June-August, 2021 Concert Season The Chords That Bridge Making the Music Our Community Deserves for 42 Years

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This year we’ll be requiring all participating musicians be either vaccinated or regularly tested negative. Audience30 – 9:00 members p.m. will be required to pre-register onlineLawrence in advance Memorial and willing Chapel, to have their510 temperaturesE. College Avenue, taken as we Appleton check them into the performance. Masks covering mouth and nose will be required.

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Suggested Donation: Please be as generous as you can. And if you can contribute more to ‘pay it forward’ for somebody else, that’d be wonderful.

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The Green Lake Festival of Music, Inc. is a tax-deductible 501c3 non-profit corporation whose mission is to entertain, inspire, and educate through musical performances and activities of the highest quality. Comments and questions about the Festival and its programs are always welcome. Please contact the Green Lake Festival of Music office at: PO Box 569, Green Lake, WI 54941 920-748-9398, [email protected] or GreenLakeFestival.org The Green Lake Festival of Music, Inc. is a member of Chamber Music America, the Green Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, the Ripon Area Chamber of Commerce, Arts Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Presenters Network. The Green Lake Festival of Music is supported in part by the Arts Midwest Touring Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional funding from the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Crane Group, and General Mills Foundations. Other funding comes from the Horicon Bank, Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, and private/corporate donations. Wisconsin Public Radio has provided promotional support. The Chords That Bridge Making the Music Our Community Deserves for 42 Years

Table of Contents

Doug Morris, In Memoriam...... 2 Welcome from the President...... 4 Greetings from the Festival Director ...... 5 Distinguished Friends of the Festival ...... 6 2020-2021 Business Sponsors...... 9 Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concerts...... 10 Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society...... 12 Chaeyoung Park Piano Recital...... 14 The Songs of Morten Lauridsen...... 16 Hearts All Whole – The Music of Morten Lauridsen...... 20 Calendar: Schedule of Events & Performance Locations...... 24 Spektral Quartet in Concert...... 26 Circle of Sound Barn Concert ...... 28 Chamber Music Faculty Concert...... 32 Cabaret Gala Remembering Douglas Morris...... 34 Third Lake Brass Quintet...... 38 Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble...... 40 Board of Directors, Staff, & Friends of the Festival...... 42 The Encore Society...... 43 Donors ...... 44 History of the Green Lake Festival of Music ...... 48

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GreenLakeFestival.org • 920-748-9398 Douglas Morris — In Memoriam

Tribute by Magda Krance, Associate Board Member

The Green Lake Festival of Music is a thriving musical garden that perennially refreshes and replenishes our community. Doug Morris (1941-2020) was the metaphorical master gardener who dreamed it into being and sowed its hopeful seeds. With abundant faith, charm, persuasion, hard work, serendipity, and a steadfast circle of support, he brought the festival into joyful being in 1979. Lucky us.

His earlier life and career comprised considerable triumphs over adversity, gallons of lemonade from life’s lemons. The sixth of seven children, Doug was born in Greenville, SC, then moved to Oak Ridge and Knoxville, TN. Money was tight; like his siblings, Doug learned the value of hard work early on. They also learned the magic of making music together, with their mother at the piano and their father singing in a beautiful baritone.

For years Doug may have been the friendliest fellow in school because he couldn’t see who was approaching. Glasses transformed his life as a high-school junior; soon after, he got involved in church music and choral workshops, and learned how to conduct and teach music. He earned his B.A. in voice (UT-Knoxville), M.A. in voice and choral music (UA-Fayetteville), and his D.M.A. in voice performance and musicology (UW-Madison). A sought-after baritone soloist for Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’s German Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and other seminal works, he also performed over the years with the London Bach Choir, Blossom Festival Chorus, and Robert Shaw Singers. Along the way he married fellow musician Gailya Finley, with whom he had three children: Carla, Alison, and Rick.

As a new music professor at Ripon College, Doug built enrollment by recruiting the best area students. Former opera singer Gail Dobish recalls that meeting him changed “the entire course of my life.” Doug found financial aid for her, “taught me how to be a better singer, and opened my eyes to some of the possibilities of a professional career. More importantly, Doug taught me about life and encouraged me to dream. All the tenacity, creativity, vision, commitment, and dreaming that I experienced with Doug were exactly the same qualities he brought to the Green Lake Festival of Music.”

After exhilarating experiences with major festivals and workshops elsewhere, Doug decided that if he built a lively, accessible summer classical music festival in this area, we would come. And we did. He recruited the excellent Mirecourt Trio as resident artists when they became friends after concerts at Ripon College. Similarly, Sir David Willcocks

2 GreenLakeFestival.org said yes immediately when Doug, who’d Douglas Morris — In Memoriam spent a sabbatical with him in London, invited the eminent choral conductor to lead annual choral workshops and concerts. Several fine guest artists enriched the programming each season, as well. Doug also led five international tours with the Festival Chorus. New works were commissioned nearly every season, and audiences enjoyed performances of varied repertoire in several venues throughout our region.

The festival blossomed and grew, and became an essential part of this community and our lives. “He delighted in the whole thing and was completely natural about what he was trying to achieve,” daughter Carla recalls. “He believed deeply in what the works expressed and what the composers intended. The point was to be transported by music making.”

When Doug turned 50 in 1991, his second wife Sherry Fitzmorris (also a founding board member), commissioned Sir David to compose a piece for baritone and piano—cleverly composed in 50 measures to mark the occasion. The Festival also commissioned Sir David to write When Music Sounds for Doug’s retirement in 1998.

“Many people have picked up Doug’s mantle to expand and sustain the Festival since its humble beginnings,” notes Gail Dobish. “They have done and continue to do incredible work. But Doug was the visionary who planted all the seeds that have enriched so many peoples’ lives.”

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 3 Greetings from the President

Dear Green Lake Festival of Music family,

I am delighted that you can join us for this year’s season, after the disappointment we all felt having to cancel every one of the in-person events at last year’s Festival.

I certainly want to thank Maria Dietrich, Deb MacKenzie, and Sam Handley who worked so hard as a team to keep the Festival going virtually. But I also want to extend the heartfelt thanks from the Board of Trustees to all of you – who have continued to contribute financially to the Festival during these challenging times. Because of your generous backing, we were not only able to keep the Festival afloat, but also to help support all the musicians who had planned to perform for us in 2020. As a result, you will see many of them again this year. Thank you again.

During the lockdown, the Board conducted a survey that included questions to help us refine the role that the Festival provides. Not surprisingly our number one goal is to continue to provide high-quality music to Green Lake and the surrounding area. But the second goal is to provide this in friendly, intimate settings where audiences can build their relationships with the musicians, and friendships with each other. So, we are delighted that this year we will be able to resume offering this second benefit. Maybe not quite to the extent that we have been able to do in the past - but just as fast as we can in safety.

As always, we welcome your advice, suggestions, and most of all, your continued involvement in this, your Festival.

So, Welcome Back!

Lloyd Hughes, Festival President

4 GreenLakeFestival.org Greetings from The Festival Director

Welcome to the 42nd Season of your Green Lake Festival of Music—a season full of The Chords that Bridge. Music has been sustaining us through this pandemic, and music is now what brings us back together. This summer we celebrate the unity that music provides as the transcendent force that has continued to bridge us together over the decades, from the beginning of the Festival, through happiness and heartbreak, and into our bright future.

One of my great joys this last year has been getting to know so many of you I’d only met briefly before my being named Festival Director. Everyone—each one of you—has been welcoming and encouraging. You have my deepest thanks.

Thank you also for your involvement and support. Our Festival has a big mission but a small staff. We rely on the loving labors of the Friends of the Festival—family, really—to accomplish much of what it takes to get from an idea to an experience.

Continuing so many experiences free of charge also takes funds. This last year we have been so fortunate in all senses of the word, and it’s because of you—our community—and your support. Vocally, online, emotionally, financially, and physically you have stood behind our mission and the staff and musicians it requires. Though last year’s season was entirely online, there has been nothing “virtual” about what you have done for your Green Lake Festival of Music family, and we are grateful.

Though we’ve lost several beloved members of the GLFM family, their memories will enliven this and future seasons. Our Cabaret Gala on July 23 celebrates the memory of founding director Douglas Morris. Jack Penn continues to make his warm smile felt throughout the season, as does Tom Gnewuch—whose visionary words “This Community Deserves Great Music” inspired this season’s tagline.

With that in our hearts, let us remember we are a Festival and we can celebrate all we have and all we enjoy together. So let’s do it!

Please help us continue providing the music our community deserves by donating what you’re able, including time, energy, and ideas, in addition to funds. Equally important, attend the concerts!

We’re delighted to have you join us this year in person by first registering online at GreenLakeFestival.org. However, for those who prefer to join us remotely, we’ll also offer online presentations for almost every event. You may find more information on GreenLakeFestival.Org, or our Facebook and Instagram pages. Certainly feel free to sign up for our emails, too.

Be well, and let’s enjoy our Festive 2021 season!

Sam Handley, Festival Director

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 5 Distinguished Friend of the Festival In 1990 we established this award to recognize individuals who have given outstanding service to the Festival through the donation of their time, expertise, in-kind, or financial contributions. The following individuals have received this honor:

• 1990 – Dr. Burton Kilbourne • 2003 – Kirin Nielsen • 2014 – John & Jane Chapman & Lucile Morton-Grams• 2004 – Constance Koehne • 2015 – Jan White-Moon • 1991 – Virginia Kraut • 2005 – Robert W. Dott • 2016 – Mary Lehwald Lofgren • 1992 – George Miller • 2006 – Maria Dietrich • 2017 – Thomas E. Caestecker • 1993 – Nancy Vandervelde • 2007 – Thatcher Peterson • 2018 – Betsey & Larry Miller • 1994 – Elizabeth Blodgett • 2008 – Jim & Nancy Hynes • 2019 – David Woods • 1995 – Roberta Boismenue • 2009 – Gladys Veidemanis • 2020 – Laura Deming • 1996 – Sylvia Richards • 2010 – Todd & Betty Berens & Jack Stubbs • 1997 – Shirley Sather • 2011 – Je annette & Jim • 2021 – Maria & Kurt Dietrich • 1998 – Douglas Morris Kreston • 1999 – Sir David Willcocks • 2012 – Julie Ann Lickteig • 2000 – John Roesch & Tom Gnewuch • 2001 – Robert House • 2013 – Anthea Kreston • 2002 – Jonathan Willcocks & Jason Duckles

Distinguished Friend of the Festival 2020: Laura Deming & Jack Stubbs GLFM is the metaphorical cherry on top of Laura Deming’s distinguished career as a musician, music festival director, conductor, and teacher. An accomplished cellist, Laura joined the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra in 1976 just one week after graduating from Northwestern University, and enjoyed a remarkable 44-year career at Lyric, retiring in June 2020. During five sabbatical years, she played principal cello with Michigan Opera Theatre; taught cello and conducted the symphony/community orchestra at Northern Michigan University-Marquette and the Upper Peninsula Youth Orchestra; founded the Pine Mountain Music Festival; taught cello and conducted the ensembles at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee; and formed the Clarus Piano Trio with violinist Tim Klabunde and pianist Dr. Eun-Joo Kwak.

6 GreenLakeFestival.org We can thank Gladys Veidemanis for conscripting Laura and her husband Jack Stubbs (a retired Methodist minister) into the GLFM family, along with their niece, violist Martha Mulcahy, whose participation in the 2014 GLFM Chamber Music Camp was transformational. Laura and Jack attended the festival frequently in support of Martha, and also as chauffeur/guests of Gladys. Laura shared some “improving remarks” concerning the festival with Mrs. V., who in turn shared them with then-board president David Woods. Meetings ensued, David’s persistence paid off, and Laura eventually agreed to serve as a consultant, then interim director, and eventually as director of the festival.

Her goals were simple but not easy: build a community for outstanding music; build a culture of generosity and philanthropy, provide personal, welcoming hospitality for visiting artists; develop guest housing in the community for in-kind support and build relationships between community and artists; and nurture artistic excellence while providing a personal, intimate concert experience for performers and audiences — casual, professional, and fun.

As Laura recalls, “Audiences had been small. Single concert tickets were expensive enough to discourage some and inexpensive enough to make others wonder if the artistic quality was as excellent as the Festival boasted. It was. It also gave the false impression that the ticket price covered the cost of the concert. It didn’t.”

Jack made a radical suggestion: charge nothing for concerts and invite attendees to donate what they could. The board agreed to give it a try; in the first year donations nearly equaled previous ticket revenue, and the audience doubled in size. Seeing more full houses energized performers and audiences alike. Expanding performances to area churches, schools, and retirement communities, in addition to Green Lake’sThrasher Opera House and Ripon College’s Rodman Center for the Arts, helped foster bonds between festival and community. Through generous gifts of all sizes, more than $500,000 was raised over the course of the three-year 40th Anniversary Legacy campaign. The endowment is now nearing $1 million, providing interest income to help support programming. Before concluding her five-year tenure, Laura also oversaw the launching of the composer residency program.

Laura credits Jack for having “supported, listened, consoled, counseled, contributed, volunteered, and inspired me, even when he got no recognition for the behind-the-scenes role he played. It’s impossible to measure Jack’s influence. I could not have done this without him.

“The nicest thing that can happen in retirement is seeing the Festival thrive under new leadership. Thank you to the board for supporting me during some very challenging times, and thank you to the life-long friends I’ve made through the Festival. How wonderful it will be to come together again and experience the magic, beauty, power, and wonder of music.”

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 7 Distinguished Friend of the Festival

2021: Maria and Kurt Dietrich

Perennially sunny, gracious, and charming, Maria Dietrich has played essential leading roles in Green Lake Festival of Music directly and indirectly. During her first tenure, as administrative director of the Festival (1991-2006), she worked closely with Doug Morris for seven years and then Jeannette Kreston for eight years. When Maria first joined the Festival staff, her sons Paul and Erik were 3 and 7 respectively; luckily, her husband Kurt, a music professor at Ripon College, handled much of the child care during the Festival’s high season. Maria remembers summers “as a gradual crescendo culminating in the choral week with Sir David Willcocks and Jonathan Willcocks, and later, Stephen Alltop.” Several times, on short notice, she was cajoled into playing piano for the grand-finale concert — and had the chops to pull it off beautifully. Maria organized and accompanied the last three GLFM choir trips to Europe, Ireland, and Canada’s Atlantic provinces. She is grateful for the many friendships made during those years, many continuing to this day.

As development director and subsequently executive director of the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake 2008-2019, Maria continued to work closely with GLFM, warmly greeting concertgoers to every performance there. She returned to the Festival as interim executive and artistic director from December 2019 through October 2020, shepherding GLFM resourcefully and admirably through a virtual season necessitated by the challenges imposed by the pandemic.

Maria recently retired from Ripon College, where she was an adjunct instructor of music for more than two decades, teaching piano and serving as accompanist for the choirs and for musical theatre productions. An accomplished musician and teacher, Maria operates an independent music studio in Ripon; is an officer of the Oshkosh Area Music Teachers Association; and is nationally certified with the Music Teachers National Association. She is organist/pianist at the First Congregational Church of Ripon. Maria earned a bachelor’s degree in music from Lawrence University.

An accomplished trombonist in a wide range of musical styles, Kurt Dietrich has been a familiar and sonorous presence in various GLFM choir orchestras and brass ensembles over the years. In 2019 he retired from Ripon College, where he’d taught brass instruments and a variety of courses since 1980, and directed the Symphonic

8 GreenLakeFestival.org Wind Ensemble and the Jazz Ensemble. Distinguished Friend of the Festival Kurt was trombonist with Matrix, with which Please Support he recorded for RCA, Warner Brothers, our 2021 Business Pablo, and Summit Records. He continues Sponsors! 2021: Maria and Kurt Dietrich to perform in both jazz and classical groups. He is the author of “Duke’s ’Bones: Ellington’s Great Trombonists” (1995), Birch Creek Music “Jazz ’Bones: The World of Jazz Trombone” Performance Center (2005), and “Wisconsin Riffs: Jazz Profiles from the Heartland” (2018); and is currently Caren Reich State Farm Insurance writing a biography of the great pop/jazz/ R&B singer Al Jarreau, with the cooperation Diedrich Jewelers of Jarreau’s family and management. Eden Senior Care

Maria concluded, “I’m glad to have Emmer Real Estate Group been able to help the Festival through the pandemic, and both Kurt and I look Horicon Bank forward to a wonderful next era under Sam’s leadership.” J’s BBQ

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Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 9 Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concerts

This summer the Festival will give three free Green Lake concerts for families! This decade-old series is endowed by Tom Caestecker to provide outstanding music to the next generation of music lovers.

THURSDAY, JULY 1 | 10:00 a.m. Spektral Quartet Spektral Quartet is known for creating seamless connections across centuries, drawing in the listener with charismatic deliveries, interactive concert formats, an up-close atmosphere, and bold, inquisitive programming. See page 26 for more information. Caestecker Public Library | 518 Hill St., Green Lake, WI

THURSDAY, JULY 29 | 2:00 p.m. Third Lake Brass Quintet Third Lake Brass Quintet is a collection of professional Madison-area brass musicians dedicated to the performance of new and classic brass quintet repertoire and the broader mission of sharing that music with the larger Madison community. See page 38 for more information. Caestecker Public Library | 518 Hill St., Green Lake, WI

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 | 7:30 p.m. Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble Paul Dietrich has been described as “an apt bandleader, an exceptional composer, and a superlative performer” (All About Jazz) and “a skilled composer” (JazzTrail) and his music has been praised as “stunningly beautiful” (Audiophile Audition) and “captivating” (Chicago Jazz Magazine). See page 40 for more information. Thrasher Opera House | 506 Mill St., Green Lake, WI

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Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 11 Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

FRIDAY, JUNE 11 | 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation

Thrasher Opera House | 506 Mill St. | Green Lake, WI Sponsored by Lynn Grout Paul in memory of Jerry Grout

Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Axel Strauss, violin; Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello

Piano Trio in e-flat minor (1921) Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) I. Moderato ma appassionato II. Andante molto semplice III. Allegro vigoroso

Piano Trio in E minor, op. 67 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) I. Andante II. Allegro non troppo III. Largo IV. Allegretto

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Piano Trio in G Major, op. 1, no. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) I. Adagio; Allegro vivace II. Largo con espressione III. Scherzo: Allegro IV. Finale: Presto

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Jeffrey Sykes | PIANO

Axel Strauss | VIOLIN

Jean-Michel Fonteneau | CELLO

More bang for your Bach. What Bach would be doing if he were more fun and less dead. However you describe what we do, Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society always features great music played with joy, creativity, spontaneity, and a technique that is second to none. BDDS is aimed at people who are curious, open-minded, and up for anything. People who want to have serious fun.

One spring day in 1992, Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes asked each other over lunch, “What are you doing this summer?” “Not enough playing,” they both agreed. So they set about creating a new chamber music series in Madison. They wanted to play great music with great players. They wanted music hot off the press mixed with the classics. A touch of theater. Artistic challenge. An engaged audience.

BDDS is now in its third decade and plays a more diverse mix of repertoire than ever before. It has become abundantly clear that our vision has been enhanced by those who have invested their wisdom and talent in extraordinary measures.

Artists visiting the GLFM include the San Francisco Piano Trio, Jeffrey Sykes, piano (UC-Berkeley); Axel Strauss, violin (McGill University, Montreal, Canada); Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello (San Francisco Conservatory). Visit bachdancing.org for more information on our virtual concert series in June.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 13 Chaeyoung Park Piano Recital

Winner, 2019 Hilton Head International Piano Competition

TUESDAY, JUNE 15 | 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College | Ripon, WI Sponsored by Sylvia & Bill Richards † and Oshkosh Area Community Foundation

Sonata in A Major, D. 664 Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Firebird Suite Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), arr. Guido Agosti

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12 Notations Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)

Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82 Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

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Chaeyoung Park | PIANO Pianist Chaeyoung Park has been described as a passionate musician “who does not play a single note without thought or feeling” (New York Concert Review). Winner of the 2019 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, she has presented thoughtfully curated programs on major stages such as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall as well as in intimate house concerts. Most recently, she performed for audiences worldwide in live-streamed recitals presented by the Gilmore Rising Stars series, the Carlsen Center, and the Lied Center of Kansas virtual series. She regularly performs with orchestras around the U.S.

Since winning her first international competition at age 13, Park has been a top prizewinner in numerous international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition, the Cleveland International Young Artists Competition, and the Yamaha USASU International Senior Piano Competition. Since Park’s first concerto appearance at age 14, she has performed with all major orchestras in Kansas, including the Kansas City Symphony under the baton of Michael Stern. Other engagements include the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with Neil Varon, Utah Symphony Orchestra with Rei Hotoda, New Millennium Symphony with Francesco Milioto, Canton Symphony Orchestra with Gerhardt Zimmermann, Lake Forest Symphony with Vladimir Kulenovic, and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra with John Morris Russell.

As a dedicated chamber musician, she participated in Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Kneisel Hall, and Juilliard ChamberFest, and performed at the Greene Space at WNYC/ WQXR, Harvard Club in New York City, First Congregational United Church of Christ in Sarasota, and Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia. When COVID-19 made in-person collaborations difficult, she participated in multiple online layering projects to keep her love of chamber music alive.

South Korean-born, and raised in Kansas from age ten, Park considers Lawrence, Kansas, her second home. It was in Kansas that she spent eight years studying with her beloved teacher, Jack Winerock. Partial to intimate gatherings, she performed more than 60 house recitals in Kansas. She returns frequently to share music with her community and to visit her family and two cats.

A proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, Park is currently pursuing a Masters of Music degree at the Juilliard School with Robert McDonald. Her debut recording features the complete Musica Ricercata by Ligeti and Piano Sonata No. 3 by Brahms on the Steinway label, and is set to release in 2021.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 15 The Songs of Morten Lauridsen

SATURDAY, JUNE 26 | 8:00 p.m. Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College | Ripon, WI Sponsored by Justus Paul with additional support from the Willcocks Fund

Sarah Brailey, soprano; Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone; Paula Fan, piano

O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen b. 1943

Dirait-on

A Winter Come 1. When Frost Moves Fast 2. As Birds Come Nearer 3. The Racing Waterfall 4. A Child Lay Down 5. Who Reads By Starlight 6. And What Of Love

Ya eres mía

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Contre Qui, Rose

Girl

Where Have The Actors Gone?

Prayer

Sure On This Shining Night

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Sarah Brailey | SOPRANO Hailed by The New York Times for her “radiant, liquid tone,” and “exquisitely phrased” singing and by Opera UK for “a sound of remarkable purity,” soprano Sarah Brailey enjoys a career that resists specialization. She has sung Handel’s Messiah with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; recorded cello and vocal soundscapes for the Fog x FLO public art installation in Boston’s Emerald Necklace; and performed with Kanye West and alternative-classical vocal band Roomful of Teeth at the Hollywood Bowl. Recent highlights include serenading the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum with John Zorn’s Madrigals, singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Colorado Symphony, and recording The Soul in the world premiere recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Prison, for which she has received a 2021 GRAMMY for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.

Sarah is a member of Beyond Artists, a coalition of artists that donates a percentage of their concert fee to organizations they care about. Her designated organizations include NRDC, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, and the Animal Welfare Institute. Sarah is a co-founder of Just Bach, a monthly concert series in Madison, Wisconsin and the Artistic Director of the Handel Aria Competition. Learn more at www.sarahbrailey.com.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 17 The Songs of Morten Lauridsen

Jeremy Huw Williams | BARITONE The Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams studied at St John’s College, Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio in London, and with April Cantelo. He made his debut with Welsh National Opera as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and has since appeared in more than seventy operatic roles. He has given performances at major venues in North and South America, Australia, China, India, and most European countries.

In France he has sung the roles of Olivier (Capriccio), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), George (Of Mice and Men), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov), Baritone (Hydrogen Jukebox) and title role Till Eulenspiegel by Karetnikov for L’Opéra de Nantes, and Sebastian (The Tempest) for L’Opéra du Rhin. In Italy he has sung the role of Nixon (Nixon in China) at the opera house in Verona and Ferryman (Curlew River) at the opera houses of Pisa and Trento. In Greece he has sung the role of Chou En-lai (Nixon in China) for Greek National Opera. In Belgium he has sung the role of Marcello (La Bohème) for Zomeropera. In Norway he has sung the role of Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) for Vest Norges Opera and Serezha (The Electrification of the Soviet Union) for Opera Vest. In Austria he has sung the role of Dr Pangloss (Candide) in Vienna, a role that he repeated in Bremen, Munich, Leipzig, Suhl and London. In the USA he has sung the role of Lukash (The Good Soldier Schweik) for Long Beach Opera.

He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London, and at many major music festivals. He is renowned as a fine exponent of contemporary music, frequently recording for BBC Radio 3 (in recital, and with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestra), and has made many commercial recordings, including more than ten solo discs of songs.

He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Glyndŵr University in 2009 for services to music, and received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Aberdeen in 2011.

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Paula Fan | PIANO Pianist Paula Fan has performed on five continents, recorded more than twenty-five commercial albums, and has broadcast for the BBC, NPR, Radio Television China and international stations from Bosnia to Australia. As one of the first recipients of the doctorate in Collaborative Piano, she has lectured on the subject worldwide. She performed and taught at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music as its first and only Regents’ Professor, and was Principal Keyboardist and soloist with the Tucson Symphony for many seasons. She also served as Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music for two years, and has taught at numerous conservatories in the People’s Republic of China, where she was the first ever accompanist-coach invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture.

As both performer and teacher, one of her greatest interests has been building bridges between classical music and audiences of all ages and backgrounds, as well as between disciplines. As founder of the Solar Storytellers – a piano trio playing electric instruments powered by a golf cart with a solar panel for a roof – with her brother Michael she produced the Dr Solara Trilogy of children’s solar energy shows performed on the National Mall in Washington DC, at the Aspen Science Center and in Tucson. She was also part of the team that founded the University of Arizona’s Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, which not only brings together traditionally complementary disciplines within the Humanities and Fine Arts, but also, recognizing that creativity exists within a context, is unique in its inclusion of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

She is an alumna of the University of Arizona, where she studied with the virtuoso pianist Ozan Marsh, and of the University of Southern California, where she was mentored by the legendary teachers of Collaborative Piano, Gwendolyn Koldofsky and Brooks Smith.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 19 Hearts All Whole - The Music of Morten Lauridsen

SUNDAY, JUNE 27 | 3:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation Great Hall, Harwood Memorial Union, Ripon College | Ripon, WI Sponsored by Justus Paul with additional support from the Willcocks Fund

John C. Hughes, conductor; Sarah Brailey, soprano; Nicholas Miguel, baritone; Morten Lauridsen, piano; Martin Vajgrt, piano See page 17 for Sarah Brailey’s biography.

Sure On This Shining Night (James Agee) Morten Lauridsen from Nocturnes b. 1943

O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord Morten Lauridsen Ov’è, Lass’, Il Bel Viso? from Madrigali Morten Lauridsen Se Per Havervi, Oime from Madrigali Morten Lauridsen

Duets Prayer (Dana Gioia) Morten Lauridsen Ya eres mía (Pablo Neruda) Morten Lauridsen Sarah Brailey, Soprano; Nicholas Miguel, Baritone; and Morten Lauridsen, piano

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount (Ben Johnson) from Morten Lauridsen Four Madrigals on Renaissance Texts

Soneto de la Noche (Pablo Neruda) from Morten Lauridsen Les Chansons des Roses

Dirait-on (Rainer Maria Rilke) Morten Lauridsen

O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen

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John C. Hughes | CONDUCTOR John C. Hughes, D.M.A. enjoys a multifaceted career as a professional conductor based in Chicago. He is the Music Director of Chicago Master Singers (CMS), one of the most acclaimed choruses in the Chicago metro area. He is also the Conductor of the Green Lake Festival of Music’s Composer Residency. Through this program, he has hosted and collaborated with Ola Gjeilo, Shawn Kirchner, Elaine Hagenberg, and Morten Lauridsen.

Accompanying his busy performance schedule, Hughes is passionate about choral literature and scholarship. His research interests include Lutheran music before 1600 and trends in contemporary choral composition. His peer-reviewed, book-length modern edition of Leonhard Lechner’s Passion setting (1593) with critical commentary will be published in the coming months. He has also authored peer-reviewed articles in the Choral Journal, The Choral Scholar, and The Diapason, as well as numerous reviews of choral music, books, and recordings.

Hughes is actively involved in many professional organizations. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Score Reviews for The Choral Scholar and is a national board member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization. For several years, he hosted Choir Chat, a weekly podcast of interviews with conductors and composers.

Prior to joining CMS in 2020, Hughes taught at Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he served as Director of Choral Activities and Chair of the Music Department. His previous experience is as a K-12 music teacher and church musician.

Hughes earned his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, M.M. from Northern Illinois University, and D.M.A. from the University of Iowa. He is grateful to his teachers Timothy Stalter, Eric Johnson, Jon Hurty, and Michael Zemek.

For more information, please visit his website: www.johnchughes.com.

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Nicholas Miguel | BARITONE Dr. Nicholas Miguel is active as a baritone soloist and chorister, having created a reputation as a versatile and intelligent singer in diverse genres. Miguel sings with the professional choirs GRAMMY- nominated True Concord in Tucson, AZ; Vox Humana in Dallas, TX; and CORO in Indianola, IA. In 2018, Miguel traveled to Germany to sing with Helmuth Rilling in the Weimar Bach Cantata Academy. A regular soloist in Iowa, Miguel’s concert appearances include Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, J. S. Bach’s BWV 129, 131, 34, 18, 172, 82, 4, 140, 74, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Theresienmesse, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor, Durufle’s Requiem, Pärt’s Passio, Handel’s Esther and Messiah, and Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. Miguel is also known for his engaging stage presence in recitals and in operatic productions. Stage credits include Don Alhambra in The Gondoliers, Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, Sir Joseph in HMS Pinafore, and Comte Capulet in Romeo et Juliette.

In 2018, Miguel received his DMA in voice performance from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where he also received his MA in 2013. He received his BM with Distinction from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN in 2010. Miguel’s dissertation on an influential Venezuelan composer, The Art Songs of Modesta Bor (1926-1998), demonstrates Miguel’s fluency in various academic disciplines including musicology, music theory, and phonetics. Miguel received the 2013-2014 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for his work at the University of Iowa serving as a TA in applied voice, diction, and voice science. At UI, Miguel served as a TA for the renowned vocologist Ingo Titze. Miguel continues to study voice science and incorporate its principles into his teaching.

Dr. Miguel teaches full time as an Adjunct Music Associate at Grinnell College, one of the nation’s leading undergraduate liberal arts colleges, in Grinnell, IA, where he has worked since 2014. His passion for effective and informed pedagogy has left him in high demand as a teacher of Classical, Musical Theater, and Contemporary Commercial voice. His students are accepted into graduate programs, win concerto and scholarship

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During the summer, Dr. Miguel teaches as an Adjunct Instructor at Simpson College for the Three-Summer Masters in Choral Conducting Program. There he teaches Lyric Diction, Vocal Pedagogy in the Choral Setting, and Applied Voice.

Miguel is also a casual composer/arranger of art song and choral music, an amateur piano accompanist, and an dilettante jazz pianist. He enjoys learning the guitar, collecting bikes, acquiring foreign languages, helping his wife in the garden, and spending time with his two children.

Morten Lauridsen | PIANO The music of Morten Lauridsen occupies a permanent place in the standard vocal repertoire of the Twenty-First Century. His eight vocal cycles (Lux Aeterna, Les Chansons des Roses, Madrigali: Six ‘FireSongs’ on Italian Renaissance Poems, A Winter Come, Cuatro Canciones, A Backyard Universe, Nocturnes and Mid-Winter Songs on Poems by Robert Graves), instrumental works, art songs and series of motets (including O Magnum Mysterium) are performed throughout the world and have been recorded on over two hundred CDs, including several that received Grammy nominations.

Mr. Lauridsen (b. 1943) served as Composer-in-Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1995-2001 and is currently Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. An award-winning documentary by Michael Stillwater, Shining Night – A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen, was released in 2012 (songwithoutborders.net).

In 2006, Morten Lauridsen was named an “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2007 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, by the President in a White House ceremony “for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power, and spiritual depth.”

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JUNE 2021 Sun. Mon. Tuesday Wednesday Thurs Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 Bach Dancing and 11 12 Dynamite Society 7:30 pm Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake

13 14 Chaeyoung Park 15 16 17 18 19 Piano 7:30 pm Demmer Recital Hall, Ripon

20 21 22 23 24 25 The Songs of 26 Morten Lauridsen 8:00 pm Demmer Recital Hall, Ripon

Hearts All Whole 27 28 29 Spektral Quartet 30 3:15 pm 7:30 pm Great Hall, First Congregational Harwood Memorial Church, Ripon Union, Ripon

JULY 2021 Sunday Monday Tues. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Spektral Quartet 1 2 3 10:00 am Caestecker Public Library, Green Lake

4 5 6 7 8 9 Circle of Sound 10 Barn Concert 7:30 pm Boston Barn, Green Lake

11 12 13 14 Chamber Music 15 16 17 Faculty Concert 7:30 pm Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake

18 19 20 21 22 Cabaret Gala 23 24 Remembering Douglas Morris 7:30 pm Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Third Lake Brass Third Lake Brass Quintet Quintet 10:00 am 10:00 am Fond du Lac Library Appleton Library 12:15 pm Ripon Library 2:00 pm Caestecker Public Library, Green Lake

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Performance Locations

Appleton Public Library – 225 N. Oneida St., Appleton, WI 54911

Caestecker Public Library – 518 Hill St., Green Lake, WI 54941

Demmer Recital Hall – C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College Union St. and West Thorne St., Ripon, WI 54971

First Congregational Church – 220 Ransom St., Ripon, WI 54971

Fond du Lac Public Library – 32 Sheboygan St., Fond du Lac, WI 54935

Great Hall, Harwood Memorial Union – Ripon College, Ripon, WI 54971

Ripon Public Library – 120 Jefferson St., Ripon, WI 54971

The Boston Barn – W3320 State Road 23, Green Lake, WI 54941

Thrasher Opera House – 506 Mill St., Green Lake, WI 54941

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30 | 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation First Congregational Church | 220 Ransom St. | Ripon, WI

Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert THURSDAY, JULY 1 | 10:00 a.m. Caestecker Public Library | 518 Hill St., Green Lake, WI Sponsored by Thomas E. Caestecker

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 Claude Debussy (1862-1791) I. Animé et très décidé II. Assez vif et bien rhythmé III. Andantino, doucement expressif IV. Très modéré – En animant peu à peu – Très mouvementé avec passion

Ainsi la Nuit Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) I. Introduction II. Nocturne III. Miroir d’espace IV. Litanies V. Litanies II VI. Constellations VII. Nocturne II VIII. Temps Suspendu

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Clara Lyon | VIOLIN Maeve Feinberg | VIOLIN Doyle Armbrust | VIOLA Russell Rolen | CELLO Multi-Grammy nominees, the Spektral Quartet actively pursues a vivid conversation between exhilarating works of the traditional repertoire and those written this decade, this year, or this week. Since its inception in 2010, Spektral is known for creating seamless connections across centuries, drawing in the listener with charismatic deliveries, interactive concert formats, an up-close atmosphere, and bold, inquisitive programming.

With a tour schedule including some of the country’s most notable concert venues such as the Kennedy Center, Miller Theater, Library of Congress, and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, the quartet also takes great pride in its home city of Chicago: championing the work of local composers, bridging social and aesthetic partitions, and cultivating its ongoing collaborations and residencies in the Chicago region. For the 20/21 Season, Spektral is pleased to announce it’s Digital Artist Residency at University Musical Society (UMS) with Lebanese-born Afro-Tarab/jazz innovator Tarek Yamani.

Named “Chicagoans of the Year” by the Chicago Tribune in 2017, Spektral Quartet is most highly regarded for its creative and stylistic versatility: presenting seasons in which, for instance, a thematic program circling Beethoven seamlessly coexists with an improvised sonic meditation at sunrise, a talent show featuring Spektral fans, and the co-release of a jazz album traversing the folk traditions of Puerto Rico.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 27 Circle of Sound Barn Concert

SUNDAY, JULY 10 | 7:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Food & beverages available for purchase 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation Boston Barn | W3320 State Rd. 23 | Green Lake, WI Sponsored by the David Woods Family Fund with special thanks to Jeannette & Jim Kreston for welcoming us back to the Barn

Salley Koo, violin; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Andrew Armstrong, Piano

Salley Koo | VIOLIN A violinist of great range and energy, Salley Koo has performed internationally as a solo and chamber musician. Hailing from Chicago, where she studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Center of the North Shore (now Music Institute of Chicago), Ms. Koo then earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in English and American Literature, continuing her violin studies with Lynn Chang. She subsequently received a Master of Music and pursued Artist Diploma work from the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Peter Oundjian. Ms. Koo completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in violin performance at Stony Brook University under Pamela Frank and Philip Setzer. Over the course of her extensive training, she has studied with numerous other luminaries, including David Taylor, Sylvie Koval, and Dorothy Kitchen.

Ms. Koo has cultivated an active concert presence, appearing as both soloist and orchestral performer with many notable groups across the country. Recent performances include appearances at the Musikverein in Vienna, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Central Park, Music from Salem, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the National Cathedral and National Gallery in Washington D.C., Columbia Museum of Art, the Harris Theater in Chicago, the Nasher Series in Dallas, the Peoples Symphony Concerts, the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Skaneateles, and Caramoor Festivals, and on tour alongside artists ranging from Bela Fleck to Dawn Upshaw to Gil Shaham. Salley recently soloed with the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra last season; she returns to Lebanon this season for the third time. Salley is currently an artist in residence with the IMAGINE Workshop and Concert Series at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, where she has served as performer, panelist, presenter, and instructor. She is regularly invited as a guest artist with groups such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra

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of St. Luke’s, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Knights.

Ms. Koo’s engagement with the chamber music community in particular has yielded collaborations with world-renowned musicians including Peter Frankl, Yo Yo Ma, and Colin Carr, as well as with members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Peabody Trio, Emerson Quartet, and Takacs Quartet. Her expansive musical interests range from early music to contemporary compositions. In the former vein, she has performed in period groups and recorded for Centaur; in the latter, she has worked closely with composers like Julia Wolf, Mario Davidovsky, Steven Mackey, Osvoldo Golijov, as well as members of the So Percussion Quartet. Salley is also a familiar face at numerous festivals including the Silicon Valley Music Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Taos School of Music, the Tanglewood Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, and Thy Chamber Festival in Denmark.

Despite a performance itinerary that has covered North America, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, Ms. Koo has established a thriving teaching career. She is currently the violin professor at Adelphi University in NY, and has served as the violin professor and coordinator of chamber music at the University of Connecticut, in Storrs, CT; other faculty appointments include the Green Lake Chamber Music Festival in WI, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in New Hampshire, Dwight-Englewood String Society in New Jersey, Vermont’s Chamber Music Intensive Program at Yellow Barn, the Opus 118 We Want Music! program in East Harlem, New York, Elm City ChamberFest, and the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Connecticut. Ms. Koo also maintains a limited private studio in New York City.

When she’s not playing the violin, she’s likely to be found cooking or planning where to eat next with her husband, Alex, or playing with their dogs, Nanook and Sherlock, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

Ms. Koo currently performs on a violin made for her by Mario Miralles.

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Gabriela Diaz | VIOLIN Georgia native Gabriela Diaz began her musical training at the age of five, studying piano with her mother, and the next year, violin with her father.

As a childhood cancer survivor, Gabriela is committed to supporting cancer research and treatment in her capacity as a musician. In 2004, Gabriela was a recipient of a grant from the Albert Schweitzer Foundation, an award that enabled Gabriela to create and direct the Boston Hope Ensemble. This program is now part of Winsor Music. A firm believer in the healing properties of music, Gabriela and her colleagues have performed in cancer units in Boston hospitals and presented benefit concerts for cancer research organizations in numerous venues throughout the United States.

A fierce champion of contemporary music, Gabriela has been fortunate to work closely with many significant composers on their own compositions, namely Pierre Boulez, Magnus Lindberg, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Lucier, Unsuk Chin, John Zorn, Joan Tower, Roger Reynolds, Chaya Czernowin, Steve Reich, Tania León, Brian Ferneyhough, and Helmut Lachenmann. Gabriela is a member of several Boston-area contemporary music groups, including Sound Icon, Ludovico Ensemble, BMOP, Dinosaur Annex, Boston Musica Viva, and Callithumpian Consort. She plays regularly with Winsor Music, Castle of our Skins, Radius Ensemble, and Emmanuel Music and frequently collaborates with Alarm Will Sound, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICEensemble), and A Far Cry.

In 2012 Gabriela joined the violin faculty of Wellesley College. Gabriela is co-artistic director of the much beloved Boston-based chamber music and outreach organization Winsor Music. Please visit winsormusic.org for more information!

Gabriela’s recording of Lou Harrison’s Suite for Violin and American Gamelan was highlighted in the New York Times Article “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music.”

Critics have acclaimed Gabriela as “a young violin master,” and “one of Boston’s most valuable players.” Lloyd Schwartz of the Boston Phoenix noted, “…Gabriela Diaz in a bewitching performance of Pierre Boulez’s 1991 Anthèmes. The come-hither meow of Diaz’s upward slides and her sustained pianissimo fade-out were miracles of color, texture, and feeling.” Others have remarked on her “indefatigably expressive” playing, “polished technique,” and “vivid and elegant playing.”

Gabriela can be heard on New World, Centaur, BMOPSound, Mode, Naxos, and Tzadik records.

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Gabriela plays on a Vuillaume violin generously on loan from Mark Ptashne and a viola made by her father, Manuel Diaz.

Gabriela is proud to be a core member of the team that created Boston Hope Music, bringing music to patients and frontline workers during the pandemic. More info can be found at bostonhopemusic.org

Andrew Armstrong | PIANO Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.

Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have seen him perform a sprawling repertoire of more than 55 concertos with orchestra. He has performed with such conductors as Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and has appeared in chamber music concerts with the Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and also as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.

The 2019-2020 Season takes Andrew across the globe with concerts in London, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Bergen, Dresden, Copenhagen, Prague, and across the US, Canada, and Australia. Also this season, Andrew and violinist James Ehnes team up to release the complete cycle of 10 Beethoven Violin Sonatas to celebrate the master’s 250th birthday in 2020. The duo performs the cycle in cities around the world this year.

In addition to directing Chamber Music on Main at the Columbia Museum of Art (SC) and the Chamber Music Camp at Green Lake Festival of Music (WI), Andrew is devoted to outreach programs and playing for children. In addition to his many concerts, his performances are heard regularly on National Public Radio and WQXR, New York City’s premier classical music station.

Mr. Armstrong lives in Massachusetts, with his wife Esty, their three children Jack (14), Elise (9), and Gabriel (2), and their two dogs Comet & Dooker.

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THURSDAY, JULY 15 | 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation

Thrasher Opera House | 506 Mill St. | Green Lake, WI A Lucile Morton-Grams Concert with additional support from the Kreston Fund

Salley Koo, violin; Ayane Kozasa, violin; Andrew Armstrong, piano

See page 28 for Salley Koo’s biography. See page 31 for Andrew Armstrong’s biography.

Ayane Kozasa | VIOLIN Hailed for her “magnetic, wide-ranging tone” and her “rock solid technique” (Philadelphia Inquirer), violist Ayane Kozasa enjoys a career that spans a broad spectrum of musical personas. Winner of the Primrose International Viola Competition, her two additional awards at the competition defines her passion for music: the best chamber music and best commissioned work performances. Following the competition, she joined the Astral Artists roster, and became a grant recipient from the S&R Foundation, an organization recognizing and supporting young, aspiring artists of all mediums. Her international solo opportunities have been a platform to unearth seldom heard works and commission new pieces, an aspect of viola playing that she loves. Most recently, she commissioned a work by Brooklyn composer Paul Wiancko for viola and piano, which she premiered at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and Evermay Chamber Series in Washington, D.C. with pianist Amy Yang.

Chamber music has also been a vital part of Ayane’s musical career, and her interests have led her to appearances at numerous festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Olympic Music Festival, and the Ravinia Festival. In addition to being a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet, her passion for chamber music has blossomed in the form of “Ayane & Paul,” a viola/cello duo that is known for their creative programming and intimate connections with their audience. She is also a member of Quodlibet Ensemble, an early/modern music mixed ensemble.

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From 2012 to 2016, Ayane served as the principal violist of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. She is also a member of the IRIS Orchestra, and has played with notable ensembles such as the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, The Philadelphia Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Most recently, much of her musical work has involved being a mentor to aspiring young musicians, including being guest faculty at the Green Lake Chamber Music Camp and a mentor at the Olympic Music Festival and Musikiwest Summer Festival.

Ayane is deeply grateful for the mentorship she received from her past teachers, Nobuko Imai, Kirsten Docter, Roberto Diaz, Misha Amory, and Michael Tree. Outside of music, she loves to perfect her pie baking skills, create fonts, go camping, and run into ocean waves.

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FRIDAY, JULY 23 | 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation

Thrasher Opera House | 506 Mill St. | Green Lake, WI

Will Liverman, baritone; Madeline Slettedahl, piano

Odins Meeresritt Frederick Loewe (1901-1988) Claire de lune Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Le Secret Mandoline

Let Us Garlands Bring Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) 1. Come Away Death 2. Let Us Garlands Bring 3. Fear No More The Heat O’The Sun 4. O Mistress Mine 5. It Was Lover And His Lass

Black Max William Bolcom (b. 1938) Selections from Nightsongs Leslie Adams (1932)

Prayer The Heart of A Woman Sence You Went Away

Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) & Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) arr. Will Liverman Smile Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) arr. Will Liverman

Lulu’s Back In Town Fats Waller (1904-1943)

He’ll Bring It To Pass John Joubert (1927-2019)

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Will Liverman | BARITONE Called “a voice for this historic moment” (The Washington Post), baritone Will Liverman continues to bring his compelling performances to audiences nationwide. He will star in the Metropolitan Opera’s re- opening production of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones in fall 2021, in addition to reprising his roles in Akhnaten (Horemhab) and The Magic Flute (Papageno) during the Met’s 21-22 season.

In the 2020-2021 season, Liverman appears in a solo recital at The Kennedy Center and in Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ production of Highway 1 U.S.A as Bob. He also will curate OTSL’s Juneteenth Concert together with soprano Nicole Cabell. Will’s new opera, The Factotum, written together with DJ/recording artist K. Rico, will also be developed in partnership with Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Ryan Opera Center this season.

In February 2021, Cedille Records released Liverman’s Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers with pianist Paul Sanchez – a collection of works by Damien Sneed, Henry Burleigh, H. Leslie Adams, Robert Owens, Margaret Bonds, and Thomas Kerr, plus a world premiere recording by Shawn E. Okpebholo and Liverman’s own arrangement of Richard Fariña’s Birmingham Sunday. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical chart and The New Yorker praised its “clarity, sensitivity, and barely contained heartbreak” while NPR claimed “velvet-voiced baritone Will Liverman is out to make the classical music canon more inclusive.” Liverman’s album, Whither Must I Wander, with pianist Jonathan King, out January 2020 on Odradek Records, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s “best classical recordings of 2020” and BBC Music Magazine praised Liverman’s “firm, oaky baritone with a sharp interpretive attitude… admirable poise and clarity of intention.”

Will is the recipient of the 2020 Marian Anderson Vocal Award, and recently received a 2019 Richard Tucker Career Grant and Sphinx Medal of Excellence. Liverman’s recent engagements include performing as the first ever Black Papageno in The Metropolitan Opera’s holiday production of The Magic Flute, in addition to its premiere of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten (Horemhab) and Nico Muhly’s Marnie (Malcolm Fleet). He also recently appeared as Pantalone in The Love of Three Oranges at Opera Philadelphia, as Silvio in Pagliacci at Opera Colorado, as Schaunard in La bohème with Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Opera and Opera Philadelphia; and as The Pilot in The Little Prince with Tulsa Opera.

Liverman has performed the leading role of Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Seattle Opera, Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, Madison Opera and Utah Opera. He originated the role of Dizzy Gillespie in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird with Opera Philadelphia, in addition to performing the role with English National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Madison Opera, and at the Apollo Theater. Other highlights include the role of Tommy McIntyre in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Fellow Travelers for its Lyric Unlimited initiative; Papageno

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Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 35 Cabaret Gala Remembering Douglas Morris in The Magic Flute with Florentine Opera and Central City Opera; his role debut as Marcello in La bohème with Portland Opera; his debut with Seattle Opera as Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory; Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia and Beaumarchais in The Ghosts of Versailles with Wolf Trap Opera; Andrew Hanley in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ The Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera; Sam in The Pirates of Penzance with Atlanta Opera; the Foreman at the Mill in Jenůfa and the Protestant Minister in Menotti’s The Last Savage with Santa Fe Opera.

Expanding into the concert repertoire, Liverman performed the title role in a concert version of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and was a featured soloist in Brahms’ Requiem with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, in Handel’s Messiah with the Seattle Symphony, in Carmina Burana with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He was also recently featured in the Sphinx Virtuosi concert at Carnegie Hall, in addition to appearing in Schubert’s Die Winterreise at The Barns at Wolf Trap Opera.

Liverman has received a 2017 3Arts Award, a George London Award, and was recognized as a classical division Luminarts Fellow by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation. In 2015, he won the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition, received the Gerda Lissner Charitable Fund Award, and received a top prize from Opera Index. He was a grand finalist in the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, and additionally was a first prize winner in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, a grand prize winner of the Bel Canto Foundation Competition, and a recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.

Liverman concluded his tenure at the prestigious Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2015. He previously was a Young Artist at the Glimmerglass Festival. He holds his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Wheaton College in Illinois.

Madeline Slettedahl | PIANO In the 2019-2020 season, pianist Madeline Slettedahl joins the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s music staff for its season-opening production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. In previous seasons at Lyric, Madeline worked on both Siegfried and The Pearl Fishers, also conducted by Davis. 2019 includes two intensives with the Solti Accademia di Bel Canto, studying both repetiteur work and conducting with Jonathan Papp and Richard Bonynge. Madeline has also been selected as a 2019 Britten-Pears Young Artist, to study both opera and art song at Snape Maltings in the UK. Other repetiteur work includes productions of Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief (Grant Park Music Festival), Cosí fan Tutte (ROC),

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This season marks Madeline’s third year as the ensemble pianist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Patrick G. & Shirley W. Ryan Center. In this position, Madeline works closely with singers—coaching standard repertoire and participating in masterclasses with visiting artists, most recently Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, and Marco Armiliato. Madeline performs in recital regularly, most recently at the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago’s Lieder Lounge and the Cincinnati Song Initiative Recital series. She has also performed on several occasions with established alumni of the Ryan Center, including J’Nai Bridges, Quinn Kelsey, David Portillo, and Nicole Cabell.

An enthusiastic and accomplished collaborative pianist, Madeline is an alumna of both SongStudio and The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall, where she will return to perform with mezzo-soprano, Kayleigh Decker, as part of Carnegie Hall Citywide Series in the 19-20 season. She was a Music Academy of the West fellow in 2016, where she won First Prize in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition. She and her fellow winner, baritone Ben Lowe, subsequently undertook a recital tour that included sold-out performances in Santa Barbara and New York City. As a strong advocate for new music she has debuted a number of commissions including the world premieres of Willows for solo piano by composer-conductor Roger Briggs and My Life a Lyric Cry by Greek-Canadian composer Constantine Caravassilis. In January, she had the opportunity to collaborate with composer Nico Muhly on his song-cycle Strange Productions, which she performed at Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio.

Madeline holds a Master of Music degree from Rice University where she was the recipient of the Andre Watts Scholarship and the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program Olshan Foundation Fellowship Award. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University where she was awarded first prize in the WWU Concerto Competition and the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Piano Competition, as well as the Outstanding Music Department Graduate in 2014. Previous appointments include as staff pianist for the Shepherd School of Music and as assistant faculty at the Marrowstone Music Festival in Seattle, in addition to festival appearances at the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute and Winter Piano Festival. Upcoming recording projects include a Naxos release of Brahms’ Requiem, arranged for four-hand piano (with Craig Terry) and sung in English by Chicago’s Bella Voce, conducted by Andrew Lewis. She can also be heard each month performing on Chicago 98.7 WFMT in the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 37 Third Lake Brass Quintet

THURSDAY, JULY 29 | 10:00, 12:15, 2:00 10:00 a.m. Fond du Lac Public Library | 32 Sheyboygan St. | Fond du lac, WI 12:15 p.m. Ripon Public Library | 120 Jefferson St. | Ripon, WI Sponsored by The Oberreich Foundation

Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert 2:00 p.m. Caestecker Public Library | 518 Hill St. | Green Lake, WI

FRIDAY, JULY 30 | 10:00 a.m. Appleton Public Library | 225 N. Oneida St. | Appleton, WI

38 GreenLakeFestival.org Third Lake Brass Quintet

Jessica Jensen | TRUMPET Jacob Grewe | TUBA Joseph Greer | TROMBONE Paul Dietrich | TRUMPET Sarah Gillespie | HORN

Founded in 2016, Third Lake Brass Quintet is a collection of professional Madison-area brass musicians. They are dedicated to the performance of new and classic brass quintet repertoire and the broader mission of sharing that music with the larger Madison community. They maintain a commitment to educational outreach and have performed concerts and workshops at numerous area schools with the intention of inspiring young people to pursue their interest in music. Members include Paul Dietrich and Jessica Jensen, trumpets; Sarah Gillespie, horn; Joe Greer, trombone, Jacob Grewe, tuba.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 39 Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 | 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation Thrasher Opera House | 506 Mill St., Green Lake, WI

Paul Dietrich, trumpet and compositions Allen Cordingley, Gred Ward, Tony Barba, Artie Black, Nicholas Bartell | saxophones Tim Albright, Jamie Kember, Kurt Dietrich, and Tom Matta | trombones Chuck Parrish, Russ Johnson, Jessica Jensen, and David Cooper | trumpets Matt Gold, Jason Kutz, John Christensen, and Zach Harmon | rhythm section Megan Moran | voice

Paul Dietrich | TRUMPET AND COMPOSITIONS Paul Dietrich has been described as “an apt bandleader, an exceptional composer, and a superlative performer” (All About Jazz) and “a skilled composer” (JazzTrail) and his music has been praised as “stunningly beautiful” (Audiophile Audition) and “captivating” (Chicago Jazz Magazine).

A composer, trumpet player and educator based in the Midwest, Dietrich has been the leader of the Paul Dietrich Quintet since 2012 and the Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble since 2016. The Chicago-based Quintet has released two albums: Focus (2017, ears&eyes) and We Always Get There (2014, Blujazz). The Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble’s 2019 album Forward features guest artist and world-renowned drummer Clarence Penn (Dave Douglas, Maria Schneider) alongside many of the Midwest’s best jazz musicians, including Greg Ward, Russ Johnson, Dustin Laurenzi, Matt Gold, and Andy Baker.

In demand as a composer, Dietrich has completed over a dozen commissions for schools and organizations including Lawrence University’s Jazz Weekend, Ripon College, Madison College with the Edgar Knecht Trio (Germany), The Mount Horeb Middle School Jazz Festival, The UW-Whitewater Brass Quintet, and various high schools throughout Wisconsin. In 2017, Paul was commissioned by the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison to write an extended work in honor of the Isthmus Jazz Festival’s 30th Anniversary. This piece was premiered at the festival in June 2017 by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Jazz Orchestra. Paul’s pieces have been

40 GreenLakeFestival.org Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert Paul Dietrich Jazz Ensemble played throughout the United States, and were performed as part of a cultural exchange program in Camagüey, Cuba in 2019.

Paul has twice been the recipient of the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium’s Artistic Development Grant. In 2017, he wrote the four-part suite “Forward,” inspired by the sights and sounds of his home state, which became the core of his 2019 album of the same name. In 2020, Paul received a grant to write and perform a project for a nine-piece ensemble including a string quartet, which is scheduled to debut in late 2021.

Paul holds a Bachelor’s degree in trumpet and jazz studies from Lawrence University (2010) and a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from DePaul University (2012). While at DePaul, Dietrich wrote several pieces that were performed by the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble, including an arrangement of Phil Woods’ “Pairing Off,” which was recorded on the Jazzed Media release Right to Swing (2013) and featured Woods and the composer. Of this recording, All About Jazz called it “the sizzler of the disc, with a pronounced performance by the trumpeter.”

Paul is an active member of the Wisconsin music scene. In addition to his own groups, he plays with many Madison-area groups including the Afrobeat ensemble Immigré, the Ben Ferris Octet, Grupo Candela, and numerous area big bands. As an educator, Paul has an active private studio, has coordinated the jazz program at Prairie Music & Arts in Sun Prairie, and directed the Jazz Orchestra at Madison East High School from 2016-2018. In 2021, Paul spent a term teaching jazz trumpet at Lawrence University.

While not performing, writing, or teaching, Paul loves a wide variety of films and is an avid Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers fan. He also enjoys spending time with his wife, Jessica, who makes Paul the second best trumpet player in his own family, and their dog, Obi.

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 41 Board of Directors, Staff, & Friends of the Festival

Board of Directors Associate Board of Directors • Lloyd Hughes, President • Laura Deming • Norm Loomer, Vice-President • Maria Dietrich • Justus Paul, Secretary • James Grine • Bill Bane, Treasurer • Lynn Grout-Paul • Sylvia Richards, • Nancy Herman Historian & Corresponding Secretary • Lauren Hofland • Mary Lofgren, • Robert House Executive Member-at-Large • Magda Krance • Hilary Haskell • Jeannette Kreston • Janet Hughes • Amanda Majeski • Sherman Leatherberry • Jane Lofgren Pearsall • Ken Melchert • Nancy Penn • Virginia Pollock • Karl Solibakke • John Roesch • Steve Sorenson • Dawn Scholtens • Gretchen Zook • Yuliya Smead • Randy Zieth Staff • Sam Handley, Executive & Artistic Director Honorary Board of Directors • Deb MacKenzie, Administrator • Thomas Gnewuch † • Abbe Lane, Intern • Gladys Veidemanis • Aiden Trinkner, Technical Intern

The Friends/Volunteers group helps distribute Festival literature, assists at concerts, and organizes special activities. Over the years, they have planned parties, receptions, dances, and tours of homes, which support the many artists and educational programs of the Green Lake Festival.

We would love to have you join us for any amount of time and talent you can give. Please call the Festival office at 920-748-9398, send an email to [email protected], or apply online at GreenLakeFestival.org.

Thank you, Friends of the Festival!

Office Contact | PO BOX 569 | Green Lake, WI 54941 [email protected] | 920-748-9398

42 GreenLakeFestival.org Board of Directors, Staff, & The Encore Society

Friends of the Festival The Encore Society is made up of people who have chosen to support the Festival by making gifts to the endowment or naming the Festival as a beneficiary in their wills. We salute and thank these forward-thinking donors. (Named gifts are $50,000 and above.)

Todd I. and Betty J. Berens Jeannette & Jim Kreston

Thomas E. Caestecker – George Miller † The Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert Series Bill † & Sylvia Richards – The Bill & Sylvia Richards Thomas Gnewuch † Endowed Piano Recital Series

Lucile Grams † David Woods † – David Woods Family Fund Robert House

The Kreston Chamber Music Fund and The Willcocks Vocal Fund are designations to honor Former Festival Executive Director and Chamber Music Camp founder, Jeannette Kreston, and Sir David and Jonathan Willcocks, father and son conductors and composers who led the Choral Institute and Green Lake Festival Children’s Chorus between 1983 - 2003. Designated donations to these programs are used for annual expenses.

Donors & Sponsors May 2019 – May 2021

Heartfelt thanks to all who support the Festival!

This is our fifth year of offering free concerts at the Green Lake Festival of Music. We’re thrilled that more people can attend and enjoy the concerts and community of the Festival, thanks to these donors. We celebrate your donations and welcome your thoughts and ideas! We apologize for any unintentional omissions or errors. Please contact us with corrections to this list.

Sieglinde Abendroth Rachael & Ryan Avery Mary Bayorgeon Jaye Alderson Katerina Baar Bayview Landing Todd Aldrich Karen Bachhuber Ice Cream Parlor Karin & Jim Anderson Peter Baker Greg & Barb Becker Anonymous William Bane Marvin & Carla Behr Steve Argo Jane Barker Martha Bell Stan Arnetveit Jim & Kay Bartz Benevity Community Arts Midwest Dan Baumann Impact Fund Douglas Austin & Vicki Moss Martin & Jill Baumgaertner Cheryl Bensman-Rowe

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 43 Donors & Sponsors May 2019 – May 2021

Rachel Benton Pam & Randall Davidson Pat Gardner Todd & Betty Berens Carl Davis in memory of Sasha Gerritson & Eugene Jarvis Karl & Diane Beres Marianne H. Davis Eric & Ann Marie Godfrey Doug Berge & Jane Cross James & Susan Davis Alan & Katie Green Laura & R. David Berndt in honor of John & Gregory Green Lise Bible Jane Chapman Green Lake Area Chamber William & Helen Birkemeier Michael & Anne Davis of Commerce Bloch’s Farm Kevin DeCramer Green Lake County/ Diddy Blyth Laird & Linda DeCramer Ripon Community Foundation The Boldt Company, Kent & Lee DeLucenay Greenway House B & B Community Foundation for Laura Deming & Jack Stubbs William & Barbara Gregory the Fox Valley Region, Inc. in honor of Magda Krance Jim & Geri Grine The Boldt Group Inc. Diedrich Agency Lynn Grout Paul & Justus Paul Gary & Julianne Born Kurt & Maria Dietrich Nick & Rada Grubnich Sandra Borth DISH of Green Lake Betsy Gubitz Mary Bowman Michael & Karen Dismer Barbara Josephine Guenther Brandon Brack Bob Dohe Jeanne Halko Shirley Braebender Mattox James Donahue & Sam Handley & Amanda Paul Bries Maria Mascola Majeski in honor of Selma Brophy Mary Lynne Donohue & Annie Handley Valerie Brown Tim Van Akkeren Annie Handley Erin Bryan & Dan Johns Cynthia & Thomas Downs Elizabeth Harris Jennifer Bryan Dr. Margaret Rose Draeger Hilary Haskell & Kristin Bryan Robert & Ellen Drisner Jake Woodford Mary Jane Bumby David & Karen Duehring Soren Hauge & Kat Griffith Claire Burgart Vicki Duhr & Felix Schultz Michael & Jill Havey Robert & Prudence Burke Linda & Darrell Ebert Margaret Heffernan Mary Burke-Peterson Jeanne Eklholm Heid Music Charitable Fund Thomas E. Caestecker Evergreen Retirement within the Community Mary Ellen Carne Community Foundation for the Susan Carson Lori Fahrenholz Fox Valley Region Casual Living Outfitters Farrell’s Fine Furnishings Dayton & Amy Henderson Helen Ceci Jim & Sheryl Feeney David & Susan Henry Chanho & Soohee Chae John Fenlon Nancy Herman Wayne & Elaine Chaney Ruth M. Ferris Dr. Barbara Herzog John & Jane Chapman Toril Fisher Judy Hessel Joan Christopherson-Schmidt Sherry Fitzmorris Laurie Hill Thomas Cihowiak TC Flanagan Hillside Dental Linda Clauder Eugenia Fletcher in honor of Geoffrey and Linda Hirt Mr. & Mrs. Harry Cody Sylvia Richards Peter & Jocelyn Hoeper Melanie & Robert Cody Arline Flores Bob & Anita Hoffman George & Susan Coghill Suzanne Fox Lauren Hofland Karen Commons Hal Fox & Carol Fox Horicon Bank, Green Lake John C. Crossman Elsbeth Frederick Richard Hoskins Anne Cummings William & Caroline Freivogel Robert & Sheila House Sue D’Alessio Sue & Mike Fuller Chuck & Bunny Hughes George & Elizabeth Daniels Verna & Bill Funcke John & Mandy Hughes

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Lloyd & Jan Hughes Elaine Kubicki Jodie Miller Norton’s Dry Dock Ellen Lamarre Larry & Betsey Miller Nancy L. Hynes in memory John & Missy Landdeck Susan Miller of James Hynes Jill Larson Milwaukee Youth Symphony Intek Plastics Bradley Lauderdale Orchestra Beatriz & Jorge Iorgulescu Sherman Leatherberry John & Deanie Minniear Greg & Theresa Irikura & David & Sandra Lentz in honor of Bill & Caroline Theresa Park Erik Leveille Freivogel Kali Jankovich Thomas & Linda Licking Deborah Kauffman Mishoe Michael & Julie Jankowski Charlie & Mary Lofgren in memory of John & Paul & Ruth Jeffries Mary Lofgren Connie Kauffman Boni Jensen Anne Long Jessie Mitchell James Jenz Norm & Sue Loomer Modern Rentals Derrick & Agnes Jeziorowski Ed & Astride Lowry in Robyn Modjeska Martin & Barbara Johanson honor of Lorna Sopcak Bo and Deb Morris Mary Jo Johnson Bob & Barb Luedtke Phyllis Morrison McConnell Inn Delos & Janice Lutton Stefanie Moritz Bruce & Joanne Johnson Chad & Deb MacKenzie Rodney Mueller Daniel & Isabelle Johnson Jo Ellen & Sean Madden Pamela Mumm Thomas & Edie Johnston Beatrice (Betty) Maier Barbara Murray Rev. Kathryn Croskery Jones Kristina Main Bill & Judy Neill in Steve & Suzanne Bunker Carl & Denise Majeski memory of Burt & Jordheim John & Mary Manki Bunny Kilbourne L Daniel & Patricia Jorndt Jim & Yulie Manske Joan Neton Ginnie Judd Dick & Linda Martens Network for Good Dean Katahira Nedra Martz Nancy Newman Pamela Kaul in honor of Maria Mascola Linda DeNell & Michael Nofz Sylvia Richards Cory Masiak Doug Northrop Karin & Owen Keeler Carolyn Masterson Barbara Notestein Robert Kim Grace Matson Daniel S Novak Kimberly-Clark Foundation Jim & Christine May Jay & Miriam Novick Gail Kimen Mark McCabe The Oberreich Foundation Frank & Katherine Kinney Nancy McCaskey Kathy Oetjen Shawn Kirchner Kimberlee McClean William & Doris Olson Robert & Sandra Kleinpaste Connemara McDonough Oshkosh Area Community Bill & Sharon Koenen in Jenifer McGill Foundation memory of Roger VanHaren Sarah McGowan in memory Mary Park & Doug Henkle Herb Kohl Philanthropies of David Brittain Betty Paterson Sherwin & Karen Koopmans William McLaughlin Justus Paul & Lynn Grout Paul Ron & Angela Korbitz James McMillan Jim & Verena Paulson Jaclyn Kottman Michael & Jane Meilahn Henry & Jane Pearsall Linda & Gary Kozak Elizabeth Melchert Jack & Nancy Penn Magda Krance & Ken & Rebecca Melchert, Jann & Margaret Peterson Steve Leonard The Harp Gallery Antiques Thatcher & Joanne Peterson Jeannette & Jim Kreston & Furniture Pat Phillips Roger & Mary Krinke Gayane Merguerian & Piano Arts Competition Susan Krueger Malik Mufti Dr. Marjorie Piechowski

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Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 45 Donors & Sponsors May 2019 – May 2021

Kurt & Jane Piernot Michael & Jeanne Shohoney John L. and Susan T. Vette Sandra Place Toby Shucha Kay Voelker Virginia & Frank Pollock Silver Creek Dentistry von Briesen & Roper, S.C. John & Loretta Posthuma Tina Singh James Wallner Jack & Kathy Propp Brian & Mary Kay Smith Gerald & Lorene Walter Thomas Prosser W. Graham Smith Trish Welzien Maeve Quinn Barbara Sondalle Lee Wenker in memory of Caren Reich, State Farm Steve & Sue Sorenson Julie Wenker Insurance Company Gerald & Judith Specht Bernard & Kathryn Westfahl Grant Reichard Karla Spinks Gary & Pam White Karen Reiter Marian Staats & Mack & Becky Whitmore Sylvia & Bill Richards † Thomas Bowen Jo Wickstrom Elizabeth Ringstad Ken Stancer Mary Jo Wiedey Ripon College Philip Starr Malinda Wiesner Ripon Kiwanis Club Foundation Mary Stasek Jay and Ann Wilcox-Meilahn Joyce Ritzema in memory Juliette Sterkens & Winborne - Shaw of her granddaughter Maria LeRoy “Max” Maxfield Piano Studio John & Celia Roesch Gwen Stern Wisconsin Arts Board with funds Karen Ann Roesler Ruth Stevig from the State of Wisconsin Barry & Ann Rogers Eva Stokes Jeanne Wood, JM Bookkeeping Ruth Romer Michael Streit in memory of William Conrad & Carol Rompala Jack & Judy Sullivan Millard; in honor of Cheri Lee Rose Susan Swaer Dorthy Millard Dale Russell Severin & Elaine Swanson Gary & Sandra Yakes Ruth Saebo Bill Swanson Steve & Brigid Yeomans John & Jan Saecker John Talin in memory of Yeomans Edinger Ann & Kris Sager Maria Talin Chiropractic Center David & Christal Sakrison Howard & Vicki Taylor Loretta Young Marion Sandleback Tegwen Thalmann Mike & Debbie Zambrowicz Richard & Sandra Scamehorn Lucinda Thayer Andy & Debbie Zeratsky Paul Schick Greg Thelen & Gary & Corrine Ziesemer Gail & Kevin Schippman Gretchen Dahlen Randy & Teleane Zieth John & Joyce Schladweiler Carolyn Thompson & Niki Zohrab in honor of Anthea, John Benson Gretchen & MIchael Zook Jeannette, and Jim Kreston Jeanne Tondryk and Jason Duckles Rodger & Catherine Trader Gary & Dawn Scholtens Sandra & Monroe Trout Paul J. Schoofs in memory of Bill Lemke Ginny Schultz Barbara & Bill Urbrock Clare Schulz in memory of Marvin & John Schwartz Barbara Rowe Tanya & Randy Dan Van Daalwyk Schwartz-Roeper Darlene Van Meir in memory Special Properties of Edward Van Meir Surface and Surroundings Nancy Varner Donald & Mary Kay Sheldon Gladys Veidemanis Steven & Nancy Sheppard Beth Vercouteren Bridget Sheridan David & Karen Verhulst

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Donations made “in memory of” include:

Honoree: Tom Gnewuch Donor: Mary Jane Bumby, Laura Deming & Jack Stubbs, Kurt & Maria Dietrich, David & Karen Duehring, Sylvia Richards

Honoree: Doug Morris Donor: Linda Clauder, Laura Deming & Jack Stubbs, Kurt & Maria Dietrich, Sherry Fitzmorris, John & Mandy Hughes, Magda Krance & Steve Leonard, Gayane Merguerian & Malik Mufti, Bo and Deb Morris, Sylvia Richards, Tina Singh, Gwen Stern

Honoree: Jack Penn Donor: Todd Aldrich, William & Helen Birkemeier, Laura Deming & Jack Stubbs, Alan & Katie Green, Intek Plastics, Jeannette & Jim Kreston, Sylvia Richards, John & Celia Roesch, Clare Schulz, W. Graham Smith, Greg Thelen & Gretchen Dahlen, Malinda Wiesner

Honoree: Bill Richards Donor: Greg & Barb Becker, Kurt & Maria Dietrich, Elsbeth Frederick, Verna & Bill Funcke, Dr. Barbara Herzog, Pamela Kaul, Jeannette & Jim Kreston, Roger & Mary Krinke, Mary Lofgren, Beatrice (Betty) Maier, Larry & Betsey Miller, Sylvia Richards, John & Celia Roesch, Steve & Sue Sorenson, Jack & Judy Sullivan, Carolyn Thompson & John Benson, Kathryn Voelker

Honoree: Barbara Stracka Donor: Bruce & Joanne Johnson, Jeannette & Jim Kreston, Sylvia Richards

Honoree: David Woods Donor: Todd & Betty Berens, Grainger Foundation, Magda Krance & Steve Leonard, Sylvia Richards, Clare Schulz, Nancy Varner

Donations made “in honor of” include:

Honoree: Laura Deming Donor: Mary Jane Bumby, Mary Ellen Carne, John & Jane Chapman, Pam & Randall Davidson, Kurt & Maria Dietrich, Grainger Foundation, JM Bookkeeping, Magda Krance & Steve Leonard, Sylvia Richards, Gary & Dawn Scholtens, Clare Schulz

Honoree: Sam Handley and/or Amanda Majeski Donor: Cheryl Bensman-Rowe, Sasha Gerritson & Eugene Jarvis, Elizabeth Harris, Carl & Denise Majeski, Sylvia Richards

Honoree: Gladys Veidemanis Donor: Joan Christopherson-Schmidt, Kurt & Maria Dietrich, Verna & Bill Funcke, Gregory Green, Dr. Barbara Herzog, Magda Krance & Steve Leonard, Sylvia Richards, Fran Richman, Ruth Saebo

Green Lake Festival of Music | June - August 2021 47 History of the Green Lake Festival of Music

In 1979, under the leadership of Ripon College choral conductor Doug Morris, a group of community leaders founded the Green Lake Festival of Music. Civic leader Jerry Grout conceived the idea of a summer concert series and joined the first board of directors. At the time, no other presenting organization in this area offered summer chamber music, which made the Festival’s mission both important and unique. In the ensuing years the Festival evolved into a comprehensive program, which was recognized in 2004 with a Governor’s Award in Support of the Arts for its outstanding record of bringing cultural enrichment to Central Wisconsin. The Festival’s current programs comprise a series of concerts featuring top quality artists from throughout the United States and beyond, a two-week chamber music workshop for high school and college students, two choral workshops, and the Thomas E. Caestecker series of free family concerts with related programs in area libraries. Presently the Festival concerts range from classical chamber and choral concerts to jazz and cabaret. One of the more notable accomplishments of the Festival’s founder, Douglas Morris, was luring the world- renowned musician, Sir David Willcocks, conductor of the London Bach Choir, and later his son Jonathan, Director of the Junior Division of the Royal College of Music, to spend a week each summer directing a choral workshop. This successful arrangement began in 1982 and lasted for twenty years. The Festival then selected Stephen Alltop, conductor of the famed Apollo Chorus of Chicago and a member of the conducting faculty at Northwestern University, to conduct the Festival’s present Choral Institute. It is a four-day Institute open to talented high school and adult singers, culminating in a Sunday afternoon performance with orchestra. Dr. Alltop brings some of his top graduate and post-graduate voice students from Northwestern University to enrich each of the vocal sections and perform a night of arias and show tunes. In 2018, Dr. John Hughes, Director of Choral Activities at Ripon College, Ripon, WI, founded the “Composer Residency,” funded by donor Justus Paul. This four-day workshop performs music of the composer-in-residence, with local and national singers forming the choir and a professional string quartet, conducted by Dr. Hughes. In 1999, Executive Director Jeannette Kreston founded the Chamber Music Workshop. Anthea Kreston (violin, viola) and Jason Duckles (cello), members of the Amelia Piano Trio, provided leadership from 1999 — 2012. Cellist Thomas Rosenberg (on the faculties of Carleton and Macalester Colleges in MN and Artistic Director of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition) was artistic director from 2013 – 2017, followed in 2018 by concert pianist Andrew Armstrong. This program provides an intensive, high-quality experience for string and piano students, ages 12 to college-aged and graduate students, to play in small ensembles with the internationally-renowned faculty. Workshop activities include daily coaching, master classes, and performances, along with numerous free outreach events for the general public and senior centers, libraries, and service groups. In 2006, Jeannette Kreston also initiated the Thomas E. Caestecker series of free family concerts with related programs in area libraries. These concerts, provided through the generosity of Mr. Casestecker, make the Festival’s musical events more readily available to families and reach the youngest and oldest members of the audience. In 2017, Mr. Caestecker endowed this concert series. During 2017, the Festival’s board of directors initiated a three-year 40th Anniversary Legacy Campaign to add to its endowment with the goal of offering free concerts, augmented by donations, sponsorships, and grants. To date, the Green Lake Festival of Music has received Legacy Fund donations and pledges of almost $574,000 (with three named gifts from Thomas E. Caestecker, David Woods, and Sylvia and Bill Richards), to add to its endowment. In 2017, the Festival Board of Directors voted to make all concerts free of charge and to ask for free-will donations and sponsorships. This has more than doubled attendance and broadened the financial support of the Festival. Committed to excellence and accessibility, the Festival presents traditional and new works, sponsoring numerous commissions. It reaches a larger audience with Wisconsin Public Radio broadcasts and has achieved international recognition through eight concert tours by the Festival’s Chamber Choir, to Poland, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Canada’s Maritime Provinces. Festival Directors in our 40-year history: Douglas Morris, 1979 – 1997; Jeannette Kreston, 1997- 2011; Jeffrey Harkins, 2011-2014; Laura Deming, 2014-2019; Maria Dietrich (Interim), 2019-2020; Sam Handley, 2020. – Sylvia Richards, Green Lake Festival Historian

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