December is a joyful time at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The hall is beautifully decorated, and friends and family gather to enjoy the magic of our wonderful Orchestra and Chorus. Music plays an important role in making this season special, and we are delighted to be part of your holiday celebration.
As 2025 draws to a close, we reflect on the joy our music has brought and the generosity of those who have made it possible. This year, as always, we are especially grateful for our ASO patrons and donors. The generosity from our community enables us to create and share our music in meaningful ways, and we’re excited to share some of the wonderful accomplishments of our season thus far:
• This fall, we shared our music with more than 10,000 children and students through Music for the Very Young, Students at the Symphony, and our Family Concert series.
• We welcomed thousands to our Visions of India Festival and Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Festival, highlighting local artists and welcoming many people to Symphony Hall for the first time.
• Last month, we completed the Beethoven Project, a year-long exploration of Beethoven’s works, culminating in performances of his Ninth Symphony, streamed live locally in Colony Square and internationally on Medici.tv.
There is still much to look forward to this season, and we look forward to what 2026 will bring!
The collaboration required for orchestral music extends beyond the stage, and your support plays an essential role in sharing that music with our community. Our music is made together, and your contribution to the Orchestra’s Annual Fund enables us to continue to transform lives through the power of music. Please visit aso.org/donate to learn how you can participate in this season’s important Annual Fund Campaign.
Thank you for being here and for your support of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! We hope your holidays are filled with joy, good health, and beautiful music.
With gratitude,
Jennifer Barlament, Executive Director
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ASO | NATHALIE STUTZMANN
Nathalie Stutzmann is the Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman in history to lead a major American orchestra. She was Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra from 2021-2024.
Nathalie’s 2025-26 season includes major debuts with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Berlin, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She also returns to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Oslo Philharmonic.
Named Best Conductor of the Year at the 2024 Oper! Awards, she earned acclaim for Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival in 2023 and 2024, with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praising her as “a genius who makes music irresistible.” In 2026, she returns for the festival’s 150th anniversary with a new production of Rienzi, and debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper conducting Faust. She also opens the 2025–26 season at Dutch National Opera with Tosca.
An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics/Erato, Nathalie’s first symphonic release with the Atlanta Symphony— Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 and American Suite— earned her cover recognition from Gramophone magazine. The album was highlighted by The New York Times as one of “5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now,” and received OPUS Klassik nominations for Best Conductor and Best Symphonic Recording of the Year. This followed her 2023 OPUS Klassik win for Concerto Recording of The Year, for her album featuring the Glière and Mosolov harp concertos with Xavier de Maistre and the WDR Sinfonieorchester. In 2022, she released the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra, which Gramophone hailed as “a brilliant collaboration”.
Nathalie started her studies at a young age in piano, bassoon, and cello, and studied conducting with legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula. As one of the world’s most celebrated contraltos, she has made over 80 recordings and received numerous international accolades. Named “Chevalier de la Le gion d’Honneur” and “Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government, she is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.
MUSIC DIRECTOR'S CORNER
Recently, Nathalie was guest conductor at the Staatskapelle Berlin, presenting Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Tagesspiegel reported, “Stutzmann has become a master in the art of discreetly increasing passion and intensity.” This season, Stutzmann has also led the Dutch National Opera in a production of Tosca and Carmen and was recently appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.
Catherine Lynn acting principal / assistant principal
Paul Murphy
associate principal
The Mary & Lawrence
Gellerstedt Chair
Marian Kent
Yang-Yoon Kim
Yiyin Li
Lachlan McBane
Patrick Miller
Jessica Oudin
Madeline Sharp
Nathalie Stutzmann
music director
The Robert Reid Topping Chair
CELLO
Daniel Laufer
acting / associate principal
The Miriam & John Conant Chair
Karen Freer acting associate / assistant principal
The Livingston Foundation Chair
Thomas Carpenter
Joel Dallow
The UPS Foundation Chair
Ray Kim
Isabel Kwon
Nathan Mo
Brad Ritchie
Charles Zandieh
BASS
Joseph McFadden principal
The Marcia & John Donnell Chair
Gloria Jones Allgood
associate principal
The Lucy R. & Gary Lee Jr. Chair
Karl Fenner
Michael Kurth
The Jane Little Chair
Jungsu Lee
Nicholas Scholefield
Daniel Tosky
FLUTE
Christina Smith principal
The Jill Hertz Chair
The Mabel Dorn Reeder
Honorary Chair
Robert Cronin
associate principal
C. Todd Skitch
Gina Hughes
PICCOLO
Gina Hughes
William R. Langley
resident conductor & atlanta symphony youth orchestra music director
The Zeist Foundation Chair
OBOE
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione principal
The George M. & Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair
Zachary Boeding
associate principal
The Kendeda Fund Chair
William Dunlop
Emily Brebach
ENGLISH HORN
Emily Brebach
CLARINET
Jesse McCandless principal
The Robert Shaw Chair
Iván Valbuena associate principal
Alcides Rodriguez
E-FLAT CLARINET
Iván Valbuena
BASS CLARINET
Alcides Rodriguez
BASSOON
Cameron Bonner principal
The Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation Chair
Anthony Georgeson associate principal
Laura Najarian
Juan de Gomar
CONTRABASSOON
Juan de Gomar
Norman Mackenzie director of choruses
The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair
HORN
Ryan Little principal
The Betty Sands Fuller Chair
Andrew Burhans
associate principal
Kimberly Gilman
Reese Farnell
Scott Sanders
TRUMPET
Michael Tiscione
acting / associate principal
Finan Jones
assistant conductor
The Madeline & Howell Adams Chair
Mark Maliniak acting associate principal
William Cooper
TROMBONE
Nathan Zgonc
acting / associate principal
The Terence L. Neal Chair, Honoring his dedication & service to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
The Home Depot Veterans Chair
Jason Patrick Robins
TUBA
Michael Moore principal
The Delta Air Lines Chair
TIMPANI
Michael Stubbart
acting principal / assistant principal
The Walter H. Bunzl Chair
Players in rotating sections are listed alphabetically.
PERCUSSION
Joseph Petrasek principal
The Julie & Arthur
Montgomery Chair
Michael Jarrett
assistant principal
The William A. Schwartz Chair
Michael Stubbart
The Connie & Merrell Calhoun Chair
HARP
Elisabeth Remy Johnson principal
The Sally & Carl Gable Chair
KEYBOARD
The Hugh & Jessie Hodgson
Memorial Chair
Sharon Berenson †
LIBRARY
Emma Luty principal
The Marianna & Solon
Patterson Chair
Sara Baguyos associate principal
James Nelson
GUEST CONDUCTOR
Neil and Sue Williams Chair
ASO | LEADERSHIP | 2025/26 Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Angela Evans chair
Patrick Viguerie immediate past chair
Joia Johnson treasurer
Galen Oelkers secretary
DIRECTORS
Phyllis Abramson
Keith Adams
Juliet M. Allan
Susan Antinori
Rona Gomel Ashe
Andrew Bailey
Jennifer Barlament*
Keith Barnett
Paul Blackney
Janine Brown
Betsy Camp
Lisa Chang
Susan Clare
Russell Currey
Sheila Lee Davies
Carlos del Rio, M.D. FIDSA
Lisa DiFrancesco, M.D.
Lynn Eden
Yelena Epova
Angela Evans
Craig Frankel
Sally Bogle Gable
Anne Game
Rod Garcia-Escudero
Sally Frost George
Robert Glustrom
Julie Goosman
Bonnie B. Harris
Charles Harrison
Tad Hutcheson, Jr.
Roya Irvani
Joia M. Johnson
Raymond Kotwicki, MD, MPH
Carrie Kurlander
Scott Lampert
James H. Landon
Daniel Laufer*
Donna Lee
Janine Brown vice chair
Lynn Eden vice chair
Grace Lee, M.D.
Sukai Liu
Kevin Lyman
Deborah Marlowe
Arthur Mills IV
Molly Minnear
Hala Moddelmog*
Caroline Moïse
Anne Morgan
Terence L. Neal
Galen Lee Oelkers
Dr. John Paddock
Margie Painter
Cathleen Quigley
Doug Reid
James Rubright
Ravi Saligram
William Schultz
June Scott
BOARD OF COUNSELORS
Neil Berman
Benjamin Q. Brunt
John W. Cooledge, M.D.
John R. Donnell, Jr.
Jere A. Drummond
Carla Fackler
Charles B. Ginden
John T. Glover
Dona Humphreys
Aaron J. Johnson, Jr.
James F. Kelley
Patricia Leake
Karole F. Lloyd
Meghan H. Magruder
LIFE DIRECTORS
Howell E. Adams, Jr.
John B. White, Jr.
* Ex-Officio Board Member
^ On Sabbatical
Connie Calhoun
Shelley McGehee
Penelope McPhee
Howard D. Palefsky
Patricia H. Reid
Joyce Schwob
John A Sibley, III
H. Hamilton Smith
V Scott
Charles Sharbaugh
Gayle Sheppard
Fahim Siddiqui
W. Ross Singletary, II
John Sparrow
Elliott Tapp
Yannik Thomas
Maria Todorova
Ben Touchette
Benny Varzi
S. Patrick Viguerie
Kathy Waller
Chris Webber
Richard S. White, Jr.
Mack Wilbourn
Kevin E. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.
Azira G. Hill
G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr.
Valerie Thadhani, MD
Michael W. Trapp
Ray Uttenhove
Chilton Varner
Adair M. White
Sue Sigmon Williams
Ben F. Johnson, III
Giving the Gift of Music 2025/26 Annual Fund Campaign
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Annual Fund donors make a significant impact on the Orchestra every year, and we are extraordinarily grateful for their incredible thoughtfulness and generosity.
Through this support, the ASO raised over $4.5 million last season—a tremendous show of support for music in Atlanta and beyond. This season, our goal is to reach $4,755,000, ensuring that our music continues to inspire, educate, and unite our community.
Support of the 2025/26 Annual Fund Campaign, along with additional fundraising initiatives, ticket sales, and income from our endowment, allows us to:
• Provide our community with an outstanding orchestra that will perform more than 130 concerts this season
• Teach and nurture over 25,000 students and children through our core education and family programs
• Ensure that the organization remains financially strong and stable for many more years of music to come
The renewable funding provided through the Annual Fund brings our music to life in Symphony Hall and throughout our community, and it has played a crucial role in achieving fiscal balance for the past 11 consecutive years at the ASO.
Like the orchestra on stage, it takes the contributions of many individuals to achieve what no one could do alone. Our music is made together, and if you have not already made an Annual Fund gift, we hope you’ll consider participating in the Campaign.
We share our thanks to the generous community of donors whose support allows us to create and share the joy of live symphonic music. Thank you!
To make a gift to the Annual Fund Campaign, please visit www.aso.org/give or call 404-733-4416.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Advisory Council is a group of passionate and engaged individuals who act as both ambassadors & resources for the ASO Board and staff. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra extends heartfelt gratitude to the members listed on this page.
2025/26 CHAIRS
Jane Morrison
advisory council chair
Justin Im
internal connections task force co-chair
Robert Lewis, Jr.
internal connections task force co-chair
Kristi Stathopolous internal connections task force co-chair
Jane Blount
patron experience task force co-chair
Frances A. Root
patron experience task force co-chair
Tiffany Rosetti
community connections & education task force co-chair
Otis Threatt
community connections & education task force co-chair
MEMBERS
Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes
Krystal Ahn
Kristi & Aadu Allpere
Logan Anderson & Ian Morey
Evelyn Babey
Asad & Sakina Bashey
Meredith W. Bell
John Blatz
Jane Blount
Carol Brantley & David Webster
Johanna Brookner
Mrs. Amy B. Cheng & Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D
Kate Cook
DePorres & Barbara Cormier
Daniel P. Debonis
Donald & Barbara Defoe
Paul & Susan Dimmick
Bernadette Drankoski
John & Catherine Fare Dyer
Jerry H. Evans
Mary Ann Flinn
Bruce & Avery Flower
Karen Foster
Annie Frazer
John D. Fuller
Alex Garcias
Dr. Paul Gilreath
Nadeen Green
Greg Heathcock & Cesar Moreno
Elizabeth Hendrick
Mia Frieder Hilley
Caroline Hofland
Justin Im
Dr. Lillian Ivansco
Frank & Janice Johnston
Baxter Jones & Jiong Yan
Lana Jordan
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Rosthema Kastin
Andrea Kauffman
Alfred D. Kennedy & Bill Kenny
Brian & Ann Kimsey
Jason & Michelle Kroh
Jeff & Pam Kuester
Van & Elizabeth Lear
Dr. Fulton Lewis III & Mr. Neal Rhoney
Robert Lewis, Jr.
Jonathan Lively
Eunice Luke
Catherine & Bill Lundstrom
Thomas Mabry
Erin Marshall
Alfredo Martin
Belinda Massafra
Catherine Massey
Doug & Kathrin Mattox
Ed & Linda McGinn
Suneel Mendiratta
Keyeriah Miles
Berthe & Shapour Mobasser
Bert Mobley
Sue Morgan
Bill Morrison & Beth Clark-Morrison
Jane Morrison
Gary Noble
Regina Olchowski
Bethani Oppenheimer
Joseph Owen, Jr.
Ralph & Suzanne Paulk
Ann & Fay Pearce
Jonathan &
Lori Peterson
Dr. John B. Pugh
Eliza Quigley
Joseph Rapanotti
Leonard Reed
Dr. Jay & Kimberley Rhee
Vicki Riedel
Felicia Rives
David Rock
Frances A. Root
Maurice & Tricia Rosenbaum
Tiffany & Rich Rosetti
Noelle Ross
Thomas & Lynne Saylor
Beverly & Milton Shlapak
Suzanne Shull
Baker Smith
Cindy Smith
Janice Smith
Victoria Smith
Peter & Kristi Stathopoulos
Tom & Ani Steele
Deann Stevens
Beth &
Edward Sugarman
Stephen & Sonia Swartz
George & Amy Taylor
Bob & Dede Thompson
Otis Threatt Jr.
Roxanne Varzi
Robert & Amy Vassey
Juliana Vincenzino
Emily C. Ward
Dr. Nanette K. Wenger
Kiki Wilson
Camille Yow
For more information about becoming an Advisory Council member, please contact Beth Freeman at beth.freeman@atlantasymphony.org or 404.733.4532.
The ASO Begins a New Holiday Tradition
By Jon Ross
Holidaymusicisforeveryone.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra created the new “Sounds of the Season” with this maxim in mind. The goal is to spread seasonal cheer to as many communities as possible.
Atlantans still have “Christmas with the ASO” and the annual singing of Handel’s Messiah. This new offering welcomes listeners with different holiday traditions as well as those who simply need more non-denominational music to get in the spirit.
On December 23, prepare for a concert that bridges generations and styles. Works like Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s “Christmas Overture” and “Hanukkah Festival Overture” by Lewis Richman dominate the first half of the program. After intermission, listeners will hear “Medley from ‘Frozen,’” “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Walking in a Winter Wonderland.”
Sounds of the Season Tue, Dec. 23, 7pm Finan Jones, conductor Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Assistant Conductor Finan Jones leads the ASO in a program designed to represent the holidays to diverse groups of listeners.
“We wanted to do something a bit different, something with more music that people who don’t regularly come to the concert hall might be familiar with—some film music, some pop music and some traditional songs that people will know,” he said.
Jones said it was important to find classical works that struck a balance between familiarity and intrigue before creating a party atmosphere after intermission.
“The second half, we bring the disco ball in, and the audience will get up and sing,” he said. “We’re going to try to teach them some dances, and everyone’s going to go out into the night with that holiday warmth in their hearts.”
Even with more pop-leaning tunes, Jones stressed the importance of not going through the motions musically.
“There’s always a risk with programming that seeks to bring in a new audience; we can risk talking down to them,” he said. “So it’s about feeding that curiosity that brings people to the concert hall.”
In his career, Jones has looked to present the unexpected. This helps subvert any preconceived notions about classical concerts and empowers listeners to simply experience music without thinking about genre boundaries and other strict musical rules. The conductor notes that he hones this approach by constantly sketching out programs in his mind.
“Before young people kind of are taught the differences between all these sounds they hear pumping out of the radio or the record player or their phones, they don’t know they should listen to a piece of Mark Anthony Turnage or Caroline Shaw differently to a piece by Bach or Beethoven, and that’s really exciting to me,” Jones said.
So how does one program? Jones said it boils down to listening to as much music as he can, researching composers and talking with other artistic planners for constructive criticism.
This broad manner of thinking, being open to new ideas, is one way to keep holiday programming fresh. New listeners give Jones the space to take programming risks.
“Those audiences are the ones that can have the most open ears,” he said. “They turn up with so few expectations .. you can make wacky programming decisions when you have groups like that.”
See pg. 47 for Finan Jones’ biography
We are deeply grateful to the following leadership donors whose generous support has made the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's season possible.
The 4,169th and 4,170th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Atlanta Symphony Hall
PIETARI INKINEN, conductor
SERGEY KHACHATRYAN, violin
The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited. Please be kind to those around you and silence your mobile phone and other hand-held devices.
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957)
Finlandia, Op. 26 (1899)
ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903-1978)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1940)
I. Allegro con fermezza
II. Andante sostenuto
III. Allegro vivace Sergey Khachatryan, violin
INTERMISSION
JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957)
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 (1901-1902)
I. Allegretto
II. Tempo Andante, ma rubato
III. Vivacissimo –
IV. Finale: Allegro moderato
9 MINS
35 MINS
20 MINS
44 MINS
Saturday's concert is dedicated to JOHN W. COOLEDGE in honor of his generous support of the 2024/25 Annual Fund.
by Noel Morris Program Annotator
SIBELIUS Finlandia
Since the Napoleonic wars, the Finnish people have had an 830-mile problem—their border with Russia. In 1809, they fell under the thumb of the Tsar. Initially, the Russian monarch permitted some measure of autonomy. That changed in 1899 when Nicholas II instituted a policy of Russification. His censors took control of the Finnish press. The Russian military began drafting Finns into service, and administrators forced the people to adopt the Russian language. The Finns pushed back just as Sibelius was emerging as an important composer.
Although he grew up in a Swedish-speaking household, the composer married the daughter of a famous Finnish patriot and statesman. Sibelius caught the patriotic fever, adopted the Finnish language, and devoted many of his works to the Finnish identity.
First ASO performance: February 4, 1945
Henry Sopkin, conductor
Most recent ASO performance: January 15, 2023
In October 1899, members of the Helsinki press organized a benefit, ostensibly to support a newspaper pension fund. In truth, it was a pep rally for national unity. The entertainment included a theatrical presentation of the poem “The Melting of the Ice on the Ulea River” by Zachria Topelius, culminating in the dawning of Finnish independence. Sibelius wrote Finlandia for that dramatic moment, and the audience went wild. Sibelius’s piece quickly spread throughout the country and came to symbolize the resistance, prompting the Tsar to ban performances of it. In response, Finnish musicians changed its name to Finlandia to keep the piece circulating. Sibelius became a national hero.
KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto
Aram Khachaturian was an Armenian born in Tiflis, Georgia, within the Russian Empire. Tiflis (Tbilisi) was an international city where a robust Armenian community constituted more than a third of the population. There, young Aram developed an enduring connection to his people.
On the whole, after 1917, Soviet Russia terrorized its composers, but Khachaturian thrived. His affinity for folk music naturally aligned with Soviet messaging celebrating
Kazem Abdullah, conductor
First ASO performance:
February 25, 1951
Robert Harrision, violin
Henry Sopkin, conductor
Most recent ASO performance: March 1, 2008
Cecylia Arzewski, violin
Roberto Minczuk, conductor
the diverse nationalities living together under the Soviet system. And for most of his life, Communist Party authorities left him alone.
Khachaturian enjoyed the upbringing of a folk musician. He sang songs with his mother and absorbed the musical language of a vibrant community filled with folk music from across the region. Young Aram played and drummed upon anything he could get his hands on. When he moved to Moscow at 18, he didn’t know how to read music but eventually landed at the Moscow Conservatory and quickly caught up.
In 1939, Khachaturian made a six-month folk songcollecting tour of Armenia, which amounted to an immersion he called his “second conservatory.” In 1940, he wrote the Violin Concerto.
If you’re looking to connect that trip to the concerto, it’s worth going to YouTube to listen to Armenian folk music. First of all, you’ll notice they don’t tune their instruments the way we do, so the music is a little piquant, like a strong cheese. You’ll also hear the use of a drone over which a second instrument plays rhapsodic improvisations.
In the Violin Concerto, Khachaturian accomplishes the improvisatory vibe by establishing a repeated melody that gets a shake-up with each repetition. With an added flourish here and some extra bars there, he made a hazardous obstacle course for any soloist playing from memory.
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
History offers a long list of composers who came in contact with Italian culture and were forever changed, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Richard Strauss. Other composers wrote musical postcards from there, including Mendelssohn, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Liszt, and Stravinsky. The Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius, is one of those pieces.
In March of 1900, Sibelius received a letter from an admirer that read: “You have been sitting at home for quite a while, Mr. Sibelius, it is high time for you to travel. You will spend the late autumn and the winter in Italy, a country where one
learns cantabile, balance and harmony, plasticity and symmetry of lines, a country where everything is beautiful—even the ugly.” The offer came from Baron Axel Carpelan, who raised a generous sum to send the composer on his way.
Sibelius had other reasons for a change of venue. In February, his 15-month-old daughter died of typhoid. He had also been drinking and racking up debts. An Italian getaway might help him clear his head.
First ASO performance: February 3, 1951
Henry Sopkin, conductor
Most recent ASO performance: March 18, 2023
Stephen Mulligan, conductor
In early 1901, Jean Sibelius took his family to a villa near the seaside community of Rapallo, where pastel-colored houses hug the Mediterranean. Until then, his only contact with such vistas had come from the theater. In Rapallo, thoughts of Mozart’s Don Giovanni flooded his brain. A scenario for a possible tone poem came to mind.
“Don Juan,” he wrote. “Sitting in the twilight in my castle, a guest enters. I ask many times who he is. No answer. I make an effort to entertain him. He remains mute. Eventually, he starts singing. At this time, Don Juan notices who he is— Death.” Next to this scenario, Sibelius wrote a melody.
Sibelius returned to a tense situation in Finland. The Russian Tsar had begun to tighten the screws on Finnish culture, and there were rumblings of rebellion. Sibelius found his bearings in this tumultuous atmosphere and sat down to write. The Don Juan melody found its way into the second movement of the Second Symphony, which he worked on until early 1902.
Although Sibelius never ascribed a program to his Symphony No. 2, his close friend, conductor Robert Kajanus, wrote that the second movement “strikes one as the most brokenhearted protest against all the injustice that threatens at the present time to deprive the sun of its light and our flowers of their scent.” Whether or not this was the composer’s intention, the timing of the Symphony, coupled with rising political tensions, forever linked the piece with the spirit of independence.
PIETARI INKINEN, conductor
Pietari Inkinen is one of the leading conductors of his generation. Highly acclaimed for his “thinking on a grand scale” and exceptional technique, he has led orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Sydney Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and many others.
This year, the Finnish conductor made his debut at the NCPA Beijing, leading a new production of Die Walküre. The music of Wagner holds a central place in Inkinen’s artistic work. He led new productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen and Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival. His performances of the Ring cycle at Opera Australia earned him a Helpmann Award and a Green Room Award. He also won the Franco Abbiati Prize for Das Rheingold at Teatro Massimo Palermo.
Inkinen’s operatic engagements have also taken him to the Finnish National Opera, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Bavarian State Opera, and the Semperoper Dresden, where he conducted a new production of Eugene Onegin.
Pietari Inkinen served as Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie until the end of the 2024/25 season. Previously, he held chief positions with the Japan Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony, the KBS Symphony Seoul, and the Ludwigsburg Festival Orchestra. During his tenure as Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, he recorded all Sibelius symphonies (Naxos). Another Sibelius cycle was produced with the Japan Philharmonic. With the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Inkinen recently completed a recording project featuring all Dvořák symphonies (SWRmusic).
Inkinen’s artistic journey was also the subject of a 2023 TV documentary.
In addition to his conducting career, Pietari Inkinen is also an accomplished violinist. He studied with Zakhar Bron in
Cologne before continuing his conducting studies at the Sibelius Academy.
SERGEY KHACHATRYAN, violin
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest winner in the history of the competition. In 2005, he claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
This 25/26 season, Sergey performs with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Wiener KammerOrchester, Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Taipei Symphony, as well as in North America, including San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra.
Sergey’s recent appearances in North America include the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and Montréal Symphony Orchestra, among others. The most recent North American Tour with the Armenian National Philharmonic included such destinations as Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Maison Symphonique in Montreal, and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Sergey and Lusine’s most recent album, “My Armenia,” released by naïve, dedicated to the 100th commemoration of the Armenian genocide, has been awarded the Echo Klassik for Chamber Music Recording 20th-21st Century / Mixed Ensemble. Sergey’s discography on the label includes the Sibelius and Khachaturian concerti with Sinfonia Varsovia and Emmanuel Krivine and the complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin by J.S. Bach.
Sergey plays the 1724 Kiesewetter Stradivarius violin on a kind loan from the Stretton Society.
The 4,171st ,4,172nd, 4,173rd and 4,174th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
PART I – PROPHECY AND ADVENT
“O Come, Emmanuel” (arr. Alice Parker)
“And The Glory of the Lord” from Messiah (Georgia Frideric Handel)
“Praeludium” Sostenuto ma no troppo from Missa solemnis (Ludwig van Beethoven)
The Coca-Cola Holiday Concerts are presented by Holiday concerts are made possible through an endowment from the Livingston Foundation in memory of Leslie Livingston Kellar.
Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Atlanta Symphony Hall
NORMAN MACKENZIE, conductor
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
DAVID MORROW, director
ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS
PAIGE MATHIS, director
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS
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“Heavenly Light” (Alexander Kopylov)
“The First Nowell”* (arr. David Wilcocks)
PART II – THE STABLE
“Hodie Christus natus est” from A Ceremony of Carols (Benjamin Britten)
“Wolcum Yole” from A Ceremony of Carols (Britten)
Elisabeth Remy Johnson, harp
“Virga Jesse” (Anton Bruckner)
Allegro non molto from “Winter” of The Four Seasons (Antonio Vivaldi)
David Coucheron, violin
“Lo, How A Rose E’re Blooming” (Michael Praetorius)
“There Is a Rose in Flower” (Johannes Brahms/ Erich Leinsdorf)
Thursday's concert is dedicated to KAREN M. SCHWARTZ, Ph.D. AND JOHN R. PADDOCK Ph.D. in honor of their generous support of the 2024/25 Annual Fund.
This concert is performed without intermission. Performance length is approximately one hour and 15 minutes.
*The audience is invited to join the choruses in singing these familiar carols. Words are included on the following pages.
“Tomorrow Will Be My Dancing Day” (John Gardner)
“All Round the Glory Manger” (arr. dePaur)
“Away in a Manger” (arr. Parker)
“March of the Kings” (arr. Robert Shaw/Parker)
“Farandole” from L’Arlésienne (Georges Bizet)
“Bogorotitse Devo” from Vespers (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
“Betelehemu” (Via Olatunji/arr. Whalum)
“Hallelujah” from Messiah (Handel)
PART III – AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE
"March" from The Nutcracker (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker
"Russian Dance" from Swan Lake (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
David Coucheron, violin
“Snow Song” (Thomas)
“The Boar’s Head” (arr. Shaw/Parker)
"Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" and "Angels We Have Heard on High" from Suite 3, Many Moods of Christmas
PART IV – ADORATION
“El Cant des Ocells” (“The Song of the Birds”) (arr. Pablo Casals)
Daniel Laufer, cello
“Coventry Carol” (arr. Shaw)
“The Shepherds’ Farewell to the Holy Family” from L’Enfance du Christ (Hector Berlioz)
“Adeste, fideles”* (arr. Parker)
SING-ALONG CAROLS
“The First Nowell”
The first Nowell the angels did say Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay; In fields where they lay, keeping their sheep,
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.
Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!
They looked up and saw a star, Shining in the east, beyond them far;
And to the earth it gave great light, And so it continued both day and night.
Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!
Then let us all with one accord Sing praises to our heav’nly Lord, That hath made heav’n and earth of naught,
And with His blood mankind hath bought.
Nowell, Nowell, born is the King of Israel!
“Adeste, Fideles”*
1. Audience (Translation is verse 4)
Adeste, fideles, laeti triumphantes; venite, venite in Bethlehem; natum videte, regem angelorum. Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum!
2. Sung by the Choruses, Translation: God of gods, Light of lights, Carried in a maiden’s womb. True God: begotten, not made. O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!
3. Sung by the Choruses, Translation
“Hallelujah!” now sings the angelic chorus;
The heavenly host now sings, “Glory to the highest!” O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!
4. Audience:
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant; O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem; Come and behold Him, born the king of angels: O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
Founded in 1911, the Morehouse College Glee Club is the premier singing organization of Morehouse College, traveling all over the country and the world, demonstrating excellence not only in choral performance but also in discipline, dedication, and brotherhood. The current members come from all over the United States and even from other countries around the world. While some are music majors, members are in all academic divisions at the college.
On January 18, 1993, the Glee Club, as part of the MorehouseSpelman Chorus, sang at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall, with soprano Jessye Norman, in a concert celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. They also performed the National Anthem with Natalie Cole for Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994. The organization participated with Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, and Trisha Yearwood in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2008, the Glee Club recorded the spiritual, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”, for Spike Lee’s movie, Miracle at St. Anna. The Glee Club celebrated its Centennial in 2011 by performing commemorative concerts in Atlanta and New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, for events leading to the dedication of the King Monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and recorded “Zachary and the Scaly Bark Tree” by Bill Lee for his son, Spike Lee’s movie, Red Hook Summer.
The Glee Club has performed concerts with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, featuring the work Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson. The Glee Club has performed internationally on several different occasions: African Nations—Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, and Nigeria (1972), Russia (1996), Poland (1998), Bermuda (2001), the Bahamas (2005), South Africa (2008), Canada and Puerto Rico (2011), Honduras (2018), Algeria (2019), and performed the 50th Anniversary Tour of Nigeria in 2022. In January of this year, the Glee Club was honored to sing for the Atlanta funeral service for President Jimmy Carter at The Carter Center.
DAVID MORROW, director
David Morrow is a native of Rochester, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Dr. Morrow has been a member of the Music faculty at Morehouse College since 1981 and became Director of the Glee Club in 1987. Dr. Morrow’s conducting honors include: 1991 Kennedy Center Honors as part of the tribute to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate, Robert Shaw with the Morehouse College Glee Club; celebrating the 1994 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday at Atlanta Symphony Hall with soprano Jessye Norman and the Spelman-Morehouse Choruses; the National Anthem for Super Bowl XXVIII with Natalie Cole and the combined choruses of the Atlanta University Center; the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games with the Morehouse College Glee Club.
Dr. Morrow is past president of The National Association of Negro Musicians, and was a member of the Georgia Council for the Arts. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, Inc. and Chorus America, Inc.
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
Kamren Anderson
Garvey Anderson
Xavier Andrews
Langston Bassett
Jouvence Benoit
Tsar Blanchard
Namorrie Blount
Braylon Bodison
Robert Briggs Jr.
Matthew Brock Jr.
Josiah Brown
Nathaniel Cange
Shawn Carter
Alexander Cauthen
Uri Clark
Justin Clopton
Courtland Coleman
Neil Collymore
Juquwayne Crockett
Myles Daughtry
Dalin Davis
Allheim Devan-Bey
Jordan Dixon
Langston Donald
Xavier Doyle
Terrance Drew
Devan Durrett
Mason Filio
Evan Flowers
Sebastien Ford
Jordan Frazier
Brian Gaddie
Elijah Gatling
Stephen Goff IV
Israel Goodridge
Jerrin Goodwin
Theodore Hervey
Mekhi Holly
Donovan Hood
Bradley Jackson
Ronny Johnson
Thurgood Johnson
Lance Johnson Jr.
Tyler Jones
Andrew Kamuche
Elijah Lee
Evan Lowther
Ian Mausi
Dominic Mitchell
Noah Mize
Joshua Myers
Isaiah Nelson
Joe NoringtonReaves
Sean Norton
Dagogo Obomanu
John Paige
Dylan Patterson
Kimont Person
Kaden QuickBennett
Chantz Robinson
Saleem Saafir
Salahuddin Saafir
Jason Scott Jr.
Beloved Joshua
Simons
Kingston Sloan
Cuba Stellenberg
Rayquan Strickland
Kabien Thompson
Kaleb Trotman
Jaden Walls
Imari Welcher
ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS
Founded in 1975, the auditioned program serves 130 Singers ages 7-18 representing 65+ school environments and includes seven Choir levels. In collaboration with school partners, AYS produces free workshops and inschool programs and remains dedicated to music fluency, commissioning American choral works, local musicians, cutting-edge performances, interdisciplinary collaborative education, and outreach to underserved youth.
Performances include Christmas with the ASO with Robert Shaw, 1996 Centennial Olympic Games Closing Ceremonies, and NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley. AYS has traveled extensively on 80+ tours in 28 countries and won invitations to the most prestigious international festivals and venues. AYS Choirs won gold diplomas at WORLD CHOIR GAMES in 2012 and gold and silver medals in 2014. Most recently, AYS traveled to South Africa in 2018 for IHLOMBE! International Choral Festival in celebration of Mandela’s 100th birthday, Newfoundland in 2024 for HarbourVOICES International Festival of Collective Singing Traditions, and Spain in 2025.
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ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS STAFF
Virginia M. Thompson
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paige F. Mathis, PhD MUSIC DIRECTOR
Millie L. Turek
ASSOCIATE MUSIC DIRECTOR
Jeremiah Robinson & Jason Maynard LOW VOICE CONDUCTORS
ATLANTA YOUNG SINGERS ROSTER
Aubrie Astin
Vicki Bianchi Arraiza
Swara Chauhan
Mackenzie Costa
Eilon Cui
Darwin Dudgeon
Angel English
Kale’a Evans
Indigo Farbstein
Kiran Flenaugh
Sadie Form
Kate George
Zoey Gilmer
Kynedi Green
Annie Hansen
Carolina Hatfield
Elizabeth Hawkins
Naomi Heckerling
Chloe Higgins
Ross Hooge
Sylvie Hooper
Emma Huban
Taylor Jain
Haley James
Yuze Jiang
Ivy-Inaya Johnson
Violet Karakos
Kyrianna Kaskade
PAIGE F. MATHIS, music director
Hannah Kim
Layla Klehr
Eden Levine
Emet Levine
Arietha Lockhart & Natalie Boehnlein
TRAINING CHOIR DIRECTORS
Elias Manos
TCC COLLABORATIVE PIANIST
Catherine Luo
Hibiki Marable
Alice McNaughton
Mara Millar
Caroline Nehmer
Annabel Nguyen
Tessa Nigro
Ruthie Nuñez
Morgan Rhodes
Edyn Ross
Lorelei Russell
Elliana Schultz
Dev Shukla
Diya Shukla
Advika Singh
Aria Thornton
Kristen Wallace
Theo Watkins
Camille Weinstein
Vivienne Wingfield
Named Music Director of Atlanta Young Singers and first holder of the Stephen J. Ortlip chair in 1998, Dr. Paige Fumbanks Mathis holds a PhD in Music Education from Texas Tech, where she specialized in Kodály pedagogy and the history of music education in juvenile justice. Choirs under her direction have received numerous awards for contemporary and folk music in international competitions. With a reputation for championing work of living composers and programming music that challenges young singers, she has served as clinician for numerous Honor Choruses in the US and fostered creative partnerships between US and international choirs. President of Kodály Educators of Georgia and on summer faculty for West Chester University’s Kodály Certification program, she has also served as Georgia Repertoire & Standards Chair for the American Choral Directors Association. Dr. Mathis spent 25 years singing with ASO Chorus & Chamber Chorus under the batons of Robert Shaw, Robert Spano, and Donald Runnicles.
NORMAN MACKENZIE, Director of Choruses
Norman Mackenzie’s abilities as musical collaborator, conductor and concert organist have brought him international recognition. As Director of Chorus for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) since 2000, he was chosen to help carry forward the creative vision of legendary founding conductor Robert Shaw. During his tenure, the Chorus has made numerous tours and garnered several Grammy® awards, including Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance. At the ASO, he prepares the Choruses for all concerts and recordings, works closely with Nathalie Stutzmann on the commissioning and realization of new choral-orchestral works and conducts holiday concerts.
In his 14-year association with Mr. Shaw, he was keyboardist for the ASO, principal accompanist for the ASO Choruses and ultimately assistant choral conductor. In addition, he was musical assistant and accompanist for the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, the Robert Shaw Institute Summer Choral Festivals in France and the United States and the famed Shaw/ Carnegie Hall Choral Workshops. He prepared the ASO Chorus for its acclaimed 2003 debut and successive 2008 and 2009 performances in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic, in Britten’s War Requiem, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, respectively.
ASO CHORUS
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, founded in 1970 by former Music Director, Robert Shaw, is an allvolunteer, auditioned ensemble that performs on a regular basis with the Orchestra and is featured on many of its recordings. Led by Director of Choruses, Norman Mackenzie, the chorus is known for its precision and expressive singing quality. Its recordings have garnered 14 GRAMMY® Awards (nine for “Best Choral Performance”; four for “Best Classical Recording” and one for “Best Opera Recording”). In addition, the Chorus has been involved in the creation and shaping of numerous world-premiere commissioned works.
ASO CHORUS ROSTER
Norman Mackenzie director of choruses
The Frannie &
Bill Graves Chair
SOPRANO 1
Juliana Bolaño
Hanan Davis
Khadijah Davis
Liz Dean *
Anna Floyd
Laura Foster +
Erin Harris
Erin Jones *
Arietha Lockhart **
Mindy Margolis +*
Katie O’Brien
Joneen Padgett +*
Rachel Paul
Mary Martha Penner
Susan Ray
Samaria Rodriguez
Emily Salmond
Kristian Samuel
Lydia Sharp
Alexandra Slusarenko
Stacey Tanner + Chelsea Toledo
Brianne Turgeon +*
Rebecca Van Rooyen
Wanda Yang Temko +*
SOPRANO 2
Meghann Ashey
Debbie Ashton
Sloan Atwood +*
Jessica Barber +
Saskia de Boon
Tierney Breedlove
Haley Brown
Barbara Brown +
Mary Claire Buchanan
Martha Craft +
Gina Deaton
Mary Goodwin + Corrina Guadalupe
Heidi Hayward
Amy Lea
Melissa Mack
Lindsay Patten Murray + Chantae Pittman +
Tramaine Quarterman
Kate Roberts
Kelli Roberts
Marianna Schuck
Elizabeth Shaver
Anne-Marie Spalinger +*
Emily Tallant +
Marcia Chandler chorus administrator
Cheryl Thrash **
Caroline Todd
Tommie Storer
Caroline Wendt
Lacy Wilder
ALTO 1
Pamela Amy-Cupp
Alison Autry
Emily Campbell
Jessica Crowe
Patti Dinkins Matthews +*
Alexandra Dolgashev
Katherine Fisher
Beth Freeman *
Bridgette Gifford Unita Harris
Beverly Hueter *
Janet Johnson **
Kathleen Kelly George *
Virginia Little +*
Alina Luke Sara McKlin
Linda Morgan **
Katherine Murray +*
Lillian Thompson Nittler
Kathleen Poe Ross *
Elizabeth Qian
Anna Ree
Noelle Ross +
Rachel Schiffer
Rachel Stewart **
Nancy York +*
ALTO 2
Nancy Adams +*
Ana Baida +
Angelica Blackman Keim
Elizabeth Borland
Emily Boyer
Marcia Chandler *
Carol Comstock
Meaghan Curry +
Michèle Diament *
Cynthia Goeltz DeBold **
Emily Halbert
Luanne Harms
Joia Johnson
Sally Kann *
Nicole Khoury +*
Katherine MacKenzie +
Lalla McGee
Rachel Meyer
Tiffany Peoples
Laura Rappold *
Dock Anderson
series accompanist
Caroline Roberts
Duhi Park Schneider
Sharon Simons *
Virginia Thompson +*
Kimberly Waters
Kiki Wilson **
Diane Woodard **
TENOR 1
David Blalock **
Jack Caldwell +*
Daniel Cameron +*
Daniel Compton
Justin Cornelius +
Clifford Edge **
Steven Farrow **
Matthew Gavilanez
Leif Gilbert Hansen *
James Jarrell *
Keith Langston *
John Henry Monti
David Moore
Christopher Patton *
Mark Warden +*
TENOR 2
Jacob Arnett
Sutton Bacon *
Brian Bishop
Matthew Borkowski
Steve Brailsford
Jonathan Clarke
Darrell Curren
Steven Dykes
Stephen Eick
Joseph Few +*
Sean Fletcher
Thomas Foust
John Harr
Marcellus Holt
David Ingham
David Kinrade +
Tyler Lane
Michael Parker +
Timothy Parrott
Matthew Sellers
Thomas Slusher
Zachary Temin
BASS 1
Dock Anderson +
Daniel Buckley
Joshua Clark +
Trey Clegg *
Michael Cranford +
Thomas Elston
Noah Horton
Nick Jones ∞
Rodney S. Jones
Keenan Kade
Ryan Kingsley
Leo Liu
Peter MacKenzie +
Jason Maynard +
Hal Richards
Will Stephens
Thomas Stow
Joel Terning
John Terry
Edgie Wallace Jr. +*
BASS 2
Alvin Ashlaw Jr.
Philip Barreca +
Clarence Bell II
Jacob Blevins
William Borland
John King Carter
Terrence Connors
Joel Craft **
Paul Fletcher +
Timothy Gunter +*
Brooks Hanrahan
David Hansen **
Dylan Johnson
Philip Jones +
Wayne Jones
Daniel Lane
Wesley Lanter
Jason Manley
Colin Mathews
Brandon Mozingo
Philip Rogers
John Ruff +*
John Smith
Jonathan Smith *
George Sustman
Benjamin Temko +*
Gregory Whitmire +*
Keith Wyatt +*
∞= 50-year/Charter Member
** = 40-year member
+* = 30-year member
* = 20-year member
+ = 10-year member
The 4,175th and 4,176th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Mass in C major, K.317 (“Coronation Mass”) 25 MINS
I. Kyrie eleison
II. Gloria
The Coca-Cola Holiday Concerts are presented by Holiday concerts are made possible through an endowment from the Livingston Foundation in memory of Leslie Livingston Kellar.
Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM Friday, December 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NORMAN MACKENZIE, conductor
ADELAIDE BOEDECKER, soprano
RHIANNA COCKRELL, mezzo-soprano
MILES MYKKANEN, tenor
LAWSON ANDERSON, bass-baritone
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHAMBER CHORUS
The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited. Please be kind to those around you and silence your mobile phone and other hand-held devices.
III. Credo
IV. Sanctus
V. Benedictus
VI. Agnus Dei
Adelaide Boedecker, soprano
Rhianna Cockrell, mezzo-soprano
Miles Mykkanen, tenor Lawson Anderson, bass-baritone
ASO Chamber Chorus
INTERMISSION
20 MINS
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)
Part the First (Christmas Portion) and Hallelujah from Messiah, HWV 56 58 MINS
1. Overture
2. Recit: Comfort ye, my people (Tenor)
3. Air: Ev’ry valley shall be exalted (Tenor)
4. Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
5. Recit: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts (Bass)
6. Air: But who may abide the day of His coming? (Alto)
7. Chorus: And He shall purify
8. Recit: Behold! A virgin shall conceive (Alto)
This weekend's concerts were made possible in part by a grant from the BARNEY M. FRANKLIN AND HUGH W. BURKE CHARITABLE FUND.
by Noel Morris Program Annotator
9. Air and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Alto)
10. Recit: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Bass)
11. Air: The people that walked in darkness (Bass)
12. Chorus: For unto us a Child is born
13. Pastoral Symphony
14a. Recit: There were shepherds abiding in the field (Soprano)
14b. Recit: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them (Soprano)
15. Recit: And the angel said unto them (Soprano)
16. Recit: And suddenly there was with the angel (Soprano)
17. Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
18. Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano)
19. Recit: Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d (Alto)
20. Air: He shall feed his flock like a shepherd (Alto, Soprano)
21. Chorus: His yoke is easy and His burthen is light
44. Chorus: Hallelujah
Adelaide Boedecker, soprano
Rhianna Cockrell, mezzo-soprano
Miles Mykkanen, tenor
Lawson Anderson, bass-baritone
ASO Chamber Chorus
MOZART Coronation Mass
In 1633, fire broke out in a Bavarian bakery and consumed every inch of the building. A casualty of the 30 Years War, nothing survived the fire except a painting by Rudolph von Grimming called “Mary with Baby Jesus.” Church leaders declared it a miracle and built a chapel in Salzburg to house the painting. To this day, pilgrims flock to see it. To honor the Madonna and child, Church officials affixed bejeweled crowns to the two figures in 1751, an event that Salzburgers mark each year with a performance of Wolfgang Mozart’s Coronation Mass.
First ASO performance: March 16, 1996
Robert Shaw, conductor Most recent ASO performance: March 12, 2016
Norman Mackenzie, conductor
More recent scholarship suggests that, while the mass has a long association with the chapel and the painting, the name “Coronation” likely came about after a performance at the crowning of Emperor Leopold II and/or Francis I. The composer didn’t specify and didn’t choose the name.
This sequence of events illustrates the challenge of documenting the composer’s life in his hometown. When he wasn’t on the road, he didn’t write letters, leaving significant gaps in the Mozart story—especially around the time he wrote his C major Mass.
After having spent much of his childhood as a touring sensation, the 20-something genius rattled around Salzburg like a caged bear. His recent job-hunting tour around Germany and Paris was a bust. He longed to move to a bigger town, but Mozart’s father cinched up his leash and pushed to take a job as court organist to the Archbishop of Salzburg.
Already, the 23-year-old had written fourteen masses. He completed the Coronation Mass in March 1779, likely for the Easter celebration at Salzburg Cathedral. Mozart’s boss, a Church reformer, preferred to keep services short, which posed a special challenge.
“Our church music is very different from that of Italy,” he noted, “since a Mass . . . must not last longer than three quarters of an hour. This applies even to the most Solemn Mass spoken by the Archbishop himself.” It forced the composer to collapse the form and keep it moving.
What he couldn’t accomplish in breadth, he achieved in texture. He scored the mass with a sizable orchestra and delivered a piece that many consider to be his finest complete mass (the Requiem and the C minor Mass are unfinished).
INSIDE THE SCORE
Mozart chose the key of C major because the trumpet players in Salzburg owned C trumpets. The invention of the valve trumpet was still another 20 years away.
The Coronation Mass looks to the future with an operatic melody in the Agnus Dei that later turns up in The Marriage of Figaro (1786). Notice, he also brings the opening melody of the Kyrie back at the very end.
HANDEL Messiah
Messiah is not quite 300 years old but has never once flagged in popularity. Carnegie Hall boasts a whopping 373 performances since opening in 1891. A hundred years on, Atlanta’s own Robert Shaw conducted the oratorio there on the 250th anniversary of Messiah’s premiere.
George Frideric Handel was nothing if not resourceful. He became popular in London as an Italian opera composer (he was German). When church prohibitions kept him from producing operas during Lent, he simply issued a churchy alternative—the oratorio—a similarly dramatic work using a biblical story, minus the sets and costumes. (In those days, some pious types considered the environs of the theater indecent.)
Apart from dropping visuals from these dramatic works, Handel made one other modification: he elevated the role of the chorus.
Messiah was the brainchild of Handel’s favorite Englishlanguage librettist, Charles Jennens. Jennens had a bone to pick with the Deists, who believed in a non-intervening God. Jennens felt they’d gone astray and decided to use scripture exclusively in his Messiah libretto. To get around church prohibitions on depicting Jesus in a dramatic work, Jennens extracted most of the text from prophecy—the Old Testament.
He toiled over his libretto from 1741-1742 and handed it to England’s greatest composer in hopes of producing something profound.
Handel wrote Messiah’s music in just 24 days. In truth, he was grappling with some troubles of his own. Londoners had lost interest in his Italian operas. He needed to recover from a boxoffice disaster and accepted an invitation to a season-long residency in Dublin. From the moment he arrived, he was a
celebrity again. Handel sold subscriptions from his house and presented two series of sold-out concerts that winter, setting aside his new oratorio, Messiah, until the Easter season.
By the spring, he’d generated such a buzz, he started selling tickets to the dress rehearsal. As a precaution, the Dublin Journal ran advertisements suggesting that concertgoers refrain from wearing swords or hoop skirts to make “room for more company.”
Messiah premiered in the Great Music Hall on April 13, 1742. The concert benefitted a debtor’s prison and hospital. According to the composer, some seven hundred people squeezed into the six hundred-seat theater.
From our vantage point, it would seem Messiah exceded Jennen’s wildest hope for spreading the Gospel. Yet the more conservative arm of the faithful couldn’t get passed its association with places of ill repute (theaters). In fact, Jonathon Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels and Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, initially tried to prevent his choir from participating in Messiah’s premiere. He thought it would sully their reputation. At the London premiere the following year, many objected to the singing of Biblical texts from the stage of a theater.
Messiah became a beloved tradition when Handel moved performances to a chapel at a Foundling Hospital where he hosted an annual benefit for orphans.
Although he wrote the 2 1/2-hour oratorio for Easter (the “Hallelujah Chorus” marks the Resurrection, not the nativity), the Christmas portion of Messiah is the longest, lasting approximately an hour. Sources for the oratorio include the Books of Isaiah, Haggai, Malachi, Luke, Zechariah, Matthew, John, Psalms, Lamentations, Romans, Revelation, Job, and 1 Corinthians.
ADELAIDE BOEDECKER, soprano
Adelaide Boedecker has been described as “emotionally transparent and beguiling of tone” (The San Francisco Chronicle). Ms. Boedecker recently returned to the Metropolitan Opera covering the role of Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Past assignments at the Metropolitan Opera include covering the role of Tebaldo in Don Carlo, and Thibault in Don Carlos Ms. Boedecker most recently appeared as Pamina in The Magic Flute and returned to Santa Fe Opera performing the role of Meridian in UnShakeable.
Ms. Boedecker debuted professionally at age 17 and received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from University of Florida, and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music.
RHIANNA COCKRELL, mezzo-soprano
Rhianna Cockrell, whose instrument has been described as “clear and commanding” (Washington Post), has captivated audiences with her interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque works. As a frequent and award-winning interpreter of J.S. Bach’s music, Cockrell’s performances have been hailed as “unforced…resolute” (Oregon ArtsWatch) and “beautifully controlled…masterful…breath-taking” (Early Music America).
Cockrell’s 2025–26 season sees her return to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as the alto soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Handel’s Messiah, Durufle’s Requiem with The Thirteen, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Himmelskönig, Sei Willkommen, BWV 182 with Bach in Baltimore, as well as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Durufle’s Requiem with the Baltimore Basilica Schola. Other season highlights include performances with Ensemble Aeternum, Washington Bach Consort, Ensemble Altera, Apollo’s Fire, and True Concord Voices & Orchestra.
MILES MYKKANEN, tenor
The career of exuberant young Finnish-American tenor Miles Mykkanen was launched with a national win of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2019. He has since impressed with a series of important debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, Dutch National Opera, Festival d’Aixen-Provence, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden, excelling in roles that require a deft balance of power, lyricism, and dramatic acuity.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, and his compelling blend of charisma and honesty has engaged audiences in cabaret performances at Joe’s Pub, Neue Galerie’s Cabaret at Cafe Sabarsky, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he curated Lavender Nights, a live installation of queer anthems. Mykkanen is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and earned his BM, MM, and Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from The Juilliard School.
LAWSON ANDERSON, bass-baritone
Hailed for his “powerful, darkly hued voice and nobility of phrasing and carriage” (Cleveland Classical), Lawson Anderson is rapidly establishing himself among today’s leading bass-baritones. A former management consultant with an MBA from Columbia Business School, he has earned top honors, including the Top Prize in the 2018 George London Foundation Competition, First Prize in the Gerda Lissner Foundation’s 2017 International Vocal Competition, and the Opera Index 2017 Top Prize Arthur E. Walters Memorial Award.
Recent highlights include Donner (Das Rheingold) and Gunther/cover (Götterdämmerung) at the Semperoper Dresden, Nick Shadow (The Rake’s Progress) in concert with the Staatskapelle Dresden, and a debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with the Staatsballett Berlin in Christian Spuck’s production of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. He also returned for his second season at the Bayreuth Festival.
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NORMAN MACKENZIE, Director of Choruses (see pg. 32 for Norman Mackenzie’s biography)
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHAMBER CHORUS + ROSTER
Acclaimed for the beauty, precision and expressive qualities of its singing, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus has been an important part of the orchestra’s programming since its founding by the late Robert Shaw. The Chamber Chorus, which debuted on December 14, 1967, is composed of 40-60 volunteers selected by audition from the ranks of the ASO Chorus, who meet for extra rehearsals and perform with the ASO each season. The Chamber Chorus performs music of the Baroque and Classical eras, as well as works by modern masters such as Golijov, Tavener, Pärt, Paulus, Theofanidis and Britten. Highlights of the ASO Chamber Chorus’s history include a residency with the ASO and Robert Spano for California’s Ojai Festival, participation with the ASO in recordings of masterworks by Bach, Golijov, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Vivaldi and a 2005 a cappella recording that features the Vaughan Williams Mass under Norman Mackenzie. Their Carnegie Hall appearances include performances of Bach’s B-Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff Vespers, Stravinsky’s Nightingale and Mozart’s Requiem.
Norman Mackenzie
director of choruses
The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair
SOPRANO
Juliana Bolaño
Tierney Breedlove
Hanan Davis
Khadijah Davis
Liz Dean *
Megan Littlepage
Arietha Lockhart **
Mindy Margolis +*
Joneen Padgett +*
Mary Martha Penner
Marianna Schuck
Lydia Sharp
Anne-Marie Spalinger +*
Brianne Turgeon +*
Lacy Wilder
Wanda Yang Temko +*
Marcia Chandler chorus administrator
Dock Anderson series accompanist
ALTO
Ana Baida +
Angelica Blackman Keim
Marcia Chandler *
Katherine Fisher
Kathleen Kelly George +
Unita Harris
Virginia Little +*
Katie MacKenzie +
Linda Morgan **
Kathleen Poe Ross *
Laura Rappold *
Anna Ree
TENOR
Christian Bigliani + David Blalock **
Matthew Borkowski
Jack Caldwell +*
Daniel Compton +*
Justin Cornelius + Matthew Gavilanez
Leif Gilbert Hansen *
John Harr
Keith Langston *
Michael Parker +
Timothy Parrott
Christopher Patton *
Mark Warden +*
BASS
Dock Anderson + Philip Barreca + Trey Clegg *
Joel Craft **
Michael Cranford + Timothy Gunter +*
Peter MacKenzie + Jason Maynard + Benjamin Temko +*
Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram.
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.
Quoniam tu solus sanctus. Tu solus
Dominus.
Tu solus Altissimus, Jesu Christe.
Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.
Credo
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium, et invisibilium.
Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum.
Et ex Patre natum ante omni saecula.
Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine,
Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
Glory to God in the highest. And on Earth peace to people good will.
We praise You. We bless You. We worship You. We glorify You. We give You thanks for Your great glory.
Lord God, heavenly king, God the Father almighty,
Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son.
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father. You, Who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. You, Who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You, Who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us.
For You alone are holy. You alone are the Lord. You alone, O Jesus Christ, are most high.
With the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
I believe in one God, The Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ. the only begotten Son of God. Born of the Father before all ages. God of God, Light of Light,
Deum verum de Deo vero. Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem patri: per quem omnia facta sunt. Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine: Et homo factus est.
Sanctus
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.
Benedictus
Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.
true God of true God. Begotten, not made, of one being with the Father: By whom all things were made. Who for us and for our salvation came down from heaven. And He became flesh by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary: And was made man.
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are filled with Your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
HANDEL Messiah, pt. 1
This concert features Part I, the Christmas Portion, of Messiah, as well as the “Hallelujah!” Chorus from Part II.
Messiah
Music by GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)
Texts selected from Holy Scripture by Charles Jennens (1700-1773)
PART I
Sinfonia
TENOR
Comfort ye my people, saith your God; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low:
the crooked straight and the rough places plain. [Isaiah 40:1-4]
CHORUS
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. [Isaiah 40:5]
BASS
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Yet once a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all nations, and the desire of nations shall come. The Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.
[Haggai 2:6-7; Malachi 3:1]
ALTO
But who may abide the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire.
[Malachi 3:2]
CHORUS
And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
[Malachi 3:3]
ALTO
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us.
[Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23]
ALTO & CHORUS
O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain;
O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength;
lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah: Behold your God! Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. [Isaiah 40:9; 60:1]
BASS
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. [Isaiah 60:2-3]
BASS
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. [Isaiah 9:2 (Matthew 3:16)]
CHORUS
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. [Isaiah 9:6]
The 4,177th concert of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (1875-1912)
arr. Sydney Baynes Christmas Overture
LEOPOLD MOZART (1719-1787)
The Coca-Cola Holiday Concerts are presented by Holiday concerts are made possible through an endowment from the Livingston Foundation in memory of Leslie Livingston Kellar.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
FINAN JONES, conductor
The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited. Please be kind to those around you and silence your mobile phone and other hand-held devices.
Die musicalische Schlittenfahrt (Musical SleighRide)
LEROY ANDERSON (1908-1975) Sleigh Ride
ÉMILE WALDTEUFEL (1837-1915)
Les Patineurs (“Skater’s Waltz”)
PYOTR ILLYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
Scene No. 7, Battle from The Nutcracker (Act 1)
LUCAS RICHMAN (b. 1964)
Hanukkah Festival Overture
NIGEL HESS (b. 1953)
A Christmas Overture
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
“Troika” from Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60
INTERMISSION 20 MINS
TRADITIONAL
Arr. James M. Stephenson
A Holly Jolly Sing-Along!
FELIX BERNARD (1897-1944)
arr. Calvin Custer
Winter Wonderland
JOHNNY MARKS (1909-1985)
arr. Richard Hayman
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
ROBERT LOPEZ (b. 1975)
KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ (b. 1972)
arr. Bob Krogstad
Music from Frozen
TRADITIONAL
arr. & orch. Jeff Tyzik
A Christmas Overture (Variations on Deck the Halls)
MEREDITH WILLSON (1902-1984)
arr. Daryl McKenzie
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
TRADITIONAL
arr. Edward Cumming
The Twelve Days of Christmas
TRADITIONAL
arr. Jeff Tyzik
Auld Lang Syne
IRVING BERLIN (1888-1989)
arr. Robert Russell Bennett
White Christmas
FINAN JONES, conductor
Finan Jones is a young conductor praised for his "instinctive musicality and his passion for music of different genres." He has conducted orchestras including the English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, London Symphony Orchestra String Ensemble and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Finan has a broad and diverse range of experience including concert work, recording sessions and opera.
In 2024 Finan was appointed Conducting Fellow of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, prompting a move to Georgia to take up the position. Having already developed a musical bond with ASO Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann during a week working together with the London Symphony Orchestra, he continues to strengthen this musical understanding and learning from Nathalie and the Orchestra.
His approach to music making is authentic, collaborative with a strong focus on allowing space for artistic expression from
the musicians he works with. This approach has led him to work as assistant to many high profile conductors, including an apprenticeship with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, working as his assistant with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Philharmonia Orchestra. As an assistant conductor, work has taken him to the Wiener Musikverein, Royal Albert Hall, Köln Philharmonie, Barbican Hall, Het Concertgebouw and St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Finan has a significant interest in Opera, having conducted a performance of British Youth Opera’s new production of Rossini’s L’Occasione fa il Ladro (Opera Holland Park 2021). He was part of the original creative team which developed a new opera with support from the Barbican Centre, Sane and Sound (Milton Court Theatre 2019), for which he conducted the premiere, and was assistant conductor to Dominic Wheeler and chorus master for Lliam Paterson’s new opera The Angel Esmeralda (GSMD 2020). He was also part of the music staff for the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir’s 2023 performances of Berlioz’s Les Troyens.
Finan is a strong advocate for learning and participation projects, with a keen interest in music education. This has included education work with the Royal Albert Hall, LSO Discovery, and developing his own projects taking chamber orchestras into schools in London. Recently this included leading a session with the LSO’s pioneering East London Academy.
In the recording studio, Finan has assisted on an album of orchestral works by Jonathan Dove performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and has conducted the West European Symphony Orchestra for two recording sessions in Abbey Road studios. He is currently working with Sir John Eliot on his new Brahms Symphony cycle with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Deutsche Grammophon.
Campaign for the
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has begun an ambitious campaign to generate new endowment funding. Our Campaign for the Next Era will allow the ASO to achieve its vision while maintaining its financial health and ensuring long-term sustainability.
This Campaign will create sustainable funding to:
• Enable the ASO to continue to attract and retain the finest musicians in the world,
• Maintain and expand our community-wide education programs
• Fully fund our nationally-recognized Talent Development Program
Investments in the Campaign for the Next Era will help the ASO continue to enrich our beloved community with brilliant performances and music education for decades to come.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the following donors and volunteers who have supported our Campaign for the Next Era Endowment Campaign.
CAMPAIGN CHAIRS:
Kathy Waller
John B. White, Jr.
CAMPAIGN CABINET:
Bert Mills
Anne Morgan
Jim Rubright
For more information about the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Campaign for the Next Era, please contact Grace Sipusic, Vice President of Development at grace.sipusic@atlantasymphony.org or 404.733.5061.
Ross Singletary
Ray Uttenhove
Patrick Viguerie
$1,000,000+
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Mr. Eric Bressner
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$500,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
The Farideh and Al Azadi Foundation
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Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins
$250,000+
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Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kauffman
Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley
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$100,000+
Balloun Foundation
Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.
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$50,000+
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Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos del Rio, MD
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James H. Landon
Ms. Molly Minnear
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John R. Paddock, Ph.D. &
Karen M. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Patty & Doug Reid
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Slumgullion Charitable Fund
John & Ray Uttenhove
Up to $50,000
A Friend of the Symphony (2)
Phyllis Abramson, Ph.D.
Mr. Keith Adams & Ms. Kerry Heyward
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ASO | SUPPORT
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra continues to prosper thanks to the support of our generous patrons. The list below recognizes the donors who have made contributions since June 1, 2024. Their extraordinary generosity provides the foundation for this worldclass institution.
$1,000,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
$100,000+
Sheila Lee Davies & Jon Davies
Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke Charitable Fund
$50,000+
The Antinori Foundation
Connie & Merrell** Calhoun
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SFH Giving Fund
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$35,000+
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Slumgullion Charitable Fund
Patrick & Susie Viguerie
Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins
Mr. Mack Wilbourn
$25,000+
Mr. Neil Ashe &
Mrs. Rona Gomel Ashe
Carol C. Attridge, in memory of Phil Attridge
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Mr. Keith Barnett
Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.
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$17,500+
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$15,000+
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Phyllis Abramson, Ph.D.
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Aadu & Kristi Allpere °
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Wright** & Alison Caughman
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V Scott
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$10,000+
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$2,000+
A Friend of the Symphony (5)
Paul & Melody Aldo
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Herschel Beazley
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Dr. & Mrs. Joel E. Berenson
Susan & Jack Bertram
Mr. & Mrs. Xavier Bignon
Leon & Joy Borchers
Mr. & Mrs. Sam Boyte
Martha S. Brewer
Harriet Evans Brock
Benjamin Q. Brunt
Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush
Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe
Betty Fuller Case
Mr. Jeffery B. Chancellor & Mr. Cameron England
Mr. Michael J. Clifford & Ms. Sandra L. Murray
Mr. James Cobb
Coenen-Johnson Foundation
Susan S. Cofer
Ralph** & Rita Connell
Dr. & Mrs. John E. Cooke
Mrs. Nancy Cooke
Mr. William R. Cranshaw
R. Carter & Marjorie A. Crittenden Foundation
Claire & Alex Crumbley
Dr. & Mrs.** F. Thomas Daly, Jr. Vicente del Rio
Ms. Suzanne Denton
Jerome J. Dobson
Mr. & Mrs. Graham Dorian
Mr. Christopher Drew
Gregory & Debra Durden
Mr. Trey Duskin & Ms. Noelle Albano °
Mrs. Eve F. Eckardt
Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Edgar
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge
Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson
Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham
Dr. Donald & Janet Filip
Tom & Cecilia Fraschillo
Dr. Elizabeth C. French
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Gaid
Mr. & Mrs. Sebastien Galtier ∞
Dr. & Mrs. John C. Garrett
Marty & John Gillin °
Mrs. Janet D. Goldstein
Dr. & Mrs. Martin I. Goldstein
Mr. Robert Golomb
Mrs. Beverly Green
Richard & Debbie Griffiths
Mr. & Mrs. George Gundersen
Mr. & Mrs. Juanmarco Gutierrez
Deedee Hamburger
Ms. Ayonna Hammond
Phil & Lisa Hartley
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hauser °
Mr. & Mrs. John Hellriegel ∞
Bill & Babette Henagan
Ann J. Herrera & Mary M. Goodwin
Kenneth & Colleen Hey
Dr. Thomas High
Azira G. Hill
Sarah & Harvey Hill, Jr. °
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Hill
Mrs. Leslie H. Hill & Mr. Jacob C. Hill
Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins
James & Bridget Horgan ° Mrs. Nicole L. House
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Huband
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Huesken
Dona & Bill Humphreys
Ms. Olga Inozemtseva
Aaron & Joyce Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Eike Jordan
Teresa M. Joyce, Ph.D
Ms. Alice Kwan
Dr. & Mrs. William C. Land, Jr.
Lillian Balentine Law
Mr. Andrew Liakopoulos & Mr. Mark Hawkins
Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey
Deborah & William Liss
Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie
Dr. Marcus Marr
Marx & Marx LLC
In Memory of Pam McAllister
Mr. & Mrs. James McClatchey
Mr. & Mrs. John G. McColskey
Mr. & Mrs. Robert McDuffie
Birgit & David McQueen
Anna & Hays Mershon
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Mimms, Jr.
Mr. Jamal Mohammad & Mr. Marcus Dean
Ms. Helen Motamen & Mr. Deepak Shenoy
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Muniz
Melanie & Allan Nelkin
Agnes V. Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Denis Ng
Gary R. Noble, MD & Joanne Heckman
Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Ogburn
Mr. & Mrs. James Pack
Mr. Albert Palombo & Mrs. Linda E. Berggren
Erica L. Parsons & J. Mark Stewart
Mr. & Mrs. Al Pearson
Mr. Doug F. Powell
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Riffey, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Roberts
Betsy & Lee Robinson
Dr. Judith C. Rohrer
Ms. Lili Santiago-Silva & Mr. Jim Gray
Drs. Lawrence & Rachel Schonberger
Dick Schweitzer
Angela Allen Sherzer
Mr. David C. Shih
Alan & Marion Shoenig
Helga Hazelrig Siegel
Diana Silverman
Hamilton & Mason Smith
Anne-Marie Sparrow
Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel
James & Shari Steinberg
Dr. Steven & Lynne Steindel °
Ms. Lizanne E. Stephenson & Mr. Alan Kendall
Ms. Sandra Stine & Mr. Greg Burel
Dr. & Mrs. John P. Straetmans
Kay R. Summers
Ms. Linda F. Terry
Johnny Thigpen & Clay Martin
Mr. & Ms. Nathaniel Thomas
Duane P. Truex III
Mr. Jerry Stacy Tucker
Bill & Judy Vogel
Dr. James L. Waits
Mr. Charles D. Wattles & Ms. Rosemary C. Willey
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Welch
Russell F. Winch & Mark B. Elberfeld
Mrs. Lynne M. Winship
Sandra L. Wong
Mr. Will Young
Zaban Foundation, Inc.
Herbert** & Grace Zwerner
° = We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers. ∞ = Leadership Council We salute these extraordinary donors who have signed pledge commitments to continue their support for three years or more.
Patron Leadership (PAL)
Committee
We give special thanks to this dedicated group of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra donor-volunteers for their commitment to each year’s annual support initiatives:
Linda Matthews chair
Kristi Allpere
Helga Beam
Bill Buss
Pat Buss
Kristen Fowks
Deedee Hamburger
Judy Hellriegel
Belinda Massafra
Sally Parsonson
June Scott
Milt Shlapak
Lara Smith-Sitton
Kay Summers
Jonne Walter
Marcia Watt
CORPORATE PARTNERS
$1,000,000+
Delta Air Lines
$100,000+
1180 Peachtree, LLC
AAA Parking
Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Coca-Cola Company
Georgia Power Company
Graphic Packaging International, Inc.∞
The Home Depot Foundation
$75,000+
Alston & Bird LLP
The Norfolk Southern Corporation
$50,000+
Accenture LLP
Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Google
PwC
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University
$25,000+
AFFAIRS to REMEMBER
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
BlueLinx Corporation
Cadence Bank
Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy∞
Deloitte
Eversheds Sutherland
Grady Health System
King & Spalding LLP
KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees
Porsche Cars North America Inc.
Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.
The QUIKRETE® Companies
Regions Bank
$15,000+
Atlanta Parent
EY
FleishmanHillard
Georgia-Pacific
Tony Brewer and Company
SouthState Bank
WABE 90.1 FM
Warner Bros. Media
FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
$250,000+
Lettie Pate Evans Foundation
Goizueta Foundation
$100,000+
Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation
Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.
Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
The Molly Blank Fund of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
The Zeist Foundation, Inc.
$50,000+
The Halle Foundation
Georgia Department of Public Health
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
Robert & Polly Dunn Foundation, Inc.
$35,000+
City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs
Georgia Council for the Arts
The Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Roy & Janet Dorsey Foundation
$25,000+
The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation
Fulton County Arts & Culture
The Marcus Foundation, Inc.∞
Massey Charitable Trust
$15,000+
The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation
$10,000+
Buckhead Village
Costco Wholesale
Davis Broadcasting’s WJZA Smooth Jazz 101/100
Greenberg Traurig
Jazz 91.9 WCLK
La Fête du Rosé
Music Matters
WVEE-FM | V-103.3 FM
$5,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
Chef Craig Richards
Marietta Neonatology
Parker Poe
Perkins&Will
The St. Regis Atlanta
Yellow Bird Project Management
$2,000+
Allen Organ Studios
The Backline Company
Big Dome Promotions, LLC
EventWorks
Morehouse School of Medicine
The Piedmont National Family Foundation
Ticketmaster
$10,000+
The Graves Foundation
The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc
The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation
In Memory of Betty Sands Fuller
$5,000+
A Friend of the Symphony
The Breman Foundation, Inc.
National Endowment for the Arts
$2,000+
2492 Fund
Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
Paul and Marian Anderson Fund
The Parham Fund
HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE
Named for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s founding Music Director, the HENRY SOPKIN CIRCLE celebrates cherished individuals and families who have made a planned gift to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. These special donors preserve the Orchestra’s foundation and ensure success for future generations.
A Friend of the Symphony (22)
Madeline* &
Howell E. Adams, Jr.
Mr.* & Mrs.* John E. Aderhold
Paul & Melody Aldo
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Antinori
Elizabeth Ann Bair*
Dr. & Mrs. William Bauer
Helga Beam
Mr. Charles D. Belcher*
Neil H. Berman
Susan & Jack Bertram
Mr.* & Mrs.* Karl A. Bevins
The Estate of Donald S. & Joyce Bickers
Ms. Page Bishop*
Mr.* & Mrs.* Sol Blaine
John Blatz
Rita & Herschel Bloom
The Estate of Mrs. Gilbert H. Boggs, Jr.
W. Moses Bond
Mr.* & Mrs. Robert C. Boozer
Elinor A. Breman*
Carol J. Brown
James C. Buggs*
Hugh W. Burke*
Mr. & Mrs. William Buss
Wilber W. Caldwell
Mr.* & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun
Cynthia & Donald Carson
Mrs. Jane Celler*
Mr. Jeffery B. Chancellor & Mr. Cameron England
Lenore Cicchese*
Dr. & Mrs. Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr.
Suzanne W. Cole Sullivan
Robert Boston Colgin
Mrs. Mary Frances
Evans Comstock*
Miriam* & John A.* Conant
Dr. John W. Cooledge
Dr. Janie Cowan
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Cummickel
Bob* & Verdery* Cunningham
Vivian & Peter de Kok
Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr. Francine D. Dykes
John R. Donnell
Dixon W. Driggs*
Pamela Johnson Drummond
Mrs. Kathryn E. Duggleby*
Catherine Warren Dukehart*
Ms. Diane Durgin
Arnold & Sylvia Eaves
Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge
Geoffrey G. Eichholz*
Elizabeth Etoll
Mr. Doyle Faler*
Brien P. Faucett
Dr. Emile T. Fisher*
Moniqua N Fladger
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Flower
A. D. Frazier, Jr.*
Nola Frink*
Betty* & Drew* Fuller
Sally & Carl Gable
William & Carolyn Gaik
Dr. John W. Gamwell*
Mr.* & Mrs.* L.L. Gellerstedt, Jr.
Ruth Gershon & Sandy Cohn
Max Gilstrap**
Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover
Mrs. David Goldwasser*
Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund
Billie & Sig Guthman*
Betty G.* & Joseph* F. Haas
Dr. Charles H. Hamilton*
Sally & Paul* Hawkins
John* & Martha Head
Ms. Jeannie Hearn*
Barbara & John Henigbaum*
Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick
Jill* & Jennings* Hertz
Mr.* & Mrs. Charles K. Holmes, Jr.
encoreatlanta.com
Mr.* & Mrs.* Fred A. Hoyt, Jr.
Jim* & Barbara Hund
Clayton F. Jackson
Mary B. James
Nancy Janet
Mr. Calvert Johnson & Mr. Kenneth Dutter
Joia M. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones
Deforest F. Jurkiewicz*
Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley
Bob Kinsey
James W.* & Mary Ellen* Kitchell.
Miss Florence Kopleff*
Mr. Robert Lamy
James H. Landon
Ouida Hayes Lanier
Lucy Russell Lee* & Gary Lee, Jr.
Ione & John Lee
Mr. Larry M. LeMaster
Mr.* & Mrs.* William C. Lester
Liz & Jay* Levine
Robert M. Lewis, Jr.
Carroll & Ruth Liller*
Ms. Joanne Lincoln*
Jane Little*
Mrs. J. Erskine Love, Jr.*
K Maier
John W. Markham*
Mrs. Ann B. Martin
Linda & John Matthews
Mr. Michael A. McDowell, Jr.
Dr. Michael S. McGarry
Richard & Shirley McGinnis*
John & Clodagh Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Mills, IV
Ms. Vera Milner
Mrs. Gene Morse*
Hal Matthew Mueller* & Constance Lombardo
Ms. Janice Murphy*
Mr. & Mrs. Bertil D. Nordin
Mrs. Amy W. Norman*
Galen Oelkers
Roger B. Orloff
Barbara D. Orloff
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Owen
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Joseph Owen Jr.
Dr. Bernard* & Sandra Palay
Sally & Pete Parsonson
James L. Paulk
Ralph & Kay* Paulk
Dan R. Payne
Bill Perkins
Mrs. Lela May Perry*
Mr.* & Mrs. Rezin E. Pidgeon, Jr.
Janet M. Pierce*
Reverend Neal P. Ponder, Jr.
Dr. John B. Pugh
William L.* &
Lucia Fairlie* Pulgram
Ms. Judy L. Reed*
Carl J. Reith*
Vicki J. & Joe A. Riedel
Helen & John Rieser
Dr. Shirley E. Rivers*
David F. & Maxine A.* Rock
Glen Rogerson*
Tiffany & Richard Rosetti
Mr.* & Mrs.* Martin H. Sauser
Bob & Mary Martha Scarr
Mr. Paul S. Scharff & Ms. Polly G. Fraser
Dr. Barbara S. Schlefman
Bill & Rachel Schultz
Mrs. Joan C. Schweitzer*
June & John Scott
Edward G. Scruggs*
Dr. & Mrs. George P. Sessions
Mr. W. G. Shaefer, Jr.
Charles H. Siegel*
Mr. & Mrs. H. Hamilton Smith
Mrs. Lessie B. Smithgall*
Ms. Margo Sommers
Elliott Sopkin
Elizabeth Morgan Spiegel
Mr. Daniel D. Stanley*
Gail & Loren Starr
Peter James Stelling*
Ms. Barbara Stewart*
Beth & Edward Sugarman
C. Mack* & Mary Rose* Taylor
Isabel Thomson*
Jennings Thompson IV
Margaret* & Randolph* Thrower
Kenneth & Kathleen Tice
Mr. H. Burton Trimble, Jr.*
Mr. Steven R. Tunnell
Mr. & Mrs. John B. Uttenhove
Mrs. Anise C. Wallace*
Diane Woodard & Bruce Wardrep
Mr. Robert Wardle, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John B. White, Jr.
Adair & Dick White
Mr. Hubert H. Whitlow, Jr.*
Sue & Neil* Williams
Mrs. Frank L. Wilson, Jr.
Mrs. Elin M. Winn
Ms. Joni Winston
George & Camille Wright
Mr.* & Mrs.* Charles R. Yates
ASO | STAFF
EXECUTIVE
Jennifer Barlament
executive director
Lizzy Clements
executive assistant, senior management
Alvinetta Cooksey executive & finance assistant
ARTISTIC
Gaetan Le Divelec vice president, artistic planning
Ebner Sobalvarro artistic administrator
RaSheed Lemon
artistic coordinator
Marcia Chandler chorus administrator EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Sarah Grant
vice president of education & community engagement
Ryan Walks
atlanta symphony youth orchestra & teen programs manager
Elena Gagon Dunn family programs & community engagement manager
Michael Kralik manager of school engagement
Jadonna Brewton
interim talent development program manager OPERATIONS
Emily Liao Master
vice president & general manager
Emma Luty
principal librarian
Sara Baguyos
associate principal librarian
James Nelson
assistant librarian
David Lesser director of orchestra personnel
Meagan Rwambaisire
assistant orchestra personnel manager
Melissa Nabb
orchestra hr & finance partner
Paul Barrett director of production
Justin Richardson manager of production administration
Camille McClain director of marketing & communications
Matt Dykeman director of digital content
Adam Fenton director of multimedia technology
Delle Beganie content & production manager
Mia Jones-Walker marketing manager
Whitney Hendrix creative services manager, aso
Amy Godwin communications manager
Sean David video editor
Bob Scarr archivist & research coordinator
SALES & REVENUE MANAGEMENT
Russell Wheeler vice president, sales & revenue management
Nancy James front of house supervisor
Erin Jones senior director of sales & audience development
Jesse Pace senior manager of ticketing & patron experience
Dennis Quinlan manager, business insights & analytics
Robin Smith guest services coordinator
Jake Van Valkenburg group sales & audience development supervisor
Anna Caldwell guest services associate
ATLANTA SYMPHONY HALL LIVE
Nicole Panunti vice president, atlanta symphony hall live
Will Strawn director of marketing
Christine Lawrence director of ticketing & parking
Lisa Eng creative services manager
Caitlin Buckers marketing manager
Dan Nesspor ticketing manager, atlanta symphony hall live
Liza Palmer event manager
Nicole Jurovics booking & contract manager
Meredith Chapple marketing coordinator, live
Maria Austin
marketing coordinator, live
Steven Thompson event coordinator, live
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Susan Ambo
executive vice president & cfo
Kimberly Hielsberg vice president of finance
April Satterfield controller
Brandi Reed staff accountant
DEVELOPMENT
Grace Sipusic vice president of development
William Keene senior director of development
James Paulk senior annual giving officer
Renee Contreras director of development, institutional giving
Beth Freeman senior manager of major gifts
Sharveace Cameron senior development associate
Rachel Bender manager of individual giving
Jenny Ricke manager, grants and development communications
Matthew Enfinger manager, corporate relations
AJ McCurry development associate
ASO | CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
The Woodruff Arts Center’s unprecedented $67 million capital campaign will bring new life to our campus, expand access to our proven educational programming, and secure our place as Atlanta’s center for the arts. Scan the QR code to learn more about Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff.
$1,000,000+
Anonymous
The Coca-Cola Foundation
James M. Cox Foundation
The Delta Air Lines Foundation
The Goizueta Foundation
Douglas J. Hertz Family Foundation
$500,000 - $999,999
Acuity Inc.
Anonymous
$250,000 - $499,999
Bank of America
Chick-fil-A Foundation |
Rhonda & Dan Cathy
The Fraser-Parker Foundation
$100,000 - $249,999
A Friend of the Woodruff Arts Center
Liz and Frank Blake
Stephanie Blank*
Thomas and Aimee Chubb
$10,000 - $99,999
Ann A. Adams
Anonymous
Yum and Ross Arnold
Ed Bastian
Ken Bernhardt and Cynthia Currence
Tony Conway, Legendary Events
Johnson and Margaret Cook
Cousins Properties
Lee and Warren Culpepper
Mike and Nancy Doss
Mike and Mindy Egan
Vicki Escarra
Georgia Council for the Arts
Cultural Facilities Grant
Patrick Gunning and Elizabeth Pelypenko
Rand and Seth Hagen
Terrence Hahn
Philip Harrison and Susan Stainback
The Home Depot Foundation
The Imlay Foundation
Sarah and Jim Kennedy
The Marcus Foundation
Norfolk Southern
PNC Bank
Cisco Systems
Georgia Power Foundation
The Fay S. and W. Barrett Howell Family Foundation
Phil and Jenny Jacobs
Margaret and Bob Reiser*
Ann and Jeff Cramer*
Harland Charitable Foundation
The Hearst Foundations
Joia M. Johnson
S. Jack and Michal Hart Hillman
Julia Houston
Robin and Hilton Howell
The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation
The Kilberg Family Foundation
KPMG LLP
The Dennis Lockhart and Mary Rose
Taylor Memorial Fund
Beau and Alfredo Martin
The Barry & Jean Ann McCarthy Family*
John F. McMullan**
Richard and Wimberly McPhail
Kavita and Ashish Mistry
Pat Mitchell Seydel and Scott O. Seydel
Hala and Steve Moddelmog*
Kent and Talena Moegerle
Kenneth Neighbors and Valdoreas May
Galen Oelkers
Chuck and Kathie Palmer
Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Patty and Doug Reid Family Foundation*
The Tomé Foundation
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
Zeist Foundation
Kelin Foundation
Truist Trusteed Foundations: Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust, The Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund and the Woolford Charitable Trust
Sartain Lanier Family Foundation
The Selig, Lewis, Shoulberg Families
Truist Charitable Fund
Kathy Waller and Kenneth Goggins*
The Pighini Family
The Rockdale Foundation
Lauren and Andrew Schlossberg
Lauren and Tim Schrager
June and John Scott
Southface Institute
Candace Steele Flippin
Dave Stockert and Cammie Ives
The Mark and Evelyn Trammell Foundation, Inc.
Tull Charitable Foundation
The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc.
Patrick and Susie Viguerie
Sally and Mel Westmoreland
John Wieland
D. Richard Williams and Janet Lavine
David, Helen, and Marian
Woodward Fund
John and Ellen Yates
*Denotes additional support for the Alliance Theatre’s Imagine Campaign ** In memoriam
THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE
Thank you to the Woodruff Arts Center’s dedicated Annual Fund donors whose gifts support the arts and education work at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art.
$1,000,000+
A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra • A Friend of the High Museum of Art
Lauren Amos • Mr. Joseph H. Boland, Jr.* • Mr. & Mrs.* Shouky A. Shaheen
$500,000 - $999,999
Anonymous
Art Bridges Foundation
$250,000 - $499,999
Accenture
Farideh and Al Azadi Foundation
Bank of America
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda and Dan Cathy
The Sara Giles Moore Foundation
Google
Reverend Ruth T. Healy*
$100,000 - $249,999
1180 Peachtree
AAA Parking
Alston & Bird
Atlantic Station
Sandra and Dan Baldwin
Helen Gurley Brown Foundation
Cadence Bank
The Chestnut Family Foundation
City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Sheila Lee Davies and Jon Davies
Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
Barney M. Franklin and Hugh W.
Burke Charitable Fund
Mr. James E. Gay*
Georgia Power Foundation
The Home Depot Foundation
Zeist Foundation
Sarah and Jim Kennedy
E. Mcburney Trust
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Novelis, Inc.
The Rich’s Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Smurfit Westrock
Alfred A Thornton Venable Trust
Truist Trusteed Foundations:
Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust,
The Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund and the Woolford Charitable Trust
