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colburnschool.edu 1 Lynn Harrell, Cello September 17, 2017 Zipper Hall, 3 pm Colburn Chamber Music Society Duo for Viola and Cello in E-Flat Major, WoO 32, ludwig van beethoven “With Two Eyeglasses Obligato” (1796) (1770–1827) [Allegro] Tanner Menees, Viola Minuetto Lynn Harrell, Cello Passacaglia in G Minor for Violin and Cello (1894) johan halvorsen (1864–1935) arr. michael press Gallia Kastner, Violin Lynn Harrell, Cello Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C Minor, ludwig van beethoven Op. 1, No. 3 (1794–95) Allegro con brio Rodolfo Leone, Piano Andante cantabile con variazioni Fabiola Kim, Violin Menuetto: Quasi allegro Lynn Harrell, Cello Finale: Prestissimo Intermission Octet for Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos in felix mendelssohn E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825) (1809–1847) Allegro moderato ma con fuoco Eduardo Rios, Violin Andante Madeleine Vaillancourt, Violin Scherzo: Allegro leggierisimo Michelle Shin, Violin Presto Aiden Kane, Viola Emma Wernig, Viola Lynn Harrell, Cello Charles Seo, Cello The Colburn School gratefully acknowledges Audre Slater for her support of Lynn Harrell’s performance. The Colburn Chamber Music Society Series is generously supported by Carol and Warner Henry. ank You

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Lynn Harrell, CelloSeptember 17, 2017

Zipper Hall, 3 pm

Colburn ChamberMusic SocietyDuo for Viola and Cello in E-Flat Major, WoO 32, ludwig van beethoven“With Two Eyeglasses Obligato” (1796) (1770–1827)

[Allegro] Tanner Menees, ViolaMinuetto Lynn Harrell, Cello

Passacaglia in G Minor for Violin and Cello (1894) johan halvorsen

(1864–1935)

arr. michael press

Gallia Kastner, Violin Lynn Harrell, Cello

Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C Minor, ludwig van beethovenOp. 1, No. 3 (1794–95)

Allegro con brio Rodolfo Leone, PianoAndante cantabile con variazioni Fabiola Kim, ViolinMenuetto: Quasi allegro Lynn Harrell, CelloFinale: Prestissimo

Intermission

Octet for Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos in felix mendelssohn

E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825) (1809–1847)

Allegro moderato ma con fuoco Eduardo Rios, ViolinAndante Madeleine Vaillancourt, ViolinScherzo: Allegro leggierisimo Michelle Shin, ViolinPresto Aiden Kane, Viola Emma Wernig, Viola Lynn Harrell, Cello Charles Seo, Cello

The Colburn School gratefully acknowledges Audre Slater for her support of Lynn Harrell’s performance.

The Colburn Chamber Music Society Series is generously supported by Carol and Warner Henry.

Thank You

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Next ConcertColburn Chamber Music SocietySunday, October 1Zipper Hall, 3 pmCalidore String QuartetMusic by Shostakovich, Bruckner, Janáček, and Brahms

Tickets: $13, $27

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Colburn Chamber Music Society series is generously supported by Carol and Warner Henry

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Featured Artists

Lynn Harrell, Cello

Lynn Harrell’s presence is felt throughout the musical world. A consummate soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor, and teacher, his work throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia has placed him in the highest echelon of today’s performing artists including such noted conductor collaborators as James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

In recent seasons, Mr. Harrell performed domestically with the symphonies of Atlanta and Detroit, and the Metropolian Opera Orchestra to close the season at Carnegie Hall. He has also played alongside the Sydney Symphony, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, China and Seoul Philharmonics, Duisberg Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira. He toured North America and Europe with the Mutter-Bronfman-Harrell Trio to venues including Carnegie Hall, the Maison Symphonique de Montreal, the Salzburg Großes Festspielhaus, and Dresden Staatskapelle. His international engagements include adjudicating the XV Tchaikovsky International Competition; concerts with the Seoul Philharmonic and Eliahu Inbal, Mariinsky Orchestra, and Valery Gergiev; and performing in the Verbier, Hong Kong International Chamber, Aspen, La Jolla, Eastern Music, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Scotia Festivals.

An accomplished recording artist, Mr. Harrell’s discography of more than 30 recordings includes the complete Bach Cello Suites (London / Decca) and two Grammy wins with Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy—in 1981 for the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio and in 1987 for the complete Beethoven Piano Trios (both Angel/EMI).

Mr. Harrell plays a 2008 Dungey cello. He makes his home in Santa Monica.

Photo: Christian Steiner

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students

Aiden Kane, Viola

Violist Aiden Kane is a Master of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Paul Coletti. Prior to attending the Colburn Conservatory, where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 2017, she participated in the Colburn Music Academy and in the National Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Fellowship Program, where she studied with Daniel Foster. Passionate about chamber music, Ms. Kane served as the violist of the Calla Quartet, which was awarded the silver medal at the 2015 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and selected to attend the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop and the Mimir Chamber Music Festival. Her chamber performances have taken her to many venues around Los Angeles, including the Carnegie Lecture Series, the Sierra Madre Playhouse, and the Norton Simon Museum’s arts education series.

Gallia Kastner, Violin

Gallia Kastner was the winner of the 2015 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Violin Competition. She also won the 2014 YoungArts National Scholarship, the 2013 Blount Slawson National Concerto Competition, the 2013 Stradivarius International Violin Competition, the 2012 Triennial Johansen International Competition, and numerous other prizes. Ms. Kastner has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, and the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, among others. She was part of Quartet Lumière, which won first prize in the 2013 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Junior Division. Ms. Kastner is a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Robert Lipsett. She plays on an 1843 Giovanni Francesco Pressenda violin on generous loan from the Mandell Collection of Southern California.

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Fabiola Kim, Violin

Hailed by the New York Times in 2012 as a “brilliant soloist” and in 2014 as playing “with extraordinary luminosity and precision,” Fabiola Kim has won numerous competitions, including the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, and the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition. Ms. Kim was also a prize winner in the 2010 Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. Recent engagements include performing as a soloist under Nicholas McGegan, Jane Glover, and Alan Gilbert. A dedicated chamber musician, she has collaborated with renowned artists such as Frans Helmerson, Cho-Liang Lin, and Paul Neubauer. Ms. Kim served as concertmaster with the Juilliard Orchestra and New York String Orchestra Seminar and has been invited to music festivals including the Ravinia Steans Institute, Aspen Music Festival, and Mozarteum Summer Academy. She has been featured on NPR and WQXR. Ms. Kim is an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Robert Lipsett.

Rodolfo Leone, Piano

Rodolfo Leone is a top prize winner of several major piano competitions, including first prize at the 15th International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and second prize at the 2013 Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy. Mr. Leone has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, and China in venues including the Great Hall and the Brahms Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Steinway Hall in London, the Music Hall of the NCPA in Beijing, and Koerner Hall in Toronto. In April 2016, Mr. Leone made his Los Angeles debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Colburn Orchestra conducted by Stéphane Denève. Mr. Leone is an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studies with Fabio Bidini.

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Tanner Menees, Viola

Tanner Menees is a chamber musician on both violin and viola. He recently gave a lecture recital exploring the application of linearity in Beethoven’s string quartets, which allowed him to apply theoretical knowledge to the performance of the music. He has collaborated with chamber musicians such as Martin Beaver, Miriam Fried, Clive Greensmith, Richie Hawley, Gary Hoffman, and Ronald Leonard. His summers have taken him to Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Menuhin Festival String Academy, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy. He was chosen to participate in Ravinia on Tour in 2017, which traveled to Chicago, Boston, and New York, among other cities. Mr. Menees has served as principal viola for the Colburn Orchestra under the batons of Yehuda Gilad, Sir Neville Marriner, and Robert Spano, and he performed a concerto under maestro Thierry Fischer during the 2015–16 concert season. Mr. Menees is an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studies with Paul Coletti.

Aubree Oliverson, Violin

Violinist Aubree Oliverson was a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Ms. Oliverson made her solo debut with the Utah Symphony at age 11, her Carnegie Hall debut in Weill Recital Hall at age 12, and at 13 performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in a return engagement with the Utah Symphony. She has been featured on NPR’s From the Top four times and was a 2016 YoungArts National Finalist. Ms. Oliverson is a sought-after chamber musician; she performed Bach’s Double Violin Concerto with Curtis Institute faculty member Joseph Silverstein in 2013 and recently collaborated with violinist Stefan Jackiw and Aspen Music Festival and School faculty for a concert in Harris Hall. A former student of Debbie Moench, Eugene Watanabe, and Danielle Belen, Ms. Oliverson is currently a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Robert Lipsett.

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Eduardo Rios, Violin

Winner of the 2015 Sphinx Competition, Eduardo Rios was born and raised in Lima, Peru. He began playing the violin at age 10 and made his solo debut at 14 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru. Mr. Rios made his American debut with the Houston Symphony performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Other appearances as a guest soloist include the Nashville Symphony, the Colburn Orchestra, and the Young Artists Symphony Orchestra. He made his debut with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra during the 2016–17 season, and in 2016 he also appeared as a guest artist at the Brevard Music Center, where he soloed with the Brevard Concert Orchestra. Mr. Rios is an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studies with Robert Lipsett.

Charles Seo, Cello

Cellist Charles Seo is a gold medal winner of the Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition, Houston Symphony Competition, Schmidbauer International Competition, and Pasadena Showcase Instrumental Competition. Mr. Seo is also a silver medalist of the Irving M. Klein International String Competition and a bronze medalist of the Stulberg International String Competition. Mr. Seo made his solo orchestra debut at age 10 and has since performed as guest soloist with the Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and San Jose Chamber Orchestra. He was also featured with Christopher O’Riley on NPR’s From the Top performing Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen. Mr. Seo is a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studies with Ronald Leonard. He plays on an instrument made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume on generous loan from the Colburn Collection.

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Michelle Shin, Violin

As first prize winner of the 2015 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition for Strings, violinist Michelle Shin presented a solo recital in the 2015 season of Music in the Great Hall and a second solo recital in the 2016 season of the Shriver Hall Series, and appeared with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Spring 2016. She was a featured soloist with the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia in 2010 and 2011. Earlier achievements include first prize in the New York Music Competition, resulting in her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2003. 2006 marked her Merkin Concert Hall debut as soloist with the Ureuk Symphony, as well as appearances with the Sewanee Festival Orchestra. Ms. Shin is an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Martin Beaver. Her previous teachers include Masao Kawasaki and Stefan Milenkovich at Juilliard Pre-College, and Victor Danchenko at the Peabody Conservatory, where she was granted a full scholarship. She received her Master of Music degree from the Colburn Conservatory of Music in 2017.

Madeleine Vaillancourt, Violin

Madeleine Vaillancourt made her Carnegie Hall debut performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra. As a prize winner in numerous competitions, Ms. Vaillancourt has been featured as a soloist with the New York Chamber Players, Island Symphony Orchestra, Kaufman Center Orchestra, and Massapequa Philharmonic. In 2012, 2013, and 2015, Ms. Vaillancourt was a full-scholarship student at the Aspen Music Festival and School. As the winner of Aspen’s 2015 Concerto Competition, Ms. Vaillancourt performed Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto with maestro Hugh Wolff and the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Vaillancourt has also studied at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston and the Lucy Moses School in New York as a student of Nurit Pacht. Ms. Vaillancourt is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Robert Lipsett.

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Emma Wernig, Viola

Violist Emma Wernig is from Los Angeles and a first-generation American in an Austrian-German family. Ms. Wernig was a prize winner in the Rising Stars Grand Prix 2016 International Music Competition Berlin and a first place winner of the 2016 American Protégé Concerto Competition. As an alumna of the Heifetz Institute, Ms. Wernig performed with their renowned Heifetz on Tour program in Washington, D.C. and Virginia. Passionate about chamber music, she won first place at the 2016 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, the WDAV’s Young Chamber Musicians Competition, and the inaugural 2016 M-Prize Chamber Music Competition at the University of Michigan in the Junior Strings Category. As a member of the Incendium Quartet, Ms. Wernig won the gold medal at the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Junior Division, and was subsequently featured on NPR’s From the Top. Ms. Wernig is a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Paul Coletti.

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ludwig van beethoven (1770–1827) Duo for Viola and Cello in E-Flat Major, WoO 32,“With Two Eyeglasses Obligato” (1796)

by Cristina Cutts Dougherty, tubist in the Bachelor of Music program of the Colburn Conservatory of Music

Ludwig van Beethoven, famous as a pianist and composer, was also an accomplished violist. He likely wrote the Duet for Viola and Cello in E-flat Major to play with his friend, amateur cellist Baron Nikolaus Zmeskall. Zmeskall had a collection of carefully kept letters from Beethoven, one of which contained a sketch of this duet in unusually large script, and above it read the joke, which translates “I am most obliged for the weakness of your eyes.” Beethoven was known for his unbuttoned humor, especially with Zmeskall, and also suffered from poor eyesight; hence his subtitle mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern (“with two eyeglasses obligato”). Beethoven dedicated his 1810 String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 to Zmeskall as a public testament to their friendship, but the Duet was likely intended for private recreation rather than formal performance and was not published in the composer’s lifetime. The opening movement has no marked tempo (though clearly an Allegro tempo was intended) and was published in 1912 after being discovered in sketchbooks from Beethoven’s time in Vienna; the second movement, Minuetto, which is even more whimsical than the first, was found in the 1940s and published in 1952. Sketches for a slow movement suggest that Beethoven had plans to expand the piece, but even what was found of the completed movements is sparse. Very few dynamic markings or expressions were written in the manuscripts, and some bars of the viola part had to be reconstructed because they were completely illegible. The manuscript is found in the “Kafka sketchbook,” a miscellany of early Beethoven autographs which is today housed at the British Museum.

The opening [Allegro] movement is extraverted and jovial. Beginning with the melody in the viola, both players take turns with the thematic material atop Baroque-like walking bass lines, double-stops, and broken chords by the accompanying voice. The writing challenges the extremes of each instrument’s range and Beethoven treats them as equals from the outset,

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creating what sounds like an energetic dialogue between friends—the cello part demands high and exposed playing, which suggests that Zmeskall had excellent technique. As the first movement nears its end, Beethoven provides contrast by setting alternating pizzicato lines; he then writes a false ending before repeating the familiar melody from the beginning of the movement and coming to a true close.

The short Minuetto is intricately woven with canonic counterpoint but has a calmer demeanor than the preceding movement. The viola again presents the theme as the cello outlines the chords with arpeggios. The thematic material is now contrasted not only by the trading of thematic lines, but also with the marked contrast between short and long notes in the melody. As the movement continues through its various repeated sections, the duo engages in Beethoven’s ever-brilliant contrapuntal writing once again as the duet comes to a close.

johan halvorsen (1864–1935) Passacaglia in G Minor for Violin and Cello (1894)

by Felicity James, violinist in the Bachelor of Music program of the Colburn Conservatory of Music

Based on the last movement of George Frideric Handel’s Harpsichord Suite in G Minor, HWV 432, the Halvorsen Passacaglia in G Minor has become one of the most famous string duos in the repertory. Typical of the traditional Baroque dance suite, a popular form in the Handel’s day, the Suite in G Minor consists of a series of dances, concluding with a sarabande, gigue, and passacaglia. The passacaglia, similar to the chaconne, is in a slow triple meter and features a repeating ground bass line. The bass line provides the movement’s harmonic structure while supporting various ornamentations of the melody over each repetition, almost like a theme and variations. Norwegian composer and violinist Johann Halvorsen was inspired to arrange Handel’s masterpiece for violin and viola, and

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performed its premiere on viola himself. The piece has since been arranged for a number of different instrumental combinations—most notably for violin and cello, as will be performed today.

The Passacaglia opens with the cellist courageously stating the four-measure ground bass while the violinist introduces the melody in a series of powerful double stops. This opening statement is followed by a series of variations that feature melodies in both the violin and cello in a wide range of contrasting moods and styles, while using techniques such as pizzicato, ponticello, spicatto, and legato bowstrokes. Though Handel composed fifteen variations and Halvorsen develops only twelve, Halvorsen’s Passacaglia lasts several minutes longer than the inspiring work, as each variation elaborates extensively on the main theme, showing off every angle of the two instruments. The penultimate variation is one of the most virtuosic for both musicians, featuring thrillingly dramatic scales spanning the extreme low and high registers of each instrument. This, in turn, leads into the final variation, which is a series of double-stop sixteenth notes that charge all the way to the finish line in breathtaking culmination. Unlike the somber conclusion of the Handel movement, Halvorsen calls for a Picardy third—a bold G major chord closing the piece in triumph.

ludwig van beethoven Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3 (1794–95)

Beethoven’s early renown in Vienna came from his performances as a pianist, and he no doubt played the Opus 1 trios during his early years there. They would have been performed in the homes of noble patrons, since public concerts of chamber music were still almost unknown. His sometime teacher Haydn heard them before departing for England in January 1794 and apparently advised against the publication of the C Minor Trio. It has been claimed that Haydn disliked the work or was offended by its daring, but it is more likely that his advice was intended as friendly, and that

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he felt the public not yet ready for so audacious a piece. It is indeed full of daring in harmonic plan and dynamic gesture. Beethoven, on the other hand, with a somewhat suspicious nature, felt that Haydn was jealous of the new competition and wanted to suppress the work.

The first movement especially reveals the young Turk demanding the attention of his audience with dramatic offbeat sforzandos and ambiguous harmonies, touching on many keys in passing. Already he builds his movement out of themes that emphasize a few rhythmic motives that constantly urge forward movement.

The second movement is a set of variations on a quiet lyrical tune in which each phrase is first presented by the piano, then echoed by the strings over the piano. In each of the five variations Beethoven finds different ways of handling the possible sonorities of his three instruments. The fourth variation sings poignantly in the minor, while the fifth seems about to come to an end when a sudden sforzando runs right into a coda that summarizes much of what has gone before.

We know from the study of the sketches that Beethoven’s first musical ideas for a piece were often rather bland, but that he worked them up into a truly dynamic character that was immediately striking. The menuetto of the present trio is a case in point. The menuetto was a court dance still very familiar to his audience (though not much danced at this time) when Beethoven teased his listeners’ expectations with unexpected pauses and purling runs in the piano part. For the Trio, he turned the piano runs upside-down for another cheerful re-use of his material in an unexpected way.

From the first movement of this piece, Beethoven demonstrates his particular feeling for the key of C minor and his ability to create large harmonic structures with a strong sense of momentum. The finale, too, already has a bit of the driven, intense quality that we know so well from the Fifth Symphony, in the same key. Here, though, his drama is employed in the drawing room as a surprising outburst in polite society. With this work, written while he was still in his early twenties, Beethoven began to attract the notice of the musical public, and he never again lost their attention.

© Steven Ledbetter

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felix mendelssohn (1809–1847) Octet for Four Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos inE-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825)

by Lucy Wang, Violinist in the Bachelor of Music program of the Colburn Conservatory of Music

Few composers in history can equal Felix Mendelssohn’s prodigious talent, but even fewer had the ability, at age 16, to write with the maturity and sophistication found in the Octet in E-flat Major. Written in the autumn of 1825, the essence of Mendelssohn’s compositional style reveals itself in the exuberance, sincerity, and heroism of the Octet. Intended as a birthday present for his violin teacher, Eduard Rietz, the piece strikes a perfect balance between a more dense symphonic texture and the transparency of chamber music. Mendelssohn achieves this with the uncommon instrumentation that essentially combines two string quartets, an ensemble that is a hybrid of a chamber group and a string orchestra. Mendelssohn included the following message, in French and German, in the first edition of the Octet, published by Breitkopf & Hartel in 1832: “This octet must be played in the style of a symphony in all parts; the pianos and fortes must be very precisely differentiated and be more sharply accentuated than is ordinarily done in pieces of this type.” Mendelssohn’s direction is highly important in order to allow the intricacies of the music to emerge from the texture—to this day, the Octet is one of the most celebrated and well-loved works of the entire string chamber music literature.

Mendelssohn opens his Octet with symphonic grandeur as the first violin enters with a soaring, arpeggiated melody atop a restless, expectant accompaniment by the lower strings. The spirited opening gives way to an embracing, heartfelt theme that is introduced by the fourth violin and first viola. Mendelssohn’s contrapuntal mastery is instantly apparent as he explores myriad ways to combine the eight voices, weaving the individual lines to and fro within the texture.

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Despite what might seem like a somewhat unwieldy group of eight instruments, the flowing second movement Andante reveals Mendelssohn’s ability to expertly balance the large selection of instrumental textures. The dark opening section gives way to a tender melody in the upper strings, and Mendelssohn makes full use of the lush sound of the large string ensemble in his irresistibly heartwarming harmonies. The middle section is kept moving by small, pulsing eighth notes, interchanging melismatic passages, and cascading scales. The movement rises and falls between urgent passion and breathtaking intimacy.

The sparkling third movement Scherzo recalls Mendelssohn’s famous Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The constant soft dynamic markings and staccati create the magical, winged quality of Mendelssohn’s signature sound. The movement is said to be inspired by lines from Goethe’s Faust: “Clouds and mist passs / it grows bright above. / Air in the bushes and wind in the reeds / - and all is dispersed.”

The turbulent opening of the Presto features the vivacious fugal subject, passed with explosive force from the second cello all the way up to the first violin. Mendelssohn quotes thematic material from previous movements as well as, notably, the “And He Shall Reign” melody from the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah. The perpetual motion drives the movement to a spectacular close.

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Thank You

Endowment Funds Endowment gifts support the Colburn School’s mission in perpetuity, ensuring students have access to the highest quality performing arts education.

Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship EndowmentThe Ahmanson Foundation and Lee Walcott Scholarship AwardAMRON Dustin Koji Jefferson Memorial ScholarshipAMRON / Sutherland Fund for Young PianistsAnonymousShirley and Irving L. Ashkenas Scholarship FundThe Robert and Linda Attiyeh Community Engagement ProgramThe David Barry Scholarship Fund Nancy Baxter Scholarship Endowment FundJudith Benjamin Trust EndowmentThe Iona Benson TrustEmily Bernstein Scholarship Fund Lucy Farber and Jim BrightSusan and Murray Brown Endowment Fund in Honor and Memory of Cellist Pal HermannPat Byrne Piano Scholarship Endowment FundCarol Colburn Grigor Piano Chair EndowmentColburn Foundation EndowmentDavid D. ColburnRichard D. Colburn Scholarship FundCSPA Access Fund Dance Program EndowmentJennifer and Royce Diener Cello Scholarship FundThe Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Endowment for Master ClassesEd and Mari Edelman Chamber Music EndowmentThe Robert B. Egleston Presidential Scholarship Fund Grancell Scholarship EndowmentMoe and Arlene Greendale Endowment FundSusan and Bruce Heard Financial Aid Endowment Fund for CelloHeifetz Chair Endowment FundThe Carol and Warner Henry Endowment Fund

The Jee Sung Kang and Hun Ku Kang Scholarship AwardMolinda and Dr. Harold Karpman FundKean / Mayman Endowed Scholarship FundWendy Kelman Scholarship Endowment FundKirk Family Scholarship for Young MusiciansGene Krieger Financial Aid FundJeffrey Lavner and Shih Lan Liu Endowment FundCandice and Paul Lee Endowment Fund for Community EngagementThe Ronald and Norma Leonard Fund in Honor of Alice TottenLesser Scholarship FundRosalyne A. Lesser Musical Endowment FundBeverly Corcoran Marksbury Financial Aid FundSteven and Susan Matt Financial Aid FundThe Genie and Robert McAllister Scholarship AwardMillstein-Fall Colburn Youth Orchestra FundThe Vernon H. Moss Residence TrustNegaunee Foundation Financial Aid FundThe Betty Osler and John Loucks EndowmentThe Performance Preparedness ProgrammeElizabeth RedleafThe Ernest M. Robles and Linda L. Curtis Scholarship AwardThe Mimi Rotter FundDorothy Duque Grant Russell Financial Aid Fund for PianoAllison Sampson Presidential Scholars FundThe Dorothy and Horace Sampson Cello Financial Aid Endowment FundMel Silverman Scholarship FundThe Susan Keran Solomon Endowment FundThe Warren Spaeth Music Theory Financial Aid FundHarry Suh and Patricia Koh Scholarship FundKeith and Cecilia Terasaki Family Foundation Financial Aid Endowment FundThe Trudl Zipper Dance Institute EndowmentThe Ward Family Fund for Herbert Zipper ScholarsThe Peter Wardle Scholarship AwardWesley Bing Leung Citizenship Award Endowment

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Encore SocietyThe Encore Society recognizes donors who have included the Colburn School in their estate plans. Linda and Robert AttiyehPaul A. Bach*Judith M. Benjamin*Iona Benson*Alan M. BinnieDr. and Mrs. William ClarkLisa Kirk ColburnRichard D. Colburn*Veronica Pastel and Robert B. Egelston*Christopher Essay*Ernest Fleischmann*Susan and Bruce HeardFrances R. KimbroughJoel B. LeveyErnest Lieblich*Raulee MarcusBeverly C. MarksburyLorraine and Mike MohillWalter Arlen and Howard Kenneth MyersMei-Lee NeyVarda Ullman NovickAllison SampsonElizabeth Loucks SamsonMary Lea SchanderJacqueline Sharlin*Bruce Sutherland*Mitzi SutherlandRalph Tomberg and Sheila FrostHerbert Zipper*

Individual Donors We are honored to recognize our donors who generously support the Colburn School. The following contributions from individuals were received between February 15, 2016 and August 15, 2017. $1,000,000+Anonymous

$500,000–$999,999Anonymous

$250,000–$499,999David D. Colburn

$100,000–$249,999AnonymousJudith and Thomas BeckmenAdele and Gordon BinderCarol and Warner HenryAnn MulallyMei-Lee NeyAnn and Robert RonusEva and Marc SternPatricia Koh and Harry Suh Marilyn Ziering

$50,000–$99,999Bea and Paul BennettRichard W. ColburnLouise G. GarlandMolly and Brian KirkAliza and Mike LesserSusan and Steven MattRosemarie Fall and Andrew MillsteinDiane NaegeleElizabeth RedleafCecilia and Keith TerasakiAlyce and Warren Williamson

$25,000–$49,999AnonymousShirley AshkenasDaniel AvchenMargaret and David* BarryAlice and Joe CoulombeJennifer and Royce* DienerGrace Chen-Ellis and Bradley H. EllisLucy Farber and Jim BrightJee Sung and Hun Ku KangMicah Yui and Sel KardanShih Lan Liu and Jeff LavnerNorma and Ron LeonardRobert LewisToby E. Mayman and J.H.B. KeanGenie and Robert McAllisterGaylord "Nick" NicholsThe Honorable Ernest M. Robles and Linda CurtisMimi RotterSusan Keran SolomonJoAnn TurovskyPeter W. Wardle

$10,000–$24,999AnonymousCamille and Arnon AdarKathleen and Gerhard BetteMark H. Dalzell and James DaoSam and Lyndie ErsanDr. Richard and Susan Ende FeinbergAnne and Jeffrey GrausamThe Gross FamilySusan and Bruce HeardBetty and Irwin HelfordMrs. Young-Hye Jeong and Mr. Jong Joong KimPriscilla and William Kennedy

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Frances KentLinda and Michael KestonHISHYL FoundationCarole and John MoranDiane and David PaulMonica Kohler and Pedro J. PizarroDudley and Michele RauchEileen and Charles ReadSamantha and Marc SandmanBarbara and Heinz SchelbertDaisey and William SpurginSusan and Michael ThonisLinda and Stanley TrillingSue TsaoJanice WhiteMary Hayley and Selim ZilkhaCharles Zhang

$5,000–$9,999Rebecca and Stuart BowneGaelen and Michael BurgessNancy and Scott ChoateGail EichenthalWillam ErbNathan D. FrankelKiki and David GindlerLenore and Bernard GreenbergEdward W. HornerRichard JilovskyJo Ann and Josef LesserLaurence D. LesserSarah and Peter MandellGrover McKeanAnne Akiko Meyers and Jason SubotkyGina and Charles MoffittMaria MurdockDaniel RothmullerBeverly RyderDr. Steve ShermanZachary and Langka Treadwell

Maya and Jon VarnellDebbie and Lee WalcottSamantha Winslow and John Williams

$2,500–$4,999AnonymousJohn Brasel and Bruce OnoderaBarbara and John DawsonDiana deNoyellesRichard Cullen and Robert G. FinnertyMarianna and David FisherJune and Dr. Eric FurmanPatricia and Antonio GonzalezStefi and Dr. Peter GruenbergKay and David IngallsRock RiverLisa and Tim KringDr. and Mrs. David KulberSandra and Jae-Ho LeeGinny ManciniLinda May and Jack R. SuzarMerle and Peter MullinNissenson FamilyMichael NissmanShelby NotkinAndrew B. Kim, Wan Kyun Rha Kim, Ty Kim and Felicia Paik KimPia and Jeremy RadisichSharon ReiszYung-Mee Rhee and Bryan LeeRicki and Marvin RingLynn Hall Russell and L. Michael Russell Annie and Ian SaleCatherine SchofieldAudre SlaterCatharine and Jeffrey SorosPolly SweeneyBrigitta Troy and Alden Lawrence

The Honorable Debre Weintraub and Mr. Seth WeintraubBarbara and Ian White-ThomsonAllison and James Wilt

$1,000–$2,499Anonymous (2)Anonymous - In Loving Memory of Dr. Herbert ZipperKaren and Kary AntholisSalome and James ArkatovLinda and Robert AttiyehSuzonne BassMrs. Hedva Berg and The Honorable Michael Berg Lynn BobergDavid BohnettJoan BoyettBenjamin BrandGloria and R.J. BrandesSusan and Murray BrownIngrid BurgerSherie and Steve CarrollMarc CherryChris ColburnWhitney ColburnThe Coletti FamilyDvorah ColkerLinda CormierGinger CraneChristiane and Carlton CuseAdrian DalyDiane V. DorinMargy and Jerry EberhardtDr. Ozlem EquilsAnnette Ermshar and Dan MonahanGabriel L. EshaghianRandy Federgreen and Larry WieslerIrwin and Helgard Field

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David Fleckenstein and Larry SchneiderMichael Fuller and Matt AvalloneTerence M. Green

Ronald GustafsonNaomi Z. HeymannTomoko Ishizuka and Guy Hobbs Mara and Mark HoffmanIn HongLinda T. HopeAda and Jim HorwichJudith HymanMelinda and Martin IsaacsonMariko and Danny IzumiJane JelenkoKarla JohnsonKate E. JohnsonChini Johnson-TaylorJoyce KaisermanCynthia and Marc KarlinThe Karpman FoundationSharon and Mike KelleyWendy and Asher KelmanHeather and Martin KierszenbaumRosalie KornblauThomas F. KranzKatrina LakeKarin LarsonBetty LeonardWendy LinAlexander and Shu-Yuan LinnaGail and Samuel LoshRenee and Meyer LuskinNancy and John MarkoffEriko Matsumoto and Barry RosenbaumColette McDougallGianna and Daniel McMillanMark McVay

Janet G. MichaelsBrita MillardBernadette and Charles NeuschwangerNeema PazargadJanice PetasSheilla and Tom PrendivilleDyanne Chae and Matt PykenChris and Rollin RansomLois RosenDaniela Roveda and Craig HunegsRobert RushWendy SankeyFrancine Golden and Marvin SchlossmanFred ScholderLaurie Selik and Eric H. RothEnder SezginRumi ShimasakiRobert SiewCarla and Bernardo SilvaKari SmithKimball SmithCharles Souw and Guillermo MaldonadoAmy StephensCheryl Britton and Robert StewartAmanda and Nicholas StonningtonJack StumpfElinor and Rubin TurnerTim TuttlePhilippe VaillancourtRobin and James WaltherWayne and Emma WilkinsMaybelle WolfeJoyce and Samual Wolfson

$500–$999Cynthia M. AbramsTarik S. AdlaiDavid and Tracy ArredondoLisa and Charles Battaglia

Kathy and Ambassador Frank BaxterNancy BechtoltThe Honorable Carol Goodson and Mr. Lawrence BerkowitzConstance BodkinAlex Bouzari and Alena SimoneCK BroedeJane BrownMegan and Michael BrowneCecilia CenterLin Yan Rita and Jason LiangLouise and David CheliKaren and Jay ChenLynn and Thomas ChuRachel Civen and Peter SchubinHilary CrahanPaul CrostGlenda and Charles DanekDebra DavidHolly* and David DavisDebbie DevineJoanie and Mark DienerJoan and Albert DormanAllan R. Eisenbach, PhDOctaveous Starr and Gerald ElijahJuliana and Stephen ErdodyChristina Erickson and Selcuk CakirDianna FactorPhyllis GainsboroughLucygrace J. GarceauKimaree and Yehuda GiladSharon GirdnerCarmina and Martin GlicklichEunice and Douglas GoodanKaren Goodman and Allen HymanSene and Eric GrayRichard Halverstadt

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Charles HamiltonToby Horn and Harold TominAnn HortonThe Johnson-Brown FamilyJennie JungLayla and Gac KimJane Ding and Igor KukavicaAdam LevinJonathan LewisChristina Liao and John LesherJulie Lie and Kevin WattierLee LindenHildegard and Michael LindsayRobert C. LipsettCarolyn and Juan Carlos LucianiRenee and Brian MannStaci and Matthew MarinoSusan and Richard MarvinDebra MatsumotoThe Lazarus FamilyDr. Lynn MehlFrance H. MeindlBarbara MerkleYasuko MeyersJanine Micucci and Denny BeaubienKaren Slayton and Lloyd MoffittMegan Morrissey and Mary DoyleDonna MortonJess MortonGary MurphyDeedy ObermanCindy OmiyaMeltem and Mehmet OzpayThe Papet FamilyLily Zhou and Jinshu QiuOlga Radko and Dimitri ShlyakhtenkoJulie and Fred ReiszSusan Richman and Peter ManisMaxine RobinsonKim and Tony Ruys de Perez

Gertrude SanfordJanice F. SchumacherDr. and Mrs. Amiram ShneidermanAna and Steven SimpsonChristine Sisley and Ken GarenRami SolomonowElon SparElayne and Thomas TechentinNancy ThompsonRochelle VedresKathleen WallisTina Sze and Gary WangMark A. WassermanDavid C. WestCarolyn Wilson and Patrick ConnorSandra E. WisotElsbeth WittlerCharles YangSunmi and Andy Yu ChunLucy and Minghuang Zhang

$250–$499Anonymous (4)Peggy Adams and Joel EdstromSuhnne AhnPatricia and Hani AlexanderJane Madelon AnthonyRicardina and Juan AstoquillcaCatherine M. BabcockMonica Bachner and Tom ReynoldsAndrew BarkerAhmet BaydurAthena BisligdayNora BrightKaylee and Daniel BrogadirAmanda BryanSharon and John BuchSherry CadowMark and Miri ChaisHeather and Ted ChangLee Cioppa

Erica and William ClarkAndrea DaleValerie and Faraz DaneshgarAthena DayLani and Jim DayTeresa de Jong-PomboCarol and Michael DeckRaymond DelaurentisKatharine and Timothy DoughertyCarolyn Dundee and Mark DundeeGillian and Scott EdelDiane and Allan EisenmanGretchen Roberts and Gavin EnglishWanda and Ed EwingDebbie and Winston FanVivian FanEmily and Leo FialhoJennifer and Sam FischerMimi and Ed FisherThe Kaiser FamilyBernard FranklinAntonia and Yvan FreySusan FriedmanThomas FrisinaAmy and Eric GarcettiFred Dear and Ken GarlockMs. Robin S. Lyons and Mr. Rafael GishriSandra GluckmanJoe GormanEdith GradyHenry GronnierChava Danielson and Eric HaasGunilla and Rolf HastrupChristine and Scott HealyJeff Heglin and Randy SheriffAlan HelfmanMrs. Ginny Kim Heller and

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Mr. Mark HellerMarguerite and Hal HennacySusan HinelyLinda J. HodgeDavid B. HoushJohn HuntingtonCarmine IannacconeFarley ImanGayle and Roger JenkinsTerry L. Dutton and Mark W. JordanHiroko and Fumihiko KanagawaJoseph J. KaplonWelz KaufmanAmy and Andrew Kiehl-MillerJung and Danny KimMaureen and Jung KimMonica Suh and Ted KimAmanda KinzerLaurie E. KlempnerGina KodelMs. Anna Krendel Jennifer LanghamMarshall Lee, M.D.Sandra LeeJohann and Robert LesserLori and Mark LitwinEn-Hsien Kate LiuRich LlewellynMr. and Mrs. John R. LongMarilyn M. MahanLauren Malkasian and Chris DonahueFred ManasterMarguerite MarshChristine A. MartinLinda MasseyWeta and Allen MathiesRochelle McAlpinClaudio MirandaJudith S. MishkinSteven Montgomery

Laura and James MyersRichard NaillBarbara and Dick NashAnh and Sandy Nguyen-HuynhArthur and Lori NodaEugenia NovikovAl OnoratoMoises OrtegaScott Yun and Ann ParkEdward A. PerezJanet PetersenThe Popovic FamilyPrewoznik FoundationJuliette B. and John H. QuinnAlex RaksinKaryn Raz and Matthew LewisSandra Landen and Bernard ReifkindHadley and Lee RiersonMonica and Trevor RoperSteven RoseLinda RosenSandi and David RynersonCindi Samaha and Patrick MeehanLorraine and Joseph SaundersBarbara and Charles SchufreiderThe Schulman FamilyAnny Shen and Chin GuokThe Shen FamilyYoshiko and Steven ShimasakiMargaret ShimizuDimitri ShlyakhtenkoBonnie SikowitzProfessor Judy B. Sloan and Dr. William R. SloanDaniel SmithTamthuan and Jeffrey SmithAnita Sohus and James Margitan Kent K. Sorajja, M.D.Gil SpeerDorothea Von Haeften and Arnold

SteinhardtLaura SubotkyXiaofeng SunKantathi and Soparvan SuphamongkhonJacqueline Tapia and Juan RojasBarbara and Shahrad TehranchiJean-Yves ThibaudetWilliam TishermanCatherine TomiczekJudith TreidlerWilliam TurnerAndrea and John Van De KampThomas Van TasselCatherine WearyLynn WeidnerTom and Susan WeisnerGail WernerRobert and Linda WillettMpambo WinaElizabeth WrightNancy Yamagata SchindlerKenton and Holly YoungstromJessie and Victor ZaudLing Zhu

*Deceased

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Organization DonorsThe following contributions from organizations were received between February 15, 2016 and August 15, 2017.

$1,000,000+Anonymous

$500,000–$999,999Max H. Gluck Foundation

$250,000–$499,999Colburn FoundationDorothy Richard Starling FoundationThe Rose Hills Foundation

$100,000–$249,999Binder FoundationCalifornia Community FoundationJerry and Terri Kohl Family FoundationPatricia Duque Byrne Charitable FoundationThe Negaunee FoundationThe Ralph M. Parsons FoundationWells Fargo Foundation

$50,000–$99,999Annenberg FoundationAnonymousDan Murphy FoundationEast West Bank FoundationEdison International / Southern California EdisonJoseph and Carol F Reich Philanthropic Fund of New YorkKeith and Cecilia Terasaki Family FoundationLloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

The Marc and Eva Stern FoundationPDP FoundationRoth Family Foundation

$25,000–$49,999 Beauty for Life FoundationGibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLPJewish Community FoundationMATT Construction CorporationMcKinsey & CompanyPasadena Showcase House for the ArtsThe Capital GroupThe Fishbein Family FoundationThe Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation

$10,000–$24,999Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.Chartwell Charitable FoundationCity of Los Angeles Department of Cultural AffairsEast West BankGoodwin Family Memorial TrustGross & HarutunianHammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc.John and Beverly Stauffer FoundationKenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris FoundationLos Angeles Philharmonic AssociationMartine and Dan Drackett Family Foundation, Inc.Metropolitan AssociatesRotary Club of Beverly HillsSidley Austin LLPSidney Stern Memorial TrustWalt Disney Company FoundationWells Fargo Bank, N.A.

$5,000–$9,999AnonymousAyco Charitable FoundationBeverly Hills Rotary Community FoundationBNY Mellon Charitable Gift FundClassic Comforts Community TrustDisney / ABC Television GroupMitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLPNorthern TrustThe International Festival SocietyThe Morrison & Foerster FoundationThe Sheri and Les Biller Family FoundationWarner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.Weingart Foundation$2,500–$4,999 Boston Private Bank & Trust CompanyConfrerie Des Chevaliers Du TastevinPriceline.com Hollywood Charity Horse ShowThe Eisner FoundationThe Sascha Brastoff FoundationThe Sidley Austin FoundationUnited Way of Greater Los AngelesVector Structural Engineers

$1,000–$2,499A&E NetworksMichael A. Rosen, Angeles Investment AdvisorsAlfred C. Munger FoundationComplete Electrical Services, Inc.Decker Lighting Supply LLCDiversified Thermal Services, Inc.Emergency Power Controls, Inc.Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic FoundationGGE Foundation, Inc.

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HCI SystemsHorizon Actuarial Services, LLCHueston HenniganI.H. and Anna Grancell FoundationIndependent MediaJ.B.D. PartnershipLos Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the ArtsMeketa Investment GroupOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLPParkside FoundationRobert John Russo GallerySaks Fifth AvenueSan Francisco FoundationSegerstrom Center for the ArtsStan Hope CompanySteinway & SonsSouthern California Stone Co. INCThe Palos Co., Inc.The Schmetterling FoundationThe U.S. Charitable Gift TrustThe UCLA Foundation Donor Advised FundTuttle Family EnterprisesWillis North America Inc.

$500–$999B & B PlumbingDaly Street Lofts, LLCJewish Community Foundation of San DiegoMiddle Road FoundationPasadena Community FoundatonThe Fletcher Jones Foundation

$250–$499Acorn Paper Products Co.Amgen FoundationAntioch UniversityCoast Plating INCMcGraw Hill FinancialThe Benevity Community Impact FundThe Macfarlane Foundation

Gifts In KindSandra AndersonAnsel Adams GalleriesJeanne BaxtresserCenter Theatre GroupJennifer DienerFairmont Miramar Hotel & BungalowsFour Seasons Resort Maui of WaileaJeremy GilienThe Gross Family Halper Fine ArtSusan and Bruce HeardDeirdre HenningsChristine T. HoeffnerInnovative Dining GroupSteve JablonskyJar RestaurantKidspace Children's MuseumLisa KleinLa Grande Orange CafeLagunitas Brewing CompanyJoyce LessorLos Angeles Master Chorale

Los Angeles OperaChristopher MehtaJudith S. MishkinNancy's CreationsCharles NeuschwangerMichael NissmanLori and Arthur NodaOmni HotelLisa ParedesPasadena Showcase House for the ArtsThe Red ShoesRobert Cauer ViolinsSteven RoseTom RosenthalPaul SchifinoCarla SilvaSusanne SpanglerStronghold Climbing GymJack StumpfThe JuiceMaya and Jon VarnellWarner Bros. Consumer Products Inc.

If your name has been omitted or is listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies and notify the Advancement Department at 213-621-1021 so that we may correct our records.

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Thank You to Our Corporate Sponsors

Additional Support Provided By

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Music AcademyLee CioppaActing Dean

applied faculty

Margaret BatjerViolin, Chamber Orchestra

Martin BeaverViolin, Chamber Music

Danielle BelenViolin

Gina ColettiViola

Paul ColettiViola

Yehuda GiladClarinet

Clive GreensmithCello, Chamber Music

Henry GronnierViolin, Chamber Music

Aimée KrestonViolin

Jeffrey Lavner Piano

Myong-joo LeePiano

Ronald LeonardCello

Robert LipsettViolin

Peter LloydDouble Bass

Varty ManouelianChamber Music

Ory ShihorPiano

JoAnn TurovskyHarp

James WiltTrumpet

Sel KardanPresident and Chief Executive Officer

Adrian Daly, DMAProvost

Conservatoryof MusicLee CioppaDean

Richard BeeneDean Emeritus

applied faculty

Edward Atkatz Percussion

Andrew BainHorn

Richard BeeneBassoon

Martin BeaverViolin

Fabio Bidini Piano

Paul ColettiViola

Anne Marie GabrieleOboe

Yehuda GiladClarinet

Clive GreensmithCello

Mark LawrenceTrombone

Ronald LeonardCello

Robert LipsettViolin

Peter LloydDouble Bass

Norman PearsonTuba

Community Schoolof Performing Arts Robert McAllisterDean

Sara HinerAssistant Dean

department chairs

Gina ColettiChamber Music

Jeffrey LavnerPiano

Karen LundgrenWinds, Brass and Percussion

Christine MartinEarly Childhood

Richard SchwabeStrings

Lee Secard Jazz

Michael StevensVoice

Trudl Zipper Dance Institute

dance academy and colburn youth dance

Jenifer Ringer FayetteDean

James FayetteAssociate Dean

Benjamin MillepiedArtistic Advisor

department chairs

Tamsin CarlsonModern

Denise ScheererTap, Jazz, and Musical Theater

Kelly Ann SloanBallet

Ory ShihorPiano

Arnold Steinhardt String and ChamberMusic Coach

JoAnn TurovskyHarp

Jim WalkerFlute

James WiltTrumpet

academic chairs

Kristi Brown, PhDMusic Historyand Literature

Jordan NelsonActing Chair, Theory and Aural Skills

Deborah SmithDirector of Academic Programs

J. Douglas Smith, PhDHumanities

colburn orchestra

Yehuda GiladMusic Director

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Executive Leadership

Sel KardanPresident and Chief Executive Officer

Adrian Daly, DMAProvost

Seth WeintraubChief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer

Edward W. Horner, Jr.Senior Vice President,Advancement

Mark A. Berry, PhDVice President,Communications

Linda CormierVice President,Human Resources

Academic Leadership

Robert McAllisterDean, Community School of Performing Arts Lee CioppaDean, Conservatory of MusicActing Dean, Music Academy Richard BeeneDean Emeritus, Conservatory of Music Jenifer RingerDean, Trudl Zipper Dance Institute

Notice of Nondiscrimination Policy to Students

The Colburn School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, or religious belief in its admission, retention, student aid, scholarship, or other educational policies, and other school administered programs.

Unauthorized video or audio recording of Colburn School events by our guests is strictly prohibited. By attending, you agree that recordings of your image or voice at our performances may be used for publicity and promotional purposes.

Production Staff

Director of ProductionLisa Palley

Stage ManagerVictor Pineda

Stage CrewPaul LoeraDavid MencosElmer PachecoGabriel PerezPeter Phol

AV ManagerFrancesco Perlangeli

AV EngineersSergey ParfenovDerek Williams

Lighting EngineerGreg Forbess

Audience Services CoordinatorNahlyee Van Brunt

House Management and StaffingCalled Out Consultants

Production AdministrationJessica EwingAustin Miller

Board of Directors

Andrew Millstein, ChairmanCarol Colburn Grigor, Life Chairman EmeritusThomas L. Beckmen, Vice ChairmanDavid D. Colburn, Vice Chairman

Members at LargeDaniel L. AvchenBea BennettRichard W. ColburnAlice CoulombeNathan D. FrankelWarner W. HenryCatherine Colburn HøgelMolly KirkMonica KohlerAliza LesserRobert E. LewisBeverly C. MarksburySteven F. MattDiane NaegeleElizabeth RedleafAnn RonusMarc L. SandmanHarry B. SuhKeith TerasakiJim WardPeter W. WardleJonathan Weedman

Honorary Life DirectorsRobert S. AttiyehToby E. Mayman

In MemoriamDavid N. BarryIona BensonEdmund D. EdelmanRobert B. Egelston

Artistic AdvisorPlácido Domingo

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Colburn OrchestraYehuda Gilad, Music Director

Saturday, September 23Ambassador Auditorium, 7:30 pmCourtney Lewis, Guest ConductorYouna Choi, CelloTickets: $13, $27

colburnschool.edu/tickets213-621-1050

Colburn Orchestra is generously supported by Villa GardensThis series is sponsored in part by Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

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