Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, May 2025

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Tamara Hooks tamara@encoremagazine.com DIGITAL MEDIA DIRECTOR Jennifer Nelson jennifer@encoremagazine.com

DEAR FRIENDS,

Welcome to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! This month includes some of the highlight programs of the year, including a colorful tour of Italy, with Respighi’s orchestral showcase the Pines of Rome; Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis; and Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony. We are so glad you have joined us.

As we anticipate the opening of the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families in January 2026, I wanted to take a moment to share exciting updates and the vision behind the project.

The Goizueta Stage and PNC PlaySpace will transform the northeast corner of the Woodruff Arts Center into a dedicated place for young people and families to come hear music, see theater, and learn. It will be shared by the ASO and our friends at the Alliance Theater, and it will permit both organizations to significantly expand our programming— especially the ASO’s education programs.

That means more musical field trips during the school day, weekend concerts for families, ensemble-based training programs for young musicians, and an expansion of our wildly popular UpTempo pre-concert events for teens. The ASO already serves tens of thousands of students a year with our current education programs; this means adding thousands more students, teachers and families to the fold.

This is a pivotal moment for the ASO, and as we inch closer to the finish line, I want to thank the donors, especially the Goizueta and PNC Foundations, for their continued support and vision; and I’d like to thank all of you for your patience during the construction. Great things are in store!

With gratitude,

Jennifer Barlament, Executive Director

TODD HALL

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 to 2024.

Nathalie made big news in the opera pit in 2023 with her debut at the Bayreuth Festival with Wagner's Tannhäuser. The performances resulted in her being named 'Best Conductor' of the year in the 2024 Oper! Awards. She returned to Bayreuth in 2024 for a revival of Tannhäuser and will be back in 2026 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Festival, conducting a new production of Rienzi.

Her opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2023 was declared by The New York Times as “the coup of the year.”

With several notable debuts including the Czech Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and her conducting debut at the Musikverein with Wiener Symphoniker; her current season also includes returns to the New York Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and Philadelphia Orchestra. In June 2025 she will return to Bruxelles La Monnaie to conduct Carmen.

Nathalie Stutzmann has signed an exclusive recording contract with Warner Classics/ Erato and her first symphonic recording for the label of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 and American Suite with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra was released in August 2024.

Awarded the 2023 Opus Klassik

“Concerto Recording of the Year” for her recording of Glière and Mosolov Harp concertos with Xavier de Maistre and WDR Sinfonieorchester, 2022 also saw the release of complete Beethoven Piano Concertos recorded with Haochen Zhang and The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Nathalie started her studies at a very young age in piano, bassoon, cello and studied conducting with the legendary Finnish teacher Jorma Panula.

As one of today’s most esteemed contraltos, she has made more than 80 recordings and received the most prestigious awards. Nathalie was named “Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur”, France’s highest honor; and “Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French government.

MUSIC DIRECTOR'S CORNER

Recently, Nathalie conducted Shostakovich and Schumann with the Philadelphia Orchestra, featuring cellist Edgar Moreau, who appeared with the ASO in September. Nathalie also returned to the Orchestre de Paris in her interpretation of The Ring Without Words to high praise. "Nathalie Stutzmann at the top of her game. Stutzmann's superb interpretation offers the audience an incisive, driving Wagner..." (cult. news). Díapason reported "Her conducting impresses with its poise, clear-sightedness and elegance." Her commitment to Beethoven this season (in his Fourth Piano Concerto with Emanuel Ax) was also a part of that engagement.

2024/25 Musician Roster

FIRST VIOLIN

David Coucheron concertmaster

The Mr. & Mrs. Howard R. Peevy Chair

Justin Bruns

associate concertmaster

The Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair

Lauren Roth

assistant concertmaster

Jun-Ching Lin

assistant concertmaster

Kevin Chen

Carolyn Toll Hancock

The Wells Fargo Chair

John Meisner

Christopher Pulgram

Juan R. Ramírez Hernández

Olga Shpitko

Kenn Wagner

Lisa Wiedman Yancich

Sissi Yuqing Zhang

SECTION VIOLIN ‡

Judith Cox

Raymond Leung

The Carolyn McClatchey Chair

SECOND VIOLIN

Anastasia Agapova

principal

The Atlanta Symphony Associates Chair

Sou-Chun Su

associate principal

The Frances Cheney Boggs Chair

Jay Christy

assistant principal

Rachel Ostler

Robert Anemone

Noriko Konno Clift

Paolo Dara

David Dillard

Paul Halberstadt

Eun Young Jung

Eleanor Kosek

Yaxin Tan

VIOLA

Zhenwei Shi principal

The Edus H. & Harriet H.

Warren Chair

Paul Murphy

associate principal

The Mary & Lawrence

Gellerstedt Chair

Catherine Lynn assistant principal

Marian Kent

Yang-Yoon Kim

Yiyin Li

Lachlan McBane

Jessica Oudin

Madeline Sharp

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

Denielle Wilson

Nathalie Stutzmann

music director

The Robert Reid Topping Chair

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

OBOE

Elizabeth Koch Tiscione principal

The George M. & Corrie Hoyt Brown Chair

Zachary Boeding

associate principal

The Kendeda Fund Chair

Jonathan Gentry

Emily Brebach

ENGLISH HORN

Emily Brebach

William R. Langley

resident conductor & atlanta symphony youth

orchestra music director

The Zeist Foundation Chair

CLARINET

Jesse McCandless

principal

The Robert Shaw Chair

Ted Gurch*

associate principal

Ivan Valbuena

associate principal

Julianna Darby

Marci Gurnow*

Alcides Rodriguez

E-FLAT CLARINET

Ted Gurch*

Ivan 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

HORN

Ryan Little principal

The Betty Sands Fuller Chair

Andrew Burhans

associate principal

Kimberly Gilman

Bruce Kenney

Norman Mackenzie

director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves Chair

TRUMPET

Michael Tiscione

acting / associate principal

Finan Jones conducting fellow

The Madeline & Howell Adams Chair

Mark Maliniak

acting associate principal

William Cooper

Ian Mertes

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

BASS TROMBONE

Vacant

Jordan Milek Johnson fellow

TUBA

Michael Moore principal

The Delta Air Lines Chair

Joshua Williams fellow

Zeist Foundation ASO Fellowship Chair

TIMPANI

Michael Stubbart

acting / assistant principal

The Walter H. Bunzl Chair

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

Joshua Luty principal

The Marianna & Solon

Patterson Chair

Sara Baguyos

associate principal

James Nelson

GUEST CONDUCTOR

Neil and Sue Williams Chair

ASO | LEADERSHIP | 2024/25 Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Patrick Viguerie chair

Janine Brown immediate past chair

Bert Mills treasurer

Angela Evans 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

Michael Hoffman

Tad Hutcheson, Jr.

Roya Irvani

Joia M. Johnson

Chris Kopecky

Carrie Kurlander

Scott Lampert

James H. Landon

Daniel Laufer*

Donna Lee

Susan Antinori vice chair

Lynn Eden vice chair

Grace Lee, M.D.

Sukai Liu

Kevin Lyman

Deborah Marlowe

Shelley McGehee

Arthur Mills IV

Bert Mills

Molly Minnear

Hala Moddelmog*

Caroline Moïse

Anne Morgan

Terence L. Neal

Galen Lee Oelkers

Dr. John Paddock

Margie Painter

Howard D. Palefsky

Cathleen Quigley

Doug Reid

James Rubright

Ravi Saligram

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

James Rubright vice chair

William Schultz

V Scott

Charles Sharbaugh

Fahim Siddiqui

W. Ross Singletary, II

John Sparrow

Elliott Tapp

Brett Tarver^

Valerie Thadhani, M.D.

Yannik Thomas

Maria Todorova

Ben Touchette

S. Patrick Viguerie

Kathy Waller

Chris Webber

Richard S. White, Jr.

Mack Wilbourn

Kevin E. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.

Penelope McPhee

Patricia H. Reid

Joyce Schwob

John A Sibley, III

H. Hamilton Smith

G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr.

Michael W. Trapp

Connie Calhoun Azira G. Hill

Ray Uttenhove

Chilton Varner

Adair M. White

Sue Sigmon Williams

Ben F. Johnson, III

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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.

2024/25 CHAIRS

Jane Morrison

advisory council chair

Justin Im

internal connections

task force co-chair

Robert Lewis, Jr.

internal connections task force co-chair

Frances A. Root

patron experience task force chair

Eleina Raines

community connections & education 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

Herschel Beazley

Meredith W. Bell

John Blatz

Jane Blount

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Johanna Brookner

Stacey Chavis

Mrs. Amy B. Cheng & Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D

Kate Cook

DePorres & Barbara Cormier

Daniel I. DeBonis

Donald & Barbara Defoe

Paul & Susan Dimmick

Bernadette Drankoski

John & Catherine Fare Dyer

Jerry H. Evans

Mary Ann Flinn

Bruce & Avery Flower

Annie Frazer

John D. Fuller

Alex Garcias

Dr. Paul Gilreath

Nadeen Green

Mary Elizabeth Gump

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

Brian & Ann Kimsey

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Dr. Fulton Lewis III & Mr. Neal Rhoney

Robert Lewis, Jr.

Eunice Luke

Erin Marshall

Alfredo Martin

Belinda Massafra

Doug & Kathrin Mattox

Ed & Linda McGinn

Erica McVicker

Suneel Mendiratta

Keyeriah Miles

Berthe & Shapour

Mobasser

Bert Mobley

Sue Morgan

Bill Morrison & Beth Clark-Morrison

Jane Morrison

Gary Noble

Regina Olchowski

Bethani Oppenheimer

Ralph Paulk

Suzanne Redmon Paulk

Ann & Fay Pearce

Jonathan & Lori Peterson

Dr. John B. Pugh

Eliza Quigley

Eleina Raines

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

Beth & Edward

Sugarman

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

George & Amy Taylor

Bob & Dede Thompson

Otis Threatt Jr.

Cathy Toren

Roxanne Varzi

Robert & Amy Vassey

Juliana Vincenzino

Emily C. Ward

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

Kiki Wilson

Taylor Winn

Camille Yow

For more information about becoming an Advisory Council member, please contact Beth Freeman at beth.freeman@atlantasymphony.org or 404.733.4532.

Coming in January 2026, the Woodruff Arts Center will unveil the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families, a transformative space that “will allow the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to truly think about the expansion of our youth programs for the first time in 52 years,” says Vice President of Education Sarah Grant.

Replacing the Rich Theatre, this new innovative space is adaptable in design and equipped with state-of-the-art sound amplification, raising the bar of what’s possible in the symphony’s already successful education and community programs. Executive Director Jennifer Barlament adds, “What we’re talking about is the expansion of opportunity to make music and bring music to our community in a whole new way.”

Connecting Students to the Symphony

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s educational offerings have been growing rapidly since 2021. Grant reflects, “As students’ interaction with their education grew beyond the classroom, we took the opportunity to reassess our field trip opportunities and adapt.” This assessment led to the creation of the programs Up Close: Chamber Performance + Tour and UpTempo Teen Night, which are now popular options for school groups.

Up Close: Chamber Performance + Tour provides an opportunity for students from around the region to hear our musicians perform as a chamber ensemble, experience inspiring repertoire, and foster meaningful connections with members of the ASO. These experiences, where students engage directly with musicians, have a high impact. During one field trip, Associate Concertmaster Justin Bruns gave a student his violin to try vibrato firsthand, illustrating the program’s focus on hands-on learning and personal connection.

UpTempo Teen Night connects teens to classical concerts, including groups traveling from outside of Atlanta. This evening field trip extends outreach beyond the school day and creates an approachable space for teens looking to connect with the concert program, with the music professionals leading the events, and with each other. In the 2024-25 season, UpTempo Teen Night has welcomed hundreds of teens who established meaningful connections to classical concerts, by learning more about the concert they were about to experience through a program created just for them.

Creating a Space for the Community

Beyond field trips, the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families will provide an adaptable space to serve communities from pre-K to adult learners and enhance our youth orchestra programs. Grant adds, “Here, we’ll be able to house clinics with our resident conductors and regional bands and orchestras, provide a beautiful space for our Talent Development Program recitals, grow the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, and imagine new ensembles to better serve our community.”

Growth is already underway. Last summer, the team successfully launched the Vivo Summer String Institute for rising 5th-12th grade string players, expanded their Music for the Very Young Concert Series, and welcomed an impressive number of groups and ensembles to Symphony Hall.

The Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families is a reflection of the community’s need for more musical opportunities from the Woodruff Arts Center, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is enthusiastic to accept the call. In addition to the education programs for youth, Grant envisions options such as "rusty musician” nights where community members are encouraged to play their instruments again in welcoming settings; pre-concert lectures and post-concert talks; and additional youth ensembles.

Innovation & Accessibility

The renderings for the Goizueta Stage include arena seating that adjusts to expand floor space, kid-friendly seating options, accessible bathrooms, and advanced audio and recording capabilities. “With audio recording, we can prepare our young musicians for auditions to top schools and conservatories and consider recording and streaming performances to widen our reach,” Grants adds.

Doubling the Impact

For Grant, the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families, “will potentially allow us to double, triple the students we’re serving.” The support of the Goizueta Foundation has been essential in bringing this vision to life. As the ASO continues to expand its educational offerings, the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families will be central to shaping the future of music outreach in Georgia and beyond.

We are deeply grateful to the following leadership donors whose generous support has made the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's season possible.

IDONOR PROFILE

John Cooledge and Nick Jones

n 1969, Nick Jones and Dr. John Cooledge joined the Atlanta Choral Guild, which then served as the chorus for the ASO. They met at a post-rehearsal gathering and have been together ever since.

The following year, the ASO Chorus was formed, with Nick and John as members. John had a long tenure in the Chorus, and today Nick is the last founding member still singing in the ensemble. But beyond the Chorus, “the ASO has been a major part of both our lives,” as John put it.

John grew up in Georgia, singing in choruses. He continued to Princeton, where he sang in the Chapel Choir, before heading to the Medical College of Georgia, where he earned his MD degree. After pediatric residency at Grady Hospital and a stint in the Navy, John was in private practice for a short time before joining the staff of Brook Run, a state-run center for the developmentally disabled in Dunwoody, where he remained until retirement.

By the mid-1970’s, John had become a serious audiophile, writing regularly for The Absolute Sound, an influential magazine focused on high-end audio equipment and recordings. As the Orchestra began recording, ASO Music Director Robert Shaw and staff turned to John for guidance.

ASO Board Chair Betty Fuller had been contacted by engineers from Cleveland about recording here using new digital technology. Betty turned to John, who agreed to meet them in Betty’s living room. John then drove to Cleveland for their first recording using the technology, which “caused quite a stir,” according to John.

John returned and said: “I think they know what they’re doing.” Thus, was born the ASO/Telarc arrangement, which continued for 32 years, earning 28 Grammys and blockbuster sales. John continued for years as an informal advisor for ASO recordings, sitting in on recording sessions whenever possible. In 1976 he joined the ASO Board, serving continuously until 1999, when he was made a member of the Board of Counselors.

Nick Jones grew up in Maryland and Florida, coming to Atlanta to attend Georgia Tech, where he earned a degree in applied mathematics. He served as a Naval officer during the Vietnam War, then returned to Atlanta to attend Georgia State University as a music theory major.

Nick began playing clarinet in junior high and high school, then bass clarinet at Tech. At Georgia State he continued to play in the band and sang in the school chorus, eventually finding his way to the Choral Guild. He went to

work for the GSU radio station, doing daily stints as a host, an ASO preview each week, and interviews with visiting artists. Then came a stint at Georgia Public Broadcasting to assist one of the television producers there, a job that came with his own weekly program.

In 1982, however, Nick had a call from Nola Frink, Shaw’s revered assistant, asking him to come work for the ASO. Initially, he reported to the man who handled advertising and wrote the weekly program notes, but when that person died suddenly the following summer, Nick was asked to try his hand. He wrote the notes for the season’s first three concerts and sent them to Shaw, who approved of them. “So that’s how I became the program annotator.” Soon, his work expanded to include liner notes for recordings, including ensembles and artists unrelated to the ASO. Nick remained on staff for 25 years.

ASO Director of Choruses Norman Mackenzie said: “John and Nick exemplify the very heart and soul of the ASO Chorus, and the best of founding conductor Robert Shaw’s unique vision for this ensemble. The chorus and I will be forever grateful for their remarkable decades of service.”

“The ASO has meant so much for us,” said John. “And of course we’ve had the immense pleasure of subscribing and attending ASO concerts together for over 50 years,” John added.

John and Nick have long been major donors to the ASO Annual Fund and members of the Sopkin Circle, for donors who make planned gifts. “For eighty years, the ASO has been a significant part of the growth and blossoming of Atlanta into a world-class city, and we want to keep it that way!”

The 4,143rd and 4,144th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Atlanta Symphony Hall

JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor

GIUSEPPE GIBBONI, 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.

Saturday's concert is dedicated to CARI K. DAWSON & JOHN M. SPARROW in honor of their extraordinary support of the 2023/24 Annual Fund.

Presented by

GIOVANNI BOTTESINI (1821-1889)

Overture to Il diavolo della notte (1858) 7 MINS

NICCOLÒ

PAGANINI (1782-1840)

Concerto No. 1 in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 6 (est. 1819) 33 MINS

I. Allegro maestoso

II. Adagio

III. Rondo: Allegro spiritoso

Giuseppe Gibboni, violin

INTERMISSION

OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)

20 MINS

Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) (1914-1916) 17 MINS

I. La fontana di Valle Giulia all'alba (The Fountain of Valle Giulia at Dawn)

II. La fontana del Tritone al mattino (The Triton Fountain at Morn)

III. La fontana di Trevi al meriggio (The Fountain of Trevi at Mid-day)

IV. La fontana di Villa Medici al tramonto (The Villa Medici Fountain at Sunset)

Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) (1923-1924) 22 MINS

I. I pini di Villa Borghese (Pine trees of the Villa Borghese)

II. Pini presso una catacomba (Pine trees near a catacomb)

III. I pini del Gianicolo (Pine trees of the Janiculum)

IV. I pini della via Appia (Pine trees of the Appian Way)

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

Notes to Know

• Niccolò Paganini gets free publicity from an ever-growing list of composers who’ve borrowed his 24th Caprice, including Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Benny Goodman, Marc-André Hamelin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and dozens of others.

• The umbrella-shaped pine trees that inspired composer Ottorino Respighi to write Pines of Rome have done double duty in the kitchen, inspiring cooks to produce culinary wonders with the buttery-tasting pine nut.

• Ottorino Respighi moved to Rome to teach at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in 1913. With the success of his Roman trilogy, he enjoyed fame and fortune but continued to teach at the school until 1935.

BOTTESINI Overture to Il diavolo della notte

People used to call Giovanni Bottesini the “Paganini of the Double Bass.” To earn such a tagline, he electrified audiences with virtuosity, expanded the expressive capability of the instrument, and raised the bar for other players. Bottesini won the hearts of many who thought the double bass an unlikely instrument for the spotlight. An all-around musician, he worked as a conductor in the opera house. But the audience knew to stay in their seats at intermission because he would trot out his bass and wow them with improvisations on opera themes. Like any improviser, Bottesini was a good composer, perhaps overshadowed by people like Verdi and Wagner. But he’s had the bass-playing community to carry his torch. And we’re now in a Bottesini revival.

This is the first ASO performance.

He wrote more than ten operas. Il diavolo della notte (The Devil of the Night) was his third, billed as a semi-serious melodrama and premiered in Milan in 1858. Today’s orchestras are starting to perform its overture, but we’re still waiting to see the rest.

First ASO performance: June 22, 1972

John Head, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: February 8, 2014

Augustin Hadelich, violin

James Feddeck, conductor

PAGANINI Violin Concerto

No one had ever played the violin like Niccolò Paganini. He electrified audiences. He also raked in money and women and stirred up controversy.

“[He played harmonics] like the mewling of an expiring cat,” opined Thomas Moore. “Cadaverous,” hissed Heinrich Heine. “There is, in his appearance, something so demonic that one looks for a glimpse of cloven hoof or an angel’s wing,” wrote the Leipzieger Musikaliche Zeitung

Alas, a greedy and abusive dad molded young Paganini. Practicing the violin supplanted academics, church, or play. When Niccolò escaped at seventeen, he was a feral youth with breathtaking ability.

His physical appearance bred enmity. Possibly shaped by Marfan’s or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, he had a strangely long and tree-like bearing with stringy black hair, a hooked nose, and pale skin. His superhuman

INSIDE THE SCORE

Paganini forever changed violin playing. His 24 Caprices stand as the violinist’s Mt. Everest. As he wrote for his own hands, his violin works include the many techniques that he pioneered, including the left-hand pizzicato (plucking), ricochet bowing (bouncing the bow on the string to produce staccato), and double harmonics (producing a high whistling sound on two strings by lightly touching them).

Paganini wrote his First Violin Concerto in the key of E-flat Major but scored the solo part in D Major, stipulating that the soloist tune the violin up a half step. Known as “scordatura,” this technique positions E-flat on an open string, adding brilliance to the solo. Unfortunately, it also throws off players with perfect pitch, so orchestras almost always play the piece in D major.

violin skills engendered lurid fascination. Some thought he was in league with the Devil—a rumor that Paganini turned to profit.

In 1814, he made friends with fellow Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, who musically shared the same airspace. Paganini’s First Violin Concerto sounds almost operatic, right down to abundant cymbal crashes and gymnastic solo writing. The concerto comes from the mid-1810s, although we don’t know the exact date of composition.

RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome

Rome, Italy, boasts two hundred eighty public fountains. The focal point of piazzas, gardens, and the occasional movie scene, these watery wonders mingle the stories of legendary sculptors, powerful popes, and mind-boggling feats of ancient engineering.

Ottorino Respighi moved to Rome in 1913 and fell under the city’s spell. As World War I raged, he wrote Fountains of Rome (1916) and supplied it to conductor Arturo Toscanini for a 1918 veterans benefit. It launched his career.

Fountains of Rome depicts four different fountains, each viewed at a different time of day.

I. Starting with Valle Giulia (near the grounds of Villa Borghese), Respighi described the piece’s opening as a “pastoral landscape: droves of cattle pass and disappear in the fresh, damp mists of the Roman dawn.”

First ASO performance: September 30, 1976

Robert Shaw, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: October 19, 2013

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

II. In the early morning light, a scene at the Piazza Barberini offers Bernini’s 17th-century masterpiece, the Triton Fountain. “It is like a joyous call,” Respighi wrote, “summoning troops of naiads and tritons, who come running up, pursuing each other and mingling in a frenzied dance between the jets of water.”

III. A midday visit to the Trevi Fountain follows. Located at the terminus of a Roman aqueduct from 19 BC, the Trevi displays “Neptune’s chariot drawn by seahorses and

followed by a train of sirens and tritons.”

IV. The Fountain at the Villa Medici closes the piece. Respighi captures the “nostalgic hour of sunset. The air is full of the sound of tolling bells, the twittering of birds, the rustling of leaves. Then all dies peacefully into the silence of the night.”

RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

First ASO performance: March 9, 1961

Tower Theatre

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most Recent ASO performance:

January 24, 2009

Robert Spano, conductor

Rome got its nickname, the Eternal City, back in the time of togas and gladiators, but two thousand years later, it still fits. Look past the buzzing Vespas and irascible taxi drivers; you’ll spy relics from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Bronze Age.

Ottorino Respighi wrote The Pines of Rome in 1924 as a tribute to the Eternal City, with the ever-present pinus pinea—the stone pine—looking on. These towering, umbrella-shaped trees form elegant canopies over the city.

“The centuries-old trees which so characteristically dominate the Roman landscape become witnesses to the principal events in Roman life,” wrote Respighi.

I. “Pines of the Villa Borghese” captures children at play in the historic Borghese Gardens. Respighi’s wife, Elsa, contributed children’s songs from memory.

II. “Pines near a catacomb” goes underground to the ancient burial chambers with melodies lifted from the Latin Mass.

III. “Pines of the Janiculum” conjures a moonrise over one of Rome’s seven hills, with a recording of a nightingale singing its song.

IV. The “Pines of the Appian Way” takes you to a roadway in ancient Rome as an endless column of armored soldiers threads its way into the city center. “Trumpets blare and the army of the Consul bursts forth in the grandeur of a newly risen sun toward the Sacred Way, mounting in triumph the Capitoline Hill.”

INSIDE THE SCORE

Ottorino Respighi studied orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the guy who wrote the book on the subject. Respighi specifies a large percussion section for Pines, plus off-stage brass, including six ancient Roman trumpets called buccine (the ASO uses flugelhorns and euphoniums), organ, and a specific audio recording of a nightingale supplied by the publisher. Respighi was a pioneer in the use of electronics in a symphony orchestra.

In 1928, Respighi followed the Pines of Rome with an additional nod to the Eternal City, Feste Romane

JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor

Jader Bignamini was introduced as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony in January 2020. His tenure has already included a highly successful tour to Florida, commissions and premieres of new work, audience growth in and around Detroit, and the release of a brand new recording of Wynton Marsalis’ Blues Symphony, Jader’s first commercial release with the DSO.

Outside of Detroit, the 2024-25 season includes Bignamini’s debuts with the Atlanta Symphony, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, plus return engagements with the symphony orchestras of Bergen and Bern, and a production of Otello at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.

Recent highlights include concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, National, and New Jersey Symphonies; and the Minnesota Orchestra. Internationally, he has conducted the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, and Residentie Orkest The Hague. Opera highlights include productions with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera de Paris, Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State

Opera, Dutch National Opera, Oper Frankfurt, and Canadian Opera Company. Bignamini led an extensive tour across Asia in August 2024 with the Asian Youth Orchestra.

In Summer 2021, Bignamini conducted triumphant performances of Turandot at the Arena di Verona with Anna Netrebko and Yusiv Eyvazov, as well as a staged production of Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Other highlights include engagements with Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, and the MITO Festival conducting Berlioz’ Messe Solennelle. He made his concert debut at La Scala in 2015.

Bignamini began his conducting career as Assistant and then Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica la Verdi, having been appointed by Riccardo Chailly in 2010. He was born in Crema and studied at the Piacenza Music Conservatory.

GIUSEPPE GIBBONI, violin

Giuseppe Gibboni, born in 2001, is a rising star in the classical music world. He began studying violin at age three and graduated with honors from the Conservatorio “G. Martucci” in Salerno at 15. He continued his studies at prestigious institutions including the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Pierre Amoyal. In 2021, he won the 56th Paganini Violin Competition, becoming the first Italian winner in 24 years.

Gibboni has performed with top orchestras such as the Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Detroit Symphony and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. At the end of May 2025, he will open the Ravenna Festival performing under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti and he will debut at La Scala in Milan next season.

He plays the 1722 “Jupiter” Stradivarius, courtesy of the Nippon Music Foundation, the Strad Lam Ex Scotland University courtesy of a collector from New York. Known for his virtuosity, expressive sound, and musical depth, Gibboni is considered one of the most promising violinists of his generation.

The 4,145th, 4,146th, and 4,147th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Sunday, May 11, 2025 at 3:00PM

Atlanta Symphony Hall

NATHALIE STUTZMANN, conductor

JULIA GRÜTER, soprano

ANNA GORYACHOVA, mezzo-soprano

MILES MYKKANEN, tenor

LAWSON ANDERSON, baritone

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

NORMAN MACKENZIE, director of choruses

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Missa solemnis, Op. 123 (1819-1823) 80 MINS

I. Kyrie

II. Gloria

III. Credo

IV. Sanctus

V. Agnus Dei

Julia Grüter, soprano

Anna Goryachova, mezzo-soprano

Miles Mykkanen, tenor

Lawson Anderson, bass-baritone

ASO Chorus

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Presented with generous support from

This weekend's concerts are dedicated to ANN MARIE & JOHN WHITE in honor of their extraordinary support of the 2023/24 Annual Fund.

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

Notes to Know

• Beethoven was raised Roman Catholic but didn’t go to church. The Missa solemnis (1823) is one of only a few sacred works he wrote and follows the liturgy of the Catholic Mass.

• After the opera Fidelio, the Missa solemnis is Beethoven’s longest work. It wasn’t performed in Vienna until after his death, as there was no practical way to squeeze such a hulking piece into a church service, and concert performances were out of the question (censors considered theaters indecent environs for sacred works).

• Work on the symphonies came easily for Beethoven, although he sometimes sat on ideas for years. The Missa solemnis was different. It occupied his thoughts for four years, and he continued to tweak, rethink, and refine it. When he finished the Mass in 1823, he called it his greatest achievement.

Late Beethoven

Beethoven’s last decade is as much a psychological journey as a musical one. For sure, the audacity and experimentation that defined his “heroic decade” fed into his later works. But he suffered a dry spell and emerged a more introspective and philosophical composer.

As he inched toward his forty-third birthday, he’d completed eight symphonies, five piano concertos, and trunk loads of chamber works. His Seventh Symphony drew applause that “rose to the point of ecstasy.” But privately, he felt the ground shifting beneath his feet.

Napoleon, the so-called great liberator, faltered along with Beethoven’s hopes for freedom and universal brotherhood. The Austrian emperor reasserted his iron grip. Beethoven’s circle of benefactors dwindled, and his hearing grew worse. On top of that, documents point to a failed romance. (We know little about the woman he called his “Immortal Beloved.”)

First ASO performance: May 2, 1968

Robert Shaw, conductor

Most Recent ASO performance: January 22, 2011

Donald Runnicles, conductor

Between 1813 and early 1815, he banged out a series of crowd pleasers, boosting his popularity around Vienna while offering little for posterity. Biographer Maynard Solomon wrote: “These works, filled with bombastic rhetoric and ‘patriotic’ excesses, mark the nadir of Beethoven’s artistic career.” And then, like a caterpillar, he went dormant.

Now clinically deaf and chronically ill, Beethoven gave his last public piano performance in January 1815. That same year, his brother Caspar Carl died, and Ludwig blundered through a five-year custody battle over his nephew. Music took a back seat to the unfortunate legal proceedings against the boy’s mother. Meanwhile, he let himself go; his hair grew matted and his clothes shabby. Necessarily, the outside world communicated with him via pen and paper. Lubricating himself with bottles of wine, he shared laughs with his friends and railed against the Emperor. (The secret police ignored him because he was a famous composer and seemed a little touched in the head.)

Beethoven re-emerged as a composer in 1818 to write his colossal Hammerklavier Sonata. Music critic Harry Haskell notes the Sonata’s “sharp dynamic contrasts, sudden shifts of register and texture, and bold juxtapositions of keys.” From this point on, Beethoven is at one with his imagination; he’s unfettered by the hearing world’s distractions, conventions, and demands. Sharp contrasts and bold juxtapositions became his vocabulary for pushing his late works into a realm of their own.

Missa solemnis

“From the heart – may it return to the heart!”

—Ludwig

van Beethoven

Rudolph Johann Joseph Rainer was one of Beethoven’s favorite students. He happened to be the son of Emperor Leopold II, but barring a plague or meteor strike, had little chance of ascending the throne. He was, after all, the Emperor’s sixteenth child (younger sons didn’t inherit property or titles).

As a teen, Archduke Rudolph studied piano and composition

with Beethoven, and the composer dedicated many works to him. Meanwhile, Rudolph’s family slated him for the Church. In 1819, they fast-tracked him into ecclesiastical garb, and Rudolph became Archbishop, Cardinal, and priest. Beethoven stepped up with a grand gesture.

“The day on which a High Mass composed by me will be performed during the ceremonies solemnized for Your Imperial Highness will be the most glorious of my life,” gushed the composer. He went to work, setting the Ordinary parts of a Roman Catholic service, but soon got swept away. Biographer Jan Swafford put it this way: “In every way, the piece is extreme.” The Missa solemnis is extreme in its complexity, its depth, its grandeur, and the burden it places on performers. In fact, it swelled to something so hefty it has no practical use in church. And Beethoven missed his deadline by three years.

It wasn’t that he lacked the know-how; he’d been a church organist as a child. But Beethoven wanted to tap into something older, so he hit the books. The Archduke owned a fabulous music library, and the composer availed himself of it, poring over manuscripts by Bach, Handel, and the Renaissance genius Giovanni Palestrina.

“What Beethoven admired was the complexity of their counterpoint,” wrote biographer Edmund Morris. Notice the way Beethoven casts vocal lines that move independently of one another.

“No bar is inexpressive,” mused the composer. The Missa solemnis is a prolonged contemplation on the nature of God—vast, spacious, infinite, and outside of time and place.

“Not even Bach or Handel can show a greater sense of space and of sonority,” marveled the musicologist Donald Tovey. “There is no choral and no orchestral writing, earlier or later, that shows a more thrilling sense of the individual colour of every chord, every position, and every doubled third or discord.”

Over four years, Beethoven poured his genius into every word, creating layers of meaning. In the Credo (Nicene

Creed), for example, he used medieval church modes (scales) to highlight the bedrock of Christian faith: “[God] was made man.”

Likewise, when the singers utter the word “crucifixus,” Beethoven added harsh, repeated strokes in the strings to illustrate the anguish of Christ’s Passion.

Always—and to the performers’ peril—the music serves the text.

“The first thing that any vocalist or instrumentalist has to remember about Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is that it was composed by a deaf pianist,” joked one-time Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Shaw.

Indeed, many musicians throughout the work’s 200-year history have declared the piece impossible to perform. The music drives singers to the top of their range at full volume; Beethoven didn’t concern himself with breathing and vocal rest. Instead, he keeps the musicians on edge as if to push them toward some unattainable ideal.

In his mind, God dwells beyond the sky, beyond the stars, and much of the Missa solemnis almost overwhelms with awe. But the lofty onslaught sets up an exquisite respite in the Benedictus when the solo violin floats downward from on high as if to bathe us in divine light.

Ahead of the Agnus Dei, Beethoven wrote, “Prayer for inner and outer peace.” The movement begins with sorrowful, penitential music that gives way to a heroic fugue around the words, “grant us peace.” It seems Beethoven might be headed for a blaze of glory, à la the Ninth Symphony (1824). Instead, he added menacing, militaristic percussion blows and trumpet calls, pointing to a world scarred by war (Napoleon had fallen less than ten years before).

With the Missa solemnis, Beethoven remains hopeful with the caveat that humanity must do better. Jan Swafford referred to the Mass as an “unanswered prayer.”

After all, it’s one thing to bemoan the mess we’ve made of our world. It’s another to ask God to fix it for us.

JULIA GRÜTER, soprano

Soprano Julia Grüter has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Nuremberg State Theatre since the 2018/19 season. Her recent productions include Don Giovanni, Talestri, Le nozze de Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, La Calisto, among others.

In 2023/24 Grüter debuted at the Bayreuth Festival in Parsifal and Tannhäuser and performed Handel’s Messiah at the Komische Oper Berlin. Grüter has performed throughout Europe, including with the WDR Funkhaus Orchestra, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, and the Bern Symphony Orchestra.

In 2021, she prevailed against several hundred competitors at one of the most important competitions of our time, the ARD International Vocal Competition.

ANNA GORYACHOVA, mezzo-soprano

Anna Goryachova studied at the Conservatorium in St. Petersburg and in Rome. She started her career with the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera and made her European debut in 2011 in Antwerp.

During the 2023/24 season, Anna appears in La Clemenza di Tito at the Opera Ballet in Antwerp, in Gent and at the Wiener Festwochen, Eugene Onegin in Tokyo and Tancvredi in Bregenz. Other engagements include Die Verlobung im Kloster at Theater an der Wien and Carmen at the Royal Opera House in London.

From 2012 to 2017, Anna was a featured soloist at the Zurich Opera. Additionally, she has performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra National in Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, among others.

MILES MYKKANEN, tenor

The career of 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 debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Mykkanen has quickly become the go-to tenor for roles requiring a deft balance of power, lyricism, and dramatic acuity, including a new Barrie Kosky production of Die Fledermaus and Philip Venables’ world premiere We Are The Lucky Ones, both at Dutch National Opera.

Elsewhere in the 24/25 season, he appears in Die tote Stadt at Bayerische Staatsoper and The Rake’s Progress with Lakes Area Music Festival. On the concert stage, he debuts with Phoenix Symphony amidst returns to the Cleveland Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

LAWSON ANDERSON, baritone

Hailed for his “powerful, darkly-hued voice and nobility of phrasing and carriage” (Cleveland Classical), Lawson Anderson is quickly establishing himself as one of the leading bass-baritones of his generation. A former management consultant with an MBA from Columbia Business School, Anderson has made waves in the opera world coming off of his Top Prize finish at the 2018 George London Foundation Competition; First Prize award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation’s 2017 International Vocal Competition; and 2017 Opera Index Top Prize Arthur E. Walters Memorial Award. Highlights of the current season include Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung at the Semperoper Dresden; The Rake’s Progress with the Staatskapelle Dresden; and a debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, founded in 1970 by former Music Director, Robert Shaw, is an all-volunteer, 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.

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, conducted by ASO Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles.

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

Norman Mackenzie

director of choruses

The Frannie & Bill Graves

Chair

Marcia Chandler

chorus administrator

Dock Anderson

series accompanist

SOPRANO 1

Juliana Bolaño

Khadijah Davis

Liz Dean

Laura Foster

Michelle Griffin

Erin Harris

Erin Jones

Arietha Lockhart

Mindy Margolis

Katie O’Brien

Joneen Padgett

Rachel Paul

Mary Martha Penner

Susan Ray

Samaria Rodriguez

Georgia Sackler

Emily Salmond

Kristian Samuel

Lydia Sharp

Susie Shepardson

Stacey Tanner

Chelsea Toledo

Brianne Turgeon

Rebecca Van Rooyen

Wanda Yang Temko

SOPRANO 2

Debbie Ashton

Sloan Atwood

Aliyah Auerbach

Jessica Barber

Saskia den Boon

Tierney Breedlove

Maggie Carpenter

Martha Craft

Gina Deaton

Mary Goodwin

Heidi Hayward

Amy Lea

Megan Littlepage

Melissa Mack

Lindsey Patten

Murray

Chantae Pittman

Tramaine Quarterman

Kate Roberts

Marianna Schuck

Anne-Marie Spalinger

Tommie Storer

Emily Tallant

Cheryl Thrash

Caroline Todd

Caroline Wendt

Lacy Wilder

ALTO 1

June Abbott

Pamela Amy-Cupp

Emily Campbell

Donna Carter-Wood

Jessica Crowe

Patti DinkinsMatthews

Katherine Fisher

Beth Freeman

Savannah Hagerty

Unita Harris

Beverly Hueter

Janet Johnson

Kathleen Kelly

George

Virginia Little

Staria Lovelady

Alina Luke

Fran McDowell

Sara McKlin

Linda Morgan

Katherine Murray

Natalie Pierce

Kathleen Poe Ross

Elizabeth Qian

Anna Ree

Noelle Ross

Rachel Schiffer

Camilla Springfield

Rachel Stewart

Nancy York

ALTO 2

Nancy Adams

Angelica Blackman

Keim

Elizabeth Borland

Emily Boyer

Marcia Chandler

Carol Comstock

Meaghan Curry

Michele Diament

Cynthia Goeltz

DeBold

Luanne Harms

Joia Johnson

Sally Kann

Nicole Khoury

Katie MacKenzie

Lynda Martin

Lalla McGee

Rachel Meyer

Laura Rappold

Caroline Roberts

Duhi Park Schneider

Sharon Simons

Virginia Thompson

Kiki Wilson

Diane Woodard

TENOR 1

Christian Bigliani

David Blalock

LaRue Bowman

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

Sutton Bacon

Brian Bishop

Matthew Borkowski

Steve Brailsford

Caleb Cole

Phillip Crumbly

Steven Dykes

Stephen Eick

David Ellis

Joseph Few

Sean Fletcher

Thomas Foust

John Harr

David Ingham

David Kinrade

Tyler Lane

Michael Parker

Timothy Parrott

Marshall Peterson

Matthew Sellers

Thomas Slusher

Scott Stephens

Zachary Temin

BASS 1

Dock Anderson

Noah Boonin

Russell Cason

Jeremy Christensen

Joshua Clark

Trey Clegg

Rick Cobb

Michael Cranford

Thomas Elston

Benjamin Grisham

Noah Horton

Nick Jones #

Rodney S. Jones

Sims Kuester

Jason Maynard

Jackson McCarthy

Joss Nichols

Brian Smith

Will Stephens

Thomas Stow

John Terry

Edgie Wallace Jr.

BASS 2

Jacob Blevins

William Borland

John King Carter

Terrence Connors

Joel Craft

Paul Fletcher

Timothy Gunter

Brooks Hanrahan

David Hansen

Dylan Johnson

Philip Jones

Daniel Lane

Wesley Lanter

Jason Manley

Brandon Mozingo

Michael Nedvidek

Philip Rogers

Joel Rose

John Ruff

John Smith

Jonathan Smith

George Sustman

Benjamin Temko

Gregory Whitmire

#Charter Member

The 4,148th and 4,149th concerts of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Atlanta Symphony Hall

MARZENA DIAKUN, conductor

MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN, piano

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.

MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG (1919-1996)

Rhapsody on Moldovan Themes, Op. 47, No. 1 (1949) 13 MINS

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945)

Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra (1945) 25 MINS

I. Allegretto

II. Adagio religioso – Poco piu mosso – Tempo I

III. Allegro vivace

Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

INTERMISSION

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

20 MINS

Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 ("Winter Daydreams") (1866-rev. 1874) 33 MINS

I. Daydreams on a Winter Road: Allegro tranquillo

II. Gloomy Land, Sorrowful Land: Adagio cantabile ma non tanto

III. Scherzo: Allegro scherzando giocoso

IV. Finale: Andante lugubre – Allegro maestoso

by Noel Morris Program Annotator

Notes to Know

• Myczesław Weinberg wrote seven operas, 60 film scores, and over 20 symphonies. Fans are starting to call for a Weinberg revival.

• Bartók’s folk song collections differed from those of Brahms and Liszt, who borrowed “Hungarian” songs from the urban Roma. Bartók and Kodály preserved a priceless body of native “peasant” music collected in remote villages.

• Some Russian peers criticized Tchaikovsky for studying “foreign” composition techniques at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He eventually taught Nikolai RimskyKorsakov, whose name sits atop the school.

WEINBERG Moldovan Rhapsody

Classical music die-hards can be forgiven for not knowing the name Myczesław Weinberg. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin canceled him, and he is only beginning to resurface.

Weinberg’s parents came from Moldova and settled in Poland. His father worked as a conductor for a Jewish theater company. As a teen, Mieczesław (née Mojsze Wajnberg) entered the Warsaw Conservatory but fled when the Nazis moved into Poland. He first went to Minsk and then to Tashkent. From there, he sent his First Symphony to the famous composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who invited him to Moscow. They became lifelong friends, and Weinberg lived out his days in the Russian capital, sometimes as a celebrity and sometimes as a pariah, depending on Stalin’s whims.

First (and most recent) ASO performance: April 26, 2012 Michael Christie, conductor

1948 was a brutal year for Soviet composers. The Party censured some of its brightest lights, including Prokofiev and Shostakovich. That same year, Weinberg’s father-inlaw, the popular Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels, died under suspicious circumstances.

Later, Stalin’s daughter described a phone call she’d overheard: “‘Well, it’s an automobile accident,’ [Stalin said].

I remember so well the way he said it... He wasn’t asking; he was suggesting ‘an automobile accident.’ But the next day ... a girl student told me, weeping, how brutally Mikhoels had been murdered.”

Myczesław Weinberg knew to keep his head down and wisely chose Moldovan themes as the basis for a composition in 1949. (Stalin demanded art to celebrate the worker.) For the Rhapsody, he mined a collection of Moldovan folk songs and honored Moldova’s Jewish community with a klezmer tune in the finale.

First ASO performance: October 23, 1958

Leonard Pennario, pianist

Henry Sopkin, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: April 1, 2011

Peter Serkin, piano

Roberto Abbado, conductor

BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 3

Béla Bartók wrote much of his Third Piano Concerto in Asheville, North Carolina, near the end of an unlikely journey.

He was a proud Hungarian citizen, born in Nagyszentmiklós. A brilliant pianist, Bartók earned a spot at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory but, for love of country, chose the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest instead. When he overheard a girl singing folk songs in 1904, Bartók realized a treasury of local music waited to be discovered. Together with Zoltán Kodály, he hauled Edison’s phonograph throughout Central Europe. Expanding into Turkey and North Africa, he recorded, translated, and cataloged as many as 10,000 songs. And folk music filtered into the DNA of his compositions. Meanwhile, his prestige as a pianist and composer became a source of national pride.

The 20th century was cruel to this Hungarian patriot. An international treaty ceded his hometown to Romania. Then, the fascists came. The Nazis dismissed his publisher and sent Bartók a questionnaire inquiring about his ethnicity. “Naturally, neither I nor Kodály filled it out,” he wrote. The complicity of his people appalled him.

“I am really ashamed that I come from this class,” wrote Bartók. His refusal to cooperate grew untenable, and he emigrated to America in 1940. He left his beloved country

with a parting shot: He issued a will prohibiting Bartók tributes until all markers venerating Hitler and Mussolini had been stricken from Hungarian soil.

Béla Bartók’s life in the United States underscores a certain truth about him: he’s one the greatest 20th-century composers, but his popularity lags. He struggled to make a living in the U.S. and wouldn’t take a handout. Various members of the music community leaped into action, surreptitiously sending him work until his health began to fail.

It started with a stiff shoulder and then fevers. After a misdiagnosis of tuberculosis, Bartók spent a winter in Asheville to take in the mountain air, where his health improved. Meanwhile, he spent the time translating folk songs until the change of seasons in early 1945.

“The birds become entirely intoxicated by spring and organize concerts such as I have never heard,” he wrote. With the same precision used to notate so many songs, Bartók wrote down the bird calls of Appalachia, sending them fluttering into the slow movement of his Third Piano Concerto.

Written for his wife Ditta (a pianist), the concerto was to be presented on her birthday in October 1945. The music exudes airiness—much lighter than his first two piano concertos. Sadly, he died of Leukemia in September, leaving the last seventeen bars unorchestrated. Bartók’s friend and student Tibor Serly finished the piece. For years, Ditta left it to other pianists to perform. She finally took up the piece in the 1960s.

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 1

Much has been written about Tchaikovsky and his fragile temperament. But he was downright bold when he dared to write a symphony. He’d entered the conservatory an entire century after Haydn started writing symphonies. Mozart, Beethoven, and many others famously followed in kind without a symphonic peep from Russia. Isolationism ruled Tchaikovsky’s world; zealous patriots condemned European music as foreign and corrupt. In a fractious atmosphere,

First ASO performance: November 23, 1977

Hiroyuki Iwaki, conductor

Most recent ASO performance: October 11, 2008

Robert Spano, conductor

Russian composers didn’t produce symphonies until the 1860s. 26-year-old Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was one of the first. In fact, he was one of the first to attend conservatory.

At age ten, his parents sent him to boarding school. He graduated with a law degree and landed a job at the Ministry of Justice. When the St. Petersburg Conservatory opened in 1862—the first of its kind in Russia—he quit his job to become a full-time music student.

By graduation, Tchaikovsky had premiered some short pieces and a cantata. A second conservatory opened its doors and hired him on the spot.

Stepping into the symphonic arena, young Tchaikovsky embarked upon a 45-minute piece; it was like shifting from writing (mostly) short stories to a full-fledged novel. He resolved to strike a balance in that politically charged atmosphere: to be worthy of his European predecessors while advancing some authentic yet undefined sense of “Russian-ness.”

Tchaikovsky worked on his First Symphony between 1866 and 1868. He must have known its significance because it kept him up at night. Long months of sleeplessness led to panic attacks. (Going forward, he resolved never to work at night.)

In December 1866, he showed his new symphony to his former professors, but they only liked the Adagio and Scherzo. Tchaikovsky pressed ahead. The complete symphony premiered in 1868 (rev. 1874), followed by the successful premiere of his Second Symphony in 1872.

Tchaikovsky’s identity as a Russian proved inseparable from his music. The folk songs of his youth and his impressions of a Russian winter guided his hand in the First Symphony. The first movement, “Dreams of a Winter Journey,” sounds like a sleigh ride. The second, “Land of Gloom, Land of Mists," has more mystery. The third movement, marked Allegro scherzando giocoso, indicates fast, playful, and joking, while the finale contains an actual folk melody.

MARZENA DIAKUN, conductor

Praised as a conductor of immense temperament, convincing with sureness, energy and the detailed power of her baton, Polish conductor Marzena Diakun has reached veteran status at a young age.

Second Prize winner of two major international conducting competitions (Prague Spring Competition 2007 and Fitelberg Conducting Competition 2012), she focuses on orchestral and choral works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Shostakovich, as well as Penderecki, Lutosławski, Karłowicz and Szymanowski.

The season 2024/25 will see her return to orchestras such as the Komische Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and debut with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Her newest recording of Brahms’ works for choir and orchestra (Label IBS) with Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, of which she was Artistic Director and Principal Chief Conductor until the summer of 2024 has been hailed by the press.

Diakun’s relationship with Ensemble Intercontemporain is the culmination of two decades of premiering and performing new works by numerous Spanish, Dutch, Austrian and Polish composers. Her recording, Polish Heroines of Music (Label PWM) is an exemplary model of her savoir-faire and commitment.

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano

“Aperformer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), pianist Marc-André Hamelin is renowned worldwide for his unparalleled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique. He is celebrated for his mastery of the established repertoire as well as his fearless exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Hamelin regularly performs with leading

orchestras and conductors across the globe and gives recitals at major concert venues and festivals worldwide.

Mr. Hamelin is an exclusive recording artist for Hyperion Records, with over 70 albums, showcasing a broad range of solo, orchestral, and chamber repertoire. In October 2024, Hyperion released his recording of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, Op. 106, and Sonata in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3, following his acclaimed February 2024 release, Hamelin: New Piano Works

Throughout his career, Mr. Hamelin has composed over 30 pieces, most of which are published by Edition Peters. He performed his Toccata on “L’homme armé” alongside music by C.P.E. Bach and William Bolcom on NPR’s Tiny Desk in 2023. His most recent composition, Mazurka, was commissioned by the Library of Congress in celebration of 100 years of concerts and premiered in April 2024.

Mr. Hamelin resides in the Boston area with his wife, Cathy Fuller, a producer and host at Classical WCRB. Born in Montreal, he is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the German Record Critics’ Association and has received seven Juno Awards, eleven Grammy nominations, and the 2018 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance. In December 2020, he was awarded the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry from the Ontario Arts Foundation. Mr. Hamelin is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

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.

$1,000,000+

A Friend of the Symphony (3)

Mr. Eric Bressner

The Family of Ann Grovenstein Campbell

The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$500,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

$250,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kauffman

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Mary & Jim Rubright

Patrick & Susie Viguerie

$100,000+

Balloun Foundation

Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.

CAMPAIGN CABINET:

Bert Mills

Anne Morgan

Jim Rubright

$100,000+ continued

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney

Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp

Sheila Lee Davies & Jon Davies

Marcia & John Donnell

Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow

Ms. Angela L. Evans

Dick & Anne Game

Mr. Fahim Siddiqui & Ms. Shazia Fahim

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.

$50,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

The Antinori Foundation

Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos del Rio, MD

Bonnie & Jay Harris

James H. Landon

Ms. Molly Minnear

Bert & Carmen Mills

John R. Paddock, Ph.D.

& Karen M. Schwartz

Patty & Doug Reid

Ross & Sally Singletary

Ross Singletary Ray Uttenhove

Patrick Viguerie

$50,000+ continued 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

Juliet & John Allan

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bailey Wright* & Alison Caughman

Ms. Lisa V. Chang

Lisa DiFrancesco, MD & Darlene Nicosia

The Gable Foundation

Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan

Florencia & Rodrigo Garcia Escudero

Sally & Walter George

Up to $50,000 continued

Georgia Power Company

Pam & Robert Glustrom

Elizabeth & Sheffield Hale

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison

Tad & Janin Hutcheson

Brian & Carrie Kurlander

Donna Lee & Howard Ehni

Dr. Jennifer Lyman & Mr. Kevin Lyman

Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence

Massey Charitable Trust

Carla & Arthur Mills IV

Galen Oelkers

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Bill & Rachel Schultz

Joyce & Henry Schwob

Charlie & Donna Sharbaugh

Elliott & Elaine Tapp

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.

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, 2023. Their extraordinary generosity provides the foundation for this worldclass institution.

Donna Lee & Howard Ehni

$15,000+

$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

Ms. Lynn Eden

Ms. Angela L. Evans∞

John D. Fuller

The Gable Foundation

Robert & Roberta** Setzer

Ann Marie & John B. White, Jr.°∞

$35,000+

Cari K. Dawson & John M. Sparrow

Sally & Walter George

Sally & Pete Parsonson ∞

Patty & Doug Reid

Mary & Jim Rubright

June & John Scott∞

Slumgullion Charitable Fund

Kathy Waller & Kenneth Goggins

Patrick & Susie Viguerie

$25,000+

John & Juliet Allan

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Blackney

Janine Brown & Alex J. Simmons, Jr.

Connie & Merrell** Calhoun

John W. Cooledge

Sally** & Larry Davis

Mr. Richard H. Delay & Dr.

Francine D. Dykes∞

Paulette Eastman & Becky Pryor Anderson**

Jeannette Guarner, MD & Carlos

del Rio, MD∞

Bonnie & Jay Harris

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Harrison

John & Linda Matthews∞

John R. Paddock, Ph.D. & Karen

M. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Ms. Margaret Painter

Bill & Rachel Schultz°

Mrs. Edus H. Warren

$17,500+

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bailey

Jennifer Barlament & Kenneth

Potsic∞

Ms. Elizabeth W. Camp

Wright** & Alison Caughman

Ms. Lisa V. Chang

Ms. Yelena Epova & Mr. Neil Chambers

Florencia & Rodrigo Garcia Escudero

Dick & Anne Game°

Pam & Robert Glustrom

Ms. Joia M. Johnson

Dr. & Mrs. Scott I. Lampert

Dr. Jennifer Lyman & Mr. Kevin Lyman

Ms. Deborah A. Marlowe & Dr. Clint Lawrence

Ms. Molly Minnear

Caroline & Phil Moïse

Moore Colson, CPAs & Bert & Carmen Mills

Terence L. & Jeanne Perrine Neal°

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Martha M. Pentecost

Joyce & Henry Schwob

Mr. Fahim Siddiqui & Ms. Shazia Fahim

Ross & Sally Singletary

Mr. G. Kimbrough Taylor & Ms.

Triska Drake

Dr. Ravi & Dr. Valerie Thadhani

John & Ray Uttenhove

Mrs. Sue S. Williams

Drs. Kevin & Kalinda Woods

Phyllis Abramson, Ph. D.

Madeline** & Howell E. Adams, Jr.

Mr. Keith Adams & Ms. Kerry Heyward°

Aadu & Kristi Allpere°

Mr. Neil Ashe & Mrs. Rona Gomel Ashe

Keith Barnett

Mr. David Boatwright

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Clare

Russell Currey & Amy Durrell

Mr. & Mrs. Erroll B. Davis, Jr.∞

Lisa DiFrancesco, MD & Darlene Nicosia

Eleanor & Charles Edmondson

Craig Frankel & Jana Eplan

In Memory of Betty Sands Fuller

Roya & Bahman Irvani

Sarah & Jim Kennedy

Brian & Carrie Kurlander∞

James H. Landon

Drs. Joon & Grace Lee

Mr. Sukai Liu & Dr. Ginger J. Chen

Mr. & Mrs. David Goosman

John F.** & Marilyn M. McMullan

Carla & Arthur Mills IV

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Galen Oelkers

Ms. Regina Olchowski & Mr. Edward Potter

Barbara & Andrew Paul

Ms. Cathleen Quigley

Mr. and Mrs. Ravi Saligram

V Scott

Beverly & Milton Shlapak

Mr. John A. Sibley, III

Elliott & Elaine Tapp°

Judith & Mark K. Taylor

Mr. Yannik Thomas

Maria Todorova

Carol & Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Mr. Ben Touchette

Adair & Dick White

Mr. Mack Wilbourn

$10,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Paul & Melody Aldo∞

Mr. & Mrs. Calvin R. Allen

Farideh & Al Azadi Foundation

Estate of Elizabeth Ann Bair

Jack & Helga Beam∞

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Benjamin

Kelley O. & Neil H. Berman

Karen & Rod Bunn

Lisa & Russ Butner∞

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Chubb III

Ms. Tena Clark & Ms. Michelle LeClair

Janet & John Costello

Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Culpepper

Donald & Barbara Defoe°

Peter & Vivian de Kok

Marcia & John Donnell

Dr. John Dyer & Mrs. Catherine Faré Dyer

Marina Fahim

Dr. & Mrs. Leroy Fass

Dr. V. Alexander Garcias

Dr. Paul Gilreath

Mr. Max M. Gilstrap

The Graves Foundation

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.

Azira G. Hill

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Hill

Clay & Jane Jackson

Ann A. & Ben F. Johnson III°

James Kieffer

Ann & Brian Kimsey∞

Stephen & Carolyn Knight

Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Mattox

Jane Morrison∞

Gretchen Nagy & Allan Sandlin

Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson

Margaret H. Petersen

David F. & Maxine A.** Rock

Ms. Frances A. Root

Thomas & Lynne Saylor

Tom & Ani Steele

John & Yee-Wan Stevens

Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Stroetz, Jr.

Stephen & Sonia Swartz

George & Amy Taylor∞

Carolyn C. Thorsen

Mr. & Mrs. Benny Varzi

Drs. Jonne & Paul Walter

Dr. & Mrs. James O. Wells, Jr.

Camille W. Yow

$7,500+

Dr. Marshall & Stephanie Abes

Carol Brantley & David Webster

Ms. Johanna Brookner

Judith D. Bullock

Patricia & William Buss∞

John Champion & Penelope Malone

Mark Coan & Family

Ms. Diane Durgin

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Flinn

Grace Taylor Ihrig**

Jason & Michelle Kroh

Dr. Fulton D. Lewis III & S. Neal Rhoney

Mr. Robert M. Lewis, Jr. & G.

Wesley Holt

Elvira & Jay Mannelly

Belinda & Gino Massafra

Ed & Linda McGinn

Berthe & Shapour Mobasser

Mr. Cesar Moreno & Mr. Greg Heathcock

Sue Morgan∞

Ms. Eliza Quigley∞

Mr. Ron Raitz

Leonard Reed

Mr. & Mrs. Joel F. Reeves

Hamilton & Mason Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Toren

Ms. Juliana T. Vincenzino

Kiki Wilson

Mr. David J. Worley & Ms. Bernadette Drankoski

$5,000+

A Friend of the Symphony (2)

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Alrutz

Mr. Logan Anderson

Dr. Evelyn R. Babey

Lisa & Joe** Bankoff

Asad & Sakina Bashey

Herschel Beazley

Meredith Bell

Mr. John Blatz

Rita & Herschel Bloom

Jane & Greg Blount

Dr. & Mrs. Jerome B. Blumenthal

Mrs. Sidney W. Boozer

Ms. Jane F. Boynton

Margo Brinton & Eldon Park

Jacqueline A. & Joseph E. Brown, Jr.

CBH International, Inc

Ms. Stacey Chavis

Mrs. Amy B. Cheng & Dr. Chad A. Hume, Ph.D

Ned Cone & Nadeen Green

Malcolm & Ann Cole

Matt & Kate Cook

Carol Comstock & Jim Davis

DePorres & Barbara Cormier

Mr. & Mrs. DeBonis

Mr. Christopher J. Decoufle & Ms. Karen Freer

Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Dimmick∞

Xavier Duralde & Mary Barrett

Dieter Elsner & Othene Munson

Robert S. Elster Foundation

Jerry H. Evans & Stephen T. Bajjaly

Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Fackler

Ellen & Howard Feinsand

Bruce W. & Avery C. Flower∞

Mr. David L. Forbes

Annie Frazer & Jen Horvath

Gaby Family Foundation

Charles Ginden

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Goodsell

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Gump

Sally W. Hawkins

Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick

Hilley & Frieder

Richard & Linda Hubert

Tad & Janin Hutcheson

Mr. Justin Im & Dr. Nakyoung Nam

Lillian Kim Ivansco & Joey Ivansco

Mr. W. F. & Dr. Janice Johnston

Mr. & Mrs. Baxter Jones

Cecile M. Jones

Lana M. Jordan∞

Dr. Jennifer Kahnweiler & Dr.

William M. Kahnweiler

Paul** & Rosthema Kastin

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Kauffman

Mona & Gilbert Kelly°

Mr. Charles R. Kowal

Pat & Nolan Leake

Ms. Cynthia Smith

Ms. Eunice A. Luke

Dr. & Mrs. Ellis L. Malone

Ms. Erin M. Marshall

Beau and Alfredo Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Martin

Ms. Darla B. McBurney

Mr. Suneel Mendiratta

Ms. Keyeriah Miles

Mr. Bert Mobley∞

Mr. Charles Morn

Mr. William Morrison & Mrs.

Elizabeth Clark-Morrison

Ms. Bethani Oppenheimer

Ms. Amy H. Page

Ralph Paulk & Suzanne Redmon

Paulk

Ann & Fay Pearce°

Jonathan & Lori Peterson

In Memory of Dr. Frank S. Pittman III

Dr. & Mrs. John P. Pooler

Dr. John B. Pugh

Mr. John Rains

Mr. Joseph Rapanotti

Mrs. Susan H. Reinach

Dr. Jay Rhee & Mrs. Kimberley

Rhee∞

Vicki & Joe Riedel

Ms. Maria Rivera

Ms. Felicia Rives∞

Ms. Noelle Ross and Mr. Tim Dorr

Tiffany & Rich Rosetti∞

Dr. & Mrs. Rein Saral

Dr. Robert D. Schreiner & Dr.

Patricia M. Simone

Katherine Scott

Suzanne Shull∞

Baker & Debby Smith

Ms. Victoria Smith

Ms. Lara Smith-Sitton

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Stathopoulos

Dr. Steven & Lynne Steindel°

In memory of Elizabeth B.

Stephens by Powell, Preston & Sally∞

Beth & Edward Sugarman

Dede & Bob Thompson

Trapp Family

Dr. Brenda G. Turner

Chilton & Morgan** Varner

Amy & Robert Vassey

Emily C. Ward

Alan & Marcia Watt

Ruthie Watts

Mr. & Ms. Robert L. Welch

Dr. Nanette K. Wenger

John F. Wieland, Jr.

Suzanne B. Wilner

Mr. & Mrs. M. Beattie Wood

$3,500+

A Friend of the Symphony

Anthony Barbagallo & Kristen Fowks∞

Drs. Jay & Martin Beard-Coles

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis M. Chorba

Jean & Jerry Cooper

Mr. David S. Dimling

Mr. Ramsey Fahs

Sandra & John Glover

John** & Martha Head

Barbara M. Hund

Cameron H. Jackson

Ms. Rebecca Jarvis

Mrs. Gail G. Johnson

Wolfgang** & Mariana Laufer

Molly McDonald & Jonathan Gelber

Hala & Steve Moddelmog

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Owen, Jr.

Ms. Kathy Powell

S.A. Robinson

Ms. Donna Schwartz

Gerald & Nancy Silverboard

Janice B. Smith

Ms. Martha Solano

Mrs. Dale L. Thompson

David & Martha West

Ms. Sonia Witkowski

Zaban Foundation, Inc.

$2,000+

A Friend of the Symphony (3)

Mr. James L. Anderson

Dr. & Ms. Bruce Beeber

Dr. & Mrs. Joel E. Berenson

Susan & Jack Bertram

Leon & Joy Borchers

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boyte

Martha S. Brewer

Harriet Evans Brock

George & Gloria Brooks

Benjamin Q. Brunt

Dr. Aubrey Bush & Dr. Carol Bush

Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. Canipe

Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo Carvalho

Betty Fuller Case

Mr. Jeffery B. Chancellor & Mr. Cameron England

Julie & Jerry Chautin

Mr. James Cobb

Susan S. Cofer

Liz & Charlie Cohn°

Ralph** & Rita Connell

William & Patricia Cook

Dr. & Mrs. John E. Cooke

Mary Carole Cooney & Henry R. Bauer, Jr

Mr. William Raymond Cranshaw

R. Carter & Marjorie A. Crittenden Foundation

Claire & Alex Crumbley

Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Daly, Jr.

Jerome J. Dobson

Mr. & Mrs. Graham Dorian

Gregory & Debra Durden

Mr. Trey Duskin & Ms. Noelle

Albano

Mrs. Eve Foy Eckardt

Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Edgar

Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Edge

Erica Endicott & Chris Heisel

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Farnham

Mr. Nigel Ferguson

Karen Foster

Dr. Donald & Janet Filip

Tom & Cecilia Fraschillo

Dr. Elizabeth C. French

Mr. & Mrs. Sebastien Galtier∞

Marty & John Gillin°

Mrs. Janet D. Goldstein

Mr. Robert Golomb

Mr. James N. Grace

Mrs. Beverly Green

Richard & Debbie Griffiths

Mr. & Mrs. George Gundersen

Deedee Hamburger

Phil & Lisa Hartley

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Hauser°

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hawk

Mr. & Mrs. John Hellriegel∞

Ann J. Herrera & Mary M. Goodwin

Kenneth & Colleen Hey

Sarah & Harvey Hill, Jr.°

Laurie House Hopkins & John D. Hopkins

James & Bridget Horgan°

Mrs. Nicole L. House

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Huband

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Huesken

Dona & Bill Humphreys

Silvey James & Rev. Jeanne Simpson

Nancy & John Janet

Sally C. Jobe

Aaron & Joyce Johnson

Coenen-Johnson Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Eike Jordan

Teresa M. Joyce, Ph.D

Mr. Alfred D. Kennedy & Dr. William R. Kenny

Mr. & Mrs. Randolph J. Koporc

Dr. & Mrs. William C. Land, Jr.

Lillian Balentine Law

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Le

Mr. & Mrs. Van R. Lear

Elizabeth J. Levine

Mr. & Mrs. J. David Lifsey

Deborah & William Liss°

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Levingston

Thomas and Marianne Mabry

Barbara & Jim MacGinnitie

Dr. Marcus Marr

Mrs. Sam Massell

In Memory of Pam McAllister

Mr. & Mrs. James McClatchey

Martha & Reynolds McClatchey

Birgit & David McQueen

Anna & Hays Mershon

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Mimms, Jr.

Mr. Jamal Mohammad and Mr. Marcus Dean

Ms. Helen Motamen & Mr. Deepak Shenoy

Janice & Tom Munsterman

Melanie & Allan Nelkin

Agnes V. Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Denis Ng

Gary R. Noble, MD & Joanne Heckman

Mr. & Mrs. Berk Nowak

Mr. & Mrs. James Pack

Dana & Jon Parness

Mr. Alex L. Pearson & Mrs. Martha

M. Pearson

Mr. Doug F. Powell

Ms. Patricia U. Rich

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas G. Riffey, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Roberts

Betsy & Lee Robinson

Dr. Judith Rohrer

Ms. Lili Santiago-Silva & Mr. Jim Gray

Drs. Lawrence and Rachel Schonberger

Dick Schweitzer

Mr. David C. Shih

Alan & Marion Shoenig

Nick & Annie Shreiber

Helga Hazelrig Siegel

Diana Silverman

Ms. Charlotte Skidmore & Maj.

Gen. Arnold Fields

Anne-Marie Sparrow

Peggy & Jerry Stapleton

James & Shari Steinberg

Dr. & Mrs. John P. Straetmans

Kay R Summers

Ms. Linda F. Terry

Johnny Thigpen & Clay Martin

Duane P. Truex III

Ms. Cathryn van Namen

Wayne & Lee Harper Vason

Vogel Family Foundation

Dr. James L. Waits

Mr. Charles D. Wattles & Ms.

Rosemary C. Willey

Russell F. Winch & Mark B. Elberfeld

Mrs. Lynne M. Winship

Herbert** & Grace Zwerner

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

° = We are grateful to these donors for taking the extra time to acquire matching gifts from their employers.

** = Deceased

∞ = Leadership Council: We salute these extraordinary donors who have signed pledge commitments to continue their support for three years or more.

CORPORATE PARTNERS

$1,000,000+

Boston Consulting Group

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

Norfolk Southern Foundation

$50,000+

Accenture∞

BlackRock

Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees

PwC

The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University

$25,000+

AFFAIRS to REMEMBER

Aspire Media Bank of America Charitable Foundation

BlueLinx Corporation

Cadence Bank∞

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy∞

Eversheds Sutherland

Google

Grady Health System

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Porsche Cars North America Inc.

Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc.

The QUIKRETE® Companies

Regions Bank

Troutman Pepper

$15,000+

Cisco

Council for Quality Growth

Deloitte

Georgia-Pacific

The Home Depot

Van Dang Fragrances WABE 90.1 FM

Warner Bros. Discovery

FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

$250,000+

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Lettie Pate Evans Foundation∞

Goizueta Foundation∞

The Halle Foundation

$100,000+

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation∞

Amy W. Norman Charitable Foundation

Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc.

The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

$75,000+

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation∞

The Molly Blank Fund of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation∞

$50,000+

City of Atlanta Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs

Robert and Polly Dunn Foundation, Inc.

National Endowment for the Arts

The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc.

$25,000+

Choate Bridges Foundation

The Jim Cox, Jr. Foundation

The Roy and Janet Dorsey Foundation

Fulton County Board of Commissioners

Georgia Council for the Arts

League of American Orchestras∞

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.∞

Massey Charitable Trust

$20,000+

The Ray M. & Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, Inc.

The Mark and Evelyn Trammell Foundation

$10,000+

Costco Wholesale

Davis Broadcasting's WJZA Smooth Jazz 101/100

Greenberg Traurig

Hamilton Capital Partners, LLC

Jazz 91.9 WCLK

King & Spalding LLP

La Fête du Rosé

WVEE-FM | V-103.3 FM

$5,000+

A Friend of the Symphony

Chickadee Photo Booth

Marietta Neonatology

Music Matters

Parker Poe

Perkins&Will

The St. Regis Atlanta

WhoBody Inc.

Yellow Bird Project Management

$2,000+

The Backline Company

Legendary Events

Morehouse School of Medicine

The Piedmont National Family Foundation

Ticketmaster

$10,000+

The Breman Foundation, Inc.

The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation∞

$5,000+

Azalea City Chapter of Links

The Fred & Sue McGehee Family Charitable Fund

The Hellen Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc.

$2,000+

2492 Fund

Paul and Marian Anderson Fund

The Parham Fund

The Alex & Betty Smith DonorAdvised Endowment Fund

TEGNA Foundation

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*

Mr. & Mrs.* Richard H. Burgin

Hugh W. Burke*

Mr. & Mrs. William Buss

Wilber W. Caldwell

Mr. & Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun

Cynthia & Donald Carson

Mrs. Jane Celler*

Lenore Cicchese*

Margie & Pierce Cline

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

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

Micheline & Bob Gerson

Max Gilstrap

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Glover

Mrs. David Goldwasser

Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. Fund

Billie & Sig Guthman

Betty G.* & Joseph* F. Haas

Ms. Alice Ann Hamilton

Dr. Charles H. Hamilton*

Sally & Paul* Hawkins

John* & Martha Head

Ms. Jeannie Hearn*

Barbara & John Henigbaum

Ms. Elizabeth Hendrick

Jill* & Jennings* Hertz

Mr. Albert L. Hibbard

Richard E. Hodges

Mr.* & Mrs. Charles K.

encoreatlanta.com

Holmes, Jr.

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*

Herb* & Hazel Karp

Anne Morgan & Jim Kelley

Bob Kinsey

James W.* & Mary Ellen* Kitchell

Paul Kniepkamp, Jr.

Vivian & Peter de Kok

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.*

Nell Galt & Will D. Magruder

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* and 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

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*

Mr. Philip A. Rhodes

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

Mary E. Van Valkenburgh

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

*Deceased

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

Virginie Claudel interim 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

Joshua Luty

principal librarian

Sara Baguyos associate principal librarian

James Nelson

assistant librarian

Ebner Sobalvarro interim orchestra personnel manager

Meagan Rwambaisire orchestra personnel

Melissa Nabb orchestra personnel

Paul Barrett director of production

Justin Richardson manager of production administration

Richard Carvlin

senior stage manager

Dasha Allen stage manager

Jeremy Tusz

audio recording engineer & producer

Harold Abbott head flyman/carpenter

Jacob Scott

lighting designer & stage electrician

Cadarius Stewart stagehand

Daniel Stupin stagehand

MARKETING

& COMMUNICATIONS

Ashley Mirakian vice president, marketing & communications

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

Jessi Lestelle event manager

Nicole Jurovics booking & contract manager

Meredith Chapple

marketing coordinator, live

Shamon Newsome booking & contract associate

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 donor stewardship and events

Sarah Wilson manager of development operations

Jenny Ricke foundation & corporate giving 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

Delta Air Lines

James M. Cox Foundation

Norfolk Southern Foundation

Patricia & Douglas Reid*

$500,000 - $999,999

Acuity, Inc.

Anonymous

$250,000 - $499,999

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda & Dan Cathy

$100,000 - $249,999

A friend of the Woodruff Arts Center

Ann & Jeff Cramer*

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Foundation

$10,000 - $99,999

Alfredo Martin

Annie Adams

Anonymous

Barry & Jean Ann McCarthy*

Candace Steele Flippin

Chuck & Kathie Palmer

Cousins Properties

D. Richard Williams & Janet Lavine

Dave Stockert & Cammie Ives

David, Helen, and Marian Woodward Fund

Edelman Public Relations Worldwide

Galen Oelkers

Georgia Council for the Arts Cultural Facilites Grant

H. Ross & Claire Arnold

Hala & Steve Moddelmog*

Janine Brown & Alex Simmons

John & Ellen Yates

PNC

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

Sarah & Jim Kennedy

The Goizueta Foundation

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.*

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Georgia Power Foundation

Fraser-Parker Foundation

Phil & Jenny Jacobs

Robert & Margaret Reiser*

The Fay S. & W. Barrett Howell Family Foundation

Joia Johnson

Kathy Waller & Kenny Goggins*

Stephanie Blank*

The Hearst Foundations, Inc.

John F. McMullan

John Scott

John Wieland

Johnson & Margaret Cook

Julia Houston

*

Kavita & Ashish Mistry

Kenneth Neighbors & Valdoreas May

Kent & Talena Moegerle

Kilberg Family Foundation

KPMG

Lauren & Andrew Schlossberg

Mark & Jennifer Pighini

Michael & Mindy Egan

Mike Doss

Pat Mitchell & Scott Seydel

Patrick & Susan Viguerie

Patrick Gunning & Elizabeth Pelypenko

Philip Harrison & Susan Stainback

Rand & Seth Hagen

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.

The Home Depot Foundation

The Imlay Foundation

The Marcus Foundation

The Tomé Foundation

The 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

The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc.

Thomas & Aimee Chubb

Truist Charitable Fund

Richard & Wimberly McPhail

Robin & Hilton Howell

Sally Westmoreland

Sara Giles Moore Foundation

Southface Energy Institute

Terrence Hahn

The Dennis Lockhart and Mary Rose

Taylor Memorial Fund

The Mark & Evelyn Trammell Foundation

The Rockdale Foundation

Tim and Lauren Schrager

Family Foundation

Tony Conway, Legendary Events

Tull Charitable Foundation

Vasser Woolley Foundation

Vicki Escarra

Warren Culpepper

*Denotes additional support for the Alliance Theatre’s Imagine Campaign

THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE

We are grateful to our dedicated Annual Fund donors for ensuring that everyone in Atlanta can experience the power of the arts. Their gifts support the arts and education work of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art.

$1,000,000+

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

$500,000 - $999,999

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Anonymous

$250,000 - $499,999

Accenture

Art Bridges Foundation

Farideh and Al Azadi Foundation

Mr. Joseph H. Boland, Jr.

Thalia and Michael C. Carlos Advised Fund

Chick-fil-A Foundation | Rhonda and Dan Cathy

Sheila Lee Davies and Jon Davies

$100,000 - $249,999

1180 Peachtree

A Friend of the High Museum of Art

Alston and Bird

AT&T Foundation

Atlantic Station

Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Helen Gurley Brown Foundation

Cadence Bank Foundation

City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Cousins Foundation

Forward Arts Foundation

Art Bridges

Emerald Gate Charitable Trust

Georgia Power Foundation

Sara Giles Moore Foundation

The Home Depot Foundation

Google

The Halle Foundation

Sarah and Jim Kennedy

Ms. Anne H. Morgan and Mr. James F. Kelley

Norfolk Southern Foundation

Novelis, Inc.

The Rich’s Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

Alfred A Thornton Venable Trust

Truist Trusteed Foundations: The Greene-Sawtell Foundation, Guy Woolford Charitable Trust, and Walter H. and Majory M. Rich Memorial Fund

UPS

Smurfit Westrock

Barney M. Franklin and Hugh W. Burke

Charitable Fund

Fulton County Board of Commissioners

Dick and Anne Game

Georgia Council for the Arts

Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning

Georgia-Pacific

Graphic Packaging International, Inc.

John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland

Charitable Foundation

The Hertz Family Foundation, Inc.

Karen and Jeb Hughes

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation

King and Spalding, Partners & Employees

KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees

Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc

The Marcus Foundation, Inc.

Northside Hospital

PNC

Patty and Doug Reid

Southern Company Gas

Carol and Ramon Tomé Family Fund

Warner Bros. Discovery

Kelly and Rod Westmoreland

wish Foundation