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The Orchestra 2024/25 SEASON
VIOLIN 1
Juliana Athayde+, Concertmaster
The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair, funded in perpetuity
Angelina Phillips, Associate Concertmaster
The Fred M. and Lurita D. Wechsler Chair, funded in perpetuity
Shannon Nance, Assistant Concertmaster
Jeongwon Claire An
Tigran Vardanyan
James Zabawa-Martinez
Thomas Rodgers
Anna Leunis
Molly McDonald
Kurt Munstedt
Chihiro Kakishima
Perrin Yang
Jeremy Hill
An-Chi Lin
VIOLIN 2
Jeanelle Thompson, Principal
The Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz Chair, funded in perpetuity
Daryl Perlo, Assistant Principal
The James E. Dumm Chair, funded in perpetuity
Patricia Sunwoo
John Sullivan
Lara Sipols
Sooyeon Kim
Petros Karapetyan
Liana Koteva Kirvan
Margaret Leenhouts
Heidi Brodwin
Elin Schlichting
Ellen Stokoe
VIOLA
Joshua Newburger, Principal
The William L. Gamble Chair, funded in perpetuity
Marc Anderson, Assistant Principal
Rebecca Christainsen
James Marshall
Olita Povero
Neil Miller
Melissa Matson
Ye In Son
David Hult
CELLO
Ahrim Kim, Principal
The Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Chair, funded in perpetuity
Lars Kirvan, Assistant Principal
Samuel Pierce-Ruhland
Christopher Haritatos
Benjamin Krug
Jennifer Carpenter
Ingrid Bock
BASS
Cory Palmer, Principal
The Anne Hayden McQuay Chair, funded in perpetuity
Michael Griffin, Assistant Principal
Daniel Morehead
Edward Castilano
Fred Dole
Jeff Campbell+
Eric Polenik
FLUTE
Rebecca Gilbert, Principal
The Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair, funded in perpetuity
Sean Marron
Elise Kim
PICCOLO
Sean Marron
Elise Kim
OBOE
Erik Behr, Principal
The Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Chair, funded in perpetuity
Anna Steltenpohl
Megan Kyle
ENGLISH HORN
Anna Steltenpohl
CLARINET
Kenneth Grant, Principal
The Robert J. Strasenburgh Chair, funded in perpetuity
Kamalia Freyling
Andrew Brown
E-FLAT CLARINET
Kamalia Freyling
BASS CLARINET
Andrew Brown
BASSOON
Matthew McDonald, Principal
The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair, funded in perpetuity
Karl Vilcins
Martha Sholl
CONTRA-BASSOON
Karl Vilcins
HORN
Michael Stevens, Principal
The Cricket and Frank Luellen Chair
YiCheng Gong, Associate/Assistant/Utility
Maura McCune Corvington
Nathan Ukens
Stephen Laifer
TRUMPET
Douglas Prosser, Principal
The Elaine P. Wilson Chair, funded in perpetuity
Wesley Nance
Herbert Smith
Paul Shewan
TROMBONE
David Bruestle, Principal
The Austin E. Hildebrandt Chair, funded in perpetuity
Lisa Albrecht
Jeffrey Gray
BASS TROMBONE
Jeffrey Gray
TUBA
W. Craig Sutherland, Principal
The Rob W. Goodling Chair, funded in perpetuity
TIMPANI
Charles Ross, Principal
The Harold and Joan Feinbloom Chair, funded in perpetuity
PERCUSSION
Brian Stotz
The Barbara and Patrick Fulford Chair, funded in perpetuity
HARP
Grace Browning, Principal
The Eileen Malone Chair. A Tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt M. Sylvester
Rosanna Moore
KEYBOARD
Chiao-Wen Cheng+, Principal
The Lois P. Lines Chair, funded in perpetuity
PERSONNEL MANAGER
Fred Dole
PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN
Kimberly Hartquist
Kathalee & Ian Hodge Library Operation Endowment
STAGE MANAGERS
Danielle Suhr
Cederick Martinez + Eastman faculty
ANDREAS DELFS Music Director
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 24/25 season marks a milestone for Music Director Andreas Delfs, whose debut with the RPO was November 17, 1994. Many return appearances and more than 25 years later, Maestro Delfs was announced as the RPO’s 13th music director in January 2021.
Since then, Delfs has been pivotal in leading the orchestra out of the depths of the pandemic through the RPO’s history-making 23/24 Centennial Season: breaking box-office records with blockbuster programming and A-list special guests, while also climbing to new artistic heights with world-premiere commissions and acclaimed community collaborations.
Not one to rest on the laurels of those successes, Delfs is using them to inspire the orchestra to thrive into its second century. “You always have to move forward,” he explained. “And the only way to follow a breath-taking anniversary season is to build on its momentum.”
Born in Flensburg, Germany, Delfs began studying piano and music theory at age five. By 20, he became the youngest music director in the history of the Hamburg University Orchestra. Following graduation from Hamburg Conservatory, he followed the recommendation of legendary German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, and took off for New York, where he earned his master’s degree at Juilliard School of Music, studying under such legendary conductors as Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling, and Leonard Bernstein.
Delfs soon landed posts at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO). He served as general music director of Hannover, Germany, conducting the city’s renowned symphony orchestra and opera company.
As music director and conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Delfs led the orchestra on its historic 1999 tour of Cuba, the first by an American orchestra in more than 37 years. During his tenure at the Milwaukee Symphony, he was instrumental in the symphony’s rise to national prominence.
Andreas Delfs has led scores of distinguished ensembles such as the London Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chinese National Symphony Orchestra. He has partnered with world-renowned artists including Philip Glass, André Watts, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, and Renée Fleming.
His passionate and dramatic interpretations of the late romantic repertoire with orchestras in both North America and Europe have drawn critical acclaim, reflecting a constantly evolving artistic maturity marked by the insight, depth and integrity he brings to the podium.
While Delfs’ approach to conducting has been forged by decades of experience, his love of new music is undeniable. Over the last two seasons alone, he has overseen RPO commissions by such highly regarded composers as Derrick Skye, Roberto Sierra, James Lee III, and Aaron Jay Kernis.
He and wife Amy live east of Rochester in the hamlet of Pultneyville, surrounded by their children, a grandchild, and Casper the Spitz.
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Our Conductors
JEFF TYZIK Principal Pops Conductor
Grammy Award winner Jeff Tyzik is one of America’s most innovative and sought after pops conductors. Tyzik is recognized for his brilliant arrangements, original programming, and engaging rapport with audiences of all ages. Tyzik is celebrating 31 years as Principal Pops Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and also serves as Principal Pops Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Oregon Symphony. Tyzik made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in September 2023 and closed the 23/24 season conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Frequently invited as a guest conductor, Tyzik has appeared with over 100 orchestras including the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, New York Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In May 2007, the Harmonia Mundi label released his recording of works by Gershwin with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and the RPO which stayed in the Top 10 on the Billboard classical chart for over three months. Alex Ross of The New Yorker called it “one of the snappiest Gershwin discs in years”.
In 2023, Jeff Tyzik launched his new publishing company TyzikMusic.com. This digital site features over 150 arrangements, orchestrations and compositions for Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music ensembles, and Wind Ensemble.
Committed to performing music of all genres, Tyzik has collaborated with such diverse artists as Leslie Odom Jr., Megan Hilty, Chris Botti, Matthew Morrison, Wynonna Judd, Sutton Foster, Tony Bennett, Art Garfunkel, Dawn Upshaw, Marilyn Horne, Arturo Sandoval, The Chieftains, Mark O’Connor, Doc Severinsen, and John Pizzarelli. He has created numerous original programs that include the greatest music from jazz and classical to Motown, Broadway, film, dance, Latin, and swing. Tyzik holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music.
With co-producers Greenberg Artists and Schirmer Theatrical, Jeff Tyzik has created 20 new orchestra pops programs that have been presented by 150 orchestras in the past three seasons.
For more information about Jeff Tyzik, please visit www.TyzikMusic.com
CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Conductor Laureate
The Christopher Seaman Chair, supported by Barbara and Patrick Fulford and The Conductor Laureate Society
Christopher Seaman was music director of the RPO from 1998-2011, and was subsequently named conductor laureate. During his 13-year tenure, the longest in RPO history, he raised the Orchestra’s artistic level, broadened its audience base, and created a new concert series. This contribution was recognized with an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. In May 2009, the University of Rochester made him an honorary doctor of music.
Previous positions include music director of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (Florida) for 10 years, conductor-in-residence with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and artistic advisor of the San Antonio Symphony.
He is recognized for his wealth of repertoire, which ranges from baroque to contemporary, and in particular the works of Bruckner, Brahms, and Sibelius. Seaman also is highly regarded for his work with younger musicians, and he served as course director for the Symphony Services International Conductor Development Program (Australia) for many years.
Recent conducting engagements include the Aspen Music Festival, Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Seattle symphony orchestras; the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Kristians Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, and Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil. He frequently visits Australia and Asia where he has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Singapore symphony orchestras, among others.
JHERRARD HARDEMAN Assistant Conductor
The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Education and Community Engagement Chair Jherrard Hardeman begins his second season with the RPO as Assistant Conductor (The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Education and Community Engagement Chair). Hardeman serves as Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (RPYO).
A rising star in the symphonic world, Hardeman leads the RPO’s signature OrKIDStra family series, education concerts at Kodak Hall, concerts for the community and beyond, and our July summer series.
By his mid-teens, Detroit native Hardeman was already attracting national attention as a classical conductor, composer, and violinist. He studied orchestral conducting under internationally renowned conductor David Robertson at The Juilliard School. Hardeman notes he cannot overstate the importance of mentorships by conductors
Mei-Ann Chen, Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, and Kevin Noe, Executive Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Hardeman has appeared with the Seattle Symphony, Grosse Pointe Symphony, Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and the Longy Conservatory Orchestra. An innate leader, he has also formed and/or conducted orchestras at such prestigious institutions as the New England Conservatory of Music, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and the AVANTI Summer MusicFest.
RPO Board of Directors
Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Founded in 1923 —Incorporated in 1930)
OFFICERS
Diana Clarkson, Esq., Chair of the Board
Curtis S. Long, President & CEO
Cindy Yancey, Vice Chair of the Board
Kathy Lindahl, Vice Chair of the Board
Karen Kessler, Secretary
Richard Stein, Treasurer
Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq., Immediate Past Chair
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2025
James Fulmer
Laurie A. Haelen
Ralph F. Jozefowicz. M.D.
Karen Kessler
Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.
Deborah Onslow
Ronald E. Salluzzo
Jason Thomas
TERM EXPIRES JUNE 2026
Daisy R. Algarin
Diana Clarkson, Esq.
George Daddis
Catherine Frangenberg
Allyson Hiranandani
Dr. Diane Lu
Sujatha Ramanujan
Elizabeth F. Rice
Dr. Eva P. Sauer
George J. Schwartz, M.D.
Richard Stein
Thomas Warfield
Dr. James Watters
TERM EXPIRES
JUNE 2027
Brian Bennett
Kimberly Gangi
Catherine Gueli
Emerson Fullwood
Paulette Gissendanner
Zuzanna Kwon
Katherine Lindahl
Jack McGowan
Sidney Sobel, M.D.
Cindy Yancey
EX-OFFICIO
Patrick Fulford
Chairperson, Honorary Board
Lars Kirvan
Orchestra Representative
Erik Behr
Orchestra Representative
Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq., Immediate Past Chair
Curtis S. Long
President & CEO
Kate Sheeran
Dean, Eastman School of Music
HONORARY BOARD
Patrick Fulford, Chairperson, Honorary Board
Stephen B. Ashley
Nancy Beilfuss*
James M. Boucher
Paul W. Briggs*
William L. Cahn
Louise Epstein
Joan Feinbloom
Ilene Flaum
Betsy Friedman
Ronald A. Furman*
Mary M. Gooley*
Suzanne Gouvernet*
David C. Heiligman
A. Thomas Hildebrandt
Harold A. Kurland, Esq.
Dr. Dawn F. Lipson
Jacques M. Lipson, MD*
Cricket and Frank Luellen*
Elizabeth F. Rice
Nathan J. Robfogel, Esq.
Jon L. Schumacher, Esq.
Katherine T. Schumacher
Ingrid Stanlis
Betty Strasenburgh*
Josephine S. Trubek
Suzanne D. Welch
Patricia Wilder*
Deborah Wilson
Robert Woodhouse
The RPO expresses its gratitude to all those who have served as Honorary Board members in the past.
PAST RPO CHAIRPERSONS
1930–32: Edward G. Miner*
1932–34: Simon N. Stein*
1934–38: George E. Norton*
1938–41: Leroy E. Snyder*
1941–42: Frank W. Lovejoy*
1942–43: Bernard E. Finucane*
1943–46: L. Dudley Field*
1946–48: Edward S. Farrow, Jr. *
1948–51: Joseph J. Myler*
1951–52: Joseph F. Taylor*
1952–55: Raymond W. Albright*
1955–57: Arthur I. Stern*
1957–59: Thomas H. Hawks*
1959–61: Walter C. Strakosh*
1962–63: Ernest J. Howe*
1963–65: O. Cedric Rowntree*
1965–67: Frank E. Holley *
1967–69: Thomas C. Taylor*
1969–71: Thomas H. Miller*
1971–72: Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens*
1972–73: Edward C. McIrvine
1973–74: Robert J. Strasenburgh*
1974–75: John A. Santuccio
1975–76: Robert J. Strasenburgh*
1976–78: Dr. Louis Lasagna*
1978–80: Edward C. McIrvine
1980–82: Peter L. Faber
1982–84: Paul F. Pagerey*
1984–85: Peter L. Waasdorp*
1986–89: Robert H. Hurlbut*
1989–91: Paul W. Briggs*
1991–93: Karen Noble Hanson*
1993–95: Ronald E. Salluzzo
1995–98: A. Thomas Hildebrandt
1998–00: Harold A. Kurland, Esq.
2000–04: David C. Heiligman
2004–06: Ingrid A. Stanlis
2006–09: James M. Boucher
2009–11: Suzanne D. Welch
2011–13: Elizabeth F. Rice
2013–15: Dr. Dawn F. Lipson
2015-17: Jules L. Smith, Esq.
2017-19: Ingrid A. Stanlis
2019-24: Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.
* Deceased
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Andreas Delfs, conductor
For Andreas Delfs’ biography, please see page 5.
Juliana Athayde, violin
Ahrim Kim, cello
Erik Behr, oboe
Matthew McDonald, bassoon
WOLFGANG AMADEUS
Symphony No. 35 in D major, 17:00 MOZART
K. 385, “Haffner”
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Andante
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto
ROBERTO SIERRA
Sinfonía Concertante
25:00 (RPO Voices of Today Commission)
Moderado-Movido-Moderado-Movido Lento Expresivo-Rápido-Con ternura
Rápido
Juliana Athayde, violin
Ahrim Kim, cello
Erik Behr, oboe
Matthew McDonald, bassoon
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98 39:00
Allegro non troppo
Andante moderato
Allegro giocoso
Allegro energico e passionato
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ARTISTS
JULIANA ATHAYDE, violin
Concertmaster, The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair
Appointed concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 2005 at the age of 24, Juliana Athayde became the youngest person and first female to hold the position since the orchestra’s founding in 1922. She has appeared as guest concertmaster with the Houston, San Diego, Kansas City, and Santa Barbara symphonies, as well as the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Ontario. She has also performed with The Cleveland Orchestra in the United States and Europe.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Athayde made her solo debut at the age of 16 performing with the San Francisco Symphony and has been praised by critics for her “power and precision,” “melting lyricism,” and “larger than life” performances. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Athayde’s numerous solo appearances with the RPO have covered a wide range of composers and include multiple world premieres: Allen Shawn’s violin concerto (2010), Jeff Tyzik’s Jazz Concerto for Violin (2016), and Roberto Sierra’s violin concerto (2022), all commissioned by the RPO and written specifically for her. Athayde has also performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and is in demand as a chamber musician. Notable collaborations include Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Vadim Gluzman, Michael Tilson Thomas, Paul Neubauer, Anton Nel, Orion Weiss, Shai Wosner, Joseph Silverstein, Orli Shaham, Jon Nakamatsu, William Preucil, Jon Kimura Parker, and Anthony McGill.
Ms. Athayde performs on a J.B. Vuillaume violin and a Jean Dominique Adam bow.
AHRIM KIM, cello
Principal, The Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Chair
Ahrim Kim is an accomplished soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader who joined the RPO as principal cellist in the fall of 2015. She was awarded the Cassado Prize at the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Japan and top prizes in numerous other competitions, including the Houston Symphony’s Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition, the Five Towns Music Competition, and the Corpus Christi International Competition. She has performed solo and chamber repertoire at Boston’s Symphony Hall, The Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Sarasota Music Festival, Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, the Kennedy Center, and the Salzburg Mozarteum. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Boston Pops, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. She was a member of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for the 2014-15 season as acting principal cellist, and she has also played in the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, she taught and played at the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim began her cello studies at the age of six. She moved to the U.S. in 2002 and studied cello through Juilliard’s Pre-College Division for young musicians. She holds a master’s degree in cello performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she also earned her bachelor’s degree under the tutelage of Laurence Lesser and Natasha Brofsky.
JULIANA ATHAYDE KATE LEMMON AHRIM KIM
ARTISTS
ERIK BEHR, oboe
Principal, The Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Chair
Erik Behr has held the position of Principal Oboe at the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since 2007, after serving as Principal Oboe at the Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet. He has also served as a guest principal with several orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony. During the summer season, Behr is the principal oboe of the Sun Valley Music Festival and played for many years with the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Additionally, he has performed at the Edinburgh International, Casals, Maribor, and Spoleto festivals.
Behr’s extensive repertoire includes a variety of concerto performances, including the premiere of Allen Shawn’s Oboe Concerto in 2018, which was commissioned for Behr and the RPO. Behr and his wife, RPO Concertmaster Juliana Athayde, serve as Co-Artistic Directors of the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester. In 2017, Behr premiered Guggenheim Fellow Adam Roberts’ Oboe Quartet, commissioned for Behr and SCMR. Behr recorded this work with the JACK Quartet and it was released by New Focus Recording in late 2021. Behr is committed to promoting new music, having works written for him by composers such as Jeff Tyzik’s Dance Suite for oboe and orchestra (2020) and Jim Willey’s Oboe Quartet (2021).
Behr’s musicianship has garnered praise from critics, who have described his playing as “bold and graceful” (Washington Post), “immaculate” (Sunday Tribune), and commended his “tremendous musicianship and sense of style” (Irish Examiner), as well as his “ease and eloquence” (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle).
Currently, Behr serves as an Adjunct Professor at Roberts Wesleyan College, and has served as a guest oboe teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rice University. Behr has also held a position on the oboe faculty at the University of Houston and served as a visiting lecturer at Cornell University. During the summer, Behr teaches at the National Orchestral Institute + Festival and Carnegie Hall’s NYO-USA, as well as giving masterclasses internationally. Behr holds a B.M. (cum laude) from Arizona State University, a M.M. from Temple University, and a D.M.A. from Rice University, having studied with Robert Atherholt, Richard Woodhams, and Martin Schuring.
MATTHEW MCDONALD, bassoon
Principal, The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair
Matthew McDonald was appointed Principal Bassoon of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2013. Before his appointment there, he was Principal Bassoon of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Co-Principal Bassoon of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio. McDonald has performed as soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as at the International Double Reed Society conference. He has appeared with festival orchestras such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Born in Huntsville, Alabama, McDonald began studying with Hunter Thomas, and later with Benjamin Kamins. A graduate of the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, McDonald had other teachers including Barrick Stees, Bernard Garfield, and Daniel Matsukawa. Along with soprano Susanna Phillips, McDonald co-founded Twickenham Fest, a chamber music festival in Huntsville, Alabama, which had its inaugural summer in 2010.
ERIK BEHR MATTHEW MCDONALD
LYDIA DIMONTE
PROGRAM NOTES
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
B. SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
January 27, 1756
D. VIENNA, AUSTRIA
December 5, 1791
The “Haffner” Symphony is a case of Mozart rediscovering a piece of music he wrote hastily and then realizing it was a gem. In 1782, when his childhood friend was to be elevated into a position of nobility, Mozart’s father appealed to Mozart to write a work for the occasion. Mozart had previously written for the Haffner family’s celebrations. But this time, Mozart was busy. He was preparing to marry and managing performances of The Abduction from the Seraglio. Nonetheless, Mozart agreed to pull an all-nighter and write something, promising it would be good. However, it didn’t arrive until two days after the ennoblement ceremony.
About half a year later, Mozart wanted to present the work at a concert and asked his father to return the score. Upon revisiting the work, Mozart wrote, “My new Haffner symphony has positively amazed me, for I had forgotten every single note of it.” The work was closer to a serenade—a light but intimate work for a chamber ensemble—but molding it into a proper symphony took little work. All Mozart did was remove a preceding march and a later minuet to keep the work to four movements. Additionally, he added flutes and clarinets to the outer movements. It’s not hard to hear why Mozart was taken by his work: the energetic unison opening with octave leaps and decorative trills is a compelling theme, which Mozart wrote should be played with “great fire.” The mellow Andante reflects the work’s origins as a serenade, and the third movement minuet and trio show Mozart’s ability to connect contrasting material. Mozart liked his symphony so much that he used it to open and close the concert in which it premiered.
ROBERTO SIERRA
Sinfonía Concertante
B. VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO October 9, 1953
Although the Sinfonia Concertante now has a long history in the classical repertoire, the number of pieces using that title is not large. Most notable are the works by Mozart and Haydn, the latter being the model for my composition in terms of choice for the concertante instruments. The connection to Haydn stops there since my formal conception does not directly reference Haydn or the classical period.
The slow introduction to the first movement introduces the four soloists (oboe, bassoon, violin, and cello) with their lyrical character. The vivacious rhythms of the fast section establish a different character for the soloists and the ensemble while providing the rhythmic motives that are developed throughout the movement.
The second movement brings back the expressive character of the four soloists. The form consists of a slow section followed by a fast-moving passacaglia containing the German equivalent pitches included in the name of Andreas Delfs (the musical notes are A, D, E, A, E-flat [German “Es” or just the letter “S”], D, E, F and E-flat). This encryption with notes is turned into a salsa-like section that requires high virtuosity from the soloists and the orchestra. The name-turned-musical motive is repeated until the lyrical coda that closes the movement appears.
In response to the passacaglia of the second movement, the work ends with more evocations of Caribbean music.
Note by Roberto Sierra
PROGRAM NOTES
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
B. HAMBURG, GERMANY May 7, 1833
D. VIENNA, AUSTRIA April 3, 1897
Before Brahms premiered his fourth and final symphony—which has gone down in the history books as one of the greatest symphonies ever written—he sought out the opinions of his friends. He sent the first movement score to his former student and longtime friend Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, who wrote back, “Your piece affects me curiously; the more penetration I bring to bear on it, the more impenetrable it becomes.” Then, prodded by his close friend Max Kalbeck, Brahms and pianist Ignaz Brüll performed a two-piano preview version of the work at the Ehrbar piano salon for Kalbeck plus the invited critic Eduard Hanslick, amateur musician Theodor Billroth, and conductor Hans Richter. According to Brahms’s biographer Jan Swafford, the work was met with “resounding silence.” Eventually, Hanslick said, “I feel like I’ve just been beaten up by two terribly intelligent people.” The next day, Kalbeck begged Brahms to hold off on the premiere and make significant changes to the work. Brahms did neither.
The core of their criticisms was that the work was too cerebral. Brahms’s music features a technique known as the ‘developing variation’ where a basic unit of music germinates an entire work, reappearing in small and large-scale variations to create organic unity within and across movements. The name for Brahms’s technique was coined by twentieth-century composer Arnold Schoenberg, who claimed his atonal music was a continuation of the great Germanic tradition due to his use of Brahms’s technique. Although much of Brahms’s music displays this brilliantly constructed unity, the Fourth Symphony may be a master class in it. The first movement sets the example. The work’s primary theme starts immediately in the violins with twonote sighs, a pattern that Leonard Bernstein once described as giving “the impression of a breathless panting that betokens some kind of emotional agitation.” Those sighs, in thirds (or its inversion, a sixth), develop in ever more precarious ways to provide difference and development, whether by playing with the theme’s characteristic pauses, doubling the speed of the pitches, displacing the accents, and more. When new material is introduced, as in the transition between the first and second theme, it provides ever new seeds for Brahms to grow and exploit. Even though the work is in a predictable sonata form, there’s so much under the hood, so to speak, that it is just as Herzogenberg explained: the more you look, the more you find. But none of it takes away from the aesthetic pleasure of the music, a musicality that is just as organic as Brahms’s thematic tinkering.
Brahms’s invention doesn’t end with the first movement. The second movement, Andante moderato, develops a languorous melody that first appears in the woodwinds over string pizzicatos that sounds almost exotic due to the use of the medieval Phrygian mode. The melody returns in several guises, such as in counterpoint or forceful statements. The third movement, Allegro giocoso (fast and playful), is the closest Brahms ever wrote to a scherzo in his symphonies, but without a middle trio and in an uncharacteristic duple meter. The final movement, Allegro energico e passionate, is perhaps the most inventive movement of all: Brahms borrows the bass line from a Bach church cantata (BWV 150) to create a symphonic passacaglia, a Baroque variation structure with a repeating chordal structure. Atop, he cycles through 30 variations. Although most symphonic works feature large-scale moves from minor to major, Brahms does the opposite here, moving into a devastating and increasingly violent end in minor that stunned audiences.
Rather than taking it out for a first run for hyper-critical Vienna audiences, Brahms premiered the symphony in Meiningen, Germany, on October 25, 1885. Brahms, who conducted, surely held his breath, anticipating a lukewarm—or worse—response. But biographer Swafford writes, “The Meiningen audience unreservedly applauded every movement and there was a delirious ovation at the end.”
After several performances of the work across Germany, Hanslick—who had criticized the work in preview— praised the symphony’s “executive craftsmanship” and admitted that listeners need not perceive all the work’s intricate developments to grasp its “chaste beauty.” But for those who do, he concluded, “It is like a dark well; the longer we look into it, the more brightly the stars shine back.”
Program notes by Anna Reguero, PhD, a Rochester-based arts writer and music scholar.
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Peyton is a violist based in Rochester NY, where she studies with Roberta Zalkind at the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS). She has attended prestigious music programs including Meadowmount, Bowdoin, Green Mountain and Eastman Classical Studies. In 2024, she won 1st place in the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Talent Hunt. Later that year, Peyton received runner-up for the Ruth and Sidney Salzman Award for Strings as part of the Young Artist Auditions. Through the Rochester Education Foundation, she was awarded the Musician of the Year grant.
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ZLATOMIR FUNG, cello
Cellist Zlatomir Fung burst onto the scene as the first American in four decades (and youngest musician ever) to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division. He has since garnered accolades, critical acclaim, and standing ovations at performances around the world, more and more widely recognized as one of the preeminent cellists of our time. Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and exquisite sensitivity, the 25-year-old has already proven himself a star among the next generation of world-class musicians.
In the 2024–2025 season, Fung gives recitals in New York City, Boston, and St. Louis, and performs the complete Bach Cello Suites at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts and in Arcata, California. He returns to the Aspen Music Festival and makes his debut at the Ravinia Festival. As concerto soloist, he joins the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Antonio Philharmonic, and the Billings Symphony Orchestra, among others. Internationally, he performs with the Barcelona Symphony in Spain, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan with Jaap van Zweden conducting, and he returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra; he also appears in France, Poland, Romania, Korea, Japan, China, and Italy.
In January 2025, Signum Records releases Fung’s debut album, a collection of opera fantasies and transcriptions for cello and piano, which is emblematic of Fung’s endless curiosity and his interest in unusual repertoire. The recording includes Fung’s own fantasy on Janáček’s Jenůfa and world premiere recordings of Marshall Estrin’s Fantasia Carmén and a virtually unknown transcription of Rossini’s William Tell by 19th-century composer François-George Hainl.
Fung served as Artist-in-Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2023–2024 season, appearing at London’s Cadogan Hall and touring the UK with the orchestra. Other notable appearances of late include his debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, and BBC Philharmonic, as well as the Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, Seattle, Milwaukee, Utah, Rochester, and Kansas City Symphonies.
Fung made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2021 and was described by Bachtrack as “one of those rare musicians with a Midas touch: he quickly envelopes every score he plays in an almost palpable golden aura.” Other recent highlights include returns to Wigmore Hall and appearances at the Verbier, Dresden, Leoš Janáček International, and Tsinandali Festivals, Cello Biennale Amsterdam, Bravo! Vail, Grant Park Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival.
Fung was a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Winner in 2022 and awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2020. As a participant in WXQR’s Artist Propulsion Lab in 2023, he wrote The Elves and the Cello Maker, a radio play in which he also performed. Fung has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and has appeared six times on NPR’s From the Top. 2024–2025 marks Fung’s first season on the cello faculty at his alma mater, The Juilliard School.
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LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Lachian Dance No. 1 , “Starodávny”
B. HUKVALDY, MORAVIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
July 3, 1854
D. MORAVSKÁ OSTRAVA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
August 12, 1928
The inflections of speech and melodic shape of the Czech language were a fascination of Czech composer Leoš Janáček. He reworked those sounds and shapes into works of startling originality, but his unique musical voice wasn’t heralded until much later in his life. Influenced by his contemporary and friend Antonín Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, Janáček took his notations of Moravian folk dances, which occupied him in the 1880s, and worked them into a set of six short works called the Lachian Dances starting in 1889. Two dances form the basis of Lachian Dance No. 1, Starodávný (“Old-Time Dance”): a celebratory wedding dance typically danced around a fire and a kerchief dance that originated from a village near Janáček’s birthplace. The work moves between triple and duple meters, a common feature of Moravian music, the region where Janáček spent most of his career.
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Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
B. NELAHOZEVES, NR KRALUPY September 8, 1841
D. PRAGUE, CZECHIA May 1, 1904
Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor is considered one of the greatest works for cello due to its technical challenges and sweeping melodies that combine the cello’s powerful voice with the full timbral palate of an orchestra. But Dvořák almost didn’t write it. For a significant portion of his life, he felt the cello was unsuitable as a solo instrument. His student Ludmila Vojáčková-Wechte recalled Dvořák saying that while the cello’s middle register is fine, “the upper voice squeaks and the lower growls.” It’s a view he may have come to while writing his first cello concerto, an A major concerto written in his 20s, which he left unorchestrated and unpublished during his lifetime. But after hearing New York Philharmonic cellist Victor Herbert premiere a self-written concerto inspired by none other than Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony, Dvořák reportedly reconsidered the cello’s ability to command a solo position next to a full orchestra. Dvořák wrote his B minor cello concerto between 1894 and 1895, while serving as dean of the National Conservatory of Music in New York. Although the work doesn’t contain the same Americanisms as Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony, it does hint at it through some modal inflections in its melodies. The concerto is also considered one of Dvořák’s most personal works: He quotes from his Four Songs cycle as a tribute to his sister-in-law Josefina Kounicová, who had recently passed but who had loved the song. The melody is quoted in the Adagio and then again at the end of the finale in a concluding solo violin statement.
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Cantus articus, Op. 61, “Concerto for Birds and Orchestra”
B. HELSINKI, FINLAND
October 9, 1928
D. HELSINKI, FINLAND July 27, 2016
The sound of birds chirping emerges out of a sinuous flute passage in the opening of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Cantus articus, Op. 61, subtitled the “Concerto for Birds and Orchestra.” No, birds haven’t fluttered their way into Eastman Theatre. The birds are part of a recorded track on magnetic tape, a modernist technique developed by twentieth-century composers to bring real-world sounds into composed works. The songs of birds—some recorded in the bogs of northern Finland and others in the Arctic Circle—become another instrument in the texture in Rautavaara’s Cantus articus, which was written in 1972 and commissioned for the first doctoral degree hooding ceremony at the University of Oulu, one of Finland’s most prominent universities. In three impressionistic movements, Rautavaara brings in several birds, from shore larks to whooper swans, playing with the light and texture of their environments in the orchestra. In Finland, Rautavvara inherited a welcoming environment for his compositional interests, which ranged from neo-classicism to serialism, thanks to the prior fame of composer Jean Sibelius, who supported the works of the younger Rautavaara.
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B. HÄMEENLINNA, FINLAND
December 8, 1865
D. JÄRVENPÄÄ, FINLAND September 20, 1957
Jean Sibelius was a late-Romantic composer from Finland who found inspiration in works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Liszt, and Mahler. Like these composers, he embraced late Romantic harmony and the flexible forms of tone poems, synthesizing such elements in ways unlike any other composer. He also drew upon Finnish and Nordic tales, which earned him widespread fame and helped establish Finland as a cultural hub during the nationalist campaigns of the time. His Symphony No. 7—his final symphony, although he attempted to write an eighth but ultimately destroyed the score—can be heard as the culmination of his compositional output, representing a complete synthesis of harmony and form. This compact, single-movement symphony, initially titled Fantasia sinfonia No. 1 (renamed by the composer as a symphony a year after the 1924 premiere), can be best described as iterative for how the musical materials transform. Seemingly simple elements—motives, scales, rhythms—undergo a mysterious musical-chemical process where they catalyze, neutralize, or dissolve, causing organic changes over time and space. The work has inspired various interpretations of its underlying form, which lacks a formal basis. Its free form has the feel of a tone poem, but Sibelius never expressed an extramusical narrative. At most, the key of C major might suggest a composer attempting to capture the natural world, similarly to how C major in Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra (performed earlier in the season by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) represents nature. Despite the absence of formal demarcations, some elements help ground listeners. The opening C major scale is a harbinger of change: the reappearance of scale-like materials tends to signal the arrival of new musical areas. As Sibelius builds suspense and anticipation, the music bursts into an exhilarating and euphoric state featuring a trombone solo, a golden rising above the orchestral textures. This solo is often referred to as the “Aino” theme because Sibelius wrote his wife’s name, Aino Sibelius, next to it in the original score. The trombone solo appears three times: first after a hymn-like section, second after scherzo-like material, and finally after an area that can be perceived as heroic in tone. The symphony concludes like one of painter Salvador Dalí’s drooping clocks: rather than a solid cadence, suspended tones in each instrument in the orchestra gradually slide into C major. Conductor Simon Rattle’s description is fitting: “There’s no other piece that ends in C major where you feel like it’s the end of the world.”
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Dr. Charlotte Ryan
Mrs. Robert M. Santo& Carol Whitbeck&
Patricia Goodwin
Janet and Roger Gram
Carl E. Grimm
David Louis Guadagnino and Mary Beauchamp
Laurie Haelen and Mary McCrank
Mr. Gary D. Haines
Robert and Deborah HallS
David and MaryAnn Hamilton&
Dick Hare in memory of Marilyn Hare&
Nicki Hastings
John and Ruth Hazzard
Sanjay and Ally Hiranandani
Ian and Kathalee* Hodge
Dr. Jack and Harriette Howitt
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Ierardi
Robert and Merilyn* Israel
Connie KaminskiS
Marie and Charlie Kenton
Connie Klein
Richard and Karen Knowles
Glenn and Nancy Koch
Harold and Christine Kurland
Vincent and Zuzanna Kwon&
ADAGIO ($2,500-$9,999) CONTINUED
Norma and Anthony* Leone, M.D.
Kathy J. Lindsley
John and Jane Littwitz
Sue and Michael LococoS
Edith M. Lord
Swaminathan and Janice Madhu
Dan and Kiki Mahar
Mr. Bruce P. Marshall
Tom and Emily McCall
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert J.C. McCurdy*
Gilbert Kennedy McCurdy
Bruce and Eleanor McLear
Donald R. Messina*
Susan Murphy and Ralph Black
Paul Marc and Pamela Miller Ness&
William J. O’Connor, Jr.
John and Tobie Olsan
PHILHARMONIC FRIENDS
ADVOCATE ($1,000-$2,499)
Daniel and Elizabeth Abbas
Daisy AlgarinS
Marvin and Frederica Amstey
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Mehdi N. Araghi
Neil and Maggie Atkins
Jane Ellen Bailey
Rodger and Elga Baker
Jack and Kathleen BeadlingS
Walter J.* and Jeanne M. Beecher
Ellen Bevan*
Teresa and Tim Biehler
Bischoff Family
William and Grace Boudway
Joseph* and Nancy Briggs
Eric and Wendy Bruestle
Josephine Buckley
Brian and Mary Jane Burke
Bruce and Shirley Burritt
Ed Castilano^
Clark Family Fund at the Rochester Area Community Foundation
Rick and Sandra Cranshaw
Beth R. CrossS
Roy Czernikowski* and Karin Dunnigan
Joe and Sue DeGeorge Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven DeSmitt
Stephanie and Douglas Dickman
Tex and Nicki Doolittle
Rose Duver
Michael C. Dwyer
Dr. Dianne Edgar and Terry Platt
Ed and Rosemary Eichenlaub
Dr. Steven and Susan Eisinger
Neal and Kathleen Elli
D. Craig Epperson and Dr. Beth Jelsma
Trevor and Elizabeth Ewell
David and Anne Ferris
Jim and Steph Fischer
M. Fitzpatrick
Jonathan Foster
Sandra and Neil Frankel
Evelyn Frazee and Thomas Klonick
Linda and David FriedmanS
Judith Fulmer
Jerry J. Gambino, Jr.
Paul Gardella
Jacquie and Andrew Germanow
Linda G. Gillim
Warren and June Glaser
John and Roslyn Goldman
Crofts* and Jane Gorsline
Jeanne and Bob Grace
Helen and George Greer**
Joanna and Michael Grosodonia^
Jason and Janelle Gutman
Susan and James Haefner
Joan Hallenbeck
Ms. Lydia Susan Palmer
Suzanne and Richard Portland
Brock and Sandra* Powell
Peter and Christina Prieto
Alice and Andrew Publow
Robert and Anne QuiveyS
David Rakov
Nancy and Vincent Reale
Nancy Robbins
Dick* and Bea Rosenbloom
Mr. Fritz Ruebeck and Dr. Cecilia Meagher
Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan, Jr.
Gary B. Schaefer
David and Antonia Schantz
Joan M. Schumaker
George J. Schwartz, M.D. and Paula Maier
Richard and Vicki* Schwartz
Fred and Martha Hamaker
David and Edna F. Hamlin
Martin and Sherrie Handelman
A. Scott Hecker
Bob and Kathy Heinig
James and Susan Herman
Dr. Tomas Hernandez and Dr. Keith Reas
Walter B.D. Hickey, Jr.
Drs. Ryan and Makiko Hoefen^
Dr. Marvin and Nancy* Yanes Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. * Howard E. Holcomb, Jr.
Susan and Chris Holliday
Dr. Robert Horn and Dr. Patricia Nachman
Marjorie S. Humphrey
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Iwan
La Marr J. Jackson, Esq.
Douglas and Maryanne Jones
Nancy Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Judson, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Kanthor
Judy and Norm Karsten
Heidi Katz and Carl Chiarenza
Robert J. Kennedy
Karen and Laurence Kessler
James H. Kirkwood
Ann Knigge and Al Buckner
Hon. Joan S. Kohout
Lynn Krauss-Prince
Chari and Joel Krenis
Deanna and Charles Krunsenstjerna
Werner and Susan Kunz
Donna M. Landry
Jennifer Leonard and David Cay Johnston
Katherine Lewis and Richard Chasman*
Curtis and Elizabeth Long&S
Dr. Diane Lu and Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq.
Patrick Macey and Jeremiah Casey
Chen and John MageeS
Scott Manspeaker
Saul and Susan Marsh
Mr. Lawrence Martling
Richard and Kate Massie
H. Winn McCray
William and Erin McCune in memory of Vera
McCune
Richard W. McGrath
John W. McNeill
Andrew and Kay Melnyk
Robert J. and Marcia Wishengrad Metzger
Ralph and Martha Meyer
Deanne Molinari
Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Morgan
Laura V. Morrissey
Pastor and Mrs. Donald Muller
Dr. Gary and Ruth Myers
Helene Newman
Nannette Nocon
Deborah Onslow&S
Libba and Wolf Seka
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Seymour
Georgine and James Stenger
Bob and Gayle Stiles
David and Grace* Strong
Glen and Lynne Suckling
Margaret and Charles Symington
Mark and Lois Taubman
Mimi and Sam Tilton
Michael and Beverly* Tomaino
John Urban
Gary and Marie VanGraafeiland
Skip and Karen Warren
Stephen R. Webb
Mr. and Mrs. David K. Weber
David and Julie Weinstein
Kitty J. Wise&L
Elizabeth Osta and George VanArsdale
Graham Ottoson
Douglas and Rose Peet
David and Marjorie Perlman
Dee and Horace E. Perry
Bill Prest
Susan and Donald Pritchard
Sujatha Ramanujan and James Chwalek
Dick and Cathy Rasmussen
Cary Ratcliff
Marcia Rausch
Rene Reixach
Josh Reynolds
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Richards
Nancy and Art Roberts
Dr. Gerald and Maxine Rosen
Hannah and Arnold Rosenblatt
Joan and James* Ryan, Sr.
Paul and Barbara Schmied
Peter Schott and Mary Jane Tasciotti
Mr. and Mrs. William Schultz
Anthony and Gloria Sciolino
Catherine and Richard Seeger
Dr. Jenny C. Servo and Mr. John Servo
David and Susan Sharp
Thomas and Sandra Shaw
Kate Sheeran
Hezekiah and Ann Marie Simmons
Kathie Snyder
Phillip and Karen Sparkes
David Spector
Mr. Richard R. Spellicy
Ms. Maureen A. Stables
Eleanor Stauffer
Sandra and Richard Stein&
Ann H. Stevens and William J. Shattuck
Nancy Stevens and David Williams
David and Christine Sage Suits
Adam and Catherine Towsley
Sally Turner
Wayne and Anne Vander Byl
James and Barb* Walker
James Watters
Jean and Sterling L.* Weaver
Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weingarten^
Joyce and William Weir
Sue A. Whan
Ed and Wilma Wierenga
Elise and Joseph Wojciechowski
Beatrice and Michael Wolford
Grace Wong
Norman J. Wright
Laura and Joel Yellin
Bill and Wende Young
Marsha Young
Helen A. Zamboni
Barbara and David AckroydS
Barbara Agor
Anonymous
Barbara and E. David* Appelbaum
Bob and Jody Asbury
Karen Bancroft
Jim and Linda Baroody
Richard J. Bell
Hays and Karen Bell
Suzanne Bell and Chris Brown
Kate Bennett
Richard Bennett
James and Lynette Blake
Donald and Mary BoydS
James and Lynette Blake
Paula and James* Briggs
Henra S. Briskin
Eileen Buholtz
Lori Busch
Brendan and Suzanne Casey
Victor Ciaraldi and Kathy Marchaesi
Alan Cohen and Nancy Bloom
Jane R. Colucci
Cathleen Combs
Elison and Donald Cramer
Janice and Robert Daitz
Jacqueline Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Delvecchio
Gary DeWitt
Kathleen Dill
Michael DiSalle
Donald and Stephanie Doe
Jane Durham
Mohsen Emami, M.D.
Julia B. Everitt
Sherman and Anne Farnham
Udo Fehn and Christine Long
Joan and Harold* Feinbloom
Evan and Elvira* Felty
Almon Fisher
Gail R. Flugel
George and Marie Follett
Susan and Leslie Foor
Ann and Steve Fox
Ruth Freeman
Laura L. Fulton and Martin Zemel
Kimberly and Lou Gangi
John and Miriam Ganze
M. Lois Gauch
Mary Anna and Darrell Geib
Paulette GissendannerS
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Goldstein
Dr. John W. and Mrs. Heather Goodbody
Dr. and Mrs. William Grace
Russell and Kathleen Green
Gay Greene and Robert Goeckel
Michael D. Grossman
Catherine Gueli
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Guerin
William and Cathy Haller
Barbara and A. Michael Hanna
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hanna
Carol Hardy
Gil and Judy Hawkins
William and Patricia Hayles
Michael R. Herzog
Dr. Florence M. Higgins and Mr. John Lebens
James and Betsy Hoefen
Sheila Hollander
Audrey W. Holly
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Holmes
Victoria Hoover
Philip and Eleanor Hopke
Dr. Dewey Jackson
Robert and Mary* Jackson
Bruce Jacobs
Lyle Jenks
Mr. Gilbert F. Jordan
Connie KaminskiS
Lori and Frank Karbel
Barbara and Robert Kay
Michael and Joann Keefe
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Keenan
Mary Kerr
Mr. Edward Klehr
Ken Knight and Ann Curtin-Knight
Mark and Mona Friedman Kolko
Mrs. Ellen Konar
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kopf, Jr.
James Kraus
John and Lisa Lacci
Carolyn Leccese
Philip and Susan Lederer
Janet and James Leone
Doris and Austin Leve
Ellen C. Lewis
Sarah F. Liebschutz, PhD
Margaret Lindsey, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Norman R. Loomis
Mr. Robert Lowenthal
Daniel J. Lukach
John and Judy Lynd
David J. Mack
Frank Maley
James and Rosa Mance
Janice D. Manning
Bryan Maslin and Jane Flasch-Maslin
David and Dorcas McCartney
Dick and Sandra McGavern
Virginia McHugh
J. Scott and Susan L. Miller
Sanford and Jill Miller
Jonathan Mink and Janet Cranshaw
Mary E. Miskell and Terrance Clar
Ilene Montana
Charles Morgan
L. Janet Lawrence-Morse
David and Monika M. MullenS
Thomas C. Munger
Rita Myers
Michael D. Nazar
Maureen and Steve Neumaier
Mr. and Mrs. John Norris
Peggy and David Oakes
Jason Oaks
Mr. Donald W. and Jo-Ann R. O’Brien
Marcia O’Brien
W. Smith and Jean O’Brien
Margie O’jea
Debra and George Orosz
Damodar Pai
Tom Parker
Jonathan R. Parkes and Dr. Marcia Bornhurst Parkes
Marian Payson and Helen Wiley
Glen Pearson
Jerry Peters
Robert and Penny Peterson
Thomas W. Petrillo and William R. Reamy
Everett Porter
Harry J. and Margaret H. Price
Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Przybylowicz
Jerry and Janice Rachfal
James Reed
Richard and Susan Reed
Stan and Anne Refermat
Ray and Judy Ricker
Linda and Michael Riordan Family Fund at the RACF
Richard and Margery Rosen
Jamal and Pam Rossi
Dr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Ruckert
Tom and Ellen Rusling
Hon. Franklin T. and Cynthia Russell
Dr. Alvani D. and Carol M. Santos
Ed and Gabriel Saphar
Nancy and David Schraver
David and Naomi Schrier
Mrs. Arthur W. Schuster, Jr.
Heidi B. Schwarz, M.D.
David Segal
Theresa A. Seil and Debra Celestino
Rich Sensenbach
Robert E. and Susan H. Shapiro
Richard and Joanne Shimko
Mrs. Caroline Shipley
Donna Broberg Shum
Christina Sickelco
Harvey Simmons
Daniel and Sarah Singal
Janet H. Sorensen
Jim and Dora Stauffer
Berl Stein
Abby and David Stern
David B. Stong
Glen and Lynne Suckling
Anne Sullivan
Steve and Cheryl Swartout
Yoshiko Tamura and Bruce M. Lee
David and Carol Teegarden
Darbbie J. Thomas
Jeffrey J. Thompson
Celia and Doug Topping
John* and Janet Tyler
Jeff and Jill Tyzik
Eugene and Gloria Ulterino
Dr. William M. Valenti
Lorraine Van Meter-Cline and Doug Cline
Vic Vinkey
Robert Vosteen
Stephen H. and Jody Waite
Brian and Jean Waldmiller
John and Anne Walker
Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace
Lawrence and Diane Wardlow
Marsha Walton
Betsy and Peter Webster
Warren Welch
Kathleen Whelehan
Charles and Carolyn Whitfield
Rick and Yvonne Whitmore
Dale and Lorraine Whittington
Susan and Paul Wilkens
Amy and Brent Williams
Molly Willner-Boucher
David and Donna Willome
Lois Wolf and William Hall
Les and Wanda Wood
Jim* and Barb Woods
Jeff Wright and Betty Wells
Caroline and Richard Yates
Susan and Maurice Zauderer
Robert and Carol Zimmerman
& Denotes donor(s) has/have contributed to the RPO& Comprehensive Capital Campaign S Denotes donor(s) has/have a recurring Sustaining Circle contribution to the RPO * Denotes donor(s) is/are deceased. ^ Denotes donor(s) has/have contributed to the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (RPYO).
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IN MEMORY OF…
Carol G. Achilles
Marilyn Merrigan
Dr. E. David Appelbaum
Barbara Appelbaum
Elizabeth Affolter
Don and Jeanne Worboys
Richard and Sharon Ahlman
BRAVO TRIBUTES
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations for their generous support by honoring or remembering in memory of, the individuals listed below. Listings are in recognition of our current donors in the 202425 Concert Season (July 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025).
Tribute gifts are a special way to remember loved ones or commemorate special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, births or graduations. If you would like to make a memorial or honorarium gift, please visit www.rpo.org/donate or contact the Development office at 585/454-7311 ext. 249 or email development@rpo.org.
Elvira R. Felty
Evan Felty
Johanna M. Gambino
Jerry J. Gambino, Jr.
Jane L. Garrett
Michael Garrett
Ian M. Harvey
Elizabeth K. Stevens
Richard C. Hastings
George Smith and Diane Ahlman
Joanne Anderson
Dolores Young
Marisa Ballatori
Albert Ballatori
Nancy Bischoping
David and Noreen Halpern
Max M. Boudakian
Lita Boudakian
Jean Boyle
Joe Viola
Paul W. Briggs
Beatrice Briggs
Wilma C. Chadwick
Barbara Chadwick
Tina J. Cichanowicz
Ted and Peggy Cichanowicz
Eleanor Conte
George Conte
Dr. Roy Czernikowski
Jason and Janelle Gutman
Dr. Salvatore Dalberth
Joan Dalberth
Valera D’Esopo
Barbara Grajewski
Rev. George H. Dehority, Jr.
John and Carolyn Dehority
William Dixon
Jan Dixon
Jeffrey Emblidge
Doug and Colleen Emblidge
Bud Feinen
Catherin O. Feinen
Glenda Hastings
Donald Heinle
Stephen and Ann Martin
Lillian Howk
Cynthia L. Howk
David L. Hunley, Sr.
Karen Stafford
Mrs. Polly Hunsberger
Margaret M. Joynt
Anne M. Jones
Robert K. Jones
William Keplinger
Thomas L. Bantle
Elaine Buralli
R. Alan and Deborah Lattime
Dr. Anthony Leone, Jr.
Norma Leone
Gregory Lombardo
Steven and Betsy Lombardo
Edna Lovell
Carol Lovell
Dr. Edward Maruggi
Carolyn Maruggi
Robert Marx
Frances Marx
Vera McCune
William and Erin McCune
John Michaels
Carol A. Michaels
Hon. Michael Miller
Edward Doherty and Patrice Mitchell
Evelyn Frazee and Thomas Klonick
H. Robert and Joyce Herman
John and Tobie Olsan
Eric and Elizabeth Rennert
Nathan and Susan Robfogel
Nellie J. Rosenberg
Anthony and Gloria Sciolino
Sue Thering
Joseph T. Pagano, Jr.
Nancy Pagano
Eileen Ramos
Maria C. Leonardo
Doris A. Rocha
Andrea P. Rocha
Peggy Savlov
Jeff and Jill Tyzik
Albert Serenati
Nancy Snyder and Family
Carol Simmons
Harvey Simmons
Iris Simon
David and Noreen Halpern
Kenneth Slining
David Hathaway
Beverly A. Tomaino
Michael Tomaino
James E. Woods
Barbara Woods
Edna Yates
Helen M. Gordon
Christine R. Spaker
IN HONOR OF…
James Boucher
Margaret Boucher
Molly Willner-Boucher
Maura McCune Corvington
John and Lisa Lacci
Meghan Dewan and Kyle
Rosales’ Wedding
Stephen and Julia Smith
Dr. Giuseppe Erba
John Williams
Paulette Gissendanner
Eric Logan and Anne Kingston
Laurie Haelen’s Birthday
Donna Cator
John Frost
Dean Hutchinson
Kevin D. Kinney
Catherine D. Noble
James P. Terwilliger
Jennifer A. Yance
Elizabeth Zammit
James Henderson
Elizabeth Updaw and James R. Henderson
Dr. Harold Kanthor
Jill B. Freeman
Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.
Nannette Nocon
Dr. William Valenti
Maura McCune Corvington
John and Lisa Lacci
Neil Miller
Dr. Etta Eskridge
Deborah Onslow
Paul Gardella
Miriam Iker
Daniel Lukach
Joanne Prives
Mary Elaine Pierce
Nancy E. Scher
Harvey Simmons
Gerald Segelman
David and Noreen Halpern
Georgine and James Stenger
Mary Anne Fox
Craig Sutherland
John and Anne Walker
Jeff Tyzik
Sally B. Bush
Jean Webster
Kathleen VanOrden
Catherine J. “Kitty” Wise
J. Michael and Alice Smith
Reyton Wojnowski
Julie Weinstein
Don and Anna Womack
Daniel and Edith Rice
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Anonymous
Marie Aklin*
Betty Jane Altier*
Alva Angle*
Catherine N. Asmuth*
Jean Boynton Baker*
John B. and Margaret Barnell*
RPO GEORGE EASTMAN LEGACY SOCIETY
Members of the RPO George Eastman Legacy Society are true believers in the power of music. The RPO George Eastman Legacy Society honors those individuals who remember the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra through a planned gift. The RPO’s team of development professionals are available to work with you and your advisors to create a plan that will help you meet your financial and philanthropic goals. For more information, please contact the Development Office at 585.454.7311.
Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff*
George Greer*
Jean Groff*
Sue C. Habbersett*
William B. Hale*
Mrs. Laura J. Hameister
Marilyn* and Dick Hare
Walter J.* and Jeanne M. Beecher
Walter S. Beecher
Nancy and Harry Beilfuss**
Carol and John Bennett
Jack and Carolyn Bent
Donald Berens*
Ellen S. Bevan*
Stuart* and Betsy Bobry
James R. Boehler*
Marilyn Bondy
Beverly T. Bowen*
John W.* and Margaret Z.* Branch
William and Ruth Cahn
Mary Allison Callaway and Paul R. Callaway*
Catherine B. Carlson*
Norris F. Carlson*
Margaret J. Carnall*
Susann* and Terence Chrzan
Nancy A. Clemens*
Barbara Colucci
Christine Colucci
Mary Consler*
Judy and Joe Darweesh
Alfred L. Davis*
Barbara Dechario*
Paul Donnelly
Marilyn A. Drumm*
Amelia N. Dunbar*
Frederick Dushay
Richard and Harriet Eisenberg*
James T. and Ellen Englert
John R. Ertle*
Glenn and Rebecca Fadner
Ruth H. Fairbank*
Joan and Harold* Feinbloom
Albert Fenyvessy*
Donald C.* and Elizabeth Fisher
Catherine and Elmar Frangenberg
Carolyn and Roger Friedlander
Betsy Friedman
Karyl P. Friedman
Linda and David Friedman
Patrick and Barbara Fulford
William L. Gamble*
Sharon Garelick
Rob W. Goodling
Mary M. Gooley*
Karen G. Hart*
Monica R. Hayden*
Warren* and Joyce Heilbronner
David W. Hinz*
Jean Hitchcock
Norman L. Horton*
Mrs. Samter Horwitz*
H. Larry and Dorothy C. Humm
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Hursh*
Carol A. Jones
Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz
Nancie R. Kennedy*
Robert T. Kimbrough*
Marcella Klein and Richard Schaeffer
Glenn and Nancy Koch
Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.
Jeanne Lareau*
Marshall and Lenore* Lesser
Drs. Jacques* and Dawn Lipson
Sue and Michael Lococo
William C.* and Elfriede K. Lotz
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mahar
Linda Malinich*
Joseph J. Mancini*
Gerard Mayer*
John T. McAdam*
Pete* and Sally Merrill
Donald R. Messina*
Robert J. and Marcia Wishengrad Metzger
Dan Meyers
Mrs. Elizabeth O. Miller*
Jane E. Miller*
Mary L. Mitchell*
Deanne Molinari
Eleanor Morris*
Mrs. Marjorie Morris*
Patricia McCurdy Morse*
John S. Muenter
Diane F. Nelson*
Paul Marc and Pamela Miller Ness
Carolyn Noble*
Deborah Onslow
Margaret Paaschen*
Mary Anne Palermo
Ms. Lydia Susan Palmer
Eleanor T. Patterson*
Suzanne F. Powell
Robert and Ann Quivey
Ernest Rashiatore*
Eileen D. Ramos*
Marjorie Cohen Relin*
Doris Repenter*
Dr. Ramon L. and Judith S. Ricker
Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers*
Dick* and Bea Rosenbloom
Elise and Stephen* Rosenfeld
Pearl W. Rubin*
Wallace R. Rust
Ron and Sharon Salluzzo
Wesley Saucke
Peggy W. Savlov*
James G. Scanzaroli*
David G. and Antonia T. Schantz
William and Susan Schoff
Peter Schott and Mary Jane Tasciotti
Jon L. and Katherine T. Schumacher
Laura M. Seifferd*
Libba and Wolf Seka
Gretchen Shafer*
Virginia Durand Shelden*
Elbis A. Shoales, M.D.
Carol Shulman
Anna Rita Staffieri*
Ingrid Stanlis
Abby and David Stern
Patricia E. Stott
Betty Strasenburgh*
Martha Ann* and Daniel Tack
Amanda Tierson
Ivan Town*
Carol Van Hoesen*
Elizabeth Van Horn*
Harry and Ruth Walker
Patricia Ward-Baker
Margaret Webster*
Robin and Michael* Weintraub
Jean B. Wetzel*
Mildred Wischmeyer*
Kitty J. Wise
John and Laurie Witmeyer
Helen W. Witt*
Mary Alice and Robert Wolf*
Susan and Lawrence Yovanoff
Nancy and Mark Zawacki
Alan Ziegler and Emily Neece
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Zornow
* Denotes donor(s) is/are deceased.
^Denotes donor(s) has/have contributed to the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (RPYO).
ADMINISTRATION
Curt Long President and CEO
Kristen Zimmer Director of Human Resources
Hannah Reich Executive Assistant/Office Manager
DEVELOPMENT
Rob Dermody Vice President of Development
Lis Bischoff-Ormsbee Senior Director of Principal Gifts
Amy Gallaher Director of Development, Annual Giving & Special Events
Elizabeth Garijo-Garde Development Associate, Institutional Partnerships
Dorian Delfs Development Officer
George DeMott Development Officer
FINANCE
Brandi Sheppard Director of Finance
Priscilla DeSoto Staff Accountant
MARKETING
Herb Griffith Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Lauren MacDonough Director of Marketing
Joyce Tseng Content & Digital Marketing Manager
Meg Spoto Creative Director
Mike Cidoni Public Relations & Communications Manager
Sal Uttaro Group and Corporate Sales Manager
PATRON SERVICES CENTER
Charlene Beckwith Director of Ticketing
Daniel Traina House Manager
Daniel Long Patron Services Manager
Connor Straight Patron Services Assistant Manager
Samuel DeAngelis
Abby Chapman Duprey
Emma Duprey
Rilyn Garcia
Stephen House
Nathan Howton
Alyssa Koh
Grant Simon Patron Services Representatives
ARTISTIC OPERATIONS AND EDUCATION
James Barry Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations
Barbara Brown Vice President of Education
Chisato Eda Marling Manager of Education & Community Partnerships
Ashlee Allaire Youth Orchestra and Education Projects Manager
Meghan Dunn Orchestra Operations Manager
Fred Dole Orchestra Personnel Manager
Danielle Suhr Stage Manager
Cedrick Martinez Assistant Stage Manager
Kim Hartquist Principal Librarian
Sam Giacoia Artistic Coordinator
Karl Vilcins Auditions Coordinator
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC LEAGUE
Rachel Solomon Volunteer Administrator
ABOUT US
Since its founding by George Eastman in 1922, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been committed to enriching and inspiring our community through the art of music. Currently celebrating our Centennial Season, the RPO is dedicated to maintaining its deep commitment to artistic excellence, educational opportunity, and community engagement.
Today, the RPO presents up to 120 concerts per year, serving nearly 170,000 people through ticketed events, education and community engagement activities, and concerts in schools and community centers throughout the region. Nearly one-third of all RPO performances are educational or community-related. In addition, WXXI 91.5 FM rebroadcasts approximately 30 RPO concerts each year. For more information, visit rpo.org.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
TICKETS: The RPO Patron Services Center is located at 255 East Avenue in the back of the Farash Place building in downtown Rochester. Free parking is available in a small lot between the parking garage and building. Open Monday through Friday 10 AM–5PM.
NIGHT-OF-CONCERT PURCHASES: RPO will-call tickets and concert tickets are available at the RPO tables in the Eastman Theatre Box Office lobby starting 90 minutes prior to concert time.
PARKING: Paid parking for Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre is available at the East End Garage, located next to the theatre. Open entrances/exits change frequently while the garage is under construction. Visit rpo.org/parking for the most recent updates. Paid parking for the Performance Hall at Hochstein is available at the Sister Cities Garage, located behind the school at Church and Fitzhugh Streets.
PRE-CONCERT TALKS: All ticketholders are welcome to attend free pre-concert talks held one hour before all Philharmonics concerts and all Jeff Tyzik-conducted Pops concerts. Ticketholders are asked to sit anywhere they would like in the orchestra level of the theatre, then head to their reserved seat for the concert.
SERVICES FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES: Wheelchair locations and seating for those with disabilities are available at all venues; please see the house manager or an usher for assistance. Elevators are located in the Eastman Theatre Box Office lobby. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is available on the first floor.
SERVICES FOR HARD-OF-HEARING PATRONS: Audio systems are available at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre; headsets may be obtained from an usher prior to the performance.
CHANGING SEATS: If you find it necessary to be reseated for any reason, please contact an usher who will bring your request to the House Manager.
LOST AND FOUND: Items found in Kodak Hall will be held at the Eastman Theatre Box Office, 433 E. Main Street. For more info, call 585-274-3000.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES: The use of cameras or audio recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Patrons are asked to silence all personal electronic devices prior to the performance.
REFRESHMENTS: Food and drink are not permitted in the concert hall, except for bottled water. Refreshments are available for purchase in Betty’s Café located on the orchestra level of Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.
TICKET DONATION: If you are unable to attend a concert, please consider donating your tickets to us as a tax-deductible contribution. Return your tickets to the RPO no later than 2 PM the day of the performance to make them available for resale.
GROUP SALES: Groups of 10 or more are eligible for discounts starting at 20%! Contact Group and Corporate Sales Manager: Sal Uttaro at suttaro@ rpo.org | Office: (585) 454-7311 ext. 267 | Mobile: (585) 530-0865
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