These performances are dedicated in loving memory of Lori Draper
Joyce Yang with Maestro Mitchell Sardou Klein / Jan 2026
Welcome from PSO Board of Directors
Welcome and thank you for joining us for this Peninsula Symphony concert with the Canadian Brass! We are all thrilled to be joined by this premier brass ensemble – especially those of us in the brass section that have long admired this tremendous ensemble. We’re sure that you will enjoy the show!
A big thank you to our many supporters that go above and beyond through their donations to the orchestra that support our ‘Bridges to Music’ outreach program and free tickets for all students. ‘Bridges to Music’ is designed to bring great music to our community beyond the confines of our concert halls. Besides visits to local elementary schools, we are expanding our outreach program to include ensemble performances such as string and woodwind quartets, octets and, of course, brass ensembles - all to highlight music beyond the big orchestral works and to reach more members of our community of all ages. Please watch our website for more information on these performances which will often be free of charge. And don’t miss our annual outdoor summer concert in Los Altos on June 13. Bring friends and a picnic and enjoy a fun afternoon concert!
And on a personal note, it has been an honor and privilege to perform with my colleagues in the Peninsula Symphony for these past 40+ years under the direction of Aaron Sten and then Mitchell Sardou Klein. Performing the music of the great masters as well as wonderful new compositions from talented members of the orchestra has been incredibly rewarding. Our transition to a new Music Director for Season 79 promises to maintain the very high musical standards set by Mitch, but also open an exciting new era for the orchestra.
All of us a PSO are working hard to expand our presence in the community and to help ensure that this great organization continues for many more years. This is a very special organization with dedicated musicians, staff, volunteers, and supporters and one of the most successful orchestras of its type anywhere in the country. Your continued support makes this all possible, and for that, we sincerely thank you!
I would love to hear from you if you have thoughts or questions about the future of PSO. Perhaps you’ll see me before or after concerts - look for a tall person with a French horn – and please stop and say hello.
Randy Nickel Secretary, Peninsula Symphony Board of Directors
Brad Hogarth, Guest Conductor
Mitchell Sardou Klein, Music Director & Conductor
Canadian Brass
MARCH 14, 2026 at 7:30pm / Heritage Theatre, Campbell
MARCH 15, 2026 at 2:30pm / Capuchino Performing Arts Center
Brad Hogarth, Guest Conductor
George Gershwin (orch. Don Rose), Girl Crazy Overture
Traditional, Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Johann Sebastian Bach & Antonio Vivaldi (arr. Joe Burgstaller), Concerto in D Major
Jeff Tyzik, New York Cityscapes
- Ragtime Redux
- Tango (103rd & Riverside)
- Traffic Jammin’ (Times Square)
W.C. Handy (arr. Luther Henderson), Beale Street Blues
- Intermission -
George Gershwin (arr. Luther Henderson), Porgy and Bess Suite
- Overture
- Summertime
- It Ain’t Necessarily So
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now
- A Women is a Sometime Thing/I Got Plenty O ‘Nuttin
- I’m On My Way
Canadiana
Lara Fabian (arr. Ridenour & Alexandros Livitsanos), Je me souviens
Leonard Cohen (arr. Ridenour & Alexandros Livitsanos), Hallelujah
THESE CONCERTS ARE GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
Dave Allmon, David Dufour, Kristin Kunzelman & Mark Inouye, Alex Kurosawa, Mike Marmarou, Randy Nickel, Paul Schneider, Todd Weinman, Apple, Inc., Prudential, and a Friend of PSO
ABOUT CANADIAN BRASS
Friends Chuck Daellenbach and Gene Watts first came together in 1970 to form a brass quintet — a chamber music setting not entirely new, but never before having garnered the success and storied career Canadian Brass would achieve over the next 40 years. Initially, Gene took on the role of developing new repertoire while Chuck was the moving force in marketing, publishing, and managing the business. Three empty chairs were quickly filled and together, the group’s imagination and consummate musicianship elevated the art of the brass quintet to what it is today. Here was not only an opportunity to explore the possibilities of an all-brass chamber group but a challenge to bring the sound and the excitement of brass music to new audiences. Masters of concert presentations, Canadian Brass has developed a uniquely engaging stage presence and rapport with audiences. Each of their concerts will show the full range from trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes to new compositions and arrangements created especially for them – from formal classical presentation to music served up with lively dialogue and theatrical effects. The hallmark of any Canadian Brass performance is entertainment, spontaneity, virtuosity and, most of all, fun – but never at the expense of the music:
Whatever the style, the music is central and performed with utmost dedication, skill, and excellence.
With a discography of over 130 albums and an extensive world-wide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is an important pioneer in bringing brass music to mass audiences everywhere. They have sold well over 2 million albums worldwide, with 1.2 million sold in the Nielsen Soundscan era alone (since 1991). They continue to score Billboard chart positions — like with their rousing recording of patriotic songs and marches, Stars & Stripes: Canadian Brass Salute America, which spent 8 weeks in the Top 25 on the Billboard Classical Chart, peaking at #2! Touring legends with an enthusiastic fan base, the Canadian Brass play to packed houses everywhere throughout the USA, Canada, Japan and Europe.
ABOUT CANADIAN BRASS
They have also toured Australia, the Middle East, the Soviet Union and South America. They were the first brass ensemble from the West to perform in the People’s Republic of China (where they returned for a 5-city tour to great acclaim in the spring of 2010 and several visits after this, including an appearance on Hunan TV for Chinese New Year) as well as the first brass group to take the main stage at the venerable Carnegie Hall. On numerous occasions Canadian Brass has been invited by the Canadian Government to play for visiting heads of states, becoming one of Canada’s greatest resources and musical ambassadors.
Millions of television viewers have had Canadian Brass in their homes with appearances on The Tonight Show, Today and Entertainment Tonight and recently to more than 1/2 a billion viewers for Chinese New Year on China’s most popular station. They have appeared as guest artists on Evening at Pops with John Williams and the Boston Pops, Beverly Sills’ Music Around the World, numerous PBS specials, including a celebrated appearance on Sesame Street, and are frequent guests of many major symphony orchestras. Canadian Brass were the featured artists on the soundtrack to the 1988 film The Couch Trip, starring Dan Aykroyd and Walter Matthau. Consummate artists, the quintet has also created unique and interactive videos that have gained an international audience including a series of DVDs featuring the brass in concert and teaching. They are on the cutting edge of technology offering their fans multimedia airplay, downloads, YouTube videos and streaming opportunities. You can find them on Facebook and Instagram with their fanbase growing daily!
The varied Canadian Brass repertoire features brass standards as well as a wide-ranging library of original arrangements. These include the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters, Classical works, marches, holiday favorites, ragtime, Dixieland, Latin, jazz, big band, Broadway, and Christian music as well as popular songs and standards. Having started with a very limited base, Canadian Brass has created their own musical world by transcribing, arranging, and commissioning more than 600 works, including critically acclaimed compositions from Michael
ABOUT CANADIAN BRASS
Kamen, Luther Henderson, Bramwell Tovey, Don Gillis and more. They have transformed a previously neglected group of instruments with a limited repertoire into a versatile and vital ensemble that can play everything from Gabrieli to Gershwin! Canadian Brass is especially noted for their famous Holiday Concerts at Christmas time and was at the forefront of reestablishing Scott Joplin with today’s audiences through their research, arrangements and recordings of his “rags” and other works.
Education plays a key role in the story of Canadian Brass and each member is uniquely attuned to training the next generation of players. On their travels around the world, they often pause for masterclasses and are more than happy to work with students and young audiences. Canadian Brass was Chamber Quintet-in-Residence for many years at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and has created an innovative brass summer course at the Eastman School of Music. Their support of education is also clearly viewed in their outreach and interaction with El Sistema, the acclaimed global music education program in Venezuela.
In conjunction with the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Canadian Brass have made available their extensive library of brass music for performers of all levels as well as learning tools. Since 1998 Canadian Brass has been a recording artist at Opening Day Entertainment Group (ODEG) (distributed by IDLA) releasing over 25 CDs on the imprint to date. Opening Day is owned and run by Chuck’s wife, MB Daellenbach. Canadian Brass sheet music and recordings are available in their online store.
With four decades under their belts, Canadian Brass continues to thrill audiences around the world – and they don’t look like they are letting up anytime soon!
Joe Burgstaller and Mikio Sasaki, trumpets
Jeff Nelsen, horn
Keith Dyrda, trombone
Chuck Daellenbach, tuba
Debra Fong, Concertmaster
Samantha Burgess, Assisant Conductor with Maestro Mitchell Sardou Klein
GUEST CONDUCTOR
Brad Hogarth Guest Conductor
Brad Hogarth is a versatile and multi-faceted musician, whose career has taken him from the finest concert halls in Europe to the frozen Arctic tundra and the dusty Black Rock Desert. He is especially passionate about musical outreach - both as a performer and as an educator, Brad hopes to bring people and communities together through the power of live performance.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brad is the Music Director of the Juneau Symphony, Professor of Conducting at San Francisco State University, the Associate Conductor of the Monterey Symphony, and is the Music Director and Conductor of the Art Haus Collective, known for presenting spectacular performances of classical and contemporary works in unique spaces. Brad is also on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he conducts the Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and the music director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra. Brad has recently made appearances as a guest conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Marin Symphony, Symphony San Jose, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Brass Guild, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Bay Brass, and was on the conducting staff of the 2022 National Brass Ensemble recording, concert, and institute.
An accomplished trumpeter, Brad performs regularly with a number of orchestras. He can be heard on the SF Symphony’s recording of Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4 and San Francisco Ballet’s recording of Lowell Liebermann’s Frankenstein. He toured with the Indianapolis Symphony to the Kennedy Center as a part of the 2018 SHIFT Festival, and he has performed as guest principal trumpet with the Louisville Orchestra.
Brad earned a bachelor’s degree in trumpet performance and music education from the Eastman School of Music and a master’s degree in trumpet performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. www.bradhogarth.com
MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR
Mitchell Sardou Klein
Music Director & Conductor
Music Director and Conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein brings extensive conducting experience in the US, Europe, Australia and Japan to his leadership of the Peninsula Symphony. This year marks his 41st season on the Symphony’s podium. Over the past four decades, he has guest-conducted the Seattle Symphony, New Polish Philharmonic, Suddetic Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Eastern Philharmonic, and numerous other orchestras across the US and Europe. In California he has led Symphony San José (formerly Symphony Silicon Valley), the San José Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Inland Empire/Riverside Philharmonic, Ballet San José, the California Riverside Ballet and the Livermore-Amador Philharmonic and others. He co-founded and recently retired as Music Director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra, which he has taken on concert tours of England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia.
Maestro Klein directed over a hundred concerts as Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic (where he was also Principal Pops Conductor and Principal Conductor of Starlight Theater, the Philharmonic’s summer home), and also served as Music Director of the Santa Cruz Symphony. He also has extensive experience in conducting ballet orchestras, including the Kansas City, Lone Star, Oakland, and Westport Ballets, as well as the Theater Ballet of San Francisco and les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Before turning to the podium, he performed as a cellist for many years. Known to most everyone as Mitch, he enjoys travel, photography, jazz and visual arts in his spare time.
Since 1984, he has been Director of the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. Held in San Francisco each June, the Competition has become one of the most prominent in the world, featuring prizes totaling over $35,000, attracting applicants from more than twenty nations annually, and launching numerous major international concert careers.
Critics have consistently praised his work. The San José Mercury described his performance with Symphony Silicon Valley in 2012 as a “gorgeous performance; big, enveloping and wonderfully luxuriant.” The San Mateo County Times described him in 2007 as “Super Conductor: Mitchell Sardou Klein, music director of the Peninsula Symphony, led his musicians through another triumphant concert. The Peninsula Symphony just keeps getting better and better. Great works and great performances by all.” The Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza proclaimed, “The American conductor quickly established a fine rapport with his orchestra. Klein is a musician who has the musical score in his head, rather than his head in the score, which he demonstrated ably. The creative conception and artistic shape which he brings to his work comes from deep inside him.”
MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR
Maestro Klein is a winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2008 Diamond Award for Best Individual Artist, the Silver Lei Award from the 2009 Honolulu Film Festival (for the World Premiere of Giancarlo Aquilanti’s La Poverta), the 2000 ASCAP Award for Programming of American Music on Foreign Tour, the 2001 Jullie Billiart Award from the College of Notre Dame for Outstanding Community Service, a 1996 award for the year’s best television performance program in the Western States (for the one-hour PBS program about him and the Peninsula Symphony) as well as the 1993 Bravo Award for his contribution to the Bay Area’s cultural life.
Mr. Klein was born in New York City, into a musical family that included members of the Claremont and Budapest String Quartets. He began cello studies at age four with his father, Irving Klein, founder of the Claremont Quartet. His mother, Elaine Hartong Klein, danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Cited for his “keen judgment, tight orchestral discipline, feeling for tempo, and unerring control,” Maestro Klein has conducted many significant world, American, and West Coast premieres, including works by Bohuslav Martinu, Meyer Kupferman, Joan Tower, Hans Kox, George Barati, Benjamin Lees, Giancarlo Aquilanti, Melissa Hui, Rodion Shchedrin, Brian Holmes, Ron Miller, Lee Actor, Michael Thurber, Jonathan Russell, Alvin Brehm, and Margaret Garwood. He has appeared frequently on national and international broadcasts, including National Public Radio, the Voice of America, the WFMT Fine Arts Network, PBS Television, and KQED television. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, violist Patricia Whaley. Their daughter, Elizabeth, lives and works in Washington D.C.
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Samantha Burgess Assistant Conductor
Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2022, Samantha has quickly become an in-demand conductor. In the 2024 – 25 season she began her tenure as Music Director of the Community Women’s Orchestra, and she joins the Peninsula Symphony as their Assistant Conductor in the 2025 – 26 season. Also in the 2025 – 26 season, Samantha will be the first Music Director of Symphony Tierra, a semi-professional orchestra formed as the ensemble in residence at Napa Valley College. Samantha continues to work with the Berkeley Symphony as their regular Assistant Conductor, and will be Assistant Conductor for Dima Slobodeniouk at the San Francisco Symphony in May 2026. Her additional recent engagements include Guest Conducting Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Napa Valley Chorale, Assistant Conducting for Beethoven’s Ninth with the Oakland Symphony, and a tour of Paris and the Loire Valley with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, where she made her French debut. Previously, she has been Assistant Conductor with the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, the Westerville Symphony (OH), the Galesburg Community Chorus (IL), and the Oxford University Philharmonia (UK).
Samantha holds masters’ degrees in Orchestral Conducting and Music Theory from The Ohio State University, where she was Music Director of the Ohio State Community Orchestra and Assistant Conductor for the Ohio State Symphony Orchestra. While at OSU, she was also a graduate teaching assistant in Music Theory and a member of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory. On the podium, Samantha combines conducting with her background in music cognition research to develop innovative, multimedia performances. She has presented her research at the Society for Music Theory Midwest Conference, Future Directions of Music Cognition, and the Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference.
Samantha has conducted in masterclasses and competitions in the USA and abroad— notably in September 2023, when she finished as a semi-finalist in the International Academy and Competition for Orchestral Conducting in Portugal. She has also participated in the George Hurst Conductor’s Course at the Sherborne Summer School of Music, the London Conducting Workshop, the New York Conducting Workshop, and the International Conducting Workshop and Competition in Atlanta, GA.
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Violist Pearl de la Motte is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School where she studies with Hsin-Yun Huang and is a member of the Cabaletta Quartet. She is also the second of eleven children in a musical family. She began playing the violin at the age of two then switched to viola when she was ten. After being inspired by the viola’s deep and expressive voice, she became very passionate about music and decided that she wanted to pursue a career as a musician while honoring God with her music.
Pearl received first place in the 2021 American Viola Society National Competition, third place in the 2024 Stulberg International String Competition, and first place in the 2024 Klein International String Competition. In April 2022 she performed the Higdon viola concerto with the La Jolla Symphony.
Pearl has participated in multiple projects during her time at The Juilliard school. In 2023 she was invited to perform Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s piano quintet in “The New Series” and has regularly participated in the “If Music Be the Food...” benefit concerts.
In 2023 Pearl attended the Toronto summer music festival and collaborated with artists including Yura Lee, Daniel Ching, Matthew Zalkind, and Desmond Hoebig.
Pearl is also a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School.
- Coming May 2026 -
LIFETIME ADOPTED MUSICIANS
Mitchell Sardou Klein Conductor
Deborah Passanisi Violin II
Dr. Lauren Speeth Violin I
David Dufour Horn
Paula Uccelli
Frank & Annette Rahn
Elfenworks Foundation
Hannelore Draper
MUSICIAN INSTRUMENT ADOPTED BY
Lara Webber Guest Conductor
Debra Fong Concertmaster
Dave Allmon Trombone
Lianne Araki Oboe
Sandy Baratoff Cello
Mark Beyer Clarinet/Saxophone
Kim Bonnett Violin I
Mike Bresler Timpani/Percussion
Katherine Bukstein Viola
Samantha Burgess Assistant Conductor
Dane Carlson Oboe/English Horn
Daniel Cher Violin I
Garth Cummings Cello
David Dufour Horn
Linda Dunn Office Volunteer
Bob Fitt Trumpet
Nicole Galisatus Clarinet
Bradley Gibson Violin II
Audrey Gore Oboe
Jacqui Smith
Katherine & Roy Bukstein
Jacqui Smith
Patricia L. Griffin
Jacqui Smith
Raymond Smith
Bradley Gibson
Celeste Everson Misfeldt & Todd Misfeldt
Margrit Rinderknecht & Richard Siemon
Jacqui Smith
Kirt & Kelly Minor
Laura & David Francis
Sheri & Michael Frumkin
Hannelore Draper
Ann & Ben Kong
Don & Cathy Draper
Mike Marmarou
Teri Quick
Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens
Joel Greene Oboe/Music Librarian Al & Liz Dossa
Juliet Hamak Bassoon
Patricia Harrell Flute/Piccolo
Emily Hendricks Percussion
Rami Hindiyeh Trombone
Brian Holmes Horn
Johnathan Hsu Tuba
Tara Iyer
Kristin Kunzelman
Violin I
Flute/Piccolo
Rick Leder Trumpet
Susan Magrini Cello
Mike Marmarou Trumpet
Vineet Mehta Violin II
Ron Miller Clarinet
Bruce Moyer Bass
Randy Nickel Horn
Justin Privitera Horn
Frank Rahn Violin II
John Givens
Krista & Jerry Terstiege
Pamela Ferris
John & Christine Sanguinetti
Mary Gundelach
Teri Quick
Jacqui Smith
Jennifer & Tim Kardos
Kathryn Barnard & Kenneth Shirriff
Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens
Ronald S. Miller
Sheree Kajiwara
Jacqui Smith
Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens
Diana Lloyd
Jing Hu & Yebin Shi
Nichole Edraos & Jim Augustus
ADOPT-A-MUSICIAN
MUSICIAN INSTRUMENT
Jerry Saliman Viola
Katharine Schmidtke Violin II
Paul Schneider Horn
Kay Saito Shafi Flute/Piccolo
Matt Springer Violin I/Timpani
Mia Stormer Contrabassoon
Judy Streger Violin I
Jshon Thomas Violin II
Nicholas Toscan Trumpet
Renée Toscan Viola
Jolynda Tresner Viola
Jeff Wachtel Bass
Kate Wahl Violin I
Todd Weinman Trombone
David Williams Violin II
Carolyn Worthington Viola
Sarah Wu Violin I
Kyoko Yamamoto Bassoon
Audrey Xiaowei Yan Violin II
Hanna Yoshimoto Violin II
Jane Zhang Violin II
EMERITUS MEMBERS
ADOPTED BY
Dorothy Saxe
Jing Hu & Yebin Shi
Sheri & Michael Frumkin
Ronald S. Miller
Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens
Joel Greene
Alan & Spike Russell
Sheri & Michael Frumkin
Bob & Karen Fitt
Bob & Karen Fitt
Brian Holmes, Maureen Thrush, and Roy & Victoria Sasselli
The Wachtel Pronovost Family
Sheri & Michael Frumkin
David & Elisa Herberg
Family and Friends
Richard Izmirian
Alan & Spike Russell
John Givens
Pamela Cronin
Hironari & Yoshihiro Yoshimoto
Gayle Flanagan
John Givens, Principal Bassoon, adopted by Juliet Hamak & George Yefchak
Would you like to adopt a musician? It is our goal to have the entire orchestra adopted as a special way of supporting us. For information on this meaningful program, please reach out to Chelsea Chambers, Executive Director at chelsea@peninsulasymphony.org or (650) 941-5291.
We are grateful to the following contributors who support live symphonic music and education on the Peninsula. Our donor listing below is a compilation of total giving received between November 1, 2024 and February 25, 2025. If you see an error in this listing or would like more information on ways you can contribute to Peninsula Symphony, please reach out to Executive Director Chelsea Chambers by emailing chelsea@peninsulasymphony.org.
Risoluto ($50k +)
Janice Boelke
Lorraine Smith
Maestoso al fine ($25k - $49,999)
Sheri & Michael Frumkin in honor of Chelsea Chambers and Jim Fung
John Givens in memory of Dorothy Givens
Friend of PSO in honor of Sheri Frumkin Friend of PSO
Fortissimo ($10k - $24,999)
Katherine & Roy Bukstein
Joel Greene
Mary Gundelach
Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation NVIDIA
Peter & Paula Uccelli Foundation in memory of Pete Uccelli and in honor of Sheri Frumkin
Jeff & Gwyn Wachtel
Friend of PSO
Crescendo ($5k-$9,999)
David & Michelle Allmon
Apple Inc
Erika Crowley in honor of Cary Kimler
Pamela Ferris
Brad Gibson
Alex Kurosawa
Diana Lloyd
Monte Mansir & Susanne Stevens
Michael Marmarou
Celeste E. & Todd M. Misfeldt in appreciation of Mitch Klein
Deborah Passanisi
Paul Schneider
Krista & Jerry Terstiege
Friend of PSO
SUPPORTERS
Presto ($2,500 - $4,999)
Kathryn Barnard & Kenneth Shirriff
Nathan Brookwood & Patricia Hendriks
Sharon Childress & & Peter Gelfand
Howard B. Crittenden
Nicholas & Renée Toscan
Juliet Hamak & George Yefchak
Benjamin & Kaoru Hollin
Russell Hurley
Sheree Kajiwara & Richard Izmirian
Susan R. Lin in appreciation of Maestro Klein, Chelsea Chambers, Jim Fung, and Everyone at PSO
Bill Malmstrom in memory of Linda, who loved music
Ronald S. Miller
Prudential
Teri Quick
Redwood City Arts Commission
Sara & Phillip Salsbury
Katharine, Hans-Juergen, & Isabel Schmidtke
Margrit Rinderknecht & Richard Siemon
David A. Williams & Hilary Benton
Friend of PSO in honor of Linda Dunn, most dedicated volunteer Friend of PSO
Scherzo ($1,000-$2,499)
Maryam Aghamirzadeh
Jill Biegenzahn
Barbara & Robert Brandriff in memory of Dorothy Lunn
Janet & David Cain
Tom Cooper & Mary Hom
Stanley Dirks
Al & Liz Dossa in honor of Mitch Klein
Don & Cathy Draper
David Dufour & Jennifer Co in memory of Hannelore Draper
Barbara Erickson
Anne Esparza
Gene Esswein
Bob & Karen Fitt
Mariam S. Galvarin
Google, Inc.
Norma & Herbert Grench
Patricia L. Griffin
Ann & Salek Hamer in memory of Tom Perry
Yukoh Hammura in appreciation of Kay, Patti, and Kristin from the flute section
Patricia Harrell
David & Elisa Herberg
Intel Corporation
Mitchell Sardou Klein & Patricia Whaley
James Kleinrath & Melody Singleton
Kristin Kunzelman & Mark Inouye
Lillian Lee
Susan Magrini
Edith & Frederick Marmarou
Joe & Mollie Marshall
Vineet Mehta & Karishma Sharma
Melly Metcalf
Randy & Janie Nickel
Michelle Oberman & Lawrence Marshall in honor of Maestro Mitchell Klein
Caroline & Chris Rackowski
David Sacarelos & Yvette Lanza
Jerry & Ellen Saliman
John & Christine Sanguinetti
Dorothy Saxe
Kay Saito Shafi & Yusef Shafi
Lauren Speeth & Don Kane in appreciation of Maestro Klein
The Trade Desk
Robert, Jenna, Ezra, and Ruthie Wachtel Pronovost in appreciation of Jeff (Popi) Wachtel
Y&H Soda Foundation
Hanna & Yoshihiro Yoshimoto
Rachel Youmans
Friends of PSO (2)
Vivace ($500-$999)
Adobe Inc.
Karen Alden
Jim Augustus & Nichole Edraos
Wate & Johanna Bakker in honor of Mitch Klein
Shirley Bernadotti
Michael & Adrienne Bresler
Kathleen Brown
Geoffrey W Burr
Robert Cascone & Margaret Rich
Dr. David & Victoria Chang in honor of Daniel Cher & Laura Wolfe
George Cohn & Marilyn Ritter
Pamela Cronin
John DeLong & Sharon Peters
Tom Driscoll & Nancy Quinn in honor of Mitch Klein
Michele & Andy Epstein in honor of Sheri Frumkin
Gayle Flanagan
Meiying Forney & Steve Shatas
Laura & David Francis in honor of Daniel Cher
Alice Galenson & Lou Thompson
Victor Ge & Lily Tian
Alexandra Gillen & Hartmut Koeppen
David Greene in honor of Joel & Monkey Greene
Victor Ha
Brian Holmes & Jolynda Tresner
Peter & Mela Hwang
Jennifer & Tim Kardos
Stephanie Leung
Kathleen Lowry
Marcia & John Mehl
Kirt & Kelly Minor
Pamela Moore in memory of Bill Moore
Vonya Morris
The Anna Newman Group Fund in memory of Richard Newman
Wendy & Craig Nishizaki
Liz Nyberg
Kristin Oro
Mary & Neil Panton in honor of Ron Panton
Grant Parker
Farrell May Podgorsek in memory of Ken Podgorsek
Justin Privitera
Alison & Ken Ross in honor of Maestro Mitchell Klein
Stuart & Lynne Rovin
Ruth A. Short
Raymond Smith & Mark Beyer
Anita Stewart & Kaj Rekola
Jshon Thomas & Gary Carson
Todd & Andrea Weinman
Friend of PSO in appreciation of Maestro Mitchell Sardou Klein’s 40th
Friend of PSO in appreciation of Katherine & Roy Bukstein
Friend of PSO in memory of Sarah Williams
Friends of PSO (3)
SUPPORTERS
Allegro ($250-$499)
Sue Alvarez
Thalia Anagnos in honor of Jeff Wachtel
Michael & Merrie Asimow
Barbara Barth
Sylvia & Fun Pang Chau
Lena Chow
Joseph Coha
Judy Davis in memory of Marilyn and Harold Mindell
Nhan Do
Dolby
Fiserv
Robert Goldware
Dawn Grench & Family in honor of Herb Grench
Marycliff Foundation
Charles Hanes
Yujiro & Andrea Hata
Steven Hibshman
Kathie Hillier & Bob Boen
IBM International Foundation
Marianne Kruze
Sandra & Brandon Martinez-Larragoiti
Susan R Larson
Stanley Levine
Richard & Beverly Marconi
Linelle Marshall
Hannelore McCrumb
Joyce A. Monda
Betsy Murray
Wayne Phillips
Charles Polanski
Frank & Annette Rahn
Bill & Sherrean Rundberg
Amy & Daniel Schiff in honor of Sheri Frumkin
Marian Schmidt
Lynne Simpson in honor of David Williams
Wei Ai & Matt Springer in honor of Magnificent Maestro Mitch
Alan Stern & Thomas Whatley
Laura Sternberg
Suesan W. Taylor in memory of Prof. C. Barr Taylor, Stanford Behavioral Medicine
Friend of PSO in appreciation of Hanna Yoshimoto
Friends of PSO (2)
Dolce ($100-$249)
John & Barbara Adams
Lianne M. Araki
Assetmark, Inc
JoAnne Bailey in memory of June Wisecarver
Doron Bardas
Penny Barrows
Charlotte & David Biegelsen
Lorraine Bodie
Suzanne Boutin
Juliette Bryson
Les & Nancy Burger in appreciation of Jeff Wachtel
Frank & Charlotte Cevasco in honor of Debbie Passanisi
Faye Chapman
Sharon J. Chortack
Juan Carlos Colosso
William Conlon in honor of Selma Bukstein
Kenneth & Sherill Cotter
Tina Ebey
Suzanne & Allan Epstein
Ruth Evans
Fredrika Felt
David Fernandez & Lori Krauss
Ruth Freeman & David Stoner
Claudia Fromm & Leonard Weingarten in honor of Carole Valentine
Michael & Cindy Galisatus in memory of Aunty Evelyn Ngim
Dr. Jan Gaynor in memory of Barbara Cohn
Alice Graham in memory of Dorothy Graham Givens
Jimmée Greco
David & Mara Grimes in memory of Lee Spice
Lisa L. Gruman in memory of Parents Lois & Allen Gruman
Hillel Hachlili
Thomas Hansen in memory of Minsook Kang Hansen
Joseph & Bette Hirsch
Norma J Hoch
Deborah & Craig Hoffman in appreciation of Jerry Saliman
Marshall & Roberta Hollimon
Perry Hopkins
Neil Hornor
William Howland
Leslie Itano & Jerry Chang in memory of Dr. Samuel Chan
Kevin Jim in honor of Mitch Klein
Jackie Jones
Seungja Kimn in memory of Steve Kimn
KLA
Howard & Elizabeth Klein
Sandra Krakowski
Sharon Krawetz
Ancilla Kwok in memory of Dr. Sam Chan
Joseph & Sharon Kwok in memory of Dr. Sam Chan
Eugene Lee
Janet Louie
Colin Lumley
Harvey Lynch
Ann Marotta
Melody Marshall
Stephen Martin
Judi McManigal
David Mendel in appreciation of Jerry Saliman
Arnold Miller
Joan & Ronald Miller
Margaret Nalbach
Joan Norton
Karen & Douglas Perry
Anthony & Carol Ann Pleva
Marilyn Reisen
Robert Roth & Cynthia Robbins-Roth
Roblox
Alan & Spike Russell
Heather Sanders
Dave Sargent in honor of Brian Holmes & Jolynda Tresner
Doris Sayon
Marvin & Ellen Schwartz
Dana Scoby
Karen & John Scorsur in appreciation of Chelsea Chambers
Marcyl Seidscher
Noel Shirley
Jason Shu
Tom Silva
Dr. Patrick L. Smith
Lisa & Bruce Steinback
Linda Tan
Katie Treu
Kazumi Tsuchiyose
Adam Wantz
Wilton Wong
Kyoko & Keigo Yamamoto
Jen & Aidan Yang in appreciation of Mitchell Sardou Klein
Jiaxi Zhu & Audrey Yan
Miriam & Richard Zimmerman in honor of Jerry Saliman
Friend of PSO in appreciation of the PSO bassoon section
Friend of PSO in honor of Warren George Weis
Friends of PSO (8)
“Sostenuto” Legacy Society
The future of Peninsula Symphony is sustained by the generosity of individuals who choose to give during or after their lifetimes. Their contributions safeguard the presence of symphonic music on the Peninsula for this and future generations to come. To find out more about how to join this special group of cherished supporters, please reach out to Executive Director Chelsea Chambers, chelsea@peninsulasymphony.org.
Sostenuto Legacy Society Members as of January 2026:
Ellis Alden
Anonymous
Janice Boelke
David Cone
Hannelore Draper
The Elfenworks Foundation
Mitchell Sardou Klein & Patricia Whaley
Judi McManigal
Frank & Annette Rahn
Genny Hall Smith
Lorraine Smith
Marguerite Szekeley
William Warren Wiesenfeld Trust
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Hannelore (Lori) Draper (1935-2025)
Hannelore (Lori) Draper was born February 12, 1935, in Bremen, Germany. She emigrated to the US in 1952, attended college in Oakland and worked as an administrative manager in the healthcare field until she retired. In addition to her love of the symphony, she was a docent at Filoli for many years and enjoyed visiting public gardens and art galleries. She passed away on October, 9, 2025. These concerts are dedicated to her memory.
As a member of the “Sostenuto” Legacy Society, Lori was one of a growing roster of individuals who have chosen to leave a legacy of sustained support for PSO, ensuring that the power of music continues to make an impact for generations to come.
Amelia Yee , Front of House & Volunteer Coordinator
Seona Sheth , Intern/Youth Ambassador
The mission of the Peninsula Symphony is to enrich the lives of people in our community with inspiring, innovative, high-quality musical presentations at affordable prices, and to promote music education through engaging programs for children and adults.
The Peninsula Symphony Association of Northern California is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation, Federal Tax ID 94-6106974.
Peninsula Symphony
146 Main Street, Suite 102 Los Altos, CA 94022 (650) 941-5291 / info@peninsulasymphony.org PeninsulaSymphony.org
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR ON-SITE VOLUNTEERS
Linda Dunn, Cher Fuentes
Mariam Galvarin, Pat and Lance Gordon
Jeanne Hsu, Maude Iggstrom
Helen Lin, Seona Sheth
Christine Wampole, Amelia Yee
Jan Yedinak, Fang Yu & Heritage Theatre volunteers
