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2020-2021 Guest Artist “Rosana can do anything. She is that beautiful combination of real musician and superb vocalist, with completely equal amounts of both.”

– Peter Eldridge, New York Voices With an international presence as a masterful vocalist, deep improviser, versatile songwriter, and a tasteful arranger, Rosana Eckert has often been called a musical force. Her shows are an effortless blend of tradition and originality, sincerity and virtuosity, humor and heart. With ever-present jazz roots, she bounces from genre to genre, creating special featured moments for her bandmates, and taking listeners on a musical adventure such that they feel included, entertained, and inspired. A regular performer throughout the U.S. and abroad, she has sung with such jazz greats as Lyle Mays, Christian McBride, Bobby McFerrin, Kenny Wheeler, George Duke, Jon Faddis, Tamir Hendelman, Marvin Stamm, and the New York Voices. Her highly anticipated new solo album titled Sailing Home, produced by renowned singer/pianist/arranger Peter Eldridge, features all original music and was released on June 21, 2019 on Origin OA2 Records.

Formerly an accomplished French horn player, Rosana began singing jazz in college. She kicked off her career as a member of the IAJE 1999 Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Sextet which performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. She was also selected to participate in the 2000 Thelonious Monk Aspen Jazz Colony led by musical director Christian McBride, with several of her performances appearing on the BET Jazz channel. Her debut solo CD, At the End of the Day, was praised as a “superior debut” by Cadence Magazine and was a finalist for Best New Jazz Album in the 2006 Independent Music Awards. Since then, she has recorded three more solo projects and recorded debut projects of original music with two new bands: the Mike Steinel Quintet featuring Rosana Eckert, and Brasuka, a percussion-heavy Brazilian-inspired jazz ensemble co-founded by Rosana.

A renowned educator, Rosana is Principal Lecturer of jazz voice at the University of North Texas. She has helped build the thriving UNT vocal jazz department since 1999, teaching private jazz voice lessons and performance techniques, and creating new courses in songwriting and vocal pedagogy. Her students have gone on to win Grammy Awards and prestigious competitions, tour the world as solo artists and back-up vocalists, establish music schools and private lesson studios, publish choral arrangements, and work as studio singers on movie soundtracks and commercials. Rosana also serves on the faculty of the UNT Vocal Jazz Summer Workshop and the New York Voices Summer Vocal Jazz Camp, and she is in demand as a clinician, festival adjudicator and presenter, guest conductor, and choral composer/arranger. Her many vocal ensemble arrangements, published by Sound Music Publications, Hal Leonard Corp., and Rosana Eckert Music, have been performed worldwide. Passionate about sharing jazz with children, she co-wrote a jazz musical for young voices with author/educator Sharon Burch titled Freddie the Frog and the Jungle Jazz (published by Hal Leonard). The two also collaborated on a recently released elementary music collection called Jazz And Kids: Song and Activities for a Swingin’ Classroom. A highly respected improviser, Rosana is a featured artist on the vocal improvisation app Scatability by Michele Weir, and she is the female vocalist on the demo CD for Darmon Meader’s book titled, Vocal Jazz Improvisation: An Instrumental Approach, available at DarmonMeader.com. Rosana’s book, Singing with Expression: A Guide to Authentic and Adventurous Song Interpretation, has been called ground-breaking, encyclopedic, and an unparalleled resource for contemporary singers. It was released in June 2018, published by Hal Leonard.

In addition to her extensive live performing, writing, and teaching, Rosana works regularly as a studio vocalist, producer, and voice-over actor in Dallas, TX. As a voice-over actor, she is represented by the Kim Dawson Agency. She has spoken on many commercials and industrial spots for clients such as AT&T, PetSmart, Direct Energy, Comcast, and EA Games, and she is the in-house voice for KERA TV, Dallas’s award-winning PBS station. She has served as a producer on a wide array of projects, from solo vocal albums to children’s musical theater, and as a studio vocalist, Rosana has sung on hundreds of commercials, album projects, publishing demos, and radio IDs heard around the world.

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Hector Guzmán Music Director and Conductor

Hector Guzmán is music director/ conductor of the Irving, Plano, San Angelo, and Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestras in the USA. He is also “Conductor Emeritus” of the Jalisco Philharmonic in Mexico. He has also achieved an impressive reputation as an organist by winning top prizes in several national and international competitions, including the “Grand Prix de Chartres,” the world’s most prestigious organ competition. Often sought as a guest conductor, appearances have taken him around the world including throughout the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Europe and greater Asia regions.

He is a graduate of the National Conservatory of Mexico City, the University of North Texas, and Southern Methodist University. His teachers include luminaries such as Victor Urban, Alfred Mouledous, Robert Anderson, Carlo Maria Giulini, Helmuth Rilling, and his mentor Maestro Anshel Brusilow, as well as the late Maestro Eduardo Mata.

Maestro Guzmán has accorded several prestigious honors including the “Meadows” Award, DeVry University’s “Director per Excellence” Award, and “Good Citizenship Medal” in the US, Mexico’s “Outstanding National Young Artist” Award, “Golden Lyre” Award, “Artistic Silver Medal,” Austria’s Embassy, “Mozart Medal.”

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Other recognitions include a 2000 listing as an “Outstanding Musicians of the 21st Century” magazine, published by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England, 2012 “Man of the Year” Award by NYC’s Madison’s Who’s Who, 2012 North Texas Chapter of “For the Love of Art” Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 “Distinguished Member Award” by the international musical fraternity “Sigma Alpha Iota,” 2017 Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce “Diversity Award for Arts and Culture,” and the 2018 Distinguished Mexican Artist award by the Mexican government for distinguished musical accomplishments outside of Mexico.

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Irving Arts Center – Carpenter Performance Hall

Concert Title Sponsor: Mazon and Associates, Inc.

Concert

Rosana Eckert, vocalist

Concert Title Sponsor: Mazon and Associates, Inc. An Evening Rosana Blend of Jazz vocalist and Swing Eckert, Boogie Woogie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T. Dorsey String of Pearls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Miller Leap Frog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Garland Moonlight Serenade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Miller

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Boogie Woogie String of Pearls .

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Perdido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J. Tizol Boogie Woogie............................................................................

T. Dorsey Until I Met You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. Quiroz String of Pearls.............................................................................

G. Miller The Things We Did Last Summer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S. Cahn / J. Styne Route 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B. Troup Leap Frog....................................................................................

J. Garland Well, Alright, Okay, You Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Watts / S, Wyche The Lady is a Tramp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .R. Rogers Moonlight Serenade.....................................................................

G. Miller Rosana Eckert, vocalist La Cucaracha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S. Adams

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Getting Sentimental Over You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .N. Washington /G. Bassman Getting Sentime Perdido. ............................................................................. J. Tizol Little Brown Jug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Winner Little Brown Jug In The Mood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A. Razaf / J. Garland In The Mood. . .

Until I Met You..............................................................N. Quiroz Patrons will not be admitted into the hall while the concert is in progress.

The Things We Did Last Summer..................... S. Cahn / J. Styne Please silen Please silence cell phones and we ask that no flash photography be used, but taking pictures is permitted.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Route 66......................................................................... B. Troup THANKS TO Okay, OUR 2020-2021 MAJOR CONCERT PARTNERS:

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The Lady is atheTramp......................................................

R. Rogers Ple Rosana Eckert, vocalist

La Cucaracha............................................................................... S. Adams Getting Sentimental Over You....................... N. Washington /G. Bassman Little Brown Jug........................................................................... J. Winner In The Mood............................................................... A. Razaf / J. Garland Patrons will not be admitted into the hall while the concert is in progress. Please silence cell phones.

We ask that no flash photography be used, but taking pictures is permitted. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Roster

January 23, 2021

ISO’s “Big Band” Concert Rhythm Section Brian Piper, Piano Young Heo, Bass Efren Guzman, Drum Kit Trumpet Glen Hummel * Micah Bell, Lead Adam Miller Steve Schiemann

Trombone Jonathan Hinton * Tony Baker, Lead Scott Stratton Charles Cudney, Bass Trombone

Librarian Luis Rodriguez

Saxophone Jeff Robbins, Lead Alto 1 Sarah Roberts, Alto 2 Mario Cruz, Tenor 1 Alan Burton, Tenor 2 Chris Milyo, Bari

* = Principal Musician

Personnel Manager Jim Gasewicz

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Distinguished Donors 2020 | 2021 The Irving Symphony Is Proud To Recognize Those Who Make Extraordinary Music Happen!

Overture Circle $100,000+

City of Irving through the Irving Arts Board

Underwriter’s Circle $25,000 - $49,000 Kimberly-Clark Corporation 7-Eleven, Inc. Stemmons Foundation

Maestro’s Circle $10,000 - $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Beach Design Block Zero (Bob Shema) Kohl Foundation Parma Mandalay Towers Mr. R. B. Reichelt

Chairman’s Circle $5,000 - $9,999 BNSF Railway Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boyce Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Rick Hultz Mazon Associates, Inc. Mrs. Denise Buzard Snipes Mr. Burnell R. Stehman TACA Mr. Chris E. Wallace Mrs. Jeannie Buzard Williamson

President’s Circle $2,500 - $4,999 Dr. and Mrs. Robert Bettis Mr. George P. Cole II GridLiance Mr. and Mrs. John Mazon VJS eLearning Designs

Amati Circle $1,000 - $2,499 Mr. and Mrs. Victor Arias, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Basoco Donna and Bob Bourgeois

Ms. Dawn Pennington Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chasser Mr. and Mrs. Joe Contestabile Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Crowder Mr. and Mrs. Hector Guzmán i Fratelli Pizza Irving Symphony League Mr. and Mrs. Dan Killingsworth Mr. and Mrs. Atlee Kohl Ms. Marguerite Korkmas Las Colinas Association Mr. Richard Lindsey Ms. Norma Loving Dr. Jose and Genelle Parra Ms. Kathrine Pennington Mr. and Mrs. Bob Shema Dr. and Mrs. Victor Soto Stewart Organization Mr. and Mrs. Dale Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Al Zapanta

Concertmaster’s Circle $500 - $999 Ms. Kim Andres Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Djinov Ms. Betty Thomes Ms. Kay Weaver Mr. Mark W. Zimmerman

Musician’s Circle $100 - $499 Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Allard Mr. and Mrs. Orman Anderson Anonymous Mr. Walter Barthel Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Boyce Cindy Broschart and Sam Bryant Mr. and Mrs. Monhinder Chopra Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chris Mr. and Mrs. Ted Davidson Ms. Sharon Deatherage Ms. Beth Emery Ms. Maria Esteves Ms. Luz Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Gary Griffith John Harpool and Richard Gordon Mrs. Debbie Hipp

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Mr. Steven Hoisington Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hopwood Ms. Karen Ivy Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Jett Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kobos Ms. Iris Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Sonny Mansoori Gay Lynne and Gordon Matter Ms. Debbie McCoy Dr. A. Marie Morris Gene and Bill Olafsen Ms. Anne Pfaff Mr. George A. Piroumoff Ms. Nancie N. Rissing Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts Ms. Judyann Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Zade Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruckert Rudiart Ms. Charlene Stephenson Mr. Edward Vinson Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ward Ms. Marilyn Willems

Friends of the Symphony $50 - $99 Anonymous Ms. Vicki Bell Ms. Patricia Caperton Ms. Judith Hanson Ms. Rose Hultgren Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kobos Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mercer Mr. and Mrs. Tony Scanio Ms. Keira Scanks Mr. Patrick Shields Mrs. Lourdes Spinola Mr. and Mrs. Dave Tanner Mr. Robert Taylor Ms. Jenni Till-Rasberry Ms. Helen Widener

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Distinguished Donors 2020 | 2021 Continued from page 8

Memorials John Boyle By: Ms. Bettye Thomes

J.T. and Roberta Johnson By: Chris E. Wallace

Patricia Buzard By: Mrs. Denise Buzard Snipes Mrs. Jeannie Buzard Williamson

Susan Keilson By: Gene and Bill Olafsen Donna and John Femrite The Demonbreum Family

James Hazelwood By: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chris

Ricardo Zune By: Ms. Maria Boccalandro

Honorariums Sunny and Bob Bettis By: Carol and Tim Dobbins

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Board of Directors 2020 | 2021 & Past Presidents Music Director | Hector Guzmán Executive Director | Kathrine Pennington Chairman/President | Connie Dunn Secretary | Sunny Bettis Treasurer | Richard L. Lindsey Parliamentarian | Dr. Robert Bettis President Emeritus | Marguerite Korkmas

Vice Presidents Charles A. Beach Janet Boyce Robert Reichelt

Directors At Large Michael Basoco George P. Cole II Dr. Jerry Dunn Lisa Hultz Bob Shema Dr. Victor Soto Carol Susat Chris Wallace Al Zapanta (Ex Officio) Symphony League President | Connie Dunn Office/Grants Administrator | Judyann Robinson Audio/Video | Mike Itashiki, Ph.D. Ovation Program | Lisa Hultz Concessions Manager | Patrick Shields

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Past Presidents | Chairmen

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N.E. (Mike) Grisham † James Gregory Joe Rich Pierce Shannon † Joe Vardeman † ** Lynn Brown † Neill English † ** Oscar Hazelbaker † Wre Sutherland † Jim Ratteree † Mark Gordon Larry Bellah Arnold Martin † ** George Edwin † George Pepper Phil Silvernail Edward Holmes Curtis Headrick Jim Mcdougal † Ron Capps Gene Sparks † Norman McMurry † Robert Doan Earlene Matkin James Spriggs † Wanda Daugherty Harm Schreur Don Schiller Ron Drew Jennings Smith † ** Frank Cannon Milton Cardwell, M.D. Don Oberlin, M.D. Frank Flatley † Thomas Prague † Robert M. Curtis René Castilla Beverly Adams Chris Wallace ** Robert Martinez ** Rick Kroner Dale Walsh Lisa Hultz ** Charles Hosler** Connie Dunn** Victor Arias, Jr. Bob Shema Connie Dunn**

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