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January 25, 2022

ALT ASO @ HIGHLAND BREWING Special Beer Release

— SOUND CZECH PALE LAGER — Support your Symphony by ordering this special release from Highland Brewing! $1 from every purchase of Sound Czech Pale Lager will support your Asheville Symphony — cheers!

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SET LIST 1

Verdi // La Traviata : Prelude to Act III Bizet // Carmen : Habanera + Danse Boheme Gardel // Por una Cabeza Saint-Saëns // Samson & Delilah : Bacchanale

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Sinnerman Bang Bang (My Baby Shot me Down) These Boots are Made for Walkin' Jolene Feelin' Good

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Killer Queen Back to Black Sweet Child O' Mine Smells Like Teen Spirit Bad Romance

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TONIGHT’S GENEROUS SPONSORS AMBER SPONSORS

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Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority

GOLDEN SPONSORS

Dr. Nancy Cable Daniel and Caroline Crupi Jerry and Diane Cunningham

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Bolling Farmer Jim and Mary Kirby Linda Walker

GUEST VOCALIST

— HANNAH ZAZZARO — Hannah Zazzaro, an actor, singer and songwriter, has always had her hands in multiple performance genres. She began classical voice training in middle school and went on to achieve a BFA in Musical Theater from the prestigious University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music (CCM). She is currently writing songs for an upcoming album. She has done professional theater and performed in many concerts and cabaret venues throughout New York City and has been seen on Late Night with Stephen Colbert and on the HBO Documentary Master Class with Bobby McFerrin. She is featured on albums such as “Cityscapes” by Shouthouse, a Juilliard-backed orchestral hip hop group, and “Abandoned Heart”

by New York fixture Michael Mott and was recently a featured artist with the Savannah Philharmonic. Hannah is from Clearwater, FL.

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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

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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.

Flute Lissie Shanahan Oboe Alicia Chapman

Violin II Debra Anthony Inez Redman Teresa Curran Lori Hammel

Clarinet Chip Hill Karen Hill Horn Jeffery Whaley Anneka Zuehlke Trumpet Chris Underwood Eric Millard Trombone Jeremy Marks

Violin I Jason Posnock Mariya Potapova Essena Setaro Rachael Kistler-Igo

Viola Kara Poorbaugh Jenny Kozoroz Leigh Dixon Cello Daniel Mumm Franklin Keel Cherylonda Fitzgerald

Percussion Brian Tinkel Judah Barak Electric Bass E’Lon JD Keyboard Brian Turner

Bass Mike Di Trolio Chamber Orchestra

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