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ALT ASO @ Asheville Art Museum

June 21, 2022

ALT ASO @ ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM

Conductor Darko Butorac Featuring members of your Asheville Symphony

This program is inspired by the Asheville Art Museum’s new exhibition: American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection.

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SET LIST Lord Howe’s Jig Janet Lowthorpe // Trumpet Waltz George Walker // Lyric for Strings Variations on “Oh Susanna” Samuel Barber // Adagio for Strings Jay Unger // Ashokan Farewell with narration Aaron Copland // Appalachian Spring

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Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority

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Olivia & Gary Zahler Kathryn & Harry Durity 3 // ALT ASO @ Asheville Art Museum

GOLDEN SPONSORS

Northwestern Mutual / Kevin Pasarilla & Jenn Marlowe Walk With Me Tours Lynne & John Eramo Russell & Ladene Newton Sarah Van Gunten Keith Keener

CONDUCTOR — DARKO BUTORAC — Praised by the Westdeutsche Zeitung for his “exceptional combination of passion, elegance and well-timed pacing”, Darko Butorac has established himself as a conductor in demand with orchestras both in Europe and the Americas. He currently serves as the Music Director of the Asheville Symphony and the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.

Distinguished collaborations include soprano Renee Fleming, pianists Garrick Ohlsson and Jon Kimura Parker, tenor Lawrence Brownlee, cellist Colin Carr, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and Oscar-winning actor J.K.Simmons among others.

As the Grand Prix Laureate and Gold Medalist of the Fourth International Vakhtang Jordania Conducting Competition Butorac was invited to conduct orchestras across four

continents. He was also selected to participate at the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview hosted by the League of American Orchestras and the Jacksonville Symphony.

Butorac is also in demand as a public speaker on leadership. His TEDx Montana talk on the “Language of Conducting” has over a 150K views on YouTube. He has appeared as a speaker on behalf of Brighthouse, a division of BCG, and was the headline speaker at the Birla Carbon International Leadership Summit in Bangkok in 2018.

He is an avid traveler, having visited almost seventy countries, and is passionate about discovering the world and bringing people together through the beauty of music.

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— MUSICIANS —

Flute Lissie Shanahan Clarinet Chip Hill Bassoon Rosalind Buda Trumpet Chris Underwood Piano Jihye Sung

Violin I A. Petrunina Mariya Potapova Teresa Curran Violin II Debra Anthony Inez Redman Ginger Kowal Viola Kara Poorbaugh Sarah Kehrberg Jason McCoy Cello Daniel Mumm Franklin Keel Bass Lee Metcalfe

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