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New Horizons September 21-24, 2017

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

elcome to the his evening marks the opening concerts beginning of Daniel Wof New Century’s THope’s second season 2019-2020 Season! We open as New Century’s Music this season on the heels of New Director. In just one short year Century’s successful European at the helm, Daniel has made an debut tour. Our musicians indelible impact on the scope charmed European audiences of our activities, our artistic during sold-out concerts at some partnerships, and orchestral of Europe’s most celebrated music festivals, including the sound. Just three months ago, Daniel led New Century -founded Schleswig-Holstein Music on its debut tour of Europe, where our musicians Festival, and three concerts at the massive Festspiele played to enthusiastic sold-out crowds across Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. and Poland. It was a moving experience to hear our wonderful orchestra play at some of the most important I was delighted to join the tour with an enthusiastic festival venues in Europe—truly an incredible milestone fan club of Bay Area patrons and members of the New for our Bay Area orchestra. This first European tour Century Board of Directors. It was a proud moment for was just the beginning of a new chapter for us as an all of us to witness our brilliant musicians and Music internationally recognized ensemble. Director Daniel Hope received with wild applause and standing ovations at these storied European festivals. We open the 2019-2020 season with a program that We have all known for years that we have a very special features the sensational young pianist Maxim Lando. At musical treasure in the Bay Area, and we have now seen just 14 years of age, Maxim famously performed with its thrilling impact on the international music scene. superstar pianist Lang Lang for the opening night gala Plans are underway for a return to Europe, so stay tuned! at Carnegie Hall. That debut performance catapulted the young pianist into an international concert career This evening, we kick off a season filled with some that has included debuts with leading orchestras around of the world’s most celebrated artists, including New the world. It is a thrill to present Maxim at this exciting Century debut artist, pianist Maxim Lando, and time in his young career. He will, no doubt, be counted GRAMMY Award-winners, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie as one of the great pianists of his generation. von Otter, cellist Lynn Harrell, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Returning to New Century after her We look forward to seeing you during the rest of our triumphant premiere of Philip Glass’s , 2019-2020 season! We are particularly looking forward No. 3, pianist Simone Dinnerstein assumes the role of to our first performances at the newly restored and New Century’s first Artist-in-Residence. Simone will lead renovated Presidio Theatre in January 2020. Over an evening of J.S. Bach, share her artistry in Bay Area two days, New Century will celebrate Beethoven’s schools, and celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday during 250th birthday with concerts featuring pianist Simone our “Beethoven in the Presidio” festival. Dinnerstein, cellist Lynn Harrell and our Music Director Daniel Hope. In June 2019, Daniel Hope was appointed Thank you for everything you do to make New as the President of the Beethoven House, Memorial Century’s vision of a self-conducted chamber orchestra site, Museum and Cultural Center. In this role, Daniel a reality. We look forward to seeing you at all of this will oversee the global celebrations of Beethoven@250 season’s concerts and events as Daniel Hope leads his celebrations, with New Century’s “Beethoven in the second year as Music Director. Presidio” as a centerpiece.

Most sincerely, Thank you for your support and patronage of our self- conducted orchestra! You are each an integral part of creating this collaborative musical experience.

Sincerely yours, Mark Salkind President

Philip Wilder Executive Director

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 1 SEPTEMBER 26, 2019, 7:30PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BERKELEY SEPTEMBER 28, 2019, 7:30PM HERBST THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER 29, 2019, 3:00PM OSHER MARIN JCC, SAN RAFAEL FIN DE SIÈCLE

Daniel Hope, Music Director and Concertmaster Maxim Lando, Piano Simos Papanas, Guest Concertmaster

EDWARD ELGAR Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47 (1857-1934)

CHRISTIAN SINDING Adagio from Suite im alten Stil, Op. 10 (1856-1941) Daniel Hope, violin

JULES MASSENET Méditation from Thaïs (1842-1912) Daniel Hope, violin

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Notturno for Violin, Strings and Harp (1874-1951) Daniel Hope, violin

RICHARD STRAUSS Morgen! Op. 27 No. 4 for Violin and Strings (1864-1949) Daniel Hope, violin

EDWARD ELGAR Chanson de Matin Daniel Hope, violin

INTERMISSION

ERNEST CHAUSSON Concert for Violin, Piano and Strings (1855-1899) I. Décidé – Calmé II. Sicilienne III. Grave IV. Finale. Très animé

Daniel Hope, violin Maxim Lando, piano

New Century’s 2019-20 Season is made possible by the generous ongoing support of Gordon P. and Ann G. Getty.

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 2 THE ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I VIOLIN II CELLO Daniel Hope, Iris Stone, Zhou Yi, Music Director & Principal Guest Principal Concertmaster Dawn Harms Michelle Djokic Simos Papanas, Robin Mayforth Robin Bonnell Guest Concertmaster Kayo Miki Eric Gaenslen Deborah Tien Price, Stephanie Bibbo Associate Concertmaster DOUBLE BASS Karen Shinozaki Sor VIOLA Anthony Manzo, Hrabba Atladottir Anna Kruger, Principal Jory Fankuchen Principal Jenny Douglass HARP Cassandra Lynne Richburg Meredith Clark Elizabeth Prior

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The 1890s—variously called fin de siècle (end of the opening of the introduction. Instead of the century), la belle époque (the beautiful era), a development section, Elgar wrote what he or the Gilded Age—were a time where Europe called “a devil of a fugue” (another nod to the enjoyed an unusually long period of peace and Baroque), followed by a full recapitulation and economic growth. Britain and France were an emphatic return of the Welsh tune to crown expanding their colonial empires, while newly- the entire piece. unified Germany was eager to get its share of the booty and the Habsburgs in Austria- Hungary, with no ambitions overseas, ruled SUITE IM ALTEN STIL (“SUITE IN over many nations in Central Europe. Norway, still dominated by Sweden, was asserting its THE OLD STYLE”), OP. 10 (1888) cultural identity and independence, which BY CHRISTIAN SINDING came in 1905, was not far off. Keeping most of (Kongsberg, Norway, 1856 – Oslo, 1941) their conflicts offshore, these countries enjoyed a level of prosperity seldom seen before. All It may have been Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite, this was reflected in the music of the time—in written in 1884-85, that inspired Grieg’s younger general elegant, refined, and well-balanced. Few compatriot Christian Sinding to compose a Suite would have predicted that in a few years, all in the Old Style a few years later. Sinding, best this beautiful world would go up in flames in known for his piano piece Frühlingsrauschen World War I. Likewise, few signs of the radical (“Rustle of Spring)”, had started his career as stylistic changes of 20th-century music could be a violinist, and composed a great deal for his anticipated in tonight’s selection of seven works instrument. Suite in the Old Style was first from five European countries, all from the years written for violin and piano and orchestrated between 1888 and 1905. later. It is a virtuoso piece that used to be part of Jascha Heifetz’s repertoire and anticipates the lovely faux Baroque pieces of Fritz Kreisler in the early 20th century. Of its three movements, INTRODUCTION AND ALLEGRO, the first is a perpetuum mobile filled with broken OP. 47 (1905) chords, the second an Adagio with an expansive BY EDWARD ELGAR lyrical melody, and the third a stately dance with (Broadheath, nr. Worcester, England, 1857 – powerful double, triple and quadruple stops in Worcester, 1934) the violin part. The work was dedicated to Adolf Brodsky (1851-1929), the Russian violinist who The novelty in Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro gave the first performance of the Tchaikovsky lies, paradoxically, in the fact that the composer Violin Concerto. chose to revive an old musical form: the Baroque concerto grosso. The British composer appears here as a forerunner of neo-classicism, MÉDITATION FROM THAÏS (1894) incorporating as he does certain Baroque BY JULES MASSENET elements in his essentially late Romantic idiom. (Montaud, France, 1842 – Paris, 1912) His solo group, the string quartet, is of course not a Baroque formation, and after an “archaic” This universally popular violin solo—an opening, the music moves to a very different instrumental song of exquisite lyrical beauty— source of inspiration. A Welsh tune heard during comes from an opera based on an 1887 novel by a 1901 holiday at Ynys Lochtyn brings a lyrical, Anatole France, which is a new take on an old nostalgic element into the piece, appearing at story. Thaïs was a famous courtesan in ancient crucial moments at the beginning, in the middle Alexandria, Egypt, a lady with a long-standing and at the end. The tune is superimposed over literary pedigree. She first appears as a character a classical sonata form that introduces three in a play by the Roman playwright Terence (2nd more themes: one gracefully moving, the second century BCE) and shows up in Dante’s Inferno extremely busy and patter-like, and the third as well. In the novel and the opera, a saintly broad and “noble” in an Elgarian way, recalling monk, dwelling in the desert, persuades Thaïs

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 4 PROGRAM NOTES to abandon her sinful life and go to a convent seashore. At the moment when they quietly look to devote herself to God. The only twist is that into each other’s eyes, a series of magical chords he himself falls madly in love with the new conveys the “silence of happiness.” convert. The Méditation occurs at the exact point in the opera where Thaïs repents and decides to When Strauss orchestrated this song in 1897, give up her courtesanly ways. he gave its beautiful melody to a solo violin, and Morgen! became a cherished part of the solo violin repertoire as well. NOTTURNO FOR STRINGS AND HARP (1896) BY ARNOLD SCHOENBERG CHANSON DE MATIN, OP. 15, NO. 2 (, 1874 – Los Angeles, 1951) (1899-1900) BY EDWARD ELGAR This Notturno was the first work by Arnold (Broadheath, nr. Worcester, England, 1857 – Schoenberg ever performed in public. This Worcester, 1934) rather modest debut took place on March 2, 1896, at a concert of the Viennese amateur Chanson de matin (“Morning Song”) was written orchestra Polyhymnia under its music director as a companion piece to a more somber work Alexander von Zemlinsky—Schoenberg’s private originally called “Evensong” but published as composition teacher and future brother-in-law. Chanson de nuit (“Night Song”). Written shortly The 22-year-old composer played cello in the after the magnificentEnigma Variations which orchestra, “with a lot of fire but out of tune,” established Elgar as the leading English composer as Zemlinsky later recalled. The work was long of his day, this delightful, sunny miniature presumed lost and was only rediscovered about shows another side of his artistic personality. twenty years ago when musicologist Antony Along with the more complex and profound Beaumont found it, under the title “Adagio,” at orchestral and choral works which made him the Library of Congress. (Schoenberg originally famous, Elgar could toss off unproblematic short called the piece “Andante,” before changing the pieces that would become instantly popular tempo indication to Adagio.) The Notturno was without the slightest compromise on invention first published in 2001. and craftsmanship. Originally written for violin and piano, both Chanson de nuit and Chanson The brief work is dominated by a peaceful, lyrical de matin were orchestrated and are heard more melody played first by the string ensemble and frequently in that form. repeated with the addition of a solo violin and a solo harp. It is a beautiful melody exquisitely scored, but contains little indication that in CONCERT FOR VIOLIN, PIANO AND three short years, the composer would produce a masterpiece like Verklärte Nacht. STRINGS, OP. 21 (1891) BY ERNEST CHAUSSON (Paris, 1855 – Limay, France, 1899)

MORGEN! OP. 27, NO. 4 (1894) Ernest Chausson’s lavish Parisian home was BY always open to artists, poets, and musicians. (Munich, 1864 – Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1949) The list of his regular guests reads like a Who’s Who of French culture: the leading impressionist Richard Strauss’s song for voice and piano painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, the Morgen! (“Tomorrow!”), on a poem by John writers André Gide and Colette, the composers Henry Mackay (a German poet despite César Franck, Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy his Scottish name), has an unusually long could all be seen at Chausson’s soirées. instrumental introduction. In the poem, two lovers enjoy a leisurely stroll down to the

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The host, himself a composer, had inherited The third-movement Grave is the emotional a fortune (his father, a contractor, had worked center of the Concert. In the long and on Baron Haussmann’s extensive construction exceedingly tender opening duo between the projects which had transformed Paris into violin and the piano, we may recognize the two- a modern city). He could devote himself to note oscillation from the previous movement. composition and to the collection of paintings The string quartet enters to amplify the texture as by his artist friends. The two main influences on the movement’s principal melody is introduced. Chausson were Franck (his teacher) and Wagner; All six instruments play this melody in a heroic in his best works he was able to combine the manner at the climactic moment, followed by a Wagnerian harmonic idiom with a genuinely brief and gentle coda. French sensitivity. The last movement begins tempestuously in Chausson’s Concert, Op. 21 can be described as the “dramatic” key of D minor, continues in the fusion of a sonata for violin and piano with a more lyrical vein, traverses many keys and, a string quartet. It was inspired by the artistry of after a staggering development, culminates in a the great Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, who fortissimo return of the third movement’s main later became the dedicatee of Chausson’s most melody. This is another Franckian strategy, famous work, the Poème. Ysaÿe gave the first recalling the last movement of Franck’s famous performance of Concert, with five distinguished Violin Sonata (which had also been premiered colleagues, in Brussels on March 4, 1892. by Ysaÿe in 1886). The finale of that sonata similarly incorporates a quote from its preceding César Franck’s influence may be felt in the slow movement. way Chausson recycles the three-note motif from the slow introduction in the fast tempo One is tempted to call the entire Concert an of his first movement. (Franck had done the homage to Franck, who passed away the year exact same thing in his Symphony in D minor before Chausson’s composition was written. Yet of 1888.) Forceful and soft-spoken movements it is by no means a derivative work: its novel alternate, sometimes with startling abruptness, combination of instrumental forces, used in such in Chausson’s movement where the three-note a brilliant way, gives it a special sound world that motto is never absent for too long. is unique in the entire chamber repertory.

The second movement is a tender “Sicilienne” in which the familiar 6/8 rhythm of the siciliano is —Peter Laki combined with a melody that oscillates between two notes, giving the work a certain rocking quality—almost like a lullaby. Through motivic development, the theme gathers considerable momentum and is eventually taken up forte by the entire ensemble, though the ending is, once again, soft and subdued.

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by the New York Times. His recording of Alban Berg’s Concerto was voted Gramophone Magazine’s “top choice of all available recordings.“ And his recording of Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed, which reached No. 1 in over 22 countries is, with 130,000 copies sold, one of the most successful classical recordings of recent times. In February 2016 released Hope’s 10th album for the Yellow Label: My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin. It is a deeply personal tribute to Hope’s mentor, who would have celebrated his centenary on April 22, 2016 and with whom Hope performed over 60 times, including in Menuhin’s final appearance on March 7, 1999.

DANIEL HOPE Hope was raised in London and studied the MUSIC DIRECTOR violin with Zakhar Bron. The youngest ever member of the Beaux Arts Trio during its New Century Chamber Orchestra is proud to final six seasons, today Hope performs at all welcome back British violinist Daniel Hope the world’s greatest halls and festivals: from for his second season as Music Director. Hope Carnegie Hall to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for from Salzburg to Schleswig-Holstein, from Aspen more than 25 years and is celebrated for his to the BBC Proms and Tanglewood. He has musical versatility as well as his dedication worked with conductors including Kurt Masur, to humanitarian causes. Winner of the 2015 Kent Nagano and Christian Thielemann, as well European Cultural Prize for Music, whose as with the world’s greatest symphony orchestras previous recipients include Daniel Barenboim, including Boston, Chicago, Paris, London, Los Plácido Domingo and the Philharmonic Angeles and Tokyo. Devoted to contemporary Orchestra, Hope appears as soloist with the music, Hope has commissioned over thirty world’s major orchestras and conductors, also works, enjoying close contact with composers directing many ensembles from the violin. Hope such as Alfred Schnittke, Toru Takemitsu, also serves as Music Director of the Zurich Harrison Birtwistle, Gubaidulina, Chamber Orchestra, Artistic Director of the György Kurtág, Peter Maxwell-Davies and Frauenkirche Dresden, and has been named the Mark-Anthony Turnage. next President of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn starting in 2020. Daniel Hope has penned four best-selling books published in Germany; he contributes regularly Hope is one of the world’s most prolific classical to the Wall Street Journal and has written scripts recording artists, with more than 25 albums to for collaborative performances with the actors his name and has been an exclusive Deutsche Klaus Maria Brandauer and Mia Farrow. In Grammophon artist since 2007. His recordings Germany he presents a weekly radio show for the have won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, the WDR3 Channel. Diapason d’Or of the Year, the Edison Classical Award, the Prix Caecilia, six ECHO-Klassik He plays the 1742 “ex-Lipi´nski” Guarneri del Awards and numerous Grammy nominations. Gesù, placed generously at his disposal by an His album of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto anonymous family from Germany. He lives with and Octet with the Chamber Orchestra of his family in Berlin. Europe was named one of the best of the year

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 7 HISTORY photo credit: Matthew Washburn

organization’s history. In addition to touring NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA efforts, New Century’s national footprint has The New Century Chamber Orchestra, one of also continued to grow with a rapidly increasing only a handful of conductorless ensembles in the national radio presence. The ensemble has been world, was founded in 1992. The 19-member broadcast over 30 times on American Public string ensemble includes San Francisco Bay Area Media’s Performance Today, with each broadcast musicians and those who travel from across the heard on 260 radio stations across the country. U.S. and Europe to perform together. Musical The orchestra has released seven compact discs. decisions are made collaboratively, resulting st in an enhanced level of commitment from the The most recent, From A to Z: 21 Century musicians to concerts of remarkable precision, Concertos, is a compilation of four of New passion, and power. In the 2017-2018 season, Century’s live world premiere performances of its British violinist Daniel Hope took the role newly commissioned works by William Bolcom, of Artistic Partner and concertmaster for the Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Clarice Assad and ensemble, while the organization underwent Michael Daugherty. The recording was released an extensive music director search process. In in May 2014 on the NSS Music label. the 2018-2019 season, Hope assumed the role of Music Director, bringing new vibrancy and Two additional albums were released on the leadership to the orchestra. NSS Music label, LIVE: Barber, Strauss, Mahler, released in November 2010, and Together, In addition to performing classic pieces of released in August 2009. The Orchestra’s first chamber orchestra repertoire, New Century concert DVD, On Our Way, was released in May commissions important new works, breathes 2012, and weaves together documentary footage new life into rarely heard jewels of the past, and and a live tour concert from a February 2011 performs world premieres. Through the Featured performance at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Composer program, the orchestra commissions The DVD was filmed by Paola di Florio, director composers to write new works, with the goals of the 1999 Academy Award-nominated film of expanding chamber orchestra repertoire and Speaking in Strings. providing audiences with a deeper understanding of today’s living composers. The orchestra Other recordings include a 1996 collaborative provides insight into the breadth of the Featured project with Kent Nagano and Berkeley Symphony Orchestra featuring the work of Composer’s work by performing a variety of th pieces by the composer throughout the season. 20 century Swiss composer Frank Martin, and Written With the Heart’s Blood, a 1997 Grammy Beyond regular season concerts in the San Award finalist, both on the New Albion label. Francisco Bay Area, New Century has toured In 1998 the orchestra recorded and released nationally, with 2011 performances in the works of Argentine composers Alberto Williams Midwest, East Coast, and Southern California and Alberto Ginastera on the d’Note label, and, garnered record-breaking audiences and national in 2004, the orchestra recorded and released critical acclaim. In January and February Oculus, a CD of Kurt Rohde’s compositions 2013, New Century followed with a highly on the Mondovibe label. All of the recordings successful eight-state national tour, the largest have been distributed both in the United States and most ambitious artistic undertaking in the and internationally. GUEST ARTISTS

(NY), University of Florida Performing Arts, Levine School of Music (DC), Abbey Church Events (WA) and Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center (AL).

As soloist with orchestra this season, his repertoire includes the Saint-Saens Concerto No. 2 with the Westmoreland Symphony (PA), Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Ft. Smith Symphony, and the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 with the Wheeling Symphony. He has previously performed with Russia’s Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, Bolshoi Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, Kazakh State Philharmonic Photo credit: Matt Dine Matt credit: Photo and Israel Philharmonic. MAXIM LANDO Mr. Lando was invited to play at the grand PIANO opening of Steinway and Sons in Beijing, in American pianist Maxim Lando received national collaboration with violinists Julian Rachlin and attention in 2017 at the age of fourteen when Daniel Hope in Munich, and at the National he appeared on the piano bench alongside Lang Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, Kissinger Lang, performing the parts intended for Mr. Sommer in Germany, Louis Vuitton Foundation Lang’s injured left hand, at Carnegie Hall’s Gala in Paris, Dinard International Music Festival in Opening Night. Chick Corea joined them at France, Samos Young Artist Festival in , this concert for an unprecedented three-pianist Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New version of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with York City, Ravinia, Aspen and Shandalee Music the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Yannick Nézet- Festivals, and Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Chicago’s Séguin. The collaboration was chronicled in Millennium Park. The New York Times. Mr. Lando and Mr. Lang Dedicated to making accessible also performed together with the symphonies of to his own generation, Maxim Lando has been Pittsburgh, Toronto, Vancouver and Hawaii, and featured on CNN’s Best of Quest, NPR’s “From China’s NCPA Orchestra. The Top,” Russian TV-Kultura, BBC Radio 4 Mr. Lando won First Prize and four special prizes and WQXR. A proponent of Sing For Hope’s at the 2018 Young Concert Artists International mission, he served as a last-minute replacement Auditions, and opens the 2019-20 Young Concert for Lea Salonga at its 2017 Gala. Artists Series with recital debuts in New York, in Winner of the Gold Medal at the 2017 Berlin the Peter Marino Concert at Carnegie’s Zankel International Music Competition, Maxim Lando Hall, and in Washington, DC, at the Kennedy is an Artemisia Akademie Fellow at Yale University, Center’s Terrace Theater. His debut program is an alumnus of the Lang Lang International Music a tour de force of works by Beethoven, Scriabin, Foundation, and a student of Hung-Kuan Chen and Liszt’s complete Transcendental Etudes. He (YCA Alumnus) and Tema Blackstone at Juilliard also performs recitals this season for the Port Pre-College. Washington Library (NY), Rockefeller University

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and Thessaloniki State Orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Greek Radio, the Sofia Philharmonic, the Sofia Soloists, the Cyprus Symphony, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Southwest German Symphony Orchestra, the American Bach Soloists and the Philharmonia Moments Musicaux (Taiwan). He has recorded as a soloist for Deutsche Grammophon, BIS and Centaur. He has performed in festivals such as Verbier (), Schlesswig-Holstein (Germany), Savannah Music Festival (U.S.A.), Sommets Musicaux Gstaad (Switzerland), the international violin festival of St. Petersburg, the Festival and the Tokyo Music Festival, Photo Credit: Nektarios Basdekis Nektarios Credit: Photo and at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Palau de la SIMOS PAPANAS Musica (Barcelona), St. Petersburg Philharmonic GUEST CONCERTMASTER Grand Hall, Semperoper Dresden and Athens Herod Atticus Theater. He has given masterclasses Simos Papanas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece at the McGill University (Montreal), Louisiana in 1979. He has studied violin, baroque violin, State University, the Soochow University (Taipei, composition and mathematics at the New Taiwan), the University of Macedonia (Greece), Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Oberlin College the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy (Sofia, and Yale University. He studied violin with Petar ), the University of Thessaly (Greece) and Arnaoudov, Taras Gabora and Erick Friedman, several music festivals. His compositions have baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald and been performed and recorded around the world composition with Christos Samaras. He has (U.S.A., Russia, Canada, Peru, Japan, Taiwan and played as a soloist with orchestras such as the most European countries), in prestigious concert Staatskaplle Dresden, the Bolshoi Theater halls such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the National Concert Hall Kammerorchester Basel, the Geneva Camerata, of Taipei. Since 2003 he has been concertmaster the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Athens of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra.

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 10 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT

SAN FRANCISCO WAR MEMORIAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

HERBST THEATRE

Owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco through the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial of San Francisco

The Honorable London N. Breed, Mayor

TRUSTEES Nancy H. Bechtle, President Vaughn R. Walker, Vice-President Belva Davis Thomas E. Horn Lt. Col. Wallace I. Levin CSMR (Ret.) Gorretti Lo Lui Mrs. George R. Moscone MajGen J. Michael Myatt, USMC (Ret.) Paul F. Pelosi Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Diane B. Wilsey

Elizabeth Murray, Managing Director Jennifer E. Norris, Assistant Managing Director

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MEMBERS OF NEW CENTURY

Candace Guirao Dawn Harms Robin Mayforth Principal Second Violin Violin Violin San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA Pacifica, CA Joined NCCO in 1993 Joined NCCO in 1999 Joined NCCO in 2001

Karen Shinozaki Sor Iris Stone Deborah Tien Price Violin Violin Violin Richmond, CA San Francisco, CA Mill Valley, CA Joined NCCO in 1992 Joined NCCO in 1995 Joined NCCO in 1999

Michael Yokas Violin Berlin, Germany Joined NCCO in 2000

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Anna Kruger Jenny Douglass Elizabeth Prior Principal Viola Viola Viola Oakland, CA Mill Valley, CA San Rafael, CA Joined NCCO in 2007 Joined NCCO in 2009 Joined NCCO in 2015

Cassandra Lynne Richburg Robin Bonnell Michelle Djokic Viola Cello Cello Sacramento, CA Berkeley, CA Palo Alto, CA Joined NCCO in 1992 Joined NCCO in 1999 Joined NCCO in 2007

Isaac Melamed Anthony Manzo Cello Principal Bass Warm Springs, VA Chevy Chase, MD Joined NCCO in 2012 Joined NCCO in 2006

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From A to Z: 21st Century Concertos On Our Way DVD NSS Music, 2014 NSS Music & Counterpoint Films, 2012 With Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg With Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Works by Lera Auerbach, Works by Wolf, Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky, William Bolcolm, Michael Daugherty Schnittke, and Gershwin and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Journey To Mozart For Seasons February, 2018 March, 2017 Studio album by Daniel Hope and Album by Daniel Hope and Zurich Chamber Orchestra Zurich Chamber Orchestra

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Written with the Heart’s Blood Echoes of Argentina New Albion Records D’Note Records 1997 Grammy Award Nomination Works by Alberto Ginastera and Works by Alberto Williams

NSS Music Recordings:

LIVE Concertos in D Major Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Anne-Marie McDermott Colorado Symphony Orchestra Works by Bach, Schubert, and Beethoven Works by Tchaikovsky and Assad

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 17 NOTES OF GRATITUDE

The Board of Directors of New Century Chamber Orchestra wishes to extend its warmest thanks and gratitude to the generous individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies listed here, who have made gifts during the past 12 months.

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND CREMONA CIRCLE Brian Gibbs GOVERNMENT SUPPORT ($10,000 - $24,999) Ruth and Alfred Heller The Bernard Osher Foundation Julie Allecta Kate Akos and Harry Jacobs Benevity Owsley Brown, III Patricia and Philip Jelley Clarence E. Heller Mary L. Harden Gretchen Kimball Charitable Foundation Trine Sorensen and Martin Krasney EMIKA Fund Michael Jacobson Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston First Republic Bank Lucinda Lee Katz Britt-Marie Ljung and GE Foundation Margaret and Edmond Kavounas Warren Miller Google Susan and Robert Larson Marina and Ben Nelson SF Grants for the Arts Alexander Leff Susan Neuwirth Hamburg Family Fund Teresa Darragh and Sue and Warden Noble at The Chicago Parker E. Monroe Stephanie Oana and Joseph Osha Community Foundation Pamala and Robert Pedrazzini Cathleen O’Brien Korbel Winery Carolyn and Stephen Spitz Joy and Larry O’Rourke Larson Family Fund Ann and Michael Parker McRoskey Mattress Company GUARNERIUS CIRCLE Donald Share Netflix ($5,000 - $9,999) Amelia Kaymen and Eric Yopes The North Ridge Foundation Mari Kawawa and Patrick Beaudan The Pedrazzini Family Marcia and James Beck SUSTAINERS Charitable Trust Michèle and Laurence Corash ($500 - $999) Pedro Point Brewing Priscilla and Keith Geeslin Carlos Hoyos Alonso Renaissance Charitable Fund Ginnie and Peter E. Haas, Jr. Danan Barnett The Richard and Susan Blake and Joel Kaufmann Linda and Tom Biesheuvel Emily Levin Foundation Shira Lee Katz and Brandon Miller Eileen and Joel Birnbaum Sakana Foundation Jean Fordis and Jerry Voight James Bridgman Salesforce Evelyn Clair Sigma Alpha Iota STRADIVARIUS CIRCLE William Clusin Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards ($2,500 - $4,999) Suzanne and Steve Cowan Stellar Solutions Patricia and Steven Anderson Karen DeMello Thomas H. and Kris and Eric Brewer Kathleen G. Henschel and Donna M. Stone Foundation Robert Carrigan John W. Dewes VMWare Foundation Michèle and Laurence Corash Mary Griffin The William and Carol Davison Cathy and Chris Halberstadt Flora Hewlett Foundation William Ginchereau Edna Hom William and Elizabeth and John Harkins Janet and Damon Kerby Gretchen Kimball Fund Joan and Jim Kirsner Jason Kim The Zalec Familian and Denise Wang-Kline and Martha Kropf Lilian Levinson Foundation Robert Kline Alec and Susan Lee Kate G. Knickerbocker René Mandel MESSIAH STRADIVARIUS CIRCLE Katherine Heller and Rolf Lygren Martha Mangold ($100,000+) Rebekah and Nathan Rabiroff Ann and David Melamed Paula and John Gambs Tracy George and John Meyer Gordon P. and Ann G. Getty Christiaan Schaeffer David G. Mount C. Gerron and Judith Vartan Anne Murphy DEL GESU CIRCLE Gerald and Lynda Vurek-Martyn Carl Page ($50,000 - $99,999) Philip Wilder Dimitra Politi Alan Benaroya Barbara Wolfe Jonas Rabbe Caroline Wood Marta Rey-Barbarro LEADERS Lisa Hane and Hugh Rienhoff GUADAGNINI CIRCLE ($1,000 - $2,499) Niall Roche ($25,000 - $49,999) Michael Garland and Gigi Coe Julie and Mike Sarton Jeff Han and Ramona Banzaca Jane A. Cook Pat and Steve Scheid Jerome and Thao Dodson Adam Donovan Thomas Schneider Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher Daniel Engstfeld Linda and Edward Selden Miranda Heller and Mark Salkind Andrea and Steve Gandolfo Iris and Tom Stone Debbie Thal and Len Gensburg Alex Takaoka Elsie I. George Gladys Thacher

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 18 NOTES OF GRATITUDE

Susan Wheeler Peg Linde and Robert Edwards Mayo Tsuzuki Ruth Donig-White and Art Rothstein and Julia Erickson Randy Vogel Robert White Robert Feyer Merti Walker Marcia Flannery Ingrid and Robert Wander SUPPORTERS Laura Frost Robert Weston ($250 - $499) Bettina Glenning Michael Ray Wilder Michael Barrett Leocadia Korzun and Helen Chen Wong Robert and Irene Belknap Geoffrey Gosling Bonnie Bernhardt Mark Granger FRIENDS David Biegelsen Gretchen Grant ($1 - $99) Carolyn Chris Maryann and Don Graulich Polly Adams Nancy Cohrs Herb Grench Stewart Applin Stephen and Jo Davenport Anita Hagopian Debra and Chris Armstrong Margaret Dorfman Ellen Hahn Brian Bauman Jenny Douglass Nancy and Nick Haritatos Frances Colyer Maria Erdi Peggy Heineman Antoinette Conrad Carmen and Fernando Ferreyros Ann Homan Jeannie Cuan Stacey Poland Hamburg and Leslie and Peter Horn Victoire de Margerie Edward Hamburg Mr. and Mrs. John D. Howard Linda Dondero Gayle and Dennis Hannigan Carol and Donald Javete Amy Duxbury Coreen Hester Alice and Dale Johnson Ashley Eden Meridee Moore and Kevin King Kathleen and Robert Kaiser Barbara Flores Lucinda Lee Dorothy Kaplan Ellen and Jon Florey Anthony Manzo Ruth Karlen Melissa Garcia Barbara and Kim Marienthal Anna Kruger Charles Gary Valerie Marshall Aleathea Langone Jean-Bernard Guerree Alan S. Markle Mardi Leland John S. Gravell Marcia Middleton Naomi and Marc Levenson Kirsten Hall Elaine and Chester Moore David Lilien John Hillyer Geraldine Morrison Sylvia Lindsey Cynthia Hogan Rosemary Pfeiffer Florence Livingston Joan Huff Liz Prior Richard and Marilyn Lonergan Robert Jensen Ann and William Regan Lynn Luckow Thom Mayes Niall Roche James J. Ludwig William Kamin Robert Ripps and Steven Spector Martha and Arthur Luehrmann Akemi Koda Dr. Cherrill Spencer Harvey Lynch Art and Bobby Kushner Riva Tez Janet and Marcos Maestre Ricky Lacina Ranko Yamada and Nancy Lawrence SPONSORS/NEW CENTURY CLUB Robert Matsueda Allan Lichtenberg ($100 – $249) Avery McGinn Paula Lim Anthony Alvernaz A. Kirk McKenzie Barry Lynch Joan Balter Tia Miyamoto George and Marjorie Mader Kathleen Marie Balfe Susan and Thomas Munn Marlana Malerich Laurel Brobst Mr. and Mrs. Chip Nielsen Marilyn McKenna Gianine Figliozzi and Lorraine and Reggie Niles Donald Millhauser Steve Banville Herb Ochitill Trudy and Gary Moore Brian Berg Julie Owens Ganesh Nunnagoppula Dorian and George Bikle Nicholas Phan Tyson Read Kathie Hillier and Bob Boen JaMel and Thomas Perkins Barbara Riley Shelagh and Robert Brodersen Tracy Powell Pamela Ritchey Tod Brody Cathy Frantz and Mike Potel Deborah Rose Roberta Brokaw Cassandra Lynne Richburg Jay Sato Helen Harper and Mary Campbell Audrey Ryan Madeleine Stovel Natasha Jade Chandler Angela Schillace Nancy Sur Ellen Courtien Lisa Seischab Stephanie Wei Margo Crabtree Suzanne Shea Gene Weinstein Clifford “Kip” Cranna Gayle Sheppard Ernest White, II Jennifer and James Crotty Beni Shinohara June Wiley Roland and Jeannette Dare Alan Silverman Gloria Wong Patricia DeLuca Karen Shinozaki Sor Taun Wright Kewchang Lee, M.D. and Bonnie Stiles John Wynbeek Kevin DeYager Rita Sussman Katherine Young Judy and Mark Eckart Simon Tima, Esq. Karen Zelmar

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 19 STRADIVARIUS CIRCLE

New Century extends its gratitude to the members of the Stradivarius Circle, which recognizes the generosity and leadership of our friends and patrons who have made gifts of $2,500 or more in the past 12 months.

Julie Allecta Ginnie and Peter E. Haas, Jr. Shira Lee Katz and Brandon Miller Patricia and Steve Anderson Mary L. Harden Teresa Darragh and Jeff Han and Jennifer Banzaca Elizabeth and John Harkins Parker E. Monroe Mari Kawawa and Patrick Beaudan Trine Sorensen and Pamala and Robert Pedrazzini Marcia and James Beck Michael Jacobson Rebekah and Nathan Rabiroff Alan Benaroya Lucinda Lee Katz Miranda Heller and Mark Salkind Kris and Eric Brewer Susan Blake and Joel Kaufmann Tracy George and Owsley Brown III Margaret and Edmond Kavounas Christiaan Schaeffer Robert Carrigan Gretchen Kimball Carolyn and Stephen Spitz Carol Davison Joan and Jim Kirsner C. Gerron and Judith Vartan Michèle and Laurence Corash Denise Wang-Kline and Jean Fordis and Jerry Voight Jerome and Thao Dodson Robert Kline Gerald and Lynda Vurek-Martyn Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher Kate G. Knickerbocker Philip Wilder Paula and John Gambs Susan and Robert Larson Caroline Wood Priscilla and Keith Geeslin Alexander Leff William Ginchereau Katherine Heller and Rolf Lygren

STUART CANIN FUND

New Century Chamber Orchestra is deeply grateful to the following individuals and organizations who have generously contributed to the Stuart Canin Fund. The Fund supports the orchestra’s outreach and education initiatives and the contributions made in its third year honor the 2018 Stuart Canin Award recipients Jake Heggie and Frederica von Stade.

Julie Allecta Mary L. Harden JaMel and Thomas Perkins Francesca Applegarth Ruth and Alfred Heller Paula Pretlow Carolyn Ingram and David Beach Kathleen Henschel Ann and Bill Regan Nancy and Joachim Bechtle Cecilia and Jim Herbert Don Roth Alan Benaroya I’lee and Tony Hooker Salient Susan Blake and Joel Kaufmann Laura and George Irvin Pat and Steve Scheid Mary Commanday Susan Israel Margaret and Lloyd Smith Michèle Corash Judi and Buz Kanter Karen Smith-McCune Ellen Courtien Lucinda Lee Katz Carolyn and Stephen Spitz Gail Covington Gretchen Kimball Gladys Thacher Joseph Cutcliffe Joan and Jim Kirsner Judy and C. Gerron Vartan Teresa Darragh and Parker Monroe Kate Knickerbocker Tina Vindum and Mary Falvey Martin Krasney John Philip Coghlan Sakurako and William Fisher Sue and Robert Larson Shirley and Art Weiss Paula and John Gambs Susanne and Ted Lyons Jamie Whittington and Elsie George Brenda and Don MacLean Peter Pastreich William Ginchereau René Mandel Caroline Wood John and Marcia Goldman Connie and Haig Mardikian Kristina Woolsey Dawn and Andrew Gross Marina and Ben Nelson Kathryn and Philip Zimmerman Anne Halsted and Whitney Wells Pamala and Robert Pedrazzini

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 20 NEW CENTURY CLUB

This 2019-20 season, join New Century’s new membership program while supporting your favorite Bay Area orchestra.

Join for only $150 (per household), to unlock these special New Century Club benefits:

• Discount code of 50% for up to two concerts tickets at the venue of your choice in the 2019-20 season • Receive our e-newsletter with special announcements, reminders, and offers • Invitations to exclusive events • New Century coffee mug

To become a club member, call 415.357.1111, ext. 306. Your membership to the New Century Club directly supports our musicians, featured composers, guest artists, and community outreach efforts. Your contribution is fully tax-deductible.

TRIBUTES

The Board of Directors of New Century Chamber Orchestra wishes to extend its warmest thanks and gratitude to the generous individuals listed below who have made tribute gifts during the past 12 months.

IN HONOR IN MEMORIAM In honor of John and Paula Gambs In memory of Pauline Ginchereau Barbara Wolfe, Fred Levin and Nancy Livingston William Ginchereau In honor of Daniel Hope In memory of Barry Gross Robert Ripps and Steven Spector Donald Millhauser In honor of Mark Salkind and Miranda Heller In memory of Norm Katz Alexander Leff Evelyn Clair, Roland and Jeannette Dare, In honor of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Stacey Poland Hamburg and Edward Hamburg, Joan Balter and Leslie and Peter Horn In honor of Philip Wilder’s birthday Simon Tima, Esq., Michael Ray Wilder In honor of the springtime birth of Zephyr Davison Carol Davison In honor of the wonderful staff and musicians of New Century Caroline Wood

To give a contribution in someone’s name, visit ncco.org, call 415.357.1111, ext. 306, or mail a check to: New Century Chamber Orchestra 1668 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94109

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 21 SPECIAL EVENTS

Annual Gala January 17, 2020 | Cocktails at 6 PM | Dinner and Music at 7 PM

Mark your calendars now for our annual gala benefiting New Century Chamber Orchestra! You are invited to join this glittering evening event, which features dinner, silent and live auctions led by auctioneer Michael Tate, and special guest artists. More details will be shared online and by formal invitation.

Post-Concert Receptions The following post-concert receptions are open to subscribers and Supporters (donors who make annual gifts of $250 or more). These festive, informal events are wonderful ways to meet and connect with our musicians immediately following our performances.

Berkeley: Thursday, December 20, 2019 San Francisco: Saturday, November 9, 2019 Palo Alto: Friday, May 13, 2020 San Rafael: Sunday, May 17, 2020

Sustainers’ Luncheon With Musicians This informal lunch is open to Sustainers (donors who make annual gifts of $500 or more) and immediately follows our popular Open Rehearsal. RSVP requested. November 6, 2019—San Francisco, Trinity Center for the Arts

Leaders’ Luncheon With Daniel Hope This informal lunch is open to Leaders (donors who make annual gifts of $1,000 or more) and immediately follows our popular Open Rehearsal. RSVP requested. January 22, 2020—San Francisco, Trinity Center for the Arts

President’s Lounge Stradivarius Circle members (donors who make annual gifts of $2,500 or more) are invited to attend pre-concert receptions before each of our San Francisco performances. Sponsored by Korbel Champagne, the President’s Lounge offers guests a glass of champagne or sparkling water and snacks.

September 28, 2019 November 9, 2019 December 19, 2019 January 25, 2020 May 16, 2020

For more information, please call 415.357.1111, ext. 306

NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 22 NEW CENTURY BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITUS BOARD Mark Salkind, President Parker Monroe, Co-chair Lucinda Lee Katz, Vice President Tere Darragh, Co-chair Carolyn Spitz, Treasurer Kate Akos Joel Kaufmann, Secretary Patricia Anderson Bettina Glenning John Gambs Tracy George Paula Gambs Jim Kirsner Jeff Han Alexander Leff Mary Harden René Mandel Mari Kawawa Stephanie Oana Shira Lee Katz Jerry Voight Sue Larson Caroline Wood ADMINISTRATIVE & PRODUCTION STAFF Philip Wilder, Executive Director ORCHESTRA REPRESENTATIVES David Taylor, Director of Artistic Planning Candace Guirao Rebekah H. Rabiroff, Director Anna Kruger of Development Isaac Melamed Blake Hallanan, Director of Patron Services Elizabeth Prior Jenny Chisholm, Director of Finance Karen Shinozaki Sor Jan Brown, Stage Manager Leah Froyd, Administrative Intern

CONSULTING STAFF Beth Beauchamp, Web Development and Design David v. R. Bowles, Recording Engineer Brenden Guy, Marketing and Public Relations Karen Ver Steeg, Graphic Design

New Century Chamber Orchestra 1668 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 Phone 415.357.1111 Fax 415.252.7941

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NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 23 TICKET INFORMATION

SINGLE TICKETS Tickets can be exchanged four ways. Always $67.50 A | $55 B | $30 C include your name and the new performance date: 1) Mail: Send the tickets to 1668 Bush Street, There are three ways to purchase: San Francisco, CA 94109 at least three 1) Phone: Call City Box Office at 415.392.4400 business days prior to the performance. (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat Noon-4pm) 2) Fax: Send a copy of the ripped tickets to 2) Online: Visit ncco.org 415.252.7941 at least two business days prior 3) At the Door: Based on availability, beginning to the performance. 45 minutes prior to each concert 3) Scan/Email: Send a copy of the ripped tickets to [email protected] by noon at least two Allow 1-2 weeks for delivery. For orders received less business days prior to the performance. than one week prior to the concert, tickets will be 4) Return the tickets to Will Call up to 30 held at Will Call. minutes prior to the original performance in person. STUDENT RUSH TICKETS Student rush tickets can be purchased at the door If you cannot use or exchange your tickets, for $10 for all students with valid photo student please pass them on to friends or return them ID, as well as all persons aged 18 and under as a tax-deductible donation. To donate tickets, with valid photo ID. Please arrive early on the please call 415.357.1111 x 303, up to noon one evening of the performance, as tickets are based business day prior to the performance. A receipt on availability. will be mailed to you within two to three weeks acknowledging the value of the tickets. GROUP DISCOUNT Groups of 10 or more may be eligible for WILL CALL discounted tickets. Please call 415.357.1111, Will Call opens 45 minutes prior to each ext. 303 or email [email protected] to arrange performance. Please arrive early to avoid long lines. tickets for large groups.

CAN’T ATTEND A CONCERT? Ticket exchanges are welcome, but must take place prior to the original concert. Ticket exchanges are offered free of charge to all subscribers. All other patrons will be assessed a $2.75 service charge per ticket exchanged.

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