
SHOSTAKOVICH, STILL, & GERSHWIN
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April 11, 2026 @ 7:30 pm Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater 421 Montgomery St. Syracuse , NY 13202
Program
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
1. Allegretto; Allegro non troppo
2. Allegro
3. Lento
4. Allegro molto; Lento
INTERMISSION
WILLIAM GRANT STILL
Serenade
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Piano Concerto in F
1. Allegro
2. Adagio – Andante con moto
3. Allegro agitato
Terrence Wilson, piano
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PETER & NANCY RABINOWITZ
Featured Artists
A recipient of the 2024 and 2023 Career Assistance Award from the Solti Foundation U.S., Brazilian-American conductor Austin Chanu just concluded his tenure the Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, where he assisted Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Austin made his subscription debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra ...
A recipient of the 2024 and 2023 Career Assistance Award from the Solti Foundation U.S., Brazilian-American conductor Austin Chanu just concluded his tenure the Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, where he assisted Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Austin made his subscription debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra in April 2023 conducting Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Critics commended his interpretation saying, “the orchestra never sounded better as Chanu led with primal energy and shamanistic insight into the music…the orchestra matched Chanu’s confident leadership in a performance of searing energy and heart-thumping passion” (Broad Street Review).
Austin recently placed 3rd in the Korean National Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Competition where he also was awarded the orchestra prize. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Filarmonica Banatul Timișoara, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Omaha Symphony. He has worked with prominent conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Herbert Bloomstedt, Stéphane Denève, and Marin Alsop.
Austin is currently co-leading a project with The Philadelphia Orchestra to restore, rebuild, and elevate the underperformed works of American composer William Grant Still. Austin recently led the world premiere of a newly restored edition of Still’s Wood Notes that he helped create.
Austin has a passion for contemporary music, stemming from his own background as a composer. He served as a teaching artist and conductor for the LA Philharmonic Association’s Associate Composer Program, as well as a Conducting Fellow at the 2022 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where he studied with conductor Cristian Măcelaru. He was commissioned by the Eastman School of Music to compose an orchestral work for the school’s centennial celebration and conducted its world premiere in the Fall of 2021.
Previously, Austin was Music Director for the Los Angeles Music and Art School, where he conducted and developed the artistic direction for the youth orchestra, choirs, and jazz band. Austin found it rewarding to draw on his Latino heritage to foster representation for the predominantly Latinx students and families in the program through repertoire selection.
In addition to his orchestral background, Austin has extensive experience in jazz and musical theatre styles. While living in Los Angeles, he was a high-call woodwind performer for musical pit orchestras and jazz ensembles.
Austin received a B.M. in Music Composition from the USC Thornton School of Music in 2015, graduating Magna cum Laude. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 2021 with an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting.
Acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, and ...
Acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, and with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Jesús López-Cobos, Lawrence Renes, Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Gunther Herbig and Michael Morgan.
Abroad, Terrence Wilson has played concerti with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has toured with orchestras in the US and abroad, including a tour of the US with the Sofia Festival Orchestra (Bulgaria) and in Europe with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.
An active recitalist, Terrence Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Lourvre in Paris, and countless other major venues. In the US he has given recitals at Lincoln Center in New York City (both Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall), the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. An avid chamber musician, he performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players. Festival appearances include Aspen, Blossom, Grant Park, Tanglewood and Wolf Trap.
During the 2023-2024 season, Wilson performed as soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Anchorage, Brevard (FL), Greensboro, Harrisburg, Memphis, Portland (ME), Raleigh and Wichita to name a few. He also appeared as soloist with the Madison Symphony in their gala season-opening concert in September 2023. Other highlights of the season included a multi-city chamber music tour with Imani Winds with performances at such venues as the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston and the 92nd Street Y in New York City, a recital tour culminating with a recital at the prestigious Ravinia Festival, and a return as soloist with the Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago with performances of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with Music Director Designate, Giancarlo Guerrero.
The 2024-2025 season takes Wilson to perform with Symphony Tacoma as well as the Symphony Orchestras of Roanoke and Toledo among others. The season will also include recital appearances in Brookings, OR and chamber music performances with the Escher Quartet in New Orleans and Montréal.
Committed to education, Wilson serves as a member of the piano faculty at the Brevard Music Center (BMC) Institute and Festival in Brevard, NC for three weeks each summer. In July 2024, he was featured as faculty soloist with the Brevard Chamber Symphony at Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at BMC. He is also a frequent guest teacher, lecturer and adjudicator in numerous international piano competitions.
Terrence Wilson has received several awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He has also been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, including NPR’s “Performance Today,” WQXR radio in New York, and programs on the BRAVO Network, the Arts & Entertainment Network, public television, and as a guest on late night network television. In 2011, Wilson was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Instrumental Soloist With an Orchestra” for his (world premiere) recording with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero of Michael Daugherty’s Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra – written for Wilson in 2007.
Terrence Wilson is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. He has also enjoyed the invaluable mentorship of the Romanian pianist and teacher Zitta Zohar. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey. In March 2021, Wilson was appointed to the piano faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Program Notes
The Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, op. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was first performed in Leningrad almost exactly a century ago, on May 12, 1926, just a few months after the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F by George Gershwin (1898–1937) was introduced in Carnegie Hall. Both premieres were breakthrough events for their creators—their first wide exposure as symphonic composers. The two had a lot more in common as well: Both were superb pianists who, early on, made money playing commercial music (Shostakovich knocking out accompaniments to silent movies, ...
The Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, op. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was first performed in Leningrad almost exactly a century ago, on May 12, 1926, just a few months after the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F by George Gershwin (1898–1937) was introduced in Carnegie Hall. Both premieres were breakthrough events for their creators—their first wide exposure as symphonic composers. The two had a lot more in common as well: Both were superb pianists who, early on, made money playing commercial music (Shostakovich knocking out accompaniments to silent movies, Gershwin hawking songs on Tin Pan Alley); both were active in writing music for films (Shostakovich scored more than 30); both were just a decade away from writing the operas (Porgy and Bess, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) that are arguably the greatest twentieth-century operas of their respective countries.
The 19-year-old Shostakovich was barely known at the time the First was premiered—but he made no attempt to cajole his audience, beginning the symphony with rare audacity. A brief announcement by a solo trumpet, elbowed aside by a bassoon solo; subsequent bursts from the solo clarinet, horn, trumpet (again), and flute, all buffered by brief orchestral interventions that start and stop: This mosaic of musical shards, lasting a minute and a half, is far from a traditional symphonic introduction. And while the music eventually coalesces into the arrival of a more recognizable first theme (introduced by the clarinet) and a conventionally contrasting second (an off-kilter waltz introduced by a gorgeous theme on the flute), its nods to classical sonata form don’t quite counterbalance its tendency to knock you off balance with its fits and starts.
The Scherzo is similar in spirit. In fact, at one point, Shostakovich considered the first two movements as a “symphony-grotesque.” For tonight’s conductor Austin Chanu, “the color and the orchestration of the piece really pop out: This may be the first Concerto for Orchestra.” To my ears, it’s also a circus for orchestra, as the first-desk players vie for attention with acrobatic feats. Perfectly appropriate: as Austin reminds us, you can sense Shostakovich’s background as a movie-theater pianist. “You hear a lot of vaudeville and Charlie-Chaplinesque musical material in there.” It’s not always easy to follow, but as Austin says, “It’s okay to feel like you’re getting lost at times, because that’s a bit of the point. There’s just so much going on—it’s almost like cartoon music.”
This lack of classical balance applies not only on the micro-level but on the macro-level as well—for midway through the symphony, when we get to the Largo, the tone changes radically into something that Austin sees as operatic. “It’s almost like two different pieces, shifting to Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler influences. In the third movement, you hear so many allusions to Tristan und Isolde—say, in the opening oboe and cello solos, in the chromaticism and the shape of the line.” As for the finale: it’s a disorienting mixture of these two different pieces, intertwining the madcap spirit of the first two movements with the intense romanticism of the third. The work ends forcefully with a culmination drenched in defiant optimism.
At the time Gershwin’s concerto was first performed, the composer—in contrast to Shostakovich—was already well known. But he was known for his songs (most of which originated in Broadway shows), not as a composer of “serious” music. Yes, he had composed Rhapsody in Blue as part of an “experimental” evening put together by Paul Whiteman; but for all the attraction of its individual sections, the Rhapsody lacks formal integrity. Even Leonard Bernstein, who loved the piece (and performed it often), felt that it was not an “organic work,” but rather a collection of “beautiful tunes,” great moments that can be rearranged (or even cut out) without destroying the effect. Gershwin’s melodic gift (on a level, as Bernstein said, with Schubert’s and Tchaikovsky’s), coupled with his rhythmic genius, is enough to carry the music without either Beethoven’s formal ingenuity or Bach’s counterpoint.
The Concerto was substantially different. He was still using jazz idioms; but here, as Austin says, he was aiming for a tighter structure. He had certainly never written anything this extended or this beholden to classical procedures. Nor did he have much experience in orchestration. As is usually the case on Broadway, Gershwin had farmed out the task of orchestrating his shows, and the orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue (originally for piano with a small jazz-band ensemble) was the work of Ferde Grofé.
Yet the resulting work, both sonically and formally, is a masterpiece. As tonight’s soloist, Terrence Wilson, puts it, “The second movement—which is lyrical, very beautiful—has some of the best orchestration from Gershwin, or anybody else, for that matter.” And the music’s wide expressive range—including what Terrence calls the contrast between “the tender, lyrical, moments of grand romantic gesture” and “the more punchy, urban, Art Deco elements of the piece”—is held together with remarkable formal acumen.
The Concerto is in the traditional three movements—fast, slow, fast—with the first inspired by the Charleston, the second (more melodic in spirit) by the blues, and the finale, in the composer’s words, “an orgy of rhythms,” all linked by a number of thematic and rhythmic connections. (Most obvious, perhaps, is the way the attention-grabbing timpani gesture that opens the piece returns at the end). Walter Damrosch, who was responsible for commissioning the work and who conducted the premiere, said he’d been motivated by a desire to “wean” Gershwin “from Broadway,” which he felt was constraining his talents. Fortunately, he didn’t quite succeed—otherwise, such works as Oh, Kay, Strike Up the Band, and Of Thee I Sing would never have been written. At the same time, we’re fortunate that he did encourage Gershwin’s concert scores, or we’d be without An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess.
In between these two pieces, we have the 1957 Serenade by William Grant Still (1895–1978), who was known, for decades, as the “Dean of African American Composers.” Born in a small town in Mississippi, and raised in Little Rock, he was a wide-ranging musician who’s impossible to categorize. In his early years, like Shostakovich and Gershwin, he earned a living as a performer—as well as by serving as an arranger for pop, jazz, and blues artists (including Paul Whiteman, W.C. Handy, and Sophie Tucker), and by working as a radio conductor. Even after his career as a classical composer blossomed under the mentorship of such very different teachers as the conservative Howard Hanson and the avant-gardist Edgard Varèse, he continued to work in more popular areas such as music for film and television.
He broke social boundaries as well. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have an opera staged by a major opera company, and more. Yet despite his numerous triumphs in Jim Crow America, despite his numerous awards, his life and career suffered under the restrictions imposed by racism. Thus, the 1939 World’s Fair selected his “Rising Tide” as a theme song to be performed (continuously) at the “Democracity” (City of Tomorrow) exhibit. But according to his granddaughter, he couldn’t attend the Fair to hear his own music without police protection, unless he went on “Negro Day.” And even though his reputation is anchored in a vast classical output (which includes five symphonies, several operas, and a great deal of chamber and vocal music), his reputation, like that of many pioneering Black composers, has never matched the quality of his music.
Some of that is, fortunately, changing now—and Austin has been involved in this re-emergence of his music. “During my time at The Philadelphia Orchestra,” he says, “I co-led a project with our principal librarian, Nicole Jordan. We got a grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage to help rebuild and restore a few of Still’s larger works. But during my time in the archives, I got to look at all of his sketches, and I found this short piece called Serenade, which was written a little bit later in his life.” Like Still’s work more generally, it’s fundamentally melodic in spirit. “What I love about Still’s writing,” says Austin, “is that as a composer he always said that melody is king. Everything else falls into place when you write melody.” Although the Serenade is a simple ABA piece, it reflects a number of different perspectives. You can hear its connection to a variety of American vernacular idioms (“Still was being influenced by his time with W.C. Handy, blues, Black spiritual, American folk music…”); but in the B section, “you also hear all of these more dissonant harmonies from his studies with Edgard Varèse in the 1920s.”
On tonight’s concert, the Still Serenade serves as a cushion between the two larger and more sensational pieces that surround it—and as a transition from the chatter of intermission as we move back to the concert. But it serves another function as well, reminding us that Gershwin was inspired by what Still and other Black composers were doing in the 1920s. One story Austin tells can serve for many: “Gershwin would go to clubs in Harlem and be influenced by jazz. But as a Broadway writer himself, he also used to go to a lot of Broadway shows. And one of the shows he attended was Shuffle Along”—often considered the first Black Broadway musical. “Still was the orchestrator for that show, and he also played oboe in the pit. He would improvise and riff. He started doing one of these little riffs every single night”—and that motif served as the original catalyst for “I Got Rhythm.” (It also shows up in Still’s First Symphony.)
Catalyst? Influence? Source? Any discussion of Gershwin in the context of his Black contemporaries raises the vexed question of cultural appropriation. Did Gershwin engage in the theft of Black music? The debates about cultural appropriation have been ongoing, and there are no easy, universal answers, especially when you think broadly about Gershwin, about Copland’s use of Mexican tunes in El Salón México, about Shostakovich’s use of Jewish traditions, about Brahms’s “Hungarian” music incorporating Romani idioms (we’ll be hearing some examples at our next Casual Concert). In any case, while Terrence finds certain Black-influenced music by other White composers “egregious” (Debussy’s “Golliwog’s Cakewalk,” for instance), he doesn’t consider Gershwin guilty of cultural appropriation. “You have to be careful before you accuse an artist of cultural appropriation, because in some cases, depending on the quality of the piece, and the beauty of the piece, it can actually be the most beautiful expression, a tribute of admiration. Gershwin had a genuine infatuation with African American culture and musical idioms. Porgy and Bess, for example: That opera is a beautiful tribute. For me, the point is not the ‘authenticity’; the point is the love note that’s evoked in music.”
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
Supported by Martin Hewitt & Katarína Óladóttir
Mickenna Keller
ENGLISH HORN
Mickenna Keller
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Allan Kolsky, Principal
Supported by Susan Boettger
John Friedrichs, Assistant First Chair
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John Friedrichs
BASSOON
Rachel Koeth, Principal
Supported by David Rankert
Jessica Wooldridge King
Supported by Mary Ann Tyszko
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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
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David Seder
Jackson Murphy
Bass Trombone supported by an anonymous friend
TUBA
Justin Benavidez
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Glenn Paulson
Supported by Mary Ann Tyszko
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Michael W. Bull, Principal
Supported by Alice & Michael Kendrick
Ernest Muzquiz
Supported by Cherry & Peter Thun
Laurance Luttinger
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Peter Rovit, Concertmaster
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Sonya Stith Williams, Associate Concertmaster
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Edgar Tumajyan, Assistant Concertmaster
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Noemi Miloradovic
Laura Smith
Liviu Dobrota
Edwin Lok Hin Cheng
Christopher Stork
Asher Wulfman
Olivia Moaddel
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Amy Christian, Principal
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Anita Gustafson, Assistant Principal
Benjamin Mygatt
Sara Silva
Amanda Brin
Linda Carmona
Adam Jeffreys
Qiyue He
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Michael Halbrook, Principal
Arvilla Wendland, Acting Assistant Principal
Carol Sasson
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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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Carol Zellar
Donna Zeolla
IN MEMORY OF CHERYL ABRAMS
David Abrams
Robert & Cheryl Goodberg
Alyssa & Travis Newton
IN HONOR OF DAVID ABRAMS
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT ANDERSON
Jeanne Anderson
IN MEMORY OF DAVID BARLOW
Jennifer & Matthew Vacanti
IN MEMORY OF EMILY BASS
George S. Bain
Walden Bass
Daniel Carno & Kate McCaffrey
Christine J. Day
Jon Garland & Marc Ramos
Patrick Hahn &
Susan Drummond
Harold L Husovsky MD &
Susan E Stred MD
Fred & Christine Klemperer
Christopher & Deborah Knight
Stewart Koenig & Judy Schmid
Maureen & Martin Mulderig
Robert & Vicki Feldman
Myra Orlen & Richard Goldman
Joseph & Jennifer Roos
June Rybak
Jeffrey & Ellen Schardt
Richard & Linda Smernoff
Terrance & Mary Frances Squires
Ed & Louise Stevens
Catherine & Steve Underhill
IN HONOR OF WALDEN BASS
Kip & Terri Hargrave
Richard & Linda Smernoff
IN MEMORY OF CARL BORNING
Alice Borning
IN HONOR OF BONITA CHAPMAN
John F. O’Neill
IN MEMORY OF GEORGE FREDERICK COBLE
Susan & David Beisler
Stephen Bittner & Karen Shible
Catherine Bush
Kevin M. Cox
Steve & Suzanne Dispensa
David Driesen & Jeanne Otten
Robert & Vicki Feldman
Guy & Patricia Howard
Harold L Husovsky MD & Susan E Stred MD
Cydney Johnson & Jeff Comanici
Fred & Christine Klemperer
David & Gloria Kreh
Paul J. MacArthur
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
Susan Moran
Ernest Múzquiz
David & Janice Panasci
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd
Susan Stone
David J. & Barbara Marble Tagg
Laura Hand Wright
Kevin M. Cox
IN MEMORY OF JUDITH SAVAGE COLEMAN
Stephen Coleman
IN HONOR OF GRANT COOPER
Steven Stull & Jeanne Goddard
IN HONOR OF KELLY COVERT
Robert & Barbara Covert
IN HONOR OF KELLY COVERT & JOHN RASCHELLA
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh
IN MEMORY OF GLORIA DAYTON
Darrin Dayton
IN MEMORY OF ANTHONY DEANGELIS
Edward & Judith O’Rourke
Robert & Barbara Rabin
Cleota Reed
Rose & Philip Weaver
IN MEMORY OF DAVID B. LA DUKE
Lorraine La Duke
IN HONOR OF RILEY FARNHAM
Ellen Farnham
Susan & Dennis Farnham
IN MEMORY OF ALBERT FLEISCHMAN
James & Sara Gladziszewski
Irving & Ava Raphael
Mary Ann Tyszko
IN HONOR OF JOHN & ANNETTE FRIEDRICHS
Scott Shablak
IN MEMORY OF WILMA GALLANIS
Darrin Dayton
IN HONOR OF JON GARLAND
David Brittain
IN HONOR OF GRACE & RENO GHEZZI
Donna Scrimale
IN HONOR OF ANITA GUSTAFSON
Christopher Dranchek
Richard & Linda Smernoff
IN MEMORY OF MARILYN HANSON
Brian & Barbara Hanson
IN HONOR OF MARTIN HEWITT
David Hewitt
IN HONOR OF MARTIN HEWITT & KATARÍNA ÓLADÓTTIR
Edward & Michele Alterman
IN HONOR OF THE JAMESVILLE-DEWITT MUSIC DIRECTOR
James & Eileen Clinton
IN MEMORY OF PETER KARAPIN
Nancy Karapin
IN MEMORY OF KAREN & JOE
Stephen & Michaeline Driscoll
IN HONOR OF JESSICA KING
Thomas Cantwell
IN MEMORY OF MARY KUHN
David Thomas
IN HONOR OF MARIE LANGE
James & Marilyn Seago
IN MEMORY OF ELOISE LATINO
Kenneth & Virginia Drake
IN HONOR OF ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Joshua W. & Rebecca Podkaminer
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM LIGGIO
Tom Baron & Christine Liggio
IN HONOR OF LAWRENCE LOH
Barbara Bell
Patricia DeAngelis
David Rankert
IN MEMORY OF DOUG LYON
Cheryl & Aaron Sobol
Stacy Lyon
IN HONOR OF THE MACERO FAMILY
Mary Roberts Bailey
IN HONOR OF GEORGE MACERO
Charles Merulla & Jeanne Jonientz Merulla
IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH MANN
James & Marilyn Seago
IN MEMORY OF LOUIS V. MARUCCI
Nanette & Thomas Pasquarello
IN HONOR OF NATASHA COOPER & TOM MATTERN
Jeffrey Cooper & Peggy Daub
IN HONOR OF MARY MCCAFFREY
Eileen McCaffrey
IN HONOR OF FRITZ MESSERE
Elizabeth Dugan
IN HONOR OF SPENCER PHILLIPS & NOEMI MILORADOVIC
Hannah & Christopher Douglass
IN MEMORY OF DR. EDWARD A. MONACO JR.
John & Annette Friedrichs
IN HONOR OF PAM MURCHISON
Robert & Vicki Lieberman
Linda Loomis
Ann L. Messenger
Irving & Ava Raphael
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Mary Ann Tyszko
IN HONOR OF MUSIC TEACHERS IN LIVERPOOL SCHOOLS, PAST & PRESENT
Holly Pratt
Pratt Family
IN HONOR OF GLORIA NOBLE
Leslie Noble
IN HONOR OF SEAN O’LOUGHLIN
Don & Loraine Ridall
IN MEMORY OF GINNY & FRITZ PARKER
Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald
Amy & Matthew Parker
IN MEMORY OF RAYMOND PARZYCH
Mary Rinaldi
IN MEMORY OF DEBORAH PELLOW
Albrecht Diem & Matthieu van der Meer
IN MEMORY OF DONNA PERRICONE
Barbara Genton
IN MEMORY OF NEVA PILGRIM
Richard Pilgrim
IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH PIZZUTO
Joseph & Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve
IN MEMORY OF BEVERLY POTTER
Karen Potter
IN MEMORY OF MARY LOU PRITCHETT
Anonymous
Chad & Jenna Arnold
Nicolina Bisson
Leslie Durant
Karli Sager
The Schardt & Buehren Families
Mary & Ronald Spohn
IN HONOR OF PETER & NANCY RABINOWITZ
Katheryn Doran
IN MEMORY OF BETTY REESE
Allan & Cheryl Maxian
IN HONOR OF DAVID A. A. RIDINGS
Robert & Alice Andrews
Ruth D. Brown
IN MEMORY OF CAROL F. ROHRER
Eden Rohrer & William Ryder
IN HONOR OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES
Harold Teller
IN HONOR OF EDUARDO SEPÚLVEDA
David Rankert
Gracia Sears
IN HONOR OF PAT SHARPE
Kip & Terry Hargrave
IN HONOR OF THE SILVERWOOD CLARINET CHOIR
Kenneth & Kathleen Freer
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT L. SLAVENS
Nancy Slavens
IN MEMORY OF REBA JANE SPENCER
Michael Jeffrey Spencer
IN HONOR OF LINDA TASSA
Christine Clay
IN MEMORY OF DAVID TATHAM
Cleota Reed
IN HONOR OF ALL THE MUSICIANS & CONDUCTORS, AS WELL AS DEDICATED SUPPORT STAFF OF THE SYRACUSE ORCHESTRA
David Rankert
IN MEMORY OF SUZANNE TODERO
Stephen & Doreen Bosch
IN MEMORY OF THELIE TROTTY-SELZER
Jon Selzer
IN HONOR OF MARY ANN TYSZKO
Cynthia Dowd Greene & Mark Greene
IN MEMORY OF CAROLE VALESKY
Joseph Valesky
IN MEMORY OF DORIS WEBSTER & SALLY GOULD
Sally Webster
IN MEMORY OF BILL WEST
Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold
IN MEMORY OF JOHN J. WHITTLE
The John & Judy Whittle Charitable Trust
IN MEMORY OF DAVID WHYTE
Anne Whyte
IN HONOR OF PETER ROVIT & GREGORY WOOD
Young & Kelly Lee
IN MEMORY OF RYAN P. WOOD
Greg & Rita Wood
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
Daniel Feng
CTO, PEC, Inc.
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.
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 Director
James Mehran
Marketing Director
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







