
ELGAR’S ENIGMA VARIATIONS
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November 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater 421 Montgomery St. Syracuse , NY 13202
Program
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Carnival of the Animals
1. Intro et Marche royale du lion (Intro & Royal March of the Lion)
2. Poules et coqs (Hens and Roosters)
3. Hémiones—Animaux véloces (Wild Donkeys—Fleet Animals)
4. Tortues (Tortoises)
5. L’éléphant
6. Kangourous (Kangaroos)
7. Aquarium
8. Personnages à longues oreilles (People with Long Ears)
9. Le coucou au fond des bois (Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods)
10. Volière (Aviary)
11. Pianistes (Pianists)
12. Fossiles (Fossils)
13. Le cygne (The Swan)
14. Final (Finale)
Mr. Llerena & Mr. Wunsch, pianos
FRANZ LISZT
Totentanz
Mr. Wunsch, piano
INTERMISSION
TAN DUN
Secret of Wind and Birds
Click “Play Audio” below for “Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds.”
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EDWARD ELGAR
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Enigma: Andante
Var.I. “C.A.E.” L’istesso tempo
II. “H.D.S.- P.” Allegro
III. “R.B.T.” Allegretto
IV. “W.M.B.” Allegro di molto
V. “R.P.A.” Moderato
VI. “Ysobel” Andantino
VII. “Troyte” Presto
VIII. “W.N.” Allegretto
IX. “Nimrod” Moderato
X. “Dorabella – Intermezzo” Allegretto
XI. “G.R.S.” Allegro di molto
XII. “B.G.N.” Andante
XIII. ” *** – Romanza” Moderato
XIV. “E.D.U.” – Finale
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Featured Artists
Pianist Aaron Wunsch enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer, presenter, and educator. He has performed on concert stages throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Duke’s Hall in London, at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland ...
Pianist Aaron Wunsch enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer, presenter, and educator. He has performed on concert stages throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Duke’s Hall in London, at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and as soloist with symphonies in the US and China. Lauded for his “masterful” chamber music performances (Hartford Courant), he has appeared at the Norfolk, Bowdoin, Sarasota, Great Lakes and Yellow Barn chamber music festivals, collaborating in performance with cellist Lynn Harrell, clarinetists Charles Neidich and Anthony McGill, violinists Miranda Cuckson and Jennifer Koh, and the Miró and Parker Quartets, among others. He has worked closely with many composers, including Thomas Adès, Nico Muhly, and Kaija Saariaho and has performed new works by Saariaho and John Adams during Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music. His performances have frequently been heard nationally on Performance Today.
He studied at Yale University (B.A., cum laude), the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Fulbright Fellowship) and at the Juilliard School (M.M. and D.M.A.). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Piano at William Paterson University and is currently the Director of Keyboard Studies and Piano Curriculum at Juilliard, where he teaches piano literature, graduate studies, chamber music, and directs Juilliard PianoScope, the Piano Department’s performance series. He gives piano master classes and lectures at conservatories and universities in the U. S., Europe, and Asia, and he was 2010 Visiting Professor at Shanghai Normal University. His awards for written work in musicology include the Henry Hart Rice Prize and the Richard F. French Prize. His principal teachers in piano included Peter Frankl, Karlheinz Kämmerling, and Robert McDonald, and he also worked with Andras Schiff, Jerome Lowenthal, and Claude Frank; his history and theory studies were with Allen Forte, Robert Morgan, L. Michael Griffel, and Maynard Solomon.
He is Artistic Director of both the acclaimed Music Mondays concert series in New York City and Co-Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Festival, in the Finger Lakes.
New York-based Peruvian American, Giancarlo Llerena, is a pianist, collaborator, teaching artist, and aspiring leader in the arts. An avid performer, he has appeared on many prestigious stages across the US and Europe, such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kravis Center, the New World Center, Teatro Angelo ...
New York-based Peruvian American, Giancarlo Llerena, is a pianist, collaborator, teaching artist, and aspiring leader in the arts. An avid performer, he has appeared on many prestigious stages across the US and Europe, such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kravis Center, the New World Center, Teatro Angelo Mariani, Église Saint Dominique, and more. Most recently, he has appeared in performance twice with violinist Joshua Bell, as well as soprano Larisa Martinez for the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts Gala. In the 2024-2025 season, he also had the privilege of performing alongside “You Raise Me Up” singer, Josh Groban.
Giancarlo has been awarded top prizes in several competitions, including the National Youngarts Competition, and has also attended the Tanglewood Institute and the Aspen Music Festival on full scholarship. He was recently invited as a 2025 Fellowship Pianist for Classic Lyric Arts, where he coached and performed with singers across Italy and France. Throughout his journey, he has had the privilege of being mentored by many esteemed musicians, such as Hilary Hahn, Jessie Montgomery, Brian Zeger, Isabel Leonard, Rohan de Silva, Itzhak Perlman, David Finckel, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and others.
Having immense passions for music pedagogy and bringing art to diverse communities, Giancarlo has been dedicated to such efforts through the Gluck Community Service Fellowship, the Morse Teaching Artist Fellowship, and the Music Advancement Program Teaching Fellowship at The Juilliard School. This has also led to his invitation as a teaching artist and collaborative pianist with the educational non-profit, Harmony Program.
Giancarlo is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano at Juilliard as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, under the tutelage of Lydia Brown. He also received his Bachelor’s degree there in Piano Performance with Academic Honors, having studied with Veda Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. Giancarlo is a proud Steinway & Sons Educational Partner.
Spain’s native, JOSÉ-LUIS NOVO is currently artistic director and conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in Maryland and from 2003 to 2016 he held an impressive thirteen-year tenure as Music Director and Conductor of the Binghamton Philharmonic. Prior to these appointments, he served as Assistant Conductor of the ...
Spain’s native, JOSÉ-LUIS NOVO is currently artistic director and conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in Maryland and from 2003 to 2016 he held an impressive thirteen-year tenure as Music Director and Conductor of the Binghamton Philharmonic. Prior to these appointments, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under both former Music Director Paavo Järvi and the late Music Director Emeritus Jesús López-Cobos, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the late Erich Kunzel. He has been on the conducting faculty at the Eastern Music Festival since 1999.
Highlights of Novo’s tenure with the ASO include numerous appearances at the Music Center at Strathmore with violinists James Ehnes, Anne Akiko Meyers, NoahBendix-Balgley, Chee-Yun, Leticia Moreno and Esther Yoo; pianists Olga Kern, Jon Nakamatsu, Brian Ganz and Awadagin Pratt; cellists Steven Isserlis and the late Lynn Harrell; guitarist Manuel Barrueco; pipa virtuoso Wu Man and the Naval Academy Glee Club. Also remarkable are a 2012 return appearance at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, national broadcasts on NPR’s Performance Today, debut TV broadcasts on Washington’s WETA Metro PBS, the launching of the ASO’s award-winning streaming platform Symphony+, the creation of the Annapolis Symphony Academy and the ASO’s first commercial CD commemorating the 300th anniversary of the signing of the City of Annapolis’ Royal Charter. In July of 2022, Maestro Novo and the ASO stunned audiences on both sides of the Atlantic in a debut international tour to Spain with guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero as guest soloist.
Recent and upcoming guest conducting engagements include debut appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Austin, Grand Rapids, Hilton Head, Palm Beach, Alexandria and South Bend Symphony Orchestras, and return appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, the Fresno Philharmonic, Symphoria, and a Kimmel Center debut in Philadelphia conducting the Curtis Institute Orchestra. After a successful debut with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) for the Thailand International Composition Festival, Maestro Novo has been invited back regularly to guest conduct the TPO on several occasions. Other guest conducting engagements have included appearances with the Symphony San José; the Minnesota Orchestra; the Syracuse, Modesto, Windsor, Stamford, Tulsa, and Tallahassee Symphonies; the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra; the Cleveland and Abilene Philharmonics, and most of the major Spanish orchestras.
Novo has also fostered a reputation as a keen educator of young musicians. He has held conducting positions with the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, Miami University Symphony Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Spain and the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and from 2017 to 2019 he was Interim Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Maryland School of Music, College Park. In addition, he has conducted many noteworthy college and youth orchestras such as the Curtis Institute Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, and the Portuguesa State Youth Orchestra of the Venezuelan El Sistema. More recently and under the auspices of the Annapolis Symphony Academy, he presided over the debut of its Orion Youth Orchestra, conducting the inaugural concert in June 2022.
Novo was featured in the League of American Orchestra’s Symphony magazine in “Podium Powers,” an article about emerging Hispanic conductors in the United States. He holds music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Yale University and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, and is the recipient of a 2010 Annie Award in Performing Arts from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, a 2008 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Adventurous Programming Award, and a 2005 Broome County Arts Council Heart of the Arts Award.
Program Notes
At this year’s first Masterworks concert, we presented one of the grandest and most serious works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), his Third Symphony, generally known as the “Organ” Symphony. We return to Saint-Saëns for tonight’s opener, offering a work as frivolous as the symphony is grand: Carnival of the Animals. It was composed in the same year as the symphony, 1886, although Saint-Saëns wouldn’t allow it to be published or performed in public until after his death. Why? He wrote it as a jeu d’esprit—and ...
At this year’s first Masterworks concert, we presented one of the grandest and most serious works by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), his Third Symphony, generally known as the “Organ” Symphony. We return to Saint-Saëns for tonight’s opener, offering a work as frivolous as the symphony is grand: Carnival of the Animals. It was composed in the same year as the symphony, 1886, although Saint-Saëns wouldn’t allow it to be published or performed in public until after his death. Why? He wrote it as a jeu d’esprit—and he was afraid that its humor would injure his reputation as a serious composer. His fears were justified; once published, it went on to become his most popular large-scale work and has contributed to an underestimation of the depth of his output as a whole.
Part of its appeal is its wacky orchestration. Saint-Saëns was no stranger to throwing together unusual ensembles (his Septet, written a few years earlier, plumps up the standard piano quintet with double bass and trumpet). But Carnival of the Animals may be the most unorthodox, calling for an ensemble of 11 instruments: flute, clarinet, glass harmonica, xylophone, string quintet, and two pianos. It’s deployed in an imaginatively varied way, too: Every one of its fourteen sections (except for “Wild Asses,” “Kangaroos,” and “Pianists,” which are played by the two pianos alone) is scored for a different collection of players—and the whole ensemble only gets together when the piece is summed up in the effervescent finale.
Indeed, the ensemble is so unorthodox that it’s impractical—so you’re unlikely to hear the work in its original scoring. The glass harmonica, for instance, is nearly extinct. Invented by Benjamin Franklin, it uses wet fingers against spinning bowls to produce eerie sounds (just as you can produce sounds by running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass); nowadays, it’s usually replaced by a glockenspiel (as it will be tonight) or by a celesta. Then, too, since the ensemble is too large and diverse for a chamber music concert and too small for most symphonic concerts, it’s usually played with a larger string section.
Part of its attraction, too, is its appeal to young listeners, which is why it’s a staple on kids’ concerts. As pianist Aaron Wunsch describes it, it inspires “the childlike glee of going to the zoo. You see these animals and how they’re behaving, and your eyes widen.” At the same time, though, it’s aimed at experienced listeners. For all its immediacy and child-like wonder, much of its humor is fairly sophisticated, and it often relies on a sharp ear and musical knowledge.
Yes, the lumbering of the double-bass in “The Elephant” will elicit a smile, even to an uninitiated youngster; but the real humor in the movement is its incongruously weighty quotations of Berlioz’s gossamer “Dance of the Sylphs” (from Damnation of Faust) and of ethereal music from Midsummer Night’s Dream. Similarly, the “Tortoises” dance to a slow distortion of the familiar “Can-Can” from Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, while “Fossils” not only imitates the bones of skeletons and Saint-Saëns’s own Danse Macabre, but also a few fossilized folk songs as well as a Rossini aria—a remnant of an earlier time.
The connections between Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and our second composer tonight, Franz Liszt (1811–1886), are labyrinthine. The two composers were what Liszt called “excellent friends” who performed each other’s music; and one of the last musical events that Liszt attended was one of those private performances of Carnival of the Animals when it was first composed. There’s a good chance that Liszt would have been particularly amused by the way Saint-Saëns wove in the Danse macabre, since Liszt himself had transcribed the work for piano a decade earlier—perhaps a nod of thanks to Saint-Saëns who had transcribed Liszt’s tone poem Orpheus for piano trio the year before. Then, too, at the time, Saint-Saëns was also composing his Organ Symphony, which was inspired by Liszt’s compositional procedures and dedicated to him.
That said (and there’s much more), it’s something of a shock to move from the high-spirited jaunt that concludes Carnival of the Animals to Liszt’s Totentanz (The Dance of Death, c. 1847–1864), our second work tonight: Liszt’s is as terrifying as Saint-Saëns’s is lighthearted.
To be sure, on the surface, Totentanz is a pianistic showpiece. Yet the piece is no simple virtuoso vehicle. Indeed, it represents much of Liszt’s most radical rethinking of compositional techniques in the middle of the nineteenth century, looking ahead in some ways to the twentieth. Harmonies can be shocking. Formally, too, the work breaks with tradition. It begins as a simple theme and variations—thus tying it formally to the last two pieces on the program; but about halfway through, with the fifth variation, the structure seems to dissolve into something more like a free fantasia.
At the same time that it looks ahead, however, the music is strongly anchored in the past—although not in the fossilized manner that Saint-Saëns poked fun at. It has its programmatic source in a fourteenth-century fresco (attributed at the time to Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, familiarly known as Orcagna), and perhaps in Holbein etchings as well. The basic musical material is ancient as well. Under the influence of another good friend Hector Berlioz, who had used the same theme in his Symphonie fantastique, Liszt grounds Totentanz in the Dies Irae, the plain-chant from the Latin Requiem Mass used to describe the “day of wrath.” (Just to tighten the connections between Saint-Saëns and Liszt, both Danse macabre—although not the part quoted in Carnival of the Animals—and the “Organ” Symphony quote the Dies Irae, too; and Carnival of the Animals quotes Berlioz as well, an excerpt from his opera-oratorio about Divine Judgment.) Then, too, Liszt alludes to stylistic procedures of pre-classical composers, especially Bach. This superimposition of the future and the past produces a kind of temporal disorientation—perfectly appropriate to a work reflecting the Day of Wrath.
Aaron has a special connection to the piece: “I heard it for the first time when I was twelve. It’s one of the most long-lasting musical experiences I ever had—it has stayed with me, even to this day. It may be one of the reasons why I became a pianist.” In fact, he went on to study with the soloist who performed it at that concert—Robert Moeling. (By a bizarre coincidence, Carnival of the Animals was also played on that fateful concert.)
What’s so compelling about Totentanz? “From the very moment that this piece started,” says Aaron, “I was on the edge of my seat. The way that Liszt uses the piano, from the start, grabs hold of you as a listener and captivates you.” Wouldn’t any virtuoso work have had the same effect? No, he says. “It sounded dangerous. The opening, where the pianist runs up and down the keyboard, was like an electric shock. I had never heard classical music that grabbed me like that. There’s something so visceral about the way he uses the piano in every possible expressive format. At the start, you can’t even hear the notes—it’s almost like a percussion instrument. And the speed of some of it is so fast, you can’t hear the individual notes either. He’s using sonic effects on the piano that I didn’t realize were possible at that time.
“And of course,” he continues, “the music is about death, a subject that we tend to not want to talk or think about—and it tries to meet that subject head on. When we’re forced to think about death, what comes to mind first is fear. And Liszt summons that in the listener in an amazing way, through noise, through sheer speed, volume, dissonance, and then he reflects on it more deeply. What is this? What does it mean when we die? What happens to us? Where do we go? Is there an afterlife? There’s this very contemplative section in the middle where he considers some of those things.”
If Totentanz probes the depths, the Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds by Tan Dun (b. 1957) soars across the sky. Tan is probably most widely known for his film score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But he’s written a vast amount of music, from solo pieces to operas, notable for combining Chinese and Western musical instruments and traditions. In Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds, as in his multimedia works, he incorporates modern technology too, calling on cell phones (both in the orchestra and in the audience) to play back, in the composer’s words, the sounds of “six ancient Chinese instruments, the guzheng, suona, erhu, pipa, dizi, and sheng.” Specifically, they play bird sounds he composed, “turning the devices into instruments and creating a poetic forest of digital birds.”
In spirit, the aim of the work is “to decode the countless patterns of the sounds and colors found in nature,” in particular the way birds, winds, and waves travel. Formally, the work, like the Liszt (and the Elgar that closes the concert), is a set of variations—more specifically, a passacaglia, which is a set of variations that appears over a repeated bass line. The variations are of different lengths, often separated by brief interludes. But it’s easy to follow the music’s progress, since the basic pattern, initially called out by the first trombone, is clearly audible throughout, drawing you inexorably ahead. After the ninth variation, the orchestra begins chanting and builds, in Tan’s words, with “finger snapping, whistling, and foot stamping into a powerful orchestral hip-hop energy. By the end, the winds, strings, brass, and percussion together cry out as one giant bird. To me, this last sound is that of the Phoenix, the dream of a future world.”
In addition to the digital overlay, the orchestra itself—like the piano in Totentanz—will, in the words of tonight’s conductor José-Luis Novo, be doing “many unconventional things”: “They are going to be humming, whistling, snapping their fingers, and creating sounds that are more unusual.” After the first variation, for instance, the score asks the strings to “improvise on the sound of ocean … wind … birds.” “I believe,” continues José-Luis, “that it’s very important to show the audience that an orchestra is a versatile instrument that can do lots of things.” It’s that orchestral versatility, combined “with the involvement of the audience themselves participating in the creation of the performance,” that led to him to choose this piece for tonight’s concert.
Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds ends in flight; the Enigma Variations, composed in 1898–1899 by Edward Elgar (1857–1934) brings us back to earth. On the surface, the work is a straightforward set of 14 variations based (sometimes loosely) on a theme stated at the outset. But although it’s straightforward, it’s ingenious; as José-Luis says, “the piece is an incredible exercise on how to create music out of small content.” The work runs deeper than that, however: every variation, headed by initials or a nickname, represents someone in Elgar’s circle, starting with his wife Alice, moving through publisher August Jaeger (the famous “Nimrod” variation in the middle, punning on the meaning of the German word jaeger, “hunter”), ending with a tribute to the composer himself (surprisingly assertive, given Elgar’s modesty). Some friends are honored with variations tied to their general personalities, some with representations of personal quirks (the stammer of Dora Penny, Variation 10), others with reminiscences of events (George Sinclair’s bulldog falling into a river, Variation 11).
But there’s yet another level, suggested most clearly by the erotic pull in the evocative Variation 13, a romanza in which the initials are replaced by asterisks (always a clue of something risqué) and in which Elgar quotes Mendelssohn’s “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage” in a way tinted with loss and melancholy. Need more mystery? Elgar claimed that there was a secret theme behind the main theme—in other words, that the theme was already a variation on something else. Critics and musicologists have spent more than 125 years trying to solve the puzzle, proposing dozens of solutions from “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to the theme from Bach’s Art of Fugue. It increasingly seems that we’ll never know the answer—and even that Elgar may have been sending us on a wild goose chase.
With all these layers, the work offers abundant opportunities for the listener. Even if you just bask in the music as it unfolds, however, you’ll be following the composer’s guidance. “The work,” he wrote, “may be listened to as a ‘piece of music’ apart from any extraneous consideration.”
In any case, the Enigma Variations provides the perfect end to this concert, since it mirrors Carnival of the Animals in uncanny ways. Both works are the most popular large-scale works that their respective composers wrote; the Saint-Saëns has fourteen sections, the Elgar fourteen variations; thanks to the intrusion of George Sinclair’s bulldog, both represent animals; both quote Mendelssohn; and they both reach their mysterious romantic core at the same point, the unlucky No. 13 (that’s where “The Swan” shows up in Carnival of the Animals). Then, too, both are, in José-Luis’s words, “collections of portraits.” You might almost suspect that Carnival of the Animals holds the key to Elgar’s enigma.
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Have any comments or questions? Please write to me at prabinowitz@SyracuseOrchestra.org
The Orchestra
FLUTE
Vacant, Principal
Supported by Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan, in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
Kelly Covert
PICCOLO
Kelly Covert
Supported by Susan Moran
OBOE
Eduardo Sepúlveda, Principal
The Philip R. MacArthur Chair
Mickenna Keller
ENGLISH HORN
Mickenna Keller
CLARINET
Allan Kolsky, Principal
John Friedrichs, Assistant First Chair
BASS CLARINET
John Friedrichs
BASSOON
Rachel Koeth, Principal
Jessica Wooldridge King
CONTRABASSOON
Jessica Wooldridge King
HORN
Jon Garland, Principal
Nancy & David Ridings Chair
Supported by Johanna Ames
Jonathan Dozois
Supported by Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth
^Julie Bridge, Associate Principal
Tyler Ogilvie
TRUMPET
John Raschella, Principal
Robert C. Soderberg Chair
Supported by Elsa & Peter Soderberg
Roy Smith
TROMBONE
Benjamin Dettelback, Principal
Supported by Sharye Skinner
David Seder
Jackson Murphy
Bass Trombone supported by an anonymous friend
TUBA
Justin Benavidez
TIMPANI
Glenn Paulson
Supported by Mary Ann Tyszko
PERCUSSION
Michael W. Bull, Principal
Supported by Alice & Michael Kendrick
Ernest Muzquiz
Supported by Cherry & Peter Thun
Laurance Luttinger
VIOLIN I
Peter Rovit, Concertmaster
Supported by Robert & Vicki Lieberman
Sonya Stith Williams, Associate Concertmaster
Supported by Virginia Parker, in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
Edgar Tumajyan, Assistant Concertmaster
Supported by David A. A. Ridings
Noemi Miloradovic
Laura Smith
Liviu Dobrota
Edwin Lok Hin Cheng
Christopher Stork
Asher Wulfman
Olivia Moaddel
VIOLIN II
Amy Christian, Principal
Supported by Martin Hewitt & Katarína Óladóttir
Anita Gustafson, Assistant Principal
Benjamin Mygatt
Sara Silva
Amanda Brin
Linda Carmona
Adam Jeffreys
Qiyue He
VIOLA
Michael Halbrook, Principal
Arvilla Wendland, Acting Assistant Principal
Carol Sasson
Supported by Madison Financial Planning Group
William Ford-Smith
Batmyagmar “Miga” Erdenebat
CELLO
Heidi Hoffman, Principal
Supported by David Abrams, in memory of Cheryl Abrams
Lindsay Groves, Assistant Principal
Supported by George Bain
^Gregory Wood, Assistant Principal
Lydia Parkington, Assistant Principal
Walden Bass
Supported by Susan R. Klenk
George Macero
Supported by Bill & Nancy Byrne
BASS
Spencer Phillips, Principal
Supported by Lou & Kathy Lemos
Michael Fittipaldi, Assistant Principal
Supported by Barbara Davis, in memory of Leslie Davis
Joshua Kerr
Marshall Henry
PERSONNEL MANAGERS
Arvilla Wendland
Jonathan Dozois
LIBRARIAN
Kyle Jones
^ on leave for the 2025-26 season
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We are grateful to the following donors for their generous gifts received between August 19, 2024 and August 19, 2025. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy in the listing below, but if you find a discrepancy, please contact Riley Farnham at RFarnham@SyracuseOrchestra.org or (315) 434-5647.
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Madison Financial Planning Group: Carol Sasson, Section Viola
Susan Moran: Kelly Covert, Second Flute/Piccolo
Amy & Matthew Parker: Sonya Stith Williams, Associate Concertmaster
Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan, in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.: Principal Flute
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Sharye Skinner: Ben Dettelback, Principal Trombone
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Robert & Vicki Feldman
Martin Hewitt &
Katarína Óladóttir
Norma Kelley
Christine & David Gross-Loh
David Rankert
Helen Reed &
Ronald Ferguson
Lorne & Ellen Runge
Sharye Skinner
Louis & Mary R. Steigerwald
Shaila Wood &
Ramesh Gaonkar
Annual Fund Donors
Gifts received annually between August 19, 2024 to August 19, 2025 from individuals to support The Syracuse Orchestra’s mission to engage and inspire all community members throughout Central New York with outstanding orchestral and ensemble performances, and innovative education and outreach initiatives.
$50,000+
The Feng Family
Robert & Vicki Lieberman
Michael & Rissa Ratner
$20,000-$49,999
Anonymous
David Abrams
William & Nancy Byrne
Martin Hewitt &
Katarína Óladóttir
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd
Alice & Michael Kendrick
Paul G. Brown &
Susan Loevenguth
David A. A. Ridings
Peter & Elsa Soderberg
Mary Ann Tyszko
$10,000-$19,999
Craig & Kathleen Byrum
Harold L. Husovsky, MD &
Susan E. Stred, MD
Susan R. Klenk
Lou & Kathy Lemos
Sue Moran
Paul Mosbo
Paul E. Phillips &
Sharon P. Sullivan
David Pida
Peter & Nancy Rabinowitz
David Rankert
James & Marilyn Seago
Sharye Skinner
$5,000-$9,999
Anonymous
George Bain
Jack & Heather Drake Bianchi
Jonathan & Kathy Bowen Jr.
Michael Bull &
Deborah Cunningham
Mark Costaldi
Willson Cummer &
Michelle Breidenbach
Mark Cywilko &
Marianne Moosbrugger
Barbara Davis
Paul & Maureen Drescher
Robert & Vicki Feldman
Richard Jaeger
Young & Kelly Lee
Marion & Zahi Makhuli
Robert Oddy
Amy & Matthew Parker
Kimberly & Mihael Puc
Ellen Runge
Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar
$2,500-$4,999
Michael Barkun
Kathleen Bice
David Brittain
Cecelia Broton
Linda Tassa & Joseph Cerroni
Christopher & RoAnn Destito Family Fund of Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties
David Driesen & Jeanne Otten
John & Janet Dwyer
Thomas & Cindy Giffin
Lawrence & Dorothy Gordon
A. Lindsay Groves
Barbara Haas
Daniel & Julia Harris
Carol Watson Hickes
Bruce Irvine
Harvey & Deborah Kliman
Bob & Pat Lebel
John MacAllister &
Laurel Moranz
Walter & Elizabeth Merriam
Mary Pat Oliker
Ed & Louise Stevens
Gwen Sykes
William & Margaret Thickstun
Ben Walsh for Syracuse
$1,000-$2,499
Neville Sachs & Carol Adamec
David Allen
Robert & Alice Andrews
Ferial Benhaimi
William & Audrey Boyd
Marcus& Elizabeth Cerroni
Shiu-Kai Chin & Linda Milosky
Joe & Nancy Clayton
George & Deborah Coble
Linda & Bill Cohen
Richard & Marjorie Cohen
Kelly & Kelly Covert
Michael & Wendy Cynamon
Patricia DeAngelis
Patricia Callahan & David Dee
Rosemarie MacArthur
Michael Lee & Deborah Donahue
Bill & Betsy Elkins
Elizabeth Etoll
Daniel & Karen Fuleihan
Chris C. Gagas
Jon Garland
Jack & Yana Graver
Gary & Bonnie Grossman
Carol Sasson & Tim Guhl
Anita Gustafson
Lamont & Joan Hahn
Burt & Sue Harbison
Haylor Family Charitable Fund
Joyce Homan
Peter & Mary Huntington
Steve & Elaine Jacobs
Nancy Caple Johnson
Norma Kelley
John & Maren King
David & Gloria Kreh
John A. Lang
Zalie & Bob Linn
Christopher J. Mack &
Catherine Diviney
Nels & Deborah Magnuson
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
John & Candace Marsellus
Fritz Messere &
Nola Heidlebaugh
Donna Miller
Eric & Judy Mower
Edward & Alice Nanno
Estate of John &
Carol Oberbrunner
Barbara Omicinski
David & Janice Panasci
Patricia Peach
Carolyn Stark
Helen Reed & Ron Ferguson
Bill & Karen Roche
Paula Rosenbaum &
Jacques Lewalle
David Ross & Martha Sutter
Toni Salisbury
Edward & Lois Schroeder
Gracia Sears
Craig A. Simmons &
Richard K. Ernst
Barbara A. Ford &
William E. Smith
Susan Stowell
Douglas Sutherland &
Nancy Kramer
Norma Tippett
Larry & Linda Vicks
Howard & Anita Weinberger
Miriam Weiner
Qing Wu & Qinru Qiu
$500-$999
Anonymous
Charles & Marie Albee
Todd & Sophia Battaglia
James & Joanne Beckman
Ron & Sue Berger
Thomas Bersani & Joan Christy
William Billingham
Joseph & Mary Browne
Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead
Frank Byrne & Mary McCune
Ronald Capone
Robert & Marsha Chopko
Barbara Czarnecki
Darrin Dayton
Bonnie DeBoer
Katheryn Doran
Guy & Nancy Easter
Mark Feldman & Christine Riley
Earleen Foulk
Michael & Susan Fox
Adam C. Gagas
Judy & Mark Gotham
Joseph & Jean Guss
Gary Quirk & Charlotte Haas
Estelle M. Hahn
Joan M. Hanlin
Donald & Donna Henry
Steven & Amy Heyman
Michael & Victoria Hoffman
Vincent & Loretta Hueber
John & Jane Klucsik
Christopher & Deborah Knight
Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith
Lauralyn & G. Roberts Kolb
Dean R. Kolts
Ronald Kowalski
Andrea Latchem
Richard Levy
Janet Little
Eugene & Christine Lozner
Donald J. & Patricia MacLaughlin
Janet Mallan
Susan E. Martineau
Wallace & Gayonne McDonald
Thomas McKay & Dianne Apter
Robert & Susanna McVaugh
Lois M. Meyer
Mark & Debbie Miller
Music Faculty at Onondaga Community College
David & Beth Mitchell
Sara Morrow
Barbara Nevaldine
Sally O’Herin
John & Danielle O’Loughlin
Lleni Pach
Brian Pavlovitz
Howard & Ann Port
Marc & Marco Ramos
Jonathan E. Richman
Michael & Kelley Romano
Bernard Schneider
Steven & Marilynn Schroeder
Conrad Strozik & Janice Farrelly
Linda M. LeMura &
Lawrence Tanner
John & Maureen Tracy
Kristin Kadaji
Leah Weinberg & Paul Barron
Jenna Weitzel
$100-$499
Anonymous (19)
George & Beverley Adams
Jeanne & Robert Anderson
Manuel Ares
Peggy & Tim Atseff
Mark Hoffmann &
Jo Anne Bakeman
Marion Barbero
Tom Baron & Christine Liggio
Lorraine Barry
Helen Beale
Jean Beers
Barbara Bell
David & Gerda Bennett
Thomas & Susan Bergemann
Robert J. Berger
Janine Bernard
Edward & Angela Bernat
Cheryl & Aaron Sobol
Diana Biro & Eric Rogers
Nicolina Bisson
Marilyn M. Bittner
Estate of Peter & Lida Black
Barbara Bloom
Estate of Sandra Blouin
Susan Boettger
Anita Bombard
Jon & Patricia Booth
Alice Borning
James & Joyce Bresnahan
Noni & Harold Bristol Fund
Carroll Brown & Ann Young
Ruth Brown
William Brunken & Dale Hunter
Sharon Wise & Bryant Buchanan
Alfred Kelly & Sharon Burke
Ellen & Keith Butler
Andrea Calarco
Janet Callahan
Lawrence & Fran Campbell
Danielle Caryl
Edward & Sarah Castilano
Ronald & Judith Cavanagh
Elaine Ceresko
Kim & Bob Cherry
Robert & Amelia Christian
Valerie & Steve Churchill
John & Christine Clark
Sam & Carolyn Clemence
Sally Cockburn
Linda & Paul Cohen
Joyce Cook
James, Michelle Cooper
Peg & Pat Corbett
Diana F. Cramer
Helen Cronk
Anne Cronlund
Raymond Cummings, Jr.
Arthur D’Addario
Daniel D’Agostino
Michael & Elizabeth Daly
Davine & Yalonda Bey
Lynn & Patricia Davis
Rev. Christine J. Day
Virginia Debenedictis
Terry & Bill Delavan
James & Debra DeSocio
Dana & Dave DiGennaro
James & Donna Dispenza
Becky Dodd & Ross Wakeman
Alan & Linda Dolmatch
Christopher Douglass
Joseph Downing &
Willard Doswell
Rebecca A. Downing &
Kevin Sullivan
Kenneth & Virginia Drake
Christopher Dranchek
Corinne Driscoll
Lance Drucker
Dorothy Dunham
Siobhan Dunn
Ed & Karen Eagan
Barbara Egtvedt
John & Margaret Elliott
Christopher Erat
Richard & Jill Ertinger
Steve & Suzanne Evans
John & Margaret Feldmeier
John & Barbara Fero
Barbara & Matthew Ferro
Robert & Terry Flower
Gerard & Vanessa Flynn
Judith Fox
Nancy Freeborough &
Swiat Kaczmar
Kenneth & Kathleen Freer & The Silverwood Clarinet Choir
Rita Gram & Sue Friedland
John & Annette Friedrichs
Karen Fruehan
Aileen Gallagher &
Adam Crowley
Allen & Nirelle Galson
Barbara W. Genton
Sharon & David Gerber
Martha Getman
Christine Geyer
Reno & Grace Ghezzi
Joseph Giancola Jr.
Tyler & Brenna Ogilvie
Sandra K. Gingold
Carol Ginsky
Edward & Laurel Golash
Michael & Jacki Goldberg
Andrew Goldberg
Ellen Golden & Brian Walton
William J. Goodwin
Michael & Wendy Gordon
The Gorton Family
Jeremy Gosbee
Cyrus Grant
Stephen L. & Julia Graziano
Mark Greene &
Cynthia Dowd Greene
Martha & Robert Group
John & Kayla Gugino
Mary Elizabeth Haas
Tom & Christine Hafner
Patrick Hahn &
Susan Drummond
Rich Hall
Dana & Susan Hall
John Hallihan & Ethelwyn Soper
Iain & Danielle Hally
Judith Hand
Baird & Sarah Hansen
Brian & Barbara Hanson
Robert & Teresa Hargrave
Hilary E. Harley
Richard & Ann Harris
Douglas & Nancy Hatch
Karen & Bill Havens
Richard & Susan Hawks
Richard & Susan Heimerman
Thomas Higgins
Kimberly Higgins
Paula & Joseph Himmelsbach
Thomas Hirasuna & Jean Hunter
Charles & Carol Hladun
Geoffrey & Ellen Holm
Ruth Hotaling
Linda Imboden
Patricia W. Infantine
Wanda Irish
Linda Isaac
Anne Jamison & Peter Vanable
Todd & Taryn Jirousek
Diane Johnson
Edward Johnson
Paula C. Johnson
Anthony & Kathy Joseph
Carolyn Kanaley
Philip & Judy Kaplan
Nancy Karapin
Lexi Carlson & Sebastian Karcher
Barbara Ellen Kay
Amy Kemp
Patrick Killorin
Mark & Jessica King
Robin Kinnel
John & Mary Kinsella
Jeffrey Kirshner & Lorraine Rapp
Pamela Knapp
Frederick & Janet Koennecke
Barry R. & Kathryn Kogut
Michael & Karen Kolceski
Richard & Roxanne Kopecky
Roger Krieger
Bonnie Krueger & Thomas Bass
Thomas & Juliet Kubiniec
Barbara Kwasnik
Ho-Yin Kwok
Lorraine LaDuke
Stephen Lackey
Robert & Lauren Lalley
Linda Land
Tod Leggat &
Shannon Magari Leggat
James A. Leiter &
Allison H. Woeger
Fred Goldberg &
Dorothy Lennon
Beverly A. Lewis
Terry & Frances Lewis
Matthew Liepke
Edward & Carol Lipson
Linda LoBello
Linda Loomis
Justin & Ronna Louise
Nicholas & Cathy Lozoponi
Coy Ludwig
Paul J. MacArthur
Guy & Dawn Mackenzie
James MacKillop
Sarah MacLachlan
Frederick S. Marty
Karen Mason
John & Bonnie McCabe
Barbara Beckos &
Arthur McDonald
Darlene McFadden
Terri McGraw &
Michael Ringwood
Phyllis McKaig
Jacqueline McKillop
Mary Helen McNeal
Eckart & Mary Meisterfeld
Marcia & Dave Mele
Monica Merante & Brian Cornue
Anne Messenger
Glenna & Michael Meyer
Patricia Meyers
Richard & Joann Michalak
David Michel & Peggy Liuzzi
Karen Mihalyi
James A. Miller
Peter Miller
Daniel Miller
James & Susan Mone
Thomas & Nancy Monti
Matthew Petty & Amy Moon
Charles Moore
Catherine Gerard &
Joseph Moorman
Elizabeth R. & Jeffrey Morey
Russel & Carol Morison
Cathleen & Kevin Morton
Janice & Michael Mueller
Richard Mueller
David & Janet Muir
Janet S. Munro
Ernest Muzquiz &
Alice Valentine
Anne Nassar
Liz Marlowe & Rob Nemes
Angela Newman
Garry & Margaret Nichols
Barbara Nostrand
Michael & Edie Nupuf
John O’Neill
Paul Oakley
Jane Ondich & Thomas Mitchell
Judith Dehn Oplinger
Louis Orbach & Anastasia Urtz
Edward & Judith O’Rourke
Steve & Wenda Osborne
Jill Ozinsky
Thomas & Joyce Packard
Peg & Rick Padula
Cathy Palm
Robert Papworth
Robert & Teresa Parke
Carl & Terry Patrick
Stephen & Nancy Pattarini
Mary Jo Pedley
David E. Peebles &
Sheila M. Lemke
Colleen Roberts Pellman
Jackie & Chuck Penfield
Meredith & Tom Perreault
Andrew Perry
Dave Perry & Jan Masur-Perry
Barry & Mary Pickard
Richard Pilgrim
Mary Jean Piraino & Ron Karnya
Anita Pisano
Joshua W. &
Rebecca Podkaminer
Arnold & Judith Poltenson
Karen Potter
Steve & Kate Pynn
Daniel D. Rabuzzi MD
Selma Radin
Cleota Reed
Frances Toni Richardson
Donnaline Richman
Terry & Monica Richmond
Don & Loraine Ridall
Charles Roberts
Mary Robert Bailey
Phil Eisenman & Gayle Ross
Philip &
Nancy Machles Rothschild
Beverly Roy
Arnold Rubenstein
Elaine Rubenstein
Bob & Linda Ryan
John & Judy Sabene
Cheryl & Lou Sacco
Ilonka Salisbury
Jean M. Sanger &
Joseph W. Sanger
Ronald & Janice Saunders
Ernest & Anne Scalzetti
Stew Koenig & Judy Schmid
Meg Schneider
Molly Schutrumpf
G. Rob & Lynn Shepard Scott
Jon Selzer
Constance & Lawrence Semel
Scott Shablak
Patricia Sharpe
Steven & Susan Shaw
Alberta L. Shouldice
James W. Shults
Brenda Silverman
Peter McCarthy &
Jane Slabowski
Nancy Slavens
Richard & Linda Smernoff
Cindy Smith
Judith B. Smith
Malcolm & Sandy Smith
Daniel & Nancy Smothergill
Jacquelyn & George Snyder
John & Katherine Sodja
Michael Jeffrey Spencer
Terrance & Mary Frances Squires
George & Helene Starr
Karl Crossman & John Steinburg
Frank & Kathleen Stith
Jonathan & Janet Stoberl
Richard & Kathleen Stoeckel
Linda Stone
John & Kathy Suarez
David Svendsen
Julia Sydorowych
Julie & Peter Tantalo
Mary B. Thompson
Nancy Tiedemann
Karen Tietjen
James & Deborah Tifft
Christopher R. Tompkins
Jamie Traver & Peggy Conan
Ida Tili-Trebicka
George & Ronna Treier
Dennis & Deborah Trepanier
Eugene Turner
David & Patricia Urban
Jennifer & Matthew Vacanti
Kathryn Vernay
Meghan & TJ Vitale
Gisela von Dran
Anne Marie & James Voutsinas
Anita & Robert Wagner
Jeanne Walewski
Kristen & Jim Walker
Daniel & Annette Wallace
Connie Walters & Mark Bostick
Susan Wanner
Bruce Ward & Sarah Wider
Virginia Watson
Rose & Philip Weaver
Laurence & Linda Webster
George & Joyce Welitschinsky
Barbara Weller
Glen K. Wells
Shirley Wells
Arlene Westfall
Fred & Karen Whitney
The John & Judy Whittle Charitable Trust
Anne Whyte
Joan Wieder
Jesse & Eleanor Williams
Virginia Winters
Fayette Witherell
Charles Woods &
Gail Azeredo-Woods
Olwen Wright
Paul & Amanda Yaworsky
Sam & Robin Young
Joyce A. Zadzilka
Marilyn Zaleon
Mary Ann Zeppetello
Brent & Laurie Zerkle
$1-$99
Anonymous (18)
Scott & Karen Abbott
Marcus Acevedo
Eric Alderman
Eric Allen
Larry Almeida
Renee Ames
George Anderson
Benjamin Anderson
Kathryn Anderson
Trudi Antoine
Michael & Nicole Anzalone
Anthony Ardizzone
Dorina Armani
Amanda Armstrong
Glenn Armstrong
Eric Asempah
Robert Attridge
David & Michelle Auerbach
Robert & Nancy Auerbach
John & Kate Auwaerter
Stephen Auyer
Jessica Bagan
Stacey Balduf
Brenda Barbaglia
Anne Barnes
Christine Barr
Victoria Bartling
Jessica Bates
Kayleigh Begley
Barry Behlen
Larry Bell
Myra & William Bennett
Kathryn Benson
Mary Lee Berg
Steven & Laurie Berkowitz
Daniel Berkowitz
Robert Bezy
Tripti Bhattacharya
Gulsebnem Bishop
Cathy Bishop-Thielke
Louise Blafield
Carlton & Barbara Blanchard
Albert & Julie Blissert
Mike Kerker
Deborah Bogan
Susan Borker
Stephen & Doreen Bosch
Carol Bossuot
Fouad & Karen Boulos
Lawrence & Jill Bouvier
Paula Bradshaw
Richard & Barbara Bratt
Donna Briscoe
Eleanor Bronder-Major
Joan & Paul Brooks
John Brown
Carol Bryant
Charles & Mary Buckley
Stephanie Burke
Michael & Karen Burns
Tina Buzak
Matthew Byrne
John Cafferky
Jessica Calhoun
Lia Call
Lori & Mark Campitello
Amy Cardace
Melissa Cardone
Joseph & Mary Carello, Jr.
Patricia Carey
Katelyn Carney
Joseph Carpenter
Jessica Carr
Jonathan Carter
Diane Case
Dawn Caselnova
Margaret M. Cassady
Bethany Centrone
Rachel Ceparski
Kay Chai
Linda Chambers
Kevin & Krystal Chandler
Linda & Dana Chapman
Jennifer Charron
Therese Chawgo
Xueyi Chen
Nancy Christy
Jim Cifaratta
Margaret Clark
Robert & Athena Cleghorn
James & Eileen Clinton
Jennifer Close
Pamela Coffey
Glenn Coin
Kathleen M. Cole
Seleena Cole
Denise Coleman
Stephen Coleman
Donald Coling
David Collins
Gary & Michele Combs
Joan Conine
Kellie & Chris Conner
Jeff Cooper & Peggy Daub
Martha Cornell
Elizabeth Costello
Robert & Barbara Covert
Theodore Cox & Colleen Snow
Julie Crawford
Heidi H. Cross
Patricia Curtin
Anna Dahlstein
Donna Dallal-Ferne
Donald Damico
Advait Damle
Julie Daniel
Naginskaia Daria
Mary Darminio-Rinaldi
Darielle Dartt
Scott Dauenhauer
Josub & Solange David
Jorge Davidenko
Nicole Davidheiser
Carol Decker
Elisa Dekaney
Dan & Marcia Demartini
Robin Deredita
Frank Derrigo
Allison Deschamps
Frederick Dever
Ellen Diamond
Margrit Diehl
Lynne & Doug DiGennaro
Maximo D’Oleo
Joseph & Ellen Donigan
Mary Cay Donovan
James Dougherty
Richard & Nancy Downs
Paul Dreher-Wiberg
Carol Dumka
Aria Dusel
Ruth Dwyer
Jean Edminster
Joel Eglash
David & Donna Eichenlaub
Elizabeth Kiehl
Denise Ellis
Virginia Engan
Gillian Epstein
Gregory Eriksen
Kate Farrar
Christine Farrell
Mark Farrington
John Fehrman
Ciara Feltham
Andrew Fern
Mark & Susan Field
John & Lisa Fields
Elise Finielz
David William Fischer
Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold
Michael & Marion Fish
Michael & Rebecca Fitzgerald
Stephen & Elizabeth Fleury
Christine Flynn
Devin Flynn
Jeffrey & Nancy Fortais
Michelle Frankfurter
John Freeborn
Stephanie Freeman
Gary Frenay
David Freund
Paul Freyer
Patricia Gabello
Colin & Jessica Gallagher
Gretta Gallivan
Joshua Garcia
Mary Gardner
Steven & Linda Garner
Peter Gay
Rezar Gera
Daniela Gherasoiu
Thomas Giacobbi
Valerie Gigliotti
Brian Gill
Scott & Michelle Gillispie
John Gilrein
Ivan Gitsov & Pavlina Ivanova
Jerry & Kathleen Glum
Kasey Goggins
Karen Goldman
Octavia González
Gordon & Charlotte Goodison
Douglas Gould
Patricia Graham
Holly Grant
Sarah Griffin
Deborah Guancial
Susanne Guske
Patricia Hagemann
Joseph & Stacey Hagopian
Karen Haines
Dana & Susan Hall
Mary Hamel
Jessica Hammond
Roberta O. Hampson
Sean Hannan
Maria Hare
Eugene Hares & Kathleen Resch
Jim & Suzi Harriff
Mary Heather Harrington
Richard Harris
Paul Hart
Fred & Rina Hart
Ann Hatty
Stephanie Havens
Shannon Capozzolo
Stacey Haynes
Andy & Jennifer Hazeltine
Tarki Heath
David G. Heisig &
Donna Mahar
Michael Hennessy
Victor Hernandez
Christina Herzog
Kathleen & David Heslin
Sandra Hewett
Melissa Hockey
Mara Hogan
Jeffrey & Laurie Hollman
Mary Honis
Danielle Howard
Kirsten Hubel
Lee Hudson
Amy Hueber
Jayne Humbert
Robert Humphrey
Audrey S. Hurley
Jennifer Huyck
Nancy Impelizzieri
Martin Irons
Janet Jaffe
David Jahsman
Kathryn Jaime
Angela Janack
Mary Janus
Ava Jarvis
Jean Stelter
Kathryn Johns-Masten
Kathy & Paul Joslyn
John & Gwenn Judge
Christina Jureller
Gowda Kabbli Family
Kristin Kadaji
Heather Kadey
Paul Kalland
Allan & Rita Kanter
Hilda Kato
Corey Katz
Joseph Katz
Cathy Kay
Vincent Keener
Michelin Keleher
Margaret Kelley
Mark Kellish
Morgen & Michael Harding
David Kennedy
Patrick Kenny
Michael Kepler
Mary & Tom Kiernan
Hubert & Ellen Kimball
Debora Kimberly
Jay & Anne King
Noel King
Kirsten Kires
Robert & Leslie Klein
Fred & Christine Klemperer
Andrew Knopka
Brian Koch
Irina Kogan
Tammy Kohut
Roman Konopatskiy
Cheryl A Gressani
Marlene Koshgarian
Alex & Sabine Krantz
Donald & Ann Kreiling
Ursula Kwasnicka
Eden LaRonde
Sarah LaShomb
Daniel Lau
Teri Lawless
Elizabeth Leahey
Eunkyu Lee
Jay & Young Lee
Jennifer Leitgeb
Thomas Leith
Molly Lenehan
Ben Lennertz & Hannah Lau
Robert Leopard
David & Cindy Lewis
Elisabeth Lewis
Jennifer & John Liddy
Alex Lischak
Linda Llewellyn
John Lotito
Maria Loughran
Bryn Lovejoy-Grinnell
Stephen Luce
Teresa Lutoborski
Loutas Muhammad
Dan MacCollum
Deborah Magaro-Dolan & Stephen Dolan
Ilan Mahmoudov
Timothy & Ingrid Mahoney
Martha S. Maier
Fadi & Nujoud Makhlouf
David & Annette Malecki
Kathleen Maloney
Michael Manfredi
Charles & Susan Manro
Lorraine Markley
Gerald Martinez
Gianetta Massett
Jillian Mastroleo
Diane Matza
Allan & Cheryl Maxian
Carolyn & Cassandra May
Judith Mayne & Timothy Fennell
Christopher McAuliffe
Pamela McCabe
Dina Pollitts-McCarthy
Maureen McCauley
Amy McDonald
Laura McDonald
Bill & Michelle McGillivray
Brendan McGinn
Ellison McMahon
Gianna McManus
Abigail McVearry
Karen Meiner
Theresa Melendez
Kiana Memarandadgar
Belal Menbari
Larry Meyers
Joseph & Elizabeth Miles
Gretta Miles
Barry Miller
Deborah Mills
Haley Miner
Diane & Jeff Minor
Jennifer Moffat
Jeremy Montague
Marsha Montori
Kevin M. Moore
Richard Moore
Irene Morey
James & Diane Morgan
Stephanie Morgan
Christopher P. Morley
Tyler Morley
Richard Morris
Charles & Laurel Morton
Roger Morton
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
John & Nancy Mueller
Lawrence & Michele Mullett
Carol Murphy
Patrice Murphy
Elissa May Murphy
Maria Murray
James Murray-Coppolone
Robert Myers
Holly Nelson
Linda Nelson
Ann Netter
Martin & Millie Newshan
Cathryn Newton
Kim-Quyen Nguyen
John & Mary Niemi
Daniel Nilsen
Mehran Nojan
Elizabeth Novakowski
Barry O’Brien
Allison & David O’Brien
Jerome O’Callaghan
David & Susan O’Donnell
Deborah J. Oliver
Sarah McCoubrey
Andrew & Kathleen Olson
Eileen Ordinetz
Christine Checkosky &
Adam Pack
Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde & Lordes Paiewonsky
Dorothy Palladino
Helen Paratore
Arthur & Viola Paris
Kristy Lee Parkin
Lynne Della Pelle Pascale
Maria Pasniciuc
Nanette & Thomas Pasquarello
Matthew Patterson
Yuri Pavlov
Elizabeth Payer
David Peckham
Ruth Perkins
Kevin & Becky Peterman
Jeffrey Phelps & Sharon Trerise
Kay Phillips
Jennifer Pichoske
Daniel & Brandye Pisacano
Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve
Larry Popielinski
Georgia Popoff
Dean & Katie Powell
Holly Pratt
Jason Presley
Mary Lou Pritchett
Rachel Proulx
Bill & Jackie Quick
Robert & Barbara Rabin
Robert Dushay & Linda Radin
Carla Ramirez
Patricia Ratcliffe
Linda Raulli
Jaclyn Raymond
Paul Redick
Maggie Reid
Nancy Rein
Maryjo Reinhart
Ross & Melanie Relyea
Dacheng Ren & Jiejing Qiu
Riley Farnham
Daniel & Shelley Riley
Barbara Roach
Mary Robertson
Amy Roe
Ivayla Roleva-Peneva
Andrew & Gail Romano
Madeline Rommer
Matt Romocki
Mark Roney
Brad Ronkko
Philip Rose & Beth Broadway
Josette Rowser
Robert Rupp
Kim Russell
Richard & Virginia Russo
Barbara Russo
Douglas Rutan
Michael Ryan
Paul Ryan
Les & Karen Ryon
Mary & Dan Rys
Deborah Sabella
Margo Sampson
Seth & Penny Sanders
Gary & Karen Sauda
Rob Sawyer
David & Theresa Schafran
Patrick & Rebecca Schalk
Richard Scheutzow
David &
Candace Schneckenburger
Richard & Irene Schneider
Robert Schneider
Tom Schneller
Dina Oren & Jacob Schreibman
Richard Schultz & Mary Dunn
Louise Schulz
Donna Scrimale
Dylan Seaver
Charles Seereiter
Audra Sevey
Nancy Seward
Jacob & Dawn Seymour
Kim Sgroi
Linda Shapess
The Sharp-Ballinger Family
Kim Shattell
Edward & Edith Shillitoe
Linda Showens
Timothy Siau
Brenda Sikorski
David & Lisa Silverman
Merril Silverstein &
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein
Benjamin Sio
Jerry Skiff
Leonard Slobodin
Alden Smith
Anne Marie Smith
Megan Snellings
Erin Snyder
Stephen & Leslie Soos
Sheila & Mark Sostrin
Daniel Spangenberg
Maureen Squires
Neon Srinivasu
Janis Stanton
Robin Stark
Robert Stark
Stephen Stehman
Richard & Joan Stevens
Arlene Stewart
Donald Stewart
Eric & Ashley Stone
Alice Stroup
Megan Stuart
Steven Stull & Jeanne Goddard
Susan Sturgeon
Xue Su
Alan Sukert
Jane L. Sullivan
Mary K. Sullivan
David Swanson
Arnold Talentino
Marcie Tellier
George & Roma Temnycky
Zhen Teng
Carl Thomas
Brian & Margaret Thomas
Allan & Laura Thomson
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Kristin Wilson
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Gregory & Rita Wood
Richard & Mary Wood
Deborah Wood
Mary Jane Woodcock
Peter Wozniak
Richard & Mary Dee Yost
Alicia Zaret
Jack Zasada & Mary Haven
Carol Zellar
IN MEMORY OF
CHERYL ABRAMS
David Abrams
IN MEMORY OF
DAVID BARLOW
Matt & Jennifer Vacanti
IN HONOR OF WALDEN & EMILY BASS
Anonymous
IN HONOR OF WALDEN BASS & ANITA GUSTAFSON
Richard & Linda Smernoff
IN HONOR OF WALDEN BASS & PAT SHARPE
Kip & Terry Hargrave
IN HONOR OF CHRISTOPHER BERRY & EMMA SPECTOR
Hilary E. Harley
IN MEMORY OF ETHEL BLACK
Andrew Goldberg
IN MEMORY OF
CARL BORNING
Alice Borning
IN HONOR OF
BONITA CHAPMAN
John F. O’Neill
IN HONOR OF
AMY CHRISTIAN
Martin Hewitt &
Katarína Óladóttir
IN MEMORY OF
JUDITH SAVAGE COLEMAN
Stephen Coleman
IN HONOR OF KELLY COVERT
Robert & Barbara Covert
IN MEMORY OF
GLORIA GALLANIS DAYTON
Darrin Dayton
IN MEMORY OF
ANTHONY DEANGELIS
Rose & Philip Weaver
Cleota Reed
IN MEMORY OF KIT DODD
Becky Dodd & Ross Wakeman
IN MEMORY OF DORIS EAGAN
Ed & Karen Eagan
IN HONOR OF JOHN & ANNETTE FRIEDRICHS
Scott Shablak
IN MEMORY OF
GLORIA DAYTON &
WILMA GALLANIS
Darrin Dayton
IN HONOR OF JON GARLAND
David Brittain
IN HONOR OF GRACE &
RENO GHEZZI
Donna Scrimale
IN MEMORY OF
NORMA GOODMAN
John O’Neill
IN HONOR OF ANVI GOWDA
Shilpa Gowda Kabbli
IN HONOR OF
ANITA GUSTAFSON
Christopher Dranchek
IN MEMORY OF
NANCY HAMMOND
Michael Jeffrey Spencer
IN MEMORY OF
MARILYN HANSON
Brian & Barbara Hanson
IN HONOR OF CAROL HUEBER
Amy Hueber
IN MEMORY OF
SUSAN JAROSZ
Barbara Weller
IN MEMORY OF JESSICA
Barbara & Steve Churchill
IN HONOR OF ALLAN KOLSKY
Mary Helen McNeal
IN MEMORY OF
FRITZ KUCINSKI
Barbara Omicinski
IN MEMORY OF
DAVID B. LA DUKE
Lorraine La Duke
IN HONOR OF ANNA LAMMLY
Ralph & Kathleen Wiegandt
IN MEMORY OF
ELOISE LATINO
Kenneth & Virginia Drake
IN MEMORY OF
EDWARD M. LEWIS
Beverly A. Lewis
IN HONOR OF
ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Joshua W. Podkaminer &
Rebecca Podkaminer
IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM LIGGIO
Thomas Baron & Christine Liggio
IN HONOR OF LIVERPOOL SCHOOLS MUSIC TEACHERS PAST & PRESENT
Holly Pratt
IN HONOR OF
LAWRENCE LOH
Barbara Bell
Craig & Kathleen Byrum
Patricia DeAngelis
Jeremy Gosbee
Fritz Messere &
Nola Heidlebaugh
IN HONOR OF
LAWRENCE LOH & THE ORCHESTRA MEMBERS
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd
IN HONOR OF LAWRENCE LOH, SEAN O’LOUGHLIN, PAMELA MURCHISON & KELLY COVERT
David Rankert
IN MEMORY OF DOUG LYON
Stacy Lyon
Cheryl & Aaron Sobol
IN HONOR OF
THE MACERO FAMILY
Mary Roberts-Bailey
IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH BETTY MANN
James & Marilyn Seago
IN MEMORY OF
LOUIS V. MARUCCI
Nanette & Thomas Pasquarello
IN HONOR OF TASHA COOPER & TOM MATTERN
Jeffrey Cooper & Peggy Daub
IN HONOR OF
SPENCER PHILLIPS &
NOEMI MILORADOVIC
Hannah & Christopher Douglass
IN MEMORY OF MOM
Rita Gram & Sue Friedland
IN MEMORY OF EDWARD A. MONACO JR.
John & Annette Friedrichs
IN MEMORY OF
VIVIAN MOSBO
Paul Mosbo
IN HONOR OF
PAMELA MURCHISON
Linda Loomis
Anne L. Messenger
IN HONOR OF
ERNEST MUSQUIZ
Mark & Judith Gotham
Bill & Karen Roche
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Ida Tili-Trebicka
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Don & Loraine Ridall
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GEORGE OPLINGER
Judith Dehn Oplinger
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FRITZ PARKER
Arthur McDonald &
Barbara Beckos
IN MEMORY OF
SAMUEL PELLMAN
Colleen Roberts Pellman
IN HONOR OF
SPENCER PHILLLIPS
Lou & Kathy Lemos
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ELIZABETH PIZZUTO
Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve
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BEVERLY POTTER
Karen Potter
IN HONOR OF
KIMBERLY FLOMERFELT-PUC
Lance Drucker
IN HONOR OF
PETER RABINOWITZ
Katheryn Doran
IN MEMORY OF BETTY REESE
Allan & Cheryl Maxian
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DAVID A. A. RIDINGS
Robert & Alice Andrews
Ruth D. Brown
Jon Garland
Bernard Schneider
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LIBBY RUBENSTEIN
Arnold Rubenstein
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ELINORE SCHOCHET
Audrey S. Hurley
IN HONOR OF
EDUARDO SEPÚLVEDA
David Rankert
IN HONOR OF PATRICIA SHARPE & WALDEN BASS
Robert & Teresa Hargrave
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ROBERT L. SLAVENS
Nancy Slavens
IN HONOR OF
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Maureen Squires
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DAVID TATHAM
Cleota Reed
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Christopher Erat
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Stephen & Doreen Bosch
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JOHN J. WHITTLE
The John & Judy Whittle Charitable Trust
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Anne Whyte
IN HONOR OF
SONYA STITH WILLIAMS
Frank & Kathleen Stith
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MARY ANNE WILSON
Robert Humphrey
IN MEMORY OF
RYAN P. WOOD
Music Faculty at Onondaga Community College
Gregory & Rita Wood
IN MEMORY OF
GERALD ZAMPINO
Jacqueline McKillop
Edward & Judith O’Rourke
Board of Directors
Martin Hewitt | President
Special Counsel, Fried Frank
Marcus Cerroni | Vice President & Treasurer
Principal & Co-Founder, Modali Consulting
John Riley | Secretary
Senior Counsel, Bond, Schoeneck, & King
Daniel Berkowitz
Associate Attorney, Bousquet Holstein PLLC
Amy Christian
Musician, The Syracuse Orchestra
Kelly Covert
Musician, Special Events Manager,
The Syracuse Orchestra
Vicki Feldman
Community Volunteer
Kimberly Flomerfelt-Puc
Community Volunteer
Jon Garland
Musician, Director of Operations,
The Syracuse Orchestra
George Kilpatrick
Host, Inspiration for the Nation
Allan Kolsky
Musician, The Syracuse Orchestra
John Liddy
VP of Innovation & Entrepreneurship,
CenterState CEO
Robert Lieberman
Managing Partner, RAV Properties
Frank Messere
Dean Emeritus, School of Communication,
Media & the Arts, SUNY Oswego
Jackie Penfield
Director of Client Services, OneGroup
Michael Ratner, M.D.
Surgeon, Upstate Medical Center (retired)
Eduardo Sepúlveda
Musician, The Syracuse Orchestra
Martha Sutter
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs
& Teaching Professor of Voice, Syracuse University
Gwendolyn Sykes
Executive VP, Finance & CFO, SRC, Inc.
Shelly Thompson-Liedka
VP & Commercial Banking Manager, M&T Bank
Pamela Murchison
Executive Director (ex officio)
Staff
Pamela Murchison
Executive Director
Jon Garland
Director of Operations
Andrew Teller
Orchestra Manager
Arvilla Wendland
Personnel Manager
Jonathan Dozois
Assistant Personnel Manager
Kyle Jones
Librarian
Jon Mosbo
Stage Manager
Lara Mosby
Director of Community Engagement
Kelly Covert
Special Events Coordinator
Riley Farnham
Development Manager
Brian Pope
Marketing and Data Manager
Krystina Carnifax
Box Office Representative
Stephen Salem
Interim Youth Orchestra Music Director
Rob Auler
Interim Youth Repertory Orchestra Conductor
Jessica Tumajyan
Youth Strings Conductor










