Carmina Burana Program

Program -Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921). Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Sarah Wang (1st Prize winner of the 2024 GU Orchestra Concerto Competition), violin -Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936). Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra. Olivia Booth (2nd Prize winner of the 2024 GU Orchestra Concerto Competition), Saxophone -Carl Orff (1895-1982). Carmina Burana 1. O Fortuna 2.Fortune plango vulnera 3. Veris leta facies 4. Omnia sol temperat – baritone 5. Ecce gratum 6. Tanz 7. Floret silva 8. Chramer, gib die varwe mir 9. Reie 10. Were diu werlt alle min 11. Estuans interius – baritone 18. Circa mea pectora 22. Tempus et iocundum 24. Ave formosissima 25. O Fortuna

VIOLIN I Sarah Wang COL ‘26* Jona Han SOH ‘28 Claire McDowell COL ‘27 Rian Finn SFS ‘27 Shreya Dudeja SOH ‘25

CLARINET Josie Hwang (+ Bass Clarinet) COL ‘27 + Noah Portner COL ‘25 Amy Nilsson SFS ‘26 + Lucas Kania GSAS ‘25

VIOLIN II Lizzy Kim SOH ‘28 + Zoe Eby CAS ‘27 Sreya Patri SFS ‘26 Henry Skarecky SFS ‘25 Isabella Trewhella COL ‘28

BASSOON Evan Rappaport COL ‘26 +

VIOLA Abigail Tucker COL ‘25 + Andrew Liu COL ‘28 Jonathan Nelson GULC ‘25 Grace Kim CELLO Matthew Weber COL ‘28 + Adrian Evers COL ‘28 + Allison Wiswell COL ‘28 BASS Heather Begg SFS ‘28 + FLUTE Lucy Kiefer COL ‘27 + Heidi Kwak COL ‘28 + Audrey Wong COL ‘28 OBOE Erica Koenigsberg (+ English Horn) SON ‘27 + Connor Henry SFS ‘26 +

FRENCH HORN Sara Kronenberg SON ‘27 + Dylan Becker SFS ‘26 ◊ + Stacia Tremper SFS ‘25 TRUMPET Isaac Kim COL ‘26 + ◊ Sydney Pappas SFS ‘27 + TROMBONE Alex Chen COL ‘28 + Edward Adams (Guest) TIMPANI & PERCUSSION Anna Holk COL ‘27 Sean MacCarthy-Grant (Guest) Elliott Godinez (Guest) Michael Barranco (Guest) HARP Abraham Ansonoff COL ‘28 PIANO Kevin Liu COL ‘26 * Concertmaster + Principal ◊ Orchestra Manager

CONCERT CHOIR MEMBERS Nadia Ali (MD 3rd year) Inaara Anderson (CAS ’26) Kayla Barnes (SFS ’26) Zubin Battaglia (SFS ’28) Elin Choe (CAS ’25) Bailey Coghlan (SOH ’25) Charlotte de la Baume (SFS ’27) Catherine Dell’Olio (CAS ’25) Sophia Dorr (CAS ’27) Angie Dressel (CAS ’26) Marla Dressel (GS Phd) Tyler Feichthaler (SFS ’28) Chenxi Guo (GS MS) Michael Hsu (CAS ’28) Sophia Jacome (CAS ’27) Laila Krivosic (MSB ’27)* Thy Le (GS PhD) David Longfoot (CAS ’28) Amanda Lowe (CAS ’28) Sophia Lu (SFS ’26) Ethan Matthew (SFS ’28) Miguel Mattia-Uribe (GU Staff) Lucas Nelson (GS PhD) Kelsey Olmen (CAS ’26) Lexi Olsen (CAS ’25) Caroline Palermo (CAS ’25) Grace Parcover (SFS ’25)* Valli Pendyala (SFS ’27) Caroline Samoluk (CAS ’25) Lauren Santoro (CAS ’26) Youngsung Sim (SFS ’27) Christian Smith (CAS ’27) Brendan Teehan (CAS ’25)+ Connie Tian (GS MS) Jessie Traxler (CAS ’26) Francin Vasquez (CAS ’25)

Sophie Wignall-Dillon (CAS’26) Yiyun Yang (GS MPP) Leon Zhang (CAS ’28) Co-Presidents: Laila Krivosic, Grace Parcover Teaching Assistant: Brendan Teehan Accompanist: Mikyoung Cho Director: Prof. Frederick Binkholder

Ben Edquist is a baritone vocalist sought after for his work in contemporary opera and musical theatre. He recently portrayed the principal role of Gleb Vaganov in the Broadway National Tour of Anastasia. Ben originated numerous roles of major American composers, including Mayo Buckman in Tom Cipullo’s Mayo, Walter Raleigh in Gregory Spears’ O Columbia!, Manfred in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Out of Darkness with Atlanta Opera, and the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s final opera, Prince of Players, with Houston Grand Opera. He has also been featured in premieres with Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom and at the Lincoln Center in New York City.

Other notable performances include Georg Novak in She Loves Me and Hawkins Fuller in Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers with Madison Opera, Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd with Des Moines Metro Opera, Jigger Craigin in Carousel and Papageno in The Magic Flute with The Glimmerglass Festival, as well as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Older Thompson in Glory Denied, the Pilot in The Little Prince, and Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Houston Grand Opera.

Ben is the 2014 grand prize winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition and a 2016 recipient of the William Matheus Sullivan Foundation Singer Award. He was a Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist and a young artist with the Glimmerglass

Festival and both a Studio Artist and Filene Artist with Wolf Trap Opera. He received his Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University and his Master of Music from Rice University.

Ben is currently a member of the USAF Band Singing Sergeants.

Founded in 1980, the Georgetown University Orchestra is a large ensemble devoted to the study and performance of orchestral music, including repertoire composed for full orchestra and chamber orchestra. Literature is selected from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods.

The Georgetown University Concert Choir is a mixed-voice ensemble that performs choral masterworks from all periods of music history. The ensemble gave the world premiere of Margaret Bond’s cantata “Simon Bore the Cross” at the Kennedy Center and one of the first premieres of her “Credo.” The group also performs Handel’s Messiah every December, with proceeds benefiting the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.