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FIRST VIOLINS CLARINETS Rimma Bergeron-Langlois, Principal Nikolay Blagov, Principal The Lynn and Charles Steinmetz Chair The Mary and Frank J. Doherty Chair Annabelle Gardiner Nick Hecker The Jeanne and John Blackburn Chair Sarah Arnold BASSOONS Sacha Phelps Diane Bishop, Principal Olga Ferroni The Theodore R. Hassen Chair Julia Gessinger Julie Fox Joni Hanze Dilyana Tsenov HORNS Vincent Kiray, Principal SECOND VIOLINS Mark Fischer Alexander Stevens, Principal The Carolyn Blice 2nd Horn Chair Victor Ferroni Kathleen Thomas Galen Kaup Kevin Brooks Dina Fedosenko Jennie Rudberg TRUMPETS Linda Van Buren Michael Fee, Principal The Stephen Goldman Chair VIOLAS William Cooper Mauricio Céspedes-Rivero, Principal Thomas Macklin Dr. Jefferson and Mrs. June Flower Chair Peter Dutilly TROMBONES Douglas Pritchard Joseph Vascik Melissa Swedberg Jeffrey Thomas, Principal

CELLOS TUBA Ronald Gardiner, Principal Joseph Alvarez Jonathan Stilwell Maureen May BASS TROMBONE Christopher Glansdorp Brian Brink

BASSES TIMPANI Don-Michael Hill, Principal Carl Rendek In Partnership with UCF The Kenneth and Ann Hicks Murrah Chair Robert Kennon PERCUSSION FLUTES Kirk Gay Colleen Blagov, Principal Zachary Frank Claudia White Mark Goldberg

OBOES Jamie Strefeler, Principal In Partnership with UCF Sherwood Hawkins

2 LARA ST. JOHN PLAYS BEETHOVEN Conductor: Eric Jacobsen | Soloists: Lara St. John, violin

- PROGRAMME -

Shorthand (World Premiere) Anna Clyne - Eric Jacobsen, cello (b. 1980) Mauricio Cespedes-Rivero, conductor

Kreutzer Sonata for Violin and Chamber Orchestra - Lara St. John, violin (1770-1827) - INTERMISSION -

Second Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman Joan Tower (b. 1938)

Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.11 Felix Mendelssohn I. Allegro di molto (1809-1847) II. Andante III. Menuetto: Allegro molto IV. Allegro con fuoco

PREVIEWS: Upcoming Concerts Season 2020-21

UCF SYMPHONY ORLANDO LUTHERAN CANTATA ORCHESTRA CONCERT BAND CHOIR AND CHAMBER ENSEMBLE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER SATURDAY, JANUARY, 23 SUNDAY, MARCH 21 ONLINE | 7pm ONLINE | 7pm ONLINE | 3pm BRASS BAND UCF SYMPHONY ORLANDO OF CENTRAL FLORIDA ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 SATURDAY, APRIL 24 ONLINE | 7pm ONLINE | 7pm ONLINE | 7pm

3 - BIOGRAPHIES -

ERIC JACOBSEN, CONDUCTOR and Gil Shaham, and singers Dawn Upshaw and Susan Hailed by as “an interpretive dynamo,” Graham, Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Emanuel Ax and conductor and cellist ERIC JACOBSEN has built a reputation Jean-Yves Thibaudet. for engaging audiences with innovative and collaborative projects. As co-founder and Artistic Director of the Under Jacobsen’s baton, The Knights have an extensive recording collection that includes Azul, with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the ground beneath our feet, on Warner Classics; Grammy nominated Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 with Gil Shaham on Canary; three albums for Sony Classical — Jan Vogler and The Knights Experience: Live from New York, and all-Beethoven album, and New Worlds; and the “smartly programmed” (NPR) A Second in Silence on the Ancalagon label. We Are The Knights, a documentary film produced by Thirteen/WNET, premiered in September 2011.

In demand as a guest conductor, Jacobsen has led or will lead Camerata Bern, the symphonies Alabama, Baltimore, Detroit, Virginia, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, and Silk Road Ensemble. Jacobsen also tours with The Knights in the U.S. and Europe. He is also an Artistic Partner of the Northwest Sinfonietta and Music Director of adventurous orchestra The Knights, Jacobsen, along with his the Greater Bridgeport Symphony. brother, violinist Colin Jacobsen, was awarded a prestigious United States Artists Fellowship. A dedicated chamber musician, Jacobsen is a member of the venerated Silk Road Ensemble and is a founding member Mr. Jacobsen is in his fourth year as the Music Director of Brooklyn Rider. With these groups he has taken part in a for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. He has already wealth of world premieres and toured extensively in North started a new trend in creative programing and community America, Europe, and Asia. For more information on Eric and engagement that has engaged a wider audience. In 2016 his upcoming engagements, www.jacobseneric.com Mr. Jacobsen stepped down from his position as cellist in the genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider to focus more on his role as conductor and Music Director. The Orlando Philharmonic is building both in size and scope, and this year celebrates its 26th Season as a great city arts organization. The 2018-19 Season evokes ideas and themes of The Silk Road Ensemble, of which Jacobsen is a member. There is much to look forward too including the opening of the long anticipated Steinmetz Hall, which will be the new home of the Philharmonic.

Jacobsen founded The Knights with his brother, Colin, to foster the intimacy and camaraderie of chamber music on the orchestral stage; as the New Yorker reports, “few ensembles are as adept at mixing old music with new as the dynamic young Brooklyn orchestra.” As Music Director, Jacobsen has led the “consistently inventive, infectiously engaged indie ensemble” (The New York Times) at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Ojai Music Festival, and international hot spots such as the Dresden Musikfestspiele, and the Cologne Philharmonie. Recent collaborators include cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Jan Vogler, violinists Itzhak Perlman 4 LARA ST. JOHN Canadian-born violinist Lara St. John has been described as “something of a phenomenon” by The Strad and a “high-powered soloist” by the New York Times. She has performed as soloist with the orchestras of Cleveland, , San Francisco, Seattle, the Boston Pops, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Symphony, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, Camerata Ireland, Belgrade Symphony, Amsterdam Symphony, and the Akbank Chamber Orchestra in Turkey, among others.

Lara has also performed with the Queensland Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony, ACO², Auckland Philharmonia, Tokyo Symphony, Kyoto Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Hangzhou Symphony and the Shanghai Symphony. She has traveled to Latin America for appearances with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the Sao Paulo Symphony, Rio de Janeiro’s Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira, Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Ecuador, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, the SODRE in Montevideo and the Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima in Peru.

Recitals in major concert halls have included New York, Boston, San Francisco, Ravinia, Wolf Trap, Washington DC, Prague, , Toronto, Montreal, Bogotá, Lima, and in the Forbidden City. The Los Angeles Times wrote “Lara St. John happens to be a volcanic violinist with a huge, fabulous tone that pours out of her like molten lava. She has technique to burn and plays at a constant high heat.” Lara owns and runs her own label, Ancalagon, which she founded in 1999. Bach: The Six Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo was the best-selling double album on iTunes in 2007. Her 2008 world premiere recording of Matthew Hindson’s Violin Concerto prompted Gramophone to write: “It’s the sort of work that should get audiences running, not walking, back to concert halls on new-music nights.”

In 2009, American Record Guide said of her Vivaldi/Piazzolla disc with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela: “I can imagine no suaver, more atmospheric performance.” Her Mozart recording won a Juno Award in 2011. In 2014, her Schubert album with Berlin Philharmonic harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet, cellist Ludwig Quandt and soprano Anna Prohaska was chosen as one of ‘The Best CDs of Spring’ by Der Tagsesspiegel and MDR Figaro recommended it for its “boundless enchantment.” Her 2016 release of re-imagined folk music with pianist Matt Herskowitz got a five-star review from All About Jazz: “Music like this is beyond imagination and talent. It exists only in the loosely-held molecules found on the razor’s edge of Creation.” She has been featured in People, US News and World Report, on CNN’s Showbiz Today, NPR’s All Things Considered, CBC, BBC, a Bravo! Special: Live at the Rehearsal Hall and on the cover of Strings.

Lara began playing the violin when she was two years old. She made her first appearance as soloist with orchestra at age four, and her European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra when she was 10. She toured Spain, France, Portugal and Hungary at ages 12 and 13 and entered the Curtis Institute at 13. Her teachers have included Felix Galimir and Joey Corpus.

She performs on the 1779 “Salabue” Guadagnini thanks to an anonymous donor.

Celebrating its 28th Season, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Music Director Eric Jacobsen and is comprised of creative musicians and artists from around the world. The Philharmonic annually presents the 10-concert FAIRWINDS Classics Series and Pops Series, as well as its Focus Series and Symphony Storytime Series at The Plaza Live, a historic Central Florida venue. The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra’s mission is to enrich and inspire the diverse communities of Central Florida through the transformative power of live music, and it presents more than 170 live concerts and impacts more than 70,000 children, youth, and families annually through its Young People’s Concerts, Symphony Storytime Series, Notes in Your Neighborhood program, and free outdoor community concerts. A resident company of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the Philharmonic will perform in Steinmetz Hall when it opens. Learn more at OrlandoPhil.org. 5