Holiday Classics & Sing-a-long

Holiday Classics &

SING-A-LONG

Holiday Classics &

SING-A-LONG

Thank you for joining the Southern California Philharmonic this evening. The program that we have for you has been a joy to rehearse and we are happy to perform it for you!

The SoCalPhil along with the City of Anaheim wish you and your family a happy, healthy holiday and a joyous New Year!

Dear Friends, Season’s Greetings from the musicians of the Southern California Philharmonic and the SCP Board of Directors! We are so happy to be able to present this Holiday Classics concert for you along with our traditional audience sing-along!

While we continue to grapple with a new way to prepare and present live music in a safe manner, we are committed to using the lessons we have learned over the past two years to keep moving forward.

Thank you for being here today and for your continuing support of SCP. We look forward to more musical things to come in the New Year!

We hope you enjoy the concert and will visit us at www.socalphil.org to find out what else we have coming up for you in 2021!

Beth McCormick President SCP Board of Directors

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Branden Muresan, Music Director & Conductor

Polonaise from Christmas Eve Suite Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Many Moods of Christmas featuring Lynn Chavdariv & the Faith Community Chorus of Orange County Robert Shaw & Robert Russell Bennett

Suite 1 Good Christian Men Rejoice Silent Night Patapan O Come, All Ye Faithful

Suite 2 Santissima Joy to the World Away in a Manger Fum Fum Fum March of the Kings Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson

Intermission O Holy Night Conducted by James Winchell Adolphe Charles Adam Scored by Calvin Custer Suite 3 What Child is This?

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Bring a Torch, Jeneatee, Isabella Angels We Have Heard on High Suite 4 Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heav'nly Light The First Noel O Little Town of Bethlehem I Saw Three Ships Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah George Frideric Handel arranged by Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart Audience Sing-a-long A Christmas Festival Leroy Anderson featuring Lynn Chavdarov and the Faith Community Chorus Audience Sing-a-long Special thanks to the City of Anaheim for inviting SoCalPhil to perform in the Pearson Park Amphitheatre!

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Lynn Chavdarov Segrist is the Founding Director of Faith Community Chorus of Orange County, which she began in January 2006 as a ministry to her community. The choir is made up of singers from several churches and various choirs, including Voices of Tustin, as well as several singers from Aldersgate UMC, where she is the Director of Music Ministries and directs the Chancel Choir, Youth Choir and Handbell Choir. Under her creative leadership, FCC presents two to three concerts per year, typically with orchestra and covering a wide range of musical genres.

In addition to her director role, Lynn sang soprano with the Orange County Choral Society of Huntington Beach, the Orange Community Master Chorale, Musica Sacra/William Lock Singers, the Robert Carl Chorale, and other groups.

Additionally, she plays French horn and has both played for and directed bands for many years. She directed her Illinois hometown’s Park Singers junior and senior high school performers and added an elementary age group during her tenure as director; both groups performed at the Illinois State Fair several years under her direction.

Lynn is an honor graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and dual concentrations in Music and Reading Disabilities.

She is newly married to Gene Segrist, and the happy couple lives in Orange, CA. Lynn has one daughter, Ali, who is also a fine singer and currently a senior at California State University Fullerton.

Maestro Branden Muresan is a native of San Juan Capistrano, California, where he still resides and teaches. He began studying violin performance at age six, under the tutelage of Merillee Walker and Noumi Fischer. After earning his AA from Saddleback College, he went on to study at San Diego State University, where he was honored to be taken as a student by Igor and Vesna Gruppman, former students of Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh.

At SDSU, he earned his Bachelors of Music Degree in Violin Performance, and in 2000 he graduated with a Masters in Music with a major in Instrumental and Orchestral Conducting, under the instruction of Dr. Donald Barra, Branden began performing violin professionally at age 16 and has since become a well-known orchestral violinist from Baja California to Los Angeles. His most notable performances have been with the Irish Tenors, in Mexicali BC, at Luciano Pavarotti’s last professional concert, and most recently on tour with Il Divo.

Currently he is concertmaster for the Long Beach Ballet Orchestra.

Professor Muresan began teaching private violin at age 18, and many of those students have grown and pursued advanced music degrees at such prestigious colleges such as Longy Conservatory of Music, CalArts, UCSD, USD, UCLB, & University of Utah. In a college setting, Professor Muresan began teaching at Grossmont College in 2001, University of San Diego in 2003, Mira Costa College in 2009, and has since been honored to be an adjunct professor at his Alma Mater Saddleback College, where he still currently teaches.

As a conductor, Maestro Muresan began with founding and developing the East San Diego County Civic Youth Orchestra program in 2003, which is still running strong. After performing in several guest conducting spots, he was contacted to build and lead a new adult orchestra program in Poway, California, as well as the Four Seasons Youth Orchestra in Newport Beach. He also was interim conductor for the Saddleback College Orchestra during the 2011-2012 season.

In 2009, Maestro Muresan was hired to conduct the Mira Costa Symphony Orchestra, and in 2012 he won the opportunity to conduct the Southern California Philharmonic Orchestra. These orchestras are thriving and growing under the direction and care of Maestro Muresan.

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Jessica Haddy has been the concertmaster of the Southern California Philharmonic since 2016. She was a featured soloist for the ensemble in 2018 and 2021. In 2019, she was the contractor and concertmaster for Tustin’s Ballet Nutcracker performances at the Plummer Auditorium.

Currently, she is the Principal 2nd Violinist with the Mira Costa Symphony and has performed with the Golden State Pops, Culver City Chamber Orchestra, OC Symphony, Dana Point Symphony and the Debut Symphony.

As a soloist, Jessica has been invited to perform at the Laguna Beach Sunset Serenades and the Hortense Miller Estate concert series. In 2020, Jessica and harpist Jillian Lopez recorded an album featuring French and Argentinian composers. In the same year, she filmed a concert at the historic Long Beach Bembridge House with pianist Anthony Lopez, performing pieces celebrating the fall season. She has been featured on Mission Viejo’s television network as a soloist and has performed solo concerts for the Mission Viejo Arts Alive concert series.

The Krutz Strings company named her as their Brand Ambassador in 2018.

Jessica performs regularly with her husband, Ryan Haddy.

Together, the violin and guitar duo founded Haddy Music.

Haddy Music performs at private events and has been featured at several music festivals. Haddy Music is highly reviewed and was featured in Riviera Magazine’s Best of OC for event music. Currently Jessica and Ryan are working on composing and recording original compositions.

While working in Los Angeles, Jessica has appeared in music videos with Elton John, Sheryl Crow, Sting, Il Divo, and Randy Travis. Jessica was also the violinist for the first musical stage production of Quadrophenia written by Pete Townsend of The Who. She is currently the orchestra assistant and conductor at Corona Del Mar High School and Middle School, strings teacher at Free Society Academics, and Linden Tree Learning Enrichment. She was a featured strings instructor for the Newport Mesa district string conference in 2020. A Laguna Beach resident, Jessica teaches from her home studio as well as instructing nationally for the online music company, Tunelark. Before having her daughter Ravelle, Jessica taught violin, viola, and cello at the Journey School in Aliso Viejo and was the strings coach for the Aliso Niguel High school orchestras.

Currently, Jessica has been invited to be the strings instructor at the Waldorf School in Costa Mesa!

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PHILHARMONIC First Violin Jessica Haddy *** Simeon Brown** Karen Harms** Daphne Artis Terry Blalock David Doo Jim Eastmond Goran Ivanov Mary Myers Kenneth Parks Carmel Shahriary Kim Stephens-Doll Albert Einstein Wu

Second Violin Juanita Jackson* Ana Varela** Marjorie Criddle Elizabeth Dressel Gina Jacobs Richard Kenyon Jenny Kriakov Dan Louie Lindsay McCarthy Sussan Shahriary Fran Spalin Susan Teitelbaum

Viola Piccolo/Flute Horn Betty Whyte Tod Beckett-Frank* Michael Cleary*

Dan Tyler* Joi Ciarletta ** Flute Roger Gottfried Roger A. Betty Whyte * Kathy Lowe Johnston Randy Smith Alondra Pena Jan Larson

Oboe Trombone Jacqueline Su Ann Ludwig * James Winchell*

Lisa Chattler Craig Chorbagian Cello Melissa McElroy John Lowe Chris McCarthy*

W. Peter Harvey English Horn Tuba ** Lisa Chattler Kevin Perez

Vivien Ide Bassoon Percussion Nancy Korb John York* Greg Ozment* Martine Korach Theresa Harvey Eric Foster Pauline Merry

Christoph Rayburn Jessica Ngo Clarinet Shane Stever Ben Spencer Daryl Golden*

Matthew Caffrey Piano John Wilkerson

Christoph Rayburn

Bass Clarinet

Bass Mark Day Guitar Christopher

Eric Foster Sterling* Trumpet

Harp David Blackington Timothy Shevlin* Matt LaBelle Jillian Risigari-Gai Brian Slack Leonardo Valverde Lopez* Bob StephensChiara Solar

Doll

Christopher Visan *** Concert Master * Principal

**Asst Principal

FAITH COMMUNITY CHORUS OF ORANGE COUNTY Soprano Amy Beaulieu Coleen Bentley Elisa Werderman Gloria Henderson Janice Zieke Joyce Hanak Karen Verostek Kerry Wright Lin Kraus Megan Waters Susan Barb

Alto Diane Fort Gail Watson Kay Doerr Kim Mohr Linda Gavin-Morand Susanne Anderson

Tenor Alec Waters Dick Cobb Gerry Geroca Keith Kuntz

Bass Dan Gara Dan Nolte Gene Segrist Harry Doerr Jeffrey Nottke Mac Bright Preston Kirby Smith Thomas C. Wright

The SoCalPhil will present the 18th Annual Young Artists Concert Series, with concerts scheduled on Sunday, February 13th, April 3rd, and June 5th. Almost thirty very talented musicians between the ages of 3 and 23 auditioned, and from them, ten soloists were selected to perform with SCP under the direction of Music Director/Conductor Branden Muresan. Soloists, vocal and instrumental, will perform a movement or aria from a variety of classics, and each will receive a modest scholarship to help continue their musical studies.SCP is pleased to announce that the Young Artists Showcase is again generously sponsored by the Tustin Area Council for Fine Arts. Please join us to celebrate these young musicians and the future of classical music!

For more info on SoCalPhil Young Artists, go to www.socalphil.org

Happy Holidays!

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