May 2026 Symphony Program Book by Madison Symphony Orchestra

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JOHN DEMAIN

Music Director

In his 32nd and final season as music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Grammy and Tony Awardwinning conductor John DeMain is noted for his dynamic performances on concert and opera stages throughout the world. American composer Jake Heggie assessed the conductor’s broad appeal, saying, “There’s no one like John DeMain. In my opinion, he’s one of the top conductors in the world.” In January 2023 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association, the NOA’s highest award.

During more than three decades in Madison as MSO’s Music Director, DeMain has consistently raised the quality of the orchestra by introducing blind auditions and expanding the repertoire to encompass ever more challenging and virtuosic works, including highly-acclaimed performances of the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. DeMain also oversaw the move into the world-class Overture Hall and expanded the subscription season to triple performances.

His active conducting schedule has taken him to the stages of the National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Houston, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Jacksonville, along with the Pacific Symphony, Boston Pops, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Seville, the Leipzig MDR Sinfonieorchester, and Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.

Prior engagements include visiting San Francisco Opera as guest conductor for General Director David Gockley’s farewell gala, Northwestern University to conduct Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, and the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in D.C. to conduct Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars In 2019, he conducted the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue at the Glimmerglass Festival to critical acclaim — he “drew a vibrant performance from an orchestra of nearly 50 players; the cast was superb.” (The New York Times).

DeMain also serves as principal conductor for Madison Opera and in their 2024-2025 season conducted The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni and Opera in the Park. This season, he will conduct La Bohème and return next summer for Opera in the Park. He has been a regular guest conductor with Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center and has made appearances at the Teatre Liceu in Barcelona, New York City Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Aspen Music Festival, Portland Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and Mexico’s National Opera. He served as Music Director for 10 years at Opera Omaha.

During his distinguished 17-year tenure with Houston Grand Opera, DeMain led a history-making production of Porgy and Bess, winning a Grammy Award, Tony Award, and France’s Grand Prix du Disque for the RCA recording. In spring 2014, the San Francisco Opera released an HD DVD of their most recent production of Porgy and Bess, conducted by John DeMain.

DeMain began his career as a pianist and conductor in his native Youngstown, Ohio. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School and made a highly-acclaimed debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. DeMain was the second recipient of the Julius Rudel Award at New York City Opera and one of the first six conductors to receive the Exxon/ National Endowment for the Arts Conductor Fellowship for his work with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

DeMain holds honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska and Edgewood College and he is a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He resides in Madison and his daughter, Jennifer, is a UW–Madison graduate.

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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VIOLIN I

Naha Greenholtz

Concertmaster

William and Joyce Wartmann Chair

Suzanne Beia

Co-Concertmaster

Steinhauer Charitable Trust Chair

Leanne Kelso

Associate Concertmaster

George and Candy Gialamas Chair

Huy Luu

Associate Concertmaster

Olga Pomolova

Assistant Concertmaster

Endowed by an Anonymous Friend

Maynie Bradley

Annetta H. Rosser Chair

Neil Gopal

Elspeth Stalter-Clouse

Tim Kamps

Jon Vriesacker

Katherine Floriano

Laura Burns

Paran Amirinazari

Naomi Schrank

Clayton Tillotson

Sahada Buckley

VIOLIN II

Xavier Pleindoux

Principal

Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn Chair

Hillary Hempel

Assistant Principal

Elyn L. Williams Chair

Peter Miliczky

Holly Wagner

Rolf Wulfsberg

Olga Draguieva

Kathryn Taylor

Wendy Buehl

Geri Nolden

Robin Ryan

Matthew Dahm

Laura Mericle

Abigail Schneider

Carolyn Van DeValde

VIOLA

Christopher Dozoryst

Principal

James F. Crow Chair

Katrin Talbot

Assistant Principal

Dove Family Chair

Diedre Buckley

Renata Hornik

Elisabeth Deussen

Judy Huang

Janse Vincent

Jennifer Paulson

Hanna Pederson

David Beytas

Melissa Snell

CELLO

Karl Lavine

Principal

Reuhl Family Chair

Mark Bridges

Assistant Principal

Patricia Kokotailo & R. Lawrence

DeRoo Chair

Jordan Allen

Knapp Family Chair

Margaret Townsend

Lisa Bressler

Derek Handley

Alex Chambers-Ozasky

Becky Pan

Amy Harr

Aaron Fried

BASS

David Scholl

Principal

Robert Rickman

Assistant Principal

Carl Davick

Tom Mohs Chair

August Jirovec

Mike Hennessy

Lindsey Orcutt

Tiffany Kung

FLUTE

Stephanie Jutt

Principal

Terry Family Foundation Chair

Collin Stavinoha

Linda Pereksta

PICCOLO

Linda Pereksta

OBOE

Izumi Amemiya

Principal

Jim and Cathie Burgess Chair

Andrea Gross Hixon

CLARINET

JJ Koh

Principal

Barbara and Norman Berven Chair

Nancy Mackenzie

BASSOON

Cynthia Cameron

Principal

Rozan and Brian Anderson Chair

Amanda Szczys

HORN

Emma Potter

Principal

Steve and Marianne Schlecht Chair

Michael Wright

Dafydd Bevil

Linda Kimball

Ingrid Mullane, Assistant

TRUMPET

John Aley

Principal

Marilynn G. Thompson Chair

John Wagner

Brent Turney

TROMBONE

Joyce Messer

Principal

Fred and Mary Mohs Chair

Benjamin Skroch

BASS TROMBONE

Ben Zisook

TUBA

Joshua Biere

Principal

TIMPANI

John Jutsum

Principal

Eugenie Mayer Bolz Foundation Chair

PERCUSSION

Nicholas Bonaccio

Principal

JoAnn Six Plesko and E.J. Plesko Chair

Richard Morgan

Gregory Hinz

Todd Hammes

Sean Kleve

HARP

Johanna Wienholts

Principal

Endowed by an Anonymous Friend

Margaret Mackenzie

ORGAN

Gregory Zelek

Principal

The Elaine and Nicholas Mischler Curatorship

Orchestra Committee

Mark Bridges, Chair

Lisa Bressler, Vice-Chair

Elspeth Stalter-Clouse, Secretary

David Scholl, Treasurer

Lisa Bressler, Member-at-large

Librarian

Jennifer S. Goldberg

John and Carolyn Peterson Chair

Stage Manager

Benjamin Skroch

Personnel Manager

Alexis Carreon

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PROGRAM

John DeMain | Music Director

100th Season | Overture Hall | Subscription Program No. 8

JOHN DEMAIN, CONDUCTOR

ALESSIO BAX, PIANO

ALEXANDRA LOBIANCO, SOPRANO

ADRIANA ZABALA, MEZZO-SOPRANO

TRAVON WALKER, TENOR

JOHN HOLIDAY, COUNTERTENOR

MATT BOEHLER, BASS

MADISON SYMPHONY CHORUS, BEVERLY TAYLOR, DIRECTOR

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

EDWARD MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Concerto No. 2 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23

Larghetto calmato

Presto giocoso

Largo—Molto allegro

MR. BAX

Endowment support for the music library collection is the gift of John & Carolyn Peterson.

The Overture Concert Organ is the gift of Pleasant T. Rowland.

INTERMISSION

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)

Chichester Psalms

Part I

The Hamburg Steinway piano is the gift of Peter Livingston and Sharon Stark in memory of Magdalena Friedman.

WELCOME TO THE MSO!

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Part II

MR. HOLIDAY

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ANTON BRUCKNER (1824-1896)

Te Deum

I. Te Deum laudamus

II. Te ergo quaesumus

III. Aeterna fac

IV. Salvum fac populum tuum

V. In te, Domine, speravi

MS. LOBIANCO

MS. ZABALA

MR. WALKER

MR. BOEHLER

MADISON SYMPHONY CHORUS

ANNOUNCING OUR 2026-27 SYMPHONY SEASON

O V E R T U R E H A L L

OPENING WEEKEND

JOYCE YANG PLAYS RACHMANINOFF

October 16-18, 2026

Joyce Yang, piano

CARLOS SIMON The Block

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL SYMPHONY

November 6-8, 2026

Kyle Knox, conductor

Naha Greenholtz, violin

VIVALDI “Autumn” from The Four Seasons PIAZZOLLA “Autumn” from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

L. BOULANGER D’un matin de printemps HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

CELEBRATE THE SEASON A MADISON

SYMPHONY CHRISTMAS

December 4-6, 2026

Renée Richardson, soprano

Demetrious Sampson, Jr., tenor

Madison Symphony Chorus, Beverly Taylor, director Mt. Zion Gospel Choir, Tamera & Leotha Stanley, directors

Madison Youth Choirs, Michael Ross, artistic director

GARRICK OHLSSON PLAYS CHOPIN

March 12-14, 2027

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

CAROLINE SHAW The Observatory

BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1

TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO

April 9-11, 2027

Blake Pouliot, violin

Katerina Burton, soprano

Rehanna Thelwell, mezzo-soprano

Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone

Madison Symphony Chorus, Beverly Taylor, director

Madison Youth Choirs, Michael Ross, artistic director

WAGNER Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

SCOTT GENDEL/CAITLIN VINCENT

Spacious Skies: A Choral Symphony (world premiere • Madison Symphony Commission)

SEASON FINALE

TIME FOR THREE

May 7-9, 2027

Time For Three, guest artists

It’s Madison’s favorite holiday musical tradition. Bring family and friends and celebrate the season with the Madison Symphony. Carols, classics, and sparkling holiday favorites – and even a visit from Santa!

STERLING ELLIOTT RETURNS

January 15-17, 2027

Carl St. Clair, conductor

Sterling Elliott, cello

FRANK TICHELI There Will Be Rest HAYDN Symphony No. 88

R. STRAUSS Don Quixote

February 19-21, 2027

Inon Barnatan, piano

ROSSINI Overture to Semiramide

JENNIFER HIGDON Concerto 4-3

ELGAR Enigma Variations

Friday, September 18

John DeMain, conductor

RACHMANINOFF & BEETHOVEN

GABRIELA ORTIZ Kauyumari

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4

RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Be part of the experience.

Joshua Bell, violin

DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

LALO Symphonie espagnole

RAVEL Boléro

MASSENET Meditation from Thaïs

TIME FOR THREE

RENÉE RICHARDSON

JOSHUA BELL

STERLING ELLIOTT

NAHA GREENHOLTZ

BLAKE POULIOT

JOYCE YANG

INON BARNATAN

BEVERLY TAYLOR

Claudia Berry & David E. Miran Director, Madison Symphony Chorus

Beverly Taylor, Emerita Professor of Music at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Madison Symphony Chorus, is a frequent guest conductor at festivals throughout the United States. She has been recognized by critic Richard Dyer (The Boston Globe) as a conductor who “has the crucial gift of inspiring people to give of their best, and beyond.” Taylor assumed the post of Director of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995, where she served as director of the Concert Choir and the Choral Union, and led the graduate choral conducting program until her retirement in 2020. From 1989-2012, she was conductor of the Boston Bar Association Orchestra, and for seven years the Music Director of the Back Bay Chorale, in which she conducted concerts with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and other professional orchestras. Their recording of Robert Kyr’s Passion According to Four Evangelists is available on the New Albion label. She served as Assistant Conductor of the Madison Symphony Orchestra from 1996-2018.

In 1995, Taylor completed 17 years as the Associate Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University. In this position, she directed both the prize-winning Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. She led the groups on frequent domestic and international tours, directed a number of premieres of American music, and produced two recordings on the AFKA label. As a guest conductor, Taylor has led the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, the Vermont Symphony, the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Opera, the U.S. Air Force Band and Orchestra, the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and the Wellesley Chamber Singers. She worked with John Williams to prepare for a July 4th concert with the Boston Pops Summer Esplanade Chorus. A graduate of the University of Delaware and Boston University, Taylor studied with Gustav Meier, Paul Vermel, Andrew Davis, Helmuth Rilling, Robert Shaw, Margaret Hillis, and Herbert Blomstedt. She received a fellowship from Chorus America and an orchestral fellowship from Aspen. She was a 2016 finalist for the American Prize in choral conducting, college division, and a 2017 recipient of the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts at UW-Madison.

MADISON SYMPHONY CHORUS

Beverly Taylor, Claudia Berry & David E. Miran Director

Drew Collins, Assistant Director

Dan Lyons, Accompanist and Manager

Formed in 1927, the Madison Symphony Chorus gave its first public performance on February 23, 1928, and has performed regularly with the Madison Symphony Orchestra ever since. The chorus is comprised of more than 150 volunteer musicians who come from all walks of life and enjoy combining their artistic talent. In 2017, the chorus sang three Brahms Requiems in Germany with regional orchestras under Ms. Taylor’s direction.

In recent seasons, the Chorus has joined the MSO for such awe-inspiring works as Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, Rossini’s jubilant Stabat Mater, the Requiems of both Verdi and Mozart, Holst’s The Planets, John Adams’ challenging On the Transmigration of Souls, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection), excerpts from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Rachmaninoff’s magnificent The Bells, Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region, and excerpts from Handel’s Solomon, among others.

SOPRANO

Caryn Baham

Jill Bailey

Judith Brauer

Alexis Buchanan

Sophie Bur

Lisa Burns

Ashley Calderon-McHugh

Jennifer Christensen

Christine Esche

Linda Feiler

Sydney Fine

Susan Galasso

Kate Grovergrys

Kimberly R. S. Han

Margaret Harrigan*

Sophia Hawley

Rose Heckenkamp-Busch

Sara Hendrickson

Katie Hess

Laurie Holman

Patricia Jenkins-Bock

Marjasana Kay

Holly Keevil

Sherri Kelly

Susan Kittleson

Veronica Kleckner

Julie Klein

Jennifer Kuckuk

Marie Kulackoski

Sarah Lang

Amber Lehnherr

Grace Lewallan

Lisa Middleton

Claudia Berry Miran

Eleanor Monroe

Genevieve Mullen

Connie Nelson

Sally Norman

Vanessa Orr

Christine Otth

Myleen Passini

Libby Pier

Kristen Radley

Susan Roehlk

Erin Selbee*

Erin Singer

Anya Smith

Nadine Thomas

Samantha Tushaus

Casey Umhoefer

Sarah Walker

Keaton Whitehurst

Pam Wilinski

Merina Witz

ALTO

Annemarie Adams

Lauren Almeida

Jaime Alvis

Kathleen Berkley

Lori Grapentine

Jane Henneberry

Rebecca Hillary

Talia Ivry

Amy Johnson

Jessica Jones

Susan Jones

Alana Katz

Estelle Katz

Maureen Kind

Heidi Kramer

Elena Lahti

Sally Lanz

Heather Laurila

Sarah Magenheim

Ray Calderon

Bradley Carter

Drew Collins

Jeff Cooper

Bryan Endres

Robert Factor

Christopher Feyrer

Michael Hammer

David Hanson

Mark Hanson

John Hayward

Mooyoung Kim

James Kleckner

Alex Kovensky

Kathy Lewinski

Elliot Frie

Benson Gardner

Robert Gentile

Michael Green

Glenn Hanson

Charles Hodulik

Colin Holden

Alexander Jankowski

David Johnson

Mitch Lattis

Jules Lee

Lyle Lichty

Denaly Min

Donald Olsen

Greg Polacheck

Denise Martin

Sharon Blattner Held*

Tiffany Brunhoefer

Penny Carlson

Roberta Carrier

Spencer Chaplin

Johanna Chworowsky

Mackenzie Cole

Wendy Coleman

Lavonne Dettmers*

Chloe Diehl-Walker

Susan Ecroyd

Tammy Elmer

Gwen Evans

Tola Ewers

Deb Flanders

Erika Gallagher

Denise Garvin

Holly Gefroh-Grimes

Kristina Geiger

Brittney Mitchell

Rachel Mokelke-Heineman

Fran Puleo Moyer

Jacklyn O’Brien

Chloe Orr

Susan Peterson

Jamie Puffer

Murali Meyer

Jonathan Myers

Thomas Ott

Mitchell Patton

Dave Roever

Basil Rutkowski

Scott Seyforth

Brayden Remerowski

Barry Rokusek

Greg Schmidt

Tradd Schmidt

Michael Schmit

George Shook

Chris Sink

Emily Regenold

Angela Reisetter

Christine Richards

Deb Roever

Veronica Rueckert

Kathleen Schell

David Snook

James Staskal

LeRoy Stoner

Thomas Swartz

Ryan Van Slyke

Craig Wuerzberger*

Steve Yeazel

Nancy Shook

Latisha Smith-Chase

Elaine Sullivan

Robin Swadley

Julianne Wilke

Katie Wisz

Megan Yockey

TENOR

Gordon Brand

BASS

Steve Beversdorf

James Blanchard

Evan Bruns

Paul Bushland

Mike Byrne

Robert DeBroux

Robert Dinndorf

Alan Ferguson

William Bremmer

David Flanders

Grant Steele

John Unertl

James Wear

Ryan Westergaard

Craig Wille*

Isaac Wojcicki

*Section Leader

OFFICERS

Rose Heckenkamp-Busch, President

James Wear, Vice-President

Samantha Tushaus, Secretary

NOTES

PROGRAM

MAY 1-2-3, 2026

Michael Allsen

program notes by J.

To round off the subscription programs of our 100th season—the last of his distinguished 32 seasons as the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s music director—John DeMain has chosen a program of four works, most of which have resonances with the MSO’s history. (If you’re interested, check out the extended footnote at the end of the program notes.) We open with Wagner’s grand Prelude to Die Meistersinger. Italian-born pianist Alessio Bax then makes his MSO debut with Edward MacDowell’s masterwork, the Piano Concerto No. 2 The Madison Symphony Chorus then takes the stage for the second half of the program. The chorus and countertenor John Holiday will be featured in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, a lively setting of Hebrew Psalms composed as a profound prayer for peace. To close the program, we have Bruckner’s great Te Deum, a work featuring four fine vocal soloists: soprano Alexandra LoBianco, mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala, tenor Travon Walker, and bass Matt Boehlor.

This stirring overture was completed some five years before the opera itself.

Richard Wagner

Born: May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Germany.

Died: February 13, 1883, Venice, Italy.

Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

previous concerts: the earliest in 1927, and the most recent in 2007. Duration: 9:00.

Background

Die Meistersinger is part opera and part artistic manifesto.

When he was in his early 30s, Wagner made his first sketches for an opera on the life of Hans Sachs, the great 16th-century German “mastersinger.” Other projects intervened, though, and he did not turn to Die Meistersinger in earnest until he was nearly 50. The work— Wagner’s only comic opera—was completed in 1867, after more than five years of work. By that time, Wagner was world famous, both as a composer and as a center of musical controversy. Though it is billed as a comic opera (at least “comic” in a rather ponderous Wagnerian way), Die Meistersinger is at least partly an artistic manifesto. His main characters, the wise Hans Sachs, the daring Walther, and the hidebound Beckmesser are all recognizable as reflections of Wagner’s views about music. Walther’s daring new song, which breaks all of the traditional song-writing rules of the mastersingers, clearly represents Wagner’s views about his own style. Beckmesser, who attempts to thwart Walther, is a rather nasty caricature of the anti-Wagnerian music critic Eduard Hanslick.

mastersingers themselves, both their processional march and a fanfare. Walther’s great love-theme follows, eventually giving way to a tongue-in-cheek version of the mastersinger music (representing a group of rather disrespectful apprentices). The climax of the piece is the simultaneous combination of several of the most important themes, culminating in a final grand statement of the mastersingers’ processional.

The first truly successful piano concerto, by an American-born composer, this remains MacDowell’s most frequently-played work.

Edward MacDowell

Born: December 18, 1860, New York City.

Died: January 23, 1908, New York City.

Concerto No. 2 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23 Composed: 1885.

Premiere: MacDowell was the pianist in the premiere performance in New York City on March 5, 1889. Previous MSO Performances: 1959, with Emma Endres-Kountz, piano. Duration: 26:00.

Background

Composed: Wagner completed this instrumental prelude to his opera Die Meistersinger in early 1862, some five years before the opera was complete.

Premiere: Wagner conducted the first performance of the Prelude at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on October 31, 1862. The opera was staged for the first time in Munich on June 21, 1868.

Previous MSO Performance: The Madison Symphony Orchestra has performed the work on twelve

What You’ll Hear

The piece is based upon a series of Leitmotifs.

The Prelude was finished long before the opera itself and was first performed in 1862. In his usual style, Wagner presents a series of Leitmotifs—musical themes representing characters and ideas from the drama itself. The opening music is that of the

He is hailed as an important American composer, but MacDowell’s musical style is thoroughly romantic and European.

Though Edward MacDowell is often known as the “first great American composer,” his outlook was almost entirely European. Born in New York City, he left as a teenager to study at the Paris Conservatory, and then went to the conservatory

EDWARD MacDOWELL

RICHARD WAGNER

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

ANTON BRUCKNER

in Frankfurt, where he studied with Joachim Raff. After teaching piano in Frankfurt and Darmstadt, MacDowell returned briefly to United States in 1884, where he married Marian Nevins, who had been his piano student in Frankfurt. The MacDowells soon returned to Germany, living in Wiesbaden where he devoted the next few years entirely to composition. They returned permanently to the United States in 1888, settling in Boston. MacDowell had a successful career as a concert pianist, and able to secure occasional performances of this music. In 1896 the MacDowells moved to New York City, where he led in the creation of a music department at Columbia University, and directed the department until 1904. Shortly before his death, Marian MacDowell founded the famous MacDowell Colony in Petersborough, NY, a retreat for artists, composers, playwrights, and choreographers that still exists today.

Though some of MacDowell’s later music does touch on American themes—notably Native American music—his music owes most of its style to Raff, Grieg, Schumann, and Liszt. He premiered his first piano concerto as a 22-year-old student in Frankfurt, but it is his second piano concerto that is widely believed to be his finest work. Completed while he was in Wiesbaden, it was premiered in New York City by the orchestra of Theodore Thomas in 1889. Reaction was thoroughly positive, and the fact that this was a work by an American seems to have been part of the thrill—as one reviewer wrote: “It is a splendid composition, so full of poetry, so full of vigor as to tempt the assertion that it must be placed at the head of all works of its kind produced by either a native or an adopted citizen of America.” The concerto remains the most often-performed

of MacDowell’s large works.

What You’ll Hear

The concerto is in three movements:

• A broad movement in sonata form, with no fewer than than three solo cadenzas.

• A quick-footed scherzo.

• A powerful closing movement, dominated by the piano.

the piano introduces the exuberant main idea, echoed by the brass. Piano and horn introduce a second, lighter idea. Near the end the end, there is an extended slow passage from the orchestra that echoes the introduction, but the piano soon reasserts itself to end the movement in a blazing virtuoso coda.

Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms is one of his most joyful choral works.

Leonard

Bernstein

It is set in the traditional three movements, each of which is set in a classical sonata form. The opening movement begins with solemn introduction (Larghetto calmato) before a dramatic solo cadenza (clearly an echo of Liszt). The orchestra reintroduces the main theme and the piano amplifies it, and a more restrained second theme is transformed into a soaring melody in the solo part. A stormy development culminates in another grand cadenza. MacDowell makes room for yet a third cadenza in the recapitulation, which ends with a long wistful meditation on the opening theme.

Born: August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts. Died: October 14, 1990, New York City.

Chichester Psalms Composed: 1965.

Premiere: Chichester, England on July 31, 1965.

Previous MSO Performances: 1971, 1994, and 2004. Duration: 19:00.

Background

where the Chichester choir joins with the choirs of Winchester and Salisbury cathedrals. In 1964, the Very Reverend Walter Hussey, Dean of Chichester, gave Leonard Bernstein a commission for a large choral work to be performed at the 1965 festival. Bernstein was then in the middle of a year-long sabbatical from the podium of the New York Philharmonic, devoting his time to study and composition. Chichester Psalms was completed in May of 1965, near the end of his sabbatical—Bernstein later described the work as his “major sabbatical act.” Upon returning to his conductor’s post in October of 1965, he summed up his sabbatical experience in a pair of essays in the New York Times titled “What I Thought” and “…And What I Did.” In the second essay, set in doggerel verse, Bernstein gives some pointed criticism of the then-current musical avant garde, and a tongue-in-cheek apologia for his Chichester Psalms:

The main themes of the scherzo (Presto giocoso) were recycled from a never-completed symphonic poem on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Here MacDowell seems to be channeling the light-footed fairy music of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream The movement is a brilliant virtuoso showpiece for soloist the that leads to a humorous ending. The opening of the finale (Largo) is an abrupt change in mood, with a dark, brooding melody introduced by the low strings and then carried by the soloist. Timpani strokes announce a further change in mood and tempo (Molto allegro), and

Bernstein composed this work for the Chichester Choir Festival in early 1965, when he was on a one-year sabbatical from his post as conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

England has produced a series of fine professional ensembles that have dominated the field of choral singing in recent decades. There is an active tradition associated with cathedral choirs as well, heard most clearly at many annual choral festivals—some established in the early 18th century—where cathedral choirs join forces to perform sacred and secular music. One of the grandest of these festivals occurs every summer at Chichester Cathedral in Sussex,

For then I had the luxury, truth to tell, Of time to think as a pure musician, And ponder the art of composition. For hours on end, I brooded and mused On materiae musicae, used and abused; On aspects of unconventiality, Over the death in our time of tonality, Over the fads of Dada and Chance, The serial strictures, the dearth of Romance, Perspectives in Music, the new terminology, Physicomathematomusicology; Pieces called Cycles and Sines and Parameters; Titles too beat for these homely tetrameters; Pieces for nattering, clucking sopranos With squadrons of vibraphones, fleets of pianos Played with the forearms, the fists, and the palms— —And then I came up with the Chichester Psalms. These psalms are a simple and modest affair, Tonal and tuneful and somewhat square, Certain to sicken a stout John Cager With its tonics and dominants in B-flat Major. But there it stands—the result of my pondering Two long months of avant-garde wandering— My youngest child, old-fashioned and sweet. And he stands on his own two tonal feet.

This “youngest child” was Bernstein’s first major composition after his Kaddish Symphony of

1963, and in many ways it seems to be a response to this earlier piece. Both are large choral compositions in Hebrew, but their characters are utterly different: the rather desolate tone of Kaddish is counterbalanced by the more serene and often joyous character of Chichester Psalms. Underlying all of Chichester Psalms is an optimistic and sincere prayer for peace: as relevant in our own time as it was in 1965. The work was originally composed for an all-male chorus, but Bernstein later reworked it for mixed chorus.

What You’ll Hear

Each of the three movements sets all or part of two different Hebrew Psalms.

• The first begins with a chorale (Psalm 108) and a lively version of Psalm 100.

• The second begins with a tranquil solo (Psalm 23), interrupted by the violent Psalm 2.

•The third opens with a peaceful version of Psalm 131, and ends with a reprise of the opening chorale, now setting Psalm 133.

The first movement opens with a powerful chorale theme, using the second verse of Psalm 108 to set the musical stage for what is to follow. The remainder of the movement sets Psalm 100 in a rollicking 7/4 meter. The second movement’s form is dictated by the distinctly different characters of the two texts Bernstein sets. Part II features an extended solo: scored originally for a boy’s voice but sung here by countertenor. The soloist begins Psalm 23 above a simple harp accompaniment—a picture of youthful King David and his lyre. This peaceful solo melody,

replete with blue notes, is picked up and expanded by women’s chorus, until men’s voices rudely interrupt with Psalm 2: “Why do the nations rage?” Their violent music returns again and again to the word lamah (“why?”). The chorus returns at the end with Psalm 23, but an instrumental version of the Psalm 2 music intrudes one last time. The last movement opens with an instrumental introduction, playing a tense and unsettled version of the chorale from the opening movement. Part III begins with a much more tranquil setting of Psalm 131, flowing smoothly and quietly in 10/4 meter. At the close of the movement, Bernstein returns to the chorale melody once more, now setting the first verse of Psalm 133 for chorus alone. At the close, there is one more echo of the chorale above a hushed Amen

The Te Deum is one of Bruckner’s final sacred works, and one that he considered to be one of his finest achievements.

Anton Bruckner

Born: September 4, 1824, Anfelden, Austria.

Died: October 11, 1896, Vienna, Austria.

Te Deum

Composed: Between 1881 and 1884.

Premiere: January 10, 1886, in Vienna.

Previous MSO Performances: 1944 and 1975.

Duration: 24:00.

“When the good Lord calls me to him one day and asks, ‘where are the talents I gave you?’, I will hold out the score of my Te Deum to him, and he will be a merciful judge.”

- Anton Bruckner

Background

The Te Deum was a great success at its premiere in 1886. Bruckner later considered it as a possible finale to his unfinished Symphony No. 9.

Born in a tiny Austrian village, Anton Bruckner’s first musical experiences were fairly humble. His father was the town’s schoolteacher and organist, and as a young child Bruckner was already substituting for his father in church services. As a boy, he was sent him to a neighboring village to study with the organist there, and by the time he was in his 20s he was working as an organist at the nearby monastery of St. Florian. Most of his early career was spent as a church musician there and in the somewhat larger city of Linz, where he wrote several settings of Latin sacred chants. He sought training as a composer wherever he was working, and was obviously a diligent student, mastering counterpoint and orchestration. A great turning-point came in 1865, when he attended the premiere of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and met Wagner himself. His admiration for Wagner was boundless, and he seems to have attended the premiere of every subsequent Wagner opera. He took Wagner as his ideal—a fact that would cause him great trouble later in his career. In 1868, he moved to Vienna, to teach counterpoint at the conservatory, and spent the rest of his life there. Bruckner never really fit in there, however—even after his symphonies gained some success in the 1880s, he remained a kind of country bumpkin who never really gained sophistication or confidence in dealing with the Viennese musical establishment.

Bruckner had a deep and abiding Catholic faith and wrote sacred music throughout his career. His setting of the Latin hymn Te Deum laudamus (We Praise You, O God), completed in 1884, was among his final sacred pieces. The mild-mannered composer, typically humble and insecure about his works, was apparently thoroughly satisfied with the work, calling it, the “pride of my life.” Its premiere, at the concerts of the Musikverein (Music Society) in January 1886 was one of the great triumphs of Bruckner’s career. It was even praised by the staunchly antiWagner critic, Eduard Hanslick, who had almost never had a good word to say about Bruckner’s music.

The Te Deum is now inextricably tied to the history of his unfinished ninth symphony. He labored on this work from 1887-1894, plagued at the end by poor health, ultimately completing only the first three movements. In 1894 he retired from his position at the conservatory and announced that

I have taken on a huge task with my symphony. I shouldn’t have done it given my advanced age in poor health… Should I die before completing the symphony, my Te Deum must then be used as the fourth movement.

In fact, among the surviving sketches for the fourth movement, there is an orchestral transition that would connect the end of the third (Adagio) movement into the Te Deum Modern performances of the ninth occasionally include the complete Te Deum at the end. (Other possibilities include simply performing it as an unfinished threemovement torso, or adding one of a few alternative completions of the fourth movement from Bruckner’s sketches by modern editors.)

What You’ll Hear

This is an emotional setting of the Te Deum and four shorter Latin chant texts.

The Te Deum is certainly among the oldest of Latin hymns, dating to at least the fourth century. It is traditionally sung to mark coronations, military victories, or other moments of great public celebration. (In Britain, for example, the Te Deum has been sung at royal coronation services for nearly 1000 years.) Bruckner set these words at the beginning of the work but then adds four additional shorter Latin texts in response. His interpretation takes full advantage of the drama inherent in the Latin text, for example in the opening movement setting “to you, Cherubim and Seraphim continually cry, proclaiming:” for soprano, mezzo, and tenor soloists, leaving the prayerful and ultimately triumphant “Holy, holy, holy…” to the chorus. The more supplicant text of Te ergo quaesumus (We beseech you, therefore) is carried largely by the solo tenor, with the other soloists coming in to punctuate the end of each phrase. In the end, the tenor is joined by a lyrical solo violin decoration, and a solemn closing pronouncement by the trombones. The third movement, Aeterna fac (Make them to be numbered with your saints in everlasting glory.), is sung entirely by the chorus in a rather surprisingly strident minor key. Much of the first half of Salvum fac populum tuum (Save Your People) is once again carried by the solo tenor, and later by the bass, with fervent interjections by the other soloists and the chorus. Then at the words, “Day by day, we bless you” (Per singulos dies) the emotional dam bursts in a powerful choral passage that eventually subsides, ending with the humble “as we have trusted in you.” The joyful final movement,

In te Domine speravi (In You, O Lord, Have I Trusted) opens with an exuberant passage for soloists. Bruckner’s mastery of counterpoint is on display throughout his setting of the final line, “let me never be confounded.” This works its way through several keys before ending in a glorious passage in C Major.

A Historical Footnote. While the orchestra did not get around to a public performance of Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger until its second concert, in March 1927, this piece holds the distinction of being one of the very first works rehearsed by the fledgling Madison Civic Symphony. Writing in 1972, the orchestra’s first music director, Sigfrid Prager, recalled that this all-amateur group had a less than auspicious start at its first rehearsal in the fall of 1926. In his trademark wry style, Prager recalled that after, dismissing a huge surplus of saxophonists and trumpeters who showed up for the first rehearsal, and getting the orchestra seated, that

careers. Marie Endres served as concertmaster to the Madison Civic Symphony from 1927 to 1960. She was Madison’s preeminent violin teacher for decades and led a couple of significant amateur groups: the Madison String Sinfonia, and the Madison Bach Chorus. Older sister Olive Endres was a longtime organist at St. James’s Catholic Church (where Marie directed the choir). Olive was active as a composer through her life, and in 1958, her Magnificat won first place in the Wisconsin Composer’s Competition. Emma had the biggest career of the three: she started as a nine-year old piano prodigy, performing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Like her sisters, Emma studied at the Julliard School and she later won a scholarship that allowed her to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Igor Stravinsky, and pianist Robert Casadesus, who called her “one of the finest American pianists of our generation.” Emma made her home in Toledo, Ohio, and later in Chicago, and toured extensively as a soloist and recitalist in the 1940s and 1950s. She returned to Madison in 1940, 1947, and 1959 to perform with the Madison Civic Symphony.

As for the Bruckner Te Deum, there is no particular MSO-related historical significance to the work, aside from the fact that we haven’t done it in a long time: previous performances were in 1944 and 1975. However, the Latin Te Deum has been sung for centuries to celebrate particularly joyful or momentous events. It is certainly an appropriate ending to this program. As DeMain notes

I close the program with Anton Bruckner’s epic Te Deum, a magnificent large orchestral work featuring chorus, vocal soloists, and organ. This eternal prayer of thanksgiving is the way I’ve chosen to conclude my final subscription concert and climax of the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s centennial celebration.

Complete program notes for the 2025-2026 season are available at madisonsymphony.org.

At any rate, somehow the rehearsal started. We began with the relatively innocent second L’Arlesienne Suite by Bizet. The first ten minutes of it sounded as if Arnold Schoenberg had written the music when he was in a bad humor. We followed with the Meistersinger Prelude which sounded somehow more human, perhaps part of it because part of it is in C Major.

Our only previous performance of the MacDowell Piano Concerto No. 2, in October 1959, featured Madison native Emma EndresKountz, the youngest of six musical Endres siblings. (Their father, Mathias, was the organist at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church.) While all six of them were involved in local musical groups, Emma and two of her sisters would follow musical

One of our previous performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms was in September 1994, at one of the orchestra’s true landmark concerts: Maestro DeMain’s inaugural program as music director of the MSO and the Madison Symphony Chorus. This was an exciting program that promised good things to come. The Chichester Psalms was the second work on a program that also featured Mozart’s brief motet Ave verum corpus, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1—the beginning of a long-term cycle of all nine Mahler symphonies played by the MSO under DeMain. It is fitting to end his tenure in Madison with a performance of one of the works that started it.

Salon Piano Series

KATE LIU

SAT. NOV. 1 at 7:30 PM

Chopin

ADAM NEIMAN

SAT. JAN. 17 at 7:30 PM

Brahms, Prokoﬁev, Rachmaninoﬀ

HILDA HUANG

Concert: FEB. 28 at 7:30 PM

Instrument Demo: MAR. 1 at 3 PM

Bach

ANGIE ZHANG

SAT. APR. 18 at 7:30 PM

Margaret Bonds, Clara Schumann, Beethoven

BILL CHARLAP

SAT. MAY 9 at 7:30 PM

SUN. MAY 10 at 2 PM

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In March 2026, Bax will be named founding Artistic Director of the London Chamber Music Festival at Sinfonia Smith Square. Since 2017, he has been the Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival, a Summer Music Festival in the Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany. Bax appears regularly in festivals such as Seattle, Bravo Vail, Salon-de-Provence, Le Pont in Japan, Great Lakes, Verbier, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Aspen and Tanglewood.

ALESSIO BAX

Piano

Combining exceptional lyricism and insight with consummate technique, Alessio Bax is without a doubt “among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone). AHe catapulted to prominence with First Prize wins at both the 2000 Leeds International Piano Competition and the 1997 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition and is now a familiar face on five continents as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist. He has appeared with nearly 200 orchestras, including the New York, London, Royal, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Sydney, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, and the Tokyo and NHK Symphony in Japan, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Marin Alsop, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis, Hannu Lintu, Fabio Luisi, Sir Simon Rattle, Ruth Reinhardt, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jaap van Zweden.

As a renowned chamber musician, Bax has collaborated with Lisa Batiashvili, Joshua Bell, Ian Bostridge, Lucille Chung, James Ehnes, Vilde Frang, Steven Isserlis, Daishin Kashimoto, François Leleux, Sergei Nakariakov, Emmanuel Pahud, Lawrence Power, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Paul Watkins, and Tabea Zimmermann, among many others.

In 2009, Bax was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and four years later he received both the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists.

Bax’s most recent album releases are Forgotten Dances and Debussy & Ravel for Two with Lucille Chung. His celebrated Signum Classics discography also includes Italian Inspirations; Beethoven’s Hammerklavier and Moonlight Sonatas (a Gramophone Editor’s Choice); Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto; Bax & Chung, a duo disc with Lucille Chung; Alessio Bax plays Mozart, recorded with London’s Southbank Sinfonia; Alessio Bax: Scriabin & Mussorgsky (named “Recording of the Month ... and quite possibly ... of the year” by MusicWeb International); Alessio Bax plays Brahms (a Gramophone Critics’ Choice); Bach Transcribed; and Rachmaninov: Preludes & Melodies (an American Record Guide Critics’ Choice). Recorded for Warner Classics, his Baroque Reflections album was also a Gramophone Editor’s Choice. He performed Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata for Daniel Barenboim in the PBS-TV documentary Barenboim on Beethoven: Masterclass, available on DVD from EMI.

At the age of 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of Bari, his hometown in Italy, and after further studies in Europe, he moved to the United States in 1994. He has been on the piano faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory since the fall of 2019 and serves as co-artistic director of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation for emerging pianists.

Bax lives in New York City with pianist Lucille Chung and their daughter, Mila.

A dedicated recitalist, Holiday appears at Spivey Hall, Susquehanna University, and with the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance. His debut album, Over My Head, is slated for release in summer 2026 on PENTATONE.

Recent highlights include major role and house debuts on leading international stages. Holiday debuted as Farnace in Mitridate, re di Ponto at Boston Lyric Opera in a production by James Darrah, and performed the title role of Akhnaten in a new production by Barrie Kosky at Komische Oper Berlin. He made his debut at the BBC Proms in Joe Hisaishi’s End of the World, and toured internationally with The English Concert as Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare, with performances at Carnegie Hall and London’s Barbican Centre.

JOHN HOLIDAY

Countertenor

John Holiday is a distinctive and versatile artist, praised as “one of the finest countertenors of his generation” (Los Angeles Times) and for singing that is “arrestingly powerful, secure and dramatically high” (The Wall Street Journal). Moving fluidly between Baroque repertoire, contemporary opera, and American song with technical assurance, stylistic authority, and remarkable storytelling ability, he has been described by The Guardian as “a natural stage presence with a gloriously rich and pure sound.” His unique artistry and personal story have been the subject of major national profiles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN’s Great Big Story, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.

Holiday has appeared with major opera houses and orchestras, including the Bayerische Staatsoper, Dutch National Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera, and in concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, the San Francisco Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Handel and Haydn Society, and Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Additional career highlights include the title role in Xerxes at the Glimmerglass Festival and cross-genre projects ranging from The John Holiday Experience to performances at the Apollo Theater.

A committed advocate for new music and interdisciplinary work, Holiday has been featured in multiple world premieres, including the world premiere of Kevin Puts’s The Hours at The Metropolitan Opera, Four Portraits at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Luna Pearl Woolf’s Oratorio at PACNYC in collaboration with Trinity Church Wall Street; Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice at LA Opera; and Daniel Bernard Roumain’s We Shall Not Be Moved with Opera Philadelphia and Dutch National Opera.

Holiday’s 2025-26 season includes his debut at Washington National Opera in Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), alongside major returns to LA Opera in the title role of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten and to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (Prince Orlovsky) and Handel’s Alcina (Ruggiero). On the concert stage, he appears with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Madison Symphony, and curated and led a concert with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra highlighting repertoire from the Great American Songbook.

Holiday is the recipient of the Marian Anderson Vocal Award, the Richard Tucker Foundation’s Sara Tucker Award, and first prizes at the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, the Sullivan Foundation Competition, and the Dallas Opera Guild Competition.

Since 2023, he has served Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Maryland School of Music. He holds degrees from Southern Methodist University, the University of Cincinnati College–Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School. Learn more at www.johnholiday.com.

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ALEXANDRA

LoBIANCO

American soprano Alexandra LoBianco, who “gave an impassioned performance” in the title role of Aida at Seattle Opera ( Seattle Times ), has established herself as a dramatic soprano of distinctive versatility, musicality, and consistency. The current season will include performances of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth for a role and house debut with Boston Lyric Opera, as well as concert appearances with the Madison Symphony Orchestra.

Hailing from Saint Petersburg, Florida, LoBianco began her journey in opera with a foundation in voice, theater, and clarinet. Her talent quickly garnered recognition, winning first prizes at the Liederkranz Vocal Competition and the Irene Dalis Competition in 2011 and the Altamura International Vocal Competition and the William Sullivan Foundation Awards in 2013. These early successes laid the groundwork for a distinguished career on the international stage.

LoBianco has performed with numerous opera companies of note, while taking on some of the most challenging roles in the repertoire. Career highlights include Leonore in Fidelio with the Vienna State Opera and North Carolina Opera, Brünnhilde in Die Walküre and Siegfried with Seattle Opera and North Carolina Opera, Minnie in La fanciulla del West with Des Moines Metro Opera, and the title role in Turandot with Des Moines Metro Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and Maryland Lyric Opera. She has also appeared as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with Seattle Opera, Alice Ford in Falstaff with Santa Fe Opera, and Marianne Leitmetzerin in Der Rosenkavalier at The Metropolitan Opera, which was featured in the Met’s Live in HD broadcast series. The artist has also performed Chrysothemis and the Fourth Maid in Elektra and Helmwige in Die Walküre at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the title role in Tosca at both North Carolina Opera and Minnesota Opera, and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera at Florida Grand Opera.

Recent seasons have also included performances as Leonora in Il Trovatore with Opera Colorado, the Mother in Hansel and Gretel with Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Foreign Princess in Rusalka with the Canadian Opera Company, and the title role in Tosca with Seattle Opera and Portland Opera. In a stunning international turn, LoBianco stepped in for an ailing colleague as Leonore in Fidelio for her debut with the Wiener Staatsoper while under contract for the title role in Turandot Subsequent appearances with the Wiener Staatsoper included performances as Helmwige in Die Walküre and a Brünnhilde cover, while on tour in Japan.

Ms. LoBianco’s repertoire also includes Sieglinde in Die Walküre, the title roles in Suor Angelica and Madama Butterfly, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimì in La bohème, Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul, and Brünnhilde in Jonathan Dove’s abridged Ring Cycle.

Soprano

Opera. Ms. Zabala made her European operatic debut in Valencia, Spain under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel at the Opera Palau des Arts, and returned the following season for two productions conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta.

ADRIANA ZABALA

Mezzo-Soprano

Adriana Zabala is acclaimed for operatic, concert and recital performances throughout the U.S. and abroad. The New York Times has hailed her as “a vivid, fearless presence,” and the L.A. Times as “an extraordinary, vibrant mezzo-soprano.” In addition to traditional operatic roles such as Cherubino and Rosina, Ms. Zabala has created characters in distinctive new works such as Sister James in Cuomo and Shanley’s Doubt (recently broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances), Rosie Cheney in Puts and Campbell’s The Manchurian Candidate, Erminella in Musto and Campbell’s Volpone, the title character in Aldridge and Garfein’s Sister Carrie, Manja in Cohen and Brevoort’s Steal a Pencil for Me, and Lucy Talbott in Bolcom and Campbell’s Dinner at Eight

In U.S. premieres, the mezzo was heard as Amore in L’Albore di Diana, the title role in Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, and received international acclaim for her role in Glass’ Waiting for the Barbarians with Austin Opera. She recently joined Arizona Opera as Paula in Florencia en el Amazonas, reprised the role with both San Diego and Madison Opera, sang Nicklausse in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, also with Madison Opera, and sang the role of Joanna in the revival of Carly Simon’s Romulus Hunt with Nashville Opera. She made her role debut as Mary Johnson in Spears’ Fellow Travelers with Minnesota Opera, and reprised the role with Madison

She has been a soloist with the New York Festival of Song, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Jersey Symphony, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Elijah with Bryn Terfel, among others. Recent engagements include Mahler’s Symphony no.2 with The Minnesota Orchestra and the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, The Mozart Requiem with both the Florida Bach Festival and the Jacksonville Symphony, the world premiere of Jeffrey Van’s Reaping the Whirlwind with the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, the title role in Annelies, an Anne Frank Oratorio, with both the Minnesota Oratorio Society and at Montclair State University, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with both the Colorado Symphony and with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In recital, Ms. Zabala has performed at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Barns at Wolf Trap, with the Source Song Festival, and on the Salzburg International Chamber Music Series, among many others. Her collaboration with composer and pianist Gregg Kallor is highly praised for their recording and performances of his compositions on the CD Exhilaration: Dickinson and Yeats Songs. Zabala and Kallor have performed this program in New York City, Minneapolis, and Salzburg, and on the Tuesday Musical of Akron guest artist series. Additional recent recordings include unpublished songs of Louis Durey, and world premiere recordings of Pauline Viardot’s Le Dernier Sorcier, and song cycles of Dominick Argento. Zabala also plays the title role in the chamber music play, Nadia, about the legendary pedagogue, conductor, and composer Nadia Boulanger.

Recent engagements include the role of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera Colorado, the world premiere of Paola Prestini and Mark Campbell’s The Miraculous Adventure of Edward Tulane, Orestes in La Belle Hélène with the Lakes Area Music Festival, Mary in Fellow Travelers with Madison Opera, Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw with On Site Opera in New York City, her role debut as Madeline in Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers with the Berkshire Opera, and a reprisal of the role of Paula in the European premiere

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of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas with Opera Tenerife in Spain. Zabala was a guest artist at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival on Luciano Berio’s Beatles Songs, and gave a recital entitled I do not doubt I am to meet you again on the Yale Faculty Artist series with collaborative pianist JJ Penna. She was also a guest with the Yale Camerata, conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, as the soloist in John Corigliano’s Fern Hill In the coming season Zabala will reprise the title role of Nadia Boulanger in NADIA: A Chamber Music Play at the American Church in Paris.

Adriana Zabala was born in Georgia and raised in Florida, Venezuela, and Texas. She is an alumna of apprentice programs at Tanglewood, Minnesota Opera, Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera. She is a graduate of Louisiana State University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Zabala was an Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Minnesota, where she taught applied voice, graduate vocal literature, and Vive les Arts!, a Global Seminar in Paris. She is currently an Associate Professor of Voice at the Yale School of Music.

Trap Opera, he sang Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Remendado in Carmen, and Carmina Burana with the National Symphony Orchestra. The season prior, he joined Lawrence Brownlee, Lisette Oropesa, and Craig Terry in recital and participated in Joyce DiDonato’s acclaimed masterclass series at Carnegie Hall as well as the Britten Pears Young Artist Program in Aldeburgh, England. He was awarded Best Vocal Artist Award at the American Opera Society of Chicago and was also the recipient of a Luminarts Fellowship.

Tenor

TRAVON D. WALKER

Praised for his “ringing tenor voice” ( Chicago Classical Review ), and his “brightness and energy” ( Texas Classical Review ), tenor Travon D. Walker is a current third-year young artist at The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center with Lyric Opera of Chicago. This season he covers Beppe in Pagliacci, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Young Man in El último sueño de Frida y Diego On the concert stage, Mr. Walker joins Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony as well as Phoenix Symphony and the US Naval Academy for Handel’s Messiah In the spring, Mr. Walker joins the Erie Philharmonic for Britten’s War Requiem. He recently also joined Haymarket Opera to cover Oronte in Alcina at the Ravinia Festival.

In 2023, Mr. Walker participated in Renée Fleming’s SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. Other recent highlights have included Handel’s Messiah with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and his company debut with Houston Grand Opera as The Navigator in Jeremy Howard Beck’s Another City (world premiere). At Lyric Opera of Chicago, Walker sang scenes from Ariadne auf Naxos (Scaramuccio), La Périchole (Piquillo), and Falstaff (Bardolfo). He also received an Encouragement Award from the Kansas City District in the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and the Cesare Saneramo Award at the 2023 Opera Index Vocal Competition. Mr. Walker was a Studio Artist at Wolf Trap Opera in 2022, where he sang Elder Gleaton in Susannah

A native of Hinesville, GA, Mr. Walker graduated with a master’s degree from Rice University, where he performed the role of Sam Kaplan in their production of Street Scene by Kurt Weill and appeared in scenes from Così fan tutte, The Turn of the Screw, Lucia di Lammermoor, and West Side Story He completed his undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music, where he was heard in the roles of The Reader in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd (canceled due to Covid-19), and Dan Leno in the virtual production of Kevin Puts’ Elizabeth Cree.

Last season he sang Borsa in Rigoletto, 1st Prisoner in Fidelio, the Son in Blue, and Parpignol in La Bohème at Lyric Opera of Chicago. He sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Psalm 23 from Omar with North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and joined Opera Philadelphia as Valcour in L’Amant anonyme As a Filene Artist at Wolf

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in Mozart’s Requiem. During the summer of 2025, he sang the roles of Moscone, Teamster and Horst in Opera Parallèle’s production of Harvey Milk, followed by his return to Des Moines Metro Opera as Father Trulove in a new production of The Rake’s Progress.

MATT BOEHLER

Tenor

Hailed as “a bass with an attitude and the goods to back it up,” by The New York Times and praised by the San Francisco Classical Voice for music that “harnesses considerable expressive power,” bass and composer Matt Boehler is known in the world of opera for his captivating, dynamic performances and his long-earned reputation as an inventive collaborative artist.

The 2025-2026 season showcases Matt’s artistry both as a composer and a vocalist. His in-development comic opera, The Road to Wellville, which he is composing alongside librettist Tony Asaro, receives workshops with both San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. On the performance stage, Matt bows as Don Magnifico in La cenerentola with Arizona Opera, and joins Pacific Chamber Orchestra for Handel’s Messiah. The season also includes a film project for future release.

Boehler began the 2024-2025 season with his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut, singing Antonio in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, while also covering Bartolo. With Florentine Opera, he appeared as Polyphemus in E. Loren Meeker’s new production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and with the Madison Symphony, he bowed as the bass soloist

During the 2023-2024 season, the bass made his debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and conductor Kent Nagano, singing Stravinsky’s Les noces, debuted the role of Arkel in Des Moines Metro Opera’s new production of Pelléas et Mélisande, sang Frére Laurent in Toledo Opera’s production of Roméo et Juliette, appeared with West Edge Opera in the world premiere of Bulrusher, and sang Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Modesto Symphony, as well as Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Highlights of recent seasons include Iolanta and The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera; Sarastro in The Magic Flute with Canadian Opera Company; the world premiere of The Lord of Cries (Corigliano/Adamo) with Santa Fe Opera; Bernstein’s Mass with the National Symphony Orchestra; Daphne with La Monnaie in Brussels; the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with Madison Opera; Rigoletto with Florida Grand Opera; Fidelio with Austin Opera; Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Des Moines Metro Opera; Il Cieco in Iris with Bard Summerscape; Rocco in Fidelio with Madison Opera; Gounod’s Méphistophélès with Michigan Opera Theater (now Detroit Opera); and the Hotel Manager in Powder Her Face with New York City Opera and Festival Opéra de Quèbec. He also made his role debut as Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier with Victory Hall Opera, where he is an ensemble member as both singer and composer. While an ensemble member at Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland, Matt excelled in staples of the bass repertoire like Leporello in Don Giovanni and Daland in Der fliegende Holländer, while embracing rarities such as Baldassare in Donizetti’s La favorita and Catalani’s La Wally.

A frequent collaborator in contemporary opera, Matt has has premiered roles in Becoming Santa Claus (Adamo) with Dallas Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, Acquanetta (Gordon/Artman) with Prototype Festival, and Elizabeth Cree (Puts/Campbell) with Opera Philadelphia, among several others.

Equally at home on the concert stage, he has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Oratorio Society of New York. In recital, he has been seen in several critically acclaimed performances with the New York Festival of Song and has concertized at the Spoleto Festival USA and with the Lotte Lehmann Foundation. His discography reflects his enthusiasm for new music and includes recordings of several world premieres by John Musto, William Bolcom and Michael Dellaira, as well as being featured on albums of song by Stefan Wolpe and David Conte.

Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Matt now proudly claims the San Francisco Bay Area as his home. He trained as an actor at Viterbo College, an opera singer at the Juilliard School, and as a composer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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BERNSTEIN, CHICHESTER PSALMS TEXTS

AND TRANSLATIONS

PART I

PSALM 108, VERSE 2

Urah, hanevel, v’chinor!

A-irah shahar!

PSALM 100

Hariu l’Adonai kol haarets

Iv’du et Adonai b’simha.

Bo-u l’fanav bir’nanah

D’u ki Adonai Hu Elohim.

Hu asanu, v’lo anahnu

Amo v’tson mar’ito.

Bo-u sh’arav b’todah.

Awake, psaltery and harp!

I will rouse the dawn!

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye lands.

Serve the Lord with gladness.

Come before his presence with singing.

Know ye that the Lord, He is God.

It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves.

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, Hatseirotav bit’hilah and into His courts with praise.

Hodu lo, bar’chu sh’mo

Ki tov Adonai, l’olam has’do

Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.

For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting, V’ad dor vador emunato and His truth endureth to all generations.

PART II

PSALM 23

Adonai ro-i, lo ehsar.

Bin’ot deshe yarbitseini

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, Al mei m’nuhot y’nahaleini

He leadeth me beside the still waters, Naf’shi y’shovev

He restoreth my soul, Yan’heini b’ma’aglei tsedek

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, L’ma’an sh’mo for His name’s sake.

Gam ki eilech

Yea, though I walk

B’gei tsalmavet, through the valley of the shadow of death, Lo ira ra I will fear no evil, Ki Atah imadi. for Thou art with me.

Shiv’t’cha umishan’techa

Thy rod and Thy staff Hemah y’nahamuni. they comfort me.

Ta’aroch l’fanai shulchan

Thou preparest a table before me

Neged tsor’rai in the presence of mine enemies.

Dishanta vashemen roshi

Thou annointest my head with oil. Cosi r’vayah.

Ach tov vahesed

Yird’funi kol y’mei hayai

My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy

shall follow me all the days of my life, V’shav’ti b’veit Adonai and I will dwell in the house of the Lord L’orech yamim. forever.

CHICHESTER PSALMS

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS CONTINUED

PSALM 2, VERSES 1-4

Lamah rag’shu goyim

Why do the nations rage, Ul’umim yeh’gu rik? and the people imagine a vain thing? Yit’yats’vu malchei erets, The kings of the earth set themselves, V’roznim nos’du yahad and the rulers take counsel together Al Adonai v’al m’shiho. against the Lord and against His annointed. N’natkah et mos’roteimo, saying, let us break their bonds asunder, Yoshev bashamayim He that sitteth in the heavens Yis’hak, Adonai shall laugh, and the Lord Yil’ag lamo! shall have them in derision!

PART III

PSALM 131

Adonai, Adonai

Lord, Lord, Lo gavah libi, my heart is not haughty, V’lo ramu einai nor mine eyes lofty, V’lo hilachti neither do I exercise myself Big’dolot uv’niflaot in great matters or in things Mimeni. too wonderful for me to understand. Im lo shiviti Surely I have calmed V’domam’ti, and quieted myself, Naf’shi k’gamul alei imo, as a child that is weaned of his mother, Kagamul alai naf’shi. My soul is even as a weaned child. Yahel Yis’rael el Adonai Let Israel hope in the Lord Me’atah v’ad olam. from henceforth and forever.

PSALM 133, VERSE 1

Hineh mah tov,

Behold how good, Umah nayim, and how pleasant it is, Shevet ahim for brethren to dwell Gam yahad. together in unity. Amen. Amen.

BRUCKNER, TE DEUM TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

I. TE DEUM LAUDAMUS

Te Deum laudamus:

We praise you, O God: te Dominum confitemur. we acknowledge you to be the Lord.

Te aeternum Patrem

All the Earth venerates you, omnis terra veneratur. the father everlasting.

Tibi omnes Angeli;

To you all angels cry aloud, all of the tibi caeli et universae Potestates; heavens, and all the powers therein.

Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim

To you Cherubim and Seraphim incessabili voce proclamant: continually cry, proclaiming: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy, holy, holy, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Lord God of Sabaoth.

Pleni sunt caeli et terra

Heaven and earth are full maiestatis gloriae tuae. of the majesty of your glory.

Te gloriosus

The glorious company of Apostolorum chorus the apostles praise you.

Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus. The laudable prophets praise you.

Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus. The noble army of martyrs praise you.

Te per orbem terrarium

The holy church, through the whole sancta confitetur Ecclesia, world acknowledges you, Patrem immensae maiestatis: Father of infinite majesty; venerandum tuum verum your honorable, true et unicum Filium; and only Son; Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum. and the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.

Tu Rex gloriae, Christe. Christ, you king of glory.

Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius. You everlasting Son of the Father. Tu ad liberandum When you took it on yourself suscepturus hominem, to deliver humanity, non horruisti Virginis uterum. you did not abhor the Virgin’s womb. Tu, devicto mortis aculeo, You overcame the sharpness of death, aperuisti credentibus regna caelorum. opening the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes, You sit at the right hand of God, in gloria Patris. in the glory of the Father.

Iudex crederis esse venturus. We believe that you will come to be our judge.

II. TE ERGO QUAESUMUS

Te ergo quaesumus, We beseech you, therefore, tuis famulis subveni, to help your servants, quos pretioso whom you have redeemed sanguine redemisti. with your precious blood.

III. AETERNA FAC

Aeterna fac cum Sanctis tuis

Make them to be numbered with in gloria numerari. your saints in everlasting glory.

TE DEUM

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS CONTINUED

IV. SALVUM FAC POPULUM TUUM

Salvum fac populum tuum Domine,

O Lord, save your people. et benedic haereditati tuae. and bless your heritage. Et rege eos, et extolle illos And govern them and usque in aeternum. exalt them forever.

Per singulos dies, benedicimus te Day by day we bless you et laudamus nomen tuum and praise your name in saeculum saeculi. Forever and ever.

Dignare, Domine, die isto Grant, O Lord, this day sine peccato nos custodire. To keep us without sin. Miserere nostri, Domine, Have mercy on us, O Lord, miserere nostri. have mercy on us.

Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos, Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, quemadmodum speravimus in te. As we have trusted in you.

V. IN TE, DOMINE, SPERAVI

In te, Domine, speravi,

In you, O Lord, have I trusted, non confundar in aeternum. let me never be confounded.

Luther Memorial Church

NEW PIPE ORGAN COMING SOON!

Spring 2026 will bring the newest and largest pipe organ in Dane County to Luther Memorial Church! All are invited to a year-long series of recitals and project. Admission is free.

BRUCE BENGTSON, ORGAN & ANDREW BALIO, TRUMPET

SATURDAY, JUNE 20 | 7 PM

Trumpeter Andrew Balio has performed with the Chicago Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Hong Symphony Orchestra since 2001. Coupled with the talents of Madison’s own Bruce Bengtson, this will make for a concert you won’t want to miss!

GABRIELLE MCDOUGALL, ORGAN

SUNDAY, AUG. 2 | 3 PM

University’s Jacobs School of Music, is quickly gaining organists.

BÁLINT KAROSI, ORGAN

FRIDAY, SEP. 4 | 7:30 PM

Described as “ferociously talented” by WGBH Classical New England, Bálint Karosi is known for his expressive command of a wide range of repertoire, guided by historical musicianship, enriched by his experiences as a composer,

Luther Memorial Church 1021 University Avenue Madison, Wis. www.luthermem.org

What a truly extraordinary milestone—100 Years Together in Music! This centennial celebration has been years in the making, and Madison Symphony Orchestra League is thrilled and honored to be part of the dedicated team bringing this joyful season to life. We warmly congratulate the MSO on a century of inspiring performances, unforgettable concerts, and a lasting impact on our community. As we celebrate all that has come before, we also delight in the music of today and eagerly look ahead embracing the present and empowering the future of the Madison Symphony Orchestra for generations to come.

YOU can get involved too, as we jointly host an unprecedented celebration on June 13-14th at Overture. The finale CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL WEEKEND- a FREE two-day festival of music will be incredible. Volunteers are needed to help. Using the QR code below, you can learn more about how you can support your Madison Symphony Orchestra celebration!

And as the CENTENNIAL YEAR comes to an end, the Madison Symphony League prepares to celebrate our 70th year of support for the artistic, educational, financial and community engagement goals of the Madison Symphony Orchestra! Learn more and join us!

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Madelyn Leopold & Claude Kazanski

Vic & Sue Levy

Jane Lewis & Paul Nelson

Mike & Kathy Lipp

Richard & Judy Loveless

Maryellen MacDonald & Mark Seidenberg

Garrick & Susan Maine

Kathlyn Maldegen

Bruce & Ruth Marion

Lindsay Marty

Robert McCalla & Laurie Beardsley

Julie McGivern & Tom Smith

Marta Meyers & Ian Davies

Oscar Mireles

Rick & Jo Morgan

Faith & Kirk Morledge

Mary & Michael Myers

John Walker

Toby L. Wallach

Ronald & Janet Wanek

John & Janine Wardale

David L. Weimer & Melanie Manion

Sally Wellman

Leonard & Paula Werner

Cathy & Eric Wilson

Carola Winkle

Jeffrey Williamson

Seven Anonymous Friends

$250–$499

Jason & Erin Adamany

Julius & Hildegard Adler

Sally E. Anderson

Lyle J. Anderson

Aurora BayCare Hospital X-Ray Team

Dennis & Beverly Ball

Rose Barroilhet

Linda & Howard Bellman

Patricia Bernhardt

Bobbi Foutch-Reynolds & Jim Reynolds

Clayton & Belle Frink

Dena & Casey Frisch

Paul Fritsch & Jim Hartman

Alan & Kathy Garant

Carol Ruhly

Madeline Sall

Wilton Sanders

Don & Barb Sanford

Jeffrey & Gail Schauer

George Austin & Martha Vukelich-Austin

Javier Garay

Russell & Suzanne Gardner

Fr. C. Lee & Edith M. Gilbertson

Dianne Greenley

Vicki & Alan Hamstra

Eileen Hanneman & Larry Sromovsky

Margaret Harrigan & Richard Ross

John Hayward & Susan Roehlk

John & Sarah Helgeson

Cornelia Hempe

Michael Hobbs & Sherry Boozer-Hobbs

Barbara S. Hughes

Paul & Sarah Johnsen

Paul Kent

Ray & Jane Kent

Connie Kinsella & Marc Eisen

Noël Marie & Steven Klapper

Chris & Marge Kleinhenz

Irwin Klibaner

Doug Knudson & Judith Lyons

Mark Kremer

Polly & Jim Kuelbs

Kathleen K. & Richard R. Kuhnen

Steven & Debra Schroeder

Andreas & Susanne Seeger

Richard Seybold

Victoria & Alan Sheldon

Carolin Showers

Karen Smith

Kathy & Gabor Speck

Carol Spiegel

James & Christina Steinbach

Andrew & Erika Stevens

Bruce & Carol Stoddard

Karen M. Stoebig

Karla Stoebig

David Stone

Elaine Strassburg

Kurt & Nikki Studt

Ulrika Swanson

David & Meg Tenenbaum

Barbara Jill Thomas

Doris J. Van Houten

John & Bonnie Verberkmoes

Janet Vetrovec

Geke de Vries & Herman Felstehausen

Arnold & Ellen Wald

Scott Weber & Martha Barrett

Nancy Webster

Cleo & Judy Weibel

Urban Wemmerlöv & Mary Beth Schmalz

Amy Wencel

Jim Werlein & Jody Pringle

William White

Kathryn Woodson

John Young & Gail Snowden

Steven & Patty Zach

Thomas & Karen Zilavy

Debra Zillmer & Daniel Leaver

Six Anonymous Friends

$50–$249

Jonathan Accola

Valerie Cappozzo

Jeanne & Uriah Carpenter

Sally Carpenter & Barry Strauss

Susan Christensen

Kay Cipperly

Carol Clarke

Colleen Cleary & David Anderson

Randall & Pamela Clouse

Beverly Cnare Dusso

Barbara Constans

Bonnie & Marc Conway

Melissa Coons & Edward Jordan

Anne-Marie & Paul Correll

Ed & Vicki Cothroll

Stan & Debbie Cravens

Randall Crow & Patricia Kerr

James Fromm

Barbara Furstenberg

Greg & Clare Gadient

Kenneth & Molly Gage

Susan Gandley

Jill Gaskell

Laurie Gauper

Candice Gehl

Curt & Michelle Gehl

David & Gloria Gehl

Donna Gehl

Jane Gehl & Todd Thiel

The Joshua P. Gehl Family

Luke Gehl

Mark & Kathy Gehl

Mike & Pam Gehl

Robert & Ellen Hull

Donald Huseby

Linda & Jeff Huttenburg

John & Karen Icke

Frank Iltis

Mark & Catherine Isenberg

Karen Jeatran

Brandon & Sarah Jellison

Greg & Doreen Jensen

Aaron & Sarah Johnson

Dan & Janet Johnson

Doug & Kathy Johnson

Heather Johnson

Theresa & Pell Johnson

Conrad & Susan Jostad

Robert & Barbara Justl

Arnold Alanen & Lynn Bjorkman

Barbara Anderson

Reed & Jan Andrew

Helene Androski & Larry Gray

Livia Asher

Brian & Tracy Bachhuber

Rachel Bain

Kathie Bennett

Leigh Barker Cheesebro

George & Donna Beestman

Pat Behling & Ginger Anderle

Jeanne Behrend & Dan Fields

Jenna Behrman

Deb & John Belken

Ruth Benedict

Bruce Bengtson

Karen Benson

Prentice Berge

Kerry Berns & Joe Rossmeissl

Lynn & Cheryl Binnie

Ramsay Bittar

Rita E. Bogosh

Jonathan Boott

Cindy Borch

Yvonne A. Bowen

Chris & Gretchen Brace

Steven Braithwait

Janet Brantmeier

Judith E. Brauer

Angela & Tom Breunig

Waltraud Brinkmann

Calvin Bruce & Cathy Caro-Bruce

Lou & Nancy Bruch

Gregory Buchberger

Ted & Judy Buenzli

Kevin & Tracey Buhr

Lynn Burke

Val & Tim Burland

Walter Burt & Deborah Cardinal

Julie Buss

Heather & Mark Butler

Ronald & Elizabeth Butler

Ann Campbell

Bruce & Samantha Crownover

John Daane

Nanette Dagnon

Beverly Dahl

Michele Davanis Klaus & Michael Klaus

Suzanne Davis

Sally A. Davis

Douglas J. Deboer

Frances Degraff

Diane & Dominic DeMain

Jeannine & Edouard Desautels

Mary Detra

Daniel & Lavonne Dettmers

Michael & Carla Di Iorio

Ulrike Dieterle

Paul DiMusto & Molly Oberdoerster

Donalea Dinsmore

Dan & Carole Doeppers

Meranda Dooley

Rosemary M. Dorney

Sue Dornfeld

John & Molly Dowling

Richard & Doris Dubielzig

Katy & Edward Dueppen

Kenneth Edenhauser

Alan & Ramona Ehrhardt

Ann Ellingboe

Rhea Emmer

William & Jill Emmons

Dave & Kathi Erickson

John & Joann Esser

Elizabeth Fadell

Linda Fahy

Jeanie Farmer

Friedemarie & Thomas Farrar

Douglas & Carol Fast

Phillip & Deborah Ferris

Lorna Filippini & Clyde Paton

Alan & Cindy Finesilver

William Flader

Grace Fleming

John & Signe Frank

Raelene & LisaAnn Freitag

Janet & Byron Frenz

Michael George & Susan Gardels

Ari Georges

Shawn Gillen

Carl & Peggy Glassford

William & Sharon Goehring

Janice Golay

Connie & Barry Golden

Robert & Dianne Gomez

Raj & Parvathi Gopal

William & Marilyn Gorham

Jane & Paul Graham

Barbara Grajewski & Michael Slupski

David Griffeath & Catherine Loeb

Courtney Grimm

Diana Grove

Dale & Linda Gutman

Jennifer Haack

Kate Habrel

Magdalene Hagedorn

Ryan Hahn

Bob & Beverly Haimerl

Cleo Hall

Jan Benjamin Hall & Jane E.L. Hall

Thomas & Vicki Hall

Craig & Gina Hallbauer

Jane Hallock & William Wolfort

Paul Haskew & Nancy Kendrick

H. William & Susan Hausler

Cynthia Hawkinson

Dan Hayes

Gregg Heatley & Julie James

Jan & Maria Heide

Cheryl Heiliger

Steven & Kate Henderson

Ann Henne

Brian W. Heywood, M.D.

Hietpas, Armstrong, & Johnson Families

Nona Hill & Clark Johnson

William & Sara Lee Hinckley

Les & Susan Hoffman

Roger & Glenda Hott

Kent & Annette Hovie

Mandy Huber

Peter & Candace Huebner

Michelle & Christopher Kaebisch

Kathy & Chuck Kamp

Corliss & Bill Karasov

Mina Kato & Steve Keith

Estelle Katz

Virginia Kaufman

Arlan Kay

Joseph Kay

Marilyn Kay

Anna Keld

Sherri Kelly

Raymond & Jane Kent

Duane & JoAnn Kexel

Melissa Keyes & Ingrid Rothe

Maureen Kind

Patricia M. King

Eric & Caroline Klemm

Marie Frances Klos

Peter & Emily Klug

Daniel Knepper

Laurie & Gus Knitt

Donald Kometz

Diana Konkle

Mary Jo Kopecky

Douglas Kopp

Steven Koslov

Kevin & Theresa Kovach

Diane & Thomas Kramer

Joanna Kramer Fanney

Michael G. Krejci

Scott & Cynthia Kuenzi

Sheri & Jim Kulling

Merilyn Kupferberg

Katherine Kvale & Thomas Schirz

Ann Lacy

Emma Lai & Marius Schradermeier

Paul Lambert & Anne Griep

Sherry & George Lang

Mary & Steve Langlie

Jim Larkee

Carl & Jerilyn Laurino

Laurie Laz & Jim Hirsch

Richard & Lynn Leazer

Sally Leong

Gary Lewis & Ken Sosinski

Nancy Lieg

Steve Limbach & Karen Rinke

Bob & Sally Lorenz

Judith A. Louer

Dick & Cindy Lovell

Doug & Mary Loving

Kathy Luker

Nancy & Mark Mackenzie

Frank & Nancy Maersch

Mark & Linda Malkin

Chuck & Linda Malone

Richard & Rita Manning

Richard Margolis

Peter & Marjorie Marion

Jeanne Marshall

Kristin Martin & Lori Miller

Jim & Toni Mastrangelo

Edward Matkom

Bruce Matthews & Eileen Murphy

Gordon & Jan McChesney

Jan L. McCormick

Paul & Jane McGann

Cynthia McKenna

Bruce & Barbara McRitchie

Kate Meagher

Daniel & Laurel Medenblik

Christine & Russell Melland

Lori J. Merriam

Dale Meyer & Mary Seay

Mark Micek & Sarah Bahauddin

Stanley Michelstetter

Christine Miles

Susan Millar

Linda Miller

Margaret & Paul Miller

Mark Miller & Terry Sizer

Sharla Miller

Wendy Miller

Jerry & Maureen Minnick

Darlene & Charles Mistretta

Rolf & Judith Mjaanes

Douglas & Rosemary Moore

Jennifer Morgan

Terry Morrison

Gary & Carol Moseson

Richard & Marcia Olson

Richard & Mary Ann Olson

Thomas & Mary Ott

Elizabeth Palay

Pamela Palmer

James & Joan Parise

Barbara Park

Paul Patenaude

Mitchell L. Patton

Phillip & Karen Paulson

John Pepple

Ernest J. Peterson

Roger & Linda Pettersen

Donna Jean Phelps & Thomas Phelps

Luke & Linda Plamann

Roger & Judy Plamann

Ann Pollock & James Coors

Diana Popowycz

Tom Popp

Sally & Jim Porter

Sarah Potts

Paula Primm

Mark E. Puda & Carol S. Johnston

Thomas & Janet Pugh

Randall & Deb Raasch

Donald & Roz Rahn

Kathryn Rasmussen

Loren & Margaret Rathert

Richard & Donna Reinardy

Drs. Joy & David Rice

Catherine Richard

Rick & Sara Richards

Bill & Joan Richner

Mark & Zoe Rickenbach

Diane Risley

Lorraine & Gary Roberts

Sara Roberts & Carolyn Carlson

Matt & Laura Roethe

Rosina Romano

Howard & Mirriam Rosen

Fred & Mary Ross

John Ross

Mildred J. Ross

Peggy Ross

John & Rachel Rothschild

Nathaniel Ruck

Bruce Muckerheide & Robert Olson

Craig & Karen Myers

Lynn Hallie Najem

Cheryl Namyst & Steve Konkol

Raymond Nashold

Jack & Carol Naughton

Mary & Susan Nelson

Deborah & Jim Neuman

Mary Lou Nord

Madeline & Tim Norris

Heidi & Tom Notbohm

Andrew Nowlan

Thomas & Barbara Oatman

Nicholas Olson

Thomas & Lynn Schmidt

Gerald Schneider

Beverly Schrag

Sandy & Joe Schulz

Ann & Gary Scott

Ann & Dayton Sederquist

Vicki Semo Scharfman

Patti & Mike Sensenbrenner

Jacqui & John Shanda

Michael Shank & Carol Troyer-Shank

Sandy Shepherd

Daryl Sherman

Jackson Short

Christi & Pat Shortridge

Eve Siegel Beck

Thomas & Myrt Sieger

Nan Sievert

Glen & Marie Siferd

Neal & Agnieszka Silbert

Sydnee Singer

Carolyn Sluder

J.R. & Patricia Smart

Derrick & Carrie Smith

Eileen M. Smith

Steve Somerson & Helena Tsotsis

Stephanie Sorensen

Keith Sperling

Gary & Jackie Splitter

Mary St. Claire

Robert & Barbara Stanley

Joanne Stark

Chuck Stathas

Gareth L. Steen

Franklin & Jennie Stein

Michael Stemper

Taylor Stofflet

Jonathan & Jessica Storey

Robert & Nancy Rudd

Paul & Pam Rush

Janet Ruszala-Coughlin & Tim Coughlin

Dean Ryerson

Steven & Lennie Saffian

Paul Saganski

Beverly Sakofsky

Ruth M. Sanderson

Sinikka Santala & Gregory Schmidt

Nan & Bob Schaefer

Dennis & Janice Schattschneider

Iva Hillegas Schatz

John & Susan Schauf

Dianne Schmidt

Colleen & Tim Tucker

Mary Lou Tyne

John & Shelly Van Note

The Veenendaal Family

Rebekah Verbeten

Elena Vetrina & Wallace Sherlock

Jan Vidruk

Angela Vitcenda & Jerry Norenberg

Liz Vowles

Greg Wagner & Fred Muci

Marty Wallace

Morris & Carolyn Waxler

Peggy & James Weber

Mary Webster

Steve & Pat Wehrley

Steven Wendorff

David & Hannah Wessel

Karl & Ellen Westlund

Mary & Leo Wherley

Dorothy Whiting

Wade W. & Shelley D. Whitmus

Steven & Ellen Wickland

Nancy & Tripp Widder

Ernst & Connie Wiegeshaus

Candy Wilke

Eve Wilkie

Suzy Wilkoff

Bambi Wilson

Scott & Donna Wilson

Rick Wirch

Scott & Jane Wismans

Brad Wolbert & Rebecca Karoff

Eric & Emily James Strauss

Carol Strmiska

Rob & Mary Stroud

David & Shirley Susan

Steve & Lisa Sveum

Michael & Sarah Swanson

Matthew Sykes

Margaret Mischler Taylor

Mary & James Taylor

Pete & Ruthie Taylor

Cheri Teal

Howard & Elizabeth Teeter

Gerald & Priscilla Thain

Matthew Theiss

Glen Thio & Ka Her

Gary & Louise Thompson

Stephen Thompson

Susan Thomson & Chris Gentilli

Anne Thurber & Yjan Gordon

Tom & Dianne Totten

Elizabeth Townsend & Daniel

Shirley

Margaret Trepton

Judith A. Troia

Celeste Woodruff & Bruce Fritz

Jon Woods

Nancy Woods

Joseph Wright

David Wuestenberg

Patricia Zastrow

Gretchen Zelle

Ron Zerofsky

Joan N. Zingale

42 Anonymous Friends

We also thank 124 donors for their contributions of $1 to $49.

* Total includes gifts supporting: MSO’s 2025-26 Annual Campaign; MSOL 2025-26 Events & General Support; 2025-26 Organ Concerts; Friends of the Overture Concert Organ’s 2025-26 Annual Campaign. MSOL and FOCO basic membership dues and fundraising event ticket purchases are not included. Giving thresholds listed here do not correspond to giving levels within specific campaigns included. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list. If you have any questions or corrections, please contact our development department at (608) 257-3734.

Musician Feature

ROLF WULFSBERG

Violin

Violinist Rolf Wulfsberg studied with Thomas Moore at UW-Madison, and Henryk Kowalski and Albert Lazan at Indiana University, graduating from IU in Psychology and English. He joined Madison Symphony Orchestra in 1983. He started work in music publishing during the infancy of computerized music typography. Having led music production for the recently finished critical edition Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works (cpebach.org), he is presently working on Johann Christian Bach: Operas and Dramatic Works (jcbach.org).

In addition to MSO, Rolf plays in the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra and the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. He credits mother Elizabeth (MSO 1977-1994) for the love of orchestral playing, and he plays the violin given to Elizabeth by her aunt. He also enjoys playing Scandinavian folk music on violin and Hardanger fiddle with spouse Susan.

Fun fact: Rolf is left-handed, as are his present and two previous MSO stand partners.

Endow a Chair

A gift to the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s endowment can provide permanent and lasting support for a position in the orchestra, helping to ensure the MSO will continue to attract and retain top quality artistic talent.

Available* Chair Naming Opportunities: Music Director Principal Tuba, Bass

Associate Concertmaster

Assistant Principal Bass Section Chair

Other opportunities and more information: madisonsymphony.org/endowment

For questions or to discuss a potential gift: Casey Oelkers, Director of Development, (608)257-3734

*as of 9/15/25

JOHANNA WIENHOLTS

Harp

Johanna Wienholts is a harpist and creative artist celebrated for her authentic, expressive sound and joyful stage presence. A passionate educator, she currently serves on the string faculty at University of Wisconsin’s Mead Witter School of Music, and previously taught at Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Johanna is the principal harpist of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Before settling in Madison in 2017, Johanna was a freelance harpist in New York City and Toronto.

Johanna is a sought-after performer as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent chamber music festivals include the Green Lake Chamber Music Festival, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Willy Street Chamber Players, Token Creek Music Festival, Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival, and Interharmony Music Festival in Acqui Terme, Italy.

Johanna holds a bachelor’s degree in classical harp performance from University of Toronto and a graduate degree in performance from Manhattan School of Music. She trained at Interlochen Arts Academy under Joan Holland and went on to study with the renowned harpist Judy Loman, one of the last pupils of Carlos Salzedo.

BUSINESS, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT DONORS

FOUNDATION AND

Madison Orchestra

Madison

Symphony

Madison Symphony Orchestra League

Friends of the Overture Concert

Friends of the Overture Concert Organ

The Madison Orchestra and our affiliate organizations on generous donor support to fund the fulfillment of our mission each year. We all companies, foundations and government agencies for their grants, sponsorships, general and

The Madison Symphony Orchestra affiliate rely donor the our each year. We gratefully acknowledge companies, and agencies grants, contributions, and gifts-in-kind.

$100,000 OR MORE

Madison Symphony Orchestra Foundation

Madison Symphony Orchestra League

WMTV 15 News

$50,000–$99,999

Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

American Printing

Irving and Dorothy Levy Family Foundation, Inc.

The Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club

Madison Magazine

Madison Media Partners

$15,000–$24,999

Capitol Lakes

The Evjue Foundation, Inc.

Fiore Companies, Inc.

$10,000–$14,999

John J. Frautschi Family Foundation

Lake Ridge Bank

Kenneth A. Lattman Foundation, Inc.

Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.

Marriott Daughters Foundation

PBS Wisconsin

University Research Park

U.S. Bank Foundation

Walter A. and Dorothy Jones Frautschi Charitable Unitrust

$5,000–$9,999

An Anonymous Foundation

Boardman Clark Law Firm

Wisconsin Public Woodman’s Food Markets

Organizations that have contributed to the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra League, and/or Friends of the Overture Concert are listed to the total amount of their donations supporting the 2025-2026 Season* as of April 2, 2026.

Organizations that have contributed to the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Symphony League, the Concert Organ are listed according to the total donations the Season* 2026.

Madison Orchestra League’s Organ listed to the donations the Radio

National Endowment for the Arts

Nimick Forbesway Foundation

Richman & Richman LLC

Wisconsin Arts Board

with additional funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts

Dane County Arts, with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation

DeWitt LLP

Exact Sciences

Fields Auto Group

Hooper Corporation

J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.

The Steven P. Robinson Family Fund

Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

SupraNet Communications, Inc.

von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

Walter and Dorothy Jones Frautschi Fund

West Bend Insurance Company

$2,500–$4,999

Group Health

South Central

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Kohls & Mackie, LLC

Madison Arts Commission

Midwest Patrol & Investigative LLC

Stafford Rosenbaum LLP

$1,000–$2,499

Baird/The Woodford Group

BRAVA Magazine

The Capital Times Kids Fund

Capitol Bank

Festival Foods

Google

Herb Kohl Charities

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

Wholesale

Costco Wholesale Corporation House of Pianos

Farley’s House of Pianos

UW Health & Unity Health Insurance

Wisconsin Solar Design, Inc.

UP TO $999

Above the Bar Marketing

Alliant Energy Foundation

Matching Gifts Program

American Family Insurance

Ascendium Education Group

Badger Bus

Bobbi Petersen Photography

Choles Floral

GE Hartmeyer Ice Arena

Heid Music Heid Music Family Charitable Fund

Healthcare Ice and Charitable Promega Corporation

Sold with Faith Real Estate, Restaino & Associates

Veridian Homes Foundation

*Total includes donations that support 2025-2026 Madison Symphony Orchestra Concerts, 2025-2026 Organ Concerts, 2025-2026 Education and Community Engagement Programs; Madison Symphony Orchestra 2025-2026 Events and Activities including Symphony at Sunset and Friends of the Overture Concert Organ’s 2025-2026 Annual Campaign. Fundraising event ticket purchases are not included. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list. If you believe an error has been made, please contact our development department at (608) 257-3734.

PLANNED GIVING: THE STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY

The individuals listed below have informed the MSO that they have included gifts for the Symphony in their estate plans. If you have remembered the Symphony in your will, living trust, or have made other arrangements for a future gift, we would love to know so we can thank you! We honor all requests for anonymity. Contact Casey Oelkers at (608) 260-8680 x228 for more information.

Fernando & Carla Alvarado

Emy Andrew

Twila Sheskey

Dr. Beverly S. Simone

Carl M. Hudig

Dr. Stanley & Shirley Inhorn

Mrs. J. Barkley Rosser

Harry D. Sage

Dennis Appleton & Jennifer Buxton

Diane Ballweg

Margaret B. Barker

Chuck Bauer & Chuck Beckwith

Dr. Annette Beyer-Mears

Rosemarie & Fred Blancke

Shaila & Tom Bolger

Michael K. Bridgeman

JoAnn Six

Mary Lang Sollinger

Sharon Stark & Peter D. Livingston

Gareth L. Steen

Jurate Stewart

John & Mary Storer

Martha Jenny

Lois M. Jones

Shirley Jane Kaub

Helen B. Kayser

Patricia Koenecke

Teddy H. Kubly

Joel Skornicka

Chalma Smith

Marie Spec

Charlotte I. Spohn

Evelyn C. Steenbock

Alexis Buchanan & James Baldwin

Scott & Janet Cabot

Clarence Cameron & Robert Lockhart

Martha & Charles Casey

Elizabeth A. Conklin

James Dahlberg & Elsebet Lund

Barbara & John DeMain

Robert Dinndorf

Audrey & Philip Dybdahl

Jim & Marilyn Ebben

Endo Family Trust

George Gay

Tyrone & Janet Greive

Terry Haller

Brandon S. Hayes

Robert Horowitz & Susan B. King

Richard & Meg LaBrie

David Lauth & Lindsey Thomas

Ann Lindsey & Charles Snowdon

Claudia Berry Miran

Elaine & Nicholas Mischler

Stephen D. Morton

Margaret Murphy

Reynold V. Peterson

David & Kato Perlman

Judith Pierotti

Michael Pritzkow

John Rafoth

Gordon & Janet Renschler

Joy & David Rice

Joan & Kenneth Riggs

Harry & Karen Roth

Edwin & Ruth Sheldon

Richard Tatman & Ellen Seuferer

Marilynn Thompson

Ann Wallace

Richard & Barbara Weaver

Carolyn & Ron White

John Wiley & Andrea Teresa Arenas

Dave Willow

Mary Alice Wimmer

Helen L. Wineke

Ten Anonymous Friends

ESTATE GIFTS RECEIVED

Elizabeth S. Anderes

Donald W. Anderson

Judy Ashford

Helen Barnick

Norman Bassett

Nancy Becknell

DeEtte Beilfuss-Eager

Theo F. Bird

Marian & Jack Bolz

Kenneth Bussan

Margaret Christy

Frances Z. Cumbee

Teddy Derse

Dr. Leroy Ecklund

Mary J. Ferguson

Linda I. Garrity

Maxine A. Goold

Beatrice B. Hagen

Martin R. Hamlin

Sybil A. Hanks

Elizabeth Harris

Julian E. Harris

Jane Hilsenhoff

Arno & Hazel Kurth

Steven Landfried

James V. Lathers

Renata Laxova

Stella I. Leverson

Lila Lightfoot

Jan Markwart

Geraldine F. Mayer

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Miller

Janet Nelson

Sandra L. Osborn

Elmer B. Ott

Ethel Max Parker

Josephine Ratner

Harry Steenbock

Virginia Swingen

Gamber F. Tegtmeyer, Jr. & Audrey Tegtmeyer

Katherine Voight

William & Joyce Wartmann

Sally & Ben Washburn

Sybil Weinstein

Mr. & Mrs. J. Wesley Thompson

Glenn & Edna Wiechers

Elyn L. Williams

Margaret C. Winston

Jay Joseph Young

Two Anonymous Friends

A Legacy of Music

The Madison Symphony Orchestra is a grateful recipient and faithful steward of planned gifts from individuals who have remembered the Symphony in their estate plans. Through a planned gift, you can help preserve MSO’s legacy of great music for generations to come. All planned gifts qualify for Stradivarius Society recognition, and requests for anonymity will be honored.

Learn more madisonsymphony.org/stradivarius

“I have designated a gift for the Symphony in my will to help ensure the orchestra will have outstanding artistic leadership for generations to come.”

– Mary Alice Wimmer, Stradivarius Society Member

In honor of Mike Allsen

Gale Barber

TRIBUTES

The Madison Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their contributions honoring family & friends, as of April 2, 2026. Tributes are recognized for one year following the gift date.

The Madison Orchestra the donors for their contributions & friends, as of 2, 2026. Tributes are for one year the date.

In memory of Jack

In honor of Janneke C. Baske

Bruce and Barbara McRitchie

In honor of Barbara Berven

Janet Renschler

In honor of Barbara DeMain

Anonymous

In honor of John DeMain

Diane and Dominic DeMain

Pamela Ploetz and John Henderson

Anonymous

In honor of Tammy and Charles Hodulik

Steven and Lynn Hodulik

In honor of Jing “Connie” Li

Tom and Heidi Notbohm

In honor of Elliot Lesperance

Jennifer Vasam

In honor of the Madison Symphony Chorus

John Heaton

In honor of Elspeth Stalter-Clouse

Randall and Pamela Clouse

In honor of John Toussaint

Reynold V. Peterson

In honor of Carolyn White

Sharon M. Berkner

In honor of Laura White

Anonymous

In honor of Greg Zelek

Christine & Jeff Molzahn

Todd & Kim Toussaint

Margy Wilkoff

In honor of Greg Zelek & Amanda Elfman

Suzy Wilkoff

In memory of Norman C. Anderson

Peggy Anderson

In memory of Susan H. Axelrod

Jon P. Axelrod

Bob Bolz, and Adolph

Julia Bolz

Robert and Lynn

Jeff and Joan Bolz

Carolyn and Bob Glah

Anonymous

Cathy and Eric Wilson

In memory of Jack & Marian Bolz, Anne & Bob and & Eugenie Bolz

In memory of Marian Bolz

Samuel C. Hutchison

In memory of Barbara Ann Brown

Kirk Brown and Lori DiPrete Brown

Brian W. Heywood, M.D.

In memory of Jim & Betty Bruce

Samuel C. Hutchison

In memory of Stephen Caldwell

Judith Werner

In memory of Robert Carwithen

Samuel C. Hutchison

In memory of Wayne Chaplin

Gail Bergman

In memory of Jim Ebben

Marilyn Ebben

In memory of Kennedy W. Gilchrist

Barbara S. Hughes

In memory of Anita Healey

Valerie and Andreas Kazamias

Christine and Robert Reed

In memory of Perry Henderson

Elaine and Nicholas Mischler

In memory of Chuck Howting

Libby Howting

In memory of Stanley Inhorn

Douglas Kopp

In memory of Stan and Shirley Inhorn

Ramsay Bittar

Becky Dick

Tyrone and Janet Greive

Elaine and Mischler

Patricia Kokotailo and R. Lawrence DeRoo

Ruth Sheldon, M.D.

Nicholas M.D.

Judith and Nick Topitzes

Anonymous

Nick

In memory of Dr. Edith G.

Samuel C.

memory Dr. King Hutchison

Cleo Hall

Craig and Gina Hallbauer

Sharon and Haroldson

Gina Joel

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Aurora BayCare Hospital

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CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY DONORS

We are deeply grateful to these donors who have made gifts or commitments for the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Centennial Anniversary to support special projects, programs, or performances, as of April 16, 2026.

$100,000+ CENTENNIAL CHAMPIONS

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Joel and Kathryn Belaire

Norm and Barbara Berven

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$25,000 - $49,999

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Fernando and Carla Alvarado

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On the spring concert of our 23rd season, you will hear the beautiful melodies of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet along with Sergei Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes. We will also perform the Serenade for String Trio by Hungarian composer László Weiner. A Madison Premier!

Sat. May 30, 2026 7:30 PM

ENDOWMENT GIVING: THE CENTURY SOCIETY

We gratefully acknowledge our Century Society donors, who have made commitments of $100,000 or more to the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s endowment through outright or planned gifts, as of February 2026. Their gifts create a solid financial foundation upon which the MSO can realize its vision to be a leader in classical music performance, education, community engagement, and artistic innovation for generations to come.

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Century Society members are always welcome. Visit madisonsymphony.org/endowment to learn more about endowment giving and view a full list of endowment donors.

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William and Alexandra Dove

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OVERTURE HALL INFORMATION BOARDS & ADMINISTRATION

RESTROOMS

Women’s and men’s restrooms are located on each level of Overture. Family assist/gender inclusive restrooms, available to persons of any gender identity and expression, are available in the following areas:

• Lower-Level Rotunda: to the right of the stairway.

• First floor lobby / Overture Hall: near coat check.

• Second floor: Gallery 2—second door to the left off the elevators.

Amenities at gender-inclusive restrooms include:

• Lockable door to provide privacy for individual users

• Ample room for an assistant/family member, if needed

• Accessible sink, stool and urinal (floor level)

• Changing stations

• Power-assist doors (Level 1 restrooms only)

ACCESSIBILITY

Overture Center is fully accessible to persons with mobility, hearing, and visual impairments. Ushers are available at each concert to assist you. Wheelchair or transfer seating is available; please notify the Overture Center Box Office when purchasing your ticket. If you require an assistive-listening device, please alert an usher at the concert. Braille programs are also available upon request. Please contact Heather at hrose@madisonsymphony.org at least three weeks prior to the concert you wish to attend.

GUEST CONSIDERATIONS

The musicians and your fellow audience members thank you!

• Please arrive early to ensure plenty of time to get through security and to be seated. If you arrive late, you will be seated during an appropriate break in the music at the discretion of the house staff. If you need to leave during the concert, please exit quietly and wait to be reseated by an usher at an appropriate break.

• Please feel free to take photos before and after the concert, and during intermission! Once the lights dim, please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices.

• Please do not wear perfumes, colognes or scented lotions as many people are allergic to these products.

• Smoking is not permitted anywhere in Overture Center for the Arts.

• The coat-check room is open when the weather dictates and closes 20 minutes after the performance ends.

• Food and beverages are available at bars and concession stands in the Overture Lobby. Beverages are allowed in Overture Hall, but please enjoy food in the lobby. Please unwrap cough drops and candies before the concert begins.

Please take note: We will adhere to all public health guidelines and cooperate with Overture Center for the Arts to ensure your safety. We invite you to visit madisonsymphony.org/health for more information on health and safety. Overture Center safety information can be found at overture.org/health

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2025-2026

OFFICERS

Michael Richman, Chair

Janet Cabot, Secretary

Doug Reuhl, Treasurer

Ellsworth Brown, Immediate Past Chair

Barbara Berven, Member-at-large

Oscar Mireles, Member-at-large

Derrick Smith, Member-at-large

Lynn Stathas, Member-at-large

Anna Trull, Member-at-large

DIRECTORS

Brian Anderson

Rubin Anthony

Barbara Berven

Rosemarie Blancke

Ellsworth Brown

Janet Cabot

Cecilia Carlsson

Bryan Chan

Elton Crim

James Dahlberg

Robert Dinndorf

Audrey Dybdahl

Marc Fink

Jane Hamblen

Paul Hoffmann

Mooyoung Kim

Phillip La Susa

David Lauth

Robert Lemanske

Ann Lindsey

Marta Meyers

Oscar Mireles

Richard Morgan

Leslie Overton

Jon Parker

Lester Pines

Michael Richman

Sophia Rogers

Carole Schaeffer

John Sims

Derrick Smith

Lynn Stathas

Todd Stuart

Anna Trull

Jasper Vaccaro

Ellis Waller

Eric Wilcots

Michael Zorich

ADVISORS

Elliott Abramson

Michael Allsen

Carla Alvarado

Jeffrey Bauer

Ted Bilich

Camille Carter

Martha Casey

Laura Gallagher

Tyrone Greive

Michael Hobbs

Mark Huth

Stephanie Lee

José Madera

Joseph Meara

Gary Mecklenburg

Larry Midtbo

Abigail Ochberg

Greg Piefer

Cyrena Pondrom

Margaret Pyle

Jacqueline Rodman

Kay Schwichtenberg

Mary Lang Sollinger

Judith Topitzes

Carolyn White

Anders Yocom

Stephen Zanoni

LIFE DIRECTORS

Terry Haller

Valerie Kazamias

Elaine Mischler

Nicholas Mischler

Douglas Reuhl

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Jennifer Berne, President Madison College

Kathy Evers, First Lady of the State of Wisconsin

Melissa Agard, Dane County Executive

DIRECTORS EMERITUS

Helen Bakke

Wallace Douma

Fred Mohs

Stephen Morton

Beverly Simone

John Wiley

EX OFFICIO DIRECTORS

Rozan Anderson

Mark Bridges

Rose Heckenkamp-Busch

William Steffenhagen

EX OFFICIO ADVISORS

Dan Cavanagh

Daniel Davidson

Josh Biere

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC. BOARD, 2025-2026

OFFICERS

Nicholas Mischler, President

Jon Parker, Vice President

Robert Reed, Secretary-Treasurer

DIRECTORS

Ellsworth Brown

Joanna Burish

Jill Friedow

Juan Gomez

Jane Hamblen

Nicholas Mischler

Jon Parker

Gregory Reed

Robert Reed

Douglas Reuhl

Michael Richman

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2025–2026

OFFICERS

Rozan Anderson, President

Don Sanford, President-Elect

Ledell Zellers, Recording Secretary

Janet Renschler, Corresponding Secretary

Leslie Overton, Treasurer

Michael Richman, MSO Board Chair

Barbara Berven, Immediate Past President/ Nominations

Louise Jeanne, VP Administration

Jackie Judd, AVP Administration

Kathy Forde, VP Communications

Cathy Buege, AVP Communications

Kathy Forde, Annual Report

Lori Poulson, VP Education (and Youth Docent Programs)

Jacqui Shanda, AVP Education

Judy Kalan, Music Discovery Talks

Jessica Yehle, VP Membership Recruitment & Retention

Michael Bridgeman, VP Membership Records

Lynn Stegner, VP Special Projects

Teressa Smith, AVP Special Projects

Don Sanford, Parties of Note 2024-2025

Jan Cibula, VP Social Activities

Mary Lou Tyne, Fall Luncheon

Rosemarie Blancke, Spring Luncheon/

Annual Meeting

Valerie Kazamias, Mid-winter Luncheon

Pat Bernhardt, Holiday Party

Jim Patch, Men’s Bridge

Marilyn Ebben, Women’s & Couples Bridge

ADVISORS

Pat Bernhardt

Rosemarie Blancke

Janet Cabot

Marilyn Ebben

Valerie Kazamias

Fern Lawrence

Ann Lindsey

Linda Lovejoy

Elaine Mischler

Beth Rahko

Judith Topitzes

Carolyn White

Nancy Young

FRIENDS OF THE OVERTURE

CONCERT ORGAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2025-2026

OFFICERS

William Steffenhagen, President

Charles McLimans, President-Elect

David Willow, Secretary-Treasurer

Robert Lemanske, Past-President

DIRECTORS

Herman Baumann

Janet Cabot

Quinn Christensen

Paula Doyle

Audrey Dybdahl

Mark Huth

Douglas McNeel

Margaret Murphy

Mary Ann Nanassy

David Parminter

Rhonda Rushing

Jennifer Younger

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ADVISORS

Fernando Alvarado

Diane Ballweg

Jim Baxter

Barbara Berven

Ellsworth Brown

John Gauder

Terry Haller

Ellen Larson Latimer

Gary Lewis

Elaine Mischler

Vicki Nonn

Reynold Peterson

Teri Venker

Anders Yocom

EX OFFICIO

Greg Zelek, Principal Organist and Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Curator of the Overture Concert Organ

MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.

ADMINISTRATION

Robert Reed, Executive Director

David Gordon, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison

Ann Bowen, General Manager

Simon Arno, Receptionist & Administrative Assistant

Alexis Carreon, Personnel Manager

Jennifer Goldberg, Orchestra Librarian, John & Carolyn Petersen Chair

Lisa Kjentvet, Director of Education & Community Engagement

Katelyn Hanvey, Education & Community Engagement Manager

Casey Oelkers, Director of Development

Meranda Dooley, Manager of Individual Giving

Rachel Cherian, Manager of Grants & Sponsorships

Christopher Stager, Interim Marketing Director

Heather Rose, Marketing Communications Manager

Isabella Clinton, Audience Experience Manager

Emma Potter, Digital Marketing Manager

Greg Zelek, Principal Organist and Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Curator of the Overture Concert Organ

May 2026 Symphony Program Book

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JOHN DEMAIN

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