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2019-2020 Annual Report 2019–2020 Annual Report REGINA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RSO 2019 - 2020 ANNUAL REPORT MISSION MESSAGE To strengthen our communityFROM by reaching THE people from all walks of lifeMUSIC through the power of live orchestral music. WeDIRECTOR evolve and grow the RSO to provide impactful orchestral music experiences across southern Saskatchewan for generations to come. TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the Music Director 3 Message from the Executive Director 4 Message from the Board Chair 6 RSO Royal Patrons, Honorary Patrons, Board of Governors, Honorary Life Members and Administrative team 7 Orchestra Members 8 2019–2020 Season Highlights 10 Education & Outreach 12 Thank You to our Sponsors, Business Club Members, Donors & Funders 14 Financial Statements 17 2 RSO 2019–2020 ANNUAL REPORT MESSAGE FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Orchestras should continually strive to be a vital part of achievement for us this year was also a presentation of their communities. For the Regina Symphony Orchestra, the compelling chamber opera Missing, continuing the the music we make together is always intended to be part RSO’s commitment to Reconciliation and engaging with the of the celebrations and challenges that we face as citizens Indigenous communities in southern Saskatchewan. of southern Saskatchewan and of Canada. At times, the challenges rather than the celebrations take our focus. As was the case with orchestras across the world, we had As I write this, the world is entering its sixth month of a more in store for our 2019–2020 season. We were set to crippling pandemic. This has altered the course of all our welcome one of Canada’s greatest pianists lives, and certainly it has altered the path of the RSO. Just Janina Fialkowska, and a thrilling season closer was in one day before we were set to present our sixth Masterworks the works that was to include another world premiere by program of the 2019–2020 season, to announce our next Saskatchewan-born Nicole Lizée and Beethoven’s iconic season’s program, and—significantly—to introduce our new Symphony No. 9. It was a bitter disappointment for us all to Executive Director Mike Forrester to Regina, we were forced have to cancel these programs. to shut everything down. I would like to thank the many people who continue to stand In spite of this devastating interruption of the music, there faithfully with us as we navigate these extraordinary times: are considerable artistic achievements of the past year our dedicated Board of Governors, our remarkable staff, our that are worth celebrating. The musicians of the orchestra loyal patrons, our wonderfully generous volunteers, and of acquitted themselves admirably in several challenging course, the incredible musicians of the orchestra. It remains programs, and there are many highlights that I will carry a great privilege to be the Music Director of this unique and with me from the 2019–2020 season. These include the important institution. Undoubtedly there is considerable mesmerizing season opener with a suite from Life of Pi along uncertainty on the road ahead, but I look forward to returning with Shostakovich’s blazing Fifth Symphony, and perhaps to life affirming music-making together in spite of these one of my favourite programs of my tenure with the RSO challenges. I remain convinced that it’s in times like these that included Richard Strauss’s dazzling suite from Der that music becomes more essential than ever. Rosenkavalier and the quintessential orchestral showstopper Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz. I’m also proud to With special thanks again to Andrea Davison, Interim have included a couple premieres: Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Executive Director, for her work and commitment to the RSO Excessive Bright (North American premiere) and Ian Cusson’s Tableau vivant for Orchestra (world premiere). Our Pops audiences were thrilled by First Nations singer-songwriter sensation Jeremy Dutcher as well as a hit celebration of the holidays with Home Alone in Concert. A landmark Gordon Gerrard 3 RSO 2019–2020 ANNUAL REPORT MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR It is interesting to craft an annual report for the RSO, follow, along with a full Canadian cast of singers for having arrived with only a couple of months remaining Beethoven 9 and yet another Canadian composition in the season. Most readers will have a much longer by Nicole Lizée. If you keep going, the theme remains connection to the organization, and I can only reiterate, constant – Polaris Prize winner Jeremey Dutcher with prior to mid-March, what’s in brochures, what patrons, melodies from his Wolastoq First Nation, more Canadian musicians, our maestro and our Board members have compositions and artists, and Music Director imparted, along with what is in the Orchestra’s printed Gordon Gerrard’s signature Forward Currents Festival, materials for the season, and what knowledge our taking the issues of the day head-on in the way only interim Executive Director, Andrea Davison (to whom I orchestral music can do. am extremely grateful) has given me for most of the past season. I can, as you might imagine, tell the reader quite Off the stage and in the community, education and a bit about the period from March through to the present outreach activities underpin and deepen the RSO’s day, and it will certainly stand out as one of the most commitment to the people of Regina and South challenging, and sometimes rewarding periods of a Saskatchewan, with school performances, concerts in long career. retirement facilities, the popular Symphony Under the Sky, and a notable and important performance of Missing The RSO is notable for not only its community efforts - giving voice to the heart-wrenching story of missing and on a broad range of fronts, but also for its commitment murdered Indigenous women along the Highway of Tears , to Canadian artists and composers. Every page of the in which the RSO received crucial and important guidance brochure has clear statements of that commitment, from the organization’s Indigenous Advisory Council. with Canadian composer Mychael Danna’s film score Gordon’s vision of exploring the boundaries of what a to Life of Pi on the very first page. Then simply turn the modern orchestra’s responsibilities and activities should page: Toronto Symphony Concertmaster be, along with strong support from the community and Jonathan Crow in his RSO debut, Canadian pianist the Board of Directors in the direction he’s been taking, Katherine Chi on the same page, then former Vancouver are what attracted me to the organization, and what has Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Dale Barltrop in a brought the RSO international recognition for its efforts play/conduct role, and in a tribute to its own, orchestral and leadership. blockbusters highlighting our own RSO artists. Arriving at the office on March 14, the very day the entire Keep turning the pages, and the commitment continues country and much of the world shut down, the Maestro, and deepens. Janina Fialkowksa, the south Saskatchewan Board, staff and artists of the Orchestra and I were Youth Orchestra, and Okanagan Symphony music director immediately faced with some extremely difficult choices. 4 RSO 2019–2020 ANNUAL REPORT The Regina Symphony Orchestra (RSO) in concert Orchestras, beyond the roughly 17 percent of funding that There is no sugar-coating the fact that for this year comes from all three levels of government combined, and likely the next couple of years, the RSO will carry a are entirely dependent on ticket sales, sponsorships, considerable deficit from its COVID-19 induced losses. donations, and interest from their endowments if they are The silver lining is that a good portion of that deficit is fortunate enough to have one. The music stopped March revenue we actually have, and that we are able to use 14, and so did ticket sales, sponsorships to the end of the for the new season about to begin. It doesn’t mean season, subscription sales for the next season dropped things are perfect—social distancing means smaller precipitously, and the assumption was that donations audiences, shorter performances mean lower ticket would be a challenge, not only for the RSO, but also prices, general financial concerns will affect sponsorships industry wide. and donations, and the pandemic situation is unstable. The plan we have crafted offers a way through what will The Board and staff of the RSO immediately undertook be a challenging year – but annual reports are a look in four principal courses of action: initiating a fundraising the rear-view mirror, and our communications to patrons campaign; offering patrons whose concerts were and stakeholders regarding the upcoming season are cancelled either credits, the opportunity to donate their happening as you read this. remaining tickets for a tax receipt, or refunds; efforts with colleagues and government officials to determine the best The RSO has navigated its way through over a century methods of support; and ensuring the artists and staff of notable events, including the 1918 pandemic, world were kept whole to the end of the season and beyond. wars, social upheaval, the Great Depression and other recessions, and has always managed to stay the course. The results were better than anyone could have expected, The indelible effect of music, and the connection between in that fully 75% of our patrons either donated their artist and audience in a shared exploration of great tickets for tax receipts or asked that their commitments orchestral music created over centuries of refinement be credited into the following season. The Canada and ideas is the reason why. With thanks to the Board of Emergency Wage Subsidy was of some assistance, and Directors, the staff, our wonderful artists, and our for those artists of the Orchestra who are self-employed, patrons and supporters, I will simply say this: the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit certainly helped.
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