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RACHMANINOFF & PINES OF ROME
About
May 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater 421 Montgomery St. Syracuse , NY 13202
Program
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Roman Carnival Overture
Performed Side by Side with the Syracuse Young Artists Orchestra
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43
Natasha Paremski, piano
INTERMISSION
NANCY GALBRAITH
Strange Travels
I. Khao San Road
II. Ayutthaya
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Pines of Rome
I. I pini di Villa Borghese (The Pines of the Villa Borghese)
II. Pini presso una catacomba (Pines Near a Catacomb)
III. I pini del Gianicolo (The Pines of the Janiculum)
IV. I pini della Via Appia (The Pines of the Appian Way)
Thanks to our sponsors for this performance!
Susan R. Klenk
Thanks to our media sponsor for this performance!
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Featured Artists
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With her consistently striking and dynamic performances, pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and voracious interpretive abilities. She continues to generate excitement from all corners as she wins over audiences with her musical sensibility and powerful, flawless technique.
The 2018-19 season featured recitals in New York and ...
With her consistently striking and dynamic performances, pianist Natasha Paremski reveals astounding virtuosity and voracious interpretive abilities. She continues to generate excitement from all corners as she wins over audiences with her musical sensibility and powerful, flawless technique.
The 2018-19 season featured recitals in New York and Chicago in addition to concerto appearances in North America, Europe and South America. Her recording of Fred Hersch’s Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky – commissioned for her by the Gilmore Festival – was released in early 2019 on the Steinway & Sons label alongside Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. In 2019-20 she performs the Rachmaninoff cycle with Symphoria Syracuse, returns to Columbus Symphony, and will perform with the Knoxville, Jacksonville and Charleston Symphonies. She will also give a recital at Herbst Hall in San Francisco.
Natasha is a regular return guest of many major orchestras, including Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Grant Park Festival, Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with whom she has performed every year since 2008 in venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Cadogan Hall. She has performed with major orchestras in North America including Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, NAC Orchestra in Ottawa, Nashville Symphony. She has toured extensively in Europe with such orchestras as Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Vienna’s Tonkünstler Orchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre de Bretagne, the Orchestre de Nancy, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester in Zurich, Moscow Philharmonic, under the direction of conductors including Thomas Dausgaard, Peter Oundjian, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Jeffrey Kahane, James Gaffigan, JoAnn Falletta, Fabien Gabel, Rossen Milanov and Andrew Litton. In addition, she has toured with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica in Latvia, Benelux, the United Kingdom and Austria as well as appearances with National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in Taipei.
Natasha has given recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Wigmore Hall, Schloss Elmau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Verbier Festival, Seattle’s Meany Hall, Kansas City’s Harriman Jewell Series, Santa Fe’s Lensic Theater, Ludwigshafen BASF Series, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Tokyo’s Musashino Performing Arts Center and on the Rising Stars Series of Gilmore and Ravinia Festivals.
A passionate chamber musician, Natasha is a regular recital partner of Grammy winning cellist Zuill Bailey, with whom she has recorded a number of CDs. Their Britten album on Telarc debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, remaining there for a number of weeks, in addition to being featured on The New York Times Playlist. She has been a guest of many chamber music festivals such as Jeffrey Kahane’s Green Music Center ChamberFest, the Lockenhaus, Toronto, Sitka Summer Music, and Cape Cod Chamber Music festivals to name a few.
Natasha was awarded several prestigious prizes at a very young age, including the Gilmore Young Artists prize in 2006 at the age of eighteen, the Prix Montblanc in 2007, the Orpheum Stiftung Prize in Switzerland. In September 2010, she was awarded the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year. Her first recital album was released in 2011 to great acclaim, topping the Billboard Classical Charts, and was re-released on the Steinway & Sons label in September 2016 featuring Islamey, recorded on Steinway’s revolutionary new Spirio technology. In 2012 she recorded Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Fabien Gabel on the orchestra’s label distributed by Naxos.
With a strong focus on new music, Natasha’s growing repertoire reflects an artistic maturity beyond her years. In the 2010-11 season, she played the world premiere of a sonata written for her by Gabriel Kahane, which was also included in her solo album.
Natasha continues to extend her performance activity and range beyond the traditional concert hall. In December 2008, she was the featured pianist in choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s Danses Concertantes at New York’s Joyce Theater. She was featured in a major two-part film for BBC Television on the life and work of Tchaikovsky, shot on location in St. Petersburg, performing excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and other works. In the winter of 2007, Natasha participated along with Simon Keenlyside in the filming of Twin Spirits, a project starring Sting and Trudie Styler that explores the music and writing of Robert and Clara Schumann, which was released on DVD. She has performed in the project live several times with the co-creators in New York and the U.K., directed by John Caird, the original director/adaptor of the musical Les Misérables.
Natasha began her piano studies at the age of four with Nina Malikova at Moscow’s Andreyev School of Music. She then studied at San Francisco Conservatory of Music before moving to New York to study with Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music, from which she graduated in 2007. Natasha made her professional debut at age nine with El Camino Youth Symphony in California. At the age of fifteen she debuted with Los Angeles Philharmonic and recorded two discs with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Born in Moscow, Natasha moved to the United States at the age of eight becoming a U.S. citizen shortly thereafter, and is now based in New York.
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Described as bringing an “artisan storyteller’s sensitivity… shaping passages with clarity and power via beautifully sculpted dynamics… revealing orchestral character not seen or heard before” (Arts Knoxville) Lawrence Loh enjoys a dynamic career as a conductor of orchestras all over the world.
After an extensive two ...
Described as bringing an “artisan storyteller’s sensitivity… shaping passages with clarity and power via beautifully sculpted dynamics… revealing orchestral character not seen or heard before” (Arts Knoxville) Lawrence Loh enjoys a dynamic career as a conductor of orchestras all over the world.
After an extensive two year search, Lawrence Loh was recently named Music Director of the Waco Symphony Orchestra beginning in the Spring of 2024. Since 2015, he has served as Music Director of The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly called Symphoria), the successor to the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that might have seemed impossible at the beginning,” (Syracuse.com) The Syracuse Orchestra and Lawrence Loh show that it is possible to create a “new, more sustainable artistic institution from the ground up.”
Appointed Assistant Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 2005, Mr Loh was quickly promoted to Associate and Resident Conductor within the first three years of working with the PSO. Always a favorite among Pittsburgh audiences, Loh returns frequently to his adopted city to conduct the PSO in a variety of concerts. Mr. Loh previously served as Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Syracuse Opera, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.
Mr. Loh’s recent guest conducting engagements include the San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony (D.C.), Utah Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Symphony and the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral. His summer appearances include the festivals of Grant Park, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Tanglewood with the Boston Pops, Chautauqua, Sun Valley, Shippensburg, Bravo Vail Valley, the Kinhaven Music School and the Performing Arts Institute (PA).
As a self-described “Star Wars geek” and film music enthusiast, Loh has conducted numerous sold-out John Williams and film music tribute concerts. Part of his appeal is his ability to serve as both host and conductor. “It is his enthusiasm for Williams’ music and the films for which it was written that is Loh’s great strength in this program. A fan’s enthusiasm drives his performances in broad strokes and details and fills his speaking to the audience with irresistible appeal. He used no cue cards. One felt he could speak at filibuster length on Williams’ music.” (Pittsburgh Tribune)
Mr Loh has assisted John Williams on multiple occasions and has worked with a wide range of pops artists from Chris Botti and Ann Hampton Callaway to Jason Alexander and Idina Menzel. As one of the most requested conductors for conducting Films in Concert, Loh has led Black Panther, Star Wars (Episodes 4-6), Jaws, Nightmare Before Christmas, Jurassic Park, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz and Singin’ in the Rain, among other film productions.
Lawrence Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale, his Masters in Choral Conducting from Indiana University and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester. Lawrence Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary. Follow him on instagram @conductorlarryloh or Facebook at @lawrencelohconductor or visit his website, www.lawrenceloh.com
Program Notes
Our concert tonight offers four tributes—two to artists, two to places.
We open the celebration with the 1844 Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869). The music is drawn from his first opera Benvenuto Cellini, based loosely—very loosely—on the life of the Renaissance sculptor, centering on the casting of his famous statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa. The opera was originally composed in 1838. The premiere was a disaster, and even after significant revisions, it failed to join the repertoire until the twentieth century. In fact, performances are ...
Our concert tonight offers four tributes—two to artists, two to places.
We open the celebration with the 1844 Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869). The music is drawn from his first opera Benvenuto Cellini, based loosely—very loosely—on the life of the Renaissance sculptor, centering on the casting of his famous statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa. The opera was originally composed in 1838. The premiere was a disaster, and even after significant revisions, it failed to join the repertoire until the twentieth century. In fact, performances are still rare (it’s only had a single run at the Metropolitan Opera). But Berlioz was not one to waste good musical material, and he managed to draw two successful orchestral works from his score. One was the overture to the opera itself; the other, which we’re hearing tonight, was an independent work based on the love music and the carnival music from the opera’s first act.
The Roman Carnival Overture has turned out to be one of Berlioz’s most popular compositions. In part that’s because of its melodic invention (especially the love theme) and its rhythmic vitality. Even more, though, it has attracted listeners because of its spectacular color. Berlioz was a pioneer in this area, the first canonical composer to treat sound per se as an element equal to melody, harmony, and rhythm. The use of the English horn to announce the love theme, the unexpected appearance of tambourines during the carnival music, his incorporation of the newly developed “cornet à pistons” (a valved instrument that had, among other qualities, more melodic flexibility than the unvalved trumpet of the time), and his promotion of the brass and percussion more generally: all this timbral innovation produced a level of sonic excitement few other composers of the day could match.
The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) is, like the Berlioz, an homage to a great artist. In this case, the composer, arguably the greatest pianist of the 20th century, offers his respects to the greatest violinist of the 19th, Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840), using Paganini’s familiar 24th Caprice for solo violin as his starting point. (Rachmaninoff’s work can also, less directly, be seen as an homage to the greatest pianist of the 19th century, Franz Liszt, who also recast Paganini’s virtuosic violin music for piano).
Born in Russia, Rachmaninoff emigrated after the Revolution, living briefly in Europe before settling in the United States in 1918. (He did, though, continue to spend many of his summers on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland). He continued his successful career as a pianist, but his output as a composer dropped considerably. Other than a series of brilliant transcriptions and arrangements, he wrote only six works in the last 25 years of his life. It’s hard to be sure what caused the slowdown; it was certainly not any loss of compositional skill, since these works are among his most finely crafted. Even so, most of his late music—falsely derided by critics as “old-fashioned”—was slow to catch on, achieving widespread popularity only after his death. The exception is the Rhapsody, a hit from its first performance in 1934.
On the surface, the Rhapsody seems at first to follow a traditional theme-and-variations format, offering us 24 short and very different “microcosms,” to use a term suggested by tonight’s soloist Natasha Paremski. “Every variation,” she says, “feels different.” But over and above its rapid-fire shifts in tone—including, she believes, several variations influenced by Rachmaninoff’s interactions with American jazz—there are a few formal twists. First, at the very beginning, Rachmaninoff mixes things up. He starts off, conventionally, with an introduction; but then, instead of presenting the theme, he gives us the first variation, only providing the theme itself after that—as if, in his enthusiasm to begin, he’d forgotten about it. Second, as the work continues, we discover that the variations are superimposed over a three-movement structure of the sort you find in traditional concertos, including Rachmaninoff’s: the first ten variations correspond to an up-tempo first movement, the next eight to a traditional slow movement, the last variations to a finale.
Most striking, though, besides the main theme, there is a secondary theme snaking through the Rhapsody: the Dies Irae, the plain-chant setting of the “day of wrath” from the Latin Requiem Mass. It’s an especially appropriate musical allusion, since Paganini’s virtuosity was so great that during his lifetime he was rumored to be in league with the devil. Does this connection suggest a story behind the music? Yes, says Natasha. And indeed, a few years after the work’s composition, Rachmaninoff and choreographer Michael Fokine worked together on a narrative ballet using the Rhapsody. She elaborates: “Towards the beginning of the piece, there’s the appearance of a woman that Paganini falls in love with. The 18th Variation—and even if you think you’ve never heard the Rhapsody, you’ve heard the 18th variation, that’s for sure!—is the culmination of their love. But then he decides, ‘I’m still going to sell my soul to the devil, because I still want to be the most virtuosic violinist that ever lived.’” And how does it end? “It doesn’t end well: you’ve got the Dies Irae, so obviously he goes to hell.” But it happens “in a kind of joking fashion”—since just as we near what sounds like a standard loud ending, there’s an unexpected twist. Rachmaninoff is often considered a humorless composer—in fact, Stravinsky called him a “six-and-a-half-foot scowl.” Not so here.
This scenario may help explain why Rachmaninoff used the Dies Irae theme. But then again, he needed no encouragement. The theme shows up often in the 19th and 20th centuries—in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, in Liszt’s Totentanz, in Mahler’s Second Symphony.… But no composer was as preoccupied with it as Rachmaninoff was, and he turned to it again and again—and again. Here, it first shows up in the piano in the seventh variation, and it nearly takes over the piece as the brass shout it out in the final variation.
What can listeners expect from tonight’s performance? Even if you know the piece well—in fact, even if you’ve heard Natasha play it before (she’s recorded it twice)—you’re apt to hear something new. Although she’s been playing it since she was 11, it’s always changing. True, she says—comparing the work to a building—the “general architecture” remains constant: “You can’t mess around with the beams, unless you tear the whole thing down and start over. But then it’s not the Paganini Rhapsody anymore. It’s a whole different house.” But within the building, you can make changes in the details: “You might do different colors, or a slightly different inflection of the phrasing here, a slightly different voicing over there.” In fact, if the piece is to remain interesting to the audience, you have to do that. “If I’m kept on my toes, you’ll be kept on your toes. But if I’m doing the same thing from night to night, from week to week, nobody’s going to care. Because if I don’t care, why would you care?”
As for people new to the piece: “If you have a chance,” she says, “give it a listen beforehand, so that when you go to the concert, you’ll feel, ‘Yeah, I know this. This piece is my friend. We’ve hung out already.’” The importance of friendship marks not only Natasha’s view of listening, but also her view of performing. “That’s the beauty of playing with The Syracuse Orchestra and Larry Loh. He can read my mind. I can read his mind. I can read the orchestra. Everybody’s reading each other’s mind….” As you know if you’ve attended any of Natasha’s previous appearances in Syracuse, the result is an unusual sense of community.
Strange Travels by Nancy Galbraith (b. 1951) also offers a tribute; but in this case, it’s a tribute not to a person but to two places that she visited on a trip to Thailand: Khao San Road in Bangkok and the ancient ruins at Ayutthaya, a UNESCO World Heritage site that was once a Siamese capital. “The title,” says the composer, “alludes to the sensation of motion imparted by the music, through two aural landscapes of an unfamiliar, almost otherworldly nature.” The “high energy” first movement has a strong minimalist feel, derived from its reliance on the repetition of small gestures, on syncopations, and on metrical shifts, which together create an infectious rhythmic drive that only “dissipates” in the final measures. The second movement has traces of the same elements, but they’re less consistent—and less foregrounded. Rather than energy, the primary quality of this movement, the composer says, is “awe”—specifically, the awe she felt when facing historic ruins that are centuries old. There’s more sustained music here—and even when the music is motoric, it’s often superimposed on majestic brass that gives it a grandeur the first movement didn’t have. Strange Travels was originally composed for chamber orchestra in 2013, but it was revised for full orchestra in 2022. The new version was premiered at Carnegie Mellon University (where Galbraith teaches) by our own Music Director Larry Loh, who of course conducts it tonight as well.
The concert concludes with another tribute to a place: The Pines of Rome, the central panel of the so-called Roman Trilogy by Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936). It’s a programmatic tone-poem in four linked movements, each celebrating a particular spot in Rome, each with a different atmosphere. First, at the “Pines of the Villa Borghese,” we hear the raucous sound of children at play. Even if you don’t already know the song “Madama Dorè,” which is tossed around the orchestra throughout, you’ll recognize it as a children’s song (more specifically, one that accompanies a circle game). The mood changes dramatically for the second movement, “Pines Near a Catacomb”—somber music quoting, as Respighi often did, Gregorian chant. Next, night falls on the “Pines of the Janiculum”—some of the most evocative music the composer ever wrote. Against soft string sounds, we hear a solo piano, followed by a solo clarinet (played “as if in a dream”), joined later on by a flute. From there, the music builds languorously. Eventually—a particularly striking effect—we hear (via a recording) a solo nightingale, and the music descends into silence. Finally, after Respighi at his most sensitive, we have Respighi at his most sensational—the “Pines of the Appian Way,” a vision of ancient warriors, with off-stage brass ringing out in one of the most glorious outpourings of sound in the standard repertoire. A perfect ending to the season.
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Have any comments or questions? Please write to me at prabinowitz@SyracuseOrchestra.org
Leaving a Musical Legacy: Evelyn Brenzel
Music was central to Evelyn Brenzel’s life. A longtime math teacher at HW Smith High School and devoted caretaker for her beloved Doberman Pinschers, Evelyn was a committed member of the Symphoria Family.
Evelyn’s friend shares how much music meant to Evelyn: “When Maestro Loh spoke the words “Beethoven’s Seventh” at the 2020 Symphoria reveal party, Evelyn turned to me with a look of such joy on her face that it still gives me goosebumps. We continued to attend live concerts with her until the very night before the state shut it all down in March.
We were worried about how she would cope, but technology saved the day. After Symphoria’s very moving streamed performance of the Seventh last fall, she emailed me to say ‘I’m in heaven.’”
Not only did Evelyn attend as many performances as possible as an audience member, but she was also a musician. As a college student, Evelyn had the opportunity to sing the Brahms Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra on a live broadcast as the nation mourned the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963. Sadly, Evelyn passed away in December 2020.
We were honored to learn that she generously included Symphoria in her will, making sure that future audiences will have access to the beautiful music she loved so much.
Your legacy gift can keep Symphoria playing beautiful music. If you would like to learn more about how you can create your own musical legacy in Central New York, or if Symphoria is already in your plans, please contact Pamela Murchison in the Symphoria Office at (315) 299-5598.
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The Orchestra
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
Liviu Dobrota
Asher Wulfman
Laura Smith
Yoojin Lee
Bin Gui
VIOLIN II
Amy Christian, Principal
Anita Gustafson, Assistant Principal
Yurie Mitsuhashi
Sara Silva
Linda Carmona
Minjoo Moon
Adam Jeffreys
VIOLA
Heejung Yang, Principal
Supported by an Anonymous Friend
Carol Sasson
Arvilla Wendland
William Ford-Smith
CELLO
Heidi Hoffman, Principal
Lindsay Groves, Assistant Principal
Gregory Wood, Assistant Principal
Walden Bass
George Macero
Supported by William & 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
FLUTE
Xue Su, Principal*
Supported by Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan, in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
Leanna Ginsburg, Principal^
Kelly Covert
PICCOLO
Kelly Covert
OBOE
Eduardo Sepúlveda, Principal
The Philip R. MacArthur Chair
Patricia Sharpe
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
Jonathan Dozois
Supported by Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Julie Bridge, Associate Principal
Tyler Ogilvie
TRUMPET
John Raschella, Principal
Robert C. Soderberg Chair
Roy Smith
TROMBONE
Benjamin Dettelback, Principal
David Seder
Gabriel Ramos
Bass Trombone supported by an Anonymous Friend
TUBA
John Caughman
TIMPANI
Patrick Shrieves
Supported by Mary Ann Tyszko
PERCUSSION
Michael W. Bull, Principal
Supported by Alice & Michael Kendrick
Ernest Muzquiz
Laurance Luttinger
PERSONNEL MANAGER
Arvilla Wendland
LIBRARIAN
Ben Dettelback
*On Leave
^One-Year
Syracuse Young Artists Orchestra
Dr. Paul McShee, conductor
VIOLIN I
Alexa Rose Battaglia, Concertmaster
Olivia Wong, Assistant Concertmaster
Nagi Aitbayeva
Eric Lee
Alexis Forbes
Alexander Qiu
Janie Kang
Holly Buchanan-Wise
VIOLIN II
Heather Buchanan-Wise, Principal
Kacy Quill
Chloe Lee
VIOLA
Lillian Lavalette, Principal
Jonathan So
Devin Dantuono
Alex Shim
Yashu Ren
Kaylee Yang
Hudson Brenner
CELLO
Abigail Feng, Principal
Caleb Ryu
Colin Chin
Ryan Zhu
Demosthenes Mantalios
Brian Tollar
Daniel Luo
BASS
Aalia Rice, Principal
Nat Gale
Max Clark
FLUTE
Renata Wilson, Principal
Madelynn Hilt
Annika Yoo
OBOE
Sankalp Gautam, Principal
Samuel Ahn
Caitlin Burke
CLARINET
Will Lesser, Principal
BASSOON
Phoebe Gumaer, Principal
HORN
Evelynn Keville, Principal
Ethan Van Dusen
Isaac O’Brien
TRUMPET
Lydia Morris, Principal
Daren Van Dusen
Jamison Walker
TROMBONE
Preston Van Dusen, Principal
Logan Rogers
Emma Bearup
Donor List
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous gifts received between January 1, 2023 and February 12, 2024. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy in the listing below, but if you find a discrepancy please contact Kelly Covert at kcovert@experiencesymphoria.org or (315) 434-5645.
Onward, Symphoria Donors
Gifts received as part of this major gift campaign. Donors making campaign gifts of
$20,000+ receive recognition for underwriting a musician’s chair or sponsoring ...
We are grateful to the following donors for their generous gifts received between January 1, 2023 and February 12, 2024. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy in the listing below, but if you find a discrepancy please contact Kelly Covert at kcovert@experiencesymphoria.org or (315) 434-5645.
Onward, Symphoria Donors
Gifts received as part of this major gift campaign. Donors making campaign gifts of
$20,000+ receive recognition for underwriting a musician’s chair or sponsoring a concert for 3 years.
Anonymous: Principal Viola Chair
Anonymous: Bass Trombone Chair
David & Cheryl Abrams: One Masterworks Concert each year
Estates of Evelyn Brenzel & Ann Marie Cronin: Choral Concerts
Robert & Vicki Lieberman: Concertmaster Chair
Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth: Second Horn Chair
William & Nancy Byrne: Fifth Cello Chair
Barbara Davis: Assistant Principal Bass Chair in memory of Leslie Davis
Michael & Alice Kendrick: Principal Percussion Chair
Lou & Kathy Lemos: Principal Bass Chair
Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan: Principal Flute Chair in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
David A. A. Ridings: Assistant Concertmaster Chair
Estate of Mary Ellen Trimble
Mary Ann Tyszko: Timpani Chair
Donors Contributing to the Frederick B. Parker, M.D. Memorial Gala: Conductor’s Podium in memory of Frederick B. Parker, M.D.
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Annual Fund Donors
Gifts received annually from individuals to support Symphoria’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
$20,000+
Anonymous
The Feng Family
Alice & Michael Kendrick
Robert & Vicki Lieberman
David A.A. Ridings
Peter & Elsa Soderberg
Slutzker Family Foundation
$10,000 – $19,999
Anonymous
Robert & Alice Andrews
Craig & Kathy Byrum
Barbara Davis
Paul & Maureen Drescher
Christine Gross-Loh
Lou & Kathy Lemos
Paul E. Phillips & Sharon P. Sullivan
Peter & Nancy Rabinowitz
James & Marilyn Seago
Margaret Shields
Peter & Cherry Thun
Mary Ann Tyszko
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
David Halleran
Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith
David & Cheryl Abrams
George Bain
Estate of Ruth Bradner
Roger & Naomi Demuth
Lewis & Elaine Dubroff
Robert & Vicki Feldman
Harold Husovsky & Susan E. Stred
Susan R. Klenk
Young & Kelly Lee
Charles Lutz
Edwina Norton
Estate of Fritz & Virginia Parker
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd
Sharye Skinner
Mark & Beth Steigerwald
$2,500 – $4,999
Kathleen Bice
Jonathan & Kathy Bowen
Paul G. Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Bill & Nancy Byrne
Jonathan & Michele Chai
Mark Costaldi
Willson Cummer & Michelle Breidenbach
Daniel & Karen Fuleihan
Lawrence & Dorothy Gordon
Bruce Irvine
Robin & Diane Jones
Norma Kelley
Lawrence & Jennifer Loh
Zahi & Marion Makhuli
John & Candace Marsellus
Walter & Elizabeth Merriam
Paul Mosbo
David Rankert
Irving G. & Ava Raphael
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Ron Ferguson & Helen H. Reed
Craig Simmons & Richard Ernst
Ed & Louise Stevens
William & Margaret Thickstun
Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar
$1,000 – $2,499
Anonymous (2)
Neville Sachs & Carol Adamec
Thomas & Pamela Antonini
Richard & Lynne Bennett
William & Sandra Bennett
Dr. & Mrs. William P. Berkery
Carolyn Bernstein
Thomas Bersani & Joan Christy
Renate BeVard
Donald C. Blair & Nancy L. Dock
William & Audrey Boyd
David Brittain
Cecelia Broton
Carol & Craig Buckhout
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Joshua W. & Rebecca Podkaminer
IN HONOR OF GEORGE MACERO
Charles Merulla &
Jeanne Jonientz-Merulla
IN MEMORY OF PATRICIA MACKILLOP
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Dave Perry
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George Mehallow
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William Billingham
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David & Sherry Tyler
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John O’Neill
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Thomas & Pamela Antonini
George Bain
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Kirsten Basch
James & Joanne Beckman
Richard & Lynne Bennett
William & Sandra Bennett
Dr. & Mrs. William P. Berkery
Thomas Bersani & Joan Christy
Renate BeVard
Donald C. Blair & Nancy L. Dock
Patricia Blochowiak
Michael A. Bowser
Paul G. Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Craig & Carol Buckhout
William & Nancy Byrne
Joseph Byrne
Craig & Kathleen Byrum
Andrea Calarco
Michael & Mary Ann Michael Calo
Anthony Catsimatides
Brian & Judith Chanatry
Robert & Amelia Christian
Linda & Bill Cohen
Carol Colvin
Robert & Lorrie Cooney
R. Patrick & Margaret Corbett
Toby Cosgrove
Kelly & Kelly Covert
Michael & Wendy Cynamon
Estate of Robert W. Daly, M.D.
Melissa DeVictoria
Mantosh & Anita Dewan
Mr. & Mrs. Manfried Diflo
Rebecca Downing
Lewis & Elaine Dubroff
Nan Eaton
William Eberhardt
Bill & Betsy Elkins
Michele Estabrook
Caragh & Jason Fahy
Robert & Vicki Feldman
John & Patricia Fey
Daniel & Karen Fuleihan
Jon Garland
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Winifred Greenberg
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Gary & Bonnie Grossman
Gary Quirk & Charlotte Haas
David Halleran
Bryce & Judith Hand
Daniel & Julia Harris
Laurence & Ann Harris
Suzanne Heiligman
Joyce Homan
Harold Husovsky & Susan E. Stred
Brian & Nicki Inman
Mike & Mary Kate Intaglietta
Lewis & Julie Johnson
Robin & Diane Jones
John R. Judge
George & Gloria Kilpatrick
Kiyoshi & Yasuko Kimura
Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith
Allan Kolsky & Ellen Somers
Donna L. Korol
Dr. Barbara E. Krenzer & John Stone
Charles & Stephanie Ladd
Linda Land
Robert & Vicki Lieberman
Robert & Shelly Liedka
Charles Lutz
James MacKillop
Zahi & Marion Makhuli
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
Suzanne & Kevin McAuliffe
Lowell McBurney
Arthur McDonald & Barbara Beckos
Tom & Mary Lou Mees
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Melnikow
Walter & Elizabeth Merriam
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh
David & Beth Mitchell
Paul & Vivian Mosbo
Ralph Mosca
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Fran & Sally Lou Nichols
Patricia J. Numann
Anis I. Obeid & Nawal Najeeb Saab
Wale & Bimpe Oguntola
John & Sheila Parker
Estate of Virginia Parker
Amy Parker
Mary Pat Oliker
Harvey & Dorothy Pearl
Deborah Pellow
Jackie & Chuck Penfield
Paul E. Phillips & Sharon Sullivan
Pemala & Suhas V. Pradhan
John W. Przepiora & Carolyn Stark
Mihael & Kimberly Puc
Mary Purcell
Oleksandr & Anna Putintseva
Robert R. Quinn
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Daniel & Kathryn Rabuzzi
Selma Radin
David Rankert
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Donnaline Richman
David A.A. Ridings
Dr. & Mrs. William H. Roberts
David Ross & Martha Sutter
Arnold & Libby Rubenstein
Elaine Rubenstein
Ellen Runge
Ilonka Salisbury
Anthony Scalzo
Steven & Kelly Scheinman
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Schoeneck
Mr. & Mrs. William Schu
Larry & Connie Semel
Suzanne Shapero
Alexandra & Jeff Shaw
Sharye Skinner
Frank Smith
Mark & Beth Steigerwald
H. Paul Steiner
CJ Strickland
Carter H. & Nan Strickland
Peter & Cherry Thun
Amy Tucker
Dr. David & Mrs. Ruth Tyler
Mary Ann Tyszko
Patrick VanBeveren
Marcus Webb & Ashley Homer
Howard & Anita Weinberger
Leonard Weiner & Kathryn Kelly
Miriam Weiner
Ruth Weinstock
George & Joyce Welitschinsky
Lynda Wheat
Jeremy Winston & Tina Maxian
Gregory & Rita Wood
Charles Woods & Gail Azeredo-Woods
David Wormuth
William & Mary Wormuth
IN MEMORY OF VIRGINIA PARKER
Joyce Homan
Linda Imboden
IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL PELLMAN
Colleen Pellman
IN MEMORY OF EDITH K. PENNINGTON
Douglas & Elisabeth Anderson
Carolyn & Dennis Lardy
Paul J. MacArthur
The Lardieri Family
Lawrence J. Lardy
IN MEMORY OF CARL PESKO
Thomas Krahe
Michele C. Smith
IN HONOR OF SPENCER PHILLIPS & NOEMI MILORADOVIC
Hannah & Christopher Douglass
IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH PIZZUTO
Joseph Sauve & Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve
IN MEMORY OF BETTY REESE
Allan & Cheryl Maxian
IN MEMORY OF ROGER REID
Margaret Reid
IN MEMORY OF TIM RICE
Judith Dehn Oplinger
IN HONOR OF DAVID A.A. RIDINGS
Robert & Alice Andrews
Thomas Bersani & Joan Christy
Suzanne Congel
Grant & Margaret Cooper
Richard & Sarah Furlow
Gary & Bonnie Grossman
Barbara Ellen Kay
Ronald & Cynthia Kowalski
Candace & John Marsellus
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Ilonka Salisbury
Peter & Elsa Soderberg
Carol & Dirk Sonneborn
George & Ronna Treier
Howard & Anita Weinberger
IN MEMORY OF DAVID ROGERS
Marion Rogers
IN MEMORY OF ERNEST S. ROSE
Patricia Sharpe
IN MEMORY OF HENRY & EDITH SCHMITZ
David & Anne Schmitz
IN MEMORY OF JOHN V. SCOTT JR.
Daniel & Brandye Pisacano
IN HONOR OF ANNI SCUDERI
Anne Scuderi
IN HONOR OF PATRICIA SHARPE
Terri & Kip Terri & Kip Hargrave
Lilly Kuwashima
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT B. SHIELDS
Margaret Shields
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT L. SLAVENS, M.D.
Nancy Slavens
IN MEMORY OF MARILYN KENNEDY SMITH
Anonymous
IN MEMORY OF SORIANO UY SO
Ursula Kwasnicka
IN MEMORY OF MARION STANISLAW
Cheryl Patrice Scullion
IN HONOR OF SYMPHORIA
Alyse Holstein
IN HONOR OF SYMPHORIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS
Ruth Pass Hancock
IN MEMORY OF OTTO & ELEANOR TREIER
George & Ronna Treier
IN HONOR OF EDGAR TUMAJYAN & PETER ROVIT
Young & Kelly Lee
IN MEMORY OF SYLVIA BASKERVILLE TURNER
Eugene Turner
IN HONOR OF MARY ANN TYSZKO
Mark Greene & Cynthia Dowd Greene
IN HONOR OF MARY ANN TYSZKO & PETER RABINOWITZ
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh
IN MEMORY OF DORIS WEBSTER
Sally Webster
IN MEMORY OF VOLKER WEISS
Neville Sachs & Carol Adamec
IN MEMORY OF BILL WEST
Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold
IN MEMORY OF TERRY WHEAT
Lynda Wheat
IN MEMORY OF DAVID WHYTE
Anne Whyte
IN HONOR OF SONYA STITH WILLIAMS
Franklin & Kathleen Stith
IN MEMORY OF KATHLEEN ZIELINSKI
Edmund Zielinski
Board of Directors
Mary Ann Tyszko, President
President & CEO, SRCTec (retired)
Anna Putintseva, Secretary
Partner, Bousquet Holstein
Caragh Fahy, Treasurer
Owner & President, Madison Financial Planning Group
Violet Bundi
Attorney, Interfaith Works
Amy Christian
Symphoria Musician (Violin)
Kelly Covert
Symphoria Musician (Flute/Piccolo) & Corporate Giving & Annual Fund Manager
Vicki Feldman
Community volunteer and expert volunteer fundraiser
Kimberly Flomerfelt-Puc
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
Jon Garland
Symphoria Musician (Horn) & Director of Operations
George Kilpatrick
Host, Inspiration for the Nation
Allan Kolsky
Symphoria Musician (clarinet)
Robert Lieberman
Managing Partner, RAV Properties
Frank Messere
Dean Emeritus, School of Communication, Media and the Arts, SUNY Oswego
Shelly Thompson-Liedka
Vice President & Commercial Banking Manager, M&T Bank
Wale Oguntola
Nephrologist, St. Joseph’s Health Hospital & Crouse Hospital
Jackie Penfield
Senior HR Consultant, OneGroup
Mike Ratner
Surgeon, Upstate Medical Center, retired
Martha Sutter
Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Teaching Professor of Voice, Syracuse University
Gwen Sykes
Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, SRC, Inc.
Marcus Webb
Program Manager, Entrepreneurship at Columbia Technology Ventures
Gregory Wood
Symphoria Musician (Cello)
Symphoria Staff
Pamela Murchison ✉
Executive Director
Jon Garland ✉
Director of Operations
Ergo Blydenburgh ✉
Orchestra Manager
Nicky Radford ✉
Education & Youth Orchestra Manager
Arvilla Wendland ✉
Personnel Manager
Ben Dettelback ✉
Librarian
Lara Mosby ✉
Senior Manager for Advancement and Community Engagement
Kelly Covert ✉
Corporate Giving and Annual Fund Manager
Andrew Teller ✉
Stage Manager
Brian Pope ✉
Marketing and Data Manager
Paul McShee ✉
Youth Orchestra Music Director
Jessica Tumajyan
Youth Strings Conductor