JULY 2019 Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Adès & McGregor: A Dance Collaboration July 12–13, 2019
Photo by Ravi Deepres.
Note from
T HE MUSIC CENTER and THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
It is our pleasure to welcome you to Adès & McGregor: A Dance Collaboration, an exclusive co-presentation by Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Our two organizations are thrilled to have served as the catalysts for powerful new music and innovative dance works, including dance world premieres by two titans of contemporary art – choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer-conductor Thomas Adès – performed by The Royal Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor and enhanced with the set design expertise of celebrated artist Tacita Dean. What an incredible way to end the 16th season of The Music Center’s dance series, as well as to conclude the LA Phil’s performances at The Music Center during the orchestra’s Centennial season!
From RACHEL S. MOORE President & CEO, The Music Center We are honored to be part of an unprecedented collaboration in the dance and music world and to join with our colleagues at the LA Phil, The Royal Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor to bring you two unforgettable evenings. You will experience two world dance premieres of Wayne McGregor’s choreography, one a co-commission by The Music Center and the LA Phil, and one choreographed to music co-commissioned by the LA Phil and The Royal Ballet. We launched and now conclude our dance season celebrating Wayne McGregor, one of the most in-demand choreographers in the world today. His work is both highly physical and dramatic, pushing the dancers incredibly hard to deliver what is often surprising, yet highly engaging work, which has significantly expanded the contemporary ballet canon. For these performances, we are honored to welcome the LA Phil back to The Music Center‘s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the first time since the orchestra moved to The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003. While dance world premieres of this stature are few and far between, particularly on the West Coast, The Music Center, the LA Phil and The Royal Ballet are committed to advancing the work of these trailblazing artists, and the performing arts fields, more generally. I know you will have an unforgettable evening.
From SIMON WOODS CEO, LA Phil The Los Angeles Philharmonic is proud to have long-standing relationships with some of the world’s greatest artists, and among these, there are few we treasure as much as our long-time friend and collaborator Thomas Adès. Tom is one of the most influential musicians of the 21st century and an individual for whom the overused word “genius” truly does apply. His Inferno, the first act of what will eventually be a full-length ballet, was commissioned for our Centennial celebrations. It premiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall this past May, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, to rave reviews and ecstatic audience reactions. We are delighted to be returning to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to bring this piece to life, and for these historic performances, which showcase the strength and talents of two incredible dance companies, our renowned orchestra and multiple-award-winning creative artists. It’s a bold, ambitious collaboration, which is everything we should expect from our great companies on Grand Ave., bringing some of the best and brightest artists of our time to Los Angeles.
Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic Presents
Adès & McGregor: A Dance Collaboration July 12–13, 2019 Support for this presentation is provided, in part, by: Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation Center Dance Arts • Dorothy Buffum Chandler Program Fund • Elisabeth Katte Harris The Music Center Foundation • The Music Center Annual Fund • Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund Photo by Ravi Deepres.
PROGRAM
OUTLIER
20 Minutes WEST COAST PREMIERE Direction: Wayne McGregor Choreography: Wayne McGregor Music: Thomas Adès’s Concentric Paths Set Design: Wayne McGregor and Lucy Carter Lighting Design: Lucy Carter, recreated by Simon Bennison Costume Design: Moritz Junge Principal Restager/Rehearsal Director: Antoine Vereecken Set Design Associate: Catherine Smith Dancers: Company Wayne McGregor and dancers from The Royal Ballet "In 2010, I was asked to create a new work for the New York City Ballet in its architecture and dance series. The Philip Johnson building that houses the David H. Koch Theater and is home to the New York City Ballet felt like a natural place to look for inspiration. Johnson was not only a great friend of George Balanchine and an influential architect, he also championed the architects of the Bauhaus, like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, in the U.S. I am fascinated by that Bauhaus art period and by abstract minimalist painters like Josef Albers and Barnett Newman. The visual context for the piece has been greatly informed by the minimalists’ notion of simplicity and color theory. I am a big fan of Thomas Adès, a composer who for me is a 21st-century Stravinsky. His Violin Concerto, fiendishly difficult to play, has this implicit sense of strangeness in the score. It is full of irregularities and unexpected events, structures that don’t quite obey the rules, musical events slightly out of sequence, circular patterns that collide and divert your attention—in other words, the score is full of outliers." —Copyright © 2014 by Wayne McGregor
PAUSE
5 Minutes
LIVING ARCHIVE: AN AI PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENT
30 Minutes DANCE WORLD PREMIERE
Co-commissioned by The Music Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic, produced by Studio Wayne McGregor. Direction: Wayne McGregor Choreography: Wayne McGregor, in collaboration with the dancers Music: Thomas Adès’ In Seven Days In Seven Days music commissioned by: Los Angeles Philharmonic, 2008 Video Installation: Ben Cullen Williams Lighting Consultant: Lucy Carter Dancers: Company Wayne McGregor AI choreography tool developed in collaboration with: Google Arts & Culture Lab
In collaboration with Google’s Arts and Culture Lab, Studio Wayne McGregor has developed the Living Archive — an artificially intelligent choreographic tool, trained on hundreds of hours of video from the choreographer’s extensive back catalogue, as well as solo material created on each of the current companies. From what it has learned about the individual physical styles of an array of bodies dancing McGregor’s choreography, the system is able to respond to any new movement phrase by suggesting multiple original possibilities for the next phrase. Through swift real-time dialogue between wo/man and machine, the Living Archive unleashes the creative movement potential stored at molecular levels within former works, amplifying the spectrum of possibility for choreographic decisionmaking and bringing dancers of the present into contact with traces of their predecessors. Ben Cullen Williams’ design manipulates abstract visualizations of the AI generated choreography into a suspended video installation, which explores ideas of dance as code and vice versa. A variation on the Creation theme that inspires Ades’ In Seven Days, the unique movement vocabulary and visual language for this performance experiment is generated solely with this strange and elemental new body.
INTERMISSION
20 Minutes
THE DANTE PROJECT PART 1 [INFERNO]
46 Minutes DANCE WORLD PREMIERE
Inferno commissioned as a creative partnership between Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, The Royal Ballet and the LA Phil with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund. Choreography: Wayne McGregor Music: Thomas Adès’ Inferno Design: Tacita Dean Lighting Design: Lucy Carter and Simon Bennison Dramaturgy: Uzma Hameed Assistant to the Choreographer: Amanda Eyles Rehearsal Assistant: Davide Di Pretoro Dancers: The Royal Ballet “In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight path was lost.” Thrown into crisis by the cruel experience of exile, Dante is driven to undertake a spiritual pilgrimage through the afterlife. In Inferno, he descends through the circles of hell to its cold center, furthest from the light of God, where Satan awaits. Guided and comforted by the Roman epic poet Virgil, Dante communes with the shades of this psychic netherworld — souls eternally trapped in myriad states of sin and retribution. Known in English as The Divine Comedy, Dante’s medieval Italian epic The Commedia was a bestseller in its own time, and, over the centuries, has inspired responses from countless artists and in multiple forms. This premiere is the first part of a ballet triptych mirroring the Commedia’s three famous cantiche: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. The full work will open next year at The Royal Ballet’s home in Covent Garden.
Photo by: Pål Hansen.
WHO'S WHO
WAYNE MCGREGOR CBE
Born in 1970, Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi-award winning British choreographer and director, internationally renowned for trailblazing innovations in performance that have radically redefined dance in the modern era. Driven by an insatiable curiosity about movement and its creative potentials, his experiments have led him into collaborative dialogue with an array of artistic forms, scientific disciplines and technological interventions. The startling and multidimensional works resulting from these interactions have ensured McGregor’s position at the cutting edge of contemporary arts for over 25 years. Studio Wayne McGregor is the creative engine of McGregor’s life-long choreographic enquiry into thinking through and with the body. It encompasses his own touring company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor; creative collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science; and highly specialized learning, engagement and research programs. In April 2017, Studio Wayne McGregor moved into its own newly created studio space at Here East in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a shared space for making where the creative brains of the day can exchange knowledge and invent together. Company Wayne McGregor is McGregor’s ensemble of highly skilled dancers. Founded in 1993, this was the original instrument through which McGregor evolved his distinctive visual style, revealing the movement possibilities of the body in ever more precise degrees of articulation. McGregor has made over 30 works for the company, and today, it continues to be his laboratory for ambitious and experimental new choreography, touring his work across the UK and around the world. Company Wayne McGregor is Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells, London. McGregor is also Resident Choreographer at The Royal Ballet, where his productions are acclaimed for their daring reconfiguring of classical language. McGregor is the first and only Resident Choreographer from a contemporary background. He is also regularly commissioned by and
has works in the repertories of the most important ballet companies in the world, including Paris Opera Ballet, Munich Ballet, New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, NDT 1, Australian Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. He is in demand as a choreographer for theatre (Donmar, Old Vic, National Theatre, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse) opera (La Scala/Royal Opera, ENO), film (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Legend of Tarzan, Fantastic Beasts 1 & 2, Sing, Mary Queen of Scots), music videos (Radiohead, Thom Yorke, The Chemical Brothers), fashion shows (Gareth Pugh at London Fashion Week 2017), campaigns (everyBODY for Selfridges) and TV (The 2016 Brit Awards Opening Sequence, Paloma Faith’s Brit Awards performance 2015). Some of the long list of artists who have partnered with McGregor through more than 20 years of collaborative multi-disciplinary work include John Tavener, Audrey Niffenegger, Jamie xx, Max Richter, Jlin, Olafur Eliasson, Kaija Saariaho, Thom Yorke and John Pawson. McGregor is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, has an Honorary Doctor of Science from Plymouth University, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from University of Leeds, and is part of the Circle of Cultural Fellows at King’s College London. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association. McGregor topped the list for dance in The Progress 1000 celebration of London’s most influential people in 2018. He became an Arts Foundation Ambassador in 2019. McGregor's work has earned him a multitude of awards including four Critics' Circle National Dance Awards, two Time Out Awards, two South Bank Show Awards, two Olivier Awards, a prix Benois de la Danse and two Golden Mask Awards. In 2011, McGregor was awarded a CBE for Services to Dance.
As a conductor, Adès appears regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw, Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies, BBC Symphony, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He is the inaugural Boston Symphony Artistic Partner with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with whom he premiered a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Kirill Gerstein as soloist in March 2019.
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Adès has won numerous awards, including the 2015 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the Leoš Janáček Award, and the prestigious Grawemeyer Award (2000), of which he is the youngest-ever recipient. He was awarded a CBE in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Adès was Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008 and coaches piano and chamber music annually at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove.
Photo by: Brian Voce.
THOMAS ADÈS Born in London in 1971, Thomas Adès studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and read music at King’s College, Cambridge. A prodigious composer, conductor and pianist, Adès was described by The New York Times in 2007 as one of today’s ‘most accomplished overall musicians.’ Adès’ chamber opera Powder Her Face (1995) has been performed worldwide whilst The Tempest (2004) was commissioned by London’s Royal Opera House and has since been taken up by international houses including New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where it was recorded for a Deutsche Grammophon DVD, which subsequently won a Grammy Award. Adès’ third opera, after Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel, premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July 2016 before travelling to London, New York and Copenhagen. Between 1993 and 1995, Adès was Composer in Association with the Hallé Orchestra, producing These Premises Are Alarmed for the opening of the Bridgewater Hall in 1996. Asyla (1997) was written for Sir Simon Rattle and the CBSO. In 2005, Adès premiered his Violin Concerto: Concentric Paths, for Anthony Marwood and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, at the Berlin Festspiele and the BBC Proms. His chamber music includes two string quartets, Arcadiana (1994) and The Four Quarters (2010), a Piano Quintet (2000) and Lieux retrouvés (2009) for cello and piano. Tevot (2007), was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall whilst In Seven Days (a concerto for piano with moving image) was premiered in 2008 in London and Los Angeles. Polaris (2011) was premiered by the New World Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas in Miami and was later choreographed to great acclaim by Crystal Pite as part of an all-Adès evening at Sadler’s Wells. Other choreographers who have worked with his music include Karole Armitage, Kim Brandstrup, Wayne McGregor and Ashley Page. Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone and large orchestra was premiered at the 2013 Proms by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Recent projects include an orchestration of Lieux retrouvés (2016) and a Powder Her Face Suite (2017), commissioned by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.
TACITA DEAN DESIGN Tacita Dean is a visual artist whose recent solo exhibitions include Museo Serralves, Porto, 2019; LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE, three distinct exhibitions which formed an unprecedented collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery and The Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2018 and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2016. Her major work FILM was a Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern, London in 2011. Dean is best known for her large-scale chalk drawings on blackboard and for her 16mm and 35mm films. The Dante Project is her first design for dancers and the stage. MORITZ JUNGE COSTUME DESIGNER Moritz Junge's recent costume work includes: Pure Dance (Sadler’s Wells), Songs of Bukovina (American Ballet Theatre), Sunyata (Munich Staatsballet), L’Anatomie de la sensation (Paris Opera Ballet), Outlier (NYCB), and Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet). For The Royal Ballet, his costume work includes Woolf Works, Multiverse, Live Fire Exercise, Limen, Infra and Chroma. Junge's in opera includes set and costumes for Three Oranges (Staatstheater Mainz), Così fan tutte (Opera Australia), and Powder Her Face (Theater Aachen) and costumes for Norma, Roberto Devereux, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Les Troyens (Royal Opera, San Francisco, Vienna). His designs for theatre include Dance Nation, Judgment Day (Almeida), Aristocrats (Donmar), Macbeth, The Kitchen, Dido, Queen of Carthage (NT), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), In the Republic of Happiness (Royal Court), All About my Mother (Old Vic). He designed costumes for the London 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony. He was an overall winner of the Linbury Prize for Stage Design. BEN CULLEN WILLIAMS VIDEO INSTALLATION Born in 1988, Ben Cullen Williams is a British visual artist. His work consists of installations, sculptures, photographs and films that aim to create an engagement with the phenomenological elements of the world around us — light, space, material and form. Furthermore, his work draws on a range of fabrication processes from physical to digital to understand our changing relationship to the world in an increasingly digitalized environment. His work aims to be outside a socio-economic context and allows him to operate at a more direct sensory level, out of specific time and place, so that the narrative may be suggestive rather than didactic. His work has been shown internationally in a range of spaces, galleries and environments. He has collaborated with a range of different disciplines and fields. In 2017, he collaborated with Wayne McGregor on McGregor's work Autobiography for Company Wayne McGregor to create the awardwinning set and projection design.
SIMON BENNISON LIGHTING DESIGNER Simon Bennison is Lighting Manager for the Royal Opera House. His many designs for The Royal Ballet include Tarantella, Ballo della Regina, The Lesson, Renard, Elizabeth, Les Lutins, Summertime, Carousel Pas de Deux, See Even Night Herself is Here, Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 and Raven Girl (as associate to Lucy Carter) and the ‘Life Reimagined’ Gala. His work with Viacheslav Samodurov includes Non-linear Interactions, Tric-Trac, Ondine (Bolshoi Ballet) and Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet of Flanders, Ekaterinburg Ballet). Other designs include the Headspace Dance Company programs Three & Four Quarters and If Play Is Play, 14 works for Cathy Marston and pieces for English National Ballet, George Piper Dances, Royal Danish Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Polish National Ballet, Australian Ballet and National Ballet of Canada. LUCY CARTER LIGHTING DESIGNER Lucy Carter is a multi-award winning, critically acclaimed lighting designer. She was awarded the 2018 Critics Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance. She is a two-time winner of the prestigious Knight of Illumination Award for Dance for Chroma (2008) and for Woolf Works (2015), both by choreographer and director Wayne McGregor CBE for The Royal Ballet; winner of the 2013 TMA Achievement award in Opera for Lohengrin; and the 2004 Olivier Dance Award for 2 Human (McGregor). Carter's opera credits includes Katya Kabanova and Hansel and Gretel (The Royal Opera House), Werther (Bergen National Opera), Elektra (Goteborge Opera), Lohengrin (Greek National Opera, Polish National Opera, and Welsh National Opera), La finta giardiniera (Glyndebourne and Teatro alla Scala), Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach, Salomé and The Dream of Gerontius for ENO at The Royal Festival Hall. Her dance credits include Woolf Works, Obsidian Tear, +/- Human, AfteRite, Yugen, Multiverse, Atomos and Autobiography with longterm collaborator Wayne McGregor; Threshold (Le Patin Libre); and Infra (Australian Ballet, The Most Incredible Thing (Charlotte Ballet). Her theatre credits include The Almighty Sometimes and Persuasion (Royal Exchange), Home I’m Darling (NT and West End), Husbands and Sons, Medea and Emil and the Detectives (NT), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo), Oil (Almeida) and The End of Longing (Playhouse). Other credits include lighting design for Gareth Pugh’s Women’s Collection in London Fashion Week 2017 and Paloma Faith’s performance at the Brit Awards 2015 (choreographed by McGregor). UZMA HAMEED DRAMATURGY A British writer and director, Uzma Hameed graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in modern and medieval languages. In 1997, she founded the Big Picture Company, an innovative theatre company combining new writing with choreography and film. Her credits included writing and directing A Dark River, Taj and Prophetess. She was Associate Director at Derby Playhouse, 2002–2005, where directing credits included Shirley Valentine, Dracula, Frankenstein and her own adaptation of Schiller’s Mary Stuart. She has directed for Kali Theatre, led projects at the National Theatre Studio and taught workshops and courses for organizations including the International Institute of Performing Arts, Paris, BBC Radio for Schools and the LPO. She has recently completed a novel, The Kinship of Djinns, in collaboration with her sister, Ambreen. She was Dramaturg for The Royal Ballet on Woolf Works (Olivier, Best Dance Production), Obsidian Tear and Multiverse, on Autobiography for Company Wayne McGregor and on Victoria for Northern Ballet.
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ANTOINE VEREECKEN PRINCIPAL RESTAGER / REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Born in Gent, Belgium, Antoine Vereecken trained at The Royal Ballet School of Antwerp. From 1993–1997, he performed with Les Ballets C. de la B. In 1997, he joined Renaissance de la Danse in Frankfurt and later joined the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Israel. From 2001-2003, Antoine performed with the Richard Alston Dance Company and danced for Company Wayne McGregor, from 2004–2011. Since 2011, he is the Principal Restager at Studio Wayne McGregor and has worked on projects including the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and opera Dido and Aeneas (La Scala), as well as re-staging McGregor’s repertoire with the National Ballet of Canada, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Royal Danish Ballet and Hong Kong Ballet. In 2012, he won the Isadora Duncan Award for his re-staging of Chroma at the San Francisco Ballet. AMANDA EYLES ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER Born in Bristol, Amanda Eyles trained at the Arts Educational Schools, Rambert Academy and the Benesh Institute, graduating in 1987. She started her career as a Benesh notator at The Royal Ballet, then moved to Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (later BRB). She spent 10 years as ballet mistress for ENB before moving to Scottish Ballet. Currently, she works freelance, principally with McGregor and The Royal Ballet. Other companies she has worked for include Rambert, Richard Alston Dance Company, Polish National Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Boston Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, Shanghai Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She combines her role of Benesh notator with ballet mistress and rehearsal director, assisting choreographers on creating new work and teaching, rehearsing and staging existing work. She was also Assistant Director at the Benesh Institute at the Royal Academy of Dance and tutor on the Benesh Movement Notation course. DAVIDE DI PRETORO REHEARSAL ASSISTANT Davide Di Pretoro trained at the National Dance Academy in Rome and the Cunningham Dance School in New York. He danced for Company Wayne McGregor from 2010–2013. From 2003–2016, he danced with companies and choreographers including Thierry Smits/ Cie THOR, Ballet Preljocaj, Itzik Galili-Krisztina DeChatel/Dansgroep Amsterdam, Andonis Foniadakis, Virgilio Sieni, Sasha Waltz and Guests. He won the International Choreographic Competition 2013 in Milan, created a work for the 2014 International Festival Invito alla Danza in Rome and created a piece for the Italian National Dance Academy in 2016. He has re-staged several of McGregor’s works, including L’Anatomie de la Sensation (Paris Opera Ballet), Infra (Hessisches Staatsballett, Joffrey Ballet), Entity and FAR (Ballet Junior de Genève, Josette Baïz/Groupe Grenade, Milano Contemporary Ballet). As McGregor’s assistant, he worked on the creation of Alea Sands for Paris Opera Ballet and the West Kowloon Cultural District Residency in Hong Kong.
STUDIO WAYNE MCGREGOR Studio Wayne McGregor is the creative engine of Wayne McGregor’s life-long choreographic enquiry into thinking through and with the body. It encompasses his own touring company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor; creative collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science; and highly specialized learning, engagement and research programmes. In April 2017, Studio Wayne McGregor moved into its own newly created studio space at Here East in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a shared space for making, where the creative brains of the day can exchange knowledge and invent together.
STUDIO WAYNE MCGREGOR STAFF Wayne McGregor Founder & Artistic Director Rebecca Marshall Executive Director Odette Hughes Associate Director Jasmine Wilson Director of Engagement Polly Hunt Director of Development & Communications Marcel Jenkins Finance & Operations Director Hazel Singleton Administrative Director Antoine Vereecken Principal Restager Christopher Charles Technical Director Catherine Smith Design Associate Lucy Glover Company Producer Ashley Bolitho Technical Manager
Geneviève Giron Relighter Niamh Percy Technician Ellie Williams Stage Manager Miwa Mitsuhashi Wardrobe Supervisor Leigh Mac Laughlin Development Manager Bethan Ecclestone Company Manager Nicola Worrell Finance Administrator Kathryn Stephens Studio Manager Lily Dettmer Dance Animateur Valeria Carrassa Executive Assistant Frankie Glace Studio Administrator Chelsea Reeves Archive Assistant Lauren Doss Marketing Associate
JOSHUA BARWICK DANCER Joshua Barwick is from Yorkshire, England and trained locally before he joined Northern Ballet’s Academy at age 14. At 16, he began training at Elmhurst, School of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Upon graduating in 2010, Barwick moved back to Leeds to join Northern Ballet where he performed extensively throughout the UK and across Europe, dancing in many productions by David Nixon and creating a role in Kenneth Tindall’s The Ultimate Form. In 2013, Barwick moved to London to perform a guest contract with New English Ballet Theatre for a gala at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Barwick joined Rambert in 2014; during his 4 years with the company, he was part of many creations and re-stagings, working with many choreographers including Mark Baldwin, Merce Cunningham, Didy Veldman and Kim Brandstrup, including performing the title role in Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances. Alongside his professional dance career, Barwick is a freelance teacher and rehearsal director. Barwick joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2019.
JORDAN JAMES BRIDGE DANCER Born in Manchester, Jordan James Bridge started dancing at the age of 14. He went on to train at London Contemporary Dance School where he worked with Kerry Nicholls, Richard Alston and Tony Adigun. After graduating, Bridge joined Alexander Whitley Dance Company, performing The Measures Taken and The Grit In The Oyster, nationally and internationally. Bridge has also toured with Tavaziva Dance Company in 2015/16 and 2017 in the evocative work Africarmen. In 2016, he joined Michael Clark Company, performing a featured role in LAND during the critically acclaimed To a Simple, Rock and Roll…Song, which toured nationally and internationally. Bridge has been commissioned to create his own work at various institutions. He is currently Resident Choreographer for Berkshire County Dance Company Youth, which was awarded ‘Best Performance’ at the 2016 U.Dance Awards from Youth Dance England. He has also taught extensively in the UK. Bridge joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017.
REBECCA BASSETT-GRAHAM COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR Company Wayne McGregor is McGregor’s ensemble of highly skilled dancers. Founded in 1993, this was the original instrument through which McGregor evolved his distinctive visual style, revealing the movement possibilities of the body in ever more precise degrees of articulation. McGregor has made over 30 works for the company, and, today, it continues to be his laboratory for ambitious and experimental new choreography, touring his work across the UK and around the world. Company Wayne McGregor is Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells, and is based at Studio Wayne McGregor on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.
DANCER Born in Ontario, Canada, Rebecca BassetGraham trained at the New Zealand School of Dance, graduating in 2011. She interned with New Zealand Dance Company during its 2012 Rotunda development project, and with DanceNorth during director Raewyn Hill’s work Bolera. She performed in DanceNorth’s Townsville Queensland season and through the Australian Ballet’s Melbourne season. BassetGraham moved to London in 2013, where she worked with Lewis Major, performing at Sadler’s Wells and the TEDx conference in London. She performed her own works When All is Said and Done at the Australian & New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London, and It’s Complicated and the assessor, the latter co-choreographed by Jono Selvadurai, at the C12 Dance Theatre Emerge Festival in 2015. She has worked closely with Beyond Repair Dance Company and has participated in research and development for The Light Surgeons. Basset-Graham joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017.
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CAMILLE BRACHER DANCER Camille Bracher grew up in Johannesburg and came to dance at a very early age through her mother, a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She trained privately with Martin Schonberg at Ballet Theatre Afrikan, and, at age 15, won the Outstanding Contemporary Dancer Award at the 2007 Youth America Grand Prix in New York. That year, she also won the Junior Contemporary Division at the South African International Ballet Competition in Cape Town. In her final year at school, she was awarded the second prize in the Junior Girls Division at the 2009 Helsinki International Ballet Competition. She joined The Royal Ballet in 2010 after training privately in South Africa and was to promoted to First Artist in 2015. Bracher’s repertory with The Royal Ballet includes Wayne McGregor’s Infra, as well as White Cat (The Sleeping Beauty), Entertainer (The Invitation) and roles in The Nutcracker, Onegin, Swan Lake, The Rite of Spring, Giselle and Scènes de Ballet. She has created roles in McGregor’s Woolf Works and Carbon Life, as well as ‘Diana and Actaeon’ (Metamorphosis: Titian 2012). Bracher joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2019.
CHIEN-SHUN LIAO DANCER Born in Taiwan Taichung, Chien-Shun Liao studied Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts. He has performed in Gala by Jérôme Bel, and he has also worked with Danish choreographer Simone Wierød and Tim Panduro. In 2017, he worked with Need company in Taipei International Festival for the Arts. Liao moved to London and joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2019.
JACOB O’CONNELL DANCER Born in Swindon, of Irish and Jamaican descent, Jacob O'Connell studied at Swindon Dance for five years while performing with Swindon Youth Dance Company, In 2015, O'Connell was awarded the BBC Young Dancer title in the contemporary category where he performed solos by Amanda Britton and Alexander Whitley at Sadler’s Wells, broadcast
IZZAC CARROLL DANCER Izzac Carroll was born in the small country town of Warialda in New South Wales, Australia. At 14, he moved to Brisbane to pursue a career as a performing artist, where he studied dance full-time at the Australian Dance Performance Institute. Upon completion of his Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts, he successfully auditioned for a place in Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year in 2015. He continued his studies with a full scholarship in 2016, before commencing a trainee professional contract with Sydney Dance Company later that year. In 2017-2018, he worked as a fulltime professional company member of Sydney Dance Company and performed in repertory works including 2 One Another and Full Moon. Carroll moved to London and joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2019.
MARÍA DANIELA GONZÁLEZ DANCER María Daniela González was born in Mexico City, Mexico. A dancer and singer, she studied at Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM), before starting her professional career with Ballet de Monterrey from 2010-2013. Also in 2010, she was awarded a scholarship by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), which allowed her to produce her first independent work. She has performed as a dancer and singer in the Broadway musicals Wicked (2014-15) and The Lion King (2015-16). Daniela has also worked as a freelance artist from 2016-2019, performing in Europe in galas and festivals, and as a guest artist with Bayerisches Staatsballett, Bayerisches Staatsoper and Gärtnerplatz Theater. Daniela joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2019.
on BBC2. During and after studying at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, O'Connell performed with Rambert Company in Tomorrow and Other Works, and toured with Ross McKim’s Moving Vision Company, and internationally with INALA, choreographed by Mark Baldwin. He has also created and collaborated on choreographic works at Sadler’s Wells, Mr Wonderful, and at Cloud Dance Festival. O'Connell joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017.
KYLE WHITE DANCER Kyle White was born in Birmingham, first encountering contemporary dance at the age of 16. They commenced their professional education at London Contemporary Dance School where they graduated in 2016 with a first. After graduation, White became an apprentice with Danish Dance Theatre and worked with Tim Rushton, Marcos Morau and Stephen Shropshire, before joining BalletBoyz. White also co-founded a collective of performance artists known as Haus of Anxiety. White joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2018.
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ABOUT THE ROYAL BALLET
THE ROYAL BALLET The Royal Ballet is one of the great ballet companies of the world. Under the leadership of Director Kevin O’Hare, grand balletic tradition and an illustrious heritage are united with innovation and daring and exceptional standards of artistry, creativity and stagecraft to produce supreme theatre. It is a beacon in the cultural life of Britain and a driving force behind the development of ballet as an artform. From the Company’s base at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden, today’s most dynamic and versatile dancers come together with a world-class orchestra and leading choreographers, composers, conductors, designers and creative teams to share an awe-inspiring theatrical experience with diverse audiences worldwide. The Company’s commitment to enriching people’s
lives through ballet is reflected in the deep relationships it forges through digital and learning platforms and international touring. The extensive repertory of The Royal Ballet follows a unique trajectory from 19th-century classics to the singular legacy of works by Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan and the compelling new canon of work by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor, Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon and Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett. Along with innovative commissions and choreographic initiatives across the main stage and Linbury Theatre and strong links with The Royal Ballet School, the Company continues to refresh and surprise.
Detail of Postcard Sketch (mountains), 2007. Collage of found postcards. Height variable, length 60.5cm. Courtesy Tacita Dean; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris
MESSAGE FROM THE ROYAL BALLET We are delighted to return to Los Angeles for the first time in 24 years with two programmes here at the Music Center that celebrate the vitality and virtuosity of dancers with The Royal Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor. Our visit includes the electrically charged anticipation of two world premieres. The first programme presented during our tour was Mayerling by Kenneth MacMillan, Principal Choreographer of The Royal Ballet and a visionary creative of 20 th-century ballet. His legacy is contrasted with the compelling work of our current Resident Choreographer, Wayne McGregor, in an unprecedented collaboration with two other forces of the contemporary arts scene, composer-conductor Thomas Adès and artist Tacita Dean. It is thrilling to come together with the LA Phil, Company Wayne McGregor and the rest of the stellar creative team — Ben Cullen Williams, Moritz Junge, Lucy Carter, Simon Bennison and Uzma Hameed — for this exclusive presentation. We convey special thanks to Aud Jebsen for her incredibly generous support of the 2018/19 Royal Ballet Season, and to Susan A. Olde OBE for her vision and philanthropy towards The Royal Ballet tour to Los Angeles. We extend enormous gratitude to Rachel Moore and her team at The Music Center. I would like to give particular thanks to the American Friends of Covent Garden, John McGinn and Cary Davis, Beth Madison, Nancy Peck Green, Sherry and Michael Guthrie, John G. Turner and Jerry G. Fischer, and Alan G. Levin. And my thanks also to our most loyal Royal Ballet supporters in the United Kingdom who have made this tour possible: Ian and Helen Andrews, David Campain, Deborah Cowles, Dr. Gwen Lewis and Dr. Jonathan Holliday, Lady Pitman, Rebecca Rogers, Kristina Rogge, Janine Roxborough Bunce, Eric Tomsett, Adrienne Waterfield, and Peter Harrison and Fiona Willis.
— Kevin O'Hare Director, The Royal Ballet
For details of all the Royal Ballet dancers and staff please visit roh.org.uk/about/the-royal-ballet
KEVIN O’HARE DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL BALLET Born in Yorkshire, Kevin O'Hare trained at The Royal Ballet School and, through an exchange program, at Royal Danish Ballet. After graduating, he joined Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet and was promoted to Principal in 1990, the year the company became Birmingham Royal Ballet. Performing across the UK and worldwide, he danced all the leading classical roles including Siegfried, Florimund, Albrecht and Romeo and major works by Ashton, Balanchine, Cranko, MacMillan, Van Manen, Tharp and Tudor. He worked with Ashton, De Valois, MacMillan, Bintley and Wright, among others, creating many roles. He retired from dancing in 2000 and trained in company management at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He returned to the Birmingham Royal Ballet as Company Manager in 2001 and joined The Royal Ballet as Company Manager in 2004. He was appointed Administrative Director in 2009 and Director in 2012. He is a governor of The Royal Ballet School and on the board of Northern Ballet and the Royal Academy of Dance. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Hull. He was appointed a CBE in 2018. KOEN KESSELS MUSIC DIRECTOR Music Director of The Royal Ballet since September 2015, Koen Kessels has also been Music Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2010. He made his Royal Ballet debut in 2008, conducting ballets including The Nutcracker, Giselle and the world premieres of Raven Girl, Untouchable, Woolf Works, Strapless and Frankenstein. He appears regularly with Paris Opéra and has conducted for companies including NYCB, La Monnaie, Brussels, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Dutch National Ballet, Vienna State Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Real, Madrid, Opera Vlaanderen and New National Theatre, Tokyo. His opera repertory includes Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Britten, Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin (Antwerp) and Hosokawa’s Hanjo (Brussels). He is artistic director of HERMESensemble and Inspiratum, on the artistic direction team at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and an honorary professor at the University of Birmingham. CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Born in Gosport, Christopher Saunders trained with Joan Stevenson. He made his professional debut at age nine in Gypsy with Angela Lansbury. In 1975, he joined The Royal Ballet School, graduating into the Company in 1983. He was promoted to Soloist in 1991, and Principal Character Artist in 1997. He was appointed Ballet Master in 2001 and Rehearsal Director in 2017. His repertory includes Don Quixote, Lord Capulet, Drosselmeyer, Von Rothbart, Monsieur G.M., Kostcheï and Tsar (Anastasia). He created roles in Tombeaux, Love’s Fool, The Seven Deadly Sins and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Since becoming Ballet Master, he has rehearsed and staged many of the ballets in the Company’s repertory. He has also staged productions for ballet companies in Europe, Japan and the USA.
GARY AVIS PRINCIPAL CHARACTER ARTIST Born in Ipswich, Gary Avis joined The Royal Ballet in 1989, promoted to Soloist, 1995, and Principal Character Artist, 2005. He has also been Ballet Master since 2010. His repertory includes Drosselmeyer, Von Rothbart, Tybalt, Lord Capulet, Monsieur G.M., Tsar Nicholas, Duchess, Dr Coppélius, Kostcheï, Prince Gremin and Man (Song of the Earth). He has created roles for Bruce, MacMillan, Marriott, McGregor, Tetley, Tharp, Tuckett and Wheeldon, among others. He co-founded K-Ballet, Japan, and has performed with English National Ballet. In 2011, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Suffolk and the National Dance Award for Outstanding Male Performance (Classical). He partnered Darcey Bussell in her Royal Ballet farewell performance, 2007, on BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, on her ‘Viva La Diva’ UK arena tour and at the London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony. In 2015, he joined the board of DanceEast and became Patron of its Choreographic Development Fund. He was appointed an MBE in 2018. MATTHEW BALL PRINCIPAL Trained at The Royal Ballet School, Matthew Ball was twice a finalist at Young British Dancer of the Year and won awards at the School’s Kenneth MacMillan Senior Choreographic Competition (2009), Lynn Seymour Competition (2011) and Gailene Stock and Gary Norman Award for Excellence (2013). He joined the Company in 2013, promoted to First Soloist, 2017 and Principal, 2018. His repertory includes Prince Siegfried, Albrecht, Romeo, Prince Florimund, Armand, Prince (Nutcracker), Young Man (Two Pigeons), Escamillo (Acosta’s Carmen), Matvei (Month in the Country), Lensky (Onegin), Wirt Roddy (The Wind) and roles in Yugen, Afternoon of a Faun, Scènes de ballet, Age of Anxiety, Aeternum and Woolf Works. He created roles in Corybantic Games, The Illustrated ‘Farewell’, Multiverse, Obsidian Tear, Strapless, Connectome and Untouchable. He won Best Emerging Artist at the National Dance Awards (2016). LAUREN CUTHBERTSON PRINCIPAL Born in Devon, Lauren Cuthbertson trained at The Royal Ballet School. She won Young British Dancer of the Year (2001) and joined The Royal Ballet in 2002, promoted to Principal, 2008. Her awards include Outstanding Female Artist at the National Dance Awards (2004) and Silver Medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna (2006), where she represented Great Britain. Her repertory includes leading roles in the classical ballets, Juliet, Manon and roles in many other works by MacMillan, Ashton, Balanchine, Bintley, Marriott, McGregor, Robbins, Scarlett, Tetley and Wheeldon, among others. She created La Glace (Les Saisons), Alice, Hermione (Winter’s Tale) and roles in Tryst, Qualia, Chroma, Infra, Acis and Galatea (Royal Opera), Live Fire Exercise, The Human Seasons, Tetractys and Multiverse. She is an active patron of National Youth Ballet and London Children’s Ballet.
THE ROYAL BALLET PRINCIPAL DANCERS
FRANCESCA HAYWARD PRINCIPAL Francesca Hayward studied at The Royal Ballet School, 2003–11, and won the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance (2009), Young British Dancer of the Year (2010) and both Silver and Audience Choice awards at the Genée IBC (2010). She joined the Company in 2011, promoted to Principal, 2016. Her repertory includes Juliet, Lise, Alice, Titania, Manon, Aurora, Giselle, Clara and Sugar Plum Fairy, Princess Stephanie, Perdita, Vera (Month in the Country), Girl (The Invitation), Justine (Frankenstein) and roles in Rhapsody, ‘Emeralds’ (Jewels), Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, Infra, Ballo della regina, Symphony in C, Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Asphodel Meadows and Within the Golden Hour, among other works. She created roles in Woolf Works, Untouchable and Multiverse. She represented The Royal Ballet at the competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize (2012) and won National Dance Awards in 2014 (Emerging Artist) and 2016 (Best Female Dancer). SARAH LAMB PRINCIPAL Born in Boston, Sarah Lamb trained with Tatiana Nikolaevna Legat at Boston Ballet School. She was awarded a Gold Medal by President Clinton, 1998, after being named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She won three silver medals at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya, Japan, 1999; the Sixth New York IBC, 2000; and the USA IBC, 2002. She joined Boston Ballet in 1998, promoted to Principal, 2003. She joined The Royal Ballet in 2004, promoted to Principal, 2006. Her repertory includes leading roles in the classical, dramatic and contemporary repertories, including ballets by Ashton, Balanchine, Bournonville, MacMillan, Marriott, McGregor, Robbins, Scarlett and Wheeldon. She created Perdita (Winter’s Tale), Raven Girl and roles in Carbon Life, Chroma, Limen, Electric Counterpoint, Live Fire Exercise, 24 Preludes, The Human Seasons, Tetractys, Woolf Works, Multiverse, The Illustrated ‘Farewell’ and Yugen. EDWARD WATSON PRINCIPAL Born in London, Edward Watson trained at The Royal Ballet School. He joined the Company in 1994, promoted to Principal, 2005. His repertory includes major works by Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, and he has created roles in works by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Kim Brandstrup, Siobhan Davies, Alastair Marriott, Cathy Marston, David Dawson, Arthur Pita, Javier De Frutos and Ashley Page, among others. Awards include an Olivier Award in 2012 for his performance in Pita’s The Metamorphosis and Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards in 2001 and 2008. In 2015, he was awarded a Benois de la Danse for his performance in Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale and an MBE for services to dance.
THE ROYAL BALLET DANCERS
FIRST SOLOISTS
Melissa Hamilton
James Hay
Fumi Kaneko
Mayara Magri
Marcelino Sambé
Beatriz Stix-Brunell
Luca Acri
Olivia Cowley
Tristan Dyer
Nicol Edmonds
Benjamin Ella
Meaghan Grace Hinkis
Paul Kay
Anna Rose O'Sullivan
Calvin Richardson
SOLOISTS
Patron HM The Queen
Director Kevin O’Hare CBE
Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon
President HRH The Prince of Wales
Music Director and Conductor Koen Kessels
Vice-President The Lady Sarah Chatto
Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor
Chief Executive, The Royal Opera House Alex Beard CBE
PRINCIPALS Matthew Ball Federico Bonelli Alexander Campbell Lauren Cuthbertson Francesca Hayward Ryoichi Hirano Nehemiah Kish Sarah Lamb Steven McRae Laura Morera Vadim Muntagirov Yasmine Naghdi Marianela Nuñez Natalia Osipova Thiago Soares Akane Takada Edward Watson
Gemma Pitchley-Gale Joseph Sissens Leticia Stock Gina Storm-Jensen Lara Turk David Yudes
PRINCIPAL CHARACTER ARTISTS Christina Arestis Gary Avis Bennet Gartside Alastair Marriott Elizabeth McGorian Kristen McNally Christopher Saunders Thomas Whitehead FIRST SOLOISTS William Bracewell Claire Calvert Yuhui Choe Cesar Corrales Helen Crawford Melissa Hamilton James Hay Tierney Heap Fumi Kaneko Hikaru Kobayashi Itziar Mendizabal Marcelino Sambé Beatriz Stix-Brunell Valentino Zucchetti SOLOISTS Luca Acri Reece Clarke Olivia Cowley Tristan Dyer Nicol Edmonds Benjamin Ella Elizabeth Harrod Meaghan Grace Hinkis Paul Kay Fernando Montaño Calvin Richardson Anna Rose O’Sullivan FIRST ARTISTS Tara-Brigitte Bhavnani David Donnelly Téo Dubreuil Kevin Emerton Isabella Gasparini Hannah Grennell Nathalie Harrison Tomas Mock Erico Montes Romany Pajdak Demelza Parish
ARTISTS Sophie Allnat Lania Atkins Joseph Aumeer Harris Bell Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød Grace Blundell Mica Bradbury Annette Buvoli Harry Churches Ashley Dean Leticia Dias Leo Dixon Joonhyuk Jun Joshua Junker Chisato Katsura Harrison Lee Davide Loricchio Isabel Lubach Sae Maeda Nadia Mullova-Barley Taisuke Nakao Katharina Nikelski Aiden O’Brien Amelia Palmiero Julia Roscoe Giacomo Rovero Mariko Sasaki Francisco Serrano Charlotte Tonkinson Stanisław Węgrzyn Yu Hang
Rehearsal Director Christopher Saunders Répétiteurs Alexander Agadzhanov Lesley Collier Olga Evreinoff Amanda Eyles Ballet Masters Gary Avis Ricardo Cervera Ballet Master and Character Artist Jonathan Howells Ballet Mistress Samantha Raine Assistant Ballet Mistress Sian Murphy Ballet Rehabilitation Specialist and Class Teacher Brian Maloney Head of Ballet Press Ashley Woodfield Ballet Learning and Participation Manager Ruby Wolk Learning and Participation Dance Artists Elizabeth Foster David Pickering Interim Clinical Director, Ballet Healthcare Richard Clark
Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett
Chartered Physiotherapists Gemma Hilton Robin Vellosa
Administrative Director Heather Baxter
Company Masseur Konrad Simpson
Company and Tour Manager Rachel Vickers
Technical Staff Production Director Bob Brandsen
Deputy Company Manager Elizabeth Ferguson Artistic Scheduling Manager Philip Mosley Artistic Administrator Rachel Hollings Cover Conductor Jonathan Lo Head of Music Staff Robert Clark Music Staff Philip Cornfield Michael Pansters Kate Shipway Paul Stobart Tim Qualtrough
THE ROYAL BALLET STAFF & CREDITS
Assistant Technical Director Gary Mardon Lighting Manager Simon Bennison Senior Stage Manager Johanna Adams Farley Deputy Stage Manager Sarah Woodward
Stage Technicians Elliott Blackwell Sean Faharty LX Technicians Angela Anson Peter Didier Follow-spot Operator Adam Camp Prop Technician Sarah McPhail Sound Engineers Giuseppe Lubrano Gareth Shelton Production Manager Emily Moran-Seekings Armourer Max Brown Head of Costume Fay Fullerton Costume Supervisor Victoria James Head of Ladies Workroom Catriona Paterson Assistant Head of the Dye Department Lorraine Grice Head of Costume Performance Support Oliver Greatrex Costume Performance Support Rossella D’Agostino Elizabeth Foyster Monica Hernandez Carine Marrot James McHugh Sophie O’Connor Adrian Villasenor Head of Ballet Wigs and Make-up Bridget Foster Ballet Wigs and Make-up Sanja Golubovic Erin Hills Jin Ho Kang Nicole Taylor Katherine Warwick Oliver Governors of The Royal Ballet Chairman Dame Jenny Abramsky DBE
Flys Managers Andy Collett Rob Melhuish
Leanne Benjamin AM OBE Sir Matthew Bourne OBE Hillary S Carty BMA CCMI The Lady Deighton Stephen Jeffries Jeanetta Laurence OBE Sir David Normington GCB Christopher Nourse Derek Purnell Ian Taylor The Duchess of Wellington OBE Monica Zamora
Prop Manager Paul Duffy
Honorary Secretary Peter Wilson
Assistant Stage Managers Madeleine Cootes Jaclyn Fulton Peter Saunders Project Team Managers Matthew Mulbery (LX) Gary Whiffen (Stage)
Lighting Board Operator John Lawrence
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Bradley Tabach-Bank Center Dance Arts Board Member
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Susan Baumgarten President JoAnn Bourne Treasurer Joan Herman Secretary Liane Weintraub† Founding Chair
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$1,000–$4,999 Keith and Ingrid Agre Kathleen Aisling Dean V. Ambrose Sasha and William Anawalt Vivian Irene Anderson Avi and Joyce Arad Shirley Ashkenas* Alphonse Burnand & Charles Patridge Scholarship Trust Howard Banchik Sandy and Dan Bane Roy Manning Barber Paul N. Barkopoulos, M.D. Margaret and David Barry Josephine Baurac Maralee Beck and Andrew Safir David Bender Lanie Bernhard Lucas Bierlein June and Paul Bilgore Debra and Norris Bishton Irene and Stuart Boyd Susan Brauneiss and Marc Gamsin Geri Brawerman Joan and Allan Burns Debbie and Jim Burrows C&R Newman Family Foundation Anthony Campagnoni Emily Carino Judy Carroll Lillian Chin Allison Clago Pamela and V. Shannon Clyne Jane and Lawrence Cohen Catherine Cristall Alison Bryan Crowell and Richard Crowell Stewart and Louisa Cushman Sharon Darnov David & Sylvia Weisz Family Foundation Nancy and Donald de Brier Rafael de Marchena-Huyke Christopher Deacon Lynne and James DeWitt Laura Donnelley Dody Dorn Betty J. Dranow Suzanne Dworak-Peck, LCSW
Sarah Eiman Kimberly and John Emerson* Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy Malsi Doyle and Michael R. Forman Harold Frankl Martin Freedman Susan Friedman Diane Futterman Frederick and Leslie Gaylord Susan and David Gersh Elaine Goldsmith Marjorie Goodson Louis Goren Peggy Parker Grauman* Lenore and Bernard Greenberg Tricia and Richard Grey Marcy Gross Madeline Gussman Roberta and Bruce Hammer Donna Handel Tim Hanseroth Eugene Hawkins Drs. Vikki and Sidney Helperin Diane J. Henderson Claire and Robert Heron Christine M. Hessler Anita Hirsh Ann and Robert Holder Katinka and Eugene Holt Joan and John F. Hotchkis* Mary Ann Hunt-Jacobsen William H. Isacoff, MD Nancy Israel Maria Rosario Jackson, Ph.D. Louise and Thomas Jones Ruth M. Jones Tylie Jones and John Towey Janet & Marvin Jubas Mary Ann Rosenfeld Kadish and Sheldon Kadish Corey and Glen Kaino Gerald Katell Don Kates Anita and Fred Kemmerling Barbara and Richard Kernochan Lisa and Victor Kohn Joanne Kozberg Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald
Grace Latt Ellen and David Li Lee Betty and Maury Leonard Aliza and Mike Lesser Barbara Levinson Robin Lewin Tracey Lewin Leigh Lindsey and Andrew Blaine Joanne and Ethan Lipsig Anslyene Lloyd Marlene and Sandy Louchheim Lillian Lovelace Elizabeth and Robert Lowe Kirk Luetkehans Pauline Marks Ilene and J. Howard Marshall III Janis B. McEldowney Jane MacFadden McNeil Vibiana Molina Kathy and Michael Moray Patrick Morrow Diane Morton* Carol and Jerome Muchin Diane Naegele David Drew Neer Chris and Richard Newman Mary D. Nichols Renae Williams Niles and Greg Niles Phillip J. Nuxhall Alan Oppenheimer Hedy Orden Michael & Susan Patzakis Janet Petersen Carol Swanson Price David Richard Pullman Pun'kin's Feiman Family Foundation Nan Rae Nancy Rahnasto and Alfred Osborne Hadley and Lee Rierson Susan W. and Carl. W Robertson Ann and Robert Ronus Ropolo Charitable Trust Donna and Harvey Rosen Melissa Rosenberg and Lev Spiro Beverly and Melvin Rosenthal Susan and Marvin Rothenberg Linda and Tony Rubin Thomas Safran
Maxine Savitz Mariette and Alexander Sawchuk Linda and Peter Schlesinger The Schlum Charitable Trust Sherie and Alan Schneider Lynne & Barry Scholer Joan and Arnold Seidel Stanley E. Sellers, Jr. Jane Semel Dr. and Mrs. P.K. Shah Mpambo and David Shaw Bonnie Sherman Susan Simmons Maggy and John Simon Shani Berko Smolens Lucerne Snipes Victoria Sofro Terry and Dennis Stanfill The Stanford Family Trust Alan and Janet Stanford Richard Stone and Marjorie Bender Strauss Foundation I.H. Sutnick* Allan and Roslyn Holt Swartz George Takei and Brad Altman Thornton Foundation Karen Todman William & Renee Tooley Laurie Vender and Stephen Halper Daniel and Janice Wallace Marcia and Charles Wasserman Ph.D. Amy Waterman Bill and Susan Weintraub Luanne Wells Susan and Josh Wieder Patty and Richard Wilson Dean Wong Beth McGlynn and James Zapp Barbara and Stanley Zax Ellen and Arnold Zetcher And those who wish to remain anonymous *Donors who have made additional gifts to The Music Center Endowment or legacy gifts.
The Music Center strives to acknowledge all of our supporters appropriately. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Advancement Office at (213) 972-3362.
The Music Center Thanks Its Supporters $1,000,000 and above The Ahmanson Foundation The Annenberg Foundation County of Los Angeles The Ring-Miscikowski Foundation / The Ring Foundation / Cindy Miscikowski The Rose Hills Foundation $250,000–$999,999 Ralph M. Parsons Foundation $100,000–$249,999 Bank of America/Cary H. Thompson / Dannielle Campos The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation The James Irvine Foundation Wells Fargo Bank / Joseph Rice $50,000–$99,999 Entravision Communications Corporation / Walter F. Ulloa J.P. Morgan Chase The Music Center Foundation Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP U.S. Bank / Darrell Brown Moss Foundation
$25,000–$49,999 Amgen Foundation / Cynthia M. Patton The Capital Group Companies / Kimaada Brown City National Bank / Michael Pagano City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs David Geffen Foundation The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Grand Park Foundation HUB International Insurance Services The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Los Angeles County Arts Commission Macy's Manatt, Phelps, and Philips, LLP KPMG / Greg Geyer Porsche Cars North America, Inc. Superior Grocers Union Bank $10,000–$24,999 Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation California Arts Council D&B Audiotechnik Corp Fox Rothschild LLP / Darrell D. Miller I.N. and Susanna H. Van Nuys Foundation James A. Doolittle Foundation The Louis and Harold Price Foundation Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP The Sidley Austin Foundation
CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS Donors listed as of June 1, 2019
$5,000–$9,999 Ben/Joyce Eisenberg Foundation Chevron Corporation Colburn Foundation Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles Edison International Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc. Kaiser Permanente Rhino Records $1,000–$4,999 Action Marketing Group LLC Allied Integrated Marketing Alphonse Burnand & Charles Partridge Scholarship Trust Carol Swanson Price Foundation Deloitte, LLP Discovery Management El Verde Terrazzo Inc. Gladys Turk Foundation Harold and Nadine Davidson Foundation Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. IATSE - Local 33 Kemmerling Apparel Group, Inc. Lee Foundation M . A . C Cosmetics Morrison & Foerster Foundation Ralph Lauren Corporation Rodriguez, Horii, Choi & Cafferata LLP Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation See's Candies, Inc. Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation Warland Investments Company
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THE MUSIC CENTER EXECUTIVE TEAM Rachel S. Moore President & CEO Howard Sherman Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer TMC Ops Josephine Ramirez Executive Vice President TMC Arts William Taylor Senior Vice President, Finance / CFO Valentine Gelman Senior Vice President, Advancement Bonnie Goodman Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications
THE MUSIC CENTER OPERATIONS (TMC OPS) BUILDING SERVICES Carlos Acosta Engineer Eric Amaya Engineer Sonia Amezcua Coordinator Ramon DeLeon Lead Engineer Erik Ekserjyan Mailroom Clerk Ruben Enriquez Mailroom Clerk Nick Garcia Engineer Jose Godinez Engineer Damon Joseph Apprentice Engineer Francisco Loayza Lead Engineer Delia Martin Office Services Manager Keith McTague Director & Chief Engineer Michael Muñoz Mailroom Clerk Adrian Padilla Engineer Jose Quintero Landscaping Ismael Rodriguez Engineer Alex Romero Engineer Jeff Rowland Assistant Chief Engineer Jose Santillan Engineer Gerard Silva Lead Engineer Brandon Villalobos Engineer
FOUNDERS Rosa Bautista Manager Jane Jackson Director, Founders Elia Ortega Reservation Coordinator Michael Tanner Coordinator
GUEST RELATIONS Peggy Alvarez Head Usher David Bolanos Head Usher Alvin Broussard Senior Manager, Special Services Christine Cox House Manager, Ahmanson Theatre Robert Devis House Manager, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Greg Flusty House Manager, Walt Disney Concert Hall Omar Garcia Head Usher Jose Agustin Garibaldi Head Usher Linda Lawton Event Services Attendant
Ruben Lopez Special Services Coordnator Jenna Loredo Head Usher Seng Neth Head Usher Steve Olear Manager, Guest Services Santa Roman-Garcia Head Usher Kyle Smith Head Usher Carolyn Van Brunt Vice President Linda Walker House Manager, Mark Taper Forum Jeanice Williams Coordinator, Tours & Special Events Demetra Willis Head Usher
OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION Carol Zamora Executive Assistant
PRODUCTION Shawn Anderson Head Carpenter, Ahmanson Theatre Shane Anderson Head Flyman, Ahmanson Theatre Andrew Berger Senior Production Manager Jason Clark Director, Production Timothy Conroy Head Carpenter, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Katie Friesen Production Coordinator Ronald Galbraith Head Carpenter, Walt Disney Concert Hall Dennis Holbrook Head Property, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Emmet Kaiser Head Carpenter, Mark Taper Forum Terry Klein Head Electric, Walt Disney Concert Hall Ryan Lebetsamer Head Electric, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Scott Lucas Head Property, Ahmanson Theatre Bones Malone Head Audio, Mark Taper Forum Katie Miller Production Manager John Phillips Head Property, Walt Disney Concert Hall Todd Reynolds Head Audio/Video, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Mary Romero Head Property, Mark Taper Forum Lee Smilek Head Wardrobe Robert Smith Head Audio, Ahmanson Theatre Aaron Staubach Head Electrician, Ahmanson Theatre Kevin Wapner Head Audio, Walt Disney Concert Hall James Wright Head Electric, Ahmanson Theatre
SCHEDULING & EVENTS Charlie Costa Booking Manager Liliana Gonzalez Coordinator Lisa King Coordinator Marisol Moro Scheduling Administrator Sharon Stewart Director Ken Talley Scheduling Administrator Ismael Tenorio Coordinator
SECURITY MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION Juan Macias Captain, Events Operations Group Mark Miller Commander, Administration Jonathan Ng Commander, Field Services Division Bedros Ohanian Director of Security
Scott Pollack Commander, Events Operation Group Edward Too Captain, Administration
THE MUSIC CENTER STAFF
THE BLUE RIBBON Suzy Boyett Associate Director Sarah Malone Senior Coordinator The stage crew, wardrobe crew and box office staff are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States of America and Canada, AFL-CIO, CKC, Local Numbers 33, 768 and 857, respectively. The House Managers employed by The Music Center are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.
THE MUSIC CENTER ARTS (TMC ARTS) CIVIC STRATEGY Leticia Buckley Senior Civic Strategist
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Gerlie Collado Program Director Mara De La Rosa Coordinator Ming Ng Vice President Daniel Soto Program Manager Lucy Zepeda Assistant Manager, Community Relations and Partnerships
EDUCATION Patrice Cantarelli Associate Director, School Programs Rada Jovicic Program and Events Manager Maya Mackrandilal Coordinator, School Programs Ebony Ruffin Manager, Professional Development Juan Sanchez Coordinator, School Programs Monk Turner Manager, The Music Center On Tour Belinda Vong Younis Manager, School Programs Keith Wyffels Associate Vice President
GRAND PARK Kat Carrido Bonds Marketing Manager Julia Diamond Interim Director Derek Glover Production Manager Robert Gonzalez Operations Manager Nicole Mauricio Rental Coordinator Cailin Nolte Programming & Production Coordinator Marty Preciado Program Manager Angela Tsai Business Manager
PRESENTING & PRODUCING Rebecca Baillie Associate Director, Presentations Jenny Bass Production Manager Cody Kopp Coordinator Nick Schwartz-Hall Senior Producer
Lorena Panfilo Coordinator Laura Recchi Senior Director of Annual & Leadership Giving Laurie A. Selik Senior Director, Institutional Giving Melanye Taylor Assistant Director, Database
FINANCE Silvia Canales Payroll Clerk Andrew Kayano Manager, General Accounting and Financial Systems Mayra Medina Clerk, Donor Records David Modisett Manager, Financial Planning Sandor Otott Controller Lisa Quang Senior Accounting Clerk Ferdinand Ramos Manager, Payroll Services Cindy Rauch Manager, Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable Lisa Sloot Administrator, Donor Records
HUMAN RESOURCES Cynthia Covarrubias Manager Gloria Schaffer Senior Director
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Paul Kosal Administrator Johnny Perreira Manager
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Lisa Ducore Assistant Vice President, Marketing and Brand Communications Cameron Jackson Manager, Social Media & Promotions Stephanie Kao Manager, Web Content and Digital Analytics Paul Mercado Coordinator Marielle Shrock Coordinator Sabrina Skacan Manager, Media Relations Melissa Tan Assistant Vice President, Ticketing & Marketing Strategy
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE Celeste Goblowsky Director of the President's Office and Board Relations Manuel Deran Executive Assistant and Scheduler
SAFETY Edward Hennings Manager
TELECOMMUNICATIONS Rona Compton Manager
SPOTLIGHT Monique Carroll Program Manager Jeri Gaile Director
BUSINESS RESOURCES ADVANCEMENT Bennett Anderson Coordinator Robert Boone Senior Director, Advancement Services Cheryl Brown Assistant Vice President Katie Colbert Executive Assistant to Senior Vice President of Advancement Elise Embry Annual Giving Officer Cindy McHale Director, Institutional Giving
CREATIVE SUPPORT Keith & Co. Graphic Design
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Gustavo Dudamel Music & Artistic Director Walt and Lilly Disney Chair
Zubin Mehta Conductor Emeritus Esa-Pekka Salonen Conductor Laureate Susanna Mälkki Principal Guest Conductor Ann Ronus Chair
Paolo Bortolameolli Assistant Conductor John Adams John and Samantha Williams Creative Chair
FIRST VIOLINS Martin Chalifour Principal Concertmaster
Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair
Nathan Cole First Associate Concertmaster Ernest Fleischmann Chair
Bing Wang Associate Concertmaster
Barbara and Jay Rasulo Chair
Akiko Tarumoto Assistant Concertmaster
Philharmonic Affiliates Chair
Rebecca Reale Michele Bovyer Rochelle Abramson Camille Avellano
Margaret and Jerrold L. Eberhardt Chair
Minyoung Chang
I.H. Albert Sutnick Chair
Miika Gregg Mischa Lefkowitz Edith Markman Mitchell Newman Stacy Wetzel
SECOND VIOLINS
BASSES
BASSOONS
PERCUSSION
Lyndon Johnston Taylor Principal
Christopher Hanulik Principal
Whitney Crockett Principal
Matthew Howard Principal
Oscar M. Meza Assistant Principal
Shawn Mouser Associate Principal
David Allen Moore
Michele Grego Evan Kuhlmann
James Babor Perry Dreiman Wesley Sumpter*
Dorothy Rossel Lay Chair
Mark Kashper Associate Principal Kristine Whitson Johnny Lee Dale Breidenthal Ingrid Chun Jin-Shan Dai Tianyun Jia Chao-Hua Jin Nickolai Kurganov Guido Lamell Varty Manouelian Yun Tang Michelle Tseng Suli Xue Eduardo Rios*
VIOLAS Teng Li Principal
John Connell Chair
Dale Hikawa Silverman Associate Principal Ben Ullery Assistant Principal Dana Lawson Richard Elegino John Hayhurst Ingrid Hutman Michael Larco Hui Liu Meredith Snow Leticia Oaks Strong Minor L. Wetzel Andrew François*
CELLOS Robert deMaine Principal Bram and Elaine Goldsmith Chair
Ben Hong Associate Principal
Sadie and Norman Lee Chair
Dahae Kim Assistant Principal Jonathan Karoly David Garrett Barry Gold Jason Lippmann Gloria Lum
Linda and Maynard Brittan Chair
Serge Oskotsky Brent Samuel
Ted Botsford Jack Cousin Jory Herman Brian Johnson Peter Rofé Michael Fuller* Dennis Trembly Principal Bass Emeritus
FLUTES Denis Bouriakov Principal
Virginia and Henry Mancini Chair
Catherine Ransom Karoly Associate Principal Mr. and Mrs. H. Russell Smith Chair
Elise Shope Henry
Mari L. Danihel Chair
Sarah Jackson Piccolo Sarah Jackson
OBOES Vacant Principal Marion Arthur Kuszyk Associate Principal Anne Marie Gabriele Carolyn Hove English Horn Carolyn Hove
CLARINETS
Contrabassoon Evan Kuhlmann
HORNS Andrew Bain Principal
John Cecil Bessell Chair
Jaclyn Rainey Associate Principal Gregory Roosa
Alan Scott Klee Chair
Lou Anne Neill
LIBRARIANS Kazue Asawa McGregor Kenneth Bonebrake Stephen Biagini
PERSONNEL MANAGER Jeffrey Neville Nuno Coelho Stephen Mulligan Elena Schwarz Jesús Uzcátegui
Reese and Doris Gothie Chair
Ethan Bearman Assistant Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
TRUMPETS Thomas Hooten Principal
M. David and Diane Paul Chair
James Wilt Associate Principal Nancy and Donald de Brier Chair
Christopher Still
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair
Jeffery Strong
TROMBONES David Rejano Cantero Principal
Paul Radke
Bass Clarinet David Howard
HARP
Brian Drake
Burt Hara Associate Principal
E-Flat Clarinet Andrew Lowy
Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair
CONDUCTING FELLOWS
Loring Charitable Trust Chair
James Miller Associate Principal
Andrew Lowy David Howard
Joanne Pearce Martin
Amy Jo Rhine
Boris Allakhverdyan Principal Michele and Dudley Rauch Chair
KEYBOARDS
Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen Chair
Bass Trombone John Lofton
TUBA Norman Pearson
TIMPANI Joseph Pereira Principal
Cecilia and Dudley Rauch Chair
* Resident Fellows The Los Angeles Philharmonic string section utilizes revolving seating on a systematic basis. Players listed alphabetically change seats periodically. In those sections where there are two principals the musicians share the position equally and are listed in order of length of service. The musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic are represented by Professional Musicians Local 47, AFM.
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC Now in its Centennial season, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has redefined what an orchestra can be. Under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel since 2009, it presents an inspiring array of music through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations. At home and abroad, the LA Phil — recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras — leads the way in groundbreaking and diverse programming that demonstrates the orchestra’s artistry and vision, on stage and in the community. The LA Phil performs or presents more than 250 concerts annually at its two iconic venues: Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. During its winter season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, with approximately 165 performances, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies and other thematic programs designed to enhance the audience’s experience of orchestral music. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music. The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond the Concert Hall, with wide-ranging performances in the schools, churches and neighborhood centers of a vastly diverse community. Among its influential and multifaceted education initiatives is Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA), inspired by Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema. Through YOLA, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music instruction and leadership training to nearly 1,200 students from underserved neighborhoods, empowering them to become vital citizens, leaders and agents of change. The orchestra also undertakes tours, including regular visits to New York, Paris, and Tokyo, among other cities. The Philharmonic is now the International Orchestral Partner at London’s Barbican Centre. The orchestra’s very first tour was in 1921, and the Philharmonic has toured every season since 1969/70. The LA Phil has a substantial catalog of concerts available online, including the first full-length classical music video released on iTunes. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a millionaire and amateur musician. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, 10 renowned conductors have served in that capacity: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929); Artur Rodziński (1929-1933); Otto Klemperer (1933-1939); Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956); Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959); Zubin Mehta (1962-1978); Carlo Maria Giulini (19781984); André Previn (1985-1989); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009); and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR Jay Rasulo* CEO Simon Woods VICE CHAIRS David C. Bohnett* Jerrold L. Eberhardt* Jane B. Eisner* David Meline* Diane Paul* DIRECTORS Gregory A. Adams Julie Andrews Wallis Annenberg Thomas L. Beckmen Lynn A. Booth Reveta F. Bowers Linda Brittan Jennifer Broder Kawanna Brown Andrea Chao-Kharma R. Martin Chavez Christian D. Chivaroli, JD Dan Clivner Mari L. Danihel Donald P. de Brier* Louise D. Edgerton Lisa Field Joshua Friedman David Gindler Jennifer Miller Goff Lenore S. Greenberg Carol Colburn Grigor
Megan Hernandez Teena Hostovich Jonathan Kagan* Sarah H. Ketterer Darioush Khaledi Dana Marevich Margaret Morgan Younes Nazarian Becky Novy Leith O’Leary R. Joseph Plascencia Sandy Pressman Ann Ronus Jennifer Rosenfeld Laura Rosenwald Nancy S. Sanders* Eric L. Small G. Gabrielle Starr Jay Stein* Christian Stracke* Jason Subotky Ronald D. Sugar* Jack Suzar Sue Tsao Jon Vein Alyce de Roulet Williamson Irwin Winkler HONORARY LIFE DIRECTORS Lawrence N. Field Frank Gehry Ginny Mancini Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy *Executive Committee Member as of January 1, 2019
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC STAFF
Simon Woods
Maren Quanbeck
Sarah Stanley
Hope Steinman-Iacullo
Jairo Flores
Richard Rubio
David C. Bohnett Chief Executive Officer Chair
Ebner Sobalvarro
Brandon Stone
Gabriel Tanguay Ortega
Tamir Gilboa
Martin Sartini Garner
Fabio Tassone
Kylee Teti
Hai Tran
Mary Smudde
Jose Villasenor
Derek Traub
Frank Ayala
Natalie Suarez
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Paula Michea
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO
Gail Samuel
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Chad Smith
MANAGER, ARTIST SERVICES
ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Julia Ward
DIRECTOR, HUMANITIES
AUDIENCE SERVICES
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Denise Alfred
CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER
Vilma Alvarez
Kathleen Kane
Alison Sowden
AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE PATRON / AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
TICKET SELLER
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER (VAULT) 1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER TICKET SELLER (GROUP SERVICES)
Mark Wilson TICKET SELLER
BOX OFFICE — GROUP SERVICES
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CAO ANNUAL FUND COORDINATOR
CAMPAIGN PROJECT MANAGER MANAGER, DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS
Kimberley Valentine DIRECTOR, LEADERSHIP GIFTS
Morgan Walton
MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS
Richard T. Watkins
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT
Gloria Balcom
Nancy Fitzgerald
Laura Connelly
Brendan Broms
Angelia Franco
Elsje Kibler-Vermaas
Grace Chapron
Laurel Harris
J. Philip Koester
Jacqueline Ferger
Tomorrow Kitchen
Adriana Aguilar
Meghan Martineau
Stephen Gluck
Jose Villasenor
Xyra Aranda
Mona Patel
Jennifer Hugus
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
VICE PRESIDENT, PRESENTATIONS VICE PRESIDENT, LEARNING
VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS VICE PRESIDENT, ARTISTIC PLANNING VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES AND GENERAL COUNSEL
Daniel Song
VICE PRESIDENT, PHILHARMONIC AND PRODUCTION
Leni Isaacs Boorstin
SENIOR ADVISOR, EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT
Summer Bjork
DIRECTOR, STRATEGY AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
ADMINISTRATION
Maxwell Adams
RISK AND LOGISTICS MANAGER
Leslie Bell PARALEGAL
Michael Chang
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
AUDIENCE SERVICES SUPERVISOR AUDIENCE SERVICES SUPERVISOR AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE PATRON / AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE PATRON / AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
Bernie Keating
AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
TICKET SELLER TICKET SELLER
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER TICKET SELLER
COMMUNITY & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Aurelio Minchaca
Selena Chau
Rosa Ochoa
Ljiljana Grubisic
AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE AUDIENCE SERVICES SUPERVISOR
Claudia Rhodes
AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
Randolph Stephen
AUDIENCE SERVICES SUPERVISOR’
Robert Ullrich
PATRON / AUDIENCE SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE
BOX OFFICE – HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Natalie White
SENIOR RESEARCH AND PROSPECT MANAGER
FINANCE
LOT MANAGER
BOWL SECURITY
LEARNING
Phil Bravo
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE COORDINATOR
ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Steve Flores
ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST
Lisa Hernandez
DIGITAL ASSET MANAGER
Ashley Hofer
DEVELOPMENT
Dustin Hsu
EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER
Lauren Winn
Alexis Gallardo
EDUCATION COORDINATOR
Emily Lair
EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER PROGRAM MANAGER YOLA@TORRES YOLA ADVISOR
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Daniel Anderson VIDEO PRODUCER
Kimberly Mitchell
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CFO
Scott Arenstein
Rita Santos
ASSISTANT CONTROLLER
Janice Bartczak
Michael Vitale
STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Nora Brady
Jeff Wallace
Helen Allemano
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MAJOR GIFTS
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL MARKETING TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR, RETAIL SERVICES
Malorie Barbee
SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Lisa Burlingham Charles Carroll
RECEPTIONIST/HR ASSISTANT
Irene Chow
Debbie Marcelo
Francisco Millan
Joe Carter
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
Noricel Fulay Cole
Tess Carota
MAIL ROOM ASSISTANT
David Cranton
Kevin Higa
TICKET SELLER (GROUP SERVICES)
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Shawana Deloach
HELP DESK SPECIALIST
Matthew Dolce
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Nancy Fitzgerald
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES MANAGER
Angelia Franco
DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Chris Harmony
Dean Hughes Charles Koo Rik Martin
Jeff Matchan
Petra McNeilly Rutledge MANAGER, STRATEGY AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
Sergio Menendez
TICKET SELLER TICKET SELLER
TICKET SELLER (GROUP SERVICES) TICKET SELLER (GROUP SERVICES)
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER DATABASE APPLICATIONS MANAGER
Miguel A. Ponce, Jr. SYSTEM SUPPORT I
Christopher Prince TESSITURA SUPPORT
Johanna Rees
OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATOR
SENIOR MANAGER, CREATIVE SERVICES
Ayrten Rodriguez
Justin Foo
TRAFFIC AND PARKING MANAGER
Gerry Heise
Ruben Reyes
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Jen Kehs
Edgar Tom
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Sara Kim
Tom Waldron
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Tomorrow Kitchen 2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER (GROUP SERVICES)
Manuel Reed
Milo Martin
Aly Zacharias
Richard Martinez
SENIOR GRANT WRITER DIRECTOR, INDIVIDUAL GIVING
Anita Lawson
DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS
Angie Lee
ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SPECIAL EVENTS
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS
CREATIVE COPYWRITER
Gil Samuelian Michael Sheppard
Linda Holloway
Kevin Wapner
HOLLYWOOD BOWL SUMMER STAFF
MANAGING EDITOR
SENIOR ADVERTISING MANAGER PATRON SERVICES MANAGER
VIDEO DIRECTOR
Amanda Lester
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER VIDEO DIRECTOR
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
ASSISTANT MANAGER, AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT AND INSIGHTS
Yuko Makuuchi ASSISTANT MANAGER, RETAIL OPERATIONS
TICKET SELLER
Alicia Rhymes
Fred Vogler
Brant Markley
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Carina Sanchez
Academy Lighting Consultants
Ino Mercado
Marz Richards
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ARTISTIC PLANNING
Kishisa Ross
ASSISTANT MANAGER, ARTISTIC PLANNING
Steve Sims
ARTIST LIAISON
Kevin Smith
TREASURER
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER 2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
PROJECT MANAGER, DONOR RELATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST
Kristina Schaaf
SOUND DESIGNER
LOT MANAGER
Cindy Ly Rozas
CAMPAIGN MANAGER
Edwin Bonilla
DIRECTOR, CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP
Albert Diaz
Stefanie Sprester
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Ricky O’Bannon
Teddy Abat
Erica Sitko
MANAGER, REVENUE STRATEGIES AND ANALYTICS
LIGHTING DESIGNER
MANAGER, CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP
FACILITIES SERVICE MANAGER LOT MANAGER
ASSISTANT ELECTRICIAN PROPERTY MANAGER MASTER ELECTRICIAN
MASTER AUDIO-VISUAL / UNION STEWARD ASSISTANT AUDIO-VISUAL
DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS
Alexis Kaneshiro
Kenneth Shapiro
MASTER CARPENTER
Sophie Jefferies
VIDEO DIRECTOR
Nikki Pierce
ARTISTIC PLANNING ASSISTANT
Don Quick
Jennifer Hoffner
Susan Erburu Reardon
Daniel Mallampalli
Andy Kassan
MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING
HOUSE MANAGER
Rachel Pryzgoda
Casey Lewis
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MARKETING
John Henken
TICKET SELLER
Kristen Flock-Ritchie
Kevin Brown
DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
ARTISTIC PLANNING
IATSE LOCAL 33
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
Paul Gibson
STAFF ATTORNEY
Phillippa Cole
CONCERT MANAGER, PRESENTATIONS AND HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
POOL CIRCLE MANAGER
Norm Levin
DIRECTOR, GIFT PLANNING
DIRECTOR, PRESENTATIONS
Tara Gardner
Chris Donovan
DEVELOPMENT WRITER
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Cynthia Fuentes
Katherine Nicolai MANAGER, MAJOR GIFTS
EVENT MANAGER
THEATER MAINTENANCE MANAGER
Allison Mitchell
BOARD LIAISON / SENIOR GIFT OFFICER
PUBLICIST
PROGRAM MANAGER, POPS / MANAGER, HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
OPERATIONS COORDINATOR
SYSTEM SUPPORT II
Mark Primiano
DIRECT MARKETING COORDINATOR
Lydia Fong
SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Brian Grohl
Samantha Escobar
Kim Kevorkian
SENIOR MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
PRESENTATIONS ASSISTANT
HOLLYWOOD BOWL
DIGITAL OPERATIONS MANAGER
Chelsea Downes
MANAGER, GIFT PLANNING
PRESENTATIONS
Stephanie Bates
Rafael Mariño
JR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Melissa Falchini
MANAGER, VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE
Toi Duckworth
Kerri Bershon
ANNUAL FUND OFFICER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION
Bill Williams
PAYROLL TECHNICIAN
Kimberly White
DIGITAL PRODUCER
Victoria Dinu
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP COORDINATOR
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Joie Marites Lopez
TICKET SELLER
Jason Horst
DIRECTOR, SALES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE
Julia Dankberg
George Portillo
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER (PLAYBOY JAZZ)
DIRECT MARKETING MANAGER
PRODUCTION MANAGER
SUPERVISING SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Christina Hall
Taundewei Hodge
DIRECTOR, MARKETING
PROJECT MANAGER, MEDIA INITIATIVES
Joe Chang
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER
Lili Herrera
DIRECTOR, AUDIENCE STRATEGIES AND INSIGHTS
PRODUCTION MANAGER
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MANAGER
Marianne Valmonte
Gina Leoni
Russell Healey
Sean Pinto
ASSISTANT MANAGER, VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Elizabeth Rojo
Mark Ladd
TESSITURA SUPPORT
Frank Park
Constance Dewey
FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST
Genevieve Goetz
Kimberly Havens
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL GIVING AND STEWARDSHIP
FINANCIAL PLANNING MANAGER
Joseph Feneck
HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR
Shawn Newmann-Batarse
Julia Cole
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE COORDINATOR
TICKET SELLER
Nathaniel Harris
Angela Morrell
DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS PROJECT MANAGER
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
1ST ASSISTANT TREASURER (GROUP SERVICES)
Laurel Harris
SYSTEM SUPPORT I
Thelma Meza
Michael Cocks
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MEDIA INITIATIVES
ARTIST PAYMENT SPECIALIST
Alejandra Cabrales
Alex Hernandez
DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION
Jessie Farber
Raymond Horwitz
Geoffrey Kwok
DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS, GIFT AND DATA SPECIALIST
ASSOCIATE ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER
Taylor Comen
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Robert Albini
SENIOR MANAGER, ANNUAL FUND / MEMBERSHIP
ORCHESTRA OPERATIONS COORDINATOR
Shana Bey
Mary Allen
HR GENERALIST
TICKET SELLER
Lila Atchison
PAYROLL COORDINATOR
LaTonya Lindsey
2ND ASSISTANT TREASURER
ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTION
Lyla Forlani
ASSISTANT MANAGER, ANNUAL FUND
Samantha Ganeku
PROJECT MANAGER
ASSISTANT MANAGER, MUSIC BUYER
Joshua Alvarenga
Rose Doylemason
PR ASSISTANT
Melissa Achten
Gema Alatorre TICKET SELLER
PUBLICIST
CONTROLLER
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
Christine Correa
SALES OPERATION COORDINATOR
Fabian Fuertes
Pamela Li
Lauren Coakley
MARKETING DATABASE SPECIALIST
Sherry Wallace
Kassandra Winchester
Gaudy Sanchez
Heather Dodds
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Jonathan Thomas
EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER
SENIOR ADVISOR, STRATEGIC FINANCIAL PLANNING STAFF ACCOUNTANT
ART DIRECTOR
Angelica Cortez
Ian Richard
Jonathan Clemente
CREATIVE COPYWRITER
Lisa White
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
David Cherpin
AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, SOCIAL INNOVATION
Sarah Little
Genevieve Dunaway
Meredith Reese
VALET PARKING MANAGER
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
DIGITAL ARCHIVES MANAGER
Kelly Kress
LOT MANAGER
DIRECTOR, CONTENT
MARKETING COORDINATOR, PROMOTIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
The Philharmonic Box Office and Audience Services Center are staffed by members of IATSE Local 857, Treasurers and Ticket Sellers.
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ENDOWMENT DONORS We are honored to recognize donors to our Endowment Fund, whose generosity ensures a living tradition of world-class music at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. The following list represents contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Endowment Fund.
$25,000,000+ Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation Cecilia and Dudley Rauch
$20,000,000 TO $24,999,999 David Bohnett Foundation
$10,000,000 TO $19,999,999 The Annenberg Foundation Colburn Foundation
$5,000,000 TO $9,999,999 Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund Terri and Jerry M. Kohl Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates M. David and Diane Paul Ann and Robert Ronus Ronus Foundation John and Samantha Williams
$2,500,000 TO $4,999,999 Peggy Bergmann YOLA Endowment Fund in Memory of Lenore Bergmann and John Elmer Bergmann Dunard Fund USA Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Carol Colburn Grigor Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Alfred E. Mann Elise Mudd Marvin Trust Barbara and Jay Rasulo Flora L. Thornton
$1,000,000 TO $2,499,999 Linda and Robert Attiyeh Judith and Thomas Beckmen Gordon Binder and Adele Haggarty Helen and Peter Bing William H. Brady, III Linda and Maynard Brittan Richard and Norma Camp Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Connell Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell Mari L. Danihel Nancy and Donald de Brier The Walt Disney Company Fairchild-Martindale Foundation Eris and Larry Field Reese and Doris Gothie Janeway Foundation Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Carrie and Stuart Ketchum Kenneth N. and Doreen R. Klee B. Allen and Dorothy Lay Karl H. Loring Los Angeles Philharmonic Committee Estate of Judith Lynne MaddocksBrown Foundation Ginny Mancini Raulee Marcus Barbara and Buzz McCoy
Merle and Peter Mullin Carolyn Powers William Powers Nancy and Barry Sanders H. Russell Smith Foundation Ronald and Valerie Sugar I.H. Sutnick
$500,000 TO $999,999 Ann and Martin Albert Abbott Brown Jerrold L. Eberhardt Yvonne and Gordon Hessler Joan and John Hotchkis Ernest Mauk and Doyce Nunis Mr. and Mrs. David Meline Sandy and Barry D. Pressman Earl and Victoria Pushee William and Sally Rutter Richard and Bradley Seeley Christian Stracke Donna Swayze Lee and Hope Landis Warner YOLA Student Fund Edna Weiss
$250,000 TO $499,999 Baker Family Trust Veronica and Robert Egelston Gordon Family Foundation Ms. Kay Harland Joan Green Harris Trust Bud and Barbara Hellman Gerald L. Katell Norma Kayser Joyce and Kent Kresa Raymond Lieberman Mr. Kevin MacCarthy and Ms. Lauren Lexton Jane and Marc B. Nathanson Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation Nancy and Sidney Petersen Rice Family Foundation Robert Robinson Katharine and Thomas Stoever Sue Tsao Alyce and Warren Williamson
$100,000 TO $249,999 Mr. Robert J. Abernethy William A. Allison Rachel and Lee Ault W. Lee Bailey, MD Angela Bardowell Lynn and Otis Booth Deborah Borda The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Jane Carruthers James and Paula Coburn Foundation The Geraldine P. Coombs Trust in memory of Gerie P. Coombs Mr. and Mrs. Terry Cox
Silvia and Kevin Dretzka Allan and Diane Eisenman Christine and Daniel Ewell Arnold Gilberg, MD, PhD David and Paige Glickman Nicholas T. Goldsborough Gonda Family Foundation Margaret Grauman Kathryn Kert Green and Mark Green Freya and Mark Ivener Ruth Jacobson Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan Susanne and Paul Kester Vicki King Sylvia Kunin Ann and Edward Leibon Ellen and Mark Lipson B. and Lonis Liverman Glen Miya and Steven Llanusa Ms. Gloria Lothrop Vicki and Kerry McCluggage Diane and Leon Morton Mary Pickford Foundation Sally and Frank Raab Malcolm Schneer and Cathy Liu David and Linda Shaheen Foundation William E.B. and Laura K. Siart Magda and Frederick R. Waingrow Wasserman Foundation Robert Wood Syham Yohanna & James W. Manns
$25,000 TO $99,999 Marie Baier Foundation Dr. Richard Bardowell, MD Jacqueline Briskin Dona Burrell Ann and Tony Cannon Dee and Robert E. Cody The Colburn Fund Mr. Allen Don Cornelsen Ginny and John Cushman Marilyn J. Dale Mrs. Barbara A. Davis Dr. and Mrs. Roger DeBard Jennifer and Royce Diener Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner The Englekirk Family Claudia and Mark Foster Lillian and Stephen Frank Dr. Suzanne Gemmell Paul and Florence Glaser Good Works Foundation Anne Heineman Ann and Jean Horton Drs. Judith and Herbert Hyman Albert E. and Nancy C. Jenkins Robert Jesberg and Michael J. Carmody Stephen A. Kanter, MD Ms. Ann L. Kligman Sandra Krause and William Fitzgerald Michael and Emily Laskin Sarah and Ira R. Manson Carole McCormac
Meitus Marital Trust Sharyl and Rafael Mendez, MD John Millard National Endowment for the Arts Alfred and Arlene Noreen Ms. Rosanne O’Brien Occidental Petroleum Corporation Dr. M. Lee Pearce Lois Rosen Anne and James Rothenberg Donald Tracy Rumford Family Trust The SahanDaywi Foundation Mrs. Nancie Schneider William and Luiginia Sheridan Virginia Skinner Living Trust Nancy and Richard Spelke Mary H. Statham Ms. Fran H. Tuchman Rhio H. Weir Jean Willingham Winnick Family Foundation Cheryl and Peter Ziegler Lynn and Roger Zino
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC MUSICIANS Anonymous Kenneth Bonebrake Nancy and Martin Chalifour Brian Drake Perry Dreiman Barry Gold Christopher Hanulik Jory and Selina Herman Ingrid Hutman Gloria Lum Joanne Pearce Martin Kazue Asawa McGregor Oscar and Diane Meza Mitchell Newman Peter RofĂŠ Meredith Snow and Mark Zimoski Barry Socher Paul Stein Leticia Oaks Strong Lyndon and Beth Johnston Taylor Dennis Trembly Allison and Jim Wilt Suli Xue We extend our heartfelt appreciation to the many donors who have contributed to the LA Phil Endowment with contributions below $25,000, whose names are too numerous to list due to space considerations. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Development Office at 213 972 0757. Thank you.
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT GIFTS
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ANNUAL DONORS
We are honored to recognize corporate, foundation and government donors who generously support the mission of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association: to perform, present and promote music in its many varied forms at the highest level of excellence to a large and diverse audience. We are deeply grateful for the following contributions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl, received between May 2018 and May 13, 2019.
$1,000,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous Andy & Bill Concerts, LLP
Live Nation-Hewitt Silva Concerts, LLC
Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Maestro Fund
Acura
American Airlines, Inc.
$250,000 TO $499,999 Colburn Foundation County of Los Angeles The Walt and Lilly Disney Foundation Max H. Gluck Foundation
Living Legacy Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts
Rolex The Rose Hills Foundation Target Corporation
$100,000 TO $249,999 Amgen Foundation Anheuser-Busch The Walt Disney Company The Eisner Foundation
Heineken Lyft Pepsi Rosenthal Family Foundation
Viking Cruises Wells Fargo Foundation Winc
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs The Music Man Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts Transit Systems Unlimited Inc. Zevia
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation The Green Foundation Harman Family Foundation Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc. Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc.
The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of California Ross Endowment Fund Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
Foundation HSBC Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Pacific Harmony Foundation
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. The Specialty Family Foundation James C. Stewart Charitable Foundation
$50,000 TO $99,999 The José Iturbi Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission
$25,000 TO $49,999 Anonymous The Herb Alpert Foundation Bank of America Cooper Tires Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
$10,000 TO $24,999 Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Ameriprise Financial California Arts Council Julia Stearns Dockweiler Charitable Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable
$1,000,000 AND ABOVE
$50,000 TO $99,999
Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation
Anonymous Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen David Bohnett Foundation Business and Professional Committee Kevin G. Clifford Dan Clivner and Steven Cochran Nancy and Donald de Brier Jerrold L. Eberhardt Retha Evans and Douglas Diener Mr. Lawrence N. Field Mr. and Mrs. Josh Friedman Kiki and David I. Gindler Alexandra S. Glickman and Gayle Whittemore Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund Renée and Paul Haas Mr. and Ms. Enrique Hernandez, Jr. Yvonne Hessler Ms. Teena Hostovich and Mr. Doug Martinet Monique and Jonathan Kagan Linda and Donald Kaplan Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Terri and Jerry M. Kohl Dr. Ralph A. Korpman Charlotte and Thomas Lane Linda May and Jack Suzar Barbara and Buzz McCoy Mr. and Mrs. David Meline Maureen and Stanley Moore Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation Ms. Rosanne O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Jason O’Leary Joe and Lorena Plascenia Sandy and Barry D. Pressman Nancy S. and Barry Sanders Ken & Carol Schultz Foundation David and Linda Shaheen Gunjit S. Sikand Marilyn and Eugene Stein Christian Stracke The Ronald and Valerie Sugar Family Fund Ticketmaster Corporation
$500,000 TO $999,999 Dunard Fund USA Music Center Foundation
$500,000 TO $999,999 Anonymous
The LA Phil is pleased to recognize and thank donors to our Annual Fund. The following list includes donors who have contributed $2,000 or more to the Annual Fund and Special Events between May 2018 and May 13, 2019. The LA Phil gratefully acknowledges Al Mann’s leadership gift of $10 million to make possible the Alfred E. Mann Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Administrative Building.
$200,000 TO $499,999 The Blue Ribbon Dunard Fund USA Louise and Brad Edgerton / Edgerton Foundation Jenny Miller Goff Kaiser Permanente Barbara and Jay Rasulo Rolex Watch USA, Inc. Ann and Robert Ronus Deanie and Jay Stein $100,000 TO $199,999 Anonymous (3) Mr. Robert J. Abernethy Ms. Wallis Annenberg Lynn A. Booth Ms. Mari L. Danihel Jane B. and Michael D. Eisner Ms. Lisa Field Gother Family Trust Tylie Jones Ms. Sarah H. Ketterer Anne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky M. David and Diane Paul Peninsula Committee James and Laura Rosenwald / Orinoco Foundation Tom Safran Eric Small and Dorothy Waugh Eva and Marc Stern Wells Family Charitable Foundation Ms. Marilyn Ziering
Sue Tsao Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Unterman Wells Fargo John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation Alyce de Roulet Williamson Margo and Irwin Winkler Ellen and Arnold Zetcher $25,000 TO $49,999 Anonymous (5) Mr. Gregory A. Adams Dr. and Mrs. Keith L. Agre Andy & Bill Concerts, LLP Ms. Kate Angelo and Francois Mobasser Debra and Benjamin Ansell Samuel and Erin Biggs Adele and Gordon M. Binder Mr. and Mrs. Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Robert and Joan Blackman Family Foundation Linda and Maynard Brittan Oleg and Tatiana Butenko California Community Foundation The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Mara and Joseph Carieri Esther S. M. Chui Chao Dr. R. Martin Chavez and Mr. Adam Norbury Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Chernick Chevron Products Company Sarah and Roger Chrisman City National Bank James and Paula Coburn Foundation Mr. Richard W. Colburn Committee of Professional Women Becca and Jonathan Congdon Mr. and Mrs. Jim Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook Donelle Dadigan Lynette and Michael C. Davis Orna and David Delrahim The Walt Disney Company Elizabeth and Kenneth M. Doran East West Bank Mrs. Danielle Erem Ms. Nancy Ferguson Josep Ferran Foothill Philharmonic Committee Liz and Peter Goulds Linda Griego Dwight Hare and Stephanie Bergsma Mr. Philip Hettema Mrs. Karen Hillenburg Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hurt Jo Ann and Charles Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. Joshua R. Kaplan Terri and Michael Kaplan Mr. Eric Kaufman Paul Kester Vicki King Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Klee Ms. Ann L. Kligman Kent Kresa Bob and Pamela Krupka Mr. Isaac Larian Ken Lemberger and Linda Sasson Ms. Agnes Lew Sheila and Ronald Litzinger Long Beach Auxiliary Renee and Meyer Luskin Roger Lustberg and Cheryl Petersen The Seth MacFarlane Foundation Matt Construction Corporation Liliane Quon McCain Ashley McCarthy and Bret Barker Ms. Kim McCarthy and Ben Cheng Janis B. McEldowney Kelly Sutherlin McLeod and Steven B. McLeod Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation Ms. Joanna Miller Deena and Edward Nahmias Shelby Notkin and Teresita Tinajero Jayne Parker & Beckie Yon Ms. Linda L. Pierce Michele Rauch Wendy and Ken Ruby Katy and Michael S. Saei Mr. Lee C. Samson Ellen and Richard Sandler Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting SEI Institutional Group Randy and Susan Snyder Mrs. Faith F. Strong Michael Frazier Thompson Tee Vo and Chester Wang Debra and John Warfel Mindy and David Weiner John and Samantha Williams Libby Wilson, MD $15,000 TO $24,999 Anonymous (5) Drew and Susan Adams Honorable and Mrs. Richard Adler Antonieta Arango, In memory of Javier Arango The Aversano Family Trust Lorrie and Dan Baldwin Ms. Elizabeth Barbatelli
Judy and Leigh Bardugo Frank E. Baxter Dr. William Benbassat Miles and Joni Benickes Mr. and Mrs. Adam Berger Barbara and Scott Bice Mr. Jay Borzi Kawanna and Jay Brown Campagna Family Trust Ms. Nancy Carson and Mr. Chris Tobin Par and Sharon Chadha Andrea Chao-Kharma and Ken Kharma Mr. Pei-yuan Chia and Ms. Katherine Shen Chivaroli and Associates Christy Smith For Assembly 2020 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Cookler Lynette and Michael C. Davis Jennifer Diener Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Dr. and Mrs. William M. Duxler Ms. Robin Eisenman and Mr. Maurice LaMarche Geoff Emery Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation Daniel and Maryann Fong Joan Friedman, PhD and Robert N. Braun, MD Gary and Cindy Frischling Ms. Bonnie Corwin Fuller Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr. Dr. Hilary Garland Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Glassman Harriett and Richard E. Gold Carol Goldsmith Mr. and Mrs. Abner D. Goldstine Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley Goodman Family Foundation Robert and Lori Goodman The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Gottlieb Diane and Peter H. Gray Mr. Bill Grubman Vicken and Susan J. Haleblian Dr. Diane J. Henderson Carol and Warner Henry Marion and Tod Hindin Fritz Hoelscher Mr. Raymond W. Holdsworth Dr. Louise Horvitz and Carrie Fishman Edward Indvik International Committee Robin and Gary Jacobs Meg and Bahram Jalali Mr. Eugene Kapaloski Tobe and Greg Karns
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ANNUAL DONORS
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kasirer Ms. Nancy Katayama Gerald L. Katell Sandi and Kevin Kayse Mr. Mark Kim and Ms. Jeehyun Lee Elaine Kohn and Berndt Lohr-Schmidt Lisa and Larry Kohorn Carol Krause Allyn and Jeffrey L. Levine Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Saul Levine Anita Lorber Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates The Luppe and Paula Luppen Family Foundation Theresa Macellaro / The Macellaro Law Firm Raulee Marcus Dwayne and Eileen McKenzie Dr. Richard N. Merkin Lisa and Willem Mesdag Mr. Jack Miller Marcy Miller Joel and Joanne Mogy Mr. John Monahan Ms. Christine Muller and Mr. John Swanson Mr. and Mrs. Dan Napier Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation Ana Paludi and Michael Lebovitz Catherine Partridge Mr. Soham Patel and Ms. Jennifer Broder Gregory Pickert and Beth Price Lyle and Lisi Poncher Mr. Michael Poole Ms. Brigitte Poublon and Mr. Robert Sherman Household Ms. Carol Price Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ramer Cathleen and Scott Richland Ms. Anne Rimer John Peter Robinson and Denise Hudson Jennifer and Evan Rosenfeld Linda and Tony Rubin The SahanDaywi Foundation Ron and Melissa Sanders Dena and Irv Schechter / The Hyman Levine Family Foundation: L’DOR V’DOR Dr. and Mrs. Heinrich Schelbert
Evy and Fred Scholder Family Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Seidel Marc Seltzer and Christina Snyder Dr. Chester Semel Mr. James J. Sepe Elliott Sernel and Larry Falconio Jill and Neil Sheffield Walter H. Shepard and Arthur A. Scangas Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Sherwood Grady and Shelley Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sondheimer G. Gabrielle Starr Mr. Lev Spiro and Ms. Melissa Rosenberg Stein Family Fund - Judie Stein Lisa and Wayne Stelmar Mr. Thomas S. Strickler Priscilla and Curtis S. Tamkin Tracey and Stanley Tatkin Mr. Avedis Tavitian Elinor and Rubin Turner Noralisa Villarreal and John Matthew Trott Liza Vismanos Warner Bros. Mr. Kirk Wickstrom and Mrs. Shannon Hearst Wickstrom Ms. Olivia Wolfe Mahvash and Farrok Yazdi Ying Cai & Wann S. Lee Foundation Karl and Dian Zeile Bobbi and Walter Zifkin David Zuckerman and Ellie Kanner $10,000 TO $14,999 Anonymous (5) Julie Andrews Ms. Judy Hart Angelo Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Mrs. Margaret C. Barry Susan Baumgarten Mr. and Mrs. Phil Becker Ms. Sondra Behrens Phyllis and Sandy Beim Mr. Mark Benjamin Suzette and Monroe Berkman Mr. Edward Blume III David Bohnett Foundation Roz and Peter Bonerz Joan N. Borinstein Mr. Greg Borrud Brass Ring Foundation ANNUAL DONORS CONTINUED →
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ANNUAL DONORS
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bristing Lyn and Frank Campbell Fanya Carter, PhD Dr. Kirk Y. Chang Chubb Jay and Nadege Conger Zoe Cosgrove Dr. and Mrs. Aurelio de la Vega Victoria Seaver Dean, Patrick Seaver, Carlton Seaver Doug Dohring - Age of Learning, Inc. Julie and Stan Dorobek Mr. and Mrs. Larry Duitsman Edward A. And Ai O. Shay Family Foundation Dr. Paul and Patti Eisenberg Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellis Bob and Mary Estrin Mr. Marshall Ezralow Bonnie and Ronald Fein Mr. Tommy Finkelstein and Mr. Dan Chang Mr. Thomas Ford Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Forst Drs. Harold and Gloria Frankl Dr. and Mrs. David Fung Mr. Arthur J. Gallagher Berta and Frank Gehry Mr. James Gleason Robert Glicksteen Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Gonda Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gouw Ms. Lynn Gretkowski Tricia and Richard Grey Beverly and Felix Grossman Mr. William Hair Dr. and Mrs. Alan M. Heilpern Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Helford and Family Liz Levitt Hirsch Shelby and Jason Istrin Kristi Jackson and William Newby Dr. William B. Jones Anne and Michael Keating Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Keller Richard and Lauren King Jill Kirshner Naomi and Fred Kurata Tom Lallas and Sandy Milo Ms. Karen Sue Lavin Ms. Marlene Leitner Dr. Stuart Levine and Dr. Donna Richey Mr. and Mrs. Simon K.C. Li Maria and Matthew Lichtenberg Sandra Cumings Malamed and Kenneth D. Malamed Maurice Marciano Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Maron Mr. Michael Martinet Pamela Mass Jonathan and Delia Matz David and Margaret Mgrublian Cynthia Miscikowski Marc and Jessica Mitchell Ms. Susan Morad at Worldwide Integrated Resources, Inc. Wendy Stark Morrissey Ms. Kari Nakama NBC Universal Anthony and Olivia Neece Dick and Chris Newman / C & R Newman Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Randy Newman Christine M. Ofiesh Mr. and Mrs. Peter O’Malley Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Porath Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP Lee Ramer David and Lori Rousso Barbara Sadoff, in honor of Armin Sadoff Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Salick Santa Monica-Westside Philharmonic Committee Samantha and Marc Sedaka Dr. Donald Seligman and Dr. Jon Zimmermann Neil Selman and Cynthia Chapman Gloria Sherwood Patricia and Stanley Silver Leah R. Sklar Steven M. Sorenson, MD Catharine and Jeffrey Soros Joe and Suzanne Sposato Mr. Michael L. Stern Mr. Jon Vein and Mrs. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn Wagner Ms. Kelly Weinhart-Henry and Ms. Bridgett Henry Westside Committee Mr. John Wileman Susan and Alan Wohl Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zelikow Susan Zolla, In Memory of Edward M. Zolla $5,500 TO $9,999 Anonymous (5) Art and Pat Antin Ms. Judith A. Avery Ms. Mary L. Babbitt Mr. Mustapha Baha Mr. Barry Baker Pamela and Jeffrey Balton Dr. Richard Bardowell, MD
Karen and Jonathan Bass Mr. Barry Beitler Maria and Bill Bell Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bellomy Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bennett Michael and Hedvah Berg Ms. Gail K. Bernstein Helen and Peter S. Bing Joyce and Stanley Black and Family Dr. Andrew C. Blaine and Dr. Leigh Lindsey Mr. Kenneth Blakeley Mr. Ronald H. Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Hal Borthwick Ms. Lynne Brickner Mr. Robert Broadbelt Debra Burdorf Edward Blake Byrne Mr. and Mrs. Tom R. Camp CBS Entertainment Arthur and Katheryn Chinski Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Clements Mr. David Colburn Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Cook Ms. Barbara Cox-Winter Dr. Carey Cullinane Mrs. Nancy A. Cypert Mr. Lawrence Damon and Mr. Ricardo Torres Mr. Cary Davidson Mr. Howard M. Davine Ms. Rosette Delug Ms. Mary Denove The Randee and Ken Devlin Foundation Tim and Neda Disney Victoria Dummer & Brion Allen Anna Sanders Eigler Ms. Annmarie Eldering and Ms. Anne Vandenabeele Mr. and Mrs. Terry Elkins Mrs. Margaret Feder The Franke Family Trust Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Gibbs Leslie and Cliff Gilbert-Lurie The Gillis Family Cindy and Richard Goldman Liz and Peter Goulds Ms. Karen Caffee and Mr. Manuel Grace Lee Graff Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Griffin III Marnie and Dan Gruen Mr. and Mrs. Paul Guerin Dean Hale Ms. Marian L. Hall Ms. Rose Ann Hall Laurie and Chris Harbert Dr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Haveson Mr. Willis Hayes Stephen and Hope Heaney Stephen D. Henry and Rudy M. Oclaray Myrna and Uri Herscher Family Foundation Tina and Ivan Hindshaw
The Hollywood Bowl Committee Roberta and Burt Horwitch Dr. and Mrs. Mel Hoshiko Michele and James Jackoway Mr. and Mrs. Tim C. Johnson Ms. Marcia Jones and Mr. George Arias Randi and Richard B. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Steaven K. Jones, Jr. Eileen and Ken Kaplan Marilee and Fred Karlsen Marty and Cari Kavinoky Patricia Keating and Bruce Hayes Mr. Kent Keller Richard Kelton Remembering Lynn Wheeler Kinikin Cary and Jennifer Kleinman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Kolodny Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Kornwasser Nickie Kubasak Ms. Phyllis Kupferstein and Mr. Donald O. Farkas Mr. Richard W. Labowe Katherine Lance Mr. and Mrs. Keith Landenberger Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Lantz Mr. George Lee Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Lesser Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Levin Lydia and Charles Levy Marie and Edward Lewis Wanda Denson-Low and Ronald Low Mr. and Mrs. Boutie Lucas Mr. Allan Marks and Dr. Mara Cohen Milli M. Martinez and Don Wilson Leslie and Ray Mathiasen Dr. and Mrs. Gene Matzkin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. McCarthy Linda and Sheldon Mehr Robert Mendez, MD Mirta Mesbah Mr. and Mrs. Dana Messina Ms. Marlane Meyer O’Malley and Ann Miller Ms. Julie Milligan Mr. Weston F. Milliken Linda and Kenneth Millman Ms. Carmen Morgan Mr. Brian R. Morrow Ms. Lillian Mueller Mr. Ron Nakagawa Mrs. Cynthia Nelson Mr. Jerold B. Neuman Ms. Josephine Y. W. Ng Irene and Edward Ojdana Ms. Debra Pelton and Mr. Jon Johannessen Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Perttula Glenn Pittson
Robert J. Posek, MD Joyce and David Primes Hon. Vicki Reynolds and Mr. Murray Pepper Dr. Susan F. Rice Murphy and Ed Romano and Family Ms. Rita Rothman Mr. and Mrs. George Royce Dr. Michael Rudolph Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rutter Thomas C. Sadler and Dr. Eila C. Skinner San Marino-Pasadena Philharmonic Committee Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk Mr. and Mrs. William E. B. Siart Mr. Adam Sidy Mr. Douglas H. Smith Dr. Vina Spiehler Lael Stabler and Jerone English Rose and Mark Sturza Mr. David Jan Takata Keith and Cecelia Terasaki Dr. James Thompson and Dr. Diane Birnbaumer Warren B. and Nancy L. Tucker Billie and Richard Udko Charles and Miriam Vogel Mr. and Mrs. Terry Volk Dr. Marlene M. Schultz and Philip M. Walent Mr. Nate Walker Bob and Dorothy Webb Mr. and Mrs. Steven White Mr. Robert E. Willett David and Michele Wilson Mr. Lee Winkelman and Ms. Wendey Stanzler Karen and Rick Wolfen Ms. Shirley Wong Robbi J. Work Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wynne George and Eileen Young Mr. Nabih Youssef Friends of the LA Phil at the $500 level and above are recognized on our website. Please visit laphil.com. If your name has been misspelled or omitted from the list in error, please contact the Development Department at 213 972 0757. Thank you.
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The Music Center 2019–2020 Dance Season
Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra George Balanchine’s Jewels October 24 – 27, 2019
Malpaso Dance Company May 15 – 17, 2020
Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater March 18 – 22, 2020
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company Giselle July 24 – 26, 2020
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Palermo Palermo April 17 – 19, 2020
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