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 aa new program titled “Of Thee I Sing” in November, an artfully curated evening 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 Felix Mendelssohn, 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
JEREMY DENK, PIANO
wednesday, october 8, 2025 at 7:30pm
thursday, october 9, 2025 at 7:30pm
The Recital Series is supported, in part, by the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.
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.
PROGRAM
J.S. Bach
Partitas No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825
Prelude Allemande Courante
Sarabande Menuett I Menuett II Gigue
Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 Sinfonia (Grave – Andante) Allemande Courante
Sarabande Rondeau Capriccio
Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829
Preambulum
Allemande
Corrente
Sarabande
Tempo di Minuetto Passepied Gigue
Intermission
J.S. Bach
Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827 Fantasia
Allemande
Corrente
Sarabande Burlesca Scherzo Gigue
Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 Ouverture Allemande Courante
Aria
Sarabande Menuett Gigue
Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830
Toccata
Allemande Corrente Air
Sarabande
Tempo di Gavotta Gigue
This program runs approximately 2 hours and 15 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.
SIX PARTITAS, BWV 825-830
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (EISENACH, 1685 - LEIPZIG, 1750)
Of Bach’s three collections of keyboard suites—the six French Suites, the six English Suites and the six Partitas—the last-named are the most demanding from a technical point of view, and also the most varied in terms of expression and character. Bach chose the Partitas as the first of his works to be printed, at his own expense, in 1731, when he was 46 years old and in his eighth year serving in the prestigious position of the Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He had actually started to release the works in 1726, publishing one partita a year, finally collecting all six in an edition designated as Opus 1, with a long title beginning with the word Clavier-Übung (“Keyboard Practice”), Opus 1. Over the years, three more volumes of Clavier-Übung followed, the last one being the monumental Goldberg Variations in 1741.
The keyboard partitas (the words suite and partita are considered synonyms) considerably stretch the boundaries of the Baroque suite, which is in essence a series of dance movements. Although the dance character is present in many of the movements, the music is so rich in ornamental embellishments and elaborate counterpoint that it is really hard to imagine it as music for the dance. These are stylized dances, meant to be listened to, and even more, to play at home in an intimate setting.
The six works were certainly not intended to be played back to back, as Denk is doing tonight; however, when we hear the entire opus in one evening, the extraordinary breadth and depth of Bach’s art will come into sharper focus than ever, and we will notice how each partita is a different personality, as it were. Taken together, the six works offer a veritable compendium of Bach’s keyboard music, no less comprehensive than the much more voluminous Well-Tempered Clavier
Each partita opens with an introductory movement that is not a dance. In each case, this introduction bears a different title and in fact, each is unique in terms of form, technique and mood. In the order in which the works will be heard tonight, the “Preludium” (No. 1) is a gentle, lyrical movement; the “Sinfonia” (No. 2), a grandiose piece containing three separate sections in different tempos and meters. The “Praeambulum” (No. 5) is joyful, vigorous and virtuosic, while the “Fantasia” (No. 3) takes the form of a two-part invention on an extremely large scale. The “Overture” (No. 4) evokes the world of French opera with its dignified slow opening with dotted rhythms, followed by a fast section that combines fugue and concerto style. The “Toccata” (No. 6) begins and ends with cascades of broken chords that often sound like improvisation, with a strict fugue in between.
The four standard dances in any Baroque suite are the Allemande, the Courante, the Sarabande and the Gigue. (The only departure from his norm in the partitas is in No. 2, which lacks a Gigue). They are always divided into two halves, with each half repeated. The Allemande (originally a “German dance”) has all but lost its dance character in Bach’s works: it is, instead, a piece in a moderately fast tempo that proceeds, for the most part, in even sixteenth-notes. Yet within this uniformity, Bach created great diversity by varying the harmonic structures and the amount of ornamentation; some of the Allemandes may emphasize the virtuoso aspect while others are more expressive and lyrical.
The movements habitually listed as Courantes in fact belong to two different dance types: the more dignified French Courante (Nos. 2, 4) and the faster-moving Italian Corrente, which is closer to the idea of “running,” to which the name refers in both languages. The Sarabande, the only movement type in a slow tempo, represents the emotional center of each work. Placed in the middle of the partitas, lavishly ornamented and often including unexpected, highly expressive dissonances, they definitely stand out from the other movements. Finally, the Gigues are fast dances that, in the partitas, often take the form of a fugue. The Gigue of No. 6 deserves special mention for its exceptionally audacious harmonic language, as well for the strange fact that it is notated in duple meter rather than triple like all gigues. The fugue theme, which also appears in inverted form, combines the rigor of construction with an almost Romantic expressivity.
In addition to the four standard movement types, each suite contains one or more so-called Galanterien—movements written in a lighter and simpler manner. Such movements include the Minuet, the Passepied (essentially a faster kind of minuet), and the Air or Aria. The third partita includes a Burlesca and a Scherzo; the second ends with a Capriccio. These are playful pieces that ease the tension after more serious goings-on. In two cases, Tempo di Minuetto (No. 5) and Tempo di Gavotta (No. 6), Bach retains only the tempo of those dances and maybe a few characteristic motifs; otherwise, these movements differ considerably from what a typical Bach minuet or gavotte would look like and should be considered compositions in a free style.
— Peter Laki
ABOUT JEREMY DENK
Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, hailed by The New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs”, and celebrated for performances of vast imagination, beauty, profundity, and wit. A New York Times bestselling author, Denk is the recipient of both the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In the 2025-26 season, Denk tours widely across North America with performances in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Berkeley, and Austin, among others. In recital he continues to explore female composers from the past to the present, as well as the complete Bach Partitas. He also returns to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to perform Beethoven 1 at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and reunites with his long-time collaborator, Joshua Bell for performances at the Hollywood Bowl and the Ravinia Festival. Further afield, he embarks on a tour of South Korea with violist Richard O’Neill, and performs at the Adam Chamber Music Festival in New Zealand in multiple concerts, including a performance of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with tenor Colin Ainsworth.
In the 2024-25 season, Denk continued his musical collaboration with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis with performances at the Tsindali Festival and Wigmore Hall, following on from his multi-concert residency at Wigmore Hall. He also returned to the Lammermuir Festival in multiple performances, and to Klavierfestival Ruhr. Recent highlights also include premiering a new concerto written for him by Anna Clyne, co-commissioned by the Dallas Symphony led by Fabio Luisi, as well as performance with the City of Birmingham Symphony led by Kazuki Yamada and the New Jersey Symphony led by Markus Stenz. Further highlights include performances of John Adams’ Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and Seattle Symphony.
Denk has performed frequently at Carnegie Hall, and in recent years has worked with such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, and appeared in such halls as the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Boulez Saal in Berlin. Denk has also performed extensively across the UK, including with the Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Northern Sinfonia.
Denk is also celebrated for his original and insightful writing on music, which Alex Ross praises for its “arresting sensitivity and wit.” His New York Times Bestselling memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine was published to universal acclaim by Random House in 2022, with features on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He also wrote the libretto for a comic opera presented by Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Aspen Festival, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and on the front page of The New York Times Book Review
Jeremy Denk is known for his interpretations of the music of American visionary Charles Ives, and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Nonesuch Records released a collection of his Ives recordings in 2024. His album of Mozart piano concertos, released in 2021 on Nonesuch Records, was deemed “urgent and essential” by BBC Radio 3. His recording of the Goldberg Variations for Nonesuch Records reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts, and his recording of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111 paired with Ligeti’s Études was named one of the best discs of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, and The Washington Post, while his account of the Beethoven sonata was selected by BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library as the best available version recorded on modern piano.
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
NEXT IN THE SERIES
SASHA COOKE & MYRA HUANG
NOVEMBER 13 & 15
Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke comes to the Board of Officers Room for new program titled “Of Thee I Sing,” including an artfully curated set of works by Copland, Barber, Ives, Weill, Jake Heggie, Sondheim, and more, as well as the New York premiere of an Armory-commissioned work by American composer Jasmine Barnes.
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
ATTACCA QUARTET
DECEMBER 16 & 18
Attacca Quartet are recognized as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment, gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations. They come to the Armory with a wide-ranging program of classic quartets by Bartók and Felix Mendelssohn, quartet-arranged interpretations of signal works for other instrumentation, and the North American premiere of “Daisy”—a new Armory-commissioned composition by David Lang.
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
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.
Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.)
Dabie
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, Victoria Fernandez, Sebastian Harris, Oscar Montenegro, Adriana Taboada Teaching Assistants
Shatisha Bryant, Alexus Heiserman, Melina Jorge Teaching Apprentices
Eden Battice, Teja Caban, Koralys De La Cruz, Azrael Hernandez, Nephthali Mathieu, Blue Price, AJ Volkov Youth Corps Advisory Board
Felipe Aguirre, Joseph Balbuena, Janneurys Colon, Matthew Deyhill, Fatoumata Diallo, Moon Emigli, Adonai Fletcher-Jones, Melina Jorge, Yenupaak Konlan, Sabre Lee, Alan Munoz,
Jason Moran Curator, Artists Studio
Tavia Nyong’o Curator, Public Programming
Hennsy Pena, Hillary Ramirez Perez, Angela Reynoso, Denivia Rivera, Kedesia Robinson, Naima Rodriguez, Naomi Santos, Arely Suarez, Elijah Tejeda, Lucille Vasquez Youth Corps, Post High School Advanced Interns
Phoenix Acevdeo, Justin Amesquita, Mariela Bonilla Martinez, June Bottex, Marc Chaudry, Verkiel Cosino, Elizabeth Cruz, Laurin Dieujuste, Kaylani Ellington, Leah Fernandez, Gabriela Gonzalez, Jenny Guevara Reyes, Besa Hasanovic, Alejandro Mayorquin, Jacelyn Melendez, Steven Merino, Gabriel Morris, Tirso Reyna, Jaylen Ventura Youth Corps, High School
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Marc Von Braunsberg Chief of Building Operations
Samuel Denitz Director of Facilities
Xavier Everett Security/Operations Manager
Emma Paton Administrative and Office Coordinator
Williams Say Superintendent
Olga Cruz, Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Jeferson Avila, Felipe Calle, Jose Campoverde, Jacob Garrity, Edwin Romer, Tyrell Shannon Castillo Maintenance Staff
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
Chiara Bosco Manager of Individual Giving
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
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Lori Nelson Executive Assistant to the President
Nathalie Etienne Administrative Assistant, President’s Office
Simone Elhart Rentals and Project Manager
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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
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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, Arriah Ratanapan, Ester Teixeira Vianna Box Office Associates
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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
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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 to $249,999
R. Mark and Wendy Adams
Linda and Earle Altman
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Jessie Ding and Ning Jin Misook Doolittle
Caryn Schacht and David Fox
Howard Gilman Foundation
Joan Granlund
Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti Kirkland & Ellis LLP
The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation
Julia Ledda and Hassan Taher
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse
New York State Assembly
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
The Pinkerton Foundation
Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose
Mrs. Janet C. Ross
Matthew and Stephanie Sharp
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Mr. William C. Tomson
Van Cleef & Arpels
Anonymous (3)
$25,000 to $99,999
Amy and David Abrams
Arthur R. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation
Sarah Arison Jody and John Arnhold
The Avenue Association
Susan and Jeff Campbell
Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort
The Cowles Charitable Trust
Sasha Cutter and Aaron Hsu
Cora and Luis Delgado
Jenna Fagnan and Thomas Jacquot
Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy
Roberta Garza
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation
Barbara and Peter Georgescu
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Agnes Gund
Janet Halvorson
Howard Hughes Corporation
Carola Jain
The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Christina and Alan MacDonald
Marc Haas Foundation
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
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
Jane Toll
Susan Unterberg
Doris Valle Risso
Wescustogo Foundation
Saundra Whitney
Maria Wirth
Ku-Ling Yurman
Ying Zhou and Run Ye Anonymous (6)
$10,000 to $24,999
The Achelis and Bodman Foundations
AECOM Tishman
Judith Hart Angelo
Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Harrison and Leslie Bains
Susan Bram
Dr. Joyce F. Brown and Mr. H. Carl McCall
Alexandra Andrea Cahill
Suzanne Hall and Valentino Carlotti
Mark and Anla Cheng Kingdon
Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
Courtney and Jonathan Davis
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Ella M. Foshay and Michael B. Rothfeld
Robin Fowler
Jill and Michael J. Franco
Mrs. Heather Hoyt Georges
John R. and Kiendl Dauphinot Gordon
Lawrence and Sharon Hite
Mary W. Harriman Foundation
Suzie and Bruce Kovner
Sheila and Bill Lambert
Fernand Lamesch
Judy and Leonard* Lauder
Leon Levy Foundation
James C. Marlas
Danny and Audrey Meyer
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Stéphanie and Jesse Newhouse
Michael Peterson
Susan Porter
The Prospect Hill Foundation
Katharine Rayner
Marjorie P. Rosenthal
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
Michael Tuch Foundation
Wendy vanden Heuvel
Anonymous (3)
$5,000 to $9,999
Carolina Abed Gaona
Barbara Goldstein Amster
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Steve Marshall Page Ashley Stephanie Bernheim
The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation
Melanie Bouvard and Matthew Bird
Nicholas Brawer
Matthew Brown
Amanda M. Burden
Arthur and Linda Carter
Michael Woloz
Judith-Ann Corrente
Andrew and Mimi Crawford
Joshua Dachs / Fisher Dachs Associates
Baronnes Lulu Sezercan Dalkanat
David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation
Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer
Jamie Drake
Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff
The Felicia Fund
Andrew and Theresa Fenster
Jennivée Fiorese
Amandine and Stephen Freidheim
Amandine and Stephen Freidheim
Mary Ann Fribourg
Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein
Buzzy Geduld
The Georgetown Company
Suzanne and John Golden
Elaine Golin
Great Performances
George and Patty Grunebaum
Harkness Foundation for Dance
Darren Henault
Shujaat Islam and Fay Sardjono
Adrienne Katz
Brittany and Zachary Kurz
Stephen
Chad
Perennial
Olympic
Claudia
Sue
Joan
Anne
Preserve
Sara
Stephanie
Denise
Lea
Mamie
Michael
Therme
Nina
Mary
George
The
Cynthia
$2,500 to $4,999 Allen
Susan
Lauren and Suprotik Basu Tony Bechara*
Catherine Behrend
Candace and Rick Beinecke
Rick Berndt and Marie-Camille Havard
Orla
Natalia Chefer
Lori
Kathleen O’Grady
Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch
Ji Park Kwak
Lori and Lee Parks
Sanjay and Leslie Patel
Liz and Jeff Peek Michéle* and Steve Pesner
Richard and Rose Petrocelli Marnie Pillsbury
Rick and Leticia Presutti
The Reed Foundation
Diana and Charles Revson
David and Susan Rockefeller
Howe-Lewis International
Norwegian Consulate General in New York
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
Kevin and Pascaline Ryan
Paola Saracino Fendi and Aram Ahmed
Philip Schmerbeck, Herzog & de Meuron USA
Benjamin Schor & Isabel Wilkinson Schor
Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch
Victoria Schorsch
Mr. Barry Schwartz / M&F Worldwide Corp.
Shelley Sonenberg
Constance and Stephen Spahn
Andre Spears and Anne Rosen
Michael and Marjorie Stern
Stella Strazdas and Henry Forrest
Studio Institute
Patsy and Jeff Tarr
A. Alfred Taubman Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. David Tomasello
Tom and Diane Tuft
Union Square Events
Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon
Deborah C. van Eck
Nora Ann Wallace
Sam Weinstein
Amy Yenkin and Robert Usdan
Jessie Zhou
Diana and Frederick Elghanayan Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC
Bree Zucker
Anonymous (3)
$1,000 to $2,499
Marina Abramović
Eric Altmann
Femenella & Associates, Inc.
Peter and Amy Bernstein
McLennan
Ryan McNaughton and Anastasia Antoniev
Constance and H. Roemer McPhee
Peter Mensch and Anita Bitton
Joyce F. Menschel
Saleem and Jane Muqaddam
New York City Department of Education
Susan Numeroff Ellen Oelsner
of the Manhattan Borough President
Shranutha and Arvind Bhaskar
Maya Bobbitt
Boehm Family Foundation
Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz
Carolyn Brooker Clores
Vineet Budhraja and Rebecca Bagdonas
Maureen Byrne
Janel Anderberg Callon
Ann Marie Carr
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-of-the-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.
