2020 IMPACT REPORT “The concert marked the SSO’s return to its former home... the Sydney Town Hall is an attractive venue: easy to get to, grandly ornate, and nostalgic for those who remember the SSO’s concerts there in earlier years. The Victorian-era interior was spectacular... and it had a pleasing “big hall” acoustic that will lend grandeur and spaciousness to the SSO’s concerts of orchestral masterworks.”

The Australian, 2020

2 Ben Folds, The Symphonic Tour, in Sydney Town Hall (March 2020). Photo: Christie Brewster 3 2020: A TRUE ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

On 13 March 2020, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was silenced for the first time in its 89-year history by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Andrew Haveron performing Tim Stevenson’s 4 Elegies as part of the Sydney Symphony at Home series. Filmed by Jay Patel

The year had started boldly, with the Orchestra With a forward path identified, the Orchestra In August, Chief Conductor Designate Simone opening its 2020 Season in Sydney Town Hall quickly pivoted to digital concert production Young braved international travel restrictions as its temporary home for two years while the and expanded its website into an online concert and a two-week hotel quarantine to travel to Sydney Opera House Concert Hall was renovated. gallery. Starting in April, the Orchestra delivered Sydney and lead the musicians in their first Thirty-four season performances had already 29 Sydney Symphony at Home performances, full-group musical activities since lockdown. taken place by the time COVID-19 emerged. four Cuatro performances with the Sydney Dance There were tears of joy and relief as instruments However, that morning’s sold-out performance of Company, 18 Chamber Sounds performances were raised under her baton for rehearsals Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade would turn out recorded live at City Recital Hall with a focus and recordings at City Recital Hall and in to be the Orchestra’s final performance for 2020. on music by living Australian composers, and a Sydney Town Hall. Two full-length concert films Play It On collaboration with the Actors Benevolent were recorded and distributed internationally. What followed demonstrated the true mettle of Funds and Trusts to raise money for Australian An average of 18,000 patrons viewed the the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, its Board, artists in distress. staff and patrons. Together, they delivered an Company’s digital recordings online each month extraordinary ensemble performance - uniting As concert cancellations extended, the Australian and total online reach across all social media to ensure that one of Australia’s most important Government’s JobKeeper support and the NSW platforms averaged 1.8m viewers per month. cultural institutions would weather the storms of Government’s Sydney Opera House dislocation In October and November, the Orchestra disruption and reemerge to “#PlayAnotherDay”. support provided essential operating funds partnered with the City of Sydney to test new to sustain the Orchestra’s reduced operations. COVID-Safe concert operations in Sydney As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded Town Hall. Small, invited audiences attended At the same time, thousands of closed performances to test new entry and exit and the scale of the emerging procedures, social distancing, special seating, challenge became evident, generous subscribers and patrons mandatory masks, and other COVID-Safe hygiene donated their tickets and made protocols. The musicians tested their own new musicians and staff quickly acted “Our first aim was to preserve philanthropic gifts to support the rules for masking, onstage physical distancing, to underwrite the Orchestra’s one-musician-per-music-stand protocols and the Orchestra and the continued Orchestra in its time of greatest future by offering shared salary performing while physically separated from engagement of our talented team need. The musicians and staff colleagues. These “practice runs” laid important sacrifices until the end of 2021 groundwork for the resumption of regular of musicians and administrators. poured their personal gratitude in new industrial agreements concert operations in 2021. It is essential that our ensemble of into handwritten thank you cards that were promptly endorsed The Orchestra’s final musical activities for world-class musicians, which has and letters sent to donors and 2020 featured nine ensembles presenting by the Fair Work Commission. taken so many years to build, is patrons, along with personalised 27 chamber music performances at Bennelong at Sydney Opera House as part Equity was ensured by those earning the most preserved. We must ensure that videos, calls and emails. of a new Bennelong Music series. taking the highest cuts, and those earning the our future performances continue least being protected to ensure their basic livelihoods. The Sydney Symphony’s ten Fellowship at the highest artistic standards musicians had their employment extended to and are supported by excellent the end of 2021 to ensure that their full training professional administrators.” program could be completed, and more than 20 musical and administrative vacancies were left unfilled to save money. All musicians and Terrey Arcus am, administrators willingly participated and all existing Chairman, Board of Directors employment was preserved on a reduced basis. Sydney Symphony Orchestra

4 5 CHAIR’S LETTER On behalf of the Board and Simone Young’s leadership, charisma and physical presence in Sydney lifted our spirits and focused the entire company, I thank our us on the brighter days ahead. She led the creation government funders for sustaining of full-length concert films recorded in Sydney At the beginning of 2020, the Sydney Symphony Town Hall and City Recital Hall and advanced plans their ongoing investment in for her official debut as Chief Conductor in 2022. successfully launched its two-year temporary this year of need. We were also The Board’s goal is to complete the Orchestra’s relocation to Sydney Town Hall while the Sydney pleased to recently receive five-year journey of venue dislocation, COVID-19, Opera House Concert Hall is renovated. confirmation of continued return to the Concert Hall, and Simone Young’s funding under the new National debut seasons as Chief Conductor in 2022 and The Orchestra gave 34 well-received concerts 2023 on a breakeven financial basis across the Performing Arts Partnership before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. six-year period between 2018-2023. An operating framework from 2021-2024. surplus for the 2020 year of $7.8m recoups a $3.3m reduction in reserves incurred in 2018 We greatly appreciate our long-time corporate and 2019 preparing for our venue dislocation, supporters who found creative new ways to and will help to fund our future operations and Like so many other cultural organisations across This outpouring of community affection boosted stay with us in 2020, particularly Principal plans as we transition to the next phase of the Australia and around the world, the loss of the morale of our musicians and was never more Partner, Emirates; Premier Partner, Credit Orchestra’s journey. Our 2022 expectations for performance ticketing income dealt the Sydney meaningful than in 2020, when our need was Suisse; and Major Partner, Abercrombie & Kent, returning to the Concert Hall are modest and Symphony Orchestra a multimillion-dollar blow so great. Later in the year, we also unexpectedly along with the many corporate sponsors, trusts we anticipate that it will take some time to and required immediate emergency action received $3.0m in bequest gifts, contributing and foundations, philanthropists, subscribers rebuild our audiences to their previous levels. by the Board. COVID-19 subsequently prevented to a one-time 57% increase in philanthropic and patrons whose financial support underpins Notwithstanding these complex factors, 2020 the Orchestra from presenting public performances and sponsorship support, from $5.4m to $8.5m. our continuing sustainability. demonstrated the breadth and generosity of from mid-March, resulting in a 92% decline in I am deeply indebted to our Board of Directors community support for the Sydney Symphony ticket revenue from $19.5m to $1.6m. This was Unrelated to the pandemic, we were separately and our senior executives led by CEO Emma Orchestra and its world-class musicians. partially offset by a 73% reduction in direct dealing with the severe economic impact of Dunch who all worked tirelessly to preserve The warm feedback and encouragement performance costs from $15.1m to $4.1m. being dislocated from our home at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall for two years while it and protect the Sydney Symphony Orchestra received from so many represents a strong We are very grateful to our musicians and staff, is renovated. In June 2019, the NSW Government for the community through some of the vote of confidence in our vibrant future. who quickly agreed to underwrite their Sydney confirmed a funding commitment of $10 million most difficult circumstances in our history. We thank you for being with us on this journey Symphony Orchestra by offering shared salary over two years to support the Orchestra during All provided invaluable perspectives and informed and we look forward to welcoming you to sacrifices until the end of 2021 in new industrial 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 against a shortfall business counsel on the extremely challenging Sydney Town Hall in 2021 and to a renovated agreements that were promptly endorsed of $18.9m, with the Orchestra to fund the balance, circumstances we faced this year. In May, we Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 2022. by the Fair Work Commission. All employees which it has done. The Orchestra received the farewelled Ewen Crouch after his distinguished participated on a proportionate basis, with salary 2019/2020 instalment of $5m in July 2020. 11-year tenure on the Board and in November, floors instituted to protect the most vulnerable. The 2020/2021 instalment of $5m has not been we welcomed Samantha Meers as a new Director. As a result, we were able to reduce employee received at the date of this report. We are deeply expenses by 12%, from $24.5m to $21.6m, with appreciative of this support. I also salute our Chief Conductor material savings anticipated for 2021 as well. Terrey Arcus am During 2019 and 2020, Create NSW and the Designate Simone Young, who Due to the substantial decline in our concert Australia Council also undertook a two-part made two challenging journeys revenues, we were also eligible for $4.8m in Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sustainability Australian Government COVID-19 and JobKeeper Review. The first phase of the Review considered to Australia during COVID-19 subsidies. This crucial support allowed us to the Orchestra’s governance and delivered to bring our musicians back preserve the Orchestra intact and support our recommendations that were fully implemented to rehearsing and performing musicians and administrators, albeit on reduced during 2020. The second phase of the Review was compensation. We were also able to extend an independent assessment of the Orchestra’s in COVID-Safe conditions. employment of our 2020 Sydney Symphony business model that was delivered to Create Orchestra Fellows into 2021 to ensure their full NSW and the Australia Council in March 2021. training program could be delivered. In this way we avoided adding to job losses in the cultural As part of this Review, the Orchestra agreed to BOARD OF DIRECTORS sector and remained poised to resume operations reduce its historical occupancy of the Sydney as soon as restrictions were lifted. Opera House Concert Hall. Beginning in 2022, the Orchestra will deliver its full concert season while reducing its annual venue occupancy from We are deeply grateful to the 35 weeks to 32 weeks each year. The Orchestra thousands of patrons who is obliged to renegotiate its employee labour purchased subscriptions for agreements to deliver this requested schedule. our 2020 Sydney Town Hall Our efforts last year and every year are made Terrey Arcus am Geoff Ainsworth am Andrew Baxter Kees Boersma Ewen Crouch am Emma Dunch season and then generously possible through leadership funding provided (Retired May 2020) under our Multipartite Agreement with the donated these back to us in our Australian Government through the Australia hour of need. Many more made Council for the Arts and the New South Wales Government through Create NSW. Again, in the philanthropic gifts of all sizes face of COVID-19, they encouraged us to preserve to support the Orchestra. our excellent Orchestra intact and maintained their regular annual funding support that typically covers about one-third of our costs. We are also deeply grateful to the City of Sydney. Catherine Hewgill The Hon. Justice Samantha Meers ao Karen Moses Dr. John Vallance Geoff Wilson AJ Meagher (Appointed Nov 2020)

6 7 CEO’S LETTER

In 2020, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra found new ways to serve the community as COVID-19 disrupted Australian lives and livelihoods.

We began the year anchoring the NSW Premier’s We are very grateful that Simone Australia Day Live national telecast from the Sydney Opera House Forecourt before volunteering Young travelled to Australia twice our time and salaries for a second Sydney Symphony during the COVID-19 pandemic Under the Stars at Parramatta Park to raise crucial emergency funds for NSW bushfire relief. to support us and participate in rehearsals, recordings and Chief Conductor Designate Simone Young leading COVID-Safe digital recordings at City Recital Hall with a socially distanced ensemble (August 2020). Photo: Jay Patel A multidisciplinary dance and music presentation of First Nations artist Gurrumul Yunupingu’s Bunggul long-range artistic planning for brought great artistic rewards and we opened our her tenure as Chief Conductor, 2020 Season in Sydney Town Hall as the first of which begins in 2022. two seasons there while the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall is renovated for our return in 2022. Sadly, the Orchestra’s unbroken 82-year history In February, we announced The 50 Fanfares of touring regional NSW annually was interrupted Project, a large-scale investment in the by COVID-19, but in October, we collaborated with next generation of Australian contemporary the NSW Association of Regional Conservatoriums music talent. Funded in part by philanthropy, of Music to develop exciting future plans. These the Project commissions fifty new works, crucial music training institutions are the pipeline for various sized orchestral forces, to be premiered for tomorrow’s Australian audiences, performers across 2020-2023. The selected commissions and composers and we are collaborating on a bold were awarded from amongst more than 270 new vision that will unfold in 2022. composers recommended by a national advisory Our Music4Health program expanded dramatically, panel. 50% of the commissions were awarded to into fortnightly live concerts live-streamed into composers aged under 40, 50% were awarded children’s hospital rooms across NSW. This project to female composers, and 20% were awarded to was conducted in partnership with the Starlight composers from culturally and linguistically diverse Foundation, Sunnyfield Disability Services and backgrounds, including First Nations composers. Autism Advisory Support Service. In March, COVID-19 ended our public performances, Looking ahead, to a post-COVID world and but not our music-making. Indeed, we became our February 2022 return to the Sydney Opera busier than ever, pivoting directly into the creation House Concert Hall, we acknowledge our long Associate Principal Flute Emma Sholl performing as part of the Cuatro digital series (June 2020). Produced by Pedro Greig and distribution of digital music performances journey in progress and proceed with optimism online. Our Chamber Sounds digital series, and resilience. We salute our Sydney Symphony 50% of which was made up of works by living Orchestra musicians, who are our creative Australian composers including William Barton, inspiration, our administrative staff, our Board Timothy Constable, Ross Edwards, Richard Meale, of Directors, the Australian Government through and Paul Stanhope, and included the world the Australia Council for the Arts, the New South premiere performance and recording of Hat-trick Wales Government through Create NSW, by Harry Sdraulig. This premiere was watched the City of Sydney, our corporate partners and by more than 28,000 people worldwide. philanthropic supporters and our audiences. Further digital productions included 29 Sydney Thank you very much for your continued support, Symphony at Home performances, four Cuatro and we warmly invite you to remain with us performances with the Sydney Dance Company, on this journey of reinvention and discovery. a Play It On collaboration with the Actors Benevolent Funds and Trusts to raise money for Above all, let the music continue. Australian artists in distress, and two full-length concert films recorded in Sydney Town Hall and led by Chief Conductor Designate Simone Young.

Emma Dunch CEO

Sydney Symphony brass musicians performing as part of an impromptu outdoor concert in the Sydney CBD (October 2020). Photo: Renee Nowytarger. Courtesy of City of Sydney

8 9 THE ORCHESTRA PATRON CELLOS

Her Excellency the Amanda Verner Leonid Volovelsky Umberto Clerici Catherine Hewgill Leah Lynn Kristy Conrau ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP Honourable Margaret Principal Principal Acting Associate Principal Beazley ac qc Governor of NSW

Simone Young am Donald Runnicles Vladimir Ashkenazy Fenella Gill Timothy Nankervis Elizabeth Neville Christopher Pidcock Adrian Wallis David Wickham Chief Conductor Designate Principal Guest Conductor Conductor Laureate DOUBLE BASSES

CONCERTMASTER FIRST VIOLINS

Kees Boersma Alex Henery David Campbell Steven Larson Richard Lynn Jaan Pallandi Principal Principal Andrew Haveron Harry Bennetts Sun Yi Lerida Delbridge Fiona Ziegler Kirsten Williams Concertmaster Associate Concertmaster Associate Concertmaster Assistant Concertmaster Assistant Concertmaster Associate Concertmaster Emeritus FLUTES OBOES

Benjamin Ward Joshua Batty Emma Sholl Carolyn Harris Diana Doherty Shefali Pryor Principal Associate Principal Principal Associate Principal Jenny Booth Brielle Clapson Sophie Cole Claire Herrick Georges Lentz Nicola Lewis COR ANGLAIS CLARINETS BASS CLARINET SECOND VIOLINS

David Papp Alexandre Oguey James Burke Francesco Celata Christopher Tingay Alexander Morris Principal Principal Associate Principal Principal Emily Long Alexandra Mitchell Alexander Norton Anna Skálová Léone Ziegler Kirsty Hilton Principal BASSOONS CONTRABASSOON HORNS

Todd Gibson-Cornish Matthew Wilkie Fiona McNamara Noriko Shimada Ben Jacks Geoffery O’Reilly Principal Principal Emeritus Principal Principal Principal 3rd Marina Marsden Marianne Edwards Emma Jezek Alice Bartsch Victoria Bihun Rebecca Gill Principal Associate Principal Assistant Principal TRUMPETS

Euan Harvey Marnie Sebire Rachel Silver David Elton Paul Goodchild Anthony Heinrichs Principal Associate Principal Emma Hayes Benjamin Li Nicole Masters Maja Verunica Shuti Huang Monique Irik

TROMBONES BASS TROMBONE TUBA TIMPANI VIOLAS

Ronald Prussing Scott Kinmont Nick Byrne Christopher Harris Steve Rossé Mark Robinson Wendy Kong Anne Louise Comerford Roger Benedict Tobias Breider Justin Williams Sandro Constantino Principal Associate Principal Principal Principal Acting Principal Principal Principal Associate Principal Acting Associate Principal

PERCUSSION

Rosemary Curtin Jane Hazelwood Graham Hennings Stuart Johnson Justine Marsden Felicity Tsai Rebecca Lagos Timothy Constable Principal 11 “The Rite of Spring is an exciting work, SYDNEY SYMPHONY particularly in the masterful hands FELLOWSHIP of Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, who made his Sydney Symphony Orchestra debut… launching the orchestra’s new Symphony Hour series with a thrilling performance of Stravinsky’s colourful score.”

Limelight, 2020

2020 Fellows pictured outside Sydney Town Hall before to the Season Opening Gala performance of The Rite of Spring (February 2020). L-R: Tim Yu, Richard Shaw, Brian Hong, Miles Mullin-Chivers, Dana Lee, Emily Newham, Fletcher Cox, Callum Hogan, Jordy Meulenbroeks, Dale Vail. Photo: Jay Patel

In 2020, we invited ten of The Fellowship program will celebrate 2020 highlights for the Fellows included its 20th Anniversary in 2021 and, an artistic retreat at Cowra Civic Centre the brightest emerging due to COVID-19, we extended all with performances in area schools talents from Australia 2020 Fellows until the end of 2021, and for local audiences, Stravinsky’s so that they can complete their full The Rite of Spring performing alongside and New Zealand to training program while helping us to their Sydney Symphony Orchestra spend the year in our celebrate the 20th Anniversary. mentors during the 2020 Season internationally acclaimed Opening Gala at Sydney Town Hall, Fellowship Program alumni hold participating in the Orchestra’s orchestral performance leadership positions across Australian digital concerts and Music4Health training institute, directed and New Zealand orchestras, as well presentations to children’s hospitals as overseas, and perform in the Royal across Sydney, collaborating with the by Artistic Director of Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Composing Women program at the the Fellowship program, Gewandhaus Orchestra, London Sydney Conservatorium of Music Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanazawa on the creation of new works, Roger Benedict. Orchestra Japan and the Finnish and partnering with Sydney Dance National Opera, among others. Company to create and film a new collaboration, Circumstance.

2020 FELLOWS

Fletcher Cox, 25, WA (Trumpet) Miles Mullin-Chivers, 21, NSW (Cello) Callum Hogan, 22, NSW (Oboe) Emily Newham, 23, QLD (Horn) Brian Hong, 22, NSW (Violin) Richard Shaw, 26, QLD (Clarinet) Dana Lee, 19, NSW (Viola) Dale Vail, 25, NZ (Trombone) Roger Benedict Jordy Meulenbroeks, 23, QLD (Bassoon) Tim Yu, 21, VIC (Violin) Artistic Director 12 Sydney Symphony Orchestra performance at the Sydney Coliseum Theatre in Western Sydney (February 2020). Photo: Claire Hawley 13 SIMONE YOUNG’S “When we started to play together ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES as an orchestra – I mean, the sheer joy! There were some teary eyes... We are all just so happy to be playing again.” Twice during the COVID-19 pandemic, our Chief Conductor Designate Simone Young made the Simone Young, challenging international journey from London Chief Conductor Designate to support the Orchestra and its musicians. Her visits were the artistic highlights of our lockdown year and her charismatic leadership delivered tremendous artistic and morale benefits.

In July and August, during an extended artistic SIMONE YOUNG’S residency period, Simone Young brought our SELECTIONS musicians back together to rehearse and perform WAGNER as a group for the first time since March. Siegfried Idyll The atmosphere was electric as she worked SCHOENBERG with the Orchestra under COVID-Safe conditions Notturno for Strings and Harp on a carefully curated selection of Australian MAHLER and international works written for small and Piano Quartet large ensembles. VINE Smith's Alchemy Simone Young is a world-renowned KNUSSEN artistic collaborator and it was Ophelia Dances Book 1, very special that she participated Op.13 TERRACINI as both chamber musician and Gegensätze conductor in these important MAHLER weeks of ensemble music-making. Symphony No.5: Adagietto FAURÉ At City Recital Hall, she performed the solo Masques et bergamasques, piano part in Mahler’s Piano Quartet alongside Op.112 Sydney Symphony Principal musicians, then PUCCINI conducted chamber music works by Carl Vine, Crisantemi Schoenberg, and Oliver Knussen. These intimate DAUGHERTY chamber music performances were filmed Strut and released internationally. MASCAGNI Later, in Sydney Town Hall, the full orchestra Cavalleria rusticana: gathered for the first time to rehearse and perform Intermezzo full-length concert films. These featured her J STRAUSS II specialist repetoire, including Wagner’s Siegfried Pizzicato Polka Idyll, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5: Adagietto, BEETHOVEN and Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen. Leonore Overture No.3, Other works by Sydney composer Paul Terracini, Op.72b Faure, Puccini, Michael Daugherty, Mascagni, BEETHOVEN J. Strauss II and Beethoven rounded out the Symphony No.7 concert programs which she curated specially for viewers at home.

All of these programs are available free to view on the Backstage News section of our website at sydneysymphony.com

14 Simone Young in rehearsal at City Recital Hall (August 2020). Photo: Jay Patel 15 PLANNING FOR OUR FUTURE

With the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Renewal project nearing completion, our sights are set on our successful return there in February 2022, followed by the exciting journey to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Centenary in 2032.

Sydney Symphony’s Gala Reopening Festival, We warmly invite you to remain led by Simone Young in her debut concerts as Chief Conductor will take place in February 2022. with us on our continuing journey of music and discovery. Together, The refurbishment of the Concert Hall is the largest project to be undertaken as part of the Opera we will build the audiences and House’s Renewal program, totalling more than music lovers of tomorrow and $290 million. It will deliver acoustic improvements inside the auditorium and we are very excited there will be many opportunities to bring a new level of sound quality and artistic for Australians of all ages to excellence to Sydney audiences. become involved in the future of Acoustic enhancements include automated stage the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. risers to improve sightlines and allow musicians to hear each other more clearly, along with new Thank you for your support! above-stage reflectors (replacing the clear acrylic donuts) and special acoustic diffusion panels on the venue’s timber box fronts to improve the sound.

We are excited to experience the renewed venue and are deeply appreciative of the New South Wales Government’s extraordinary investment in the Opera House’s Decade of Renewal – a 10-year program of capital works that will transform the World Heritage-listed icon ahead of its 50th Anniversary in 2023. We salute the Sydney Opera House Trust for its careful stewardship of this iconic building and all the performers and audiences who bring it to life.

Once we return to our home, Simone Young’s tenure as Chief Conductor marks the beginning of our next big journey, to our 100th birthday in 2032. Major artistic projects are planned and we envisage a decade of extraordinary musical performances matched to exemplary public service, expanded education programs, and innovative use of media and technology to expand our community contribution across Australia and around the world. We expect to increase our service to regional NSW, support smaller music organisations and next-generation musicians, composers and conductors through sponsored mentorships and performance programs, expand further into the international music-and-medicine field, and complete a major fundraising campaign.

16 Ben Folds, The Symphonic Tour, in Sydney Town Hall (March 2020). Photo: Christie Brewster 17 BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

OPERATING RESULT

Operating Result Sydney Opera House Trust Renewal Project related losses

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 $4,000,000

$3,000,000

$2,000,000 $3,900,000*

$1,000,000 $184,000 $786,000 $250,000 $0 $703,000 $251,000 -$1,000,000 $2,200,000 -$2,000,000

-$3,000,000 *Excluding bequests and Future Fund

Annual Turnover $44.8m $43.8m $44.2m $41.6m $35.7m

Reserves at 31 Dec $10.3m $10.5m $7.6m $7.1m $15.0m

TOTAL REVENUES

2019 2020

4% 2% Other Other 4% 13% Earned Contributed 24% Contributed

47% 70% Earned Government

36% Government

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

2019 2020

6% 8% Other 6% 6% Other Marketing Marketing

9% Artistic & Production

29% 58% 77% Artistic & Employees Employees Production

Sydney Symphony musicians performing at Bennelong in the Sydney Opera House (October 2020). Photo: Nikki To 19 18 SUPPORTERS PROGRAM

ANNUAL Libby Braybrooks Katarina Cvitkovic In memory of Michael Gordon Jim & Kim Jobson Mrs H Breekveldt L D & H Y Marilyn & Max Gosling In memory of Joan Johns FUND DONORS Christie Brewster Diana Daly Dr Leo Gothelf Karen Johnson Daniel & Drina Brezniak Anthoula Danilatos Andrea Govaert & Wik Farwerck Margaret Johnston John Brooks Catherine Davies Carole A P Grace Dr Owen Jones Dr Tracy Bryan Greta Davis In memory of Angelica Green & Vivienne Goldschmidt Alexandra & Axel Buchner Lisa & Miro Davis Deborah Green Scott & Ellie Kable The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the music lovers Peter & Judy Buckley Christie & Don Davison Robert Green Karanikas Family Holdings whose generous philanthropy supported us through a challenging and In memory of R W Burley Mark Dempsey & Jodi Steele Warren Green Pty Ltd unexpected year. 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Ian & Jennifer Burton Anne Dineen Akiko Gregory Cynthia Kaye Ita Buttrose ac obe Dr David Dixon Sherry & Tom Gregory In memory of Pauline Keating Anne Cahill oam Grant & Kate Dixon Richard Griffin am & Jay Griffin Mrs W G Keighley Lorraine Cairnes & Peter Moffitt Susan Doenau William A Grossman Kim & Megan Kemmis Hugh & Hilary Cairns Nancy Donald Peter & Yvonne Halas Kathryn Kennedy VISIONARIES MAESTRO’S CIRCLE PATRONS PROGRAM SUPPORTERS PROGRAM Eric & Rosemary Campbell Donus Australia Foundation Harry & Althea Halliday Dr Eddie Khoo & Cynthia Chee Dr Henry Kilham Brian Abel Robert Albert ao Ainsworth Foundation Colin & Richard Adams Hon J C Campbell qc Peter Doyle Bruce & Joanne Hambrett Jennifer King Geoff Ainsworth am & Elizabeth Albert Doug & Alison Battersby Meredith Adams & Mrs Campbell Ian Douglas Karen Hamer & Johanna Featherstone Christine Bishop Rob Baulderstone & Mary Whelan Lenore Adamson Ian Campbell JP & Jen Drysdale John Hannoush Melissa King Antoinette Albert Dr Rebecca Chin Dugald Black Phillip Alexander Mary Carter Peter & Lou Duerden Richard Hansford Susan Kitchin & John Woolford Terrey Arcus am & Anne Arcus John C Conde ao Audrey Blunden & Elizabeth Steel Freda Cassen Valdemars Duselis Kim Harding & Irene Miller Anna-Lisa Klettenberg The Berg Family Foundation Ian Dickson & Reg Holloway Sandra & Neil Burns Rae & David Allen Andrew Catsaras Camron Dyer & Richard Mason In memory of Beth Harpley Professor Andrew Korda am & Susan Pearson Robert & Janet Constable Edward & Diane Federman Robert & L Alison Carr A Allsop & J Cottrell-Dormer Michael & Kate Chambers Ron Dyer oam & Dorothy Dyer Jennifer Harris Justice Francois Kunc Crown Resorts Foundation Nora Goodridge oam Bob & Julie Clampett Heather & Peter Andrews P C Chan Jan Easton Myree Harris & Felicity Rourke Dr Gary Holmes Ingrid Kaiser Roxane Clayton Anders & Catarina Aneman Norman & Suellen Chapman Robert Eccles V Hartstein Margaret Kyburz & Dr Anne Reeckmann I Kallinikos Richard Cobden sc Geoffrey Applegate Penelope Chapple Professor Jenny Edwards Michael Harvey Peter Kyle Dr Rachael Kohn ao Sharon & Anthony Lee Foundation Janet Cooke & Susan Glenton Cheung Family John Edwards & Deborah Hope Sandra Haslam & Tom Breen Sonia Lal Ian & Ann Levi Darin Cooper Foundation Diane Armstrong Frances Christie Graham Egan Donald Hazelwood ao obe Sir Frank Lowy ac Justin Lam Catriona Morgan-Hunn Carolyn Githens Garry & Tricia Ash & Gladys Lawson Adam Elder & Joanne Hart & Helen Hazelwood & the late Lady Shirley Lowy oam Tania Lamble Karen Moses Dr Bruno & Rhonda Giuffre John Augustus & Kim Ryrie David Churches & Helen Rose Lilli El-Issa Rosemary Heal Mackenzie’s Friend Eugen Lamotte Vicki Olsson The Greatorex Fund Heather Austin Margot Chinneck Bob Ernst Goeffrey Heise Bob Magid oam & Ruth Magid & Duncan George The Ross Trust Dr Margot Harris In memory of Toby Avent Donald Clark Paul R Espie ao & Ros Espie Meredith Hellicar Anthony & Suzanne Maple-Brown Patrick Lane Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri The Hilmer Family Endowment John Bagnall Callum Close & James Tolhurst Sarah & Tony Falzarano Anthony Henderson Neilson Foundation Beatrice Lang In memory of Mrs W Stening Simon Johnson Lyn Baker Sandy & Kerry Clugston Alan & Beatrice Farnsworth James Henderson Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Elaine M Langshaw In memory of Dr Bill Webb Dr John Lam-Po-Tang Paul Balkus Alison Clugston-Cornes John Favaloro Roger Henning & Anton Enus Roslyn Packer ac David Langston-Jones & Helen Webb The late Dr Barry Landa Richard & Chrissie Banks Julian Coghlan & Andrea Beattie Dr Roger Feltham John Herlihy (President, Maestro’s Circle) & David Underwood Kathy White Roland Lee James & Susie Bannatyne Marie Colangelo Ian Fenwicke Jennifer Hershon Packer Family Foundation Dr Allan Laughlin Caroline Wilkinson oam Warren & Marianne Lesnie Dr Rosemary Barnard B & M Coles & the late Prof Neville Wills Catherine Hewgill Patricia H Reid Endowment Pty Ltd Olive Lawson Ray Wilson oam, in memory David Barnes Dr Paul Collett Carole Ferguson Sue Hewitt Sylvia & the late Sol Levi Peter Lazar am Doris Weiss of James Agapitos oam Jon & Linda Collings Helen Lynch am & Helen Bauer John Barwick Patricia Fernandes Jill Hickson am & the late Peter Weiss ao Antoinette Le Marchant The Hon. Chief Justice Bathurst In memory of L & R Collins & Susan Frankham Dr Lybus Hillman (President Emeritus, Maestro’s Circle) Dr Lee MacCormick Edwards Robert Lee & Mrs Bathurst Joan Connery oam Andrew & Tracey Fernon Charitable Foundation Lynette Hilton Fiona Leigh Judy & Sam Weiss Paul Bedbrook Howard & Maureen Connors E Fidler Susan Maple-Brown am Prof Ken Ho & Tessa Ho Catherine Leslie Jan Bell Jan & Frank Conroy Hannah Fink & Andrew Shapiro The Hon. Justice AJ Meagher Sally Hochfeld The Levins Family Foundation & Fran Meagher Dr Richard & Margaret Bell Hartley Cook Lesley Finn James & Yvonne Hochroth A/Prof Winston Liauw Stephen J Bell Sue Milliken ao Trevor Cook & Julie Flynn Louisa Finney Dorothy Hoddinott ao & Ellen Liauw G & L Besson John & Jane Morschel Dom Cottam & Kanako Imamura Mr & Mrs Alexander Fischl Elsbeth & John Hodgkinson Liftronic Pty Ltd Mark Bethwaite am Janet & Michael Neustein Toula & Nicholas Cowell Richard Flanagan Kimberley & Angus Holden Alex & Rosie Linden Martin Bibby & Kathie Forster Dr Dominic Pak & Cecilia Tsai Vanessa Cragg Vernon Flay & Linda Gilbert William Hood Sandy & Helen Logie Dr Victor Bien & Silvana d’Iapico & the late Ronald Cragg oam Nigel & Carol Price Peter & Robyn Flick Georgina Horton A Lohan Minnie Biggs Professor Maria Craig Kenneth R Reed am Barbara Fogarty Tony Horton Gabriel Lopata James & Robyn Bird Debby Cramer Garry & Shiva Rich Peter Fogarty Marcelle & Robert Hosking Anne Loveridge Beverley & Phil Birnbaum & the late Bill Caukill Geoffrey Robertson ao Barry James Fox Suzzanne & Alexander Houghton Sarah Lovesy Jane Blackmore Dr Peter Craswell Graeme Robertson Wendy Fraser Peter M Howard Panee Low Jasmin Craufurd-Hill Tim Robertson sc Allan & Julie Bligh Susan & Alan Freeman Dr Brian Hsu & Felicity Hsu Dr Carolyn Lowry oam Richard Bloor Dr Lindy Crocker Sylvia Rosenblum Dr Stephen Freiberg Robyn Hudson & Peter Lowry oam Donald Crombie am Penelope Seidler am Judith Bloxham & Donald Campbell Roger Hudson Helen Lowry Heather & Malcolm Crompton Rod Sims & Alison Pert Andre Boerema Freilich Family Foundation & Claudia Rossi-Hudson In memory of Phillip Lucas Mary Anne Cronin In memory of Joyce Sproat Kees Boersma & Kirsty McCahon James & Leonie Furber John Hughes Michael & Hilary Lunzer Cheryl Cumines Dougall Squair Stephen Booth Dr Greg Gard W V Peter Hunt Robert & Prue Lygo Robin & Wendy Cumming & Dr Joanne Grimsdale Geoff Stearn Dallas Booth Dr Michael & Penny Hunter Lyon Family John Curotta Irene & John Garran James Stening Joan Boston Kim Irik Colin MacArthur Charles P Curran ac Elizabeth Gibson Tony Strachan William Bowtell Craig Jackson Elaine MacDonald & Eva Curran Stephen Gillies & Jo Metzke Russell Tagg & Pat Woolley Boyarsky Family Trust Rod & Jillian James Melvyn Madigan Dr Carolyn Currie Dr Colin Goldschmidt Judge Robyn Tupman In memory of Rosemary Boyle Philip Jameson Kathryn & Donald Magarey John & Jill Curtin Sharon Goldschmidt June & Alan Woods Ros Bracher am Janjevski Family Jane Maguire Rosemary Curtin Clive & Jenny Goodwin Family Bequest Ian & Barbara Brady David & Dorothy Jauncey Anthony Maiolo Bruce Cutler Yim Family Foundation Peter Braithwaite & Gary Linnane Michael & Rochelle Goot David Jeremy

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Gerda Maister In memory of Sandra Paul Dr Agnes E Sinclair Evan Wong Emma Dunch Kirsty Hilton The Hon. Prof Dame The Fellowship program Silvana Mantellato Mr B & Mrs S Peacock Emma Slaytor & Maura Cordial Chief Executive Officer Principal Second Violin Marie Bashir ad cvo receives leadership support from Dr Roger March Dr Kevin Pedemont Ian & Jan Sloan Dr Peter W Wong I Kallinikos Chair Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Chair (Patron Emeritus, Sydney Symphony Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri, Orchestra Council) as well as the Estate of the late Cheryl & Robert Marconi Christina Pender Philip & Julie Small Sue Woodhead Andrew Haveron Scott Kinmont Helen MacDonnell Morgan. Anne Marett Stephen Perkins Maureen Smith In memory of Olwen Woolcott Concertmaster Associate Principal Trombone Brian Abel Lindsay & Margaret Woolveridge Vicki Olsson Chair Audrey Blunden Chair Renee Markovic Tobias Pfau Peter & Jenny Solomon Doug Battersby Robert Albert ao & Alexandra Martin Almut Piatti Judith Southam Paul Wormell & Mary Myerscough Emily Long Christine Bishop Elizabeth Albert Helen & Carrick Martin Erika & Denis Pidcock James Spigelman ac qc Dawn & Graham Worner Joshua Batty Violin Dr Rebecca Chin Violin and Trombone Fellows & Alice Spigelman am Dr Margot Harris Chair Kwok-Ling Mau Mary Lynne Pidcock In memory of Lorna Wright Principal Flute Paul Colgan Black, Morgan-Hunn & Stening Dr Vladan Starcevic Josette Wunder Karen Moses Chair Danny May In memory of Kay & Roy Piper Leah Lynn John C Conde ao Oboe Fellow Mora Maxwell Dr John I Pitt Fred Stein oam Paul Wyckaert Harry Bennetts Assistant Principal Cello The Hon. John Della Bosca am Sandra & Neil Burns In memory of Graham Stevenson Kevin McCann ao Jocelyn & Edward Pollard Colin & Natalie Yamey Associate Concertmaster Sydney Symphony Orchestra Gillian Eldershaw & Deidre McCann Dr Vera Stoermer Judy & Sam Weiss Chair Vanguard Chair (lead support Clarinet Fellow Greeba Pritchard Xuanli Yan Alan Fang John McDonald Tony & Rosalind Strong from Seamus R Quick) Dr Gary Holmes & Paul Pryce Dustin Yee Victoria Bihun Johanna Featherstone Robert McDougall Jo Strutt & the late John Strutt ac Nicole Masters Dr Anne Reeckmann Beverly & Ian Pryer Dr John Yu Violin Hannah Fink Neil McEwan Rosemary Stuart Sylvia & the late Sol Levi Chair Violin Horn Fellow Jane Purkiss Erin Flaherty Ian & Pam McGaw Rosemary Swift Nora Goodridge oam Chair Dr Raffi Qasabian Kees Boersma Dr Stephen Freiberg In memory of Matthew Krel Jeannette McHugh Dominic Taranto Timothy Nankervis Violin Fellow & Dr John Wynter Principal Double Bass Robert Joannides Matthew McInnes Pam & Ross Tegel Council Chair Cello Patrick Quinn-Graham Michelle Anne Johnson Warren & Marianne Lesnie Alastair McKean Professor Christopher Tennant Dr Rebecca Chin & Family Chair Graham Quinton Tobias Breider Simon Johnson Trumpet Fellow Margaret McKenna Ernest & Judith Rapee Jonathan Teperson Elizabeth Neville Principal Viola Dr John Lam-Po-Tang Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Judith A McKernan Jennifer Raper David FC Thomas Roslyn Packer ac & Cello Gary Linnane Violin Fellow Lyndall McNally Suzanne Rea & Graham Stewart & Katerina Thomas Gretel Packer am Chair Bob Magid oam & Ruth Magid Chair Helen Lynch am Dr V Jean McPherson Edward Reis Jane Thornton oam Alexandre Oguey The Ross Trust James Burke David Maloney am & Peter Thornton Oboe Fellow Christopher & Jennifer Meaney Judy & John Reizes Principal Clarinet Principal Cor Anglais Danny May Alma Toohey Oranges & Sardines Foundation Mackenzie’s Friend Chair Evelyn Meaney Kim & Graham Richmond Jane Morschel In memory of Joyce Sproat John & Su Trathen Chair Phil & Helen Meddings Dr Goetz Richter am Mark Robinson Dr Eileen Ong Viola Fellow Graham & Felicity Rigby Laurel Tsang Lillie Michael Nick Byrne Acting Principal Timpani Andy Plummer In memory of Mrs W Stening Frank & Sophie Riley Gillian Turner & Rob Bishop Trombone Sylvia Rosenblum Chair, Keith Miller Deirdre Plummer Cello Fellow Russell EV Miller Faye Roberts Ross Tzannes am Robertson Family Chair In memory of Rodney Rosenblum & Suzanne Tzannes Seamus Robert Quick June & Alan Woods Ken & Jan Roberts Rachel Silver Sandra Milne Umberto Clerici Chris Robertson Family Bequest Dr John Vallance Horn Brian Mitchell In memory of Principal Cello Bassoon Fellow Mary Vallentine ao Paul Salteri am John Mitchell Katherine Robertson Garry & Shiva Rich Chair Sue Milliken ao Chair Russell Van Howe & Simon Beets Sandra Salteri Dr Robert Mitchell Alexander & Rosemary Roche Anne-Louise Comerford Emma Sholl Kristina Vesk oam Rachel Scanlon Ruth Mitchell Megan Rofe Associate Principal Viola Associate Principal Flute Mr & Mrs Waddington Juliana Schaeffer Benjamin Moh Peter & Heather Roland White Family Chair Robert & Janet Constable Chair Charles Wade oam Andrew Shapiro Felice & Miranda Montrone Andrew Rosenberg Timothy Constable Justin Williams Dr Alla Waldman Kate Shaw James & Elsie Moore & the late Lesley Rosenberg Percussion Assistant Principal Viola Fred Stein oam Christine Rowell-Miller Lynette Walker Christine Bishop Chair Robert & L Alison Carr Chair Margo Moore James Stening Jacqueline Rowlands In memory of Denis Wallis Henry & Ursula Mooser Rosemary Curtin Russell Van Howe Fred Rowley June Walpole Keith & Janene Morrin Viola Robert & Rosemary Walsh Mary Whelan Milja & David Morris Shah Rusiti John & Jane Morschel Chair Brian White ao Kaye Russell Jennifer Wandl Sarah Morrisby Lerida Delbridge Kathy White Jorie Ryan for Meredith Ryan In memory of Don Ward P Muller Assistant Concertmaster Derek Watt Rosemary White Kenneth Ryan Simon Johnson Chair Janet Nash Andrew Wiseman Hon. 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