2014/ 2015 Overture #3

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2015 I ISSUE 3

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ROMEO AND JULIET HOLLYWOOD: THE EPICS MOZART & HAYDN WITH JEANNE LAMON BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5 - BEYOND THE SCORE ® CONCERT FOR KIDS MANNY TUBA GOES TO THE CIRCUS

Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Anderson & Roe, piano duo

WINNIPEG NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIR As we start 2015, I want to wish each of you a healthy and happy new year. Of course, I also encourage you to fill the year with excellent music. The WSO has a range of stellar concerts over the next few months that will help to make the winter more than bearable and give you good reasons to venture out for an evening of music. I personally look forward to hearing Micah Heilbrunn, performing Mozart’s hauntingly beautiful Clarinet Concerto lead by Canada’s leading early music performance specialist, Jeanne Lamon. Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beyond the Score® series has provided some excellent programming for the WSO for the last number of years. This year, we have an in depth look at Beethoven’s monumental Fifth Symphony which promises to be an exceptional evening. Planning ahead for Valentine’s Day is always a good idea. The WSO features the music of Romeo and Juliet on the Valentine’s Day weekend. You can add to the evening with dinner and a symphony to make the evening a delicious and memorable event.

The start of a new year also has all of us at the WSO thinking about the importance of the orchestra in our community and the roles we can play in ensuring that great symphonic music remains in Winnipeg for the benefit of our children and grandchildren. Your plans for giving to the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra through your estate planning or residual RRSP gifts can make all the difference in the world. If you have made a gift through your will, do let the WSO know so that you can be included in the WSO’s Legacy Circle. WSO staff members can speak with you about the process and benefits of making a bequest to the future of fine music in Manitoba.

Timothy E. Burt, CFA President and Chair of the Board Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

To make your Planned Gift and to help ensure that the WSO plays on for all Manitobans for generations to come please call Carol Cassels at 204-949-3965.

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CONDUCTORS Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director German conductor Alexander Mickelthwate is renowned for his “splendid, richly idiomatic readings” (LA Weekly), “fearless” approach and “first-rate technique” (Los Angeles Times). Critics have noted Alexander’s extraordinary command over the Austro-Germanic repertoire, commenting on the “passion, profundity, emotional intensity, subtlety and degree of perfection achieved” in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 as “miraculous” (Anton Kuerti, 2011).

Following on from his tenure as assistant conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which he completed in 2004, Alexander Mickelthwate was associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for three years, under the direction of Essa-Pekka Salonen. Now in his eighth season as music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander has significantly developed the orchestra’s profile through active community engagement and innovative programming initiatives like the annual New Music Festival and the Indigenous Music Festival. Chosen to perform at the Carnegie Hall Spring For Music Festival in New York, May 2014, due to “creative and innovative programming” (CBC Manitoba Scene), the orchestra was the only Canadian ensemble in the showcase. As well as significantly contributing to the New Music Festival and Indigenous Festival, Alexander lead the orchestra’s first out of province tour since 1979 to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, launched the International Conducting masterclasses, the New Music Festival 2012 film project and played a major part in the acoustic overhaul of the Centennial Concert Hall.

Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor In the fall of 2014, Julian Pellicano began his second season as resident conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where he leads the orchestra in a wide variety of programs throughout the year. He has worked with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre (Brazil), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, New Britain Symphony, Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Ensemble and Milwaukee's Present Music. In addition, Julian conducted the premiere of Martin Bresnick’s critically acclaimed opera My Friend's Story at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas and conducted at Carnegie Hall with the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra. Recognized for his work with living composers and transparent interpretations of contemporary works, he has premiered over 40 new pieces and as an artist in residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, he conducts the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble. Julian has worked in masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Peter Eötvös, Zsolt Nagy, Martyn Brabbins, Carl St. Clair, L’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, the Royal College of Music (Stockholm), and the Yale School of Music where he was awarded the 2008 Presser Music Award and the Philip F. Nelson Award. Beyond his position with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Julian also serves as music director of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra.

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WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2014-2015 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR Alexander Mickelthwate RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Julian Pellicano FIRST VIOLINS Gwen Hoebig, Concertmaster

CELLOS Yuri Hooker, Principal Leana Rutt, Assistant Principal Alex Adaman Margaret Askeland Arlene Dahl Carolyn Nagelberg Emma Quackenbush

TRUMPETS Brian Sykora, Principal Paul Jeffrey Isaac Pulford The Patty Kirk Memorial Chair

TROMBONES Steven Dyer, Principal John Helmer

The Sophie-Carmen EckhardtBASSES Gramatté Memorial Chair, endowed by the Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation Meredith Johnson, Principal

Karl Stobbe, Associate Concertmaster Mary Lawton, Assistant Concertmaster Karin Andreasen Chris Anstey Mona Coarda Hong Tian Jia Janet Liang Simon MacDonald Meredith McCallum Julie Savard Jun Shao SECOND VIOLINS Darryl Strain, Principal Elation Pauls, Assistant Principal Karen Bauch Kristina Bauch Elizabeth Dyer Rodica Jeffrey Susan McCallum Takayo Noguchi Claudine St-Arnauld † Jane Pulford VIOLAS Daniel Scholz, Principal Anne Elise Lavallée, Assistant Principal Laszlo Baroczi Richard Bauch Greg Hay Suzanne McKegney Merrily Peters Mike Scholz

BASS TROMBONE Julia McIntyre, Principal

Andrew Goodlett, Assistant Principal Travis Harrison Paul Nagelberg Bruce Okrainec Daniel Perry FLUTES Jan Kocman, Principal Martha Durkin

TUBA Chris Lee, Principal TIMPANI **Brendan Thompson, Acting Principal PERCUSSION Frederick Liessens, Principal

PICCOLO Martha Durkin

HARP Richard Turner, Principal Endowed by W.H. & S.E. Loewen

OBOES Beverly Wang, Principal Robin MacMillan

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Chris Lee

ENGLISH HORN Robin MacMillan

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Raymond Chrunyk

CLARINETS Micah Heilbrunn, Principal Michelle Goddard

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN Laura MacDougall

BASSOONS Alex Eastley, Principal Kathryn Brooks

*On Leave **Temporary Position † Dual Section Position

HORNS Please note: Non-titled (tutti) string Patricia Evans, Principal Ken MacDonald, Associate Principal players are listed alphabetically and are seated according to a James Robertson rotational system.

The Hilda Schelberger Memorial Chair

Caroline Oberheu Michiko Singh

Fred Redekop is the official Piano Tuner and Technician of the WSO.

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WE TAKE PEOPLE PLACES. BUT IT’S MUSIC THAT TRULY MOVES THEM.

OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

Jack Everly, conductor

Jack Everly

Prairie Voices, Vic Pankratz, director

AIR CANADA POPS

Hollywood: The Epics

Hooray for Hollywood Gone with the Wind: Main title Kings Row : Prelude Ben-Hur : Prelude Titanic : Suite The Lion in Winter : Suite Schindler’s List : Main theme Carmina Burana : O Fortuna

Richard Whiting Max Steiner Erich Wolfgang Korngold Miklos Rozsa James Horner John Barry John Williams Carl Orff

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2001: A Space Odyssey : Main title Around the World in Eighty Days : Overture Lawrence of Arabia : Main title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone : Hedwig’s Theme Doctor Zhivago : Lara’s Theme King of Kings : The Lord’s Prayer Star Wars : Main title

Richard Strauss Victor Young Maurice Jarre John Williams

Friday, January 9 Saturday, January 10 Sunday, January 11

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MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING

Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile Friday, 7:15 p.m.

Saturday, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday, 1:15 p.m.

Canadian Mennonite University Westgate Mennonite Collegiate String Orchestra Desautels Faculty of Music Division of Preparatory Studies

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ARTIST BIOS

AIR CANADA POPS

Hollywood: The Epics

Jack Everly, conductor

Prairie Voices, Vic Pankratz, director

Jack Everly is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Indianapolis and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa). He has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and appears regularly with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center.

This season Maestro Everly will conduct over 90 performances in more than 20 North American cities. As Music Director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS, Maestro Everly proudly leads the National Symphony Orchestra in these patriotic celebrations on the National Mall.

Founded in 2000 by Elroy Friesen, Prairie Voices is an award-winning company of singers ages 18-25 dedicated to the performance of innovative contemporary choral music from all over the world. Placing an emphasis on Canadian and Manitoban composers, the choir uses energy, expressiveness and movement to connect avant-garde composition with a popular audience. Prairie Voices has performed around the world, bringing their unique touch to a diverse repertoire, from African spirituals to Broadway hits. Prairie Voices has managed to grow as an organization while still remaining true to their Canadian roots.

This past season, Prairie Voices released their new CD, Autumn.

Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jack Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as Music Director. Maestro Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. He is a proud resident of the Indianapolis community for over 12 years.

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Victor Pankratz Victor Pankratz is well known in Manitoba for his singing, conducting and teaching. He was a frequent performer with the Manitoba Opera Association. As a tenor soloist he has appeared with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw and the Mennonite Festival Chorus, and many more groups. For three years he was co-artistic director of the Winnipeg Singers. He has also had the privilege of conducting the regional youth choirs in Manitoba.

Currently, Victor is artistic director of Prairie Voices, and teaches music at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate.

EXTRA MUSICIANS: Laurel Ridd, flute; Caitlin Broms-Jacobs, oboe; Cathy Wood, clarinet; Allen Harrington, bassoon; Francois Godere, trombone; Tony Cyre, percussion; Victoria Sparks, percussion; Donna Laube, keyboard

Jeanne Lamon

Jeanne Lamon, conductor and violin Micah Heilbrunn, clarinet

MASTERWORKS

Mozart & Haydn with Jeanne Lamon

Symphony in G minor, Op. 6, No. 6, W. C12 Allegro Andante più tosto adagio Allegro molto

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)

Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 Allegro Adagio Rondo: Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

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Concerto grosso in B-flat major, Op. 6, No. 5 Adagio - Allegro Adagio Allegro Largo - Allegro

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Symphony No. 101 in D major, “Clock” Adagio – Presto Andante Menuet e Trio: Allegretto Finale: Vivace

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Friday, January 16 Saturday, January 17

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PROGRAM NOTES

by James Manishen

Symphony in G minor Johann Christian Bach b. Leipzig / September 5, 1735 d. London / January 1, 1782 Published: 1770-1775 Last WSO performance: 2000; Michael Morgan, conductor

Mozart first heard the clarinet as a young boy and included it in his music when possible. But on hearing the supreme playing of the Vienna imperial court orchestra’s clarinetist Anton Stadler, Mozart was further transported.

Stadler was a Freemason and when Mozart joined the fraternity the two became lifelong friends. Stadler not only enjoyed Mozart’s camaraderie and sometimes financial support, but The youngest son of the music Mozart wrote for him: the Sebastian and his second wife Clarinet Concerto, the Trio K. 498 for Anna Magdalena, Christian Piano, Clarinet and Viola, plus Bach found fame as a extended clarinet solos in the opera composer of religious music La Clemenza di Tito, (also from 1791). and opera during a sevenyear stay in Italy from 1755 through 1762. His Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto was his second-to-last completed work. It first opera Artaserse (1760) was so popular stands not only as the finest ever that it led to a commission of two more for written for the instrument, but a the prestigious King’s Theatre in London. testament to the formal perfection Bach naturally accepted the proposition and and depth of feeling from Mozart at moved to London in 1762 where he enjoyed his most sublime. success for the rest of his life. In 1764 he met the eight-year-old Mozart, who later claimed Concerto grosso in B-flat Christian Bach as a valued influence.

Arcangelo Corelli b. Fusignano, Italy / February 17, 1653 Each of Christian Bach’s operas opens with d. Rome / January 8, 1713 an overture that is actually a threePublished posthumously movement Sinfonia. Op. 6, No. 6 stands out First WSO performance in its mastery of the Sturm und Drang (storm-and-stress) style where extremes of Arcangelo Corelli came from a well-toemotion are given free rein to express the do family of drama inherent in that realm. landowners with no Though the outer movements of this Gmusical background. minor symphony have a striking power and After studying in energy, the slow movement, in the unusual Bologna, a notable centre for instrumentalists, he moved to Rome key of C-minor, has an anguished personality and internal tension all its own, in 1675 where he became one of the city’s leading violinists, renowned for its rays of light notwithstanding. the passion and elegance of his playing. Since the attraction of Clarinet Concerto instrumental music was on the rise Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the time, Corelli composed no b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 vocal music, instead concentrating d. Vienna / December 5, 1791 on three genres for which he Composed: 1791 became famous and highly Last WSO performance: 2002; Michael Hall, influential: the concerto grosso, the conductor; Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet trio sonata and the solo sonata.

alternation. Corelli’s B-flat major concerto grosso is part of his first eight “church concertos,” whose fast movements are mainly in fugal form. The last four concerti in the collection are dance suites. All are models of balance and care, revered by Handel, Vivaldi and many others that saw Corelli as a point of reference in his time.

Symphony No. 101 “Clock” Franz Joseph Haydn b. Rohrau, Lower Austria / March 31, 1732 d. Vienna / May 31, 1809 Composed: 1794 First performance: March 3, 1794 (London) conducted by the composer Last WSO performance: 1993, Bramwell Tovey, conductor Impresario/violinist Johann Peter Salomon brought Joseph Haydn to London for two highly successful 18-month visits in 1791 and 1794.

It was for these trips that Haydn wrote his symphonies Nos. 93 to 104, the “London symphonies.” At hefty ticket prices, the premieres were rapturously received in the spring of 1794 within a glittering social ambiance at the elegant Hanover Square Rooms.

As always with Haydn’s late symphonies, peerless musical construction is the substrate of the composer’s masterly talent for diversion. In the “Clock” Symphony, the second movement’s tick-tock premise was the work’s “hook.” Yet though this musical motive may sound simple at the outset, the movement is actually one of Haydn’s most sophisticated in its hybrid of variation and rondo forms.

The opening movement’s Presto in 6/8 time has more the sense of finale than opening statement. The Mozart had a special Corelli labored diligently over the 12 Menuet is an almost Beethoven-like affection for the clarinet: its concerti grossi in his Op. 6. Each expansion of the dance form and is liquid tone, which he contains a series of fast/slow Haydn’s longest of its type, with considered closest to the movements using two groups of crunching dissonance in the Trio. human voice, its technical musicians – the small group called The finale overflows with invention agility, and the ease with and energy, a double fugue the “concertino” and the larger which the clarinet fit into orchestral (pianissimo!) among Haydn’s most group called the “ripieno” – woodwind sections and chamber ensembles. performing their roles in brilliant touches.

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ARTIST BIOS

Mozart & Haydn with Jeanne Lamon Jeanne Lamon, violin and conductor

Micah Heilbrunn, clarinet

Music Director of Tafelmusik since 1981, Jeanne Lamon has been praised by critics in Europe and North America for her strong musical leadership. She has won numerous awards, including honourary Doctorates of Letters from York and Mount Saint Vincent Universities, an honourary Doctorate of Law from the University of Toronto and the prestigious Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2000, Jeanne Lamon was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2014 was appointed to the Order of Ontario. Ms. Lamon is in demand as guest director of symphony orchestras in North America and abroad. She is passionate about teaching young professionals, which she does at the University of Toronto and through Tafelmusik’s Artists’ Training Programmes. Ms. Lamon will step down as full-time Music Director of Tafelmusik in 2014 in order to devote more time to teaching, guest directing and pursuing various hobbies. She will continue as Tafelmusik’s Chief Artistic Advisor until the new music director is appointed.

Born in London, Ontario, Micah Heilbrunn is currently principal clarinet of the WSO. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, he received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Michigan.

His principal teachers include Jerome Summers, Deborah Chodacki, Robert Crowley and Joquin Valdepeñas. Micah has served as principal clarinet with the Symphony Nova Scotia, and has been on the clarinet faculty of Brandon University, the University of Windsor, and at the University of Manitoba. He has been a featured artist at the Aspen Music Festival, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Agassiz music festival, the Las Vegas Music Festival and the Scotia Festival of Music, and has been heard in broadcasts both on the CBC and National Public Radio. Micah has been an active orchestral and chamber musician, and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra the National Ballet of Canada and the National Arts Center Orchestra.

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Julian Pellicano, conductor Mr. Mark, host Robin Chestnut, juggler Samantha Halas, acrobat

GREAT-WEST LIFE CONCERTS FOR KIDS

Manny Tuba Goes to the Circus

Mr. Mark

Manny Tuba

Momentum Aerial, aerialist Manny Tuba, WSO mascot!

Entrance of the Gladiators

Fucik

Galop from Masquerade Suite

Khachaturian

The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals

Saint-Saëns

Rumanian Folk Dances

Bartók

Dance of the Tumblers

Rimsky-Korsakov

Arabian Dance from Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky

The Liberty Bell

Sousa

Clair de lune

Debussy

Pizzicato Polka

Johann Strauss II

Baby Elephant Walk

Mancini

Pre-concert Activities Sunday, January 18

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CONCERTS FOR KIDS

Manny Tuba Goes to the Circus

Mr. Mark, host Since 1990, Mark Cameron has been a percussionist for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, where the kids have always called him “Mr. Mark.” He has composed music for many dances featured at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School events including First Steps, Ballet in The Park and The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School’s Connections Tour in 2009. Mark has been performing as “Mr. Mark” since 2002. He has performed numerous times with the WSO and The Winnipeg International Children’s Festival. He was featured in the live version of the television show The Toy Castle, and has entertained for families and kids at numerous festivals across Canada and the United States. For the last ten years Mr. Mark has also has been a very popular artist with Manitoba Arts Council’s Artist in the Schools Program, where he conducts a “found sound” workshop, entitled, All The World’s A Drum!

Robin Chestnut, juggler Extreme juggler, Robin Chestnut has been wowing audiences for over 20 years. His championship quality skills have taken him round the world, but it's his affable personality that wins your heart. With a wry wit, steady hands, and a truly odd skill set, he's the juggler you don't want to miss!

produced her own circus show, the Blacksmith's Ball at the Gas Station Theater. Summer 2014 she worked with equestrian circuses Luna Caballera to create Kaleidescope and La Centauree to create Les Betes de Cirque touring the province of Quebec.

Samantha is also teaching contortion and balancing to teenagers and adults in Winnipeg and has done workshops in Vancouver and San Francisco. Her diverse background and late start to contortion diversify her techniques and approaches to using contortion as a tool for fitness, entertainment, art and health.

Momentum Aerial, aerial artistry Momentum is Winnipeg's premiere aerial dance company dedicated to creating exciting performances combining the worlds of dance with aerial circus acrobatics. Established in 2004 by co-directors and choreographers Monica Goermann and Liz Cooper, Momentum's artists perform on silks, hoop, trapeze, rope, slings, and harness for gala events and full-length original productions, both locally and internationally. Momentum's home training facility, Monica's Danz Gym, offers training in aerial arts for all ages and levels from beginner to professional, encouraging creativity and artistry using innovative circus equipment.

EXTRA MUSICIAN: Tony Cyre, percussion

Samantha Halas, acrobat Samantha Halas is a Winnipeg based contortion artist and antipodist. She began practicing contortion at 22 years old, much later than many believe plausible to begin this intense physical training. In Bolivia at 19 years of age, she started learning Capoeira with a group of locals. There, she fell in love with their devotion to their art and their command over their bodies. She trained in the summer of 2012 in Mongolia with Ehntsetseg Lodoi, the first Mongolian gold prizewinner for contortion in Monte Carlo. Winter 2014 she 16

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Tune to Prairie Public for front row seats to the

World’s Finest Performances!

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- Beyond the Score ®

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor Arne MacPherson, actor Reid Harrison, actor Donna Fletcher, actor Matthew Fletcher, actor Madeline Hildebrand, piano Jennifer Parr, stage director

SOUNDBYTES

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Gerard McBurney, creative director Beyond the Score®. Martha Gilmer, executive producer Beyond the Score®

Beyond the Score® Presentation - INTERMISSION -

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 -1827)

Allegro con brio Andante con moto AllegroAllegro

Friday, January 23 Saturday, January 24

7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING

Pre-concert performance on the Piano Nobile Friday, 6:45 p.m.

Saturday, 6:45 p.m.

Canadian Mennonite University Desautels Faculty of Music

WSO IN BRANDON Sunday, January 25

3:00 p.m.

MUSICIANS IN THE MAKING

Pre-concert performance in the lobby Sunday, 2:30 p.m.

Brandon University Conservatory of Music Piano Students

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ABOUT BEYOND THE SCORE® The 2014/2015 season will mark the 10th year of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s acclaimed multi-media series Beyond the Score®, and will see the addition of three new productions to the project’s repertoire of 25 works and composers. Under creative director Gerard McBurney’s leadership, the series weaves together theater, music and design to draw audiences into the concert hall and into the spirit of a work. The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's own Beyond the Score® presentations have been so successful for the past three seasons that this year there are two presentations of Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in Winnipeg, with a third presentation in Brandon.

ARTIST BIOS

SOUNDBYTES

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Beyond the Score®

Arne MacPherson, actor

Donna Fletcher, actor

Arne MacPherson performed the title role in Shakespeare’s Dog at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the NAC in Ottawa. He played Hamlet, Richard III, and many other roles for Shakespeare In the Ruins, and has worked at most of Winnipeg’s theatres. As a director, favourite shows include Sargent & Victor & Me (Theatre Projects Manitoba), The Threepenny Opera (at The Manitoba Theatre Centre Warehouse), Head and The Tempest (Shakespeare In the Ruins).

Donna Fletcher is an accomplished actor, singer, and concert performer with a wide range of national experience in theatre, musical theatre, and symphonic work. Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received her early training in Winnipeg and earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Manitoba, a diploma in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Toronto. She has performed with the Winnipeg Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and was featured on the CBC Radio’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera.

He performed with his partner Debbie Patterson and their two kids Gislina and Solmund in Patterson’s play Molotov Circus, which was presented at the Winnipeg Fringe and the Summerworks festival in Toronto.

He is a member of nuna(now), an Iceland-Canada art convergence. In association with nuna(now), Arne cocreated with a group of Icelandic and Canadian artists a performance work called The Island, which was shown in Reykjavik and Winnipeg.

Reid Harrison, actor Reid Harrison has been active in Winnipeg’s arts community for many years. A founding member of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society, he performed in principal roles in its early years before becoming resident conductor and more recently the director of its productions including its upcoming production of The Pirates of Penzance. A frequent performer at Rainbow Stage, he was inducted onto Rainbow’s Wall of Fame in 2009. During many years teaching high school, he directed over 25 musical theatre productions. He is also co-founder of Dry Cold Productions for which he was music director for recent productions of The Light in the Piazza and Sweeney Todd; the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and director of Follies, Dry Cold’s contribution to SondheimFest 2013.

He is also the General Manager of the Rosamunde Summer Music Academy and Festival Director of the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival.

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She is a Sessional Voice and Musical Theatre Instructor at the University Of Manitoba Marcel Desautels Faculty of Music and the University of Winnipeg Theatre Department.

Matthew Fletcher, actor As an active actor and musician, Matthew is rooted in vocal technique, theatrical conceptualization and musical exploration. Pursuing a career in performance from age seven, he strives to explore the classics and develop/broaden modern perceptions of theatre and music. A proud graduate of Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal and Opera Performance and a Certificate of Musical Theatre. Select credits: T.R. Tilden in The Pinkertons (Buffalo Gal Pictures/Rosetta Media), Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening (Griffin Theatre, Chicago Premiere), Robbie Fay in A Man Of No Importance (Dry Cold Productions), Understudy Enjolras/As Cast in Les Misérables (Drayton Entertainment). Matthew also has an upcoming performance as Marius Pontmercy in Les Miserablés (Rainbow Stage). He thanks friends and family for their continued support.

ARTIST BIOS Madeline Hildebrand, piano

Jennifer Parr, stage director

Madeline’s passion for piano music recently culminated in a Master of Piano Performance from UBC under the tutelage of distinguished Canadian pianist, Jane Coop.

Previously she earned a performance degree with Judy Kehler Siebert at University of Manitoba, where she received the Millennium Scholarship.

The opportunities afforded her have been many and exhilarating, including the prestigious Doris McLellan first prize for solo performance with the WSO in 2012.

Jennifer Parr is delighted to be working with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as Stage Director for Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Beyond the Score® She has been the Production Stage Director for BTS: The Rite of Spring (conducted by Vassily Petrenko, starring Colm Feore & Tom Allen), and BTS: The Miraculous Mandarin (conducted by James Gaffigan, starring Derek Boyes & Peter Duchesnes) both with the Toronto Symphony, and travelled to Chicago last year to observe the Chicago Symphony Orchestra creating BTS: Prokofiev 5. In March she will travel to Quebec as production stage director for BTS: Tchaikovsky 4.

With the TSO she has also stage managed The (Makeover) Messiah (conducted by Noel Edison) and The Magic Flute in Concert (conducted by Bernard Labadie, directed by Graham Cozzubo).

Madeline has been awarded scholarships to study with such luminaries as André Laplante, John Perry and Gilbert Kalish through Orford, Banff, Icicle Creek and Kneisel Hall, Maine. Besides performances at home and on the west coast, highlights have included the 2013 E-gré national competition, premiers at Manitoba’s Cluster festival, collaborations with Randolph Peters, a House Concert Series across the prairies, the Eastern European Cultural Festival in Romania, and accompanying Canada’s National Youth Choir.

EXTRA MUSICIANS: Laura MacDougall, flute; Jim Ewen, bassoon

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Anderson & Roe

Daniel Raiskin, conductor Anderson & Roe, piano duo

MASTERWORKS

Romeo and Juliet

Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791)

in E-flat major, K. 365 Allegro Andante Rondo: Allegro - INTERMISSION -

Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Boléro

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

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his mother died in Paris. Grieving, Mozart returned to his family in Salzburg where he was especially glad to see his beloved sister Maria Anna (“Nannerl”), who he could confide in both musically and personally. It is thought that he composed his Concerto for Two Pianos (K. 365) for them both to play as a sign of comfort among family during difficult times.

closing coda. Friar Lawrence appears in the slow introduction.

The lively syncopated Allegro

by James Manishen giusto that follows depicts the conflict between the Montagues Overture to A Midsummer and Capulets. The love theme Night’s Dream (English horn) paints Romeo’s Felix Mendelssohn passion followed by the muted b. Hamburg / February 3, 1809 yearning strings as Juliet’s d. Leipzig / November 4, 1847 response. After the events are further vividly processed, things Composed: 1826 The Two-Piano Concerto’s ebullient joy darken and a funereal drum beats First performance: February 20, 1827 is further enhanced by a richness in out the lovers’ fatal close, (Stettin), conducted by Carl Lowe scoring, for Mozart uses oboes, bassoons highlighted by woodwinds in Last WSO performance: 2004; Michelle and horns to underpin the two pianos celestial mood and Romeo’s final Mourre, conductor treated as fully equal partners. Perhaps poignant call. this came from his Paris sojourn where The Mendelssohn with its multiple soloists the “sinfonia Boléro household of the concertante” was in vogue and likely the Maurice Ravel composer’s youth was a b. Ciboure, France / March 7, 1875 magical place. Located in a inspiration for Mozart’s own great Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola d. Paris, France / December 28, 1937 rural, verdant setting outside Berlin’s gates, the that was an exact contemporary with the Composed: 1928 glittering mansion had a concert room that Two-Piano Concerto. The Concerto is a First performance: November 20, gem among Mozart’s works for piano 1928 (Paris), conducted by seated several hundred audience members and orchestra and hardly a better model Walter Straram at the family’s regular Sunday musicales of enduring charm, wit and skill exists Last WSO performance: 2007, where Felix and his older sister Fanny among them all.

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor performed their own music. Outside was a lush garden where in the warm summer Romeo and Juliet In 1928 famed days the two would read, dream and, as Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballerina Ida Felix wrote, had “encountered b. Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840 Rubenstein, whose Shakespeare,” especially A Midsummer d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893 company had first Night’s Dream. Felix vowed he would put Composed: 1869; revised in 1870 and 1880 performed Ravel’s music to the play’s world of fantasy.

First performance: March 16, 1870 La Valse, asked (Moscow), conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein Ravel to orchestrate some of Spanish Felix was only 17 when he completed his Last WSO performance: 2007, Alexander composer Isaac Albéniz’s piano famous overture to A Midsummer Night’s music as a dance score. Instead Ravel Mickelthwate, conductor Dream, a work many consider the first supplied Boléro, a “danse lascive” as independent concert-overture. He wrote Plagued with self-doubt he called it – “orchestration without alongside artistic and music” that would go on to incidental music for the same play sixteen financial struggles, years later, all of which capture the world of overwhelm the musical world with Tchaikovsky accepted unprecedented popularity. The a youthful imagination and miraculous the prodding of music’s unwavering repeated compositional skill that has entranced composer and selfrhythmic and melodic phrases audiences ever since. proclaimed advisor Mili Balakirev to feeding an insinuating crescendo put write an orchestral piece around a Ravel’s name on the populist map.

Concerto for Two Pianos musical design Balakirev had created Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The premiere was a major success, for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. b. Salzburg / January 27, 1756 Ravel’s hypnotic music further Balakirev was one of the so-called d. Vienna / December 5, 1791 “Mighty Five” Russian composers bent sparked by Rubenstein’s suggestive Composed: 1779 or 1780 on promoting a nationalistic school of table-top dancing in a scene set in a Last WSO performance: 1982; Ralph rustic Spanish tavern. The American musical composition. Recognizing Markham and Kenneth Broadway, pianists; Tchaikovsky’s talent and vulnerability, premiere conducted by Arturo Balakirev pushed hard, and the 29-year- Toscanini in Carnegie Hall on Alexis Hauser, conductor November 14, 1929 had similar mass old Tchaikovsky delivered his first Mozart’s 17-month tour to masterpiece, one of the most coherent success. Drawing foreseeable Munich, Mannheim and and successful marriages of music with comments as to its musical worth, Paris between September program in the orchestral literature.

Ravel simply stated “there are no 1777 and January 1779 contrasts, there is practically no was filled with invention except the plan and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is a disappointment and fantasy-overture crafted in a tight sonata manner of execution…it is for sadness. No job materialized for him - the form with introduction, episodes and listeners to take it or leave it.” main purpose of the tour - and on July 3rd

PROGRAM NOTES

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MASTERWORKS

ARTIST BIOS

Romeo and Juliet Daniel Raiskin, conductor

Anderson & Roe, piano

Daniel Raiskin grew up in St. Petersburg, where he went to the celebrated conservatory to study viola and conducting. He then chose to make a gradual transition into a conducting career and became recognized as one of the most versatile conductors of the younger generation.

Known for their adrenalized performances, original compositions, and notorious music videos, Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century. Described as “the intense synchronization of genius” (ThirdCoast Digest) and “the most dynamic duo of this generation” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo aims to make classical music a relevant and powerful force around the world.

Their recent album, When Words Fade (Steinway Label), was released to critical acclaim in 2012 and spent over a dozen weeks at the top of the Billboard Classical Charts, while their Emmy-nominated, self-produced music videos have been viewed by millions on YouTube.

Since 2005, Daniel Raiskin has been the Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz and since 2008 he has held the same title with the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra in Lódz (Poland). His regular guest engagements across Europe and Asia include the most renowned international orchestras.

Since forming their dynamic musical partnership in 2002 as students at The Juilliard School, the duo has appeared In the 2014/2015 season Daniel Raiskin will make on NPR and MTV, toured extensively worldwide as recitalists and orchestral soloists, and presented at numerous his debut with Clásica Santa Cecilia in Madrid, international leader symposiums. A performance by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, San Antonio Symphony and Winnipeg Symphony. Anderson & Roe Piano Duo was handpicked to appear on the Sounds of Juilliard CD celebrating the school’s He will return to the Belgrade Philharmonic, centenary. Highlights of the 2014/2015 season include Jenaer Philharmonie, Mariinsky Orchestra, RTV tours and performances throughout North America, Asia, Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and Stuttgarter and Europe; and the release of their ambitious—and Philharmoniker as guest conductor. literally explosive—music film, The Rite of Spring.

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Joined WSO: 2012 Hometown: Toronto, ON

Joined WSO: 2010 Hometown: Calgary, AB

What is your favourite book?

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

What is your favourite book? A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Carnegie Hall this past May.

What is your favourite movie? Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you? Jascha Heifetz Where did you receive your musical training/education? University of Toronto and The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music.

What is your most memorable moment performing with the WSO? Playing Shostakovich with Andre Boreyko Where did you receive your musical training/education? The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Michigan (GO BLUE!).

James Robertson

Brendan Thompson

Horn

Timpani, Acting Principal

Joined WSO: 2010 Hometown: Edmonton, AB

Joined WSO: 2014 Hometown: Winnipeg, MB

What is your favourite book?

The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten

What is your favourite book? The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

What is your favourite movie? Up

What is your favourite movie? The Untouchables

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you? Jim Ewen

What musician/artist had a profound influence on you? National Symphony Orchestra timpanist (and former WSO timpanist), Jauvon Gilliam.

Without him, there is no way I would be where I am today.

What is your guilty pleasure? Taking a day off.

Where did you receive your musical training/education? I got a Bachelor’s of Music in Victoria, then a Master’s Degree at the Manhattan School of Music.

What is your guilty pleasure? A giant bowl of ice cream. I could eat ice cream for days!

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WSO SUPPORTERS

The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following companies whose generous support helps to ensure musical enrichment within our community. Thank you!

Podium $20,000 + The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada Johnston Group Inc. Resident Artist $10,000 - $19,999 The Distillery Qualico Principal Chair $5,000 - $9,999 Canon Canada Inc. Carlyle Printers, Service & Supplies Ltd. The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada Assistant Principal Chair $2,500 - $4,999 Cambrian Credit Union J.K. Investments Ltd. Orchestra Chair $1,000 - $2,499 B. A. Robinson & Co. Ltd./Robinson Bath Centre Bison Transport Durango Construction Inc. Long & McQuade Musical Instruments MTS Allstream Urbanink Winmar Property Restoration Music Stand $500 - $999 Coghlan's Limited Crosier Kilgour & Partners Ltd. E.H. Price Limited Hub International STRATA Benefits Consulting InterGroup Consultants Ltd. Peerless Garments LP Pollard Banknote Limited Red River Cooperative Ltd. True Value Hardware & V. & S. Dept. Stores

Foundations

The WSO gratefully acknowledges the following foundations: Aqueduct Foundation - Inga and Anna Storgaard Fund Brandon Area Community Foundation Bruce and Catherine Jones Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation Burton A. and Geraldine L. Robinson Fund C.P. Loewen Family Foundation Inc. Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba George Warren Keates Memorial Fund Houston Family of Bradwardine Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation James Thompson Memorial Fund in Trust of WSO John and Carolynne McLure Fund Leslie John Taylor Fund, the Winnipeg Foundation Lutz Family Foundation Marjory Alexander Graham & Family Fund Marjory Stewart McLaren Fund Nita Eamer Memorial Fund Sylvia & Robin Cowan Foundation The Noreen & Robert Allen Charitable Trust The Pollard Family Foundation Program for the Enrichment of French in Education Perce & Elizabeth Schirmer Foundation RBC Foundation The Tallman Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation The Winnipeg Foundation - Dr. Peter & Geraldine Spencer Fund True North Jets Foundation United Way of Greater Toronto

The Legacy Circle exists to recognize the following patrons whose foresight ensures that the WSO plays on for all Manitobans for generations to come. The WSO gratefully acknowledges Legacy Circle members for their planned future gift to the WSO.

Lucienne Blouw Lorraine & Gerry Cairns Greg Doyle & Carol Bellringer Ethel & Joe Karr Michel D. Lagacé G. E. Loewen S. E. Loewen Riser W. H. Loewen Under $500 Dr. Brendan MacDougall A. Akman & Son Ltd. Carolyn & Nathan Mitchell Con-Pro Industries Canada Ltd. Lesia Peet Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard Mid West Packaging Limited Tannis M. Richardson Patill/St. James Insurance Trudy Schroeder June Slobodian 28

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The Maestro’s Circle exists to recognize those special patrons whose significant philanthropy furthers the musical artistry of the WSO. Thank you!

Honourary Chair Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director Platinum Baton $25,000 + Bill & Shirley Loewen* Silver Baton $5,000 - $9,999 James Gibbs Michael Nozick & Cheryl Ashley Concertmaster's Bow $2,500 - $4,999 Gail Asper & Michael Paterson Timothy & Barbara Burt Pierce & Amy Cairns Bill & Margaret Fast Audrey F. Hubbard Kevin & Els Kavanagh* Dr. Brendan MacDougall Drs. Eleanor & Grant MacDougall John Mansfield & Pam Simmons* Ron & Sandi Mielitz Diane Payment & Roxroy West Frank & Jeanne Plett Lawrie & Fran Pollard Dr. Diane Ramsey Hartley & Heather Richardson Tannis M. Richardson* Ian R. Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Mr. Richard Turner Professor A.M.C. Waterman Black Tie $1,500 - $2,499 Ms. Sandra Altner Aubrey & Dr. Linda Asper Mr. Jim Barrett Morley & Marjorie Blankstein C.M., O.M. Mrs. Lucienne Blouw Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Brent Trepel Doneta & Harry Brotchie Mr. & Mrs. John & Bonnie Buhler Herb & Erna Buller Ms. Patricia Chaychuk In Memory of Robert M. Chipman Mr. David Christianson Jan & Kevin Coates James Cohen & Linda McGarva-Cohen De Fehr Foundation

John & Gay Docherty Dorothy Dobbie Greg Doyle and Carol Bellringer Marten & Joanne Duhoux Douglas C. Everett, Chairman, Domo Gasoline Corporation Limited Ilse & Philipp Ens Ms. Barbara Filuk* Mr. Alan Freeman Arnold & Myra Frieman Dr. & Mrs. Albert D. Friesen Dr. & Mrs. Percy Goldberg* Joanne Gudmundson & Brian Oleson Drs. Daya & Chander Gupta Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Hawkins Peter Jessiman Derek & Mary Johannson Richard & Carol Jones Michael & Glenna Kay Dr. Terry Klassen & Ms. Grace Dueck Mr. Sotirios Kotoulas Mr. Rob Kowalchuk Paul Leinburd Dr. Judith Littleford Graham & Suzie Lount Jackie Lowe and Greg Tallon Dr. David Lyttle In Memory of David Mann Elaine & Neil Margolis Mr. Brent R. Mazur Maestro Alexander Mickelthwate Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Murray Dr. Michael Nelson & Dr. Selena Friesen Wayne & Linda Paquin Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Parrish Lesia Peet Dr. Beryl Peters & Dr. Blair Peters Harvey I. Pollock Q.C. Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope* Dr. & Mrs. Brian Postl Mr. & Mrs. G.V. Price John & Violet Rademaker Dr. Donald S. Reimer & Mrs. Anne Reimer Jim & Leney Richardson* Mrs. Shirley Richardson Mr. Rick Riess & Mrs. Jean Carter Sanford & Deborah Riley Olga & Bill Runnalls Mr. Terry Sargeant Trudy Schroeder Cheryl & Lorne Sharfe Jimmy & Morse Silden Winnifred Sim Jack & Elaine Sine Muriel Smith Dudley & Eleanor Thompson Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Dr. & Mrs. Eric Vickar Mr. Curt Vossen Edward & Irene Warkentin Don & Florence Whitmore Klaus & Elsa Wolf Dr. & Mrs. Klaus Wrogemann * Founding Members

Friends of the WSO help support the WSO’s artistic programs each season.

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PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL Al Alexandruk Mal Anderson Carol Bellringer Marilyn Billinkoff Doneta Brotchie John and Bonnie Buhler James Carr Edmund Dawe, D.M.A. Dorothy Dobbie Greg Doyle Jamie Dolynchuk Julia De Fehr Susan Feldman Barbara Filuk Wally Fox-Decent Jack Fraser Evelyn Friesen Elba Haid Helen Hayles Kaaren Hawkins Sherrill Hershberg Ian Kay Roger King Bill Knight Michel Lagacé Zina Lazareck

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PRESIDENTS OF THE WINNIPEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 1948-51 1951-53 1953-55 1955-57 1957-58 1958-61 1961-62 1962-64 1964-65 1965-67 1967-69 1969-71 1971-73 1973-74 1974-76 1976-78 1978-79 1979-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83

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Mr. Andrew D. M. Ogaranko, Q.C. Mr. Harold Buchwald, Q.C. Mr. Michel Lagacé Mr. William H. Loewen Mrs. Julia DeFehr Mr. Gordon Fogg Mrs. Helen Hayles Mr. Anthony Brookes Mrs. Helen Hayles Mr. William Norrie Mr. William Loewen Mr. Bruce MacCormack Mr. Roger King Ms. Patti Sullivan Mr. Wally Fox-Decent Ms. Carol Bellringer Mr. Harvey Pollock (Interim President) Mr. Brendan MacDougall Ms. Dorothy Dobbie Mr. Timothy E. Burt, CFA

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WSO BOARD & STAFF 2014-2015 SEASON OUR DISTINGUISHED PATRONS His Honour the Honourable Philip S. Lee C.M., O.M. Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship Brian Bowman, Mayor of the City of Winnipeg Mr. W.H. Loewen & Mrs. S.E. Loewen, WSO Directors Emeritus WOMEN'S COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE Sylvia Cassie, President Winnifred Warkentin, Vice-President Shirley Loewen, Past President Isobel Harvie, Treasurer Tracey LeClair, Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Timothy E. Burt, CFA Alan Freeman President Daniel Freidman Richard Turner Dr. Daya Gupta 1st Vice President Gregory Hay Terry Sargeant Micah Heilbrunn 2 nd Vice President Robin Hildebrand Rob Kowalchuk Peter Jessiman Treasurer Maureen Kilgour Michael D. Kay Sotirios Kotoulas Corporate Secretary Dr. Eleanor MacDougall Sandra Altner Alexander Mickelthwate, John Balsillie Ex-officio Lucienne Blouw Dr. Michael Nelson Sylvia Cassie Trudy Schroeder, Ex-officio Michael Cox Dr. Ian Thomson Arlene Dahl Curt Vossen Marten Duhoux OFFICIAL AUDITORS Deloitte LLP

TRUDY SCHROEDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ALEXANDER MICKELTHWATE, MUSIC DIRECTOR

EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Marks, Confidential Executive Assistant

ARTISTIC Bramwell Tovey, Conductor Laureate Julian Pellicano, Resident Conductor

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION John Bacon, Director of Finance & Administration Sandi Mitchell, Payroll & Accounting Administrator Leanne Plett, Accounting & Administrative Assistant DEVELOPMENT Joanne Gudmundson, Director of Development Carol Cassels, Development Manager Jeremy Krahn, Business Development Officer Shenna Song, Development Coordinator Caroline Murphy, Telefunder, Donations & Raffles SALES & AUDIENCE SERVICES Ryan Diduck, Director of Sales & Audience Services Desiree La Vallee, Box Office Coordinator Theresa Huscroft, Group Events Representative Kena Olson, Patron Services Representative Patron Services Representatives (p/t): Phil Corrin Chelse McKee Meg Dolovich Crystal Schwartz Rachel Himelblau Stephanie Van Nest Melissa Houston

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS Jean-Francois Phaneuf, Director of Artistic Operations James Manishen, Artistic Operations Associate Evan Klassen, Production Manager Sheena Sanderson, Stage Manager Chris Lee, Orchestra Personnel Manager Ray Chrunyk, Principal Librarian Laura MacDougall, Assistant Librarian Lawrence Rentz, Stage Supervisor EDUCATION & OUTREACHTanya Derksen, Shannon Darby, Education & Outreach Coordinator Brent Johnson, Community Outreach Coordinator MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Neil Middleton, Director of Marketing & Communications Sarah Panas, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Matt Brooks, Multimedia Coordinator S. Thompson Designs Inc.

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