THE PLANETS





Welcome


Lawrence Loh | Music Director



About


February 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater
421 Montgomery St. Syracuse , NY 13202



Program


CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Nocturnes
Nuages (Clouds)
Fêtes (Festivals)
Sirènes (Sirens)

FRANÇOIS BORNE
Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen
Demarre McGill, flute

INTERMISSION

GUSTAV HOLST
The Planets
1. Mars, the Bringer of War
2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger
4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
6. Uranus, the Magician
7. Neptune, the Mystic

Thanks to the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility (SPIF) at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, and Zoe Learner Ponterio for providing images for tonight’s performance.
Additional information about the images is below.

 

 

Thanks to our sponsors for this performance!

Peter & Nancy Rabinowitz

Thanks to our media sponsor

 








LAWRENCE LOH | conductor

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

DEMARRE MCGILL | flute

Demarre McGill has gained international recognition as a soloist, recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego and Baltimore symphony orchestras and, ...

Demarre McGill has gained international recognition as a soloist, recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego and Baltimore symphony orchestras and, at age 15, the Chicago Symphony.

Now principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, he previously served as principal flute of the Dallas Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He recently served as acting principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and earlier with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

As an educator, Demarre has performed, coached and presented master classes in South Africa, Korea, Japan, Quebec and throughout the United States. With his brother Anthony, he was a speaker and performer at the 2018 League of American Orchestras Conference. He has also served on the faculties of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, the National Orchestral Institute (NOI) at the University of Maryland, the Orford Music Festival, and participated in Summerfests at the Curtis Institute of Music. In August of 2019, he was named Associate Professor of Flute at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and is an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School.

A founding member of The Myriad Trio, and former member of Chamber Music Society Two, Demarre has participated in the Santa Fe, Marlboro, Seattle and Stellenbosch chamber music festivals, to name a few. He is the co-founder of The Art of Élan and, along with clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Michael McHale, founded the McGill/McHale Trio in 2014. Their first CD, “Portraits,” released in August 2017, has received rave reviews, as has “Winged Creatures,”his recording with Anthony McGill and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2019-20 the McGill/McHale Trio performs at New York City’s 92nd Street Y, as well as in Washington D.C. and on chamber music series throughout the Midwest.
IMG_6188.jpg.jpg
Media credits include appearances on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center, A & E Network’s The Gifted Ones, NBC’s Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, with his brother Anthony when they were teenagers, on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

A native of Chicago, Demarre McGill began studying the flute at age 7 and attended the Merit School of Music. In the years that followed, until he left Chicago, he studied with Susan Levitin. Demarre received his Bachelor’s degree from The Curtis Institute of Music and a Master’s degree at The Juilliard School.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ORATORIO SOCIETY | chorus

Founded in 1975, the Syracuse University Oratorio Society is a large chorus comprised of Syracuse University students and community members that regularly performs choral-orchestral masterworks with the Syracuse Orchestra. The Oratorio Society has been directed by John Warren, professor of music and director of choral activities, since 2011.

Founded in 1975, the Syracuse University Oratorio Society is a large chorus comprised of Syracuse University students and community members that regularly performs choral-orchestral masterworks with the Syracuse Orchestra. The Oratorio Society has been directed by John Warren, professor of music and director of choral activities, since 2011.







Program Notes


“Truth without authenticity”: that’s how Spanish composer Manuel de Falla praised “Soirée dans Grenade,” a piano piece by his French contemporary, Claude Debussy (1862–1918). At the time, Falla was writing about the “visionary genius” that gave Debussy—who in fact spent only a few hours in Spain in his entire life—the ability to summon up the spirit of Andalusia without falling back on the kind of folk-music cliches that circulated widely at the time. But his remark applies to Debussy’s music more profoundly and more generally. Debussy was, for the most part, a descriptive ...

“Truth without authenticity”: that’s how Spanish composer Manuel de Falla praised “Soirée dans Grenade,” a piano piece by his French contemporary, Claude Debussy (1862–1918). At the time, Falla was writing about the “visionary genius” that gave Debussy—who in fact spent only a few hours in Spain in his entire life—the ability to summon up the spirit of Andalusia without falling back on the kind of folk-music cliches that circulated widely at the time. But his remark applies to Debussy’s music more profoundly and more generally. Debussy was, for the most part, a descriptive composer; but even his most picturesque music differs profoundly from that of previous descriptive composers. It doesn’t aim to convey the character of the external world itself (he despised the nature-painting of Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony); rather, it reflects what he called his “inner landscape”—the impressions of the world as recalled or imagined.

 

Thus, Debussy (in rather cryptic prose) described tonight’s offering, his Three Nocturnes (1897–99), as follows [my translation]:

 

“Nuages” (Clouds): This is the immutable aspect of the sky and the slow, melancholy march of the clouds, ending up in a gray agony gently tinted with white.

 

“Fêtes” (Festivals): This is movement, the dancing rhythm of the atmosphere with abrupt flashes of light. There is also the episode of a procession (a blazing and chimerical vision) that passes through the festive scene and becomes merged with it; but the background remains, fixedly and forever, the festival and its mixture of music and luminous dust joining in a universal rhythm.

 

“Sirènes” (Sirens)”: This is the sea with its infinite rhythms and then, amid the waves silvered by the moonlight, the mysterious song of the Sirens is heard, laughing and passing away.

 

Clearly, he’s evoking three scenes. But what kind of scenes? Clouds ending up in “gray agony”? The “dancing rhythm of the atmosphere”? A “chimerical vision”? These are not precise reflections of reality like those we heard in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on our last Masterworks concert. Rather, they are dream images or memories of impressions created by that reality— filtered and enhanced, it would seem, by his experience with the painting, poetry, and music of his time.

 

Debussy writes some of the most gorgeous, most sensual music in the repertoire. But it’s never merely pretty. The sirens may have been beautiful, but their singing lured sailors to their deaths; and in retrospect (an appropriate way to think of Debussy’s music), the earlier two pieces have their darker implications, too. Nor, for that matter, is his music conventional. Although by now his style has become familiar, it was revolutionary in outlook at the time he composed it. In terms of color, his phrase about the clouds—“ending up in a gray agony gently tinted with white”—gives some sense of the subtlety of his use of the orchestra. But it’s his use of harmony that’s most striking. The standard Austro-German works of the 19th century were based on what was called “functional harmony.” This is a system in which each chord served a specific purpose, a system of dissonance and resolution that generated a sense of musical progression and closure. Especially in “Nuages,” Debussy often moved away functional harmony, ready to treat chords for their immediate, even static, sensuous appeal, rather than for their contribution to musical sequence. As conductor Larry Loh puts it, the music’s tonal centers “float around, making the listener feel uncertain about where the ground is.”

 

Debussy resisted the profligate orchestration favored by Wagner and Mahler, only using what was necessary. In this case, however, he felt that something extra was required, and he added a women’s chorus to “Sirènes.” Not surprisingly, though, he uses it in a special way, “as a color” in Larry’s terms, “bringing a human sound into the orchestra.” Because of the added difficulty of bringing in the singers, the first two Nocturnes are often performed without “Sirènes”; full performances, like tonight’s, are moderately rare. But when you hear the sounds that Debussy created, you’ll understand why he made the choice he did.

 

There’s also a women’s chorus in the other-worldly Neptune, which concludes The Planets (1914–1916) by Gustav Holst (1874–1934). The effect, though, is quite unlike that in Sirènes: icy and distant (Holst’s singers are off stage) rather than immediate and seductive. (Holst heightens the sense of distance by having the singers alone at the end, and having the door between them and the stage slowly close as they repeat the final measure “until the sound is lost in the distance.”) More generally, while The Planets is notable, too, for its ingenious use of orchestral colors, it’s radically different in sound from the Nocturnes. Or, perhaps I should say “radically different in sounds,” since each movement, like each movement of the Nocturnes, has a different flavor—there’s no overall Planets sound in the way that there’s an overall sound through the Brahms Third, which we also heard on the last Masterworks concert. Still, for the most part (“Neptune” being the most notable exception), the colors are splashier, grander, more spectacular than Debussy’s. Holst’s music is also more solidly grounded, especially in terms of its harmonic practice. No surprise, really, since as Larry points out, Holst is “dealing with more tangible matters.”

 

Tangible, but not exactly astronomical. Holst didn’t really intend the music to be a description of the solar system. True, each of the seven movements bears the name of a different planet (all of them except for Earth)—but each is also supplied with an epithet suggesting that its source lies in astrology and mythology. In any case, Holst’s sonic imagination is so vivid that the descriptions are unnecessary. Surely, you hardly need to be told that the opening movement represents “Mars, The Bringer of War” in order to feel the terrifying menace of the First World War (talk about “tangible matters”!) Nor do you need to know that the fourth movement represents “Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity” in order to be uplifted (in fact, the noble big tune at its center has been adapted as a hymn). The Planets’ magnificent richness of timbre, its unrivalled variety (few other works cover such a range of moods), and its canny dramatic strokes (especially its eerie end) all make verbal explanation nearly irrelevant.

 

No wonder that since its first public performance roughly a century ago, it has been one of the most popular works in the repertoire, played not only by virtually every orchestra of sufficient size but also adapted for band and taken up, in whole or in part, by a variety of jazz and rock groups as well. It’s also been a great influence on film composers, most obviously John Williams, whose score for Star Wars draws much of its nourishment from Holst. And even if you’ve never heard the work before, it’s so immersive in its impact that, as soon as you start to listen, you’ll be caught up.

 

Between these two otherworldly works, we have a fantasy based on themes from the 19th century’s “earthiest” opera—Bizet’s Carmen. When it premiered in 1875, it provoked a scandal for a variety of reasons. It featured proletarian characters in all the leading, non-comic roles (no gods or nobles); it had an independent and sexually liberated protagonist who died on stage (the first time that had happened at the Opera-Comique, the house that premiered it); there was smoking on stage, too (by women, no less!): all of this ushered in a new, grittier kind of opera. (Debussy referred to Bizet’s “brothel kind of celebrity.”) But it quickly settled into the repertoire (too late for Bizet to see its success, alas), and it is now one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.

 

Its appeal comes partly from its double character. On the one hand, this is 19th-century opera at its most realistic. Carmen is based on Prosper Mérimée’s hard-boiled novel of the same name (I use the phrase “hard-boiled” advisedly, since it was a major inspiration for Raymond Chandler when he wrote his hard-boiled Philip Marlowe novels). And it shares not only the heightened drama of the original, but also its profound psychological insights into ethnic conflict, border-crossings, class, and of course gender. On the other hand, it may be the most hummable opera in the repertoire. Even if you think you don’t know it, you probably know many of its tunes, which have saturated our culture in movies, cartoons, ads, background music…. Bizet’s melodies have also been borrowed for variations and fantasies by composers and performers from Sarasate through Vladimir Horowitz and Franz Waxman (whose Carmen Fantasy originated in his score for the film Humoresque) on to Soviet post-modernist Rodion Shchedrin.

 

Among the most popular of these Carmen-based works is the Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen for flute and orchestra by French flutist François Borne (1840–1920), first published in 1880, just a few years after the opera’s premiere. Little is known about Borne, who would have been totally forgotten were it not for this dazzler (“all fun,” as Larry aptly describes it); but when you hear it, you’ll know why it has kept his name alive. Originally composed for flute and piano, it’s been arranged for flute and orchestra several times—tonight’s version was put together by James Galway. More music from Carmen, by the way, will return on our opera gala, Masterworks 6, on April 20, 2024.

 

Peter J. Rabinowitz

Have any comments or questions? Please write to me at prabinowitz@ExperienceSymphoria.org

 





About the Images of The Planets


The planetary images were provided by the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility (SPIF) at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science. All final image processing was performed by Zoe Learner Ponterio, the manager of SPIF. Many images have been color-enhanced to show greater detail. Others have been “false-colored,” a technique used when the camera originally recorded colors the human eye cannot see, such as infrared and ultraviolet. The spacecraft missions, along with image credits for sources and processing prior to this work, are given below.

Mars
Mars Express, European Space Agency
Source Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
Additional Processing: Bill Dunford, landru79, G. Neukum

Hope, United Arab Emirates Space Agency
Source Credit: Emirates Mars Mission/EXI
Additional Processing: Jason Major

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA
Source Credit and Processing: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Venus
Akatsuki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Source Credit: ISAS/JAXA
Additional Processing: Damia Bouic, Kevin Gill

Mercury
MESSENGER, NASA
Source Credit and Processing: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Jupiter
Juno, NASA
Source Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Additional Processing: Kevin M. Gill, David Marriott, Vladimir Tarasov, Navaneeth Krishnan S, Gerald Eichstädt, Seán Doran, Björn Jónsson

Saturn
Cassini, NASA
Source Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Additional Processing: Alexis Tranchandon, Solaris, Cornell, Hampton University

Uranus
Voyager 2, NASA
Source Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Additional Processing: Erich Karkoschka

Hubble Space Telescope, NASA
Source Credit: NASA
Additional Processing: JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, University of Arizona, Erich Karkoschka

Keck Observatory
Source Credit and Processing: W.W. Keck Observatory/University of Wisconsin-Madison/Lawrence Sromovsky

James Webb Space Telescope, NASA
Source Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Additional Processing: Andrea Luck, Steve Jurvetson

Neptune
Voyager 2, NASA
Source Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

James Webb Space Telescope, NASA
Source Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Additional Processing: Joseph DePasquale, Naomi Rowe-Gurney






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.




The Orchestra & Syracuse University Oratorio Society


VIOLIN I
Peter Rovit, Concertmaster
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 University Oratorio Society
John Warren, director

Leeya Abraham
Marie-Elise Ambroise
Bridget Backer
Rachel Bass
Edie Berndt
Lida Black
Marybeth Carlberg
Andrea Cass
Maria Constantine
Liz Corrigan
CC Cosenza
Katherine Craig
Gina Damico
Martha Kalnin Diede
Tracy Wait Dowd
Betty Feng
Susan Gifford
Beth Goldberg
Beverly Halderman
Katryn Hansen
Sagan Harris
Sky Harris
Cynthia Hoxie
Elise Jutzeler
Maren King
Stephanie Ladd
Michaela LeBlond
Kathy Lemos
Jennifer Loh
Micayla MacDougall
Hannah Marcote
Alison Jo McCauley
Alanna Moonan
Beth Oddy
Shannon Proctor
Melissa Rashford
Ellen Robb
Olivia Scanzera
Rebecca Shell
Darcy Smith
Lauren Smith
Colleen Snow
Julianne Stein
Campbelle Stencel
Anita Sterns
Joan Stevens
Cynthia Stogsdill
Mariah Storie
Susan E. Stred
Josie Tideman-Frappart
Norma Tippett
Lisa Uzdilla
Kimberly Ventura
Connie Walters
Hannah Warren
Jennifer Warren
Hannah Williams
Kate Woodle
Kathryn Zubal-Storrings




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.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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
Joseph Cerroni & Linda Tassa
Brian & Judith Chanatry
Amelia & Rob Christian
Greg & Lynn Clarke
Linda & Bill Cohen
Bob & Bobbie Constable
Michael & Wendy Cynamon
Mark Cywilko & Marianne Moosbrugger
Patricia DeAngelis
Patricia Callahan & David Dee
Mantosh & Anita Dewan
Michael Lee & Deborah Donahue
David Driesen
John & Janet Dwyer
Bill & Betsy Elkins
Elizabeth Etoll
Jim & Shari Freyer
Chris C. Gagas
Jon Garland
Thomas & Cindy Giffin
Gary & Bonnie Grossman
Tim Guhl & Carol Sasson
Barbara Haas
Burt & Sue Harbison
Daniel & Julia Harris
Donald & Donna Henry
Joyce Homan
Steven & Elaine Jacobs
Richard Jaeger
Carolyn Kanaley
G. Roberts & Lauralyn Kolb
David & Gloria Kreh
Charles & Stephanie Ladd
John A. Lang
Bob & Pat Lebel
Charles & Hwasun Loh
John MacAllister & Laurel Moranz
James MacKillop
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
Suzanne & Kevin McAuliffe
Tom & Mary Lou Mees
Fritz Messere & Nola Heidlebaugh
David Mirabito
David & Beth Mitchell
Eric & Judy Mower
Ed & Alice Nanno
Robert & Elizabeth Oddy
David & Janice Panasci
John & Sheila Parker
Amy M. Parker & Paul S. Stein
John Przepiora & Carolyn Stark
Mihael & Kimberly Puc
Jonathan Richman
Paula Rosenbaum & Jacques Lewalle
Neil & Sandy Rosenfeld
David Ross & Martha Sutter
Arnold & Libby Rubenstein
Kelly & Steven Scheinman
Margery Rose & Henry Schoeneck
Gracia Sears
Patricia Sharpe
Frank Smith
Norma Tippett
Larry & Linda Vicks
Howard & Anita Weinberger
Miriam Weiner
John & Claudette Wells
Jeremy Winston & Tina Maxian
Katherine Woodle
David & Emily Wormuth

$500 – $999

Anonymous
Charles & Marie Albee
Lorraine Barry
Ronald & Susan Berger
Marion & Elizabeth Bickford
William Billingham
Joseph & Mary Browne
Frank Byrne & Mary McCune
Andrea Calarco
Stella Castro
Shiu-Kai Chin
Robert & Marsha Chopko
Richard & Marjorie Cohen
Lawrence & Mary Frances Comfort
Toby Cosgrove
Kelly & Kelly Covert
Barbara Czarnecki
Bonnie L. DeBoer
Katheryn Doran
Guy & Nancy Easter
William Eberhardt
Earleen Foulk
Richard & Sarah Furlow
Adam Gagas
Jack & Yana Graver
Estelle M. Hahn
Lamont & Joan Hahn
Joan M. Hanlin
Margaret Hermann
Steven & Amy Heyman
Carol Watson Hickes
Michael & Victoria Hoffman
Kiyoshi & Yasuko Kimura
Christopher & Deborah Knight
Ronald & Cynthia Kowalski
Henry & Nancy Lambright
Lawrence J. Lardy
Andrea Latchem
Richard Levy
Janet Little
Michael & Jean Loftus
Doug Lyon
Donald J. & Patricia MacLaughlin
Janet Mallan
Susan E. Martineau
Lowell McBurney & Carrie Penner
Thomas McKay & Dianne Apter
Robert & Susanna McVaugh
George Mehallow
Lois Meyer
Mark & Debbie Miller
Donna Miller
Richard Molitor
Susan Moran
Roger J. Morton
Pamela & Matthew Murchison
Barbara Nevaldine
Fran & Sally Lou Nichols
Dr. & Mrs. Anis I. Obeid
Drs Wale & Bimpe Oguntola
Sally O’Herin
Mary Pat Oliker
Patricia Peach
Karen & Bill Roche
Carl Rubino & Barbara Gold
Ilonka Salisbury
Toni Salisbury
David & Anne Schmitz
Edward & Lois Schroeder
Steven & Marilynn Schroeder
Larry & Connie Semel
William Smith & Barbara Ford
Elizabeth Spence
H. Paul Steiner
Susan Stowell
Nan & Carter Strickland
Thomas E. Talbot
Lawrence Tanner & Linda LeMura
Robert Turner & Elizabeth Jensen
Joseph & Carole Valesky
Sally Webster
Jenna Weitzel
David & Jayne Wilson
Estate of Robert W. Daly, M.D.
Charles Woods &
Gail Azeredo-Woods

$100 – $499

Anonymous (8)
David Allen
Douglas & Elizabeth Anderson
Robert & Jeanne Anderson
Manuel Ares
Peggy Ogden & Tim Atseff
Dave & Marge Babcock
Mark Hoffmann & Jo Anne Bakeman
W. Gary & Jean Baker
Dennis & Gail Baldwin
William & Evelyn Baldwin
Gerald Barker
Kirsten & Jonathan Basch
Rachel Bass
Walden & Emily Bass
Todd & Sophia Battaglia
Helen Beale
Jean Beers
Barbara Bell
Thomas & Susan Bergemann
Janine Bernard
Edward & Angela Bernat
Michael Birnkrant
Diana Biro & Eric Rogers
Nicolina Bisson
Marilyn Bittner
Patricia Blochowiak
Susan Boettger
Craig & Marina Boise
James & Siubhan Bongiovanni
Alice Borning
Michael & Melanie Bowser
Richard & Barbara Bratt
Bernard & Ona Bregman
James & Joyce Bresnahan
Carroll Brown & Ann Young
Ted Brown & Anne Munly
Bryant Buchanan & Sharon Wise
Charles A. Buckley
Borys & Lida Buniak
Alfred Kelly & Sharon Burke
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Calo
Lawrence & Fran Campbell
Nancy Caple
Ronald Capone
Leon Carapetyan
Catherine L Cardelus
Patricia Carey
Edward & Sarah Castilano
Anthony Catsimatides
Elaine Ceresko
Val & Steve Churchill
Bart & Jean Clapsaddle
Thomas & Joan Clark
John & Christine Clark
Joe & Nancy Clayton
Sam & Carolyn Clemence
Richard J. Clemons
Kenneth & Lynn Cline
George & Deborah Coble
Paul & Linda Cohen
Santo & Patricia Colabufo
Carol Colvin
Kristin & Sidney Cominsky
Suzanne Congel
Joan Conine
Mary Ann Connor
Joyce Cook
Charles & Barbara Coon
Robert & Lorrie Cooney
Grant & Margaret Cooper
R. Patrick & Margaret Corbett
James Cosenza
Theodore Cox & Colleen Snow
Diana Cramer
Raymond Cummings, Jr.
Patricia Curtin
Arthur & Mary D’Addario
Daniel D’Agostino
Michael & Elizabeth Daly
Mary Darminio-Rinaldi
George Davenport
Rev. Christine J. Day
Darrin Dayton
Virginia DeBenedictis
William & Terry Delavan
Margrit Diehl
Mr. & Mrs. Manfried Diflo
David & Dana DiGennaro
James & Donna Dispenza
Becky Dodd
Alan & Linda Dolmatch
Hannah & Christopher Douglass
Joseph Downing
Rebecca Downing
Corinne Driscoll
David & Robin Drucker
Elizabeth Dugan
Dorothy Dunham
The Dunn Family
Ed & Karen Eagan
Robert Eaton
Jean Edminster
Cantor Kari Eglash & Joel Eglash
Barbara Egtvedt
John M. & Margaret Elliott
Richard & Jill Ertinger
Michele & Jack Estabrook
Stephen & Suzanne Evans
Jennifer Fais, Noel Sylvester & Marilyn Fais
Janet L. Fechner
Mark Feldman & Christine Riley
R. Paul Ferenchak
John & Barbara Fero
Barbara Ferro
John Fields
Robert & Terry Flower
Judith A. Fox
Michael & Susan Fox
Nancy Freeborough & Swiat Kaczmar
Kenneth & Kathleen Freer
Lanny Freshman
John & Annette Friedrichs
Karen Fruehan
Barbara Genton
Sharon & David Gerber
Christine Geyer
Laurie & Jonathan Gibralter
Thomas & Louise Gilhooley
Sandra Gingold
Victor & Carol Ginsky
Heidi Gitzen
Edward & Laurel Golash
Irwin & Beth Goldberg
Jacki & Michael Goldberg
William J. Goodwin
Michael & Wendy Gordon
Jeremy Gosbee
Charles & Sandra Gowing
Robert & Linda Graves
Stephen L. & Julia Graziano
Winifred Greenberg
Cynthia Dowd Greene & Mark Greene
Edmund C. & Nancy Gremli
Jonathan & Elisabeth Groat
Robert & Martha Group
Sudhir & Swarajya Guthikonda
Gary Quirk & Charlotte Haas
Mary Elizabeth Haas
Christine Hafner
Patrick Hahn & Susan Drummond
Steve & Theresa Haigney
Dana & Susan Hall
Rich Hall
John Hallihan & Ethelwyn Soper
Daniel & Diane Halsey
Ruth Pass Hancock
Bryce & Judith Hand
Katryn Hansen
Richard & Ann Harris
Laurence & Ann Harris
Douglas & Nancy Hatch
Karen & William Havens
Richard & Susan Hawks
Avery & Elizabeth Head
Ronald & Irene Hebert
Suzanne Heiligman
Samuel Hester
Rev. Kenneth Heuermann
Martin Hewitt
Thomas D. Higgins
Joseph Himmelsbach & Paula Trief
Thomas Hirasuna & Jean Hunter
Charles & Carol Hladun
Geoffrey Holm
Alyse Holstein
Anthony Hornfeck
Ruth Hotaling
Mary E. Hough
Jane Hudson
Peter & Mary Huntington
Patricia Infantine
Nicki & Brian Inman
Mike & Mary Kate Intaglietta
Wanda Irish
Janet Jaffe
Peter Vanable & Anne Jamison
Daniel & Rhea Jezer
Todd & Taryn Jirousek
Edward Johnson
Lewis & Julie Johnson
Anthony & Kathy Joseph
John & Gwenn Judge
Paul & Wendy Jutzeler
Philip & Judy Kaplan
Nancy Karapin
Lexi Carlson & Sebastian Karcher
Amy Kemp
David Kennedy
Richard Killmer
George & Gloria Kilpatrick
Robin Kinnel
Sandy Kinsella
Jeffrey Kirshner
Linda Trapkin & Ed Klein
Faye Kline
John & Jane Klucsik
Pamela Knapp
Barry R. & Kathryn Kogut
Allan Kolsky & Ellen Somers
Dean R. Kolts
Richard & Roxanne Kopecky
Donna L. Korol
Rick & Barb Crompton
Peter & Marlene Koshgarian
Thomas Krahe
Barbara E. Krenzer & John Stone
Roger Krieger
Thomas & Juliet Kubiniec
Lilly Kuwashima
Ursula Kwasnicka
Barbara Kwasnik
Stephen Lackey
Robert & Lauren Lalley
Lisa Lamson
Linda Land
Marie Lange
The Lardieri Family
Carolyn & Dennis Lardy
John Leggat & Shannon Magari
James Leiter
Fred Goldberg & Dorothy Lennon
Marilyn Lerman
Beverly Lewis
Gelene T. Lewis
Terry & Frances Lewis
Robert & Shelly Liedka
The August & Louise
Liermann Family
The Lightbody Family
Edward & Carol Lipson
Linda LoBello
Linda Loomis
Carol Louise
Nicholas & Cathy Lozoponi
Patricia Luke-Perless
Paul J. MacArthur
Christopher J. Mack & Catherine Diviney
Guy & Dawn Mackenzie
Ellen MacKnight
William Magnarelli
Nektarios Mantalios & Theone Kalkinis
Frederick & Virginia Marty
Karen Mason
Gerard & Lori McCrohan
Barbara Beckos & Art McDonald
Wallace & Gayenne McDonald
Darlene McFadden
Phyllis McKaig
Mary Helen McNeal
Diane N. McRae
Eckart & Mary Meisterfeld
Marcia & Dave Mele
Clifford & Marjorie Mellor
Walter & Lauren Melnikow
Charles Merulla & Jeanne Jonientz Merulla
Anne Messenger
Michael & Glenna Meyer
David S. Michel & Margaret Liuzzi
Neena Mitchell
James & Susan Mone
Jeffrey & Elizabeth Morey
Russel & Carol Morison
Janice & Michael Mueller
David & Janet Muir
Lawrence & Michele Mullett
Ernest Muzquiz
Maureen Natali
Ned & Linda Merrell
Kimberly Neff-Barrett
James Nighan
Martin & Ellen Nodzo
Barbara Nostrand
Michael & Edie Nupuf
Paul Oakley
John & Danielle O’Loughlin
Jane S. Ondich
Judith Dehn Oplinger
Edward & Judith O’Rourke
Jill Ozinsky
Thomas & Joyce Packard
Richard & Margaret Padula
Joan Page
Cathy Palm
Rita Paniagua
Robert Papworth
Robert & Teresa Parke
Tom & Diane Parker
Lynne Della Pelle Pascale
Nanette & Tom Pasquarello
Brian Pavlovitz
Harvey & Dorothy Pearl
David J. Peckham
Steven Pekich
Colleen Pellman
Deborah Pellow
Jackie & Chuck Penfield
Tom & Meredith Perreault
Andrew Perry
Dave Perry & Jan Masur-Perry
Kevin & Becky Peterman
Matthew Petty & Amy Moon
Mark & Mary Cay Phelps
Stephen & Marsha Phillips
Mary & Barry Pickard
Aaron & Colleen Pierce
Richard & Neva Pilgrim
Mary Jean Piraino
Anita Pisano
Joshua W. & Rebecca Podkaminer
Howard & Ann Port
Doreen Powers
Pemala & Suhas V. Pradhan
Mary Purcell
Anna & Oleksandr Putintseva
Stephen & Kathryn Pynn
Robert R. Quinn
Selma J. Radin
Ann Ray
Cleota Reed
Margaret Reid
Ross & Melanie Brunet Relyea
Beth Richards, Gregory Owens, Gail Morrow & Claire Affleck
Frances Toni Richardson
Donnaline Richman
Gerald & Shu Ha Richmond
Don & Loraine Ridall
Michael & Annette Riposo
Dr. & Mrs. William H. Roberts
Mary Roberts-Bailey
Keith & Jacalyn Robisch
Michael & Kelley Romano
Philip Rose & Beth Broadway
Phil Eisenman & Gayle Ross
Philip & Nancy Rothschild
Beverly Roy
Elaine Rubenstein
Richard & Virginia Russo
Robert & Linda Ryan
June Rybak
John & Judy Sabene
Seth & Penny Sanders
Joseph & Jean Sanger
Dorothy Sarvay
Ronald & Janice Saunders
Ernest & Anne Scalzetti
Anthony Scalzo
Richard & Margaret Scheffler
Judy Schmid & Stewart Koenig
Mr. & Mrs. William Schu
Molly Schutrumpf
Anne Scuderi
Cheryl Patrice Scullion
Suzanne Shapero
Steven & Susan Shaw
Alexandra & Jeff Shaw
David Shmoys & Eva Tardos
Alberta L. Shouldice
James Shults
Merril Silverstein & Kathleen Roland-Silverstein
Nancy Slavens
Richard & Linda Smernoff
Judith B. Smith
Nancy & Daniel Smothergill
John Sodva
Carol & Dirk Sonneborn
Rita Southwick
Michael J. Spencer
Rosalie G. Spitzer
Terrance & Mary Frances Squires
George & Helene Starr
Lou & Mary Steigerwald
Karl Crossman & John Steinburg
Stephen Stewart
Franklin & Kathleen Stith
Richard & Kathleen Stoeckel
Conrad Strozik & Janice Farrelly
David Svendsen
Leonard & Mary Alice Swanson
Amy Kauffman Sweeney
Harvey Teres
David Thomas & Mary Kuhn
Mary B. Thompson
Nancy Tiedemann
James & Deborah Tifft
Suzanne Todero
Cynthia G. Tracy
Marguerite Conan & James Traver
George & Ronna Treier
Amy Tucker
Eugene Turner
David & Ruth Tyler
David & Patricia Urban
Matt & Jennifer Vacanti
Patrick VanBeveren
Robert & Anita Wagner
Jeanne Walewski
Daniel & Annette Wallace
JoAnn Wallace
Connie Walters
Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman
Virginia Watson
Stephen & Margaret Webb
Laurence & Linda Webster
Leonard Weiner & Kathryn Kelly
Ruth S. Weinstock
George & Joyce Welitschinsky
Glen Wells
Shirley J. Wells
Robert & Susan Westlake
Lynda Wheat
Fred & Karen Whitney
Anne Whyte
Christopher & Renee Wiles
Jesse & Eleanor Williams
Marlene J. Williams
Virginia Winters
Gregory & Rita Wood
William & Mary Wormuth
Qing Qu & Qinru Qiu
Weidong Yao & Hannah Dai
Robert Yerka
Samuel & Robin Young
Joyce Zadzilka
MaryAnn Zeppetello
Brent & Laurie Zerkle
Edmund Zielinski
Michelle Zurn

$1 – $99

Anonymous (3)
Cecily Albach
Nicholas & Linda Albicelli
Ira Ames
Zachary S. Anderson
Michael Anzalone
Charis Asante-Agyei
David & Michelle Auerbach
Dale Avers
Barbara Barnell
Elizabeth Bates
Jackson Bayuk
Jacklyn Beck
Karyn & Ken Belanger
Mary Lou Bender
Robert J. Berger
Steven & Laurie Berkowitz
Sally Berry
Cathy Thielke
Richard & Louise Blafield
Carlton & Barbara Blanchard
Michael Kerker & Mary Bochino
Deborah Bogan
Anita Bombard
Jon & Patricia Booth
Susan Borker
Stephen & Doreen Bosch
William & Julie Bourke
Debra Bowers
William & Virginia Brandt
Jay & Larissa Brenner
Donna Briscoe
Michele Bristol
Rena & David Brower
Jane Brown
Jody Brown & David Fatta
H. Allen & Louise Brown-Smith
William J. Brunken
Jo Anne Bakeman & Sandra Blouin
Dr. & Mrs. William Buckley
Michael & Karen Burns
Elisabeth Burton
Ellen Butler
Jessica Calhoun
Lia Call
Nicole Capriotti
Melissa Cardone
Joe & Mary Carello
Judith A. Carr
Patricia Carroll
Mark Carter
Antonio & Henriette Carvalho
Diane Case
William & Hilary Casey
Christina Castle
Lawrence & Linda Chambers
Erin Champion
Kevin Chandler
Nicole Charron
Kay Lyn Chase
Sihai Chen & Xiuyan Huo
Wei Chen
Robert & Kim Cherry
Kelly Christensen
Wendy Cobrda
Lou Anne Colaneri
Gary & Michele Combs
Mailene Bacha
Pam Constantine
Celita Converse
Jeffrey Cooper & Peggy Daub
Kate Cooper
Peter & Elizabeth Costello
Robert & Barbara Covert
Judith Cowden
Beth A. Crane
Barb Crisafi
Anne Cronlund
Josh Cronlund
Kevin Crowston & Marie Williams
Tanya Cumber
Walter & Therese Dancks
Melissa Daniels
Scott Dauenhauer
Jennifer Dean
Carol Decker
Mary Lynn Dekold
Patricia DeMatteo
James & Debra DeSocio
Carla Dias
Camille Dillard
Daniel Dingel
Andrew & Martha Dollekamp
Carol Dumka
Deborah A. Dunn
Siobhan Dunn
Leslie Durant
Frederick Eggers
Heidi Escobar
Timothy Fandrich
Mark Farrington
Stephen L. & Christina Feikes
Daniel & Fran Ferguson
Mark & Susan Field
Laura Filip
Maryann Finn
Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold
Stephen Fleury
Gerard & Vanessa Flynn
Ellen Ford
Jeffrey & Nancy Fortais
Stacey Frank & Kimberly Palmiter
Linda Frank
Pam Freeman
Howard & Janelle Freshman
David Freund
Emma Gage
George & Halina Gagne
Ellenrose Galgano
Eileen Gannon
Mary Gardner
Steven & Linda Garner
Kevin Gaskim
Reno & Grace Ghezzi
Scott & Michelle Gillispie
John Gilrein
Gordon & Charlotte Goodison
Brian Gorman
Timothy & Gail Gorman
Jessica Gorton
Robert Gowans
Jacy Grannis
Cyrus Grant
John & Kayla Gugino
Tracy Hagar
Patricia Hagemann
Melleny Hale
Bruce & Ruth Hall
Cianne Hall
Roberta Hampson
Bruce Hare
Terri & Kip Hargrave
Lisa Harrell-DeLamater
Catherine Green Harris
Michael Harris
Mary Hutchins Harris
Sovanny Hartnett
Janice Harvey
Tracy Haswell
Elaine Heimers-Cook
Paul Hernandez
Sarah Hickey
Liddy Hintz
Ellen Holst
Joseph & Kathleen Honis
Mary Ann Howell
David & Jeanmarie Hoye
Kirsten Hubel
Jane Hugo
Jayne A. Humbert
James Hunter
Jennifer Huyck
Linda Imboden
Richard Isome & Wendy Carl Isome
Nadia Iwachiw
Jeanne Jackson
Izabela & Julia Jaremko
Tyler & Karen Jenks
Martin & Elizabeth Jensvold
Michael Jones
The Jorgensen Family
Sandra Kalbach
Allan & Rita Kanter
Marion Katz
Mitchell J. & Rebecca Katz
Barbara Ellen Kay
Susan Kelly
Michael & Morgen Harding
Elizabeth Kennedy
Barbara Kenney
Kerryanna Elhage
Hubert & Ellen Kimball
Jay & Anne King
Robert & Leslie Klein
Fred & Christine Klemperer
Jerry & Susan Klineberg
Steven W. Kulick
Jack & Theresa Kurdzionak
Colleen Lanning
Maeve Lanning
Duc Le
Jennifer Leitgeb
Thomas Leith
Leonard Levy
Alexandra Dimon
Marshall R. Loomis
Roy & Carolyn Lootens
Jennifer Lowe
Trish Lowney
Burton Luther
Jill Lyon
Daniel MacCollum
Steve Dolan & Debbie Magaro-Dolan
Catherine Mahoney
Maureen McCarthy
Martha Maier
Jeff & Joanne Maloff
Kathleen Maloney
Zachary Marsh
Wade & Patricia Martin
Gianetta Massett
Sarah Massett
Allan & Cheryl Maxian
John & Bonnie McCabe
Pam Mccabe
Diane W. McKenney
Kenneth & Abigail McVearry
Polly Messenger
Vincent Messina
Joseph & Elizabeth Miles
Jane Miles
Barry Miller
George Miller
James A. Miller
Kayla Miller
Madonna Millerschin
Mary Miner
Jeff & Diane Minor
Teresa & James Mirakian
Thomas & Nancy Monti
Ronald & Terry Moore
Maureen Morgan
Richard Morris
Deborah Mossotti
Lauren Mossotti-Kline
Thomas Mueller & Cher Leszczewicz
Patrice Murphy
Philip & Jane Nagy
Peter Naughton
Stephanie Ness
Martin & Millie Newshan
Nick Crisafi
Michelle Nicotera
Daniela Nikolavsky
Douglas North
John O’Neill
Jerome O’Callaghan
Lance Olin
Andrew & Kathleen Olson
Florin Olteanu
Patrick & Vicki O’Neill
Stephen & Wenda Osborne
Ellen O’Shea
Rebecca Ossevoort
Corazon Ouano
Jacqueline Owens
Cinnamon Pace
Adam Pack & Christine Checkosky
Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde & Lordes Paiewonsky
Gloria Palmiere
Norma Mahnken
Elizabeth Pastel
Jacie Paulk
Roger & Patricia Pedersen
Marc & Susan Pedrosa
Jean M. Pellegrino
Kalliopi Petropoulou
Delores M. Petta
Eric & JoAnne Pettit
Jeffrey Phelps
Spencer V. Phillips & Noemi Miloradovic
Daniel & Brandye Pisacano
Jeanne Pizzuto-Sauve
Ken Plumadore
Diane Plumley
Georgia Popoff
Emmanuel Pothos
Karen Potter
Mary Lou Pritchett
Lisa Procanick
Elizabeth Rabozzi
Ivy Raines
Patricia Ratcliffe
Brandan Ray
James & Carol Recker-Hughes
David & Sarah Reckess
Monica Reed
Kate Reid
Nancy Rein
Todd Relyea
Dacheng Ren & Jiejing Qiu
Daniel & Shelley Riley
Thomas Rinefierd & Mary Beckelhimer
Susan Rizzo
Richard & Ellen Robb
Marilyn Robert
Susan Rockdashil
Diane Rogers
Marion Rogers
Johann Rosario
Richard Rosenberger & Sandra Kalbach
Paul & Pamela Roux
Josette Rowser
Robert & Lori Rupp
Malgorzata Ruszkowska-Noon
Deborah Sabella
Louis & Cheryl Sacco
Dayle Salce
Mary Sapka-Sams
Andrew & Ilona Sapoznikov
Gary & Karen Sauda
David & Theresa Schafran
Chris & Kristin Schierer
Joshua Schilling
Margaret Schneider
Richard & Lorie Schneider
Richard Schultz & Mary Dunn
Lydia Seales-Fuller
Jacob Segal
Kim Sgroi
Tomasz & Malgorzata Skwarnicka
Peter McCarthy & Jane Slabowski
Michele C. Smith
Heidi Soine
John & Maria Soldo
Robert Sollish
Peter & Kristl Spalding
Karl Sperber
Kathryn Spier-Miller
John & Carol Spinello
Allison Stack
Janis Stanton
Charles & Cathy Stedman
Stephen Stehman
Marc Stogran
Steven Stull & Jeanne Goddard
Sara Swenson
Arnold & Andrea Talentino
George & Roma Temnycky
Austin Thomas
Michael Trembley
Dennis & Debbie Trepanier
Gitta Trippany
Robert & Donna Troy
Rebecca Turnbow
David & Sherry Tyler
Michiko Ueda
George Van Laethem
Jessica van Son
Anushrav Vatsa
Kathryn Vernay
Anthony & David Vinci
James & Dawn Vivelo
Mary Jo Vona
Gisela von Dran
Anne Marie & James Voutsinas
Kristine Waldron & Burton Thomas
Ed & Alice Nanno
Barbara Walzer
Elizabeth Watson
Rose M. Weaver
Diane D. Webb
Marcus Webb
Michael & Tiffany Weiskotten
Vivienne Werden
Ralph & Kathleen Wiegandt
Donald Wiley
Linda Williams
Gretchen Wilson
Kristin Wilson
Robert Wilson
Patrick Witmer
Bjorn Woldbeck
Amanda Wolsley
Dona Wonacott
Martin & Jennifer Wong
Richard & Mary Wood
Mary Jane Woodcock
Kathryn Woodruff
Russell & Eve Wooldridge
Ann & Kurt Wossner
Paul & Amanda Yaworsky
Richard & Mary Dee Yost
Deborah Reinhardt Youmans
Marilyn Zaleon
Phyllis & Mark Zames
John Zasada & Mary Haven
Carol Zellar

IN HONOR OF EMILY BASS
Linda Loomis
June Rybak
Susan Stowell

IN MEMORY OF CARL BORNING
Alice Borning

IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BROSI V
James Cosenza

IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH CLARK
Greg & Lynn Clarke

IN MEMORY OF ROBERT M. COLLEY
Katryn Hansen

IN MEMORY OF LARRY COMFORT
Mary Frances Comfort

IN HONOR OF NATASHA COOPER & TOM MATTERN
Jeffrey Cooper & Peggy Daub

IN HONOR OF KELLY COVERT
Ernest Muzquiz

IN MEMORY OF AINSLEY COX
Janet Jaffe

IN HONOR OF KATHLEEN CROUCH
Diane Case

IN MEMORY OF TONY D’ANGELO
Cleota Reed

IN HONOR OF DR. LESLIE DAVIS
Phyllis & Mark Zames

IN MEMORY OF GLORIA GALLANIS DAYTON
Darrin Dayton

IN MEMORY OF TONY DEANGELIS
Rose Weaver

IN MEMORY OF KIT DODD
Nicholas & Linda Albicelli
Kay Lyn Chase
Pam Constantine
Becky Dodd
Jacy Grannis
Martin & Elizabeth Jensvold
John & Bonnie McCabe
Roger & Patricia Pedersen
Mark & Mary Cay Phelps
Doreen Powers
Michael J. Spencer
John & Bonnie McCabe

IN MEMORY OF SHIRLEY DURLING
Thomas & Pamela Antonini
Walden & Emily Bass
Barb Crisafi
Nick Crisafi
Rick & Barb Crompton
Linda Frank
Howard & Janelle Freshman
Burt & Sue Harbison
Sandra Kalbach
Barbara Kenney
Fred & Christine Klemperer
Marie Lange
The August & Lousie Liermann Family
Norma Mahnken
Jane Miles
Ronald & Terry Moore
Marc & Susan Pedrosa
Ann Ray
Beth Richards, Gregory Owens, Gail Morrow & Claire Affleck
Ann & Kurt Wossner

IN MEMORY OF JAMES EVAN III
Patricia DeAngelis
Kathleen Bice

IN HONOR OF M. HEATHER FAIS
Jennifer Fais, Noel Sylvester & Marilyn Fais

IN HONOR OF CARAGH FAHY
Anonymous

IN MEMORY OF LILLIAN FECHNER
Rev. Janet L. Fechner

IN MEMORY OF KAY FEY
Jay & Anne King

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH C. FINN
Mary Ann T. Finn

IN HONOR OF JON GARLAND
Jean Edminster

IN MEMORY OF BRUCE HANEY
Joan Page

IN MEMORY OF POLLY HUTCHINS
Ron Ferguson & Helen H. Reed

IN HONOR OF RICHARD JENKINS
Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar

IN MEMORY OF LORA JONES
Don & Loraine Ridall

IN HONOR OF JESSICA KING
Barbara Bell

IN HONOR OF ALLAN KOLSKY
Mary Helen McNeal

IN MEMORY OF RAE KRAMER
Lanny Freshman

IN MEMORY OF MARILYN LERMAN
Winifred Greenberg
Rita Southwick

IN MEMORY OF EDWARD M. LEWIS
Beverly Lewis

IN HONOR OF ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Joshua W. & Rebecca Podkaminer

IN HONOR OF GEORGE MACERO
Charles Merulla &
Jeanne Jonientz-Merulla

IN MEMORY OF PATRICIA MACKILLOP
James MacKillop

IN MEMORY OF LOUIS V. MARUCCI
Nanette & Tom Pasquarello

IN HONOR OF JANET MASUR-PERRY
Dave Perry

IN MEMORY OF GEORGE & MADELINE MEHALLOW
George Mehallow

IN HONOR OF FRITZ MESSERE
Elizabeth Dugan

IN MEMORY OF DR. EDWARD A. MONACO, JR.
John & Annette Friedrichs

IN MEMORY OF RICHARD MORAN
Susan Moran

IN HONOR OF ERNEST MUZQUIZ
William Billingham
Karen & Bill Roche

IN MEMORY OF KAREN NICHOLAS
Frank Byrne & Mary McCune

IN MEMORY OF JOHN & CAROL OBERBRUNNER
David & Sherry Tyler

IN MEMORY OF JAMES H. O’NEILL
John O’Neill

IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK B. PARKER, M.D.
Thomas & Pamela Antonini
George Bain
Dennis & Gail Baldwin
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
Michael & Jacquelyn Goldberg
Lawrence & Dorothy Gordon
Michael & Wendy Gordon
Winifred Greenberg
Jonathan & Elisabeth Groat
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
Pamela & Matthew Murchison
Ned & Linda Merrell
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
Peter & Nancy Rabinowitz
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

Emily Bass ✉
Box Office 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 ✉
Data & Patrons Services Associate

Paul McShee ✉
Youth Orchestra Music Director

Jessica Tumajyan
Youth Strings Conductor