Fiddlesticks Family Concerts: Celebrating Fiddlesticks! (April 2, 2022)

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CELEBRATING

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022 • HEINZ HALL

AUTOGRAPHS

Meet Fiddlesticks and his friends after the concert!

Use this space to collect autographs from all of Fiddlesticks’s friends:

MANFRED HONECK, MUSIC DIRECTOR

JACOB JOYCE, CONDUCTOR

KATY WILLIAMS, VOCALIST

ALEXANDRA THOMPSON LEE, CELLO

ROSS SNYDER, VIOLIN

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PROGRAM

April 2 program...................................................................................7 Jacob Joyce biography........................................................................8 Katy Williams biography.....................................................................9 Rodrigo Ojeda biography..................................................................10 Alexandra Thompson Lee biography................................................11 Ross Snyder biography.....................................................................12 Manfred Honeck biography..............................................................13 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra biography......................................15 INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Board of Directors ...............................................................................3 Jack Heinz Society...............................................................................4 New Leadership Council......................................................................4 Pittsburgh Symphony Association......................................................4 Administrative Staff.............................................................................5 Heinz Hall policies, accessibility and additional information...........16

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Byron Stripling

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ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Moon Doh Jacob Joyce

FIRST VIOLIN

Mark Huggins

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Christopher Wu

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FIDDLESTICKS FAMILY CONCERTS | HEINZ HALL SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022 AT 11:15 AM

Jacob Joyce, conductor Katy Williams, vocalist Rodrigo Ojeda, keyboard Alexandra Thompson Lee, cello Ross Snyder, violin Manfred Honeck, conductor Lucas Richman Music Can Make Your Life Complete Ms. Williams Traditional

Happy Birthday

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Florence Price

An April Day Mr. Ojeda Ms. Williams

Michael Torke

Bright Blue Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Duo in G for Violin and Cello, K. 423 I. Allegro

Ms. Lee Mr. Snyder

Fred Rogers

There Are Many Ways To Say “I Love You”

Jacques Offenbach

Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld

(arr. Michael Moricz) Ms. Williams

Richard Rodgers

“Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music

Ms. Williams

Antonín Dvořák

Slavonic Dance, Opus 46, No. 5

Josef Strauss

Plappermäulchen (Little Chatterbox), Polka, Opus 245 Mr. Honeck

Igor Stravinsky

Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision) V. Finale

Lucas Richman

Music Can Make Your Life Complete Ms. Williams

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JACOB JOYCE Currently serving as the Resident Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony, Jacob Joyce, age 28, is quickly gaining recognition as a dynamic and innovative presence on the podium. Joyce appeared with the ISO several times in the ‘19-’20 and ‘20-’21 seasons, in various classical, education, Happy Hour, and community concerts. He also made his debut with several American orchestras in ‘19-’20, including the Detroit, St. Louis, Houston, and Toledo symphonies. Abroad, Joyce has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the NDR-Sinfonieorchester, the hrSinfonieorchester Frankfurt, and the Frankfurt Museumsorchester. For his work in Indianapolis and around the world, Joyce was awarded a Solti Career Assistance Award in 2020.

Joyce previously served as the Conducting Fellow for the Fort Worth Symphony, with whom he collaborates frequently, and has also held positions as the Associate Conductor of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Berkeley College Orchestra, Music Director of the Opera Theater of Yale College, and Cover Conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. An avid promoter of contemporary music, Joyce has conducted several premieres of orchestral and operatic works. Joyce is also an advocate for bringing classical music to new audiences. He is the host and creator of the podcast Attention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide, which provides people of all backgrounds with basic techniques for listening to classical music. He also works extensively with educators, music teachers, and orchestra directors, providing career advice and instruction to students across the country.

Joyce studied Orchestral Conducting with Hugh Wolff at the New England Conservatory. He has also received instruction at the Tanglewood

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Music Center and the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. In recognition of his work, Joyce was awarded the Robert Spano Conducting Prize at Aspen, and was a semifinalist in the LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and the Solti International Conducting Competition. Joyce graduated from Yale College in 2014, with a B.A. in Music and Economics.

He also received a M.M. in Violin Performance from the Yale School of Music in 2015, studying with Syoko Aki. As a violinist, Joyce has performed with several orchestras nationwide, and was awarded the Broadus Erle Prize for an Outstanding Violinist at the Yale School of Music. He served as the concertmaster of the Yale Symphony Orchestra and performed regularly with the Boston Philharmonic and the Atlantic Symphony. He has previously attended the Tanglewood Music Center, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Encore School for Strings.

KATY WILLIAMS Katy Shackleton Williams has made herself right at home with the Pittsburgh music scene with prestigious organizations such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera, Civic Light Opera, Quantum Theatre, Front Porch Theatricals, the Mendelssohn Choir, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, Resonance Works, and River City Brass Band. Across the country, she has had the frequent pleasure of singing with Maestro Larry Loh’s Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Symphor!a and Dallas Symphony.

In addition, she has sung with the creator of the Fiddlesticks concert series, Maestro Lucas Richman in Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (TN) and Bangor Symphony Orchestra (ME). ​ Notable solo engagements include Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, and has sung the National Anthem in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium before it was demolished, singing for then vice president, Joe Biden in 2014 and going up in a hot air balloon after singing the national anthem in Colorado! ​ Currently, Katy is the special guest vocalist for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Fiddlesticks Family Concert Series, a chorister

in Pittsburgh Opera and is adjunct music staff at Point Park University, Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College program and Washington and Jefferson College. She is the soprano soloist at Rodef Shalom, Oakland, and the soprano soloist at Westminster Presbyterian church Upper St. Clair, PA. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Vocal Performance.

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RODRIGO OJEDA Venezuelan-born pianist Rodrigo Ojeda discovered his passion for music at the very early age of two when his parents made him listen to Carl Orff’s “Trionfo di Afrodite and Carmina Burana,” but it was not until the age of ten that Ojeda began to take his first piano lessons. By the age of fifteen, Ojeda was invited to perform Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto, with the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Orchestra which was broadcast live on radio and television in Caracas, Venezuela.

A versatile pianist, Rodrigo Ojeda has frequently performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He has performed in every prominent concert hall in his native Venezuela as well as in Ecuador, Spain, USA and Mexico with an expansive repertoire of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Gershwin, Grieg, Schumann, Mozart, Liszt, Cesar Frank, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Saint Saëns and Stravinsky. Ojeda took part in master classes with numerous concert pianists, including Kasimierz Giesrod (former rector of the Frederic Chopin Academy in Warsaw), Marek Jablonsky, Georgy Sandor, Marta Gulyas and Earl Wild.

Possessing a wide-ranging knowledge of chamber music repertoire, he has collaborated with countless instrumentalists and vocalists worldwide. He has played and recorded several CDs with numerous artists including various principal members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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Rodrigo Ojeda received a bachelor’s degree in piano performance at IUDEM, Venezuela (Institute of Musical Studies) in 1997 with his mentor and pianist Arnaldo Pizzolante, then moved in 1999 to the United States where he received a master’s degree and an artist diploma at Carnegie Mellon University under Enrique Graf in 2003.

Currently Rodrigo Ojeda is Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at Carnegie Mellon University as well as a piano faculty member in its Music Preparatory School. He has also been playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as principal pianist since August 2006.

ALEXANDRA THOMPSON LEE Alexandra Thompson Lee has been a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since the 2014-2015 season. She earned her Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Stephen Geber. She was then a Fellow in the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida.

She spent her summers at the Tanglewood Music Center, Spoleto Festival USA, National Repertory Orchestra, International FestivalInstitute at Roundtop, Credo Chamber Music and Interlochen Arts Camp.

A native of Pittsburgh, Lee studied with PSO Principal Cellist, Anne Martindale Williams, growing up. In addition to participating in the Mt. Lebanon School District music programs, she was an orchestra member of the following local organizations: Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras, Pittsburgh Symphony EQT Student Side-by-Side, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and City Music Center. She was a winner of the Duquesne Young Artist and Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist and Major Competitions. Lee is incredibly thankful for

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the arts community in Pittsburgh that helped nurture her and pave the way for her life in music.

Lee currently lives in Mt. Lebanon with her husband, Joshua, and their many pets.

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ROSS SNYDER A life-long chamber musician, Ross Snyder is the founding first violinist of the award-winning Tesla Quartet. With the quartet he has toured across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Brazil, China and South Korea. He has also won top prizes at the Banff, London, and Haydn International String Quartet Competitions. A fellow of the 2007 and 2011 Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, he has also appeared as a guest artist at the Strings Music Festival in Colorado and the Renova Music Festival in Pennsylvania. A native of Pittsburgh, Ross received his earliest chamber music training from members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and later studied with world-renowned ensembles including the Alban Berg, Borromeo, Brentano, Guarneri, Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Takács, and Tokyo string quartets.

A versatile performer, Ross has served as principal violinist with the Boulder Bach Festival and has performed with the selfconducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry and Brooklyn-based ensemble The Knights. From 2013 to 2018 he was a tenured member of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra and has also held a position with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. He spent the summer of 2008 serving as an assistant concertmaster of the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland and also participated in the VFO’s 2008 European tour to Milan, Luzern, Berlin, and Madrid. During his studies at Juilliard he served as one of the leaders of the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra.

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Ross holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where the Tesla Quartet held the Graduate String Quartet Fellowship from 2009-2012.

He also received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston.

MANFRED HONECK Manfred Honeck has firmly established himself as one of the world’s leading conductors, whose unmistakable, distinctive and revelatory interpretations receive great international acclaim. He is currently in his 14th season as Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Celebrated both at home and abroad, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, one of the most frequently toured North American orchestras, serve as cultural ambassadors for the city of Pittsburgh. Guest appearances regularly include Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as the major venues of Europe and festivals such as the BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, Musikfest Berlin, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, and Grafenegg Festival.

Manfred Honeck’s successful work in Pittsburgh is extensively documented by recordings on the Reference Recordings label.

All SACDs, these recordings feature works

by Strauss, Beethoven, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky and others, and have received a multitude of outstanding reviews and awards, including a number of GRAMMY® nominations. The recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5/Barber Adagio won the GRAMMY® for “Best Orchestral Performance” in 2018. In February of 2021, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony released a new recording of Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in celebration of the orchestra’s 125th anniversary season. Their most recent release is a recording of Brahms No. 4/MacMillan Larghetto for Orchestra.

Born in Austria, Manfred Honeck completed his musical training at the University of Music in Vienna. His many years of experience as a member of the viola section in the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Orchestra have had a lasting influence on his work as a conductor. His art of interpretation is based on his determination to venture deep beneath the surface of the music.

He began his conducting career as assistant to Claudio Abbado and as director of the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra. Subsequently, he was engaged by the Zurich Opera House, where he was awarded the European Conducting Prize in 1993. He has since served as one of three

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principal conductors of the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, as Music Director of the Norwegian National Opera, Principal Guest Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm.

From 2007 to 2011, Manfred Honeck was Music Director of the Staatsoper Stuttgart, where he led premieres of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Mozart’s Idomeneo, Verdi’s Aida, Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Wagner’s Lohengrin and Parsifal. Guest performances in opera led him to Semperoper Dresden, Komische Oper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Royal Opera of Copenhagen, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg and the Salzburg Festival. In Beethoven’s anniversary year of 2020, he conducted a new staging of Fidelio (1806 version) at the Theater an der Wien.

Beyond the podium, Manfred Honeck has designed a series of symphonic suites, including Janáček’s Jenůfa, Strauss’s Elektra and Dvořák’s Rusalka. He recorded all of these arrangements with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and regularly performs them with orchestras around the globe.

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As a guest conductor, Manfred Honeck has been at the podium of all leading international orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome and the Vienna Philharmonic. In the United States, he has conducted all major US orchestras, including New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic,

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Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. He has also been Artistic Director of the International Concerts Wolfegg in Germany for more than twenty-five years.

Manfred Honeck holds honorary doctorates from several universities in the United States and also was awarded the honorary title of Professor by the Austrian Federal President. In 2018, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards declared him “Artist of the Year.”

THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Now in its 126th season, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is credited with a rich history of engaging the world’s finest conductors and musicians and demonstrates a genuine commitment to the Pittsburgh region and its citizens. Known for its artistic excellence for more than a century, the Pittsburgh Symphony has been led by its worldwide acclaimed Music Director Manfred Honeck since 2008; past music directors have included Fritz Reiner (1938-1948), William Steinberg (1952-1976), André Previn (1976-1984), Lorin Maazel (1984-1996) and Mariss Jansons (1997-2004).

broadcasts. Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have received multiple GRAMMY® nominations for Best Orchestral Performance, taking home the award in 2018 for their recording of Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio. As early as 1936, the Pittsburgh Symphony has been broadcast on the radio. The orchestra has received increased attention since 1982 through national network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International, produced by Classical WQED-FM 89.3, made possible by the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

The Pittsburgh Symphony is continually at the forefront of championing new American works.

The Orchestra premiered Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” in 1944, John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine in 1986, and Mason Bates’ Resurrexit in 2018 to celebrate Manfred Honeck’s 60th birthday.

Lauded as the Pittsburgh region’s international cultural ambassador, the orchestra began regular touring in 1896 and has embarked on scores of domestic and international tours. In 2019, Music Director Manfred Honeck led the orchestra on an extensive tour of Europe, the 25th in orchestra history.

The two-time 2018 GRAMMY® Award- In the 2021-2022 season, the Pittsburgh winning orchestra has a long and illustrious Symphony will celebrate the 50th anniversary history in the areas of recordings and live radio of Heinz Hall as the home of the orchestra.

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DAULER HEARING LOOP: A system to provide better sound to hearing aid and cochlear implant users.

If you use a hearing aid or have a cochlear implant, you can have an improved listening experience at Heinz Hall concerts and events!

The Dauler Hearing Loop runs throughout the auditorium, with the exception of the Orchestra pit, first four Orchestra level rows and Grand Box left. The hearing loop system also is installed at the Heinz Hall Box Office windows, allowing you to hear the amplified voice of Box Office personnel directly through t-coil enabled hearing aids.

VISIT OR CALL THE HEINZ HALL BOX OFFICE AT 412.392.4900 WITH ANY QUESTIONS. The Dauler Hearing Loop is named for late Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra trustee L. Van V. Dauler, Jr and was made possible through a gift from Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. and the Emma Clyde Hodge Memorial Foundation.

TO USE THE DAULER HEARING LOOP: If you have a hearing aid or cochlear implant with a telecoil (t-coil) you need to make sure the t-coil is activated and properly set by your audiologist. You can then activate the setting once in Heinz Hall. If you are not sure if your hearing aid has a t-coil or if you experience difficulty and require assistance, please contact your audiologist.

Sound heard through telecoils can vary from hearing aid to hearing aid and according to position in the theater. Generally, the best signal is found when you sit in the center of a row and facing toward the stage. If you need further assistance in selecting the best seats, please contact the Heinz Hall box office.

HEINZ HALL POLICIES

Heinz Hall, owned and operated by Pittsburgh Symphony Inc., is committed to the safety and well-being of all guests and patrons, and aims to provide a safe, comfortable and enjoyable entertainment experience.

ENTRANCE SECURITY POLICY All audience members are required to enter through state-of-the-art “free-flow” scanning equipment, designed both to enhance security and convenience. Patrons using wheelchairs and mobility devices will enter via a door adjacent to the screening equipment for alternative screening. Patrons with children in strollers may enter through the screening equipment.

of this policy. Violators of this policy may be subject to ejection from Heinz Hall and/or civil or criminal penalties. The only exception to this policy is sworn law enforcement personnel and private security officers employed and/or contracted

by Pittsburgh Symphony Inc.

BAG POLICY Heinz Hall reserves the right to search any bags entering the facility.

Oversized bags must fit comfortably under a seat to ensure the safety of WEAPONS POLICY patrons entering or exiting seats and Weapons are not permitted in the aisles. Bags failing to meet these venue and/or public spaces owned requirements must be checked and or operated by Pittsburgh Symphony pass a security search, or you must Inc., including Heinz Hall. Any item remove the bags from the Hall. that could endanger public safety is SMOKING POLICY considered a weapon for purposes Heinz Hall is a smoke/vapor free

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facility. (Smoking is permitted in the Heinz Hall Garden Plaza)

FOOD AND BEVERAGE POLICY Outside food or alcoholic beverages are prohibited. Patrons are permitted to bring in one sealed clear plastic water bottle which may only be consumed in designated areas and may not be consumed in the auditorium.

COSTUME POLICY Heinz Hall does not permit costume masks of any kind or facsimiles of weapons that would make other guests feel uncomfortable or detract from the concert experience. Guests are welcome to attend certain programs, (e.g. The Music of Harry Potter or The Music of Star Wars) in costume.

HEINZ HALL INFORMATION

ACCESSIBLE SEATS are available with companion seats.

There is a level entrance and route to the main floor of the auditorium.

Contact the box office for the location of the companion seats.

HEINZ HALL BOX OFFICE HOURS are Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m; Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.

Weekend hours vary based on performance times. Tickets may be purchased by calling 412.392.4900 and are also available at the Theater Square Box Office.

BRAILLE AND LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics, PNC Pops, Fiddlesticks Family Series and Sensory-Friendly performances.

CHILDREN are encouraged to attend our youth concerts and Fiddlesticks Family Concerts.

Children age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and lobby video monitors are always options for restless children.

CONCIERGE SERVICE is available in the Entrance Lobby to assist with your questions and to help with dining, hotel, entertainment and transportation concerns. [Penny Vennare, Event Supervisor; Barbara Smorul, Concierge.]

DAULER HEARING LOOP to be used with hearing aid telecoil settings, portable assistive listening devices are available. Please see the ushers for assistance or contact the box office for the best locations for using the hearing loop.

DRESS CODE for all concerts is at your personal discretion and ranges from dress and business attire to casual wear.

ELEVATOR is located next to the Grand Staircase.

EMERGENCY CALLS can be referred to the concierge desk at 412.392.2880.

FIRE EXITS are to be used ONLY in case of an emergency. If the fire alarm is activated, follow the direction of Heinz Hall ushers and staff to safely evacuate the theater.

LOST AND FOUND items can be retrieved by calling 412.392.4844 on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

MOBILE DEVICES should be turned off and put away upon entering the theater.

PHOTOGRAPHY, video, or audio recording of the performance is prohibited at all times, unless otherwise noted.

PRE-PAID PARKING is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall. Ask about prepaid parking when you order your tickets.

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S RESTROOMS are located on the Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels.

Additional women’s restrooms are located off the Garden and Overlook rooms. Accessible restrooms are located on the Grand Tier level and a family/accessible restroom is available on the Main Floor.

GROUPS can receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space.

For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at SMOKING is not permitted pittsburghsymphony.org/groups for in Heinz Hall. The garden is information. accessible during performances for this purpose.

LATECOMER’S GALLERY is located behind the Main Floor SUPPORTING THE PSO to enjoy the performance until you AND HEINZ HALL can be seated. Latecomers will be is critical to the financial future of the seated at suitable intervals during Pittsburgh Symphony. Ticket sales the program, at the discretion of only cover a portion of our operating the conductor. The gallery is also costs. To make a tax-deductible gift, available for parents with please contact our Development restless children. department at 412.392.4880 or visit us online at pittsburghsymphony.org LOCKERS are located on the Lower and Gallery levels.

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