Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra

Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra Direct from Gdańsk, Poland

March 1, 2016

Supported by Ames International Orchestra Festival Association and Ames Commission on the Arts

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Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra Ernst van Tiel, Artistic Director Marcin Koziak, Piano Soloist

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Stephen’s Auditorium PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven (b. 1770 in Bonn - d. 1827 in Vienna)

Egmont Overture, Op. 84 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, Emperor I.

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Allegro Adagio un poco mosso Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

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Allegro con brio Andante con moto Allegro Allegro

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Direct from Gdańsk, Poland

The Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra Ernst Van Tiel, Artistic Director Boguslaw Dawidow, Principal Guest Conductor At the beginning of 2016 Symphony Orchestra of Polish Baltic Philharmonic will tour to the United States of America. It will be the longest concert tour in its history.

The tour includes 48 concerts in the most prestigious concert halls in 19 states. The program of concerts, held from January 13 to March 20, 2016, will include flagship works of Polish music: Piano Concerto in F minor

by Frederic Chopin and the Violin Concerto in D minor by Henryk Wieniawski, and some of the finest works of Wagner, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Rimski-Korsakov.

The solo piano will be performed by Marcin Koziak - semi-finalist and the winner of three prizes in XVI International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010).

Roster for American Tour: Ist VIOLIN Kwiatkowski Robert/ Fabiszak Elżbieta koncertmistrz Śliwa Anna Kwaśny Piotr Mroczek Mateusz Kolińska Sylwia Kotelczuk-Sójko Olga Perucki Łukasz Jędrysek Mateusz Staniak Bartek Kopac Alisa Treszczotka Przemysław Górecka Anna Tyrańska Natalia 2nd VIOLIN Bruderek Adam Pruss-Czaja Bożena/ Napierała Eliza Piotrowska Małgorzata Meronk-Całusińska Wiesława Tracz Katarzyna Konieczna Zofia Iwańczuk Alena Warmińska Magdalena Marcisz Paulina Kościelna Monika Wenda Agnieszka Jaros Łukasz VIOLA Wiczyńska Maria Sionkowski Maciej Iwaniak Sławomir Markiewicz Michał Kurczaba Grzegorz

Kamińska-Kaczmar Marzena Krawczenko Joanna M. Komanderek-Tymendorf Bock Magdalena Urbanek Agnieszka CELLO Karpeta Krzysztof / Karbowska Joanna Białkowski Jan Dacko Robert Mleczko Małgorzata Gach Piotr Sompolińska Julia Joachimowska Izabela Kościelna Beata Pawłowski Krzysztof

CLARINET Respondek Karol Wojciechowski Andrzej BASSON Pachowicz Mirosław Kaproń Wiesław HORN Mondry Grzegorz Mondry Anna Karaszewski Kamil Pożakowski Piotr TRUMPET Szadowiak Janusz Tyrański Michał

BASS Cichocki Zdzisław Baczyńska Maria Birr Jacek Bock Tomasz Gutomski Dariusz Pakuła Maciej

TROMBONE Wiśniewski Adam Parchem Maciej Stawski Mariusz

FLUTE Ivanov Vasyl Respondek Agnieszka

TIMPANI/PERCUSSION Skrętkowski Tomasz Wiczyński Matweusz Maruszak Paweł / Szewczyk Paweł Jastrzębski Michał /

Skotnicki Arkadiusz

OBOE Wyrzykowski Jarosław Raczyńska Adriana Wroniszewski Dominik

TUBE Gileta Zenon

HARP Montoya Peña Carlos

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Ernst van Tiel Artistic Director, Polish Baltic Philharmonic While studying percussion and piano at the Utrecht Conservatory of Music as well as afterwards, Ernst van Tiel was attached to the Dutch broadcasting orchestras for a long time, which included his cooperation in many recordings in the field of classical and jazz music. From 1988 onwards Ernst van Tiel studied conducting with Lucas Vis, Gary Bertini and Jean Fournet.

During six seasons he worked as the chief conductor of the Amsterdam Promenade Orchestra.

Besides that he conducted numerous concerts with Dutch orchestras, such as the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brabant Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, where he acted as assistant to Valery Gergiev in many productions for two years and lead several productions himself.

Ernst van Tiel performed just about all the important works from the symphonic repertoire, but in particular his interpretations of music from the 19th and 20th century provided him an international reputation. His activities abroad include guest conductorships among others at the orchestra of the Teatro Communale in Bologna, where he introduced works of contemporary Dutch composers, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra with a program based on the music of Duke Ellington, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium and several orchestras in Germany and China.

In 2004 he has made his debut at the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was reengaged immediately for several productions. In april 2007 he, very successfully, conducted this orchestra, accompanying a projection of Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky with the original film music

by Sergei Prokofiev.

In the theatre he was in charge of opera productions, such as Bizet’s Carmen and The Pearl Fishers, Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Verdi’s Ernani and Oberto and Dido & Aeneas by Purcell.

After a brilliant debut at the Kirov opera in St. Petersburg in a production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (he was personally invited by Valery Gergiev), he lead several performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto and, very recently, Elektra by Richard Strauss. Next season Ernst van Tiel will return to the Mariinsky Theatre as a guest conductor.

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Marcin Koziak Piano Soloist, Polish Baltic Philharmonic Marcin Koziak was born in 1989 in Krakow, Poland, into a musical family. At the age of ten, he won his first Poland-wide competition, as an eleven-year-old boy he made his debut with Krakow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Despite his young age, he performed in 22 countries in Europe, Asia and North America including Japan, China, USA, Russia, Israel, Ukraine, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, France, Great Britain, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Romania, Croatia, Canary Islands, Georgia, Estonia and Hungary in many prestigious concert halls including Tokyo International Forum, Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), Art Center of Kobe (Kobe, Japan), Bass Performance Hall (Fort Worth, USA), Auditorium di Milano, Cadogan Hall (London), Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, the new Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall in Katowice, Salle Cortot (Paris), Great Hall in Conservatory in Geneva, Verdi Hall in Milan, National Opera in Warsaw, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus (Las Palmas), Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb and in the other concert halls all over the world.

He was honored to play under the batons of outstanding conductors such as Alexander Lazarev, Antoni Wit, George Tchitchinadze, Xieyang Chen, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Maximiano Valdes, Yip Wing-sie, Charles OlivieriMunroe, Brian Wright, Marek Pijarowski, Boguslaw Dawidow, José Maria Florêncio, Michal Dworzynski and with many famous orchestras including: Chinese National Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus, and Beethoven Academy Orchestra.

Marcin Koziak was invited to and gave concerts at major festivals and concert cycles including: 30th La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival (2010), ‘La Folle Journée au Japon’ (Tokyo, 2010), 1st ASEM Culture and Arts Festival (Beijing, 2009), Rubinstein Piano Festival (Lodz, 2011), ‘La Folle Journée au Varsovie’ (2010), 10th International Festival ‘Kiev Summer Music Evenings’ (2007), 66th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdroj (2011) and at many more in Geneva, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Milan, Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Katowice.

His concerts were trasmitted by e.g. japanese radio Ottava, radio France Musique, Polish Radio and Polish Television. He has recorded two CD’s with music of Frédéric Chopin.

On May 4, 2011 he was privileged to give a recital in Warsaw for Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden and the First Lady of the Republic of Poland Anna Komorowska during the official visit of HM in Poland; two months later he took part in a grand concert in Baths of Caracalla in Rome organized for the occasion of the beginning of the Polish Presidency in the European Union. He was also invited to give a performance at the Opening Gala of the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw on March 1, 2010 (at the day of 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birthday).

He is a laureate of many international piano competitions; the most significant are: 1st prize at the 2nd International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Budapest (2006), 2nd prize and three additional prizes at the 7th International Competition for Young Pianists “Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam” in Bydgoszcz (Poland, 2007) and 3rd prize at the 10th Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition (United Kingdom, 2014). He is a semifinalist and a laureate of three extra- statutory prizes of the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010) and semifinalist of the 14th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (2014) and 16th Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in Salt Lake City (2014).

Marcin Koziak has studied for many years with two great teachers : Professor Stefan Wojtas in Academy of Music in Krakow (Poland) and Professor Tamas Ungar in Texas Christian University in Fort Worth (USA).

He lives in Krakow, Poland with his wife Aleksandra.

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Ludwig van Beethoven, born December 16, 1770 in Bonn; died March 27, 1827 in Vienna

hero’s fate. (In an unexpected pause near the end—followed by the emphatic rhythm of the opening—Beethoven even predicts Egmont’s beheading, noting in his sketches that death “could be expressed by a silence.”

Egmont Overture, Op. 84 (1809-10)

Cast in the dark and somber key of f minor, it opens with a stark unison, followed by a series of full chords that introduce a triple meter first theme in the woodwinds. The music builds to a staggering climax with the full orchestra repeating the minor chords; this buildup is followed by a descending gesture in the violins that ends in silence – surely this is the composer’s description of the fatal sword stroke. A soft woodwind chorale ensues, and then begins the heroic finale – now in F Major and a solid 4/4 meter. The overture ends with a huge splash of trumpets and timpani, as well as one of the early moments in the orchestral repertoire highlighting the piccolo.

PREMIERE PERFORMANCE: June 15, 1810, in Vienna

With Vienna under French occupation during much of 1809, Beethoven was forced into an uncomfortable sort of seclusion. Many of the city’s elite had fled, but Beethoven chose to stay behind and was commissioned to write incidental music for a play by famed German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).

Not only did the opportunity provide a chance to deeply connect with the words of the muchadmired Goethe, the subject of the drama was particularly poignant for Beethoven.

Egmont was a Dutch count who resisted the Spanish Inquisition. He was beheaded in the marketplace of Brussels on June 5, 1568, and his head was displayed on a pike. Although the Netherlands’ independence from Spain was not fully secured until some eighty years later, Egmont was hailed as a martyr in the struggle against the oppressive Spanish regime.

Goethe’s play, and the honor of providing it with some suitably powerful incidental music, was perfect medicine for the composer at such a dark and lonely time. The play was part historical spectacle, part love story, and part character study, and Beethoven composed ten musical numbers, including an overture, four entr’actes, and two songs for Claire, the fictional love interest Goethe provided (in lieu of Egmont’s wife and eight children). Only the overture still receives frequent performance and is complete as a compact tone poem as it previews not only the central conflicts of the drama but its resolution as well. Beethoven depicts the oppression of the Spanish rule (the slow opening is particularly grave), Egmont’s determination and rebellious spirit, the uprising of the Netherlanders, and the

This tale is not just of freedom and national liberation, but is the story of personal sacrifice leading to a greater good, a theme that throughout his career prompted Beethoven to write some of his most powerful music.

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73, Emperor WORLD PREMIERE: the Gewandhaus Orchestra premiered the piece in Leipzig, Germany, on November 28, 1811 with Friedrich Schneider, soloist.

Gone forever is the idea of the concerto as a virtuosic display work, with a pre-ordained formal structure and an orchestra tasked solely with the passive accompaniment of the soloist. Plenty of dazzling virtuosity is on display here but the Emperor Concerto is essentially a three-movement symphony with solo piano.

Known for its grandeur, bold melodies, and heroic spirit, the Emperor Concerto is a magnificent affirmation made in terrible times.

In 1809 Austria was at war with France. In May, the French artillery was shelling the suburbs of Vienna. One of the worst nights of all, May 11, Beethoven hid in his brother’s cellar and covered his head with pillows

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to mute the noise, hoping to protect the remaining shreds of his hearing. With the first four concerti essentially written for his own concert use, the fact that he never performed the Emperor seems a clear indication that his deafness had progressed to a point that made public solo appearances impossible. (And like so many pieces throughout music history, the nickname of Emperor was not Beethoven’s own, but nonetheless seems a fitting, perhaps even ideal title for this magnificent work.)

The first movement opens as the orchestra offers three sonorous chords, and the piano responds to each with cadenza-like flourishes of arpeggios, trills and scales. Each of the three chords and responses offers new pianistic possibilities. This dramatic introduction is followed by a purely orchestral exposition, one of the grandest and longest in any concerto, in which the principal themes of the movement are introduced. When the piano rejoins the proceedings, it is as a member of a thoughtfully integrated ensemble rather than merely an exalted soloist. Virtually unparalleled in the concerto literature, Beethoven has introduced an equitable balance between soloist and ensemble.

The Adagio second movement is a serene and deeply devout meditation, one of Beethoven’s most beautiful and tender creations. The piano unfolds a series of three expansive variations introduced by the muted strings. Both interestingly fresh and reassuringly tied to where we have been, as the variations progress, they become simpler and less elaborate.

When this music has subsided into stillness, Beethoven makes one of his characteristically drastic shifts, just dropping the pitch by a semitone. That move made, but still in the tempo of the slow movement, Beethoven projects the outline of a new theme, made, like all the others in the concerto, of the simplest imaginable stuff. Suddenly that new idea bursts forth in its proper tempo and fortissimo. The finale has begun. The theme is revealed as that of a robust German dance. Just before the end, the timpani attain unexpected prominence in a passage of

equally unexpected quiet. But this descent into adagio and pianissimo is undone in a coda as brilliant as it is brief.

SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN C MINOR, op. 67 PREMIERE PERFORMANCE: December 22, 1808 in Vienna, Austria. The composer conducted.

The Fifth Symphony was written over the span of more than four years during one of the most productive periods of Beethoven’s career and premiered at his famous marathon concert at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien on December 22, 1808. Reports indicate that all did not go well. The unfulfilling circumstances of the event in general and the premiere of the Fifth Symphony specifically are now legendary. The concert was notable not only for its prodigious length (four hours!) and poor preparation (only one rehearsal!) but also its rather uncomfortable hospitality (the hall was unheated on a bitterly cold December night!).

History however makes its own magic with the ingredients provided by fate, and while that night may have been deemed ‘unsuccessful,’ it is revered today for good reason.

More than any piece of music, the Fifth Symphony, with its strife-torn first movement and triumphant finale, gives vivid expression to the ideal of heroism that was a central theme for many of Beethoven’s works. The Fifth Symphony owes its fame to the four notes that mark the opening of the first movement and that insistent initial motif referred to as “fate knocking at the door.”

But its importance is so much more and is grounded in the paradigm-shifting effect of the entire work.

All four movements seem to grow organically from seeds sown in the opening measures.

While Beethoven used the distinctive rhythmic figure of three shorts and a long in other works from this time (It has been suggested that if this indeed represents fate knocking at the door, it was also knocking at many other doors), it clearly helps to unify the entire Symphony. After the most familiar of openings (Allegro con brio), the piece modulates to the relative major key and the horns announce the

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second theme with a fanfare using the “fate rhythm.” The softer, lyrical second theme, first presented by the violins, is inconspicuously accompanied in the lower strings by the rhythm. The movement features Beethoven’s characteristic building of intensity, suspense, a thrilling coda, and also mysteries. Why, for example, does the oboe have a brief unaccompanied solo cadenza near the beginning of the recapitulation. Beethoven’s innovation is not simply that this brief passage may “mean” something, but that listeners are prompted in the first place to ask themselves what it means.

The second movement (Andante con moto) is a rather unusual variation form in which two themes alternate, the first sweet and lyrical, the second more forceful. Beethoven combines the third and fourth movements, which are played without pause. In earlier symphonies he had already replaced the polite minuet and trio with a more vigorous scherzo and trio. In the Fifth the Allegro scherzo begins with a soft ascending arpeggiated string theme that contrasts with a loud assertive horn motive (again using

the fate rhythm). The trio section features extraordinarily difficult string writing, in fugal style, that defeated musicians in early performances. Instead of an exact return of the opening scherzo section, Beethoven recasts the thematic material in a completely new orchestration and pianississimo dynamic. The tension builds with a long pedal point—the insistent repetition of the same note C in the timpani—that swells in an enormous crescendo directly into the fourth movement Allegro, where three trombones (used in symphonic music for the first time), the contrabassoon, and a piccolo move things forward. This finale, like the first movement, is in sonata form and uses the fate rhythm in the second theme. The coda to the Symphony may strike listeners today as almost too triumphantly affirmative as the music gets faster, louder, and ever more insistent. Indeed, it is difficult to divest this best known of symphonies from all its ‘history’ and to listen with fresh ears to the shocking power of the work and to the marvels that Beethoven introduced as he takes the listener, heroically, from darkness to light and from despair to joy.

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Iowa State Center Staff Tammy Koolbeck............................................................................Executive Director Missy Borton......................................................................... Administrative Assistant Kay Lande........................................................................ Administrative Receptionist Business & Finance Emily Ladewig..............................................................................Business Manager Helen Nelson............................................................. Accounts Payable Administrator Event & Conference Services Pat Dennis.......................................................Director of Event & Conference Services Angie Weeks....................................... Event & Conference Services Sales Coordinator Melissa Johnson.............................................Event & Conference Services Coordinator Dave Burrack.................................................... Event & Conference Services Manager Josh Oakland.....................................................Event & Conference Set-up Supervisor Guest & Client Services Tim Hinderks................................................... Director of Operations & Event Services Sandra Robinson...................................................... Guest & Client Services Manager Steve Flack............................................................... Environmental Services Manager Greg Gerstein............................................Scheman Environmental Services Technician Marketing & Development Angela Ossian..........................................................................Director of Marketing Melissa Rowan........................................Executive Director of Annual & Special Giving

at the Iowa State University Foundation Holly Boman............................................................................. Marketing Manager Janae Ver Helst................................................................................Marketing Intern Food & Beverage Craig Spillman................................................................... Food & Beverage Director Kevin Streiff...................................................................................... Executive Chef Katie Ginapp............................................................... Banquet & Catering Manager Technical Operations Steve Harder.................................................................. Theaters – Technical Director Jake Ewalt..................................................Audio/Stage Manager – Technical Director Mike Broich.......................................Exterior/Production Manager – Technical Director Programming & Education Craig Wiebke...............................................Director of Theatre Programming & Events Sara Compton.........................................................................Outreach Coordinator Carol Lamb................................................................................. Outreach Assistant Ticket Office Valerie Connell...........................................................Assistant Ticket Office Manager

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Dedicated Volunteers Iowa State University Performing Arts Council

A university committee comprised of Iowa State University faculty, staff and students, as well as Ames community members, the Performing Arts Council advises the Iowa State Center on programming for the Performing Arts Series at Stephens Auditorium.

Tanya Anderson – Community Tyler Bainter – Music Student Janice Baker – Faculty Sara Compton – Iowa State Center Staff Jane Cox – Faculty Brian Davidson – Community Cinian Zheng-Durbin – Community Homer Gartz – Community Debra Gibson – Faculty Mike Golemo – Faculty Sarah Jablon – Graduate Assistant Sam Johnson – Music Student Nancy Marion – Community Patricia Miller – Faculty Matt Nelson – AIOFA Vahid Noroozi – Graduate Assistant Madeline Olsem – Music Student Alex Ortberg – Music Student Angela Ossian – Iowa State Center Staff Melissa Patrick – Community Bret Pugh – Community Sulagna Sarkar – Graduate and Professional Student Senate Phillip Sears – Music Student Hannah Skalbeck – Music Student Alissa Stoehr – Graduate Assistant Education

Ames International Orchestra Festival Association Board of Directors 2015-2016 Peter Reilly, President Karl Gwiasda, Vice President David Stephenson, Treasurer Dario Zaffarano, Secretary Jim Beckwith David Hoffman Aaron Fultz Noelle Fultz Dave Millard Matt Nelson Wendy Nutini Bion Pierson Kevin Schilling Suzy Shierholz James Tener

The Stephens Street Team

The Stephens Street Team unites the Iowa State Center and ISU by celebrating the importance of the arts in our lives. Its mission is to promote the arts to ISU students through unique marketing efforts and special events. The Stephens Street Team will plan events and lead marketing activities and develop creative ways to reach out to the student body at ISU about the incredible, affordable and accessible activities at the Iowa State Center. Activities may include planning on-campus promotional activities or philanthropic events that relate to shows, assisting with performance day activities, sidewalk chalking, flyer distribution, presentations to campus organizations about our Performing Arts Series and more!

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Thank You for Your Support Performing Arts Fund and Ames International Orchestra Festival Association Donors Impresario $5000 & above Richard J. Baumhover Jim Beckwith The Lauridsen Family Endowment

Executive Producer $2500 - $4999 Cecilia & Jack Horner Arthur Klein Warren & Beverly Madden Marianne & David Spalding Ira, Jordan & Julia White Brent & Maggie Wynja

Director $1200 - $2499

Irene Beavers Elizabeth Cole Beck Kelli Bennett Jay & Karen Heldt-Chapman Willa & Dave Holger Sherilyn & Mitchell Hoyer James & Jody Mueller Mark & Andy North Jim & Frankee Oleson Cynthia & John Paschen, MD Peter & Rae Reilly Richard & Jasmine Seagrave Jim & Mary West

Principal Artist $600 - $1199

Anonymous (3) Brian & Tanya Anderson Marc H. Anderson & Family Bob & Elizabeth Angelici Doris Bacot Ted & Carol Bailey Rick Bartosh Jane & John Baty Stewart L. Burger Lee & Lori Burras Do-Biz Foods, LLC Frank & Kathy Comito

Patricia Cotter & Peter Orazem Dieter & Renate Dellmann Durbin, Zheng & Son, Inc. 1st National Bank - Ames Jan & Cornelia Flora Homer & Sandra Gartz Thomas & Allison Greenwald Wil & Marjorie Groves Linda Hansen Mark & Lisa Harmison Judie & David Hoffman Chuck & Betty Horras Jean & Bob Humphrey Charles Hurburgh & Connie Hardy Vicki Jahr Kawaler Family Charitable Foundation Shelle & Steve Kent Jim & Mary Kincart Todd & Jill Klindt Mike & Tammy Koolbeck John & Diane Kubik Greg & Sue Lamont Allen & Joy Lang Jane W. Lohnes Erica Marquette Roger & Ruth McCullough John & Pam Miller Patricia A. Murphy John & Helen Olson Sue & Gary Osweiler Carol & Arlen Patrick Mary Jane Pearson & Ramon A. Runkel Mary Jean & Maurice Reimers Dick & Sharon Richman Kent & Lou Ann Sandburg Suzan & John Shierholz Gary F. & Harriet M. Short Jay & Dea Staker Ted Tostlebe & Marilyn Hanson Douglas & Deborah West Duane & Megan Wolf Carol Wright Robert & Elizabeth Wych

Rising Star $300 - $599

Anonymous (2) Mike & Linda Adams Chris & Garry Alexander Claire Andreasen & Steve Pecenka Sheila Rae Baker Lisa Bannit & William Barry Pat & Louis Banitt Tom & Betty Barton Douglas & Connie Bates LeRoy & Kathy Bergmann Chuck & Carmel Biskner Mary Ann & Jim Black Mark & Deborah Blaedel Jamie Blomgren Roberta S. Boeke Leonard & Janet Bond Barton & Laureen Borg Deanne Brill & Dean Janssen Edward & Jen Buckingham Ann H. Campbell Richard & Maribeth Carlson James & Sherry Carlson George C. & Susan J. Christensen Dan & Anita Clayberg Jim & Carolyn Cornette Elizabeth Dahm Mark & Isabelle Davidson Roger A. Deal Steven & Ruth Dotzenrod M. Burton Drexler Larry & Barbara Ebbers Kevin & Kari Ehrecke Margaret Elbert Randy & Cathy Fitzgerald Cynthia & Lehman Fletcher Charles & Joanne Frederiksen David & Susan Freeman Mim Fritz Richard & Linda Geil Ethel George Joey & Karen George Dave & Carole Gieseke Kathy & Chuck Glatz Timothy Grandon Susan & David Grant

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Thank You for Your Support Kenneth & Jill Grant Bryan & Joy Graveline Lowell & Jennie Greimann Melba & Karl Gschneidner Barbara & Karl Gwiasda Linda Handsaker Judy Hankins Herbert & Esther Harmison Jon & Bonnie Hunziker Etha S. Hutchcroft James & Marcine Illg Mary Ellen Imlau Marcia Imsande Darren & Sue Jarboe Sue Johnson Tom & Debra Johnson Steve & Nan Jungst Joseph & Karen Kerns Karen Kerper LeRoy & Susan Kester Janann King Paul & Adele Knop Marina Kraeva Dan & Sharon Krieger Keith & Brenda Kutz John Landgraf & Phyllis Jones Richard & Irene Lang Jean & John Langeland Ruth G. Larson John & Mary Lawless Phyllis J. & Larry L. Lepke Donald & Dorothy Lewis Efstathia Lingren Eudene & Susan Lund Elizabeth K. Lyons Greg & Carol Madsen Charles & Barbara Markus Jane & John Mathison Marie Mayer & Larry Brandt Doug & Wanda McCay Judy McDonald Thomas & Dorothy McGee Barbara A. Mengeling & William L. Mengeling, DVM Clete & Joyce Mercier Arlo & Lori Meyer Anja Mudring & Gerd Meyer Dwain & Mary Noffke Susan Norris Don & Evelyn Nystrom Ruth Anne Ohde Danny & Trisha Oldes Larry & Cheryl Olofson Bonnie & David Orth Kathy A. Parsons

Don & Jan Payer John & Jacqueline Peeler Alec & Charlton Pendry John Pesek Pat & Linda Plummer Larry & Joyce Pohlman Emil & Mary Kay Polashek Jolene & Frank Randall William Rich Klaus Ruedenberg Tom & Lorna Safley Dean & Judy Sampson Aaron & Shelly Schroeder Norm & Sue Scott Jerry & JoAnn Sell Barbara A. Shedd John & Sandra Slaughter David & Sherri Smith Jim & Diane Smith Raymond & Jane Stanley Bob & Peg Stephenson Wilma Struss Calvin & Susan Swan Clayton & Ruth Swenson Marcia Thompson Paula Toms Jim & Gloria Toombs Connie J. & Roger C. Underwood Eleanor Vandeventer Jeff & Ann Ver Heul Georgia & Carl Vondra Daniel & Sherrie Vos Mike & Deidre Wahlin Jim & Madeleine Walker Bryan & Kara Warme Mark & Diana Weber Joan E. Welch Becca Wemhoff B. Joan White Maureen Wilt Mike & Deidre Wahlin Della Jane Wright Thomas & Zora Zimmerman

Company Member $150 - $299 Anonymous (2) Barb & Jack Adams Franklin & Kay Ahrens La Donna Allen Iver & Nancy Anderson Karen J. Andrew Nathan & Holly Aronson

Sandi & Dave Austin Marvin Beck & Jane Farrell Beck Amy & Steven Becker Kay & Roger Beckett Kay & Roger Berger Nancy L. Besch Carl & Jean Bessman Diane & Ken Birt Judith Blair Suzanne Block Charlene Boll Diane Borcherding Jeff & Jan Breitman James A. & Sharon Brewer Rick & Janet Brimeyer Rod & Joyce Brink Bob & Rosemary Bulman Terry & Karen Burianek Daniel & Sandra Buss Cheryl Case Margy Chamberlin Gladys & Peter Colwell Randy & Sara Compton Charles & Teresa Connell Harold & Rachel Crawford Paula J. Curran Nancy & Pete Cyr Greg & Amy Davis Mary M. de Baca Tedd & Marilyn Devick Jack & Karen DeWolf Brian & Jennifer Dieter Meg E. Dobson State Farm Insurance Boyd & Irene Dohrmann Dee Dreeszen Mark & Terri Dunn Don & Mary Eichner Brian & Lisa Eslinger Judy K. Farthing Jim & Kathy Ferris Bob & Karen Fowser Mr. & Mrs. Albert Freeman Wayne & Evelyn Fuller Sarah Garst Deborah Gitchell Jean Griffen William J. Gutowski & Margaret A. Dempsey Dennis & Jane Haahr Mary J. Harms Duane Harris Marjorie Hartman Jerry & Pat Hatfield C.S. Hedlund

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Susan Hegland & Thomas Andre Stephen & Nancy Heideman Bobbie Heimberg Brian & Angela Heldt Martha Helland Pete & Janet Hermanson Randy & Liz Hertz Tom & Joyce Hertz Carolynne Hoefing Bill & Judy Hoefle Drs. M. Peter & Lorraine J. Hoffman William & Barbara Holt Tim & Susan Hooper Carole Horowitz Dick & Sandy Horton Mina Hertz Jacobs Dr. Bill & Lorrie Jagiello Bruce & Ellen Janke Marian & Roger Jansen Patrick Johnson & Sara Ferguson Bruce & Marie Johnson Rich & Judy Jones Odean Jukam Linda Kelley Delma L. Kernan Cheryll & Tom Kierski John & Chris Kinley Karen & Wayne Klaiber Jim & Joyce Kliebenstein Terence Alexander & Catherine Kling Gerald Klinkefus Carl Klostermann Roger & Mary Jo Kluesner Richard Kottman Asrun Yr Kristmundsdottir Bev & Ken Kruempel Richard Kruger Steven & Frances Kruse The Olson & Kushkowski Family John & Susan Lang Harvey & Sally Lapan William & Susan Lawyer Dick & Ginny Lephart Elyse & Howard Levine Amelia Limyao Jeff & Lorie Loehr Greg & Rhonda Lofstedt Robert Lorr Dick & Jackie Manatt Kathy Solko & Steve Manternach Bill Marion Maribeth Martin

Gary D. Mason Harold & Connie McLaughlin John & Renee McPhee Helen F. McRoberts Glen & Mary Jo Mente James & Madeline Meyer Patrick & Ruth Milder John B. & Kathryn M. Miller Patricia & Kemp Miller Paul & Ann Mills John Miranowski & Susana Goggi Larry & Sara Mitchell Ginny & Lee Molgaard Jeannine Moore John & Laurel Mors Ron Mowers & Margaret Epplin Carver Nebbe & Leysan Mubarakshina Charles & Mary Ann Mulford Thomas & Lynn Nehls Don & Becky Nibe Michael & Ginger O’Keefe Dale & Kris Olson Cal & Frankie Parrott Miriam Patterson Jean Peterson Marlys Potter Mabel Prescott Jane Punke Anne & Ken Recker Kathy Rhode Mary E. Richards Jo & Bob Rod Josa & Linda Rosa Dick & Karen Ross James & Kari Roth Barbara J. Royer Scott & Jean Rude Carolyn Cutrona & Daniel Russell Diane & Don Schaffer Ames Evening Lions Club Jane Schill Linda & John Schuh Danny & Dianne See Phyllis Seim Dennis & Joan Senne Sam & Becky Senti Frank D. & C. Lynn Seydel Tori Shahidi & Larry Kelley Kenneth & Shirley Shaw Diana D. Shonrock Al & Kathy Sievers

Si & Mary Anne Silence Clifford Smith Bernard & Victoria Stephenson, Jr. Janet & David Stephenson Jack & Barbara Stoakes Curtis Struck & Megan Fairall Robert & Deanne Summerfelt Ron & Meg Thompson Harvey & Alice Thompson Roy & Debbie Tinguely Steven & MaryAnn Tjaden Jon James & Carla May Tollefson David & Karen Toot Tedra Towne John & Marjorie Uitermarkt Ardy & Dean Ulrichson Jim & Alicia Van Bergen Bev Van Fossen Daryl & Joyce Vegge Lewis & Dorothy Vierling Steven, Kathy & Zach Vince Greg & Lana Voga Gene & Karen Walker Janice Walter Janet Warg Steve & Kay Wessman Toni Wheelock Richard & Elizabeth White Bill & Toni Whitman Mary Wickham & Owen Kolstad Gary Wiele Scott & Jan Williams Stephen & Lee Anne Willson Richard & Patricia Wood Steven & Lorraine Woolery Dario D. Zaffarano Suzanne Zaffarano Scott & Kimberly Zahnle Chad & Amy Zmolek

Matching Gift Honor Roll

AXA Foundation Bemis Company Foundation Meredith Corporation Foundation Morgan Stanley Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Principal Financial Group Foundation, Inc. State Farm Companies Foundation Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield Wells Fargo Foundation

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ENJOY TIME WITH FRIENDS

MEET THE PERFORMERS

ENGAGE KIDS WITH THE ARTS

Become a Partner in the Performing Arts Did you know your ticket pays for only 77% of the cost of presenting the Performing Arts Series?

Contributions are critical to the quality and breadth of our program, allowing us to be bold and innovative each year. Join the generous donors who make these magical performances possible.

Giving is Easy To give your vital support to the arts, choose one of these methods:

Online: Visit www.center.iastate.edu/makeagift Mail: Envelopes at the Guest Services Desk or send to ISU Foundation, 2505 University Blvd., Ames, IA 50010

Donor Benefits Can Include: • Highest priority seating & VIP parking

Phone: 515-294-3347 or 1-877-843-2368

• Complimentary refreshments in the Donor Lounge • A Donor Appreciation Event, Meet-the-Artist receptions and the Series Preview Party

Your Gift Can be Made in Installments Visit www.foundation.iastate.edu and click on ‘How to Give’ to complete a Pledge, Electronic Fund Transfer or Faculty/Staff Payroll Deduction Form.

In Person: Ticket Office (open through intermission for all shows) Give today to begin experiencing the many benefits of being a Performing Arts Fund/AIOFA donor. Please join us today. Visit center.iastate.edu/support.

Ames International Orchestra Festival Association (AIOFA) You can designate your gift to support the orchestras at Stephens Auditorium.

Contact Angela Ossian, Director of Marketing, at 515-294-1414 or via e-mail at aossian@iastate.edu.

WHAT’S YOUR DREAM FOR THE ARTS?

Consider an endowment gift or a bequest to secure the future and to sustain world-class performances and arts education programs.

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Partners in the Arts Special thanks to the following supporters for their unwavering loyalty and crucial support. Their generosity enables us to bring the world’s finest performing artists to Iowa.

Major Sponsor

Major Show Sponsors Bullets over Broadway

Hospitality Sponsor

Beauty & the Beast

Donor Lounge and Reception Sponsor

Celtic Nights

Youth Matinee Show Sponsor The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Ames International Orchestra Festival Association (AIOFA) and Ames Commission on the Arts (COTA) proudly support the Iowa State Symphony (Youth Matinee Series Concert), Chamber Orchestra Kremlin and Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra concerts.

The Fab Four This presentation is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Iowa Arts Council, the Crane Group and General Mills Foundation.

Sponsor a Show

We’re always looking for businesses and individuals to help make great shows happen. Our sponsorship packages are priced to suit a variety of needs and budgets. Call 515-294-3347.

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