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JOIN US IN20 WELCOMING OUR NEW CONDUCTOR WELCOME TO OUR 2019/20 SEASON!

Jamie LaFreniere — Executive Director

I can’t wait to share this season with you for two very special reasons. First, we will have a new Music Director! The search will soon be complete, and in May we make our final selection. Our conductor position is endowed by Dr. Monroe Trout and Sandra Lemke, and we are looking to the new director to shape our artistic future. I hope you will join me in welcoming him to our stage and our community. We are looking forward to seeing what he has planned. Second, we are putting our own principal musicians in the spotlight! Each of our classical concerts will showcase these amazing musicians. You already know them from our concerts, but it is time for them to shine in the spotlight! This orchestra has grown in so many ways throughout the years, and we are proud of the progress we’ve made and the support we’ve received from our community. Join us this season as we bring out the best of the FVSO in each piece of music.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 • 7:30 PM LINDA NIELSEN KORDUCKI & ALISON ATTAR

MOZART Opening Concerto for Flute and Harp Night

Alison Linda

Linda Nielsen Korducki became principal flutist of Dr. Alison Attar has performed with FVSO in 1999 and currently performs with Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW, Fulcrum Point Symphony Orchestra. She performed with Green and Contempo. Attar has especially enjoyed working Bay Symphony Orchestra, Symphony and collaborating with living composers, including Orchestra, Milwaukee Ballet, Pamiro Opera, Milwaukee George Crumb, Osvaldo Golijov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Opera Theater, Bel Canto, Racine, Kenosha, Rockford, Marta Ptasznska, Bernard Rands, Param Vir, and the Chicago Pops and Chamber Orchestras. late Gunther Schuller. Linda maintains a private teaching studio and is Attar performed with Boston Baroque, Boston’s a faculty member at Cardinal Stritch University and Handel & Haydn, Haymarket Opera Company, Alverno College where she teaches flute, chamber Chicago Opera Theater, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, music and music history. Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and Canada’s Nielsen completed her Doctor of Musical Arts premiere Baroque orchestra, Tafelmusik. degree at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Dr. Alison Attar holds a B.M., M.M., and D.M. in She holds degrees from the University of Minnesota harp performance and a B.A. in Italian culture, all and University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.­ from Northwestern University. SEASON PACKAGE / CONCERT 2 SEASON PACKAGE / CONCERT 3

NOVEMBER 23, 2019 7:30 PM JENNIFER HODGES BRYAN Sponsored by the BENEDETTO MARCELLO U.S. Venture/Schmidt Family Foundation Oboe Concerto in C Minor.

Jennifer

Jennifer Hodges Bryan joined the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra in 1999 and became principal oboist in 2007. She performs with Wisconsin Symphonic Winds, Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra FEBRUARY 8, 2020 and Racine Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 PM Jennifer also enjoys working with young people as a private teacher and is woodwind sectional coach MASTERWORKS Concert for the Fox Valley Youth Symphony. In 2017, Jennifer with newVoices performed a recital for the International Double Reed Convention premiering a work by local composer, Featuring a collaboration between Aaron Zinsmeister. Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra In 2017, Jennifer also released her first recording and newVoices. entitled, Appassionata, featuring several members of FVSO. Jennifer has a degree in oboe performance from . SEASON PACKAGE / CONCERT 4 ALSO NEXT SEASON!

MARCH 14, 2020 7:30 PM IRISH TENORS

Concertmaster Series-

The Irish Tenors have been the acknowledged Celtic music kings since they burst upon the scene during Join us at Riverview Gardens a 1998 PBS special. With 10 bestselling CDs to their for our Concertmaster Series, credit, The Irish Tenors rekindled the love of all things showcasing our musicians Irish in America and opened the door for countless performing music they love Irish music groups to hit the United States. including complex chamber pieces. You will enjoy the warm, relaxed setting where we can all get closer to the music.

Our 2019-20 Concertmaster series schedule will be released this summer. Look for details Boldt Arts Alive! Series in collaboration with on our website at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center foxvalleysymphony.com. SEASON PACKAGE / CONCERT 5

APRIL 25, 2020 • 7:30 PM BRUCE ATWELL & YULIYA SMEAD

ETHEL SMYTH - Concerto for Horn, Grand Violin and Orchestra in A Finale Yuliya Bruce

Dr. Bruce Atwell is Professor of Horn at the University Dr. Yuliya Smead has been a soloist with the of Wisconsin—Oshkosh. He holds positions with the Russian Chamber Orchestra, Lviv National Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, Oshkosh Symphony Philharmonic Orchestra, Leopolis Orchestra, and Orchestra, and Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. In the the Fox Valley, Green Bay, Oshkosh, and Manitowoc summer he performs with the Praetorius Brass and Symphony Orchestras. Movere Winds. His recording, Baroque Music for Horn As an orchestral musician in Europe, Smead and Strings, is available on the Centaur Label, and his served as Concertmaster for the Lviv State Chamber latest recording will be released this spring. Orchestra “Trembita” and the Leopolis Chamber He has held positions with the Hong Kong Orchestra. Philharmonic, Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Smead has served as Concertmaster of the Ballet and Philadelphia Orchestra. Oshkosh and Fox Valley Symphony Orchestras and He has performed with many orchestras including Assistant Concertmaster of the Green Bay Symphony the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Orchestra. She is also the Adjunct Professor of Violin Symphony Orchestra, Symphony at the University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh­ and teaches Orchestra and all major orchestras in Florida. at the Lawrence Academy of Music. 2019/20 • 5-CONCERT PACKAGE • ORDER FORM

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