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BOOK BY

CHAZZ PALMINTERI

MUSIC BY

ALAN MENKEN

LYRICS BY

GLENN SLATER

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PERFORMING ARTS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019 | 7:30 P.M. Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS presents

Book by

CHAZZ PALMINTERI

Music by

ALAN MENKEN

Lyrics by

GLENN SLATER

Based on the Play by CHAZZ PALMINTERI with

JEFF BROOKS NICK FRADIANI ALEC NEVIN KAYLA JENERSON STEFANIE LONDINO GEORGE VICKERS V ANTHONY GIANNI TREY MURPHY MARTIN BONVENTRE HALLIE BREVETTI LAUREN CELENTANO TYLER DEMA BRYAN DOUGHERTY ADAM GRABAU MAIRYS JOAQUIN BREIA KELLEY CHRISTOPHER MILES BRETT PEDERSON DANIEL ROSENBAUM BENJAMIN SEARS MARK SIPPEL JOHANNA TAYLOR SHAUN LESLIE THOMAS JOEY TROMBINO DARIUS VINES RHYS WILLIAMS NATHAN WRIGHT

Scenic Design

Costume Design

BEOWULF BORITT Hair and Wig Design

Orchestrations

HOWELL BINKLEY Makeup Design

PAUL HUNTLEY

DOUG BESTERMAN

Lighting Design

WILLIAM IVEY LONG

ANNE FORD-COATES Music Direction

Period Music Consultant

Company Manager

Production Stage Manager

DAVID AARON BROWN

Casting

STEWART/WHITLEY

BRAD HARDER

Sound Design

GARETH OWEN Fight Coordinator

ROBERT WESTLEY Music Coordinator

JOHNNY GALE

MARIAH YOUNG

JOHN MEZZIO Tour Booking, Marketing & Press

BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC

PAUL HARDT Production Manager

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS

Executive Producer

CHARLIE STONE

WALKER WHITE

General Management

GENTRY & ASSOCIATES STEVE VARON

Music Supervision and Arrangements by

RON MELROSE Choreography Recreated by

BRITTANY CONIGATTI Original Choreography by

SERGIO TRUJILLO Tour Direction by

STEPHEN EDLUND Original Direction by

ROBERT DE NIRO AND JERRY ZAKS World Premiere, Paper Mill Playhouse, in Millburn, New Jersey on February 14, 2016 Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director

CAST

(in order of appearance)

DOO-WOP GUYS ............................................................TYLER DEMA, BRETT PEDERSON, RHYS WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN SEARS CALOGERO ............................................................................................................ ALEC NEVIN SONNY ................................................................................................................... JEFF BROOKS YOUNG CALOGERO ........................................................................................TREY MURPHY YOUNG CALOGERO (at some performances) ........................................... ANTHONY GIANNI CARMINE ..........................................................................................................ADAM GRABAU MAN WITH BAT ............................................................................................ RHYS WILLIAMS ROSINA .................................................................................................... STEFANIE LONDINO LORENZO .......................................................................................................... NICK FRADIANI POLICE OFFICER ............................................................................................ADAM GRABAU RUDY THE VOICE ......................................................................................... JOEY TROMBINO EDDIE MUSH ........................................................................................ MARTIN BONVENTRE JOJO THE WHALE ........................................................................................NATHAN WRIGHT FRANKIE COFFEECAKE .................................................................................... MARK SIPPEL TONY 10 TO 2 ........................................................................................ DANIEL ROSENBAUM SALLY SLICK ................................................................................................ RHYS WILLIAMS HANDSOME NICK ...................................................................................... BENJAMIN SEARS CRAZY MARIO ......................................................................................................TYLER DEMA JESSE.................................................................................................................... DARIUS VINES DENISE ......................................................................................................... MAIRYS JOAQUIN TYRONE ....................................................................................................GEORGE VICKERS V JANE ..............................................................................................................KAYLA JENERSON FRIEDA ...............................................................................................................BREIA KELLEY GANG LEADER ...............................................................................................ADAM GRABAU YOUNG LORENZO .....................................................................................BRETT PEDERSON ENSEMBLE ..................................................... MARTIN BONVENTRE, HALLIE BREVETTI, LAUREN CELENTANO, TYLER DEMA, ADAM GRABAU, MAIRYS JOAQUIN, BREIA KELLEY, CHRISTOPHER MILES, BRETT PEDERSON, DANIEL ROSENBAUM, BENJAMIN SEARS, MARK SIPPEL, JOEY TROMBINO, DARIUS VINES, RHYS WILLIAMS, NATHAN WRIGHT SWINGS BRYAN DOUGHERTY, JOHANNA TAYLOR, SHAUN LESLIE THOMAS UNDERSTUDIES For Calogero: TYLER DEMA, BENJAMIN SEARS; for Sonny: ADAM GRABAU, DANIEL ROSENBAUM; for Lorenzo: DANIEL ROSENBAUM, MARK SIPPEL; for Jane: MAIRYS JOAQUIN, BREIA KELLEY; for Rosina: HALLIE BREVETTI, LAUREN CELENTANO; for Tyrone: CHRISTOPHER MILES, DARIUS VINES DANCE CAPTAIN: Bryan Dougherty ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN: Lauren Celentano FIGHT CAPTAIN: Brett Pederson THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. PLACE: The Bronx, New York THE TIME: 1960 and 1968

CAST

JEFF BROOKS

NICK FRADIANI

ALEC NEVIN

KAYLA JENERSON

STEFANIE LONDINO

GEORGE VICKERS V

ANTHONY GIANNI

TREY MURPHY

MARTIN BONVENTRE

HALLIE BREVETTI

LAUREN CELENTANO

TYLER DEMA

BRYAN DOUGHERTY

ADAM GRABAU

MAIRYS JOAQUIN

BREIA KELLEY

CHRISTOPHER MILES

BRETT PEDERSON

DANIEL ROSENBAUM

BENJAMIN SEARS

MARK SIPPEL

JOHANNA TAYLOR

SHAUN LESLIE THOMAS

JOEY TROMBINO

DARIUS VINES

RHYS WILLIAMS

NATHAN WRIGHT

MUSICAL NUMBERS Act One “Belmont Avenue” ..........................................................................................................Calogero and Ensemble “Look to Your Heart”.............................................................................................Lorenzo and Young Calogero “Roll ’Em” .............................................................................................. Sonny, Young Calogero and Ensemble “I Like It” ........................................................................................................... Young Calogero and Ensemble “Giving Back the Money” ........................................................... Lorenzo, Young Calogero, Rosina and Sonny “I Like It” (Reprise) .............................................................. Calogero, Young Calogero, Sonny and Ensemble “Ain’t It the Truth” ................................................... Calogero, Handsome Nick, Crazy Mario and Sally Slick “Out of Your Head” ..............................................................................................Calogero, Jane and Ensemble “Nicky Machiavelli” .................................................................................Sonny, Rudy the Voice, Eddie Mush, Frankie Coffeecake, JoJo the Whale and Tony 10 to 2 “These Streets” ......................................................................................Lorenzo, Sonny, Rosina, and Ensemble Act Two “Webster Avenue” ................................................................. Jane, Calogero, Tyrone, Jesse, Denise and Frieda “Out of Your Head” (Reprise) ...................................................................................................................... Jane “One of the Great Ones” ............................................................................................................................ Sonny “Ain’t It the Truth” (Reprise) ...................................................................................................Tyrone and Jesse “Look to Your Heart” (Reprise)................................................................................................................. Rosina “One of the Great Ones” (Reprise) ........................................................................................................Calogero “Hurt Someone” ............................................................................................................................ The Company “In a World Like This” ..........................................................................................Calogero, Jane and Ensemble “The Choices We Make” .............................................................................................................. The Company ORCHESTRA Conductor/Keyboards: David Aaron Brown Associate Conductor/Keyboards: Gianfranco Tio Assistant Conductor/Keyboards: Jason Bell Woodwinds: Todd Barnhart, Andrew Spencer-Bell; Trumpet/Flugel: Jesse Klirsfeld; Trombone: Brian Morgan; Guitar: Peter Serravalle; Drums: Andrew Gillum; Acoustic and Electric Bass: Michael Beeck Keyboard Programmer: Randy Cohen Music Coordinator: John Mezzio

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JEFF BROOKS (Sonny). National tours: Bullets over Broadway (Cheech), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Gaston), Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music (Admiral), Fiddler on the Roof (Constable). Other credits include: Carousel (Billy), Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Prince), Chicago (Billy Flynn). Jeff is a proud graduate of SUNY Cortland and wouldn’t be here without the support of his family and everyone at ATB. NICK FRADIANI (Lorenzo). Fans fell for Nick as he soared through American Idol, claiming the champion title in 2015, followed by his debut solo project, Hurricane, EP Where We Left Off and his most recent single, “Empire.” Now Nick begins a new journey into musical theater, with his national tour debut. Thanks to his father, mother, sister, family and friends for their never ending love and support. @nickfradiani ALEC NEVIN (Calogero). NY/Regional: Mamma Mia! (New Bedford Festival Theatre), Two Tickets to Paradise: The Eddie Money Musical (Eddie Money Productions), Gaybraham Lincoln: The Musical (NYTF), RENT (Clear Space Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Cider Mill Playhouse). Thank you to my reps, family, friends and this amazing cast and crew for their unconditional love and support. @alecnevin KAYLA JENERSON (Jane) is thrilled to join A Bronx Tale! National tours: Motown The Musical (Diana Ross cover/Mary Wells), Legally Blonde (Pilar). Selected regional: West Side Story, JC Superstar, A Chorus Line, Violet. Proud graduate of UW-Madison. Thank you to Stewart/ Whitley Casting and NETworks for believing in me. Infinite love and thanks to my three ever supportive parents. @kaylajenerson STEFANIE LONDINO (Rosina). OffBroadway: The Mayor of Williamsburg (HERE Arts Center), What Do Critics Know? (The York Theater), Flak House (Actors Temple Theater), Red Wine in Paper Cups (TheaterNOW). Select regional credits: Pioneer Theater Company (Romeo & Juliet), Playhouse On Park (My Name Is Asher Lev), Salt Lake Acting Company (Master Class), Cortland Repertory Company (Women In Jeopardy, S.A.L.T. nominee). B.F.A. University of Utah. westsidewaltz.com GEORGE VICKERS V (Tyrone) is pumped to be joining the cast of A Bronx Tale! Select regional: Shrek the Musical (Donkey), The Little Mermaid (Sebastian), Hairspray (Seaweed). A Pebblebrook Star Clapper and a Penn State Nittany Lion! He most recently spent a year performing at Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan. George would like to thank his family and friends for their unconditional love and support. ANTHONY GIANNI (Young Calogero) has been singing, dancing and acting since he was 5

years old and is thrilled to be making his national tour debut in A Bronx Tale. Special thanks to the ABT family, Take 3 Talent, Karen Lampiasi/LTM, Mom, Dad, grandparents and to all my coaches/ teachers. @anthonygiannicipolla

TREY MURPHY (Young Calogero) had his professional debut in 2018 at the Alhambra Theatre as Jeremy Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Michael Hobbs in Elf The Musical. He played Colin Craven in The Virginia Stage Company’s 30th Anniversary production of The Secret Garden and made his first feature film debut this year. Love and thanks to God, family, friends, Seven Stars Talent Agency and Providence school for all their support! MARTIN BONVENTRE (Ensemble, Eddie Mush). Credits: A Streetcar Named Desire, Annie, Sister Act, Ragtime, Zorba, A Chorus Line, Grease, The Music Man. Essential Voices USA. Graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). HALLIE BREVETTI (Ensemble). OffBroadway: Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas. Regional: The Drowsy Chaperone, Goodspeed Opera House; The Winter’s Tale, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse; Oklahoma!, The Who’s Tommy, Berkshire Theatre Group; State Fair, Legally Blonde, Shout!, Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun. Emerson College, B.F.A. Musical Theatre. Thanks to The Roster. For Nana. halliebrevetti.com. LAUREN CELENTANO (Ensemble, Assistant Dance Captain). National tour debut! Lauren won the dance category and Critics Choice award on Italy’s national talent competition TV show, Amici. Thanks to the Bronx Tale team, her family, Vocal Productions, Janet and the DU crew and Movement Talent Agency. Evviva! laurencelentanoofficial.com @laurenncelentano TYLER DEMA (Ensemble, Crazy Mario). National tour debut! Select credits: A Chorus Line (Paul), Newsies (Davey), Twelfth Night (Duke Orsino), West Side Story (Action), Legally Blonde (Carlos/ u/s Emmett). B.F.A. Elon University. Love and thanks to family, MT’19, HCKR, Stewart-Whitley, and the Bronx Tale team! For Grandma Carol. tylerdema.com @tyler_dema BRYAN DOUGHERTY (Swing, Dance Captain). Regional: Newsies, Mamma Mia! (TBTS); Forever Plaid (Palace Theater); West Side Story (Mill Mountain, STONC). Bryan is originally from Connecticut. B.A. Muhlenberg College. Thanks to Ron, Steve and Marc! @Bry.do ADAM GRABAU (Ensemble, Carmine). National tours: Camelot (Arthur), Spamalot (Lancelot). Regional: Oklahoma (Jud), The Producers (Franz), Les Miz (Grantaire), Wizard (Tin Man), Little Shop (Orin), Noises Off (Lloyd),

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Beauty and the Beast (Gaston). Love to God, family, friends and wife Katherine. adamgrabau. com MAIRYS JOAQUIN (Ensemble, Denise). National tour debut. Credits: Aida, The Mercy Seat, Barcode, Hairspray, The Schoolhouse Rock and Joseph…Dreamcoat. B.A. in Journalism, Penn State University and M.S. in Special Education, CUNY Hunter College. Love and gratitude to her husband Nick, her parents, her friends and Robert Graham at Baker Management! @mairys BREIA KELLEY (Ensemble, Freida). National tour debut! Breia is from Durham, N.C., and is a recent graduate of Elon University where she received a B.F.A. in Music Theatre. Thanks to God, her family and friends, Elon faculty and staff, Stewart/Whitley and HCKR. @breia.joelle CHRISTOPHER MILES (Ensemble, Partial Swing) National tour debut. Graduate from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, N.Y. Recent credit: Spring Awakening (Ernst), Boundless Theater. Television: Thou Shalt Not. Many thanks to the entire team of A Bronx Tale, and my friends and family. BRETT PEDERSON (Ensemble) is very excited to join A Bronx Tale! Recent credits: Beauty and the Beast (Paper Mill Playhouse), Newsies, Saturday Night Fever (Theatre by the Sea), NOËL the Musical (tour). Many thanks to family and friends. @bspdance17 DANIEL ROSENBAUM (Ensemble, Tony 10 to 2). Tours: Rent (Roger), Aida (Radames and Zoser standby), Miss Saigon (Ensemble). OffBroadway: Medicine The Musical (Prof. Crutch), Baby Fat: A Punk-Rock Opera (Stompanato). All thanks to God, Mom, friends, fam and GBM! <3 BENJAMIN SEARS (Ensemble, Handsome Nick). Goodspeed: The Music Man (Ensemble, Tommy u/s). Forestburgh Playhouse: Kiss Me, Kate!; (Bill Calhoun); Newsies (Race, Jack Kelly u/s); Crazy for You (Sam). The Lex: West Side Story (Snowboy, Action u/s). Love to Dad, Brian, May, Kate, Emily and Abigail. @benjamin_sears MARK SIPPEL (Ensemble, Frankie Coffeecake) moved to New York from Sydney, Australia in 2019. National tour debut! Credits include Saturday Night Fever, Into The Woods, A New Brain, The Farnsworth Invention, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus. Thanks to Stewart/Whitley and the Bronx Tale team for this opportunity! @marksippel JOHANNA TAYLOR (Swing). National tour debut! Regional: Annie, The Wiz. B.F.A. Dance, University at Buffalo. Thanks to the creative team and Stewart/Whitley for this opportunity and to my family and friends for your love and encouragement. For Mom and Harrison. @johannaktaylor

SHAUN LESLIE THOMAS (Swing). Credits: Rock of Ages, Shiprocked tour. Off-Broadway in Shame of Thrones: the Musical Parody, national/ international tour of Sister Act. Shaun used to wrestle alligators for a living. Special thanks to the Ruths, WolfKlains, Rylan, Pebbles and Melissa! @therealshaunanagans JOEY TROMBINO (Ensemble, Rudy the Voice). National tour debut! Infinite Hotel, Tenors of Rock, Rock of Ages (NCL), The Voice. Recorded with bands such as The Great Apes and Urban Sun, appeared on SNL, iPOD campaigns and worked with artists like Beyoncé and Ricky Martin. Thanks to his amazing family! @ joetrombino DARIUS VINES (Ensemble, Jesse). National tour debut! Previous credits: In the Heights (Cohoes Music Hall), Big River (The Barnstormers Theatre) and I Write the Songs (Boynton Beach Theatre). B.F.A., Howard University. Thank you, creative team, Stewart/Whitley and Gregg Baker Mgmt. for the opportunity! @mrdvines2u RHYS WILLIAMS (Ensemble, Sally Slick). National tour debut! Regional: West Side Story (Tony), Joseph...Dreamcoat, Tibbits Opera House; The Sound of Music, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Million Dollar Quartet, Infinity Theatre Co. TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Power. Education: Emerson College. @rhyswilliamsnyc NATHAN WRIGHT (Ensemble, Jojo the Whale). Favorite credits: Man in Chair (The Drowsy Chaperone), Lippo Fiorentino (Street Scene), Archibald Craven (The Secret Garden). Nathan also serves as the tenor section leader at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC. Thank you Abby, and Mom and Dad, for everything. CHAZZ PALMINTERI (Book) wrote and performed his one-man show, A Bronx Tale, for the first time in 1989 before moving it offBroadway. Mr. Palminteri went on to write the screenplay and co-star in the screen adaptation of A Bronx Tale alongside Robert De Niro. Mr. Palminteri has more than 55 movies to his credit as an actor, writer and director, including The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway (Academy Award nomination), Analyze This, Hurlyburly, Mullholland Falls, Faithful (also written by Mr. Palminteri), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Yonkers Joe, Jolene, and, most recently, Legend, starring Tom Hardy. Mr. Palminteri had a recurring role on the hit show Modern Family and has starred in Blue Bloods. Mr. Palminteri directed the HBO series Oz (episode Unnatural Disasters), Showtime’s Women vs. Men, and the feature film Noel, starring Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker and Robin Williams. ALAN MENKEN (Music) composed the stage and film musicals Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Newsies,

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Aladdin and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Mr. Menken’s other stage musicals include God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; A Christmas Carol; Sister Act and Leap of Faith. Mr. Menken’s film musicals also include Life With Mikey, Pocahontas, Hercules, The Shaggy Dog, Enchanted, Tangled and Mirror, Mirror. Some of Mr. Menken’s television credits include Galavant, The Neighbors, Lincoln, Sesame Street and more. Mr. Menken won eight Oscar Awards, 11 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year), seven Golden Globe Awards, a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, a New York Drama Critics Award, a London Evening Standard Theatre Award, induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has performed internationally, live in concert at Budokan, Hollywood Bowl, Tuacahn, the Segerstrom Center, Osaka-Jo, Anaheim Convention Center, Brigham Young University, Chicago Auditorium, etc. Some of Mr. Menken’s other awards and honors include Billboard’s #1 single and album, Disney Legend, and honorary doctorates from NYU and the North Carolina School of the Arts. GLENN SLATER (Lyrics) is a three-time Tony nominee for the international hit musicals The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, School of Rock, and a co-creator of Disney’s worldwide smash Tangled (Grammy winner, Oscar and Golden Globe noms). With frequent collaborator Alan Menken, he wrote the songs for ABC-TV’s cult series Galavant (Emmy nominee) and the Disney Channel’s Tangled: The Series; as well as the animated comedy Sausage Party, Disney’s Home On The Range, and Broadway musicals Leap of Faith and A Bronx Tale. Glenn also provided the book and lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, which is currently touring the globe after its West End premiere. Most recently, Glenn penned the book for Beatsville (with composer/lyricist/wife Wendy Wilf), which debuted at Sarasota’s Asolo Rep. Glenn lives in NYC, and is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. ROBERT DE NIRO (Original Director), considered one of America’s greatest actors, won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather: Part II and the 1980 Academy Award for Best Actor for Raging Bull. He received Academy Award nominations for Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Cape Fear and Silver Linings Playbook. De Niro is a fourtime New York Film Critics Circle Award winner in addition to winning the 1981 Golden Globe Award for Raging Bull. A recipient of the 2011 Cecil B. DeMille Award and the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors, he was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. De Niro made his film directorial debut in 1993 with A Bronx Tale and in 2006 directed The Good Shepherd.

JERRY ZAKS (Original Director) was most recently represented on Broadway by Hello, Dolly!; A Bronx Tale: the Musical; and Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower. Mr. Zaks has directed more than 30 productions in New York. He has received four Tony Awards and been nominated eight times. He’s also received four Drama Desks, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and an Obie. His credits include Nantucket Sleigh Ride, Shows For Days, Sister Act, The Addams Family, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, House of Blue Leaves, The Front Page, A Funny Thing…Forum, Smokey Joe’s Café, Anything Goes, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Foreigner, A Bronx Tale, Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the original production of Assassins. He began his career directing the extraordinary plays of Christopher Durang including Sister Mary Ignatius..., Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater and The Marriage of Bette and Boo. He directed the award-winning film Marvin’s Room, starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton; and Who Do You Love, which was featured in the Toronto Film Festival. Mr. Zaks is a founding member, and serves on the board of the Ensemble Studio Theater. He received the SDC’s George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1967, received an M.F.A. from Smith College in 1969, and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. He is a 2013 inductee to the Theatre Hall of Fame. STEPHEN EDLUND (Tour Director). Credits: Hello, Dolly! (Broadway, National tour); Meteor Shower (Broadway); A Bronx Tale (Broadway, Paper Mill Playhouse); Sister Act (Broadway, National tour); Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center Theater); Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theater); Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels (Center Theatre Group) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Center Theatre Group). Love to Mom, Dad and David. SERGIO TRUJILLO (Choreographer) is the recipient of a Tony Award for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations and an Olivier Award for Memphis the Musical. Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud (Tony Award/Outer Critics Circle/Chita Rivera nominations), On Your Feet (Tony Award nominee, Outer Critics Circle/ Astaire Awards), Memphis (Olivier/OCC Award, Drama Desk/Astaire Award nominations), Jersey Boys (Olivier/Drama Desk/OCC/Greenroom/ Dora nominations), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Chita Rivera Award), A Bronx Tale (Chita Rivera Award nomination), The Addams Family, Next to Normal, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of Faith (Drama Desk nomination), Guys and Dolls (Astaire Awards nomination) and All Shook Up. Director/ Choreographer: Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour (Stage Entertainment), Arrabal (ART—Elliot

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Norton Award), Gloria Estefan on Broadway (Minskoff Theatre), Flashdance: The Musical (National tour). Other theatre: Invisible Thread (Second Stage – Astaire Award nomination), Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Musical (Olney Theatre—Helen Hayes Award nomination), Freaky Friday (Signature Theatre) and The Wiz (La Jolla Playhouse). International credits: Disney’s Tarzan (Stage Entertainment), Peggy Sue Got Married (West End), West Side Story (Stratford Festival). BRITTANY CONIGATTI (Tour Choreographer). Broadway: The Prom, A Bronx Tale (OBC, Dance Captain). Tours: A Bronx Tale (First National, Assistant Choreographer), Matilda (First National, Original Cast), Matilda (Toronto), Rock of Ages (NCL, Dance Captain); Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Proud graduate of LaGuardia Arts HS (Dance major), AMDA (Integrated major), and The New School (B.F.A. Musical Theatre). Thanks to Sergio, Bloc and family! For you, Dad. @brittconigatti RON MELROSE (Music Supervisor/ Arrangements). Forty-three years of arranging, music direction and supervision, including 18 Broadway shows and productions spanning the world. Winner of a Helpmann Award (Australia’s Tony) for music direction on Jersey Boys, music supervisor of Jersey Boys film, associate producer of Jersey Boys cast and Christmas albums. As a composer: Fortune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), The Missing Peace (Washington’s Capitol Fringe), Early One Morning (liturgical one-woman musical), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows, a gospel-based Requiem, songs for Saturday Night Live and the novelty single Disco Clone. Education: Harvard (Philosophy), Westminster (Choral Conducting). Now Californian. Thanks and love to Alexandra and Jake. BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Design). Broadway: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), Thérèse Raquin (Tony nomination), Hand to God, On the Town, Sondheim on Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace, The Two and Only. OffBroadway: One hundred shows including The Toxic Avenger, The Last Five Years, Miss Julie and many shows at the Belmont Italian American Playhouse in the Bronx. Other designs: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet) and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He received a 2007 Obie Award for sustained excellence. WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume Design). Current Broadway: Chicago, now in its twentieth year! Other Broadway credits include On the Twentieth Century, Cabaret (2014 and 1998 revivals), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella,

The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Pal Joey, Grey Gardens, The Producers, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Boy From Oz, Hairspray, Contact, The Music Man, Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Nine. Mr. Long has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards, winning six times. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2005, and recently served a four-year term as chairman of the American Theatre Wing. www.williamiveylong.com HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design). Broadway: Hamilton (2016 Tony winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed… starring Daniel Radcliffe (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). Also the Joffrey Ballet’s Billboards, co-founder and resident lighting designer for Parsons Dance. Proud recipient of the 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of The Spider Woman; 2006 Henry Hewes Design Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Jersey Boys; 2016 Henry Hewes Design Award for Hamilton. GARETH OWEN (Sound Design) received Olivier Awards for Memphis and Merrily We Roll Along, nominations for Top Hat and End of the Rainbow. Tony nominations for A Little Night Music and End of the Rainbow. Currently: Come From Away on Broadway, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sister Act, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Schikaneder, Mrs. Henderson Presents and Singin’ in the Rain worldwide; Bat Out of Hell, 42nd Street, Strictly Ballroom, Wind in the Willows, In the Heights and Impossible, all in London’s West End. More than 250 other commercial musicals around the world. PAUL HUNTLEY (Hair and Wig Design). London-born Paul Huntley has worked on hundreds of Broadway shows since his 1972 arrival in New York, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Hairspray. A recipient of Drama Desk and Tony Awards, he has also worked with some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange and Scarlett Johansson. ANNE FORD-COATES (Makeup Design). Broadway: On the Twentieth Century, On Your Feet!, Disaster!, It Shoulda Been You. Hair and makeup design: The Wolves (Playwrights); The Sandbox, Drowning and Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre); Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Little Dancer (Kennedy Center); Dog Days (Prototype Festival); Silent Night (Atlanta Opera); new

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National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine Volodymyr Sirenko, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Olga Kern, Piano

———————— Program Symphony in C Major

Maksym Berezovsky

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito Andantino semplice – Prestissimo Allegro con fuoco Olga Kern, Piano

———————— INTERMISSION Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (“Pathétique”)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Adagio – Allegro non troppo Allegro con grazia Allegro molto vivace Finale: Adagio lamentoso

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Program Notes Symphony in C Major Maksym Berezovsky Born October 16, 1745 in Hlukhiv, Ukraine; died March 24, 1777 in St. Petersburg, Russia After training as a singer during his childhood in Ukraine, Maksym Berezovsky became a leading vocal soloist at the imperial court in Saint Petersburg while still a teenager. He was able to study composition there with two Venetian composers who had been lured to Russia by the opera-loving Catherine the Great, and he was later sent to continue his education in Italy, where he became the first known student of East Slavic origins to receive formal music training in Western Europe after he enrolled at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna. While in Italy, Berezovsky became the first composer from his part of the world to write an Italian opera seria, using a warhorse of a libretto by Metastasio. (More than 70 other composers wrote operas using the same text, including Vivaldi and Gluck.) Berezovsky’s Symphony in C Major, also the first from a Ukrainian or Russian, might have originated as the overture to that opera, since it conforms perfectly to the three-part formula for an Italian sinfonia (their term for overture), a forerunner of the Classical symphony in three or four longer movements. Berezovsky was regarded highly enough in Italy that his opera was staged at least twice before he left in 1773, and presumably it was at this time that a copy of the C major symphony/overture ended up in the Vatican archives, where it was only rediscovered in 2002. Sadly, he encountered a much icier reception when he returned to Saint Petersburg, perhaps as a result of the Empress’s bias against Ukrainians and preference for foreign composers, and he is believed to have taken his own life four frustrating years later, at the age of 31.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Born May 7, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia; died November 6, 1893 in St. Petersburg, Russia The piano concerto that Tchaikovsky composed during the winter of 1874-75 was his first work for soloist and orchestra. He was not a virtuoso pianist himself, so he arranged to show the score to Nikolai Rubinstein, the leading conductor and pianist in Moscow and a fellow faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory. Years later, Tchaikovsky summarized Rubinstein’s blunt feedback in a letter: “My concerto, it turned out, was worthless and unplayable.” Tchaikovsky wasn’t always the most self-confident composer, but this time he stood his ground, vowing to “publish the work exactly as it stands.” To secure a first performance, Tchaikovsky went outside Rubinstein’s circle and solicited the famous German conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow, who loved the work and asked for a set of parts that he could take with him on tour. Thus it came to

pass that this landmark Russian concerto first reached the public in Boston, in October of 1875. Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto begins with an audacious introduction, heralded by a four-note horn theme. The piano soloist enters with a majestic series of chords, but that grand gesture actually turns out to be a form of accompaniment to support a soaring melody from the violins. The notable (and sometimes baffling) aspect of this work is that this priceless introductory material never returns. Instead, the fast body of the movement strikes up a melody that Tchaikovsky once heard sung by a blind Ukrainian beggar. The middle movement continues the charming incongruities. It begins with a graceful flute solo over pizzicato accompaniment, flowing at a relaxed tempo marked andantino semplice. Flecks of off-key harmonies prepare the antics of the manic contrasting section, speeding by at a breakneck prestissimo pace and quoting a popular French song. The finale also references outside music, with the bouncy main theme adapted from a Ukrainian folk song.

Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (“Pathétique”) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky In 1892, Tchaikovsky endeavored to write a “grand symphony” and nearly completed one in the key of E-flat before scrapping it that December and redirecting some material to the Third Piano Concerto. He then started fresh in February 1893 with what became the Symphony No. 6 in B Minor. Addressing his nephew, Tchaikovsky explained that “the form of this symphony will have much that is new, and, by the way, the finale will not be a noisy allegro, but, on the contrary, a long, drawn-out adagio.” Tchaikovsky died just nine days after he conducted the premiere of his Sixth Symphony. In that interval, he wrote to his friend and publisher Petr Jurgensen that the symphony “produced some bewilderment” among the audience, and he thought it would help to add the subtitle “Pathétique,” suggested by his brother Modest. That French word—the same descriptor Beethoven applied to his Eighth Piano Sonata—suggests music of deep feeling and pathos, without the stinging connotations of the English word “pathetic.” The second performance, staged weeks later at a memorial service, garnered a very different response: In the wake of the composer’s abrupt and mysterious death at the age of 53, listeners began to project onto the music a tragic personal narrative rife with suicidal overtones, associations that linger to this day. The Sixth Symphony begins ominously, with a slow introduction featuring bassoon and low strings. Their rising and falling motive morphs into the main theme of the movement’s fast body, and later, with the motive’s contours flipped to fall first and then rise to a state of equilibrium, it elongates into the contrasting theme, providing an island of repose within this unsettled movement. The Allegro con grazia second movement features the irregular time signature of 5/4 (five quarter-notes per measure). This “limping waltz” flows with surprising

smoothness and grace considering the irregular meter, attesting to Tchaikovsky’s special knack for dance music that served him so well in his ballets and operas. The third movement spins through a dizzy introduction to reach a jolly march tune that starts in the clarinets, setting a course that culminates in a bombastic conclusion. Had this marked the end of the symphony, it would have put it in a class with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth and Fifth, which both progressed from fateful minor keys to valedictory major keys along the lines of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. But the Sixth Symphony charts a very different path, reaching its emotional crest in a slow and mournful finale. The first poignant chords reestablish the brooding mood from the symphony’s initial introduction, making that link explicit by returning to a texture of bassoon and strings. The melody attempts a long climb into a more optimistic resolution in D major, only to snap back into B minor, and then the low brass instruments intone a mournful knell. One last gasp of the descending melody follows, fading to a whisper from the cellos and basses. It’s no wonder that audiences have clung to the idea that Tchaikovsky was foreshadowing his death with this symphony. He couldn’t have written a more impactful swan song. — Program notes © Aaron Grad, 2019

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The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine Volodymyr Sirenko, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Theodore Kuchar, Conductor Laureate Formed by the Council of Ministers of Ukraine in November of 1918, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is considered one of the finest symphony orchestras in Eastern Europe. Its first conductor was Oleksander Horilyj, and Natan Rachlin was the Artistic Director of the Orchestra from 1937 until 1962. Stefan Turchak, Volodymyr Kozhuchar, Fedir Hlushchenko, Igor Blazhkov, and Theodore Kuchar subsequently conducted the Orchestra as its Principal Conductors. Other conductors who worked with the NSOU include Leopold Stokowski, Igor Markevitch, Kurt Sanderling, Evgeny Mravinsky, Kiril Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov, and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Soloists who performed with the NSOU include Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Gidon Kremer, OlehKrysa, Monserrat Caballe, Jose Carreras, and Juan Diego Flores. The NSOU was entrusted with the premier performances of the works of the following composers: Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khatchaturian, Boris Lyatoshynsky, Valentyn Silvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk, and Evgen Stankovych. The Orchestra has gained international recognition over a remarkably short period of time. After an appearance in Moscow, Dmitri Shostakovich commented: “This orchestra has as distinguished a group of performers as one would be likely to find anywhere. The ensemble of the orchestra is of the highest level. In

addition, the various soloists and instrumental groups within the Orchestra play exceptionally and complement each other beautifully—as would the greatest of the world’s symphony orchestras.” Since 1993, the NSOU has released more than 100 sound recordings that include both Ukrainian and international repertoires. Most of these recordings have received the highest international acclaim. In 1994, the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) rated NSOU’s recording of Boris Lyatoshynsky’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 3 as The Best Recording of the Year. The CD of Silvestrov’s Requiem for Larissa was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. The CD of Bloch and Lees’ Violin Concertos was nominated for a Grammy Award four years later. The NSOU has performed in successful concert tours throughout Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Belarus, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, England, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. “A program rich with energy and unusually adventurous placed the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in a highly favorable light when it gave its only Sydney concert during its Australian tour on Friday. This is an orchestra with many virtues. Its strings can conjure up a vibrant songfulness; the woodwinds have a fruity, penetrating ripeness; the brass could endanger the walls of Jericho; the percussion might wake the dead.” — The Sydney Morning Herald Since April of 1999, Volodymyr Sirenko has been the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the NSOU. Since June of 2006, Alexander Hornostai has been its Managing Director and Producer. www.nsou.com.ua

Volodymyr Sirenko Volodymyr Sirenko was born in the Poltava region of Ukraine. Through his conducting success, he has been compared by the international press to other brilliant conductors. His conducting debut took place at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall in 1983 with works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Boulez. In 1989 Sirenko graduated from the Kyiv Conservatoire where he studied conducting under Prof. Allin Vlasenko. In 1990, he was a finalist at the International Conducting Competition in Prague. A year later, he was appointed as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the

Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra, a position which he held until 1999. During this period he made more than 300 recordings that are kept in the funds of the Ukrainian Radio and include Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 38 and 41, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Brahms’s A German Requiem, Rachmaninov’s Bells, and Dvorak’s Symphonies Nos. 7 and 9. Sirenko is the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine since 1999. Highlights among hundreds of programs that he has performed with the orchestra since then were cycles: Gustav Mahler’s Complete Symphonies, Bach’s four Passions and Mass in B Minor, and Lyatoshynsky’s Complete Symphonies. He recorded more than 50 compact discs and the CD of Silvestrov’s Requiem for Larissa was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. He premiered many works by Ukrainian composers, including Silvestrov’s Symphonies No. 7 and 8, Stankovych’s Symphony No. 6. Sirenko has toured Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. He has worked with many international orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, both Moscow and St. Petersburg’s Philharmonics, Sinfonia Warsovia, NOSPR (Katowice), the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, the Bratislava Radio Symphony, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Russia, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Sirenko has appeared in numerous concert halls around the world, including Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Brucknerhaus (Linz), Barbican Hall and Cadogan Hall (London), Theatre des Champs-Elysées and Opera Comique (Paris), Seoul Art Center, Palau de la Musica in Valencia and Centro Manuel de Falla in Granada, Filharmonia Narodowa (Warsaw), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto), the Tokyo City Opera, and the Osaka Symphony Hall. Volodymyr Sirenko is a People’s Artist of Ukraine and laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, Ukraine’s most prestigious award. He is Professor of opera and symphonic conducting at the National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Olga Kern Pianist Russian-American pianist Olga Kern is now recognized as one of her generation’s great pianists. She jump-started her U.S. career with her historic Gold Medal win at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, as the first woman to do so in more than 30 years. First prize winner of the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition at 17, Ms. Kern is a laureate of many international competitions. In 2016, she served as Jury

Chairman of both the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition and the first Olga Kern International Piano Competition, where she also holds the title of Artistic Director. Ms. Kern frequently gives master classes, and since September 2017, has served on the piano faculty of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. Additionally, Ms. Kern has been chosen as the Virginia Arts Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Connie & Marc Jacobson Director of Chamber Music, beginning with the 2019 season. For the 2019-20 season, Kern will perform with the Allentown Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Photo by Chris Lee Philharmonie, Orquesta de Sao Paulo, and the New West Symphony. She will also appear on United States Tour with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and perform as the guest soloist at the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for Leonard Slatkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 75th Birthday Celebration. She will appear in recitals in Orford, Sunriver, Fort Worth (Cliburn), Carmel, San Francisco, Sicily, and Calvia. This October and November, Olga Kern will be hosting her Second Olga Kern International Piano Competition. This season, she will also be a part of the jury at the following piano competitions: Sydney International Piano Competition, Gurwitz International Piano Competition, Gershwin Piano Competition, Schumann Prize Competition, and the Scriabin International Competition.

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR SIRENKO, CONDUCTOR FIRST VIOLIN

CELLO

HORN

MAKSYM GRINCHENKO,

OLENA IKAIEVA, Principal LILIIA DEMBERG ANDRII ALEKSANDROV TETIANA MIASTKOVSKA VIRA KORNILOVA SERHII VAKULENKO IHOR YARMUS YEVHEN SKRYPKA OLENA DVORSKA NATALIIA SUBBOTINA MARIIA MOHYLEVSKA

ANDRII SHKIL, Principal STEPAN BEBYKH KOSTIANTYN SOKOL VALENTYN MARUKHNO BORYS RUDNIEV YULIIA SHEVCHENKO

Concertmaster

MARKIYAN HUDZIY, Principal, Associate Concertmaster

VITALII LIEONOV, Associate Concertmaster

SVIATOSLAVA SEMCHUK OLENA PUSHKARSKA OLEKSANDRA VASYLIEVA ROMAN POLTAVETS OKSANA KOT OLENA POLTAVETS VALERY KUZIK EVGENIYA SIRENKO BOGDAN KRYSA OLGA MYKHAILIUK OLEG LYTVYNENKO VIKTORIIA TRACH SVITLANA MARKIV KATERYNA KURYSHEVA

SECOND VIOLIN HALYNA HORNOSTAI, Principal VALENTYNA PETRYCHENKO VIKTORIYA GANAPOLSKA ANDRIY MAZKO OLEKSII SECHEN GANNA FEDCHENKO VALENTYNA VOSKRESENSKA ARSENII POLTAVETS GALYNA BILYCH TETIANA NIKONENKO NADIYA NOVIKOVA TETIANA PAVLOVA VASYL BAKALOV OLENA LITOVCHENKO LIUDMYLA GULIEI

VIOLA OLEKSANDR POHORYELOV, Principal

GALYNA NEMECZEK VIKTOR NAVRODSKYI OLEG TRUNOV OREST KRYSA VOLODYMYR PONOMAROV MARIIA LUKASHEVYCH VIRA AMPILOHOVA MAKSYM BAKEIEV OLHA ANDRIIENKO BOGDAN FESIUK

DOUBLE BASS VOLODYMYR GRECHUKH, Principal OLEKSANDR NESHCHADYM OLEKSANDRA CHAIKINA TARAS BUTKO VOLODYMYR KAVESHNIKOV DMYTRO GOLOVACH TARAS PIVNIAK OLEKSANDR YUZVIAK

HARP NATALIIA IZMAILOVA, Principal YAROSLAVAN EKLIAIEVA

KEYBOARD OLENA PROTOPOPOVA

FLUTE MYROSLAVA SIRENKO, Principal IHORY ERMAK MYKOLA MYKYTEI LARYSA PLOTNIKOVA

OBOE HENNADII KOT, Principal YURII LITUN VIKTOR MISHCHENKO

CLARINET YURII NABYTOVYCH, Principal PAVLO BOIKO VIKTOR HORNOSTAI PETRO ZABOLOTNYI

TRUMPET IURII KORNILOV, Principal MYKHAILO HOLOVIN VIKTOR DAVYDENKO DMYTRO KOVALCHUK OLEKSANDRT REHUBOV

TROMBONE ANDRII HOLOVKO, Principal DANYLO SYDOROV RENAT IMAMETDINOV ANDRII ZYMENKO

TUBA OLEKSII LI, Principal OLEKSIY KOBZIST

PERCUSSION DMYTRO ULIANOV, Principal DANYLO SHURYHIN YEVHEN ULIANOV HENNADII KHLOPOTOV STANISLAV ULIANOV OLEG SOKOLOV

MANAGING DIRECTOR OLEKSANDR HORNOSTAI

INSPECTOR GEORGII OROBINSKYI

STAGE MANAGER ELMAR ORRO

BASSOON TARAS OSADCHYI, Principal OLEKSIIY EMELIANOV IHOR NECHESNYI VOLODYMYR ANTOSHYN

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