Peninsula Symphony: Jennifer Frautschi Program Book January 2023

Mitchell Sardou Klein MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

Jennifer Frautschi

JANUARY 20 & 21

Capuchino Performing Arts Center, San Bruno Heritage Theatre, Campbell

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WELCOME FROM PSO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM

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PROGRAM NOTES

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GUEST CONDUCTOR

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RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

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MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

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FEATURED ARTIST: JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI

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PENINSULA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - JANUARY 2023

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SUPPORTERS

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BOARD, STAFF & VOLUNTEERS

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from PSO Board of Directors Welcome to the second concert series of the Peninsula Symphony’s 74th Season, Music Forward! And moving forward we are, with a great lineup of soloists and repertoire that reaffirms PSO’s commitment to achieving a sense of normalcy after a challenging couple of years, while at the same time making the safety of our audience and musicians a top priority.

This week’s performances feature two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient violin soloist Jennifer Frautschi under the baton of guest conductor Lara Webber.

We are thrilled to have Jennifer return for her third appearance with the Peninsula Symphony.

Critics have described her performances as ‘electrifying,’ ‘riveting’ and ‘mesmerizing’, lauding her ‘staggering energy and finesse’ and ‘fierce expression.’ Jennifer and PSO have prepared three pieces for these performances featuring her violin virtuosity: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns (1863), Tzigane by Maurice Ravel (1924), and Liebesfreud

by Fritz Kreisler (1905).

We are also delighted to have Lara Webber appear in her debut as PSO guest conductor for this concert series, taking the helm for the violin works as well as Symphony No. 1 by the celebrated African-American composer Florence Price. Lara has held titled conducting positions with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Charleston Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina), and was music director of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Lara currently serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Livermore-Amador Symphony and the Palo Alto Philharmonic. Her career began as music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra, a post previously held by such conductors as André Previn, Lawrence Foster, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Rounding out these concerts is NEOWISE, a piece by award-winning composer Roger Zare that was inspired by the 2020 pass by earth of the long period comet also known as C/2020 F3. At the podium for this performance will be PSO Resident Conductor and UC Santa Cruz faculty member Nathaniel Berman.

Looking at the horizon we have several exciting programs lined up. March will feature New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill performing works by Debussy and Weber, in addition to the sweeping and emotional Mahler Symphony No. 5. May’s concert features two recent Klein Competition winners, Gabrielle Després and James Baik, playing the Brahms Double Concerto, plus Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition.

PSO would not be able to make these programs available without your generous support, for which we are very grateful. Performing arts organizations have been hit hard by the pandemic, and our goal is to have our concert halls filled again with an engaged, inspired audience. We ask that you help us achieve that by spreading the word about PSO – that right here in Silicon Valley there’s an orchestra comprised of extremely talented musicians playing at a very high level of artistry who also happen to be our friends and neighbors! Please let your friends know of our existence, share links to our website and social media feeds, and invite them to join you for a concert. And please keep those donations coming! Ticket sales only cover a small fraction of our operating costs, so like all non-profit organizations we count on our community, both individuals and institutions, to ensure that we are able to continue to perform concerts and deliver outreach programs like our Bridges to Music program, which brings the joy and magic of live music into schools, libraries, senior facilities, public and private events, and more. Please visit www.peninsulasymphony.org/support to learn more about how you can contribute to the stability and success of PSO today and into the future.

Ben Hollin, Co-chair, Peninsula Symphony Board of Directors

Jennifer Frautschi January 20, 2023 / Capuchino Performing Arts Center, San Bruno January 21, 2023 / Heritage Theatre, Campbell

Lara Webber, Guest Conductor Nathaniel Berman, Resident Conductor Jennifer Frautschi, Violin Roger Zare, Neowise

Nathaniel Berman, conducting

Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 Maurice Ravel, Tzigane Fritz Kreisler, Liebesfreud from Three Old Viennese Dances

Jennifer Frautschi, violin - Intermission -

Florence Price, Symphony No. 1* I. II. III. IV.

Allegro ma non troppo Largo, maestoso Juba Dance Finale

*Presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.

THE CONCERT IS SPONSORED BY

This concert is made possible by the generous support from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

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By Larry Laskowski Violinist as Solo Virtuoso The violin. It’s been central to classical music for centuries. The instrument evolved over time to become the instrument we know and cherish today. The first half of the nineteenthcentury saw unprecedented changes in the role of the violin in public performance.

Suddenly the solo virtuoso took the stage in new ways: technical innovations in bowing and fingering, the cult of personality, sometimes even a circus atmosphere, all personified

by Niccolò Paganini, who singlehandedly pushed violin playing into a new virtuosic realm.

The three pieces for solo violin and orchestra we hear tonight show how the generations after Paganini continued the evolution of the violinist as virtuoso, each composer in their own way.

Maurice Ravel, Tzigane (1924) Ravel (1875-1937), the great ‘impressionist’ composer, was always on the lookout for new sounds, exotic and evocative timbres, and new approaches to traditional instruments.

Tzigane, inspired by the music of the Romani (gypsy) people, was originally written for solo violin and luthéal (a piano with adaptations to make it sound more like a cimbalom, a traditional Romani instrument). The violin part is free and seems almost improvisatory.

The harmonies are both modern and exotic, and the version for violin and orchestra shows Ravel’s unrivalled genius for orchestration. The sounds are striking, and while the solo violin part is very difficult to play, it is not intended to be simply a showpiece for the virtuoso.

Rather this is a skillful evocation of an ethnic tradition, albeit reinterpreted for the modern concert hall. Ravel is consciously bringing two different musical worlds together in new and modern ways, offering concertgoers a fresh experience.

Fritz Kreisler, Liebesfreud (1905) Has there ever been a more beloved violinist than Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)? Kreisler embodies the gemütlich or cozy spirit of pre-WWI Germany and Austria. Vienna was a special place then (think pastry, coffee, philosophy, elegant waltzes, unrivalled decorative arts, etc.), and Kreisler embodies it perfectly. He was of course a very skilled violinist, though he chose to play mostly standard repertoire (not virtuosic showpieces). But on the other hand he composed many short pieces for violin that are not easy to play, but perfectly embody the Vienna of his youth. Liebesfreud (The Joy of Love) is one of many short pieces that he often played as an encore, and the arrangement for violin and orchestra that we hear this evening is a perfect example. Imagine that you are cozying up with your coffee or brandy (or both) and enjoy.

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PROGRAM NOTES Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863) Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a major mainstream French composer who set the trends for traditional music in France in his time. Even Saint-Saëns was not immune to the new violin virtuosity, and the Introduction and Ronda Capriccioso bows to the trend towards showmanship but also thoroughly embraces the classical traditions of the time. Dedicated to virtuoso Sarasate (who performed the premiere), the piece uses all the latest violin technique in the context of traditional forms. The piece has become a staple in the repertoire of the modern virtuoso. Even though it’s technically challenging, the trick (it is like magic) is to make it sound both effortless and impossible at the same moment.

Florence Price, Symphony #1 in E minor (1932) Florence Price (1887-1953), an African American composer, was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She showed considerable musical talent at an early age and received thorough training in traditional classical music. Despite all obstacles, she achieved success as a composer and teacher and was well known to many important Black cultural figures, including Langston Hughes and Marian Anderson. Her music, though too often neglected by the establishment in her own time, is finding a significant place in the classical repertoire in the 21st Century.

Price began work on the symphony in 1931 and completed it in time for the World’s Fair in Chicago. The work attracted the attention of the Chicago Symphony (and its music director Frederick Stock), and it was performed by the Chicago Symphony in 1933. The symphony is the first major orchestral work by an African American woman to be performed by a major American orchestra. That in itself is worthy of note. But perhaps more important is the music itself.

Price’s skill and training are on full display. She commands symphonic form comfortably and the orchestration is both creative and effective. Clearly, she thoroughly absorbed the traditions and conventions of European classical music, yet she manages to integrate musical material from spirituals and American themes into a straightforward symphonic context. Others had made similar inroads, including Dvorak, Scott Joplin, Gershwin, Grant Still, etc. But the level of integration that Price manages to achieve is something quite special. We can appreciate the work as a traditional symphony, while at the same time recognizing that this is essentially American, with a healthy dose of African American heritage as an important ingredient. It’s difficult to imagine the courage and persistence that was required of her, and we can only admire the result.

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PROGRAM NOTES The symphony is in four movements: 1. Allegro ma non troppo 2. Largo, maestoso 3. Juba Dance 4. Finale Both the mournful march of the second movement, and the animated dance of the third movement are particularly evocative of the African American experience. The symphony is particularly relevant in today’s multi-cultural context. It’s a look back at what was radical racial and cultural integration decades ago, and an inspiration for what we can accomplish in our own time.

Roger Zare, NEOWISE (2021) NEOWISE was commissioned by the Trinity Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Joseph Kneer, with generous support from the Stieren Arts Enrichment Grant.

During the summer of 2020, a rare sight emerged in the night sky. Comet NEOWISE rounded the sun and spent weeks visible to the naked eye during July. Only discovered months earlier, NEOWISE became the most impressive comet to fly by our planet in decades.

I have always been an avid follower of astronomy and remember vividly seeing comet Hale-Bopp in 1997, amazed by its sinewy shape and pale glow. Since then, there have not been any comets visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere until NEOWISE. The year 2020 was marred by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Many countries, including the United States, locked down to slow down the spread of this extremely contagious disease, disrupting the lives of countless people around the world. While humanity was unable to do so many things that had been taken for granted, nature put on a show.

This piece portrays the journey of comet NEOWISE through the inner solar system from our viewpoint on Earth. As the comet very gradually gains speed falling towards the sun, the music begins distantly and mysteriously, with an undulating carpet of sound in the strings supporting a questioning clarinet solo. Low brass chords swell in and out of focus and gradually replace the woodwinds, leading the music to grow in speed and energy.

The woodwinds sing a graceful and winding melody over a blanket of delicate strings and tambourine rhythms, continuing to build steam as the comet accelerates towards Earth.

Rounding the sun, the comet’s coma expands and the music blossoms, suddenly pulling back in speed and scope and returning to the vast openness where the music began. A solo bassoon imitates the original clarinet solo, and the brass chords turn into a luminous chorale that launches the music to a high velocity once again. A more massive climax punctuated by bells and resounding brass chords sees NEOWISE traverse our skies. As the comet speeds away from us, the mysterious texture from the opening returns a final time.

The clarinet solo also returns, but now from offstage, distant echoes from an eventful close encounter with the Earth.

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GUEST CONDUCTOR Lara Webber

Guest Conductor Widely admired as a dynamic, creative and engaging conductor, Lara Webber is dedicated to inspiring audiences through the power of symphonic music. She has been praised by fellow musicians around the country for her musical depth, genuine expression, strong personal vision, and collaborative spirit.

Ms. Webber brings a broad range of experience to the podium. She has held titled conducting positions with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Charleston Symphony Orchestra (South Carolina), and was music director of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Lara currently serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Livermore-Amador Symphony and the Palo Alto Philharmonic. Her career began as music director and conductor of the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra, a post previously held by such conductors as André Previn, Lawrence Foster, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Lara Webber’s activities as a guest conductor include multiple performances with orchestras around the country such as the Houston, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Louisville, Santa Barbara, Modesto, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago Sinfonietta, among several others. She has served as a cover-conductor for the San Francisco Symphony and The National Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Webber’s operatic associations include conducting posts with Glimmerglass Opera, and conductor of the Baltimore Opera Studio.

Strongly committed to arts education and community engagement, Ms. Webber was a conductor of the Emmy-nominated Disney’s Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra.

These concerts were broadcast nationally by the Disney Channel to millions of viewers nationwide. She has taught student conductors as a faculty member of the League of American Orchestra’s Conductor Workshops, and has coached youth orchestra and community orchestras. At home in Livermore, Lara is active in her community, bringing music to the local elementary schools, coaching chamber musicians and advocating for the arts as an essential part of the educational curriculum, and a vital part of our culture.

Ms. Webber began her conducting studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Robert Spano, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. Her studies continued at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and in the conducting seminars of the both Aspen and Tanglewood Music Festivals. Ms. Webber received her Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Daniel Lewis. In recognition for her outstanding service to the community, Lara was honored with a Los Angeles City Council Resolution, upon completion of her tenure with the Debut Orchestra.

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RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Nathaniel Berman Resident Conductor

Nathaniel Berman maintains an active presence as a performer and music educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. A faculty member at UC Santa Cruz since 2007, he is conductor of the UCSC Concert Choir and the UCSC Wind Ensemble and has appeared as guest conductor of the UCSC Orchestra and the University Opera Theater. Nathaniel has held the position of Music Director of the Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony since 2011 and has appeared as guest conductor of the Santa Cruz County Symphony in annual collaborative concerts with the Youth Symphony.

A strong advocate for new music, Nathaniel is Artistic Director of the San Franciscobased new music ensemble Ninth Planet (formerly Wild Rumpus), with whom he has led premieres of commissioned works by dozens of composers, and he appears as conductor of new music on Innova, Other Minds, and Pinna recordings. Nathaniel has appeared as guest conductor with Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis in June of 2019, as well as leading the world premiere of The Pressure by Brian Baumbusch, at San Francisco’s Other Minds Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater. In March of 2023, he will conduct the premiere performance of Prospero’s Island, a new opera by Alan Shearer, at Herbst Theater in San Francisco.

Nathaniel has been a member of the professional new-music chorus Volti, where he also served as Assistant Conductor, and has sung with early music ensembles Pacific Collegium and Euouae. Originally a trumpet player, he now keeps up his brass chops playing euphonium in the Balkan brass band Inspector Gadje.

Nathaniel received his Master’s degree in conducting from UC Santa Cruz, where he studied with Nicole Paiement. He grew up playing duets with his dad, a jazz pianist and singer.

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MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR Mitchell Sardou Klein

Music Director & Conductor Music Director and Conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein brings extensive conducting experience in the US, Europe, Australia and Japan to his leadership of the Peninsula Symphony. During his 36 years on the Symphony’s podium, he has guest conducted the Seattle Symphony, New Polish Philharmonic, Suddetic Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Eastern Philharmonic and many other orchestras in the US and Europe. In California he has led Symphony San Jose (formerly Symphony Silicon Valley), the San Jose Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Inland Empire/Riverside Philharmonic, Ballet San Jose, the California Riverside Ballet and the Livermore-Amador Philharmonic and others. He co-founded and is Music Director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra, which he has taken on concert tours of England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia.

Maestro Klein directed over a hundred concerts as Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic (where he was also Principal Pops Conductor and Principal Conductor of Starlight Theater, the Philharmonic’s summer home), and also served as Music Director of the Santa Cruz Symphony. He also has extensive experience in conducting ballet orchestras, including the Kansas City, Lone Star, Oakland, and Westport Ballets, as well as the Theater Ballet of San Francisco and les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Before turning to the podium, he performed as a cellist for many years. Known to most everyone as Mitch, he enjoys travel, photography, jazz and visual arts in his spare time.

Since 1984, he has been Director of the Irving M. Klein International String Competition.

Held in San Francisco each June, the Competition has become one of the most prominent in the world, featuring prizes totaling over $35,000, attracting applicants from more than twenty nations annually, and launching numerous major international concert careers.

Critics have consistently praised his work. The San José Mercury described his performance with Symphony Silicon Valley in 2012 as a “gorgeous performance; big, enveloping and wonderfully luxuriant.” The San Mateo County Times described him in 2007 as “Super Conductor: Mitchell Sardou Klein, music director of the Peninsula Symphony, led his musicians through another triumphant concert. The Peninsula Symphony just keeps getting better and better. Great works and great performances by all.” The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza proclaimed, “The American conductor quickly established a fine rapport with his orchestra. Klein is a musician who has the musical score in his head, rather than his

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head in the score, which he demonstrated ably. The creative conception and artistic shape which he brings to his work comes from deep inside him.”

Maestro Klein is a winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2008 Diamond Award for Best Individual Artist, the Silver Lei Award from the 2009 Honolulu Film Festival (for the World Premiere of Giancarlo Aquilanti’s La Poverta), the 2000 ASCAP Award for Programming of American Music on Foreign Tour, the 2001 Jullie Billiart Award from the College of Notre Dame for Outstanding Community Service, a 1996 award for the year’s best television performance program in the Western States (for the one-hour PBS program about him and the Peninsula Symphony) as well as the 1993 Bravo Award for his contribution to the Bay Area’s cultural life.

Mr. Klein was born in New York City, into a musical family that included members of the Claremont and Budapest String Quartets. He began cello studies at age four with his father, Irving Klein, founder of the Claremont Quartet. His mother, Elaine Hartong Klein, danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.

Cited for his “keen judgment, tight orchestral discipline, feeling for tempo, and unerring control,” Maestro Klein has conducted many significant world, American, and West Coast premieres, including works by Bohuslav Martinu, Meyer Kupferman, Joan Tower, Hans Kox, George Barati, Benjamin Lees, Giancarlo Aquilanti, Melissa Hui, Rodion Shchedrin, Brian Holmes, Ron Miller, Lee Actor, Michael Thurber, Jonathan Russell, Alvin Brehm, and Margaret Garwood. He has appeared frequently on national and international broadcasts, including National Public Radio, the Voice of America, the WFMT Fine Arts Network, PBS Television, and KQED television. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, violist Patricia Whaley. Their daughter, Elizabeth, lives and works in Washington D.C.

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FEATURED ARTIST Jennifer Frautschi We are thrilled to welcome two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi to the Peninsula Symphony stage for the third time. She has garnered worldwide acclaim as a deeply expressive, musically adventurous violinist with impeccable technique and a wide-ranging repertoire. After a recent performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, Cleveland Classical wrote: ‘We witnessed the most magnificent performance by a guest soloist in recent memory. From the outset of the Brahms Concerto, she was a stunning presence, her playing a breathtaking conflation of grace and grit, and at times downright ferocious.’

Jennifer Frautschi will be performing three popular and thrilling showpieces for violin: Ravel’s Tzigane, Kreisler’s Liebesfreud, and Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. She was the First Prize winner of the Klein Competition in 1991.

Ms. Frautschi’s concerto appearances have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, Boston Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo Opera House. Her 2022-23 season features engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony and New World Symphony, re-engagements with the New Mexico Philharmonic and the Santa Rosa Symphony, and a residency at the North Carolina School of the Arts. During the 2022 summer season, she has been invited to perform with Chamber Music Northwest, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Santa Fe Music Festival, Salt Bay Chamberfest, Sarasota Music Festival, Tippet Rise, and Vivace Festival.

Ms. Frautschi is an Artist Member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and has performed at virtually all of the premier chamber music series and festivals in the United States: Caramoor, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, La Musica, Moab, Newport, Ojai, Salt Bay, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto USA Chamber Music Festivals; Bravo! Vail, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, and Tippet Rise Arts Center; and at the Library of Congress, New York’s Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums of Art, the 92nd Street Y, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Phillips Collection, and Mainly Mozart in San Diego.

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FEATURED ARTIST Internationally, she has been invited to present recitals in the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, La Cité de la Musique in Paris, Brussels’ Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, London’s Wigmore Hall, and Beijing’s Imperial Garden, and toured England with musicians from Prussia Cove. She has performed at Chanel’s Pygmalion Series in Tokyo, the Cartagena International Music Festival in Columbia, San Miguel de Allende Festival in Mexico, the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds and Rome Chamber Music Festival in Italy, Pharo’s Trust in Cyprus, Kutna Hora Festival in the Czech Republic, Toronto Summer Music in Canada, and St. Barth’s Music Festival in the French West Indies. She has premiered important new works by Barbara White, Mason Bates, Oliver Knussen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Michael Hersch, and others, and has appeared at New York’s George Crumb Festival and Stefan Wolpe Centenary Concerts.

Her extensive discography includes several discs for Naxos: the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by the legendary Robert Craft, and two GRAMMY-nominated recordings— Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra and the Schoenberg Third String Quartet. Her most recent releases are with pianist John Blacklow on Albany Records: the complete sonatas of Robert Schumann, and American Duos, featuring works by contemporary American composers Barbara White, Steven Mackey, Elena Ruehr, Dan Coleman, and Stephen Hartke. The three recordings she released on Artek have received universal acclaim: the two Prokofiev Concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; music of Ravel and Stravinsky for violin and piano; and 20th-century works for solo violin. Other recent recordings include a disc of Romantic Horn Trios, with hornist Eric Ruske and pianist Stephen Prutsman, and the Stravinsky Duo Concertant with pianist Jeremy Denk.

Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi began the violin at age three under the Suzuki Method. She was a student of Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. She attended Harvard, the University of Southern California, the New England Conservatory of Music, and finished her studies with Robert Mann at The Juilliard School.

She is an Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. She performs on a glorious Antonio Stradivarius violin from 1722, the ‘ex-Cadiz,’ on generous loan to her from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium.

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Season Continues Jennifer Frautschi

We are thrilled to welcome two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi to the Peninsula Symphony stage for the third time. She has garnered worldwide acclaim as a deeply expressive, musically adventurous violinist with impeccable technique and a wide-ranging repertoire. After a recent performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, Cleveland Classical wrote: ‘We witnessed the most magnificent performance by a guest soloist in recent memory. From the outset of the Brahms Concerto, she was a stunning presence, her playing a breathtaking conflation of grace and grit, and at times downright ferocious.’

Jennifer Frautschi will be performing three popular and thrilling showpieces for violin: Ravel’s Tzigane, Kreisler’s Liebesfreud, and Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. She was the First Prize winner of

the Klein Competition in 1991.

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Ms. Frautschi’s concerto appearances have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, Boston Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo Opera House. Her 2022-23 season features engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony and New World Symphony, re-engagements with the New Mexico Philharmonic and the Santa Rosa Symphony, and a residency at the North Carolina School of the Arts. During the 2022 summer season, she has been invited to perform with Chamber Music Northwest, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Santa Fe Music Festival, Salt Bay Chamberfest, Sarasota Music Festival, Tippet Rise, and Vivace Festival.

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ORCHESTRA JANUARY 2023 Music Director & Conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein Guest Conductor Lara Webber Resident Conductor Nathaniel Berman Violin I Shawyon Malek-Salehi, Concertmaster Daniel Cher, Acting Asst. Concertmaster Kimberly Bonnett Peter Cheng Tara Iyer Girish Nanjundiah Matt Springer Judy Streger Alexander Wang Tracy Wang Violin II Deborah Passanisi, Principal Brad Gibson, Assistant Principal Vineet Mehta Kristin Oro Frank Rahn Jshon Thomas David Williams Angela Yeh Hanna Yoshimoto Jane Zhang

Viola Irving Santana, Acting Principal Elizabeth Ingber Silvio Rocha Jerry Saliman Charlie Tian Renee Tostengard Jolynda Tresner Cello Kirsten Shallenberg, Principal Sally Baack Leo Baluk Garth Cummings Jill Hirsh Susan Magrini Thomas Shoebotham Bass Suesan Taylor, Principal David Herberg Rahul Iyer Andrew Salsbury Michael Tong Jeff Wachtel

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Flute Patricia Harrell, Principal Yukoh Hammura Kristin Kunzelman

Percussion Emily Hendricks, Co-Principal Paul Burdick Michael MacAvoy

Oboe Audrey Gore, Principal Joel Greene

Harp Kristin Lloyd

Clarinet Nicole Galisatus, Acting Principal Ron Miller Bassoon Gail Selburn, Acting Principal Alyssa Grant Horn Brian W. Holmes, Co-Principal Randy Nickel, Co-Principal David Dufour Paul Schneider

Celesta Thomas Hansen, Principal Music Librarian Joel Greene For a full list of Peninsula Symphony’s 22/23 roster, please visit peninsulasymphony.org/roster-by-section

Trumpet Mike Marmarou, Principal Nicholas Duncan Robert Fitt Trombone David Allmon, Co-Principal Rami Hindiyeh, Co-Principal Jason Hebert Tuba Johnathan Hsu, Principal Timpani Michael Jay Bresler, Principal

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ADOPT-A-MUSICIAN

LIFETIME ADOPTED MUSICIANS Mitchell Sardou Klein Deborah Passanisi Dr. Lauren Speeth

Conductor Violin II Violin II

Paula Uccelli Frank & Annette Rahn Elfenworks Foundation

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Nathaniel Berman Resident Lily Tian & Victor Ge Conductor Debra Fong Concertmaster Katherine & Roy Bukstein David Allmon Trombone Jacqui Smith Lianne Araki Oboe Patricia L. Griffin Kathryn Barnard Flute/Piccolo Kenneth Shirriff Susanne Bohl Violin II Diana Lloyd Michael Bresler Timpani/ Celeste Everson Misfeldt Percussion Beatrice Chau Violin II Gayle Flanagan Peter Cheng Violin I Albert Cha Daniel Cher Violin I Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens Noah Cort Bassoon John Givens Garth Cummings Cello Sheri Frumkin David Dufour Horn Hannelore Draper Brad Gibson Violin II Teri Quick Audrey Gore Oboe Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens Joel Greene Oboe Al & Liz Dossa; Jim Fung Juliet Hamak Bassoon John Givens Patricia Harrell Flute/Piccolo Krista & Jerry Terstiege Brian Holmes Horn Mary Gundelach Elizabeth Ingber Viola Robert Fitt Alice Ling Cello Alan Bien Susan Macy Clarinet Alan Kalman; Jacqui Smith Sue Magrini Cello Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens Mike Marmarou Trumpet Ronald Miller Vineet Mehta Violin II Sheree Kajiwara Ron Miller Clarinet David Cone Bruce Moyer Bass Margrit Rinderknecht

& Richard Siemon/Suesan Taylor Grant Parker Bass Suesan Taylor Frank Rahn Violin II Nichole Edraos & Jim Augustus Jerry Saliman Viola Dorothy Saxe Kay Saito Shafi Flute/Piccolo Ronald Miller Jerry Saliman Viola Dorothy Saxe Kirsten Shallenberg Cello Jacqui Smith

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Matt Springer Violin I; Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens Timpani Judy Streger Violin I Alan & Spike Russell Jshon Thomas Violin II Sheri & Michael Frumkin Renee Tostengard Violin I Juliet Hamak & George Yefchak Jolynda Tresner Viola Brian Holmes; Roy & Victoria Sasselli; Maureen Thrush Alex Wang Violin II Paul & Melonie Brophy Carolyn Worthington Viola Richard Izmirian Hanna Yoshimoto Violin II Yoshihiro Yoshimoto

Would you like to adopt a musician? It is our goal to have the entire orchestra adopted as a special way of supporting us.

For information on this meaningful program, please reach out to Chelsea Chambers, Executive Director at chelsea@peninsulasymphony.org or (650) 941-5291 to learn more about this opportunity.

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SUPPORTERS

Thank you to our special donors who have helped keep Peninsula Symphony alive and vibrant during these difficult times. Our donor listing below is a compilation of total giving received between September 1, 2021 and December 15, 2022. If you see an error in this listing or would like more information on ways you can contribute to Peninsula Symphony, please reach out to Executive Director Chelsea Chambers by emailing chelsea@peninsulasymphony.org.

Risoluto ($50k +) California Small Business Administration Fortissimo ($10k - $24,999) Katherine & Roy Bukstein Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation Mary Gundelach Maria Shim & Nicholas Fox Crescendo ($5k-$9,999) Anonymous (2) Arcadia Foundation John Givens Joel Greene Diana Lloyd in memory of Clifford Lloyd Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens Michael Marmarou Deborah Passanisi in honor of Sheri Frumkin William & Diane Reuland Shriners Hospitals Jacqueline Smith Paula Uccelli in memory of Pete Uccelli, and in honor of Sheri Frumkin Presto ($2,500 - $4,999) Anonymous (2) Howard & Diane Crittenden Pamela Ferris Vineet Mehta Ronald Miller Teri Quick in honor of Brad Gibson Redwood City Arts Commission Francis Upton IV Anne Wharton David A Williams & Hilary Benton in appreciation of Sheri Frumkin

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SUPPORTERS Scherzo ($1,000-$2,499) Anonymous in memory of Sharon Nora Silva Anonymous in honor of Hanna Yoshimoto Anonymous in honor of Sheri Frumkin Janet Averett Kathryn Barnard & Kenneth Shirriff Susanne Bohl Robert & Barbara Brandriff Nathan Brookwood & Patricia Hendriks Dr. Samuel Chan & Rena Ling Tom & Mary Cooper Stanley Dirks Al & Liz Dossa Barbara Erickson Gene Esswein Gayle Flanagan Sheri & Michael Frumkin in memory of Elsie Robertson Victor Ge & Lily Tian Brad Gibson Dawn Grench in honor of Herb Grench Herbert & Norma Grench Juliet Hamak & George Yefchak in appreciation of Sheri Frumkin Patricia Harrell Benjamin & Kaoru Hollin Intel Corporation Richard Izmirian Alan Kalman Mitchell Sardou & Patricia Whaley Klein James Kleinrath & Melody Singleton Atsushi Kurosawa Bill & Linda Malmstrom in honor of Sheri Frumkin Leslie & Kevin Marks Joe & Mollie Marshall Mary Marshall Celeste Everson Misfeldt Prudential Chris & Caroline Rackowski Rita’s Rainbows in honor of Sheri Frumkin Alan & Spike Russell

David & Yvette Lanza Sacarelos Jerry & Ellen Saliman Phillip & Sara Salsbury John & Christine Sanguinetti Dorothy Saxe in honor of Jerry Saliman Kay Saito & Sayed Shafi in honor of Gail Hammler Anita & Kaj Rekola Stewart Suesan & Barr Taylor Jshon Thomas & Gary Carson Jeffrey & Gwyn Wachtel Baird Whaley Anne Wharton Y&H Soda Foundation Rachel Youmans Vivace ($500-$999) David & Michelle Allmon Anonymous in appreciation of Sue Macy Anonymous in appreciation of Kay Saito Shafi Anonymous in honor of Warren, Kay, George Weis & Colleen Vargas Anonymous Alan Bien in appreciation of Alice Ling Michael & Adrienne Bresler Paul & Melonie Brophy David & Janet Cain Louis Caputo Albert Cha Gregory & Chelsea Chambers in appreciation of Sheri Frumkin & Jim Fung Sylvia & Fun Pang Chau Daniel Cher Sharon Chortack Rebecca Coker David Cone Erika Crowley in memory of Margot Haygood Hannelore Draper Robert Fitt Meiying & Steve Shatas Forney Jim Fung

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David Greene Patricia L Griffin Roger & Elizabeth Hagman Ann & Salek Hamer in honor of Sheri and Michael Frumkin Yukoh Hamura Mela & Peter Hwang Karen & Ken Imatani Sheree Kajiwara Kenneth & Carol Dolezal Krieg James & Nancy Kyser Susan Magrini Richard & Beverly Marconi Pamela Moore Craig & Wendy Nishizaki Nvidia Neil Panton Dan Ross in appreciation of Alan Russell Richard & Margrit Rinderknecht Siemon Lorraine Smith in memory of Elsie Robertson

SUPPORTERS

Sue Larson Family Fund Todd Weinman Wells Fargo Foundation Margaret Yung Allegro ($250-$499) Anonymous (4) Anonymous in memory of Marilyn & Harold Mindell Andrew & Elizabeth Foley Au Wate & Johanna Bakker Richard & Nancy Baldwinson Janice Boelke Kathleen Brown Jenny Chan-Sakauye Joseph Coha Garth Cummings Arnold & Trudy Duncan Barbara Gilmore Mateo Go

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SUPPORTERS Robert Goldware Google, Inc. Alice Graham John Haugh Kathie & Bob Boen Hillier Joseph & Bette Hirsch in honor of David Anderson Ernst & Susan Hoyer Robert & Suzanne Smith Izmirian Kevin Krave Kenneth & Carol Dolezal Krieg Sandra & Brandon Martinez-Larragoiti William & Lucille Lee Marcia Leonhardt in honor of Judy Preves Anderson & David Anderson Susan Lin in honor of Sheri Frumkin Harvey Lynch Diane Merchant Kirt Minor Beth Morris Michelle & Lawrence Marshall Oberman in honor of Maestro Mitch Klein Wesley & Linda Petit Mike & Carol Ramsay Bill & Sherrean Rundberg Nathaniel & Marcia Sterling Karl Talarico Michael & Luna Wang Tong Jordan Torio Mary Urbach in honor of Sheri Frumkin Nina Weil

Dolce ($100-$249) John & Barbara Adams Sue Alvarez Thalia Anagnos Anonymous in honor of Sheri Frumkin Anonymous (2) Apple Inc Michael & Merrie Asimow Jim & Nichole Edraos Augustus Jo Anne Bailey in memory of Thomas Anne Jenkins Barbara Barth Janet Bell Rebecca Berger in honor of Jerry Saliman Jeanne Bertini Lorraine Bodie Barbara Bogomilsky Andre & Marina Broido in appreciation of Sheri Frumkin Lina Broydo Juliette Bryson Frank & Charlotte Cevasco in honor of Debbie Passinisi Seema Cicerone in appreciation of Frank Rahn Mary Elise Clarity Charles & Claudia Clark William Conlon Judy Davis Nicholas Duncan Thomas Ehrlich Suzanne & Allan Epstein Howard Feinberg David & Lori Krauss Fernandez Melinda Fielding Susanne Geller Gilead Sciences Tom Glenwright Marguerite Gonzales Chris & Elke Groves Lisa L Gruman in memory of Evelyn Holzman

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Hillel Hachlili in memory of Ilan Hachlili Matthias Hausner David & Elisa Herberg Steven Hibshman Ward & Karlette Warner Hoffman Marshall & Roberta Hollimon Brian & Jolynda Holmes Perry Hopkins Neil Hornor Jennie Johnson Marlys Jungroth June Kagdis Jack & Ruth Kahoun Seymour Kaufman Lorrin & Stephanie Koran Sharon Krawetz Paul & Jackie Kuckein Carole Kushnir Richard & Cherrill Spencer Leder in appreciation of Mitch Klein and team Alice Ling Robert Martinengo Lori McBride Patricia Meyer Joann Miller Vonya Morris Amanda Myers Margaret Nalbach NAWBO Silicon Valley Randy & Janie Nickel Mary Ann Notz Elizabeth Nyberg Edward & Mary Ann McKay Pease Douglas & Mary Ellen Pense in honor of Elizabeth & Bob Yapp Sharon Peters Ken & Farrell Podgorsek in appreciation of Sheri Frumkin J Richard & Karen S Recht Marilyn Reisen Cheryl & John Ritchie Elsie Robertson Alison Ross in honor of Linda Dunn

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Stephen Rovno Heather Sanders Roy & Victoria Sasselli Marian Schmidt Marvin & Ellen Schwartz Dana Scoby in memory of Robert and Jane Cheatham Noel Shirley in honor of Susan Shirley Judy Siegel Patrick Smith Michael Sogard Ilene Sokoloff Jane Stahl Ronald & Jane Stefani Laura Sternberg David & Carol Winston Swerdlove D Brooke & Carolyn M Taylor Maureen Thrush Renee Tostengard Frederick & Gretchen Wassem Barrie Wilber June Wisecarver Raymond & Cecilia Wong Tim & Carolyn Worthington Arlene Zimmerman

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Peninsula Symphony is seeking board candidates!

Our 74th Season is filled with exceptionally gifted guest artists and classical masterworks in a series titled “Music Forward”. We are excited to present nationally and internationally recognized soloists to our audiences.

Our musicians and our patrons are ecstatic and grateful for the return to live performances in the concert halls. Our current board is comprised of community members with experience in the realms of finance, high tech, teaching, volunteer musicians and marketing. They are elected by the membership for up to three 3-year terms.

We are actively seeking new board members! This is a great way to live your best life while making a meaningful contribution to your community. The major requirement is a passion for classical symphonic music and a willingness to roll up your sleeves, as we are definitely a working board. We especially welcome diverse voices that can help our symphony better reflect our community, and are always happy to find board members with expertise in financial management, law, HR, event planning, or educational/youth/virtual programming.

If you are interested in a board position or just want to learn more about what is involved, please message us - we’d love to talk to you more about these opportunities! Also, if you know someone outside our current community who has the right skills and might be interested, feel free to pass this notice on.

Chelsea Chambers, Executive Director - chelsea@peninsulasymphony.org

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BOARD, STAFF & VOLUNTEERS

PENINSULA SYMPHONY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ben Hollin, Co-Chair / Chair, Marketing Committee Ron Miller, Co-Chair / Chair, Education Committee Alan Russell, Vice Chair Randy Nickel, Secretary Katherine Bukstein, Chair, Governance Committee Daniel Cher Barbara Erickson, Treasurer / Chair, Finance Committee Juliet Hamak, Orchestra Rep Alex Kurosawa Diana Lloyd Deborah Passanisi, Chair, Development Committee Jeff Wachtel

PENINSULA SYMPHONY STAFF Mitchell Sardou Klein, Music Director & Conductor Nathaniel Berman, Resident Conductor Chelsea Chambers, Executive Director Jim Fung, Director of Marketing & Digital Content Jenny Ugale, Development & Operations Associate Faye Chapman, Bookkeeper Joel Greene, Music Librarian Kristin Kunzelman, Stage Manager Linda Dunn, Office Volunteer Nicole Nguyen, Intern Heidi Hau, Piano Competition Coordinator Amelia Yee, Front of House & Volunteer Coordinator

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The mission of the Peninsula Symphony is to enrich the lives of people in our community with inspiring, innovative, high-quality musical presentations at affordable prices, and to promote music education through engaging programs for children and adults.

The Peninsula Symphony Association of Northern California is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation, Federal Tax ID 94-6106974.

Peninsula Symphony 146 Main Street, Suite 102 Los Altos, CA 94022 (650) 941-5291 / info@peninsulasymphony.org PeninsulaSymphony.org

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