WASO On Stage

VIOLIN Sacha McCulloch^ TRUMPET Graeme Norris Eve Silver* Matthew Dempsey° A/Assistant Concertmaster Fotis Skordas Evan Cromie Rebecca Glorie Jon Tooby^ Peter Miller A/Principal 1st Violin Xiao Le Wu Kylie Liang TROMBONE Assoc Principal 2nd Violin DOUBLE BASS Joshua Davis Kate Sullivan Andrew Sinclair* Chair partnered by Dr Ken Evans & Dr Glenda Campbell-Evans Assistant Principal 2nd Violin Mark Tooby Sarah Blackman A/Assoc Principal Double Bass Liam O’Malley Hannah Brockway^ Sarah Clare^ BASS TROMBONE Fleur Challen Louise Elaerts Philip Holdsworth Stephanie Dean Christine Reitzenstein Beth Hebert Andrew Tait TUBA Alexandra Isted Cameron Brook Jane Johnston° FLUTE Mary-Anne Blades TIMPANI Sunmi Jung Alex Timcke Christina Katsimbardis Diane Riddell^ Andrea Mendham^ PICCOLO PERCUSSION Lucas O’Brien Brian Maloney Michael Waye Chair partnered by Stott Hoare Melanie Pearn Fri 4 & Sat 5 May 2018, 7.30pm OBOE Francois Combemoral^ Ken Peeler Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre Liz Chee Amanda Dean^ Louise Sandercock A/Principal Oboe Robyn Gray^ Jolanta Schenk Zhiyu Xu° Paul Tanner^ Jane Serrangeli Kathryn Shinnick COR ANGLAIS HARP Bao Di Tang Leanne Glover Bronwyn Wallis^ Cerys Tooby CLARINET PIANO Teresa Vinci^ Ashley Smith^ Graeme Gilling^ David Yeh Catherine Cahill^ SYNTHS VIOLA BASS CLARINET Craig Dalton^ Alex Brogan Alexander Millier Adam Pinto^ A/Principal Viola Kierstan Arkleysmith BASSOON ALTO SAXOPHONE Nik Babic Jane Kircher-Lindner Matthew Styles^ George Batey^ Chair partnered by Sue & Ron Wooller Alison Hall Adam Mikulicz *Instruments used by these Rachael Kirk musicians are on loan from CONTRABASSOON Janet Holmes à Court AC. Allan McLean Chloe Turner Elliot O’Brien HORN Principal Katherine Potter^ Associate Principal Helen Tuckey David Evans Assistant Principal Robert Gladstones Contract Player˚ CELLO Principal 3rd Horn Guest Musician^ Louise McKay Sarah Brien^ Chair partnered by Penrhos College Julia Brooke Shigeru Komatsu Tahlia Denn^ Oliver McAslan Francesco Lo Surdo The West Australian Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders of the Indigenous Nations across About The Composer About The Conductor Western Australia and on whose Lands we work. John Jesensky Composer Conductor In a career spanning more than five Composer/conductor John Jesensky decades, John Williams has become one earned his B.M. in Music Composition of America’s most accomplished and from the Hartt School of Music under the successful composers for film and for the tutelage of composer Stephen Gryc, as concert stage, and he remains one of our well as leading wind ensemble conductor Starring Worldwide Representation: WME Entertainment nation’s most distinguished and contributive Glen Adsit. John was awarded his M.M. Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter Music Preparation: JoAnn Kane Music Service musical voices. He has composed the in Film Composition from New York Music Editing: Ramiro Belgardt and Ed Kalnins music and served as music director for more University, where he studied with John Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley Playback Operation and Synthesizer Production: iMusicImage Emma Watson as Hermione Granger Sound Remixing: Justin Moshkevich, Igloo Music Studios than one hundred films, including all eight Hughes’ longtime collaborator, composer/ Music by John Williams Merchandising by Firebrand Star Wars films, the first threeHarry Potter conductor Ira Newborn. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron A Very Special Thanks to: Warner Bros. Consumer Products, films,Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, During his tenure at NYU, Jesensky’s score Produced by David Heyman, Chris The Blair Partnership, Mark Graham, Amos Newman, Jamie to Michael Daugherty’s short, Season’s Richardson, Alex Rabens, and John Williams. The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and The was inducted into the American Academy During his conducting tenure, he has Columbus and Mark Radcliffe of Arts & Sciences, and he received the Greetings won the Skirball Film Scoring directed some of the finest ensembles Written by Steve Kloves Cinematography by Michael Seresin Book Thief. His 45-year artistic partnership Edited by Steven Weisberg with director Steven Spielberg has resulted National Medal of Arts, the highest award Competition. Upon graduation, he was within North America and Europe in Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling Produced by Heyday Films, 1492 Pictures given to artists by the U.S. Government. In presented the Elmer Bernstein Award for performance of concerts including Star Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and successful films, includingSchindler’s 2016, he received the 44th Life Achievement Film Composition. Trek: The Ultimate Voyage, The Godfather: in Concert™ is produced by CineConcerts Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Live, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Entertainment Company is one of the leading licensing and List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Award from the American Film Institute – the Several of his scores have made Justin Freer, President/Founder/Producer retail merchandising organizations in the world. first time in their history that this honor was Stone: In Concert. Brady Beaubien, Co-Founder/Producer Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the appearances and won awards at events HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are Indiana Jones films,Munich, Saving Private bestowed upon a composer. Director of Production: Jeffery Sells © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING`S such as the Cannes Film Festival, L.A. Film Jesensky remains an active and prolific Head of Publicity and Communications: Andrew Alderete WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse In January 1980, Mr. Williams was named Festival, Austin Film Festival, Hollyshorts composer in Los Angeles, writing music for Brand/Marketing Director: Ma’ayan Kaplan Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s18) and Lincoln. His contributions to television Brand/Marketing Manager: Brittany Fonseca nineteenth music director of the Boston Film Festival, D.C. Film Festival and Phoenix short and feature-length films, while also Brand/Marketing Manager: Molly Kossoff This performance lasts approximately 2 hours and 50 music include scores for more than 200 Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Film Festival. composing/conducting classical works for Brand/Marketing Manager: Si Peng minutes and includes a 20 minute interval. television films for the groundbreaking, Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the chamber and orchestral ensembles. Office Manager: Gabe Cheng early Alcoa Theatre, Kraft title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and which he assumed following his retirement , as well as themes for NBC in December, 1993, after fourteen highly Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet WASO Chorus successful seasons. He also holds the title WASO – Celebrating 90 Years in 2018 the Press, and the PBS arts showcase Great of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Mr. Performances. He also composed themes Andrew Foote Elena Mavrofridis ALTO TENOR Williams has composed numerous works The West Australian Symphony Orchestra for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Chorus Vocal Coach Brooke McKnight Marian Agombar Nick Fielding for the concert stage, among them two (WASO) is Western Australia’s largest and Connect With WASO Olympic Games, the 2002 Winter Olympic Delia Price Lisa Barz David Lancaster symphonies, and concertos commissioned Craig Dalton busiest performing arts organisation. Each facebook.com/ Games. He has received five Academy Sheila Price Daniela Birch John Murphy by several of the world’s leading orchestras, Accompanist year the Orchestra entertains, inspires WestAustralianSymphonyOrchestra Awards and fifty Oscar nominations, Rochelle Rabel Dianne Graves Joe Robinson including a cello concerto for the Boston and enriches the people of Western making him the Academy’s most-nominated SOPRANO Elizabeth Reid Marjan van Gulik Stephen Turley Australia through its world-class concert twitter.com/_WASO_ Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto living person and the second-most Anita Adhitya Jane Royle Gaylene Kelso Brad Wake performances, award-winning education for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet nominated person in the history of the Evie Anderson Nicole Sero Diana MacCallum and community programs, exciting young instagram.com/_waso_ concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, BASS Oscars. He has received seven British Rose Belford Sarah Shneier Debra McNeil and emerging artists programs, regional and a horn concerto for the Chicago Charlie Bond Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-three Kathryn Buselich Alicia Walter Katrina Neser tours and its artistic partnerships with West wasorchestra Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, Mr. Williams Bertel Bulten Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, Sarah Cosstick Nicole Zago Deborah Pearson Australian Opera and West Australian Ballet. composed and arranged “Air and Simple Mark Gummer and numerous gold and platinum records. Cate Creedon Shannon Reid WASO performs to more than 200,000 youtube.com/ Gifts” especially for the first inaugural Tony King In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the Fay Edwards Fiona Robson West Australians annually and is heard WestAustSymOrchestra ceremony of President Barack Obama, and Andrew Lynch IOC’s highest honor) for his contributions Cara Fesjian Louise Sutton around Australia and globally through its Stay up to date and sign-up to our to the Olympic movement. He received in September 2009, the Boston Symphony Diane Hawkins Ben Martis broadcasts on ABC Classic FM, Foxtel Arts, SymphonE-news at waso.com.au the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in premiered a new concerto for harp and Ginny Luff Chris Smith and live and on-demand webcasts. December of 2004. In 2009, Mr. Williams orchestra entitled “On Willows and Birches”. Robert Turnbull