WELCOME
Park Avenue Armory strives to engage audiences with high-quality classical music, becoming a “locus for important chamber music concerts” (The New Yorker). Set in the intimate and lush surroundings of the Board of Officers Room, the Armory provides “a space for chamber music, which marries excellent acoustics and an austerely elegant Gilded Age interior. With its blood-red mahogany paneling and chandeliers that diffuse a soft caramel glow while bronzed chain curtains filter out the daylight, the room creates an atmosphere of luxury and concentration” (The New York Times).
For the 2025 Season, the Recital Series includes highly anticipated recital debuts, thoughtfully curated programs of lieder, art song, and contemporary works by some of today’s most exciting musical interpreters, and thrilling performances that explore signal works and take the art form in bold new directions.
In February, we welcome BBC Next Generation Artist baritone Konstantin Krimmel for his North American recital debut, in a program of works by Schubert, Loewe, and Ralph Vaughan Williams with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. Soprano Erin Morley brings her sought-after lyric coloratura to the intimate Board of Officers Room stage in April with an artfully curated program of works from her recent album Rose in Bloom, including repertoire connected to flowers, gardens, and nature from Schumann and Berg to Saint-Saëns and Rimsky-Korsakov and a song cycle by Ricky Ian Gordon.
The series continues in the fall with Samoan tenor Pene Pati following his glowing reviews at his Met Opera debut earlier this year, making his North American recital debut with pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg in September. One of America’s foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk, gives a marathon performance in October of Bach’s Six Partitas, presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history, showcasing his virtuosic playing and sensitive musicality.
Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke gives a new program titled “Of Thee I Sing” in November, an artfully curated program with pianist Myra Huang of works by Debussy, both Alma and Gustav Mahler, and the New York premieres of a song cycle by Scott Ordway and an Armory-commissioned work by American composer Jasmine Barnes. Finally, the Attacca Quartet closes out the 2025 Recital Series with a wide-ranging program of classic quartets by Bartók and Haydn, quartet-arranged interpretations of signal works for other instrumentation, and the North American premiere of daisy—an Armory-commissioned new composition by David Lang.
Over the past decade of recitals at the Armory, we are proud to have held more than 130 intimate performances by almost 240 internationally renowned musicians, including 16 important North American, US, and New York debuts of dynamic artists including tenor Allan Clayton, soprano Barbara Hannigan, and pianist Igor Levit. We have also been proud to serve as the locale for 18 premieres by contemporary composers, including works by Michael Hersch, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, John Zorn, Dai Fujikura, Michael Gordon, Jake Heggie, Chris Cerrone, Viet Cuong, and others.
This year’s lineup offers audiences even more chances to enjoy the intimacy of a beautiful range of chamber music experiences performed by artists with a highly distinctive international profile, in “an invaluable place to hear unconventional singers and programs” (The Wall Street Journal)—the Board of Officers Room. We hope you join in our excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music.
Rebecca Robertson
Adam R. Flatto Founding President and Executive Producer
Pierre Audi*
Anita K. Hersh Artistic Director
*In memoriam
2025 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
ATTACCA QUARTET
tuesday, december 16, 2025 at 7:30pm
wednesday, december 17, 2025 at 7:30pm thursday, december 18, 2025 at 7:30pm
The Recital Series is supported, in part, by the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.
Bloomberg Philanthropies is Park Avenue Armory’s 2025 Season Sponsor. Leadership support for the Armory’s artistic programming has been generously provided by the Anita K. Hersh Philanthropic Fund, Charina Endowment Fund, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, the Pinkerton Foundation, the Starr Foundation, and the Thompson Family Foundation.
Major support was also provided by the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the SHS Foundation, and Wescustogo Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.
Cover image by James Ewing.
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PROGRAM
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F major “The Dream,” Op. 50 No. 5
Allegro moderato (F major)
Poco adagio (B-flat major)
Minuet (F major) - Trio (F minor)
Finale. Vivace (F major)
David Lang daisy (New York City premiere)
Intermission
arr. Attacca Quartet
Bela Bartók
Nocturne, originally written by a composer such as Chopin
String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91
Allegro
Prestissimo, con sordino
Non troppo lento
Allegretto pizzicato
Allegro molto
This program is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.
This concert is being recorded by WQXR for future broadcast on 105.9 FM and streaming on wqxr.org.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
When curating this program, and thinking upon the term “nocturne,” particularly as it applies to the string quartet, a few threads emerge. From its inception as simply music played later at night, the “nocturne” progresses through the pianistic hands of John Field and Frederic Chopin to rest in crepuscular disquiet within the quartets of Béla Bartók. His Fourth Quartet, from 1929, features a central movement replete with the “night music” for which he would become known. Nodding our hats to the tradition of French nocturnes, we feature arrangements by Amy Schroeder of Poulenc and Debussy, charming colorful evocations of nocturnal moods and passions. The most abstract, or perhaps most dramatic sense of night, can be found in David Lang’s daisy. This piece takes simple material and subjects it to the forces of night and day: the “first daisy” seeks to destroy this material, while the “second daisy” rather attempts to nurture it to a place of humanity.
— Domenic Salerni, Attacca
Quartet
My piece daisy was commissioned specifically to be premiered on a program with George Crumb’s Black Angels—one of my favorite pieces, and also one of the great quartets written in my lifetime. I wasn’t asked to compose a new piece that would react to Black Angels, but I couldn’t help but think about it while writing my own quartet. The piece was formative for me—I was 13 years old when Black Angels was written, 15 when I bought the first recording, 16 when I heard it in the soundtrack of the film The Exorcist, and 19 when I first heard it live, played by the Kronos Quartet.
One thing that is almost always mentioned when people discuss Black Angels is that it was written during the Vietnam War. Crumb dates the score “in tempore belli 1970”—in time of war. And you can hear it, in the dark and tragic intensity of the music. I remember that time in my country, very well. I was too young to be drafted to fight in Vietnam but old enough to feel the great upheaval and pain in my community, all around me.
America’s president just before Black Angels was composed was Lyndon Baines Johnson [LBJ]. He was responsible for the massive escalation of America’s presence in Vietnam, which was a little ironic, since LBJ had campaigned for president as the candidate who promised not to destroy the world. His campaign included what many consider the most effective political ad in American history—it featured an innocent young girl plucking the petals off a flower, who is then interrupted by the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb. The name of the ad was “Daisy.”
My quartet daisy remembers this moment in American history, and it proposes two different futures for the innocent. The opening movement—“first daisy”—begins in a gentle openness that is soon forgotten, and taken for granted, and which then becomes relentlessly overwhelmed. The concluding movement—“second daisy”—imagines what might happen if that gentle and open spirit could be believed, and valued, and supported, and preserved.
This piece was commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Kings Place, Newport Classical, String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, Park Avenue Armory, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Its first performance was on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, performed by the Attacca Quartet at tCa’ Giustinian – Sala delle Colonne as part of the Venice Biennale.
— David Lang
ABOUT ATTACCA QUARTET
The two-time Grammy-award winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment—a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire through to electronic, video game music and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world’s most innovative and respected ensembles. In 2021, the quartet released two albums that embody their redefinition of what a string quartet can be. The first Album, Real Life, featuring guest artists such as Tokimonsta, Daedalus, and Anne Müller, was followed up by Of all Joys, which features works from Phillip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and music of the Renaissance period. Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, the quartet are dedicated to presenting and recording new works. Their 2019 release Orange, in collaboration with Caroline Shaw, saw them win the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, with their follow-up album Evergreen winning the 2023 award in the same category. The quartet continues to perform in the world’s best venues and festivals.
Recent highlights include Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival and Miller Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Phillips Collection, Chamber Music Detroit, Chamber Music Austin and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston as well as Ojai Festival, BRIC Arts and Big
Ears Festival. Outside of the US, performances include Kings Place and in Oslo at the Vertavo Haydn Festival as well as performances at Gothenburg Konserthuset, MITO Septembre Festival in Italy, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam, Strings of Autumn Festival Prague, Thüringer Bachwochen, Sala São Paulo in Brazil, Fundación Beethoven in Chile, National Theatre of Panamá, and Teatro Mayor in Bogota.
The founding members of the Attacca Quartet met while all studying at the Juilliard School in the early 2000s and they made their professional debut at Carnegie Hall in 2003. Other accolades include First Prize at the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the Top Prize and Listeners’ Choice award winners for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and Grand Prize Winners of the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition.
The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the Lincoln Center Institute, University of Texas, Juilliard School, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and Bravo! Vail Valley among others. They are expert programmers and communicators, and beautifully mix existing works with those by living composers.
ABOUT THE RECITAL SERIES
Park Avenue Armory presents more intimate performances and programs in its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe in an intimate salon setting. Founded in 2013, the series has held the debuts of many world-class artists, including: the North American recital debuts of pianist Igor Levit, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, tenors Ilker Arcayürek and Allan Clayton, baritones Benjamin Appl and Roderick Williams, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, and cellist István Várdai; the North American solo recital debuts of tenor Michael Spyres and mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo; the US Recital debuts of sopranos Barbara Hannigan and Anna Lucia Richter and baritone Thomas Oliemans; and the New York debuts of pianist Severin von Eckardstein and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
The Recital Series has programmed the world premieres of: Roger Reynolds’ FLiGHT, performed by the JACK Quartet; Michael Hersch’s “…das Rückgrat berstend,” performed by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Jay Campbell; and Chris Cerrone’s Ode to Joy, performed by Sandbox Percussion and commissioned by the Armory. Actor Charlotte Rampling and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton gave the US premiere of The Night Dances on the series in 2015, which brought together Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello and poetry by Sylvia Plath; Wieder-Atherton returned to the Armory in 2017 for the North American premiere of Little Girl Blue, a program that reimagined the music of Nina Simone. New York premieres include: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air and Shades of Silence performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble; Dai Kujikura’s Minina, John Zorn’s Baudelaires, and a new arrangement of Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, also performed by ICE; Michael Gordon’s Rushes performed by the Rushes Ensemble; Michael Harrison’s Just Constellations performed by Roomful of Teeth; David Lang’s depart, Gabriel Jackson’s Our flags are wafting in hope and grief and Rigwreck, Kile Smith’s “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames A Word, Louis Andriessen’s Ahania Weeping, Suzanne Giraud’s
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FAZIL SAY FEBRUARY 10 & 11
Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say comes to the Board of Officers Room to display his virtuosity with a performance of J.S. Bach’s beloved Goldberg Variations paired with his own innovative compositions, harkening back to pianists of the past like Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin who showcased their unbounded artistry performing their works and improvisations for the public.
Johannisbaum, David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet, Benjamin CS Boyle’s Empire of Crystal, and Ted Hearne’s Animals (commissioned by Park Avenue Armory), all performed by The Crossing under conductor Donald Nally; John Zorn’s Jumalattaret sung by soprano Barbara Hannigan with pianist Stephen Gosling; and Viet Cuong’s Next Week’s Trees, performed by Sandbox Percussion. Additional notable programs include performances by: baritone Christian Gerhaher with pianist Gerold Huber; the Flux Quartet; tenor Ian Bostridge with pianist Wenwen Du; pianist David Fray; soprano Lisette Oropesa with pianist John Churchwell; countertenor Andreas Scholl with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin; soprano Kate Royal with pianist Joseph Middleton; pipa player Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet; tenor Lawrence Brownlee with pianists Myra Huang and Jason Moran; mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard with pianist Ted Sperling; soprano Nadine Sierra with pianist Brian Wagorn; soprano Rosa Feola with pianist Iain Burnside; cellist Nicolas Altstaedt; tenor Paul Appleby with pianist Conor Hanick; baritone Will Liverman with pianist Myra Huang; mezzo soprano Jamie Barton with pianist and composer Jake Heggie; new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound; French period choir and chamber orchestra Ensemble Correspondances under the direction of harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé; baritone Justin Austin and pianist Howard Watkins; soprano Ying Fang with pianist Ken Noda; baritone Stéphane Degout with pianist Cédric Tiberghien; pianist Pavel Kolesnikov in a two-night residency featuring Bach’s Goldberg Variations and a program entitled Celestial Navigation, inspired by Joseph Cornell’s orrery of the same name; soprano Julia Bullock with pianist John Arida; mezzo soprano Kate Lindsey with pianist Justina Lee; soprano Jeanine de Bique with pianist Warren Jones; tenor Matthew Polenzani with pianist Ken Noda; soprano Leah Hawkins with pianist Kevin Miller; tenor Karim Sulayman with guitarist Sean Shibe; and soprano Barbara Hannigan with pianist Bertrand Chamayou
LIV REDPATH & HARRY RYLANCE
MAY 28 & 30
NEW YORK SOLO RECITAL DEBUT
Leading soprano leggero Liv Redpath comes to the Armory from the world’s grandest operatic stages for her New York solo recital debut with pianist Harry Rylance. Redpath gives a uniquely curated program of arias and arts songs in the intimate Board of Officers Room that beautifully showcase her breathtaking coloratura, agility, and brightness.
ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory supports unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall—reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations—and an array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory provides a platform for artists to push the boundaries of their practice, collaborate across disciplines, and create new work in dialogue with the historic building. Across its grand and intimate spaces, the Armory enables a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York.
The Armory both commissions and presents performances and installations in the grand Drill Hall and offers more intimate programming through its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe within the salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; its Artists Studio series curated by Jason Moran in the restored Veterans Room; Making Space at the Armory, a public programming series that brings together a discipline-spanning group of artists and cultural thought-leaders around the important issues of our time; and the Malkin Lecture Series that
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman Emeritus
Elihu Rose, PhD
Co-Chairs
Adam R. Flatto
Amanda J.T. Riegel
President
Rebecca Robertson
Vice Presidents
David Fox
Pablo Legorreta
Emanuel Stern
Treasurer
Emanuel Stern
features presentations by scholars and writers on topics related to Park Avenue Armory and its history. In addition, the Armory also has a year-round Artists-in-Residence program, providing space and support for artists to create new work and expand their practices.
The Armory’s creativity-based arts education programs provide access to the arts to thousands of students from underserved New York City public schools, engaging them with the institutions artistic programming and outside-the-box creative processes. Through its education initiatives, the Armory provides access to all Drill Hall performances, workshops taught by Master Teaching Artists, and in-depth residencies that support the schools’ curriculum. Youth Corps, the Armory’s year-round paid internship program, begins in high school and continues into the critical post-high school years, providing interns with mentored employment, job training, and skill development, as well as a network of peers and mentors to support their individual college and career goals.
The Armory is undergoing a multi-phase renovation and restoration of its historic building led by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White as Executive Architects.
Marina Abramović
Abigail Baratta
Joyce F. Brown
Cora Cahan
Hélène Comfort
Paul Cronson
Tina R. Davis
Jessie Ding
Sanford B. Ehrenkranz
Roberta Garza
Kim Greenberg
Samhita Jayanti
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.)
Ralph Lemon
Jason Moran
Janet C. Ross
Stephanie Sharp
Joan Steinberg
Dabie Tsai
Ying Zhou
Avant-Garde Chair
Adrienne Katz
Directors Emeriti
Harrison M. Bains
Angela E. Thompson*
Wade F.B. Thompson* Founding Chairman, 2000-2009
Pierre Audi*
Anita K. Hersh Artistic Director
*In memoriam
PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF
Rebecca Robertson Adam R. Flatto Founding President and Executive Producer
Pierre Audi* Anita K. Hersh Artistic Director
ARTISTIC PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
Michael Lonergan Senior Vice President and Chief Artistic Producer
Chris Greiner General Manager
Rachel Rosado Producer
Samantha Cortez Producer
Darian Suggs Associate Director, Public Programming
Kanako Morita Company Manager/Associate Producer
Oscar Peña Programming Coordinator
ARTISTIC PRODUCTION
Paul E. King Director of Production
Claire Marberg Deputy Director of Production
Nicholas Lazzaro Technical Director
Lars Nelson Technical Director
Mars Doutey Technical Director
Rachel Baumann Assistant Production Manager
ARTS EDUCATION
Cassidy L. Jones Anita K. Hersh Chief Education Officer
Monica Weigel McCarthy Director of Education
Naima Warden Associate Director of School Programs
Biviana Sanchez School Programs Manager
Nadia Parfait Education Programs Manager
Ciara Ward Youth Corps Manager
Bev Vega Youth Corps Manager
Milen Yimer Youth Corps Assistant
Drew Petersen Education Special Projects Manager
Emily Bruner, Donna Costello, Alberto Denis, Alexander Davis, Asma Feyijinmi, Shar Galarza, Hawley Hussey, Larry Jackson, Drew Petersen, Leigh Poulos, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Bairon Reyes Luna,
Vickie Tanner, Jono Waldman Teaching Artists
Daniel Gomez, Nancy K. Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, sunyoung kim, Amo Ortiz Teaching Associates
Arabia Elliot Currence, Sebastian Harris, Oscar Montenegro, Adriana Taboada Teaching Assistants
Shatisha Bryant, Alexus Heiserman, Melina Jorge Teaching Apprentices
Eden Battice, Koralys De La Cruz, Azrael Hernandez, Nephthali Mathieu, Blue Price, AJ Volkov Youth Corps Advisory Board
Felipe Aguilar, Eden Battice, Terry Beaupierre, Andrew Duer, Hillary Ramirez Perez, Naomi Santos, Brianna Trivino Youth Corps, Post High School Advanced Interns
Medina Anthony, Mariela Bonilla, Djenabou Diallo, Lucas Flores, Daniela Garcia, Jenaia Godoy, Gabi Gonzalez, Besa Hasanovic, Angelina Jacobs, Ria Matula, Jacy Melendez, Steven Merino, Isaiah Morgan, Gabe Morris, Jay Quijano, Tirso Reyna, Jayden Rodriguez, Ash Taghizadeh Youth Corps, High School
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Marc Von Braunsberg Chief of Building Operations
Samuel Denitz Director of Facilities
Xavier Everett Security/Operations Manager
Williams Say Superintendent
Olga Cruz, Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Jeferson Avila, Felipe Calle, Edwin Fell, Jonathan Mays, Tyrell Shannon Castillo Maintenance Staff
Jason Moran Curator, Artists Studio
Tavia Nyong’o Curator, Public Programming
DEVELOPMENT
Patrick Galvin Chief Development Officer
Alan Lane Director of Development
Caity Miret Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer
Jessica Pomeroy Rocca Major Gifts Officer
Angel Genares Director of Institutional Giving
Hans Rasch Manager of Institutional Giving
Margaret Breed Director of Special Events
Séverine Kaufman Manager of Special Events
Michael Buffer Director of Database and Development Operations
Maeghan Suzik Manager of Development Operations
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Lori Nelson Executive Assistant to the President
Nathalie Etienne Administrative Assistant, President’s Office
Simone Elhart Rentals and Project Manager
FINANCE, HR, AND IT
Judy Rubin Chief Financial Officer
Philip Lee Controller
Khemraj Dat Accounting Manager
Zeinebou Dia Junior Accountant
Neil Acharya Human Resources Manager
Oku Okoko Director of IT
Jorge Sanchez IT Helpdesk Administrator
MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, AND AUDIENCE SERVICES
Tom Trayer Chief Marketing Officer
Nick Yarbrough Associate Director of Digital Marketing
Dileiny Cruz Digital Marketing Coordinator
Allison Abbott Senior Press and Editorial Manager
Mark Ho-Kane Graphic Designer
Joe Petrowski Director of Ticketing and Customer Relations
Monica Diaz Box Office Manager
John Hooper Assistant Box Office Manager
Jordan Isaacs Box Office Lead
Victor Daniel Ayala, Fiona Garner, Sylvie Goodblatt, Sarah Jack, Matthew Kamen, Emma Komisar, Michelle Meged, Caleb Moreno, Annie Sauerburger, Dylan Taylor, Ester Teixeira Vianna, Isabel Velasquez Box Office Associates
Caitlin O’Keefe, Anne Wolff Tour Guides
Natasha Michele Norton Director of House Management
Clayton McInerney, Nancy Gill Sanchez, Rachel Carmona House Managers
Becky Ho, Cody Castro, Kyle McClellan, Neda Yeganeh Assistant House Managers
Adonai Fletcher-Jones, Aiyana Greene, Beth Miller, Billie Martineau, Blue Price, Christina Johns, Christine Lemme, David Lawson, Denise Williams, Eboni Greene, Edwin Adkins, Eileen Rourke, Elijah Tejeda,
Eliza Goldsteen, Emmett Pryor, Felipe Aguirre, Glori Ortiz, Grace Hazen, Heather Sandler, Hector Rivera, Hillary Ramirez Perez, John Summers, Joseph Balbuena, Kathleen Rodriguez, Kathleen White, Kedesia Robinson, Kin Tam, Konlan Yenupaak, Lana Hankinson, Mae Cote, Maria Inkateshta, Mariel Mercedes, Mathew Tom, Melina Jorge, MJ Ryerson, Myren Mandap, Naomi Santos, Regina Pearsall, Sandra Kitt, Sarah Gallick, Sebastian Harris, Shannon Wallace, Tess Kondratiev, Yesenia Mayers, Zulay Calamari Ushers
Resnicow + Associates Press Representatives
*In memoriam
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The Artistic Council is a culturally adventurous leadership group that champions our full season of “only at the Armory” productions in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
Chair
Lisa Miller
Abigail and Joseph Baratta
Blavatnik Family Foundation♦
Jeanne-Marie Champagne
Sasha Cutter and Aaron Hsu
Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort
Caroline and Paul Cronson
Jessie Ding and Ning Jin
Misook Doolittle♦
Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Adam and Abigail Flatto
Robin Fowler
Roberta Garza and Roberto Mendoza
Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy
Barbara and Peter Georgescu
LEGACY CIRCLE
Joan Granlund♦
Kim and Jeff Greenberg Lawrence and Sharon Hite
Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti
Carola Jain
Wendy Keys
Irene Kohn
Fernand Lamesch
Almudena and Pablo Legorreta
Christina and Alan MacDonald
Andrew Martin-Weber and Beejan Land♦
John and Lisa Miller
Lily O’Boyle
Valerie Pels
Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker♦
Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel
Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas
Thomas Rom
Susan and Elihu Rose
Janet C. Ross
Caryn Schacht and David Fox
Stephanie and Matthew Sharp
Brian S. Snyder
Sarah Billinghurst Solomon
Joan and Michael Steinberg
Emanuel Stern
Saundra Whitney
Maria Wirth
Ku-Ling Yurman
Ying Zhou and Run Ye Anonymous (2)
Artistic Council Luminary Member. Recognizes individuals whose generous philanthropic support helps underwrite a specific Drill Hall production in this or future seasons.
The Armory’s Legacy Circle is a group of individuals who support Park Avenue Armory through a vitally important source of future funding, a planned gift. These gifts will help support the Armory’s out-the-box artistic programming, Arts Education Programs, and historic preservation into the future.
Founding Members
Angela and Wade F.B. Thompson*
Co-Chairs
Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz
Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
Members
The Estate of Ginette Becker
Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick
Emme and Jonathan Deland
Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz
Adam R. Flatto
Roberta Garza
Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
Anita K. Hersh*
Ken Kuchin
Heidi McWilliams
Gwendolyn and Peter Norton
Michelle Perr
Amanda J.T. Riegel
Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief
Susan and Elihu Rose
Francesca Schwartz
Joan and Michael Steinberg
Angela and Wade F.B. Thompson*
Park Avenue Armory expresses its deep appreciation to the individuals and organizations listed here for their generous support for its annual and capital campaigns.
$1,000,000 +
Charina Endowment Fund
Empire State Local Development Corporation
Adam and Abigail Flatto
Anita K. Hersh Philanthropic Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc.
Richard and Ronay Menschel
New York City Council and Council Member
Daniel R. Garodnick
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly
Susan and Elihu Rose
The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR Foundation
Joan Smilow and Joel Smilow*
Sanford L. Smith*
Starr Foundation
The Thompson Family Foundation
Wade F.B. Thompson*
Anonymous (3)
$500,000 to $999,999
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz
Almudena and Pablo Legorreta
Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan
Marvin and Donna K. Schwartz
Emanuel Stern
$250,000 to $499,999
American Express
Abigail and Joseph Baratta
Michael Field and Doug Hamilton
Kim and Jeff Greenberg
Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan
Marshall Rose Family Foundation
$100,000
R.
The
Wescustogo
Ying
$25,000
Judith
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation
Barbara and Peter Georgescu
John R. and Kiendl Dauphinot Gordon
Agnes Gund*
Janet Halvorson
Janine and J. Tomilson Hill
Howard Hughes Corporation
Carola Jain
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Christina and Alan MacDonald
Marc Haas Foundation
James C. Marlas
Andrew Martin-Weber and Beejan Land
Lisa S. Miller and John N. Miller
New York State Council on the Arts
Lily O’Boyle
Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker
Rhodebeck Charitable Trust
Genie and Donald Rice
Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief
Jordan Roth and Richie Jackson
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The SHS Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Sydney* and Stanley S. Shuman
Amy and Jeffrey Silverman
The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering
Joan and Michael Steinberg
TEFAF NY
Tishman Speyer
Susan Unterberg
Doris Valle Risso
Van Cleef & Arpels
Saundra Whitney
Maria Wirth
Ku-Ling Yurman
Anonymous (5)
$10,000 to $24,999
The Achelis and Bodman Foundations
AECOM Tishman
Barbara Goldstein Amster
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Kenneth Ashley Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives
and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Chuck and Stacy Rosenzweig
Valerie Rubsamen and Cedomir Crnkovic
Fiona and Eric Rudin
Mrs. William H. Sandholm
Cynthia and Tom Sculco
Brian S. Snyder
Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation
Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang
Barbara D. Tober
Dabie Tsai
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ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
“The
restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.”
— The New York Times
The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-ofthe-art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programming. The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations
of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom-designed furniture. The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $215-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise—and hand— of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.
The renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation.
