and Gwen Hecht

Betty and Melvin Hoeffliger

Michelle and David Horowitz

Linda and William Hughes

Shirley and Christopher Hull

Beth and Gavin Huntley-Fenner

Valerie and Hans Imhof

Dr. Leslie Israel & Mr. John Bernstein

Michael Ishikawa and Rochelle Bowe

Donna Janes

Elizabeth and Gary Jenkins

Marsha & Gary Johnson

Patrick & Denise Johnson

Lucetta Kallis

Barbara and Donald Kaul

William Kroener

Joann Leatherby and Dr. Greg Bates

Chang Lim

Robin Liu and Shiyao Peng

Bonnie and Paul Lubock

Nancy Lyons

Phillip and Mary Lyons

Linda P. Maggard

Sharon and Tom Malloy

Roberta and Richard Mathies

Pat and Richard McAuley

Suki McCardle

Terry McDonald

Darrellyn and David Melilli

Elizabeth and Paul Merage

Ms. Liz Merage

Ellen & Howard Mirowitz

Steven and Jenny Mizusawa

Timothy Molnar

Leslie & Bob Mulford

Nancy and Rick Muth

Alexandra and Peter Neptune

Alan and Anoosheh Oskouian

Richard and Lauren Packard

Steven and Susan Perry

Stephanie Richards

Michelle Rohé

Arthur and Reisha Rosten

Cheryll Richard Ruszat

Dr. Ron M Schilling

Sally Segerstrom

Theodore and Rae Segerstrom

Scott and Leslie Seigel

Drs. Evan and Jean Siegel

Janet and Henry Siegel

Janice and Theodore Smith

Al Spector and Tatjana Soli

Elizabeth Stahr

Masami and Walter Stahr

Ronald and June Stein

Larry and Lisa Stofko

Robert Stroup

Mary-Christine Sungaila

CarolAnn Tassios

Karen and Andrew Thorburn

Christopher Tower and Robert Celio

David Tsoong and Betty Tu

W. Ulmer

Ginni and Kent Valley

Paul and Stacey Von Berg

Lynn and Frank Wagner

Judy and Wes Whitmore

Mr. Steven Wolf & Ms. Karen Skirvin

Devin Wozencraft

Jane Fujishige Yada

Allen and Kimberly Yourman

Ling and Charlie Zhang

Symphony 100 is a women’s group dedicated to educating its members about classical music and supporting the artistic programming of Pacific Symphony.

Mary Ann Adams

Sharon G Adams

Donna Anderson

Michelle Parrish Banas

Sylvia Barnett

Barbara Bowie

Dede Brink

Carol Choi

Suzanne Chonette

Alayne Cortes

Eileen Cirillo

Cheryl Dale

Julie A. Davey

Ginny Davies

Susan A De Santis

Sandra DiSario

Kathy Dunlap

Patricia S. Felbinger

Rosalie Lynn Friedman

Hope Henry Hansen

Dr. Gwen Hecht

Gerda Hemenway

Michelle Horowitz

Gwyn Hoyt

Edith Van Huss

Valerie Imhof

Raya Jaffee

Sharon Johnson

Johanna Kim

Varla Knauss

Eve A. Kornyei

Joann Leatherby

Luciana Marabella

Dru Maurer

Elizabeth McClellan

Ann McDonald

Lynn McMaster

Darrellyn Melilli

Haydee Mollura

Dot Nelson

Charlotte Novom-Stone

Catherine Pazemenas

Patricia Podlich

Joan Price

Nola Rochelle

Chiyo Rowe

Dolores Schiffert

Donna Schroeder

Harriet Selna

Patti Sheiner

Marsha Simmons

Beverly Spring

Elizabeth Stahr

Patricia Steinmann

Andria Strelow

Ginger Sun

Stacey Von Berg

Stephanie Wang

Jaynine Warner

Nella Webster

Gigi Werbin

Nancy Wong

Janet Zaugg

Joyce Zohar

DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

GOVERNING MEMBERS

Governing Members are music lovers who have a passion and appreciation for Pacific Symphony and value the musical experiences the orchestra brings to the community by making a gift of $2,500 or more to Pacific Symphony. We gratefully acknowledge the following supporters whose generous annual fund contributions provide the cornerstone of support for Pacific Symphony.

ST.CLAIR SOCIETY

($250,000+)

Anonymous (2)

Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Ahmanson Jr.

Suzanne and David Chonette

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lyons

Sharon and Tom Malloy

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Judy and Wes Whitmore

BERNSTEIN CIRCLE

($100,000–$249,999)

Leona Aronoff-Sadacca

Janet Curci

Mr. and Mrs. Moti Ferder, Lugano Diamonds

Eleanor and Michael Gordon

Joyce and Rondell Hanson

Valerie and Hans Imhof

Anne MacPherson and Peter West

Patricia and William Podlich

Terry and George Schreyer

Mrs. Elizabeth Segerstrom

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Simon

Janice and Ted Smith

Andria and Peter Strelow

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Thompson

Ling and Charles Zhang

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE

($50,000-$99,999)

Anonymous

Ms. Mei-Yen H. Chang

Suzanne and David Chonette

Julie and Robert F. Davey

Mr. Bill Dolan, U.S. bank

Valerie and Barry Hon

David L. Horowitz Family

S. L. and Betty Huang

Tom Jenkins

Ms. Joann Leatherby and Dr. Greg Bates

Suki McCardle

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Merage

Carlos* and Haydee Mollura

Dot and Rick Nelson

Karin and Jeff Pearson

Rev. and Mrs. Steven L. Perry

Judith Posnikoff

Elaine Sarkaria

Ronna and Bill Shipman

Ms. Tatjana Soli and Mr. Al Spector

Masami and Walter Stahr

Andrew and Karen Thorburn

Ginni and Kent Valley

STRADIVARIUS CIRCLE

($35,000-$49,999)

Mr. Patrick Chen

Carol and Eugene Choi

Ruth Ann and John Evans

Maria and Raymond Francis

Drs. Donald and Gwen Hecht

Agnes Lew

Diana Martin and Mark Tomaino

Isidore C. & Penny W. Myers Foundation / Jay E. Myers

Arthur Ong and Ginger Sun

Chiyo and Stanton Rowe

Leslie and Scott Seigel

Drs. Jean and Evan Siegel

Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation/Jeff Snyder

Elizabeth Stahr

VIRTUOSO CIRCLE

($20,000-$34,999)

Susan Anderson

Ambassador and Mrs. George L. Argyros

Mr. John Daniels

Lynn and Douglas Freeman

Annica and James Newton Howard

Mark Chapin Johnson

Sharon and Seth Johnson

Parker S. Kennedy

Johanna and Kenneth Kim

Shiyao Peng and Robin Liu

Clara and Robert Lobel

Loreen and John Loftus

Anoosheh and Alan Oskouian

Dr. Steven Matthew Sorenson

Mary-Christine Sungaila

Christopher D. Tower and Robert E. Celio

Pat and Richard McAuley

Dr. William and Lynn McMaster

Darrellyn and David Melilli

Kenneth S. Muzzy

Mark Nielsen

Honorable and Mrs. H. Warren Siegel

Mr. and Mrs. David Troob

Justin and Melissa Vaicek

Nancy Wong and Richard Yang

Yvonne and Damien Jordan

Janet and Robert Zaugg

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE

($15,000-$19,999)

Sylvia Alva, Ph.D

Sally Bender

Margaret Gates

Kate Levering-Jahangiri and Reza Jahangiri

Deborah H. and Jeffrey H. Margolis

Rick Reiff and Mary Ann Brown

Cheryll and Richard Ruszat

Patricia A. Steinmann

Lee Anne and Bart van Aardenne

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

($10,000-$14,999)

Samuel P Adams

Sarah Anderson and Thomas Rogers

Bridget Ford

Rebecca Cooper

Ms. Kristin S Crellin

Susan and Robert Crowson

Patrick and Mary Dirk

Marc Carlson and Jacqueline DuPont

Kenneth E Fait

Dawn Dow and Kenneth Ferguson

Mr. Walter C Fidler

Marilyn and Karl Forsstrom

Parvina and Jim Glidewell

Rona and Steve Gromet

Song Guo

Betsy and Gary Jenkins

Denise and Patrick Johnson

Barbara and Donald Kaul

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Langson

Mr. Richard LeBrun

Dru and Larry Maurer

Theresa and Abbas Mohaddes

Lauren and Richard Packard

Suzy Krabbe and William Shanbrom

Nancy and James Shih

CarolAnn Tassios

Edward S. Yeung

COMPOSER’S CIRCLE

($5,000-$9,999)

Anonymous

Anne and Stan Angermeir

Dr. Fernando H. Austin

Lori and Harley Bassman

Robert and Margaret Beck

Virginia* and Richard Boureston

Barbara and Alexander Bowie

Linda and Robin Boyd

Carolyn D. Brown

James and Kathryn Burra

Marcia and John L. Cashion

Ms. Wendy Castille

Irving and Nancy Chase

Eileen Cirillo

Drs. Timothy and Sandra Cotter

Jerome and Judith Cwiertnia

Tony Dehbozorgi

Mrs. Sandra DiSario

Michele Moe-Forsyte and John Forsyte

Odette and Ken Freed

Mr. Alec Glasser

Jack Goffman

Curt and Melanie Graham

Ms. Patricia Grubman

Mr. William Grubman

Peter and Elizabeth Haaker

Helen Haig

Joe Huang and Sherry Chen

DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

Jerry and Judy Huang

Janice M. Johnson

Marcia and Gary Johnson

Mr. Keith A Johnson

Mr. Curtis A. and Mrs. Varla E.N. Knauss

Alois and Setsuko Krickl

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Labowe

Susan and Milton Legome

Paul and Marilyn Liu

Ellen Marshall

Susan* and Goran Matijasevic

Ann McDonald

Peter and Jennifer Moriarty

Mr. and Mrs. Rick J. Muth

Carla and Kenneth Neeld

Janet Marie and James Walkie Ray

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Schweickert

Deedee and Don Sodaro

James Sommerville

June and Ron Stein

Steven Tollefsrud and Sheila Maquilan

Lucia Van Ruiten

Larry Woody

Sheng Jiang and Jane Xu

Robert Zasa and Judy Amiano

SYMPHONY SOCIETY

SOLOIST’S CIRCLE

($3,500-$4,999)

Rosalind Britton

Jim Carter

Bill Dickinson

Mr. David Dunford

Lucy Dunn

Thomas and Ainin Edman

Sanaz K. Soltani and Rakhshan

Foroutan

Graham & TJ Forsyth

Janet and John Fossum

Mr. Paul Hahm

E.G. and Anna Hornbostel

Mark Ike

Sheng Jiang

Joanne and Dennis Keith

Ms. Pooneh Khazei

Jennifer Klein

Sun Young Kwak

Eric Lee

Peter Tan and Sabina Lin

Luciana Marabella

Pam and James Muzzy

Ms. Natolie Ochi

Catherine Pazemenas

Caroline Renken

Herb Roth

Michael Schreter

Patti Sheiner

Chris Trela

Lisa Roetzel and Alan Terricciano

Steven Wolf and Karen Skirvini

PERFORMER’S CIRCLE

($2,500-$3,499)

Dr. Donald and Claudia Abrahm

Manfred Beckers*

Dan and Carlota Ciauri

D. Robinson and Tammi Cluck

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Coe

Mr. Mohsen Fahmi

Shaping Wang and Lin Fang

Rashmi Goel

Jonathan And Sharyn Grant

Jennifer K. Ho

Kristin Jackson

Donna and John Jaecker

Mr. Sharo Khastoo

Linda and Robert Knoth

Susan and Jeff LeBoff

Brian and Deborah McGowan

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Mitchell

Robert Narver

Mr. Manuchehr Neshat

Yvette Pergola

Edmund and Martha Peyton

Emily Rankin

Mr. Richard Reisman

Bob Romney

Robert and Ann Ronus

Donald and Irina Sabers

Dolores L. Schiffert

Jane and Robert L Schneider

Shari Simmons

Gregory Smith & Liz Podsakoff

Marta and Dr. William N. Sokol

Lisa and Sean Sutton

Edith and Thomas Van Huss

Ms. Charlotte Varzi

Chao Sun and Stephanie Wang

Linda Overby Wedell

Dr. Cynthia West

Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard

James and Jennifer Wong

David Yeung and Oliva Wong

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zhao

Joyce Zohar

Symphony Society members provide important additional support to Pacific Symphony through annual contributions between $50 and $2,499.

CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE

($1,000-$2,499)

Anonymous

Mary Ann Adams

Ms. Sharon G Adams

Ms. Amy Amirani

Ellen Breitman and Brien Amspoker

Donna Anderson

Tim and Diane Andrews

Liz and Lee Aydelotte

Carole and Gary Bacher

Michelle and Mark Banas

Barbara Benson

Mr. Ryan Best

Carolyn and Matthew Biller

Pamela L. Blake

Dede and Howard* Brink

Dr. Sharon Brooks and Mr. Knox Brooks

Mrs. Patricia Bueker

Kim Cardoso

Mr. Mike Cassidy

Ray and Jill Chan

David and Jenny Chang

Denise Chilcote

Robert Chilcote

James Fan and Claire Chou

Victoria and David Collins

Gordon Cowan

Mrs. Cheryl Dale

Keith Dashofy

Catherine and Dean Dauger

Ginny Davies

Delos Knight and Peggy Day

Seyed Dinan

Cynthia and Mark Disman

Joan M. Donahue

Kathy and Jerry Dunlap

Cheryl and James Farkas

Don and Don Farmer

Feyzi and Sheila Fatehi

Patricia S. Felbinger

Dr. Sidney Field

Peter Foley

Ms. Patricia Ford

Steven Frates

Rosalie Lynn Friedman

Judi and Richard Glass

Susan Glass

Ildi Good

Kimberly Greenhall

Sanjiv and Geeta Grover

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Guth

Hope Henry Hansen and Erik Hansen

Stephen Harner

Kathie Harris

Marilyn Heron

Randy Heyler

Mark and Janet Hilbert

Mr. Dai Hoang

Chester and Patricia Houston

Gwyn and Bill Hoyt

Sherry Irani

Ms. Scharrell Jackson

Raya Jaffee

Donna Janes

Eileen Jeanette

Dr. Valeh Karimkhani

Fereshteh Kassiri

Elaine and Michael Kleinman

Eve Kornyei

Kevin and Doris Lee

Kaii Lee

Sam Liu and Maggie Liang

Sam and Shiow-Bih Liao

Rhona Gewelber and Hali Lieb

Kevin and Michelle Liu

Linda P. Maggard

Mr. Fasha Mahjoor

Richard and Roberta Mathies

Elizabeth McClellan

Charlene J. Metoyer

Betty Middleton

Christine Misback

Jenny and Steven Mizusawa

Bradley Moll

Dr. Edwin S Monuki

Ms. Ferial Mosharaf

Mary Moss

Veronica Navarretta

Tawni Nguyen

Charles and M. Cathleen Niederman

Allison and Charles Nightingale

Frank and Arlene O'Donnell

Patricia Odonnell

Linda Owen

Dorothea and Peter Perrin

Sue and John Prange

Ms. Joan Price

Mark Quental

Larry and Karlena Rannals

Lelie Resnick

Katherine and Ernest Reveal

Mrs. Nola Rochelle

Arthur and Reisha Rosten

Adrianus Ruygrok

Shawyon Malek-Salehi

Ms. Susan A De Santis

Donna and Ernest Schroeder

Harriet and James Selna

Arkady and Ella Serebryannik

Debra Kornswiet-Shandling & Family

Dr. Joel Sheiner

Paul and Sybil Silverstein

Bill and Marsha Simmons

Siamek Siyami

Bob and Liz Sliepka

John and Chris Smith

Terry Hanna and Paul Specterman

Beverly Spring

James and Susan Staub

Richard A. Stea, M.D.

Ronald and Cathleen Stearns

Dr. Zeinab Dabbah and Dr. Daniel Temianka

Sandra and Robert Teitsworth

Ms. Donna Thiessen

James Thomas

Susan Tobiessen

John W. Ulrich

Nancy C. Untener

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Von Berg

Richard and Katherine Wagner

Lynn and Frank Wagner

Tsong and Jenny Wang

Jaynine and Dave Warner

Nella Webster

Susie Wegis Pendleton

Tim and Audrey Welch

Birgatta and Dan Werbin

DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

Angela Whyel

Harold And Linda Wolff

Venita and Todd Wulffson

Mirei and Shinobu Yoshida

Nazgol Zandipour

PRINCIPAL’S CIRCLE

($550-$999)

Mrs. Shirley Sarah Behar

Wanlyn Bejach

Heidi and Roger Blackwell

Marjorie Boelman

Daniel and Charlotta Butler

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Carter

Jamie and Alfred Chilson

Dr. David and Lois Erikson

Ms. Claudia Erticci

Ms. Jacqueline Fox

Carolyn and John Garrett

Mr. Robert Hartman

Terry C. Heptinstall

Donald Hu and Janet Zheng Kong

Pamela Jarrett

Lucetta Kallis

Rawloo Khalap

Dr. Jason King

Janet L Laurin

Ms. Joan Manuel

Ajay Mishra

Eleanore Monroe

Robert Moodey

Janet Tahzib-Nozparast

Sarah Onheiber

Mr. James Palmer

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Young jazz musician fuses old and new

Jazz pianist Emmet Cohen may be a young guy (still some years away from turning 40) but he’s well versed in the history of jazz. In the course of one concert he can swing from ragtime to be-bop to post-bop to blues. He knows his jazz antecedents and every show mixes new millenium with 20th-century jazz style.

Emmet and his trio return to Samueli Theater next month, adding the Center to the long list of big-name international jazz venues he has performed at, including the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Ronnie Scott’s in London, Jazzhaus Montmartre in Copenhagen, and the Cotton Club in Tokyo.

“Cohen is one of the finest piano players to emerge in decades,” says All About Jazz. “He is a supremely gifted and impassioned artist of the highest order.”

Cohen started piano lessons at the age of 3, and by the time he was in high school he had joined a jazz ensemble. As he moved on to college Cohen recorded and self-released his first album. Before he graduated, he was a finalist in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition.

Now he has achieved international acclaim, including winning the 2019 American Pianists Awards and more. “Whether operating as a bandleader or as a sideman for [jazz vocalist] Veronica Swift, the New Jersey native continues to scale all manner of jazz ladders, taking third place in Downbeat’s recent Pianist poll,” says Seattle’s Post Alley.

But as much as Cohen loves playing, he also loves sharing and growing his jazz family of fans. During the 2020 lockdown, Cohen was frustrated at not being able to perform live so he developed Live from Emmet’s Place, a series of weekly performances by his trio and special guests

live-streamed from his NYC apartment. These concerts, which received millions of internet views worldwide, set the standard for live internet jazz performance. Part of Cohen’s aim with these concerts was to keep his musicians working and paid, but he also realized that while he might reach 200 people at a club, on the internet he can reach thousands of listeners. He created a huge community of fans that now clamor for tickets to his live shows, which sell out weeks before he arrives at the venue.

Cohen has also created the Masters Legacy Series, with recordings, live interviews, and performances for which Cohen plays the piano with the featured jazz master. His aim is to keep the jazz flame alive and record the sounds and stories of the jazz legends.

“I felt like there was a generation gap,” says Cohen. “I wanted to create an artistic project that would allow for collaboration between the oldest generation and the youngest, with intergenerational transference of knowledge and passing of the torch.” He says the older musicians are so appreciative of being able to tell their stories. “They are all very emphatic about the music, and how it has guided their lives, and how it’s guided the shape of America.” These were the musicians who lived and played during segregation and can speak about how they continued playing America’s music through a time when it often wasn’t wanted in some parts of the country.

It is obvious that Cohen lives and breathes jazz and wants everyone to love it as much as he does.

Samueli Theater April 5

Andsnes has entered an elite circle of pianistic stardom... When he sits in front of the keyboard... extraordinary things happen

SUNDAY | MAR 30, 2025 3PM

GRIEG Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7

GEIRR TVEITT Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 129, “Sonata Etere” CHOPIN 24 Preludees, Op. 28

by Joan Marcus

Lin-Manuel Miranda is considered a Broadway genius. He made his Broadway debut in 2008 at the age of 28, writing the music and lyrics for, and starring in, the musical In the Heights, which won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. For the next few years he worked on other musical projects, and there were many. (Miranda seems able to juggle multiple projects without letting anything drop.)

In the midst of these commitments Miranda took a vacation. He was sitting on a beach in Mexico reading Ron Chernow’s 800-page biography of Alexander Hamilton when he was inspired to create a rap about the first US secretary of the treasury. It began as just one song and quickly grew to become a revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation.

Hamilton follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honor, love,

and a legacy that would shape the course of a nation. It had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. For that, Miranda created a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway.

In addition to its 11 Tony Awards, it has won Grammy® and Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.

The critics were crazy for it. “Hamilton is the kind of transformative theatrical experience that has only happened a few times in the history of American musicals,” says the Guardian, while The New York Times says, “Hamilton is a theatrical landmark.”

Get tickets today for the Tony-, Olivier-, Grammy-, and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that everyone is still talking about. That’s Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton.

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Fire and spice

Jordi Savall might have been born in the wrong century. For most of his life, the Spaniard has championed Western early music, from medieval and Renaissance to the Baroque and Classical eras. We are all the richer for his obsession with finding and protecting early music.

For his return to the Center’s Chamber Series, he brings his ensemble Hespèrion XXI for Music of Fire & Love, a program built upon Baroque music.

“For Jordi Savall, music enfolds histories,” says The New York Times. “It reflects worlds. To draw a distinction between musicology and the sheer joy of performance is next to impossible.”

His interest in this music is all encompassing. Savall has composed music for films, including

Tous les Matins du Monde with a story that takes place in the 17th century, presented Baroque opera, and, most importantly to him, has spent countless hours in libraries and archives unearthing musical gems from obscurity and breathing new life into centuries-old works, leading musicologists to the reappraisal of historical music. It was all “new music” at one time, to be learned and experienced.

Savall is a Grammy® Award-winning early music interpreter who began his music education at the age of 6 in his school choir in Barcelona. He went on to master the cello and taught himself to play the viola da gamba, the precursor of the cello. This was the start of 50 years of dedication to music, including as a teacher, a scholar, a performer, and conductor.

His ensemble musicians are specialists with historical instruments. “As a consort, Hespèrion XXI sounds airy, floaty and smooth,” says InReview. “The slower pieces are lush and elegant. Savall’s consortiers all partake in the same style that he has made so distinctively his own, although each in slightly different ways.”

“I’ve been working with the same musicians for more than 40 years,” says Savall. “You share everything when you play music with people— this is something very intimate.”

“Refined, stately pieces were mixed with fiery numbers in which the sparks flew,” says InReview of a recent concert. “Savall often does this in his concerts: He spices things up no end.” That’s what we want to hear… literally.

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Still fabulous at 50

In the summer of 1975, few Broadway devotees realized they were experiencing something wonderful on two stages: musicals that had patrons lining up for rare available tickets. Each would become an American masterpiece and forever earn a place in popular culture and Broadway history: A Chorus Line and Chicago.

In A Fabulous 50th: Chicago and A Chorus Line, the Center celebrates the milestone anniversary of these shows and the men behind the curtains who brought them to life: Marvin Hamlish and John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Marvin Hamlish most famously wrote the music for A Chorus Line, which went on to win 9 Tony Awards. It was a box office megahit about dancers auditioning for the chorus of a Broadway show. The director asks them to tell him a bit about themselves and they reveal hopes and dreams in timeless songs.

Hamlisch started his Broadway career as rehearsal pianist for Barbra Streisand, and it was an upward trajectory from there, including writing her most famous song, “The Way We Were,” from the movie of the same name. Hamlish was part of the EGOT Club—a winner of Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Oscar awards—as well as a Pulitzer Prize. He won three Oscars the year he turned 29, two for the score and title song of the film The Way We Were, and one for his score of The Sting

After his death in 2012, Streisand praised him, saying it was “his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humor that made him a delight to be around.”

Broadway legends Fred Ebb and John Kander were responsible for Chicago. The pair were already famous for Cabaret and would become even more famous for writing the iconic song “New York, New York” for a Martin Scorsese film of the same name. It became most famous as a signature song for both Frank Sinatra and Liza Minelli.

Chicago was based on a 1926 play about two women murderers who become criminal celebrities—a concept that certainly rings true today. The 1996 revival of the show is still the longest-running revival in Broadway history. The music tied into the jazz age sound of the 1920s, with each song modeled on an actual vaudeville number.

In addition to writing nearly 20 musicals, Kander and Ebb also collaborated closely with singer/actress Liza Minnelli. It was a long collaboration, with Minelli making her Broadway debut in their first Broadway show, Flora, the Red Menace. Minelli won a Tony Award for her role, and all three never looked back. Kander and Ebb were recognized in the 1998 Kennedy Center Honors.

Every Broadway fan will want to be part of this evening as we celebrate these incredible music creators.

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall April 18

Above: John Kander and Fred Ebb; right: Marvin Hamlish

Donors

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is enormously grateful for the support from the donors listed on the following pages. Your generosity empowers the Center to provide dynamic performances and artistic education programs for all of Orange County. You allow us to continue our promise to become an inclusive cultural resource for our entire community. Thank you!

CUMULATIVE GIVING

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is deeply grateful to the following donors who have provided extraordinary support during their lifetime:

$20,000,000 +

Julia and George Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation

Audrey Steele Burnand*

William J. Gillespie*

Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom

$10,000,000 + Toby Andrews Anonymous Angels of the Arts

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. David Wayne Grant

The Guilds of the Center

Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*

Mr. Donald E. and Lacy Moriarty

Eugene and Ruth Ann Moriarty*

Jean Moriarty*

Richard A. and Marilyn Kayla Moriarty

Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry

Samueli Foundation

Sally E. Segerstrom

Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom

Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation

Ruth Segerstrom*

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Mr. Toren H. Segerstrom

Veronica P. Segerstrom

Mrs. Yvonne Segerstrom*

South Coast Plaza

Mrs. Richard Steele*

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Williams

$5,000,000 +

Bank of America / Bank of America Foundation

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Steve* and Cindy Fry / Fry Family Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

Ralph and Eleanor Leatherby Family Foundation

General* and Mrs. William Lyon

Harry and Grace Steele Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

$3,000,000 +

The Boeing Company

Broadway Across America Freedom Communications, Inc.

Michael and Eleanor* Gordon

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times

Rick Muth Family/ORCO Block & Hardscape

Dr. Henry Nicholas III

Ms. Stacey Nicholas

Bill and Pat Podlich

Michelle Rohé

$2,000,000 +

Anonymous

Zee M. Allred,* Dean C. Allred, Carol Ann Allred Starr

Mrs. D. James Bentley*

Benjamin and Carmela Du

Edison International

The First American Corporation Fluor Corporation / The Fluor Foundation

John and Toni Ginger

Mark Chapin Johnson

W. M. Keck Foundation

Kia Motors America, Inc.

Kling Family Foundation

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

Sharon D. Lund Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

Tara and David Troob

Jean and Tim Weiss

$1,500,000 +

Ginger and Tony Allen

Mr.* and Mrs. James P. Baldwin

The Beall Family

Deborah and Larry J. Bridges

Kevin and Denise Cassin

Eileen J. Cirillo

Cox Communications / Cox Media

Randy and Sally Crockett

Mr. and Mrs. Moti Ferder, Lugano Diamonds

Paul F. and Daranne Folino

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

The Irvine Company

Margaret G. and Thomas E. Larkin*

Paul and Lilly Merage

Mercedes-Benz USA

Mrs. Marjorie T. Rawlins*

Rutan & Tucker, LLP

Spectrum Reach

Elizabeth Colyear Vincent*

Cecil C. and Kathryn H. Wright*

$1,000,000 +

Anonymous

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson

Bette and Wylie Aitken

Automobile Club of Southern California

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bettingen*

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bettingen*

Marta and Raj Bhathal

California Bank & Trust

Callero Family Foundation

Ellen and Clarence* Conzelman

Delta Air Lines

Carole and Robert* Follman

Leo Freedman Foundation

June M. Fry

Jackie Glass / Kling Family Foundation

Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson

Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester Family Foundation

George Hoag Family Foundation

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Kaiser Permanente

KJAZZ 88.1

Shanaz and Jack Langson

Corey and Leslie Leyton

Mrs. Colleen Manchester

David and Kathryn Moore

Mrs. Mary E. Moore

Pam and Jim Muzzy

Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. O’Bryan

Pacific Life

Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts

Donna Shannon-O’Bryan

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith

The Sommerville Trust

Georgia Hull Spooner*

Diane and David Steffy

Dorothy Stillwell*

Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family

The Warner Family

Wells Fargo / Wells Fargo Foundation

Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*

Carol* and Kent Wilken

$750,000 +

Mary and Richard* Cramer

James* and Catherine Emmi

Maralou and Jerry* Harrington

Dr.* and Mrs. Randall R. McCardle

Mrs. Mary M. Muth*

Trish and John* O’Donnell

Charles and Patricia Poss*

Rockwell International

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Karalyn and Joseph* Schuchert

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen Shea

Janice and Ted Smith

The Reinhold Foundation

Mr.* and Mrs. Joseph M. Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson

Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

$500,000 +

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen

The Allergan Foundation

Doug and Jaimee Baker

Pamela and Al Baldwin

Dr. and Mrs. Arnold O. Beckman*

Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach

Katherine and Howard Bland

Cartier

Victoria* and David Collins

Patricia Fredricks-Dolson*

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes II

Andy and Joan Fimiano

Carol Frobish*

Frome Family Foundation

Harriett F. Grant*

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz*

Valerie and Hans Imhof

The Joseph Family

JPMorgan Chase & Co. / JPMorgan Chase & Co. Foundation

Barbara* and Robert Kleist

K-MOZART 105.1 FM

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

KOCE

Eve A. Kornyei

Classical KUSC

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

Marcia L. Millen, in memory of James and Leath Millen

NORDSTROM

The Peter Ochs Family

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Ralphs / Food 4 Less

Carlene Rona*

Estate of Karen Ann Roos

Michael* and Stacy Schlinger

H. Michael and Holly Schwartz

Nick and Heidi Shahrestany

The Shanbrom Family

Shea Homes Foundation

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine

Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza / Spenuzza Velastegui Family

Foundation

John* and Elizabeth Stahr

Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Mrs. Valaree Wahler

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Warmington

*in memoriam

CENTER FUND

The Center Fund provides general operating support on an annual basis for Segerstrom Center for the Arts and its programs. We are honored to recognize the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their gifts made between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. Your generosity makes all we do possible—and we thank you! To learn more about the Center Fund and the benefits of giving, please contact us at 714.556.2122 x4009 or Give@scfta.org.

$500,000+

Kevin and Denise Cassin

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

$250,000+

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Moti Ferder, Lugano Diamonds

The Guilds of the Center

Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom

$100,000+

Elizabeth and Bart Asner

Marta and Raj Bhathal

Deborah and Larry J. Bridges

Randy and Sally Crockett

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Valerie and Hans Imhof

Kling Family Foundation / Jackie Glass

Ms. Suki McCardle

Britt and Robert Meyer

Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry

Bill and Pat Podlich

Michelle Rohé

Michael* and Stacy Schlinger

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

H. Michael and Holly Schwartz

Sally E. Segerstrom

Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza / Spenuzza Velastegui Family Foundation

Steven M. Sorenson Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

Jaynine and Dave Warner

Carol* and Kent Wilken

$50,000+

Anonymous (2)

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Eileen J. Cirillo

EnergizeStudents.org

Andy and Joan Fimiano

John and Toni Ginger

Jenny and Jeff Gross

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Reza Jahangiri and Kate Levering-Jahangiri

The Jonathan and Nicole Cronstedt Foundation

Burt and Molly Jolly

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Karla Kraft and Anderee Berengian

Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon

The Louise Merage Family Foundation

Marcia L. Millen

Rick Muth Family / ORCO Block & Hardscape

Lana and Walter Parsadayan

PeopleSpace / Jesse & Amy Bagley

John and Sherry Phelan

David and Molly Pyott Foundation

Carolyn Zarate-Ramsey and Robert Ramsey

Ms. Maria Rigatti

Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel

Stewart R. Smith and Robin A. Ferracone

Tony and Jessy Smith

Diane and David Steffy

Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family

Tammy and Samuel Tang

Tara and David Troob

Laura and Tim Vanderhook

Charlie and Ling Zhang

$35,000+

The Aronoff Family

City of Hope

David and Barbara Cline

Mary and Richard* Cramer

John L. and Carol Curci

Floriani Family

Harmon and Lea Kong

Paul and Bonnie Lubock

Mr. and Mrs. James V. Mazzo

Mr. and Ms. James P. Previti

The Schreiber Family

Mr. John E. Stratman

Dr. Michelle and Mr. David Tabb

The Tappan Foundation

Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation

$25,000+

Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus Arman

Katherine and Howard Bland

Steven and Herma Brenneis

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Cancellieri

Chapman University

Bobbi Cox

Janet L. Curci

Tim and Michelle Dean

Allan* and Sandy Fainbarg

Angela Friedman

Michael and Debra Garnreiter

GOAL Foundation

The Grosvenor Family

Maralou Harrington

Barbara Hiller Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kohl

Dr. Allan Lifson and Isaac Torres, Jr.

Deborah H. and Jeffrey H. Margolis

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Matheson

Rebecca and Carl McLarand

Lisa and Richard Merage

Haydee Mollura

Jasmine Morielli, in memory of Scott Morielli

Mara and Keith Murray

Jennifer and Brian Niccol

Cheryl Hill Oakes

Maryam Parman

Mr. John R. Patterson

Laila and Dryden Pence

Mary Phillipp and David Johnson

Karen Rabe

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Ronna and Bill Shipman

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Sullivan

Stacey and Paul Von Berg

$15,000+

Ginger and Tony Allen

Ben and Carmela Du Family Foundation Fund

Tom and Pam Bender

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bergman

Toni and Steven Berlinger

Maria Cadigan

The Cameron Family Foundation

Mary and John Carrington

David and Victoria* Collins

Gail and Jim Daniels

Mr. and Dr. Debons

Mr. and Mrs. W. James Edwards III

Dr. and Mrs. David Eggleston

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Estabrooks

Anthony and Carie Ferry

Frome Family Foundation

Diane and Joyce* Froot

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/ Kay K. Fukunaga

The Doug* and Julie Garn Family

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Garrett

Kim and Scott Harris-Weiner

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Hayes

Constance Hsu

Gay and Rob Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy M. Jones

Nicole and Steve Joseph

Ms. MaryLois Kuhn

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Kuluris

Corey and Leslie Leyton

Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Livingston*

Douglas (Tad) Lowrey and Gayle Lowrey

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

Mr. and Mrs.* Robert J. Mairena

Lauri McIntosh and John Bottjer

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Meiling

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Merage

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moorhead

Richard A. and Marilyn Kayla Moriarty

Pam and Jim Muzzy

Dr. Kevin O’Grady and Mrs. Nella Webster

Patrick E. Paddon and S. Leslie Jewett

Evelyn and Pete Parrella

Mr. Gerry Parsky

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pitts

Melinda and Steven Sanders

Dr. Sarah Scott and Mr. Christopher Scott

Scott and Leslie Seigel

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Selva

Shorebreak Foundation, LLC

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon

Marca and Brian Singer

The Sommerville Trust

Sue and Ralph Stern

Stephanie and Cory Sukert

Katie and Peter Szyman

Donna and Ray Thagard, Jr.

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family

Paige West

The Whitcher Family

$10,000+

Anonymous

Mrs. Olivia Abel

Mr. and Ms. Barry Aronoff

The Beall Family

The Bish Family

Mr. and Mrs.* David C. Brown

Kimberly Burge

John and Kate Carvelli

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Chonette

Amy Chu

Gunnel Cole

Mr. Joseph Connor

Robert* and LaDorna* Eichenberg

Andra and Tom Ellingson

Mr. and Mrs. Scot Ellingson

Pat Felbinger

Drs. Richard Gates and Gail Maitson Gates

Mrs. Vicki Gumm

Ms. Marci Hollander

Mr. Matthew M. Jadali

Dr. and Mrs. Gary T. Jenkins

Jim and Gale Luce

Brad and Becky Lund

Ms. Diana Martin and Mr. Mark Tomaino

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Oswald

Pralle Krotts Family Foundation

Trish and Steve Scarborough

David and Orva Schramm

Mr. and Mrs. Damon Shelly

Richard and Patricia Shinto

Mindy and Glenn Stearns

Josh and Nicole Strathman

Adam and Artemis Tuliper

In memory of Barbara Steele Williams*

$5,000+

Mr.* and Mrs. Byron Allumbaugh

Elizabeth An and Gordon Clune

Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Anderson

Julia and George Argyros

Lisa Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation

Stephanie Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bain

Katheryn Baker

Pamela and Al Baldwin

Sally Bender

Mr. and Mrs. Colin Best

Dr.* and Mrs. John R. Betson

Barbara and Alex Bowie

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cohn

Mr. Gordon Cowan

Michael Dreyer and Hannah An

Lewis H. Drumwright

Laurie and Steve Duncan

Judi Dutton

Terry and Jeffrey Edwards

Susan and Robert Ehrlich

Ms. Lupe Erwin

Shari and Harry Esayian

Ashley and Zach Fischer

Christy and Rich Flanagan

Carole and Robert* Follman

Iris and Arnold Frankel

Lynn and Douglas K. Freeman

Mary Gilly and John Graham

Cory Glass

Howard Gleicher / Damon Chen

Michael and Eleanor Gordon

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grody

Marlene and Sam* Hamontree

Karen Hardin-Swickard

Ms. Kerry L. Hedley

Gavin and Ninetta Herbert

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Himes

David L. Horowitz Family

Ms. Victoria Hutton

Mr. Rodney Imai

The Jaffe Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jaffee

Janice M. and Roger* W. Johnson

Jessica and James Johnson

Dr. Tatiana Kain and Dr. Zeev Kain

Don and Soogie Kang

Teri Kennady

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

Eve A. Kornyei

Mr. Peter Krieger

Randy and Sarah Lake

Ms. Fiona LeCong-Ly and Dr. Vietnam Ly

Dr. and Mrs. Milton Legome

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Edward LeVasseur Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Lewis

Linda I. Smith Foundation

Monika Lopez

Patricia Ann and Robert M. Marshall

Charles* and Twyla Martin

Ms. Sarah McElroy

Ms. Olga Megdal

Suzanne and James Robb Mellor

Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Meltzer

Michelle Merage

John and Karen Meston

Sylvia D. Michler

Miracle Foundation Fund

Vanessa Moore

Bob and Christie Narver

Trish and John* O’Donnell

Mr. and Mrs. William O. Passo

Perfect Parts Corp.

Randall* and Cecilia Presley

Ms. Carol Primm

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Proctor

Walter and Renate Rados

Joel and Lilya Reiss

Joan Riach Gayner

Marilyn Hester Robbins and William H. Robbins

Mr. Robert E Romney

Charles and Kathy Rosenberger

Georgia and Robert Roth

Kathryn Rousek Smith

Jan Vitti Rubel

Dr. J. Ruggio

Sandy and Harriet Sandhu

Joan and Alan Sellers

Mr. and Mrs. Evan Slavik

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spanos

Nancy and Geoffrey Stack

Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Steele

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Steinmann

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Strader

Peter and Mary Tennyson

Amy and Jeffrey Vieth

Dr. Christina Wainwright and Mr. Shep Wainwright

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Watson

William K. Hood and Gloria L. Hood Fund

Paul and Cheryl Wyrick

Darren and Christina Xanthos

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yourman

$2,500+

Anonymous

Laurie and Jonathan Abelove

Ms. Kathy R. Akashi

Mr. Paul Anderson and Ms. Jessica Parris

Dr. Chris Apodaca

Sharon Barrett

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bein

Mr.* and Mrs. Dror J. Benjamin

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Benkie

Barbara J. Benson

Ms. Rhonda Beylik

Mark and Marilyn Bleak

Gloria Brandes

Elisabeth and Dr. Frank Brow

Ms. Kelly Burke

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Callard

Jean Campbell

Mrs. Stella Mae Charton

Mr. Theodore Chen

Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino

Lisa Ciampa

Robert and Diana Clemmer

Mr. Otis Cliatt II

Ronna and Donald Coe

Candice Collings Gorsuch

Mr. William Gordon and Dr. Susan M. Condrey

Confidence Foundation

Corkett/Myers Families

Michael and Anne Crawford

Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham

Victoria Cushey

Noël Davis

Gregg Denicola, M.D.

Dr. Daniel P. Dennies

Mrs. Sandra DiSario

Steve Dunham

Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Evarts

Farmers & Merchants Bank

Robert Farnsworth and Lori Grayson

Ms. Roberta Feuerstein

Ms. Gwendolyn Forquer

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Francis

Dr. Robert Furman

Mike and Sharon Galassi

Mrs. Jerra L. Garrett

Margaret Gates

Miriam Ghabour

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gorum

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hale

Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson

Bruce and Eileen Harrigan

Bill* and Harriet Harris

Ms. Allyson Hoppe

Ms. Jessie Hou

Mark and Kristine Howlett

Mr. Mark P. Ike

Mr and Mrs Jim Irwin

Jackson Tidus

Donna Janes

Mrs. Susie Jaqua

Mr. L. Wayne Jeffcoat

Tom Jenkins

Randy and Linda Kearns

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keith

Keller Family Fund

Jennifer Keller

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Klein

Dr. Elliott Kornhauser

Dr.* and Mrs. Paul K. Lam

Mrs. and Mr. Mikey Lares

Latham & Watkins

Kevin Lawrence

Kevin and Doris Lee

Ms. Michelle Lee

Paula Lingelbach

In memory of Victorio Adan Maestas

Miss Ariana Miramontes

Mr. and Mrs. William Mawhorter

R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel

Toni* and Terry McDonald

Robert and Patricia McLaughlin

Susan Mears

Donors

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Melilli

Willis L. and Dorothy M. Miller and Family

Thomas and Deanna Mitro

Moises Montoya

Tom and Naomi Moon

Mr. and Mrs. David Murray

In memory of Mr. Robert T. Newell

Newmeyer & Dillion

Chien and Linh Nguyen

Julia Nguyen-Kim

The Minoru Nitta Family

Northern Trust

The Peter Ochs Family

Annette and Joseph Oltmans II

Yvette Pergola

Sandra and Dan Perlmutter

Ms. Diane Peterson

Pharris Group

Mr. Willard Pierce

Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc.

Patricia Price and Craig Behrens

Marcia Kay and Ron Radelet

John Rallis and Mary Lynn Bergman-Rallis

Suzanne C. and Jim H. Reinhardt

David* and Linda Roberson Family

Mr. and Mrs. Loren Rojek

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Ronnenberg

Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne

Paul and Mary Sackman

Mr.* and Mrs. Jack A. Sage

Ms. Lynn Salo

Ms. Irma O. Sands

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schneider

Emmanuel Sharef

Mary Shebell and Merle McCormick

Lance and Deborah Slimmer

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stark

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Stein

Ronald and June Stein

Lisa and Wayne Stelmar

Susan and Richard Stuelke

Ruth E. Sully

Mr. Lee R. Sutherland

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Sweeney

Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie, Jr.

Mary Tolar

Dr. David L. Tsoong and Dr. Betty K. Tu

Ann Van Ausdeln

S. Vander Wal and S. Vincent

Ambassador and Mrs. Gaddi H. Vasquez

Megan and John Waldeck

Mr. Jeff Walden

In memory of Robert D. Walters

Mrs. Martha E. Weida

Ms. Sandy Wessman

Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard

S. Gayle Widyolar, M.D.

Mrs. Bobbitt Williams

Kathy Willman

Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. Zipser

$1,500+ Anonymous

Ms. Janine Adesko

Ms. Donna Anderson and Mr. Ronald Willut

Mr. John L. Auger

Dr. Thomas Bailey

Baker Family Trust

Ms. Diane Bangar

Mr. Robert T. Barnum and Ms. Ying Liu

William Beeson

Mrs. Jennifer Berg

Berwood Management, Inc.

John and Kathy Besnard

Ms. Donna S. Bianchi

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blair

Bill and Judy Brady

Ms. Karly Brown

Mrs. Frances Buchanan

Mr. Hoang Bui

Sylvia Burnett

Ms. Donna F. Calvert

Ms. Deidre Campbell

Luisa Cano

Chadwick Family

Marty Chao and Jean Chung

Dr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Chapman

Ms. Sandra Chiles

The Chozen Family

Ms. Sharon A. Cleaver

Ms. Mary Coates

Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor

Mr. James and Mrs. Lavon DeGraw

Mrs. Lorraine Dentz

Joan M. Donahue

Ms. Jill Dulich

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Duncan Jr.

Ellen Dupuy

Frances L. Dye

Ms. Nancy Eberhardt

Lynda Tryon Einstein

Alexander Eliseev

Karen Ellis and Sandra Hartness

Cyndee Ely

Emmons-Babilo Family

Ms. Kaaryn File

Mrs. Cristy Fischbeck

Cliff and Kathy Fleming

Elizabeth and John Fleming

Christine Flowers

Janet Ford

Steve* and Cindy Fry / Fry Family Foundation

Marte* and Jack Ganoung

Greg Gates

Mr. Gary Goldsworthy

Gerrie Goodreau

Mr. Donald Gormly

Dr. Lorellen Green

Sharon and John Gregg

Mr. and Mrs. David Hale

April and Gene Hartline

Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hartshorn and Family

Vicki and David Hatfield

Mr. Frank T. Henry

Gary* and Sara, Frank and Brad Hinman

Mr. Dai Hoang

Toni Hoyt

Hing and Doris Hung

Mr. Darrel Huntington

Dr. Douglas and Sandra Jackson

Buzz* and Joan Jackson

Laurie Jacobs

Ms. Cynthia L. Jennings

Kenneth L. and Marilyn C. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Kern

Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Knoth

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Konier

Ira and Riki Kucheck

Kiran Kumar

Dr. and Mrs. KiHong Kwon

Ms. Susan Ladenes

Mr. Jesse W. Laney

Ms. Sandy Law

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lester

Pamela Lewin

Robert* and Janet Lind

Nancy Locke

Richard and Jacqueline Lombardi

Ms. Margaret M. Lord

Mr. and Mrs. Brent Lynn

Sinh Ma

Mrs. Colleen Manchester

Dr. and Mrs. William Manclark

Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Martens

Ray Melissa

Kathy Michel

Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Molina

Evonne Morton

Gustav and Anyanka

Ms. Sheri Nazaroff

Dr. Abdel Salam M. Niazy

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Nicolette

Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Norman

Rey O’Day

David and Christine Otaguro

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Packard

Mr. Raj Patel

Ms. Katrina L. Pelto

Ms. Barbara Perez

Beverly and Jim Peters

Mr. Curt Puskas

Michelle A. Reinglass

Richard C. Reischman

Ronna and Marshall Rown, M.D.

Ms. Janet Sanders

Ms. Suzanne Schaumburg

Dolores Schiffert

Ms. Pamela M. Schmider

Ms. Denise Schuler

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Anita Seiveley and Jim Collins

Roger and Phyllis Shafer

Linda and Ed Sherman

Ms. Patricia Shiley

Ms. Virginia D. Silverman

Ms. Shari Simmons

Dr. John J. Smith and Mr. Edward R. Escoto

Ms. Kim Smith

Stephen E. Smith and Kathy Coyle Smith

N. Vicky Staub

Rob and Joan Stratton

Carol Lipp Strauss

Mandi Strelow Burch

Mr. Christopher Trela

Ms. Alveris B. Van Fleet-Corson

Fritzie Walker

D and G Winzey

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Witt

$1,000+

Anonymous (2)

Jeannie Adams

Sharon G. Adams

Ms. Janis Agopian

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Airth

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Angermeir

Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Ayloush

Ms. Barbara D. Baranski

Ms. Billie K. Baron

Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach

Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti

Dr. Michael M. and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns

David Bixler and Kristine Kaneko

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Braun

Dr. Elizabeth Bridges

Paul and Rose Briscoe

Jim and Wendy Brooks

Missy and Chris Callero

Ms. Kristin Candy

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cashion

Ms. Bertha Cerda

Mr. Darren M. Cobb

Ms. Michelle Cook

Kevin and Lisa Corrigan

Greg and Donna Crandall

Mary E. Dalessi

Mr. William G. Daly

Dr. Robert F. and Julie A. Davey

Pieter and Keren de Zwart

Mary Allyn and Earl Dexter

Claus Dieckell

Ms. Denise D. Diener and Mark D. Engquist

Richard and Lisa Doebler

Jane Draganza

Gregory Eberhardt

Mrs. Mariam El Haj

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Eng

Ms. Epifania Fernandez

Mr. Michael Field

The Fjield Trust

Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Fluor III

Mrs. and Mr. Carmela Fogliani

Dr. and Mrs. Francis Foo

James and Martha Freeman

Mr. J. D. Galloway

Ms. Yolanda Galloway

Ms. Cheryl Garland

Mary and Dennis Ghan

Susan Glass

Lawrence and Sharlene Goodman

Ms. Mackenzie E. Grant

Dina L. Gray

Gary and Linda Greene

The Hachiya Family

Mr. and Ms. Chad Hall

Mr. Douglas Hansen

Angela Sue Helin

Ms. Laurie Henigan

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hinkle

Peter C. Holliday

Victoria Hsiung

Serena Huynh

Uyen Hwang

Mark and Kris Jablonski

Karen and James Jacoby

Ms. Darcy Jones

Mr. Matt Juergens

Lynn L. Kambe

Ms. Gladys Kares

Miss Danielle King

Dr. and Ms. Michael T. Kleinman

Mrs. Debra Kornswiet-Shandling and Dr. Adrian Shandling

Richard and Lynne Kramer

Bill and Mona Kratzert

Tamara and Jon Krause

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krause

Brian Kroll

Mr. Robert Kulpa and Ms. Linda S. Pabian

Betty Jane Lang

Ms. Kathy Leclair

Hilary Lemansky

Patricia Lewis

Lexus of Westminster

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Liao

Mr. Jay Lieberman

Marsha and Bill Link

Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Logan, Jr.

Dr. William Loudon

In memory of Ed Lynch

Robert J. MacHott

Kay and John Maglica

Dave and Diana Margileth

Mrs. and Mr. Rene Matzkin

Jenna McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meyer

Linda Meyers

Pamela Michael

Mr. and Mrs. Radoslav Mladineo

Mr. and Mrs. Moher

Dr. Edwin S. Monuki

Priscella J. Moore

Mr. Joaquin Morales

Ms. Janice L. Moroney

Tom and Marian Nau

Ms. Lupe Navarro

Irene and Bonnie Nickle

Frank and Arlene O’Donnell

Michael R. Oppenheim

Guy and Linda Ormes

Mr. Tom Orradre

William and Linda Owen

Bob and Brana Paster

Ms. Pamela S. Pedego

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perricone

Dr. Ronald O. and Donna J. Phelps

Bruce and Johni Pittenger

Kristin and Noah Pokrass

Laurie and Richard M.* Rodnick

Robert and Ann Ronus

Don Rubin

Mr. Tyler Runge

In memory of Connie Sakamoto and Mattie Fenner

Karen and Philip Schmidt

Pam Sciarra

Pravin and Iris Shah

Mitch and Shelley Shatzen

Claudette Shaw

Mr. Dennis Shozi

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Sobel

Charles and Natasha Spalding

Karyn and Bill Spear

Mr. Chad Stalbaum

Mr. Bryan A. Stirrat

Dr. Richard Sundell

David and Jill Susson

Marilyn and Thomas C. Sutton

Mr.* and Mrs. Arthur E. Svendsen

Michael and Suzanne Tague

Ms. Riley Tatum

Kristin Taylor

Matt and Liana Taylor

Sandra Teitsworth

Mitchell and Donna Thiessen

Ms. Anne-Margaret Tovar

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ugalde

Pat* and Joanne Wastal

Marilyn and Steve Weber

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Weisenberg

Mrs. Tory Whittingham

Howard and Sumi Yata

Ms. Evelyn Zohlen and Mr. Mark Prendergast *in memoriam

ENDOWMENT

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

thanks the following donors who have generously provided support to the Center’s Endowment Funds. Gifts to the Endowment provide financial support for our artistic and education programs every year. Funds exist in perpetuity as investments whose earnings make the arts accessible for future generations.

$1,000,000 + Audrey Steele Burnand*

Estate of Edra E. Brophy / William J. Gillespie Foundation

Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester Family Foundation

W. M. Keck Foundation

Barbara Steele Williams Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steele*

Harry and Grace Steele Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

The Segerstrom Foundation

$500,000 +

Dr. Michael M.* and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns

Fluor Corporation

The Fluor Foundation

Carol Frobish*

Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times

Rockwell

Estate of Karen Ann Roos

Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*

$250,000 + Bank of America

Nancy Marie Biram*

The First American Corporation

Patricia Fredricks-Dolson

Edison International

Isidore C. and Penny W.* Myers

$100,000 +

Daniel C.* and Janet S. Bonbright and Sons

Estate of Ford A. and Wilma J. Dickerhoff

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Engman

Helen B. Fait

Elizabeth E. Fleming*

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz

Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*

Peter G. and Mary M. Muth* and Family

Estate of Michael D. and Lorraine C. Nadler

Nestle USA, Inc.

The Orange County Register

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith

Ronald E. Soderling

Virginia Valentine

Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch

Estate of Jane D. Zimmerman

Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin

$50,000 +

The Birtcher Family

Founders Plus

Evelyn and Richard Francuz

Sonia and Earle Ike

Barbara Hiller Johnson

Mark Chapin Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin

Palley-Needelman Asset Management

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux

Ralphs / Food 4 Less

Estate of Howard G. and Margaret C. Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer

Al and Susan Shankle

Mr. Stewart R. Smith

Ms. Anita Sparrow*

Wells Fargo

In memory of Barbara Steele Williams

Donors

$25,000 +

The Beall Family

Victor H. Boyd

Dr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Burnett

Chris and Lee Ann Canaday

The Carl and Patricia Neisser Family Trust

Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino

David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David

Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family

Ruth Ding, in memory of Thomas and Mary Lee

James* and Catherine Emmi

Dr. Dennis R. Fratt

The Baker Frenzel Family

Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Hamann

Nat S. and April D. Harty

Las Campanas of Orange County

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas

Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer

Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik

Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson

Joseph and Mary Norton Family

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Harold Miller*

O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp Jr.

Nicholas S. Patin

Stanley R. Robb Family

In honor of Mary Isabelle Sandberg

Robert J. Searles

In memory of Renée Segerstrom

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

In memory of Faye Wilkinson

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson

$10,000 +

Mrs. Donald V. Bassler

The William A. Baxter Family

George and Jacqueline Birdsong

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Birtcher

Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie

Susan Boyd

Mr. Lawrence H. Butler Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan

The Clubhouse

Con Gusto Chapter of The Guilds of the Center

Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr.

Ms. Julie Brinkerhof Edwards

Mr. Aaron Egigian

Alan* and Sandy Fainbarg Family

John and Carolyn Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. McQuarrie

GoodSmith & Co., Inc.

William K. and Maxine Gresswell*

Dr. and Mrs. G. Stanley Hall

Gayford and Mary Hinton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoshaw

Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Jaeger

Ronald E. and Debra P.* Jagner

Hunter B. Keck

Mrs. Suzanne Kline

Dr. Elliott Kornhauser

Mrs. Susan Lambrose

Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof

Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper

Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory

Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey

R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm

Estate of Ralph and Rose Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr.

Newmeyer & Dillion

Jerry Nourse

Cheryl Hill Oakes

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Paone

Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls

Mr. Charles Peyton, II

Betty Mower Potalivo

Ted and Jean Robinson and Family

Mrs. Betty Scheidt

Douglas F. Schneider and Family

Rudolph C. Schweitzer*

In memory of Hartley M. Sears

Renée and Henry T. Segerstrom*

Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family

Linda and Harvey A. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling

Steven-Thomas Antiques

The Stone Family

Dr. Max Swancutt Jr.

Mr. Stewart C. Woodard

Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina

Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten

Mr. Edward H. Wale

Margaret and Maurie Watman

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orrin Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yellin*

LEGACY SOCIETY

Segerstrom Center for the Arts thanks the following donors who have included the Center in their estate plans. These gifts help ensure that we allow access to the arts for the entire community. For more information on how to include the Center in your estate plans please contact Elizabeth Kurila, CSPG, Associate Vice President, Development, 714.942.6275

Anonymous (3)

Edna and Julio Aljure

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen

Bart and Elizabeth Asner

Doug and Jaimee Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett

John and Betty Barr

Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Katherine and Howard Bland

Barbara and Alex Bowie

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr.

Charles “Chip” Caldwell

Dr.* and Mrs. James H. Casey

Elizabeth and David* Cole

David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David

John and Jennifer Condas

Dr. Susan M. Condrey and William Gordon

Randy and Sally Crockett

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis

Mr. Joe DiCorpo and Ms. Mia MacDougall

Annette Doreng-Sterns

Mary Jane McArthur Edalatpour and Nasrola Edalatpour

Eileen J. Cirillo Trust

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II

Shari and Harry Esayian

Mr. Harold W. Faber

Ms. Linda S. Ford

Dr. Dennis R. Fratt

Mrs. Sandra M. French

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/Kay K. Fukunaga

John and Carolyn Garrett

Jackie Glass

Jean and Fred* Hamann

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Hammond

Howard and Carol Hay

Steve Heit

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

Higgins Family Trust

David L. Horowitz Family

Mark and Kristine Howlett

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Traute Huycke

Ken Jillson and Al Roberts*

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

Mr. Gary A. Kreitz and Ms. Joyce Singman

Elizabeth Kurila and Michael Mindlin

Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon

Richard and Gerrie Leeds

Michael and Lee Ann Litterst

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

James, Charlene and Katherine MacDonald

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

The McLarand Family Trust

Marcia L. Millen

Mr. Robin B. Miner

Ethan Morgan

Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo

Rick Muth

Thomas H. and Marilyn* Nielsen

Cheryl Hill Oakes

O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc. / Carolyn O’Neill

Mrs. Charlotte R. Paluzzi

Lenore and Carl* Pearlston

Mark and Carol Perry

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Jeffrey A. Punim, M.D.

Mr. Burton Reis

David* and Linda Roberson Family

Roberta Bouillon Trust

Ted and Jean Robinson and Family

Mr. Richard K. Rosenberg

Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schoellerman

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

In Memory of Allen O. Smith

Steven M. Sorenson, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sparks

David and Diane Steffy

Richard R. and Phoebe Stenton

Dr. Arthur Strick

Tammy and Samuel Tang

Ms. Nancy B. Tepper

Don L. Thompson

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

Gary and Jeri Turner

Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten

Christopher O. Veitch

Stacey and Paul Von Berg

The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family

Ms. Jill H. Watkins

Kent J. and Carol L. Wilken Family

Dr. David and Audrey Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin *in memoriam

Corporate and Foundation Support

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is pleased to thank the following corporations and foundations for providing annual contributions to the Center in support of our artistic and community education programs and our special event and performance sponsorships throughout the year.*

LEAD PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION SPONSORS

2024 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS

The Albertsons Companies Foundation

Anonymous

Automobile Club of Southern California

Barbara Steele Williams Designated Agency Endowment

Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza

Canterbury Consulting

Crean Foundation

E Nakamichi Foundation

EnergizeStudents.org

Haynes and Boone, LLP

Mesa Water District

Orange County Community Foundation

Pacific Life Foundation

SPECIAL THANKS

Läderach

Total Wine & More

THE SEGERSTROM FOUNDATION

ARTS AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds the following business and community leaders who support Segerstrom Center through fundraising, advocacy, and community outreach with a particular emphasis on expanding audiences and developing the next generation of leadership for Segerstrom Center.

Katheryn Baker

Jesse D. Bagley

Lupe Erwin

Cory Glass

Peter Krieger

Fiona T. LeCong-Ly

Monika Lopez

Sarah J. McElroy

Jill Meznarich

Vanessa Moore

Maurice Murray, Chair

Tammy Octavio

Patrick Strader

Yvonne Tsao

Jaynine Warner

Bill Meehan, Founding Chairman

To learn more about the Center’s corporate and foundation partnership opportunities and the benefits available, please contact CorpSupport@scfta.org or 714.942.6302.

* as of January 31, 2025

Family Owned Since 1946 BLOCK & HARDSCAPE

A TRIBUTE PORTFOLIO HOTEL

Center Staff

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Casey Reitz, President & CEO

Brian Finck, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer• Limor Tomer, Vice President, Programming and Production

Aaron Egigian, Senior Director, Music Programming•

ADMINISTRATION

Angelica Camarillo, Executive Assistant to the President & Board Liaison

Kelly Ornelas, Executive Assistant & Programming Coordinator• Stacey Myers, Attorney/Contracts Manager•

FINANCE

Seila Heng, Controller

MeiMei Chiang, Senior Accountant

Andrew Hudson, Assistant Controller

Monica Drescher, Accounting Generalist• Alberto Gil, Staff Accountant

HUMAN RESOURCES

Marvin Lee, Vice President, Human Resources

Maile Sagiao, Manager, Human Resources

Karen Duncan, Human Resources Generalist• Jon Gibson, HRIS Specialist

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Carla Cruz, Senior Director, Communications

Emyli Gudmundson, Senior Director, Program Marketing

Jonathan Vietze, Senior Director, Series Marketing• Christopher Alvarez, Director, Creative Services•

Karen Drum, Director, Publications•

Anne McNiff-Gaeta, Director, Group Services•

Jennifer Burroughs, Manager, Digital Marketing

Joesan Diche, Manager, eCommerce Marketing•

Karla Torres, Manager, Marketing Operations• Richard Ong, Manager, Calling Center•

Ken Catino, Senior Graphic Designer• Marianne Luwiharto, Graphic Designer

Jennifer Siglin, Graphic Designer•

Susie Lopez, Specialist, Communications

William Olivieri, Specialist, Marketing & Advertising

Jacquelyn Pash, Associate, Public Relations

Diana Torres, Assistant, Group Services•

Emily Doughty, Coordinator, Social Media

Lily Figueroa, Coordinator, Marketing

Lauren Knight, Coordinator, Content Creator

TICKETING

Ruth Mason, Director, Ticket Services

Karen Diche, Manager, Season Tickets•

Nicki Wilmot, Manager, Box Office

Evan Silveria, Assistant Manager, Box Office

Amelia Lindqvist, Supervisor, Contact Center

Ray Madrid, Supervisor, Box Office

Sam Preshaw, Supervisor, Box Office

Hannah Schill, Supervisor, Ticket Services

Amanda Snell, Supervisor, Ticket Services

Marcie Bernal, Receptionist• Alberto Ponce, Coordinator, Office Services•

AUDIENCE SERVICES

Norm Major III, Director, Audience Services•

Sue Laird, Senior Manager, Audience Services

Ashleigh Hector, Manager, Audience Services•

Alex Lum, Asst. Manager, Audience Services•

Regine Rutherfurd, Administrative Assistant, Audience Services

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Dean Yarborough, Director, Information Technology

David Frederick, Associate Director, Information Technology•

Samwel Basweti, Network Support Specialist

Mario Hortizuela, IT Support Specialist

Erik Lomack, IT Support Generalist

Dee Bierschenk, Database Analyst

Ashley Gaddis, Ticketing Functional Support• Richard Todd, Ticketing Functional Support•

DEVELOPMENT

Abigail Buell Sherlock, Vice President, Development

Elizabeth Kurila, Associate Vice President, Development

Courtney Dudman-Donley, Senior Director, Special Events & Support Groups

Tyler Choi, Director, Institutional Giving

Kay Linan Clark, Associate Director, Individual Giving

Suzanne Gregory, Associate Director, Development Operations

Johnny Eberhardt, Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

Emily Hunn, Senior Manager, Support Groups

Jamie Roff, Senior Manager, Development Systems•

Danielle McMahan, Manager, Special Events

Bernadette Ramos, Manager, Donor Relations

Marisa Rambaran, Prospect Researcher and Development Operations

Katie Lockie, Assistant Manager, Stewardship

Shimin Zheng, Assistant Manager, Support Groups

Sierra Detar, Special Events Officer

Anna Maria del Mundo, Coordinator, Special Events

April Kunowski, Coordinator, Individual Giving

Jessica Salazar, Coordinator, Development Operations

Olivia Vezner, Coordinator, Donor Relations

Audrey Burton, Executive Assistant

EDUCATION

Lisa Morabito Petersen, Vice President, Education

Cristal Ochoa, Director, Education Programs

Bethany Umbach, Senior Manager, Education Programs

Sarah Sierszyn, Manager, Ed. Operations

Alexis Johnson, Manager, Ed. Partnerships

Scarlet Wu, Associate Manager, Education Programs

Michael Mariano, Assistant Manager, Education Partnerships

Katie Nguyen, Coordinator, Ed. Partnerships

Joanna Huang, Coordinator, Ed. Programs

Emily Pearce, Coordinator, Ed. Programs

Jordyn Williams, Associate, Ed. Operations

30 or more years of service

20 or more years of service

10 or more years of service

Full-time staff as of January 31, 2025

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Emily Neely, Director, Community Engagement

Chloe Saalsaa, Manager, Studio D

Priscilla Reyes, Manager, Community Engagement

Adriana Alvarez, Coordinator

THEATER OPERATIONS & FACILITIES

David Leavenworth, Vice President, Theater Operations & Facilities•

Brian Keating, Director, Facilities and Engineering

Max Stossier, Director, Theater Operations•

Lindy Luong, Rental Manager

Glenn Powell, Production Manager

Mary Arkfeld, Operations Manager, Event Operations

Aidan Daguro, Assistant Production Manager

Jordan Smyth, Special Projects Manager

Brennan Roach, Supervisor, Event Operations

Denise Cruz, Coordinator, Production

Camille Slusher, Coordinator, Theater Operations

SEGERSTROM HALL

John Oliphant, Technical Director/ Sr. Production Carpenter•

Sara Broadhead, Head Electrician•

Willy J Pate, Head Carpenter

Alexis Vazquez Riggs, Head Wardrobe

James Wilcox, Head Audio

Chris Alva, Assistant In-Charge Carpenter/ Props•

Michael Clifford, Assistant

Phil Harris, Assistant

Tim Ligatti, Assistant•

RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM

CONCERT HALL

John Downey, Head Audio•

Gregg Snider, Head Electrician•

John Vasquez, Head Carpenter

Eileen Jeanette, Tönmeister

SAMUELI THEATER

Mark Cook, Electrician•

Timothy Schmidt, Asst. Audio

ENGINEERING

Marc Lewis, Senior Engineer•

Bryan Vojtko, Senior Engineer•

Richard Whitfield, Senior Engineer•

Gus Aleman, Engineer

Don Harvey, Engineer

Bryan Murphy, Engineer

Sean Robertson, Engineer

SECURITY

Anthony Bordon, Interim Director, Security and Public Safety

Tyler Cole, Manager, Public Safety and Training

Jaime Paz, Assistant Manager

Alvin Camacho, Shey Leir, John Standokes, Sage Williamson, Lee Yepez, Security Supervisors

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

WILLIAM J. GILLESPIE SCHOOL

Susan Brooker, Artistic Director

Sarah Jones, Associate Director