2021–22 SEASON
Annual Report
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. 2021–22 Season Themes
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Residencies & Commissions
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Bing Concert Hall
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The Studio
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Stanford Live Arts Festival
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Festival Partners
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Stanford Live & Goldenvoice
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Films & Podcasts
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Backstage Pass
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Campus & Artistic Engagement
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K–12 Programming & Community Engagement
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Students at Stanford Live
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Revenue & Expenses
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2021–22 Season in Numbers
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Stanford Live Members
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Stanford Live Staff
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Explore Our 2021–22 Annual Report It is so wonderful to be back in the business of live performance. While there were still significant challenges over the past year—including ongoing closures and cancellations—overall there was a clear sense that the worst was behind us. Artists once again began to move around the world, and audiences made their way back to our venues. While we still saw some hesitancy and caution from some of our patrons, we are optimistic that Stanford Live will emerge from the past couple of years stronger than ever. This year’s annual report offers a look at all that we accomplished in this transitional year. The pages that follow clearly illustrate our team’s adaptive and innovative approach to programming and engagement. We continued to build our expertise in digital content, took our visiting artists out to the schools in our community, and partnered with colleagues both on and off campus to deliver a slate of exciting programs and events. And more than ever before, we provided opportunities for Stanford students to engage with and participate in our season—including the launch of a new initiative for aspiring student arts journalists. In a season that explored ideas around reconciliation and forgiveness, I want to give a special shout out to our friends at the Native American Cultural Center and its director Karen Biestman. Their guidance and support of this year’s season ensured that all artists from visiting Nations were properly welcomed and embraced during their time on campus. Finally, I want to thank our members and supporters for all that you do to help us thrive. We look forward to another great season with all of you. With warm regards,
Chris Lorway Executive Director Stanford Live
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2021–22 Season Themes After an unpredictable couple of pandemic years, Stanford Live returned for our 2021–22 season with performances in Bing Concert Hall, the Studio, and Memorial Auditorium. The season focused on themes of reconciliation and forgiveness, with many of the artists originally scheduled for the previously canceled 2020–21 season at last able to perform at our venues. From artists whose
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Total Events (Free and Ticketed)
work shares the histories and cultures of Indigenous people across the globe to performances that highlight the important role reconciliation plays in addressing histories and building inclusive communities, our 2021–22 season sought to empower artists and the important messages their work embodies.
50,631
Total Tickets Sold
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Photos (left to right starting at the top): Violinist Gil Shaham at Bing Concert Hall; Feist performing her multimedia show Multitudes; Bessie, Billie, & Nina: Pioneering Women in Jazz in the Studio; roots rocker Martha Redbone; Small Island Big Song; Samora Pinderhughes and Elena Pinderhughes performing The Healing Project; Jaz Sawyer in the Bing Studio 3
Residencies & Commissions Supporting artists remains paramount to Stanford Live’s mission, especially after two years of disruption and uncertainty in the performing arts due to COVID-19. In the 2021–22 season, we continued to increase investment in commissions and co-productions and expanded residency opportunities to give artists the time, space, and resources to develop new work at Stanford. The season started with a two-week residency for electro-pop artist and Indigenous rights activist iskwē. Together with a creative team of dancers, powwow singers, and musicians, iskwē created, rehearsed, and performed her immersive 4
and multidisciplinary concert acākosīk in Bing Concert Hall. The second residency of the season featured Kyle Abraham and his dance company, A.I.M, and electronic music producer Jlin who visited campus for a weeklong stay of rehearsals, master classes, and talks ahead of the North American premiere of Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth. Other major commissions included the world-premiere of film director Sam Green’s latest work, 32 Sounds, and a live performance of Gabriel Kahane’s 2022 album, Magnificent Bird.
Photos (clockwise from left): Company dancers from A.I.M by Kyle Abraham perform Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth in Memorial Auditorium; Gabriel Kahane in the Studio; Sam Green's 32 Sounds in Bing Concert Hall; iskwē and her dancers
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Photo: Bing Concert Hall
Bing Concert Hall Indoor performances returned to Bing Concert Hall for the first time since March of 2020. We hosted Rhum + Clay Theatre Company’s The War of the Worlds; a jazz set by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah; the famed broadcast program Selected Shorts, featuring stories on reconciliation and forgiveness; and the street dance phenomenon known as Memphis Jookin’ with dance artist Lil Buck.
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Some of the most renowned classical vocalists and musicians from around the globe also toured at the Bing: bass-baritone Gerald Finley with longtime accompanist Julius Drake; Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński and pianist Michał Biel; cellist Abel Selaocoe; and a rare Bay Area performance by Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Classical Events
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Global Music Events
Photos (clockwise from right): South African cellist Abel Selaocoe; the London Symphony Orchestra; bass-baritone Gerald Finley and Julius Drake, pianist; The War of the Worlds company on the Bing Concert Hall stage
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The Studio The Studio proved its versatility and popularity again with nearly 50 performances in genres ranging from singer-songwriters and jazz to theater and drag. The theater saw return visits from Inua Ellams (An Evening with an Immigrant) and Ryan J. Haddad (Falling for Make Believe) plus a first-time visit from science journalist Alanna Mitchell in her one-woman theatrical memoir on climate change, Sea Sick. Comedy at the Bing brought Dwayne Perkins, former Saturday Night Live member Colin Quinn, and an evening of First Nations comedy featuring
Pete Lee, Taietsarón:sere “Tai” Leclaire, and Stanford alum Jim Ruel. Performances also included singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza and Lakota hip-hop artist Frank Waln, two nights of shows by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, local jazz drummer Jaz Sawyer with vocalists Kim Nalley and Jazzmeia Horn, a sold-out evening of ukulele with Daniel Ho and more sold-out shows from Bay Area–based South Asian fusion band Raga & Blues.
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Performances in the Studio
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Comedy Shows
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Theater Performances
Photos (from left to right starting at the top): Aaron Diehl on the Studio stage for an evening of ragtime and Harlem stride; Carla Ross, drag artist; Inua Ellams' An Evening with an Immigrant; singersongwriter Raye Zaragoza; an evening of ukulele with Daniel Ho; Ryan J. Haddad performing his new work Falling for Make Believe
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Photos (clockwise from top left): Singer-songwriter Mon Laferte on the Frost Amphitheater stage; audiences celebrating another great evening at the Stanford Live Arts Festival; the sun going down at Frost; Los Tigres del Norte with dancers; a group of patrons at the VIP tables for Mon Laferte; people laying out blankets and food before a show;
Stanford Live Arts Festival After a successful inaugural series in summer 2021, the Stanford Live Arts Festival returned to the historic Frost Amphitheater for another fiveweek concert series programmed in partnership with Bay Area arts institutions SFJAZZ, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, and Stanford Jazz Workshop. Shaped by a community-driven focus, the festival continued to welcome new audiences to Frost and provide many local artists with a performance space.
Highlights from Stanford Live– programmed concerts include Chilean singer and songwriter Mon Laferte and the lively atmosphere of the San Jose–based norteño phenomenon Los Tigres del Norte, who welcomed the youth mariachi group Mariachi Media Luna, Bay Area mariachi band Mariachi Nueva Generacion, and Ballet Folklorico to the stage for guest performances.
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21,157
Total Tickets Sold
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Events
$1,387,859 Revenue
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Festival Partners Building on the partnerships from summer 2021, we collaborated with major Bay Area organizations to bring classical, jazz, and dance performances to the Frost stage for the Stanford Live Arts Festival. Stanford Jazz Workshop celebrated 50 years of shaping the sound of jazz in the Bay Area with a concert featuring a 50th Anniversary Band, followed by a performance by jazz icon Dianne Reeves with orchestra. SFJAZZ programming included Latin jazz legend Arturo Sandoval and Afro-Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez in a double bill; esperanza spalding’s latest project, which fuses dance with her trademark improvisational music; and a celebration of the music of Linda Ronstadt featuring vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway, the Stanford Live Orchestra, folk-pop trio Luci, “Femmeton” singer and Bay Area local La Doña, and soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh.
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In a partnership dating back to Frost’s reopening in 2019, the San Francisco Symphony presented four concerts in July, including a cabaret-meets-classical performance featuring Pink Martini conducted Edwin Outwater and other programs conducted by Erina Yashima, Paolo Bortolameolli, and Ludovic Morlot. Complexions Contemporary Ballet made its Bay Area debut at Frost in a co-presentation with the San Francisco Ballet, performing STAR DUST: From Bach to Bowie. After a strong run at Frost last year, SF Ballet's Starry Nights returned, this time with Jerome Robbins’s In the Night, Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight, and William Forsythe’s Blake Works I.
Photos (clockwise from lower left): Dancers from the San Francisco Ballet gracefully performing on the Frost stage; a sold-out show featuring the San Francisco Symphony with guest Pink Martini; Pedrito Martinez and his quintet jamming out to Afro-Cuban beats; esperanza spalding's unique fusion of music and dance
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Stanford Live & Goldenvoice Since Frost Amphitheater’s reopening in 2019, our partnership with Goldenvoice has quickly placed Frost on the map as one of the Bay Area’s leading outdoor concert venues. Deadheads enjoyed concerts this summer by former Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir and Mickey Hart plus a third visit from Grateful Dead tribute jam band Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. The Goldenvoice lineup also included shows from My Morning Jacket, Courtney Barnett’s Here and There Festival (featuring Chicano 14
Batman, Julia Jacklin, and Japanese Breakfast), plus a evening of comedy starring Steve Martin and Martin Short. Stanford Live and Goldenvoice resumed their collaboration with the studentrun Stanford Concert Network, which allows students to program and operate major concerts on campus, including a Frost rooftop performance by rapper Ric Wilson and the 2022 Frost Music and Arts Festival featuring Aminé, Victoria Monét, and Tkay Maidza.
Photos (clockwise from left upper corner): Canadian DJ and record producer REZZ; a jam-packed and excited crowd for Frost Music and Arts Festval; Iceland's experimental rock band Sigur Rós; Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros; Courtney Barnett on the Frost stage; comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short
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Films & Podcasts As live shows returned to the stage, we expanded our digital content by producing and commissioning new films and podcasts, including iskwē’s theatrical concert acākosīk, which transformed multiple spaces in Bing Concert Hall into an immersive audience experience. We were one of four national performing arts organizations (including Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, and Brooklyn Academy of Music) to copresent round two of Films.Dance, a series of 15 dance films directed by Los Angeles–based Jacob Jonas The Company and shot in various locations around the world during the pandemic. Former curatorial fellow Will Paisley (’20, Navajo and Blackfeet) produced five episodes of Resilience in this Racing Reality (R-cubed), our
podcast series of conversations with Indigenous musicians, performers, and artists who performed at Stanford Live during the 2021–22 season. R-cubed gave space to artists to discuss their creative practices and the impact of their work on furthering Indigenous performance and promoting contemporary representations of Indigenous people in the 21st century. Through a partnership with the podcast Conversations on Dance, many of the dance artists performing on our stages participated in podcast interviews, including award-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham and composer Jlin (speaking about the premiere of their new work, Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth) and Jacob Jonas, director, choreographer, and artistic director of Jacob Jonas The Company.
Photos (clockwise from upper left): The cover art for the Resilience in this Racing Reality podcast series; iskwē's filming of her theatrical concert, available in the Films & Podcasts section of the Stanford Live website; a screenshot from the Films.Dance series, available in the Films & Podcasts section of the Stanford Live website
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Backstage Pass
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Jakub Józef Orliński; jazz orchestra leader and composer Maria Schneider; renowned organist Cameron Carpenter; and violinist and music director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Hope.
New Backstage Pass Conversations Recorded
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Hours of New Backstage Pass Content
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Stanford Live’s Backstage Pass artist interview series provided Stanford Live members a special opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our artists make their art come to life. Led by executive director Chris Lorway, the 2021–22 season Backstage Pass series included interviews with Polish countertenor
Photos (clockwise from upper left): Daniel Hope, violinist and music director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra; Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński; renowned organist Cameron Carpenter; jazz orchestra leader and composer Maria Schneider
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Campus & Artistic Engagement With students back on campus for the 2021–22 academic year, many of our campus engagement events resumed in-person. In the fall, we collaborated with Stanford’s Native American Cultural Center for a series of events between students and visiting Indigenous artists iskwē and William Prince. Student engagement with artists also included master classes, including those taught by choreographer Kyle Abraham, renowned pianist Kirill Gerstein, and internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Gerald Finley. In a post-performance talk, Rhum + Clay members, journalist and Stanford lecturer Janine Zacharia, and Stanford professor of communication Jeff Hancock delved into The War of the Worlds’ themes of media, disinformation, and mass hysteria. After his studio performance, Samora Pinderhughes Photos (clockwise from left): Samora Pinderhughes postperformance discussion; Kyle Abraham's master class with Stanford students in Roble Arts Gym; a conversation about Native heritage with William Prince and undergrad Sha’teiohseri:io “Rio” Patton
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Students in Kyle Abraham's Master Class
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moderated a conversation on social justice and prison reform. Other artist dialogues included Kyle Abraham in a conversation on reimagining Black futures with A-lan Holt (director of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, or IDA), amara tabor-smith (IDA artist-in-residence), and Thomas F. DeFrantz (professor of dance; African and African American studies; theater studies; and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Duke University); singer-songwriter Martha Redbone and Mohammed Soriano-Bilal (director of the Office for Inclusion, Belonging, and Intergroup Communication at Stanford) on the intersection of Black and Indigenous identities; and playwright Inua Ellams speaking with Stanford professor of English Ato Quayson on the power of un-othering through artistic exchange.
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K–12 Programming & Community Engagement The shifting educational landscape over the past two years called for adaptive and innovative thinking for our K–12 program. When a surge of a new COVID-19 variant required us to cancel our student matinee series, we arranged for our matinee artists to perform at schools instead, presenting seven performances for over 1,200 local elementary school students. Along with in-school programs spotlighting Native American music and dance and Pacific Islander cultures, world-renowned dancer Lil Buck and the cast of his Memphis Jookin’ show ended their performances with a freestyle dance jam, that had dancers and students joyfully trading moves.
We offered six professional development workshops for K–12 teachers, both online and in person, providing an expansive range of resources for educators. Our workshop leaders included Bay Area arts and education leaders such as Latin jazz great John Santos. In our artists-in-schools programs in East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood City School District, our long-standing residency with teaching artists Quinteto Latino grew to include multidisciplinary residencies combining music and visual art at the district’s three elementary schools.
Photos (clockwise from bottom far left): Sewam American Indian Dance performance at East Palo Alto Charter School; Small Island Big Song performance at Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy; American Indian Arts, History, and Culture workshop with Sewam American Indian Dance directors Eddie Madril and Sara Moncada; Lil Buck and his dance team visit The Primary School to teach students the Memphis Jookin' style; dance party with students and Lil Buck's dance team
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School Visits with Artists
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"Being a photographer with Stanford Live pushed me to practice new forms of portrait and event photography and to adapt to new settings and lighting with every gig. I loved how this role allowed me to experience, and in a way participate in, so many diverse performances on campus. The events team was always supportive on the ground at each show and gave encouraging feedback post-edit, which helped me grow as a photographer." —Marina Dewinara Luccioni, Student Photographer "I not only gained invaluable experience, guidance, and mentorship within the journalism field, but also had the opportunity to patronize uniquely creative and artistic facets of campus that I otherwise wouldn’t have likely had the opportunity to engage with. Through the wide breadth of genres and artists that Stanford Live brings to campus, I found this fellowship to be deeply rewarding, as it exposed me to a wealth of musical talent unlike anything I’ve ever seen before." —Ryan Loo, Arts Journalism Fellow 22
Students at Stanford Live Through internships, apprenticeships, fellowships, and part-time paid student positions, we seek to provide students with opportunities for professional learning in the performing arts industry. The 2021–22 season curatorial fellows, Haley Stafford and Ramiro Hampson-Medina, worked with the curatorial team on this season’s events and were instrumental in developing relationships with student groups on campus. Our yearlong Frost apprenticeship gave Katie Pieschala on-theground experience operating a large outdoor venue and insight into the many moving parts of Frost programming. Part-time student positions in our ticket office gave four students—Zhang Bai-han, Victor Cheruiyot, Itzel Lintzu Juarez, and Magdalena Ohstrom—the opportunity to learn valuable customer service, sales, and database
experience. A pool of part-time student photographers—Nikolas Liepins, Marina Dewinara Luccioni, Vanessa Onuoha, and Vel Senthil—were also crucial, helping us document all of our performances this season. The Stanford Live marketing and communications team welcomed two interns during the 2021–22 season: Ijeoma Alozie during the academic year and Caleb Liu in the summer. The newest addition to our student learning opportunities is the Arts Journalism Fellowship, a collaboration with the university’s studentrun newspaper, The Stanford Daily, aimed at providing student writers with arts journalism experience covering music, theater, dance, and more. Stanford Live's journalism fellows included Betty He, Ryan Loo, and Sofia Gonzalez-Rodriguez.
Photos (clockwise from top left): Ramiro Hampson-Medina introducing singer-songwriter William Prince before his Studio performance; Stanford Live summer marketing and communications intern Caleb Liu; Stanford Live marketing and communications intern Ijeoma Alozie
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Revenue & Expenses REVENUE: $13.2 MILLION Stanford University General Funds & Other 13%
Ticket Sales and Fees 10% Rental and Partner Income 2%
Stanford University Facility Maintenance Support 7%
Individual Giving 16%
Corporate Support 3% Foundation & Government Support 3% Endowment 2% Frost Amphitheater Ticket Sales & Other 44%
EXPENSES: $13.4 MILLION University Infrastructure 4%
Salaries and Fringe 29%
Frost Amphitheater 35%
Administration 0%
Programming 14%
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Facility and Operations 8% Fundraising 2%
Marketing 3%
Production 4%
Campus & Community Engagement 1%
2021–22 Season in Numbers
12% Theater
16% Pop/Rock Classical 16%
5% Dance 5% Contemporary
Stanford University Events & Rentals 27%
5% Folk
20% Classical 12% Global Music
Free Events, 12%
14% Jazz/Blues
1% Vocal
5% Comedy 5% Discussion
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45.5%
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Website Page Views
% of Households New to Stanford Live
Tickets Sold to Stanford Students
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1,561
Website Visitors
Households with Tickets to 5+ Shows
Stanford Faculty/Staff Members Who Bought Tickets
50,000+
157
3,826
New Stanford Live Member Households
Attended Blackfest 2022, Presented by the Black Family Gathering Committee and Stanford Live
Tickets Sold Online
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James & Jennifer Bae Anne N. Baldwin Simon R. Bare Betsy & George Bechtel Bernard Beecham & Cheryl Lathrop Amy Beim Leslie Berlin Pamela Bernstein Risa & Mike Biggar Justin Birnbaum & Rebecca Wedl Nancy A. Blears V. Blume William & Bonnie Blythe Linda Borthwick Caroline Bowker & Charles Bliss Maggie Burgett & Kimble Smith Michael Calabrese David & Aubrey Carrico Mike Cassidy William & Joan Chace Cecily Chang T. Ruth Chang Robert & Susan Christiansen Herbert & Eve Clark Chris Clarke & Gina Hernandez Drs. Linda & James Clever Michael Cocuh Mary & Lawrence Cohn Katie Connor Kate Corcoran Costabile Family Elaine Costello Ryan & Jodie Craig Tim & Patricia Daniels Lothar & Ilse de Temple Ralph & Debra Deadwyler David & Karen Dee Donato Desopo & Marian Sagan Dr. Terry Desser & Dr. Daniel Rubin Odile Disch-Bhadkamkar & Neal Bhadkamkar Kristin & Craig Donato Carole Donnelly Debra Doucette Donald Draper Jeff & Sandy Dunn Holly & Edmond Eger Bert & Elisabeth Eichhorst Sharon & David Espar Cynthia Fetty & Bill Haydock Mary & Tom Field Joan & Allan Fisch Rodolfo Fischer Mike & KT Foust Eugene Fram Lawrence & Leah Friedman Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz Judy & Monty Frost Renate Fruchter John Furman
Aileen Furukawa E. Alexander Glover Imelda Gonzalez Loren & Mike Gordon Toby & Jenny Gottheiner Tatiana Granoff & Robert Olson Harry & Diane Greenberg Jacqueline & Michael Grubb Jeanette & Harold Guthart Fred & Cherie Half Casey Hall Jeffrey & Kathy Hamilton Mary Hawn Shireen Heidari & Brian Granaghan Jeff & Caron Heimbuck Linda Henigin & Greg Brail Paul Hopkins Lara Housser Serena Hu & John Lenox Linda Hubbard Glenda Hughes Jennie & Brian Hughes Mary Hunt Hans Ingebretsen Swathi & Mohan Iyer Kurt & Sue Jaggers Jane & Bill Johnson Sylvia Kainz Bob Kanefsky Professor David B. Karpf, MD Ed & Pearl Karrer Stina & Herant Katchadourian R. Katila Thomas Kellerman Kathleen Kelly Susan Ketcham Maggie & David King Kenton & Keiko King Ed & Kay Kinney Michael Kobb Leslie Kriese Sanjeev Kumar Ed & Miriam Landesman Cathy & Stephen Lazarus Laurie Leventhal-Belfer & Howard Belfer Reuben Levy Randall & Lori Livingston Sarah Longstreth & Tom Culbertson Albert Loshajian & Shelley Floyd Rachel & Zohar Lotan Hal & Carol Louchheim Vera Luth Jiangwen Majeti Tulika Majumdar Nick Martinelli Sean McCabe James McElwee Maura McGinnity & Erik Rausch Matt McWright Gayle & Grady Means 27
Wallace Mersereau Mirbach Family Monica Moore & Deborah Burgstrum Holde H. Muller Susan E. Nash Joan B. Norton Nunez Family Barbara O'Connor Wayne Robert Ott Dick & Sandi Pantages Demetra Paras Joyce Pharriss Richard & Janis Sherman Popp Ellen & Klaus Porzig Woody & Marianne Powell Amy Rabbino & Neal Rubin Rob Reich & Heather Kirkpatrick James P. Reilly Missy & Steve Reller Sara Eisner Richter & Michael Richter Laura Roberts & Robert Jones Walter Robinson Angela Rogers & Gary Beery Mark Roos & Catherine E. RossiRoos Libby Roth & Ron Katz Kristin Russell Lynne Russell Joel & Rachel Samoff John Schulz Christine Sherry Judith & William Shilstone Mary Ann Sing Jim & Mary Smith Raymond & Apryl Stern Sandra & James Stoecker C. Kwang Sung, MD & Meghan McGeary Pippa Sutphin Elidia Tafoya Janet Talbert Carol Thomsen Chris & Carol Thomsen Donald & Marion Tischer Katherine Tsai Charlotte & Harry Turner Chuck & Hope Tyler Larisa & Jonathan Usich Vargas Family Madeleine & Anders Viden Robert V. Wagoner George Webb Christine Weigen & Jefferson Burch Paul & Paula Welander Bart & Nancy Westcott Susan & Lew Wexler Sallie & Jay Whaley Rick Wheat, M.D. Paul Williams & Helge Ternsten Donna Young Caroline Yu
2021–22 SEASON PERFORMANCE SPONSORS
BUILDING DONORS
BING EXPERIENCE FUND DONORS
Jeanne & Larry Aufmuth Sue & John Diekman Kate & Bill Duhamel Sakurako & William Fisher Mary & Clinton Gilliland Marcia & John Goldman Nancy Kukacka Mid-Peninsula League of the San Francisco Symphony Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson David Wollenberg and The Wollenberg Foundation Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki
Peter & Helen Bing Cynthia Fry Gunn & John A. Gunn The John Arrillaga Family Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Roberta & Steve Denning Elizabeth & Bruce Dunlevie Jill & John* Freidenrich Frances & Theodore Geballe Andrea & John Hennessy Leslie & George Hume Susan & Craig McCaw Deedee & Burton* McMurtry Linda & Tony Meier Wendy Munger & Leonard Gumport Jennifer Jong Sandling & M. James Sandling Regina & John Scully Madeline & Isaac Stein Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang
With appreciation for the following donors, who provide major support for programming and musical instruments for Bing Concert Hall.
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS $100,000+ Bill.com Koret Foundation Stanford Medicine Taube Philanthropies
2021–22 ADVISORY COUNCIL
$50,000–$99,999 Menlo Equities National Endowment for the Arts The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
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 René Lacerte
$10,000–$49,999 Capital Group Drs. Ben & A. Jess Shenson Estate $1,000–$9,999 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Powers Performing Arts Fund Western Arts Alliance Western States Arts Federation
IN-KIND PARTNERS Courtyard by Marriott, Palo AltoLos Altos Nobu Hotel Palo Alto Sheraton Hotel Stanford Park Hotel Westin Hotel
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
Cathy McMurtry Roger McNamee Linda Meier Trine Sorensen Srinija Srinivasan Doug Tanner Jorge Tapias David Wollenberg
Ex Officio: Maude Brezinski Deborah Cullinan Stephen Sano Anne Shulock
Stanford Live's 2021–22 season was generously supported by Peter and Helen Bing. Underwriting for student ticket discounts for the 2021–22 season was generously provided by the Bullard family. Stanford Live’s 2021–22 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 Anonymous, Victoria and James Maroulis, Gretchen and Mark Schar, and the Koret Foundation. Contributions listed are from Stanford Live members who made gifts from 9/1/2021 through 8/31/2022. 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. *
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Deceased
Photo: Bing Concert Hall lobby at night
Stanford Live Staff Chris Lorway Executive Director Karim Baer Associate Director for Campus Engagement and Public Programs Diana Burnell Assistant Ticket Office Manager Kelsey Carman Marketing Manager Brett Cavanaugh Stage Technician Robert DeArmond Web Developer Laura Evans Director of Music Programs, Education, and Engagement
Ben Frandzel Institutional Gifts and Community Engagement Officer
Maurice Nounou Associate Director of Ticketing and System Operations
Bryce Freeman Operations Manager
Michileen Marie Oberst Development Program Manager
Mike Ryan Director of Operations, Frost Amphitheater
Nick Oldham A/V Manager
Hugo Seda Artistic Administrator
Christina Gonzalez Ho Artist Liaison
Egan O’Rourke Production Manager
Kristine Graham Ticketing Services Lead
Kimberly Pross Director of Operations and Production
Laurel Skehen Associate Director of Development
Katie Haemmerle Communications Manager
Jeremy Ramsaur Lighting Manager
Elisa Gomez-Hird HR and Administrative Associate
Danielle Kisner Stage Technician
Nicola Rees Director of Development
Toni Rivera Operations Coordinator
Michelle Symons Facilities Specialist Amanda Wah Director of Marketing and Communications
Photo Credits: Jiyang Chen, Laura Futamura, Jeff Goldberg, Chris Hardy, Briene Lermitte, Nikolas Liepins, Marina Dewinara Luccioni, Monica Semergiu Photography, Peter Prato, Reneff-Olson Productions, Vel Senthil, Dovile Sermokas, Joel Simon, Michael Spencer, Harrison Truong, V. Joy Photo, Nicolas Zonvi
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