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Summer is such a special season in Colorado, and we are thrilled that we get to spread music to venues all over the state. The Colorado Symphony has made this year’s line up of summer concerts one of the most interesting yet by offering diverse concerts from classical music in Boettcher Concert Hall, to rock music at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, to music inspired by the Fourth of July at Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre.

We’re pushing the envelope further this summer, including several new collaborations such as our concert earlier this summer with The Flaming Lips, and a first time appearance at Castle Rock’s brand new outdoor amphitheatre in Philip S. Miller Park. We are also excited to return with some of our favorite summer events such as DeVotchka with the Colorado Symphony and concerts at the Arvada Center.

We invite you to challenge yourself this summer to experience the orchestra in a new way and at new venues. If you haven’t seen us perform at Red Rocks, we’ll be performing with some of the most exhilarating artists, including Chris Botti and Josh Bell, Warren Haynes, and Styx. At Fiddlers Green, we’ll be back to celebrate Independence Day with great music and fireworks.

Back at Boettcher Concert Hall, we are letting our geek flags fly with The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses - Master Quest. This highly-anticipated, global concert tour includes never before released music and special imagery.

We are also excited to give audiences a free preview of what we have in store for the 16/17 season with our Season Preview concert. We have put together one of the most unique and inspiring seasons yet for this fall, and we look forward to sharing some samples of that with you.

No matter what venue you join us at, we thank you for making the Colorado Symphony part of your summer. Enjoy the music!

— Anthony Pierce Senior Vice President, Chief Artistic Officer

6 Colorado Symphony 8 Board of Trustees/Staff 9 The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

Thursday, July 14 at 7:30 pm

Boettcher Concert Hall 10

Season Preview 2016/17!

Saturday, July 16 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

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Summer Serenades Friday, July 22. at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

12 Mozart Under Moonlight

Friday, July 29 at 7:30 pm Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre 13

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VIOLIN Yumi Hwang-Williams Concertmaster The Mary Rossick Kern & Jerome H. Kern Concertmaster Chair Claude Sim Associate Concertmaster Yi Zhao Assistant Concertmaster Ben Odhner Fixed 4th Chair Paul Primus Principal Second Allegra Wermuth Assistant Principal Second Alessandra Jennings Flanagan Fixed 3rd Chair Larisa Fesmire Thomas Hanulik Wyn Hart John Hilton Anne-Marie Hoffman Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels Dorian Kincaid Karen Kinzie Mark Lamprey Miroslaw Pastusiak Erik Peterson Felix Petit + Robert Stoyanov Delcho Tenev Amy Tyson Violetta Todorova+ Bradley Watson Tena White

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES/STAFF OFFICERS Jerome H. Kern , Co-Chair Dr. Mary Rossick Kern, Co-Chair Stephanie Donner, Esq. Treasurer Susan Bowles,* Secretary TRUSTEES Dr. Paula P. Bernstein Elaine Brickman Susan Cahill* Young Cho Jim Copenhaver Zachary D. Detra, Esq. BJ Dyer Sandy Elliott Jack Finlaw Dr. Everette J. Freeman Dr. Michael G. Gundzik Diane S. Hill, Ph.D Yumi Hwang-Williams* Kathleen Johnson, Esq. Brooks Kanski John Kinzie* Richard Kylberg Austin Larson* Evan Lasky Jonathan Masoudi, M.D Patrick C. McKinstry, Esq. Joe Neguse, Esq. Kolio Plachkov* Nick Recuber* Julie Rubsam Jason Shafer* Eric Sonderman Mike Thornton* * Colorado Symphony Musician Trustee EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Susan Seitz, Ex-Officio Trustee, President, Colorado Symphony Guild Ginger White City and County of Denver, Arts & Venues EMERITUS TRUSTEES William K. Coors John Low Dr. W. Gerald Rainer Lee Yeingst HONORARY TRUSTEES Governor John W. Hickenlooper Mayor Michael B. Hancock Christopher J. Ott, MD

ASSOCIATE BOARD OFFICERS Jackson Stevens, Chair Charlie Siebert, Outgoing Chair Obe Ariss, Vice Chair Bridget McNeil, Secretary Nick Recuber, Musician Chair Drew Frey, Communications Chair Jocelyn Hittle, Membership Chair ASSOCIATE BOARD MEMBERS Whitney Ariss Andrea Copland Rachel Ellis Sara Hare Gerry Heise William Kowalski Sarah Parmley Chris Strom Kelly Waltrip Rachel Yeates STAFF Jerome H. Kern Chief Executive Officer Coreen Miller Chief Financial Officer Andrew Litton Artistic Advisor Anthony Pierce Senior Vice President, Chief Artistic Officer Christina Carlson Vice President of Development David Aeling Production and Stage Manager Catherine Beeson Director of Community and Education Programs Larry Brezicka Orchestra Personnel Manager Annette Brown Staff Accountant Aric Christensen Audio Engineer Sherri Colgan House Manager Stephanie Derybowski Manager of Digital Media Christine Devereaux Special Events Planner Christopher Dragon Associate Conductor Susan Ellis Executive Administrator & Board Liaison Molly Epstein Group Sales Manager Joanne Goble Orchestra Librarian

Jonathan Groszew Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager / Assistant Librarian Deborah Guess Properties Master Gerry Heise Director of Major Gifts Philip Hiester Master Electrician John Hilton Development Liason Eric Israelson Chorus Manager Kyle Kamrath Manager of Artistic Operations Susan Kelly Director of Sales and Patron Services Christopher Kirkland Master Carpenter Matt Krupa Application Administrator Andres Lopera Assistant Conductor Ian MacIntyre Manager of Patron Services Jessica Mays Artistic Coordinator Seth McNew Director of Public and Community Relations Shari Myers Education Coordinator Parker Owens Director of Marketing Mike Pappas New Media Center Barbara Porter Assistant Chorus Manager Paula Rossin, Staff Accountant Emily Scott Artistic Administrator Park Wm. Showalter House Manager Norma Theisen Director of Finance and Controller Kate White Development Administrative Assistant Doug Yost Director of Information Services Suzanne Yuzer Development Associate Patron Services Associates Amanda Cantu Sherri Colgan Rosa Gasdia Alexis Kittner Lead Patron Services Associate Michael Mrkacek

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Nilgen Velazco Robert Warner Lead Patron Services Associate and Symphony Concierge Michael Williams THE SYMPHONY FUND Stephen M. Brett, President Norman L. Wilson, Treasurer Jeffrey Davine, Secretary Jerome H. Kern Gregg O. Kvistad Karen H. Long Raymond L. Sutton, Jr. COLORADO SYMPHONY GUILD OFFICERS Mary Neidig President Susan Seitz President-Elect Constance Bender Recording Secretary J. Rene Gash Corresponding Secretary Donna Connolly Treasurer Sara Moore Assistant Treasurer Linda Ackerman Vice-President of Fundraising Maureen Solomon Vice-President of Information Management Sharon Reimer Vice-President of Membership Deanna Leino Vice-President of Music Education Janet Weisheit Parliamentarian Sharon Reimer Immediate Past President Maureen Solomon Mentor to the President Boettcher Concert Hall Denver Performing Arts Complex 1000 14th Street, Box #15 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303.292.5566 Fax: 303.293.2649 Email: orders@ coloradosymphony.org Tickets: 303.623.7876 coloradosymphony.org

SUMMER • 2016 THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: SYMPHONY OF THE GODDESSES COLORADO SYMPHONY AMY ANDERSSON, conductor DENVER PRO CHORALE, TAYLOR MARTIN, director Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

-ACT 1Overture -InterludesGerudo Valley Boss Battle Medley A Link Between Worlds Majora’s Mask Medley Tri Force Heroes Medley -THE SYMPHONYPrelude- The Creation of Hyrule Movement 1 - Ocarina of Time Movement 2 - The Wind Waker -ACT 2Intermezzo Temple of Time (New) Movement 3 - Twilight Princess HD Movement 4 - Time of the Falling Rain FINAL

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SUMMER • 2016 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17!

COLORADO SYMPHONY BRETT MITCHELL, conductor

Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall R. STRAUSS

Introduction to Also sprach Zarathustra

J. STRAUSS

​On the Beautiful Blue Danube

WILLIAMS

“Raiders March” from Raiders of the Lost Ark

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

II. Lento - Allegro molto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

IV. Allegro con brio​​ BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide​​​ ​ BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

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TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

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SUMMER • 2016 SUMMER SERENADES COLORADO SYMPHONY CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor

Friday, July 22, 2016 at 7:30 pm Boettcher Concert Hall

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SUMMER • 2016 MOZART UNDER MOONLIGHT COLORADO SYMPHONY JAYCE OGREN, conductor MICHAEL THORNTON, horn and alphorn Friday, July 29, 2016 at 7:30 pm Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre

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SUMMER BIOGRAPHIES AMY ANDERSSON, conductor – Legend of Zelda At home in both the operatic and symphonic repertoires, Amy Andersson has conducted throughout Europe and the United States. She has led opera productions at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, National Theater of Mannheim, Stadttheater Aachen, Weikersheim Opera Festival, Rheinsberg Chamber of Opera and Colorado Light Opera. She has made concert appearances with the Niederrheinische Symphoniker, LOH Orchesta Sonderhausen, Berliner Symphoniker, Giessen Philharmonic, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Macedonian Philarmoic, Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, Les Musicales du Trophee, and at the Colorado Music Festival. Andersson’s many engagements included a five-week concert tour with the Jeunesses Musicales to Germany, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and a debut at the Gewandhaus at the Leipzig Bach Fest. She is also currently the Associate Conductor for the show “rePLAY: Symphony of Heroes.”

TAYLOR MARTIN, artistic director, Denver Pro Chorale – Legend of Zelda assistant conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Taylor Martin serves as the Artistic Director of the Denver Pro Chorale, and the Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. As Assistant Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus, Martin has prepared the chorus for Video Games Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater, and for Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton, at Boettcher Concert Hall.

Martin has taught with the non-profit organization, El Sistema Colorado since its infancy, developing key elements of the choral curriculum. The program brings free music education to under-served students in the Globeville and Swansea neighborhoods in Denver and has become an important part of the cultural fabric of Colorado. As an active professional singer, he performs regularly with the Colorado Bach Ensemble and Saint Martin’s Chamber Choir which joined the Santa Fe Desert Chorale for a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Martin is a featured tenor soloist on the Saint Martin’s Chamber Choir recording of Henri Hardouin’s masses, to be released by Toccata Classics in 2016. He was recently engaged as the Director of Music at Christ the King Catholic Church in Denver; and he is a frequent clinician and guest conductor throughout the Greater Denver area.

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SUMMER BIOGRAPHIES DENVER PRO CHORALE Founded in 2012, the Denver Pro Chorale is comprised of musicians based in the Denver Metropolitan area. The Denver Pro Chorale specializes in singing diverse choral repertoire including works of living composers from around the world. The ensemble will be featured with musicians of the Breckenridge Music Festival in August 2016, and has performed with the Colorado Symphony, Saint Martin’s Chamber Choir, and the choirs of Metropolitan State University. In 2014 the chorale was a featured ensemble at the Colorado Music Educator’s Association convention in Colorado Springs. Now in it’s fourth season, The Denver Pro Chorale is an artist group in residence at Denver’s Church of the Ascension, and has developed an educational partnership with the Denver-based nonprofit, El Sistema Colorado.

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Alto Brienna Jarrell Mary Szablya Jen Adducci Christie Connolley Amber Parrish Jessica Sweet Madeline Gardner Emily Bradshaw Stephanie Doolos Minda Mcgurk

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Bass Nicholas Boyer Adam Brown Bryan Grosbach Brandon Anderson Eitan Kantor Taylor Nelson Curtis Sosias Jonathan Bradshaw Chris Garcia

BRETT MITCHELL, conductor – Season Preview 2016/17 Hailed for leading consistently compelling performances of eclectic, innovative programs, Brett Mitchell currently serves as Associate Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra. In this role, he leads the orchestra in several dozen concerts on all series each season at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and on tour. Mr. Mitchell is also currently the Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, which he led on a four-city tour of China in 2015, marking the ensemble’s second international tour and its first to Asia. In addition to these titled positions, Mr. Mitchell is in consistent demand as a guest conductor. Recent guest appearances include performances with the orchestras of Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Oregon, Rochester, Saint Paul, and Washington (National Symphony Orchestra), among others. He has performed with such artists as Rudolf Buchbinder, James Ehnes, Leila Josefowicz, and Alisa Weilerstein, and has served as cover conductor and musical assistant for The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Previous positions include music directorships of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra in Michigan and the Moores Opera Center in Houston, as well as assistant conductor posts with the Houston Symphony and Orchestre National de France.

A staunch advocate of the music of our time, Mr. Mitchell has led some two dozen U.S. and world premieres over the past two decades. A native of Seattle, Mr. Mitchell holds degrees in conducting and composition from the University of Texas at Austin and Western Washington University, and counts among his principal mentors Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel.

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SUMMER BIOGRAPHIES CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, conductor – Summer Serenades Australian conductor Christopher Dragon began his appointment as Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony in the 2015/16 season.

In 2013 he was appointed the inaugural Assistant Conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, a title he holds until the end of 2015.

This role provided him with the opportunity to work closely with Principal Conductor Asher Fisch in addition to numerous other engagements.

In April of 2015 Dragon made his debut at the Sydney Opera House conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with Australian singer/ songwriter Josh Pyke. In 2016 he will be making his debut with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Dragon is a member of the prestigious Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program through which he has worked with orchestras in Australia and New Zealand under the guidance of Christopher Seaman and the orchestras’ Principal Conductors.

In 2014 Christopher was invited to conduct the Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra in Thailand and earlier that year participated in the Jarvi Winter Academy in Estonia where he was awarded the Orchestra’s Favourite Conductor Prize. Dragon has also studied with numerous distinguished conductors including Paavo and Neeme Jarvi at the Jarvi Summer Festival, Fabio Luisi at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula.

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JAYCE OGREN, conductor – Mozart Under Moonlight Jayce Ogren began the 2015/2016 season leading Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Music Academy of the West, followed by weeks in Paris conducting the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He leads subscription weeks with the Indianapolis, Colorado, Edmonton and Victoria Symphony orchestras, and Philadelphia’s Orchestra 2001; also performances of Bernstein’s West Side Story with film for the Pittsburgh and the Dallas Symphonies and Home Alone with film for the Utah Symphony. During the summer of 2016 he leads the world premiere of Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, returns to the Brevard Festival Orchestra, leads Rufus Wainright’s opera Prima Donna at the Montreal Jazz Festival; and from successes earlier in the season he will make immediate returns to the Colorado Symphony and to the Utah Symphony at the Deer Valley Music Festival. A native of Washington State, Ogren received a Masters degree in Conducting from the New England Conservatory and, with a Fulbright Grant, completed a postgraduate diploma at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm where he studied with the legendary Jorma Panula. He was Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, then Music Director of New York City Opera where he led Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Rossini’s Mosé in Egitto, and the much-acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place.

Ogren is an award-winning runner and triathlete, most recently completing the 2016 Boston Marathon. He makes his home in Brooklyn, NY.

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MICHAEL THORNTON, horn and alphorn – Mozart Under Moonlight Before joining the Colorado Symphony, Michael Thornton left his studies at The Juilliard School to become the Principal Horn of the Honolulu Symphony. Thornton has also performed as a guest Principal Horn with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony, and as guest Associate Principal Horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, and soloist of international recognition, Thornton has been a featured performer at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Mainly Mozart, Spoleto, Moab Music Festival, Campos do Jordao International Winter Festival, Medellin Festicamara, among many others. He performs annually as the solo horn of the Washington Island music festival in Door County, Wisconsin, and will serve this season as hornist with the Camerata Pacifica Chamber Ensemble in Southern California. As a soloist, Thornton has appeared with the National Arts Center Orchestra, Melbourne Musician’s Chamber Orchestra, and numerous orchestras in the United States, including regular solo performances with the Colorado Symphony. He has also performed as a featured artist at several horn symposia, including the 2008 International Horn Symposium, the Western US Horn Symposium, and Hornswoggle. Appointed to the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999, Thornton is currently Associate Professor of Horn. He also serves as a Faculty Artist at the Colorado College Music Festival each June. Thornton holds certification in Mental Toughness Training from the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Florida, and implements this training in his teaching. His students hold positions in orchestras throughout the United States and abroad, and have won numerous awards and competitions. Thornton has twice received the Marinus Smith Award, which is bestowed upon teachers at CU Boulder who have made significant contributions to their students’ development.

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