Stanford Live presents a wide range of the finest performances from around the world, fostering a vibrant learning community and providing distinctive experiences through the performing arts. With its primary home at Bing Concert Hall, Stanford Live is simultaneously a public square, a sanctuary, and a lab, drawing on the breadth and depth of Stanford University to connect performance to the significant issues, ideas, and discoveries of our time.
Stanford Live includes a wealth of collaborators and partners, including Stanford academic departments and individual faculty members, Stanford students, offcampus arts institutions, and community organizations. Crucially, Stanford Live supports the university’s focus on placing the arts at the heart of a Stanford education.
2019–20 Highlights
Fall at Frost Amphitheater
Stanford Students on Stage
Stanford Students on Staff
Faculty & Campus Engagement
Community Engagement
K–12 Matinees & Workshops
Covid-19 Cancellations
The Show Must Go Online
Virtual Events
Planning for an Uncertain Future
Market Testing
Preparing for the Fall
Solidarity, Anguish, and Action
2019–2020 Season in Numbers
Stanford Live Members
Stanford Live Staff
It is a pleasure to share our
2019–20
Annual Report with you.
To say that the 2019–20 season was an unprecedented year for Stanford Live would be an understatement. Fresh off the adrenaline of our first season back in Frost, we launched a diverse slate of programs that included two large commissions, Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring and Volcano’s new adaptation of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha. However, shortly after ringing in the new year, we—along with the rest of the world—succumbed to the fact that we were about to be gripped by the most dangerous global pandemic in a century and that all of our plans were on the verge of changing.
What we didn’t fully grasp at the time was how long COVID-19 would be with us and the ways we would need to adapt to support artists, audiences, and our staff. We collectively found ourselves isolated at home and desiring—at a minimum—virtual connections to aid us through complex times further exacerbated by ongoing racial injustice and a politically divided nation.
This year’s annual report offers a behind the scenes look at how the team at Stanford Live navigated the balance of the 2019–20 season and prepared for what might come next. From our first foray into virtual programming to our transformation into a digital media producer, you’ll see that we have all worked incredibly hard to keep the performing arts alive at Stanford.
I want to thank Fred Harman and the members of the Stanford Live Advisory Council for stepping up to make sure that we had the support and guidance needed as we faced challenging decisions. Additional thanks go to all of our colleagues at the Office of the Vice President for the Arts who have joined forces to tackle the critical issues that we all need to grapple with as we emerge from this moment and evolve to the next. And to the Stanford Live team—I truly admire how flexible and committed each of you continues to be as plans change on an almost daily basis. Thank you!
Finally, I want to thank the University and all of our members and supporters for sticking with us during these times. Your loyalty means so much and keeps us strong and focused.
With warm regards,
Chris Lorway Executive Director Stanford Live
2019–20 Highlights
In a season that coincided with the current United States election cycle, our 2019–20 programming explored the intersection of art and politics and the artist’s role in reflecting a society back upon itself. Works from US-based performers addressed civil rights, culture wars, McCarthyism, and female political leadership while international programs explored the art and cultures of countries with distinct geopolitical relationships with the US, including Russia, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. In particular, we highlighted contemporary work from China with the hope of illuminating the complexities of this global superpower.
Top performers from around the globe shared their artistic manifestations of the political with our audiences, from the Sounds
of Cuba series highlighted by jazz great Chucho Valdés to Taiwanese choreographer Yang Zhen and our inaugural National Geographic Live presentations, with David Guttenfelder on daily life in North Korea and Cuba and Dr. Kara Cooney on women’s leadership in the ancient world.
The Bing Studio continued to host innovative theater, including The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes, a meditation on artificial intelligence from Australia’s Back to Back Theater. Major commissions included Brad Mehldau’s song cycle The Folly of Desire and Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), an examination of Robert Mapplethorpe’s work and the culture wars of the 80s and 90s through music, poetry, and Mapplethorpe’s photography.
$1,366,909 Ticket revenue
26,637
Total tickets sold
16.9%
Percentage of tickets sold to Stanford students
1,003
Record # of attendees at one single Bing Concert Hall mainstage performance (Jon Batiste!)
Photos (left to right, top to bottom):
Hanggai, a Beijing-based folk band that fuses traditional Mongolian sounds with rock; Jon Batiste in his return visit to the Bing; jazz vocalist Alicia Olatuja; Mumford & Sons performed at the Bing for their acceptance of the 2019 Steinbeck Award; violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Alessio Bax at their sold-out performance; Jindong Cai conducted The Orchestra Now with the Silicon Valley Chorale; Trey McLaughlin & the Sounds of Zamar in Memorial Church
Fall at Frost Amphitheater
After a successful opening summer season at Frost Amphitheater, the fall 2019 lineup capped off a thrilling year with performances by legendary musicians Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson in addition to indie rock band
The National and hip-hop
group BROCKHAMPTON. We look forward to continuing our partnerships with pop promoter Goldenvoice, the San Francisco Symphony, and others in what we hope to be an equally thrilling 2021 season.
4 Fall Frost performances
24,183
Total attendees #
Photos (clockwise from top left): BROCKHAMPTON, a 13-person hip-hop group, concluded the fall Frost season in November 2019; a crowd at Frost Amphitheater; Bob Dylan and his band; The National’s lead singer Matt Berninger; country star Willie Nelson
Stanford student singers at our first ever piano bar night in the studio 5 Stanford alums performed at SCN's comedy night
Stanford Students on Stage
We continued to provide opportunities for students from across Stanford University to share the spotlight with some of the world’s top artists. Students acted as narrators in NASSIM, an interactive play by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, and opened for multiple sold out comedy acts in the Bing Studio. PICO, a student singer/songwriter/ producer from Monterrey, Mexico, opened for electronic artist pluko in a Bing Studio show organized
by the student-run Stanford Concert Network (SCN). And in early 2020, student musical theater vocalists joined Marie’s Crisis pianist Brandon James Gwinn in our first ever piano-bar night in the Bing Studio, filling the room with Broadway standards until midnight.
Photos (clockwise from left): Chloe Wintersteen participated in playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s piece NASSIM; student comedian and member of Stanford comedy group Stand Up, D Lucy Gomez opened for comedian Jesus Trejo; Austin ZambitoValente with a turn at the mic during A Night at the Piano Bar with Brandon James Gwinn; student comedian Dani Lyle performed a stand-up set before cabaret comedian Catherine Cohen took the stageinn
Stanford Students on Staff
Over the course of the season, Stanford students played a crucial role in many of Stanford Live's departments.
Will Paisley • Curatorial Fellow
"Stanford Live exposed me to a wide array of aspects of the presenting industry that have allowed me to grasp the great amount of work and planning that goes into presenting live performance. I also formed professional connections with a diverse group of people in the industry. As a Navajo and Blackfeet individual, connecting with Indigenous artists has been especially rewarding, as I now have a profound understanding of the contemporary Indigenous performance world."
Bella Cooper • Frost Amphitheater Intern
"The role as a Front of House Manager at Frost Amphitheater has allowed me to continue to learn about the intricacies involved in concert planning. It was really unique to have such a beautiful and historical music venue at my university. I enjoyed assisting patrons and ensuring all accessibility needs were met, especially when many of these concert-attendees were classmates, university faculty, and community members."
Jennifer Park • Marketing & Communications Intern
"I already have a big interest in programming live music, so I decided to intern at Stanford Live to gain more industry experience. I was especially drawn to the fact that Stanford Live productions always take place in the same beautiful venues and that the productions draw people in not only from Stanford, but also from the surrounding area."
Kyle Reed • Marketing & Communications Intern
"Being an enormous lover of live music, working at Stanford Live was an awesome experience that allowed me to use and expand my design skills for a great cause: bringing to life the live music culture on campus."
Bing Concert Hall Ticket Office Team
In addition to our administrative interns at Stanford Live, we are grateful for our Stanford student box office team who provided stellar customer service both in-person and on our phone lines over the course of the season. Our 2019–20 student box office team included Darnell "DeeSoul" Carson, Joelle Dowling, Lorin Phillips, Manny Rolon-Osuna, Izzy Ruiz, Liz Grant, TJ Tisdale, and Starr Jiang.
Faculty & Campus Engagement
With the arrival of our new Associate Director for Campus Engagement and Public Programs, Karim Baer, we launched a robust series of events with Stanford faculty and students to contextualize performances and deepen our community’s engagement with our season themes.
Highlights included Gravity & Other Myths’ acrobatic circus arts master class for Theater and a Stanford Law School seminar taught by Richard Ford that explored art, politics, and law through live performances at the Bing. We partnered with campus
colleagues to host an examination of censorship and cultural provocation with Art History professor Richard Meyer and Institute for Diversity in the Arts Director A-lan Holt at the Cantor Arts Center, and a conversation between performance artist Laurie Anderson and Bay Area digital artist Jim Campbell at The Anderson Collection. We were honored to feature several faculty members in pre- and post-show lectures, including History Professor Gordon Chang and Dr. Clayborne Carson of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute.
3 Master classes
3
Free film screenings
11
Pre-concert talks and seminars
Photos (clockwise from left): TAPS students participated in a master class led by circus group Gravity & Other Myths; activist and hip-hop artist Common in conversation with Professor of Education Adam Banks; musician, composer, and musicologist Rhiannon Giddens spoke at the annual Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Kieve Lecture with Francesco Turrisi
Community Engagement
In keeping with Stanford's commitment to building relationships with surrounding communities, our season included unique opportunities for community members to make music with renowned artists. In November, the King’s Singers hosted their Finding Harmony choral workshop, leading six high school, university, and youth and adult community choruses in a joyful day of learning and collective singing. In February, Grammynominated saxophonist Jane Bunnett and her band
Maqueque, made up of leading female Cuban musicians, led an intergenerational group of 25 community musicians from all over the Bay Area in an Afro-Cuban jazz jam session that lit up the Bing Studio. Visiting Stanford families were able to peek into the jam session, as it also happened to be Stanford University' annual Family Weekend—the last official in-person "Big 5" event of 2020.
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque jam session attendees 190 Community musicians at the King's Singers workshop #
Photos (left to right): Local choruses participated in the King’s Singers choral workshop; community members of all ages joined Jane Bunnett and Maqueque for a jam session
K–12 Matinees & Workshops
Immersing students and teachers in varied art forms, our K–12 programs took place both on the Stanford campus and in community classrooms. Our matinee series included the innovative Australian circus Gravity & Other Myths and the Bay Area’s own Melody of China. We supported teachers integrating the arts into their curricula with workshops on circus arts, Chinese music, and Afro-Cuban music. For
the first time, we extended the workshop series to school sites, supporting Ravenswood City School District teachers. Teaching artists Quinteto Latino continued to lead our Ravenswood artists-inschools program, offering teacher trainings and guestteaching classes around a culturally responsive, creative framework aimed at fostering a more inclusive classroom environment for students.
1,946 Matinee attendees
4 Teacher workshops
19 School visits
Photos (clockwise from bottom left): Impressive stunts from Gravity & Other Myths’ matinee performance; local teachers learned the art of circus from performer Nikolas Strubbe; elementary school kids learning from Armando Castellano at a school visit
COVID-19 Cancellations
57 Performances canceled
$433,000 in ticket refunds processed
In March 2020, when the magnitude of COVID-19 and its impacts on life as we knew it became more and more clear, we began what some in the performing arts industry have referred to as “unproducing.”
Our artistic team reached out to artists to either postpone or cancel performances, including the world premiere of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha. The marketing and ticketing team worked on communicating these cancellations to ticket buyers and processing refunds. Production canceled orders from various vendors and let contingent staff know that all scheduled work was terminated until further notice. Development reached out to stakeholders to ensure that they were aware of our plans and to determine
8,230 Tickets canceled
2,499 Households affected by cancellations
how and if designated funding could be repurposed at this time. Most of this work occurred from home as we sheltered in place and migrated our regular team meetings to Zoom.
In the weeks after we canceled all of our 2020 performances, we received a total of $39,189 in donated tickets, accounting for 8% of our canceled revenue. In addition, we were able to reallocate $150,000 in performance sponsorships. These donated funds helped to support the continued pay of many contingent staff as well as over $134,000 in fees paid out to artists whose shows were suddenly canceled. We sincerely thank all our members and ticket buyers for supporting Stanford Live during such unprecedented and difficult times.
The Show Must Go Online
Within a week of the Bay Area shelter in place order going into effect and as the first rounds of cancellations shook the performing arts industry, we curated a selection of digital content for our audiences to enjoy from their homes—The Show Must Go Online.
With the same care they took in crafting our full season, our curatorial team wove the art and politics theme into their digital selections. Our marketing staff then transformed our website into a space to host the menu of performances.
From concerts and films to lectures and interviews, the digital season featured artists who were originally scheduled to perform in spring and summer. The audience for these programs reached well beyond our local community, an indication of the quality of the content and the craving for live performance during the shelter in place period.
53,200
Total page views
6,200
Views for our most popular feature: Lang Lang in concert at Bing Concert Hall 31 Online shows, concerts, and discussions
Virtual Events
While we continued to expand the digital season, we also began to generate our own content for virtual streams, bringing the voices of artists directly to our audiences. Transitioning from live performance to the virtual event space involved our staff learning the traits of the available platforms—Zoom, YouTube, Facebook Live—and quickly adapting to presenting events online for our patrons and members.
Entering the virtual presenting sphere brought new partnerships with presenters such as Denison University and the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech and expanded our collaborations with VPA partners such as Institute for Diversity in the Arts’ (IDA) Director A-lan Holt, who led a poetic exchange with playwright/ spoken word poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph that addressed the call for racial equity as protests unfolded across the country.
5 Virtual events
33,000 Total views
2 Backstage Pass events for Stanford Live members #
Photos (left to right, top to bottom): Artist Hour with alternative artist iskwē and singersongwriter William Prince; a poetic exchange with IDA’s A-lan Holt and spoken word poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph; blues and soul singer Martha Redbone kicked off the Backstage Pass series; Third Coast Percussion performed a new piece by Oscar nominee Danny Elfman
"Our season is not a statement of fact but rather a statement of hope.” —Chris Lorway
Planning for an Uncertain Future
As we settled into an awareness that the pandemic would impact our operations for the foreseeable future, we had a lot of decisions to make. The first of these centered on whether or not to announce the 2020–21 season as we usually do each spring. In the end, we decided to proceed with the launch with full acknowledgement that we may not be able to execute all or any of our plans.
From there we began to explore a number of scenarios that helped frame how the next year might play out. This included restarts in fall/winter/spring, socially distanced indoor performances, and outdoor opportunities in Frost and other spaces. Underlining this scenario planning process was a commitment to the health and safety of artists, audience, and our staff.
The unlikeliest of scenarios was a return to 'status quo,' with artists and audiences reunited with increased public safety standards and enhanced hygienic measures implemented across all our venues. Another scenario looked at a season absent of international performances due to visa restrictions and travel bans.
The scenario which currently guides us in early fall 2020 focuses on supporting Bay Area artists, including helping them to create high quality content that can be shared with other presenters around the world. In addition to the films we are making at Stanford, we are also investing in other consortia around the world to help some of our favorite artists create and digitally distribute their work during this challenging time.
Photo: Bing Concert Hall's Gunn Atrium
Market Testing
WHEN IS THE EARLIEST THAT YOU WOULD RETURN TO LIVE PERFORMANCES AT STANFORD?
A NIGHT AT THE DRIVE-IN
76% of respondents would attend a film, concert, or lecture on campus in their car
At the end of June, we sent out a survey to Stanford Live ticket buyers to help us craft our recovery plan for next season. More than 2,200 individuals responded—here are some of the results.
A SOCIALLY DISTANCED FROST AMPHITHEATER
of respondents said they would be “somewhat likely” to “extremely likely” to attend an outdoor, socially distanced performance at Frost Amphitheater. Preferred start time: between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM
STREAMING PERFORMANCES
51% of respondents have watched more than 3 livestreams since we started to shelter in place
Youtube, Zoom, and Facebook are the three most popular streaming platforms that respondents have been using to experience performances
Preparing for the Fall
In summer 2020, artists began returning to the stage at Bing Concert Hall to create our transformed digital fall season, which includes a unique short film series shot at Bing in a masked and socially distanced way. As we await our collective return to the concert hall, our hope is to bring the magic of the Bing stage to the homes of our audience through films celebrating local artists.
To prepare for the film shoots, our production staff learned new software and film production techniques. We worked closely with Stanford Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) over the summer to ensure staff, the film crew, and artists adhere to university, state, and county health guidelines during the filming process.
The series kicked off in late September with Stanford’s ensemble-in-residence, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, collaborating with Stanford Associate Professor of Documentary Film and Video Jamie Meltzer, Stanford student editors, cinematographer Frazer Bradshaw, and renowned digital arts producer Elena Park to create a stunning filmed performance.
Other films scheduled to premiere this fall include pianist Garrick Ohlsson, the Kronos Quartet, musician Vân Ánh (Vanessa)
Võ, and holiday programs featuring jazz bassist Marcus Shelby and annual favorite Chanticleer. Additional films will be rolled out in early 2021.
Photos (clockwise from top left): The St. Lawrence String Quartet recording Return to Haydn in Bing Concert Hall; pianist Garrick Ohlsson rehearsing in the middle of a custom-built circle track; camera operators adjust settings during a shoot at Bing Concert Hall
Solidarity, Anguish, and Action
As part of the Office of the Vice President for the Arts' (VPA) commitment to creating a strategy for racial equity and community transformation, Stanford Live leadership and staff are working to address the need to dismantle systemic issues of inequality and racism in the performing arts and create more equitable structures and practices at Stanford Live.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, VPA’s vice president, Harry Elam, and VPA organization directors issued the following statement. Stanford Live recognizes that this statement is only the start of longterm institutional change, of work which is both urgent and ongoing, and of a radical shift that will embrace and welcome those kept outside an industry in much need of reform.
A letter from Stanford University’s Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Harry Elam, Vice President for the Arts June 4, 2020
With yet another Black person, George Floyd, killed at the hands of the police, all across this country protestors have swarmed into streets, risking disease and death.
When the words of a people are consistently unheard, their bodies will speak. They will march on the streets, they will declare their pain, and they will make art. Artists have long used their bodies, their voices, their music to convey grief and suffering. Not only can the arts express a deep sense of anguish, they also allow us to come together in our shared feelings. They allow us to hold and to comfort each other through the darkest of times, and bring a sense of healing and solace.
Yet solace is impossible without justice. The Office of the Vice President for the Arts stands in solidarity with Black students, colleagues, artists, and activists fighting against the racial violence, inequality, and systemic injustice that plague our nation. We hold space for the collective recognition of Black lives that have been lost to racial violence, those whose names we now know—Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade—and those we don’t.
As a primarily white-led arts organization held within a primarily white-led institution, we are committed to not only standing in solidarity with communities of color, but joining them in this fight. We can no longer afford to be silent on these issues, nor can we afford to move forward as an organization without deep reflection on the ways we, too, benefit from widespread practices of antiblackness and white dominance.
In a wrenching irony of timeliness, the upcoming season of Stanford Live, announced just last week, contains a new co-commission called The Ritual of Breath Is a Rite to Resist, a multimedia song cycle and community meditation on the death of Eric Garner, with whom George Floyd shared his last words: I can’t breathe.
Such creative works can intervene powerfully and imaginatively into the routinization of racial injustice, though we know they do not replace tangible justicebased change. At the VPA, we believe that the arts can strengthen our capacity for empathy and action, and usher in the kinds of transformation the world needs. We work to create environments in which artists thrive, and we work to amplify their voices and visions. And yet we also acknowledge the ways in which we fall short, as cultural organizations steeped in histories and structures designed to uphold white dominance. To truly steward the power of the arts toward equity and justice, we must advance our commitment to enacting antiracist practices and transform the organizational structures that we operate within.
This statement is a beginning not an end. We recognize the importance of trusting Black leadership and following their cues. We will be working with our directors at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford Arts Institute, Cantor Arts Center, Anderson Collection at Stanford, and Stanford Live, and with our full staff, to design action plans—that foreground issues of justice and equity—to guide our ongoing work.
We look forward to sharing these updates as conversations and strategies progress in the coming weeks.
2019–20 Season in Numbers
EXPENSES: $8.4 MILLION
152,452
Mobile/tablet website visitors
308,303
Stanford Live
website visitors
76% of all ticket sales processed online
33% of households new to Stanford Live (up from 30% in FY19)
2,499 Households affected by COVID-19 cancellations
87.7%
Attendance rate across all Stanford Live performances
4,202
Tickets sold to Stanford students
4,381
Tickets sold to Stanford faculty/staff
12 total Stanford students on staff over the course of the season
Photo: Film screening of Selma with a full live orchestra,, conducted by Sarah Hicks and joined by jazz pianist Jason Moran and guitarist Marvin Sewell
BING CIRCLE
($25,000+)
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The Bullard Family
Roberta & Steven Denning
Ann & John Doerr
Mary & Clinton Gilliland
Marcia & John Goldman
Drs. Lynn Gretkowski & Mary Jacobson
Leonard Gumport & Wendy Munger
Stephanie & Fred Harman
Rick Holmstrom & Kate Ridgway
The Hornik Family
Leslie & George Hume
Lucie Jay
Roberta & Charles Katz
Fong Liu
Victoria & James Maroulis
Deedee McMurtry
Barbara Oshman & David Braker
Mindy & Jesse Rogers
Marian & Abraham Sofaer
Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson
Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum
Maurice & Helen Werdegar
David Wollenberg
Priscilla & Ward Woods
BING DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
($15,000–$24,999)
Anonymous
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Jill Freidenrich
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Morton Grosser
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David Morandi
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William Reller
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BING ARTIST’S CIRCLE
($7,500–$14,999)
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Fred Alvarez & Beth McLellan
Alvarez
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Margaret Dorfman
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Dorsey
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Stanford Live Members
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Marmor Foundation
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Mary & John Wachtel
Dr. Irving and Ann Weissman
Karin & Paul Wick
Susan & David Young
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($2,500–$7,499)
Keith Amidon & Rani Menon
Jonathan, Frances & Alison Axelrad
Celeste & Wendell Birkhofer
James Canales & James McCann
William Coggshall & Janet Littlefield
Diane Elder & Bruce Noble
Sissy & Theodore Geballe
The Stephen & Margaret Gill Family
Foundation
Greg Goodman & Susan Schnitzer
Judy & Jerrol Harris
Karen & Ken Imatani
Charlotte & Larry Langdon
Joan Mansour
Judy M. Mohr & Keith W. Reeves
Betsy Morgenthaler
Paula & Bill Powar
Deborah & Michael Shepherd
Srinija Srinivasan
Kenneth Weinberg
PARTNER
($1,000–$2,499)
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Marian & Jim Adams
Margaret Anderson
Keith Baker
Patrick Barnes & Kathy Keller
Lisa Barrett
Deborah & Jonathan Berek
Karen S. Bergman
Matthew Bien & Grace Lee
Carolyn & Gary Bjorklund
Lissy & Byron Bland
Tab Bowers & Michie Kasahara
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Bruce Daniel
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Firstenberger
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The Feinstein Family
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A. A. Furukawa
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Garber
Jane & Bruce Gee
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Eric Giovanola
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Susan Goodhue
Matthew Goodman
Ester Gubbrud & Charles Ross
Ed Haertel & Drew Oman
Eric Hanushek & Margaret
Raymond
Joyce & James Harris
Paul Harrison & Irene Lin
Howard & Nancy Hassen
Tine & Joerg Heilig
Anne & William Hershey
Caroline Hicks
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Chris Iannuccilli & Michele Schiele
James Jacobs
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Pam Karlan & Viola Canales
Randall Keith & Karen Hohner
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The Klements
Amy Ladd & Doug Fitzgerald
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Y. K. Lee
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Fedyukova
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Og & Ogina
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Shirley Raymer
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Diane & Joe Rolfe
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Ali Rosenthal & Kat Carroll
Nancy & Norman Rossen
Nicole & Amir Dan Rubin
Diana & Philip Russell
Scott D. Sagan & Sujitpan Lamsam
Lela & Gerry Sarnat
Doris Sayon
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Ted & Linda Schlein
Robyn & Mark Setzen
Katie and Dhiren Shah
Lee Ann & Martin Shell
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Charles Sieloff
Diane & Branimir Sikic
Nerija Sinkeviciute-Titus & Jason
Titus
Carol & Ned Spieker
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ADVOCATE ($500–$999)
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Dorothy Anderson
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Richard & Delores Anderson
Marie & Douglas Barry
Richard A. Baumgartner & Elizabeth M. Salzer
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Norm Blears
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Vera Blume
Bonnie & William Blythe
Patty Boone & Dave Pfefer
Caroline Bowker & Charles Bliss
Prudence Breitrose
Laura Breyfogle & David Warner
George Brown
Drs. Julie Buckley & Eric Fung
Thomas Bush & Grace Sanchez
Enrique & Monica Caballero
The Cha Family
Gregory Chan
Chanin & Dotson Family
Gloria & Michael Chiang
Jane Chung, MD
Ann Hammond Clark
Chris Clarke & Gina Hernandez
Kalyani Comal & Arun
Ramakrishnan
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Perrault
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The Wollenberg Foundation
§ Deceased
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$100,000+
The Koret Foundation
Stanford Medicine
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
$10,000–$49,999
Anonymous
California Arts Council
Capital Group
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
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$1,500–$9,999
Aaron Copland Fund for Music
The Amphion Foundation, Inc.
New Music USA
Western States Arts Federation
BUILDING DONORS
Peter and Helen Bing
Cynthia Fry Gunn and John A. Gunn
The John Arrillaga Family
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Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
2019–20 ADVISORY COUNCIL
MEDIA PARTNERS
KCSM Jazz 91.1
KQED
IN-KIND PARTNERS
Courtyard by Marriott
Palo Alto – Los Altos
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
Stanford Park Hotel
The Westin Palo Alto
BING EXPERIENCE FUND DONORS
With appreciation for the following donors, who provide major support for programming and musical instruments for Bing Concert Hall
Anonymous
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.
The Adolph Baller Performance Fund for Bing Concert Hall
Friends of Music at Stanford
Fred and Stephanie Harman
Fong Liu
Elayne and Thomas Techentin, in memory of Beatrice Griffin
Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum
The Fay S. and Ada S. Tom Family
Turner Corporation
The Frank Wells Family
Maurice and Helen Werdegar
The purpose of the Stanford Live Advisory Council is to support the mission of Stanford Live and to provide advice on the strategic direction of the organization.
Fred Harman, Chair
Jeanne Aufmuth
Peter Bing
Rick Holmstrom
David Hornik
George H. Hume
Leslie P. Hume
Lisa Jones
Cathy McMurtry
Roger McNamee
Linda Meier
Trine Sorensen
Srinija Srinivasan
Doug Tanner
Jorge Tapias
David Wollenberg
Ex officio: Maude Brezinski
Stephen Sano
Anne Shulock
Stanford Live's 2019–20 season was generously supported by Helen and Peter Bing.
Underwriting for student ticket discounts for the 2019–20 season was generously provided by the Bullard family.
Stanford Live's 2019–20 season jazz programs were generously supported by the Koret Foundation.
Contributions listed are from Stanford Live members who made gifts from 9/1/19 through 8/31/20. For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact us at 650.725.8782 or supportstanfordlive@stanford.edu.
To learn more about giving to Stanford Live, visit live.stanford.edu/give.
Stanford Live Staff
Chris Lorway
Executive Director
Bryan Alderman
Assistant Director of Development
Karim Baer
Associate Director for Campus Engagement and Public Programs
Dawn Bercow Development Events Manager
Rory Brown Operations Manager
Diana Burnell
Assistant Ticket Office Manager
Kelsey Carman Marketing Manager
Brett Cavanaugh Stage Technician
Vanessa Chung Artist Liaison & Executive Assistant
Robert DeArmond Web Developer
Laura Evans Director of Music Programs, Education, and Engagement
Ben Frandzel Institutional Gifts and Community Engagement Officer
Elisa Gomez-Hird HR and Administrative Associate
Kristine Graham Ticketing Services Lead
Katie Haemmerle Communications Manager
Danielle Kisner Stage Technician
Maurice Nounou Associate Director of Ticketing and System Operations
Nick Oldham A/V Manager
Egan O’Rourke Production Manager
Kimberly Pross Director of Operations & Production
Jeremy Ramsaur Lighting Manager
Nicola Rees Director of Development
Toni Rivera Operations Coordinator
Mike Ryan Director of Operations, Frost Amphitheater
Bill Starr House Manager
Krystina Tran Director of Marketing, Communications, and Patron Services
Michelle Travers Artist Liaison (through Feb 2020)
Max Williams Development Programs Manager
Photo Credits: Allie Foraker, Jeff Goldberg, Taylor Nguyen, Kim Pross, Joel Simon, Michael Spencer, Harrison Truong, Cathy Wang, and Jess Yeung
Behind the scenes at Bing Concert Hall during our film shoot for pianist Garrick Ohlsson on September 17, 2020
