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Chan Conducts Bartók

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Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. posthumous by Béla Bartók • PA G E 1 3

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The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 by Alexander Scriabin • PA G E 1 9

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I N E A R LY F E B R UA RY 1 9 0 8 , Béla Bartók was putting the finishing touches on a new violin concerto, written as a love letter to the young Hungarian violinist Stefi Geyer (right). Though the two had fostered a congenial friendship, Geyer did not return the composer’s affections and wrote the composer on February 5, extinguishing any hopes of an engagement. Bartók was devastated and responded with the following letter:

I finished the score of the violin concerto on the 5th of February, the very day you were writing my death sentence. … I locked it in my desk, I don’t know whether to destroy it or to keep it locked away until it is found after I die and the whole pile of papers, my declaration of love, your concerto, my best work are thrown out

Fortunately, Bartók did not destroy the manuscript, instead gifting it to Geyer as a final token of affection. It wasn’t rediscovered until the passing of both violinist and composer and was posthumously premiered in 1958 as Bartok’s First Violin Concerto. Though perhaps performed less often than the Second Violin Concerto, this work is an important, early document of Bartók’s budding career, rooted in the sounds of late Romanticism. By 1923, the year of his D ance Suite, Bartók’s music displayed a mature style that combined modern approaches to harmony and rhythm with the folk music that was near and dear to the composer’s heart. Bookending this program are two “poems” for orchestra. Daniel Kidane’s Sun Poem is a bittersweet ode to paternity, expressing the anxieties and the joys of becoming a new father as well as the sorrow of losing one’s father. Alexander Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, on the other hand, seems to come from another dimension entirely. Described as “a bath of ice, cocaine, and rainbows” by American author Henry Miller, Scriabin’s massive work follows the transcendence of the human soul to a higher plane of consciousness and contains some the most audacious, over-the-top, technicolor music of the early 20th century. Ice, cocaine, and rainbows, indeed. Ke vin McBrien

Kevin McBrien is The Cleveland Orchestra’s Editorial & Publications Manager

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Chan Conducts Bartók

Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 7:30 PM

Friday, March 20, 2026, at 11 AM*

Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 7:30 PM

Elim Chan, conductor

Daniel Kidane (b. 1986)

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)

Béla Bartók

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) Thank

Violin Concerto No. 1, 20 minutes Op. posthumous

I. Andante sostenuto

II. Allegro giocoso

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin I N T E R M I S S I O N

D ance Suite *

I. Moderato

II. Allegro molto

III. Allegro vivace

IV. Molto tranquillo

V. Comodo

VI. Finale: Allegro

Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54

This program will last approximately 1 hour 25 minutes

* D aniel Kidane’s Sun Poem and Bartók’s Dance Suite do not appear on Friday’s program, which will be performed without intermission.

Saturday’s performance will be livestreamed on Adella .live

Elim Chan’s performance is generously sponsored by Herb and Jody Wainer.

Sun Poem

by Daniel Kidane

B O R N : December 24, 1986, in London

▶ C O M P O S E D : 2022

▶ W O R L D P R E M I E R E : August 18 , 2022 , with Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra

▶ These concerts mark the first Cleveland Orchestra performances of Daniel Kidane’s Sun Poem.

▶ O R C H E S T R AT I O N : 3 flutes , 3 oboes , 3 clarinets , 3 bassoons , 4 horns , 3 trumpets , 3 trombones , tuba , timpani, percussion (bass drum , crotales , marimba , tam-tam , tubular bells , vibraphone), harp , piano, and strings

▶ D U R AT I O N : about 10 minutes

T H E S O N O F A N Eritrean father and a Russian mother, British composer Daniel Kidane writes music inspired by an exciting variety of sonic sources and cultural questions. He has described the musical environment of his childhood as consisting of “Russian orthodox choral [music], Soviet war songs, Perestroika pop, classical orchestral, Eritrean folk, and UK Jungle” and his considerable oeuvre is similarly multifaceted, including works for orchestra, voice, chamber ensemble, string quartet, and even electric guitar.

Kidane’s pieces often develop a single theme his string quartet Foreign Tongues imagines diﬀerent languages spoken simultaneously, while Sirens, written in collaboration with Zimbabwean poet Zodwa Nyoni, oﬀers a musical tableau of a night out in

Manchester. A champion for diversity and equity in classical music, Kidane has written many works that critically engage with social and political events, such as Be Still, written during the COVID-19 lockdown, and Woke, which opened the BBC Proms in 2019.

Kidane’s Sun Poem is a journey of fatherhood Composed in the wake of two momentous paternal events losing his father to cancer and becoming a ﬁrst-time father himself Kidane took the title from the second part of Barbadian author Kamau Brathwaite’s epic trilogy. Sun Poem is a complement to the work’s female-dominated ﬁrst part, called Mother Poem, and explores the history of Barbados from a male

Heritage is a theme at the center of much of Daniel Kidane’s music, particularly exploring his own Russian, Eritrean, and British ancestry

perspective as it is passed down from grandfather to father to son. Inspired by Brathwaite, Kidane’s Sun Poem engages with ideas of maturation and manhood, familial bonds, and cultural inheritance. “There is no way I couldn’t have written it,” Kidane stated in an interview. “Sun Poem is a memento for my son.”

Like a timeless family heirloom, Sun Poem takes one musical idea on a transcendent journey. Beginning in ﬁts and starts, the work opens with the call of muted trumpets The instruments’

Following a grand pause, the woodwinds and trumpet offer a fully matured theme, supported by sustained harmonies in the strings. As it accumulates momentum, the theme encounters various obstacles harmonic, timbral, and metric. Heralded by the opening’s aspiring leaps in the flute, the work’s apex features a triumphant brass melody scored over pulsating strings that evoke the minimalism of John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine an apt metaphor for life. Yet the entrance of a reflective wandering melody in the clarinet curbs

There is no way I couldn’t have written it . Sun Poem is a memento for my son .

Daniel Kidane

layered entries sound a frustrated emergence around a solitary, repeated pitch. Winds and other brass, alongside plucked strings and piano, enter as if the senses are awakening throughout the ensemble. A four-note motive, consisting of two consecutive upward leaps, appears for the ﬁrst time in the trumpet As the orchestra becomes more animated, a variety of taut rhythmic gestures typical of Kidane’s music are repeated, suggesting a child’s uncertain but excited ﬁrst steps The wide and colorful range of percussion exudes possibility as well as risk.

this unbounded striving and the music begins to retreat from the heights it has just attained. The periodic intrusion of low brass hints at something ominous, though it is tempered by the brightness of the percussion and piano.

A ﬁnal, deliberate iteration of the four-note motive appears softly in the high strings, and the opening ﬂutter of the trumpet sounds once again one life cycle completing as another begins.

Leah Batstone

Leah Batstone is a musicologist and visiting scholar at the Jordan Center at New York University She is also the founder and creative director of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, which takes place each spring in New York City

Violin Concerto No . 1, Op . posthumous

by Béla Bartók

B O R N : March 25, 1881 , in Nagyszentmiklós , Hungary (now Sânnicolau Mare , Romania)

D I E D : September 26, 1945, in New York

▶ C O M P O S E D : 1907 – 08

▶ W O R L D P R E M I E R E : May 30, 1958 , with Hans-Heinz Schneeberger as soloist and Paul Sacher conducting the Basel Chamber Orchestra

▶ C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A P R E M I E R E : November 20, 1997, with Oliver Knussen conducting and William Preucil as soloist

▶ O R C H E S T R AT I O N : 2 flutes , piccolo, 2 oboes , English horn , 2 clarinets , 2 bassoons , 4 horns , 2 trumpets , 2 trombones , tuba , timpani, percussion (bass drum , triangle), 2 harps , and strings , plus solo violin

▶ D U R AT I O N : about 20 minutes

I T I S R A R E for a piece of instrumental music to be as clearly a declaration of love as Béla Bartók’s First Violin Concerto. In a way, the work was too intensely personal for its own good: its dedicatee never performed it, and the composer himself, after a few attempts, shelved the work. The concerto was not heard in its original form until 1958, after both composer and dedicatee had passed away. As a result, a major milestone in Bartók’s development as a composer was revealed to the world only belatedly.

Bartók was 26 years old when he fell passionately in love with Stefi Geyer, a charming and highly gifted violin student at the Budapest Conservatory. Though Geyer was friendly toward the

composer, she did not return his feelings and became particularly upset over his criticism of her Catholic faith. She eventually broke off relations with Bartók, who suffered what was probably the deepest emotional crisis of his entire life. Upon receiving Geyer’s break-up letter on February 13, 1908, Bartók wrote a piano piece that became No. 13 of his 14 Bagatelles for piano. This funeral dirge bears the French subtitle “Elle est morte” She is dead.

Bartók’s infatuation with Geyer, which lasted about a year, came at a time when the composer had just begun to find his individual voice as a composer, which synthesized Modernism with elements of folk music. The Violin Concerto, therefore, shows him at a crossroads.

In addition to being a declaration of love, the concerto is a document of his artistic quest.

The concerto opens with the solo violin by itself, playing what Bartók explicitly described as “your leitmotive” in one of his letters to Geyer. This four-note motive dominates the entire concerto. Bartók referred to the two movements of the concerto as musical portraits: the first movement represents the “idealized Stefi Geyer, celestial and inward,” and the second the “cheerful, witty, amusing” side of her personality. Bartók had at one point planned a third movement, portraying the “indifferent, cool, and silent Stefi Geyer” through music that would have been “hateful” but he quickly abandoned the idea

The orchestra joins the soloist only gradually; at first, we hear a few stands of orchestral violins, with additional players entering until the entire orchestra is involved. In true post-Romantic fashion, the music winds its way to a fortissimo climax and back to the initial pianissimo. The poignant coda is announced by the entrance of the triangle and the two harps, accompanying a solo violin that climbs into the highest register of the instrument to close the movement on Geyer’s motive. The second-movement Allegro giocoso is playful and brilliant overall,

Béla Bartók (fourth from left) recording songs with Hungarian peasants around 1908 These and other folk sources would inform much of the composer’s mature musical style.

but also includes a lengthy middle section that reverts to the dreamy Romanticism of the ﬁrst movement. Shortly before the end, the ﬂutes play a quirky little tune that is evidently a

In addition to being a declaration of love, the concerto is a document of [Bartók’s] artistic quest .

personal message from Bartók to Geyer. In the score, the tune is placed in quotation marks and bears the note: “Jászberény, June 28th, 1907 ” Bartok had spent a few days in this Hungarian city with Geyer and her brother; it was there that he made the ﬁrst sketches for the concerto on July 1, three days after the above date. The tune itself is a German children’s song known as “Der Esel ist ein dummes Tier” ( The donkey is a foolish beast). The last thing played by the soloist is, not surprisingly, the fournote Geyer motive, cut oﬀ by a short and almost brutal orchestral closure.

Some 30 years later, Bartók resumed contact with Geyer Both had by then married, and the two enjoyed a friendly rapport. Geyer championed Bartók’s violin works and even helped the composer and his wife emigrate to the United States in 1940 to escape the threat of fascism in Europe.

But back in 1908, the young composer’s feelings were still raw. Following his “funeral” bagatelle written the day of the breakup, Bartók turned Geyer’s motive into a biting caricature, twisting it into a furious waltz in his Bagatelle No. 14.

In 1911, Bartók orchestrated this bagatelle as the second of his Two Portraits. And what was the first portrait? None other than a reworked version of the first movement of the then-hidden concerto Thus, even decades before the rediscovery and premiere of Bartók’s First Violin Concerto, listeners could get to know, through music, the young woman who first broke Bartók’s heart and would later save his life.

adapted from a note by Peter Laki

Peter Laki is a musicologist and frequent lecturer on classical music . He is a visiting associate professor of music , emeritus , at Bard College and was The Cleveland Orchestra’s program annotator from 1990 to 2007

Dance Suite

by Béla Bartók

▶ C O M P O S E D : 1923

▶ W O R L D P R E M I E R E : November 19, 1923, with Ernő Dohnányi conducting the orchestra of the Budapest Philharmonic Society

▶ C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A P R E M I E R E : November 25, 1966, led by Max Rudolf

▶ O R C H E S T R AT I O N : 2 flutes (both doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns , 2 trumpets , 2 trombones , tuba , timpani, percussion (bass drum , cymbals , glockenspiel, snare drum , tam-tam , triangle), harp , piano, celesta , and strings

▶ D U R AT I O N : about 15 minutes

I N T H E 1 9 2 0 S , Béla Bartók’s music reached a peak of modernity and dissonance, which bestowed on him a reputation for aggressive ugliness that neither Schoenberg nor Stravinsky ever matched. With hindsight, we can understand that the horrified critics of the time were faced with sounds they had never expected to hear in their lives, but also that this music is far from ugly or formless. It may not display the soaring lines that many love in Mozart and Schubert, but it is full of lyrical feeling, youthful energy, and highly inventive rhythms and harmonies, and displays a shapeliness that can quite reasonably be seen as a legacy of these Classical masters.

The two violin sonatas, which most clearly exhibit this extreme style, were followed in 1923 by a work that reached

in a different direction and won the hearts of the public. This was the D ance Suite, composed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the formal linking of the two capitals of Hungary, Buda and Pest, into a single city. Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus was commissioned for the same occasion, and the senior Hungarian composer, Ernő Dohnányi (grandfather of The Cleveland Orchestra’s late Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi) conducted both works in a festival in November 1923

Bartók’s name was rapidly gaining recognition outside of Hungary in those years, partly through the efforts of his publisher, Universal Edition, and partly because of a much-publicized

Béla Bartók was one of the most original voices in 20th century composition, melding modernist techniques with influences from folk music

performance at the 1925 International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Prague, which catapulted Bartók’s music onto the international stage. Over the following two years, the D ance Suite received over 60 performances in major European and American centers.

Bartók regarded himself equally as a composer and an ethnographer, for he had devoted much of his life up to that point to the study of folk music

The Dance Suite was a deliberate announcement of the composer’s dedication to the study of folk music and his creative approach to incorporating this resource into modern orchestral music . s u nt r or e sic

from many regions of Eastern Europe and beyond He collected thousands of tunes and devoted long hours to cataloging and analyzing them. Most of his works display the inﬂuence of folk song in some shape or form. The D ance Suite was a deliberate announcement of the composer’s dedication to the study of folk music and his creative approach to incorporating this resource into modern orchestral music

This is not music to dance to, however, even if dance movements lie at its origin. The melodies are recognizably folklike, but Bartók treats them freely in his orchestration and varies the tempo with accelerations and interruptions, all of which proclaim a highly sophisticated musician handling raw materials in a

way that never deprives them of their distinctive character.

The six movements run continuously, the last being a Finale that recalls snatches from the earlier dances. The ﬁfth dance is the only one to maintain a regular 4/4 beat (almost) throughout. The rest play with alternating time signatures that break up the rhythms, create hiccups, and insert a certain drama into the action. The fourth dance is the only one to sustain a gentle pace, with dense string chords as background to wandering melodic phrases in the woodwinds

Most remarkable is Bartók’s gift for apt and pointed orchestration, whether in the tinkling of piano or celesta, the extreme range of the bassoon, or the intrusion of the trombones. And although the tunes are strictly his invention, he composes as if they came straight from the little villages and hamlets where he collected folk songs. In so many ways, the D ance Suite was the perfect answer to all those who despaired of modern music and lamented that it could never be tuneful

Hugh Macdonald

Hugh Macdonald is Avis H Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington University in St Louis He has written books on Beethoven, Berlioz , Bizet , and Scriabin, as well as Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year

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The Poem of Ecstasy, Op . 54

by Alexander Scriabin

B O R N : January 6, 1872, in Moscow

D I E D : April 27, 1915, in Moscow

▶ C O M P O S E D : 1905 – 08

▶ W O R L D P R E M I E R E : December 10, 1908 , with Modest Altschuler conducting the Russian Symphony Society of New York

▶ C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A P R E M I E R E : November 30, 1922 , led by Music Director Nikolai Sokoloff

▶ O R C H E S T R AT I O N : 3 flutes , piccolo, 3 oboes , English horn , 3 clarinets , bass clarinet , 3 bassoons , contrabassoon , 8 horns , 5 trumpets , 3 trombones , tuba , timpani, percussion (bass drum , bell, cymbals , glockenspiel, tam-tam , triangle), 2 harps , celesta , organ , and strings

▶ D U R AT I O N : about 20 minutes

T H E P O E M O F E C S TA S Y by Alexander Scriabin is a superb example of the huge, self-obsessed orchestral repertoire from the period before World War I, which we generally associate with Mahler and Richard Strauss. Scriabin was a strongly progressive and individualistic composer who saw himself as the prophet of a new cosmos, and his works as the voice of a divine being.

Like many Russian artists who, once they are attached to an idea, pursue it relentlessly to its ultimate point Mussorgsky and Tolstoy also come to mind Scriabin was driven by a powerful inner force to capture his mystical vision in music. He is easily dismissed as a crazy egomaniac, but his music is superbly crafted and excitingly modern, even today

Most of Scriabin’s music is for the piano, with some important orchestral works composed at regular intervals throughout his short career. His previous orchestral piece, The D ivine Poem, was a three-movement symphonic work completed in 1904, when he was 32. It ventured into the territory of philosophical abstraction, which had begun to fascinate him shortly before. (A later work, Prometheus, explored synthetic imagery in its scoring for piano, orchestra, and “color organ.”)

His next orchestral work was to be titled O rgiastic Poem, but it eventually became The Poem of Ecstasy, giving an even greater prominence to the composer’s obsession with the spirit’s search for joy and his intense belief in his own creativity. Alongside this orchestral work,

Scriabin wrote a 300-line-long poem of the same name, full of mystical fantasizing, which also inspired his Fifth Piano Sonata.

Before his death (one year after this photo was taken in 1914), Alexander Scriabin was planning an audacious , week-long musical event to take place at the foot of the Himalayas . Called Mysterium, this ritualistic work for choir, orchestra , and dancers would ultimately culminate with the end of the world.

While the poem text can be safely ignored as self-absorbed rambling, the musical work is a masterpiece that stands ﬁttingly beside other great orchestral creations of the early 20th century The Poem of Ecstasy was completed early in 1908 and premiered later that year in New York City, led by the composer’s friend Modest Altschuler Two months later, it was performed in Moscow and was soon

Altschuler. Two months it was in

hazy strings is a dream theme, and the trumpet’s succession of rising phrases represents victory. Such labels are easily understood in the context of 19th-century program music, although a crystal-clear interpretation of their relationship to the music is hardly possible. We have simply an alternation

While Mahler’s symphonies were reaching further out into all realms of human thought , Scriabin’s were concentrating into a densely packed kernel of feeling and belief.

adopted by orchestras worldwide that were keen to present the latest in “advanced” music.

The orchestra is large, and the contrasts of mood are extreme, yet the piece has a concentration that would become even more pronounced in Scriabin’s ﬁnal works. While Mahler’s symphonies were reaching further out into all realms of human thought, Scriabin’s were concentrating into a densely packed kernel of feeling and belief.

The themes heard in The Poem of Ecstasy have speciﬁc functions, according to the composer. For instance, the opening line in the ﬂute is the theme of longing, the clarinet’s melody over

of

moods

of moods in the composer’s mind, with a recapitulation of the opening material leading to an ecstatic climax.

The emotional intensity is extreme, whether languid and erotic, playful, volatile, or blazingly triumphant The textures are intricate and complex, yet the harmonic progress is plodding. The key of C major, in which the work closes, had come to represent Scriabin’s central focus after years of exploring remote tonal regions. The next step, which he took shortly after, was to cut loose from tonality altogether. Scriabin was thus, with Schoenberg and Debussy, one of the most progressive and visionary spirits of his time.

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Elim Chan

O N E O F T H E M O S T S O U G H T-A F T E R A RT I S T S of her generation, conductor Elim Chan embodies the spirit of contemporary orchestral leadership with her crystalline precision and expressive zeal. She served as principal conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra between 2019 and 2024 and principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra between 2018 and 2023.

Having conducted the First Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2024, Chan returned to the series in 2025 to conduct the renowned Last Night of the Proms. The 2025 summer period also saw her reunite with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as touring with the Concertgebouworkest Young and making her debut at the Musikfest Berlin with the Staatskapelle Berlin.

Highlights in the 2025–26 season include return engagements with The Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester, Staatskapelle Dresden, Luxembourg Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Paris, to name a few. She also makes her subscription debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra and debuts with the Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchester der Oper Zürich, Bamberger Symphoniker, and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Chan’s previous debuts include performances with the San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Born in Hong Kong, Chan studied at Smith College in Massachusetts and at the University of Michigan. In 2014, she became the first female winner of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and went on to spend her 2015–16 season as assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, where she worked closely with Valery Gergiev. In the following season, Chan joined the Dudamel Fellowship Program of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She also owes much to the support and encouragement of Bernard Haitink, whose masterclasses she attended in Lucerne in 2015

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

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is to get to the heart of the music, to its meaning for us now and here. With a combination of depth, brilliance, and humor, Kopatchinskaja brings an inimitable sense of theatrics to her music. Her distinctive approach always conveys the essence of a work, whether in a fresh interpretation of a repertoire classic or through one of her original staged projects that cross musical, theatrical, and interdisciplinary boundaries.

A visionary who thrives on experimentation and collaboration, Kopatchinskaja describes contemporary music as her lifeblood. Her artistic partnerships with living composers such as Francisco Coll, Michael Hersch, György Kurtág, and Esa-Pekka Salonen have resulted in numerous world premieres. A virtuoso, storyteller, and all-around phenomenon, Kopatchinskaja continues to serve as artistic partner of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, designing her own programs in both established and innovative staged concert formats

Kopatchinskaja kicked off the 2025–26 season with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Further engagements include appearances as the London Symphony Orchestra’s Artist Portrait, her debut with The Cleveland Orchestra, and performances with the Czech Philharmonic and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,

among others. In recent years, Kopatchinskaja has curated major residencies at the Southbank Centre, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Last season, Kopatchinskaja honored Schoenberg’s 150th anniversary by performing his monumental Violin Concerto with the BBC and Vienna symphony orchestras, Dresden Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, to name a few.

Kopatchinskaja’s discography includes over 30 recordings, among them the Grammy Award–winning D eath and the Maiden with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a project which was also re-created as a semi-staged filmed performance with Camerata Bern. Recent releases include Plaisirs illuminés with Sol Gabetta and Camerata Bern, Le monde selon George Antheil with Joonas Ahonen, and a new recording with Fazıl Say, which marked the comeback of their duo and received the Editor’s Choice Award from Gramophone

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A S S I S TA N T

C O N C E RT M A S T E R

Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair

Stephen Tavani

A S S I S TA N T

C O N C E RT M A S T E R

Dr. Ronald H. Krasney Chair

Wei-Fang Gu

Drs . Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair

Kim Gomez

Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair

Chul-In Park

Harriet T. and David L . Simon Chair

Miho Hashizume

Theodore Rautenberg Chair

Jeanne Preucil Rose

Larry J B and Barbara S

Robinson Chair

Alicia Koelz

Oswald and Phyllis Lerner

Gilroy Chair

Yu Yuan

Patty and John Collinson Chair

Isabel Trautwein

Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair

Katherine Bormann

Analise Handke

Gladys B Goetz Chair

Youngji Kim

Paul and Lucille Jones Chair

Genevieve Smelser

This roster lists full-time members of The Cleveland Orchestra The number and seating of musicians on stage varies depending on the piece being performed Seating within the string sections rotates on a periodic basis

S E C O N D V I O L I N S

Stephen Rose*

Alfred M and Clara T Rankin Chair

Eli Matthews1

Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J Bogomolny Chair

Jason Yu2

James and Donna Reid Chair

Sonja Braaten Molloy

Carolyn Gadiel Warner

Elayna Duitman

Ioana Missits

Jeffrey Zehngut^

Kathleen Collins

Beth Woodside

Emma Shook

Dr Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr Glenn R Brown Chair

Yun-Ting Lee

Deborah L . Neale Chair

Jiah Chung Chapdelaine

Liyuan Xie

Gawon Kim

V I O L A S

Wesley Collins*

Chaillé H and Richard B Tullis Chair

Gareth Zehngut1^

Charles M. and Janet G.

Kimball Chair

Stanley Konopka2

Mark Jackobs

Jean Wall Bennett Chair

Lisa Boyko

Richard and Nancy

Sneed Chair

Richard Waugh

Lembi Veskimets

The Morgan Sisters Chair

Eliesha Nelson^

Anthony and Diane

Wynshaw-Boris Chair

Joanna Patterson Zakany

William Bender

Thomas Lauria and

Christopher Lauria Chair

C E L L O S

Mark Kosower*

Louis D Beaumont Chair

Richard Weiss1

The GAR Foundation Chair

Charles Bernard2

Helen Weil Ross Chair

Bryan Dumm

Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair

Tanya Ell

Thomas J and Judith Fay

Gruber Chair

Ralph Curry

Brian Thornton

William P. Blair III Chair

David Alan Harrell

Martha Baldwin

Dane Johansen

Marguerite and James Rigby Chair

Paul Kushious

B A S S E S

Maximilian Dimoff*

Clarence T. Reinberger Chair

Charles Paul1

Mary E . and F. Joseph

Callahan Chair

Derek Zadinsky2

Mark Atherton

Thomas Sperl

Henry Peyrebrune

Charles Barr Memorial Chair

Charles Carleton

Scott Dixon

Brandon Mason

H A R P

Trina Struble*

Alice Chalifoux Chair

F LU T E S

Joshua Smith*

Elizabeth M. and William C.

Treuhaft Chair

Saeran St. Christopher

Jessica Sindell2^

Austin B and Ellen W Chinn Chair

Mary Kay Fink

P I C C O L O

Mary Kay Fink

Anne M and M Roger Clapp Chair

O B O E S

Frank Rosenwein*

Edith S Taplin Chair

Corbin Stair

Sharon and Yoash Wiener Chair

Jeffrey Rathbun2

Everett D. and Eugenia S . McCurdy Chair

Robert Walters

E N G L I S H H O R N

Robert Walters

Samuel C and Bernette K

Jaffe Chair

C L A R I N E T S

Afendi Yusuf*

Robert Marcellus Chair

Robert Woolfrey

Victoire G and Alfred M

Rankin, Jr Chair

Daniel McKelway2

Robert R and Vilma L Kohn

Chair

Amy Zoloto

E-F L AT C L A R I N E T

Daniel McKelway

Stanley L and Eloise M

Morgan Chair

B A S S C L A R I N E T

Amy Zoloto

Myrna and James Spira Chair

B A S S O O N S

John Clouser*

Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair

Gareth Thomas

Catherine Van Handel2

Sandra L Haslinger Chair

Jonathan Sherwin

C O N T R A B A S S O O N

Jonathan Sherwin

H O R N S

Nathaniel Silberschlag*

George Szell Memorial Chair

Michael Mayhew§

Knight Foundation Chair

Jesse McCormick

Robert B Benyo Chair

Hans Clebsch

Richard King

Meghan Guegold Hege^

T RU M P E T S

Michael Sachs*

Robert and Eunice Podis

Weiskopf Chair

Jack Sutte

Lyle Steelman2^

James P. and Dolores D.

Storer Chair

Michael Miller

C O R N E T S

Michael Sachs*

Mary Elizabeth and G Robert Klein Chair

T RO M B O N E S

Brian Wendel*

Gilbert W and Louise I

Humphrey Chair

Richard Stout

Alexander and Marianna C McAfee Chair

Shachar Israel2

B A S S T RO M B O N E

Luke Sieve

E U P H O N I U M &

B A S S T RU M P E T

Richard Stout

T U B A

Yasuhito Sugiyama*

Nathalie C Spence and Nathalie S Boswell Chair

T I M PA N I

Zubin Hathi*

Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair

Peter Nichols2

P E RC U S S I O N

Marc Damoulakis*

Margaret Allen Ireland Chair

Thomas Sherwood

Tanner Tanyeri

Peter Nichols

K E Y B OA R D I N S T RU M E N T S

Carolyn Gadiel Warner

Marjory and Marc L Swartzbaugh Chair

L I B R A R I A N

Michael Ferraguto*

Joe and Marlene Toot Chair

E N D O W E D C H A I R S

C U R R E N T LY

U N O C C U P I E D

Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Chair

Sunshine Chair

Rudolf Serkin Chair

Michael Miller C

Mr and Mrs Richard K

Smucker Chair

Christoph von Dohnányi †

Taichi Fukumura

Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair

James Feddeck

Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair

Lisa Wong

Frances P and Chester C Bolton Chair

* Principal § Associate Principal

1 First Assistant Principal

2 Assistant Principal

^ Alum of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra † In Memoriam

With sincere gratitude to the musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra for their in-kind contributions supporting community programs and securing funding opportunities

G E T T I N G T O K N O W TCO’s New Musicians

S might have spotted some new faces onstage at Severance this season . In recent months , four musicians have joined the ensemble: Second Violin Gawon Kim, Bass Brandon Mason, Assistant Principal Bassoon Catherine Van Handel (Sandra L . Haslinger Chair), and Assistant Principal Timpani/Percussion

Peter Nichols (Mr. and Mrs . Richard K . Smucker Chair). We sat down with them to hear more about their musical journeys and Cleveland experiences so far.

Do you all remember the first time you heard The Cleveland Orchestra perform?

G AW O N : My mom used to play classical music on the radio when I was little, and I remember hearing The Cleveland Orchestra on there, conducted by George Szell.

C AT H E R I N E : I also grew up listening to The Cleveland Orchestra’s recordings, especially the Beethoven symphonies with Szell. The first time I heard the Orchestra live was at Blossom I sat in the Pavilion taking it all in, and it was just such an incredible experience.

P E T E R : The first time I heard the Orchestra was through the Brahms cycle DVDs with Franz Welser-Möst. My percussion

(clockwise from top left) Brandon Mason, Peter Nichols, Gawon Kim, and Catherine Van Handel huddle up before a conversation about their time so far with The Cleveland Orchestra

teacher in high school showed me those recordings, and I immediately noticed how special the sound was, particularly the timpani.

B R A N D O N : When you listen to recordings or hear the Orchestra live, it sounds so effortless like the sound never touches the ground and everybody’s instincts are in line. The first time I saw the Orchestra was in 2023, playing Mahler’s Seventh Symphony at Severance. I just remember the clarity of the performance being surreal. All these details of the score that I’d never noticed before were rising to the top, and it gave me chills.

Tell us a little bit about your background and training. What led you to where you are now?

G AW O N : My mom and aunt are both musicians, so music was always around

me when I was growing up in Korea. I think it was in 2005 that they gave me a violin for Christmas, and that was my ﬁrst experience playing music From Korea, I moved to the US to study at the Curtis Institute of Music before I eventually auditioned here.

P E T E R : My ﬁrst instrument was the electric bass. My brother and I would play bass and guitar together, and then we both took up the cello and would play duets. When I ﬁrst heard the West Virginia Symphony and my

C AT H E R I N E : I started on piano when I was 4 and picked up cello when I was 5, but didn’t ﬁnd the bassoon until high school. The band teacher said I looked like a bassoon player, so I looked it up in the encyclopedia and found a recording of the “grandfather” theme from Peter and the Wolf. It was then that I fell in love with the bassoon I studied at Juilliard Pre-College with Marc Goldberg and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Daniel Matsukawa. I’ve been working in the industry since 2015, speciﬁcally in the Toronto

When you listen

to recordings or hear the Orchestra live, it sounds so effortless — like the sound never touches the ground and everybody ’s instincts are in line .

Brandon Mason teacher, Scott Christian, play timpani, I knew immediately that I wanted to do that.

Cleveland has a very rich timpani tradition, so I followed in my teacher’s footsteps and went to the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with both Mark Damoulakis and Paul Yancich. For grad school, I went to the University of Michigan, where I studied with Jeremy Epp and Thomas Sherwood, who plays percussion here. From there, I played principal timpani with the Toledo Symphony for two years before winning this position

and Milwaukee symphonies. Now, I’m so excited to be here in Cleveland.

B R A N D O N : Growing up, I was always surrounded by classical music. Whether it was Loone y Tunes, my grandma playing the classical radio station, or my mom teaching ﬂute lessons, it was always there. In ﬁfth grade, I chose the bass because my brothers already played violin and cello. But it felt like the bass chose me in a way. I didn’t expect this to be my career, but I stayed fascinated with it, and still am. It’s brought me to a lot of amazing places, and I can’t believe it brought me here

You all sit in very different parts of the Orchestra. What is it like playing in this group?

P E T E R : As a percussionist and timpanist, I’m always playing in the back. In some orchestras, you have to anticipate more, but here it feels like you’re playing chamber music. You can easily connect with everyone else and fit your sound into the ensemble.

G AW O N : As a violinist, we rotate seats, so I can either sit in the middle of the section or in the back, where I can see all the musicians playing together. I love sharing this music with so many great colleagues.

C AT H E R I N E : I personally think that I have the best seat in the house. I get to sit right in the middle and absorb the entire orchestra from where I am. There are no words to describe the feeling

when we’re all making music together. I don’t have to overthink; I can just jump on the train and go with everybody. It’s inspiring to make music at such a high level of artistry.

B R A N D O N : Like Catherine says, it doesn’t feel like you’re trying to play with something that’s perfect and you can’t mess it up it just feels like you’re along for the ride. Hearing so many amazing colleagues of mine on stage every day is both humbling and inspiring. I feel like I’ve already grown as a musician in my short time here, which is exciting at this point in my career.

Scan the QR code to read an extended version of this conversation on the Orchestra’s Content Hub.

Peter Nichols converses with his former teacher Thomas Sherwood (left) before a performance of Revueltas’s La Noche de los Mayas in November 2025.

TCO Summer 2026 Season Announced

S U M M E R I S A RO U N D T H E C O R N E R ! The Cleveland Orchestra recently announced its 2026 summer season, anchored by two signature experiences: the Blossom Music Festival and Summers at Severance.

Both series feature concerts led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst as he enters his 25th and final season with The Cleveland Orchestra. He conducts a richly textured program of Wagner and Richard Strauss at Severance on August 27, before returning to Blossom on August 29 for a Viennese-inspired program with works by Mozart and the Strauss family.

B L O S S O M M U S I C F E S T I VA L

The Cleveland Orchestra kicks off the 2026 Blossom Music Festival on July 3 with a celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, showcasing the breadth and brilliance of American music. Following this on July 4 is A Salute to America, a beloved summer tradition featuring the Blossom Festival Band. Then, on July 11 and 12, audiences can relive the magic of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the big screen while The Cleveland Orchestra plays the score live.

Classical programming at Blossom spotlights the Orchestra in a dazzling

array of music alongside top artists, from Karen Gomyo performing Shostakovich (July 18) to Antonello Manacorda leading an all-French program (August 22)

Pops programming brings further delights to the Blossom stage. Broadway powerhouse Idina Menzel joins the Orchestra on July 26 for a career-spanning evening of music. Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw sing electrifying arrangements of hits by Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and more on August 8. Tony DeSare returns on August 23 for a stylish tribute to Cole Porter. Finally, the Orchestra and Sarah Hicks close out the Blossom season with selections from John Williams’s timeless film scores (September 4, 5, and 6).

S U M M E R S AT S E V E R A N C E

On July 16, conductor Semyon Bychkov and pianist Garrick Ohlsson team up for a richly Romantic program to begin Summers at Severance On July 30, Kazuki Yamada conducts works by Haydn and Saint-Saëns, and Principal Trombone Brian Wendel presents Rota’s Trombone Concerto Severance then goes to the opera on August 13, as awardwinning soprano Latonia Moore stars in a program of operatic highlights by Dvořák, Verdi, and more.

Visit clevelandorchestra .com for tickets and more information .

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst returns to both Blossom and Severance as part of TCO’s summer season

Five Musician Appointments

T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A is excited to announce five new musician appointments to its violin and viola sections.

Elizabeth Fayette joins the Orchestra as First Associate Concertmaster in May, and Philip Marten assumes the role of Associate Concertmaster in August.

Zhan Shu, a first violinist with The Cleveland Orchestra since 2018, was appointed Assistant Concertmaster and began serving in the role in January.

In May, Dustin Wilkes-Kim joins the second violin section, and Gabriel

Several new musicians will join the Orchestra’s ranks in the coming months (Top row from left) Elizabeth Fayette and Philip Marten were hired as First Associate Concertmaster and Associate Concertmaster, respectively, while Zhan Shu was promoted to Assistant Concertmaster in January.

(Bottom row from left) Dustin Wilkes-Kim and Gabriel Napoli will join the Orchestra’s second violin and viola sections .

Napoli joins the viola section. Napoli, an alumnus of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, becomes the seventh former member of the ensemble to earn an appointment with The Cleveland Orchestra, underscoring the strength of the organization’s education programs.

Now in his 24th year as Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst has appointed more than half of the musicians now performing with The Cleveland Orchestra

New Recording Highlights

Allison

Loggins -Hull

O N A P R I L 1 7 , The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will release a new audio recording celebrating their creative partnership with composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull (above center). It will be available to stream and download on all major platforms.

Recorded live at Severance Music Center, Allison Loggins-Hull: The Cleveland Residenc y features three works composed by Loggins-Hull during her three-year

tenure as the Orchestra’s Daniel R . Lewis Composer Fellow: the string sextet Legac y, the orchestral version of Can You See?, and Grit Grace Glory , a musical narrative honoring Cleveland’s history, resilience, and civic spirit.

This recording was produced by Elaine Martone, who won her fourth Grammy Award for Classical Producer of the Year and her seventh Grammy overall in February. It is The Cleveland Orchestra’s first release of 2026 and the 17th recording on the Orchestra’s own label since it launched in 2020.

Visit clevelandorchestra .com/recordings for more information on the Orchestra’s latest releases .

S P R I N G

A P R 2 – 4

D E B U S S Y ’ S L A M E R

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Paul Jacobs, organ

FA U R É Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande

P O U L E N C Concerto for Organ, Strings , and Timpani

C A S E L L A Italia

D E B U S S Y La mer

A P R 9 – 1 1

S C H U B E RT &

S H O S TA KOV I C H

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor

Sol Gabetta, cello

S H O S TA KO V I C H Cello Concerto No. 2

S C H U B E RT Symphony No. 9, “ The Great”

R E C I TA L

A P R 1 6

A LE X A N D R E

K A N TO RO W I N R E C I TA L

Alexandre Kantorow, piano

Works by J.S. Bach, Medtner, Chopin, Scriabin, and Beethoven

A P R 2 3 , 2 5 & 2 6

B R I T T E N ’ S WA R

R E Q U I E M

Daniel Harding, conductor

Tamara Wilson, soprano

Andrew Staples, tenor

Ludwig Mittelhammer, baritone

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus

B R I T T E N War Requiem

A P R 3 0 & M AY 2

M E N D E L S S O H N ’ S

R E F O R M AT I O N

S Y M P H O N Y

Jörg Widmann, conductor

J Ö R G W I D M A N N Fanfare for Ten Brass Instruments

J Ö R G W I D M A N N Con brio

J Ö R G W I D M A N N Danse macabre

M E N D E L S S O H N Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”

R E C I TA L

M AY 5

M A RC - A N D R É H A M E LI N

I N R E C I TA L

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Works by Haydn, Beethoven, Weinberg, and Rachmaninoff

M AY 7 – 9

WAG N E R ’ S

G ÖT T E R DÄ M M E RU N G

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Jörg Widmann, clarinet

P RO KO F I E V Symphony No. 1, “Classical”

O L G A N E U W I RT H Zones of Blue* WA G N E R Excerpts from Götterdämmerung

M AY 1 6 , 2 1 & 24

B E E T H OV E N ’ S F I D E LI O

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Malin Byström, soprano (Leonore)

David Butt Philip, tenor (Florestan)

Tomasz Konieczny, bass-baritone (Don Pizarro)

Martin Summer, bass (Rocco)

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone (Don Fernando)

Ashley Emerson, soprano (Marzelline)

Owen McCausland, tenor (Jaquino)

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

B E E T H O V E N Fidelio

Opera presentation sung in German with projected supertitles

M AY 2 2

H E RO ’ S S O N G

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, violin

Trina Struble, harp

A D O L P H U S H A I L S T O R K Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed

B A C E W I C Z Symphony No. 4

J Ü R I R E I N V E R E Concerto for Violin, Harp, and Orchestra D V O Ř Á K Hero’s Song

* Not performed on the Friday matinee concert

Generous support for the 2025 – 26 Recital Series provided by the Art of Beauty Company, Inc.

Join us for the fourth annual Jack , Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, which delves into the many facets of Courage and how it shapes our hopes , our fears , and our actions .

A P R I L 9 – MAY 24

Halim Flowers: It Takes Courage to Love All Unconditionally

In this special exhibit at Severance Music Center, celebrated artist Halim Flowers unveils a new body of work created in Cleveland expressly for the Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, drawing its energy and vision from the festival’s central theme of Courage

F R I DAY, MAY 15

The World(s) of Terence Blanchard

This genre-bending opening night of the festival features selections from Terence Blanchard’ s groundbreaking opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones and a suite from his score for Spike Lee’ s Malcolm X, paired with immersive projections

S AT U R DAY, MAY 1 6

United in Song! A Community Choral Celebration

An afternoon of joyous vocal performances representing the rich diversity of the Greater Cleveland choral community

S AT U R DAY, MAY 1 6

T H U R S DAY, MAY 2 1

S U N DAY, MAY 24

Beethoven’s Fidelio Franz Welser-Möst lifts The Cleveland Orchestra and an all-star cast of soloists to the life-affirming heights of Beethoven’ s only opera , a testament to courage and human resilience

S U N DAY, MAY 1 7

Courage and Poetry: An Af ternoon with Tank Ball

Grammy-winning artist Tarriona “ Tank” Ball shares her spellbinding blend of spoken word and poetry in a performance that digs deep into the meaning of courage, featuring music by Terence Blanchard.

M O N DAY, MAY 1 8

Bryan Stevenson on Courage

In this keynote address , acclaimed civil rights leader, bestselling author, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson reflects on the meaning of courage: how we confront injustice, stay proximate to suffering, and choose to hope in the face of overwhelming odds

T U E S DAY, MAY 1 9

The Moth Mainstage: Live from Severance

Five extraordinary storytellers share true stories inspired by the festival theme of Courage tales of risk and resilience, of stepping into the unknown, and of finding courage amid fear

F R I DAY, MAY 2 2

Hero’s Song

Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a wideranging program inspired by the festival theme, featuring works by Adolphus Hailstork, Bacewicz, Jüri Reinvere, and Dvořák

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Mr Winthrop Quigley & Ms Bonnie Crusalis

Dr. Isobel Rutherford

David M. & Betty Schneider

Rachel R . Schneider

Dr. & Mrs . James L . Sechler

Meredith M. Seikel

Hewitt & Paula Shaw

Robyn Shifrin

Roy Smith

F. William & Patricia Steere

Mr. & Mrs . Richard P. Stovsky

Alan & Barbara Taylor

Bruce & Virginia Taylor

Philip & Sarah* Taylor

Mr. & Mrs . Alfred Umdasch (Europe)

Karen Walburn

Mr. Daniel & Mrs . Molly Walsh

Mr. & Mrs . Jeffery J. Weaver

Robert C. Weppler

Sandy* & Ted Wiese

Katie & Donald Woodcock

Max & Beverly Zupon

Anonymous (4)

Frank H. Ginn Society

Gifts of $10,000 to $14,999

Dr. & Mrs . D. P. Agamanolis

Mr. & Mrs . * Eugene J. Beer

Deena & Jeff Bellman

Laura & Jon Bloomberg

Douglas M. Bunker

James Burke

Mrs . Catharina M. Caldwell

Dr. & Mrs . William D. Carey

Ms . Maria Cashy & Ms . Laura Cashy

Mr & Mrs Edward A Chuhna

Mr & Mrs Chester F Crone

Mr & Mrs Manohar Daga

Ronald J. Davis & Cheryl A . Davis

Giles Debenham

Allan* & Connie Dechert

Gregory Dobbins

Michael Dunn

Brian & Renae Durdle

Tamara Durn

Dr.* & Mrs . Lloyd H. Ellis Jr.

Joan Alice Ford

Mr. James S. Gascoigne &

Ms . Cynthia Prior

Dr Edward S Godleski

André & Ginette Gremillet

Calvin & Sherry Griffith

Mr & Mrs Michael Gröller (Europe)

Candy & Brent Grover

Mr. Arthur C. Hall III

George Hanley (Miami)

Robin Hitchcock Hatch

Dr. Robert T. Heath &

Dr. Elizabeth L . Buchanan

Dr. Fred A . Heupler

Ms . Mary Joe Hughes

Donald* & Joyce Ignatz

Donna & Robert* Jackson

Barbara & Michael J. Kaplan

Jonathan & Tina Kislak (Miami)

John D. & Giuliana C. Koch

Dr. Ronald H. Krasney & Vicki Kennedy*

Ms . Elizabeth A . Krew

David C. Lamb

Michael Lederman & Sharmon Sollitto

Dr Edith Lerner

Nancy F Lerner

Dr. David* & Janice Leshner

Judith & Morton Q . Levin

Ms . Jane Mattlin

Dr. & Mrs . Stephen McClure

Drs . Amy & James Merlino

Claudia Metz &

Thomas Woodworth

John & Rebecca Minnillo

Mr. Bert & Dr. Marjorie Moyar

Brian & Cindy Murphy

Patricia Perry Nock

Mr & Mrs John Olejko

Mr David A Osage & Ms Claudia C Woods

Dr Roland S Philip & Dr. Linda M. Sandhaus

Julia & Larry Pollock

Ms . Rosella Puskas*

Beth & Clay Rankin

Mr. & Mrs . Roger F. Rankin

Mrs . Vicki Ann Resnick

Amy & Ken Rogat

Kim Russel & Dirk Brom

Dr. & Mrs . * Martin I. Saltzman

Richard B. & Cheryl A . Schmitz

Ms . Beverly J. Schneider

Gary Schwartz & Constance Young

Kenneth Shafer

Mr John F Shelley & Ms . Karen P. Fleming

Rev. George Smiga

Sandra & Richey* Smith

Taras Szmagala & Helen Jarem

Brian & Elizabeth Tierney

Joe & Marlene Toot

Mr. Christopher Towe

Rich & Karen Turgeon

Mr. & Mrs . Joshua Ungier

Dr. Gregory Videtic & Rev. Christopher McCann

Susanne Wamsler & Paul Singer (Europe)

Mr & Mrs * Fred A Watkins

Denise G & Norman E Wells , Jr

Sandy Wile* & Sue Berlin

Anonymous (7)

The 1929 Society

Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999

Ms Nancy A Adams

Mr. & Mrs . Todd C. Amsdell

Mr. James Babcock

Claudia Bacon

Ms . Bonnie M. Baker

Robert & Dalia Baker

Thomas & Laura Barnard

Dr. James Bates

Fred G. & Mary W. Behm

Marilyn & Jeffrey Bilsky

Dr. & Mrs . Eugene H. Blackstone

Barbara Blossom

Laurel Blossom

Jeff & Elaine Bomberger

Mitchell & Caroline Borrow

Ms Kristina E Boykin

Mr. & Mrs . David* Briggs

James & Mary Bright

Sandy Brinn

Dr. Thomas Brugger* & Dr. Sandra Russ

Kim & Kenneth Burns

Frank & Leslie Buck

Mr. Gregory & Mrs . Susan Bulone

Michael & Linda Busta

Joseph & Susan Carney

Michael & Mary Carpenter (Miami)

William & Barbara Carson

Victor A Ceicys M D &

Mrs Kathleen Browning Ceicys

Mr. & Mrs . James B. Chaney

Reneé & Kerry Chelm

Ellen Chesler & Matthew Mallow (Miami)

Drs . Wuu-Shung & Amy Chuang

Drs . Mark Cohen & Miriam Vishny

Diane Lynn Collier & Robert J. Gura

Marjorie Dickard Comella

Mr.* & Mrs . Ralph Daugstrup

Pete & Margaret Dobbins

Ms . Mary Lynn Durham

Carl Falb

Regis & Gayle Falinski

Dagmar & Frederick Fellowes

Mr William & Dr Elizabeth Fesler

Mr. & Mrs . Mark Filippell

Bruce* & Nancy Fisher

Jan & John Fitts

Ms . Nancy Flogge

Mr. & Ms . Dale Freygang

Barbara & Peter* Galvin

Joy E . Garapic

Anne* & Walter Ginn

Brenda & David Goldberg

Mrs . Florence Goodman

Barbara H. Gordon

Nancy Hancock Griffith

The Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber

Charitable Foundation

Nancy* & James Grunzweig

Andrea Guerreri (Miami)

Agnes Gund*

Graham* & Ann Gund (Miami)

Mr. Newman T. Halvorson, Jr.

Mr.* & Mrs . David P. Handke, Jr.

Gary Hanson & Barbara Klante

Clark Harvey & Holly Selvaggi

Mr. & Mrs . Jonathan Hatch

Barbara L . Hawley & David S. Goodman

Matthew D. Healy &

Richard S. Agnes

Anita & William Heller

Ms Susan K Hemry

Malcolm & Vivian Henoch

Mr & Mrs Jerry Herschman

Mr & Mrs Martin R Hoke

Dr. Keith A . &

Mrs . Kathleen M. Hoover

James* & Claudia Hower

Elisabeth Hugh

David & Dianne Hunt

Ms . Kimberly R . Irish

Rudy Ivancic

Dr. & Mrs . Paul C. Janicki

Richard & Jayne Janus

Robert Jenkins

Mr David* & Mrs Cheryl Jerome

Mr Jeremy V Johnson

Karmendot Fund

Andrew & Katherine Kartalis

Rod Keen & Denise Horstman

Mr. & Mrs . Kenneth H. Kirtz*

Audrey Knight

Mr. & Mrs . S. Lee Kohrman*

Douglas & Monica Kridler

Peter* & Cathy Kuhn

Dr. Jeanne Lackamp

Mr. & Mrs . Arthur J. Lafave, Jr.*

Dr. & Mrs . John R . Lane

Kenneth M. Lapine & Rose E . Mills

John N.* & Edith K . Lauer

Charles & Josephine Robson Leamy*

Joan & Young Sei Lee

William & Virginia Lennon

Mr and Mrs Roger J Lerch in Memory of Carl J. and Winifred J. Lerch

Dr. Stephen B. &

Mrs . Lillian S. Levine

Dr. Alan & Mrs . Joni Lichtin

Dr. & Mrs . Jack Lissauer

Drs . Todd & Susan Locke

Eric Logan

David & Janice* Logsdon

Joan C. Long

Caetano R . Lopes (Miami)

Neil & Susan Luria

Peter & Pamela Luria (Miami)

Dr. Kalle J. Lyytinen

David Mann & Bernadette Pudis

Janet A . Mann

Diann & Tom Mann

Daniel Mansoor

Mr Ryan T Marrie

Mr & Mrs Christopher J McKenna

Mr & Mrs Sandy McMillan

Ms . Nancy L . Meacham

Dr. & Mrs . Kevin Meany

Dr.* & Mrs . Dale Meers

James & Virginia Meil

Dr. Susan M. Merzweiler

Mary Ellen Miller

Lynn & Mike Miller

Drs . Terry E . & Sara S. Miller

Mr. & Mrs . Roy D. Minoff

Mr. & Mrs . Andy Moock

Ms . Nancy C. Morgan

Amy & Marc Morgenstern

Elizabeth Morris

Eudice M Morse

Mr. Raymond M. Murphy

Mr. & Mrs . Stephen Myers

Andrea Nobil (Miami)

Richard & Kathleen Nord

Mr. & Mrs . Forrest A . Norman III

Courtney & Michael Novak

Thury O’Connor

Richard* & Elizabeth Osborne

Mr. & Mrs . Peter R . Osenar

Mr. Henry Ott-Hansen

Dale & Susan Phillip

Dr Marc A & Mrs Carol Pohl

Dr & Mrs John N Posch

Mr Robert & Mrs Susan Price

Sylvia Profenna

Pysht Fund

Lute & Lynn Quintrell

James* & Donna Reid

Elizabeth & Robert J. Reid

David J. Reimer & Raffaele DiLallo

Mr. D. Keith* &

Mrs . Margaret B. Robinson

Lisa Robinson & Robert Hansel

Dr. & Mrs . Ronald Ross

Robert* & Margo Roth

Dr. Adel S. Saada

Dr Vernon E Sackman & Ms Marguerite Patton*

Mr & Mrs Lowell Satre

Sandra Sauder

Bob & Ellie Scheuer

John* & Barbara Schubert

Robert W. Scully (Miami)

Sally & Larry Sears

John Sedor & Geri Presti

Deborah Sesek

Mr * & Mrs Michael Shames

Mr Philip & Mrs Michelle Sharp

Mr Michael R Shaughnessy

Elizabeth & Timothy Sheeler

Paul & Betsy Shiverick (Miami)

Zachary & Shelby Siegal

Howard & Beth Simon

Mr. James S. Simon

The Shari Bierman Singer Family

Drs . Charles Kent Smith & Patricia Moore Smith

Mrs . Gretchen D. Smith

Mr. & Mrs . William E . Spatz

Diane M. Stack

Maribeth & Christopher Stahl

George & Mary* Stark

Sue Starrett & Jerry Smith

Mr Robert D Sweet

Ms . Lorraine S. Szabo

Robert & Carol Taller

Eca & Richard Taylor

Mr. John R . Thorne and Family

Bill & Jacky Thornton

Mr. & Mrs . Gary B. Tishkoff

Dr. & Mrs . James E . Triner

Mr.* & Mrs . Robert N. Trombly

Steve & Christa Turnbull

Dr. & Mrs . Wulf H. Utian

Robert & Marti* Vagi

Bobbi & Peter* van Dijk

Mr* & Mrs Lee Vandenberg

Mr & Mrs Les C Vinney

Kenneth Kirtz*

George & Barbara von Mehren

Mr. Randall Wagner

Randall E . Wagner

Ron Wakser

John & Jeanette Walton

Greg & Lynn Weekley

Tilles-Weidenthal Foundation

Mr. & Mrs . Mark Allen Weigand

Mr. Peter & Mrs . Laurie Weinberger

Paul & Nancy Wellener

Dr Edward L & Mrs Suzanne* Westbrook

Dr Paul R & Catherine Williams

Ms Linda L Wilmot

Bob & Kat Wollyung

Mr. Graham Wood Anonymous (4)

Composer’s Circle

Gifts of $2, 500 to $4,999

Mr & Mrs Paul R Abbey

Mr Leonard H Abrams*

David & Sharon Anderson

Sarah May Anderson

Gabrielle Aryeetey

Jack & Darby Ashelman

Ronen Avinir (Miami)

Don Baker*

Brian Balogh & Kathy Craig

Mr. Richard H. Bamberger

Eric Barbato & Elisha Swindell

Ms . Carol Barnak

Lucy Battle

Kathryn & Gerald Berkshire

Margo & Tom Bertin

Mr & Mrs Charles Bittenbender

Zeda W Blau

Marilyn & Lawrence Blaustein

Peter Blazunas

Ms . Pamela M. Blemaster

Blossom Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra

Howard & Arlyne Bochnek

Mr. John & Mrs . Robyn Boebinger

Dr. & Mrs . Timothy Bohn

Mr. & Mrs . Richard H. Bole

David and Julie Borsani, in memory of Marissa I. Borsani

Dwight Bowden

Lisa & Ronald Boyko

William & AnnaMarie Brancovsky

Adam & Vikki Briggs

Matthew D Brocone

Mr. & Mrs . Dale R . Brogan

Dale & Wendy Brott

Bennett Brown

Mrs . Nancy E . Brown

Mr. & Mrs . Henry G. Brownell

Mr. Felix Brueck &

Ms . Ann Kowal Smith

Mrs . Frances Buchholzer

Mr. & Mrs . William D. Buss II

William Busta & Joan Tomkins

Dr. & Mrs . William E . Cappaert

Peter & Joanna Carfagna

Mr * & Mrs John J Carney

Dr Jeffrey Chaitoff & Ms . Margo Vinney

Dr. Ronald Chapnick* & Mrs . Sonia Chapnick

Gregory & Kathrine Chemnitz

Gertrude Kalnow Chisholm & Homer D.W. Chisholm

Dr. Gary Chottiner & Anne Poirson

Natalie Cipriano

Robert & Judy Ciulla

Pete Clapham & Anita Stoll

Mr. & Mrs . David Clark

Jill & Paul Clark

Richard J. & Joanne Clark

Drs . John* & Mary Clough

Christopher Colaluca

William & Ruth Coleman

Mr. & Mrs . Robert Conrad

Mary* & Bill Conway

Mr & Mrs Thomas Cook

The Honorable Colleen Conway

Cooney & Mr. John Cooney

Mr. John Couriel & Dr. Rebecca Toonkel (Miami)

Dr. Dale & Susan Cowan

Laura Cox

Jane Cronin

John Cunningham

Dr. Lucy Ann Dahlberg

Karen & Jim Dakin

Mrs . Jane Dangler

Dr. & Mrs . Thomas M. Daniel

Karen & Neil Davies

Gary Davis & Jane Cooper

Mrs Lois Joan Davis

Jeffrey Dean and Barbara & Karen Claas

Prof. George & Mrs . Rebecca Dent

Michael & Amy Diamant

Dr. & Mrs . Howard Dickey-White

Ms . Marlene Dirksen

Do Unto Others Trust (Miami)

Carl Dodge

Jack & Elaine Drage

Mr. & Mrs . Robert Dreshfield

Ms . Barbara Dunaway

Mr. & Mrs . Robert P. Duvin

Mr & Mrs Ronald E Dziedzicki

Erich Eichhorn & Ursel Dougherty

Mr Mike S Eidson, Esq & Dr Margaret Eidson (Miami)

S. Stuart Eilers

Peter & Kathryn Eloff

Louis* & Patricia Esposito

Andy & Leigh Fabens

Michelle Fay

Anne Ferguson & Peter Drench

Mr. Jonathon R . Forman

Mr. & Mrs . Turney P. Berry

Joan & Philip Fracassa

Mr. & Mrs . Larry Frankel

Howard Freedman & Rita Montlack

Marvin Ross Friedman & Adrienne bon Haes (Miami)

Robert Friedman & Elizabeth MacGowan

Peggy A . Fullmer

The Fung Family

Timothy & Susan Gall

Mr. Stephen H. Gariepy & Ms . Nancy Sin

Pamela Garrison (Miami)

Mr. William Gaskill & Ms . Kathleen Burke

Mr & Mrs Bengt Gerborg

Mr & Mrs M Lee Gibson

Daniel & Kathleen Gisser

Holly & Fred Glock

Dr.* & Mrs . Victor M. Goldberg

Enrique Gomez (Miami)

Lawrence Goodman & Stephanie Betts

Agnes Tartara Goss

Mr. Robert Goss

Dr. & Mrs . Ronald L . Gould

Bob Graf & Mia Zaper

Mr. James Graham & Mr. David Dusek

Dr Ruffin Graham

Robert K Gudbranson & Joon-Li Kim

Mr. & Mrs . John E . Guinness

Mr. Davin & Mrs . Jo Ann Gustafson

Mr. Ian S. Haberman

Mary Louise Hahn

Dr. James O. Hall

Megan Hall & James Janning

Dr. Haifa & Dr. Michael A . Hanna

John Hannon

Mrs . Martha S. Harding

Dr. Jared Harp

Mr. Samuel D. Harris

Thomas & Darlene Hawkins

Dr Toby Helfand

In Memory of Hazel Helgesen

Drs Gene & Sharon Henderson

T. K . * & Faye A . Heston

Eric & Karen Hillenbrand

Richard & Jean Hipple

Arnold & Janice Hirshon

Mr. & Mrs . Stephen J. Holler

Charles M. Hoppel & Marianne Karwowski Hoppel

Lois Krejci-Hornbostel & Roland Hornbostel

Xavier-Nichols Foundation/ Robert and Karen Hostoffer

Phillip Huber

Dr Diane Huey

Mr Brooks G Hull & Mr Terry Gimmellie

Dr. & Mrs . Grant Hunsicker

Mrs . Laura Hunsicker

Mr.* & Mrs . J. David Hunter

Ms . Melanie Ingalls

Bruce & Debbie Jarosz

Helen & Erik Jensen

Dylan Jin

Eric & Susan Johnson

Joela Jones & Richard Weiss

Steven Jones

Dr Eric Kaler

Mr Donald J Katt & Mrs Maribeth Filipic-Katt

Dr. Richard* & Roberta Katzman

The Kendis Family Trust: Hilary & Robert Kendis and Susan & James Kendis

Joanne Kim & Jim Nash

Mr Thomas Kinsey & Ms Lynn Slifer

Mrs . Judith A . Kirsh

Steve & Beth Kish

Mr. & Mrs . Stuart F. Kline

Michael Kluger & Heidi Greene

Stewart Kohl

Mr. Ronald & Mrs . Kimberly Kolz

Ursula Korneitchouk

Margaret Kotz & Ed Covington

Dr. & Mrs . John P. Kristofco

Mr. & Mrs . David S. Kushner

Alfred & Carol Lambo

Mr & Mrs John J Lane, Jr

Dr * & Mrs Roger H Langston

Mrs Susan D LaPine

Mr. & Mrs . Richard L . Larrabee

Mrs . Sandra S. Laurenson

Mr. & Mrs . Michael Lavelle

Richard & Barbara Lederman

Mr. Elliot & Mrs . Christine Legow

Michael & Lois Lemr

Robert G. Levy

Mr. & Mrs . * Thomas A . Liederbach

Eva & Rudolf Linnebach

Mr. Henry Lipian

Dr. George I. Litman

Ms Agnes Loeffler

Mary Lohman

Mr & Mrs Carlos Lopez- Cantera (Miami)

Virginia Lovejoy

Linda* & Saul Ludwig

Elsie* & Byron Lutman

Mr. & Mrs . * Robert P. Madison

Herbert L . & Ronda Marcus

Dr.* & Mrs . Sanford E . Marovitz

Ms . Dorene Marsh

Mr. John R . Martin

Kevin Martin & Hansa Jacob-Martin

Ms . Amanda Martinsek

Ms . Judith E . Matsko

Bruce & Karen McDiarmid

Mr James E Menger

Leah Merritt-Mervine

Dr. Miloslava Mervart

Mr. & Mrs . Gerald A . Messerman

Mr. Glenn A . Metzdorf

Mr. Stephen P. Metzler

David Michel & Lynne Killgore

Beth M. Mikes

Amy Miller & Nikhil Rao

Mr. & Mrs . David S. Miller

Dr. & Mrs . Leon Miller

Mr. Tom Millward

Anton & Laura Milo

Michael Milo

MindCrafted Systems

Jon Morrell

Mr. & Mrs . Thomas W. Morris

Ken & Sharon Mountcastle

Susan B. Murphy

Dave & Nancy Murray

Karen & Bernie Murray

Joan Katz Napoli & August Napoli

Dr Anne & Mr Peter Neff

Karen Nemec

Mark & Paula Nylander

Richard & Jolene O’Callaghan

Robert & Mary Ann Olive

Dr. & Mrs . Paul T. Omelsky

Harvey* & Robin Oppmann

Dr. Douglas Orr & Ms . Kimberley Barton

Dr. Kata & Mr. Len Pagon

Chris & Susan Pappas (Miami)

George Parras & Mary Spencer

Drs James & Marian Patterson

Dr Lewis E & Janice B Patterson

David Pavlich & Cherie Arnold

Matt Peart

Alan & Charlene Perkins

John Perko

Robert S. Perry

Mark & Eve Pihl

Barbara Pittman

Mr. Richard W. Pogue

Mr. & Mrs . Frank Porter

Patrick J. Holland

Drs . Raymond R . Rackley & Carmen M. Fonseca

Dr James & Lynne Rambasek

Mr Todd J Reese

Dr Robert W Reynolds

David & Gloria Richards

Joan & Rick Rivitz

Mr. & Mrs . Jay F. Rockman

Michael & Jodi Rogoff

David & Mitsuko Rosinus (Miami)

Steven & Ellen Ross

Drs . Edward & Teresa Ruch

Ms . Kathy E . Ruekberg

Mr. & Mrs . Paul L . Rupert

Nathan & Marie Rutherford

Anne Sagsveen

Richard & Mary Lou Sanders

Ms Patricia E Say

Bryan & Jenna Scafidi

Don Schmitt & Jim Harmon

Michael Schneidler

Mr. Don Schriver & Mrs . Jane Schriver

Mr. James Schutte

Nicklaus Schwenk

Ms . Kathryn & Mr. Michael Seider

Mr. & Mrs . Joseph Selden

Dr Judith Sewell & Mr Donald Sewell

Caltha Seymour

Lee Shackelford

Donald Shafer & Katherine Stokes-Shafer

Steve & Marybeth Shamrock

Ginger & Larry Shane

Harry* & Ilene Shapiro

Ms . Frances L . Sharp

Larry Oscar & Jeanne Shatten

Charitable Fund of the Jewish Federation

Lynn Shaw

Dr & Mrs William C Sheldon

Mr Richard Shirey

Jim Simler & Dr Amy Zhang

Dr. Anne & Mr. Jay Singer

Harry & Geri Singer

Dr. Edward & Mrs . Barbara Sivak

G. Michael & Kathy* Mead Skerritt

Bruce L . Smith

Mr. Christopher & Mrs . Michelle Smith

David Kane Smith

Mr. Joshua Smith

Mr. Eugene Smolik

Drs . Nancy & Ronald Sobecks

Drs Thomas & Terry Sosnowski

SPÄNGLER PRIVATSTIF T UNG

Mr Michael Star

Edward R and Jean Geis Stell

Foundation

Ryan & Melissa Stenger

Ronald & Lauren Sterbank

Janet Stern

Ms . Natalie Stevens

Nancy Stillwagon & Jon Stein

Frederick & Elizabeth Stueber

Mr. & Mrs . John* K . Sullivan

Nancy & Patrick Sullivan

Mike & Wendy Summers

Mr. Marc L . Swartzbaugh

Mrs . Mary L . Sykora

Mr. & Mrs . Michael Taipale

Rebecca & Jeffrey Talbert

Dr James Taylor & Ms Susan Slugg

Jill & Jim Taylor

Mr. Robert Taylor

Caroline Theus

Ms . Aileen Thong-Dratler

Dr. & Mrs . Thomas* A . Timko

Dr. & Mrs . Michael B. Troner (Miami)

Drs . Anna* & Gilbert True

Ms . Christeen Tuttle

Koen van Besien &

Ok-Kyong Chaekal

Dr. Doug Van Auken & Mr. John Corlett

Michael & Jaclyn Vary

Mr & Mrs Steven M Venezia

Teresa Galang-Viñas & Joaquin Viñas (Miami)

Philip Volpe

Sarah & Jim Vosmik

Neha & Sanjay Vyas

Mr & Mrs Eric Wald

Ms . Lois Walters

Harriet Warm

Jessica & James Warren

Margaret & Eric* Wayne

Mr. Paul Wehrmeister

Emily Westlake & Robertson Gilliland

Mr. Peter White

Mr. & Mrs . John W. Wilhelm

John & Nancy Woelfl

Mr. James M. Wood Sr.

Dale & Cynthia Woodling

Ms Jennifer Wynn

Rad & Patty Yates

Ms Carol A Yellig

Ellen Zegarra

Dr. Rosemary Gornik & Dr. William Zelei

Mr. Paul Zraik

Mr. Kal Zucker & Dr. Mary Frances Haerr

John & Jane Zuzek

Anonymous (8)

Whatever greatness The Cleveland Orchestra has achieved is because of all the people here in this community, who believe in what the power of music can do.

Franz Welser-Möst , TCO Music Director

Corporate, Foundation & Government Support

The Cleveland Orchestra extends heartfelt gratitude to these generous organizations and partners who bring concerts and educational programs to life for our community.

Learn more at clevelandorchestra .com/partners

C O R P O R AT E S U P P O RT

Gifts of $300,000 & more

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Hyster-Yale, Inc

NACCO Industries , Inc

Gifts of $200,000 to $299,999

Jones Day Foundation

Ohio CAT

The J. M. Smucker Co.

Gifts of $100,000 to $199,999

KeyBank

White & Case (Miami)

Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999

FirstEnergy Foundation

NOPEC

Parker Hannifin Foundation

PNC

Thompson Hine LLP

Anonymous

Gifts of $15,000 to $49,999

Acme Fresh Markets

Akron Children’s

BakerHostetler

Buyers Products Company

Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP

Cuffs Clothing Company

Dealer Tire LLC

DLR Group | Westlake Reed

Leskosky

Frantz Ward LLP

The Giant Eagle Foundation

Lake Effect Health

Miba AG (Europe)

Northern Haserot

Olympic Steel, Inc.

Park- Ohio Holdings

RPM International Inc.

RSM US LLP

Welty Enterprises

Westfield

Anonymous

Gifts of $2, 500 to $14,999

BDI

Berkadia

Blue Technologies , Inc.

BNY Wealth

Brothers Printing Company

The Cedarwood Companies

The Cleveland- Cliffs Foundation

Consolidated Solutions

Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote

Eaton

Evarts Tremaine

The Ewart- Ohlson Machine Company

FirstEnergy Foundation

GPD Group

Gross Residential

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Hunsicker Family Dental

Jones Group Interiors Inc.

Karlie Newton II Insurance Agency

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz , LLP

KPMG LLP

The Lincoln Electric Foundation

MGM Resorts Foundation

Nordson Corporation Foundation

Northern Trust

Ohio Real Title

Sikich

Something’s Popping

Ver Ploeg & Marino (Miami)

Warby Parker

Winslow Assets

Margaret W. Wong & Associates LLC

Young Presidents’ Organization

Gifts of $500,000 to $999,999

The William Bingham Foundation

Mary E . & F. Joseph Callahan Foundation

Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

Ohio Arts Council

The Payne Fund

Gifts of $250,000 to $499,999

Kulas Foundation

John P Murphy Foundation

The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc (Miami)

Gifts of $100,000 to $249,999

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation

Wesley Family Foundation

Anonymous

Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999

The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation

The Jean, Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Foundation, in memory of Harry Fuchs

GAR Foundation

The George Gund Foundation

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Martha Holden Jennings Foundation

Myra Tuteur Kahn Memorial Fund of the Cleveland Foundation

Gifts of $15,000 to $49,999

The Abington Foundation

Akron Community Foundation

The Batchelor Foundation, Inc. (Miami)

The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation

Gifts of $1,000,000 & more

The Brown and Kunze Foundation

The Milton and Tamar Maltz

Family Foundation

The Jack , Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation

David and Inez Myers Foundation

State of Ohio

The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith

Foundation

Richard & Emily Smucker Family Foundation

Timken Foundation of Canton

Mary and Dr George L Demetros

Charitable Trust

The Sam J Frankino Foundation

The Gerhard Foundation, Inc.

The Helen Wade Greene Charitable Trust

The Catherine L . & Edward A . Lozick Foundation

With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and Board of County Commissioners

The Nord Family Foundation

PWC Foundation

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust

The Reinberger Foundation SCH Foundation

Albert G. & Olive H. Schlink Foundation

The Sisler McFawn Foundation

The Veale Foundation

The George Garretson Wade Charitable Trust

The Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank Trust Anonymous

Gifts of $2, 500 to $14,999

The Ruth and Elmer Babin Foundation

The Bernheimer Family Fund of the Cleveland Foundation

The Cowles Charitable Trust (Miami)

The C.R .E .W. Foundation

The Frances G. and Lewis Allen Davies Endowment

James Deering Danielson Foundation

Dorn Family Foundation

Fisher-Renkert Foundation

The Harry K Fox and Emma R Fox Charitable Foundation

The Hankins Foundation

The Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation

George M. and Pamela S. Humphrey Fund

The Kirk Foundation (Miami)

The Laub Foundation

The Lehner Family Foundation

The Fred A . Lennon Charitable Trust

The G. R . Lincoln Family Foundation

Elizabeth Ring Mather and William Gwinn Mather Fund

The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund

The M G O’Neil Foundation

The O’Neill Brothers Foundation

Ophthalmology Education Worldwide

Paintstone Foundation

The Perkins Charitable Foundation

Charles E . & Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation

Lloyd L . and Louise K . Smith Memorial Foundation

The South Waite Foundation

Sterling Chamber Players

Third Federal Foundation

Uvas Foundation

The Welty Family Foundation

The Edward and Ruth Wilkof Foundation

The Wuliger Foundation

Anonymous (2)

The Cleveland Orchestra Board of Trustees

O F F I C E R S

Richard J. Kramer

Chair

André Gremillet

President & CEO,

Richard K Smucker Chair

Richard K . Smucker

Immediate Past Chair

Richard J. Bogomolny

Chair Emeritus

Dennis W LaBarre

Chair Emeritus

Norma Lerner

Honorary Chair

David J. Hooker

Secretary

Victor Alexander

Treasurer

Victor Alexander

Robin Dunn Blossom

Yuval Brisker

Helen Rankin Butler

Nancy Slocum Callahan

Irad Carmi

Bill Clawson

Matthew V. Crawford

Lisa Fedorovich

Michael Frank , MD JD

Hiroyuki Fujita

Robert Glick

Arthur C Hall III

Iris Harvie

Dee Haslam

Stephen H. Hoffman

David J. Hooker

Michelle Shan Jeschelnig

Sarah Liotta Johnston

Elizabeth B. Juliano

Nancy F. Keithley

Douglas A . Kern

John D. Koch

Richard J. Kramer

Dennis W LaBarre

Heather Lennox

Cathy Lincoln

Robert W. Malone

Ben Mathews

Nancy W. McCann

Stephen McHale

Scott C. Mueller

Christine Myeroff

Katherine T. O’Neill

Hyun Park

Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.

Charles A . Ratner

Zoya Reyzis

Richard K Smucker

James C Spira

R . Thomas Stanton

Richard Stovsky

Russell A . Trusso

Daniel P. Walsh

Thomas A . Waltermire

Jes Warren

Jeffery J. Weaver

Anya Weaving

Meredith Smith Weil

Paul E . Westlake Jr.

David A . Wolfort

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris

Virginia Nord Barbato (NY)

Mary Jo Eaton (FL)

Michael J. Horvitz (FL)

Thomas E Lauria (FL)

Loretta Mester (PA)

Benjamin N. Pyne (NY)

Geraldine B. Warner (OH)

Tony White (OH)

Wolfgang C. Berndt (Austria)

Herbert Kloiber (Germany)

André Gremillet

Todd Diacon

Sarah Hutchins

Eric Kaler

Judith E . Matsko

Beverly J. Schneider

Thomas F. McKee

Richard J. Bogomolny

Charles P. Bolton

Robert D. Conrad

Alexander M. Cutler

Richard C. Gridley

Norma Lerner

Virginia Lindseth

Alex Machaskee

Robert P. Madison

Milton S. Maltz

Beth E Mooney

John D Ong

Audrey Gilbert Ratner

Hewitt B. Shaw

Luci Schey Spring

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L AT E S E AT I N G

As a courtesy to audience members and musicians , late-arriving patrons are asked to wait quietly until the first convenient break in the program. These seating breaks are at the discretion of the House Manager in consultation with the performing artists .

C E L L P H O N E S , WAT C H E S &

O T H E R D E V I C E S

To ensure a quiet and respectful listening environment , please silence all electronic devices .

P H O T O G R A P H Y, V I D E O G R A P H Y & R E C O R D I N G

Audio recording, photography, and videography are not allowed during performances at Severance Photographs can only be taken when the performance is not in progress .

In consideration of others , please reduce the volume on hearing aids and other health-assistive devices that may produce noise. For Infrared Assistive-Listening Devices , please see an usher. To request one in advance, email info@cleveland orchestra .com.

I N T H E E V E N T

O F A N E M E RG E N C Y

Contact an usher or a member of house staff if you require medical assistance. Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building Ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency A G E G U I D E L I N E S

Regardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat throughout the

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performance. Classical Season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under 8. However, there are several ageappropriate series designed specifically for children and youth, including Music Explorers (for 3 to 6 years old) and Family Concerts (for ages 7 and older) F O O D & M E RC H A N D I S E

Beverages and snacks are available at bars throughout the building and in the Lounge at Severance Only bottled water is permitted in the hall. For Cleveland Orchestra apparel, recordings , and gift items , visit the Welcome Center.

T E L L U S A B O U T YO U R

E X P E R I E N C E

We are so glad you joined us! Want to share about your time at Severance? Send your feedback to cx@clevelandorchestra .com. Hearing directly from you will help us create the best experience possible.

The Cleveland Orchestra is grateful to the following organizations for their ongoing generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra: the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council and to the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture

Cleveland Orchestra performances are broadcast as part of regular programming on ideastream/WCLV Classical 90.3 FM, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 4 PM.

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud of its long-term partnership with Kent State University, made possible in part through generous funding from the State of Ohio

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud to have its home, Severance Music Center, located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, with whom it has a long history of collaboration and partnership.

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