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As the largest arts community in Orange County, we strive to create a fun and enriching space for everyone. We have been diligently planning to bring you a wide array of entertainment so that you can welcome spring with endless excitement and love for the arts. With our abundance of shows this month, you are sure to find something you’ll love and cherish. For music lovers, we have a celebration of music by Dream House Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, and a special Orange County performance by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma presented by our resident company, Philharmonic Society of Orange County. Dorrance Dance will undoubtedly fascinate dance lovers with a unique experience displaying the powerful legacy of tap dance. If you’d like to be the one dancing, Tuesday Night Dance returns this month for free! And making his Center debut, Jason Robert Brown brings his theatrical songs and orchestrations to Samueli Theater.
For the family, Grimmz Fairy Tales will feature a retelling of your favorite, classic fairy tales through hip-hop. And Broadway fanatics will appreciate the beloved story of Hairspray, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon. At the Center, the arts are something for everyone to enjoy!
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Jesse Bagley
Marta S. Bhathal
Deborah Bridges
Mark Chan
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James A. Driscoll*
Moti Ferder
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John Ginger*
Jackie Glass
Carole Haes Landon
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Lawrence M. Higby*
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William F. Meehan*
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Tuesday Night Dance: Hula
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 | FREE
Music of the Rolling Stones
May 5–6 | POPS
Beckman Arts and Science
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May 6 | FAMILY FUN
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May 27 | FUN FOR ALL
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June 3 | DANCE
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Christopher Houlihan
June 4 | ORGAN
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June 6, 13, 20, 27 | FREE
Renee Elise Goldsberry
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Six
June 13–25 | BROADWAY
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June 15–17 | CLASSICAL
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June 23 | FUN FOR ALL
An Evening with Brian Stokes Mitchell
June 23 | HEADLINERS
Veronica Swift
June 24 | JAZZ
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“MURDER, GREED, CORRUPTION, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery.” That’s what Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times about Chicago the Musical 20 years after a revival premiered. What more could a show want?
Chicago has it all, and 25 years after a reworking of the original show premiered, audiences still can’t get enough. Now it’s coming back to Segerstrom Center for one week only, May 16-21.
Chicago is still the musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one show-stopping song after another and some of the most astonishing dancing you’ve ever seen.
The story itself has been in front of an audience for almost 100 years. The 1926 Chicago trial of a woman who was acquitted of shooting her husband dead was covered by a female reporter who, shortly after the trial ended, turned it into a stage play. The next year, famed film director Cecil B. DeMille made it into a silent movie. Another film version was made in the 1940s and starred Ginger Rogers.
But none of them had Bob Fosse’s distinctive choreography—later channeled through his close protégé Anne Reinking—that has become synonymous with Chicago Opening in 1975, the score was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and Ebb and Fosse wrote the book. In 1996 Reinking adapted Fosse’s choreography for a City Center Encores! concert staging, which was then expanded into a full production for a Broadway run. It was a hit, and Anne won a Tony for Best Choreography.
Today the show holds the record as the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. That history includes 6 Tony Awards®, 2 Olivier Awards, a Grammy®, and thousands of standing ovations. As “Roxie Hart” says, “I love the audience, and the audience loves me for loving them.”
As we celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary, you’ve got to come see why the name on everyone’s lips is still…CHICAGO
SEGERSTROM HALL
May 16–21 | Tickets start at $29
Chicago is presented with generous support from Omaha Steaks
William J. Gillespie School at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, who range in age from 3 to 18, are nothing if not dedicated. Upper Level pre-professional students take as many as four hours of class a day, six days a week. Even the tiniest dancers are eager to follow their teacher’s lead in the studio. But the cost of class tuition can be a substantial obstacle for some students who aspire to do a grand jeté across a real theater stage.
This is where the Pas de Deux Chapter of The Guilds of the Center comes in: The members are passionate about dance and the ABT Gillespie School. The chapter’s goals include raising scholarship funds for students as well as increasing public awareness and support for the school and its students. Without this assistance there would be young dancers who could not afford to attend. It also helps fund essential projects at the school, including special opportunities that enhance the students’ education such as master classes, guest artist classes and lectures, and costumes for performances.
The chapter is not only for parents and grandparents of students at the school but also ballet enthusiasts who want to help raise money and plan special events that generate funds and recognition for the school.
Every year, Pas de Deux members, donors, and guests are invited to attend Evening of Dance, an event that showcases the top levels of the school. This year it will be held on April 29 in the Judy Morr Theater. It’s a nice opportunity to mingle and
meet other school supporters and see some of the students perform. Attendees will hear from ABT school leadership and students, and our scholarship students also have an opportunity to shine and show their passion for dance.
The highlight is a beautiful production of dance pieces by the Upper Level pre-professional students that demonstrate their training. This is not just another recital. Guests can see for themselves the passion and talent these dancers bring to their art, and the importance of support to help continue to their dreams.
A membership in Pas de Deux includes many special privileges aimed at the ballet fan, such as exclusive access to observe select dress rehearsals of the professional touring companies that visit the Center and special members-only masterclasses and discussions. New members are always welcome! For more information, contact ocpasdedeux@gmail.com.
HENRY SEGERSTROM MADE a profound difference in the worlds of business and culture, setting the highest standards as a businessman, philanthropist, and arts patron.
He believed wholeheartedly in the incomparable power of the arts. This conviction, coupled with his constant drive for excellence, inspired him in creating a cosmopolitan center on what was once farmland in the heart of Orange County. South Coast Plaza led the way, opening in 1967. For Henry, this was just the beginning of his vision, which also included ambitious plans to make the arts central to the area.
In 1979 he commissioned the renowned artist Isamu Noguchi to create a 1.6-acre sculpture garden. Named California Scenario, the garden is widely recognized as one of Noguchi’s most important and quickly became one of the most significant public gardens in Southern California upon its opening in 1982. Other artists including Richard Serra, Richard Lippold, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, and Aiko Miyawaki were engaged over the years to add to this iconic work, creating a unique collection of publicly accessible works of art.
Henry Segerstrom’s ongoing leadership and philanthropy led to the development of a world-renowned multidisciplinary arts complex on land donated by the Segerstrom family. South Coast Repertory set the stage, opening in 1978. Orange County Performing Arts Center opened in 1986. Both organizations expanded on additional land donated by the Segerstrom
Family to create Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall opened in 2006 along with Samueli Theater. The vision was completed this past year with the opening of the Orange County Museum of Art on the campus.
Today, South Coast Plaza and Segerstrom Center for the Arts stand as an enduring testament to Henry Segerstrom’s bold vision, constant drive for excellence, and dedication to giving back.
Elizabeth Segerstrom is proud to honor this legacy in celebrating the Henry T. Segerstrom Centennial.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE Broadway bound to have a blast at Five Days of Broadway camp. Whether you want to one day be a star or just want to have fun learning to sing and dance, this is where you want to be—no auditions needed. Five Days of Broadway is the Center’s musical theater summer camp where students of all experience levels are coached in performance and technique by some of the leading professional artists and educators in the musical theater industry. It focuses on building a strong foundation in music, acting and dance and introduces students to some of the design and backstage aspects of professional theater. Since the program began in 2010 more than 600 students have attended, many of whom have returned year after year.
Campers will also have the opportunity to take a backstage tour, practice their improvisation and learn an ensemble number together. While some classes include all campers, most classes are held in smaller groups to provide more personalized coaching and hands-on opportunities.
There are two sessions scheduled depending on the camper’s age. Middle School week is for students ages 11–13 and will be held June 19–23. In addition to acting, singing and dancing, this group will enjoy class options such as puppetry, stage combat, makeup, and introduction to theatrical design.
The high school session for students ages 14–19 will be held June 26–30. While mostly focused on young artist training in the three musical theater disciplines, students will also have the opportunity to explore the basics of Shakespeare., theatrical makeup, and ensemble work.
Spaces are filled on a first come, first served basis and scholarships are available for those with financial need. For more information, visit our website at scfta.org/fivedays.
Here are just a few of our incredibly talented Five Days of Broadway instructors:
CHANDRA LEE SCHWARTZ is a stage actress, singer, and theater educator known for her portrayal of Glinda in the Broadway and National Touring productions of the musical Wicked. She has been teaching musical theater to students since 2013.
MARTY AUSTIN LAMAR is an accomplished actor, singer, musician, and songwriter. Currently, Marty is co-coordinator and assistant professor of musical theatre at California State University at Fullerton.
HECTOR GUERRERO has traveled throughout the world as a director, choreographer, performer, and master teacher working extensively in film, television, theatre, and opera. He is on faculty at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy) and UCLA.
JENNY MOON SHAW started performing professionally at the age of 6 in her native UK. She moved to California in 2012 and resumed her career in professional theater. She has a passion for introducing kids to the exciting world of theater.
April 8, 2023
Saturday at 7:30 pm SEGERSTROM HALL
Artistic Director
Michelle Dorrance
Dancers
Elizabeth Burke
Michelle Dorrance
Sterling Harris
Luke Hickey
Addi Loving
Claudia Rahardjanoto
Leonardo Sandoval
Musicians
Kyle Everett
Aaron Marcellus
Matt Parker
Gregory Richardson
Support for the Center’s International Dance Series provided by
Audrey Steele Burnand Endowed Fund for International Dance
The Segerstrom Foundation Endowment for Great Performances
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SOUNDspace (2013)
Choreography by Michelle Dorrance, with solo improvisation by the dancers
Original Music by Gregory Richardson
Original Body Percussion Score by Leonardo Sandoval
Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann
Costumes by Mishay Petronelli, Michelle Dorrance, and Byron Tittle
Dancers
Elizabeth Burke
Michelle Dorrance
Sterling Harris
Luke Hickey
Addi Loving
Claudia Rahardjanoto
Leonardo Sandoval
Musician: Gregory Richardson (bass)
The creation of SOUNDspace was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2012–13 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. As part of Danspace Project’s Choreographic Center Without Walls, Dorrance received a production residency supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
45th & 8th (2022)
Choreography by Michelle Dorrance, in collaboration with Elizabeth Burke, Luke Hickey, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Leonardo Sandoval, and Byron Tittle and featuring improvisation by the dancers
Original Music by Aaron Marcellus, in collaboration with the musicians
Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann
Costumes by Dede Ayite
Dancers:
Elizabeth Burke
Michelle Dorrance
Luke Hickey
Sterling Harris
Claudia Rahardjanoto
Leonardo Sandoval
Musicians:
Aaron Marcellus (vocals/keys)
Kyle Everett (drums)
Matt Parker (saxophone/flute/clarinet)
Gregory Richardson (bass)
This work was created in part during a residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park.
DORRANCE DANCE is an award-winning tap dance company based in New York City. Led by Michelle Dorrance, the company supports dancers and musicians who embody and push the dynamic range that tap dance has to offer. The company’s mission is to engage with audiences on a musical and emotional level, and to share the complex history and powerful legacy of this Black American art form through performance and education.
Founded in 2011 by artistic director and 2015 MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, the
company has received countless accolades and rave reviews and has performed at venues including Danspace Project, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Vail Dance Festival, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Works and Process at the Guggenheim, Carolina Performing Arts at UNC Chapel Hill, Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, among many others, including international venues in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, England, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Russia.
Michelle Dorrance (artistic director/ choreographer/dancer) is a New York Citybased artist. Mentored by Gene Medler (North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble), she was fortunate to study under many of the last master hoofers. Career highlights include: Stomp, Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap!, Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird, Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer, Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, and playing the bass for Darwin Deez. Company work includes: Savion Glover’s Ti Dii, Manhattan Tap, Barbara Duffy and Co., JazzTap Ensemble, and Rumba Tap. Solo work ranges from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to commissions for the Martha Graham Dance Company, Vail Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre, and New York City Center. Michelle made her Broadway choreographic debut with James Lapine’s Flying Over Sunset at Lincoln Center Theater in 2021. A 2018 Doris Duke Artist, 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Dorrance is humbled to have been acknowledged and supported by United States Artists, the Joyce Theater, the Alpert Awards, Jacob’s Pillow, Princess Grace Foundation-USA, The Field, American Tap Dance Foundation, and the Bessie Awards. Dorrance holds a B.A. from New York University and is a Capezio Athlete.
Aaron Marcellus (composer/musician), singer songwriter, vocal coach, musician, dancer, and actor, was born and raised in Atlanta and has been entertaining crowds around the world for over 25 years. He got his start in Gospel music with his first major record deal with the Warner label Word Records. After placing top 24 on American Idol, he was sent on a world tour sponsored by the U.S. Armed Forces, where he performed for thousands in England, Italy, Holland, Germany, France, Korea, Kuwait, and Japan. Aaron has been featured in a Chapstick commercial, NBC’s Next Caller, and is a veteran member of New York City’s OffBroadway hit Stomp. He was also supporting lead in National Black Theater’s production of Dreaming Zenzile. Marcellus can be found hosting weekly at a local Burlesque and live music restaurant Duane Park. In addition to singing all over New York City, directing showcases, tap dancing, acting, and serving as a vocal coach, Aaron is founder and creative director of The Marcellus Collective and CEO of Surrender To Love LLC, a foundation that financially supports music and arts programs and feeds hungry bellies.
Elizabeth Burke (co-dance captain/dancer) has worked full time with the company since its inaugural 2010–2011 season. Before Dorrance Dance became her artistic focus, she spent 11 years under the mentorship of Gene Medler in the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. She’s also an alumna of The School at Jacob’s Pillow. Elizabeth teaches, choreographs, and performs at tap dance festivals across the country, and works with fellow Carolinian Luke Hickey. She thanks Amelia Peden for their inimitable support.
Kyle Everett (musician) is delighted to be performing with the Dorrance Dance. He has done various performances and programs with Juilliard School of Music, All City Jazz bands and performed for various celebrities, events, TV programs and much more.
Sterling Harris (dancer) (he/him), a Chicago native, holds a B.A. in neuroscience from Northwestern University but has a strong passion for tap dance. He is the artistic associate of Chicago Tap Theatre, a company member of M.A.D.D. Rhythms, and has performed with Music from the Sole, YellowShed, and 333. Sterling is also an alumnus of the tap program at The School at Jacob’s Pillow and the recipient of the 2021 Lorna Strassler Award.
Luke Hickey (dancer) is a NYC-based tap dance artist and choreographer, named by Dance magazine among “25 To Watch” in 2020. Hickey credits his knowledge and achievements to the incomparable brilliance of his mentor, JUBA Award recipient Gene Medler (North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble). His choreography has been presented by Jacob’s Pillow, Birdland Jazz Club and the Chelsea Factory, to name a few. Luke is honored to be a company member of Michelle Dorrance’s Dorrance Dance.
Addi Loving (dancer) is thrilled to join Dorrance Dance on this season’s tour! Hailing from North Carolina and St. Louis, she trained under Gene Medler and later had involvement with the MUNY St. Louis. Now stationed in New York, she is currently a junior at Pace University studying arts management in hopes to further her dance
career. “Anything you do, let it come from you, then it will be new…”—Stephen Sondheim
Matt Parker (musician) is a saxophonist and composer whose highlights include Dr. Lonnie Smith, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, The Mingus Big Band, Cape Town Youth Choir, Bridgett Everett, and spending two years touring with Maynard Ferguson. Parker has written and released two albums, World Put Together (2014) and Present Time (2016), both albums receiving album of the year awards. He is the composer and musical director for multiple theater companies that create original content.
Claudia Rahardjanoto (dancer), born and raised in Berlin, Germany, started her professional dance career at the Deutsche Oper Berlin at the age of 9. At 15, she fell in love with tap dance under the tutelage of Sven Göttlicher and Marie-Christin Zeisset and moved to NYC in 2003 to pursue a career in tap dance. A Dorrance Dance member since the company’s inception, Claudia hopes to continue to share her love and passion for music and the art of tap dance through her teaching and performing worldwide.
Gregory Richardson (musical director/ musician) is a multi-instrumentalist focusing on upright and electric bass. He’s the co-creator of Music from the Sole, an AfroBrazilian tap dance and live band show that is currently in residence at Lincoln Center Education. He’s played drums, keys, and guitar with the band Darwin Deez at the world’s largest music festivals in the UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, and Austria.
Leonardo Sandoval (dancer), Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer, is renowned for blending America’s great tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. A member of Dorrance Dance since 2014, he also directs Music from the Sole, a tap and live music company, with composer Gregory Richardson. Leonardo is a 2021 Dance magazine “25 To Watch,” received a 2022 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise, and is a 2022 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellow in choreography.
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As seen in tonight’s performance, Dorrance Dance is deeply committed to creating new works and employment opportunities for tap dancers. Please join our mailing list for updates and consider donating to support the art and artists!
Dorrance Dance Staff
Artistic Director .............. Michelle Dorrance
Executive Director Andrea Nellis
General Manager Tina Huang Abrams
Production Manager/ Sound Designer Christopher Marc
Development Manager Amanda Hameline
Asst. to Artistic Director ....... Gabby Benavides
Co-Dance Captains Elizabeth Burke & Byron Tittle
Musical Director ........... Gregory Richardson
Lighting Designer Kathy Kaufmann
Lighting Supervisor Devin Koenig
Stage Manager Olivia Brown
Financial Administrator Belina Mizrahi, Arts FMS
Dorrance Dance is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, Shubert Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Rehearsal and development for this performance was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. These performances are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. Dorrance Dance is a recipient of a U.S. Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, made possible by the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Charles D. Schumer.
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Philip Setzer, violin
Eugene Drucker, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
Paul Watkins, cello
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, “Russian,” No. 5, Hob. III:41
JOSEPH HAYDN ( 1732 – 1809 )
I. Vivace assai
II. Largo e cantabile
III. Scherzo: Allegro – Trio
IV. Finale: Allegretto
Eugene Drucker, first violin
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67
BÉLA BARTÓK ( 1881 – 1945 )
I. Moderato
II. Allegro molto capriccioso
III. Lento
Philip Setzer, first violin
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String Quartet in No. 8 in e minor, Op. 59, No. 2, “Razumovsky”
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ( 1770 – 1827 )
I. Allegro
II. Adagio molto
III. Allegretto
IV. Finale: Presto
Philip Setzer, first violin
The Emerson String Quartet appears by arrangement with IMG Artists and records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon. www.emersonquartet.com
April 15, 2023
Saturday at 7:30 pm
SAMUELI THEATER
Artists and program subject to change
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a remarkable profusion of Classic stylistic elements whether or not they represent a turning point. Commentators have speculated, with the usual cautionary asides about art and life circumstances, that the lightness and humor of these Quartets were linked to Haydn’s personal happiness at this time— the beginning of his affair with singer Luigia Polzelli, hired by Prince Esterházy in 1779. Both were in unhappy marriages at the time and she became Haydn’s mistress by 1781. Over a decade later he was writing her from London: “Perhaps I shall never again regain the good humor that I used to have when I was with you.”
JOSEPH HAYDN
Born: March 31, 1732,Rohrau, Austria
Died: May 31, 1809, Vienna
HAYDN COMPOSED his six Opus 33 Quartets in 1781, nine years after his previous set of six, Op. 20. A debate has raged for over a century about whether Haydn marked the attainment of perfect Classic Viennese style with these new quartets when he noted to possible buyers they were written “in a new and special way.” The latest thinking is that “new and special” was a phrase designed to sell works rather than a statement about arriving at the perfection of Classical style, since that would ignore the merits of the Opus 20 Quartets, the symphonies written around 1772, or, as scholar Robbins Landon suggests, the opera L’infideltà delusa or the Missa Cellensis of 1782.
What scholars and listeners do agree on is that there is something different about the Opus 33 Quartets, chiefly a tendency toward popular, folklike expression and outwardly simple structures that hide an inner complexity—and, yes, they include
Some of Haydn’s greatest wit and lightheartedness lies in the Opus 33 finales, which move away from sonata form or the contrapuntal complexity of fugues in favor of rondos or variation forms. On the other hand, and no doubt for balance, these works show more profundity in their slow movements. As to his “Scherzo” and “Scherzando” movements, though they are the first in his quartets to be so-designated instead of “Minuet,” they actually differ little from his previous minuets. Thus the aptness of the sometime nickname “Gli scherzi” (with scherzos) for the Opus 33 Quartets applies not so much to these movements as to the entire set’s many “jokes”—the literal Italian meaning of scherzi.
Haydn first published the Opus 33 Quartets in 1782 with no dedication but added one to Grand Duke Paul of Russia with the second edition of 1796, which led to their most common nickname, “Russian.” This belated dedication had to do with the fact that most, if not all, received their first performance at the Vienna home of the Duke’s wife, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, on Christmas Day, 1781. The Opus 33 Quartets gained instant popularity, so much so that fraud was immediately detected when a composer from Mainz tried to pass them off as his own.
Haydn begins the G major Quartet— likely the first in order of composition—with a quiet, graceful “curtsey” or “bow” in a rhythm that prompted the English mid-19th-
century nickname, “How do you do.” Many commentators have seen its cadential gesture as a supreme example of his wit—an ending as a beginning. The immediate contrast of the rhythmic main theme with its bold, repeating bass notes sets the stage for an almost symphonic movement in which Haydn often thickens the texture with double stops. Unlike the monothematic tendencies in many of the other sonata-form movements of the Russian Quartets, Haydn’s second theme introduces a lyrical idea over a cello pedal. In his development section he takes apart and recombines his thematic fragments with creative resolve, and his recapitulation expands into what approaches a second development.
The slow movement unfolds in a tragic mood with the first violin “singing” an aria-like lament over individualistic accompaniment lines by the other three instruments. Many commentators have noted that Haydn may have been influenced by Orfeo’s “Che puro ciel” from Gluck’s opera Orfeo e Euridice, which he had directed at Esterhazá in 1776. The four instruments finally come together at the end in a forceful unison phrase, capped by a unison pizzicato that has elicited much speculation about whether it can fit the somber mood or should be heard as Haydenesque humor.
Haydn certainly makes jokes in the third movement, taking the Italian term “scherzo” in its literal meaning. He teases the listener with meter-busting displacements and shows supreme comic timing when, just after seeming to get on track, he inserts a bar of rest. The graceful regularity of the trio provides tongue-in-cheek foil.
The Finale, marked Allegretto, unfolds as an easy-going siciliano theme with three variations. The decoration increases in the third variation, first for the viola then the cello, and Haydn caps the movement with a presto coda that gallops toward the finish—but not without some final soft-loud playfulness.
—Jane Vial JaffeBÉLA BARTÓK
Born: March 25, 1881, Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary (now Romani)
Died: September 26, 1945, New York City
THE FIRST MOVEMENT of the Second Quartet is in sonata form, with the classical sequence of exposition, development, and recapitulation sections, but the process of development begins in the opening measures. Against a pulsating accompaniment in the inner voices, the first violin plays a theme in search of itself. That is, the first few notes of the violin line generate the entire theme-group. The first three notes rise by fourths; then the motive turns back, descending a half-step and falling a fourth. This motive is extended, shared with the cello, and augmented until it becomes a pedal-tone of G-s played in four different octaves, while the three lower instruments play ascending triads to build the first climax of the piece. Within 18 measures, the original motive is gradually transformed beyond recognition. Then, closer to its original shape, it is taken up imitatively by all the instruments, leading to a second theme-group. Here the two violins, playing in octaves, outline an augmented triad. The music lingers nostalgically in F-sharp minor for a moment before it is propelled into a turbulent appassionato section. A haunting third theme (derived from the appassionato material) closes the exposition. The development starts quietly but nervously, with imitative entrances of the main motive. The harmonies become more acidic. An accelerando led by the second violin culminates in an extremely excited section where the outer voices sustain long notes, punctuated by declamations of an important three-note motive, while the inner voices make throbbing crescendos and diminuendos.
Emphatic syncopations begin the bridge back to the recapitulation, which is remarkable for the way it transforms the emotional climate. The opening of the piece created a reflective, nostalgic mood; here the same theme, with the
changing. Bartók may not have consciously intended it as such; his uncompromising esthetic principles may have prevented him from allowing too easy a programmatic explanation of his creative process. But in a historical perspective, this work must be seen as a borderline between two eras; it looks backward to a time of romantic yearnings, reflects the violence of the present, and expresses despair for the future.
same pulsing accompaniment, is much more distant, depressed, anemic. The first violin extends its melody into the upper reaches of the D-string, one of the less sonorous and more nasal regions of the instrument. The accompanying harmonies are more static. It is as if the music were trying to recapture the spirit of the beginning but couldn’t. From here to the end of the movement, the rest of the material from the exposition is heard again. There are many forceful, defiant moments, alternating with phrases of bittersweet tenderness, but something has happened to the flow of the music. It stops and starts, changes tempo and character often without a feeling of transition or resolution. These fragments, sometimes simplified, sometimes exaggerated, sometimes grotesque. These fragments point in many different directions but don’t really go anywhere. Together they form a mosaic of nostalgia and despair. This piece was completed in 1917, while Europe was in the throes of war and the old order was being swept away. Perceptions of the world and of oneself had to change. Symbolically, the Second Quartet is about that
The second movement is a diabolical scherzo. With relentless rhythmic energy and percussively repeated pedal-tones, it creates the most savage sonorities that had yet been heard in chamber music. The whole movement is built from primitive motivic blocks, rocking back and forth between two or three pitches. The central section is satiric, even cynical, momentarily creating the ambiance of a perverted dance hall. In the prestissimo coda, all the instruments are muted, and the first violin and viola create a sandstorm of fast notes with rhythmic outlining from the other instruments. The movement reaches a breathtaking climax as the mutes fly off, the pace slows, and we are riveted to the repetitions of the motive F-sharp, F, D. his is broken down even further to the last angry notes of the piece: F,D,F,D.
The Lento unfolds as a series of sections, which sound vaguely like variations. There are motivic links between the sections and also with material from the earlier movements. The second section features an elegiac transformation of the F-sharp, F, D cell with which the Scherzo ended. Chords based on fourths—quartal harmonies—assume a central importance, while the tritone (the augmented fourth) is prevalent melodically. After a wrenching accelerando later in the movement, there is a lifeless dialogue between the two pairs of instruments, each pair playing in octaves. The music can become passionate only in gestures of defiant despair, and it always sinks back, retreats into itself, into the
abyss. The Quartet ends with two pizzicato notes that sound like a death-knell.
—Eugene DruckerLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Born: December 16, 1770, Bonn
Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna
The Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 is the second in the series of three commissioned by Count Rasumovsky in 1806. At the beginning of the Allegro, Beethoven suddenly repeats the terse opening statement a half tone higher, in the Neapolitan key of F, without preparation and after the home key is barely established. This creates an unsettled, tense feeling which permeates the movement. There is much sixteenth-note motion and hardly any real themes, only motivic fragments often punctuated by silence. The second subject, though in major, is hardly relaxed, being propelled by restless accompaniment. In the development, Beethoven moves through thirteen keys, with passing harmonies in between, before arriving at E minor for the recapitulation. The return, coming after a series of fortissimo trills, is somewhat disguised by the filling in of the spaces between the original opening chords. Even the coda, with its brief calm, moves through several keys. A crescendo builds toward the end in a flurry of notes, and the main theme, heard previously only in pianissimo, is played fortissimo in the final bars.
Carl Czerny, a close friend of Beethoven’s, wrote that “The Adagio, in E Major, in the second Rasumovsky Quartet, occurred to him while he was contemplating the starry sky and thinking of the music of the spheres.” There exists no proof of this other than the extraordinary quality of the movement itself. The tension in the first movement is transcended here by timeless ecstasy, an other-worldly atmosphere. The opening hymn is soon punctuated by quiet dotted rhythms
and the sound of celestial mechanics, if one believes Czerny’s statement. At the end of the second theme this dotted rhythm finally gives way to leisurely triplets, which spin slowly like orbiting planets. After the development, which contains more contrasting material and some very dramatic moments, the recapitulation is slightly extended within itself, contributing to the timelessness even more. The hymn makes an impassioned appearance in new harmonic guise, and the triplets float down through the instruments at the end, leaving the cello murmuring contentedly.
The third movement is in two sections, the first Allegretto, the second a trio titled Maggiore and bearing the obligatory Russian Theme. The melancholy Allegretto is obsessed by a single rhythmic idea, heard in the first measure. The trio is a lively fugue on the Russian tune first heard in the viola against a triplet countersubject. At the climax, the theme is played fortissimo in canon by all four instruments. Beethoven indicates that the Allegretto should be repeated twice and the Maggiore once, perhaps to properly proportion this movement to the others.
The Finale opens with a burst in C Major, only to turn to the home key of E minor in the seventh bar. This unusual harmonic trick starting on the flatted sixth degree and fooling the listener, rekindles a charged atmosphere. Dotted rhythms in both melody and accompaniment create a martial, even relentless mood. The second subject provides contrast; it is a steady stream of even notes, played legato, and utilizes the Neapolitan harmony so central to the first movement. The coda is long and dramatic, with fortissimo explosions in the Neapolitan key. The main theme is finally heard in fortissimo, as in the end of the first movement, and the work concludes with a dashing Presto.
—Archiboldus HoldenTHE EMERSON STRING QUARTET will have its final season of concerts in 2022–23, disbanding after more than four decades as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles. “With musicians like this,” wrote a reviewer for The Times (London), “there must be some hope for humanity.” The Quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings and has been honored with nine Grammys® (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award. As
part of their larger mission to keep the string quartet form alive and relevant, they have commissioned and premiered works from some of today’s most esteemed composers and have partnered in performance with leading soloists such as Renée Fleming, Barbara Hannigan, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Yefim Bronfman, James Galway, Edgar Meyer, Menahem Pressler, Leon Fleisher, André Previn, and Isaac Stern, to name a few.
In its final season, the Quartet will give farewell performances across North America and Europe, including San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, Vienna’s
Musikverein, Prague’s Rudolfinum, London’s Southbank Centre for the completion of its acclaimed cycle of Shostakovich quartets, and more, before coming home to New York City for its final series there with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, in a trio of programs entitled Emerson Dimensions, where the Quartet will perform some of its most storied repertoire. They will give several performances of André Previn’s Penelope with Renée Fleming and Uma Thurman, including at the Los Angeles Opera, and they will appear at Carnegie Hall with Evgeny Kissin to perform the Dvořák Quintet as part of a benefit concert for the Andrei Sakharov Foundation. The final performance as the Emerson String Quartet will take place in October 2023 in New York City and will be filmed for a planned documentary by filmmaker Tristan Cook.
The Quartet’s extensive discography includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartók, Webern, and Shostakovich, as well as multi-CD sets of the major works of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Dvořák. In its final season, the Quartet will record Schoenberg’s Second Quartet with Barbara Hannigan for release in 2023, with the sessions video documented by Mathieu Amalric for a short film. Deutsche Grammophon will also reissue its box set of the Emerson Complete Recordings on the label, with two new additions. In October 2020, the group released a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets for the Pentatone label. In the preceding year, the Quartet joined forces with Grammy®-winning pianist Evgeny Kissin to release a collaborative album for Deutsche Grammophon, recorded live at a sold-out Carnegie Hall concert in 2018.
Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson String Quartet was one of the first quartets whose violinists alternate in the first violin position. The Quartet, which takes its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, balances busy performing careers with a commitment to
teaching, and serves as Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. In 2013, cellist Paul Watkins—a distinguished soloist, awardwining conductor, and devoted chamber musician—joined the original members of the Quartet to form today’s group.
In the spring of 2016, the State University of New York awarded full-time Stony Brook faculty members Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton the status of Distinguished Professor and conferred the title of Honorary Distinguished Professor on part-time faculty members Eugene Drucker and Paul Watkins. The Quartet’s members also hold honorary doctorates from Middlebury College, the College of Wooster, Bard College, and the University of Hartford. In January of 2015, the Quartet received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America’s highest honor, in recognition of its significant and lasting contribution to the chamber music field.
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JASON ROBERT BROWN is the ultimate multihyphenate—an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director, and performer. He is best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation-defining The Last Five Years, his debut song cycle Songs for a New World, and the seminal Parade, for which he won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score.
Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances. The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical.”
Jason’s score for The Bridges of Madison County, a musical adapted with
Marsha Norman from the bestselling novel, received two Tony Awards (for Best Score and Orchestrations). Honeymoon in Vegas, based on Andrew Bergman’s film, opened on Broadway in 2015 following a triumphant production at Paper Mill Playhouse. A film version of his epochal Off-Broadway musical The Last Five Years was released in 2015, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan and directed by Richard LaGravenese. His major musicals as composer and lyricist include: 13, written with Robert Horn and Dan Elish, which opened on Broadway in 2008 and was subsequently directed by the composer for its West End premiere in 2012; The Last Five Years, which was cited as one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics (and was later directed by the composer in its record-breaking Off-Broadway run at Second Stage Theatre in 2013); Parade, written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Musical, as well as garnering Jason the Tony Award for Original Score; and Songs for a New World, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, which has since been seen in hundreds of productions around the world since its 1995 Off-Broadway debut, including a celebrated revival at New York’s City Center in the summer of 2018. Parade was also the subject of a major revival directed by Rob Ashford, first at London’s Donmar Warehouse and then at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Jason conducted his orchestral adaptation of E.B. White’s novel The Trumpet of the Swan with the National Symphony Orchestra, and recorded the score for PS Classics. Future projects include a new chamber musical created with Daisy Prince and Jonathan Marc Sherman called The Connector; an adaptation of Lilian Lee’s Farewell My Concubine, created with Kenneth Lin and Moisés Kaufman; and a collaboration with Billy Crystal, Amanda Green, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel on a musical of Mr. Saturday Night. Jason is the
winner of the 2018 Louis Auchincloss Prize, the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason’s songs, including the cabaret standard “Stars and the Moon,” have been performed and recorded by Ariana Grande, Jennifer Nettles, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Porter, Betty Buckley, Renée Fleming, Jon Hendricks and many others, and his song “Someone To Fall Back On” was featured in the Walden Media film, Bandslam.
As a soloist or with his band, Jason has performed concerts around the world. For six years, his monthly sold-out performances at New York’s SubCulture featured many of the music and theater world’s most extraordinary performers. His newest collection, Coming from Inside the House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean, commemorates the final SubCulture concert, recorded remotely during the pandemic. His previous albums, How We React and How We Recover and Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes are available from Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom Records. Jason’s 2012 concert with Anika Noni Rose was broadcast on PBS, and he was the featured soloist for a live episode of Friday Night Is Music Night, broadcast live from the London Palladium and featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra. His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy, Songs of Jason Robert Brown, is available on PS Classics. Jason is also the composer of the incidental music for the Broadway revival of You Can’t Take It With You, David LindsayAbaire’s Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy Meers, and Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery, and he was a Tony Award nominee for his contributions to the score of Urban Cowboy the Musical. He has also contributed music to the hit Nickelodeon television series The Wonder Pets as well as Sesame Street. Jason spent ten years teaching at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, and Emerson College.
For the musical Prince of Broadway, a celebration of the career of his mentor Harold Prince, Jason was the musical supervisor and arranger. Other New York credits as conductor and arranger include Urban Cowboy the Musical on Broadway; Dinah Was, offBroadway and on national tour; When Pigs Fly off-Broadway; William Finn’s A New Brain at Lincoln Center Theater; the 1992 tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall (recorded by RCA Victor); Yoko Ono’s New York Rock, at the WPA Theatre; and Michael John LaChiusa’s The Petrified Prince at the Public Theatre. Jason orchestrated Andrew Lippa’s john and jen off-Broadway at Lamb’s Theatre. Additionally, Jason served as the orchestrator and arranger of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’s score for a proposed musical of Star Wars. Jason has conducted and created arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, John Pizzarelli, and Michael Feinstein, among many others.
Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He lives with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their daughters in New York City. Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. Visit him on the web at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.
A born and raised Floridian, Mykal moved to Nashville as a hopeful singer and songwriter after attending Florida State University. Eventually, his voice caught the attention of Tony® and Grammy® Award winner, Billy Porter during an audition. Porter’s careful mentorship opened lanes for Kilgore to move to New York City and to enter the Broadway world. To date, his credits include Motown the Musical, The Book of Mormon, and Hair. Mykal has consistently chosen roles that elevate positive representation of people of color including The Wiz Live! (NBC) and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC).
MYKAL KILGORE’S ARTISTRY cuts through traditional barriers and represents the hope of gospel, the soul of R&B and the vulnerability of country. The singer/songwriter’s debut album, A Man Born Black, was released in 2019 and was an exploration of faith, loss, the stumble and spills on the way to maturity, and the beauty of hope and love.
In 2021 Kilgore released his single “The Man in the Barbershop” (via Affective Music,) a story told from a Black gay man’s perspective about his and many others’ experiences at the neighborhood barbershop where people gather and gossip about their community and the world. “The Man in the Barbershop” is the first single from Kilgore since his Grammy® nominated single “Let Me Go,” from his debut album. At the 63rd Annual Grammy® Awards, Kilgore made history as the first openly gay artist to receive a nomination in the “Best Traditional R&B Performance” category. “The Man in the Barbershop” was produced by Jamison Ross, Cory Irvin, and John Michael Rouchell and executive produced by David S. Hargrett.
Most recently, he appeared in Songs for a New World, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods and The MUNY’s Smokey Joe’s Cafe. With the release of “The Man in the Barbershop,” Mykal has once again stepped into the forefront to share his unique perspective with the world. As a Black queer man, Mykal uses his platform to serve as a change agent for civil rights as well as issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community. His instrument is guaranteed to educate, entertain and elevate the lives of all who have the luxury of experiencing his unmatched sound. Mykal is eager and hungry to share his new creations as his star continues to shine brighter and brighter in the post-pandemic world.
Katia Labèque, piano
Marielle Labèque, piano
Bryce Dessner, guitar
David Chalmin, guitar
Dan Bora, sound
Haven (2019), Chester Music
BRYCE DESSNER ( B. 1976 )
Ellis Island (1981), Boosey & Hawkes
MEREDITH MONK ( B. 1942 ) ; ARR. LISA KAPLAN
Electric Counterpoint (1987), Arr. for 2 Guitars & Tape by Bryce Dessner
STEVE REICH ( B. 1936 )
4 Movements for 2 Pianos (2008), Dungaven/Chester Music
PHILIP GLASS ( B. 1937 )
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Don’t Fear the Light, Part 1 & 2 (2019)
THOM YORKE ( B. 1968 )
Sonic Wires (2023), Chester Music
BRYCE DESSNER
Movement 1 Spiral Movement 2 Nono Movement 3 Clouds
Eclipse (2023)
DAVID CHALMIN ( B. 1980 )
Movements 1, 2 & 3
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Pianos by Steinway & Sons
April 28, 2023
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KATIA AND MARIELLE LABÈQUE are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music) and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.
They have played with the most prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Filarmonia della Scala, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Ditto Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Santa Cecilia and Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of John Adams, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Gustavo Gimeno, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Pietari Inkinen,
Louis Langrée, Zubin Mehta, Juanjo Mena, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Matthias Pintscher, Georges Pretre, Sir Simon Rattle, Santtu Matias Rouvali, EsaPekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas and Jaap van Zweden.
They have appeared with Baroque music ensembles such as The English Baroque Soloists with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Il Giardino Armonico with Giovanni Antonini, Musica Antica with Reinhard Goebel, and Venice Baroque with Andrea Marcon, il Pomo d’Oro with Maxim Emelyanichev and also toured with The Age of Enlightenment and Sir Simon Rattle. Katia and Marielle have had the privilege of working with many composers including Thomas Adès, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, György Ligeti, Nico Muhly and Olivier Messiaen. At Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles they presented the world premiere of Philip Glass’s new concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, the world premiere of Bryce Dessner’s concerto at Royal
Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and John Storgards, and the new concerto written by Nico Muhly, “In Certain Circles,” was premiered by Orchestre de Paris with Maxim Emelyanichev in 2021 and New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden in 2022.
Another recent highlight was the tour with the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia under Andrés Orozco-Estrada, through Germany, Austria and Holland.
Katia and Marielle Labèque play in festivals and renowned venues worldwide including the Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Musikhalle, Munich Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, La Scala, Berlin Philharmonie, Blossom, Hollywood Bowl, Lucerne, BBC Proms, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Salzburg. An audience of more than 33,000 attended a gala concert with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle at Berlin’s Waldbuhne, now available on DVD (EuroArts). A record audience of more than 100,000 attended the Vienna Summer Night Concert in Schonbrunn (now available on CD and DVD by SONY). More than 1.5 million viewers followed the event worldwide on television.
BRYCE DESSNER IS A VITAL and rare force in new music. He has won Grammy Awards as a classical composer and with the band The National, of which he is founding member, guitarist, arranger, and co-principal songwriter. He is regularly commissioned to write for the world’s leading ensembles, from Orchestre de Paris to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and is a high-profile presence in film score composition, with credits including The Revenant, for which he was Grammy-and Golden Globe-nominated, Fernando Mereilles’ The Two Popes, Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Bardo Dessner collaborates with some of today’s most creative and respected artists,
including Philip Glass, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Paul Simon, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sufjan Stevens, Fernando Mereilles, Thom Yorke, Bon Iver, Nico Muhly, and Steve Reich, who named Dessner “a major voice of his generation.” Dessner’s orchestrations can be heard on the latest albums of Paul Simon, Bon Iver, and Taylor Swift. Dessner has had works commissioned and premiered by today’s leading conductors including EsaPekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Semyon Bychkov, and Santtu Matias-Rouvali. This season alone sees performances of his works by London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, BBC Symphony Orchestra, HR Sinfonieorchester, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony, among others.
Dessner’s new works—Violin Concerto, commissioned by partners including Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony; and Mari, commissioned and performed by Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, Czech Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, and BBC Symphony Orchestra—have been met with widespread public and critical success.
Last autumn Bryce was composer in residence at a number of European festivals including the Approximation Festival and November Music. “Dessner [..] moves fluidly between rock and classical and everywhere in between,” wrote the Guardian (October 2021). In addition to his role as one of eight San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners, Bryce Dessner is currently artist-inresidence at London’s Southbank Centre and with Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Major works include Concerto for Two Pianos premiered by Katia and Marielle Labèque and London Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon; Violin Concerto premiered and performed internationally by Pekka Kuusisto, Trombone Concerto for Jorgen van Rijen commissioned by Dallas Symphony and l’Orchestre National d’Île de France; Voy a Dormir for mezzo soprano Kelley O’Connor and
Orchestra of Saint Luke’s and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Skrik Trio for Steve Reich and Carnegie Hall; the ballet No Tomorrow, co-written with Ragnar Kjartansson; Wires for Ensemble Intercontemporain; The Forest for large cello ensemble, Gautier Capuçon, and Fondation Louis Vuitton; and Triptych (Eyes for One on Another), a major theater piece integrating the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe and premiered by Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dessner also scored the music— involving full orchestra and a 200-member choir—for the Louis Vuitton show at the Louvre in Paris as part of Paris Fashion Week 2020
Dessner’s recordings include El Chan; St. Carolyn by the Sea (both Deutsche Grammophon); Aheym, commissioned by Kronos Quartet; Tenebre, an album of his works for string orchestra recorded by Germany’s Ensemble Resonanz and which won a 2019 Opus Klassik award and a Diapason d’Or; When we are inhuman with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Eighth Blackbird (2019); and Impermanence (2021) with the Australian String Quartet.
Dessner’s film score credits include The Two Popes, which won Discovery of the Year at the World Soundtrack awards; C’mon C’mon (2021) directed by Mike Mills; and Cyrano (2021), the major musical by Joe Wright. Also active as a curator, Dessner is regularly requested to program festivals and residencies around the world at venues such as at the Barbican, Philharmonie de Paris, and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. He co-founded and curates the festivals MusicNOW in Cincinnati, HAVEN in Copenhagen, Sounds from a Safe Harbour and PEOPLE. Bryce Dessner lives in France.
OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS, David Chalmin has assumed an increasing number of roles: as a producer, arranger and sound engineer alongside some of the most respected indie figures worldwide (The National, Shannon Wright, Richard Reed Parry, Efterklang...); as a contemporary music composer, having founded the Dream House Quartet with Bryce Dessner and Katia and Marielle Labèque (who hosted Thom Yorke on stage in 2019); and as a mastermind of dense, heady electronica with his album la terre invisible in 2019. The sixth movement of the piece Sept particules, composed in 2018 for harpsichordist Justin Taylor and his ensemble le consort, was sung to critical acclaim. And now, his soft, sensitive voice has become an integral part of all five tracks on Innocence, an EP released on Yotanka records in June 2022.
He has recently worked on Electric Fields, a new project for Barbara Hannigan, Katia and Marielle Labèque with live videos by Netia Jones in which he performed live electronics. This work, co-written with Bryce Dessner premiered in November 2022 in Disney Hall, Los Angeles. Among his other compositions: a piece for organ constellation premiered at Variations Festival Nantes; a piece for 100 pianos, piano orchestra premiered at Paris Philharmonie; a ballet, Star-Cross’d Lovers, for two pianos, drums, electronics, and guitar created at the Cité de la Musique in Paris (recorded for Deutsche Grammophon); and an original music for Madonna’s short film Her Story filmed by Luigi & Iango. He also created with pianist Katia Labèque a project on moondog’s music premiered at Les Nuits de Fourvières in Lyon. The moondog album was released by Deutsche Grammophon. With the trio Triple Sun, bass player Massimo Pupillo (zu) and drummer Raphaël Séguinier (ubunoir), Chalmin joined the Dessner Brothers (The National) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) for the project Invisible Bridge at the Paris Philharmonie.
Dan Bora, sound mix
DAN BORA IS A DESIGNER, producer, and engineer for albums, film scores, and live sound. He has worked with Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, The Magnetic Fields, Nico Mühly, Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many others. His credits include the Academy Award-winning Fog of War as well as the revival of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. Dan’s live work has been praised as “deft,” “provocative and even poignant…” (New York Times).
Sami Pyne, associate producer, tour manager Sami Pyne is the associate producer at ArKtype, one of the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. She is also an NYCbased independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the production process for creators. Sami’s had the pleasure of working with companies such as 600 HIGHWAYMEN, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, Aeon’s Sophia Club, The Martin E. Segal Center, Signature Theatre, Park Avenue Armory, The Play Company (PlayCo), The Tank, The New Ohio, Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and HERE Arts Center. Shenandoah Conservatory BFA, 2017. Graduate of the Columbia University Theatre Management & Producing MFA program, 2020. Operations Committee leader of the Creative & Independent Producers Alliance. Fellow of WP Theater’s 2022-2024 Producers Lab. www.samipyne.com for more info.
ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann
ARKTYPE/THOMAS O. KRIEGSMANN specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Daniel Fish, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell, and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include 600
HIGHWAYMEN’s A Thousand Ways, nora chipaumire’s Nehanda, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds wth JD Samson, Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) directed by Kaneza Schaal, John Cameron Mitchell’s The Origin of Love, Kaneza Schaal & Christopher Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY, Sam Green and Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, Big Dance Theater/Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man In a Case, and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not By Bread Alone. Ongoing collaborations include Basil Twist, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Sam Green, Timothy White Eagle, Andrew Schneider, Big Dance Theater, Toshi Reagon, and Compagnia T.P.O. Upcoming premieres include Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois, 600 Highwaymen’s The Following Evening, Timothy White Eagle’s Indian School, and Scott Shepherd’s This Ignorant Present. He is a founding member of CIPA (Creative & Independent Producer Alliance). More information at arktype.org.
To Aaron Egigian and the amazing team at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Vivian Chiu, Gill Graham, Samantha Holderness, The Kitchen, Rachel Fine, Jennifer Newman and Yale Schwarzman Center, Shanta Thake, Guillaume Loubère, Paschalis Zervas, Melay Araya, Deutsche Grammophon, and the team at Unison Media.
Dream House Quartet debut EP now available—new LP slated for fall release, both on Universal / Deutsche Grammophon.
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Photo: Harald Hoffmann Schumann Quartet Photo: Julien Benhamou Le ConsortTHE CENTER LOVES festivities for kids that celebrate the connections between the arts and science, and the Beckman Arts and Science Family Festival fits the bill. This year the festival will be held on Saturday, May 6 on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. Best yet, it’s FREE!
“We are pleased to be offering a fun family day on Segerstrom Center’s beautiful Julianne and George Argyros Plaza, where everyone will have a chance to be a curious, creative explorer for a day,” says Talena Mara, the Center’s vice president of education. “Providing space for students and families to be curious and creative together is a priority at the Center.”
The day will feature performances and an assortment of engaging, hands-on activities for the entire family. Supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, this popular annual event returns after several years off due to the pandemic.
Doktor Kaboom will be on hand with his show Look Out! Science is Coming! which is part of Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ Family Series. The good Doktor will captivate audiences with his hilarious and fun series of increasingly spectacular and (often) successful, demonstrations of the physical sciences.
The festival also will include performances by Circo Etero circus, whose jugglers and stilt walkers will roam throughout the festival wowing guests with their spectacular skills. Dancing Storytellers will delight children with their performances utilizing South Asian music and dance, and the Alley Cats, America’s Doo-Wop group, will serve up great music and hilarious comedy.
Don’t miss the Building Area, which will encourage creative play and feature oversized building kits, including Imagination Playground, Rigamjig, and Panelcraft. Other hands-on activities and workshops will include face painting, balloon twisters, mini trains, and bubbles, lots of bubbles!
There will be exhibits from the Arnold and
Mabel Beckman Foundation as well as other community partners.
“The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation is committed to encouraging our next generation to approach science and technology with curiosity and excitement to unlock the full creative potential of tomorrow’s inventors and explorers,” says Dr. Anne Hultgren, executive director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. “We are proud to partner with Segerstrom Center for the Arts and so many different organizations across Orange County who will be bringing their unique approaches to engaging young minds in STEM to the Argyros plaza. This venue offers a unique setting to host such a variety of hands-on activities in a relaxed, festival-style event to make STEM approachable and fun! We hope to see you there!”
Food will be available for purchase at George’s Café as well as food trucks Cali Delight and Kala. Mmmmm, churros!
Be sure to arrive early to enjoy all the free fun. For more information please visit our website at scfta.org.
6 | FREE
JULIANNE AND GEORGE ARGYROS PLAZA May
LA DANCE PROJECT doesn’t do things by the rules. The company is bringing Romeo & Juliet Suite to the Center and it’s going to be a different story than you’ve been used to.
Company founder and choreographer Benjamin Millepied has created a contemporary vision of the world’s most famous love story. He navigates between cinema, dance, and theater, reinterpreting Shakespeare’s fated couple as young adults in an urban environment. Each performance will feature a different cast and highlight diverse couples: It can be male/female, female/female or male/ male, reflecting our time and making the production a universal celebration of love.
“This one-of-a-kind interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic allowed me to feel the most empathy I have ever felt for the characters of Romeo and Juliet,” says LA Dance Chronicle. “It was a complete rediscovery of a familiar tale, which transformed it from overdone to timeless once again.”
On stage and off, the plot unfolds using a unique projection system. Some of the action is broadcast in real time from unexpected places inside the theater and backstage as the dancers pass from stage to screen and back. The audience might see Romeo on screen at the loading dock while at the same time they see Juliet (in real life) entering the stage. Millepied presents this mythical take through a modern prism, embellished by Prokofiev’s beautiful music.
“I love the idea of using dance, live performance and cinematographic images to express a timeless story that
really speaks to the audience,” says Millepied. “This production creates a comprehensive artistic experience while echoing current social issues, all with a cast that changes from night to night.”
“Millepied’s choreography is full of life,” says the Los Angeles Times. “Ballet steps and street steps and quirky outof-nowhere steps all seeming part of the same dance vocabulary.”
Frenchman Millepied is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. He danced with New York City Ballet for 16 years and in 2010, choreographed and starred in the film Black Swan. In 2012 he founded LA Dance Project.
In 2014 he was appointed director of dance at Paris Opera Ballet. This big job included commissioning works by renowned choreographers including William Forsythe, Justin Peck, and Wayne McGregor. But two years later he resigned, wanting to focus on his vision for LA Dance Project. Now just a decade old, the company’s repertoire includes new creations by Millepied, historical reconstructions and multidisciplinary collabs with visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and composers. It has been around the world, performing in the U.S., Europe, Dubai, Shanghai, and Beijing.
This will be LA Dance Project’s debut engagement at the Center. Don’t miss this opportunity to see a classic tale in a way the New Yorker calls “Startling, dazzling and wrenching in equal measure.”.
May 12–14 | Tickets start at $29
—Deep River
ALONZO KING LINES BALLET returns to the Center with a special evening of dance celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary. The program will feature Deep River, a new work by Alonzo King that combines Black spirituals with dance. The music is arranged by jazz pianist and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran, with Grammy-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer, who will be onstage with the dancers, providing a live accompaniment. Fischer was a back-up singer with The Rolling Stones (that’s Lisa on “Gimme Shelter”) and has performed in the Center’s Jazz Series several times.
“Seeing how these Black Christian spirituals could meld so naturally with dance imagery that suggests influences from both yogic philosophy and Islam, is a striking reminder of the universality King has reclaimed for ballet,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. “King is one of the few bona fide visionaries in the ballet world today.”
Deep River is rich in themes of cultural collaboration, and King thinks nothing of mixing classical ballet with diverse traditions. The company’s vision statement says, in part, “LINES Ballet investigates deeply rooted affinities between Western and Eastern classical forms, elemental materials, the natural world and the human spirit. The artistic investigation… leads to what unites us as human beings.”
“The intention behind the work is to remind me, the artists, and the viewers that love is the ocean that we rose from, swim in, and will one day return to, and that love, if listened to and deeply cultured, can bring us to liberation,” King said to DBusiness.com. “As we look back on 40 years of work in the community, in ourselves,
the programs, classes, and performances, both live and on film, we recognize that it is the same vision and belief that have carried us to this moment and will continue to carry this organization into the future,” says King.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet has collaborated with noted composers, musicians and visual artists from around the world to create performances that alter the way we look at ballet today. King’s unique artistic vision adheres to the classical form with a commitment to cultural collaborations which enthrall audiences and draw on diverse traditions with new expressive potential.
“The talent, the expertise and the intent of this stellar company is incomparable!” says Broadwayworld.com. “The technique of every member of the company, with every movement they make, will fill you with awe.” Beautiful and glorious on stage, this is a must-see performance for Center dance fans.
SEGERSTROM HALL
May 27 | Tickets start at $29
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Music majors studying General Music, Worship Leadership, and Pre-Teacher Certification (Music Education) along with students from nearly 20 different disciplines participate in our esteemed university performing groups reaching 30,000 people annually.
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The Center Fund provides general operating support on an annual basis for Segestrom Center for the Arts and its programs. We are honored to recognize the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their gifts between January 1 and December 31, 2022. Your generosity makes a difference every day—and we thank you! To learn more about the Center Fund and the benefits of giving, please contact Malika Middlebrooks at MMiddlebrooks@scfta.org or (714) 942-6214.
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Julia and George Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation
The Guilds of the Center
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May 20, 2023 at 5 p.m.
Grammy-Award winning Pacific Chorale proudly presents the West Coast premiere of pioneering composer Florence Price’s rediscovered Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, alongside Joseph Haydn’s stirring and majestic Nelson Mass with Pacific Symphony.
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The newest venue in Orange County, where celebrations occur next to one of the greatest Shelby Automobile showcases, boasting over 8,000 sq. ft. of flexible event space on the first floor alone, the Segerstrom's Collection is guaranteed to captivate guests! Come take a stroll through iconic American history; from the earliest GT350's to Carroll Shelby's final wish, the 1000hp GT500, the immersive experience at the Segerstrom Shelby Event Center is one you will never forget.
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Michael Dreyer & Hannah An
Ms. Laurie Duncan
Kelly & David Emmes II
Shari and Harry Esayian
Dottie and Bill Feeney
Ray* and Pat Felbinger
Floriani Family
Ms. Renee Fourcade
Elaina Francis
Lynn and Douglas K. Freeman
Mr.* and Mrs.* T. Fukunaga/ Kay K. Fukunaga
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Garrett
Dr. and Mrs. Alan B. Gazzaniga
Cory Glass
Howard Gleicher / Damon Chen
Antoinette Green, Joanne Scott* and Peggy Wiemann
Karen Hardin-Swickard
Ms. Kerry L. Hedley
Gavin and Ninetta Herbert
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Hood
Dr. Douglas and Sandra Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jaffee
Donna and David* Janes
Janice M. and Roger* W. Johnson
Don and Soogie Kang
Curtis A. and Varla E. N. Knauss
Eve A. Kornyei
Peter C. and Bonnie S.* Kremer
Ms. Fiona LeCong-Ly and Dr. Vietnam Ly
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Legome
Linda I. Smith Foundation
Jim and Gale Luce
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Meehan
John and Karen Meston
Scott and Jasmine Morielli
Bob and Christie Narver
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Oswald
Yvette Pergola
Robert and Helga Pralle Family Foundation
Walter and Renate Rados
Joel and Lilya Reiss
Charles and Kathy Rosenberger
Paul and Mary Sackman
Sandy and Harriet Sandhu
Mrs. Meryl Schrimmer
Claudette Shaw
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Smith
Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine
Ms. Marci Hollander
Ms. Michele Suire
Jerry Sutton and Doniel Sutton
Peter and Mary Tennyson
Kelly Thomson
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ugalde
$2,500+
Anonymous (2)
Mr.* and Mrs. Howard Abel
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Abelove
The Ackerman Family
Bette and Wylie Aitken
Ms. Kathy R. Akashi
James and Elaine Alexiou
Mr.* and Mrs. Byron Allumbaugh
Dr. Chris Apodaca
Ms. Stephanie Argyros
Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bain
Ms. Diane Bangar
Sharon Barrett
Patricia Price and Craig Behrens
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bein
Mr.* and Mrs. Dror J. Benjamin
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Benkie
Barbara J. Benson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Berns
Dr.* and Mrs. John R. Betson
Mrs. Frances Buchanan
Sylvia Burnett
Mr. Joseph Busch
Cheryl Carlson
John J. Carvelli and Kathryn Carvelli
Marty Chao and Jean Chung
Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino
Ronna and Donald Coe
David & Victoria Collins Family Fund
Corkett/Myers Families
Michael and Anne Crawford
Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham
John L. Curci
Noël Davis
Gregg Denicola, M.D.
Mrs. Sandra DiSario
Judi Dutton
Mr. and Mrs. W. James Edwards III
Susan and Robert Ehrlich
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Eng
Michael G. Ermer
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Estabrooks
Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Evarts
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Robert Farnsworth
Ashley and Zach Fischer
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Fishman
Fountain Orthotics & Prosthetics
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Francis
Iris and Arnold Frankel
Steve* and Cindy Fry
Mike and Sharon Galassi
Margaret Gates
Michael and Eleanor Gordon
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grody
Jenny and Jeff Gross
Marlene and Sam* Hamontree
Pat and Gene Hancock
Bruce and Eileen Harrigan
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hartshorn and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Himes
David L. Horowitz Family
Mark and Kristine Howlett
Mark Ike
Mr and Mrs Jim Irwin
Jackson Tidus
Tom Jenkins
Diane and Harry Johnson
Jessica and James Johnson
Dr. Burton L. Karson
Randy and Linda Kearns
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keith
Teri Kennady
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Klein
Dr. Elliott Kornhauser
Michelle A. Lund
Dr.* and Mrs. Paul K. Lam
Latham & Watkins
Joann Leatherby and Greg Bates
Ms. Michelle Lee
Kevin and Doris Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Edward LeVasseur, Jr.
Jaye Ruth Levy
Pamela Lewin
Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Lewis
Corey and Leslie Leyton
Paula Lingelbach
Mr. and Mrs. Brent Lynn
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mairena
Brian and Michele Maryott
Mr. and Mrs. Mawhorter
R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel
Toni and Terry McDonald
Susan Mears
Ms. Olga Megdal
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Melilli
Suzanne and James Robb Mellor
Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Meltzer
Michelle Merage
Mr. and Mrs. Norman J. Metcalfe
Kathy Michel
Thomas and Deanna Mitro
Tom and Naomi Moon
Ms. Jerra L. Morris
Evonne Morton
Mr. and Mr. Janis Murray
Newmeyer & Dillion
Chien and Linh Nguyen
The Minoru Nitta Family
The Peter Ochs Family
Trish and John* O’Donnell
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Packard
Mr. and Mrs. William O. Passo
Pamela Paul
Mr. Keith A. Pelan
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perricone
Mr. Willard Pierce
Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pitts
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Primm
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Proctor
Marcia Kay and Ron Radelet
John Rallis and Mary Lynn Bergman-Rallis
Suzanne C. and Jim H. Reinhardt
Joan Riach Gayner
Marilyn Hester Robbins and William H. Robbins
David and Linda Roberson Family
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Roedersheimer
Georgia and Robert Roth
Jan Vitti Rubel
Ms. Lori Rudin
Judy Fluor Runels, Dick Runels, Jayne & Lisa, in memory of Gregory Osborne
Mr.* and Mrs. Jack A. Sage
Melinda Grubbs-Sanders and Steve Sanders
Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting
Ms. Pamela M. Schmider
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schneider
Anita Seiveley and Jim Collins
Joan and Alan Sellers
Roger and Phyllis Shafer
Mr.* and Mrs. William N. Shattuck
Mary Shebell and Merle McCormick
Dr. John J. Smith and Mr. Edward R. Escoto
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling
Nancy and Geoffrey Stack
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stark
Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Steele
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Stein
Lisa and Wayne Stelmar
Mr. Lee R. Sutherland
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Sweeney
Pharris Group
Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie, Jr.
Mr. Christopher Trela
Dr. David L. Tsoong and Dr. Betty K. Tu
Ann Van Ausdeln
S. Vander Wal and S. Vincent
Megan and John Waldeck
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Watson
Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard
S. Gayle Widyolar, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Witt
Hal and Cheri Wright
Paul and Cheryl Wyrick
Mr. Darren Xanthos
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yourman
The Beverly & Albert Zacky Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. Zipser
$1,500+
Anonymous (4)
Jeannie Adams
Ms. Janis Agopian
Ms. Donna Anderson and Mr. Ronald Willut
Mr. and Mrs. Enrico Arvielo
Babilo Family
Dr. Thomas Bailey
Jim and Diane Bailey
Ms. Barbara D. Baranski
Paul Barkopoulos
Ms. Billie K. Baron
Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti
Mrs. Jennifer Berg
Berwood Management, Inc.
John and Kathy Besnard
Ms. Donna S. Bianchi
Suzanne and Bert Bigelow
Phil and Judy Binder
Blackbaud Giving Fund
Randy and Maria Blake
Blue Violet Networks
Mr. Peter F. Bowie
Bill and Judy Brady
Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Brandes
Carol and Peter Bregman
Dr. Andrew Breiterman
Paul and Rose Briscoe
Jim and Wendy Brooks
Ms. Karly Brown
Ms. Pauline Bukantz
Mrs. Kerrie Buncher
Charlie and Margie Bunten
Kimberly Burge
Nancy N. Burnett
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Callard
Ms. Donna F. Calvert
Jean Campbell
Ms. Deidre Campbell
Ms. Greta Campbell
Luisa Cano
Mrs. Cynthia Carson
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cashion
Ms. Bertha Cerda
Mr. John Chadwick
Michael and Elizabeth Chao
Derek Chen
Ms. Sandra Chiles
Lori and Harper Chozen
Ms. Sharon A. Cleaver
Robert and Diana Clemmer
Mr. Otis Cliatt II
Ms. Mary Coates
Michelle Colburn
Kevin and Lisa Corrigan
Greg and Donna Crandall
Ms. Patsy Cundiff
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Currie
Mary E. Dalessi
Mr. William G. Daly
Gail and Jim Daniels
Mr. and Mrs. Larry K. Dart
Dr. Robert F. and Julie A. Davey
Roger and Marjorie Davisson
Pieter and Keren de Zwart
Ms. Mary Debar
Jeannie Denholm
Dr. Daniel P. Dennies
Mary Allyn and Earl Dexter
Claus Dieckell
Richard and Lisa Doebler
Joan M. Donahue
Jolyon and Sharon Druce
Jerry and Kathy Dunlap
Frances L. Dye
Karen Ellis and Sandra Hartness
Cyndee Ely
Gareth Thomas Evans, Esq.
Jean-Claude and Dina Falmagne
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Fang
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Ferguson
Ms. Epifania Fernandez
Ms. Kaaryn File
Mrs. Cristy Fischbeck
Mr. Todd Fjield
Drs. Lisa Flanagan and Edwin Monuki
Elizabeth and John Fleming
Christine Flowers
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Fluor III
Janet Ford
Ms. Gwen Forquer
Ms. Rebecca Francis
James and Martha Freeman
Marilyn French and Bill Behr
Loretta Freund and Howard DeMar
Dr. Robert Furman
Ms. Yolanda Galloway
Marte* and Jack Ganoung
Ms. Jerra L. Morris
Mary and Dennis Ghan
Mr. James C. Gianulias
William J. Gillespie*
Susan Glass
Lawrence and Sharlene Goodman
Gerrie Goodreau
Mr. William Gordon and Dr. Susan M. Condrey
Mr. Donald Gormly
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gorum
Dina L. Gray
Mary and Peter Rooney
Gary and Linda Greene
Sharon and John Gregg
Mr. Chad Hainley
Mr. and Mrs. David Hale
Heidi Hall and Steven Guzowski
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hartline
Tim and Mary Harward
Vicki and David Hatfield
Angela Sue Helin
Mr. Frank T. Henry
Mr. and Mrs. Jose F. Herrera
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hinkle
Gary* and Sara, Frank and Brad Hinman
Hoelscher-Bell-Elliott Foundation
Peter and Susan Holliday
Dan and Lara Horgan
Toni Hoyt
Hing and Doris Hung
Mr. Darrel Huntington
Buzz* and Joan Jackson
Kristin Jackson
Laurie Jacobs
The Jaffe Family Foundation
Russell Jeffrey
Ms. Cynthia L. Jennings
Dolores and Mike Johnson
Kenneth L. and Marilyn C. Jones
Mr. David Julifs and Ms. Roxann Marumoto
Lynn L. Kambe
Irene B. Kamin
Ms. Gladys Kares
Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Kern
Marianne and Arthur Kidman
Mr. Daryl S. Kling
Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Knoth
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Kobayashi
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Konier
Mrs. Debra Kornswiet-Shandling and Dr. Adrian Shandling
Richard and Lynne Kramer
Bill and Mona Kratzert
Tamara and Jon Krause
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krause
Margarita Kruse
Ira and Riki Kucheck
Mr. Robert Kulpa and Ms. Linda S. Pabian
Linda A. Kurtz
Dr. and Mrs. KiHong Kwon
Mr. Jesse W. Laney
Betty Jane Lang
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lester
Allan and Patricia Lewis
Dr. Carolyn C. Light
Robert* and Janet Lind
Mr. Brian Lindley and Mrs. Maile Busby-Lindley
Ms. Karen Linton
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Logan, Jr.
Richard and Jacqueline Lombardi
Ms. Margaret M. Lord
Dr. and Mrs. Paul and Jana Lu
Christopher and Mary Lubner
In memory of Ed Lynch
Ms. Lynne E. MacVean
In memory of Victorio Adan Maestas
Kay and John Maglica
Mrs. Colleen Manchester
Dr. and Mrs. William Manclark
Dave and Diana Margileth
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Marquis
Ms. Laila Marshall-Pence
Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Martens
Joe and Linda Martin
P. Dennis Mattson and Melinda K. Harris
Brandon and Melissa Mazzacavallo
George and Sarah McDaniel
Mr. Thomas E. McKnight
Robert and Patricia McLaughlin
Ray Melissa and Elena Bedford
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meyer
Pamela Michael
Steven and Jenny Mizusawa
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Molina
Scott and Susan Moore
Mr. Corey Moore
Priscella J. Moore
Ms. Janice L. Moroney
Mr. Berto Muniz RN
Steven M. Murow
Debi Murray
Linda Myers
Mr. and Mrs. William Naeve
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Naeve
Tom and Marian Nau
Ms. Sheri Nazaroff
In Memory Of Mr. Robert T. Newell
Ms. Shayna M. Newman
Dr. Abdel Salam M. Niazy
Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Norman
Mr. and Mrs. Merlin J. Norton
Dr. Kevin O’Grady and Mrs. Nella Webster
Ms. Dawn O’Rourke
William and Linda Owen
Jae Pak
Evelyn and Pete Parrella
Raj Patel
Ms. Pamela S. Pedego
Ms. Katrina L. Pelto
Ms. Barbara Perez
Judy and Jack Perry
Beverly and Jim Peters
Dr. Ronald O. and Donna J. Phelps
The Penn Air Group
Johni Pittenger
Mr. Keith I. Polakoff
Mr. Mark Prendergast
Mr. Paul Proulx
Mr. Michael Reimer
Michelle A. Reinglass
Mr. Rick Reischman
Laurie and Richard M.* Rodnick
Ronna and Marshall Rown, M.D.
Lisa Rutherford
Ms. Janet Sanders
Yolanda Santos
Ms. Suzanne Schaumburg
Dale and Cindy Scheffler, and Mark Nye
Dolores Schiffert
Ms. Denise Schuler
Bud and Sandy Scott
Ms. Barbara L. Sentell
Emmanuel Sharef
Linda and Ed Sherman
Mrs. Ingrid R. Shutkin
Ms. Virginia D. Silverman
Lance and Deborah Slimmer
Ms. Kim Smith
Stephen E. Smith and Kathy Coyle Smith
Barbara E. Sorenson
Karyn Spear
N. Vicky Staub
Dr. Melvyn and Patricia Sterling
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Stirrat
Rob and Joan Stratton
Carol Lipp Strauss
Mandi Strelow Burch
Susan and Richard Stuelke
David and Jill Susson
Mr.* and Mrs. Arthur E. Svendsen
Michael and Suzanne Tague
Toni Tartamella
Kristin Taylor
Ms. Alveris B. Van Fleet-Corson
Henry and Sally Viets
Amy Villa
Fritzie Walker
Ms. Geraldine Walker
In memory of Robert D. Walters
Marilyn and Steve Weber
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Weisenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne W. Weisman
Mrs. Lorraine Welty
Shanna White
Ms. Susan Wiens
D and G Winzey
Patricia Wright
Howard and Sumi Yata
David Zimmerman
Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Zimmon
*in memoriam
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
Patron of Eminence ($500,000 +)
Fluor Corporation
The Fluor Foundation
Carol Frobish*
Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times Rockwell
Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*
Patron of Distinction ($250,000 +)
Bank of America
Nancy Marie Biram*
Patricia Fredricks-Dolson
Edison International
The First American Corporation
Patron of Honor ($100,000 +)
Daniel C.* and Janet S. Bonbright and Sons
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Engman
Helen B. Fait
Elizabeth E. Fleming*
The Orange County Register
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz
Richard C.* and Virginia A.* Hunsaker
Peter G.* and Mary M. Muth and Family
Nestle USA, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith
Ronald E. Soderling
Virginia Valentine
Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch
Patron of Acclaim ($50,000 +)
The Birtcher Family
Founders Plus
Evelyn and Richard Francuz
Sonia and Earle Ike
Mark Chapin Johnson and Barbara Hiller Johnson
Isidore C. and Penny W.* Myers
Palley-Needelman Asset Management
Ralphs/Food 4 Less
Mr. Stewart R. Smith
Ms. Anita Sparrow*
Wells Fargo
In memory of Barbara Steele Williams
Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin
Center Ambassador ($25,000 +)
In memory of Renée Segerstrom
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family
Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family
Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson
Center Diplomat ($10,000 +)
Mrs. Donald V. Bassler
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie
Susan Boyd
Mr. Lawrence H. Butler, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan
Chris and Lee Ann Canaday
Con Gusto Chapter of The Guilds of the Center
Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr.
Mr. Aaron Egigian
Alan* and Sandy Fainbarg Family
Dr. Dennis R. Fratt
John and Carolyn Garrett
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. McQuarrie
GoodSmith & Co., Inc.
William K. and Maxine Gresswell*
Nat S. and April D. Harty
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
Dr. Elliott Kornhauser
Mrs. Susan Lambrose
Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof
Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory
Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer
Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm
Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik
Estate of Ralph and Rose Meyer*
Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson
Joseph and Mary Norton Family
Ms. Cheryl Oakes
Nicholas S. Patin
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls
Mr. Charles Peyton, II
Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux
Betty Mower Potalivo
Stanley R. Robb Family
Ted and Jean Robinson and Family
The Clubhouse
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer
Douglas F. Schneider and Family
Rudolph C. Schweitzer*
Robert J. Searles
In memory of Hartley M. Sears
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.
Patron of Esteem ($1,000,000 +)
Audrey Steele Burnand*
Estate of Edra E. Brophy/ William J. Gillespie Foundation
The Beall Family
Victor H. Boyd
Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino
David and Victoria Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David
Ruth Ding, in memory of Thomas and Mary Lee
James* and Catherine Emmi
The Baker Frenzel Family
Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Hamann
In memory of Faye Wilkinson
Las Campanas of Orange County
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Harold Miller*
O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp, Jr.
Renée* and Henry T.* Segerstrom
Al and Susan Shankle
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
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton
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.
Patron of Esteem ($1,000,000 +)
Anonymous*
Richard C.* and Virginia A.* Hunsaker
Jean Ruth Miller*
Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer
Cecil C.* and Kathryn* H. Wright
Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin
Deferred Estate Gifts
Anonymous
Michael and Sara Abraham
Edna and Julio Aljure
Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Allen
Myrtle A. Anderson
Bart and Elizabeth Asner
Antoinette W. Ayres*
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett
John and Betty Barr
Mrs. Donald V. Bassler
The William A. Baxter Family
Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Beaudette
Gregory and Jennifer Beck
Dorothy and Donald Bendetti
Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Berns
George and Jacqueline Birdsong
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Birtcher
Mr. Baron Birtcher
The Birtcher Family
Mr. Ronald E. Birtcher
Mrs. Bernice Bishop*
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bland
Roberta Bouillon Trust
Barbara and Alex Bowie
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie
Susan Boyd
Victor H. Boyd
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr.
Gordon D. Brown and Jean D. Brown*
Ms. Kathy Buda
Douglas T. Burch, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Irving* X. Burg
Audrey Steele Burnand*
Dr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Burnett
Barbara Baker Burnham*
Drs. Fran* and Charlie Cacha
Charles B. Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan
Jean, Bob, Kristen and Kelly Campbell
Chris and Lee Ann Canaday
Dr. and Mrs. James H. Casey
Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino
Eileen Cirillo
Mr. Barry H. Josselson, Esquire
Mr. Duncan M. Coffey
Elizabeth and David Cole
David and Victoria Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David
John and Jennifer Condas
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor
Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr.
Ford A. Dickerhoff* and Wilma Dickerhoff*
Mr. Kermit Dorius*
Harry J. and Edith M. Doyle
Estate of Bertha Duhan*
Mary Jane McArthur Edalatpour and Nasrola Edalatpour
Ms. Julie Brinkerhof Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II
Shari and Harry Esayian
Mr. Harold W. Faber
Mr. Curtis S. Farrell
Jack and Janie Flammer
Dr. Dennis R. Fratt
Mr.* and Mrs.* T. Fukunaga/Kay K. Fukunaga
John and Carolyn Garrett
Estate of Edra E. Brophy*/ William J. Gillespie Foundation
GoodSmith & Co., Inc.
Harriett F. Grant*
Dr. and Mrs. G. Stanley Hall
Mr. and Mrs. Rondell Hanson
Nat S. and April D. Harty
Aart and Robert Hennekes
Lawrence and Dee Higby
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Higgins
Lewis and Audrey Himmelrich
Mr. Harold Hofer
David L. Horowitz Family
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoshaw
Mark and Kristine Howlett
S.L. and Betty Huang/ Huang Family Foundation
Lorne and Traute Huycke
Sonia and Earle Ike*
Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Jaeger
Mr. Guy K. Johnson
Dr.* and Mrs.* Bertram W. Justus
Mrs. Suzanne Kline
Curtis A. and Varla E. N. Knauss
Dr. Elliott Kornhauser
Mr. Gary A. Kreitz and Ms. Joyce Singman
Mrs. Susan Lambrose
Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof
Richard and Gerrie Leeds
Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas
Leon and Molly Lyon*
Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons
Mr. and Mrs. Robert* D. MacDonald
James, Charlene and Katherine MacDonald
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin
Douglas and Sandra MacLennan
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory
Mrs. Hedda Marosi
Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer
Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey
R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm
The McLarand Family Trust
Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik
Mr. Robin B. Miner
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Mohr*
The Morrison & Foerste Foundation
Myron Mull*
Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo
Mr. and Mrs. James P. Murphy
Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers
Michael D. and Lorraine C. Nadler
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Neisser
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson
Newmeyer & Dillion
Joseph and Mary Norton Family
Jerry Nourse
Ms. Cheryl Oakes
O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc./ Carolyn O’Neill
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Palafoutas
Mrs. Charlotte R. Paluzzi
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Paone
Nicholas S. Patin
Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls
Lenore and Carl Pearlston
Mr. Charles Peyton, II
Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux
Betty Mower Potalivo
Elaine M. Redfield*
Mr. Burton Reis
Howard G.* and Margaret C.* Richardson
Stanley R. Robb Family
David and Linda Roberson Family
Ted and Jean Robinson and Family
Carlene Rona*
Mrs. Annette Rosenthal*
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer
Bob and Bev Sandelman
Estate of Ernest J. Schag, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Schaller
Mrs. Betty Scheidt
Douglas F. Schneider and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schoellerman
O. Carl Schulz
Robert J. Searles
Al and Susan Shankle
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family
Dr. James B. and Muriel A. Sheets and Dr. Cherilyn G. Sheets
Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family
Jackie Singer and John Pope
Estate of Norman and Rose Smedegaard*
Mr.* and Mrs. Allen O. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sparks
Georgia Hull Spooner*
David and Diane Steffy
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Steinmetz
Richard R. and Phoebe Stenton
Steven-Thomas Antiques
Mr. and Mrs. Glen E.* Stillwell
The Stone Family
Dr. Arthur Strick
Dr. Max Swancutt, Jr.
A. Z. Taft, II*
Don L. Thompson
Libby and Herbert* Tobin
Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina
Virginia Valentine
Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch
Mr. Edward H. Wale
Ms. Jill Watkins
Margaret and Maurie Watman
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weston
Estate of Hilda Everett Whiteley*
Kent J. and Carol L. Wilken Family
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Williams
Fritzie Williams, in memory of Frank Williams
Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton
Harriett F. Witmer Family Trust*
Mr. Stewart C. Woodard
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orrin Wright
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yellin
Jane D. Zimmerman*
*in memoriam
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Casey Reitz, President
Judy Morr, Executive Vice President, Producing Director •
Brian Finck, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer•
Aaron Egigian, Senior Director, Music Programming•
ADMINISTRATION
Angelica Camarillo, Executive Assistant to the President & Board Liaison
Kelly Ornelas, Executive Assistant & Programming Coordinator•
Stacey Myers, Attorney/Contracts Manager•
FINANCE
Seila Heng, Controller
MeiMei Chiang, Senior Accountant
Andrew Hudson, Assistant Controller
Monica Drescher, Accounting Generalist•
HUMAN RESOURCES
Kerk Brown, Vice President, Human Resources
Maile Sagiao, Manager, Human Resources
Karen Duncan, Human Resources Generalist
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Marketing & Communications
Carla Cruz, Senior Director, Communications
Roxanne Rothafel, 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, Digital Marketing Manager
Joesan Diche, eCommerce Marketing Manager•
Kelly Hamilton, Manager, Annual Giving
Richard Ong, Manager, Calling Center•
Ken Catino, Senior Graphic Designer
Marianne Luwiharto, Graphic Designer
Jennifer Siglin, Graphic Designer
Hilary Leierer, Marketing Analyst•
Diana Torres, Group Services•
Emily Doughty, Social Media Coordinator
Lauren Knight, Content Creator Coordinator
William Olivieri, Marketing Coordinator
TICKETING
Ruth Mason, Director, Ticket Services
Karen Diche, Manager, Season Tickets•
Nicki Wilmot, Manager, Box Office
Karla Torres, Assistant Manager, Box Office
Amelia Lindquist, Supervisor, Ticket Services
Evan Silveria, Supervisor, Box Office
Marcie Bernal, Receptionist
Alberto Ponce, Office Services Coordinator •
Ashley Gaddis, Ticketing Functional Support•
Richard Todd, Ticketing Functional Support•
AUDIENCE SERVICES
Norm Major III, Director, Audience Services•
Sue Laird, Senior Manager, Audience Services
Ashleigh Hector, Asst. Manager, Audience Services•
Alex Lum, Asst. Manager, Audience Services•
Regine Rutherfurd, Clerical Assistant
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Dean Yarborough, Director, Information Technology
David Frederick, Associate Director, Information Technology
Jana Young, Applications Manager•
Samwel Basweti, Network Support Specialist
Mario Hortizuela, IT Support Specialist
Erik Lomack, IT Support Generalist
DEVELOPMENT
Tyler Ennis, Vice President, Development
Malika Middlebrooks, Associate Vice President, Development•
Elizabeth Kurila, Senior Director, Gift Planning Strategies
Courtney Dudman-Donley, Senior Director, Special Events & Support Groups
Nikki Michela, Director, Institutional Giving
Ginger Cheverria, Associate Director, Development Operations
Abigail Jimenez, Senior Manager, Special Events
Kay Linan, Senior Manager, Individual Giving & Stewardship
Jamie Roff, Senior Manager, Development Systems•
Emily Spicer, Senior Manager, Support Groups
Brian Tom, Senior Manager, Institutional Giving
Jeremy Hillier, Manager, Events and Support Groups Administration
Bernadette Ramos, Manager, Donor Relations
Sierra Detar, Prospect Analyst
Katie Lockie, Assistant Manager, Stewardship
Shimin Zheng, Assistant Manager, Support Groups
Evelyn Flores, Coordinator, Donor Relations
April Kunowski, Coordinator, Individual Giving
Danielle McMahan, Coordinator, Special Events
Stefanie Goodenberger, Executive Assistant, Development
EDUCATION
Talena Mara, Vice President, Education•
Cristal Ochoa, Director, Education Programs
Bethany Umbach, Senior Manager, Education Programs
Sarah Sierszyn, Manager, Education Operations
Alexis Johnson, Manager, Education Partnerships
Michael Mariano, Assistant Manager, Education Partnerships
Katie Nguyen, Coordinator, Education Partnerships
Emily Pearce, Coordinator, Education Programs
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Marytza Rubio, Vice President, Community Engagement, and Senior Director, Community & Culture
Emily Neely, Director, Community Engagement
Chloe Saalsaa, Manager, Studio D
Priscilla Reyes, Coordinator, Community Engagement
THEATER OPERATIONS
David Leavenworth, Vice President, Theater Operations & Facilities
Brian Keating, Director, Facilities and Engineering
Max Stossier, Director, Theater Operations
Kelly Ellerbrook, Event Operations Manager
Lindy Luong, Rental Manager
Glenn Powell, Production Manager
Aidan Daguro, Assistant Production Manager
Brennan Roach, Event Operations Supervisor
Jordan Smyth, Admin Coordinator
Denise Cruz, Production Coordinator
Zack Johnston, Clerical Assistant
SEGERSTROM HALL
John Oliphant, Technical Director/ Sr. Production Carpenter•
Sara Broadhead, Head Electrician
Willy J Pate, Head Carpenter
Alexis Vazquez Riggs, Head Wardrobe
James Wilcox, Head Audio
Chris Alva, Assistant In-Charge Carpenter/ Props•
Michael Clifford, Assistant
Scott Dale, Assistant•
Christopher Haugh, Assistant
Phil Harris, Assistant
Tim Ligatti, Assistant
TJ Simons, Assistant In-Charge Electrician
RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM
CONCERT HALL
John Downey, Head Audio•
Gregg Snider, Head Electrician•
John Vasquez, Head Carpenter
Eileen Jeanette, Tönmeister
SAMUELI THEATER
Mark Cook, Electrician•
Timothy Schmidt, Asst. Audio
ENGINEERING
Marc Lewis, Senior Engineer•
Bryan Vojtko, Senior Engineer•
Richard Whitfield, Senior Engineer•
Don Harvey, Engineer
Sean Robertson, Engineer
SECURITY
David Geck, Director of Security and Public Safety
Jon Hampe, Security Manager
Tyler Cole, Public Safety and Training Manager
Jaime Paz, Security Coordinator
Anthony Gonzales, Ramon Sanchez, Gary Spangler•, Lee Yepez, Security Supervisors
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
WILLIAM J. GILLESPIE SCHOOL
Sarah Jones, Interim Director
Zach Edwards, Coordinator
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