Friday Favorites: Music You Know! Halloween Edition

Friday Favorites: Music You Know! Halloween Edition Friday, October 28, 2022, at 6:30 PM Elgin Community College Blizzard Theatre Tiffany Lu, conductor

WAGNER arr. Hutschenruyter

Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain orch. Rimsky-Korsakov GOUNOD

Marche funèbre d'une marionette (Funeral March of a Marionette)

SAINT-SAËNS

Danse macabre, op. 40

JOHN WILLIAMS

Harry's Wondrous World from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

HERMANN

Psycho: A Short Suite for String Orchestra Prelude The Murder Finale

GRIEG

In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt, op. 46

STRAVINSKY

Selections from The Firebird Suite (1919) Infernal Dance of King Kashchei Berceuse Finale

This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Violin I Isabella Lippi Concertmaster Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blizzard Chair Eleanor Bartsch Assoc. Concertmaster Gerald Loughney Eric Pidluski Joseph Malmquist Susan Carlson Carol Dylan Helen Kim Lee Wendy Evans Caroline Slack Emily Nash Lisa Fako Violin II Daniela Folker Principal Kathryn Siegel Asst. Principal Susan Thorne Steve Winkler Cristina Buciu Elizabeth Huffman Meghan Lanfear Paul Vanderwerf Kate Carter Dan O’Connell Viola Loretta Gillespie Principal Rebecca Swan Asst. Principal Susan Posner Becky Coffman Mark Djordjevik Ben Weber Bruno Vaz da Silva

Cello Nazar Dzhuryn Principal Sally Lee Chair Karena Fox Asst. Principal Mark Kuntz Robert Weber Sara Sitzer Larry Glazier Double Bass Timothy Shaffer Principal Jason Niehoff Asst. Principal John Floeter Ben Foerster Michael Martin Flute Jean Bishop Principal Jennifer Bartel Piccolo Scott Metlicka Oboe Grace Hong Principal Joseph Claude English Horn Joseph Claude Clarinet Gene Collerd Principal Barbara Drapcho Patrick Rehker

Bassoon Vincent Disantis Principal Edin Agamenoni Collin Anderson French Horn Greg Flint Principal Steven Replogle Sharon Jones Karen Suarez Flint Trumpet Ross Beacraft Principal Michael Brozick David Gauger Asst. Principal Trombone Ignacio del Rey Principal Hugo Saavedra Mark Fry Tuba Charles Schuchat Principal Timpani Joe LaPalmento Principal Percussion Michael Folker Principal Jon Johnson Brandon Podjasek Harp Lillian Lau Harp Pat Lee

GUEST CONDUCTOR Conductor Tiffany Lu is Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Florida, and also serves as Interim Music Director of the Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival in Hancock, Maine. In the 2022-23 concert season, she appears as guest conductor with both Symphony New Hampshire and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. From 2020-22, she was Director of the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Sewanee University of the South. Prior to her current appointment, Lu served for five seasons as Associate Conductor of the Pierre Monteux Music Festival.

Over seven years, Lu developed a diverse portfolio of work in the DC region and Delaware. She held the position of Assistant Conductor with the Prince Georges’ Philharmonic (MD) from 2019-22, was Music Director of the Wilmington Community Orchestra for five seasons, and also Assistant and then Associate Conductor with Washington DC’s Capital City Symphony from 2015-22, creating groundbreaking and creative programming. She was also selected as Conducting Fellow for the Allentown Symphony in 2019 and 2020. Other positions have included Music Director of the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra, cover conductor and principal librarian at the 2016 and 2017 National Orchestral Institute, and conductor with the DC Youth Orchestra Program and Annapolis Symphony Academy. Lu has guest-conducted the Symphony New Hampshire as well as the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra; and acted as cover conductor with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Georgetown University Orchestra, and Cornell University Orchestra. She has also served as lead producer on two recordings by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra as well as one with the Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Lu maintains an active performing profile as an orchestral violinist, chamber music collaborator, and private violin teacher. Her doctoral research focused on new models in the orchestral education of undergraduate string players. She also co-hosts a podcast, The Classical Gabfest. Her primary conducting mentors have included Michael Jinbo, Jim Ross, and Jeffery Meyer.

Lu grew up in Tampa, FL and holds degrees from Princeton University, Ithaca College, and the University of Maryland.