Program - Video Games Live™ Returns! and Carnival of the Animals

Colorado Symphony 2017/18 Season Presenting Sponsor:

SPECIAL • 2017/18 VIDEO GAMES LIVE™ RETURNS! COLORADO SYMPHONY EMMANUEL FRATIANNI, conductor TOMMY TALLARICO, creator/host COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, TAYLOR MARTIN, assistant conductor Friday, March 9, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 10, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

Selections to be announced from the stage

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SPECIAL BIOGRAPHIES EMMANUEL FRATIANNI, conductor Considered an expert conducting the music of film, multimedia and crossover-classical programs, music director and award-winning composer Emmanuel Fratianni has delighted and engaged sold-out audiences of over 40 prestigious orchestras in the United States and Canada alone, including the National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore, Dallas, and Houston symphonies. Fluent in multiple languages and enjoying dual work status in the United States and Europe, Fratianni’s extensive background as both a classical and jazz musician, has afforded him as much ease conducting the 100-piece ensemble of choir, orchestra and soloists, as pop crossover productions such as “David Foster and Friends” with celebrity guest artists.

TOMMY TALLARICO, Creator/Executive Producer/Host Tommy Tallarico is a veritable video game industry icon. As one of the most successful video game composers in history, he has helped revolutionize the gaming world, creating unique audio landscapes that enhance the video gaming experience. He is considered the person most instrumental in changing the game industry from bleeps & bloops to real music now appreciated worldwide by millions of fans. He is the founder, CEO and Chairman of G.A.N.G. (Game Audio Network Guild), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in interactive audio (www.audiogang.org). Tommy was the host, writer and co-producer of the awardwinning, cutting-edge television shows Reviews on the Run and the Electric Playground. An accomplished musician, Tallarico has been writing music for video games for more than 22 years.

Tallarico was the first musician to release a video game soundtrack worldwide (Tommy Tallarico’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1 – Capitol Records). Tommy was one of the first people to ever use live guitar and 3-D audio in a video game (The Terminator), and was instrumental in bringing true digital interactive 5.1 surround to the gaming world. He has won over 50 industry awards for best video game audio and has worked on more than 300 game titles. His score for Advent Rising has been noted as “one of the greatest musical scores of all time” by websites such as Yahoo, Gamespot and others. In 2008, he was enshrined in the Guinness Book of World Records with a two page feature article and interview and currently holds 3 Guinness World Records including the person who has worked on the most commercially released video games.

For more information about Tommy please visit www.tallarico.com.

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SPECIAL BIOGRAPHIES TAYLOR MARTIN, assistant conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Taylor Martin is a dynamic conductor, educator, and professional singer working with Denver’s diverse populations since 2012. Taylor has served as the Artistic Director of the Denver Pro Chorale since 2016, performing diverse programs, and developing collaborations with the Breckenridge Music Festival, and Colorado Symphony, among others. In 2016, Taylor was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus, serving as Chorus Director of Video Games Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater, and for Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton, at Boettcher Concert Hall.

In collaboration with the Colorado Symphony and Chorus, Taylor prepared the Denver Pro Chorale for Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses. An impassioned educator in Denver, Taylor has taught with the non-profit organization, El Sistema Colorado, since its infancy, developing key elements of the choral curriculum. The program brings free music education to under-served students in the Globeville and Swansea neighborhoods in Denver, and has become an important part of the cultural fabric of Colorado. As an active professional singer, Taylor sings regularly with the Colorado Bach Ensemble, and Saint Martin’s Chamber Choir, with whom he joined the Santa Fe Desert Chorale for a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in the summer of 2014. Taylor serves as Director of Music at Christ the King Catholic Church in Denver, where he directs four ensembles, and is a sought-after clinician and guest conductor throughout the Greater Denver Area. Taylor holds an Artist Diploma and Master of Music from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music.

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SPECIAL PROGRAM NOTES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS The 2017/18 Colorado Symphony Concert Season marks the 34th year of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. Founded in 1984 by Duain Wolfe at the request of Gaetano Delogu, then the Music Director of the Symphony, the chorus has grown over the past three decades, into a nationallyrespected ensemble. This outstanding chorus of 180 volunteers joins the Colorado Symphony for numerous performances, and radio and television broadcasts, to repeat critical acclaim. The Chorus has performed at noted music festivals in the Rocky Mountain region, including the Colorado Music Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, where it has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony. For over two decades, the Chorus has been featured at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival, performing many great masterworks under the baton of notable conductors Lawrence Foster, James Levine, Murry Sidlin, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, and David Zinman.

Among the recordings the Colorado Symphony Chorus has made is a NAXOS release of Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 4. The Chorus is also featured on a recent Hyperion release of the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis. In 2009, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Chorus, Duain Wolfe conducted the Chorus on a 3-country, 2-week concert tour of Europe, presenting the Verdi Requiem in Budapest, Vienna, Litomysl, and Prague, and in 2016 the Chorus returned to Europe for concerts in Paris, Strasbourg, and Munich. The Colorado Symphony continues to be grateful for the excellence and dedication of this remarkable, allvolunteer ensemble! For an audition appointment, call 303.308.2483.

COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS Duain Wolfe, founding director and conductor Mary Louise Burke, associate conductor Travis Branam, Taylor Martin, assistant conductors Brian Dukeshier, Hsiao-Ling Lin, Danni Snyder, pianists Eric Israelson, Barbara Porter, chorus managers Soprano

Alto

Tenor

Bass

Kimberly Black Hailey Bohannon Sarah Coberly Lynnae Hinkley Cathy Look Rebecca Machusko Stephanie Medema Barb Porter Kim Pflug Camilia Schawel Stacey Travis Sue von Roedern Sherry Weinstein

Jackie Borinski Kim Brown Sheri Daniel Deanna Kraft Joanna Maltzahn Susan McWaters Jen Pringle Mary Thayer Heather Wood

James Carlson James DeMarco John Gale David Hodel Ken Kolm Todd McCracken Andrew Seamans

Ben Eickhoff Bob Friedlander Eric Israelson Terry Jackson Roy Kent Ken Quarles Russ Skillings Jack Skinner Wil Swanson

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C O L O R A D O SY M P H O N Y.O R G

Two Titans: Bernstein & Mahler MAY 25-27 FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00 Brett Mitchell, conductor Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin BERNSTEIN BERNSTEIN MAHLER

Overture to Candide Serenade (After Plato’s Symposium) Symphony No. 1 in D major, “Titan”

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Colorado Symphony 2017/18 Season Presenting Sponsor:

FAMILY • 2017/18 CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor FRANK ODEN, narrator

Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 1:00 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

MANCINI

The Pink Panther

BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

MANCINI

Baby Elephant Walk

SAINT-SAËNS

Carnival of the Animals

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FAMILY BIOGRAPHY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor Australian conductor Christopher Dragon is in his third season as the Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony and continues his position as Principal Guest Conductor with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra. For three years, Christopher previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, which gave him the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch. Christopher works regularly in Australia and has conducted the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. His 2015 debut performance at the Sydney Opera House with Josh Pyke and the Sydney Symphony has been released on CD by ABC Music. In 2017, Christopher returned to the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for a subscription concert. In 2016, he made his Brazilian conducting debut with the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre. He has also conducted at numerous festivals including the Breckenridge and Bangalow Music Festivals, both resulting with invitations to return. At the beginning of 2016, Christopher conducted Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony as part of the Perth International Arts Festival alongside Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. In 2014, Christopher was selected from 100 international applicants to conduct the Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra in Thailand and earlier that year participated in the Jarvi Winter Academy in Estonia where he was awarded the Orchestra’s Favourite Conductor Prize. Christopher began his conducting studies in 2011 and was a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program under the guidance of course director Christopher Seaman. He has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Leonid Grin, Paavo and Neeme Jarvi at the Jarvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

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