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Fairfax Symphony Orchestra Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor & Music Director (12/21 performance) John Murton, Assistant Conductor (12/22 performance) The Fairfax Ballet Andrea Cook, Artistic Director

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Emily Kikta – Sugar Plum Fairy Aarón Sanz – Cavalier, Snow King Caroline Musci – Clara Zane Winders – Nutcracker Prince, Soldier Doll Aleksey Kudrin – Herr Drosselmeier Marcela Figueroa – Mrs. Stahlbaum Nima Namvar – Dr. Stahlbaum Mayim Stiller – Mouse King, Coffee Hazel Lindquist – Snow Queen, Coffee, Dew Drop Fairy Jamila Bazaz – Friend, Snowflake, Tea, Rose Sara Kelati – Friend, Snowflake, Tea, Rose Victoria Kornilova – Friend, Snowflake, Chocolate, Iris Flower Gwyneth Moon – Mechanical Doll, Snowflake, Peppermint Stick, Wisteria Flower Melody Namvar – Ice Princess, Peppermint Stick, Lavender Flower Patricia Pobst – Fritz, Snowflake, Angelique, Lilac Flower Lauren Wienke – Snowflake, Marzipan Clara Rainhart – Friend, Snowflake, Chocolate, Rose Kelly Ross – Mother Ginger Emily Petry – Maid - with Dancers from The Fairfax Ballet Company and the Russell School of Ballet:

Alexander Anzaldua, Alena Bazaz, Skylar Bernardin, Emma Blanchard, Blythe Brookbank, Naya Case, Anya Cooper, Antonio Crowder, Ariana Crowder, Olivia Cuddy, Audrey DeSesso, Natalie DeSesso, Gwendolyn Fattorini, Katherine Feng, Mia Feriozzi, Sophia Grijalva, Elina Gyawali, Margaret Harris, Emma Hayakawa, Mary Helffrich, Christine Helffrich, Lydia Jang, Charlotte Jewell, Jude Kelati, Ewan Laird, Kiera Motsinger, Sophie Osborne, Mia Ross, Piper Rowley, Gaia Salcedo, Antonella Salcedo, Zaina Sari, Catherine Seraphin, Wendy Simpson, Esme Vu, Harper Westerman, Harper Yerby, Vivian Yu

Christmas Party House Guests:

Victoria Anzaldua, Rick Helffrich, Forrest Kneisel, Allison Lyalikov, Sean Obsorne, Rachael Pobst, Eli Rainhart, Rob Rainhart, Jorge Salcedo, Marcelyn Thompson

Choreography & Staging:

David Arce, Andrea Cook, Marcela Figueroa, Hannah Locke, Kellyn McNulty, Gwendolyn Petry, Emily Petry, Thomas Russell, Margaret Virkus

This performance is made possible with generous support from

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STORY SYNOPSIS

It is Christmas Eve… Herr Drosselmeier, the magical toy maker, attends a party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Stahlbaum and his Godchild, Clara.

He brings gifts for all the children and, after teasing Clara, finally presents her with a wonderful Nutcracker doll.

In the midst of the party, her handsome Nutcracker is broken, but Drosselmeier mends it with a ribbon from Clara’s hair, and the party resumes.

When the guests have departed, Drosselmeier transports Clara into a world of fantasy where time is suspended.

With the aid of the toy soldiers, Clara and the Nutcracker battle the Mouse King and his army of mice. Together they slay the Mouse King and the Nutcracker is transformed into a handsome prince.

The Prince leads Clara on a journey through the Land of the Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets where, upon their arrival, they are greeted by the lovely Waltzing Flowers and reigning Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier.

After the Prince tells the story of how he and Clara defeated the Mouse King, they are entertained with dancers from many lands.

Drosselmeier re-appears and returns a sleepy Clara back to her home.

It was all just a dream…or was it?

MEET THE ARTISTS EMILY KIKTA, Sugar Plum Fairy Emily Kikta is a soloist dancer with New York City Ballet, where she has been a member since 2010.

She is a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow for women leaders in dance at NYU. As a dancer with New York City Ballet, she has performed featured roles including: George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rubies, Divertimento No 15, Symphony in C, Kammermusik No. 2, Episodes, Raymonda Variations, BrahmsSchoenberg Quartet, Who Cares?, Coppelia (War), Chaconne, The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum, Dewdrop, Coffee), The Four Temperaments, and Western Symphony; Jerome Robbins’ The Cage; Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, Copland Trio, and Partita; Alexei Ratmansky’s Voices; William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman; Peter’s Martin’s The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy, Diamond); and she has originated a featured role in Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom, Jamar Robert’s Emanon, Kyle Abraham’s Love Letter on Shuffle, Pam Tanowitz’s Bartok Ballet, Sidra Bell’s Suspended Animation, and Peter Walker’s ten in seven.

In 2019, she co-founded her own dance video production company, KW Creative, with Peter Walker, where she serves as a producer, director, choreographer, editor, and performer.

AARÓN SANZ, Cavalier, Snow King Aarón Sanz was born in Madrid, Spain, and began his dance training at the age of eight at the C.P.D. Carmen Amaya in Madrid. Mr. Sanz began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the 2010 summer course and enrolled as a full time student that fall.

In 2011, Mr. Sanz became an apprentice with NYCB, and in September of 2012, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist in October 2018.

Since joining New York City Ballet he has performed featured roles in George Balanchine’s Chaconne, Divertimento No. 15, Episodes, The Four Temperaments, Firebird (Kastchei), Harlequinade (Léandre), Kammermusik

No. 2, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander, Theseus, Titania’s Cavalier), George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Cavalier, Mother Ginger, Mouse King), Orpheus, Prodigal Son (Father), Serenade, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, La Sonnambula (The Baron), Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Swan Lake, Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, La Valse, Vienna Waltzes, and Western Symphony; William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman; Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto, Fearful Symmetries, Hallelujah Junction, Jeu de Cartes, Romeo + Juliet (Benvolio, Friar Lawrence), Swan Lake (Spanish), and The Sleeping Beauty (Gold); Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition; Jerome Robbins’ Brandenburg, Dances at a Gathering, Fanfare (Double Bass), The Four Seasons (Summer, Fall), The Goldberg Variations, and Piano Pieces.

CAROLINE MUSCI, Clara Caroline Musci, a sophomore at Chantilly High School, began her dance journey at the age of three and has been training at the Russell School of Ballet for the past nine years. As a member of The Fairfax Ballet Company for nearly three years, Caroline has graced the stage in numerous productions, including The Nutcracker, Coronation of the Fairy Princess, and Carnival of the Animals.

This summer, she broadened her training at Point Park University’s International Summer Dance Program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In January 2024, Caroline had the opportunity to perform a variation from Graduation Ball at YAGP WinstonSalem. This year, she is thrilled to perform as Clara in The Nutcracker.

HAZEL LINDQUIST, Snow Queen, Coffee, Dew Drop Fairy Hazel Lindquist is a senior at Oakton High School and has been dancing for 13 years. She began her training at the Russell School of Ballet and joined the Fairfax Ballet in 2019. Hazel has attended the Classical Ballet Summer Intensive at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the Paul Taylor Summer Intensive.

During her time with the Fairfax Ballet, Hazel has performed lead roles in various shows including Snow Queen and King Pas de Deux, Arabian Coffee

PasPetry de Deux and Pas de Trois, Dew Drop Fairy, Lead Mirliton, and Fritz in Emily (Maid)

The Nutcracker; Odette in excerpts from Swan Lake; Zulma in excerpts Emily Petry was born in Germany and raised throughout the US, from Giselle; and lead roles original works.

She hasAmerican also danced in styles. story She training in theinCecchetti method and Ballet ballets including Firebird, Carnival of the Animals, and Coronation of holds a BFA in Dance from The Florida State University,the with a Fairy Princess. focus Additionally, she has performed in PaulinTaylor’s Airs, by in performance and technology addition to aset business Repetiteur Constance Dinapoli.

Hazel competed at Youth American Grand minor. During her younger years she trained at the Russell School of Ballet, Sacramento Dance Station, and in the summers Prix (YAGP) in Winston-Salem, North Ballet, Carolina in 2023. with ABT, Atlanta Ballet, Cecchetti International. After college Hazel has represented theto Fairfax BalletCity Company National Dance Day she moved New York and hadatthe privilege to perform performances with in Fairfax at Fairfax Ballet’s Brownie Dancer ThirdCity Rail and Projects, Gerard & Kelly (Bessie AwardBadge 2014), Mei events.Mari She Meade also is aDance member of the National Honor Society Dance Arts.

Yamanaka, Collective, Here.Now.Dance, Kistafor Tucker Dance Insights, Aimee Plauche. She also had the pleasure to perform with the Tallahassee Hazel looking to competing in YAGPwith again year and Ballet and is the Fairfaxforward Ballet. After touring Europe thethis Blue Lake International participating in the annual spring ballet and jazz, tap, and modern showcase.

Ballet Ensemble from 2014-2016, she toured South Australia in 2017 with Artists by She is also hoping to major in dance in college.

She would like to thank all of Any Other Name, co-founding a youth outreach program and performance series. her instructors have supported through her time at the Ballet She is also a currentwho member of Gwemilyher Dance Theater whose workFairfax has been shown internationally. and her friends and family who have cheered her on from the audience.

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MAYIM STILLER, Mouse King, Coffee Mayim Stiller, originally from Seattle, Washington, started his dance training doing salsa, hip hop, and some ballroom/vaudeville at the age of eight.

His formal ballet training began at age 11 with Oregon Ballet Academy under the direction of John Grensback. He continued his training on scholarships at the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the School of American Ballet, where he performed with the company at PNB and did the lead role in Faust at the end of the year workshop at Lincoln Center for SAB. Stiller began his professional career with Los Angeles Ballet where he danced for three seasons. He then joined Ballet San Antonio in 2016 as a corps de ballet member and was promoted to soloist in 2017. He has also guested with Alberta Ballet and in 2020 Stiller joined Oklahoma City Ballet as a corp de ballet member.

His professional repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, Fredrick Ashton, Jiří Kylián, Jerome Robbins, Kent Stowell, Bruce Wells, Edward Liang, Willy Shives, Jean Grand-Maître, Brian Enos, Bryan Pitts, Robert Mills, Septime Webre, Val Caniparoli as well as many other works after Petipa. His favorite roles performed include Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, principal man in Round of Angels, Thor in Golden Section, Baron in Lady of the Camellias, Espada in Don Quixote, Slow Couple in Variations for Six, and Corp Men in Stars and Stripes. Stiller loves choreographing and has choreographed several of his own works.

ZANE WINDERS, Nutcracker Prince, Soldier Doll Zane Winders, originally from Levelland, Texas, began his ballet training at Ballet Lubbock in 2009 before continuing his studies at the prestigious Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, DC. His professional career has included engagements with Ballet Arizona’s Studio Company, First State Ballet Theatre, Oklahoma City Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, and Dansereye.

Throughout his career, Zane has performed a diverse repertoire of classical and contemporary works.

His favorite roles include Romeo in Viktor Plotnikov’s Romeo and Juliet,

Tweedle Dum in Septime Webre’s ALICE in wonderland, and Gustave in Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias.

As an international guest artist, Zane has performed across the United States and in Guatemala. He is also a dedicated teaching artist, serving as a ballet instructor, guest master class teacher, and competition coach. Zane is an ambassador for Classical Dance Alliance and has completed extensive pedagogical training in the Kostrovitskaya/Vaganova method of classical dance.

Currently, Zane continues to inspire audiences and students alike as a freelance guest artist and teaching artist, sharing his passion for ballet both on and off the stage.

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PROGRAM NOTES PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Composer: born May 7, 1840, Kamsko-Votinsk, Viatka province, Russia; died November 6, 1893, St. Petersburg Work composed: February 1891–March 23, 1892. Commissioned by the Imperial Theatres of Imperial Russia, based on Alexandre Dumas père’s L’Histoire d’un Casse Noisette, a version of E.T.A. Hoffman’s story, Nussknacker und Mausekönig (The Nutcracker and Mouse-King).

World premiere: December 17, 1892, on a double bill with Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera Iolanthe. Ricardo Drigo led the orchestra of the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Who among us has not attended at least one holiday performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker? For many Americans, The Nutcracker is a regular and beloved holiday tradition, whether we have a child in the production or not.

Interestingly, The Nutcracker, an ostensibly “Russian” ballet, is in fact an international creation. E.T.A. Hoffman’s macabre German tale, as retold by a Frenchman, Alexandre Dumas père, was made into a Russian “ballet fairy tale,” which has become an American phenomenon.

After the success of The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky initially refused the commission offered him by Ivan Alexandrovitch Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatre, to create another ballet with choreographer Marius Petipa. Neither Tchaikovsky nor Petipa cared for Dumas’ story; Petipa because there were no central roles for a prima ballerina and Tchaikovsky because he “liked the plot … very little” and also noted, “I feel a complete impossibility to reproduce musically the ‘Konfitürenburg’ (The Candy Kingdom).” Eventually Tchaikovsky agreed to The Nutcracker when Vsevolozhsky also commissioned a one-act opera to be presented on the same concert. (Tchaikovsky already had a story in mind for the opera, titled Iolanthe, about a blind princess who falls in love and regains her sight).

Tchaikovsky began work on both Iolanthe and The Nutcracker simultaneously, but made much faster progress with the one-act, which interested him, as opposed to The Nutcracker, which he wrote only as a contractual obligation. When he finished the fairy-tale ballet, Tchaikovsky

observed, “And now it is finished, [it] is all ugliness.” Over time, however, Tchaikovsky’s opinion mellowed. “Strange that when I was composing the ballet I kept thinking that it wasn’t very good but that I would show them [the Imperial Theaters] what I can do when I began the opera. And now it seems that the ballet is good and the opera not so good.”

Act I opens on a lavish Christmas Eve celebration. The adults decorate the tree; when the clock strikes nine, a group of children, led by Clara and Fritz, march round the room to a chorus of brasses. Children and grownups dance together, whereupon Clara’s godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, arrives loaded down with toys: a mechanical doll and a toy soldier, as well as a huge Nutcracker, also dressed as a soldier. Clara and Fritz fight over the Nutcracker, which Fritz accidentally breaks when he tries to crack an enormous nut. Clara picks up the broken Nutcracker, cradles it in her arms, and sings a lullaby, while the boys tease her. Meanwhile, Herr Drosselmeyer performs a creaky dance to an asymmetrical melody in the winds.

After everyone has gone to bed (sleepy oboe solo), Clara comes down to see her Nutcracker, which is glowing. Midnight strikes, and a horde of mice skitter to chattering wind music. The dolls spring to life, and gingerbread soldiers left over from tea begin to march to and fro. Clara tries to run away, but is frozen to the spot, marveling at the Christmas tree, which magically grows to an enormous height. Dolls and soldiers fight the mice in vain, until the Nutcracker engages the King of the Mice in a duel. At a crucial moment, Clara throws her slipper at the King of the Mice, killing him. The Nutcracker is transformed into a handsome Prince, accompanied by a dreamy swirl of strings and harp arpeggios, and he asks Clara to join him on a journey to the Kingdom of Sweets. In the second scene, set in a snowy forest under a starry sky, gnomes guide Clara and the Prince through the woods. Snowflakes fall and the Snow King and Queen join their subjects in a waltz featuring flutes and a wordless chorus.

Act II begins with Clara and the Nutcracker Prince arriving in the Kingdom of Sweets; the rippling arpeggios and flowing melody in the strings suggest the gentle rocking of the ship that brings them to shore. Once they arrive, the citizens of the Kingdom put on a festival in their honor; a triumphal theme in brasses and strings alternates with colorful waltzes and fanfares. After the festival, a parade of characters performs. The Spanish Chocolates dance to the click of castanets and a virtuoso trumpet solo, while the Arabian Coffee creates an air of mystery with its brooding clarinets and “exotic” non-Western scales. The Chinese Teacups twirl to the piping of a piccolo and the Russian

Dance (Trepak) leaps across the stage with breathtaking speed and agility.

The toy flutes flutter about like butterflies, followed by Mother Gigone (Mother Goose) and her flock of bonbons. The horn chorus and clarinet solo from the Waltz of the Flowers, not to mention the main waltz theme in the strings, are instantly recognizable. Next, the Sugarplum Fairy and Prince dance their signature pas de deux, featuring a luxuriant melody for strings and harp. The Prince then performs a quirky little solo, barely 30 seconds long, followed by the famous dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, whose music, with its distinctive celeste part, has become a kind of musical shorthand for the entire ballet. The Nutcracker concludes with a celebratory waltz. © Elizabeth Schwartz

CHRISTOPHER ZIMMERMAN, Music Director Named Music Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (FSO) in 2009, Christopher Zimmerman celebrates his 15th season with the FSO. Former Washington Post classical music critic, Anne Midgette, wrote: “the Bernstein was a note-perfect end to a very refreshing evening that spoke well for the programming vision of Zimmerman.” Former Washington Post reporter, Stephen Brookes, commented: “Zimmerman has been injecting adrenalin into this determined ensemble… (and has) made the Fairfax players a serious force to be reckoned with.”

Christopher Zimmerman graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Music and received his Master’s from the University of Michigan. He also studied with Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood, and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine with Charles Bruck.

Zimmerman served as an apprentice to Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony and in Prague, as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

Zimmerman’s debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was followed by engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Prior to his appointment to the FSO, Christopher Zimmerman was Music Director of the Symphony of Southeast Texas, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and the City of London Chamber Orchestra.

His career has also embraced teaching and working with student orchestras and conductors; in 1993 he joined the conducting faculty at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati where he was Music Director of their concert orchestra, and in 1999 he was appointed as Fuller Professor of Orchestral Studies at the Hartt School as well as Music Director of the Hartt Symphony.

Christopher Zimmerman was recognized as the winner of the American Conducting Prize in 2011, an award given for nationwide performances by orchestral conductors, choral conductors, and a host of other categories. Such recognition of his abilities has been born out in appointments to the Music Directorship of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony (2013-) and Artistic Directorship of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras (2014-2017).

JOHN MURTON, Assistant Conductor Assistant Conductor of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, John Murton is an orchestral conductor, originally from London, and now based in Washington, D.C. Praised for his “musicality and gravitas” on the podium, he has appeared with orchestras in the United States and Europe and was the winner of the 2022 Sofia Sinfonietta International Conducting Competition.

Murton has been a cover conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and National Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as holding fellowships with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, and at the Eastern Music Festival. Drawing upon his background as a singer, Murton is a particularly sensitive collaborator in opera, with credits including critically acclaimed productions at London’s Grimeborn Festival, the Tête à Tête Opera Festival, and at the College-Conservatory of Music.

A strong proponent of the power of musical education to change lives, Murton leads the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s Link Up educational concerts, providing many students in Fairfax County Public Schools with their first taste of live orchestral music. He has also collaborated on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s educational programming and worked with young musicians at the Youth Orchestras of Prince William County and Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Murton relocated to the United States from the UK, taking up a scholarship at the CollegeConservatory of Music in Cincinnati where he studied with Mark Gibson. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he held a choral scholarship at Magdalen College, going on to build a career performing with professional choirs and consorts across the UK and Europe.

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Jane Rosenthal Deborah Roudebush Karla Roup, In Memory of Rolland Roup Stephen Sanborn Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Schaub Catherine Schifferli Gayle Schlenker Ms. Roslyn Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Karl W. Schornagel Michael Schwartz Ms. Doris Seaton Neil and Beverly Seiden Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seraphin Mr. and Mrs. James Simpson Sydney Smith Nigel Smyth Dorothy Staebler John and Pamela Stark Kristina Stewart Agnes D. Stoertz Mr. John Strong Frederick and Marjorie Stuhrke Mr. and Mrs. David Sukites Reede and Jane Taylor William Tompkins Alton P. and Alice W. Tripp Ms. Barbara Tuset Mr. and Mrs. Michael Twedt Jane Underhill Ms. Shelley Vance Janet Vanderveer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Vandivere Roy and Margaret Wagner Andrew and Myrna Wahlquist Ms. Diane Wakely-Park Robert and Charlene Ward Mr. and Mrs. Egon Weck Mr. and Mrs. Larry N. Wellman Harry and Sandra Wilbur Ms. Jane Woods Mr. Emile L. Zimmermann IN-KIND Fairfax City Self Storage

FAIRFAX SYMPHONY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jose “Pepe” Figueroa, Chairman Priority One Services

Eric Moore The Catholic University of America

Thomas Murphy, General Counsel Jackson Lewis P.C.

Valarie Ney Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

David Black Holland & Knight LLP

Leland Schwartz Author and Publisher

Thomas Brownell, Secretary Holland & Knight LLP

HONORARY BOARD The Honorable Sharon Bulova The Honorable Thomas M. Davis

Dr. Gerald L. Gordon Julien Patterson

FSO ARTISTIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Christopher Zimmerman, Music Director

Suzy Dawson, Accountant

Jonathan Kerr, Executive Director

Cynthia Crumb, Personnel Manager

Lisa LaCamera, Chief Operating Officer

Wendi Hatton, Librarian

Susan Petroff, Director of Development

Timothy Wade, Stage Manager

John Murton, Assistant Conductor and Fellowship Program Coordinator

Olivia Hinebaugh, Artistic Programming and Production Coordinator

Celeste Duplaa, Link Up Program Manager

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FAIRFAX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christopher Zimmerman | Music Director

VIOLIN 1 David Salness, Concertmaster The Doris F. Dakin Chair Cristina Constantinescu, Assistant Concertmaster Sharon Like Glen Kuenzi Mia Lee Miriam Koby Shu-Ting Yao Greta Radovani George Pekarsky VIOLIN 2 Sarah Berger, Principal The Timothy Evan Owens Memorial Chair Andrew Juola, Associate Principal The Sue Bower Memorial Chair Cynthia Crumb Elena Smirnova Jessica Mun Edwin Barreno Castillo, FSO Fellow Karan Wright Susan Manus

VIOLA Adelya Shagidullina, Principal Paul Bagley, Associate Principal Patti Reid Rizwan Jagani, FSO Fellow Erik Whitesides Nicholas Bobbs Amelia Eckloff CELLO Rachel Sexton, Associate Principal Ozge Serceler Anne Rupert Kathy Thompson Brent Davis Chris Fiore DOUBLE BASS John Barger, Principal Erik Cohen Asa Dawson, FSO Fellow Jim Donahue FLUTE Juliana Nickel, Principal Cherrie Hall PICCOLO Stacy Ascione OBOE Emily Snyder, Principal Meredeth Rouse

CLARINET Patrick Morgan, Principal Wendi Hatton BASSOON Dean Woods, Principal Sandy Johnson FRENCH HORN Eric Moore, Principal, The Keith and Barbara Moore Family Chair Greta Richard TRUMPET Chris Larios, Principal Christian Ferrari TROMBONE Kaz Kruszewski, Principal BASS TROMBONE Ben Polk TIMPANI Jonathan Milke, Principal PERCUSSION Alex Garde, Principal HARP Beth Mailand, Principal PIANO Sophia Kim Cook, Principal

ABOUT THE FAIRFAX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (FSO) The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra is the largest symphonic performing arts organization in Northern Virginia and has played a central role in Fairfax County’s cultural and civic life for more than 60 years. Under the direction of conductor and Music Director, Christopher Zimmerman, the FSO holds a reputation as one of the finest, regional orchestras in the nation. Hailed by The Washington Post as “a crown jewel of the cultural landscape”, each season more than 15,000 members of the community enjoy concerts and educational outreach programs throughout the greater Washington area. The FSO features a roster of more than 60 professional musicians, with one-third of them being active-duty, retired, or former members of the nation’s U.S. Marine, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy national, military bands.

ABOUT THE FAIRFAX BALLET & RUSSELL SCHOOL OF BALLET The Fairfax Ballet, a 501(c)(3) non-profit performing arts organization, was established nearly 50 years ago to develop in each student a love of dance, a strong technical foundation, and an artistic education.

As one of the longest-running ballet companies in Northern Virginia, The Fairfax Ballet, under Artistic Director Andrea Cook, has trained exceptional dancers who have gone on to study and perform at some of the finest ballet companies, including the New York City Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Basel Ballet, and Monte Carlo Ballet. The Russell School of Ballet, home of the Fairfax Ballet, is celebrating its 57th year of teaching and inspiring young dancers. It is their mission to develop in each student a love for dance, a strong technical foundation, and an artistic education.

Special thanks to the following for their support of this production: Jordan Kitt’s Music, ARTSFAIRFAX, David Werfel Group, IBM, Jos. A Banks, Mad Hatter Adventures, Salon Khouri, and the Nelson J. & Katherine Friant Post Foundation.

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