Performances Magazine | Segerstrom Center for the Arts, February 2026

February 5-7

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Welcome

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Segerstrom Center for the Arts! Love is in the air this month, and our February programming celebrates every kind of love: love of the arts, love of family, and love in all its romantic forms.

The month begins on a high note with New York Voices, who bring their signature harmonies and heartfelt style to the Samueli Theater stage on their farewell tour—your last chance to experience this beloved vocal group live.

Musical legends follow, as Michael Feinstein’s Valentine with the Carnegie Hall Ensemble and Patti LuPone’s Matters of the Heart serenade audiences with unforgettable evenings of song and emotion. For those seeking laughter and pure fun, Monty Python’s Spamalot arrives at the Center—a Tony® Award–winning musical comedy featuring everything from flying cows to killer rabbits and plenty of irreverent humor.

The excitement continues with two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, who takes the Samueli Theater stage for three nights of powerhouse vocals and storytelling.

And don’t miss our resident company Pacific Symphony presenting their special Lunar New Year concert and, for younger audiences and families, Peter and the Wolf, a timeless tale of courage and adventure brought to life through the magic of music. It’s a perfect experience for audiences of all ages.

Thank you for joining us as we celebrate the season of love through the joy of live performance.

Casey Reitz President & CEO

Board of Directors

John H. Phelan Jr., Chair

Casey Reitz, President & CEO

Stewart R. Smith, Treasurer

Sally S. Crockett, Secretary

Julia A. Argyros

Bart Asner, M.D.

Jesse Bagley

Marta S. Bhathal

Louise Bryson

Mark Chan

Sandra Segerstrom Daniels

James A. Driscoll

Andra Greene Ellingson

John Ginger

Jackie Glass

Carole Haes Landon

Wendy Hales

Betty Huang

John H. Phelan Jr. Chair, Board of Directors

Molly Jolly

Roger T. Kirwan

Harmon Kong

Karla Kraft

Shanaz Langson

Kate Levering-Jahangiri

Jim Mazzo

William F. Meehan

Ethan F. Morgan

Rick Muth

Walter Parsadayan

Mark C. Perry

Maria Rigatti

Holly Breaux Schwartz

Elizabeth Segerstrom

Ginger Siedschlag

Tony Smith

Connie Spenuzza

John E. Stratman Jr.

Samuel Tang

Kelly Thomson

Laura Vanderhook

Gaddi H. Vasquez

Jaynine Warner

Jane Fujishige Yada

Henry T. Segerstrom,*

Founding Chairman

Directors Emeritus

Anthony A. Allen

Lawrence M. Higby

Pat L. Poss*

Timothy L. Strader

David H. Troob

Carol L. Wilken*

* in memoriam

Resident Companies

Arthur Ong, Chairman, Pacific Symphony

Elaine Neuss, Chair & CEO, Philharmonic Society

Julie Virjee, Chair, Pacific Chorale

Arts Supporters

Vanessa Moore, Chair, The Guilds of the Center

Ann Moorhead, President, Angels of the Arts

Maurice Murray, Chair, Arts & Business Leadership Council

Gail Daniels, President, The Center Stars

Kate Levering-Jahangiri, President, Ave. to the Arts

Cindy Ramirez, Chair, The Center Docents

Calendar of events

March 2026

Gerald Clayton Quintet

March 7

SIX

March 10–15

Sphinx Virtuosi

March 11

Ben Rector: Symphonies Across America

March 13–14

Doodle POP

March 14–15

Goldmund Quartet

March 17

Matthew Morrison

March 19–21

April 2026

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

April 2

Nowruz: Iranian New Year

April 4

American Ballet Theatre’s

Sylvia

April 9–12

Jeremy Denk, piano

April 9

Edgar Meyer & Christian McBride

April 11

Magical Mystery Tour

March 20

¡DAMAS!

March 20

Lang Lang Plays Beethoven

March 23

Notos Quartett

March 26

Williams, Daugherty & Brahms

March 26–28

Brahms’ Symphony No. 4

March 29

Danish String Quartet with Danish National Girls’ Choir

April 11

Puccini’s Turandot

April 16–21

Ébène Quartet

April 18

Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Yuja Wang, piano

April 22

Dancing with the Stars: Live! 2026 Tour

April 23

American Ballet Theatre’s

Sylvia

My Fair Lady in Concert

April 24–25

New Owner

April 25–26

Australian Chamber Orchestra

April 29

Artists, events and dates subject to change; visit www.scfta.org for details and times.

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Star power and community spirit shine at the Center

Segerstrom Center for the Arts celebrated the future of arts philanthropy at its 51st Annual Candlelight Concert on December 5, 2025. A cornerstone of the Center’s fundraising efforts since 1974, Candlelight predates the campus itself and remains one of Orange County’s most prestigious philanthropic traditions. Led by co-chairs Jackie Glass and Elizabeth and Bart Asner, this year’s event united the region’s most dedicated arts supporters and raised an impressive $6 million.

Over its five-decade history, the Candlelight Concert has generated millions to support the Center’s nonprofit artistic, educational, and community initiatives. Proceeds from this year’s concert will continue to fuel impactful programs such as the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School, Studio D: Arts School for All Abilities, and the Center’s Education and Engagement efforts, including The Cassin Promise.

Guests were welcomed with champagne sabrage and live jazz, setting a festive tone for the evening. A Riviera Noir-inspired design transformed Segerstrom Hall into an elegant, vintage Palm Beach–style nightclub, immersing

attendees in timeless glamour and the excitement of live performance.

The highlight of the evening was a showstopping performance by Tony®, Emmy, and GRAMMY® Award winner Hugh Jackman, whose charisma and versatility created an experience that felt both intimate and electrifying.

The night before the concert, Jackman led the third annual Candlelight Master Class, mentoring six outstanding Orange County high school students. He later performed alongside 41 students in a stirring rendition of “You Will Be Found” from Dear Evan Hansen and invited master class finalist Isadora Salekfard to deliver a powerful solo of “Never Enough” from The Greatest Showman.

Following the performance, guests enjoyed an elegant dinner by Chef Alfonso Ramirez, danced to The Lucky Devils Band, and capped the evening in the Starbucks Coffee & Conversation Lounge.

The elegant event affirmed the community’s shared commitment to ensuring the performing arts remain accessible, inspiring, and thriving for generations to come.

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1 The evening’s beautful decor; 2 Hugh Jackman and the student choir; 3 Hugh Jackman; 4 Guests were treated to a saber artist performing sabrage on Champagne bottles outside the event entrance; 5 The elegant menu was created by Patina chef Alfonso Ramirez; 6 Casey Reitz, John Phelan, and Candlelight Co-Chairs Jackie Glass and Elizabeth and Bart Asner; 7 Molly and Burt Jolly exit via the red carpet; 8 Photo opportunity underwritten in loving memory of Victoria Collins by her family; 9 Casey Reitz and Elizabeth Segerstrom; 10 Mark Hales, Wendy Hales, Lisa Argyros, and Jeremy Todd; 11 Peter and Connie Spenuzza; 12 Devin and Peter Spenuzza III; 13 Molly and Burt Jolly; 14 Justin and Jacqueline Poulson; 15 Jenny Parsinen, Jordan Flonani, Jaynine Warner, and Kate Levering-Jahangiri; 16 S.L. and Betty Huang; 17 Lili Daftarian and Ethan Morgan enjoying the photo booth sponsored by JP Morgan Private Bank; 18 Chantel, Brian, and Bart Asner; 19 Elizabeth Asner; 20 Ginger Siedschlag and Nancy Sims; 21 Carl McLarand and Leslie Cancellieri; 22 Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, Nancy Wilson, and Mae Delabarre; 23 Jordan Floriani and Jimmy Stafford; 24 Master class students Peyton Simon, Ava Madison Gray, Jake Villanueva, Isadora Salekfard, Collin Higgins, and Katherine Fernandez; 25 Master class participant Isadora Salekfard was invited to sing at the Candlelight performance; 26 Trigg Gumm, Vicki Gumm, Carie Jernquist Ferry, and Anthony Ferry.

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Like father, like son

Pianist and composer Gerald Clayton brings his distinctive jazz voice to the Center this March, continuing a family legacy of musical excellence. The six-time GRAMMY® nominee, son of renowned bassist John Clayton, has carved out a career defined by innovation, collaboration, and fearless exploration.

In September of last year, bassist John Clayton and the ETHEL Quartet performed as part of this season’s Jazz series. Now, his talented son Gerald is on the bill with his own jazz sound. John knew his son was musical as a child and decided to take a “hands off” approach, letting Gerald discover what spoke to him. Gerald has made the piano his own, with no family expectations. “My dad had a dedicated focus and drive that I was lucky to grow around,” says Gerald. “Our relationship is one of mutual respect and love.”

His father was not the only music bigwig Gerald has impressed. The celebrated music producer Don Was, who signed Gerald to Blue Note Records, says, “Gerald Clayton is one of the most accomplished, distinctive, and innovative pianists playing today.”

In an interview with Lara Downes at NPR, Clayton talked about how to learn to play an instrument. “For some musicians, the ‘classroom’ might be a club stage setting; they just learn on the bandstand,” he says. “They know how to play their instruments, but they don’t know how to really play. You have to ad-lib along to something the others are swinging with, but you don’t know the style yet.” It’s a classic case of “fake it ‘til you make it.”

Gerald didn’t have to fake it. He attended the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts and then moved on to a year at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron. He returned to Los Angeles to attend the Thornton School of Music at USC, where he studied with Billy Childs.

Clayton enjoyed working with Childs—a jazz piano icon—who, he says, pushed him off the deep end. “Just to spend time with him and to get his feedback was an experience I really cherish,” he told NPR.org. “He encouraged me to explore a wide range of musical lexicons while developing my own creative language.” Clayton had his opportunity to give back when he was appointed a 2024–25 artist-in-residence in jazz at USC Thornton.

“Being at Thornton was a special time for me,” says Gerald. “There was the camaraderie of like-minded students exploring new ideas, learning from each other and building life-long relationships.”

He had a lot he could share with them.

“We are past thinking that a type of music only belongs in one type of place,” says Clayton. He thinks it’s important for jazz musicians to mix things up. Play in a jazz club or play with a symphony orchestra or with a marching band. Don’t just stick to the traditional notes; ad-lib along to something you’re not very familiar with. “We are past thinking that music only belongs in a certain space,” says Clayton. “We’ve had jazz for 100 years but think about how many types of jazz have developed in that time. It belongs everywhere.”

That’s what jazz is all about.

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ARTISTIC AND MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE

One of the foremost conductors of his generation, Alexander Shelley is “a natural communicator, both on and off the podium” (The Daily Telegraph). A passionate and articulate advocate for the role of music in society, Shelley has spearheaded multiple awardwinning and ground-breaking projects, unlocking creativity in the next generation and bringing symphonic music to new audiences.

With a conducting technique described as “immaculate, everything crystal clear” (Yorkshire Post), and with a “precision, distinction and beauty of gesture not seen since Lorin Maazel” (Le Devoir), Shelley is known for the integrity of his interpretations and for his creative programming, having led over 50 major world premieres, highly praised cycles of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms symphonies, and operas, ballets, and multimedia productions.

Shelley appears regularly across six continents with the world’s finest soloists, including Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, Hilary Hahn, Thomas Hampson, Daniel Hope, Lang Lang, and Itzhak Perlman. He is a regular guest with renowned orchestras of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australasia, including Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; the Helsinki, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysian, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Stockholm philharmonic orchestras; and the São Paulo, Houston, Seattle, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Montreal, Toronto, Munich, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand symphony orchestras.

In 2024, Shelley was appointed to become Pacific Symphony’s third artistic leader, taking the title of Artistic and Music Director, beginning in the 2026-27 season. He is serving as Artistic and Music Director Designate during 2025-26. The 2025-26 season marks Shelley’s 11th and final as Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO). He has recently been appointed Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, beginning in 2026-27; this season, he assumes the position of Principal Conductor Designate, leading the orchestra at the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Since the 2024-25 season, Shelley has been the Artistic and Music Director of Artis−Naples, in Florida, where he provides artistic leadership for the Naples Philharmonic and oversees the entire multidisciplinary arts organization. He has also served as Principal Associate Conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015.

Highlights of Shelley’s 2025-26 season with Pacific Symphony include concerts with Pablo Sainz-Villegas, performing Arturo Márquez’s guitar concerto Mystical and Profane; pianist Gabriela Montero, performing her "Latin Concerto"; violinist

Aubree Oliverson, performing Korngold’s Violin Concerto; and a special program for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the U.S., with Conrad Tao performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto.

To celebrate his 11-year tenure at NACO, Shelley leads the orchestra in a semi-staged production of Tosca, featuring soprano Ailyn Pérez; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor,” with Lang Lang; Joshua Bell’s The Elements, commissioned from five of today’s leading American composers; Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, with Hélène Grimaud; a Brahms and Schumann program featuring violinist James Ehnes; and the orchestra’s first-ever performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.”

With the Naples Philharmonic, season highlights include African Queens, a powerful work for soprano and orchestra by seven American composers, sung by soprano Karen Slack; Perú Negro, by Jimmy López, the composer’s homage to his AfroPeruvian heritage; the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music (2022); and Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra.

Additional highlights this season include Shelley’s debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with James Ehnes giving the U.K. premiere of James Newton Howard’s Violin Concerto No. 2. He also debuts with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, with David Fray performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. During his tenure at NACO, Shelley’s programming has been credited for turning the orchestra “almost overnight… into one of the more audacious orchestras in North America” (Maclean’s) Together they have undertaken major tours of Canada, Europe, and to Carnegie Hall. In 2025, they embarked on a monumental tour, returning to Japan for the first time in 40 years and making their Republic of Korea debut. Poema: Ad Astra, the first volume of a NACO recording project pairing Strauss tone poems with contemporary works, was released in January 2025; the second volume was released in fall 2025.

Shelley’s operatic engagements have included productions with the Royal Danish Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and Opéra National de Montpellier. His eight-year tenure as Chief Conductor of the Nürnberger Symphoniker, which concluded in 2017, was hailed as a golden era for the orchestra.

Born in London to concert pianists, Shelley studied cello and conducting in Germany and gained widespread attention when he was unanimously awarded first prize at the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition, with the press describing him as “the most exciting and gifted young conductor to have taken this highly prestigious award.”

PACIFIC SYMPHONY

Pacific Symphony is the largest orchestra formed in the United States in the past 50 years and is ranked among the top orchestras in the U.S. by the League of American Orchestras. In 2024, Alexander Shelley was appointed to become Pacific Symphony’s third artistic leader, taking the title of Artistic and Music Director, beginning in the 2026-27 season. He is serving as Artistic and Music Director Designate during the 2025-26 season, which marks Pacific Symphony’s 47th season. Founded in 1978, the Symphony was led for 35 years by Carl St.Clair, who is honored with the title of Music Director Laureate starting in the 2025-26 season.

With a purpose to lift the human spirit through the power of music, the Symphony is a cornerstone of the cultural landscape of Southern California, enriching lives and bringing communities together through creative and diverse programming. As the resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, the Symphony presents more than 100 concerts and events each year and a rich array of education and community engagement programs, reaching more than 300,000 residents of all ages.

Pacific Symphony features an expansive range of programming through the Classical Series, the beloved Pops Series led by Principal Pops Conductor Enrico Lopez-Yañez, SummerFest at the Great Park Live Amphitheater in Irvine, and engaging Family Musical Mornings concerts for young children and their families. Signature cultural concerts for Lunar New Year and Nowruz are joyful musical celebrations that promote understanding and appreciation of the arts from around the world—a priority for Pacific Symphony, which is dedicated to the power of music to unite and inspire. The Symphony in the Cities program brings free outdoor concerts and interactive musical activities to cities across Orange County, making live symphonic music accessible to all.

In its 47-year history, Pacific Symphony has gained national and international recognition, with recent highlights including a 2018

Carnegie Hall debut in celebration of composer Philip Glass; a five-city tour of China; and a PBS Great Performances broadcast of Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America. In 2024, Pacific Symphony released the world-premiere recording of Fiat Lux, a stirring new commission by composer Sir James MacMillan performed with long-time artistic partner Pacific Chorale. The Symphony has been recognized with multiple ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming and included among the country’s five most innovative orchestras by the League of American Orchestras.

Pacific Symphony’s education and community engagement programs have been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, expanding access to orchestral music and fostering a lifelong connection to the arts. Musicians partner with elementary schools to enhance music education programs through the Frieda Belinfante Class Act program. Arts-X-press is a summer arts immersion program for middle school students, and Heartstrings provides free tickets to the Symphony, music instruction, and customized music and wellness programs in partnership with local schools, nonprofits, and social service agencies.

Pacific Symphony also nurtures the next generation of musicians through its renowned youth ensembles, including Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, Youth Wind Ensemble, Santiago Strings, and Youth Concert Band. These groups have toured internationally, earned prestigious awards, and provided young artists with opportunities to excel.

By combining artistic excellence with a commitment to education and accessibility, Pacific Symphony continues to enrich lives, foster new talent, and create meaningful connections throughout Southern California. Its innovative programs ensure music remains a vital part of the community’s cultural fabric.

MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Alexander Shelley / Artistic and Music Director Designate

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons Artistic and Music Director Designate Chair

Carl St.Clair / Music Director Laureate

St.Clair Chair

Enrico Lopez-Yañez / Principal Pops Conductor

Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair

Richard Kaufman / Principal Pops Conductor Laureate

Pola Benke / Assistant Conductor

Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor Chair

FIRST VIOLIN

Dennis Kim Concertmaster

Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair

Yoomin Seo

Associate Concertmaster

Judy and Wes Whitmore Chair

Jeanne Skrocki

Assistant Concertmaster

Arlene and Seymour Grubman Chair

Michael Siess

Christine Frank

Ayako Sugaya

Ann Shiau Tenney

Joanna Lee

Robert Schumitzky

Agnes Gottschewski

Dana Freeman

Julie Ahn

Paul Manaster

SECOND VIOLIN

Madalyn Parnas Möller*

Elizabeth and John Stahr Chair

Jennise Hwang**

Yen Ping Lai

Yu-Tong Sharp

Ako Kojian

Linda Owen

Sooah Kim

MarlaJoy Weisshaar

Alice Miller-Wrate

Shelly Shi

VIOLA

Meredith Crawford*

Leona Aronoff-Sadacca Chair

Victor de Almeida**

Carolyn Riley

John Acevedo

Hanbyul Jang

Julia Staudhammer

Joseph Wen-Xiang Zhang

Cheryl Gates

Phillip Triggs

CELLO

Warren Hagerty*

Catherine and James Emmi Chair

Ben Lash**

Robert Vos

Lázló Mezö

Ian McKinnell

M. Andrew Honea

Rudolph Stein

Emma Lee

BASS

Richard Cassarino*

Douglas Basye**

Christian Kollgaard

David Parmeter

Andrew Chilcote

David Black

Andrew Bumatay

Constance Deeter+

FLUTE

Benjamin Smolen*

Valerie and Hans Imhof Chair

Sharon O’Connor

Cynthia Ellis

PICCOLO

Cynthia Ellis

OBOE

Jessica Pearlman Fields*

Suzanne R. Chonette Chair

Ted Sugata

ENGLISH HORN

Lelie Resnick

CLARINET

Vacant*

The Hanson Family Foundation Chair

David Chang

Charlie and Ling Zhang Chair

BASS CLARINET

Joshua Ranz

BASSOON

Rose Corrigan*

Ruth Ann and John Evans Chair

Elliott Moreau

Andrew Klein

Allen Savedoff

CONTRABASSOON

Allen Savedoff

FRENCH HORN

Keith Popejoy*

Adedeji Ogunfolu

Kaylet Torrez**

Henry Bond

TRUMPET

Barry Perkins*

Susie and Steve Perry Chair

Tony Ellis

TROMBONE

Vacant*

David Stetson

TUBA

Vacant*

TIMPANI

Vacant*

PERCUSSION

Robert A. Slack*

HARP

Michelle Temple

The Sungaila Family Chair

* Principal ** Assistant Principal + On Leave

Celebrating milestone years with Pacific Symphony this season.

The musicians of Pacific Symphony are members of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 7. 1510202540 304535

2025-26 Hal & Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series

ST.CLAIR CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN & DON QUIXOTE

Preview Talk at 7 p.m.

KUSC midday host Alan Chapman

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 @ 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026 @ 8 p.m.

Carl St.Clair, conductor Paul Huang, violin

Warren Hagerty, cello

Dennis Kim, violin

Meredith Crawford, viola Pacific Symphony

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

Allegro ma non troppo Larghetto

Rondo: Allegro

Paul Huang, violin

—INTERMISSION—

STRAUSS Don Quixote, TrV 184, Op.35

Introduction

Theme: Don Quixote, the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance; Maggiore: Sancho Panza Variation I: The Adventure with the Windmills

Variation II: The Battle with the Sheep Variation III: Dialogue of the Knight and the Squire Variation IV: The Adventure with the Penitents

Variation V: The Knight’s Vigil Variation VI: The False Dulcinea Variation VII: The Ride through the Air Variation VIII: The Adventure with the Enchanted Boat

Variation IX: The Combat with the Two Magicians

Variation X: The Defeat of Don Quixote by the Knight of the White Moon

Finale: The Death of Don Quixote

Warren Hagerty, cello

Dennis Kim, violin

Meredith Crawford, viola

This concert is being recorded for broadcast on July 26, 2026 on Classical California KUSC.

Performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Carl St.Clair, Music Director Laureate

For more than 35 years, Carl St.Clair led Pacific Symphony, making him the longest-tenured American-born conductor of a major American orchestra. He was honored with the lifetime role of Music Director Laureate in December 2025 during the orchestra’s 47th season, as well as inducted into the Orange County Hall of Fame by the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Under his leadership, Pacific Symphony has grown into the largest-budgeted orchestra founded in the past half-century, recognized nationally for its artistic, innovative programming, and community impact. St.Clair also helped catalyze the vision to build a 2,000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in 2006, the Symphony’s permanent home and one of the nation’s finest concert venues.

St.Clair has guided the Symphony through many landmark achievements. In 2018, he led its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut celebrating Philip Glass’s 80th birthday, which The New York Times praised as proof that Pacific Symphony is “a major ensemble!” That same year, he conducted the orchestra’s first tour of China. Earlier, in 2006, he led the Symphony on its European debut, performing in nine cities across three countries, including Vienna, Munich, Cologne, and Lucerne, to capacity audiences and widespread acclaim. He also conducted the orchestra’s national PBS debut on Great Performances with Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America. His artistic initiatives include the longrunning American Composers Festival and Symphonic Voices, the orchestra’s acclaimed opera-in-concert series.

A champion of new music, St.Clair has commissioned and premiered dozens of works. Recent highlights include the 2024–25 premieres of Viet Cuong’s Marine Layer and Adolphus Hailstork’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (“The Way Things Are”). In 2024, Pacific Symphony released the world-premiere recording of Sir James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux. Other notable commissions include works by Philip Glass, Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, Richard Danielpour, John Wineglass, and Elliot Goldenthal. His discography also includes collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Lukas Foss, and others.

Internationally, he was appointed Music Director of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra in 2025 and holds honorary posts with the National Symphony of Costa Rica and Germany’s Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal. Earlier positions include General Music Director of Berlin’s Komische Oper and of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle in Weimar.

Equally committed to education, St.Clair has overseen the development of one of the country’s most comprehensive orchestra-based education networks, reaching more than 50,000 participants annually. Pacific Symphony’s award-winning Class Act program, arts-X-press, Youth Ensembles, Heartstrings, and Symphony on the Go! bring music to schools and communities across Southern California. He has also taught at Chapman University, the University of Texas, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and the USC Thornton School of Music, where he has served for more than three decades as Artistic Leader and Principal Conductor of orchestral programs.

Paul Huang, violin

Recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang has made recent appearances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Lahav Shani, Dallas and NHK Symphonies with Fabio Luisi, Detroit Symphony with Leonard Slatkin, Baltimore Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic with Markus Stenz, San Francisco Symphony with Mei-Ann Chen, and Houston Symphony with Andrés Orozco-Estrada. In the 2024–25 season, he returns to the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Hiroshima Symphony, and Residentie Orkest Den Haag with Jun Markl, and makes his London debut at the Barbican Hall with BBC Symphony and Marie Jacquot. He recently stepped in for Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 with Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin, and made recital debuts at the Lucerne and Aspen Music Festivals, all to critical acclaim. In fall 2021, he also became the first classical violinist to perform his own arrangement of the U.S. national anthem for the opening game of the NFL at The Bank of America Stadium to an audience of 75,000. Winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Huang earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Juilliard School. He plays on the legendary 1742 ex-Wieniawski Guarneri del Gesù on loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. He is on the faculty of Taipei National University of the Arts and resides in New York. Scan for full bio.

Warren Hagerty, cello

Warren Hagerty has served as principal cellist of Pacific Symphony since 2019. An accomplished chamber musician, he was the founding cellist of the Verona Quartet, earning top prizes in international competitions across four continents, including the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and Concert Artists Guild’s Victor Elmaleh Competition. The quartet was named Musical America’s “New Artist of the Month” in May 2016. Hagerty has performed at major venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Sydney Opera House. He holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and has collaborated with artists such as Renée Fleming, David Shifrin, Cho-Liang Lin, and Orion Weiss. A champion of new music, he has premiered works by Michael Gilbertson, Richard Danielpour, and Sebastian Currier. Hagerty is director of Junior Chamber Music Los Angeles. Scan for full bio.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dennis Kim, violin

Hall with Christian Arming conducting and Clara-Jumi Kang as soloist.

Instrumentation: One flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings, and solo violin.

Approximate duration: 42 minutes.

Our modern clichés about the composer's temperament— sensitive, tormented by life, struggling with ideas—owe much to the realities of Beethoven's life. In some of his symphonies, sonatas, and quartets, we can almost hear him working through seemingly irreconcilable difficulties to achieve a beautiful result. The concerto, by contrast was a form that seemed to fit Beethoven like a glove: grand in scale yet formally congenial to him, offering a forum for discourse between a single soloist and the massed forces of the orchestra. We hear this aptness in all the piano concertos (Beethoven was, after all, a pianist), and perhaps most surprisingly in his magnificent Violin Concerto in D Major.

Concertmaster Dennis Kim holds the Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair of Pacific Symphony. Born in Korea, raised in Canada, and educated in the United States, violinist Dennis Kim has held concertmaster positions with orchestras around the world. Appointed concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony at age twenty-two, he later served in that role with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. He has also appeared as guest concertmaster on four continents, performing with the London Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Singapore Symphony, and others, under conductors including Riccardo Muti, André Previn, and Sir Simon Rattle. An active soloist and chamber musician, Kim is a member of Trio Barclay and regularly performs with Pacific Symphony’s Café Ludwig series. He is assistant professor of violin at the University of California, Irvine, and teaches each summer at Interlochen Arts Camp. A graduate of the Curtis Institute and Yale School of Music, Kim performs on the 1701 “ex-Dushkin” Stradivarius. Scan for full bio.

Meredith Crawford, viola

Principal viola Meredith Crawford holds the Leona Aronoff-Sadacca Chair of Pacific Symphony. A Los Angeles–based musician, she is known for her expressive artistry and authentic connection with audiences. At 22, before completing her senior year at Oberlin Conservatory, she won her first orchestral audition and joined Pacific Symphony. She was named assistant principal in 2012 and principal in 2018. Critics have praised her “sensitive, poetic” playing, her “big, warm, inviting tone,” and a sound compared to legendary violist Donald McInnes. An avid chamber musician, Crawford is resident violist of Salastina, one of Los Angeles’s most innovative ensembles. She has also performed with the Lyris Quartet, New Hollywood String Quartet, Dashan Trio, Café Ludwig series, Camerata Pacifica, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra. An active studio musician, she especially treasures her collaborations with John Williams, a childhood hero. Scan for full bio.

PROGRAM NOTES

Ludwig van Beethoven

Born: Dec. 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany

Died: Mar. 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

Composed: 1806

Premiered: Dec. 23, 1806 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, with Franz Clement as both conductor and violin soloist.

Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: Jan. 18, 2020, in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert

This concerto, probably the most beloved and certainly the most frequently programmed in the repertory, possesses all the grandeur of the piano concertos. It exceeds the scale of any violin concerto that preceded it, and also begins with the longest introduction of any violin concerto preceding the soloist's entrance. These are familiar hallmarks of Beethoven the formbreaker and innovator—signs of the new level of serious utterance that Beethoven brought to the concerto form. But we love this concerto more for its sheer beauty than for its innovations. The concerto was supposedly the subject of a rash boast by the master; he was said to be so confident in its lasting merit that when he wrote it at age 36 (it bears the early-middle Op. no. 61), he went so far as to predict that violinists would still be playing it 50 years after his death. This picturesque story was told to illustrate both the scale of Beethoven’s talent—the concerto remains agelessly popular more than two centuries after he wrote it—and his outsized ego, fueled by determination and unconfined by seemly modesty.

But the facts surrounding composition of the work belie the lore, or at least some of it. Beethoven was persuaded to write the concerto for one of the best-known violin virtuosi of his day, Franz Clement, and everything about the circumstances of its creation seems to have contributed to a circus-like atmosphere at the premiere. Clement was by all accounts a remarkable soloist who had been a spectacular child prodigy, but he never outgrew a penchant for daredevil showmanship. There are no definitive firsthand reports of his first performance, but according to some hearsay accounts, he insisted on sight-reading it and inserting a sonata of his own composition in the middle or at the end of Beethoven’s work. In performing his own sonata, he is said to have held the violin upside- down and played on one string.

Another surprising circumstance was the haste of the concerto’s composition. We know that Beethoven often agonized over his music, but for this benefit concert (with Clement himself as beneficiary) there was no time for indecision, or even for preparatory conferences with the soloist. The orchestra, too, was said to be unrehearsed. Small wonder that the initial commentary was unenthusiastic. One contemporary critic, Johannes Moser, described Beethoven’s thematic material as commonplace, confused, wearisome, and repetitious. It’s difficult to reconcile that description with the concerto that we know and love today, but not with its performance history—which included only three public hearings between 1806 and 1844.

In addition to the characteristic grandeur and dignity we hear in Beethoven's piano concertos, the violin concerto is also written with a sympathy for the instrument that is not always evident in Beethoven: While some of his compositions for piano, voice, and strings (in the quartets) seem written to challenge or contradict their usual modes of expression, a cantabile quality that pervades the violin concerto is the very essence of violinistic writing, like a song without words.

This sense of instrumental sympathy and singing line is achieved without cliché. The first movement declares its gravitas by opening with four startling beats on the timpani, and though it is marked “Allegro,” there is an air of stateliness and a poetic introduction to the much-loved main theme—a six-note ascending scale that begins on the third note of the scale, F#, and ascends to the tonic of D before dropping back down to the dominant A. This simple melody, one of the most familiar in the violin repertoire, could have been built around a central triplet, but Beethoven achieves a more poetic effect by using only half-, quarter-, and eighth-notes without triplet figures.

While the concerto’s second movement, a Larghetto, is in G major, the third (and final) returns to D major, framing the concerto in moods of similarity and contrast. The opening movement Allegro is dignified and almost solemn (the “allegro” pace is marked “ma non troppo”—“but not too much”), built grandly upon a four-beat motif. Where it sings, the closing rondo, with a full-out Allegro, dances with a six-beat motif that is charged with energy and a sense of celebration. Its finale, a soaring arpeggiated phrase that ascends an octave and a fourth to end on a single blast of the tonic D major, is a short summation for Beethoven—but powerfully emphatic.

Richard Strauss

Born: Jun. 11, 1864 in Munich, Bavaria (Germany)

Died: Sep. 8, 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, W. Germany

DonQuixote, TrV 184, Op.35

Composed: 1897

Premiered: Mar. 8, 1898 in Cologne, Germany; Franz Wüllner conducted the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra with Friedrich Grützmacher as cello soloist.

Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: May 20, 2017 in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall with Carl St.Clair conducting and Timothy Landauer as soloist.

Instrumentation: Three flutes including piccolo, three oboes including English horn, three clarinets including bass clarinet and e-flat clarinet, four bassoons including contrabassoon, six horns, three trumpets, three trombones, one tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, tenor tuba, strings, and solo cello.

Approximate duration: 44 minutes.

Dating from the decade before Salome, Strauss’s best-known tone poems are indispensable concert staples today—Don Quixote, Til Eulenspiegel, Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben, to name the most familiar. Also sprach Zarathustra is everywhere now, thanks to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey

Strauss was in his 30s and still pigeonholed as a “promising young composer” when he wrote these works, and was recognized as a pianist, conductor, and technical wizard of harmony. He was born more than 50 years after Richard Wagner, whose revolutionary operas seemed to signal that traditional harmonies were all but played out. But by adding iridescent new layers and unexpected modulations, Strauss expanded old chords to make them do things we never thought they could do. His glittering compositions matched the emotional immediacy of Expressionist painters, but not their abstraction; that was the realm of atonal composers such as Schoenberg and Berg.

The comical mix of courage, bluster, and ridiculousness in Don Quixote is the mirror image of the ideal man delineated in Ein Heldenleben (“a hero’s life”); together they show us the hero that Strauss saw in himself. But Don Quixote is more specific in its descriptions—almost like hearing the novel’s incidents without words. Strauss assigns instruments and motifs to the principal characters and their adventures: Don Quixote, with his grandiose dreams of glory that mix humorous self-delusion with touching sincerity (played mainly by a solo cello); Dulcinea, his unreachable romantic ideal, drawn in the plangent strains of the oboe; and Sancho Panza, the sidekick, evoked by bass clarinet and tuba.

For Quixote, Strauss chooses the deeply human voice of the cello, resonant and wine-dark, to represent a knight who was depicted by Cervantes as in his fifties—old to be pursuing knightly adventures, but undaunted in his chivalry—we hear both vulnerability and nobility. The subordinate voice of the viola depicts Quixote’s sidekick Sancho Panza, while the tuba provides the touches of whimsy and burlesque that give us the humorous texture of their adventures. We hear pratfalls in the tuba and oafishness in the viola. But if the music sounds funny in its characterizations, Quixote is somehow never the butt of the joke. We can hear his leanness and rectitude in the face of error. It is his squat sire Sancho who sounds rustic and slightly ridiculous.

Don Quixote proceeds through ten variations that depict the knight's adventures, some of which have entered the common vernacular—none more so than the idea of "tilting at windmills," which is the subject of the first variation. In this episode, as in most of the others, the humor and drama arise from Magoo-like errors on Quixote's part: Mistaking windmills for evil giants, he literally and figuratively cannot see what is right in front of him. As the variations continue in like manner —Quixote mistakes a shepherd's flock of sheep for a massed army and a pilgrims' procession as a gang of kidnappers—the narrative enables Strauss to give us vividly imitative and atmospheric writing. We hear a waterborne adventure and a moonlit scene; we hear Quixote and Panza drowsing by their campfire. And throughout we hear the solo voice of Quixote's cello against arrayed forces that are greater than himself, defeating him and destroying his elevated illusions.

Michael Clive is a cultural reporter living in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. He is program annotator for Pacific Symphony and has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and U.K. and hundreds of program notes for orchestras and opera companies. Operahound.com

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DANNY ELFMAN'S MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON

Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 @ 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026 @ 8 p.m.

Sarah Hicks, conductor

Sandy Cameron, violin

CSUF University Singers

Pacific Symphony

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Beetlejuice

Sleepy Hollow

Mars Attacks

Big Fish

Batman/Batman Returns

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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Dark Shadows Frankenweenie

Edward Scissorhands featuring Sandy Cameron, violin

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Encore: Alice in Wonderland

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Performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

This concert is generously sponsored by

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

Sarah Hicks, conductor

e Sarah Hicks’s versatile and vibrant musicianship has secured her place as an in-demand conductor across an array of genres, as well as an educator, EMMY®-winning producer, writer and speaker. Her career has seen collaborations with diverse artists, from Olga Kern and Dmitiri Hvorostovsky to Roseanne Cash and the Dirty Projectors; during the summer of 2011 she toured with Sting as conductor of his Symphonicities Tour. Her cross-genre partnerships include a 2019 album with rap artist Dessa and the Minnesota Orchestra, with whom she holds a titled position, and the 2023 premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Want Symphonic at the BBC Proms.

A highly sought-after guest conductor, Hicks has worked extensively both in the States and abroad. Notable ensembles include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, LA Phil, Boston Pops, Toronto Symphony, Czech National Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and Tokyo Philharmonic, among many others. Her opera appearances include the East Slovak State Opera Theater and the Curtis Opera Theater, as well as operas in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra and the RTÉ Orchestra.

A specialist in film music and the film-in-concert genre, her live concert recordings can be seen on Disney+ and on ABC, and she acts as advisor for Disney Music Group and is a frequent collaborator at Disney Concerts. Her first major feature film credit, Renfield, was released in 2023 and her live album with the Danish National Symphony, “The Morricone Duel” has garnered over 200 million view on YouTube.

Hicks is a frequent lecturer and panelist and was on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music from 2000 to 2005 and Staff Conductor until 2012. Her interest in mental wellness and mindfulness has led to numerous projects, including Music and Healing with the Minnesota Orchestra. Available digitally, it includes a concert, commissioned works and conversations with neuroscientists and wellness experts. She is developing new concert experiences that combine music and mindfulness, and she is currently pursuing studies in MBSR and teacher training in Vipassana meditation.

Hicks was born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in Honolulu, HI. Trained on both the piano and the viola, she received degrees from Harvard University and the Curtis Institute of Music. In her spare time, she enjoys running, hiking, her Papillon, and cooking (and eating) with her husband; she is currently writing her first book, a collection of essays.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sandy Cameron, violin

A Declared “brilliant” by The Washington Post, violinist Sandy Cameron is one of the most strikingly unique and versatile artists of her generation. As a soloist, she performs extensively throughout the world, including appearances at The White Nights Festival, the Kennedy Center, David Geffen Hall, the Elbphilharmonie, and the Sydney Opera House.

In 2017, Cameron gave the world-premiere performance of Eleven Eleven, the violin concerto written for her by Danny Elfman. In 2018, she recorded the piece for Sony Classical with John Mauceri and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Other special stage appearances include Bach by Beltrami, Cirque du Soleil, Tan Dun’s Martial Arts Trilogy, Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton, Chris Botti, and a number of Disney productions at the Hollywood Bowl and in international arenas. Cameron is also featured as a soloist on a number of soundtracks for film, television, and video games.

The outstanding violin used by Cameron, crafted by Pietro Guarnerius of Venice, c. 1735, is on extended loan through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society® of Chicago.

CSUF University Singers, choral ensemble

Recognized as one of the nation’s premier collegiate choral ensembles, California State University, Fullerton’s University Singers have exemplified excellence for more than 50 years. Under the direction of Dr. Robert Istad, the ensemble is internationally acclaimed for its musicianship and has toured more than a dozen countries since 2007, performing with leading orchestras in renowned venues at home and abroad.

The University Singers regularly collaborate with professional ensembles including the LA Phil, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. They have earned praise from distinguished conductors such as Carl St.Clair, John Mauceri, John Williams, Sir Neville Marriner, James Conlon, and Keith Lockhart.

Highlights include performances at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall and Chartres Cathedral, as well as collaborations with Andrea Bocelli. In 2017, the ensemble recorded with Sony Classical under John Williams and released Nostos: The Homecoming of Music on Yarlung Records. Beyond the classical repertoire, the University Singers have appeared with artists including Juanes, Beck and M83, and in the PBS production The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

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AMERICA 250

Sun., Feb. 15, 2026 @ 3 p.m.

Orli Shaham, piano and host

Joshua Ranz, clarinet

Dennis Kim, violin

Madalyn Parnas-Möller, violin

Meredith Crawford, viola

Warren Hagerty, cello

JOHN ADAMS China Gates for Solo Piano

Orli Shaham, piano

SCHOENFIELD Sonatina for Klezmer Clarinet and Piano

I. Sempre molto marcato, exaggerated and grotesque

II. Allegretto

Joshua Ranz, clarinet

Orli Shaham, piano

KENJI BUNCH Suite for Viola and Piano I. Rhapsody II. Scherzo III. Lament

Meredith Crawford, viola

Orli Shaham, piano

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DVORÁK String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 ("American")

Allegro ma non troppo

Lento

Molto vivace

Finale: Vivace ma non troppo

Dennis Kim, violin

Madalyn Parnas Möller, violin

Meredith Crawford, viola

Warren Hagerty, cello

Performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Samueli Theater

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Orli Shaham, piano and host

positions with Pacific Symphony eight days apart, in September 1997. They now have two sons, Jonah, born in October 2006, and Nathan, born in November 2009.

Dennis Kim, violin

A A consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety, and brilliance, the pianist Orli Shaham is hailed by critics on four continents. The New York Times called her a “brilliant pianist,” the Chicago Tribune referred to her as “a first-rate Mozartean,” and London’s Guardian said Shaham’s playing at the Proms was “perfection.” Shaham has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world, and has appeared in recitals internationally, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California since 2007 and was Artist-in-Residence at Vancouver Symphony (USA) 2022-24. In 2025-26, Shaham and Pacific Symphony will release an album of American chamber music, including commissions by Margaret Brouwer and Avner Dorman, alongside works by Reena Esmail, Viet Cuong, and others. Her 2024 set of the complete sonatas by Mozart received critical acclaim worldwide. Shaham’s discography includes over a dozen titles on Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, Canary Classics and other labels. Shaham is on faculty at The Juilliard School and is a co-host and creative for the national radio program From the Top. She founded the interactive children’s concert series Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard in 2010, and is chair of the Board of Trustees of Kaufman Music Center. Scan for full bio.

Joshua Ranz, clarinet

Joshua Ranz currently holds the position of utility/bass clarinet with Pacific Symphony, with whom he also acted as principal clarinet on the 2006 European tour. He is also principal clarinet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and was featured prominently with them on their European tour in the winter of 2008. He has recorded with Pacific Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and is active in the television and motion picture industry. Previous to coming to California, he was a member of the Honolulu and San Jose symphonies. Ranz is on faculty at Biola University. Since 2004 Ranz has performed regularly with the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, CA, serving as principal in the summer of 2011. He also performed as principal at the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, Oregon. In the summer of 2009, he performed in Maine for the Bay Chamber Concerts series with a roster of all-principal wind players from top orchestras around the country. He performed with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in western NY during the summers from 2001-2009. He has performed with South Bay Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Palisades, the Capitol Ensemble, Jacaranda, and numerous other chamber music programs throughout Southern California.

Ranz attended Yale School of Music where he studied with David Shifrin and received his Bachelor's degree at Harvard College, majoring in music composition and analysis. Ranz and his wife, oboe/English hornist Lelie Resnick, won their respective

Concertmaster Dennis Kim holds the Eleanor and Michael Gordon Chair of Pacific Symphony. Born in Korea, raised in Canada, and educated in the United States, violinist Dennis Kim has held concertmaster positions with orchestras around the world. Appointed concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony at age twenty-two, he later served in that role with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. He has also appeared as guest concertmaster on four continents, performing with the London Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Singapore Symphony, and others, under conductors including Riccardo Muti, André Previn, and Sir Simon Rattle. An active soloist and chamber musician, Kim is a member of Trio Barclay and regularly performs with Pacific Symphony’s Café Ludwig series. He is assistant professor of violin at the University of California, Irvine, and teaches each summer at Interlochen Arts Camp. A graduate of the Curtis Institute and Yale School of Music, Kim performs on the 1701 “ex-Dushkin” Stradivarius. Scan for full bio.

Madalyn Parnas Möller,

violin

Principal second violin Madalyn Parnas Möller holds the Elizabeth and John Stahr Chair of Pacific Symphony, and brings a distinctive artistic voice and refined musical insight to today’s concert stage. She made her solo debut at age twelve performing the Kabalevsky Violin Concerto and has since appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. As a guest soloist, Parnas Möller has toured France with L’Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and performed with ensembles including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the New York String Alumni Orchestra under the direction of Jaime Laredo.

Committed to expanding the repertoire, she has presented numerous world premieres, including Sven-David Sandström’s Force and Beauty and Don Byrd’s Violin Concerto. Recent recital appearances include the Kennedy Center, Subculture in New York, San Francisco Performances, Shriver Hall Concert Series, and the Minneapolis Museum of Russian Art. Her solo recording with Aqua Records was distributed by Naxos in 2021.

A passionate chamber musician, Parnas Möller is a founding member of Duo Parnas, her long-standing partnership with cellist and sister Cicely Parnas. The duo won first prize at Carnegie Hall’s International Chamber Music Competition in 2007 and has since performed at major festivals worldwide, including Tanglewood, Banff, Music Mountain, Maverick Concerts, and the ProQuartet Festival. As recording artists for Sheffield Lab, Duo Parnas has released three albums featuring both established works and commissions by leading contemporary composers.

Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2016, Parnas Möller has maintained an active career as a performer and educator. She appears regularly throughout Southern California and has served as guest concertmaster for ensembles including Long Beach Opera and Pacific Opera Project. In spring 2024, she was appointed principal second violin of Pacific Symphony. She currently serves on the faculty of California State University. Parnas Möller holds a doctorate from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music and performs on a 2016 Andrew Ryan violin. Scan for full bio.

Meredith Crawford, viola

Principal viola Meredith Crawford holds the Leona Aronoff-Sadacca Chair of Pacific Symphony. A Los Angeles–based musician, she is known for her expressive artistry and authentic connection with audiences. At 22, before completing her senior year at Oberlin Conservatory, she won her first orchestral audition and joined Pacific Symphony. She was named assistant principal in 2012 and principal in 2018. Critics have praised her “sensitive, poetic” playing, her “big, warm, inviting tone,” and a sound compared to legendary violist Donald McInnes. An avid chamber musician, Crawford is resident violist of Salastina, one of Los Angeles’s most innovative ensembles. She has also performed with the Lyris Quartet, New Hollywood String Quartet, Dashan Trio, Café Ludwig series, Camerata Pacifica, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra. An active studio musician, she especially treasures her collaborations with John Williams, a childhood hero. Scan for full bio.

PROGRAM NOTES

John Adams

Born: 1947, Worcester, MA

China Gates for Solo Piano

Composed: 1977

Premiered: 1977, by its dedicatee, pianist Sarah Cahill. Most Recent Pacific Symphony Performance: This is a Pacific Symphony premiere.

Instrumentation: Solo piano.

Approximate duration: 5 minutes.

No living American composer is more widely admired or programmed than John Adams. His music is meaty yet subtle, and has happily outlasted its early (and misleading) consignment to the "Minimalist" pigeonhole. Another misleading accusation: excessive seriousness, perhaps arising from Adams' thought-provoking, historically-based operas and his powerful 9/11 elegy, "On the Transmigration of Souls." His 2008 memoir, "Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life," looks deeply into the how's and why's of composing music.

Warren Hagerty, cello

Warren Hagerty has served as principal cellist of Pacific Symphony since 2019. An accomplished chamber musician, he was the founding cellist of the Verona Quartet, earning top prizes in international competitions across four continents, including the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Concert Artists Guild’s Victor Elmaleh Competition. The quartet was named Musical America’s “New Artist of the Month” in May 2016. Hagerty has performed at major venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House. He holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and has collaborated with artists such as Renée Fleming, David Shifrin, Cho-Liang Lin and Orion Weiss. A champion of new music, he has premiered works by Michael Gilbertson, Richard Danielpour and Sebastian Currier. Hagerty is director of Junior Chamber Music Los Angeles. Scan for full bio.

China Gates is considered one of Adams’ early mature works, written for the pianist Sarah Cahill in 1977, when he was 30 (Cahill was 17 when she first played China Gates). It is composed not on the conventional diatonic do-re-mi scale, but on ancient Mixolydian and Locrian modes that are shorter than modern scales. They are moody and expressive, especially the dark-hued Locrian, enabling intricate, layered effects with minimal means. They are also suggestive of Bartok’s use of them in his Mikrokosmos for piano students. Composers often strive for an arched form in their compositions, but rarely with the strictness we hear in China Gates; Adams described it as an “almost perfect palindrome.” You might not hear repeated figures coming and going, but the constant beat of eighth notes, suggestive of the constant rainfall in Northern California in 1977, is evident.

Paul Schoenfield

Born: January 24, 1947, Detroit, MI

Died: April 29, 2024, Jerusalem, Israel

Sonatina for Klezmer Clarinet and Piano

Composed: 2013

Premiered: Unknown; commissioned by the Astral Music Society for clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester.

Most Recent Pacific Symphony Performance: This is a Pacific Symphony premiere.

Instrumentation: Solo clarinet, and piano.

Approximate duration: 12 minutes.

Paul Schoenfield’s death in 2024 after battling cancer brought sadness to disparate sectors of the music world, from klezmer to ragtime to classical. Born in 1947 in Detroit, he began piano lessons at age six and began to compose a scant year later. He made his recital debut in New York’s Town Hall auditorium while still in his teens, and in 1966, the year he turned nineteen, he appeared with Leonard Bernstein on a

New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert. He received a BA from Converse College, MA from Carnegie Mellon, and DMA from the University of Arizona.

Schoenfield was a rarity in modern music: a virtuoso performer who, like earlier masters such as Liszt and Rachmaninoff, found acclaim as a composer as well as a pianist. His exuberant music drew from a wide variety of musical experience: jazz and popular music, folk song, klezmer, and Jewish chant, all informed by the classical traditions in which he was trained.

Klezmer traditions bridged Schoenfield’s musical worlds, and many of his compositions, including the Sonatina for Klezmer Clarinet and Piano, are informed by klezmer style—a Jewish musical tradition that took rise in the enforced cultural isolation of the ghetto. Klezmer style goes back centuries but has only recently burgeoned in popularity; shaped by plangent Asian and Eastern European modes that straddle major and minor, this is boisterous music that has driving rhythms, frenetic energy, and fleet tempos that require rapid, virtuosic playing. The style’s use of “blues notes” and improvisation have caught the interest of jazz and classical musicians alike.

A virtuoso solo clarinet is the anchor of most klezmer music, but as a pianist himself, Schoenfield placed equal demands on his pianists.

Kenji Bunch

Born: 1973, Portland, OR

Suite for Viola and Piano

Composed: 1998

Premiered: Premiered by violist Naoko Shimizu and pianist Özgür Aydin, Feb. 1999, at The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.

Most Recent Pacific Symphony Performance: This is a Pacific Symphony premiere.

Instrumentation: Solo piano, and viola. Approximate duration: 18 minutes.

Over the past 30 years, Kenji Bunch has established himself as one of America’s most engaging, influential, and prolific composers, with genre-defying music that has been performed on six continents and by over seventy American orchestras. Cited by Alex Ross in The Rest Is Noise and dubbed “One of the new faces of new music” by Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times, Bunch possesses a unique compositional voice has earned acclaim from audiences, performers, and critics alike. Influenced by his mother’s experience as a Japanese immigrant and his father’s as a political and social activist, Bunch spent his childhood in the meditative natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. His compositional approach combines his interests in history, philosophy, nature, and intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue with the intention to entertain, inspire, and facilitate healing with his music—at times with vulnerable sincerity, offbeat humor, instrumental virtuosity, or by confronting traumatic issues from our shared histories. Bunch is a viola soloist and is widely recognized for performing his own works for that instrument. He currently serves as Artistic Director of the new music group Fear No Music and is deeply committed to music education in his home town of Portland, Oregon.

Antonín Dvořák

Born: Sep. 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Czech Republic)

Died: May 1, 1904, Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)

String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 ("American")

Composed: 1893

Premiered: Jan. 1, 1894 by the Kneisel Quartet in Boston, MA Most Recent Pacific Symphony Performance: Apr. 21, 2002, in Segerstrom Hall, as part of the Dvořák Festival. Instrumentation: Two violins, viola, and cello Approximate duration: 25 minutes

For three decades starting in 1950, the Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Harold C. Schonberg reigned from his desk at The New York Times as most influential arbiter of American tastes in classical music. "Smetana," he wrote, "was the one who founded Czech music, but Antonín Dvořák…was the one who popularized it." When Schonberg made this pronouncement, the American taste for Dvořák was based largely on his symphonies, especially "From the New World." His esteem here has only risen since then. Dvořák was not only a key figure in the Czech nationalist movement in music, but strongly advocated for an American style based on indigenous folk sources.

Dvořák is also recognized as one of the great composers of chamber music, and his String Quartet No. 12 reflects not only this affinity, but also his strong ties to American musical culture. He had come to New York in 1892 at the invitation of the progressiveminded Jeannette Thurber to serve as director of her newlyfounded National Conservatory of Music. Thurber was a strong believer in cultural diversity, and knew Dvořák was an advocate for incorporating folk sources in classical music. For his part, Dvořák— when he heard the richness of what we now call “roots music”—was baffled by the American intelligentsia’s dismissal of folk music as primitive. In interviews he insisted that the future of American music should be founded on what were called “Negro melodies,” a classification that also included American Indian tunes. “These can be the foundation of a serious and original school of composition, to be developed in the United States,” he told an interviewer in The New York Herald. “These beautiful and varied themes are the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America and your composers must turn to them.”

Dvořák composed this quartet in the summer of 1893 while on vacation from the National Conservatory. He found relaxation and reminders of home in the Iowa town of Spillville, rich in Czech and Slovak immigrant culture to this day. Critics have been hard-pressed to find specifically American references in the F-Major quartet, and a letter to a friend suggests that in this case, ethnomusicology was far from the composer’s mind. "When I wrote this quartet in the Czech community of Spillville in 1893, I wanted to write something for once that was very melodious and straightforward, and dear Papa Haydn kept appearing before my eyes, and that is why it all turned out so simply. And it's good that it did."

Michael Clive is a cultural reporter living in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. He is program annotator for Pacific Symphony and has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and U.K. and hundreds of program notes for orchestras and opera companies. Operahound.com

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SIX is fashionable fun fit for a queen

Six wives. Six stories. Six dazzling looks fit for royalty—but not the kind you’d find in a history book.

SIX reimagines the wives of Henry VIII as pop divas competing for the spotlight—and sympathy—in a high-energy concert that turns Tudor history into a glittering celebration of female empowerment. Tony® Award-winning costume designer Gabriella Slade fuses Tudor silhouettes with modern fabrics, colors, and textures to create what she calls “a fusion style with Tudor details using contemporary finishes.”

Each queen’s costume tells her story through color, texture, and attitude. Slade

studied portraits of the real wives—Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Katherine, and Catherine— to capture their essence, then added a bold, modern twist. The result: six looks that blend royal opulence with rock-star edge.

Catherine of Aragon, Henry’s first wife, stands out in gold. Her dress features holographic foils in yellow and orange with a black lattice overlay, echoing stained-glass windows. Gold studs and a spiked headdress symbolize her strength and her “divorced” status.

Anne Boleyn, the flirtatious second wife, wears green — a nod to the legend that Henry wrote “Greensleeves” for her. Her short skirt and

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red lipstick reflect her playful spirit, while her choker subtly references her tragic fate.

Jane Seymour, the third wife, is portrayed as modest and sincere. Her white bodice, reminiscent of a wedding gown, is accented with black Tudor-style stripes. Jane gave Henry the son he longed for but died soon after childbirth.

Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard bring their own flair—Anne in bold red and black, Katherine in youthful pinks and silvers.

Catherine Parr, Henry’s final wife and survivor, appears in a royal blue jumpsuit with dramatic sleeves shaped like Henry’s own. The look, says Slade, represents her “wisdom and sagacious personality.”

Together, these queens command the stage with attitude, humor, and heart.

“They visually explode onstage,” says Slade. “It’s a regal look for the latest royalty to rule the stage.”

Segerstrom Hall March 10–15

A real song-and-dance man

Clearly Matthew Morrison is a talented man. He can sing, dance, and has been in popular television shows, movies, and more. Morrison will be in Samueli Theater next month for a special homecoming performance at the Center. An alumnus of Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA), Morrison’s journey from local student to international performer makes his appearance at the Center especially meaningful.

It was clear from an early age that Morrison was talented. In his teens, he attended OCSA when it was still located on the campus of Los Alamitos High School. During that time, he worked as a singing busboy at a local restaurant. Morrison himself described one of his own shows in a way that could probably stand for all of them: “Step into a world where music and dance become more than just entertainment— they become a journey into the heart of what makes us human. I’m not just here to perform; I’m here to spark something within you.”

At a recent performance in Pittsburgh, OnStagePittsburgh.com wrote, “His performance repertoire showcased his immense talent, charisma, vocal range, and dancing ability.”

“Mr. Morrison has a farsighted vision that encompasses rock, jazz and swing,” says The New York Times. He is a “versatile, hard-driving musical frontiersman leveling the territory separating genres.”

Morrison calls it eclectic. In one performance he may sing a Disney song alongside tunes from Elton John, Judy Collins, and Broadway.

Morrison started his career on the Broadway stage. He was part of the original cast of Hairspray as Link Larkin, then moved to the premiere of The Light in the Piazza, for which he scored a Tony® nomination. From there he took on some television roles, eventually landing the role that would make him really famous: Mr. Schuester, director of the glee club on the television show Glee. A number of actors would become famous through the show, but it was probably Morrison and his co-star Jane Lynch who became synonymous with the program.

Of all his talents, the most surprising may be his talent with the ukelele, which he’ll sometimes play during a show for a medley of unexpected tunes. He surprised an audience in Pittsburgh by pulling out the instrument and performing a mash-up of Disney songs.

It’s no secret that many consider Morrison a heartthrob. “But it’s not just his charm that’s earned him his well-deserved place among bona-fide Broadway stars,” says theaterpizzazz. com. “He knows how to put on a damn good show! There’s simply nothing this man can’t do.”

“I’m not just here to perform,” Morrison says. “I’m here to spark something within you.” Obviously, this is a can’t-miss show.

Samueli Theater March 19–21

These chamber music ensembles shine

Two acclaimed European ensembles—the Goldmund Quartet and the Notos Quartett—bring their artistry to the Center’s Chamber Music series this season. Both are celebrated for their fresh interpretations of classical repertoire and their commitment to contemporary composers.

The Goldmund Quartet is considered one of the leading string quartets among the younger generation worldwide. The group was named a Rising Star by the European Concert Hall Organization in 2019, and last year they created their own music festival.

The program they bring to the Center spans centuries of musical brilliance with pieces by Haydn, Bacewicz, and Schubert. Considered the grandfather of the string quartet, Haydn’s works are musical brilliance. Closing the performance will be Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” a dark, passionate and emotionally charged piece. Linking these two composers is Grazyna Bacewicz, a Polish composer of the first half of the 20th century. Her music has been called neoclassical, and she favored harmonies and melodic styles of the classical era.

The Goldmund has an extra special edge: They perform with the Paganini Quartet, a set of 18th-century Stradivarius string instruments loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation. Only about 650 still exist today. (Fun fact: A 1715 Stradivarius violin recently sold in a private sale for $23 million. The previous record for a Strad was $15.9 million in 2011.)

Samueli Theater

March 17

The Notos Quartett is a piano quartet, not a usual setup on the Center’s Chamber Music series. Piano quartets may perform many of the same concert pieces, but the sound is going to be very different. A piano can do that. “We love that once you’ve found the right balance between the string trio and the piano to create a unique quartet sound, the range spans everything from intimate moments to symphonic grandeur,” they told the London Symphony Orchestra. Their vision is to perform well-known masterpieces, to reveal lost and forgotten treasures, and to champion the new compositions for the unique genre of the piano quartet.

The Notos program includes Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, bookended by Walton’s Piano Quartet D minor and Schumann’s Piano Quartet Opus 47. William Walton wrote his piece in 1919 when he was 16 years old. It was then

lost for many years before appearing again among his possessions. He revised the piece in his later years, meaning that both Walton’s young musical voice and his voice as a mature composer can both be heard.

Schumann was a newlywed when he wrote his Piano Quartet, having recently married Clara. “That’s why you hear such joy in the piece,” says Andrea Burger, violist for the quartet. “It starts in absolute bliss and it’s so fill with life. It’s just so much fun to play.”

These quartets bring you unparalleled artistry you won’t find anywhere else. With programs filled with great classical works, they will create an unforgettable and immersive chamber music experience you won’t want to miss.

Samueli Theater March 26

Corporate and Foundation Support

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is pleased to thank the following corporations and foundations for providing annual contributions to the Center in support of our artistic and community education programs and our special event and performance sponsorships throughout the year.*

LEAD PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION SPONSORS

THE SEGERSTROM FAMILY FOUNDATION

2025 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS

The Albertsons Companies Foundation

Anonymous

Automobile Club of Southern California

Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners

Barbara Steele Williams Designated Agency Endowment

Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza

BNY Mellon Wealth Management

Canterbury Consulting

Capital Group Companies

Cartier

Crean Foundation

E Nakamichi Foundation

Enterprise Mobility

Gucci

Haynes and Boone, LLP

Mesa Water District

Northern Trust

Orange County Community Foundation

Oscar de la Renta

Pacific Life Foundation

Schools First Federal Credit Union

SPECIAL THANKS

KJAZZ 88.1

Läderach

Total Wine & More

United Airlines

To learn more about the Center’s corporate and foundation partnership opportunities and the benefits available, please contact CorpSupport@scfta.org or 714.942.6326.

ARTS AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Segerstrom Center applauds the following business and community leaders

Maurice Murray, Chairman

Jesse D. Bagley

Katheryn Baker

Lupe Erwin

Cory Glass

John P. Glowacki

Mara J. James

Fiona LeCong-Ly

Monika Lopez

Jill Meznarich

Vanessa Moore

Tammy Octavio

Patrick Strader

Yvonne Tsao

Jaynine Warner

William Meehan, Founding Chairman

* as of January 7, 2026

Donors

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is enormously grateful for the support from the donors listed on the following pages. Your generosity empowers the Center to provide dynamic performances and artistic education programs for all of Orange County. You allow us to continue our promise to become an inclusive cultural resource for our entire community. Thank you!

CUMULATIVE GIVING

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is deeply grateful to the following donors who have provided extraordinary support during their lifetime:

$20,000,000 +

Julia and George Argyros / Argyros Family Foundation

Audrey Steele Burnand*

William J. Gillespie*

Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom

$10,000,000 + Anonymous

Toby Andrews Angels of the Arts

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

Mr. and Mrs. David Wayne Grant

The Guilds of the Center

Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*

Mr. Donald E. and Lacy Moriarty

Eugene and Ruth Ann Moriarty*

Jean Moriarty*

Richard A. and Marilyn Kayla Moriarty

Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry

Samueli Foundation

Sally E. Segerstrom

Jennifer and Anton Segerstrom

Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation

Ruth Segerstrom*

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom

Mr. Toren H. Segerstrom

Veronica P. Segerstrom

Mrs. Yvonne Segerstrom*

South Coast Plaza

Mrs. Richard Steele*

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Williams

$5,000,000 +

Bank of America / Bank of America Foundation

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Steve* and Cindy Fry / Fry Family Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

Ralph and Eleanor Leatherby Family Foundation

General* and Mrs. William Lyon

Phil and Mary Lyons

Harry and Grace Steele Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

$3,000,000 +

The Boeing Company

Broadway Across America

Freedom Communications, Inc.

Michael and Eleanor* Gordon

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times

Rick Muth Family/ORCO Block & Hardscape

Dr. Henry Nicholas III

Ms. Stacey Nicholas

Bill and Pat Podlich

Michelle Rohé

$2,000,000 + Anonymous

Zee M. Allred,* Dean C. Allred, Carol Ann Allred Starr

Mrs. D. James Bentley*

Benjamin and Carmela Du

Edison International

The First American Corporation

Fluor Corporation / The Fluor Foundation

John and Toni Ginger

Mark Chapin Johnson

W. M. Keck Foundation

Kia Motors America, Inc.

Kling Family Foundation

Sharon D. Lund Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

Tara and David Troob

Jean and Tim Weiss

$1,500,000 +

Ginger and Tony Allen

Mr.* and Mrs. James P. Baldwin

The Beall Family

Deborah and Larry J. Bridges

Kevin and Denise Cassin

Eileen J. Cirillo

Cox Communications / Cox Media

Randy and Sally Crockett

Mr. and Mrs. Moti Ferder, Lugano Diamonds

Paul F. and Daranne Folino

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

The Irvine Company

Margaret G. and Thomas E. Larkin*

Paul and Lilly Merage

Mercedes-Benz USA

Mrs. Marjorie T. Rawlins*

Rutan & Tucker, LLP

Spectrum Reach

Elizabeth Colyear Vincent*

Cecil C. and Kathryn H. Wright*

$1,000,000 +

Anonymous

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson

Bette and Wylie Aitken

Automobile Club of Southern California

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bettingen*

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bettingen*

Marta and Raj Bhathal

California Bank & Trust

Callero Family Foundation

Ellen and Clarence* Conzelman

Delta Air Lines

Carole and Robert* Follman

Leo Freedman Foundation

June M. Fry

Jackie Glass / Kling Family Foundation

Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson

Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester Family Foundation

George Hoag Family Foundation

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Kaiser Permanente

KJAZZ 88.1

Shanaz and Jack Langson

Corey and Leslie Leyton

Mrs. Colleen Manchester

David and Kathryn Moore

Mrs. Mary E. Moore

Pam and Jim Muzzy

Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. O’Bryan

Pacific Life

Mr. and Mrs. William Roberts

Donna Shannon-O’Bryan

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith

The Sommerville Trust

Georgia Hull Spooner*

Diane and David Steffy

Dorothy Stillwell*

Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family

The Warner Family

Wells Fargo / Wells Fargo Foundation

Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*

Carol* and Kent Wilken

$750,000 + Mary and Richard* Cramer

James* and Catherine Emmi

Maralou and Jerry* Harrington

Dr.* and Mrs. Randall R. McCardle

Mrs. Mary M. Muth*

Trish and John* O’Donnell

Charles and Patricia Poss*

Rockwell International

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Karalyn and Joseph* Schuchert

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen Shea

Janice and Ted Smith

The Reinhold Foundation

Mr.* and Mrs. Joseph M. Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson

Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

$500,000 +

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen

The Allergan Foundation

Doug and Jaimee Baker

Pamela and Al Baldwin

Dr. and Mrs. Arnold O. Beckman*

Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach

Katherine and Howard Bland

Cartier

Victoria* and David Collins

The John L. Curci Family

Patricia Fredricks-Dolson*

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes II

Andy and Joan Fimiano

Carol Frobish*

Frome Family Foundation

Harriett F. Grant*

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz*

Valerie and Hans Imhof

The Joseph Family

JPMorgan Chase & Co. / JPMorgan Chase & Co. Foundation

Barbara* and Robert Kleist

K-MOZART 105.1 FM

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

KOCE

Eve A. Kornyei

Classical KUSC

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

Marcia L. Millen, in memory of James and Leath Millen

NORDSTROM

The Peter Ochs Family

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Ralphs / Food 4 Less

Carlene Rona*

Estate of Karen Ann Roos

Michael* and Stacy Schlinger

H. Michael and Holly Schwartz

Nick and Heidi Shahrestany

The Shanbrom Family

Shea Homes Foundation

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine

Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza / Spenuzza Velastegui Family Foundation

John* and Elizabeth Stahr

Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Mrs. Valaree Wahler

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Warmington

*in memoriam

CENTER FUND

The Center Fund provides general operating support on an annual basis for Segerstrom Center for the Arts and its programs. We are honored to recognize the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their gifts made between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. Your generosity makes all we do possible—and we thank you! To learn more about the Center Fund and the benefits of giving, please contact us at 714.556.2122 x4009 or Give@scfta.org.

$1,000,000+

Julia and George Argyros

Lisa Argyros

Stephanie Argyros

Sandy Segerstrom Daniels

$500,000+

Anonymous

Dr. Michael M.* and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns

Kevin and Denise Cassin

Phil and Mary Lyons

Mr.* and Mrs. George Schreyer

H. Michael and Holly Schwartz

Elizabeth and Henry T.* Segerstrom

Sally E. Segerstrom

$250,000+

The Guilds of the Center

The McCardle Family

$100,000+

Anonymous (2)

Randy and Sally Crockett

Jane and Jim Driscoll

Michael and Debra Garnreiter

John and Toni Ginger

Kling Family Foundation / Jackie Glass

Valerie and Hans Imhof

Rick Muth Family/ ORCO Block & Hardscape

Jennifer and Brian Niccol

Reverend and Mrs. Steven Perry

John and Sherry Phelan

Pat and Bill Podlich

Michael* and Stacy Schlinger

Stewart R. Smith and Robin A. Ferracone

Laura and Tim Vanderhook

Jaynine and Dave Warner

$50,000+

Howard and Roberta Ahmanson

Bart and Elizabeth Asner

Pamela and Al Baldwin

Ben and Carmela Du Family Foundation Fund

Marta and Raj Bhathal

Deborah and Larry J. Bridges

John* and Louise Bryson

David and Barbara Cline

The John L. Curci Family

David and Molly Pyott Foundation

Andra Greene Ellingson and Tom Ellingson

Andy and Joan Fimiano

Jordan Floriani

Wendy and Mark Hales

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Reza Jahangiri and Kate LeveringJahangiri

James P. Previti Charitable Fund

Burt and Molly Jolly

The Jonathan and Nicole Cronstedt Foundation

J.S. Frank Foundation

Roger and Tracy Kirwan

Kling Family Foundation

Karla Kraft and Anderee Berengian

Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon

Britt and Robert Meyer

Lana and Walter Parsadayan

PeopleSpace / Jesse and Amy Bagley

Carolyn Zarate-Ramsey and Robert Ramsey

Michelle Rohé

Tony and Jessy Smith

Steven M. Sorenson Foundation

Connie and Dr. Peter Spenuzza / Spenuzza Velastegui Family Foundation

Diane and David Steffy

Swenson Family Foundation

Dr. Michelle and Mr. David Tabb

Tammy and Samuel Tang

The Tappan Foundation

Carol* and Kent Wilken

$35,000+

Anonymous (2)

Aronoff Family

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best

Mr. Charles B. Caldwell

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Cancellieri

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Chan

Eileen J. Cirillo

Anthony and Carie Ferry

Christy and Rich Flanagan

Paul and Bonnie Lubock

Marcia L. Millen in memory of James and Leath Millen

The Schreiber Family

Warren Felson and Lucy Sun

Charlie and Ling Zhang

$25,000+

Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Anderson

Katherine and Howard Bland

Maria A. Cadigan

California Educational Consultant Group, Inc., Dr. Allan H. Lifson & Isaac Torres

Victoria* and David Collins

Bobbi Cox

Mary and Richard* Cramer

Dean Family Charitable Fund

Allan* and Sandy Fainbarg

Angela Friedman

Diane and Joyce* Froot

GOAL Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grody

Jenny and Jeff Gross

Maralou Harrington

Kathryn Harris

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jackson

Barbara Hiller Johnson

Junebug Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kaul

Ms. MaryLois Kuhn

Deborah H. and Jeffrey H. Margolis

Dr. Gail Mattson-Gates

Mr. and Mrs. James V. Mazzo

Rebecca and Carl McLarand

Haydee Mollura

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moorhead

Jasmine Morielli in memory of Scott Morielli

Dr. Terri Morris

Mara and Keith Murray

M.Y. Family Fund

Cheryl Hill Oakes

Maryam Parman

Mr. and Mrs. William O. Passo

Mr. John R. Patterson

Laila and Dryden Pence

Mary Phillipp and David Johnson

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Ginger Siedschlag

Honorable H. Warren and Janet Siegel

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Simon

Mindy and Glenn Stearns

Sue and Ralph Stern

Stephanie and Cory Sukert

Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie, Jr.

Ms. Diana Martin and Mr. Mark Tomaino

Ms. Elizabeth Wahler

Wilfred M. and Janet A. Roof Foundation

$15,000+

Mr.* and Mrs. Byron Allumbaugh

The Beall Family

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bergman

Toni and Steven Berlinger

The Cameron Family Foundation

Mary and John Carrington

John and Kate Carvelli

Mr. Joseph Connor

Craig and Gisele Barto Family Foundation

Janet L. Curci

Mr. and Dr. Debons

Mr. and Mrs. W. James Edwards III

Ms. Lupe Erwin

Pat Felbinger

Carole and Robert* Follman

Mrs. Donna Foulger

Frome Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/ Kay K. Fukunaga

The Doug* and Julie Garn Family

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Garrett

Cory Glass

The Grosvenor Family

Mrs. Vicki Gumm / Kling Family Foundation

Kim and Scott Harris-Weiner

Alice and Kevin Hayes

Gavin and Ninetta Herbert

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hess

Constance Hsu-Chernault

Mr. Matthew M. Jadali

Gay and Rob Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Kuluris

Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Livingston*

The Louise Merage Family Foundation

Brad and Becky Lund

Robert D. and Patricia B. MacDonald*

Mr. and Mrs.* Robert J. Mairena

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Meehan

Twyla Martin and Gerald Parsky

Lauri McIntosh and John Bottjer

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Meiling

Lisa and Richard Merage

Steven Militzok

Pam and Jim Muzzy

Nguyen Financial Group, Chien Nguyen and Danny Nguyen

Mr. Rienaldy Nupen

Annette and Joseph Oltmans II

Patrick E. Paddon and S. Leslie Jewett

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Pitts

Ms. Karen Rabe

Joan Riach Gayner

Ms. Maria Rigatti

Joan and Alan Sellers

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Selva

Shorebreak Foundation, LLC

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Marca and Brian Singer

Mr. and Mrs. Evan Slavik

The Sommerville Trust

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.) and Mr. Ygal Sonenshine

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Steinmann

Brian and Tracie Sullivan

Katie and Peter Szyman

Donna and Ray Thagard, Jr.

Kelly Thomson

Tsao Family Foundation

Stacey and Paul Von Berg

The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family

Dr. Kevin O’Grady and Mrs. Nella Webster

Paige West

$10,000+

Anonymous

Mr. Alex Bhathal

Mr. and Mrs.* David C. Brown

David and Suzanne Chonette

The Crean Foundation

Michael Dreyer and Hannah An

Judi Dutton

Robert* and LaDorna* Eichenberg

The Eisman Family

Danika Felty and Victor Ronchetti

Lynn and Douglas K. Freeman

Ms. Mary Gilly Graham

Bill* and Harriet Harris

Hoelscher-Bell-Elliott Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Gary T. Jenkins

Josephine Herbert Gleis Foundation

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

Douglas (Tad) Lowrey and Gayle Lowrey

Ray Melissa and Elena Bedford

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Middleton

Mr. Maurice Murray and Dr. Jennifer Ballinger Murray

Bob and Christie Narver

Neil and Barbara Phillips Trust

Helga Pralle

Ms. Christy A. Rosen

Trish and Steve Scarborough

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

Emmanuel Sharef and Emilia Yin

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Owen Shea

Richard and Patricia Shinto

Kimberly and Joshua Snyder

Arlo and Marci Sorensen

Nancy and Geoffrey Stack

The Suire Family

Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney

Mr. and Mrs. Victor Tsao

Adam and Artemis Tuliper

Mr. and Ms. Wes Whitmore

In memory of Barbara Steele Williams*

$5,000+

Anonymous

Mrs. Olivia Abel

Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus Arman

Dr. Fernando H. Austin

Dr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Bain

Katheryn Baker

Sally Bender

Mr. and Mrs. Colin Best

Dr.* and Mrs. John R. Betson

Barbara and Alex Bowie

Mrs. Frances Buchanan

Kimberly Burge

Mrs. Kate Carlton

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cohn in honor of George Schreyer

Mr. Gordon Cowan

Dr. and Mrs. David Eggleston

Susan and Robert Ehrlich

Alexander Eliseev and Ilmira Museeva

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes II

Shari and Harry Esayian

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Estabrooks

Ashley and Zach Fischer

Iris and Arnold Frankel

Dr. Robert Furman

Gleicher / Chen Family Foundation

Marlene and Sam* Hamontree

Karen Hardin-Swickard

Ms. Kerry L. Hedley

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Himes

David L. Horowitz Family

Ms. Victoria Hutton

Mr. Rodney Imai

The Jaffe Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jaffee

Donna Janes

Jessica and James Johnson

Janice M. and Roger* W. Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy M. Jones

Nicole and Steve Joseph

Dr. Tatiana Kain and Dr. Zeev Kain

Don and Soogie Kang

Randy and Linda Kearns

Teri Kennady

Eve A. Kornyei

Mr. Peter Krieger

Ms. Fiona LeCong-Ly and Dr. Vietnam Ly

Dr. and Mrs. Milton Legome

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Edward LeVasseur, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Lewis

Corey and Leslie Leyton

Liz Shea Designs

Monika Lopez

Patricia Ann and Robert M. Marshall

Ms. Caren Mason

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Matheson

George and Sarah McDaniel

Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Meltzer

Michelle Merage

Paul and Lilly Merage

John and Karen Meston

Willis L. and Dorothy M. Miller and Family

Moises Montoya

Vanessa Moore

Trish and John* O’Donnell

Evelyn and Pete Parrella

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Perry

Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Primm

Charlie and Kristi Proctor

Mr. and Mrs. John Rayburn

Marilyn Hester Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Loren Rojek

Charles and Kathy Rosenberger

Kathryn Rousek Smith

Jan Vitti Rubel

Melinda and Steven Sanders

Sandy and Harriet Sandhu

David and Orva Schramm

Mrs. Patricia Shiley Magana

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Spanos

Dr. and Mrs. Barry D. Steele

Susan M. and Timothy L. Strader Family

Peter and Mary Tennyson

Dr. and Mrs. DeLane Thyen

Linda Tsai

Amy and Jeffrey Vieth

Dr. Christina Wainwright and Mr. Shep Wainwright

Mr.* and Mrs. Laurence M. Watson

Paul and Cheryl Wyrick

Darren and Christina Xanthos

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Yourman

$2,500+

Anonymous (2)

Laurie and Jonathan Abelove

Ms. Kathy R. Akashi

Juanita Albro

Mr. Paul Anderson and Ms. Jessica Parris

Ms. Iris Asbury

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bailey

Sharon Barrett

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bein

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Benkie

Barbara J. Benson

David Bixler and Kristine Kaneko

Mark and Marilyn Bleak

Mrs. Kimberly and Dr. Stephen Bowen

Bill and Judy Brady

Elisabeth and Dr. Frank Brow

Darryl Button

Ms. Constance Callan

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Callard

Jean Campbell

Luisa Cano

Chadwick Family

Marty Chao and Jean Chung

Mrs. Stella Mae Charton

Chelsea and Mark Chiaramonte

Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino

Robert and Diana Clemmer

Ronna and Donald Coe

Collect Random and the Randos

Sean Connolly

Corkett/Myers Families

Mr. Jeff Cowan

Greg and Donna Crandall

Michael and Anne Crawford

Mrs. Barbara Cunningham

Victoria Cushey

Noël Davis

Dr. Daniel P. Dennies

Mrs. Sandra DiSario

Lynda Tryon Einstein

Mr. Alexander Eliseev and Mrs. Ilmira Museeva

Emmons-Babilo Family

Michael G. Ermer

Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Evarts

Farmers & Merchants Bank

Robert Farnsworth and Lori Grayson

Ms. Roberta Feuerstein

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Fishman

Mrs. Bridget Ford

Ms. Gwendolyn Forquer

Mrs. Maria E. Francis

Steve* and Cindy Fry / Fry Family Foundation

Mike and Sharon Galassi

Ms. Cheryl Garland

Mrs. Jerra L. Garrett

Ms. Rhona W. Gewelber

Julie Gialketsis

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Mr. William Gordon and Dr. Susan M. Condrey

Ms. Bridget Gormly

Mr. Donald Gormly

Dr. Lorellen Green

Bruce and Eileen Harrigan

Tim and Mary Harward

Mark and Kristine Howlett

Mark Ike

Jackson Tidus

Mrs. Susie Jaqua

Tom Jenkins

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keith

Keller Family Fund

Jennifer Keller

Kentec Medical Inc

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Klein

Mr. and Mrs. Rick Knowland

Dr. Elliott Kornhauser

Randy and Sarah Lake

Dr.* and Mrs. Paul K. Lam

Latham & Watkins

Ms. Michelle Lee

Steven and Rose Lesser

Jeanne Lewand

Mark and Felicia LeWinter

Paula Lingelbach

Jacqueline Lombardi

In Memory of Ed Lynch

In Memory of Victorio Adan Maestas

Dr. Goran S. Matijasevic

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Mawhorter

R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel

Susan Mears

Mr. and Mrs. David V. Melilli

Thomas and Deanna Mitro

Tom and Naomi Moon

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Morris

In memory of Mr. Robert T. Newell

Newmeyer & Dillion

The Minoru Nitta Family

Tamara Octavio

Rey O’Day

Ms. Carla Pellicano

Ms. Diane Peterson

Pharris Group

Mr. Willard Pierce

Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc.

Mr. Mark Pomerantz

Mrs. Tricia Pratto

Patricia Price and Craig Behrens

Marcia Kay and Ron Radelet

Dallas and Dannie Raines, in honor of Jane Yada

John Rallis and Mary Lynn BergmanRallis

Mr. Michael Reimer

Suzanne C. and Jim H. Reinhardt

Mr. Rick Reischman

David* and Linda Roberson Family

Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne

Lisa Rutherford

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schneider

Mrs. Bonnie Scidmore

Bill and Ronna Shipman

Ms. Shari Simmons

Lance and Deborah Slimmer

Dr. John J. Smith and Mr. Edward R. Escoto

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Stein

Ronald and June Stein

Lisa and Wayne Stelmar

Susan and Richard Stuelke

Dr. Richard Sundell

Mr. Lee R. Sutherland

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Sweeney

Michael and Suzanne Tague

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thacker

Mitchell and Donna Thiessen

Mary Tolar

Dr. David L. Tsoong and Dr. Betty K. Tu

Ms. Patricia Turney

Ann Van Ausdeln

S. Vander Wal and S. Vincent

Ambassador and Mrs. Gaddi H. Vasquez

Isabelle Villasenor

Megan and John Waldeck

In Memory of Robert D. Walters

Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard

S. Gayle Widyolar, M.D.

Mrs. Bobbitt Williams

D and G Winzey

Lidia Yan and Elton Chung

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Zadjmool

Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. Zipser

*in memoriam

ENDOWMENT

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

thanks the following donors who have generously provided support to the Center’s Endowment Funds. Gifts to the Endowment provide financial support for our artistic and education programs every year. Funds exist in perpetuity as investments whose earnings make the arts accessible for future generations.

$1,000,000 +

Audrey Steele Burnand*

Estate of Edra E. Brophy / William J. Gillespie Foundation

Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester Family Foundation

W. M. Keck Foundation

Barbara Steele Williams Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steele*

Harry and Grace Steele Foundation

Swenson Family Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

The Segerstrom Foundation

$500,000 +

Dr. Michael M.* and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns

Fluor Corporation

The Fluor Foundation

Carol Frobish*

Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times

Rockwell

Estate of Karen Ann Roos

Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*

$250,000 +

Bank of America

Nancy Marie Biram*

The First American Corporation

Patricia Fredricks-Dolson

Edison International

Isidore C. and Penny W.* Myers

$100,000 +

Daniel C.* and Janet S. Bonbright and Sons

Estate of Ford A. and Wilma J. Dickerhoff

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Engman

Helen B. Fait

Elizabeth E. Fleming*

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz

Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*

Peter G. and Mary M. Muth* and Family

Estate of Michael D. and Lorraine C. Nadler

Nestle USA, Inc.

The Orange County Register

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith

Ronald E. Soderling

Virginia Valentine

Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch

Estate of Jane D. Zimmerman

Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin

$50,000 +

The Birtcher Family

Founders Plus

Evelyn and Richard Francuz

Sonia and Earle Ike

Barbara Hiller Johnson

Mark Chapin Johnson

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin

Palley-Needelman Asset Management

Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux

Ralphs / Food 4 Less

Estate of Howard G. and Margaret C. Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer

Al and Susan Shankle

Mr. Stewart R. Smith

Ms. Anita Sparrow*

Wells Fargo

In memory of Barbara Steele Williams

$25,000 +

The Beall Family

Victor H. Boyd

Dr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Burnett

Chris and Lee Ann Canaday

The Carl and Patricia Neisser Family Trust

Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino

David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David

Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family

Ruth Ding, in memory of Thomas and Mary Lee

James* and Catherine Emmi

Dr. Dennis R. Fratt

The Baker Frenzel Family

Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Hamann

Nat S. and April D. Harty

Las Campanas of Orange County

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas

Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer

Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik

Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson

Joseph and Mary Norton Family

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Harold Miller*

O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp Jr.

Nicholas S. Patin

Stanley R. Robb Family

In honor of Mary Isabelle Sandberg

Robert J. Searles

In memory of Renée Segerstrom

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

In memory of Faye Wilkinson

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson

$10,000 +

Mrs. Donald V. Bassler

The William A. Baxter Family

George and Jacqueline Birdsong

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Birtcher

Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie

Susan Boyd

Mr. Lawrence H. Butler Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan

The Clubhouse

Con Gusto Chapter of The Guilds of the Center

Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr.

Ms. Julie Brinkerhof Edwards

Mr. Aaron Egigian

Alan* and Sandy Fainbarg Family

John and Carolyn Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. McQuarrie

GoodSmith & Co., Inc.

William K. and Maxine Gresswell*

Dr. and Mrs. G. Stanley Hall

Gayford and Mary Hinton

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoshaw

Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Jaeger

Ronald E. and Debra P.* Jagner

Hunter B. Keck

Mrs. Suzanne Kline

Dr. Elliott Kornhauser

Mrs. Susan Lambrose

Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof

Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper

Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory

Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey

R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel

Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm

Estate of Ralph and Rose Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr.

Newmeyer & Dillion

Jerry Nourse

Cheryl Hill Oakes

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Paone

Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls

Mr. Charles Peyton, II

Betty Mower Potalivo

Ted and Jean Robinson and Family

Mrs. Betty Scheidt

Douglas F. Schneider and Family

Rudolph C. Schweitzer*

In memory of Hartley M. Sears

Renée and Henry T. Segerstrom*

Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family

Linda and Harvey A. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling

Steven-Thomas Antiques

The Stone Family

Dr. Max Swancutt Jr.

Mr. Stewart C. Woodard

Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina

Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten

Mr. Edward H. Wale

Margaret and Maurie Watman

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orrin Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yellin*

LEGACY SOCIETY

Segerstrom Center for the Arts thanks the following donors who have included the Center in their estate plans. These gifts help ensure that we allow access to the arts for the entire community. For more information on how to include the Center in your estate plans

please contact Elizabeth Kurila, CSPG, Associate Vice President, Development, 714.942.6275

Anonymous (3)

Edna and Julio Aljure

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen

Bart and Elizabeth Asner

Doug and Jaimee Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett

John and Betty Barr

Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti

Dr. Michael M.* and Patricia A. Berns

Katherine and Howard Bland

Barbara and Alex Bowie

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr.

Charles “Chip” Caldwell

Dr.* and Mrs. James H. Casey

Elizabeth and David* Cole

David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David

John and Jennifer Condas

Dr. Susan M. Condrey and William Gordon

Randy and Sally Crockett

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis

Mr. Joe DiCorpo and Ms. Mia MacDougall

Annette Doreng-Sterns

Mary Jane McArthur Edalatpour and Nasrola Edalatpour

Eileen J. Cirillo Trust

Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II

Shari and Harry Esayian

Mr. Harold W. Faber

Ms. Linda S. Ford

Dr. Dennis R. Fratt

Mrs. Sandra M. French

Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/Kay K. Fukunaga

John and Carolyn Garrett

Jackie Glass

Jean and Fred* Hamann

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Hammond

Howard and Carol Hay

Steve Heit

Lawrence and Dolores Higby

Higgins Family Trust

David L. Horowitz Family

Mark and Kristine Howlett

S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation

Traute Huycke

Ken Jillson and Al Roberts*

Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss

Mr. Gary A. Kreitz and Ms. Joyce Singman

Elizabeth Kurila and Michael Mindlin

Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon

Richard and Gerrie Leeds

Michael and Lee Ann Litterst

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

James, Charlene and Katherine MacDonald

Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald

The McLarand Family Trust

Marcia L. Millen

Mr. Robin B. Miner

Ethan Morgan

Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo

Rick Muth

Thomas H. and Marilyn* Nielsen

Cheryl Hill Oakes

O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc. / Carolyn O’Neill

Mrs. Charlotte R. Paluzzi

Lenore and Carl* Pearlston

Mark and Carol Perry

Jackie Singer and John Pope

Jeffrey A. Punim, M.D.

Mr. Burton Reis

David* and Linda Roberson Family

Roberta Bouillon Trust

Ted and Jean Robinson and Family

Mr. Richard K. Rosenberg

Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne

Bev and Bob Sandelman

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schoellerman

Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer

In Memory of Allen O. Smith

Steven M. Sorenson, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sparks

David and Diane Steffy

Richard R. and Phoebe Stenton

Dr. Arthur Strick

Tammy and Samuel Tang

Ms. Nancy B. Tepper

Don L. Thompson

Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family

Gary and Jeri Turner

Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten

Christopher O. Veitch

Stacey and Paul Von Berg

The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family

Ms. Jill H. Watkins

Kent J. and Carol L. Wilken Family

Dr. David and Audrey Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin

*in memoriam

Center Staff

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Casey Reitz, President & CEO

Angelica Camarillo, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison

OPERATIONS

Brian Finck, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer•

Finance

Seila Heng, Controller•

MeiMei Chiang, Senior Accountant

Andrew Hudson, Assistant Controller

Monica Drescher, Generalist, Accounting•

Rita Mai, Staff Accountant

Information Technology

Dean Yarborough, Chief Information Officer

David Frederick, Director, Information Technology•

Samwel Basweti, Engineer, Network

Mario Hortizuela, Specialist, Systems Support

Erik Lomack, Generalist, IT Support

Dee Bierschenk, Analyst, Databases

Richard Todd, Manager, Ticketing Functional Support•

Ashley Gaddis, Functional Support, Ticketing•

Theater Operations & Facilities

David Leavenworth, Vice President, Theater Operations & Facilities•

Brian Keating, Director, Facilities and Engineering•

Max Stossier, Director, Theater Operations•

Lindy Luong, Manager, Facility Rentals

Glenn Powell, Manager, Production, Event Operations

Mary Arkfeld, Manager, Operations, Event Operations

Aidan Daguro, Assistant Manager, Production, Event Operations

Brennan Roach, Supervisor, Event Operations•

Denise Cruz, Coordinator, Production, Event Operations

Jordan Smyth, Manager, Special Projects

Dawson McDonald, Coordinator, Theater Operations

Engineering

Bryan Vojtko, Senior Building Engineer•

Richard Whitfield, Senior Building Engineer•

Bryan Murphy, Building Engineer 2

Gus Aleman, Building Engineer

Sean Robertson, Building Engineer

Amber Secor, Building Engineer

Security

Michael Bogosian, Director, Security Operations

Anthony Bordon, Manager, Security Operations

Tyler Cole, Manager, Public Safety and Training•

Jaime Paz, Assistant Manager, Security

Alvin Camacho, Supervisor, Security

Shey Leir, Supervisor, Security

John Standokes, Supervisor, Security

Sage Williamson, Supervisor, Security

Lee Yepez, Supervisor, Security•

HUMAN RESOURCES

Marvin Lee, Vice President, Human Resources

Maile Sagiao, Director, Human Resources

Stefani Taylor, Manager, Recruitment

Karen Duncan, Generalist, Human Resources•

Jon Gibson, HRIS Specialist

Indicates years of service:

PROGRAMMING & PRODUCTION

Limor Tomer, Vice President, Programming and Production

Stacey Myers, Manager, Attorney/Contracts•

Priscilla Reyes, Manager, Community Programming

Kelly Ornelas, Executive Assistant & Programming Coordinator•

Education & Engagement

Lisa Morabito Petersen, Vice President, Education & Engagement

Emily Neely, Director, Engagement

Cristal Ochoa, Director, Education Programs

Alexis Johnson, Senior Manager, Education Partnerships•

Chloe Saalsaa, Senior Manager, Studio D

Bethany Umbach, Senior Manager, Education Programs•

Michael Mariano, Associate Manager, Education Partnerships•

Scarlet Wu, Associate Manager, Education Programs

Katie Nguyen, Senior Coordinator, Education Partnerships

Adriana Alvarez, Coordinator, Studio D

Joanna Huang, Coordinator, Ed. Programs

Emma Marting, Coordinator, Ed. Programs

Talia Hirsch, Associate, Ed. Partnerships

Jordyn Williams, Associate, Ed. Operations

Production

John Oliphant, Senior Director, Production and Technical•

Segerstrom Hall

Willy J Pate, Production Carpenter

Sara Broadhead, Head Electrician•

James Wilcox, Head Audio Engineer

Chris Alva, Assistant In-Charge Multicraft•

Tim Ligatti, Assistant In-Charge Carpenter•

Matthew Cadenhead, Assistant In-Charge Electrician

Michael Clifford, Assistant Carpenter

Sean Roach, Assistant Multicraft

Ariel Mouzo, Assistant Multicraft

Alexis Vasquez Riggs, Wardrobe Supervisor

Kim Robinson, Hair & Makeup Supervisor

Renée and Henry Segerstrom

Concert Hall & Samueli Theater

John Vasquez, Production Carpenter

Gregg Snider, Head Electrician•

John Downey, Head Audio Engineer•

Phil Harris, Assistant Multicraft

Eileen Jeanette, Tönmeister

Mark Cook, Assistant Electrician•

Timothy Schmidt, Assistant Audio Engineer

American Ballet Theatre

William J. Gillespie School

Susan Brooker, Artistic Director, ABT

Sarah Jones, Associate Director, ABT

Mary Dunne, Coordinator, ABT

DEVELOPMENT

Abigail Buell Sherlock, Vice President, Development

Elizabeth Kurila, Associate Vice President, Development

Courtney Dudman-Donley, Senior Director, Special Events & Support Groups

Tyler Choi, Director, Institutional Giving

Kay Linan Clark, Associate Director, Individual Giving

Suzanne Gregory, Associate Director, Development Operations

Johnny Eberhardt, Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

Emily Hunn, Senior Manager, Support Groups

Bernadette Ramos, Senior Manager, Donor Relations

Jamie Roff, Senior Manager, Development Systems•

April Kunowski, Manager, Planned and Major Gifts

Danielle McMahan, Manager, Special Events

Samuel Nordrum, Manager, Annual Giving

Shimin Zheng, Manager, Support Groups

Marisa Rambaran, Prospect Researcher and Development Operations

Katie Lockie, Assistant Manager, Donor Stewardship

Emily Pearce, Assistant Manager, Support Groups

Camille Slusher, Assistant Manager, Annual Giving

Sierra Detar, Special Events Officer

Olivia Vezner, Specialist, Special Events

Reina Pelky, Coordinator, Donor Relations

Jessica Salazar, Coordinator, Development Operations

Audrey Burton, Executive Assistant, Development

MARKETING & GUEST SERVICES

Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Carla Cruz, Senior Director, Communications

Emyli Gudmundson, Senior Director, Program Marketing

Jonathan Vietze, Senior Director, Series Marketing•

Christopher Alvarez, Director, Creative Services•

Karen Drum, Director, Publications•

Anne McNiff-Gaeta, Director, Group Services•

Jennifer Burroughs, Manager, Digital Marketing

Joesan Diche, Manager, eCommerce Marketing•

Emily Doughty, Manager, Social Media

Karla Torres, Manager, Marketing Operations•

Ken Catino, Senior Graphic Designer•

Marianne Luwiharto, Graphic Designer

Jennifer Siglin, Graphic Designer•

Susie Lopez, Specialist, Communications

William Olivieri, Specialist, Marketing & Advertising

Jacquelyn Pash, Specialist, Communications

Diana Torres, Assistant, Group Sales•

Lily Figueroa, Coordinator, Marketing

Ticketing

Ruth Mason, Director, Ticket Services

Karen Diche, Manager, Season Tickets•

Richard Ong, Manager, Calling Center•

Nicki Wilmot, Manager, Box Office

Evan Silveria, Assistant Manager, Box Office•

Amelia Lindqvist, Supervisor, Contact Center

Ray Madrid, Supervisor, Box Office

Sam Preshaw, Supervisor, Box Office

Hannah Schill, Supervisor, Ticket Services

Amanda Snell, Supervisor, Ticket Services

Charlotte Kenney, Lead, Ticket Services

Hailey Guerrero, Lead, Ticket Services

Ashley Isodoro, Specialist, Customer Services

Vanessa Resendiz, Specialist, Customer Services

Marcie Bernal, Receptionist•

Alberto Ponce, Coordinator, Office Services•

Audience Services

Norm Major III, Director, Audience Services•

Sue Laird, Senior Manager, Audience Services

Ashleigh Hector, Manager, Audience Services•

Alex Lum, Asst. Manager, Audience Services•

Regine Rutherfurd, Administrative Assistant, Audience Services

MAR

22

ANGELA HEWITT

“I know of no musician whose Bach playing is of greater subtlety, beauty of tone, persuasiveness of judgment or instrumental command”

BBC Music Magazine PROGRAM

BACH Partita No. 5 in G major

SCHUMANN Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 INTERMISSION

COUPERIN From the Sixième Ordre

Les Moissonneurs

Les Langueurs-Tendres

Les Baricades Mistérieuses

Les Bergeries

Le Moucheron

RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin

This concert is sponsored by Parnassus Society & KUSC

MAR 28

An Evening With

KEB’ MO’

“I’m still breathing, and I’m still hungry. I’m still out there going for it every single day.” - Keb Mo

Five-time GRAMMY® winner and 14-time Blues Foundation Award recipient Keb’ Mo’ brings his iconic, genre-blending blues to the stage for an unforgettable night with one of American music’s most celebrated artists.

This concert is sponsored by KCRW & KJAZZ