Annual Report 2020–21 SEASON
Our Mission 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 and Frost Amphitheater, 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, off-campus arts institutions, and community organizations. Crucially, Stanford Live supports the university’s focus on placing the arts at the heart of a Stanford education.
2020–21 Digital Performances
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Short Film Series
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Backstage Pass
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600 Highwaymen
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Stanford Under the Stars: Movies at Frost
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Community Movie Screenings
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Return to Live Performances at Frost
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Stanford Jazz Workshop at Frost
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SFJAZZ
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San Francisco Symphony
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San Francisco Ballet
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K-12 Program
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2020–2021 Season in Numbers
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Stanford Live Members
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Stanford Live Staff
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Explore Our 2020–21 Annual Report For many in our sector, the word pivot has become the most overused and despised word of the pandemic. And yet our ability to pivot countless times over the past 18 months has allowed us to stay connected to our audience, support artists, and slowly return to presenting performances. There have been many silver linings. Being presented with a formidable challenge often leads to new ways of thinking and forces you to pick up new skills. We’re now better versed in the world of film and digital content and have built stronger relationships with local artists and arts organizations. And we’ve come to better understand the important role we play in building community as we collectively gather to experience the work of artists. I want to thank the entire Live team for its flexibility and openness as we figured things out in real time. The timing of Frost’s reopening could not have been better. Having a large, outdoor venue allowed us to slowly ramp up activity as we welcomed artists and audiences into the venue. We invested in new film screening infrastructure, bringing movie nights back to campus. And we reached out to old and new partners, offering them the opportunity to reconnect with their respective audiences
and in doing so created many memorable nights. Frost has also become a hub for the university community and we hope that its use for these purposes will continue to grow. Finally, we want to acknowledge our supporters who stuck with us during this challenging time. Together we were able to emerge from the pandemic in a much stronger position. On behalf of all of us at Stanford Live, I want to thank you for believing in the work that we do. We know that people will come back to live events—both indoors and outdoors— at their own pace. And when you’re ready, we can’t wait to welcome you back! With warm regards,
Chris Lorway Executive Director Stanford Live
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2020-21 Digital Events
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in which 50 artists created a “State of the Union Redress”—modeled on FDR’s fireside chats—in collaboration with retired political speechwriters. The inventive theater company Manual Cinema returned with their live-streamed production of A Christmas Carol, illusionist Scott Silven created an interactive show about his home and family in rural Scotland, and Stanford alum Lowry Yankwich was featured in an online event about the making of 30 Bach, his podcast about Bach’s The Goldberg Variations.
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Live Holiday Digital Events
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Total Digital Events
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Due to the limitations of live performance during the pandemic, Stanford Live developed a series of digital events that allowed us to stay connected to our community in new ways. We worked with artists from around the world to co-commission digital programs including Forced Entertainment's Table Top Shakespeare, an innovative look at the Bard’s 36 plays performed by actors from their kitchen tables with household items serving as the characters; an online reimagining of Taylor Mac’s seasonal spectacle Holiday Sauce; and Constance Hockaday’s Artistsin-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020
Scott Silven Virtual Performances
Photos (clockwise from far left): Colin Quinn's Overstated book tour talk; Illusionist Scott Silven's virtual performance The Journey; Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce Livestream event; Manual Cinema's A Christmas Carol; Table Top Shakespeare by Complete Works
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Short Film Series
Our first pilot-project was a film featuring Stanford’s ensemble-inresidence, the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The team included producer Elena Park (Supervising Producer of The Met: Live in HD), director Jamie Meltzer (head of Stanford’s MFA Documentary Film and Video program), cinematographer
Photos (clockwise from left): Marcus Shelby Trio's holiday performance recording in the Bing Studio; the Kronos Quartet's film Points of Entry which featured glass ringing; Vân Ánh (Vanessa) Võ: From Vietnamese Masters to Blood Moon Orchestra; close-up shot of the drums used in The Stitches that Bind Us; Chanticleer recording their holiday special; Zakir Hussain, Pezhham Akhavass, and Abbos
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Frazer Bradshaw and a number of leading Bay Area film and video professionals. This first film, SLSQ: Return to Haydn, served as the template for the rest of the series that featured artists such as pianist Garrick Ohlsson, tabla-virtuoso Zakir Hussain, jazz bassist and composer Marcus Shelby, VietnameseAmerican multi-instrumentalist Vanessa Vân Ánh Võ and the vocal ensemble Chanticleer (capturing the ensemble’s beloved annual holiday program). Testimony, a film featuring the Kronos Quartet, focused on works inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and included contemporary perspectives on racial justice through the voices of Bay Area spoken word artists. The final piece in this program—Meklit Hedero’s rendition of The President Sang Amazing Grace—went viral and was singled out for praise by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
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Total Films Available in the Films & Screenings Digital Season
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As we formulated our strategy for a digital season, two priorities emerged. The first was that we had no interest in live-streaming events or attempting to recreate the feeling of attending a live performance. We wanted our digital content to embrace the medium and knew we needed to bring in new partners to realise this goal. Second, we wanted to use the team and infrastructure that we were investing in to support the local arts community. We reached out to Bay Area artists who we had a long history with and invited them to make these works with us.
Exclusive Films Produced by Stanford Live
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Photos (clockwise from left): Lyric-coloratura mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; playwright and actor Ryan Haddad; folk singer Martha Redbone; choreographer Kyle Abraham
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Backstage Pass Events
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Panelists Who Joined Together To Dicuss "How the Arts Reopen"
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Backstage Pass Stanford Live created the Backstage Pass series to offer intimate conversations with artists—many of them originally scheduled for the 2020–21 season— about how their art comes to life. The Zoom series featured Executive Director Chris Lorway in dialogue
with a line-up of artists that included mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, choreographer Kyle Abraham, science journalist and author Alanna Mitchell, playwright and actor Ryan Haddad, and more.
Experimental Theater from 600 Highwaymen Stanford Live presented A Thousand Ways by the innovative theater group 600 Highwaymen. Initially created prior to the pandemic and then developed during it, the three-act theater work spanned the course of a year, with each installment exploring the line between strangeness and kinship and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical. Act One—which involved two strangers conversing by phone with the help of a conversation script—required special training for our production and ticketing staff to successfully run the show remotely. Act Two
took place at Bing Concert Hall in July 2021 when it was possible to bring people together in person. This time, two different strangers followed a set of instructions printed on cards placed on the table between them. Our staff and volunteers worked in shifts to prepare the performance rooms and reorder the decks of cards between shows. The final act will take place in January 2022 at Bing Concert Hall with all patrons who participated being invited to come together to recreate community. In a long moment of isolation, A Thousand Ways succeeded in creating connection and intimacy through the simple act of one-on-one communication. Photo: Act Two of 600 Highwayman's A Thousand Ways with two participants.
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Phone Calls for Act One
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Conversation Cards Used in Act Two
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Photo: Families enjoying the film Sing in May 2021
Stanford Under the Stars: Movie Nights at Frost The spring marked our first step in reopening, with Stanford Under the Stars: Movie Nights at Frost. With ample outdoor space that allowed for socially distanced pod seating, reduced capacity for each screening, and concessions ordering via text, we could safely begin to welcome patrons back. Stanford Under the Stars presented a selection of movies featuring actors and directors—Reese Witherspoon, Issa Rae, Sigourney Weaver, Alexander Payne, Jennifer Connelly, and Sterling K. 8
Brown—who attended Stanford. The series also included movies showcasing iconic Northern California locations. Stanford Live also partnered with Stanford’s MFA Doc Film program to showcase short films produced and directed by students and two award-winning feature-length documentaries, We Are As Gods and Stray, both directed by MFA alums.
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Movies Shown at Frost
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Total Pods Purchased
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New Stanford Live Ticket Buyers
Community Movie Screenings at Frost As a gesture of thanks to the educators and essential workers from our local community for all of their support during the pandemic, Stanford Live hosted a free screening of the Disney Pixar movie
Coco, complete with popcorn! We also hosted special screenings of Yesterday for Stanford Medicine healthcare workers and Black Panther for students returning to campus for the summer quarter.
Photos (top to bottom): Popcorn bags being set up for community night snacks; a family enjoying the movie and the summer night at Frost
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Return to Live Performances at Frost Amphitheater At the beginning of July, Stanford Live kicked off a summer season featuring jazz, classical, and world music and dance at Frost Amphitheater. As one of the only outdoor venues in the Bay Area not controlled by a major promoter, we were able to partner with some of the region’s top performing arts organizations including Stanford Jazz Workshop, SFJAZZ, the San Francisco Symphony, and San Francisco Ballet to bring a range of artists and performances to the Stanford campus. These partnerships also brought a whole new audience to Stanford Live with nearly half of the attendees reporting it was their first time at a Stanford Live show. In addition to jazz and classical concerts, the season included a 10
mariachi event featuring Graciela Beltrán and Lupita Infante with Mariachi Nueva Generacion, a Bollywood song and dance review created by MELA Arts Connect, and a family concert by the intergenerational hip-hop group Alphabet Rockers. Our last show of the summer season—and our first to require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test—was a sold-out performance of Not Our First Goat Rodeo featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and guest vocalist Aoife O’Donovan. As we enter this new phase in Frost Amphitheater’s history, we hope to build on the success of these partnerships, welcoming new artists and new audiences to this iconic venue.
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Live Performances at Frost
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Partner Organizations who Co-presented the Live Performances
24,605
Tickets Purchased for Live Performances at Frost Amphitheater
Photos (clockwise from left): Fans loving the show at Dinner Party featuring Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah; Not Our First Goat Rodeo with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile; Dancers performing My Bollywood Jukebox; Graciela Beltrán with Mariachi Nueva Generacion; Las Cafeteras jamming out on the Frost stage
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Stanford Jazz Workshop at Frost Our first live show of the season was presented in partnership with Stanford Jazz Workshop, which has been presenting the greatest jazz artists at Stanford for 49 years, bringing as many as 12,000 music lovers to the campus each summer. The performance featured an exciting collaboration between saxophonist Joshua Redman and tabla virtuoso Zakir
Hussain alongside Joel Ross on vibraphone and Stanford grad Zach Moses Ostroff on bass. For most in the audience, their attendance at the sold-out concert marked their first live performance since before the pandemic, which brought a celebratory energy to the amphitheater.
Photo (clockwise from upper left): Joshua Redman, Zach Moses Ostroff, Joel Ross, and Zakir Hussain; the view from the back of Frost of a sold-out show; outdoor pod seating for July shows to help socially distance patrons; the full group playing together on stage; the view from the center aisle of Frost
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SFJAZZ at Frost Amphitheater Stanford Live and SFJAZZ partnered to present Thursday evening jazz concerts at Frost, marking SFJAZZ’s first time presenting at the historic venue. The lineup included Gregory Porter on stage with Bay Area jazz artists Marcus Shelby and Tiffany Austin, blues-roots-R&B singer Fantastic Negrito, the super group Dinner Party founded by Robert Glasper
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and Terrace Martin and featuring Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, and the SFJAZZ Collective.
Photo (clockwise from left upper corner): SFJAZZ Collective playing their hearts out; three-time GRAMMY winner for Best Contemporary Blues Album Fantastic Negrito; a group of young fans excited to be back for live performances; Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers; Gregory Porter returning to Stanford Live
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SFJAZZ Shows
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Total Audience for SFJAZZ Shows
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San Francisco Symphony at Frost Amphitheater
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Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducted Shows
stellar line-up of guest conductors that included Lina González-Granados, Xian Zhang, and the late Michael Morgan in one of his last performances.
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Total Tickets Purchased
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Building on our successful partnership that helped launch the newly-renovated Frost Amphitheater in 2019, the San Francisco Symphony returned to the venue with five Saturday evening concerts. The Symphony’s new music director Esa-Pekka Salonen kicked-off the first two concerts in the series, followed by a
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Guest Conductors
Photos (clockwise from upper left): Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the symphony in front of a socially-distanced audience; the full symphony on stage and ready to play; a close-up of Salonnen's conducting
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San Francisco Ballet at Frost Amphitheater This summer also marked the return of a major dance company to Frost for the first time in decades. A new partnership with the San Francisco Ballet brought the company and its full orchestra for a mixed program of new and classic work, including George Balanchine’s Serenade, Danielle Rowe’s powerful For Pixie (set to the music of Nina Simone), and Balanchine’s Tarantella.
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As a nod to the tenure and legacy of outgoing SF Ballet Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson, the Ballet also staged Tomasson's The Fifth Season.
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Ballet Dancers
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Musicians Performed
Photo: A ballerina leaping across the stage; San Francisco Ballet dancers showcasing their athleticism and grace on pointe shoes; a duet between two dancers
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The No One’s Rose Co-commissioned by Stanford Live and co-produced by Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO) and the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), Matthew Aucoin’s The No One’s Rose premiered at Bing Concert Hall in August, the first performance with an audience in the hall since it closed in March 2020. Directed by Zack Winokur and choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith, The No One’s Rose featured star artists from AMOC and PBO––dancers Or Schraiber and Julia Eichten, violinist Keir GoGwilt, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, and opera stars Julia Bullock, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Davóne Tines, and Paul Appleby. The all-star cast and creative team reunited for a three-week residency at Stanford Live 20
leading up to the premiere to finalize and rehearse the production that was six years in the making. The experimental music-theater work shifted creative direction during the pandemic. Paul Celan’s poetry remained at the core of The No One’s Rose, but the production was re-organized around a narrative structure influenced by Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. With this new structure and Celan as a guide to navigating and processing disaster, the members of the cast incorporated their experience and narratives into the work. The result was a unique reaction to catastrophe that is both artistic invention and personal response.
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Total Tickets Sold for The No One's Rose
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Student Tickets Sold
Photo: The No One's Rose performance at Bing Concert Hall
Campus and Artistic Engagement Though much of the season remained virtual, we continued to engage with the Stanford University and greater Bay Area community by hosting a number of online panels and events featuring faculty, lecturers, thinkers, and artists. Singersongwriter Meklit joined artist Constance Hockaday and Daniel Alexander Jones for A Vision for America: Artists on Leadership & Creative Imagination. Stanford lecturer Michael Wilcox presented Muwekma Ohlone:
Landscape, History and the Narratives of California, which provided an Indigenous history of the Bay Area and a framework for understanding the issues impacting Indigenous artists and people today. In a virtual conversation, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Stanford professor Beth Van Schaack discussed art in a time of crisis.
Photos (top to bottom): Meklit, Constance Hockaday and Daniel Alexander dicussing A Vision for America: Artists on Leadership & Creative Imagination; Senior Lecturer
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K-12 Program While the pandemic upended many of our standard activities, we were still able to offer a rich array of K–12 programs throughout the year. We adapted our in-school programs in the Ravenswood City School District, with resident teaching artists Quinteto Latino making 45 virtual classroom visits and creating two performance films. With the return of inperson instruction towards the end the school year, the quintet visited two Ravenswood campuses for live outdoor interactive concerts and provided instruction and assembly performances for the district’s summer schools.
workshops on circus arts, bringing music into the general classroom, and American Indian arts, history, and culture. We also joined as a partner for the San Mateo County Office of Education’s annual Arts Institute. In the spring, we created and released a beautiful four-part online film with Sewam American Indian Dance featuring dance, music, storytelling, American Indian sign language, and lectures on Native American culture and history. The films were accessed by over 50 teachers across Northern California.
We reconceived our teacher workshop series for the online medium and presented Photo (top to bottom): Sewam Native American dancer performing a traditional dance; two Sewam American Indian Dancers explaining the features of the dances and music
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45 Online K-12 Class Visits
5 Outdoor Performances at Partner Schools
274 Teachers Who Participated in Our Educational Programs 22
2020–21 Season in Numbers REVENUE: $7.1 MILLION Ticket Sales and Fees 2% Stanford University General Funds & Other 24%
Rental and Partner Income 0%
Individual Giving 40%
Stanford University Facility Maintenance Support 8%
Corporate Support 5% Foundation & Government Support 3%
Frost Amphitheater Earned Revenue Endowment 17% 1%
EXPENSES: $6.5 MILLION Frost Amphitheater Programming 13%
University Infrastructure 5%
Facility and Operations 9%
Salaries and Fringe 50%
Fundraising 1% Marketing 4%
Production 7% Campus & Community Engagement 1%
Programming 9%
Administration 1%
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With appreciation for the following donors, who provide major support for programming and musical instruments for Bing Concert Hall
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS $100,000+ The Koret Foundation Stanford Medicine $50,000–$99,999 Menlo Equities The Stanford Fund The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation $10,000–$49,999 California Arts Council Capital Group Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Facebook National Endowment for the Arts Powers Performing Arts Fund Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Funds Wells Fargo $1,000–$9,999 Aaron Copland Fund for Music The Amphion Foundation, Inc. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Western States Arts Federation
IN-KIND PARTNERS Anonymous Marriott Courtyard Sheraton Palo Alto Stanford Park Hotel The Westin Palo Alto
Anonymous Apogee Enterprises, Inc. The Adolph Baller Performance Fund for Bing Concert Hall Friends of Music at Stanford Fred & Stephanie Harman Fong Liu Elayne & Thomas Techentin, in memory of Beatrice Griffin Bonnie & Marty Tenenbaum The Fay S. & Ada S. Tom Family Turner Corporation The Frank Wells Family Maurice & Helen Werdegar
2020–21 ADVISORY COUNCIL 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 Brook Byers Rick Holmstrom David Hornik 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 2020–21 season was generously supported by Helen and Peter Bing. Stanford Live’s 2020–21 season sponsor was Stanford Medicine. Underwriting for student ticket discounts for the 2020–21 season was generously provided by the Bullard family. Stanford Live's 2020–21 season jazz programs were generously supported by the Koret Foundation. The Stanford Live Commissions and Programming Fund is generously supported by David and Pamela Hornik, Victoria and James Maroulis, the Maurice and Helen Werdegar Fund for Stanford Live, and other generous donors. Stanford Live's K–12 programs are generously supported by Gretchen and Mark Schar, the California Arts Council, and the Koret Foundation. Contributions listed are from Stanford Live members who made gifts from 9/1/20 through 8/31/21. 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, visitlive.stanford.edu/give. §
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Photo: Patrons leaving Frost Amphitheater through the tunnel
Stanford Live Staff Chris Lorway Executive Director
Robert DeArmond Web Developer
Bryan Alderman Assistant Director of Development
Laura Evans Director of Music Programs, Education, and Engagement
Karim Baer Associate Director for Campus Engagement and Public Programs
Ben Frandzel Institutional Gifts and Community Engagement Officer
Rory Brown Operations Manager
Bryce Freeman Operations Manager
Diana Burnell Assistant Ticket Office Manager
Elisa Gomez-Hird HR and Administrative Associate
Kelsey Carman Marketing Manager
Kristine Graham Ticketing Services Lead
Brett Cavanaugh Stage Technician
Katie Haemmerle Communications Manager
Nicola Rees Director of Development
Danielle Kisner Stage Technician
Toni Rivera Operations Coordinator
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
Mike Ryan Director of Operations, Frost Amphitheater Amanda Wah Director of Marketing and Communications Max Williams Development Programs Manager
Jeremy Ramsaur Lighting Manager
Photo Credits: Tei Blow, Drew Dir, Allie Foraker, Andreas Greiner, Katie Haemmerle, Matt Lavoie, Little Fang Photography, Peter Prato Photography, Kimberly Pross, Monica Semergiu Photography, Joel Simon, Michael Spencer, Erik Tomasson