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Purdue Bands & Orchestras Presents

Long Center for the Performing Arts

October 4, 2026

2:30 PM

UNIVERSITY&SYMPHONY

Orchestras

FACULTY & STAFF Jay S. Gephart.....................................................................................................Director and AI G. Wright Chair Matthew R. Conaway............Professor, Director of the Purdue “All-American” Marching Band Dr. Pamela J. Nave................................................................Associate Professor, Director of Percussion Adam Bodony..........................................................................Associate Professor, Director of Orchestras Jarrard Harris.............................................................................................................Clinical Associate Professor Bethany Robinson...............................................Clinical Assistant Professor, Director of Jazz Bands Dr. David M. Blon.......................................................................................................Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Lucas Petersen..................................................................................................Clinical Assistant Professor Douglas R. Fletcher.............................................................................................................Director of Operations Amy Brandfonbrener................................................................................................Chamber Music Instructor Esther Kirgiss........................................................................................................Director of External Relations Caitlin Cotten........................................................................Manager of Recruitment & Student Success Humza Nasir..............................................................................................................................Multimedia Designer Susan Lipscomb.............................................................................................Senior Administrative Assistant Kim Delks.........................................................................................................................................Business Assistant Adisyn Nichols..................................................................................................................Student Office Assistant Udochukwu Akorah...................................................................................................Social Media Ambassador

CONCER T ARCHIVE

DIGITAL PROGRAMS

PROGRAM U N I VE R S IT Y ORC HEST R A Adam Bodony, conductor

“Allegro molto” from Symphony No. 40.......................................................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. John O’Neill “Largo and Allegro” from Op. 6 No. 3..................................................................George Friedrich Handel arr. R. Scott Whitting Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a..................................................................Dmitri Shostakovich arr. Rudolf Barshai 4. Largo 5. Largo Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral..........................................................................................Richard Wagner arr. Matthew Moreno

SY M P HONY ORC HESTR A

Douglas R. Fletcher and Adam Bodony, conductors “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor............................................................................Alexander Borodin

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46..............................................................................................................Edvard Grieg 1. Morning Mood 2. The Death of Åse 3. Anitra’s Dance 4. In the Hall of the Mountain King Selections from The Phantom of the Opera........................................................Andrew Lloyd Webber arr. Calvin Custer Douglas R. Fletcher, organ

UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA VIOLIN 1 Kira Likar Zachary Xu Heather Smith Leo-Paul Perrin Emily Santillan Victoria Dubowski Haley Mercurio Leena Iyengar Jessa Lenart Makayla Phillips Akhil Rajarathnam Emma Xiao Maliha Goel Ishita Mannar Julie Celori Naomi Gilbert Ashrith Ponna Elizabeth Tsin Joseph Choi Maxwell Kons VIOLIN 2 Abhi Eda Hannah Kitts Sandilya Kambhampati Alena Hennings Serena Maxwell Asvin Sivathanu Avery Brooks Colke Klinedinst Madelyn Moser Mason Whitney Nandini Sachdeva Abbey Shih Ava Ferry Sarah Jakel Olivia Biggs Emmalise Adcock Faye Tackett Christopher Holmquist Yasmine Utterback Ellie Walters Emerson Wilmore Bridgette Ehrhard

VIOLA Isabella Barber Aniket Shetty Jack Hulbert Miles Kruczenski Anooj Shah Isabel Dawes Krisha Valicha Sadie Vinson Garrett Vandesteene Claire Phillips Madeline Bond William Sila Madeline Pincombe-Walker Kanav Pathania Evie Chambers John Wyman Viola Zheng CELLO Lucas Johnson Grant Maiorana Annabelle Chen Emma Niemann Nathan Lee Marin Beekman Sarah Steffey Quinn Pedersen Alden Brinkmann David Palmer Megan Fowler Mallory Moser Elise Cheatham Phoenix Meikle Paul Rickert Sabrina Gray Ajay Yohannan Katie Fagan Laura Holecek Desmond Rapp BASS Jack Watson Lucy Presecan Annabella Ramirez

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VIOLIN 1 Norika Oya Heidi Tsai Hana Nguyen William Wu Cody Kirkpatrick Zach Milender Jillian Stemler Hailey Coennen Russell Chung Emily Li Connor Bae James Gong Joyce Tang Ashlyn Parikh Jaynell Lee Jing Jing Li Jude Lund VIOLIN 2 Laura Llames Claire Mui Campbell McWherter Zoe Poehlein Lilia Bunsey Abhinav Paknikar Sammie Van Hoose Mieko Harding Eric Liu Ylin Chen Lizzy Zhou Kathryn Sikora Ding Wen Hrishi Villur Ryan Squires Maddux Holladay Ritisha Ojha Aidan Shen Zoe Wu Jake Stavig VIOLA Ishani Roy Daniel Cho Jeremy Dawes Adia Jackman Lucas Branco Jack Larson Adrian Woods Marissa Curry Julia Lau

CELLO Lincoln Miller Rory Davidson Layne Jenkins Anjali Gantayat Mikaela Wood Kary McCall Nathan Moore Vincent Won Brayden Lantz Andrew Barnum Danielle Gad Eshaan Mahajan Chris Park Lynn Nakamura BASS Max Figura Cooper Carroll Selena Lopez

HORN Gavin Bletzinger Charles Liu Chad Kim Ian Ostermann Lucia Sun Ellen Summers TRUMPET Kevin Ward George Clark Andrew Gafford TROMBONE Connor Rudolph Luke Yoder Marc Miller TUBA Ethan Ellis

PICCOLO Robin Sullivan

PIANO Aidan Shen

FLUTE Zoe Noznesky Kai Kottapalli Robin Sullivan

TIMPANI Elijah Levy

OBOE James Leising Michael Wong Jack Poladian ENGLISH HORN Michael Wong CLARINET Kyle Ashamallah Charles Liu Sydney Chan BASSOON Isaac Perrin Matthew Sinclair

PERCUSSION Miles Carpenter Jack Mathis Tyler Cox Landon Fanale

E V E N TS CA L E N DA R

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