Soundings- Symphony in the Summer 2018

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SYMPHONY IN THE SUMMER

THE MAGAZINE OF THE COLORADO SYMPHONY

WELCOM E

Summer is finally upon us, and with it comes all the beauty, excitement, and splendor that makes Colorado such a wonderful place to live and enjoy music. With that in mind, we have put together an incredible summer lineup that will showcase our musicians in some of the state’s top venues.

Our 2018 Summer Season features a return to the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre for collaborations with Sarah McLachlan and Seal. We will also perform at the Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre for Mozart Under Moonlight, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre for our Family Friendly Fourth of July, the newly constructed Dillon Amphitheater for Broadway’s Wicked Divas, and close out the summer slate with our Bernstein Centennial celebration with the Colorado Symphony Brass and Percussion at Levitt Pavilion Denver.

Back at Boettcher Concert Hall, I’m thrilled to be on the podium for a screening of the original summer blockbuster hit JAWS in Concert on July 11 as well as our free 2018/19 Season Preview concert on July 13. We will also screen the fourth installment of the Harry Potter franchise with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ in Concert from July 20-22.

We look forward to being a part of your summer memories as we share this wonderful music throughout Colorado.

See you this summer!

Brett Mitchell

Music Director

CONT ENTS 6 Colorado Symphony Musicians 8 Colorado Symphony Board of Trustees and Staff 9 Mozart Under Moonlight July 6 Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre 12 M ovie at the Symphony: JAWS in Concert July 11 Boettcher Concert Hall

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17 2 018/19 Season Preview in Concert July 13 Boettcher Concert Hall 18 H arry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ in Concert July 20-22 Boettcher Concert Hall 24 B roadway’s Wicked Divas with the Colorado Symphony July 28 Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre July 29 Dillon Amphitheater

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BRETT MITCHELL MUSIC DIRECTOR

CHRISTOPHER DRAGON ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

DUAIN WOLFE CHORUS DIRECTOR

The Bill Gossard Music Director Chair

VIOLIN

Yumi Hwang-Williams Concertmaster Claude Sim Associate Concertmaster Yi Zhao Assistant Concertmaster Paul Primus Principal Second Allegra Wermuth Assistant Principal Second Alessandra Jennings Flanagan Fixed 3rd Chair/Second Larisa Fesmire Thomas Hanulik Wyn Hart John Hilton Anne-Marie Hoffman Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels Dorian Kincaid Karen Kinzie Mark Lamprey Susan Paik Miroslaw Pastusiak Erik Peterson + Megan Prokes * Adrienne Short * Robert Stoyanov Delcho Tenev Amy Tyson Bradley Watson Tena White Wenting Yuan

VIOLA

Basil Vendryes Principal Catherine Beeson Assistant Principal Mary Cowell Fixed 3rd Chair Marsha Holmes Leah Kovach Helen McDermott Summer Rhodes * Kelly Shanafelt Phillip Stevens

CELLO

Judith McIntyre Acting Principal Austin Fisher Assistant Principal Susan Rockey Bowles Andrew Briggs * Danielle Guideri Thomas Heinrich Margaret Hoeppner Matthew Switzer

BASS

Steve Metcalf Principal Nicholas Recuber Assistant Principal John Arnesen Susan Cahill James Carroll Jeremy Kincaid Owen Levine

FLUTE

Brook Ferguson Principal Catherine Peterson 2nd/Assistant Principal Julie Duncan Thornton

PICCOLO

Julie Duncan Thornton

OBOE

Peter Cooper Principal

The Irene & David Abosch Principal Oboe Chair

Nicholas Tisherman 2nd/Assistant Principal Jason Lichtenwalter

ENGLISH HORN Jason Lichtenwalter

CLARINET

Jason Shafer Principal Abby Raymond 2nd/Assistant Principal Andrew Stevens

E-FLAT CLARINET Abby Raymond

BASS CLARINET Andrew Stevens

BASSOON

Chad Cognata Principal Tristan Rennie 2nd/Assistant Principal Roger Soren

CONTRABASSOON Roger Soren

HORN

Michael Thornton Principal Carolyn Kunicki Kolio Plachkov 3rd/Associate Principal

TRUMPET

Justin Bartels Principal Philip Hembree 2nd/Assistant Principal Patrick Tillery Associate Principal

TROMBONE

John Sipher Principal Paul Naslund 2nd/Associate Principal Gregory Harper

BASS TROMBONE Gregory Harper

TUBA

Stephen Dombrowski Principal

HARP

Courtney Hershey Bress Principal

TIMPANI

William Hill Principal Steve Hearn Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION John Kinzie Principal

Chair Endowed by a Friend of The Colorado Symphony

Steve Hearn Michael Van Wirt

ORCHESTRA LIBRARIAN

Joanne Goble Principal Jonathan Groszew Assistant * = One year replacement + = On leave

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND STAFF OFFICERS Jerome H. Kern CEO & Chair of the Board of Trustees James D. Butler Treasurer & Trustee Susan Bowles Secretary & Ex-officio Trustee

TRUSTEES Anthony T. Accetta Dr. Paula P. Bernstein Susan Cahill* Young Cho Zachary D. Detra, Esq. Stephanie Donner Sandy Elliott Austin Fisher* David Hackl Alessandra Flanagan* Amy Harmon Diane S. Hill, Ph.D. Jessica Hobbs Margaret Hoeppner* Yumi-Hwang-Williams* Kathleen Johnson, Esq John Kinzie* Leah Kovach* Richard D. Krugman, MD Richard Kylberg Bill Myers Diane Nagler Deana M. Perlmutter Erik Peterson* Nick Recuber* Julie Rubsam L.T. Sandvik Brandon L. Thall Joe Verrengia

EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES Brett Mitchell Sara Moore Kelly Waltrip Ginger White

EMERITUS TRUSTEES William K. Coors Mary Rossick Kern John Low Will McFarlane** W. Gerald Rainer** Lee Yeingst

HONORARY TRUSTEES Governor John Hickenlooper Mayor Michael B. Hancock Christopher J. Ott, M.D. * Colorado Symphony Musician Trustee ** In Memorium

REMIX ASSOCIATE BOARD Kelly Waltrip, Chair Marilyn Brock Heather Church Nicole Donnelly Andy Evans Caiti Glasgo

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Allison D’Angiolillo Chelsea Eversmann Mike Fredregill Bridget Kennedy McNeil Leah Kovach William Kowalski David Kuwayama Steve Metcalf Samantha Nuechterlein Sarah Parmley Brooke Smith Jackson Stevens Chris Strom Alexandra Tilton Kip Wallen Rosie Williamson Rachel Yeates

Eric Israelson Chorus Manager Sam Jaehnig Head Carpenter Matt Koveal Manager of Artistic Operations Taylor Martin Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Mike Pappas New Media Center Julian Pichette Recording Engineer Barbara Porter Assistant Chorus Manager Phillip Strom Artistic Coordinator

SENIOR STAFF

ADVANCEMENT

Jerome H. Kern Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board John Burtness Chief Advancement Officer Susan Ellis Chief Administrative Officer Coreen Miller Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer Parker Owens Chief Marketing Officer Anthony Pierce Chief Artistic Officer

John Burtness Chief Advancement Officer Sean Baker Senior Manager of Corporate Partnerships Caiti Glasgo Manager of Annual Giving Emily Spirk Advancement Coordinator David Rosen Advancement Services Coordinator

ARTISTIC Anthony Pierce Chief Artistic Officer Brett Mitchell Music Director Duain Wolfe Chorus Director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Christopher Dragon Associate Conductor Dave Aeling Production Stage Manager Travis Branam Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Larry Brezicka Orchestra Personnel Manager Mary Louise Burke Associate Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Aric Christensen Audio Engineer Joanne Goble Principal Orchestra Librarian Jonathan Groszew Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager / Assistant Librarian Deborah Guess Properties Master Philip Hiester Master Electrician

EDUCATION Shari Myers Education Coordinator

FINANCE Coreen Miller Chief Financial Officer Ben Boone Senior Finance Manager Annette Brown Staff Accountant

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Parker Owens Chief Marketing Officer Stephanie Derybowski Application Support Manager Nick Dobreff Manager of Publicity and Community Relations Kayla Hayes Digital Media Coordinator

SALES & PATRON SERVICES Susan Kelly Director of Sales & Patron Services Amanda Cantu Asst. Manager of Patron Services Molly Epstein Group Sales Associate Rosa Gasdia Patron Services Associate

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Theresa Illich Patron Services Associate Alexis Kittner Patron Services Associate Paxton Lee Patron Services Associate Ian MacIntyre Manager of Patron Services Jonathan Seid Patron Services Associate Rosa Torres Patron Services Associate Rob Warner Lead Patron Services Associate & Concierge

THE SYMPHONY FUND Stephen M. Brett President Norman L. Wilson Treasurer Susan K. Ellis Secretary Jerome H. Kern Gregg O. Kvistad Karen H. Long Suzanne Ryan

COLORADO SYMPHONY GUILD OFFICERS Sara Moore President Patty Goward Recording Secretary Donna Connolly Treasurer Janet Weisheit Assistant Treasurer Mary Neidig VP of Fundraising Rose Blaschke VP of Membership Susan Thomas VP of Information Management Sue Pawlik VP of Music Education Sara Moore Corresponding Secretary Rose Blaschke Immediate Past President Kathy Swanson Manager CSG Shop Monica Owen CSG Shop Buyer

BOETTCHER CONCERT HALL Denver Performing Arts Complex 1000 14th Street, No. 15 Denver, CO 80202 303.292.5566 tickets@coloradosymphony.org

TICKETS 303.623.7876 coloradosymphony.org

SUMMER • 2018 MOZART UNDER MOONLIGHT COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor CHRISTIE CONOVER, soprano ANNA DAMERAU, piano, Schmitt Music Piano Competition Winner Friday, July 6, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre

MOZART

Overture to Cosi fan tutte, K. 588

MOZART Concerto No. 23 in A major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 488 I. Allegro MOZART Exsultate, jubilate, K. 158a I. Allegro II. Recitativo - Andante III. Allegro (Alleluja) — INTERMISSION — MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 I. Molto allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Allegro assai

SUMMER SOUNDINGS

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SUMMER • 2018 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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SUMMER • 2018 CHRISTIE CONOVER, soprano Soprano Christie Conover fuses a rich, warm sound, personal grace, and dramatic sincerity to create what has been called a standout performer.

This 2018/19 season she appeared with the Minnesota Opera, Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Littleton Symphony, Grand Junction Symphony, Billings Symphony, Altius Quartet, and several house concerts with the Fine Tuned Society of Colorado which she co-founded and has coordinated for the last 4 years. Recent seasons include lead roles with Komische Oper Berlin, Minnesota Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera San Jose, and concerts with Colorado Music Festival, Helena Symphony, and Bakken Trio. Ms. Conover has placed at numerous competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Rocky Mountain Region), top prize with the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition and the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, the Irene Dalis Competition, the Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition, and the Grand Junction Symphony Young Artist Competition. She was proud to represent her home state of Montana as a contestant in the 2007 Miss America Pageant and traveled extensively speaking to students on a platform close to her heart: “Music Makes the Difference.” Read and hear more at www.ChristieConover.com

ANNA DAMERAU, piano Anna Damerau is a 17-year-old native of Colorado Springs. She is currently a high school senior at Colorado Preparatory Academy and has taken music theory, ear training, and music history at Pikes Peak Community College. Anna has studied piano since the age of six. She has won numerous piano competitions, including first place in the 2014 MTNA Junior Piano Competition and Honorable Mention at the 2015 MTNA Eight State Regional Competition, first place in Schmitt Music competitions in 2014 and 2016, as well as first place at the 2016 Schmitt Steinway Piano Concerto Competition. In the summer of 2016 she performed as a guest artist at the Breckenridge Music Festival. Anna’s current piano teacher is Natalia Sim. For the past three years, Anna has also been studying voice from Megan Miller and was a finalist in the 2018 Pikes Peak Opera League Young Voice Competition. Anna intends to pursue a career as a professional musician.

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SUMMER • 2018 MOVIE AT THE SYMPHONY: JAWS IN CONCERT COLORADO SYMPHONY BRETT MITCHELL, conductor JOHN WILLIAMS, composer Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

ROY SCHEIDER ROBERT SHAW RICHARD DREYFUSS

JAWS Co-starring LORRAINE GARY MURRAY HAMILTON A ZANUCK/BROWN PRODUCTION Screenplay by PETER BENCHLEY and CARL GOTTLIEB Based on the novel by PETER BENCHLEY Music by JOHN WILLIAMS Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG Produced by RICHARD D. ZANUCK and DAVID BROWN A UNIVERSAL PICTURE

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SUMMER • 2018 Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film Jaws with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during and after the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the music.

Jaws is a trademark and copyright of Universal Studios.

Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Jaws ©1975 now available on Blu Ray/DVD

A Note from the Composer When I first saw Jaws, I didn’t quite fully realize what a wonderful opportunity it presented for the orchestra to play a very personal role in the accumulated effect of the film. Steven Spielberg and I had reservations about the “thump-thump” motif of the principle musical theme. But it was fun and it seemed to have worked.

It’s thrilling for both Steven and me to realize that this unique film still captures the imagination of viewers after so many years, and that audiences now can enjoy the movie live in concert, accompanied by a magnificent orchestra like the Colorado Symphony.

This is the greatest possible reward for the joyous and fun-filled task of making Jaws.

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SUMMER • 2018 PRODUCTION CREDITS JAWS – In Concert produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Production Manager: Rob Stogsdill Production Coordinator: Sophie Greaves Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Supervising Technical Director: Mike Runice Technical Director: Warren Brown Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for Jaws has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Universal Studios, Steven Spielberg, John Williams, Chris Herzberger, Noah Bergman, Paul Ginsburg, Paul Tamara Woolfork, Adrienne Crew, Darice Murphy, Mike Matessino, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Colorado Symphony. www.filmconcertslive.com

JOHN WILLIAMS, composer In a career spanning more than five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films, including all eight Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and The Book Thief. His 45-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, The BFG and The Post. His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking, early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Great Performances. He also composed themes for the 1984, 1988 and 1996 Summer PROGRAM 14

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SUMMER • 2018 Olympic Games, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards and fifty-one Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-four Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in December of 2004. In 2009, Mr. Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government. In 2016, he received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute – the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer.

In January 1980, Mr. Williams was named nineteenth music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor which he assumed following his retirement in December, 1993, after fourteen highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Mr. Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos commissioned by several of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2009, Mr. Williams composed and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” especially for the first inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama, and in September 2009, the Boston Symphony premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled “On Willows and Birches”.

BRETT MITCHELL, conductor Hailed for presenting engaging, in-depth explorations of thoughtfully curated programs, Brett Mitchell began his tenure as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony in July 2017. Prior to this appointment, he served as the orchestra’s Music Director Designate during the 2016/17 season. He leads the orchestra in ten classical subscription weeks per season as well as a wide variety special programs featuring such guest artists as Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, and Itzhak Perlman.

Mr. Mitchell is also in consistent demand as a guest conductor. Highlights of his 2018-19 season include subscription debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and return appearances with the orchestras of Cleveland, Dallas, and Indianapolis.

Other upcoming and recent guest engagements include the Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, National, Oregon, and San Antonio symphonies, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Mitchell also regularly collaborates with the world’s leading soloists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Rudolf Buchbinder, Kirill Gerstein, James Ehnes, Augustin Hadelich, Leila Josefowicz, and Alisa Weilerstein.

From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Mitchell served on the conducting staff of The Cleveland Orchestra. He joined the orchestra as Assistant Conductor in 2013, and was promoted to Associate Conductor SUMMER SOUNDINGS

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SUMMER • 2018 in 2015, becoming the first person to hold that title in over three decades and only the fifth in the orchestra’s hundred-year history. In these roles, he led the orchestra in several dozen concerts each season at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and on tour.

From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Mitchell led over one hundred performances as Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony. He also held Assistant Conductor posts with the Orchestre National de France, where he worked under Kurt Masur from 2006 to 2009, and the Castleton Festival, where he worked under Lorin Maazel in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, Mr. Mitchell completed a highly successful five-year appointment as Music Director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra.

As an opera conductor, Mr. Mitchell has served as music director of nearly a dozen productions, principally at his former post as Music Director of the Moores Opera Center in Houston, where he led eight productions from 2010 to 2013. His repertoire spans the core works of Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute), Verdi (Rigoletto and Falstaff), and Stravinsky (The Rake’s Progress) to contemporary works by Adamo (Little Women), Aldridge (Elmer Gantry), Catán (Il Postino and Salsipuedes), and Hagen (Amelia). As a ballet conductor, Mr. Mitchell most recently led a production of The Nutcracker with the Pennsylvania Ballet in collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra during the 2016-17 season.

In addition to his work with professional orchestras, Mr. Mitchell is also well known for his affinity for working with and mentoring young musicians aspiring to be professional orchestral players.

His tenure as Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra from 2013 to 2017 was highly praised, and included a four-city tour of China in June 2015, marking the orchestra’s second international tour and its first to Asia. Mr. Mitchell is regularly invited to work with the highly talented musicians at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the orchestras at this country’s high-level training programs, such as the National Repertory Orchestra, Texas Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, and Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Born in Seattle in 1979, Mr. Mitchell holds degrees in conducting from the University of Texas at Austin and composition from Western Washington University, which selected him in as its Young Alumnus of the Year in 2014. He also studied at the National Conducting Institute, and was selected by Kurt Masur as a recipient of the inaugural American Friends of the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship. Mr. Mitchell was also one of five recipients of the League of American Orchestras’ American Conducting Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.

For more information, please visit www.brettmitchellconductor.com

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SUMMER • 2018 2018/19 SEASON PREVIEW COLORADO SYMPHONY

BRETT MITCHELL, conductor (see biography on page 15)

Friday, July 13, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

BERNSTEIN/arr. Peress

Overture to West Side Story

ELLINGTON/arr. Henderson “King of the Magi” from Three Black Kings DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95,

“From the New World” I. Adagio - Allegro molto JOHN WILLIAMS “Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone WAGNER

Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg —INTERMISSION—

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 IV. March to the Scaffold: Allegretto non troppo BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 II. Allegretto RODGERS/arr. Bennett

Selections from The Sound of Music

HOPKINS/arr. Jackfert

We Three Kings

MUSSORGSKY/arr. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition X. The Great Gate of Kiev SUMMER SOUNDINGS

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SUMMER • 2018 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE™ IN CONCERT COLORADO SYMPHONY JEFFREY SCHINDLER, conductor

Friday, July 20, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 21, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 22, 2018, at 1:00 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

Produced by

Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer

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SUMMER • 2018 JEFFREY SCHINDLER, conductor Conductor Jeffrey Schindler enjoys a dynamic international career that takes him from concert podiums around the world to the scoring stages of Hollywood, to the recording studios of London. Whether leading symphonic works of the Masters, thrilling film scores, or cutting edge contemporary music, Mr. Schindler’s energy and visionary musical storytelling are hallmarks of every performance. Mr. Schindler’s artistry melds imaginative and illuminating performances with expressive and powerful technique, impeccable scholarship, and vibrant energy. Known as a versatile conductor, Mr. Schindler has made appearances with the Seattle Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, London Session Orchestra, AISOI Symphony Orchestra in Australia, Metro Voices of London, The Choristers of Reigate St. Mary’s (London), and Bach Choir of London. A virtuoso harpsichordist and organist, Mr. Schindler has performed concerts with ensembles nationally, in addition to extensive recitals throughout New England, and has appeared in concert with members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Mr. Schindler’s extensive podium experience, efficient rehearsals, and expressive baton technique place him in high demand among film composers who seek the passion and refined artistry he elicits from an orchestra. He has led the sessions for many international feature film and television projects including X-men: Apocalypse, X-men: Days of Future Past, Jack the Giant Slayer, The Wolfman, Astroboy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Temple Grandin, Four Christmases, Bernard and Doris, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Hollywood Homicide, and the most successful documentary of all time: the Academy-Award winning March of the Penguins. Mr. Schindler is a sought-after orchestrator and arranger, highly regarded for his orchestral knowledge, expert musicianship, and impeccable taste. His more than 250 production credits include Hotel Transylvania 2, Pee Wee’s Big Holiday, Ice Age: Eggscapade, 22 Jump Street, Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers, Gnomeo and Juliet, Superman Returns, The Invasion, Firewall, Next, as well as orchestrations for Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz. Orchestras and ensembles around the world have played Mr. Schindler’s orchestrations and arrangements, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Czech Philharmonic. In every aspect of his diverse career, Mr. Schindler demonstrates his commitment to profound musical communication, technical excellence, versatility, breadth of knowledge and his quest for imaginative and creative musical interaction.

JUSTIN FREER , president/founder/producer, CineConcerts American composer/conductor JUSTIN FREER was born and raised in Huntington Beach, CA. He has established himself as one of the West Coast’s most exciting musical voices and has quickly become a highly sought-after conductor and producer of film music concerts around the world. Freer began his formal studies on trumpet, but quickly turned to piano and composition, composing his first work at eleven and giving his professional conducting debut at sixteen. Continually composing for various different mediums, he has written music for world-renowned trumpeters Doc Severinson and Jens Lindemann and continues to be in demand as a composer and conductor for everything from orchestral literature to chamber music around the world. He has served as composer for several SUMMER SOUNDINGS

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SUMMER • 2018 independent films and has written motion picture advertising music for some of 20th Century Fox Studios’ biggest campaigns including Avatar, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Aliens in the Attic. As a conductor Freer has appeared with some of the most well known orchestras in the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony. In upcoming seasons he will guest conduct the Minnesota Orchestra as well as the orchestras of Dublin, Paris, Philadelphia, Sydney, Toronto and others. Renowned wind conductor and Oxford Round Table Scholar Dr. Rikard Hansen has noted that, “In totality, Freer’s exploration in musical sound evoke moments of highly charged drama, alarming strife and serene reflection.” Freer has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP, BMI, the Society of Composers and Lyricists and the Henry Mancini Estate. He is the Founder and President of CineConcerts, a company dedicated to the preservation and concert presentation of film, curating and conducting full length music score performances live with film for such wide ranging titles as Gladiator, The Godfather, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s A Wonderful Life and most recently Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Mr. Freer earned both his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Music Composition from UCLA, where his principal composition teachers included Paul Chihara and Ian Krouse. In addition, he was mentored by legendary composer/conductor Jerry Goldsmith.

BRADY BEAUBIEN, co-founder/producer A Stanford graduate and All-American Athlete, Beaubien studied cognitive neuroscience before founding Interlace Media – an award winning motion graphics company. Interlace is a premiere CG animation and creative agency for feature films. They have defined the global campaigns of over 100 major Hollywood movies, including Avatar, X-Men, Rio, Ice Age, and Die Hard franchises. Beaubien co-founded CineConcerts, a company dedicating to reinventing the experience of theatrical presentation and orchestral music.

He is currently producing Gladiator Live, The Godfather Live, Dreamworks Animation in Concert, It’s a Wonderful Life, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, and The Harry Potter Film Concert Series. He had spearheaded Cineconcerts invention of new genres and its creative presentations of cherished film and television content, including writing Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, a project that celebrates 50 years of iconic material. He works to ensure Cineconcerts inspires a return to communal entertainment and continues to offer modern audiences and the worlds youth a chance to re-connect with concert halls and local orchestras. As a designer Beaubien co-designed Matsuhisa Paris at the Le Royal Monceau-Raffles and designed the The Citrus building on Melrose Ave. This new architectural addition to the Hollywood cityscape represents a commitment to the metropolitan and interconnected providence of Los Angeles.

At The Citrus, advanced materials and technology merge with wood, concrete and glass in an organic and modernist design. Mr. Beaubien has partnered with award winning sushi chef, Nobu Matsuhisa, to bring his new restaurant concept - Umeda - into the building. Mr. Beaubien also designed the restaurant.

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SUMMER • 2018 CineConcerts is one of the leading producers of live music experiences performed with visual media. Founded by producer/conductor Justin Freer and producer/writer Brady Beaubien, CineConcerts has engaged millions of people worldwide in concert presentations that redefine the evolution of live experience. Recent and current live concert experiences include Gladiator, The Godfather, It’s a Wonderful Life, DreamWorks Animation In Concert, Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage 50th Anniversary Concert Tour, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Justin Freer has quickly become one of the most sought-after conductors of film music with a long list of full symphonic live to projection projects. He has appeared with some of the world’s leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. From full-length movie screenings with live orchestra to music-interactive sporting event experiences to original 3D-environment holiday programming, CineConcerts is at the forefront of live entertainment.

PATRICK DOYLE, composer Patrick Doyle is a classically trained composer. He graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in 1975 and was made a Fellow of the RSAM in 2001. In 1989 director Sir Kenneth Branagh commissioned Patrick to compose the score for feature film Henry V, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and they have subsequently collaborated on numerous pictures, including Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, As You Like It and Cinderella. Patrick and Branagh’s collaboration within film and theatre has continued to this day, with performances worldwide that include Branagh’s 2015 production of The Winter’s Tale which ran at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End. Patrick has been commissioned to score over 50 international feature films, including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Gosford Park, Sense and Sensibility, Indochine, Carlito’s Way and A Little Princess. His work has led to collaborations with some of the most acclaimed directors in the world, such as Regis Wargnier, Brian De Palma, Alfonso Cuaròn, Ang Lee, Chen Kaige, Mike Newell and Robert Altman. Patrick has received two Oscar, two Golden Globe, one BAFTA and two Cesar nominations, as well as winning the 1989 Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme for Henry V. He has also been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The World Soundtrack Awards and Scottish BAFTA, the Henry Mancini Award from ASCAP and the PRS Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Music. In 2015 Patrick completed work on the music for Walt Disney’s live action version of Cinderella, directed by Branagh and marking their eleventh film collaboration to date. Patrick also completed recording a solo piano album, made up of a collection of his film scores to date, which was released by Varese Sarabande in July 2015. Recent films include the remake of Scottish classic ‘Whisky Galore’ and Amma Asante’s ‘A United Kingdom’.

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SUMMER • 2018 CineConcerts Staff Justin Freer President/Founder/Producer Brady Beaubien Co-Founder/Producer Director of Production Jeffery Sells Director of Marketing, George Valdiviez Head of Publicity and Communications Andrew Alderete General Manager, Nicolas Rehm Brand/Marketing/IP Acquisition, Ma’ayan Kaplan Brand/Marketing Manager, Brittany Fonseca Brand/Marketing Manager, Molly Kossoff Brand/Marketing Manager, Si Peng Office Manager, Gabe Cheng Worldwide Representation WME Entertainment Music Preparation JoAnn Kane Music Service Music Editing Ed Kalnins Playback Operation and Synthesizer Production, iMusicImage Sound Remixing Justin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios Merchandise by FireBrand A Very Special Thanks to: Warner Bros. Consumer Products, The Blair Partnership, Mark Graham, Amos Newman, Jamie Richardson, Alex Rabens, and John Williams.

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SUMMER • 2018 BROADWAY’S WICKED DIVAS WITH THE COLORADO SYMPHONY THE COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor (see biography on page 10) NICOLE PARKER, vocals ALLI MAUZEY, vocals Saturday, July 28, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre Sunday, July 29, 2019, at 6:00 p.m.

Dillon Amphitheater

BERNSTEIN

Overture to Candide

BIZET Selections from Carmen Prelude to Act I, from Suite No. 1 Aragonaise, from Suite No. 1 Habanera, from Suite No. 2 Les Toreadors, from Suite No. 1 JOHN KANDER/ orch. McKibbins

Introduction and All That Jazz from Chicago

WILLSON I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady STYNE

Don’t Rain On My Parade from Funny Girl

WILLSON

76 Trombones from The Music Man

KRISTEN & ROBERT LOPEZ

Let It Go from Frozen

JOHN KANDER & FRED EBB

Cabaret from Cabaret

MARC SHAIMAN

You Can’t Stop the Beat

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SUMMER • 2018 ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER/ arr. Custer

Selections from The Phantom of the Opera

BERLIN Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun HORNER & WILL JENNINGS/ arr. Reineke

My Heart Will Go On from Titanic

CLAUDE-MICHELE SHONBERG

I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables

ARLEN & HARBURG/ arr. Henderson & Lieb

Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ/ arr. Brohn

Popular from Wicked

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ/ Defying Gravity from Wicked arr. Fleischer STEPHEN SCHWARTZ/ orch. Ziyo

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For Good from Wicked

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SUMMER • 2018 NICOLE PARKER, vocals Nicole Parker is best known for her portrayal of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked. Since playing the green witch in the Broadway company, she has reprised the role for the First National Tour of Wicked.

Nicole’s other Broadway credits include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and The People in the Picture with Donna Murphy. Regionally, Nicole played Juliet in The Second City’s Romeo and Juliet Musical at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, for which she received a Jeff Award nomination. She also appeared as Rosemary in How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at Reprise Theater, and Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Falcon Theater. For six years, Nicole was also a cast member and contributing writer on Fox’s MADtv. For two years, Nicole was a performer and write for Boom Chicago, an all American sketch and improvisation theater in Amsterdam. Nicole’s film credits include Funny People, directed by Judd Apatow as well as the short films Weathered and Sitting Babies. This year she was featured as a guest star on the mock game show Bunk on IFC, as well as on ABC in Trust Us With Your Life, an improvisation show from the creators of Whose Line Is It Anyway? She is also a founding member or Waterwell, a non-profit theater company in New York. A frequent soloist with orchestras around the country, recent and upcoming performances include Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, Houston Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Utah Symphony and Opera, Colorado Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Pueblo Symphony, and Charleston Symphony.

ALLI MAUZEY, vocals Alli Mauzey last appeared on Broadway as Glinda in the 10th Anniversary Company of Wicked, a role she also performed to critical acclaim on the First National Tour and the San Francisco company. Other Broadway credits include Lenora in the musical Cry-Baby, for which she won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Drama League Award, and Brenda in Hairspray (both on Broadway and in the original company of the First National Tour). Alli also originated the role of Lenora in the Pre-Broadway production of Cry-Baby at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego (Theatre Critics Circle Award). Other New York Credits include, New York City Center Encores in the role of Minerva in The Golden Apple as well as Sydney in It’s a Bird...It’s a Plane...It’s Superman, and the Off-Broadway production of Red Eye of Love. Regionally, she has appeared as Mallory in City of Angels for Reprise!, Snookie in 110 in the Shade at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at The Muny for which she was nominated for a Kevin Kline Award. Alli has also had the pleasure of doing several concerts with symphony orchestras across the country including playing Ellie in Show Boat with the New York Philharmonic and the title role in Cinderella alongside the Nashville Symphony Orchestra benefiting the charity Show Hope. Recent and upcoming engagements include The Philly Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Maui Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony, Sarasota Symphony, and Tuscan Symphony. Among many voiceover credits, her voice can be heard as a series regular on the animated television series Alpha Teens on Machines. She has a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in drama and a minor in music.

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