Summer Soirée 2021 Program Book

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUNITY-SUPPORTE D ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A COMMUNITY-SUPPORTE D ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

JADER BIGNAMINI, Music Director

Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

LEONARD SLATKIN Music Director Laureate

FIRST VIOLIN Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy

ACTING CONCERTMASTER Katherine Tuck Chair

Hai-Xin Wu

ACTING ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Schwartz Shapero Family Chair

Jennifer Wey Fang

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair

Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou*

SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski

ACTING PRINCIPAL The Devereaux Family Chair

Will Haapaniemi*

David and Valerie McCammon Chair

Hae Jeong Heidi Han*

David and Valerie McCammon Chair

Sheryl Hwangbo Yu* Sujin Lim* Hong-Yi Mo* Alexandros Sakarellos*

Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair

Marian Tanau* Alexander Volkov* Jing Zhang*

VIOLA Eric Nowlin

PRINCIPAL Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair

James VanValkenburg ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Caroline Coade Glenn Mellow Hang Su Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman Han Zheng Mike Chen

JEFF TYZIK

Principal Pops Conductor

TERENCE BLANCHARD

NEEME JÄRVI

Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Music Director Emeritus

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh

BASS TROMBONE Ilan Morgenstern#

CLARINET Ralph Skiano

TUBA Dennis Nulty

Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer*

Jack Walters

David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey*

Laurence Liberson

PERCUSSION Joseph Becker PRINCIPAL

CELLO Wei Yu

PRINCIPAL James C. Gordon Chair

Abraham Feder

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair

Victor and Gale Girolami Chair

Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Chair

Haden McKay* Úna O’Riordan*

Mary Ann and Robert Gorlin Chair

Cole Randolph*

African American Orchestra Fellow

BASS Kevin Brown PRINCIPAL

Van Dusen Family Chair

Stephen Molina

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Linton Bodwin Christopher Hamlen Brandon Mason Nicholas Myers

HARP Patricia Masri-Fletcher PRINCIPAL Winifred E. Polk Chair

FLUTE Hannah Hammel

PRINCIPAL Women’s Association for the DSO Chair

Amanda Blaikie

Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

PRINCIPAL Robert B. Semple Chair

PVS Chemicals Inc./Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

ACTING BASS TROMBONE

PRINCIPAL

Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

E-FLAT CLARINET Laurence Liberson

James Ritchie

BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme

TIMPANI Jeremy Epp PRINCIPAL

BASSOON Michael Ke Ma

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Victoria King Marcus Schoon Jaquain Sloan

African American Orchestra Fellow

CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon HORN Karl Pituch PRINCIPAL

Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong David Everson

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

William Cody Knicely Chair

Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair

James Ritchie

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles PRINCIPAL

Ethan Allen

PERSONNEL MANAGERS Heather Hart Rochon

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Hannah Wetherholt

ASSISTANT MANAGER OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

STAGE PERSONNEL Dennis Rottell STAGE MANAGER

Ryan DeMarco

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Mark Abbott

Noel Keesee

Steven Kemp

Jeffery Zook

TRUMPET Hunter Eberly PRINCIPAL

PICCOLO Jeffery Zook

Kevin Good Stephen Anderson

Michael Sarkissian

OBOE Alexander Kinmonth

William Lucas

Sharon Sparrow

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair

PRINCIPAL Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair

Sarah Lewis

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Monica Fosnaugh Open

Maggie Miller Chair

presented by J U D Y & S TA N L E Y F R A N K E L and ANN & JIM NICHOLSON

Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair

Shannon Orme

Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair

S U N D A Y , J U N E 2 7, 2 0 2 1

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Lee and Floy Barthel Chair

DEPARTMENT HEAD

Matthew Pons

DEPARTMENT HEAD DEPARTMENT HEAD

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins PRINCIPAL

David Binder

LEGEND * These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis ~ Extended leave ^ On sabbatical # Substittue musician

Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. at Orchestra Hall RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY, vocalist ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor

PROFILES ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ

E

nrico Lopez-Yañez is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Nashville Symphony where he leads the Symphony’s Pops Series and Family Series.

Lopez-Yañez is quickly establishing himself as one of the nation’s leading conductors of popular music and becoming known for his unique style of audience engagement. Since working with the Nashville Symphony, Lopez-Yañez has conducted concerts with a broad spectrum of artists including: Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, Richard Marx, Toby Keith, Trisha Yearwood, Jennifer Nettles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and more. Also an active arranger, Lopez-Yañez has been commissioned to write for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the Houston Symphony, and has had his works performed by orchestras including the Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Omaha Symphony.

As Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Symphonica Productions, LLC, Lopez-Yañez curates and leads programs designed to cultivate new audiences. An enthusiastic proponent of innovating the concert experience, his exciting education, classical, and pops concerts are performed by orchestras across the United States.

Lopez-Yañez previously held the position of Assistant Conductor with the Nashville Symphony and Omaha Symphony. He holds a Masters in Music from the University of Maryland and received a Masters in Music and his Baccalaureate from UCLA, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Award-nominated performance opposite Frances McDormand in the play Good People, and the original Broadway version of The Color Purple.

She made her Broadway debut as Nala in The Lion King and her performance as Mimi in Broadway’s closing cast of Rent was immortalized in film.

Off-Broadway, Goldsberry’s performance as Sylvia in the Public Theater’s production of Two Gentlemen of Verona for their Shakespeare in the Park series garnered her rave reviews across the board.

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jader Bignamini, Music Director Leonard Slatkin, Music Director Laureate Jeff Tyzik, Principal Pops Conductor

PROGRAM Summer Soirée Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. at Orchestra Hall RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY, vocalist ENRICO LOPEZ-YAÑEZ, conductor JORDAN PETERS, guitar and music director KENNETH SALTERS, drums JEFF HANLEY, bass ADDISON FREI, piano and keys KRISTINA NICOLE MILLER, background vocals ANASTASIA TALLEY, background vocals CRYSTAL MONEE HALL, background vocals

RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY

R

enée Elise Goldsberry is a multi-hyphenate actress and singer who has delivered award-winning performances both on Broadway and the screen.

Goldsberry is best known for her role as Angelica Schuyler in the musical phenomenon Hamilton, which has become a cultural touchstone for the ages. Her performance earned her a Tony Award, Grammy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Lucille Lortel Award.

Currently, Goldsberry can be seen starring in Tina Fey’s new series for Peacock, Girls5eva. Previously, Goldsberry starred in the A24’s critical darling, Waves, opposite Sterling K. Brown and in the hit Netflix series Altered Carbon. She was also seen on NBC’s musical sensation, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, in addition to lending her voice to bring characters to life on the Netflix animated series Fast & Furious Spy Racers and Centaurworld. Other highlights from her film and television career include her work on Documentary Now!’s cult favorite “Original Cast Album: Co-Op”, The Good Wife, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Following, The Get Down, All About You, Evil, and her creation of the beloved character, Evangeline Williamson, on ABC’S One Life to Live, for which she received two Daytime Emmy nominations and two NAACP Image Award nominations.

Goldsberry’s appearances on stage include her Outer Critics Circle

Program to be announced from the stage.

HONORARY PATRONS

Judy & Stanley Frankel

Ann & Jim Nicholson

HONORARY CHAIRS

Pamela Applebaum & Gaal Karp Penny & Harold Blumenstein Karen & Matt Cullen Lynette & Jeff Dowler Marjorie Dunn & Mark Davidoff

Bonnie Larson Cathy & Wright Lassiter Faye & Al Nelson Christine & David Provost Bernadine & David Wu