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In a season that is unlike any other, we look forward to sharing meaningful musical experiences together. Thank you for adopting the current health precautions to provide the safest possible environment for you, your fellow audience members, and the musicians. Please contact us at 850.435.2533 or [email protected] with any comments or suggestions about enhancing your experience. Our Team Music Director Peter Rubardt Executive Director Bret Barrow Advancement & External Relations Jessica Hyche Community Engagement Molly Hollingsworth Librarian Emily Stubblefield Patron Development & Communications Courtney Dell Patron Services Emily Varley Personnel Manager Dale Riegle Production Manager Robin Bonta Contact Us Phone: 850.435.2533 Email: [email protected] Physical Address: 205 East Zaragoza Street | Pensacola, FL 32502 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1752 | Pensacola, FL 32591 2021 SEASON | 11 Peter performer, he actively engages audiences and community groups in the appreciation of symphonic music. Also busy as a guest Rubardt conductor, Rubardt recently debuted with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony, the Fort Worth Music Director Symphony, and the Augusta Symphony, among others. Peter Rubardt has earned wide acclaim for powerful and insightful performances that Now in his 24th season as Music Director inspire passionate responses to symphonic of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, music. In addition to his long-standing Rubardt continues to grow the organization position as Music Director of the Pensacola through a wide range of classical, pops, Symphony, he also serves as the Music and educational programs. He has Director of the Meridian and Gulf Coast played a central role in designing the Symphonies. Throughout his career he orchestra’s innovative “Beyond the Stage” has worked successfully to deepen the program, partnering with a range of local relationships between communities and organizations to bring music to hospitals, their orchestras, leading to growing schools, and neighborhoods. Previously audiences and a broad base of support. he was at the forefront of the effort that A gifted speaker about music as well as a successfully renovated the historic Pensacola 12 | PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saenger Theatre, giving the orchestra A native of Berkeley, California, Rubardt increased visibility and vitality. He also holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in led a significant capital campaign for the Orchestral Conducting from The Juilliard orchestra and played a key role in the School, where he was the recipient of the creation of an hour-long documentary in Bruno Walter Fellowship. A Fulbright collaboration with WSRE public television. Scholar, he studied piano and conducting Since assuming the Music Directorship in at the famed Vienna Hochschule fur Meridian, that community has seen a sharp Musik and pursued further studies at the increase in concert attendance, an acoustical Tanglewood Music Center and the Los retrofit of the hall, a new symphonic pops Angeles Philharmonic Institute. He has event, and the introduction of a newly participated in the masterclasses of Leonard formed symphony chorus. Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, and Herbert Blomstedt; his major teachers have Prior to his appointment in Pensacola, included Otto-Werner Mueller, Sixten Rubardt served four seasons as Associate Ehrling, Michael Senturia, and David Conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Lawton. He was selected by the League Orchestra and three seasons as Resident of American Orchestras to perform in Conductor of the New Jersey Symphony the National Conductor Preview with the Orchestra, conducting numerous classical Jacksonville Symphony in 2005. and pops performances, regional tours, and educational programs with both Rubardt has served on the faculties of The orchestras. He has also conducted the Juilliard School, Rutgers University, and the Utah Symphony, Alabama Symphony, State University of New York at Purchase. Louisiana, Rochester, and Las Vegas In addition to Juilliard he has received Philharmonic Orchestras, The Louisville awards and degrees in music from the State Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony University of New York at Stony Brook and Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Japan’s the University of California at Berkeley. Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Century Rubardt has recorded for Pantheon Records Orchestra Osaka, Yamagata Symphony, International. He resides in Pensacola with Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra his wife Hedi Salanki, a Distinguished (where he performed for Her Imperial University Professor in the Grier Williams Highness The Princess Hitachi of Japan) School of Music at the University of West and Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, and Florida, and their two children. Nova Filarmonia Portuguese, with which he toured Portugal several times, as well as the orchestras of Acadiana, Anchorage, PeterRubardt.com Annapolis, Augusta, Bangor, El Paso, Lubbock, Peoria, Portland, Quad Cities, Rogue Valley, South Dakota, Southwest Florida, Spokane, and Youngstown, among others. From 1991 – 96, he served as Music Director of the Rutgers Symphony. 2021 SEASON | 13 14 | PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA From Our Music Director I usually write this letter sometime during the summer, amidst preparing for a season of wide-ranging and ambitious repertoire. This year? Not so much. I’m writing the week before Thanksgiving, and like everybody else, I’m still trying to figure out what the season will look like. There are, of course, huge unknowns, yet there are also things that are getting more clear by the day: the importance of working together, the importance of sharing our humanity, the importance of striving to be part of something bigger than just