SoNA Mother & Child 2022-23 Program

Mother and Child

Mother and Child

Saturday, January 7, 2023 — 7:30PM Baum Walker Hall / Walton Arts Center

William Grant Still Mother and Child

SoNA Singers Samuel Burrow, soprano

I. Psalm 108:2 & Psalm 100 II. Psalm 23 & Psalm 2:1-4 III. Psalm 131 & Psalm 133:1

Górecki Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

Miriam Khalil, soprano

I. Lento - sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile II. Lento e Largo - tranquillissimo III. Lento - cantabile-semplice

Leonard Bernstein Chichester Psalms

Henryk

Paul Haas, conductor

Sponsored by Highlands Oncology

SoNA Board and Staff

Board of Directors

Mike Russell, Chair

Jack Cleghorn, Vice Chair

Kim Hadley, Treasurer

Marti Sudduth, Secretary Hannah Breden Monique Carswell

Malcolm Hayward, M.D. Drew Hutchison Carl Frazier-Sparks

Anthony Sumlin Laura Wilkins Tod Yeslow

Board of Advisors

Ed Clifford Cynthia Coughlin Susan Hui Jill King

Tom King, Ph.D. Peter B. Lane Bill Mitchell Dick Trammel

Staff

D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director Paul Haas, Music Director Ben Harris, General Manager Terry Hicks, SoNA Singers Director Sarah Pearson, Assistant Conductor Natalie Fernandez, Music Education Director

Marti and Kelly Sudduth Chair Devanee Williams, Development Manager

Jarrett Bastow, Personnel Manager Richard Bobo, Music Librarian Luke Pearson, Accounting

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The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas

Paul Haas

Music Director & Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN

Winona Fifield, Concertmaster

Maestro’s Circle Chair Andrew Chu, Associate Concertmaster

Jennifer Sherman, Associate Concertmaster Rebecca Cutler-Metzger Merritt Denton Ronda Herold Yida Hu

Thane Isaac Diana Norwood Nicole Paglialonga Austin Rice Jill Woodhouse

SECOND VIOLIN

Miho Oda Sakon, Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair* Ronnamarie Jensen, Acting Associate Principal Will Bush Faith Flurry Mary Haley Sarah Kelly Cristian Martinez Vega Martha Mattes Raul Munguia Allison Steiner VIOLA

Jesse Collett, Principal Hanna Waldo, Acting Associate Principal Ricardo Cavalcante Grace Clark

Lester Lewis Endowed Chair Mary Kelly Logan Mabry Phillip Wachowski Anne Wenzel

CELLO

Kari Caldwell, Principal Starr Foundation Chair Ezgi Karakus, Acting Associate Principal Ashley Allison Diane Bucchianeri Amelia Ivory Michael Puryear

BASS

Jarrett Bastow, Principal Marybeth and Rick Hays Chair Marc Facci, Acting Associate Principal Kassandra Ferrero Benji Wilson Sara Neilson

FLUTE

Virginia Broffitt Kunzer, Principal

Greenwood Gearhart Chair Gabriel Vega, Acting Associate Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair* Carley Flowers, piccolo Ginny Hudson, piccolo

OBOE

Principal

Robert T. Murphy III and Beau G. Reynolds Chair

CLARINET

Trevor Stewart, Principal Jasper Hensley Orlando Scalia Amanda Hudnall

BASSOON

Marissa Takaki, Acting Principal Josue Avelar, contrabassoon Richard Bobo, subcontrabassoon

HORN

David Renfro, Acting Principal Josh East

Joe Falvey

Jason Hofmeister

Juli Buxbaum, Assistant Horn

TRUMPET

Richard Rulli, Principal Ed and Carol Clifford Chair Andrew Stadler

Tim Wootton

TROMBONE

Cory Mixdorf, Principal Tenor

Michael Hollomon and Eric Wailes Chair

Doug Fletcher Justin Cook

Jason Hausback, Principal Bass

TIMPANI

Stephen Craft, Principal

PERCUSSION

James Harris, Principal Fernando Valencia

Julianne Brown-Meola Chair

Amy Hearting

Micheal Barnes Jacob Carter

HARP

Alisa Coffey, Acting Principal Devanee Williams

KEYBOARD

Tomoko Kashiwagi, Acting Principal

*Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music: Liz Allen, Jenny Coogan, Karolyn Farrell, Phoebe Goodwin, Jill King, Natalie Olsen, Lynn Rogers, Jane Scroggs, Jackie Telfair, Laura Wilkins, and Ann Marie Ziegler

Paul Haas Music Director

& Conductor

SoNA Music Director Paul Haas enjoys a distinctive career as conductor, composer and installation artist. His guest conducting engagements have included performances with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony, among others, as well as festival appearances.

Over the last decade, he has written commissions for a wide variety of iconic venues, including the Park Avenue Armory and Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska, and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

In addition to his positions as Music Director of SoNA and the Thunder Bay Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Haas is

Miriam Khalil

Soprano

Two-time Juno nominated artist, Miriam Khalil has established herself as one of Canada’s most versatile and expressive performers. She has become increasingly known for her non-traditional performances of opera, art song and concert repertoire.

This season, Miriam has enjoyed making her house and role debut with Vancouver Opera as Leïla in Bizet’s Pearl Fishers, as well as debuts with the Newfoundland and Edmonton Symphonies. Upcoming engagements include recitals with Vancouver’s Music in the Morning, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Edmonton Symphony, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Richard Eaton Singers (Edmonton).

Her last seasons were highlighted by Messiah/Complex, an internationally acclaimed realization of Handel’s Messiah filmed against iconic Canadian landscapes sung in six languages by twelve soloists and 4 choirs, co-produced by Against the Grain Theatre and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She was nominated for her second Juno with the recent release of the Messiah/Complex Album. Other recent engagements include Puccini’s La bohème (Edmonton Opera), Mahler’s Symphony

the founder and Artistic Director of Sympho, a trailblazing concert production company that creates powerful and emotional musical experiences, collaborating with leading artists and using unexpected performance methods and unorthodox venues.

Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School. He resides in Germantown, New York, with his wife and three children. Find out more at paulhaas.com.

Samuel Burrow Soprano

Samuel Burrow returns to the Walton Arts Center stage; he previously has performed as a soloist with SoNA in 2021 and 2022. He is a 6th grader at McNair Middle School and sings with the University of Arkansas Children’s Choir. Samuel has also performed with TheatreSquared as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol and as Nigel in Matilda.

No. 4 (Saskatoon Symphony), and various digital productions including Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (Voicebox: Opera in Concert), and Bound (Against the Grain Theatre). Miriam also made her directorial debut with Against the Grain’s acclaimed digital production of Holst’s Sāvitri.

She has sung on numerous opera stages across North America and the UK, including a stint at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival Opera (GFO) in the United Kingdom. Notable roles include Mimì in La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, Opera Hamilton, Calgary Opera, and Against the Grain Theatre (AtG)); Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Opera Tampa and AtG/The Banff Centre/Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival); Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande (AtG); the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (AtG); Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (GFO); Almirena in Rinaldo (GFO); Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Lyra Ottawa and AtG), Alcina (Fargo Moorhead Opera), Marzelline in Fidelio (Pacific Opera Victoria) and Mamah Cheney in Hagen’s Shining Brow (Urban Arias), among others.

She is a proud founding member of the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning opera company Against the Grain Theatre (AtG). Miriam is delighted to help shape “one of the most important opera companies in Canada” (Calgary Herald). She also recently joined the Voice Faculty at the University of Alberta and is excited to be working with the next generation of artists.

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A gift to the Overture Society (our annual fund) provides general operating support for concerts, education programs, outreach, collaborations and administrative expenses.

Chair Sponsorships

Chair Sponsorships — whether individual, group or corporate — provide much needed support and can create a personal relationship with a SoNA musician. Your gift will help attract and retain the best musicians, ensuring our continued artistic growth and regional stature. A gift of $2,500 will sponsor a SoNA principal musician chair, or a gift of $1,000 will sponsor an orchestra section chair.

Leave a Legacy

Your planned charitable bequest to SoNA can make a significant impact by helping to ensure that our mission will thrive far into the future. Gifts of all sizes make it possible for us to build financial strength and maintain our tradition of excellence and community outreach for generations to come. For assistance with bequests, including gifts of stock, please contact Jett Moore with Greenwood Gearhart, Inc. at jtmoore@greenwoodgearhart.com or 479.521.5353.

The Maestro’s Circle

SoNA wishes to thank the donors who have contributed to our Endowment Fund through the Maestro’s Circle. If you would like to learn more about multi-year gifts that help ensure SoNA’s future, please contact D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director, at riley@sonamusic.org or 479.521.4166.

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