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The Final Round of the 2026 Bolz Young Artist Competition WISCONSIN YOUNG ARTISTS COMPETE: THE FINAL FORTE

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 | 6:45 pm | Overture Center for the Arts

John DeMain, Conductor

Lorenz Fradkin-Annen, Violin

Cordelia Momo Fredrickson, Violin

Zachary Lemke, Marimba

André Peck, Piano

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19

I. Andantino

MS. FREDRICKSON

KEIKO ABE

Prism Rhapsody for Marimba and Orchestra

MR. LEMKE

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77

III. Cadenza

IV. Burlesca

MS. FRADKIN-ANNEN

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-ﬂat major, Op. 10

MR. PECK

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Theme and Variations from Suite No. 3, Op. 55

XI. Moderato mosso

XII. Finale, Polacca. Moderato assai

JOHN DEMAIN

MUSIC DIRECTOR

In his 32nd and ﬁnal season as Music Director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Grammy and Tony Award-winning conductor John DeMain is noted for his dynamic performances on concert and opera stages throughout the world. American composer Jake Heggie assessed the conductor’s broad appeal, saying, “There’s no one like John DeMain. In my opinion, he’s one of the top conductors in the world.” In January 2023 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association, the NOA’s highest award.

During more than three decades in Madison as MSO’s Music Director, DeMain has consistently raised the quality of the orchestra by introducing blind auditions and expanding the repertoire to encompass ever more challenging and virtuosic works, including highly-acclaimed performances of the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. DeMain also oversaw the move into the worldclass Overture Hall and expanded the subscription

season to triple performances.

His active conducting schedule has taken him to the stages of the National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Houston, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Jacksonville, along with the Paciﬁc Symphony, Boston Pops, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Seville, the Leipzig MDR Sinfonieorchester, and Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.

Prior engagements include visiting San Francisco Opera as guest conductor for General Director David Gockley’s farewell gala, Northwestern University to conduct Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, and the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in D.C. to conduct Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars. In 2019, he conducted the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Blue at the Glimmerglass Festival to critical acclaim — he “drew a vibrant performance from an orchestra of nearly 50 players; the cast was superb.” (The New York Times).

DeMain also serves as principal conductor for Madison Opera and in their 2024-2025 season conducted The Barber of Seville, DonGiovanni and Opera in the Park. This season, he will conduct La Bohème and return next summer for Opera in the Park. He has been a regular guest conductor with Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center and has made appearances at the Teatre Liceu in Barcelona, New York City Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Aspen Music Festival, Portland Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and Mexico’s National Opera. He served as Music Director for 10 years at Opera Omaha.

During his distinguished 17-year tenure with Houston Grand Opera, DeMain led a history-making production of PorgyandBess, winning a Grammy Award, Tony Award, and France’s Grand Prix du Disque for the RCA recording. In spring 2014, the San Francisco Opera released an HD DVD of their most recent production of PorgyandBess, conducted by John DeMain.

DeMain began his career as a pianist and conductor in his native Youngstown, Ohio. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School and made a highly-acclaimed debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. DeMain was the second recipient of the Julius Rudel Award at New York City Opera and one of the ﬁrst six conductors to receive the Exxon/National Endowment for the Arts Conductor Fellowship for his work with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

DeMain holds honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska and Edgewood College and he is a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He resides in Madison and his daughter, Jennifer, is a UW–Madison graduate.

BROADCAST TIMES

Wisconsin Young Artists Compete: The Final Forte is a free concert that will be broadcast live at 7:00 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Radio on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. These are the speciﬁc broadcast and re-broadcast times:

WPR MUSIC

Live audio broadcast at 7pm on Wednesday, March 4. (Also livestreamed on pbswisconsin.org)

Re-broadcast at Noon on Sunday, March 8.

Re-broadcast at 8pm on Monday, March 9.

PBS WISCONSIN

Broadcast premiere at 7pm on Tuesday, March 17.

Re-broadcast at 1am on Wednesday, March 18.

THE WISCONSIN CHANNEL

Broadcast at 8pm on Friday, March 20.

Re-Broadcast at 2pm on Saturday, March 21.

MILWAUKEE PBS (WMVT, CHANNEL 36.1)

Broadcast at 2pm on Saturday, April 4.

LORENZ FRADKIN-ANNEN

Lorenz Fradkin-Annen (Renz), 14, is a sophomore at Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin and currently studies violin with Eugene Purdue. When she was three she attended her oldest sibling’s school orchestra concert and fell in love with the violin. She then begged her parents for lessons for an entire school year until they finally gave in and found her a private teacher.

Renz had her solo debut with the Madison Symphony Orchestra in 2023 as the winner of the Fall Youth Concerto Competition (now known as the Topitzes Family Fall Youth Concerto Competition). Other past honors include winner of the 2024 Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia concerto competition, finalist in the Interlochen Intermediates 2023 concerto competition, Honorable Mention in the 2021 and 2022 Fall Youth Concerto Competitions, and multiple WSMA Exemplary Performance awards for solo violin.

Renz has been a member of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra since she was nine years old and has played bassoon, violin, or viola in every WYSO orchestra. She also plays viola in WYSO’s Pondrom Honors Piano Quartet and has appeared on Midday Classics with Norm Gilliland on Wisconsin Public Radio. She has participated in master classes or had lessons with the Horszowski Trio, Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes, John Milbauer, David Perry, Ilana Setapen, Christina McGann and Naha Greenholtz. Renz also plays with MadFiddle, a youth development program that blends traditional and contemporary fiddle music with rock, swing, Latin, reggae, and string band grooves. MadFiddle was awarded “Youth Ensemble of the Year” by the Madison Area Music Awards and has performed at Overture’s Capitol Theater, the Stoughton Opera House, Starlight Theater, Barrymore Theater and Sugar Maple Music Festival. In addition to violin, viola, fiddle, and bassoon, Renz also plays piano and especially loves ragtime, jazz, and 20th century music.

Other interests Renz has include creating electronic music, biotechnology, chemistry, and playing video games with her siblings.

Past and current teachers Renz would especially like to thank are Mr. Purdue, Maureen McCarty, Carol Rosing, Dan Lyons, Shauncey Ali, and Vince Fuh as well as her many amazing current and former school music teachers in the Oregon School District.

Cordelia Momo Fredrickson , 17, loves music and is a passionate violinist. Cordelia studies violin with world-renowned violinist and DePaul University professor Janet Sung. Cordelia made her solo orchestral debut when she was 11 at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Hall in Evanston, Illinois. Since then, she has appeared as a guest solo artist with the MYAC Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival (2025), the Cuneo Mansion (2025), and Chicago, Illinois (2020, 2022, 2025), the Portland Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in Oregon (2025), the Middleton Community Orchestra in Wisconsin (2025), and is very excited to perform with the Madison Symphony Orchestra at the Final Forte in Wisconsin (2026). She has been honored to work with the amazing conductors Dr. Allan Dennis, Alexander Platt, David Hattner and John DeMain.

Cordelia started her violin study with MariaRosa Germain and the Suzuki Strings of Madison at age 3. She then continued her journey with Yoko Kato and Kyoko Takezawa in Japan, and Eugene Purdue in Madison, Wisconsin. In her earlier career, Cordelia was featured on the

School Spotlight series on Wisconsin State Journal titled “Hamilton Middle School musician wins Midwest competition en route to soloist career” by Pamela Cotant for her extraordinary achievements and was subsequently recognized by the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Board of Education.

Cordelia was a Merit Scholarship Fellow at Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (MYAC), Chicago, Illinois (2018-2025). At MYAC, she learned music theory, chamber music, as well as intensive orchestral programs. She was an advanced chamber musician, and the Vario Quartet, where she was the ﬁrst violin was broadcasted on WFMT – classical radio station in Chicago. She had been the concertmaster for the MYAC Philharmonia Orchestra, MYAC Philharmonia Concert Orchestra, MYAC Philharmonia Elite Program, MYAC Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra and the MYAC Northwest Paciﬁc Concert Tour Orchestra. The selected members of the MYAC made a grand tour in Portland OR, Seattle WA and Vancouver Canada in spring 2025. During the tour, Cordelia was the featured soloist performing at the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s home, the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, and appeared in the TV interviews in Portland’s local KOIN6’s morning show “Everyday Northwest” and Greg Nibler’s interview show at FOX12 Oregon. She was also the guest solo artist at the Ravinia Festival’s Children Educational Concerts the “Reach Teach Play” program series at the Ravinia Martin Theater in Chicago. She was interviewed by and promoted the RTP program on CBS News.

Cordelia i s the top prize winner of numerous international competitions: MYAC Junior Division Overall Winner (2019 and 2021) and String Category Winner from the Walgreens National Concerto Competition (2019 and 2021), Society of American Musicians (2021), Vancouver International Music (2021), International Music Bonn Grand Prize Virtuoso

CORDELIA MOMO FREDRICKSON

(2021), International Music Salzburg Grand Prize Virtuoso (2021), Golden Classical Music Awards International (2021), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Bach Double (2022), American International Music (2024), Charleston 20th Century Music (2024), Virtuoso International Music Awards (2024), Middleton Community Orchestra Young Artist (2025), New York International Music (2025), Madison Symphony Bolz Young Artist -ﬁnalist (2026). Runner-up or semi-ﬁnalist include the Philadelphia International Music Festival Concerto (2020), Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Wisconsin State (2021), the Stars of Tomorrow Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (2025). Awards and scholarships include: merit scholarships from the Philadelphia International (2020), Meadowmount School of Music (2024, 2025), John Bolstad award from the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra (2025), the Presidential Academic Achievement Award (2025).

Aside from her musical interest, Cordelia likes to spend her time reading, baking cookies, and playing with her little sister Charlotte (6y). She is honored to serve as president of the National Honor Society (NHS) at the Wisconsin Virtual Academy for the past two years and enjoys volunteering at her favorite playground from childhood at the Madison Children's Museum.

ZACHARY LEMKE

Zach Lemke is a Junior at Oregon High School. He began studying percussion at the age of 11 and currently studies with Mrs. Cindy Terhune. Zach is a member of both the WYSO Percussion Ensemble and Wisconsin Youth Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has also performed in the 2025 Wisconsin School Music Association Honors Orchestra as well as performances in Spain and Portugal with the WYSO Youth Orchestra. In his free time, Zach enjoys swimming and hanging out with his friends.

ANDRÉ PECK

André Peck is a 16-year-old from La Crosse, Wisconsin. He is a student of Dr. Joseph Zins of Crocus Hill Studios in St. Paul, Minnesota.

André’s dedication to classical piano has manifested in over 45 honors, awards, and prizes to date, including the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition, Minnesota MTNA, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition, Golden Valley Orchestra Concerto Competition, Final Forte with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Young People’s Symphony Concert Association-Minnesota Orchestra, Schubert Club, the St. Paul Piano Teachers Association Concerto Competition, the

Minneapolis Mozart Teachers Forum Concerto Competition, the Rising Stars with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville International Chopin Competition, the International Young Artist Concerto Competition in Chicago, and the Chicago International Music Competition. He has performed in Master Classes and had private lessons with such international luminaries as Jean-E am Bavouzet, Arie Vardi, Dang Thai Son, Aviram Reichert, Boris Slutsky, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Tamás Ungár, Mikhail Voskresensky, Pascal Nemirovsky, Alvin Chow, Alan Chow, Angela Cheng, Michelle Cann, Asaf Zohar, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Gabriel Kwok.

André was named a ‘23-’24 Fellow by the National Public Radio Program, From the Top, and was featured on Show 442. In June of 2021, as a winner of the Concerto Competition of the PianoTexas International Festival and Academy, he made his orchestral debut at the age of eleven with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. His passions in addition to piano include mathematics, chess, and doing things with friends.

André’s joie de vivre is exceptional and reﬂects a youth with enormous talent in a relationshipbased life.

MEET THE JUDGES

ELENA ABEND

Venezuelan born pianist Elena Abend has performed with all the major orchestras of her native country including recording and touring with the Filarmonica Nacional. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Ms. Abend was awarded the William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement upon graduation. Performances have taken her to London’s Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Academy of Music with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Toulouse Conservatoire, Theatre Luxembourg, University of Glasgow, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.,the Chicago Cultural Center, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Atlanta Historical Society, the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee and the Teatro Municipal, Teatro Nacional and Teatro Teresa Carren~o

in Venezuela. More performances include the Ravinia and Marlboro Music Festivals, live broadcasts on Philadelphia’s WFLN, Wisconsin Public Radio at the Elvehjem Museum in Madison and Dame Myra Hess Concert Series on Chicago’s WFMT. An avid chamber music collaborator, Ms. Abend has performed with Frankly Music, Present Music, Chamber Music Milwaukee, Milwaukee Musaik, guest with the Fine Arts Quartet, Mendelsshon Quartet, Philomusica Quartet and KAIA String Quartet. She has joined the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra in performances, as well as been an invited artist at the “Classical Progressions” series at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts and the Four Seasons Arts concert series in California. More solo performances include the Green Bay Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, the UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Abend has recorded for Avie, INNOVA Recording and Albany Records as well as numerous recording and editing projects for Hal Leonard’s G. Schirmer Instrumental Library and Schirmer Performance Piano Editions. Recently she recorded for the Urtext Online Record Label as soloist with the Snow Pond Chamber Players. Ms. Abend and husband, clarinetist Orlando Pimentel, perform as the Elision Duo promoting Latin American music. Ms. Abend is chair of piano studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has been faculty at the Collaborative Piano Institute and the Music Intensive program at the New England Music Camp in Maine.

MARK DUPERE

MARK DUPERE is Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where he is the Director of Orchestral Studies. A native of Arizona, he studied cello with Phyllis Young at the University of Texas at Austin before moving to the Netherlands to complete his cello studies with Jaap ter Linden at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Dupere specialized in Baroque cello and performance practice of the Romantic era. He completed his Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting at Michigan State University with Kevin Noe.

As a cellist, Dupere was an Emerging Artist at the Victoria Bach Festival, performed in the Leipzig Bach Competition, and was an apprentice with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London. He performed with many groups throughout Europe including Anima Eterna Brugge (BE), Arte Dei Suonatori (PL), and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (NL). Dupere performed in major European concert halls including the London Southbank Centre, Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Opéra Royal de Versailles. Dupere has appeared at various festivals including La Folle Journée Festival (Nantes), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Le Festival Berlioz (La Côte-Saint-André), Oude Muziek Festival (Utrecht) and Le Festival L’abbaye aux Dames (Saintes). He has worked with conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jos van Immerseel,

Mark Wigglesworth, Gunther Schuller, Bruno Weil, Robert Levin, Elizabeth Wallfisch and Ton Koopman. As a founding member of the chamber music ensemble Haagsche Hofmuzieck, Dupere performed and gave masterclasses throughout Europe and the USA. The group made several recordings and was a finalist in the International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg, Germany.

Dupere has performed on BBC Radio and Arte TV and has made numerous recordings. These include discs of Debussy, Ravel and Mussorgsky with Anima Eterna Brugge, Marcello Psalms with Voces8 and Les Inventions (FR) and a recording of the complete chamber works of Locatelli with Ensemble Violini Capricciosi (NL) for Brilliant Classics.

After many years of performing as a professional cellist, Dupere decided to pursue his great passion for conducting and directing. Apart from conducting the Lawrence University Orchestras, he conducts Philharmonie Austin, a period instrument ensemble exploring Baroque, Classical and Romantic music. He was a conducting fellow at the Oregon Bach Festival in 2015. Additionally, he has conducted various Regional and All-State Orchestras across the country, the Haydn Orchestra (The Hague, NL), the Choir of St John and St Philip in The Hague (NL), the Cypress Symphony (Houston), the Michigan State University Symphony and Concert Orchestras, and the Fox Valley Youth Orchestra. Most recently he was named a finalist in the American Prize in Conducting.

Dupere is a passionate educator and hopes to impart a love of music-making and active engagement with audiences in the performance of music from all periods. His areas of research have included: tempo rubato in Romantic chamber music, and pedagogical approaches to teaching period performance concepts in the modern music academy.

DAWN WOHN

Praised by BBC Music Magazine for her “joyful sense of freedom and a pure, unencumbered tone,” Korean-American violinist Dawn Dongeun Wohn has performed across North and South America, Asia, and Europe, with appearances at prestigious venues including Carnegie Weill Hall, Lincoln Center, and the National Theater in Taiwan. As a soloist, she has collaborated with ensembles such as the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Japan’s Telemann Ensemble and the Aspen Conducting Orchestra.

Her debut album Perspectives, spotlighting works by female composers, was featured by The New York Times, Spotify, and Apple Music, and was named one of WQXR’s Best Albums of the Year. Her second album, Unbounded

(Delos Music), showcases music by American women composers and has been praised for its “enlightened advocacy” (Gramophone), “elegant and impassioned playing” (Fanfare), and “warm, crystal-clear tone” (The Whole Note).

One of the last students of legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay, Dawn holds degrees from The Juilliard School, Yale University, and Stony Brook University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music, and previously served as Associate Professor of Violin at Ohio University. As a guest artist, she has taught and performed at over 40 institutions including Oberlin, New England Conservatory and NYU. She has also been on faculty of festivals such as the Rocky Ridge Music Festival, Académie Anglicorde (France), International Music Festival of the Adriatic (Italy), and Festival de Febrero (Mexico).

Dawn performs on a 1732 Nicolo Gagliano violin and is artistic director and co-creator of Coppia Concerts, an innovative new concert series held at Four Winds Farm in Fitchburg, WI. For more information and a full-length bio, please visit www.dawnplaysviolin.com .

2:30 PM

Ax Plays Mozart

& SAT 7:30 PM |

Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks is a mischievous tone poem that follows the antics of a legendary trickster. From daring escapades to clever pranks, the music captures Till’s irreverent spirit with virtuosic orchestral writing and humor. Emanuel Ax returns to lend his mastery and lyricism to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 — a work ﬁlled with grandeur and elegance composed at the height of his creative genius. Grammy winning composer Gabriela Ortiz grew up steeped in the indigenous music of her native Mexico. Her Téenek channels the spirit of the Huasteca region of Mexico. Respighi’s Pines of Rome is a symphonic masterpiece that paints a vivid portrait of Italy’s Eternal City through its famous pine trees — opening with a scene of children at play, and ending with a depiction of a Roman Army on the march. This work’s dramatic orchestration, including o stage brass and bird calls, creates a sensory experience like no other. You’ll feel energy, power, and sense of place in each piece of music at this concert.

John DeMain, Conductor

Emanuel Ax, Piano

MUSIC

RICHARD STRAUSS

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28

WOLFGANG

AMADEUS MOZART

Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503

GABRIELA ORTIZ

Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio

OTTORINO RESPIGHI

Pines of Rome, P. 141

PRESENTING SPONSOR

Myrna Larson

MAJOR SPONSORS

Irving and Dorothy Levy

Family Foundation, Inc.

The Madison Concourse Hotel

& Governor’s Club

Stephen D. Morton

David and Kato Perlman

Fred A. Wileman

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

Dr. Thomas and Leslie France

Ronald J. and Janet E. Johnson

Von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE

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Dates, artists, and programs subject to change.

VIOLIN I

Naha Greenholtz

Concertmaster

William and Joyce Wartmann Chair

Huy Luu

Associate Concertmaster

Steinhauer Charitable Trust Chair

Olga Pomolova

Associate Concertmaster

George and Candy Gialamas Chair

Maynie Bradley

Associate Concertmaster

Kina Ono

Assistant Concertmaster

Endowed by an Anonymous Friend

Neil Gopal

Annetta H. Rosser Chair

Tim Kamps

Jon Vriesacker

Katherine Floriano

Paran Amirinazari

Alec Tonno

Naomi Schrank

Clayton Tillotson

Eric Bate

VIOLIN II

Hillary Hempel

Principal

Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn Chair

Peter Miliczky

Assistant Principal

Elyn L. Williams Chair

Holly Wagner

Rolf Wulfsberg

Olga Draguieva

Geri Nolden

Robin Ryan

Matthew Dahm

Wes Luke

Laura Mericle

Abigail Schneider

Ben Campbell

ROSTER OF MUSICIANS THE FINAL FORTE 2026

VIOLA

Christopher Dozoryst

Principal

James F. Crow Chair

Katrin Talbot

Assistant Principal

Dove Family Chair

Diedre Buckley

Renata Hornik

Elisabeth Deussen

Hanna Pederson

Janse Vincent

Jennifer Paulson

David Beytas

Molly O’Brien

CELLO

Karl Lavine

Principal

Reuhl Family Chair

Mark Bridges

Assistant Principal

Patricia Kokotailo & R. Lawrence DeRoo Chair

Margaret Townsend

Knapp Family Chair

Lisa Bressler

Trace Johnson

Alex Chambers-Ozasky

Jean Hatmaker

Amy Harr

BASS

David Scholl

Principal

Robert Rickman

Assistant Principal

Carl Davick

Tom Mohs Chair

August Jirovec

Brett Lewis

Matthew Boothe

FLUTE

Linda Pereksta

Principal

Terry Family Foundation Chair

Danielle Breisach

Dawn Lawler

PICCOLO

Dawn Lawler

OBOE

Izumi Amemiya

Principal

Jim and Cathie Burgess Chair

Andrea Gross Hixon

Lindsay Flowers

ENGLISH HORN

Lindsay Flowers

CLARINET

JJ Koh

Principal

Barbara and Norman Berven Chair

Bernard Parish

Brian Gnojek

BASS CLARINET

Brian Gnojek

BASSOON

Amanda Szczys

Principal

Rozan and Brian Anderson Chair

Nathaniel Hale

Carol Rosing

CONTRABASSOON

Carol Rosing

Endowed by an Anonymous Friend

HORN

Emma Potter

Principal

Steve and Marianne Schlecht Chair

Dafydd Bevil

William Muir

John Wunderlin

Micah Lancaster, Assistant

TRUMPET

Brent Turney

Principal

Marilynn G. Thompson Chair

Rob Rohlﬁng

Jesse Wolf

TROMBONE

Joyce Messer

Principal

Fred and Mary Mohs Chair

Benjamin Skroch

BASS TROMBONE

Ben Zisook

TUBA

Joshua Biere

Principal

TIMPANI

Jaime Cardenas

Principal

Eugenie Mayer Bolz Foundation Chair

PERCUSSION

Richard Morgan

Principal

JoAnn Six Plesko and E.J. Plesko

Chair

Nicholas Bonaccio

Todd Hammes

HARP

Johanna Wienholts

Principal Endowed by an Anonymous Friend

Orchestra Committee

Mark Bridges, Chair

Lisa Bressler, Vice-Chair

Elspeth Stalter-Clouse, Secretary

David Scholl, Treasurer

John Wagner, Member-at-large

Librarian

Jennifer S. Goldberg

John and Carolyn Peterson Chair

Stage Manager

Benjamin Skroch

Personnel Manager

Alexis Carreon

For full musician roster, visit madisonsymphony.org/roster.

Enjoy the premiere broadcast at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17. It will be re-broadcast at 8 p.m. Friday, March 20, and 2 p.m. Saturday, March 21, on The Wisconsin Channel (PBS Wisconsin-2). You can also watch at pbswisconsin.org/ﬁnal-forte

Madison Symphony Orchestra’s MSO at the Movies presents Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark™ Live in Concert featuring John Williams’ GRAMMY® Award-winning score performed live to the film led by conductor Kyle Knox at Overture Hall.

Williams has scored each Indy adventure, including the final installment of the iconic franchise, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny . He has received multiple Academy Awards® and more than 50 Oscar® nominations. Williams is the Academy’s mostnominated living person to date and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars®. He also received numerous British Academy Awards (BAFTA), GRAMMYs®, Golden Globes®, Emmys®, as well as several gold and platinum records.

Originally released in 1981 as a collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Raiders redefined the possibilities of adventure cinema and launched actor Harrison Ford to legendary status.

Indiana Jones is the classic hero in this adventure set in the 1930s which follows the quick-witted and determined archaeologist as he hunts for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Often facing insurmountable odds, Indy always manages to succeed in the nick of time, joined by endearing companions and opposed by notorious villains.

With an impressive team of supporting actors including Karen Allen, John-Rhys Davies, Denholm Elliott, and Paul Freeman, combined with innovative special e ects techniques by Industrial Light & Magic, Raiders has captured the spirits of movie-goers for generations and continues to inspire adventures yet to come.