Moores School Ballet Orchestra & Houston Ballet II/Houston Ballet Academy Performance

MOORES SCHOOL OF MUSIC

KATHRINE G. MCGOVERN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS presents A

NIGHT AT THE BALLET

Moores School Ballet Orchestra

Franz Anton Krager, director of UH orchestras & conductor

Olena Blahulyak, pianist

Houston Ballet II, Houston Ballet Academy

Stanton Welch AM, Artistic Director, Houston Ballet

Claudio Muñoz, Ballet Master

SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 | 7:30 p.m.

Moores Opera House

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Moores School Ballet Orchestra

Franz Anton Krager, conductor

Olena Blahulyak, pianist

PROGRAM

Piano Concerto No 3 in E-Flat Major, Op 75

Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky (Allegro Brillante) (1840-1893)

Olena Blahulyak, pianist

Powerhouse (Rhumba) Perpetuum Mobile for Orchestra Graeme Koehne “Bruiser” (b. 1956)

INTERMISSION

Coppélia Ballet (Act III)

Marche de la cloche

Thème slave varié

Valse des heures

Mazurka

L’aurore

La prière

Danse de fête

La discorde et la guerre

La paix

Galop final

Leó Delibes (1836-1891)

with

Houston Ballet II, Houston Ballet Academy

Stanton Welch AM, Artistic Director, Houston Ballet

Claudio Muñoz, Ballet Master

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PERFORMERS

Moores School Ballet Orchestra

Flutes

Candi Rohn, principal

Katherine Garcia

Taylor Silva

Piccolos

Katherine Garcia, co-principal

Taylor Silva, co-principal

Oboes

Matthew Harms, principal

Madeline Flake

Matthew Glattfelder

Clarinets

Zuly Cárdenas, co-principal

Jhoser Salazar, co-principal

Andrew Wang, co-principal

Bass Clarinet

Adam Jones, principal

Bassoons

Haley Houk, co-principal

Dima Savitski, co-principal

Madison Weaver

Horns

Katie Angielczyk, co-principal

David Holtgrewe, co-principal

Jordan Ellisor

Henry Hamre

Patrick Sanford

Nicolas Silva

Cornets à Piston

Mark Hughes, principal

Noah Adams

Trumpets

Mark Hughes, co-principal

Jhoan Garcia, co-principal

Noah Adams

Brian Mendez

Tenor Trombones

Steven Luong, principal

Alec Eads

Bass Trombone

Agustin Martinez, principal

Tubas

Joshua Gansle, co-principal

Jordan Simmons, co-principal

Harp

Susanna Wang, principal

Keyboards

Yilong Wang, principal

Timpani

Ashton Carter, principal

Mario Castro, co-principal

Michael Cheng, co-principal

Percussion

Ashton Carter, principal

Mario Castro

Michael Cheng

Anne Harris

Xochitl Vasquez

Violins

Ming-Wei Hsieh, concertmaster

Hanna Hrybkova, assistant concertmaster

Ricardo Jimenez Montoya, principal second

Daniela Yepes Dimate, assistant principal second

Jessika Albuquerque

Isabella Bengochea

Javier Castro

Bernini Chan

Dustin Cunningham

Jordan Efird

Alexander Garcia

Lizbeth Garcia

Emily Gladstone

Allen Li

Zuriel Longoria

Marcio Martinez

Madisyn Muñoz

Shayla Nguyen

Violas

Konrad Rudowicz, principal

Maggie Lytle, assistant principal

Haoqin Cheng

Melissa Escobar

Abraham Gonzalez

Madeline Gonzales

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Violoncelli

Mitchell Wright, principal

Ashley Wang, assistant principal

William Danheim

Ricardo Gabriel Flores

Gracie Martinez

Julian Montez

Benjamin Serur

Elizabeth Spencer

Emily Yeh

Contrabassi

Reid Ronsonette, principal

Bruce Manning, assistant principal

Maggie Bishop

Anthony Chavezplata

Orchestral Conducting Studio

Martin Garcia Leon

Cutter Gonzalez

Carolina Rodriguez Russum

Ringel Sat

Houston Ballet II

Nikita Baryshnikov

Rylan Doty

Eli Go

Alexandria Heath

Hart Isaacoff

Isabella Long

Amelia McGravey

Layla Porter

Alyssa Pratt

Alejandro Prieto

Elliott Rogers

Natalia Scheinson

Renee Shubov

Samuel Stampleman

Allison Whitley

Giovanna Abbate Garcia

Julia Alvarez-Porras

Christian Arroyo

Katelyn Beaulieu

Hayden Babin

Iris Bech

Ashlyn Beggs

Sebastian Bondar

Quinton Brooks

Kieryn Brophy

Yu Chia Chang

Michael Dadlez

Shaiya Donohue

Nathaniel Geis

Remie Goins

Nicolas Gongora

Lauren Gordon

Sara Guo

Enya Hoxha

Millicent Huang

Ashton Kennedy

Isabella Kessler

Willow Kristich

Jaein Lee

Keaton Linzau

Jordan Long

Delfina Mamone

Justine Marcov

Kotone Matsuzaki

Olivia McBain

Zachary Mench

Cora Metzfield

Isabella Morales

Ashley Nguyen

Ava Oubre

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Houston Ballet Academy

Katherine Oubre

Macy Richter

Brett Rule

Mariana Sanhueza

Kanon Tanaka

Lexi Utz

Mackenzie Wandel

Owen Watson

Derek Wippel

William Wisneskey

Benjamin Workman

Garrett Yut

Houston Ballet Academy Staff

Jennifer Sommers, Director of the Academy

Yahudi D. Castañeda, Academy Associate Director of Artistic Operations

Katie Wesche, Academy Administrative Associate Director

Carla Cortez, Registrar

Bryana Bordelon, Student Life Manager

Dustin Shaw, Academy Programs Manager

Daisy Benedict, Academy Artistic Operations Coordinator

Tempest McLendon, Academy Administrative Coordinator

Production

Robert Eubanks, Lighting Designer

Morgan Brochu, Stage Manager

Wardrobe

Alexa Carlson, Academy Costume Shop Manager

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PROGRAM NOTES

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3

The 1891–1892 sketches that eventually matured to create Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 3 might have originally been intended for a symphony. In 1893, the composer picked up the materials from that abandoned project, reworked them to create the concerto.

Tchaikovsky was prepared to destroy the work if it was not sufficiently well-received by the composer and musicologist, Sergey Taneyev. Taneyev was critical of the work’s lack of virtuosity, but the piece survived. Taneyev eventually premiered the piece in 1895, which was not finally prepared nor published until after Tchaikovsky’s death.

In the composer’s final reworking, he greatly reduced the length and scope of the piece from three movements to one. It was his last completed work before succumbing to cholera in the final months of 1893.

Graeme Koehne: Powerhouse

Koehne strives to deconstruct the boundary between popular music and classical music. While his compositional methods are essentially neoclassical, his style is rooted in musics typically found beyond the walls of the concert hall—cartoons, pop music, movie soundtracks. The result is an authentically accessible product from a unique musical personality.

Powerhouse’s title is an homage to Raymond Scott, whose humorous music was featured in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. The work does not cite Scott’s material explicitly, but it is of similar spirit: rapidly varying and brightly humorous.

Koehne has gained international prominence in recent years in addition to his many accolades from his native Australia, where he has earned academic awards and served public roles on the Australia Council and as South Australia’s Composer-in-Residence.

Léo Delibes: Coppélia

At the age of 33, Delibes was commissioned by the Paris Opera to write his two large scale ballets, Coppélia and Sylvia. Coppélia is based on a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Coppélia met with immediate success on its completion in 1870 and has been held a charming favorite by succeeding ballet lovers both young and old. This staging of Coppélia is directly descended from the 1933 Nicholas Sergeyev revival for the Camargo Society, danced by members of the Vic-Wells (later Sadler’s Wells and now Royal) Ballet at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. Sergeyev’s staging, a two-act version in which Franklin danced the czardas, was based upon choreography by Lev Ivanov and Enrico Cecchetti after the original by Arthur Saint-Léon. Later, in 1938, Sergeyev mounted Coppélia on the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, this time including the restored third act. This complete version was premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre in London, and, for the next twenty years, Alexandra Danilova and Frederic Franklin became legendary as Swanilda and Franz wherever the Ballet Russe performed.

Adapted from American Ballet Theatre.

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PERFORMERS

Moores School of Music

Franz Anton Krager

Since making his prize-winning European conducting debut in Copenhagen’s Tivoli Koncertsalen in 1978, Franz Anton Krager has led orchestras in Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Town Hall and Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, Moscow’s State Kremlin Palace, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Guangzhou China’s Xinghai Music Center, the Sydney Opera House, The Hague’s Congresgebouw, Zagreb’s Lisinski Concert Hall, Kazan’s State Philharmonic Hall in Russia, Guadalajara’s Degollado Theater, and Sarasota’s Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. His affiliations with leading music festivals include the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia, Lancaster International Concert Series, Lichfield and Aberystwyth International Arts Festivals in the U.K., the Festival Internacional de Santa Lucía in Mexico, and the Texas Music Festival and Interlochen National Music Camp in the U.S. Maestro Krager has led the Houston, Russian State, Slovak National, Dubrovnik, Traverse City Michigan and Florida West Coast symphonies, Romanian and Kazan State philharmonics, and orchestras in Washington, Berlin, London, Chicago, Paris, Singapore, Leipzig, Zagreb, Monterrey, Grosseto, Pordenone, Ingolstadt, Chichester, Neuss, and Honolulu. Krager is Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Texas Music Festival and Founding Co-Artistic Director for the Virtuosi of Houston. Krager is also the Hourani Endowed Professor of Music, Director of Orchestras, and Chair of the Conducting Department at the University of Houston Moores School of Music, where he has brought the orchestra and orchestral conducting program into international prominence. The Moores School Symphony Orchestra has recorded on the Divine Art (Métier), Albany, MSR Classics, ArsPublica, Newport, and “Surround-Sound Blu-Ray Audio” HDTT record labels.

Olena Blahulyak, piano

Olena Blahulyak is a pianist of Ukrainian origin, currently living in Houston and establishing an active performing and teaching career. Olena’s love for music was fostered by her mother and a guild of influential teachers and mentors. Her admission at the age of twelve into the Lysenko’s Special Music Boarding School in Kyiv, where she studied with renowned pedagogue Sergei Riabov became one of the earliest significant and decisive steps in her professional musical education. In 2001, she made her orchestral debut performing Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 under the baton of Mykola Suk at the Vladimir Horowitz Summer Festival.

In 2009 she graduated as a gold medalist from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kyiv, where she obtained her first Master’s degree in Piano Performance. She is a winner of multiple national and international piano competitions, including the 2003 International Chamber Music Competition in St. Petersburg, the 2004 II Zatin International Competition in Ukraine, and Ella Phillip Competition in Romania (2007), and the Sam Houston State University Concerto Competition in 2018, where she performed Prokofiev’s

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Second Piano Concerto. Olena has also been a featured guest artist in several international music festivals, including the “Ciudad Jamilena” in 2008 and 2009 and “Málaga Classica” in Spain in 2016. Olena has performed in recitals across the United States, Europe, and South America, including joining a diplomatic mission organized by the Norwegian Embassy in Guatemala in 2016, where she gave a series of masterclasses and charity concerts.

While living in Spain in 2010-2016, Olena was an active performing artist, collaborating with notable violinists Jesus Reina and Anna Margrethe Haugland Nilsen and working as a collaborative pianist at the Ivan Galamian Academy in Málaga. In 2016-2018, Olena proceeded to study with distinguished Spanish pianist Josu de Solaun at Sam Houston State University and soon joined the piano faculty there as an instructor and collaborative pianist. She was also the musical director and pianist for Sam Houston State’s Opera projects “Leonard Bernstein” (2017) and “Hansel and Gretel” (2018).

In the Spring of 2022, Olena, together with the local violist Nina Knight established a duo with the purpose of creating a series of recitals that benefit causes they care about. For their first season, the duo focused on the international refugee crisis, with particular concern for Ukrainian refugees. The program

“No Way Home” featured music by composers who were torn away from their homes and found solace in writing music, including Paul Hindemith, Rebecca Clarke, George Enescu, and Valentyn Silvestrov.

Olena’s recent concert appearances took place at the Hobby Center and the Candlelight Concert Series in Houston, where she performed pieces by Sergei Rachmaninov and Ukrainian composers Valentyn Silvestrov, Mykola Skoryk, and Mykola Lysenko. She is currently completing her Doctoral degree in Piano Performance at the University of Houston under the guidance of Professor Timothy Hester. When not focusing on her musical endeavors, she enjoys traveling, yoga, and spending time with her beloved pug Daria.

Houston Ballet – Artist profiles

George Balanchine, Choreographer, Allegro Brillante

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, George Balanchine (1904-1983) is regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet. He came to the United States in late 1933, at the age of 29, accepting the invitation of the young American arts patron Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996), whose great passions included the dream of creating a ballet company in America. At Balanchine’s behest, Kirstein was also prepared to support the formation of an American academy of ballet that would eventually rival the longestablished schools of Europe. This was the School of American Ballet, founded in 1934, the first product of the Balanchine-Kirstein collaboration. Several ballet companies directed by the two were created and dissolved in the years that followed, while Balanchine found other outlets for his choreography. Eventually, with a performance on October 11, 1948, the New York City Ballet was born. Balanchine served as its ballet master and principal choreographer from 1948 until his death in 1983. Balanchine’s more than 400 dance works include Serenade (1934), Concerto Barocco (1941), Le Palais de Cristal, later renamed Symphony in C (1947), Orpheus (1948), The Nutcracker (1954), Agon (1957), Symphony in Three Movements (1972), Stravinsky Violin Concerto

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(1972), Vienna Waltzes (1977), Ballo della Regina (1978), and Mozartiana (1981). His final ballet, a new version of Stravinsky’s Variations for Orchestra, was created in 1982. He also choreographed for films, operas, revues, and musicals. Among his best known dances for the stage is Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, originally created for Broadway’s On Your Toes (1936). The musical was later made into a movie. A major artistic figure of the twentieth century, Balanchine revolutionized the look of classical ballet. Taking classicism as his base, he heightened, quickened, expanded, streamlined, and even inverted the fundamentals of the 400-year-old language of academic dance. This had an inestimable influence on the growth of dance in America. Although at first his style seemed particularly suited to the energy and speed of American dancers, especially those he trained, his ballets are now performed by all the major classical ballet companies throughout the world.

Copyright © 2002 The George Balanchine Foundation. Reprinted by permission.

Leslie Peck, Stager, Allegro Brillante

Leslie Peck is an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. She was trained by the legendary dancer Andre Eglevsky and the School of American Ballet. At the age of 17, Peck joined the New York City Ballet under the direction of George Balanchine. She went on to dance soloist roles with the Pennsylvania Ballet and later became a principal dancer with Houston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Richmond Ballet and Ballet International in London. She is a recognized authority on Balanchine ballets and one of the few dancers authorized to stage Balanchine ballets by the Balanchine Trust.

Houston Ballet – Artistic Staff

Stanton Welch AM, The Harris Masterson III Artistic Director

In July 2003, Australian Stanton Welch AM assumed leadership of Houston Ballet, America’s fifth-largest classical ballet company. Since he took the helm of the company, Mr. Welch has revitalized Houston Ballet, bringing in new dancers, commissioning new works, and attracting a top-flight artistic staff. Mr. Welch has created works for such prestigious international companies as Houston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, America Ballet Theatre, The Australian Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and the Royal Danish Ballet. Mr. Welch was born in Melbourne to Marilyn Jones OBE and Garth Welch AM, two of Australia’s most gifted dancers of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1989, he was engaged as a dancer with The Australian Ballet, where he rose to the rank of leading soloist, performing various principal roles. He has also worked with internationally acclaimed choreographers such as Jirí Kylián,

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Nacho Duato, and Maurice Béjart. In 1995, Mr. Welch was named resident choreographer of The Australian Ballet. For his contributions to the world of dance, he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in June 2015. For Houston Ballet, he has choreographed more than 20 works, including a new full-length narrative ballet Marie (2009), inspired by the life of the legendary Marie Antoinette, and spectacular staging’s of Swan Lake (2006), La Bayadère (2010), Romeo and Juliet (2015), Giselle (2016), The Nutcracker (2016), and Sylvia (2019).

Claudio Muñoz, Ballet Master, Houston Ballet II/ Houston Ballet Teacher and Coach

Claudio Muñoz joined Houston Ballet’s Academy in 1999. Mr. Muñoz trained with a variety of choreographers, including John Cranko, George Balanchine, Ben Stevenson, and Ronald Hynd. During his career as a dancer, he filled principal roles in Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, and New York. In 1989 he founded the Chamber Ballet of Santiago. Mr. Muñoz has taught classes and seminars in Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and the United States. He has worked as an instructor for the Ballet Nacional de Chile, Ballet de Santiago, and Ballet Nacional de Peru. The dancers Mr. Muñoz has coached have won the silver medal at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson (1990), third place in the Shanghai International Ballet Competition (1995) and first place at the Prix de Lausanne (2010). In 1996, Mr. Muñoz was awarded “Best Teacher” at the Interdance Competition in Asuncion, Paraguay. Mr. Muñoz has staged a ballet for Ben Stevenson at Florida Ballet, and also staged Stanton Welch’s work at Cincinnati Ballet and Tulsa Ballet. Mr. Muñoz also coaches Houston Ballet II students for the Prix de Lausanne and Beijing International Ballet Competition. In 2007 and 2011, he served as a judge for the Youth America Grand Prix competition in Mexico. In 2016 he was awarded the Dance Teacher Award by Dance Teacher Magazine.

Cheryne Busch, Upper School Principal

Cheryne Busch received her extensive training in South Africa in both the Royal Academy and Cecchetti methods of ballet. She also studied character dance, classical Greek dance, and Spanish dance. As a performing arts graduate she was the recipient of the Dancers Guild Scholarship which she used to further enhance her choreographic and performing career. Ms. Busch was awarded International Certification from the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She choreographed a number of works for Concours de Ballet in South Africa, many of which were included in their repertoire and are still performed today. She is also an accredited Dance Examiner on the Board of the National Society of Dance

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Teachers in South Africa. Ms. Busch owned and operated two dance schools in South Africa for 20 years before immigrating with her family to the United States and joining Houston Ballet in 1998 where she taught in the pre-school, main school and education and community engagement program. Ms. Busch received her Floor Barre Certification in New York in 2006 and teaches this technique in the Academy.

Susan Bryant, Academy Instructor

Susan Bryant began her dancing career studying with Muriel Evans and Lisa Shaw in Hampton, Virginia. She continued her training at North Carolina School of the Arts and after graduation joined Houston Ballet Academy. One year later Ms. Bryant was invited to join the company as a member of the Corps de Ballet. She attained the rank of Soloist and enjoyed a 20 year career dancing with Houston Ballet under the direction of both Ben Stevenson and current Artistic Director Stanton Welch. Ms. Bryant enjoyed featured roles in Ben Stevenson’s Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Dracula, Coppélia, Peer Gynt, Romeo and Juliet, Snow Maiden, Four Last Songs and Five Poems. She had featured roles in Sir Fredrick Ashton’s Les Patineurs, Sir Kenneth MacMillian’s Elite Syncopations and Manon Her contemporary roles included dancing in the world premiere of Paul Taylor’s Company B at the Kennedy Center, Christopher Bruce’s Cruel Garden, Glen Tetley’s Daphnis and Chloe, The Rite of Spring, and Lux in Tenebris, Jirí Kylián’s Sinfonietta and Symphony in D. Ms. Bryant also enjoyed roles in George Balanchine’s La Valse, The Four Temperments, Agon, Serenade, and Symphony in C and Stanton Welch’s Bruiser, Madame Butterfly, and Bolero.

Upon her retirement in 2005, Ms. Bryant was invited by Artistic Director Stanton Welch to portray the role of the Queen in the world premiere of his new Swan Lake. She was also invited to teach in the Houston Ballet Academy where she continues to teach in the Upper School and in the Professional Program.

Orlando Molina, Boys Program Coordinator

Orlando Molina was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba and began his ballet training at ten years old at the Vocational School of Art. In 1987 he joined the National School of Ballet in Havana. Mr. Molina received his diploma as Dancer/Teacher from the Ministry of Culture and the Cuban School of the Arts. In 1997 Mr. Molina joined the Ballet Municipal de Lima as a principal dancer. After competing at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi in 1998, he was offered a contract join the Cleveland San Jose Ballet. Mr. Molina later joined Orlando Ballet (formerly Southern Ballet Theatre) and

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during his tenure as Ballet Master he restaged several classical ballets including Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. After 14 years as a professional ballet dancer, Mr. Molina became a full-time ballet teacher and coach. He is an ABT Certified Ballet Teacher and was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award at the 2009 Youth America Grand Prix regional semifinals. Mr. Molina previously worked with Atlanta Ballet School and The School of The Georgia Ballet. He also directed the Orlando Molina Ballet Training Center in Atlanta, GA where he focused on coaching and guiding of young students with the desire and vision to pursue a professional ballet career. Mr. Molina joined Houston Ballet Academy as Boys Program Coordinator in June of 2020.

Kelly Myernick Kubin, Academy Instructor

Kelly Myernick received her early ballet training at The Susquehanna School of Ballet in Oneonta, New York and later Springs City Ballet in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1996, she became a student at Houston Ballet Academy, receiving the Michael Wasmund Memorial Award upon graduation. She enjoyed a 13-year career with Houston Ballet, retiring as a First Soloist in 2014. Through her career she danced a wide variety of classical and contemporary roles, originating the roles of “Gamzatti” in La Bayadère and “Myrtha” in Giselle in Houston Ballet productions. Her broad experience in contemporary repertoire led her to her current position with Houston Ballet Academy, teaching contemporary repertoire, choreography, and ballet technique. Her teaching education includes an intensive with Netherlands Dans Theatre and workshops in Countertechnique, Gaga technique, and Anatomy for Dancers. Ms. Myernick is a frequent guest speaker and teacher in the community for organizations such as Hope Stone, Inc. and Houston Ballet’s Education and Community Engagement department.

2022-2023 Moores Society

As of January 20, 2023

The Moores Society is the philanthropic volunteer organization for the Moores School of Music. Moores Society members and donors promote community awareness and provide funding for scholarships and special projects. Moores Society members receive invitations to concerts and special events held throughout the year.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Darlene Clark, President

Jackie & Malcolm Mazow, Immediate Past Presidents

Donna Shen, Vice President Membership

Nancy Willerson, Corresponding Secretary

Ann Tornyos, Recording Secretary

Meg Boulware, Opera Production Council Chair

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rita Aron

Ann Ayre

Meg Boulware

Terry Ann Brown

Carla Burns

Cheryl Byington

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Timothy Doyle

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Sheila Aron

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Philamena Baird

Chris Becker

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Ann Boss

Nancy Bowden

Zarine Boyce

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Anna Dean

Vicky Dominguez

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Marita Glodt

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Maureen Higdon

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Linda Katz

Michelle & Jack Matzer

Gary Patterson

Shirley Rose

BOARD OF ADVISORS

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Gay Yellen

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As of January 20, 2023

Robin Angly

Christopher Bacon

Meg Boulware, Chair

Gwyneth Campbell

Anna Dean

Tim Doyle

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Jose Alvarado

Robin Angly & Miles Smith

Rita & Jeffrey Aron

Alan Austin & David A. White

Ann & Jonathan Ayre

Christopher Bacon & Craig Miller

Pamela & Stephen Bertone

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Matthew Dirst

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Ellen Gritz & Milton Rosenau, Jr.

Lucila & Bill Haase

Deborah Happ & Richard Rost

OPERA PRODUCTION COUNCIL

Ann Faget

Gerri Gill

Ellen and Alan Holzberg

Lee Huber

Shannon Langman

Helen Mann

Jackie and Malcolm Mazow

1000+

Ann Faget

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Hollingsworth & Ken Hyde

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Monzer Hourani

Lee Huber

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500+

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David Voll

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River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

Joseph Thayer

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Ann Tomatz

Virginia & Gage Van Horn

Robert Zinn

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Thomas Blocher

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Julie Fischer

Sandra Harris

250+

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Michelle Greenberg

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Deborah Hirsch

Gladys Hooker

Russell Kneupper

Therese Kosten

Helen Mann

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120+

Clara Kukes

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Michael Taksa

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Dalia Pineda

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ABOUT THE MOORES SCHOOL

Moores School of Music

The University of Houston’s Moores School of Music (MSM) is one of the leading comprehensive music schools in the nation. Its remarkable faculty — of internationally recognized performers, composers, and scholars — outstanding student body, modern facilities, and broad range of programs make MSM the natural choice for nearly 600 students annually. The school’s commitment to academic excellence and the highest performance standards has ensured its role as a vital resource in the educational and cultural life of Houston and beyond.

Moores Society

The Moores Society is the philanthropic volunteer organization for the Moores School of Music. Moores Society members and donors promote community awareness and provide funding for scholarships and special projects. Moores Society members receive invitations to concerts and special events held throughout the year. Please visit uh.edu/kgmca/music/moores-society.

For more information, please contact Emily Wolfe, Patrons Relations and Communications Coordinator, at mooressociety@uh.edu or 713.743.8036

ABOUT THE COLLEGE

Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston is a dynamic home of creativity and collaboration in one of America’s most artistically vibrant and culturally diverse cities. Bringing together the performing and visual arts entities at the University of Houston, the college has the ability to harness the power of the arts to ultimately impact our world. Our award-winning, internationally distinguished faculty provides top-quality instruction to the talented, emerging student artists from more than 30 programs of study. The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts seeks to positively impact the community and to empower our students to use their talents to change the world.

Giving to the Arts

Please support emerging artists at the University of Houston's Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. Your gift enables KGMCA students and educators to create, collaborate, and transform Houston’s cultural landscape. Your gift makes a difference.

• Please visit https://giving.uh.edu/gift. To give directly to the Moores School of Music, please visit uh.edu/ kgmca/music/giving

• For more information contact Emily Wolfe, Patron Relations and Communications Coordinator, at ewolfe@uh.edu or 713.743.7732

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