RPO Bravo 10 (May 22-31)

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THIS ISSUE:

The Orchestra 2025/26 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 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

Daryl Perlo, Assistant Principal

The James E. Dumm Chair, funded in perpetuity

Patricia Sunwoo

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

Grant Rieke

CELLO

Ahrim Kim, Principal

The Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Chair, funded in perpetuity

Lars Kirvan, Assistant Principal

The Nick and Kitty Jospe Chair, funded in perpetuity

Samuel Pierce-Ruhland

Christopher Haritatos

Garri Hovsepyan

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

Hector Noriega, Principal The Robert J. Strasenburgh Chair, funded in perpetuity

Kamalia Freyling^

Andrew Brown

E-FLAT CLARINET

Kamalia Freyling^

BASS CLARINET

Andrew Brown

BASSOON

Karl Vilcins

Martha Sholl

CONTRABASSOON

Karl Vilcins

HORN

YiCheng Gong, Associate Principal/Utility

Maura McCune Corvington

Nathan Ukens

Stephen Laifer

TRUMPET

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

Caleb Breidenbaugh, Principal

The Marie-Merrill and George M. Ewing Chair, funded in perpetuity

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

^ Year leave of absence

* 1-year appointment

ANDREAS DELFS Music Director

Andreas Delfs has built a reputation over his 35-year career as one of the most dynamic and respected conductors on the international stage. Celebrated for his visionary leadership and deep musical insight, he is equally renowned as a masterful orchestra builder and an inspiring music director. Known for his emotionally charged and dramatically nuanced interpretations—particularly of the late Romantic repertoire—Delfs has earned critical acclaim across North America and Europe. His performances are marked by an ever-deepening artistic maturity, bringing a rare combination of passion, precision, and authenticity to every podium he graces.

Educated at leading conservatories on both sides of the Atlantic and shaped by mentorships with legendary conductors, Delfs has cultivated a style forged through decades of experience. At the same time, his unwavering curiosity and enthusiasm for contemporary music have made him a champion of living composers. He has established lasting collaborations with many of today’s most compelling musical voices, conducting numerous world premieres and commissioning new works. Among his many artistic inspirations are Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, and Roberto Sierra—composers whose diverse idioms have helped shape his unique interpretive voice. His artistry has also drawn world-class soloists to the stage, including André Watts, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, and Renée Fleming.

Delfs has held prominent leadership roles with orchestras on both continents. As Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2009—and later as its Conductor Laureate—he played a pivotal role in elevating the ensemble to national acclaim. He also led the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as Music Director (2001–2004) and Artistic Consultant (2004–2006). In Europe, he served as General Music Director of Hanover, Germany (1995–2000), overseeing both the city’s symphony orchestra and its distinguished opera company. Earlier appointments include Music Director of the Bern Opera, Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony during Lorin Maazel’s tenure, and Music Director—at an impressively young age—of the Orchestre Suisse des Jeunes.

Throughout his career, Delfs has conducted many of the world’s premier orchestras. His international credits include the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Danish National Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.

Born in Flensburg, Germany, Delfs began studying piano and music theory at the age of five. He studied under Christoph von Dohnányi and Aldo Ceccato at the Hamburg Conservatory, where, at just 20 years old, he became the youngest Music Director of the Hamburg University Orchestra and served as Musical Assistant at the Hamburg State Opera. He later continued his training at The Juilliard School, studying with Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling, and Leonard Bernstein, and was honored with the prestigious Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship.

PHOTO: ALEX CASSETTI

Our Conductors

JEFF TYZIK Principal Pops Conductor

25/26 marks Jeff Tyzik’s 32nd season as RPO Pops Conductor. But his musical journey began long before his permanent residency in Kodak Hall.

Born in Hyde Park, New York, he started playing cornet at age nine—inspired by the buglers during an Independence Day parade in nearby Poughkeepsie. He switched to trumpet at age 11, and eventually went on to attend Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, ultimately earning Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees.

Even before Tyzik’s schooling was completed, his star was on the rise. While at Eastman, Tyzik met Chuck Mangione, with whom he worked between 1973 and 1980 —both as lead trumpeter in Mangione’s band and as co-producer of four albums. During that time, Tyzik befriended Tonight Show band leader Doc Severinsen, who eventually invited Tyzik to London to record two albums. That relationship proved fruitful, with Tyzik producing the Grammy-winning The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, Vol. 1. Severinsen’s albums with Tyzik would go on to earn three additional Grammy nominations.

Tyzik also recorded his own albums as a solo trumpeter between 1981 and 1990, when he and his big band frequently performed in Rochester.

In 1993, Tyzik proposed a four-concert series featuring RPO members dubbed “All in the Family.” The first debuted Oct. 22 and highlighted Kenneth Grant (clarinet), Joseph Werner (piano), and percussionists William Cahn and Dave Mancini. Less than a month later, Tyzik was asked to become Principal Pops Conductor.

Jeff quickly made his mark on the orchestra, in his second season performing the first in his endearing, enduring Gala Holiday Pops series. He also made RPO history conducting an all-Gershwin album featuring pianist Jon Nakamatsu. The recording topped the Billboard Classical chart and remained in the top 10 for three months.

Over five decades, Tyzik has guest-conducted more than 100 orchestras, including the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, and Milwaukee Symphony. In September 2023, he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic and returned later that season to conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2023–24 finale.

He’s also shared the stage with a remarkable range of artists across genres—from Tony Bennett and Leslie Odom Jr. to Wynonna Judd, Art Garfunkel, Marilyn Horne, Arturo Sandoval, The Chieftains, Megan Hilty, Dawn Upshaw, and John Pizzarelli.

In 2012, Tyzik and his daughter Jami co-founded the management and production company Greenberg Artists. Since 2016, in partnership with Schirmer Theatrical, they’ve developed dozens of orchestral Pops programs now performed by nearly 200 orchestras.

In 2023, Tyzik launched TyzikMusic.com, a digital publishing platform featuring more than 150 of his arrangements, orchestrations, and compositions for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, and wind ensemble.

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.

RPO Board of Directors 2025/26 SEASON

DIANA

CLARKSON, CHAIR OF THE BOARD

Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Founded in 1923 —Incorporated in 1930)

OFFICERS

Diana Clarkson, Esq., Chair of the Board

Katherine Lindahl, Chair-Elect of the Board

Cindy Yancey, Vice Chair of the Board

Karen Kessler, Secretary

Richard Stein, Treasurer

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq., Immediate Past Chair

TERM EXPIRES

JUNE 2026

Daisy R. Algarin

Diana Clarkson, Esq.

George Daddis

Catherine Frangenberg

Allyson Hiranandani

Dr. Diane Lu

Sujatha Ramanujan

Elizabeth F. Rice

Ronald E. Salluzzo

Dr. Eva P. Sauer

George J. Schwartz, M.D.

Richard Stein

Dr. James Watters

TERM EXPIRES

JUNE 2027

Brian Bennett

Emerson Fullwood

Paulette Gissendanner

Catherine Gueli

Zuzanna Kwon

Katherine Lindahl

Jack McGowan

Sidney Sobel, M.D.

Cindy Yancey

TERM EXPIRES

JUNE 2028

Ron Dougherty

Sreeram Dhurjaty

James Fulmer

Laurie A. Haelen

Ralph F. Jozefowicz. M.D.

Karen Kessler

Deborah Onslow

Sara Poe

Joseph B. Rizzo, Esq.

EX-OFFICIO

Curtis S. Long President & CEO

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq., Immediate Past Chair

Kate Sheeran

Dean, Eastman School of Music

Nathan Ukens

Orchestra Representative

Wesley Nance

Orchestra Representative

James Englert

Chairperson, Honorary Board

HONORARY BOARD

James Englert, 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

Patrick Fulford

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*

Michael Millard

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

2019-2024: Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.

* Deceased

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FRI MAY 22

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7:30 PM

KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE

Evan Roider, conductor

Brittney Johnson, vocals

Nathaniel Hackman, vocals

Amy Owens, vocals

RICHARD RODGERS Overture from South Pacific 6:30 (ARR. R.R. BENNETT)

IRVING BERLIN There’s No Business Like Show 3:00 (DARYL MCKENZIE) Business from Annie Get Your Gun

RICHARD RODGERS People Will Say We’re in Love 4:00 from Oklahoma

RICHARD RODGERS I Have Confidence from (ARR. IRWIN KOSTEL) The Sound of Music 4:00

FREDERICK LOEWE I Could Have Danced All Night 3:00 from My Fair Lady

RICHARD RODGERS Soliloquy from Carousel 7:00

JERRY BOCK Excerpts from Fiddler on the Roof 8:00 (JOHN WILLIAMS)

JULE STYNE Don’t Rain on My Parade 4:00 (ARR. CHRIS WALDEN) from Funny Girl

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Evan Roider, conductor

Brittney Johnson, vocals

Nathaniel Hackman, vocals

Amy Owens, vocals

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ARTISTS

EVAN ROIDER, conductor

Evan Roider is a sought-after conductor, celebrated for his versatility and dynamic presence.  As the newly appointed Principal Pops Conductor of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Evan’s passion for all genres of popular music and his deep commitment to artistic excellence have made him one of the nation’s most popular guest conductors.

The 2025-2026 season includes debuts with the National Symphony, Houston Symphony, Oregon Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic, among others. In recent seasons, he has appeared with the Detroit Symphony, Utah Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Tucson Symphony, Toledo Symphony, and the Philly Pops.  Driven by a passion for genre-spanning performances, he has led concerts featuring film and television music, Broadway favorites, classical masterworks, and iconic hits spanning the decades.  He has collaborated with artists such as Michael Feinstein, Big Freedia, Mannie Fresh, Fat Mike, Storm Large, the Manhattan Transfer, Tony Desare, Pink Martini, and the von Trapps.

His Broadway credits include The Great Gatsby, Old Friends, and Wicked, a show for which he recently completed a four-year tenure as Music Director/Conductor of the North American tour. Previously, he toured with Les Misérables and Cats, performing in such venues as the Kennedy Center, National Arts Centre, and Hollywood Pantages Theatre.  He serves as Associate Music Supervisor for the Tony Award Winning MUNY in St. Louis, having previously worked at Barrington Stage, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and other theatres across the country.

Evan is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and The Hartt School in Connecticut.

BRITTNEY JOHNSON, vocals

Brittney Johnson is a history-making Broadway actress and singer known for her sincerity, versatility, and grounded presence on stage. She made Broadway history as the first Black woman to play Glinda in Wicked, earning acclaim for a performance celebrated not only for its vocal brilliance and charm, but for the authenticity and grace she brought to the role. Her Broadway credits also include Gypsy, Sunset Boulevard, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Motown the Musical, and Les Misérables.

In addition to her work on stage, Brittney has voiced animated characters, appeared in digital media campaigns, and is a sought-after speaker, regularly leading workshops and conversations around creative identity, sustainability, and purpose-driven artistry.

Offstage, Brittney is a devoted wife and mother—roles that have profoundly shaped her understanding of success, identity, and purpose. That lived experience informs both her artistry and her work as an educator and mentor.

Brittney is the founder of Booked It! Studios, where she works with actors and musical theatre performers as an audition and performance coach, mentor, and consultant. Through one-on-one coaching, group work, and her Artist Mentorship Program, she helps artists strengthen their craft, navigate career decisions, and build careers that are both sustainable and fulfilling.

Across her work, Brittney is committed to helping artists pursue excellence without losing themselves in the process—building careers they’re proud of and lives they can actually live.

EVAN ROIDER

BRITTNEY JOHNSON

ARTISTS

NATHANIEL HACKMAN, vocals

Nathaniel Hackmann has emerged as an internationally renowned actor and singer, performing some of the most demanding roles on stage and alongside many of the world’s leading orchestras. He is currently starring on Broadway as Biff Tannen in Back to the Future: The Musical at the Winter Garden Theatre. Hackmann’s Broadway credits include portraying both Jean Valjean and Javert in Les Misérables, as well as the titular roles in Jekyll and Hyde and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He has also made notable appearances in the internationally televised BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall, performing as Curly in Oklahoma! with John Wilson conducting, and as Gaby in On the Town for Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday Celebration.

His favourite recordings include Steve in Paint Your Wagon, Curly in Oklahoma!, and Billy Bigelow in Carousel—all available on major music streaming platforms. Some of his most cherished stage roles include both Gaston and the Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Quasimodo in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and various antagonists in the works of Frank Wildhorn and Stephen Sondheim.

In the realm of opera, Hackmann is an alumnus of the prestigious Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera. He has also performed with Virginia Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and San Francisco Lyric Opera, among others. On the concert stage, he has appeared with the John Wilson Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, Hong Kong Symphony, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Springfield Symphony, Midland Symphony Orchestra, Sun Valley Opera, Central Michigan Orchestra, Northern Arizona Symphony, and Northwest Indiana Symphony.

Nathaniel Hackmann holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from Central Michigan University.

AMY OWENS, vocals

Award-winning soprano and crossover artist Amy Owens is known for her “high-flying vocals” and “scene-stealing” charisma on operatic, musical theatre, and symphonic stages, as well as her multidisciplinary pursuits as a music educator, producer, and conductor (Opera News). She is known on concert stages for her interpretation of Carmina Burana, including multiple performances with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap, as well as with MidAmerica productions for her Carnegie Hall debut.

Her operatic and musical theater roles include Cunegonde in Candide, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Chrisann Brennan in The Revolution of Steve Jobs, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Emily in Our Town, Phoebe in Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and the title role in Santa Fe Opera’s world premiere of Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun. Career highlights include a dynamic range of opera, operetta, and musical theatre performances with the Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Utah Opera, Virginia Opera, National Symphony, San Diego Symphony, New York Festival of Song, Brooklyn Art Song Society, and Virginia Arts Festival. In addition to performing, she serves as the director of the Young Voices of Santa Fe Opera.

NATHANIEL HACKMAN

AMY OWENS

2 PM

NAZARETH UNIVERSITY

BESTON HALL AT GLAZER MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER

Andreas Delfs, conductor

For Andreas Delfs’ biography, please see page 5.

Juliana Athayde, violin

The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair

Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano

The Lois P. Lines Chair

WOLFGANG AMADEUS Cosí fan tutte Overture 4:00 MOZART

LOWELL LIEBERMANN

Chamber Concerto No.1 for violin, 18:00 piano and string quartet Op.28

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I. Adagio - Allegro

II. Andante

III. Menuet: Allegro

IV. Spiritoso

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ARTISTS

JULIANA ATHAYDE, violin

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. Together with her husband, RPO principal oboist Erik Behr, Ms. Athayde demonstrates her commitment to fostering a thriving classical music scene in the community and serves as Co-Artistic Director of the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester.

A dynamic teacher, Ms. Athayde is Associate Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music and serves on the faculty at music festivals throughout the United States, including Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra and the National Orchestral Institute + Festival with Music Director Marin Alsop. She has held visiting faculty positions at both the Cleveland Institute of Music and Cornell University, and has guest taught at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Ms. Athayde holds a B.M. from the University of Michigan where she studied with Paul Kantor, and both M.M. and A.D. degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with former Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster, William Preucil, where she was the first graduate of CIM’s Concertmaster Academy. A fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School for six years, Ms. Athayde was awarded the prestigious Dorothy DeLay fellowship in 2005 and was invited to deliver the festival’s convocation speech in 2010.

Summer festival residencies include San Diego’s Mainly Mozart Festival and the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho where Ms. Athayde is a frequently featured soloist and chamber musician. She can be heard on multiple RPO recordings for the Harmonia Mundi label and is also featured on a recording of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with the Eastman Virtuosi. Ms. Athayde performs on a J.B. Vuillaume violin and a Jean Dominique Adam bow.

JULIANA ATHAYDE

ARTISTS

CHIAO-WEN CHENG, piano

The Lois P. Lines Chair

A versatile musician and educator, Taiwanese pianist Chiao-Wen Cheng has performed as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in major venues throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Cheng has become a sought-after collaborative partner through her sensitive playing, vibrant sound colors, and detailed voicing. Cheng has performed with violinists Juliana Athayde and Robin Scott, cellist Steve Doane, Guy Johnston, and Astrid Schween, and members of many major orchestras. She has also performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, the International Bass Convention, International Trombone Festival, International Viola Congress, Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, Seattle Symphony Chamber Music Series, and the Southeast Trombone Symposium. Since 2019, Cheng has been an Artist-Faculty Piano Collaborator at the Perlman Music Program.

Cheng’s solo engagements include concerto performances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Greece Symphony, and other major orchestras, as well as solo recitals in major venues in Shanghai, Taipei, San Francisco, New York, and more. Cheng has won numerous piano competitions and awards, including the Clara Ascherfeld Award in Excellence in Accompanying (2009); the Excellence in Accompanying Award at the Eastman School of Music (2010); and first prizes in the the Piano Texas International Academy and Festival Concerto Competition (2010) and the Schubert Club Competition (2012).

Cheng began piano lessons with her aunt at the age of four. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a student of Frank Weinstock, and her master’s degree at Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University as a student of Benjamin Pasternack. Cheng holds a doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music. Cheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music. She joined the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as a Principal Keyboard in 2022. Chiao-Wen Cheng is a Steinway Artist.

CHIAO-WEN CHENG

PROGRAM NOTES

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Cosí fan tutte Overture, K. 588

B. SALZBURG, AUSTRIA January 27, 1756

D. VIENNA, AUSTRIA December 5, 1791

“That’s what all women do” is the translation of Cosí fan tutte, the name of Mozart’s final operatic collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, who also wrote the words for The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787). A taboo title, the opera’s plot, however, demonstrates that love and deception go beyond gender. The plot follows two men, Ferrando and Guglielmo, who consider their relationships with their respective fiancées, sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi, to be rock-solid. But their older friend Don Alfonso wants to prove a point about female fickleness and dares them to pretend to leave to fight a war and go undercover to seduce each other’s fiancés. Disguised, the men succeed—and Alfonso wins his bet—but the men get caught in their own tangles of deception. After chaos reigns and comedic hijinks reach a height, the original couples forgive and reunite. The overture that introduces this comedic opera buffa (and which is often performed as a standalone orchestral opener) shares few musical themes with the opera, but it does capture the tug between serious emotion and comedic interplay built into the plot, a boundary Mozart so brilliantly hopscotches with his music.

LOWELL LIEBERMANN

Chamber Concerto No.1 for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 28

B. NEW YORK, NEW YORK February 22, 1961

American composer Lowell Liebermann has always had a knack for combining aural fantasy with harmonic complexity. His stylistic balance, however, often tilts more toward tonal traditions with clear Romantic referents than esoteric dissonance, which has helped his music gain widespread appeal. The poles of tradition and modernism, however, are more equalized in his Chamber Concerto No. 1 for violin, piano, and strings. A one-movement double concerto, the music features plenty of lyricism, especially for the solo violin, but it lives atop a prismatic, uncanny undulation that uses chromaticism and exoticisms for textural and atmospheric effect. The one-movement concerto is in an arc form, starting lyrically before developing into a more abstract middle section characterized by a repetitive bass line (called a ‘passacaglia,’ a Baroque musical form). The work builds in intensity towards cadenzas for the solo violin and pianist, then winds down as it began, traversing to the far side of the arc form. The concerto was originally commissioned as a follow-up collaboration between violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival Chamber Music Series in 1989. In 2022, Leiberman expanded the string part, originally written for a string quartet, for a string orchestra.

PROGRAM NOTES

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

Symphony No. 104 in D major

B. ROHRAU-ON-THE-LEITHA, AUSTRIA March 31, 1732

D. VIENNA, AUSTRIA May 31, 1809

Haydn was an international sensation during his lifetime. But he barely knew it. While his music circulated in Europe and the United States, he worked a cushy but isolated job as Kapellmeister to Prince Nikolaus Esterházy in Austria, moving between the prince’s Eisenstadt estate and a newer but more remote one at Esterháza, a place Haydn referred to as “my desert.” Although Haydn felt lonely, the Esterháza estate had an opera house and a marionette theater, which, along with an orchestra, singers, and Prince Nikolaus’s generous support of musical pursuits, offered many compositional possibilities. From the 1760s on, Haydn enjoyed considerable artistic freedom, unconstrained by what might have been in vogue in major cities. He wrote of that time, “I was applauded as a leader of an orchestra I could experiment, observe what strengthens and what weakens it, and thus improve, add, eliminate, dare. I was cut off from the world. No one around me could have doubts about me or torment me, and I was forced to become original.”

But those creative days were in peril when Prince Nikolaus died in 1790. The estate was heavily downsized, and musicians were let go. Although Haydn was kept on in a reduced capacity (and salary), Nikolaus’s son Anton was happy to approve Haydn’s time off from his duties. Fortunately, Haydn’s reputation preceded him, and upon hearing about his employment situation, Johann Peter Salomon, a London-based concert promoter, wasted no time showing up at Haydn’s door, saying, “I have come from London to fetch you.” It didn’t hurt that Solomon dangled commissions for six symphonies, an opera, and other works for one thousand euros as motivation. Solomon commissioned a few more symphonies for Haydn’s subsequent trip to London, and another promoter commissioned a final three. Altogether, Haydn wrote twelve symphonies for what turned out to be his adoring London audiences. The success of his London concerts also signaled a growing public market for composers outside of the patronage system.

Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 was his final symphony, which premiered in 1795 at London’s King’s Theatre. The first movement opens with an Adagio introduction. The whole orchestra plays a unison fanfare, matched by timpani rolls. The statement contrasts with a sighing theme in the violins, which returns in inventive ways once the work moves into its Allegro exposition. Haydn’s economy of themes is on display here: the main Allegro theme, which is upbeat and skippy, provides nearly all the material for Haydn’s unexpected scorings and modal shifts. The second movement, Andante, moves at a relaxed pace, as if it might be frivolous. But before long, Haydn subverts expectations by ratcheting up the energy and reworking themes in ever more interesting combinations of instruments, closing with the warmth of French horns. The third movement is a minuet, a stately dance in three with a contrasting middle section called a trio, which might’ve earned some sly smiles from London audiences due to its rhythmic syncopations and playful trio. A Croatian folk song provides the thematic material for the final movement, which begins with a bagpipe-like drone beneath the folksy melody. Haydn’s technical prowess is on display in this movement, serving as a brilliant conclusion for his symphonic writing.

Program notes © 2026 Anna Reguero, PhD

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Andreas Delfs, conductor

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Pacho Flores, trumpet

Hugh Russell, baritone

Matthew Swenson, tenor

Raven McMillon, soprano

Rochester Oratorio Society

Eric Townell, artistic director

Bach Children’s Chorus

Karla Krogstad, founder and director

ROBERTO SIERRA Salseando, Concerto 18:00 for Trumpet and Orchestra

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Carmina Burana

Fortune, Empress of the World In Springtime On the Green In the Tavern

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ARTISTS

PACHO FLORES, trumpet

Pacho Flores was awarded First Prize in the “Maurice André” International Contest, the most renowned trumpet Contest in the world, as well as First Prize in the “Philip Jones” International Contest and First Prize in the “Cittá di Porcia” International contest. Trained in the marvelous Orchestra System for Youth and Children in Venezuela, he received top recognition for his performances, recitals, and recordings as a soloist.

Capable of managing classical or popular styles indistinctively, Flores adds to his captivating interpretations a great deal of energy tinged with the most beautiful instrumental colors.  Acting as soloist, he has performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiev, Camerata from St. Petesbourg, Orchestral Ensemble from Paris, Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, NHK Orchestra from Japan, Symphony Orchestra of Tokio, Philharmonic Orchestra of Osaka, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra from Venezuela, Symphony Orchestra of Dusseldorf, and the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra amongst many others. He has also given recitals in concert halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, Pleyel Hall in Paris, and the Opera City in Tokio. Serving as one of the founding members of the Simón Bolívar Brass Quintet, he has taken part in numerous tours around Europe, South America, United States, and Japan. Experienced orchestral musician, Flores has held the Leading Trumpet position in the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Saito Kinen Orchestra from Japan, and the Symphony Orchestra of Miami, under the musical direction of Maestros like Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Seiji Ozawa, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Rafael Frübeck of Burgos, Eduardo Marturet, and Gustavo Dudamel including many others. Founding Director of the Latin-American Trumpet Academy in Venezuela, he fosters a promising generation of young talents. Flores is extremely keen on promoting Contemporary Music and does so providing important contributions by means of the performance and interpretation of his instrument. His repertoire includes commissions and premieres of works by composers such as Roger Boutry, Efraín Oscher, Giancarlo Castro, Santiago Báez, Juan Carlos Nuñez, and Sergio Bernal. Recently he has carried out an important concert tour across Norway and Austria with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro and Composer Christian Lindberg, interpreting his concert “Akbank Bunka”, a piece for Trumpet and Orchestra, making his debut at the Fiestpielhaus of Salzburg, and at the Musikverein of Viena. His first album “La Trompeta venezolana” was released by the record label Guataca Producciones.

Artist from the Stomvi family, he plays instruments that have been exclusively manufactured for him by this renowned firm, and is actively involved in the developments and innovations of his instruments. Pacho Flores is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist with already three recordings, Cantar with Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and Christian Vásquez; Entropía, Gold Medal of the Global Music Awards; Fractales with Arctic Philharmonic and Christian Lindberg; the double CD-DVD Cantos y Revueltas with Real Filharmonía de Galicia and Manuel Hernández-Silva; and Estirpe with Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería y Carlos Miguel Prieto, nominated and awarded at the Latin Grammys.

PACHO FLORES

ARTISTS

HUGH RUSSELL, baritone

Baritone Hugh Russell has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), Cincinnati Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony, among many others.

He has been honored to work with many eminent conductors, including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jaap van Zweden, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Manfred Honeck, Edo de Waart, Kent Nagano, Donald Runnicles, Steuart Bedford, Michael Christie, Hans Graf, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Rossen Milanov.

Operatically, he has been featured in productions at Los Angeles Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Atlanta Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Arizona Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Manitoba Opera, the Wexford Festival, and AngersNantes Opera. Hugh has also been featured in recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and in many appearances with the New York Festival of Song.

As a pianist, he has been featured in performance with Stephanie Blythe at a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Seattle Opera, and has also been featured in performance with Christine Brewer for Illinois Humanities. In the coming season, Hugh will be featured in performance with pianist Craig Terry, and will return to North Carolina Opera to perform Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He will also return to the New Mexico Philharmonic to perform his signature work, Orff’s Carmina Burana.

HUGH RUSSELL JACLYN

ARTISTS

MATTHEW SWENSON, tenor

In leading roles that range from Tamino to Tom Rakewell, Ferrando, Fenton and Nemorino, Matthew Swensen’s compelling performances have taken him to Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Carnegie Hall, Oper Frankfurt, State Opera of Prague, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Theater Basel, The Rheingau Festival and more.

Praised by the BBC for his role debut as Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff in Florence as “everything we could have hoped for; an ardent and generous tenor… simply phenomenal,” Matthew Swensen's career has seen a series of notable debuts and performances across Europe and North America.

The 2024/25 season began with his debut as the Steersman in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer at Teatro Regio di Torino, followed by performances of the same role with Jaap Van Zweden and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam in September. He will sing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Allentown Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, and on tour throughout Italy and Germany. Additional debuts include performances with the Deutscher Symphoniker in Bruckner’s Te Deum and in Bach’s B Minor Mass in Munich. Swensen will also make his role debut as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with New Orleans Opera and reprise the role of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Lyric Opera Kansas City.

In April 2025, he made his Canadian debut with the Montreal Symphony in a concert performance of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, followed by a gala concert with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in Stuttgart, where he will headline a program of ten of Strauss’s most beloved orchestral songs. He concludes the season with a live performance of Haydn’s The Creation at the Ebracher Musiksommer, which will be recorded for Bayerische Rundfunk.

RAVEN MCMILLON, soprano

Praised for her “crisp, silvery tone” (Callum John Blackmore – Parterre Box) and “fiery coloratura” (Sherry Cheng – Arts and Culture Texas), soprano Raven McMillon is a native of Baltimore, MD and a 2021 Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

Raven will return to Houston Grand Opera in 2025-2026 season as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Later in the season, she makes her hometown debut as Gilda in Rigoletto with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In the 2024-2025 season, Raven made two company debuts, first at Minnesota Opera as Peter in The Snowy Day, then with Washington Concert Opera in her role debut as Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito.  She also joined Fort Worth Symphony for the premiere of Jake Heggie’s Earth Song 2, and sang Salome in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista with Catapult Opera.

In previous seasons, Raven joined both Nashville Symphony and the U.S. Naval Academy for Handel’s Messiah, sang Melissa in Amadigi di Gaula with Ars Lyrica Houston, and covered Peter in The Snowy Day at Portland Opera. Raven has performed with New Orleans opera as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Austin Opera as Johanna in Sweeney Todd, and Welsh National Opera as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She also sang Gilda in Rigoletto with the Rochester Philharmonic, returned to Cincinnati Opera as the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, and performed on the fall 2022 dates of a recital tour featuring Damien Sneed’s Our Song, Our Story – an evening of music highlighting some of the world’s most well-known operatic arias, art songs and spirituals.

Ms. McMillon has also workshopped new roles such as Mary in Faye Chiao’s The Secret Codes of Mary Bowser and Lucy in Tobias Picker’s Awakenings. Ms. McMillon received her MM Vocal Performance at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and her BFA in Vocal Performance at Carnegie Mellon University.

RAVEN MCMILLON

MATTHEW SWENSON MICHELE MONASTA

ARTISTS

ROCHESTER ORATORIO SOCIETY –CHORUS PERSONNEL

SOPRANOS

Laura Anders

Sara Anthony

Cecilia Beach

Tania Beghini

Annika Bentley

Barbara Bissell-Erway

Hannah Brewer, (Choral Fellow)

Laurel Buckwalter

Amy Carroll

Luanne Crosby

Nancy Curtis

Lisa deBlieck

Karen Dey

Sharon Dumbleton

Amy Ewell

Nancy Fink

Paulette Gissendanner

Rachael Guarino

Diane Hamilton

Lilith Hart

Malaina Head

Shari Holzer

X’zaya Ivy

Cora Jackson

Rebecca Johnson

Autumn Joseph

Veronica Jurasinski, (Choral Scholar)

Beth Keefer

Jane Keller

Suzan Keng

Kristin Kerr

Katelynn Kochalski

Jo Ann Lampman

Annette Leopard

Suzana Makowski

Layla Maurer

Robin Morris-Gaylord

Leta Mueller

Rachel Myers

Mary Ann Nazzaro

Wendy Nelson

Tessa Oliver

Rebecca Paul

Kristi Phillips

Hayley Piroutek

Susan Reindel

Ann Robinson

Alison Romano

Pamela Rosen

Elise Rosenfeld

Jennifer Ross

Jude Schewe

Katherine Schumacher

Theresa Schwartz

Abigail Sheahen

Maura Slon

Kadence Smith, (Choral Scholar)

Kelly Smeltzer

Sarah Stage

Mariah Taylor

Mary Taylor-James

Cynthia Towler

Lorraine Tyra

Vicky Wadsworth

Katherine Walter

Julia Weston-Town

Laura Wilks

Patricia Williams-McGahee

Roni Yahav

Denise Yarbrough

Samantha Zinkievich

ALTOS

Debbie Loo Anderson

Dianne Bailey

Angela Bartlow

Lynn Brussel

Donna Budgeon

Jane Capellupo

Jenifer Cheney

Robin Cohen

Dominique Corbie-Walker

Marissa DeFranco

Fran Diaz

Carol Elliott

Sarah Engel

K. Sue Geier

Maryellen Giese

Michele Gingras

Kathleen Green

Barbara Hellwig

Carole Herford

Jenny Horn

Carole Huther

Lois Johnson

Barbara Kassnoff

Julie Kirkwood

Nina Koski

Rev. Lisa Lancaster

Sue Lione

Honey Meconi

Larisa Melder

Cora Meyer (Choral Scholar)

Sandy Moncrief

Dorothy Needler

Virginia Payne

Patricia Sanborn

Molly Sanchez

Ursala Scholz

Nancy Schreiber

Grace Seiberling

Natalia Sierra-Wardlow (Choral Scholar)

Deborah Sullivan

Robin Townell

Cheri Trimble

Monica Tyne

Patricia Van Dussen

Susan Walders

Betty Wells

Susan Woodhouse

TENORS

Brandon Bartlett

John Buckwalter

Mark Darling

Richard Demme

Logan DiLeo

Kathleen Fraser

Richard Gudgel

Richard Johnson

James Kirkwood

Colleen Knapp

Stanley Lapa

Daniel McInerney

Charles Meyer

Steven Meyer

Craig Mix

Jeff Moran

Andrew Parisi

Simone Picciolo

Vicente Reyes

Jeffery Snarr

Patrick Walter

Virginia Wohltmann

BASSES

Cecil Buchinger

Philip Burke

Timothy Coleman

Ernest Goetz

Scott Griswold

Christian Haller

Harry Hellwig

Frederick Jefferson

Stanley Jones

Roy Kirvan

Dean Latten

Roger Leighton

Robert Leopard

Eric Logan

Robert Maurer

Robert Rees

Stephen Schaefer

David Schuh

Robert Slon

Steven Smith

Rick Sterns

William Tinnel

William Tyra

Rob White

Ted White

Ben Willmott

Jeffrey Wright

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ROCHESTER ORATORIO SOCIETY

ERIC TOWNELL, artistic director

A versatile and dynamic musician, conductor

Eric Townell became the third Music Director in the 77-year history of the Rochester Oratorio Society in 2006. He has led the ROS in subscription concerts, regional outreach performances, live radio broadcasts, televised concerts, commissions of new work, collaborative concerts with the region’s leading arts organizations and with the University of Rochester Humanities Center, award-winning tours to Beijing and Shanghai for the 2008 Olympic Cultural Festival and to Eastern European capitals.

He has prepared the ROS for numerous appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, including several broadcasts nationally, and for the New York State Ballet. His choral and orchestral performances with the Oratorio Society have been heard nationally via WXXI’s “Performance Rochester” series.

KARLA KROGSTAD, founder and director

Karla Krogstad earned degrees in piano performance and music theory from the New England Conservatory of Music, the University of Connecticut, and the Eastman School of Music. Before founding the Bach Children’s Chorus in 1988, Ms. Krogstad taught piano privately and was organist and choir director of the Genesee Baptist Church in Rochester. More recently, she has focused her professional activities to specialize in child pedagogy. She is an active composer and arranger for children’s voices and is certified in the Orff method of teaching.

Ms. Krogstad has received the “Friend of Foreign Language” and “Culture Through the Arts” awards from the New York State Association of Foreign Language teachers for her work with children in various languages. She has conducted the Bach Children’s Chorus in such diverse works as Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, the Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, and the War Requiem of Benjamin Britten. Ms. Krogstad was honored with the 2024–25 RPO Musicians’ Award for Outstanding Music Educators. For Bach Children’s Chorus audition information, please contact: bachkidsusa@yahoo.com.

THE BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS OF ROCHESTER

The Bach Children’s Chorus (BCC), in residence at the Kanack School of Musical Artistry, is Western New York’s premier children’s classical music vocal ensemble. The girls and boys in the Chorus range in age from 5 to 14. Founded by its current director, Karla Krogstad, in 1989, the BCC has continued in its traditions and standards of excellence for over 36 years. The BCC has performed annually in the Nutcracker Ballet with the RPO for over 25 years. Also with the RPO, the Chorus has sung in Carmina Burana, and in Howard Hanson’s opera “Merry Mount”, performed both in Eastman Theatre and Carnegie Hall in 2014. For audition information, please contact: bachkidsusa@yahoo.com.

Bach Children's Chorus

Karla Krogstad, founder and music director Kanack School of Musical Artistry

Angelina Batz

Breanna Cohen

Lucy Cohen

Luz Greenman

Michelle Han

Stephen Han

William Han

Katelyn Hodges

Ivy Justice

Andrew Kapusta

Simon Kapusta

Joseph Koczot

Asher Lou-Weaver

Nora Lou-Weaver

Barbara Mittal

Liam Palermo

Lilliana Palermo

David Park

Chiara Rucci

Francesco Rucci

Amalia Vaillancourt

Leora Vaillancourt

Emmett Xu

ERIC TOWNELL KARLA KROGSTAD

PROGRAM NOTES

ROBERTO SIERRA

Salseando for Trumpet & Orchestra

Composer Roberto Sierra didn’t have to grow up playing salsa music to know salsa music. The spicy rhythms of salsa were everywhere in his native Puerto Rico. “It comes in your windows,” he has said in program notes. An early interest in the piano led him to pursue formal lessons in Puerto Rico, further international studies in Europe, and eventually brought him to the United States in 1992, when he joined the faculty of Cornell University, where he now holds the title of professor emeritus. It was at Cornell that Sierra made an important connection with conductor Mark Davis Scatterday, who was then also on Cornell’s faculty but transferred to the Eastman School of Music in 2002 to lead the Eastman Wind Ensemble. This connection blossomed into a fruitful collaboration between Sierra and the EWE, which has performed several wind band transcriptions of Sierra’s works since the early 2000s and even released a commercial album on Summit Records dedicated to his works in 2016, a compilation of live performances that took place in Kodak Hall, where you sit today. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has also collaborated with Sierra previously, notably in 2022, when it premiered his Violin Concerto, and in 2011, when it premiered his Sinfonia No. 4 as part of a larger consortium commission through the Sphinx Organization. It’s all to say: Sierra, a Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy-winning composer, is no stranger to Rochester.

Salseando is a more recent work, co-commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to feature trumpet soloist Pacho Flores, who premiered it in January 2020. Sierra explains that Salseando “is traditional in the sense of its fast-slow-fast movements [and] structure. On the other hand, it is infused with popular idioms, hence the title ‘Salseando,’ a word derived from the concept of ‘salsa’ music. As in my Concerto for Saxophones, I’ve also provided the opportunity for the soloist to improvise, in the manner that salsa musicians would do in the score’s ‘montuno’ sections.” Salsa rhythms (complete with conga beats), jazz improvisation, and the orchestral medium come together in this lively, sparkling tribute to Latin music.

CARL ORFF

Carmina Burana

B. MUNICH, GERMANY July 10, 1895

D. MUNICH, GERMANY March 29, 1982

Topics like flirtation, sexual desire, drinking, and gambling seem to be the portents of contemporary media. But they were desirable topics, too, for the goliards, the eleventh-and twelfth-century vagabonds who wanted to challenge the establishment (meaning the aristocracy and church). These marginalized figures, however, were not uneducated: they were lapsed clerics and students who wrote descriptive, scathing poetry. One of the most significant collections of that poetry survived in a book discovered in 1803 in a Benedict monastery and was given the name Carmina Burana, meaning “songs from Benediktbeuern.” Twentieth-century German composer and educator Carl Orff, who helped develop a still-prominent method for teaching music organically by linking sound with bodily movement (the Orff Schulwerk method), found a secondhand copy in 1934 and was instantly taken by the opening picture of Lady Fortune spinning her wheel, perhaps a sign of his own fortunes turning in discovering a source that would prove to be his entrance ticket into the musical historical record. “Picture and words seized hold of me,” he wrote. “A new work, a stage work with singing and dancing choruses, simply following the illustrations and texts, at once came into my mind. On the very same day I had outlined a sketch in short score of the first chorus ‘O Fortuna.’”

B. VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO October 9, 1953

PROGRAM NOTES

Orff, with some help, selected 24 poems from the book and grouped them into several sections: In Springtime; On the Green; In the Tavern; The Court of Love; and Blanziflor and Helena. Those inner sections are bookended by a setting of the poem “O Fortuna” about the fickleness of fortune, to which Orff wrote a fiery musical statement using monophonic (single) choral lines meant to conjure Medieval plainchant, accompanied by percussive ostinato rhythms in the orchestra. Orff’s recognizable “O Fortuna” has crossed over from art music into the popular realm, appearing across commercials, television shows, video games, movie soundtracks, and beyond. After the opening, Fortuna is referenced throughout the middle sections to caution that the wheel of fortune never ceases to turn and that sinful pleasures always lurk, even as the story shifts to lighter topics like springtime renewal or turns towards unrequited love, debauchery, and drinking songs.

The music is written for three vocal soloists, a chorus, a children’s chorus, and a huge orchestra with a fortified percussion section. Orff constructed the sound world to code Medieval music, although there is nothing authentically Medieval about it aside from the text source. The music is diatonic and mostly modal with transparent textures for maximum text legibility and with ritualistic, repetitive rhythms. It’s the classical music version of “gothic pop,” using the dark, atmospheric soundscapes of ancient times in entirely accessible ways. Classical music critic Ann Powers explained, “‘Carmina Burana’ exists between the high and the low, the modern and the traditional, reminding listeners just how seductive such border crossings can be.”

Easy listening as it may be, there’s a darker side to its history. Orff was writing music in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. While he did not join the party and is on record as being critical of it, he did not renounce it either. He significantly benefited from its support, including financially. Orff also had some Jewish heritage, which further complicates the composer’s reception history. In a famous New York Times article, the polarizing scholar Richard Taruskin labeled Carmina Burana as the original “Springtime for Hitler,” a reference to a song from the Broadway show, The Producers. It’s not a direct comparison by any means, but it is worth noting that despite discomfort around the cantata’s themes, the Nazi Party largely approved of it as a way to attract Germany’s youth. But feelings about Orff are far from settled, and the work’s popularity has afforded it a good deal of distance from the circumstances under which it was created.

Orff was influenced by another somewhat controversial German composer in the classical canon, Richard Wagner. For the premiere of Carmina Burana in 1937, Orff conceived of the work as a musical stage production that could be called a Gesamtkunstwerk, a Wagnerian-opera influenced ‘total work of art’ for incorporating music, singing, dancing, sets, and costumes, bolstering the production into a full stage spectacle. Orff called it a scenic cantata. Unlike an operatic work, Carmina Burana is now primarily in the repertory as a blow-out orchestral and choral work, perfect for a season finale.

Program notes © 2026 Anna Reguero, PhD

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T.M. and M.W. Crandall Foundation

Davie Kaplan, CPA, P.C.

DGA Builders LLC

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Greater Rochester Signaling Foundation

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High Falls Advisors

HCR Home Care

Insero & Co.

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The Judson Foundation

KPMG LLP

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Nazareth University

Paris-Kirwan Associates, Inc.

RE/MAX Realty

Rochester Education Foundation

Schreiner Family Fund

Wells Fargo Advisors

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Fairport Musicale

Fox Pest Control

Victor and Helen Geisel Foundation, Inc.^

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Fred M. and Lurita D. Wechsler

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Sue Habbersett*

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Daniel W. Hinz*

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Dorothy C. and H. Larry Humm

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Ralph F. Jozefowicz

Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.

Kathy Lindahl

G.W. Lisk Company, Inc.

Lisk Morris Foundation

Jack McGowan and Kathy Muscato

Paul and Pamela Ness

Pace Family Fund

Mary Anne Palermo

Larry and Elizabeth Rice

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Nellie J. Rosenberg

Ron and Sharon Salluzzo

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Jon L. and Katherine T. Schumacher

Dr. Sid and Barbara Sobel

Ingrid Stanlis

Richard and Sandy Stein

Waldron Rise Foundation

Patricia Ward-Baker

Joyce Wiedrich

Robert A. Woodhouse

Cindy and Geff Yancey

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David and Patricia Gardner

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Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq.&

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Louise Woerner and Don Kollmorgen

Robert A. Woodhouse&

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Michael and Frances Millard&

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William J. O’Connor, Jr.&

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Victor Poleshuck& Kathy Purcell

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Peter W. Briggs

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Keith and Joan Calkins&

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Robert and Susan Chapman in memory of Lucille Giglia

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Mrs. Joan Dalberth

Judy and Joe Darweesh&

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Gary and Kathleen DeWitt

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Jerry J. Gambino, Jr.

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Paul and Carol Goldberg&

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James H. Kirkwood

Carol R. Klinger

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Maureen Baran

Jim and Linda Baroody

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Kristine Bouyoucos

Jennifer Bowen

Simon* and Josephine Braitman

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Priscilla and Rob Brown

Eric and Wendy Bruestle

Josephine Buckley

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Gretchen and Paul Burke

Bruce and Shirley Burritt

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Ms. Barbara J. Case

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Dr. Mark Cohen

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Jacqueline Davis

Joe and Sue DeGeorge Foundation, Inc.

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Mr. and Mrs. Steven DeSmitt

Gary Domenico and Barbara Buscaglia

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Lynn Krauss-Prince

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Norma and Anthony* Leone, MD

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Edith M. Lord

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Barbara E. Marshall&

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William and Erin McCune, in memory of Vera McCune

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Gilbert Kennedy McCurdy

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James Farrar

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Thomas and Janet Fink

Rebecca Firmani

Gail R. Flugel

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Jonathan Foster

Davis Frame

Sandra and Neil Frankel

Evelyn Frazee and Thomas Klonick

Kevin FrischS

Paul Gardella

Jill and Kent Gardner

Michael and Jane* Garrett

Jacquie and Andrew Germanow

Mary Anne Gillespie

Warren and June Glaser

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John and Roslyn Goldman

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Nancy and Henry Hamlin

Martin and Sherrie Handelman

Carol Hardy

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Tom and Joan Herbek

Matthew Hettinga

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David C. and Patricia M. Hinkle

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Mr. and Mrs.* Howard E. Holcomb, Jr.

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Ann Knigge and Al Buckner

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Dr. Charlotte Ryan

Mr. and Mrs. James Ryan, Jr.

Drs. Carl and O.J. Sahler&

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Joan M. Schumaker&

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Rich Sensenbach

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Ingrid Stanlis&

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Richard Sterns and Suzanna Rubright

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David B. Stong and Marlane Juran

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Robert and Nancy Swain

Margaret and Charles Symington

Anthony and Christine Testa

Margaret Tonkinson

Sally Turner

Gary and Marie VanGraafeiland

James Viscardi, Lisa Brubaker and Marja Wilson

Erik and Judy Von Bucher

Patricia Ward-Baker&

Skip and Karen Warren

Stephen R. Webb

David and Julie Weinstein

Carol Whitbeck&

Steve and Sarah Wicker

Mr. John Williams and Mr. Chuck Lundeen*

Kitty J. Wise&L

Elise and Joseph Wojciechowski

John Yancey

Hon. Joan S. Kohout

Francine Koskinas

Barbara E. Kozel

Ronald and Nancy Kraus

Werner and Susan Kunz

John and Lisa Lacci

Alan and Deborah Lattime

Jennifer Leonard and David Cay Johnston

Katherine Lewis and Richard Chasman*

Margaret Lindsey, M.D.

Sue and Michael LococoS

Eric and Martha Logigian

Dan and Nancy Loughran

Susan and Chris Luedde

Johnny and Shirley Lynn

Patrick Macey and Jeremiah Casey

Russell and Mary Lou Madsen

Joseph J. Mancini*

Scott Manspeaker

Saul and Susan Marsh

Richard and Kate Massie

Edward G. McClive

H. Winn McCray

Karen and Joseph McCune

Richard W. McGrath

John W. McNeill

Andrew and Kay Melnyk

Alice Messinger

Robert J. and Marcia Wishengrad Metzger

Ralph and Martha Meyer

Dr. Michael T. Miller

Fritz and Maura Minges

Mary E. Miskell and Terrance Clar

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Charles Morgan

Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Morgan

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Laura V. Morrissey

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Pastor and Mrs. Donald Muller

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Munson

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Dr. and Mrs. Curtis N. Nelson

Helene Newman

Mr. and Mrs. John Norris

Peter J. Obourn

Mr. Donald W. and Mrs. Jo-Ann

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Elizabeth Osta and George VanArsdale

Graham Ottoson

Thomas Parker

Tom Parker

David and Marjorie Perlman

Dee and Horace E. Perry

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Karen Abbas

Barbara Agor

James Alexander

Edwin Austin

Karen Bancroft

Kathleen C. Barbehenn

Asish and Susan Basu^

Markus and Myriam Bauer

Richard J. Beard

Kate M. Bennett

Teresa and Tim Biehler

James and Lynette Blake

Jay and Beth BlaufussS

Richard A. Bloom, M.D.

Mitchell J. Boucher

Jeff and Kathy Bowen

Dr. and Mrs. Albert Brault

Henra S. Briskin

Hugh and Anne Brodie

Eileen Buholtz

Lori Busch

Drs. David Bushinsky and Nancy Krieger

Dan and Amanda Butler

Steven Cannell

Riley and Karen Carhart

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Victor Ciaraldi and Kathy Marchaesi

Robert D. Clawson

Jim Cook

Caroline Costanza

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Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Delvecchio

Kathleen DillS

Michael DiSalle

Donald and Stephanie Doe

Kevin Doell

Terrence R. Doherty

Daniel DwyerS

Linda S. Eastman

Dr. Steven and Susan Eisinger

Mohsen Emami, M.D.

Quentin Llop

Sherman and Anne Farnham

Almon Fisher

Elizabeth B. Fisher

Sarah Fitts-Romig

Susan and Leslie Foor

Ann and Steve Fox

Ruth Freeman

Carolyn and Roger Friedlander

Nita Genova

Anne Gilson

Mr. and Mrs. Julian Goldstein

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Dr. and Mrs. William Grace

Gay Greene and Robert Goeckel

Ed and Terry* Grissing

Jerry Peters

Douglas and Diana Phillips

Susan and Donald Pritchard

Sujatha Ramanujan and James Chwalek

Marcia Rausch

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Rene Reixach

Elizabeth and Eric Rennert

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Gerard and Donna Roberts

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Hannah and Arnold Rosenblatt

Jamal and Pam Rossi

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Tom and Ellen Rusling

Joan and James* Ryan, Sr.

Dr. Alvani D. and Carol M. Santos

Justin Schiess

Paul and Barbara Schmied

Peter Schott and Mary Jane Tasciotti

Catherine Gueli

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Guerin

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Linda and John Haight

William and Cathy Haller

David and Edna F. Hamlin

Rita Myers

Barbara and A. Michael Hanna

John and Diane Hanna

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hanna

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Carol Herring

K.L. Hersam and Paul Sawicki

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Dr. Florence M. Higgins and Mr. John Lebens

Sanjay and Ally Hiranandani

Art and Barb Hirst

Sheila Hollander

Audrey W. Holly

Mr. and Mrs. Ned Holmes

Victoria Hoover

Wayne and Anne Hulbert

William and Nancy Hunt

Dr. Dewey Jackson

Robert and Mary* Jackson

Lyle Jenks

Mr. Gilbert F. Jordan

Marilyn and James Jordan

Connie KaminskiS

Lori and Frank Karbel

Dr. and Mrs. Lester Katzel

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Keenan

Mary Kerr

Mr. Edward Klehr

Susan and James Knauer

Ken Knight and Ann Curtin-Knight*

Mark and Mona Friedman Kolko

Mrs. Ellen Konar

Kraig and Susan Kummer

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Janet and James Leone

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Sarah F. Liebschutz, PhD

Ms. Jean Ligozio

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John and Jane Littwitz

Justin Lloyd

Janet and Haines Lockhart

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Catherine and Richard Seeger

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Joan and Arthur Segal

Libba and Wolf Seka

John and Jenny Servo

Donna Broberg Shum

Leonard and Elaine Simon

Bruce and Laura Smoller

Cathy Cushman and Jeff Sokol

Phillip and Karen Sparkes

Mr. Richard R. Spellicy

Ms. Suzanne Spencer

Jim and Dora Stauffer

Berl Stein

Ann H. Stevens and William J. Shattuck&

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David Evans and Sheree Usiatynski

Wayne and Anne Vander Byl

Timothy and Debbie Veazey

Stephen H. and Jody Waite

Chen and John MageeS

James and Rosa Mance

Russell J. Mandrino

Janice D. Manning

Sheron and Bruce Marche

Phillip Marcille

Dick and Sandra McGavern

Maureen McGlynn

Diann and Tom Meek

Marilyn Merrigan

Jonathan Mink and Janet Cranshaw

David and Monika M. MullenS

Thomas C. Munger

Michael P.* and Wendy R. Murphy

Dr. Michael Nabozny

Dr. Philip S. Nash

Michael D. Nazar

Joan R. Nusbaum

Peggy and David Oakes

Jason Oaks

W. Smith* and Jean O’Brien

Debra and George Orosz

Damodar Pai

Jonathan R. Parkes and Dr. Marcia

Bornhurst Parkes

David B. Patt

Marian Payson and Helen Wiley

Glen Pearson

Christian and Sarah Peyre

Dr. Elyssa Pohl and Gregory Wichtowski

Everett Porter

Beth and Lyle Prairie

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James Reed

Stan and Anne Refermat

Constance Rice

Nancy K. Rice

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Warren and Pamela Rosenbaum

Leslie Rowe

Dr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Ruckert

Brenda and Steven Ruether

Hon. Franklin T. and Cynthia Russell

Jean Ryon

Ed and Gabriel Saphar

David and Naomi Schrier

Mrs. Arthur W. Schuster, Jr.

Theresa A. Seil and Debra Celestino

Harry and Ruth* Walker

James and Barb* Walker

Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace

James Watters

Mike and Ellen Wayne

Jean and Sterling L.* Weaver

Pierce and Elizabeth Webb

Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weingarten&^

Sherwin and Linda Cornell Weinstein

Joyce and William Weir

Herbert E. Winkelman

Jeff Wright and Betty Wells

Eileen M. Wurzer

Dr. Charles Yates

Laura and Joel Yellin

Marsha Young

Bill and Wende Young

Lawrence and Susan Yovanoff

Albert and Irene Zaccor

Helen A. Zamboni

Gary and Cathleen Zdyb

Joseph and Mary Kathryn Shanahan

Robert E. and Susan H. Shapiro

Lily Shaw and Robert Hallstrom*

Mrs. Caroline Shipley

Eloise Shrag

Harvey Simmons

Daniel and Sarah Singal

Timothy J. Slisz in memory of Joseph F. and Mary Ellen Slisz

Heidi Smith

Janet H. Sorensen

Larry Sorrell

Ms. Maureen A. Stables

David Stacey

Eleanor Stauffer

Jeffrey and Kristen Storey

Steve and Cheryl Swartout

Yoshiko Tamura and Bruce M. Lee

David and Carol Teegarden

Darbbie J. Thomas

J. Russell and Kathleen Thomas

Jeffrey J. Thompson

Celia and Doug Topping

John* and Janet Tyler

Eugene and Gloria Ulterino

Lorraine Van Meter-Cline and Doug Cline

Thomas and Jeanne Verhulst

Jared and Beverly Voos

Robert Vosteen

Brian and Jean Waldmiller

John and Anne Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wallace

Marsha Walton

Kathleen Weber

Warren Welch

Stephen Wershing

Kathleen Whelehan

Charles and Carolyn Whitfield

Bob* and Mary Ann Whitmore

Jeff and Sarah Wight

Susan and Paul Wilkens

Nancy J. Williams

Les and Wanda Wood

Jonathan Wright

Patty and Rich Yarmel

Susan Yee

Susan and Maurice Zauderer

Eric Zeise and Ellen Henry

Robert and Deborah Zeman

Robert and Carol Zimmerman

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IN MEMORY OF…

Arthur Axelrod

Judy Brustein

Sheryl Sue Karch

Rochester Opera Guild

Dayle C. Bird

RPO Ushers

Betsy and Stuart Bobry

Michael and Linda Raff

Patricia Cagnina

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 tribute gifts received from July 1 through April 30, 2026.

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.

Terry B. Grissing

Asish and Susan Basu

Edward Grissing

Frances R. Howell, Jr.

Jennifer McRae Fitzsimmons

Nancy Howell

Lew D. Jones

Itai Bronshtein

Elaine L. Kraus

James Kraus

Charles Courtsal and Lisa Gwinner

R. Carlos Carballada

Sam and Mimi Tilton

Ann Christiansen

Leslie C. Rowe

Douglas Cline

Patte Bishop

Timothy and Marilyn Downs

Ellen Fenger

Charles Fujita and Dulcy Lecour

Mary Anne Gillespie

Faye Shea

Josephine Trubek

Margaret Vanas

Rev. George H. Dehority, Jr.

John and Carolyn Dehority

Sheila Dermody

Catherine and Elmar Frangenberg, M.D.

Dr. Jane E. Devens

Stephen and Stephanie Schell

Ellen Englert

Renee Brownstein

Robert and Frances Clawson

Judith Cruppe

Richard DeMallie

Catherine and Elmar Frangenberg, M.D.

Robert and Christine Guistina

Gregory and Judith Graham

Antony Gugino and Earlene Siebold

High Falls Advisors

Bruce and Ann Leonard

John W. Littwitz

Ray and Patrizia Macera

Russell J. Mandrino

Mary Ann Mrva

Tracy A. Romano

Bonnie B. Sale

Joann Smith

David Strasenburgh

Anthony and Raechel Taddei

Timothy M. Verna

Suzanne Verstraten

Cynthia Whitehouse

Jane L. Garrett

Michael Garrett

Kathryn Gilbert

Betsy Friedman

Dr. Ram Wesley Rapoport

Dr. Warren Glaser

June Glaser

Barbara Law

Stanley and Anne Refermat

Dr. and Mrs. Harry C. Law

Edward H. Law

Paul Littrell

Laura Joy

Jane Oberwager

David and Lois Zebelman

Gregory Lombardo

Steven and Betsy Lombardo

Raymond McDonald

David and Noreen Halpern

Vera McCune

William and Erin McCune

Mildred Ness

Lana Rottenberg

Charles Palella

Keith Mortimer

Beverly Pullis

George Pullis

Margie Sabath

Edward Baum

Lillian Gordon

Stuart and Catherine Gordon

Dr. Diana Hausman

Mary Schwarz

Meg Sussman

Betty Schlemitz

Carl and Pamela Angeloff

Stifel Dublin Branch Office

Sam Vogel

Albert Serenati

Nancy Snyder and Family

Leonard Simon

Elaine Simon

Anne W. Sullivan

Philip and Eleanor Hopke

R. Alan and Deborah Lattime

Robert W. Sweeney

Gerald Estes

William J. Towler

Joseph and Linda Hanna

Lena Towler Scott

Kay Wallace

Ann Weintraub

Joseph and Rosemary Mitchell

Leon Williams

Jerry Maus

Dr. Sidney Weinstein

John and Carol Bennett

Sheri Unglaub Williams

Heather Fuller

Douglas and Sarah Hughes

Andrew and Elizabeth Swanson

Roland J. Zavada

John Kline

IN HONOR

OF…

Maura McCune and Patrick Corvington

John and Lisa Lacci

Joseph McCune and Karen Smith-McCune

Joseph Darweesh

Debbie Brand

Fred Dole

Carol M. Wolff

James Englert

Joann Smith

Linda Iacelli

Stephen House

Dr. Harold Kanthor’s Birthday

Joseph Rapoport & Family

Joan Kinsella

Mary Brockway

Neil Miller

Dr. Etta Eskridge

Deborah Onslow

Dr. Miriam R. Iker

Margaret Perticone

Deborah Dollinger

Grant Rieke

Marc Rieke

Nathan and Susan Robfogel’s

60th Wedding Anniversary

Charles and Kathleen Salitan

Valerie Salitan

Hannah and Arnold Rosenblatt

Alice Messinger

Robert and Harriet Seigel

Katherine Smith

James and Georgine Stenger

P. Robert and Mary Anne Fox

Jeff Tyzik

G. Theodore and Sherry Ruckert

Catharine “Kitty” Wise’s 90th Birthday

R. Alan and Deborah Lattime

J. Michael and Alice Smith

Don and Anna Womack

Daniel and Edith Rice

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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.

George Greer*

Jean Groff*

Sue C. Habbersett*

William B. Hale*

Martha and Fred Hamaker

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*

Michael Bobry

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*

Joan and Paul Casterline**

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*

Julia B. Everitt*

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*

Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff*

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*

Robert and Merilyn* Israel

Carol A. Jones

Nick and Kitty Jospe

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*

Dr. James and Janice* Maxwell

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

Gerard and Donna Roberts

Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers*

Nellie J. Rosenberg

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

Vicki* and Richard Schwartz

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*

Joyce Wiedrich

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 Human Resource Director

Hannah Reich Executive Assistant/Office Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Rob Dermody Vice President of Development

Bryce Davis Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives

Amy Gallaher Director of Development, Annual Giving & Special Events

Elizabeth Garijo-Garde Institutional Partnerships Officer

Dorian Delfs Development Officer

George DeMott Development Officer

MARKETING

Herb Griffith Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Lauren MacDonough Director of Marketing

Meg Spoto Creative Director

Kylie Beam Content/Digital Marketing Manager

Mike Cidoni Public Relations & Communications Manager

Sal Uttaro Group and Corporate Sales Manager

PATRON

SERVICES CENTER

Charlene Beckwith Director of Ticketing

Daniel Long Director of Patron Experience, Data & Analytics

Daniel Traina House Manager

Connor Straight Patron Services Assistant Manager

Abby Chapman-Duprey

William Eby

Stephen House

Nathan Howton

Lauren Irschick

Jaewon Jun

Alyssa Koh

Jacob Kundu

Hannah Moreno

Grant Simon Patron Services Representatives

FINANCE

Katherine Rogala Vice President of Finance

Jennifer Clark Staff Accountant

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

James Barry Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations

Fred Dole Orchestra Personnel Manager

Lily Wintringham Orchestra Operations Manager

Morgan Marama-Stout Artistic Coordinator

Danielle Suhr Stage Manager

Cedrick Martinez Assistant Stage Manager

Kim Hartquist Principal Librarian

Karl Vilcins Auditions Coordinator

EDUCATION

Chisato Eda Marling Director of Education & Community Partnerships

Interim VP of Education Lisk Morris Foundation Chair

Ashlee Allaire Youth Orchestra & Education Projects Manager

Catherine Zhou Education Assistant

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 102nd 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.

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

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.

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