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Dear Friends,

Spring arrives at Segerstrom Center for the Arts with a renewed sense of wonder, creativity, and connection, and we are delighted to welcome you to our April programs. This month invites you to gather, celebrate, and be inspired by artists who bring timeless stories and bold musical voices to our stages.

We begin with American Ballet Theatre’s Sylvia, a luminous blend of mythology and folklore brought vividly to life through dance, accompanied by the powerful sounds of our resident company, Pacific Symphony. This stunning collaboration promises an unforgettable evening of movement and music.

This month, experience the heartfelt story of love and chosen family in New Owner, part of our Family Series; before and after each performance, join us on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza for our pet adoption event and perhaps take home a new furever friend of your own! April also offers extraordinary musical moments, including the dynamic collaboration of Edgar Meyer and Christian McBride, the refined artistry of the Ébène Quartet, and the vibrant energy of the Australian Chamber Orchestra

And to continue the celebration of spring, we invite you to join Pacific Symphony for their Echoes of Freedom concert honoring Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, a festival that marks the beginning of spring.

Thank you for being part of our community!

Casey Reitz President & CEO

Board of Directors

John H. Phelan Jr., Chair

Casey Reitz, President & CEO

Stewart R. Smith, Treasurer

Sally S. Crockett, Secretary

Julia A. Argyros

Bart Asner, M.D.

Jesse Bagley

Marta S. Bhathal

Louise Bryson

Mark Chan

Sandra Segerstrom Daniels

James A. Driscoll

Andra Greene Ellingson

John Ginger

Jackie Glass

Carole Haes Landon

Wendy Hales

Betty Huang

John H. Phelan Jr. Chair, Board of Directors

Molly Jolly

Roger T. Kirwan

Harmon Kong

Karla Kraft

Shanaz Langson

Kate Levering-Jahangiri

Jim Mazzo

William F. Meehan

Ethan F. Morgan

Rick Muth

Walter Parsadayan

Mark C. Perry

Maria Rigatti

Holly Breaux Schwartz

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Ginger Siedschlag

Tony Smith

Connie Spenuzza

John E. Stratman Jr.

Samuel Tang

Kelly Thomson

Laura Vanderhook

Gaddi H. Vasquez

Jaynine Warner

Jane Fujishige Yada

Henry T. Segerstrom,* Founding Chairman

Directors Emeritus

Anthony A. Allen

Lawrence M. Higby

Pat L. Poss*

Timothy L. Strader

David H. Troob

Carol L. Wilken*

* in memoriam

Resident Companies

Arthur Ong, Chairman, Pacific Symphony

Elaine Neuss, Chair & CEO, Philharmonic Society

Julie Virjee, Chair, Pacific Chorale

Arts Supporters

Vanessa Moore, Chair, The Guilds of the Center

Ann Moorhead, President, Angels of the Arts

Maurice Murray, Chair, Arts & Business Leadership Council

Gail Daniels, President, The Center Stars

Kate Levering-Jahangiri, President, Ave. to the Arts

Cindy Ramirez, Chair, The Center Docents

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Calendar of events

May 2026

Tuesday Night Dance: Latin Rhythms

May 5, 12

Mozart, Say, & Tchaikovsky

May 7–9

Forever K-Pop— A Celebration Concert

May 9

The Invisible Boy

May 9–10

Larisa Martinez, soprano

May 10

June 2026

Tuesday Night Dance: Broadway

June 2, 9, 6

The Sound of Music

June 2–14

Windborne’s Music of Journey

June 5–6

Rossini, Boccherini, Mascagni & Rachmaninoff

June 11–13

Summer Sounds: Let Love Lead

June 12

Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2

June 14

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

May 14

Riverdance 30— The New Generation

May 15–17

An Enchanted Evening with the Three Mexican Tenors

May 15–16

Romantic Virtuosity

May 17

Tuesday Night Dance: K-Pop

May 19, 26

A Serenade to Music

May 23

Shelley Conducts America at 250

May 28–30

Leopold & The Magic Flute: Opera for Kids!

May 30

Beckman Arts & Science Family Festival

May 31

Eternity

June 18–20

Summer Sounds: South Side Symphony Anime Juke Jam

June 19

Summer Sounds: Extra Ancestral

June 19

Tuesday Night Dance: Line Dance

June 23, 30

Summer Sounds: Velvet Soul D’Angelo Tribute

June 26

Artists, events and dates subject to change; visit www.scfta.org for details and times. Segerstrom Hall • Renée and Henry Segerstrom

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Concert Hall

Samueli Theater Judy Morr Theater

Julianne and George Argyros Plaza

Cayleigh Capaldi as Maria Rainer in The Sound of Music

Photo: Jeremy Daniel

Multi-talented stars in the Center sky

The 2026–27 Cabaret Series

It’s a new season with bright stars in our Cabaret Series. Each artist on our calendar is someone with bags of experience on Broadway, films and television. Maybe you’ve seen them—or maybe you’re wondering how you missed them until now. Either way, these six performances are a fantastic mix you won’t forget.

The season starts with some local-born talent. Krysta Rodriguez was born in Orange (yes, right down the street) and attended Orange County School of the Arts. Like Tituss Burgess (who will appear in this series later in the season), Rodriguez made her Broadway debut in the jukebox musical Good Vibrations. And also like Tituss, she then steadily worked on Broadway and on television.

In her starring role in Cabaret, “her vocal skills were impressive,” said Broadwayworld.com, while the Times Union called her “A singer at once brash and vulnerable.”

Rodriguez was a standout in the Hollywood Bowl production of A Chorus Line as Diana. The Hollywood Reporter singled her out as the “Broadway pro whose delivery is so powerful she easily fills the cavernous Bowl, leading the cast to a cathartic crescendo that left the crowd enraptured.”

She co-starred in the Netflix/Ryan Murphy-produced limited series Halston as the iconic entertainer Liza Minnelli opposite Ewan McGregor in the title role. Her musical theater background was a perfect grounding for the singing required for the role, and she nailed it.

As Entertainment Tonight says, “It’s hard not to be enraptured by Krysta Rodriguez,” and Cabaret patrons will soon discover that for themselves.

Photo: Jenny Anderson

Joaquina Kalukango is being hailed as Broadway’s next great leading lady. In 2022 she won a Tony® for her leading role in the musical Paradise Square, a role she created. Kalukango described her Paradise Square character as “able to see into people’s true hearts.” She returns to our Cabaret Series to show that her role in Paradise Square was not a fluke.

“Kalukango [in Paradise Square] reminds us what a superb vocalist and musical actress she is,” says nystagereview.com. “Her rendering of ‘Let It Burn’ is a master class on how to stop a show cold… and stop the show she did, earning a sustained standing ovation.”

Paradise Square set her singing career in motion. She initially was part of an ensemble in the show, but as development continued, Kalukango’s character rose to become the heroine. The Chicago Tribune predicted her Tony win: “Kalukango will be formidable competition for anyone and everyone come Tony Awards time.”

With a cabaret engagement last year at New York’s 54 Below, Kalukango continues to expand her fan base. For those audiences,

“Relaxing in the presence of her real self at 54 Below’s intimate setting was a charm fest,” says theaterpizzazz.com.

She has a natural ability to connect with people, and that will certainly be demonstrated at her appearance in Samueli Theater. It can’t long before she’s accepting another Tony Award.

“Emmy and SAG-nominated actor, musician, and writer Tituss Burgess has quickly emerged as one of the entertainment industry’s most versatile and dynamic performers, with his work… generating both critical and commercial acclaim,” says broadway.com.

Burgess is a busy man. Between Broadway, television, and special appearances, this superstar has not stopped since he made his debut on Broadway in Good Vibrations in 2005. He went on to star in Jersey Boys, Moulin Rouge, Guys and Dolls, and other familiar musicals. He also has a history with Disney and originated the role of Sebastian the Crab in The Little Mermaid. Last year he had a limited run in the Broadway super-hit musical Oh, Mary!, written by Cole Escola. The twist is that Mary Todd Lincoln is usually played by a man. The role is energetic and chaotic, and more so when it’s played by Burgess. He added even more of the crazy physicality while displaying his rich voice. “He belted high notes fans know from his earlier Broadway appearances and shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” says The New York Times.

Burgess enjoys showing his tenor skills in solo shows, too. Before he made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2020, he said, “Unlike a Broadway show where you are doing a role, here I get to curate an evening of music and an experience that is tailored to me personally.” Center audiences will get to experience the real Tituss.

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Photo: Jeff Mills Photography

Conrad Ricamora is making inroads on the awards shows. He starred in Oh, Mary! as Abraham Lincoln opposite Cole Escola as the title character, for which he received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor. He has also received two Grammy nominations. He has been called “a leading man in the Rodgers and Hammerstein mode … a swoonworthy tenor,” by americantheatre.com.

The year after Ricamora graduated with his MFA he hit the ground running. He was cast in the off-Broadway Imelda Marcos musical Here Lies Love as freedom fighter Ninoy Aquino. A year later he was cast in the television series How to Get Away With Murder. Not much singing was needed there, but soon after he made his Broadway debut as Lun Tha in The King and I. He and the character of Tuptim sing two of the most beautiful songs in the production. Ricamora brings a special energy to each of his roles, and he also brings something to rehearsals: his French bulldog. The adorable pooch can act as an emotional support dog for the actors as they feed him treats, and the dog snuffles and snorts his appreciation.

Some singers only need a first name for recognition. In Bette, Babs & Beyond some of your favorite female vocalists will be represented, celebrating the vocal legends we know and love. Think of Cher, Tina (Turner), Aretha (Franklin), Dolly (Parton), Adele, and more. They are some of the greatest divas of popular music, and in this case, “diva” is a compliment.

The show is produced by the inimitable Scott Coulter, who has an excellent reputation as a producer and host (he sings, too!). Coulter has brought together an incomparable group of singer-actors, each of whom brings a special essence to the songs she sings, whether it’s a solo, duet, or even a trio. Coulter also oversees the song arrangements and is the onstage storyteller, talking about the singers and the works they are performing. This prmoses to be an evening you won’t want to miss.

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The season closes in a big way—literally— with Lizzy and The Triggermen. “We are a 10-piece band that takes the sound and swagger of the Swing era and makes it feel thrillingly new,” Lizzy told Broadwayworld.com. In a music world where so much sound can be generated by a computer, she says jazz is human—organic, vibrant, complex, imperfect and unpredictable. “The kind of jazz we play can be a ‘feel,’ music that gets inside your body and makes you move.”

The multi-generational band members have played with everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Benny Goodman. The band is rooted in the sound of bands like Basie and Ellington, with some unexpected influences: R&B, bebop, Broadway, indie rock, and even a bit of opera. (Lizzy originally trained as an opera singer.) The group has toured with iconic rock band Squeeze, played festivals, and in 2023, they headlined the Palm Springs Modernism Week along with Samara Joy (a Cabaret Series veteran) and Nancy Sinatra. Their music resonates with such a broad range of audiences.

Treat yourself to a Cabaret Series subscription and know that you’re set for some great shows this season.

The 2026–27 Cabaret Series in Samueli Theater

Krysta Rodriguez

September 10–12

Joaquina Kalukango

November 5–7

Titus Burgess

December 10–12

Conrad Ricamora

January 28–30

Bette, Babs & Beyond

March 4–6

Lizzy and the Triggermen

June 10–12

Cabaret

Photo: Dave Welch

American Ballet Theatre’s

with Pacific Symphony is dedicated to Mr. George Schreyer July 6, 1932–December 31, 2024

George’s love of the arts and generous spirit brought

George Schreyer with former ABT Principal Dancer Misty Copeland;

photo by Doug Gifford

Dear Friends of Music,

We are delighted to present two remarkable concerts that illuminate the extraordinary range of musical expression—from the intimate union of strings and voice to the exhilarating synergy between a world-renowned orchestra and one of today’s most dynamic pianists.

On April 11, the Danish String Quartet, joined by the Danish National Girls’ Choir, offers a collaboration of rare beauty and depth. The luminous blend of choral sound and expressive precision creates a musical landscape both timeless and immediate. Together, these ensembles demonstrate how tradition and innovation coexist in deeply moving ways. This concert is part of our Eclectic Orange Series, supported in part by the generosity of the Jelinek Family Trust, to whom we extend our sincere thanks.

This evening also marks our annual Committees Night, when we proudly recognize our musical connectors—the dedicated volunteers who engage and inspire students to develop a lifelong appreciation of music and its power to connect and enrich lives. Across 17 Committees throughout Orange County, nearly 450 members contribute more than 50,000 hours of in-kind service each year in support of the Philharmonic Society’s Youth Music Education Programs. They usher at youth concerts, serve as docents in schools and concert halls, and lead fundraising efforts that sustain our educational mission. Without their extraordinary dedication, the Philharmonic Society would not be what it is today. We are deeply grateful for their leadership and service.

On April 22, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra joins pianist Yuja Wang in a performance radiating virtuosity and collaborative brilliance. This concert showcases the orchestra’s remarkable precision and Yuja Wang’s bold artistry. Together, they exemplify the electrifying energy that deﬁnes live performance at its highest level. This concert is generously supported by the Donna L. Kendall Foundation and the Henry T. & Elizabeth Segerstrom Foundation, with additional artist support from Anne and Danny Shih and Robert Ronus.

Distinct in character yet united in excellence, these concerts reﬂect our commitment to presenting artists who inspire, challenge, and elevate our shared musical experience. Thank you for being part of this vibrant community of supporters, volunteers, and music lovers who make these performances possible.

Warm regards,

TOMMY PHILLIPS ELAINE NEUSS President and Artistic Director Chair, Board of Directors

Saturday, April 11, 2026, 8pm

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Pre-concert lecture at 7pm by KUSC's Brian Lauritzen

DANISH STRING QUARTET

Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin

Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola

Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello

DANISH NATIONAL GIRLS’ CHOIR

Charlotte Rowan, conductor

Caroline SHAW (b. 1982)

Allemande, 1. movement, Partita for 8 voices

Lotta WENNÄKOSKI (b. 1970) Vorüber, ach, vorüber! from Pige

Franz SCHUBERT (1797–1828)

String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, Death and the Maiden, II. Andante con moto (theme)

Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR (b. 1977) Þann heilaga kross, (arr. Thomas Bryla)

Swedish Traditional (arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen) Kisti du kom

Danish Traditional (arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen) Dronning Dagmar ligger udi Ribe syg

Rune Tonsgaard SØRENSEN (b. 1983) Once a Shoemaker

Astrid SONNE (b. 1994) How Far

Caroline SHAW (b. 1982) And So (arr. Charlotte Rowan)

Turlough O’CAROLAN (1670-1738) Captain O’Kane (arr. Fredrik Sjölin)

Carl NIELSEN (1865-1931)/B.S. INGEMANN (1789-1862) Tit er jeg glad og et brudestykke (arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen)

INTERMISSION

David LANG (b. 1957)

*in wildness (New Work for Quartet and Choir)

*in wildness was commissioned by Danish National Girls’ Choir (DR Pigekoret), Arts & Lectures at University of California Santa Barbara, Carnegie Hall, La Jolla Music Society, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Stanford Live, and Washington Performing Arts Society.

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Over the past decade, our two ensembles have built a musical friendship that has opened new perspectives. Throughout our collaboration, we have been driven by curiosity about the distinct qualities of our ensembles, about the musical expression that arises between us, and about what happens when 1,000 years of music history, 50 young voices, and a string quartet merge into one.

On paper, a girls’ choir and a string quartet may seem refined, even traditional. But we have never been interested in refinement for its own sake. We have pursued a tangible and raw power, insisting on presenting the fragile and uncompromising side by side as well as the intimate and the fierce.

This concert has evolved from this shared curiosity, harnessing the power of a string quartet and a girls’ choir and the collective force that emerges when multiple voices meet creating movement and transformation. In the ﬁrst half, you will encounter strong female voices through Nordic folk melodies and new music by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Finnish Lotta Wennäkoski, American Caroline Shaw, and Danish electronical composer Astrid Sonne. Different musical languages, different sonic landscapes yet united by the same impulse: to open a space and allow something new to unfold. You will also meet an early Danish power lady, Queen Dagmar from the 12th century, and hear the cracking voice of Marie Tang Kristensen, a Danish housewife whose songs were captured on wax cylinders in 1907.

In the second half, we present in wildness by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. The piece is written especially for our two ensembles, and it is an extraordinary honor to present new music by one of the most signiﬁcant composers of our time. in wildness draws inspiration from the writings of Henry David Thoreau and Hans Christian Andersen two poets who, each in their own way and language, describe a movement away from established society and into nature, into the unknown. Not as an escape, but as a possibility. As a way of imagining a different world, and a different future. in wildness is a co-commission between the Danish National Girls’ Choir, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Carnegie Hall, La Jolla Music Society, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Stanford Live and Washington Performing Arts.

To present this today feels like an invitation: to listen. To stay curious. To believe that new beginnings can emerge when we dare to step into the wild together. The journey begins tonight with you. Thank you for stepping into the wild with us.

—Danish National Girls’ Choir Danish String Quartet

Danish String Quartet, Charlotte Rowan, Danish National Girls' Choir Caroline Bittencourt

PROGRAM NOTES AND TEXTS

Shaw: Allemande, 1. movement, Partita for 8 voices

Partita is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another. Most of Partita is wordless. —Caroline Shaw

Wennäkoski: Pige, “Vorüber, ach, vorüber!”

Something ﬁerce, something soundless, I’ve written to my notebook when planning the string quartet Pige. It has been an inspiring task to write a work to be paired with The Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert, and the ”Doppelgänger” idea was greatly feeding my imagination from the very beginning. It’s also been an honor to write music for the hugely expressive musicians of the Danish String Quartet. —Lotta Wennäkoski

Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, Death and the Maiden, II. Andante con moto (theme)

The theme for the variations of the G minor Andante comes from Death's contribution to a short Schubert song of 1817, inviting a terrified young girl to sleep safely in his arms. The quartet version is altogether lighter: a fourth higher, more transparently scored and con moto. Resignation has replaced the sinister threat of the song. The calm of the first two variations is shattered by the brutal dactyls (–!!) of the third, a more rapid version of the rhythm of the theme; calm returns only to be broken again by the long crescendo of the repeat of the fifth variation to yet more terrifying dactyls. The terror subsides to a serene end and a Schubert hallmark switch to the major. —sussex.ac.uk

Thorvaldsdottir (arr. Thomas Bryla): Þann heilaga kross

Þann heilaga kross vor herra bar, á holdi hans voru dauðleg sár. Fyrir oss alla hann fullnað gjörði, vér urðum ei keyptir með öðru verði.

Því hlýðið, kæru kristnir menn, hvað kennir oss öllum skriftin senn. Þeir sem vist á himnum hljóta, herrans pínu þeir verða að njóta.

Einasta Guði sé æra og dýrð, er sinn son sendi hingað á jörð. Hann stýri og stjórni oss öllum saman, svo vér hann óttumst og elskum.

Amen.

On the holy cross our Lord, on his ﬂesh were mortal wounds. For all of us he accomplished this, we were not redeemed for a lesser price.

Therefore, dear Christians, this we all teach of his scripture. Those who receive heavenly glory, the love of the Lord they must enjoy.

One God is glory everlasting, his song is sent here on earth. He leads and guides us together, we serve him with reverence and love.

Amen.

Swedish trad. (arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen): Kisti du kom

Kisti du kom du nog vill du väl svänga Ser jag rätt på dig så har du nog lust

Kisti du kom du nog vil du väl svänga Ser jag rätt på dig så har du nog lust

Jam da di dej då da di di la di dej ja

Jam da dy dej da di di del la di då

Jam da di dej då da di di la di dej ja

Jam da dy dej da di di del la di då

Uti vår hage där växa blå bär

Kom hjärtans fröjd

Vill du mig något så träffas vi där.

Kom liljor och akvileja, kom rosor och salivia

Kom ljuva krusmynta, kom hjärtans fröjd!

Kisti du kom du nog vil du väl svänga

Ser jeg rätt på dig så har du nog lust

Jam da di dej då da di di la di dej ja

Jam da dy dej da di di del la di då

Jam da di dej då da di di la di dej ja

Jam da dy dej da di di del la di då

Kisti, you came, you probably want to dance

If I read you right, you surely want to Kisti, you came, you probably want to dance If I read you right, you surely want to

Jam da di dej då da di di la di dej ja…

Out in our meadow where blueberries grow Come, heart’s delight

If you want to reach me, we’ll meet there. Come lilies and columbine, come roses and salvia Come sweet curly mint, come, heart’s delight!

Kisti, you came, you probably want to dance If I read you right, you surely want to

Jam da di dej då da di di la di dej ja…

Danish trad. (arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen): Dronning Dagmar ligger udi Ribe syg

Dronning Dagmar ligger udi Ribe syg, til Ringsted lader hun sig vente; alle de fruer, i Danmark er, dem lader hun til sig hente. Udi Ringsted hviles dronning Dagmar.

De ledte hende ud, de ledte hende ind, det blev jo længer og værre: "Imedens det kan ej bedre vorde, I sender bud efter min herre!"

Dankongen slog det tavlbord sammen, at alle de terninger sjunge. "Forbyde det Gud i Himmerig, at Dagmar skulle dø så unge!"

Dronning Dagmar rejser sig af båren op, hendes øjne var blodige røde: "O ve, o ve, min ædelig herre! hvi gjorde I mig den møde?

Den første bøn, jeg eder beder, den vider I mig så gerne: alle fredløse mænd, dem giver I fred og alle fanger er jerne!

Den tredje bøn, jeg eder beder, den vider I mig så gerne: lader I Knud, min yngste søn, konning i Danmark være!

Nu er det tid, jeg farer herfra, jeg må ikke længer lide, nu ganger Himmerigs klokker for mig, Guds engle efter mig bide.

Udi Ringsted hviles dronning Dagmar.

Sørensen: Once a Shoemaker

Queen Dagmar lies in Ribe, sorely ill, To Ringsted she is borne in pain; All noblewomen throughout the land She bids be brought to her again. In Ringsted now rests Queen Dagmar.

They led her out and led her in, Her suffering grew deeper and graver: "Since no relief is granted me, Send word at once for my dear lord!"

The Danish King struck hard the board, Till all the dice rang clear and strong: "God in His heaven forbid this fate— That Dagmar die so young, so wrong!"

Queen Dagmar rose upon her bier, Her eyes were crimson, red with pain: "Alas, alas, my noble lord, Why have you brought me sorrow so great?

sorrow

The ﬁrst request I ask of thee, Grant it freely, grant it well: Give peace to all the outlawed men, And loose each captive from his cell.

The third request I ask of thee, Grant it freely, grant it well: Let Knud, my youngest, wear the crown, I pray, the King of Denmark be!"*

Now is the hour that I must go, here, I may endure no longer; The bells of heaven ring for me, God’s angels draw my soul ever nearer. In Ringsted now rests Queen Dagmar.

An especially poignant instance of the raw physicality—the “wood works”—of folkish sonority is the presence of the clog fiddle (träskofiol) on “Once a Shoemaker.” Sørensen describes the humble origin of this instrument—a wooden shoe repurposed into a violin—as an alternative to unaffordable fine instruments from Italy or France, which peasants would produce “from whatever they had available, shoes or cigar boxes.” Along with an actual clog fiddle, the other musicians use wooden mutes in the song’s final chorale to evoke its nasal sound.

Sonne: How Far

How Far is a piece about listening to the inner voice. It aims to investigate an inner conversation with oneself; exploring its pace and time and the confusion and acceptance that comes with that. Aiming to create an intersection between an inside and an outside feeling, the track weaves in and out of redeemed and unredeemed harmonies, through breaths, noises and “half good recordings,” creating the feeling of listening, hearing and existing. Astrid on the track: “I wanted to unfold how sound can feel bigger on the inside than on the outside. My initial idea was to record it with other singers but in the process I ﬁgured that I had to use my own voice in order for me to create a personal and intimate space.”—Astrid Sonne

Shaw (arr. Charlotte Rowan): And So

The lyrics for And so are in conversation with Robert Burns’ “Red, Red Rose,” with the history of roses in poetry, and, in a way, with Gertrude Stein, Billy Joel, Shakespeare, and existentialism. I don’t want to explain the meaning of the song too much, since I’m still ﬁnding different corners in it and I like the ambiguity of certain lines and harmonies. It may be a song about love, or it may be about loss, or it may simply be about the act of writing and listening to music. The orchestral writing for And so is spare and quiet, almost like the sound of someone writing a simple song at the piano. —Caroline Shaw would a song by another name sound as sweet and true would all the reds be just the same or violets as blue if you were gone would words still ﬂow and would they rhyme with you if you were gone would i still know and how the vowel threads through.

how to love and how to grow and how the vowel threads through. and so they say the saying goes a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a tired rhyme but in the verse there’s always time.

would scansion cease to mark the beats if i went away would a syllable interrupt the feet of tetrametric iambs when i am gone and it is calm listen and i will sing a tune of love and life and of the ocean’s prose and the poetry of a red, red, rose, that’s newly sprung in june.

and so you say the saying goes a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is how I’m keeping track of time.

O’Carolan (arr. Fredrik Sjölin): Captain O’Kane

when a’ the seas rise high, my dear and the rocks melt with the sun will the memory of us still rhyme with anyone will we still tune our violins will we still sing of roses will we exist at all, my love, or will we fade to stanzas of the dust that i suppose is all we were and all we’ll be.

and so the saying “so it goes” depends a lot on if a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a thing sublime and so we stay, on borrowed time

Carolan was a blind harper who travelled throughout Ireland composing tunes and songs in honor of his various patrons. His style was inﬂuenced by the old Gaelic harp music, folk music and Italian Baroque music which was very popular among his patrons at the time.

Nielsen/Ingemann, Dansk trad. (arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen): Tit er jeg glad og et brudestykke

Tit er jeg glad og vil dog gerne græde, thi intet hjerte deler helt min glæde. Tit er jeg sorrigfuld og må dog le, at ingen skal den bange tåre se.

Tit elsker jeg, og vil dog gerne sukke; tit hjertet må sig tavst og strengt tillukke. Tit harmes jeg, og dog jeg smile må, thi det er dårer, som jeg harmes på.

Tit er jeg varm, og isner i min varme; thi verden favner mig med frosne arme.

Tit er jeg kold - og rødmer dog derved; thi verden slukker ej min kærlighed.

O du, som ene dele kan min glæde! du ved hvis barm jeg turde frit udgræde! O, hvis du kendte, hvis du elsked mig, jeg kunne være, som jeg er - hos dig.

Tit er jeg varm, og isner i min varme; thi verden favner mig med frosne arme. Tit er jeg kold - og rødmer dog derved; thi verden slukker ej min kærlighed.

Oft I am glad, and yet I long to weep, For no one shares my joy in fullness deep. Oft I am sorrowful, yet still must smile, Lest any see my fearful tear awhile.

Oft do I love, and yet I softly sigh; Oft must my heart in silence close and lie. Oft I grow angry, yet I smile instead, For it is fools on whom my anger’s shed.

Oft I am warm, yet tremble in my ﬁre, For frozen arms the world around me wire. Oft I am cold—and blush in spite of this, For still the world cannot my love dismiss.

O you alone who share my joy’s true part, You know the breast where I could bare my heart. O if you knew me, loved me as I am, With you I could be wholly, simply, I.

Oft I am warm, yet tremble in my ﬁre, For frozen arms the world around me wire. Oft I am cold—and blush in spite of this, For still the world cannot my love dismiss.

Lang: *in wildness Words by David Lang (after Henry David Thoreau and Hans Christian Andersen)

1. introduction to wildness (instrumental)

2. we wish to speak we wish to speak a word for nature for absolute freedom and wildness we wish to be inhabitants a part of nature rather than members of society we wish to make an extreme statement an emphatic one for there are enough champions of civilization every one of you will take care of that we have met with few people in the course of our lives who understood the art of walking that is, of taking walks these days, most expeditions are but tours and come round again at evening to the place from which we set out

half the walk is but retracing our steps we should go forth on even the shortest walk in the spirit of undying adventure never to return if you are ready to leave your father and mother your brother and sister your husband your wife your son your daughter your friends and never see them again if you have paid your debts and made your will and settled all your affairs and are free

then you are ready for a walk

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3. no wealth can buy no wealth can buy the freedom which is the capital in this profession it comes only by the grace of God it requires a direct dispensation from heaven to become a walker

some people, it is true can remember some walks they took ten years ago in which they were so blessed to lose themselves for half an hour in the woods but we know very well they have conﬁned themselves to the highway ever since

no doubt temperament and age have a good deal to do with it as we grow older our ability to sit still increases

4. we will walk our love, our life come with us it is so still it is so clear come with us we will walk in the forest among the fallen ﬂowers the fresh smell of the forest the nightingale everything we want is here

5. nowadays nowadays almost all the improvements so called the building of houses the cutting down of the forest deform the landscape and make it more tame more cheap

people and their affairs church and state and school trade and commerce manufactures and agriculture even politics

the most alarming of them all we are pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape politics is but a narrow ﬁeld

6. old tree old tree let it stand until it dies of its old age it has seen so many things it could tell us we have seen it full of ﬂowers old tree let it stand we are walking we know, we feel, we sense

we grow vespertinal in our habits as the evening of life approaches till at last we come forth only just before sundown and get all the walk that we require in half an hour

the walking of which we speak has nothing in it akin to exercise but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day

if you would get exercise go in search of the springs of life those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought

politics is but a narrow ﬁeld

the forest is inside us the nightingale is inside us the stillness is inside us in the forest among the fallen ﬂowers

our love, our life come with us we are so still we are so clear come with us

we pass from it as from a ﬁeld into the forest and it is forgotten

at present the best part of the land is not private property the landscape is not owned possibly the day will come when it will be partitioned off and walking shall be construed to mean trespassing on some gentleman’s grounds

to enjoy a thing exclusively is to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it

let us improve our opportunities, then before the evil days come

let it stand

we know this walk will lead us home when this tree is full of ﬂowers we will know that we are home old tree let it stand let no one cut it down

7. the preservation of the world in wildness is the preservation of the world every tree sends its roots forth in search of the wild

cities import it at any price we plow and sail for it

from the forest and the wilderness come the tonics and the barks which brace us all

we believe in the forest we believe in the meadow we believe in the night

8. we took a walk

we took a walk the other afternoon we saw the setting sun such a light as we could not have imagined the air was so warm the air was so serene

this was not a solitary phenomenon never to happen again it will happen forever and ever an inﬁnite number of evenings and it will cheer and reassure the latest child that walks there

we walked in so pure and bright a light gilding the withered grass and leaves

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in which the corn grows give us a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure wild lands where none have settled we are ready

all good things are wild and free there is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey those of us who take the liberty to live are superior to all the laws politics is but a narrow ﬁeld

so softly and serenely bright we thought we had never bathed in such a golden ﬂood

so we walk

till one day the sun will shine more brightly than ever it has done till one day the sun will shine into our minds and hearts till one day the sun will light up our whole lives with a great awakening light as warm and serene and golden as on a river bank in autumn

The GRAMMY®-nominated Danish String Quartet continues to assert their preeminence among the world’s ﬁnest string quartets. Celebrated for their “intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and ﬂow” (Gramophone) and renowned for the palpable joy they exude in music-making, the Danish String Quartet has become one of today’s most in-demand classical quartets, performing to sold-out concert halls around the world.

The Quartet’s inventive and intriguing programming and repertoire choices have produced critically acclaimed original projects and commissions as well as sophisticated arrangements of traditional folk tunes. In August 2024, the Quartet released their long-awaited third album of folk-inspired traditional and original tunes, Keel Road, on ECM. Comprising 14 tracks, Keel Road is a retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea. This release marked the Quartet’s tenth anniversary of exploring Scandinavian folk traditions, beginning with their 2014 album Wood Works and followed by Last Leaf (ECM 2017), both of which were chosen as one of the top classical albums of the year by NPR and The New York Times.

The Quartet takes an active role in reaching new audiences through special projects. In 2007, they established the DSQ Festival, which takes place in intimate and informal settings in Copenhagen. In 2016, they inaugurated a concert series, Series of Four, in which they both perform and invite colleagues to appear. They have been the recipient of many awards and appointments, including Musical America’s 2020 Ensemble of the Year; the Borletti-Buitoni Trust; BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist; and the Bowers Program. In 2011, the Quartet was awarded the Carl Nielsen Prize, the highest cultural honor in Denmark, and in June 2025, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize—the ﬁrst ensemble to receive one of the most prestigious awards in classical music.

The Danish Quartet recently celebrated their 20th Anniversary in 2024, having formed when violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørenson and violist Asbjørn Nørgaard were teenagers under the mentorship of Tim Frederiksen of Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2008, the three Danes were joined by Norwegian cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin. www.danishquartet.com.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

DANISH NATIONAL GIRLS' CHOIR (DR PIGEKORET)

Danish National Girls’ Choir is one of Denmark's strongest musical brands: Fifty young singers aged 16-22 together create one of the ﬁnest girls’ choirs in the world. The choir aims to renew the Danish song tradition with authenticity, ambition and passion through strong and original musical power and modern visual formats. The contemporary approach makes the choir a strong player in many different musical contexts, giving over forty concerts a year both in Denmark and internationally. The choir’s home is in DR Koncerthuset (DR Concert Hall) in Copenhagen.

Danish National Girls’ Choir is part of, and was established by, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) in 1938. Since its evolution, the choir has mediated upon and interpreted the Danish songbook every day on radio and television. The choir continues to ﬁll concert halls whether singing a cappella or in concerts with the country's most acclaimed musicians and artists—with an audience loyal and ever growing. Whilst the founding DNA of the choir are the Danish songs, their repertoire ranges from traditional hymns to pop songs and contemporary classical works, often commissioned by the choir itself.

Danish National Girls’ Choir often shares its voice at ofﬁcial Danish events both in Denmark and internationally. The choir was a Danish cultural ambassador at the Olympics in Rio in 2016, Tokyo in 2020, Paris in 2024 as well as at the Parliamentary Assembly at Council of Europe when Denmark held the chairmanship in 2018. The choir is under the patronage of H.M. Queen Mary of Denmark.

The collaboration between Danish National Girls’ Choir and Danish String Quartet started back in 2014 in Copenhagen and the two ensembles have created many personal, playful and scenic concert performances together. Concerts with strong programming based on the two ensembles' distinctive musical DNA united in mutual Nordic roots celebrating the collective musicianship and vibrating interrelation between voices and strings. In addition to audio releases and numerous concerts in Denmark, the two ensembles have thrilled audiences in the U.S. in 2019 and in a large music festival in Germany in 2024.

CHARLOTTE ROWAN, CONDUCTOR

The founding conductor of the choir was Mrs. Lis Jacobsen. She headed the ensemble from 1938 right up to 1961. As of August 2023, English choral conductor Charlotte Rowan took over the baton as conductor for DR Pigekoret becoming the eighth conductor in the choir’s history. Born and raised in Liverpool, Charlotte grew up singing in the choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, where she later became Organ Scholar (2012-2014). During this time, Charlotte also studied as a singer and conductor at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where her passion for conducting blossomed. Charlotte went on to study music at the University of Cambridge (MA Hons), where she continued her training as a Choral Scholar with The Chapel Choir of Sidney Sussex College (2014-2017). Since 2018, Charlotte Rowan has lived in Denmark, where she has furthered her education as a choral conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (2018-2020) and held the position as Director of Music of Herning Boys’ Choir for three years (2020-2023), before becoming the conductor of DR Pigekoret. She is delighted to work with the young singers: “DR Pigekoret is both an invaluable communicator of the Danish song tradition and one of the world's leading girls' choirs. But above all, the choir is a beautiful symbol of how powerful a community of talented young people can be.”

DANISH NATIONAL GIRLS’ CHOIR SINGERS |CHARLOTTE ROWAN, CONDUCTOR

Adina Henny Besjakov-Strautmane

Agnes Ellebye Skonberg

Alba Alvilde Scharling

Amalie Vestergaard Frederiksen

Amanda Baasch Andersen

Amanda Hjelmsted Kluxen

Anaïs Vivienne Vad

Andrea Lundberg

Anna Hirsch Bernhagen

Anna Lindhardt Christensen

Augusta Helleberg Kluge

Carla Mortensen-Serra

Caroline Busk Andersen

Clara Kirketerp Friis

Cæcilia Düring-Ørsted

Elisabeth Bak Cedermann

Ella Olympia Aagaard Placing

Elvira Elmøe Clementsen

Emilie With Johansen

Emma Ljusheva

Emma Ilena Julia Seraﬁn Nordahl

Flora Meldgaard Pind

Freja Hylleholt Sillesen

Frida Bjørk Norling-Dahl

Frida Flora Harrestrup Lauritzen

Hannah Joensen Farø

Hilde Sol Cedermark Brand

Inger Ada Teglgaard Sørensen

Jamilla Musse Mølgaard Kristensen

Jóhanna Hugadóttir

Julie Engsig Højlund

Karoline Matyjasik

Klara Emilie Schick Bjørn-Larsen

Line Christina Nordlöf-Damkjær

Linnea Harbo Blomqvist

Livia Kjærsgaard Clausen

Maja Joseﬁn Nordlöf-Damkjær

Marie Wilken Jarl Petersen

Mille Due Kjær

Rose Marie Rendrup Klausen

Selma Buch Ørum Villumsen

Sigrid Sloth Berg-Sørensen

Silja Meirup Gregersen

Solveig Marie Haastrup Wiese

Vera Virginia Vad

Vigga Toft Tengberg

Vita Sloth Trads Jensen

Artistic Director / Executive Producer

Anne Karine Prip

Vocal Teacher

Henriette Nederby

Production Team

Jacob Weitze Mylund

Tine Jespersen

Else Callø Barsøe

Chief Executive / DR Ensembles

Kim Bohr

This performance of the Danish String Quartet and Danish National Girls' Choir is dedicated to

THE COMMITTEES OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

With 17 Committees located throughout Orange County, our nearly 450 Committees members provide more than 50,000 hours of in-kind service each year to support the Philharmonic Society’s nationally recognized Youth Music Education Programs. Committees members usher at youth concerts, docent music education programs in schools and concert halls, and organize and facilitate fundraising events—all while enjoying the camaraderie that comes from providing philanthropic service to our community.

Interested in volunteering or for more information about the Philharmonic Society Committees: (949) 553-2422, ext. 222 | volunteer@philharmonicsociety.org

THE 2025-2026 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF

PRESIDENT

Kathy Barrett

PAST PRESIDENT

Lauren Claus

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Kathy Cobb-Woll

SECRETARY

Maggie VanEck

TREASURER

Elaine Cordes

VP ANNUAL FUND

Cathy West

THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY COMMITTEES

VP MEMBERSHIP

Patty Reilly

VP YOUTH CONCERTS

Jean Felder

VP YOUTH PROGRAMS

Kim Fix

VP PUBLIC RELATIONS

Maria Kelly

VP WAYS & MEANS

Barbara Tanner

VP EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Katherine Yang

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF VOLUNTEER & EDUCATION SERVICES

Courtney McKinnon

SENIOR MANAGER OF EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Jennifer Niedringhaus-Lopez

EDUCATION ASSOCIATE & OCYS COORDINATOR

Chloe Hopper

HHPC OFFICE MANAGER & FINANCE COORDINATOR

Penny Arroyo

THE 2025-2026 PHILHARMONIC COMMITTEES/GROUPS

BALBOA

Lori Armstrong

Lisa Ambler

Marianne Beaz

Jean Boyd

Sharon Chase

Susan Corum

Karen Evarts

Judith Jones

Vicki Lee

Sally Loats

Cheryl Melendres

Mary Ann Nethercutt

Mary Philpot

Roberta Schmidt

Linda Tenno

Debbie Thompson

Ann Upshaw

BIG CANYON-SPYGLASS HILL

Fariba Attaran

Kimberly Bernatz

Kay Burra

Cherie Cates

Joyce Cathcart

Frayda Eilbert

Petrina Friede

Judye Gayle

Magaly Hüther

Carey Jeffrey

Paul Karcher

Maria Kelly

Kari Kerr

Eva Khwaja

Mickey Labarthe

Deirdre McTeggart

Jasmine Moini

Marsha Nieto

Michelle Peschel

Sally Phelps

Ann Rincon

Harriet Selna

Donna Shubin

Susan Sinclair-Naraghi

Barbara Steinberg

Mary Tennyson

Bonnie Turrietta

Nella Webster O'Grady

Maria Del Coro Yuja

CAMEO

Janet Aengst

Johann Cuhrt

Gisela Doniguian

Vickie Girling

Linda Haberl

Mary Anne Hunt

Elizabeth Sue Jones

Kari Kerr

Mary Olsen

Leslie Ordonez

Pamela Platz

Sharon Silcock

Mikaela Silva

Barbara Stirrat

Judy Thompson

Beverly White

Kathy Young

CAPISTRANO

Sandi Campbell-McClain

Rosemary Connor

Eve Donovan

Audrey Eberly

Marie Fries

Mary Geib

Sharon Hanselman

Cathy Kadison

Nancy Kendrick

Kathryn Khalifa

Patricia Linville

Ann Ludwig

Monique Marshall

Lynn Mikhail

Ruth Niebuhr

Michele Pribble

Diane Reynolds

Kathleen Sabine

(continued)

Deanna Short

Karen Smith

Barbara Sullivan

Joanne Test

Maria Trefethen

Marti Unger

HUNTINGTON HARBOUR (HH)

ADMIRALTY

Lorraine Garafalo

Elizabeth Henry

Grace Holdaway

Barbara Howland

Gloria Hyams

Barbara Larson

Jeanette Nielson

Marcia Kay Radelet

Charmaine Rood

Domonique Rood

James Rood

Gail Sebring

Robert Sebring

Bonnie Subnick

Roxanne Talley

Genevieve Valov

HH ISLANDER

Karyn Abbott

Mary Amen

Jo Andrews

Katherine Andrews

Eileen Asahi

Suzanne Baird

Lisa-Lane Barnes

Mary Busche

Patricia Chick

Lauren Claus

Caren Cline

Mary de la Haye

Resa Evans

Christine Faubert

Madeline Fields

Katie Fortier

Pamela Free

Janet French

Jeanie Gibson

Sheri Schuster Gottlieb

Paul Haase

Rachel Helgeson

Elizabeth Henry

Rebecca Hong

Lauri Howell

Julie Huniu

Gail Hutton

Judith Ivey

Linda Jorgenson

Jennafer Kaplan

Katherine Kerr

Jane Kriesel

Ami Kreutziger

Nicolette Kubeck

Kim Kummerow

Sharon Larson

Dawn Lentz

Beverly Maguire

Valerie Miles

Trayce Nadolski

Teresa Nichols

Marlene Nielsen

Linda Parlee

Brandi Peterson

Susan Qaqundah

Dorothy Ralphs

Dianne Rector

Vickie Resch

Debi Rodden

Pam Rubly

Marlene Schell

Lyn Semeta

Robin Silver

Gail Stoter

Viki Swartz

Lois Swensen

Cristi Ulrich

Lori Vis

Kim Weddon

Maria West

Carrie Wexler

Kimberly Willingham

Dee Wood

Diana Wood

Joyce Zimmerman-Ochs

MARINA/WINDJAMMER

Lara Anderson

Pamela Barthold

Charlene Bauer

Diana Casey

Rita Collins

Patricia Decou

Joanne Fernbach

Debra Larson Finch

Shell Grossman

Linda Halopoff

Carlone Herman

Pearl Holmes

Connie Mandic

Lani Martin

Coralie Prince

Karen Ridout

Ruth Roe

Susie Sampson

Debi Scott

Barbara Sentell

Leslie Shaffer

Sharon Skerik

Roberta Spiegel

Roberta Swain

Todd Swain

Haydee Tillotson

Maggie VanEck

Lisa Weller

Jill Wicke

HH SANDPIPER

Kathy Barrett

Kathy Bayless

Maryann Boryszewski

Michelle Brenner

Kris Byer

Linda Cassidy

Joanne Collins

Evanne Connors

Lilli Cutler

Deborah Edwards

Annette Eliot

Deborah Fairon

Terri Feterik

Yvette Fierro

Kersti Garthwaite

Robin Gray-Hite

Carolyn Jacobs

Patricia Jenkes

Julia Kinmartin

Linda Klepinger

Susan Lipman

Mary Lundin

Ann McCormick

Paulette McCulley

Lolly McHardy

Donna Misterly

Sandra Nelson

Rauline Ochs

Jody O’Neil

Donna Pompei

Helene Rowlette

Suzie Scott

Anne Soldano

Lisa Wood

Jean Worden

HH SEAL BEACH

Sally Allen

Kathy Barrett

Annelle Baum

Adrienne DeWolfe

Louise DuBos

Debbie Edwards

Virginia Fraser

Jackie Fritz

Donna Hawk

Ila Patterson

Susan Perslow

Lyn Pohlmann

Coralie Prince

Jill Robinson

Betty Rousselo

Karen Tribble

Cathy West

Cindy Wright

HH TRINIDAD

Sandra Atherton

Linda Axel

Linda Cohen

James Doulames

Dana Drake

Deborah Fairon

Roni Fell

Craig Ferguson

Madeline Fields

Delores Holte

Ralph Kennedy

Elizabeth Larripa

Mary Lund

Ellen Martin

Janet McKnew

Pamela Myers

Kay Nelson

Sheree Novak

Tricia Pratto

Patty Reilly

Doris Willis

Evelyn Zohlen

HUNTINGTON VALLEY WEST

Judy Aoki

Margo Berry

Rachelle Chawke

Patty King

Jan Liss

Eileen Maeda

Marilynn Manderscheid

Rody Mourani

Maureen O’Neill-Irvine

Ardyth Radig

Gail Romansky

Ann Ryan

Vira Santoke

Leigh Severson

Darilyn Thordsen

Perle Tropp

JANE GRAY PORTER

Carol Boice

Beverly Carmichael

Susan Daly

Joann Fuerbringer

Jean Goff

Carol Hoppe

Jo Anne Johnson

Sumie Jossi

Lynne Kofﬂer

Marie Kontos

Mary Lou Lester

Shirley Lind

Carmelita Moore

Patricia Puich

Barbara Quist

Suzanne Schaumburg

Katherine Simon

Dea Stanuszek

Diane Stephens

Barbara Thibault

Louise Upham

LIDO ISLE

Debbie Benedict

Sandra Graham

Sharon Grimes

Patricia Klingensmith

Varla Knauss

Nancy Kriz

Judith Longyear

Suzanne Luhrs

Donna Martell

Cynthia Niblo

Cathleen O'Neil

Kathleen Sangster

Donna Shockley

Nancy Wimer

Eleanor Yates

Virginia Zorayan

MEMBER AT LARGE

Terry Brick

France Campbell

Lora Hanel

Kathy Hummel

Masako Kawase

Barbara Kilponen

Gretchen Mahoney

Sandra Potter

Kay Smoot

Diane Stovall

Sandra White

Nancy Wybel-Davis

SADDLEBACK VALLEY

Phyllis Berenbeim

Carolyn Bray

Sandi Campbell-McClain

Linda Curtis

Patricia Chong

Pinky Clark

Charlene Compton

Veronica DeVries

Jean Felder

Yvette Fibel

Kimberly Fix

Tracie Flores

Lou Heimann

Ana Jimenez-Hami

Cathy Kadison

Randi Kraemer

Iris Lee

Martha McCarthy

Elizabeth Mead

Dorothy Mowry

Beth Ruegger

Evelyn Sganga

Suzanne Stephens

Luella Syler

Yvonne Tankersley

Barbara Tanner

James Trebilcox

Elizabeth White

Kathryn Wopschall

SANTA ANA

Celeste Benninger

Elaine Beno

Roma Bunch

Kathryn Cobb-Woll

Elaine Cordes

Donna Jean Delsandro

Lynda Folsom

Joan Grifﬁths

Bonnie Kamp

Betty Kohl

Vivian Kusiak

Roberta Lamondy

Judith Lecocq

Judy Michel

Marilyn Miller

Ann Niedringhaus

Barbara Rooker

Nancy Shipley

Barbara Tanner

Susan Tory

Linda Wexler

Patricia Whittam

Marie Wood

Ivy Yan

TOWN & COUNTRY

Judith Alverson

Shobhana Ambegaokar

Ariana Attie

Sally Beiderbecke

Carolyn Biller

Loretta Callopy

Mary Chelius

Debbie Clark

Marie Djang

Sandra Drummond

Judith Farkas

Brenda Gow

Katherine Greenwood

Carol Hay

Marlene Hewitt

Vicki Hood

Kathy Hummel

Nancy Itoh

Victoria Koerner

Jan Lawrence

Rachel Lee

Susan Locklear

Hiromi Makino

Christa McDonnell

Judith Mullen

Carol Platek

Deborah Rapport

Karyn Rashoff

Ethel Reynolds

Elizabeth Roby

Linda Schuerman

Audrey Silver

Toni Sobel

Helga Terfansky

Sandra Wright-Cordes

Listing as of 2/24/26

Pinky

Kathryn Cobb-Woll

Lecocq

Alverson

Farkas

Mullen

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 8pm

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Pre-concert lecture at 7pm by KUSC's Brian Lauritzen

MAHLER

CHAMBER

ORCHESTRA WITH YUJA WANG PIANO AND DIRECTOR

Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"

I. Allegro

II. Larghetto

III. Gavotta. non troppo allegro

IV. Molto vivace

Alexander TSFASMAN (1906-1971)

Suite for Piano and Orchestra (Jazz Suite)

I. Snow akes. Allegro vivace

II. Lyrical Waltz

III. Polka

IV. Career. Presto

Yuja Wang, piano

INTERMISSION

Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

I. Andantino - Allegretto

II. Scherzo: Vivace

III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato

IV. Finale: Allegro tempestoso

Yuja Wang, piano

U.S.Tour in arrangement with Intermusica Artist Management intermusica.com

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SERIES SPONSORS

Donna L. Kendall Foundation

Henry T. and Elizabeth Segerstrom Foundation

CONCERT SPONSORS

Robert Ronus

Anne and Danny Shih

PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN D MAJOR, OP. 25, "CLASSICAL"

Sergei Prokoﬁev (1891–1953) burst onto the early-20th-century scene as a brash young upstart. He was soon perceived as another “scandalous” modernist in the orbit of Sergei Diaghilev, the impresario who had propelled Igor Stravinsky to international fame. In the wake of The Rite of Spring (1913), the sonic shocks associated with Stravinsky found a rough parallel in Prokoﬁev’s own search for a distinctive musical language—one marked by hard-edged harmonies and driving rhythms and labeled “Scythian” by some, after the suite he fashioned in 1915 from a ballet score Diaghilev had commissioned—and then rejected.

In a later autobiographical self-analysis, Prokofiev identified five categories he believed were inherent to his musical personality, calling each a “basic line” of development. The “modern line,” for example, referred to his idiosyncratic harmonic language. Other “lines” included a “toccata or motor line,” associated with what he described as “repetitive intensity;” a “lyrical line;” and a “grotesque line,” which he felt was better characterized as “Scherzoish in quality,” encompassing “whimsicality, laughter, [and] mockery.” At the head of this list stood what Prokofiev called his “classical line,” rooted in childhood memories of his mother playing Beethoven at the piano and expressed, he said, through neoclassical form. Several of these traits could—and often did— coexist within a single work.

During the turbulent year of revolution in 1917, Prokoﬁev produced a remarkable body

Yuja Wang / Julia Wesely

of music, including the First Violin Concerto, important solo piano works, and the ﬁrst of his seven symphonies—the clearest early embodiment of that classical line. In the wake of the ever-expanding symphonic canvases of Bruckner and Mahler, the young Russian countered their gigantism with a Haydn-tinted excursion into the genre.

One motivation, Prokofiev explained in his autobiography, was practical: “I deliberately did not take my piano with me [during a summer stay in the country], for I wished to try composing without it.…I had been toying with the idea of writing a whole symphony without the piano. I believed that the orchestra would have more natural and transparent colors.” The timing of this experiment is striking. Prokofiev undertook it in 1917—before Stravinsky had introduced his influential brand of neoclassicism—and when the Symphony No. 1 received its premiere in St. Petersburg in April 1918, conducted by the composer, its clarity, wit, and stylistic audacity immediately set it apart, even if listeners were unsure what to make of its backward glancing.

Other early precedents for neoclassicism as a modern aesthetic did exist—Sibelius’s Third Symphony (1907) and Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos (1912/1916), for example—but each pursued the idea in a markedly different direction. In any case, the sheer conﬁdence and fresh humor of Prokoﬁev make this work a startling call to attention, closely allied with his “whimsical,” Scherzo-like grotesque line.

also recycle the third-movement Gavotte in that ballet. The Gavotte itself draws on music written before 1917 and shows how much mileage Prokoﬁev could extract from the simplest materials.

The breakneck Finale—in which the composer remarked that he tried “to avoid all minor chords”—races forward like a burning ﬁrecracker. “It seemed to me,” Prokoﬁev later said, “that had Haydn lived to our day, he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time.”

TSFASMAN: SUITE FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (JAZZ SUITE)

THE 72ND SEASON

Some 15 years younger than Prokofiev and an exact contemporary of Shostakovich, Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman (1906–71) came of age at a moment when Soviet culture was still open-ended and fluid. The 1920s in Moscow were noisy, experimental, and porous: American records circulated, dance halls flourished, and jazz—briefly and controversially—was embraced by some as a modern, even revolutionary art form before official attitudes hardened.

THE 72ND SEASON

Tsfasman was born to a Jewish family in what is now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, and received a rigorous classical education, studying piano from an early age and graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1930, where his training placed him ﬁrmly within the Russian pianistic tradition.

The bright key of D major—long associated with exuberance and extroverted joy—is reinforced by Prokoﬁev’s scoring. Celebratory trumpets and timpani add brilliance to pairs of woodwinds and strings. Despite its Classical models, all of the musical material is unmistakably Prokoﬁev’s own, and harmonic surprises ensure that the work never registers as a cheeky imitation of the past. In the opening Allegro, for instance, the music teasingly swerves from its home key down a step to C major, which becomes the destination of the recapitulation—a decidedly “incorrect” choice. And the transparency of the orchestration should not be mistaken for ease: an effective performance demands razorsharp ensemble precision.

Free of heavy-handed Romanticism, the poised lyricism of the Larghetto anticipates the touching melodies of Prokoﬁev’s later Soviet-period Romeo and Juliet; he would

He is often called the “Soviet Gershwin,” and the label fits—up to a point. He was the first pianist to perform Rhapsody in Blue in the Soviet Union, absorbing its brash confidence and its seamless blend of popular idiom and classical allusion. Tsfasman’s music shares Gershwin’s urban snap, but it also carries a Russian melodic warmth and pianistic richness that feel closer to Rachmaninoff than to Tin Pan Alley. It’s worth noting that when Gershwin premiered Rhapsody in Blue in New York in 1924, at the famous concert billed “An Experiment in Modern Music,” Rachmaninoff was in the audience.

In 1926, even before completing his Conservatory studies, Tsfasman formed the AMA (“Association of Moscow Authors”) Jazz Band, which became the ﬁrst jazz ensemble in the USSR to be broadcast nationwide and to make gramophone recordings. For a brief window, jazz was everywhere: on the radio,

in ﬁlms, in packed halls. Tsfasman became its most visible champion, not only as a composer and pianist but as a conductor, arranger, and tireless performer.

Like Prokofiev, however, who in the mid1930s would return to the Soviet Union from his voluntary exile, Tsfasman lived with the ground constantly shifting beneath him. During the 1930s and throughout World War II, Tsfasman continued to lead prominent jazz ensembles, adapting to arbitrary official tastes and performing widely—including concerts for Soviet troops during the war— but under the auspices of the official State Jazz Orchestra of the USSR.

After 1945, however, the climate became hostile and jazz was rebranded as “bourgeois decadence.” Bands were shut down, broadcasts curtailed, careers quietly dismantled. Tsfasman lost his post with the All-Union Radio Jazz Orchestra and found himself navigating the same tightrope Prokoﬁev knew all too well: how to keep writing vivid, forward-moving music without crossing invisible lines.

The Suite for Piano and Orchestra (also known as “Jazz” Suite) was written around 1945, just before this historical crossroads. Comprising four contrasting movements— “Snowflakes,” “Lyrical Waltz,” “Polka,” and a breakneck final—the Suite brims with rhythmic vitality and melodic verve, delivered with theatrical flair and deft orchestral color. Its kaleidoscopic character slides effortlessly between buoyant lightness and sharp-edged wit.

The bittersweet elegance of “Lyrical Waltz” anticipates the jazz-inﬂected idiom later explored by composers such as Shostakovich, while the exuberantly virtuosic ﬁnale drives forward with playful allusions to classical virtuosity.

PROKOFIEV: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN G MINOR, OP. 16

Several years before young Prokofiev astonished audiences with the wit and poise of his “Classical” Symphony, he was already earning a formidable reputation as a prodigy pianist-composer of intimidating brilliance. At the Saint Petersburg Conservatory—where he enrolled at the age of 13—Prokofiev quickly distinguished himself not only for his talent but for his abrasive self-confidence. He later recalled keeping a private tally of

his classmates’ mistakes during lessons, a habit that earned him at least one physical reprisal: a fellow student once jumped him and pulled his ears.

By his early twenties, Prokofiev was boldly fusing his dual identities as composer and virtuoso. His First Piano Concerto (1911–12) was both a calling card and a provocation. He premiered it himself in 1912 and, two years later, used it to fulfill his graduation requirements at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Performing his own concerto on such an occasion was a characteristically audacious move, underscoring both his technical fearlessness and his conviction that composition and performance were inseparable facets of his artistic personality. The Piano Concerto No. 2 followed swiftly on the heels of the First. Completed in the spring of 1913 and premiered by the composer that September, it reveals how fiercely Prokofiev was already pushing against inherited forms. The piece triggered an explosive reception. One critic complained of “a Babel of insane sounds heaped upon one another without rhyme or reason”—a reaction that Prokofiev, still in his early twenties, wore as a badge of honor. With its wide emotional span and punishing virtuosity, the concerto stands apart as one of his most extreme early statements.

The Second Concerto also carries an intensely personal weight. It is dedicated to the memory of Prokoﬁev’s close friend and fellow Conservatory student Maximilian Schmidthof, who committed suicide in April 1913. Prokoﬁev learned of his friend’s death only after it was too late to intervene: Schmidthof’s farewell letter had a devastating effect, dismissing his decision as resulting from “reasons that are unimportant.”

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After the 1913 premiere, the original score was destroyed in a fire during the upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Prokofiev, who left his homeland on what he assumed would be a temporary absence, did not reconstruct the concerto until 1924, rewriting it entirely from memory. By then, he had composed and introduced his Third Piano Concerto (1921). The act of reconstruction inevitably reflected his artistic development in the intervening years. Prokofiev himself remarked that the rewritten Second Concerto was “so completely rewritten that it might almost be considered No. 4.” The original version is lost to history, making comparison impossible. Rather than a fixed snapshot of the artist as a young man in 1913, the concerto we have is filtered through memory and artistic hindsight.

The Second Piano Concerto remains one of Prokofiev’s most formidable creations. It is fitting that Yuja Wang—who made her Berliner Philharmoniker debut in 2015 with this very concerto—brings it to the stage in the dual role of soloist and conductor, echoing Prokofiev’s own fusion of compositional authority and pianistic command. The work demands not only overwhelming technique, but an unflinching engagement with its raw intensity.

Worlds apart from the élan of the “Classical” Symphony, the Second Piano Concerto inhabits a darker and more volatile expressive terrain. It is cast in four movements, with unusual proportions: the outer movements dominate, each shaped around vast cadenzalike passages that drive the musical argument forward, and the concerto contains no slow movement in the traditional sense.

The opening movement begins with a long, brooding theme marked narrante, asking the pianist to shape the line as a kind of storytelling. This somber opening is later contrasted by a more carefree idea, setting in motion the concerto’s wide and often contradictory emotional range. The vast cadenza that takes wing at the center is structural, encompassing much of the development and recapitulation and rising to a massive climax as the orchestra surges back into one of Prokoﬁev’s most ﬁery dramatic arguments.

A motor-driven Scherzo hurtles forward with relentless momentum. The third movement, despite being titled an Intermezzo, offers no relief. Heavy-footed and grimly sarcastic,

it lurches ahead with brutal chords and snarling energy. Sviatoslav Richter memorably likened the effect of the music—especially its dazzling, merciless piano ﬁgurations—to “a dragon devouring its young.”

The ﬁnale matches the opening movement in scale and intensity, again built around powerful contrasts and an extended cadenza that shapes much of the musical argument, propelling the concerto toward a conclusion of exhilarating, charged momentum.

MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Since its creation in 1997, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO) has established itself as one of the world's leading chamber orchestras. Working as a "global collective," the MCO is led by its members in collaboration with its Berlin-based management ofﬁce. The musicians, who come from around 25 different countries, unite for each tour or project. The chamber music dialogue and unanimous act of listening shape the Orchestra’s sound; it’s a philosophy inspired by the Orchestra’s mentor and longtime partner Claudio Abbado that the MCO calls The Sound of Listening

In the past 2024-2025 season, the MCO performed with conductors and soloists such as Antonello Manacorda, Riccardo Chailly, Leif Ove Andsnes and many others. The MCO is also known for its performances without a conductor; our Artistic Partners Yuja Wang and Mitsuko Uchida, with whom the orchestra went on several tours, often lead the MCO from the piano. In 2025-2026, the MCO joins the stage with Maxim Emelyanychev, Gianandrea Noseda, Augustin Hadelich, Kian Soltani, Adam Fischer, Igor Levit, Yuja Wang, Joana Mallwitz, Piotr Beczala, Hélène Grimaud, Vikingur Olafsson, Thomas Adès, Daniel Harding, Daniil Trifonov and many others.

The Orchestra maintains residencies in Berlin and Lucerne. From March 2026 to 2028, it will succeed the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. In 2024, the MCO assumed the role of Artistic Director of Musikwoche Hitzacker, where it presents a diverse repertoire characterised by chamber music every year. In March 2026, violist Antoine Tamestit, a long-time friend and collaborator of the MCO, will be the festival’s artist in residence.

The MCO is committed to enriching lives through music and actively creates onand-off-stage encounters that bring music, learning, and creativity to communities across the globe. Its program Feel the Music introduces music to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, while the MCO Academy allows orchestra members to share their expertise with the next generation of musicians. Additionally, the MCO’s school concerts invite students on a multicultural journey, fostering introspection and contemplation on the theme of "Belonging."

The MCO's performances are often recorded and aired by major broadcasters and on ARTE; the ensemble's most recent CD featuring the George Benjamin’s opera “Picture a Day like this” was released by Nimbus in September 2024. Together with its Artistic Partner for Immersive Experiences, Henrik Oppermann/Schallgeber, the MCO has developed a series of XR concert formats, which it has showcased e.g. at Princeton University and Mozart Wohnhaus in Salzburg. Since July 2024, some of the chamber music pieces produced in XR have been available in the Mahler Chamber Orchestra app for Apple Vision Pro and the orchestra is recording new material and developing the concept in 20252026.

YUJA WANG, PIANO

Artistic Partner, Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Pianist Yuja Wang is celebrated for her charismatic artistry, emotional honesty and captivating stage presence. She has performed with the world’s most venerated conductors, musicians and ensembles, and is renowned not only for her virtuosity, but her spontaneous and lively performances, famously telling the New York Times, “I ﬁrmly believe every program should have its own life, and be a representation of how I feel at the moment.”

Yuja was born into a musical family and began studying the piano at the age of six. She received advanced training in Canada and at the Curtis Institute of Music under Gary Graffman. Her international breakthrough came in 2007, when she replaced Martha Argerich as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Two years later, she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon and has since established her place among the world’s leading artists, with a succession of critically acclaimed

performances and albums. Her recordings have garnered multiple awards, including ﬁve Grammy nominations and her ﬁrst Grammy win for Best Classical Instrumental Solo with the release of her album, The American Project (2023), which also won an Opus Klassik award in the Concerto category.

In November 2025, Playing with Fire: An immersive odyssey with Yuja Wang opened at the Paris Philharmonie. This groundbreaking, multi-sensory installation will took visitors behind the scenes and offered a rare perspective on the emotion and artistry behind Yuja’s performances.

The 2025/26 season saw Yuja open the seasons of many major U.S. orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and at Carnegie Hall, where she play-directed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. Among her orchestral performances, she will embark on a major European tour with the Swedish Radio Orchestra beginning in March 2026, in addition to her play-directing on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Other orchestral appearances this season include performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

MATTHEW

TRUSCOTT, VIOLIN

Matthew Truscott (UK) is a versatile violinist who shares his time between period instrument and "modern" performance, appearing with some of the ﬁnest musicians in both ﬁelds. He is concertmaster of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and also one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Yuja Wang / Julia Wesely

In demand as a guest leader, engagements in this capacity have included projects with English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, The English Concert, Le Concert d'Astrée, The King's Consort and Arcangelo. He is also leader of Classical Opera, St James's Baroque and the Magdalena Consort.

A keen chamber musician, recordings have included a set of Purcell Trio Sonatas with Retrospect Trio, a disc of Bach chamber music with Trevor Pinnock, Emmanuel Pahud and Jonathan Manson, and one of Haydn Piano Trios with Richard Lester and Simon Crawford-Phillips.

Matthew teaches baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

VIOLIN 1

Matthew Truscott* (United Kingdom)

May Kunstovny (Austria)

Hildegard Niebuhr-Candan (Germany)

Alexandra Preucil (USA)

Tim Summers (USA)

Clara Scholtes (Germany)

Elena Rindler (Germany)

Elvira van Groningen (Netherlands)

Hwa-Won Rimmer Pyun (Germany)

Mona Burger (Germany)

VIOLIN 2

Johannes Lörstad** (Sweden)

Michiel Commandeur (Netherlands)

Fjodor Selzer (Germany)

Christian Heubes (Germany)

David Moosmann (Germany)

Beatrice Colombis (Italy)

Hayley Wolfe (USA)

Jana Lebrova (Czech Republic)

MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

VIOLA

Beatrice Muthelet** (France)

Yannick Dondelinger (United Kingdom)

Frida Siegrist Oliver (Norway)

Sofie Van der Schalie (Netherlands)

Aline Saniter (Germany)

Justin Caulley (USA)

VIOLONCELLO

Frank-Michael Guthmann** (Germany)

Stefan Faludi (Germany)

Philipp von Steinaecker (Germany)

Clara Grünwald (Germany)

Katharina Kühl (Germany)

DOUBLE BASS

Sebastian Breidenstein** (Germany)

Johane Gonzalez Seijas (Spain)

Jon Mikel Martínez Valgañón (Spain)

FLUTE

Chiara Tonelli (Italy)

Julia Gallego Ronda (Spain)

OBOE

João Da Silva (Portugal)

Iria Folgado (Spain)

CLARINET

Vicente Alberola Ferrando (Spain)

Jaan Bossier (Belgium)

BASSOON

Mathis Stier (Germany)

Chiara Santi (Italy)

HORN

Juan Manuel Gomez Gonzalez (Spain)

Gerard Sanchez Safont (Spain)

Aurora Kuo (Taiwan)

Lily Kern (USA)

TRUMPET

Per Ivarsson (Sweden)

Florian Kirner (Germany)

TROMBONE

Carlos Jimenez Fernandez (Spain)

William Stenhouse (United Kingdom)

Jürgen Oswald (Austria)

TUBA

Jose Martínez Anton (Spain)

TIMPANI & PERCUSSION

Rodolphe Théry (France)

Rizumu Sugishita (Japan)

Christian Miglioranza (Italy)

* Performs in both Violin I and Violin II sections ° On Leave

Matthew Truscott / MV Geoffroy Schied

Henry T. and Elizabeth Segerstrom Foundation Select Series

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UPCOMING CONCERTS

at Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Larisa Martínez, soprano

Sunday, May 10, 2026, 3pm

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Pre-concert lecture, 2pm

Join acclaimed soprano Larisa Martínez for an a ernoon of Latin American classical music. is program features a poignant song cycle by Narciso Figueroa, honoring Martínez’s Puerto Rican roots. e program additionally includes works by Alberto Ginastera and Heitor VillaLobos, taking audiences on a sonic exploration of Latin America’s diverse cultural landscape.

Orange County Youth Symphony & String Ensemble

Monday, May 11, 2026, 7pm

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Celebrate a triumphant season in this nale concert, featuring the extraordinary talents of the Concerto Competition winners. Music by Suk, Newbold, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmanino .

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Thursday, May 14, 2026, 8pm

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Pre-concert lecture, 7pm

Jaime Martín, music director

Anthony Marwood, violin

Coleman Itzko , cello

MOZART: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 “Ha ner”

Christopher CERRONE: Double Concerto for Violin & Cello (world premiere)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Orchestra Suite No. 4 in G major, Op. 61, “Mozartiana”

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY DONORS

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Ms. Sally Westrom

Karen and Douglas Wilson

Ms. Barbara McMurray

Dr. Deirdre McTeggart

Bethany Mendenhall

Victoria Mortensen

Angela and David Pak

Mr. Richard Parslow

Perry Family Fund

Sidney and Nancy Petersen

John Pettit

Mr. Dennis Poey

Dr. and Mrs. William G.

Preston M.D.

Coralie Prince

Ms. Gail C. Romansky

Deborah and Frank Rugani

Kathleen Sangster

SONATA ($300+) HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Paul Schmidhauser and Cindy Hughes

Ms. Barbara Sentell

Patricia Smoot

Dr. Sergio Stone

Diane Stovall

Tim Templeton

Mary and Peter Tennyson

Kevin and Nella Webster-O’Grady

Ms. Cynthia Wolcott

Chava and Ted Wortrich

Sandi Wright-Cordes

Mr. Leonard Wyss

Ivy Yan

Dr. Andrew Yen and Ms. Grace Chen

Frieda Belinfante in memoriam Jane K. Grier in memoriam

List current as of 3/2/2026

John M. Rau

Ofﬁcial Hotel Partner of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County

The Philharmonic Society deeply appreciates the support of its sponsors and donors, and makes every effort to ensure accurate and appropriate recognition. Contact the Development Department at (949) 553-2422, ext. 233, to make us aware of any error or omission in the foregoing list.

ESTERHAZY PATRONS

The Philharmonic Society is proud to recognize our dedicated patrons who have made a multi-year Esterhazy Patron pledge. We are grateful for their support, which has been largely responsible for enabling us to present the world’s most acclaimed symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles and soloists.

Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Anderson

A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation

Mr. Gary N. Babick

Ms. Tricia Babick

Mrs. Linda Beimfohr

Mr. and Mrs. John Carson

Cheng Family Foundation

Mrs. William P. Conlin

Marjorie and Roger Davisson

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Delman

The Dirk Family

Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Duma

Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Emery

Catherine Emmi

Lyndie Ersan

LEGACY CIRCLE MEMBERS

Mr. James Alexiou* and Mrs. Elaine Alexiou*

Dr. and Mrs. Julio Aljure

Diane* and John Chimo Arnold

Estate of Edra E. Brophy*

Mr. James J. Brophy

Mr. Douglas T. Burch, Jr.*

Mr. William P. Conlin* and Mrs. Laila Conlin

Pamela Courtial*

Gregory Pierre Cox

Richard Cullen and Robert Finnerty

Mr. Ben Dolson*

Camille and Eric Durand Trust*

Karen and Don Evarts

Erika E. Faust*

James and Judy Freimuth

Ms. Carol Frobish*

LEAVE A LEGACY

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Freedland

Margaret M. Gates—In memory of family

Mr. Milton S. Grier, Jr.

Maralou Harrington

Dr. Howard J. Jelinek

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Chapin Johnson

Dr. Siret Jurison

Donna L. Kendall Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Venelin Khristov

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kirwan

Milena Kitic

Capt. Steve Lutz and Shala Shashani Lutz

Professor Robert and Dr. Adeline Yen Mah

Mrs. Sharon McNalley

Dr. Vahe Meghrouni

Elaine and Carl Neuss

Mr. Thomas Nielsen

Milan Panic

Helen Reinsch

Barbara Roberts

Mrs. Michelle Rohé

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Douglas and Deirdre Smith

Mrs. Elaine Weinberg

Mr. and Mrs. George Wentworth

Anonymous

*Deceased

The William Gillespie Foundation*

Mr. and Mrs.* Milton S. Grier, Jr.

Mr. Edward Halvajian*

Ms. Joan Halvajian

Ms. Marie Hiebsch*

Mildred and James* Hill

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hull*

Mr. Leonard Jaffe

Judith* and Howard Jelinek

Dr. Burton L. Karson*

Donna L. Kendall

Hank and Bonnie Landsberg

Mrs. Carla Liggett

Dr. William Lycette

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Michel

Mr. and Mrs. Bart Morrow

Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Nadler*

Eva Cebulski Olivier

Mrs. Frank M. Posch*

Marcia Kay Radelet

Marjorie Rawlins*

Mrs. Ladislaw Reday*

Elaine M. Redﬁeld*

Mr. Richard M. Reinsch*

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sebring

John Jacob Shaak

Mr. H. Russell Smith*

Al Spector and Tatjana Soli

Ms. Dea Stanuszek

Diane and Michael Stephens

Vas Nunes Family Trust*

Betty M. Williams* Anonymous

*Deceased

Bold type indicates gifts of $50,000 or more.

Please call the Philharmonic Society Development Department if you have included either the Philharmonic Society or the separate Philharmonic Foundation in your will or trust so that we may honor you as a member of the Legacy Circle. For more information, call (949) 553-2422, ext. 233, or visit www.PhilharmonicSociety.org/Support and click on Planned Giving.

PHILHARMONIC FORWARD CAMPAIGN

The Philharmonic Society’s Philharmonic Forward campaign is the ﬁrst of its kind in the organization’s history. It will grow the Society’s endowment—providing greater opportunities for the presentation of the world’s leading orchestras and other musical performances while expanding our educational and community outreach— and also establish a current needs fund for organizational sustainability and ﬂexibility.

We are proud to recognize those who are helping secure the Society’s future with a gift to the Philharmonic Forward Campaign. We are grateful for their support, which will help fuel the Society’s growth and provide a legacy of incomparable music and superb music education programs in perpetuity.

Co-Chairs

Donna L. Kendall and Douglas H. Smith

$1,000,000+

Mr. James J. Brophy

Donna L. Kendall and the Donna L. Kendall Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sebring

Anonymous

$500,000+

Richard Cullen and Robert Finnerty

James and Judy Freimuth

$250,000+

The Davisson Family Fund for Youth Music Education

Margaret M. Gates—In memory of family

Mr. and Mrs.* Milton S. Grier, Jr.

Douglas and Deirdre Smith

$100,000+

Pete and Sabra* Bordas

David and Suzanne Chonette

Karen and Don Evarts

Milli and Jim* Hill

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nielsen

Richard* and Deborah Polonsky

Diane and Michael* Stephens

Anonymous

$50,000+

Mr. Douglas T. Burch, Jr.*

Dr. Richard D. and France

Campbell

Erika E. Faust*

Mrs. Joanne C. Fernbach

Joan Halvajian

Elaine and Carl Neuss

Marcia Kay Radelet

Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Ridout

Ms. Dea Stanuszek

Dr. Daniel and Jeule Stein

$25,000+

Douglas Burch Classical Programs Fund

Mr. William P. Conlin* and Mrs. Laila Conlin

Mr. and Mrs. Donald French

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fuerbringer

Mr. and Mrs. Noel Hamilton

Dr. and Mrs. Chase* Roh

Up to $24,999

Eleanor* and Jim Anderson

John W. Benecke

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Burra

Ana and Ron Dufault

Hung Fan and Michael Feldman

First American Trust

Kimberly Dwan Bernatz

Mr. John D. Flemming and Mr. Mark Powell

Duke Funderburke

Carolyn and John Garrett

Karin Easter Gurwell

Maralou and Jerry M.*

Harrington

Mrs. Alice E. Hood

Huntington Harbour

Philharmonic CommitteeMarina Windjammer Group

Kevin and Judith Ivey

Ms. Lula Belle Jenkins

Doris and Jim Kollias

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Kramer

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Madracki

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony

Mastrangelo

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Michel

Charles Mosmann

Carl Neisser*

Joan Rehnborg

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Sobel

Dr. and Mrs. Julio Taleisnik

Marti and Walter Unger

Gayle Widyolar, M.D.

Sandi Wright-Cordes

U.S. Bank

Anonymous

*Deceased

For more information, contact Halim Kim, Senior Director of Development, at (949) 553-2422, ext. 233 or email halim@philharmonicsociety.org.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY

Founded in 1954 as Orange County’s ﬁrst music organization, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents national and international performances of the highest quality and provides dynamic and innovative music education programs for individuals of all ages to enhance the lives of Orange County audiences through music.

Since its inception, the Philharmonic Society has evolved and grown with the county’s changing landscape, presenting artists and orchestras who set the standard for artistic achievement from Itzhak Perlman, Gustavo Dudamel, Yo-Yo Ma, and Renée Fleming to the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and many others. In addition, the Philharmonic Society celebrates multi-disciplinary performances under its Eclectic Orange brand and embraces music from a wide range of countries with its World Music performances.

The Philharmonic Society’s nationally recognized Youth Music Education Programs, offered free of charge, engage nealy seven million students annually through curriculum-based music education programs that aim to inspire, expand imaginations, and encourage learning at all levels. These programs are made possible by The Committees of the Philharmonic Society comprised nearly 450 volunteer members who provide more than 50,000 hours of in-kind service each year. As a key youth program, the exceptional Orange County Youth Symphony and String Ensemble provide top-tier training to the area’s most talented young musicians through multi-level ensemble instruction, leadership training, touring opportunities, challenging professional repertoire, and performances in worldclass venues.

philharmonicsociety.org

Philharmonic Society of Orange County

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

Elaine Neuss, Chair/CEO *

John Flemming, Deputy Board Chair *

Donna L. Kendall, Vice Chair *

Stephen Amendt, Secretary/Treasurer *

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kathy Barrett, President, The Committees *

Lauren Claus, Past President, The Committees

Kathy Cobb-Woll, President-Elect, The Committees

Hung Fan, Laguna Beach Music Festival Chair

Jean Felder, Artistic & Marketing Chair

Margaret Gates, Development Chair *

Benny Ishii, Orange County Youth Symphony Chair

Kari Kerr, Nominating & Governance Chair

Marlene Nielsen, Board of Governors

Mirella Reznic

June Shillman

Douglas Smith, Member at Large *

IN MEMORIAM

Sabra Bordas

Douglas T. Burch, Jr.

Jane Grier

PRESIDENT AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Tommy Phillips

*Executive Committee

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Emily Sly, Artistic Operations Manager

Hana Kurihara, Concert Production Coordinator

Kathy Smith, Piano Technician

DEVELOPMENT

Kimberley Monday, Vice President of Development

Halim Kim, Senior Director of Development

Zach Edwards, Board Liaison and Development Coordinator

EDUCATION

Katherine Yang, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement

Courtney McKinnon, Associate Director of Volunteer and Education Services

Jennifer Niedringhaus, Senior Manager of Education and Community Engagement

Chloe Hopper, Education Associate and OCYS Coordinator

Penny Arroyo, Huntington Harbour Ofﬁce Manager and Finance Coordinator

Hitesh Benny, Education and Community Engagement Intern

FINANCE

Roan Alombro, Vice President of Finance

Fay Hu, Finance and HR Associate

MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

Jean Hsu, COO / Vice President of Communications

Marie Songco-Torres, Senior Marketing and PR Manager

Rosiana Falzon, Marketing and PR Associate

PATRON SERVICES

Jonathan Mariott, Director of Patron Services

Angelica Nicolas, Marketing and Patron Services Manager

Randy Polevoi, Musical Concierge

ORANGE COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY AND STRING ENSEMBLE

Johannes Müller Stosch, Music Director and OCYS Conductor

Lucy Lu, OCYSE Conductor and OCYS Strings Coach

Danielle Culhane, Operations and Personnel Manager

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Where are they now?

American Ballet Theatre’s William J. Gillespie School alumni soar in professional careers

by Jacquelyn Pash

On September 14, 2015, beloved Segerstrom Center supporter William J. Gillespie cut the ribbon and opened the doors to the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School on the Center’s campus. From its very first class, the ABT Gillespie School set the “barre” high, offering unmatched performance and training opportunities for students to grow not only as dancers, but as confident, creative individuals inspired by the discipline and beauty of dance.

Over the past 10 years, many of our students have gone on to attend prestigious ballet training programs, top universities, and professional dance companies, a testament to the school’s success in cultivating the future of dance.

ABT Gillespie School alum Kellan Hayag was a student from 2015–22, and in November 2025, he made his debut with the Oklahoma City Ballet in Maria Konrad’s Dia de los Muertos as one of the newest studio company members. While training at the Gillespie school, he was able to perform in numerous ABT productions including The Nutcracker, Harlequinade, The Sleeping Beauty, and Whipped Cream

“It really was so euphoric sharing the stage with the professionals because it only confirmed that I knew I was on the right track to my hopes and dreams,” says Hayag. “The ABT Gillespie School has really established the foundation of all my technique and artistic development that I carry into my professional life.”

From top: ABT Gillespie School alum Kellan Hayag in The Nutcracker as a mouse in 2016 and as the Nutcracker prince in 2018; in Harlequinade in 2019; and in the ABT Gillespie School end-of-year showcase in 2022.

Many former students also dance professionally with global dance companies. Recently, former student Lucas Matzkin began his first professional contract with the Ballet Estable at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Out of 536 dancers who auditioned, Matzkin was one of 20 dancers selected by artistic director Julio Bocca, former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.

Other alumni have put their dance knowledge to good use at esteemed arts organizations and other creative endeavors. Former student Kendall Bottjer is now the associate for creative enterprise at The Juilliard School and is the founder of Supper Club Dance, a company that brings together choreography and fine dining to create unique performance experiences.

Other companies our students have joined after graduation include Kansas City Ballet (Isabella Martino), Dutch National Ballet (Anabelle Eubanks), imPerfect Dancers (Mariana Vargas), New Orleans Ballet Theater (Sterling Waterfield), and BalletMet (Mallory Sweeney). Our students have also gone on to train at esteemed year-long training programs at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the School of the National Ballet of Canada, The Juilliard School, and Joffrey Ballet Academy.

Regardless of the path they choose, all students benefit from the foundational skills instilled through their training including discipline, time management, perseverance, and a deep respect for the artistic process.

In celebration of our tenth anniversary season, the ABT Gillespie School will be expanding its Sunday Master Class Series, featuring some of the most influential figures from the past decade with several high-profile guest instructors including former ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie, founding artistic director of the ABT Gillespie School Alaine Haubert, former artistic director of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School Franco De Vita, and many more.

Additionally, the school is gearing up for an extra special end of year showcase and gala in May. Both professional alumni and current students will share the stage to celebrate both the momentous milestone and the continuing legacy of the only ABT school outside of the JKO School in New York City.

From top: ABT Gillespie School alum Lucas Matzkin (left) attending a master class at Segerstrom Center with former ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie; Matzkin as a professional dancer with Ballet Estable at Teatro Colón.

Best legs in town

In 1994, two dancers started a phenomenon that we are still celebrating today.

Ireland was hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual, international televised music competition, and Jean Butler and Michael Flatley were invited to present an Irish step dancing performance during an intermission in the show. The world went wild for it. It was choreographed by Flatley, who called it Riverdance

With the huge demand for more, a theatrical show of the same name was created the following year, with Butler leading a corps of dancers, singers, and musicians to shine a light on Irish arts and history. (Flatley left the show shortly after it opened in London.)

Riverdance has toured five times since then, traveling around the world to rapturous fans since its creation. Now, Riverdance 30—The New Generation returns with a new show and new performers, most of whom hadn’t been born when the show debuted. It’s a fusion of Irish and international dance and music, with a modern twist.

“The production feels fresh and more experimental than what we have seen in the past 30 years,” says behindthecurtain.co.uk. “Sharp, percussive footwork, technical brilliance and synchronicity of the whole troupe created a sense of awe each time they erupted into unison taps.”

“At its core, Riverdance is a dynamic celebration of tradition combined with modernity,” says theaternewsnorth.com, “an example of a cultural icon preserved even while being open to new ideas.”

It’s a new look: Stagecraft has come a long way since 1995. Riverdance 30 has new,

innovative choreography and costumes and state-of-the-art lighting, projections, and motion graphics.

“Riverdance has continuously evolved yet we ensure it always remains true to its roots,” says Riverdance director John McColgan. “Exciting and with all the magic and spectacle of the original, this is Riverdance better than ever before.”

Riverdance 30 features glorious singing, musical solos, and visual effects that will dazzle the audience. Broadwayworld.com says the show feels fresh and exciting. “It will appeal to longtime fans and captivate a new audience.” It goes on: “All the instrumentalists’ mastery and joy was undeniable as they pranced playfully around the stage during their solos. One fiddler was playing so fiercely she broke some bow strings.”

The show makes a point about the similarity between Irish tap dancing and that of other countries. There is a tap dance-off between a couple of Irish boys and two American tap dancers and their feet fly in a Brooklyn neighborhood. A Spanish flamenco dancer shows her country’s version of footwork as the show demonstrates cultural crossover and the universality of dance. The Dervish Ensemble had the audience on their feet with cheers.

“This production is not only a celebration of 30 years of Riverdance,” says Beyondthecurtain.co.uk. “It was a reminder of how rhythm unites us, how stories travel across borders, and how art continues to move us.”

Segerstrom Hall May 15–17

APRIL PERFORMANCES

Karla Bonoff & Dan Navarro

SUN | APR 19 | 3PM

Pacific Symphony Presents: Carl St.Clair, cond feat Vitaly Starikov, piano

SUN | APR 26 | 3PM

SUNDAY | APR 12, 2026 | 3PM

The Invisible Boy steps out of the shadow

Brian is invisible. He could be standing right next to you and you wouldn’t notice him. At least that’s what happens to Brian when he is in school. He doesn’t get invited to birthday parties and no one wants him on their team for recess games. Even his teacher overlooks him, especially when other kids are misbehaving.

Does he wear a cloak that makes him invisible? No, he’s just a little boy that no one remembers. But it turns out Brian does have a superpower: it’s kindness.

The Family Series closes its season with The Invisible Boy, based on the popular book by Trudy Ludwig. When a new boy named Justin joins Brian’s class, his classmates are a bit wary of him. “What is Justin eating for lunch? It looks really weird.” Brian is the first classmate to make him feel welcome. When they team up for a class project, made even better with Brian’s artistic talent, the rest of the children are wowed by their results. Suddenly, Brian is visible to everyone! This is a high-spirited musical that will help everyone discover the possibilities that begin with a simple act of kindness.

The Invisible Boy is brought to the Center by Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Experiential Theater Company. Children’s Theatre of Charlotte is nationally recognized for the breadth and strength of their programs, providing more than 250,000 experiences for children and families each year.

Fairy Tales at the Center. They are returning next season with Grimmz Fairy Tales II

Experimental Theater Company is dedicated to creating high-quality theater opportunities for young audiences with storytelling that is evocative and thought provoking. They have previously performed Journey to Oz and Grimmz

Don’t forget to arrive early. All performances include one hour of free activities for families to enjoy together. These provide young people with an opportunity to play together creatively, explore themes of the show and connect with other patrons.

Samueli Theater May 9–10

Get your science here!

The Beckman Arts and Science Family Festival returns to the Center for a day of amazing STEAM-focused events that the whole family will enjoy. Now in its fifth year, this free community event celebrates the intersection of science and arts. Live performances, handson science experiments, interactive stations, and engaging exhibits will be part of the entertainment.

This year’s festival will feature an exciting array of performers. Alex Zerbe, aka The Zaniac, is totally bonkers, but in the best possible way! He will amaze children with his science-based show Gravity Catastrophe. Zerbe combines highenergy juggling with physics education, explaining centrifugal force, acceleration of gravity, center of mass, vortexes, and more. You don’t need to be a brainiac to follow those fancy phrases. Zerbe makes it fun and accessible. This interactive physics extravaganza will have audiences chanting “Science!” at the top of their lungs.

Other performances will highlight artists from the Center’s Arts Teach roster, including The

Alley Cats, an a cappella group performing hits from the 1950s and 1960s, DrumatiX, a group that explores rhythm, movement, and music through tap dance, body percussion, and drumming. Circo Etereo joins us with roving circus performances throughout the plaza.

And there’s more: free mini train rides around the Segerstrom Center campus, food trucks, balloon twisters, and a bubble play area by BubblePOP.

The festival is sponsored by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Dr. Beckman set up the foundation in 1977 to give back to the scientific community. “The mission of the foundation is to support leading edge research in the fiends of chemistry and life sciences,” said Dr. Beckman. “My preference is to favor young investigators, new ideas and a variety of projects.” He also created Beckman Research Institutes at City of Hope, Caltech, University of California, Irvine, Stanford University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

“The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

is committed to encouraging our next generation to approach science and technology with curiosity and excitement,” says Dr. Anne Hultgreen, executive director of the Foundation. “We are proud to partner with Segerstrom Center for the Arts and so many different organizations across Orange County. This venue offers a unique setting to host such a variety of hands-on activities in a relaxed, festival-style event to make STEAM approachable and fun.”

“We are delighted to once again be partnering with the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for an exciting day of science and art coming together,” says Center President Casey Reitz. “We have so many great organizations coming together to not just entertain guests but show that science and the arts can be paired with amazing and entertaining results. We know everyone will enjoy this event.”

Julianne and George Argyros Plaza May 16

Some of our participating community partners:

Brain Builders STEM Education Inc.

Build and race LEGO® cars down a windpowered racetrack.

Orange Coast College Astronomy

Safely view the sun through solar telescopes, use sunspotters, and sketch sunspots.

Science Heads Inc.

Experience the Walk to the Depths exhibit— a museum-quality immersive submarine simulation exploring coral communities, kelp forests, oyster beds, and deep-sea ecosystems.

Santa Ana Zoo

Discover the critical role decomposers play in ecosystems while exploring insects, arthropods, and isopods alongside zoo educators.

Kids at Science Foundation

Design and test earthquake-resistant structures and create UV light detection bracelets while learning how sunlight affects our skin.

Girls Inc. of Orange County

Build your own robot using modular cubelets! Snap blocks together, experiment with sensors and actions, and explore how robots think and move—no coding required.

Corporate and Foundation Support

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is pleased to thank the following corporations and foundations for providing annual contributions to the Center in support of our artistic and community education programs and our special event and performance sponsorships throughout the year.*

LEAD PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION SPONSORS

THE SEGERSTROM FAMILY FOUNDATION

2025 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS

The Albertsons Companies Foundation

Anonymous

Automobile Club of Southern California

Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners

Barbara Steele Williams Designated Agency Endowment

Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza

BNY Mellon Wealth Management

Canterbury Consulting

Capital Group Companies

Cartier

Crean Foundation

E Nakamichi Foundation

Enterprise Mobility

Gucci

Haynes and Boone, LLP

Mesa Water District

Northern Trust

Orange County Community Foundation

Oscar de la Renta

Pacific Life Foundation

Schools First Federal Credit Union

SPECIAL THANKS

KJAZZ 88.1

Läderach

Total Wine & More

United Airlines

To learn more about the Center’s corporate and foundation partnership opportunities and the benefits available, please contact CorpSupport@scfta.org or 714.942.6326.

ARTS AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Segerstrom Center applauds the following business and community leaders

Maurice Murray, Chairman

Jesse D. Bagley

Katheryn Baker

Lupe Erwin

Cory Glass

John P. Glowacki

Mara J. James

Fiona LeCong-Ly

Monika Lopez

Jill Meznarich

Vanessa Moore

Tammy Octavio

Patrick Strader

Yvonne Tsao

Jaynine Warner

William Meehan, Founding Chairman

* as of March 10, 2026

Family Owned Since 1946 BLOCK & HARDSCAPE

ELIZABETH SEGERSTROM FOUNDATION

Donors

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is enormously grateful for the support from the donors listed on the following pages. Your generosity empowers the Center to provide dynamic performances and artistic education programs for all of Orange County. You allow us to continue our promise to become an inclusive cultural resource for our entire community. Thank you!

CUMULATIVE GIVING

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is deeply grateful to the following donors who have provided extraordinary support during their lifetime:

$20,000,000 +

Julia and George Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation

Audrey Steele Burnand*

William J. Gillespie*

Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom

$10,000,000 + Anonymous

Toby Andrews Angels of the Arts

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. David Wayne Grant

The Guilds of the Center

Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*

Mr. Donald E. and Lacy Moriarty

Eugene and Ruth Ann Moriarty*

Jean Moriarty*

Richard A. and Marilyn Kayla Moriarty

Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry

Samueli Foundation

Sally E. Segerstrom

Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom

Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation

Ruth Segerstrom*

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Mr. Toren H. Segerstrom

Veronica P. Segerstrom

Mrs. Yvonne Segerstrom*

South Coast Plaza

Mrs. Richard Steele*

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Williams

$5,000,000 +

Bank of America / Bank of America Foundation

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Steve* and Cindy Fry / Fry Family Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

Ralph and Eleanor Leatherby Family Foundation

General* and Mrs. William Lyon

Phil and Mary Lyons

Harry and Grace Steele Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

$3,000,000 +

The Boeing Company

Broadway Across America

Freedom Communications, Inc.

Michael and Eleanor* Gordon

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times

Rick Muth Family/ORCO Block & Hardscape

Dr. Henry Nicholas III

Ms. Stacey Nicholas

Bill and Pat Podlich

Michelle Rohé

$2,000,000 + Anonymous

Zee M. Allred,* Dean C. Allred, Carol Ann Allred Starr

Mrs. D. James Bentley*

Benjamin and Carmela Du

Edison International

The First American Corporation

Fluor Corporation / The Fluor Foundation

John and Toni Ginger

Mark Chapin Johnson

W. M. Keck Foundation

Kia Motors America, Inc.

Kling Family Foundation

Sharon D. Lund Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

Tara and David Troob

Jean and Tim Weiss

$1,500,000 +

Ginger and Tony Allen

Mr.* and Mrs. James P. Baldwin

The Beall Family

Deborah and Larry J. Bridges

Kevin and Denise Cassin

Eileen J. Cirillo

Cox Communications / Cox Media

Randy and Sally Crockett

Mr. and Mrs. Moti Ferder, Lugano Diamonds

Paul F. and Daranne Folino

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

The Irvine Company

Margaret G. and Thomas E. Larkin*

Paul and Lilly Merage

Mercedes-Benz USA

Mrs. Marjorie T. Rawlins*

Rutan & Tucker, LLP

Spectrum Reach

Elizabeth Colyear Vincent*

Cecil C. and Kathryn H. Wright*

$1,000,000 +

Anonymous

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson

Bette and Wylie Aitken

Automobile Club of Southern California

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bettingen*

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bettingen*

Marta and Raj Bhathal

California Bank & Trust

Callero Family Foundation

Ellen and Clarence* Conzelman

Delta Air Lines

Carole and Robert* Follman

Leo Freedman Foundation

June M. Fry

Jackie Glass / Kling Family Foundation

Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson

Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester Family Foundation

George Hoag Family Foundation

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Kaiser Permanente

KJAZZ 88.1

Shanaz and Jack Langson

Corey and Leslie Leyton

Mrs. Colleen Manchester

David and Kathryn Moore

Mrs. Mary E. Moore

Pam and Jim Muzzy

Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. O’Bryan

Pacific Life

Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts

Donna Shannon-O’Bryan

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith

The Sommerville Trust

Georgia Hull Spooner*

Diane and David Steffy

Dorothy Stillwell*

Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family

The Warner Family

Wells Fargo / Wells Fargo Foundation

Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*

Carol* and Kent Wilken

$750,000 + Mary and Richard* Cramer

James* and Catherine Emmi

Maralou and Jerry* Harrington

Dr.* and Mrs. Randall R. McCardle

Mrs. Mary M. Muth*

Trish and John* O’Donnell

Charles and Patricia Poss*

Rockwell International

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Karalyn and Joseph* Schuchert

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen Shea

Janice and Ted Smith

The Reinhold Foundation

Mr.* and Mrs. Joseph M. Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson

Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

$500,000 +

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen

The Allergan Foundation

Doug and Jaimee Baker

Pamela and Al Baldwin

Dr. and Mrs. Arnold O. Beckman*

Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach

Katherine and Howard Bland

Cartier

Victoria* and David Collins

The John L. Curci Family

Patricia Fredricks-Dolson*

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes II

Andy and Joan Fimiano

Carol Frobish*

Frome Family Foundation

Harriett F. Grant*

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz*

Valerie and Hans Imhof

The Joseph Family

JPMorgan Chase & Co. / JPMorgan Chase & Co. Foundation

Barbara* and Robert Kleist

K-MOZART 105.1 FM

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

KOCE

Eve A. Kornyei

Classical KUSC

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

Marcia L. Millen, in memory of James and Leath Millen

NORDSTROM

The Peter Ochs Family

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Ralphs / Food 4 Less

Carlene Rona*

Estate of Karen Ann Roos

Michael* and Stacy Schlinger

H. Michael and Holly Schwartz

Nick and Heidi Shahrestany

The Shanbrom Family

Shea Homes Foundation

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine

Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza / Spenuzza Velastegui Family Foundation

John* and Elizabeth Stahr

Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Mrs. Valaree Wahler

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Warmington

Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation *in memoriam

CENTER FUND

The Center Fund provides general operating support on an annual basis for Segerstrom Center for the Arts and its programs. We are honored to recognize the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their gifts made between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Your generosity makes all we do possible—and we thank you! To learn more about the Center Fund and the benefits of giving, please contact us at 714.556.2122 x4009 or Give@scfta.org.

$1,000,000+

Argyros Family Foundation

Lisa Argyros

Stephanie Argyros

Wendy and Mark Hales

$500,000+

Kevin and Denise Cassin

Phil and Mary Lyons

$250,000+

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom

Sally E. Segerstrom

$100,000+

Anonymous

Bart and Elizabeth Asner

Estate of Roberta Bouillon

Randy and Sally Crockett

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Elizabeth Segerstrom Trust

Michael and Debra Garnreiter

John and Toni Ginger

Jackie Glass / Kling Family Foundation

The Guilds of the Center

Valerie and Hans Imhof

J.S. Frank Foundation

Kong Family

Karla Kraft and Anderee Berengian

Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon

The McCardle Family

Jennifer and Brian Niccol

Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry

John and Sherry Phelan

Pat and Bill Podlich

Michael* and Stacy Schlinger

Mr.* and Mrs. George Schreyer

H. Michael and Holly Schwartz

Tammy and Samuel Tang

$50,000+

Anonymous

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best

John* and Louise Bryson

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Chan

Eileen J. Cirillo

The John L. Curci Family

David and Molly Pyott Foundation

Dean Family Charitable Fund

Ben and Carmela Du Family Foundation Fund

Anthony and Carie Ferry

Andy and Joan Fimiano

Andra Greene Ellingson and Tom Ellingson

Linda and Gavin Harris

Mr. Matthew M. Jadali

Reza Jahangiri and Kate Levering-Jahangiri

James P. Previti Charitable Fund

Burt and Molly Jolly

The Jonathan and Nicole Cronstedt Foundation

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Kling Family Foundation

Ms. MaryLois Kuhn

Paul and Bonnie Lubock

Mr. Ethan Morgan

Rick Muth Family/ORCO Block & Hardscape

Lana and Walter Parsadayan

PeopleSpace / Jesse & Amy Bagley

Carolyn Zarate-Ramsey and Robert Ramsey

Ms. Maria Rigatti

Michelle Rohé

Ms. Christy A. Rosen

Ginger Siedschlag

Stewart R. Smith and Robin A. Ferracone

Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza / Spenuzza Velastegui Family Foundation

Diane and David Steffy

Swenson Family Foundation

Dr. Michelle and Mr. David Tabb

The Tappan Foundation

Laura and Tim Vanderhook

Jaynine and Dave Warner

Estate of Frances A. Williams

$35,000+

Anonymous

Aronoff Family

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bergman

Chelsea and Mark Chiaramonte

David and Barbara Cline

Jordan Floriani

Cory Glass

Mrs. Vicki Gumm / Kling Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. James Hsu

Jeanne and Doug Jackson

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Kuluris

Britt and Robert Meyer

Marcia L. Millen, in memory of James and Leath Millen

Maryam Parman

The Schreiber Family

Charlie and Ling Zhang

$25,000+

Dr. Janna Bersi

Marta and Raj Bhathal

Katherine and Howard Bland

Deborah and Larry J. Bridges

Maria A. Cadigan

Charles “Chip” Caldwell

California Educational Consultant Group, Inc., Dr. Allan H. Lifson & Isaac Torres

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Cancellieri

Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Tiffany Chen

Victoria* and David Collins

Bobbi Cox

Mary Cramer

Janet L. Curci

Mr. and Dr. Debons

Dottie and Bill Feeney

Diane and Joyce* Froot

GOAL Foundation

Rita and Ira Goldberg

Maralou Harrington

Kathryn Harris

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Mark Chapin Johnson

Lee Graff Foundation

Deborah H. and Jeffrey H. Margolis

Dr. Richard Gates and Dr. Gail MattsonGates

Carole McDonald

Haydee Mollura

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moorhead

Vanessa Moore

Scott and Breanne Myers

Cheryl Hill Oakes

Mr. John R. Patterson

Mary Phillipp and David Johnson

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pitts

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Melinda and Steven Sanders

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel

Stephanie and Cory Sukert

Brian and Tracie Sullivan

Ms. Diana Martin and Mr. Mark Tomaino

Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation

Carol* and Kent Wilken

$15,000+

Elizabeth An and Gordon Clune

Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Anderson

Katheryn Baker

Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners

Toni Berlinger

The Cameron Family Foundation

Marty Chao and Jean Chung

Mr. and Mrs. D. Robinson Cluck

Mr. Joseph Connor

Judi Dutton

Mr. and Mrs. W. James Edwards III

Dr. and Mrs. David Eggleston

Ms. Lupe Erwin

Allan* and Sandy Fainbarg

Pat Felbinger

Mrs. Donna Foulger

Frome Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/

Kay K. Fukunaga

Ms. Yolanda Galloway

The Doug* and Julie Garn Family

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Garrett

Kim and Scott Harris-Weiner

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hess

Gay and Rob Johnson

Mike and Lynn Joseph Junebug Fund

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Klein

Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Livingston*

The Louise Merage Family Foundation

Brad and Becky Lund

Mr. and Mrs.* Robert J. Mairena

Twyla Martin-Parsky and Gerald Parsky

Mr. and Mrs. James V. Mazzo

Lauri McIntosh and John Bottjer

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. McKay

Rebecca and Carl McLarand

Rutan & Tucker, LLP

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Meiling

Mr. Marshall Miller

Pam and Jim Muzzy

Mr. Vianh Nguyen

Nguyen Financial Group, Chien Nguyen and Danny Nguyen

Mr. Rienaldy Nupen

Dr. Kevin O’Grady and Mrs. Nella Webster

Mark and Carol Perry

Purely Storage, Inc.

Ms. Karen Rabe

Joan and Alan Sellers

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Selva

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon

Marca and Brian Singer

Mr. and Mrs. Evan Slavik

SREH Properties LLC

Mindy and Glenn Stearns

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Steinmann

Warren Felson and Lucy Sun

Mr. Lee R. Sutherland

Katie and Peter Szyman

Donna and Ray Thagard, Jr.

Tsao Family Foundation

Stacey and Paul Von Berg

The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family

Mr. George Wall

Paige West

The Whitcher Family

$10,000+

Anonymous (2)

Mrs. Olivia Abel

The Beall Family

Anoosheh Bostani

Mr. and Mrs.* David C. Brown

Mrs. Frances Buchanan

Kimberly Burge

David and Suzanne Chonette

The Crean Foundation

Gail and Jim Daniels

Mr. Jason Dirocco

Michael Dreyer & Hannah An

Mr. Michael Dreyer

Ms. Rhonda Ducote

Robert and LaDorna Eichenberg*

The Eisman Family

The Ernest G. Herman Foundation

Ashley and Zach Fischer

Ms. Mary Gilly Graham

Bill* and Harriet Harris

Hoelscher-Bell-Elliott Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Gary T. Jenkins

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

Mr. Peter Krieger

Dr.* and Mrs. Paul K. Lam

Ms. Fiona LeCong-Ly and Dr. Vietnam Ly

Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Lewis

Monika Lopez

Douglas (Tad) Lowrey and Gayle Lowrey

Jim and Gale Luce

Patricia Ann and Robert M. Marshall

Ray Melissa and Elena Bedford

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Middleton

Mara and Keith Murray

Bob and Christie Narver

Tamara Octavio

Mr. and Mrs. William Pierce

Helga Pralle

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Primm

Charlie and Kristi Proctor

Jan Vitti Rubel

Trish and Steve Scarborough

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

Emmanuel Sharef and Emilia Yin

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen Shea

Richard and Patricia Shinto

Bill and Ronna Shipman

Tony and Jessy Smith

Kimberly and Joshua Snyder

Arlo and Marci Sorensen

Nancy and Geoffrey Stack

Sue and Ralph Stern

The Suire Family

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Tsao

Adam and Artemis Tuliper

Walk By Faith Foundation

Mr.* and Mrs. Laurence M. Watson

In memory of Barbara Steele Williams*

$5,000+

Anonymous (3)

Mr.* and Mrs. Byron Allumbaugh

Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus Arman

Dr. Fernando H. Austin

Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bain

Pamela and Al Baldwin

Sally Bender

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Mr. and Mrs. Colin Best

Dr.* and Mrs. John R. Betson

Mary and John Carrington

Estate of Cinda Shipman Colombana

Mr. William Gordon and Dr. Susan M. Condrey

Greg and Donna Crandall

Mr. William G. Daly

Susan and Robert Ehrlich

Mr. Alexander Eliseev and Mrs. Ilmira Museeva

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes II

Shari and Harry Esayian

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Estabrooks

Danika Felty and Victor Ronchetti

Christy and Rich Flanagan

Jeanne Elizabeth Flood

Carole and Robert* Follman

Ms. Gwendolyn Forquer

Mrs. Maria E. Francis

Iris Frankel

Gleicher / Chen Family Foundation

Dina L. Gray

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grody

Marlene and Sam* Hamontree

Karen Hardin-Swickard

Ms. Kerry L. Hedley

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Himes

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hinkle

David L. Horowitz Family

Ms. Victoria Hutton

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jaffee

Donna Janes

Barbara Hiller Johnson

Jessica and James Johnson

Janice M. and Roger* W. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy M. Jones

Nicole and Steve Joseph

Dr. Tatiana Kain and Dr. Zeev Kain

Don and Soogie Kang

Barbara Bluhm-Kaul and Don Kaul

Randy and Linda Kearns

Teri Kennady

Eve A. Kornyei

Lisa Kwon

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Edward LeVasseur, Jr.

Corey and Leslie Leyton

Liz Shea Designs

M.Y. Family Fund

Mrs. Colleen Manchester

Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Martens

Ms. Caren Mason

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Matheson

Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Meltzer

Lisa and Richard Merage

Michelle Merage

Paul and Lilly Merage

John and Karen Meston

Drs. Michael and Terri Morris

Mr. Maurice Murray and Dr. Jennifer Ballinger Murray

Ms. Sheri Nazaroff

Rey O’Day

Trish and John O’Donnell*

Evelyn and Pete Parrella

Mr. and Mrs. William O. Passo

Mr. Michael Reimer

Marilyn Hester Robbins and William Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Loren Rojek

Charles and Kathy Rosenberger

Kathryn Rousek Smith

David and Orva Schramm

Mary Shebell and Merle McCormick

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spanos

Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Steele

Mr. John Stevens

Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family

Kristin Taylor

Peter and Mary Tennyson

Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie, Jr.

Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney

Amy and Jeffrey Vieth

Ms. Elizabeth Wahler

Dr. Christina Wainwright and Mr. Shep Wainwright

Paul and Cheryl Wyrick

Darren and Christina Xanthos

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yourman

$2,500+

Anonymous Laurie and Jonathan Abelove

Ms. Kathy R. Akashi

Juanita Albro

American College of Perioperative (ACPM)

Mr. Paul Anderson and Ms. Jessica Parris

Bethany Ayala

Emmons-Babilo Family

Dr. Thomas Bailey

Sharon Barrett

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bein

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Benkie

Barbara J. Benson

David Bixler and Kristine Kaneko

Mark and Marilyn Bleak

Mrs. Kimberly and Dr. Stephen Bowen

Bill and Judy Brady

Elisabeth and Dr. Frank Brow

Mr. Joseph Busch

Mike Anderson and Darryl Button

Ms. Constance Callan

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Callard

Jean Campbell

Luisa Cano

Mr. and Mrs. Allen R. Carter

Cartier

Chadwick Family

Mrs. Stella Mae Charton

Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino

Robert and Diana Clemmer

Ronna and Donald Coe

Mr. Jeff Cowan

Michael and Anne Crawford

Ms. Toby Curry

Victoria Cushey

Gabriel Davis

Noël Davis

Mr. Michael R. DeKovner

Jim and Mary Deleo

Lisa Denmark

Dr. Daniel P. Dennies

Mrs. Sandra DiSario

Emmerick Doan

Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Evarts

Robert Farnsworth and Lori Grayson

Ms. Roberta Feuerstein

In Memory of Joseph and Marsha Fischer

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Fishman

Mrs. Bridget Ford

Lynn and Douglas K. Freeman

Ms. Nicole Fusaro

Mike and Sharon Galassi

Mrs. Jerra L. Garrett

Lionel and Stephanie Gayron

Ms. Rhona W. Gewelber

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Ms. Bridget Gormly

Don and Nancy Gormly

Mr. Paul J. Grogan

Mr. Gustav and Ms. Anyanka

Bruce and Eileen Harrigan

Mark and Kristine Howlett

Mark Ike

Jackson Tidus

Kristin Jackson

Mrs. Susie Jaqua

Ms. Cynthia L. Jennings

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keith

Keller Family Fund

Dr. Joe Baker and Dr. Elliott Kornhauser

Richard and Lynne Kramer

Mr. Sean Lair

Randy and Sarah Lake

Latham & Watkins

Ms. Michelle Lee

Dr. and Mrs. Milton Legome

Steven and Rose Lesser

Mr. Charles W. Letzgus

Jeanne Lewand

Mark and Felicia LeWinter

Paula Lingelbach

Mr. and Mrs. Phong Luu

Peggy Lynch

In Memory of Victorio Adan Maestas

Dr. Goran S. Matijasevic

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Mawhorter

George and Sarah McDaniel

Ms. Sarah McElroy

Susan Mears

Mr. and Mrs. David V. Melilli

Willis L. and Dorothy M. Miller and Family

Miss Ariana Miramontes

Moises Montoya

Newmeyer & Dillion

The Minoru Nitta Family

Mr. James Ojinaga

Annette and Joseph Oltmans II

Palm Foundation

Ms. Carla Pellicano

Sandra and Dan Perlmutter

Ms. Diane Peterson

Pharris Group

Mr. Willard Pierce

Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc.

Mrs. Tricia Pratto

Patricia Price and Craig Behrens

Devashankar Purkayastha

Psm Rmp Solutions

Dev Purkayastha

Marcia Kay and Ron Radelet

Dallas and Dannie Raines, in honor of Jane Yada

John Rallis and Mary Lynn BergmanRallis

Suzanne C. and Jim H. Reinhardt

Mr. Rick Reischman

David* and Linda Roberson Family

The Ronnenberg Family

Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne

Lisa Rutherford

Ms. Adrienne Salyer

Sandy and Harriet Sandhu

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schneider

Craig L. Sengstock

Ms. Shari Simmons

Lance and Deborah Slimmer

Dr. John J. Smith and Mr. Edward R. Escoto

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stark

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Stein

Susan and Richard Stuelke

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Sweeney

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Swift

Michael and Suzanne Tague

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thacker

Mary Tolar

Dr. David L. Tsoong and Dr. Betty K. Tu

Ms. Patricia Turney

Ann Van Ausdeln

S. Vander Wal and S. Vincent

Ambassador and Mrs. Gaddi H. Vasquez

Ms. Isabelle Villaseñor

Mrs. Joanne Vuylsteke

Megan and John Waldeck

In Memory of Robert D. Walters

Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard

S. Gayle Widyolar, M.D.

Mrs. Bobbitt Williams

D and G Winzey

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Zadjmool

Add Dr. Reza Zarghami

Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. Zipser

*in memoriam

ENDOWMENT

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

thanks the following donors who have generously provided support to the Center’s Endowment Funds. Gifts to the Endowment provide financial support for our artistic and education programs every year. Funds exist in perpetuity as investments whose earnings make the arts accessible for future generations.

$1,000,000 +

Audrey Steele Burnand*

Estate of Edra E. Brophy / William J. Gillespie Foundation

Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester Family Foundation

W. M. Keck Foundation

Barbara Steele Williams Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steele*

Harry and Grace Steele Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

The Segerstrom Foundation

$500,000 +

Dr. Michael M.* and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns

Fluor Corporation

The Fluor Foundation

Carol Frobish*

Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times

Rockwell

Estate of Karen Ann Roos

Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*

$250,000 +

Bank of America

Nancy Marie Biram*

The First American Corporation

Patricia Fredricks-Dolson

Edison International

Isidore C. and Penny W.* Myers

$100,000 +

Daniel C.* and Janet S. Bonbright and Sons

Estate of Ford A. and Wilma J. Dickerhoff

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Engman

Helen B. Fait

Elizabeth E. Fleming*

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz

Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*

Peter G. and Mary M. Muth* and Family

Estate of Michael D. and Lorraine C. Nadler

Nestle USA, Inc.

The Orange County Register

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith

Ronald E. Soderling

Virginia Valentine

Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch

Estate of Jane D. Zimmerman

Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin

$50,000 +

The Birtcher Family

Founders Plus

Evelyn and Richard Francuz

Sonia and Earle Ike

Barbara Hiller Johnson

Mark Chapin Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin

Palley-Needelman Asset Management

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux

Ralphs / Food 4 Less

Estate of Howard G. and Margaret C. Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer

Al and Susan Shankle

Mr. Stewart R. Smith

Ms. Anita Sparrow*

Wells Fargo

In memory of Barbara Steele Williams

$25,000 +

The Beall Family

Victor H. Boyd

Dr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Burnett

Chris and Lee Ann Canaday

The Carl and Patricia Neisser Family Trust

Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino

David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David

Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family

Ruth Ding, in memory of Thomas and Mary Lee

James* and Catherine Emmi

Dr. Dennis R. Fratt

The Baker Frenzel Family

Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Hamann

Nat S. and April D. Harty

Las Campanas of Orange County

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas

Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer

Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik

Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson

Joseph and Mary Norton Family

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Harold Miller*

O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp Jr.

Nicholas S. Patin

Stanley R. Robb Family

In honor of Mary Isabelle Sandberg

Robert J. Searles

In memory of Renée Segerstrom

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

In memory of Faye Wilkinson

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson

$10,000 +

Mrs. Donald V. Bassler

The William A. Baxter Family

George and Jacqueline Birdsong

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Birtcher

Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie

Susan Boyd

Mr. Lawrence H. Butler Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan

The Clubhouse

Con Gusto Chapter of The Guilds of the Center

Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr.

Ms. Julie Brinkerhof Edwards

Mr. Aaron Egigian

Alan* and Sandy Fainbarg Family

John and Carolyn Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. McQuarrie

GoodSmith & Co., Inc.

William K. and Maxine Gresswell*

Dr. and Mrs. G. Stanley Hall

Gayford and Mary Hinton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoshaw

Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Jaeger

Ronald E. and Debra P.* Jagner

Hunter B. Keck

Mrs. Suzanne Kline

Dr. Elliott Kornhauser

Mrs. Susan Lambrose

Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof

Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper

Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory

Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey

R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm

Estate of Ralph and Rose Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr.

Newmeyer & Dillion

Jerry Nourse

Cheryl Hill Oakes

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Paone

Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls

Mr. Charles Peyton, II

Betty Mower Potalivo

Ted and Jean Robinson and Family

Mrs. Betty Scheidt

Douglas F. Schneider and Family

Rudolph C. Schweitzer*

In memory of Hartley M. Sears

Renée and Henry T. Segerstrom*

Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family

Linda and Harvey A. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling

Steven-Thomas Antiques

The Stone Family

Dr. Max Swancutt Jr.

Mr. Stewart C. Woodard

Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina

Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten

Mr. Edward H. Wale

Margaret and Maurie Watman

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orrin Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yellin*

LEGACY SOCIETY

Segerstrom Center for the Arts thanks the following donors who have included the Center in their estate plans. These gifts help ensure that we allow access to the arts for the entire community. For more information on how to include the Center in your estate plans

please contact Elizabeth Kurila, CSPG, Associate Vice President, Development, 714.942.6275

Anonymous (3)

Edna and Julio Aljure

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen

Bart and Elizabeth Asner

Doug and Jaimee Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett

John and Betty Barr

Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Katherine and Howard Bland

Barbara and Alex Bowie

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr.

Charles “Chip” Caldwell

Dr.* and Mrs. James H. Casey

Elizabeth and David* Cole

David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David

John and Jennifer Condas

Dr. Susan M. Condrey and William Gordon

Randy and Sally Crockett

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis

Mr. Joe DiCorpo and Ms. Mia MacDougall

Annette Doreng-Sterns

Mary Jane McArthur Edalatpour and Nasrola Edalatpour

Eileen J. Cirillo Trust

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II

Shari and Harry Esayian

Mr. Harold W. Faber

Ms. Linda S. Ford

Dr. Dennis R. Fratt

Mrs. Sandra M. French

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/Kay K. Fukunaga

John and Carolyn Garrett

Jackie Glass

Jean and Fred* Hamann

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Hammond

Howard and Carol Hay

Steve Heit

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

Higgins Family Trust

David L. Horowitz Family

Mark and Kristine Howlett

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Traute Huycke

Ken Jillson and Al Roberts*

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

Mr. Gary A. Kreitz and Ms. Joyce Singman

Elizabeth Kurila and Michael Mindlin

Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon

Richard and Gerrie Leeds

Michael and Lee Ann Litterst

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

James, Charlene and Katherine MacDonald

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

The McLarand Family Trust

Marcia L. Millen

Mr. Robin B. Miner

Ethan Morgan

Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo

Rick Muth

Thomas H. and Marilyn* Nielsen

Cheryl Hill Oakes

O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc. / Carolyn O’Neill

Mrs. Charlotte R. Paluzzi

Lenore and Carl* Pearlston

Mark and Carol Perry

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Jeffrey A. Punim, M.D.

Mr. Burton Reis

David* and Linda Roberson Family

Roberta Bouillon Trust

Ted and Jean Robinson and Family

Mr. Richard K. Rosenberg

Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schoellerman

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

In Memory of Allen O. Smith

Steven M. Sorenson, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sparks

David and Diane Steffy

Richard R. and Phoebe Stenton

Dr. Arthur Strick

Tammy and Samuel Tang

Ms. Nancy B. Tepper

Don L. Thompson

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

Gary and Jeri Turner

Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten

Christopher O. Veitch

Stacey and Paul Von Berg

The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family

Ms. Jill H. Watkins

Kent J. and Carol L. Wilken Family

Dr. David and Audrey Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin

*in memoriam

Center Staff

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Casey Reitz, President & CEO

Angelica Camarillo, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison

OPERATIONS

Brian Finck, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer•

Finance

Seila Heng, Controller•

MeiMei Chiang, Senior Accountant

Andrew Hudson, Assistant Controller

Monica Drescher, Generalist, Accounting•

Rita Mai, Staff Accountant

Information Technology

Dean Yarborough, Chief Information Officer

David Frederick, Director, Information Technology•

Samwel Basweti, Engineer, Network

Mario Hortizuela, Specialist, Systems Support

Erik Lomack, Generalist, IT Support

Dee Bierschenk, Analyst, Databases

Richard Todd, Manager, Ticketing Functional Support•

Ashley Gaddis, Functional Support, Ticketing•

Campus Operations & Facilities

David Leavenworth, Vice President, Campus Operations & Facilities•

Brian Keating, Director, Facilities and Engineering•

Max Stossier, Director, Theater Operations•

Lindy Luong, Manager, Facility Rentals

Glenn Powell, Manager, Production, Event Operations

Mary Arkfeld, Manager, Operations, Event Operations

Aidan Daguro, Assistant Manager, Production, Event Operations

Brennan Roach, Supervisor, Event Operations•

Denise Cruz, Coordinator, Production, Event Operations

Jordan Smyth, Manager, Special Projects

Dawson McDonald, Coordinator, Theater Operations

Engineering

Bryan Vojtko, Senior Building Engineer•

Richard Whitfield, Senior Building Engineer•

Bryan Murphy, Building Engineer II

Gus Aleman, Building Engineer

Sean Robertson, Building Engineer

Amber Secor, Building Engineer

Security

Anthony Bordon, Manager, Security Operations

Tyler Cole, Manager, Public Safety and Training•

Jaime Paz, Assistant Manager, Security

Alvin Camacho, Supervisor, Security

Austin Foster, Supervisor, Security

Shey Leir, Supervisor, Security

John Standokes, Supervisor, Security

Lee Yepez, Supervisor, Security•

HUMAN RESOURCES

Marvin Lee, Vice President, Human Resources

Maile Sagiao, Director, Human Resources

Stefani Taylor, Manager, Recruitment

Karen Duncan, Generalist, Human Resources•

Jon Gibson, HRIS Specialist

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PROGRAMMING & PRODUCTION

Limor Tomer, Vice President, Programming and Production

Chris Smith, Director, Production

Stacey Myers, Manager, Attorney/Contracts•

Priscilla Reyes, Manager, Community Programming

Kelly Ornelas, Executive Assistant & Programming Coordinator•

Education & Engagement

Lisa Morabito Petersen, Vice President, Education & Engagement

Emily Neely, Director, Engagement

Cristal Ochoa, Director, Education Programs

Alexis Johnson, Senior Manager, Education Partnerships•

Chloe Saalsaa, Senior Manager, Studio D

Bethany Umbach, Senior Manager, Education Programs•

Luke Spicer, Manager, Education & Engagement Operations

Michael Mariano, Associate Manager, Education Partnerships•

Katie Nguyen, Senior Coordinator, Education Partnerships

Adriana Alvarez, Coordinator, Studio D

Joanna Huang, Coordinator, Ed. Programs

Emma Marting, Coordinator, Ed. Programs

Talia Hirsch, Associate, Ed. Partnerships

Jordyn Williams, Associate, Ed. Operations

Production

John Oliphant, Senior Director, Production and Technical•

Segerstrom Hall

Willy J Pate, Production Carpenter

Sara Broadhead, Head Electrician•

James Wilcox, Head Audio Engineer

Chris Alva, Assistant In-Charge Multicraft•

Tim Ligatti, Assistant In-Charge Carpenter•

Matthew Cadenhead, Assistant In-Charge Electrician

Michael Clifford, Assistant Carpenter

Sean Roach, Assistant Multicraft

Ariel Mouzo, Assistant Multicraft

Alexis Vasquez Riggs, Wardrobe Supervisor

Kim Robinson, Hair & Makeup Supervisor

Renée and Henry Segerstrom

Concert Hall & Samueli Theater

John Vasquez, Production Carpenter

Gregg Snider, Head Electrician•

John Downey, Head Audio Engineer•

Phil Harris, Assistant Multicraft

Eileen Jeanette, Tönmeister

Mark Cook, Assistant Electrician•

Timothy Schmidt, Assistant Audio Engineer

American Ballet Theatre

William J. Gillespie School

Susan Brooker, Artistic Director, ABT

Sarah Jones, Associate Director, ABT

Mary Dunne, Coordinator, ABT

DEVELOPMENT

Abigail Buell Sherlock, Vice President, Development

Elizabeth Kurila, Associate Vice President, Development

Courtney Dudman-Donley, Senior Director, Special Events & Donor Experience

Tyler Choi, Director, Institutional Giving

Lindsey Jacobs, Director, Gift Planning Strategies

Kay Linan Clark, Associate Director, Individual Giving

Suzanne Gregory, Associate Director, Development Operations

Johnny Eberhardt, Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

Emily Hunn, Senior Manager, Support Groups

Bernadette Ramos, Senior Manager, Donor Relations

Jamie Roff, Senior Manager, Development Systems•

April Kunowski, Manager, Planned and Major Gifts

Danielle McMahan, Manager, Special Events

Samuel Nordrum, Manager, Annual Giving

Shimin Zheng, Manager, Support Groups

Marisa Rambaran, Prospect Researcher and Development Operations

Katie Lockie, Assistant Manager, Donor Stewardship

Emily Pearce, Assistant Manager, Support Groups

Camille Slusher, Assistant Manager, Annual Giving

Sierra Detar, Special Events Officer

Olivia Vezner, Specialist, Special Events

Reina Pelky, Coordinator, Donor Relations

Jessica Salazar, Coordinator, Development Operations

Audrey Burton, Executive Assistant, Development

MARKETING & GUEST SERVICES

Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Carla Cruz, Senior Director, Communications

Emyli Gudmundson, Senior Director, Program Marketing

Jonathan Vietze, Senior Director, Series Marketing•

Christopher Alvarez, Director, Creative Services•

Karen Drum, Director, Publications•

Anne McNiff-Gaeta, Director, Group Services•

Jennifer Burroughs, Manager, Digital Marketing

Joesan Diche, Manager, eCommerce Marketing•

Emily Doughty, Manager, Social Media

Karla Torres, Manager, Marketing Operations•

Ken Catino, Graphic Designer IV•

Marianne Luwiharto, Graphic Designer III

Jennifer Siglin, Graphic Designer III•

Susie Lopez, Specialist, Communications

William Olivieri, Specialist, Marketing & Advertising

Jacquelyn Pash, Specialist, Communications

Diana Torres, Assistant, Group Sales•

Lily Figueroa, Coordinator, Marketing

MJ Salanga, Copywriter

Ticketing

Ruth Mason, Director, Ticket Services

Karen Diche, Manager, Season Tickets•

Richard Ong, Manager, Calling Center•

Nicki Wilmot, Manager, Box Office

Evan Silveria, Assistant Manager, Box Office•

Amelia Lindqvist, Supervisor, Contact Center

Ray Madrid, Supervisor, Box Office

Sam Preshaw, Supervisor, Box Office

Hannah Schill, Supervisor, Ticket Services

Amanda Snell, Supervisor, Ticket Services

Charlotte Kenney, Lead, Ticket Services

Hailey Guerrero, Lead, Ticket Services

Ashley Isidoro, Specialist, Customer Services

Vanessa Resendiz, Specialist, Customer Services

Marcie Bernal, Receptionist•

Alberto Ponce, Coordinator, Office Services•

Audience Services

Norm Major III, Director, Audience Services•

Sue Laird, Senior Manager, Audience Services

Ashleigh Hector, Manager, Audience Services•

Alex Lum, Asst. Manager, Audience Services•

Regine Rutherfurd, Administrative Assistant, Audience Services

Jeffrey S. Yoshida, M.D. Medical Director, Division of Urologic Surgery, City of Hope Orange County

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