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Andreas Brantelid Performs Elgar's

Andreas Brantelid performs Elgar’s VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY’S MASTERWORKS

18 – 21 SEPTEMBER Look forward 2019 CONCERT SEASON

MEET THE MUSIC WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER, 1.30PM TEA AND SYMPHONY FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER, 11AM GREAT CLASSICS The Lowy Chair of Chief Conductor SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 2PM and Artistic Director SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE CONCERT HALL

Andreas Brantelid plays Elgar’s Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Masterworks

Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Andreas Brantelid cello

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872–1958) Wednesday’s concert will be broadcast on ABC Classic on 29 September Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis at 12 noon, and on 4 January 2020 at 12 noon. (1857–1934) Cello Concerto in E minor Pre-concert talk by Genevieve Lang in Adagio – Moderato – the Northern Foyer, 45 minutes before the performance (Wednesday, Thursday Lento – Allegro molto and Saturday only). Adagio Allegro – Moderato – Allegro, ma non troppo Estimated durations: 15 minutes; 30 minutes; 20 minute interval; INTERVAL 29 minutes.

EDWARD ELGAR The concerts will conclude at Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma approximately 8.15pm (Wednesday); 3.15pm (Thursday); 12 noon (Friday); Friday’s performance will feature the Elgar’s Cello Concerto and 3.45pm (Saturday). only and will be performed without interval. n n n n n n n n Cover image: Andreas Brantelid (Photo by Marios Taramides) CONCERT DIARY

SEPTEMBER Abercrombie & Kent Holst’s Planets Masters Series VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY'S MASTERWORKS Wed 25 Sep, 8pm MEDTNER Concerto No.1 Fri 27 Sep, 8pm HOLST The Planets Sat 28 Sep, 8pm Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Sydney Opera House Alexei Volodin piano Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

The Soldier’s Tale Cocktail Hour Fri 27 Sep, 6pm COCKTAIL HOUR WITH THE FELLOWS Sat 28 Sep, 6pm STRAVINSKY Ragtime Sun 29 Sep, 3pm BARTÓK No.3 Sydney Opera House, LUTOSŁAWSKI Dance Preludes Utzon Room STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale: Suite 2019 Sydney Symphony Fellows

OCTOBER The Four Seasons Meet the Music Thu 10 Oct, 6.30pm VIVALDI AND PIAZZOLLA Kaleidoscope PIAZZOLLA arr. Desyatnikov Fri 11 Oct, 7pm The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Sat 12 Oct, 7pm VIVALDI The Four Seasons Sydney Opera House Andrew Haveron violin-director

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Sun 13 Oct, 1pm Sun 13 Oct, 2.45pm A SYDNEY SYMPHONY FAMILY EVENT Sydney Opera House VIVALDI The Four Seasons Andrew Haveron violin-director Christian Li violin

Donald Runnicles conducts Thursday Afternoon Symphony Bruckner Symphony No.7 Thu 17 Oct, 1.30pm Emirates Metro Series MUSIC OF INSPIRATION Fri 18 Oct, 8pm MESSIAEN Les offrandes oubliées Great Classics (The Forgotten Offerings) Sat 19 Oct, 2pm BRUCKNER Symphony No.7 Sydney Opera House Donald Runnicles conductor

Abercrombie & Kent Donald Runnicles Conducts Masters Series Fauré’s Requiem Wed 23 Oct, 8pm MUSIC OF INSPIRATION Fri 25 Oct, 8pm Sat 26 Oct, 8pm R STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration R STRAUSS Four Last Songs Sydney Opera House FAURÉ Requiem Donald Runnicles conductor Erin Wall soprano Samuel Dundas baritone Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

A Paris Happening Tea & Symphony Fri 25 Oct, 11am TEA & SYMPHONY WITH THE FELLOWS Sydney Opera House MILHAUD The Creation of the World IBERT Chamber Concertino, for alto saxophone and orchestra DEBUSSY arr. Sachs Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun IBERT Divertissement Roger Benedict conductor Nicholas Russoniello saxophone 2019 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows THE ARTISTS © KEITH SAUNDERS KEITH ©

Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor

Russian-born Vladimir Ashkenazy inherited his Laureate of the Symphony Orchestra and musical gift from both sides of his family: his of the NHK Orchestra, Tokyo, and Principal Guest father David was a professional light music Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. pianist and his mother Evstolia (née Plotnova) Previous posts included Music Director of the was daughter of a chorus-master in the Russian European Union Youth Orchestra and Orthodox church. He first came to prominence in Chief Conductor of the the 1955 Chopin Festival in Warsaw and Orchestra. He maintains strong links with the winning the 1956 Queen Elisabeth Competition in and Deutsches Symphonie- Brussels. He established himself as one of the orchester Berlin. premier pianists of the 20th century before Ashkenazy maintains his devotion to the piano, turning to . these days mostly in the recording studio. Recent Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to , as recordings include Bach’s French Suites. His a pianist, in 1969. Since then he has conducted discography also records his work as a conductor, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in subscription including direction of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral concerts and composer festivals. He was the music. Milestone recordings include 50 Years on orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Decca – a box-set celebrating his long-standing Advisor from 2009 to 2013. In July 2018, he relationship with the label. became the orchestra’s very first Conductor Beyond performing and conducting Ashkenazy Laureate. has been involved in many TV projects, inspired by Vladimir Ashkenazy’s associations with other a vision of reaching as wide an audience as include the possible. Vladimir Ashkenazy most recently () which made him their Conductor appeared with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Laureate in 2000, and with whom he will appear in in 2018. November. Vladimir Ashkenazy is also Conductor

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Andreas Brantelid cello

Andreas Brantelid was born in Copenhagen to Mr. Brantelid has appeared in venues such as Swedish/Danish parents. After receiving early tuition Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, , and the from his father Ingemar, Andreas made his soloist Zurich Tonhalle. Festivals include Verbier, Stavanger, debut at the age of 14 in a performance of Elgar’s Bergen, and Wiener Festwochen. He has been a Cello Concerto with the Royal Danish Orchestra in member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. Copenhagen. His debut disc of the Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Recent and forthcoming engagements include Saint-Saëns cello with the Danish National Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No.1 with the Residency Symphony Orchestra was released in 2008, followed Orchestra of The Hague, the Saint-Saëns with the by a disc of chamber music by Chopin including his Danish National Orchestra, Elgar’s Cello Concerto with , and an Encore disc. April 2019 saw the the Orchestre National de Montpellier Occitanie, and release of an album of piano quintets by Georgy concerts with the Helsinki Philharmonic. Catoire and Ignaz Friedman. Andreas Brantelid has worked with many Andreas won first prizes in the 2006 Eurovison distinguished conductors including Andris Nelsons, Young Musicians Competition, the 2007 International Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philippe Herreweghe, Vasily Paulo Cello Competition and, in subsequent years, Petrenko, Thomas Dausgaard, Sakari Oramo, and received music awards and fellowships including the Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, BBC’s New Among the musicians who inspired and strongly Generation Artist 2008-2011, and the European influenced Andreas are pianist Bengt Forsberg and Concert Hall Organisation ‘Rising Star’ tour in the violinist Nils-Erik Sparf, both of whom Andreas has 2008/09 season. In 2015 he received the Carl Nielsen played with since 2002 in different chamber music Prize in Copenhagen. formats. Andreas has also collaborated with artists Andreas plays the 1707 ‘Boni-Hegar’ Stradivarius, such as , , Joshua Bell, which has been made available to him by the Vadim Repin, , Lawrence Power and generous support of Norwegian art collector Paul Badura-Skoda. Recently he formed a trio with Christen Sveaas. German violinist Veronika Eberle and Israeli pianist Shai Wosner.

6 ABOUT THE MUSIC

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis When Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis was first performed at the in 1910 a perceptive critic noted that ‘one is never quite sure whether one is listening to something very old or very new’. The effect must have been magnified in the setting of Gloucester Cathedral: to walk from the dark Romanesque nave with its circular pillars and round arches, through the perpendicular-style decoration of the choir and presbytery, lit by the astounding 345-square-metre Crécy Window, Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1902 and finally into the Lady Chapel is literally to traverse centuries of architectural history. And Vaughan Williams naturally exploited the IN BRIEF size and resonance of the building as well as reflecting some of the The year 1910 saw a number of metaphorical resonances of history in his piece. He divides the epochal works by Schoenberg, Ravel orchestra into three – a string quartet, a tutti section and a small and Stravinsky; Vaughan Williams’ group of nine players that provides distant echo effects – and ‘Tallis Fantasia’ was one such, in which instructs that where possible the groups should be spatially he creates a totally fresh and new separate, creating an enhanced sense of resonance of any given sound by going back to the Golden Age space. of English music from the Tudor period. According to Hugh Ottaway, the composer ‘was aware of the Based on a deceptively simple psalm common aspirations of generations of ordinary men and women tune by Thomas Tallis, the Fantasia with whom he felt a deep, contemplative sympathy’ and which he consists of several linked but contrasting sections, and in its spatial felt was reflected in communal music-making. In a Protestant deployment of the strings creates the country like England, communal music-making included hymn sense of a vast and resonant space. singing, and it was for this reason that Vaughan Williams accepted the editorship of the English Hymnal in 1904. In doing so he made the discovery that catalysed this, his first masterpiece. Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585) lived and worked during the tumultuous period of England’s Tudor dynasty, serving Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and finally Elizabeth I, and managing to keep his job – and his head – despite the often-bloody transitions between Protestant and Catholic regimes and their radical effects on the forms of worship. He composed intricate works of Latin polyphony (for the Catholic liturgy) as well as simpler settings of English (for the Protestant). Evangelical Protestantism eschewed ornate music, preferring tunes that could be sung by congregations – especially to psalms translated into English poetic metres. For these, Tallis composed some nine tunes, including his Third Mode Melody for Psalm 2, ‘Why fum’th in fight the Gentiles spite, in fury raging stout?’ Vaughan Williams resurrects an instrumental genre common in the Tudor and Stuart periods – the fantasia for a consort of viols: such works were free from any text, and the use of contrasting, but related, thematic material provided the basis for clearly defined sections. Vaughan Williams uses only one theme, but discovers in Tallis’ Third Mode Melody several contrasting motifs and contours Thomas Tallis that generate a multi-sectioned structure. by Gerard Vandergucht

7 Vaughan Williams’ use of ‘pure’ modal harmony as in the quietly radiant chords at the opening, and the simplicity of the theme’s adumbration in soft plucked notes from the is understatedly radical. He gives first full statement of the theme in Tallis’ own harmony, but soon takes the melody into vastly new regions. There is much about the music which is passionate, expressed through active textures and dissonant harmony, yet the resplendent climax of the piece is a sequence of almost purely consonant harmonies, shimmering in endless space. Out of these glowing textures solo voices appear, including the beautiful duet for violin and which heralds the last statement of the tune, or the solo violin which floats heavenward towards the end. But there is a significant solo viola melody earlier on that is derived from Tallis’ tune but also related to the chorus of ‘Alleluias’ which depicts the Celestial City in Vaughan Williams’ various treatments of The Pilgrim’s Progress. Despite what his wife described as his ‘cheerful agnosticism’, Vaughan Williams maintained an interest in the ‘spiritual life’ – his term – which suffuses the ‘Tallis Fantasia’. GORDON KERRY © 2009

Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis requires a string orchestra divided into three distinct groups. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra first performed the work in December 1940 under Kenneth Murison Bourn, and most recently in April 2015 under .

Edward Elgar (1857–1934) IN BRIEF Elgar’s Cello Concerto, composed in Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 1919, is in many respects a lament for Adagio – Moderato – the late Victorian and Edwardian Lento – Allegro molto worlds in which he had grown up and Adagio flourished as a composer, not to Allegro – Moderato – Allegro, ma non troppo mention for the countless people who had lost their lives in the recent Elgar’s career reached its last zenith with his in carnage. Elgar’s response is far from 1910 and Second Symphony in 1911, works into which he claimed the large-scale, richly upholstered ‘I have written out my soul…shewn myself’. Between them and this works such as his Violin Concerto or 1919 Cello Concerto – his last major work – Elgar faced down ; the Cello Concerto is worsening prospects in almost every aspect of his life, from the expressive, but mostly intimate in personal challenges of age, ill-health and bereavement, to the scale and manner, lightly scored and a professional affront of being elbowed aside by younger colleagues. series of succinct movements. There was also the war. While Britain’s youth marched into France in August 1914 singing ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’, Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory – composed during the Boer War as trio of his first Pomp and Circumstance March (1901) – was re-mobilised at home as a patriotic anthem. Rendered semi-superfluous by his own old tune, Elgar, at 57, struggled to find a new wartime voice in works like , a musically slight but eloquent response to the

8 tragedy in Belgium, recorded for gramophone in 1915, that here in Australia became his next-most-popular contribution to the war effort. His more substantial choral score , setting war poems by Laurence Binyon, was introduced to Britons in 1916 and 1917 deep in the hostilities, but reached almost celebratory first performances in Melbourne and Sydney in July-August 1918, just as Allied victory seemed assured. Still, it was Binyon’s lines commemorating the millions fallen (‘They shall grow not old…Age shall not weary them…’) – not Elgar’s music for them – that everyone remembered. Binyon, by day, was a curator at the British Museum under Edward Elgar Elgar’s close friend Sidney Colvin, the keeper of prints and drawings, and it was Colvin who first suggested Elgar turn Binyon’s poems into the ‘wonderful Requiem for the slain’ that The Spirit of England became. Binyon himself approached Elgar again immediately the Armistice was declared with a request to set his new ode, ‘Peace’. But by letter on 18 November 1918, Elgar demurred: ‘I do not feel drawn to write peace music somehow…the whole atmosphere is too full of complexities for me to feel music to it.’ He had anyway, as his wife, Alice, recorded in her diary, already conceived another ‘lament which should be in a war symphony’, music that evolved over the spring and summer of 1919 into ‘a real large work & I think good and alive’, as he described the ‘nearly completed’ Cello Concerto in a letter to Colvin and his wife, Elgar, at 57, struggled Frances, on 26 June, asking permission to dedicate it to them. to find a new wartime The score is laid out in four movements, though listeners tend to voice hear the first and second movements, played without break, as a single span. Whereas his Violin Concerto opened into a conventionally spacious orchestral introduction, pending the princely arrival of its soloist, Elgar sets his cello in a more intimate frame. Denied welcoming brass or upper strings, the brief opening cello recitative (Adagio) sets its own unusually pared-back terms – hereinafter will be lyricism, light orchestration, simple layouts. The , eerily unaccompanied, announce the dreamy, modal, much-loved main theme (Moderato), its rocking rhythm Elgar’s characteristic pastoral lilt. The winds introduce the airy, major-tending contrasting theme, which the cello then sets about varying, before the main theme simply returns. A longer, second cello recitative (Lento) inducts into faster, lighter, scherzo-like Allegro molto, the cello driving the music forward with its scrubbing semiquavers. Elgar anticipated that the Adagio, despite its anticipatory half-close, would often be played without the rest of the concerto, and scored it with just strings and wind sextet. The cello melody gives the uncanny impression of being an internal dialogue between two separate voices, higher and lower, each merging in and out of the countermelodies of the supporting strings.

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25261_150x240_SSO_Programm_EN_v02.indd 1 09.05.19 08:21 The finale opens, exceptionally, announcing its fragmentary theme (Allegro) without the cello. The cello then reworks it in a parenthetic recitative and short (Moderato), before it takes over fully (Allegro, ma non troppo). The soloist sweetly but firmly pulls the music up introducing its arcing subsidiary idea, then carried on by flowing semiquavers into the extensive development. There’s a heady reprise of the fast theme, echoes of earlier quiet asides, and a penultimate throwback to the concerto’s opening gesture, caught up into a rapid, surging close. GRAEME SKINNER © 2014

Elgar’s Cello Concerto calls for an orchestra of double winds, 4 horns, 2 , 3 , , , solo cello, and strings. Percy Code conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s first performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in August 1944 with Lauri Kennedy, cello. The Orchestra performed it most recently in April 2017 under Robert Spano with Harriet Krijgh, cello.

Edward Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Op.36 Enigma I (C.A.E.) – , the composer’s wife II (H.D.S.-P) – Hew David Steuart-Powell, pianist in Elgar’s trio III (R.B.T.) – Richard Baxter Townshend, author IV (W.M.B.) – William Meath Baker, nicknamed ‘the Squire’ V (R.P.A.) – Richard Penrose Arnold, son of Matthew Arnold VI (Ysobel) – Isabel Fitton, viola player VII (Troyte) – Arthur Troyte Griffith, architect VIII (W.N.) – Winifred Norbury IX (Nimrod) – August Johannes Jaeger, reader for the publisher Novello & Co Elgar in 1904 X (Dorabella) Intermezzo – Dora Penny, later Mrs Richard Powell XI (G.R.S.) – Dr G.R. Sinclair, organist of Cathedral XII (B.G.N.) – Basil G. Nevinson, cellist in Elgar’s trio IN BRIEF XIII (***) Romanza – Lady Mary Lygon, later Trefusis At forty Elgar was beginning to wonder XIV (E.D.U.) Finale – Elgar himself (‘Edu’ being his nickname) if he would ever ‘make it’, and had In middle-age, Edward Elgar found himself in his native Malvern retreated to the countryside of the region, eking out a living as a humble rural music teacher. He took Malvern Hills, teaching to make a in students, made instrumental arrangements, gave an occasional living, after failing to gain much performance and continually threatened to give away music headway in London. He famously altogether. came up with the ‘Enigma’ Variations (known for its mysterious, unstated But one evening in October 1898 Elgar began to doodle away at countermelody) while improvising for the piano. Chancing upon a brief theme that pleased him, he fun at the piano one day. The piece, started imagining his friends confronting the same theme, which evolved into a series of finely commenting to his wife, ‘This is how so-and-so would have done it.’ drawn portraits of his friends, Or he would try to catch another friend’s character in a variation. established Elgar almost overnight as This harmless bit of fun grew into one of England’s greatest the major symphonist of his orchestral masterpieces, Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme. generation.

11 Where the word ‘Theme’ should have appeared in the score, however, Elgar wrote ‘Enigma’. He stated that the theme was a variation on a well-known tune which he refused to identify. It’s a conundrum which has occupied concertgoers and scholars alike ever since. Elgar himself rejected suggestions of God Save the King and . Other suggestions have included Rule, Britannia, an extract from Wagner’s Parsifal, and even Ta-ra-ra- boom-de-ay. Another suggestion is that it’s a simple scale, while Michael Kennedy has proposed that the unheard theme could be Elgar himself, with the famous two-quaver two-crotchet motif on which the entire work is based capturing the natural speech rhythm of the name ‘Edward Elgar’. Elgar went to his grave without revealing the truth and no one has come up with the definitive answer. The second enigma was the identity of the characters depicted within each variation, who were identified at first only by their initials in the score. This enigma has proved much easier to solve. Variation 1, which simply elaborates the main violin theme with prominent wind playing, depicts Elgar’s wife, Caroline Alice (‘Carice’). The second variation brings the first hint of actual imitation. Pianist H.D. Steuart-Powell was one of Elgar’s chamber music collaborators, who characteristically played a diatonic run over the keyboard as a warm-up. Variation 3 depicts the ham actor R.B. Townshend whose drastic variation in vocal pitch is mocked here. The Cotswold squire W. Meath Baker is the subject of Variation 4 while the mixture of seriousness and wit displayed by the poet Matthew Arnold’s son Richard is captured in the fifth variation. The next two variations parody the technical inadequacies of Elgar’s chamber music acquaintances. Violist Isabel Fitton (Variation 6) had trouble performing music where the strings had to be crossed while Arthur Troyte Griffith (Variation 7) was a pianist Caroline Alice Elgar whose vigorous style sounded more like drumming! Poor Winifred Norbury is actually represented in Variation 8 by a musical depiction of her country house, ‘Sherridge’. The most famous variation of course is Nimrod (No.9). Nimrod (the ‘mighty hunter before the Lord’ of Genesis chapter 10) was Elgar’s publisher A.J. Jaeger (German for ‘hunter’). Apparently the idea for this particular variation came when Elgar was going through one of his regular slumps. Jaeger took Elgar on a long walk during which he said that whenever Beethoven was troubled by the turbulent life of a creative artist, he simply poured his frustrations into still more beautiful compositions. In memory of that conversation, Elgar made those opening bars of Nimrod quote the slow movement from Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata.

August Jaeger, ‘Nimrod’

12 Variation 10 depicts a young woman called Dora Penny, whose soubriquet ‘Dorabella’ comes from Mozart’s Così fan tutte. And then Variation 11 goes beyond the human species, depicting the organist G.R Sinclair’s bulldog Dan, falling down the steep bank of the river Wye, paddling upstream, coming to land and then barking. The cello features prominently in Variation 12 – a tribute to cellist Basil Nevinson. Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is quoted in Variation 13, said to depict Lady Mary Lygon’s departure by ship to Australia. Finally we hear ‘E.D.U.’ where the composer depicts himself (his wife’s nickname for him was Edoo) cocking a snook at all those who said he’d never make it as a composer. ABRIDGED FROM MARTIN BUZACOTT © 2000

The ‘Enigma’ Variations require an orchestra of 2 (1 doubling piccolo), pairs of and , 3 (1 doubling ), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani and 3 percussion, organ, and strings. conducted the first performance by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra of the ‘Enigma’ Variations in November 1939; the Orchestra’s most recent performance was under Donald Runnicles in December 2014.

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DAVID ROBERTSON Challender, and . THE LOWY CHAIR OF CHIEF CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Vladimir Ashkenazy was Principal Conductor from 2009 to 2013. The Orchestra’s history also boasts PATRON Professor The Hon. Dame Marie Bashir ad cvo collaborations with legendary figures such as Founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting , Sir , Commission, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra has and . evolved into one of the world’s finest orchestras as The Sydney Symphony’s award-winning Sydney has become one of the world’s great cities. Learning and Engagement program is central to its Resident at the iconic Sydney Opera House, the commitment to the future of live symphonic Sydney Symphony Orchestra also performs in music, developing audiences and engaging the venues throughout Sydney and regional New South participation of young people. The Orchestra Wales, and international tours to Europe, Asia and promotes the work of Australian composers the USA have earned the Orchestra worldwide through performances, recordings and recognition for artistic excellence. commissions. Recent premieres have included Well on its way to becoming the premier major works by , Lee Bracegirdle, orchestra of the Asia Pacific region, the Sydney Gordon Kerry, Mary Finsterer, Nigel Westlake, Paul Symphony Orchestra has toured China on five Stanhope and Georges Lentz, and recordings of occasions, and in 2014 won the arts category in music by have been released on both the Australian Government’s inaugural Australia- the BIS and SSO Live labels. China Achievement Awards, recognising ground- Other releases on the SSO Live label, breaking work in nurturing the cultural and artistic established in 2006, include performances relationship between the two nations. conducted by Alexander Lazarev, Sir Charles The Orchestra’s first chief conductor was Sir Mackerras and David Robertson, as well as the Eugene Goossens, appointed in 1947; he was complete Mahler symphonies conducted by followed by Nicolai Malko, , Moshe Vladimir Ashkenazy. Atzmon, , Louis Frémaux, 2019 is David Robertson’s sixth season as Chief Sir , Zdeněk Mácal, Stuart Conductor and Artistic Director.

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David Robertson Donald Runnicles Vladimir Ashkenazy Andrew Haveron THE LOWY CHAIR OF CHIEF PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR CONDUCTOR LAUREATE CONCERTMASTER CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SUPPORTED BY VICKI OLSSON

FIRST VIOLINS VIOLAS FLUTES TROMBONES Andrew Haveron Tobias Breider Emma Sholl Scott Kinmont CONCERTMASTER PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Harry Bennetts Anne-Louise Comerford Carolyn Harris Nick Byrne ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Joshua Batty Christopher Harris Sun Yi Sandro Costantino PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL BASS ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Rosemary Curtin Ronald Prussing OBOES Fiona Ziegler Jane Hazelwood PRINCIPAL Diana Doherty ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Graham Hennings TUBA Jenny Booth Stuart Johnson PRINCIPAL Steve Rossé Brielle Clapson Justine Marsden Alexandre Oguey PRINCIPAL Sophie Cole Felicity Tsai PRINCIPAL Claire Herrick Leonid Volovelsky Shefali Pryor TIMPANI Georges Lentz Beth Condon† ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Adam Jeffrey* David Papp Nicola Lewis Stephen Wright° GUEST PRINCIPAL Emily Long Roger Benedict CLARINETS Mark Robinson Alexandra Mitchell PRINCIPAL Francesco Celata ACTING PRINCIPAL Justin Williams Alexander Norton ACTING PRINCIPAL PERCUSSION Anna Skálová ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Christopher Tingay Amanda Verner Rebecca Lagos Léone Ziegler Alexander Morris PRINCIPAL Jessica Oddie† CELLOS PRINCIPAL BASS Timothy Constable Lerida Delbridge Brian Nixon* Umberto Clerici BASSOONS ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER PRINCIPAL Matthew Wilkie ORGAN Kirsten Williams Catherine Hewgill PRINCIPAL EMERITUS David Drury* ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER PRINCIPAL Fiona McNamara GUEST PRINCIPAL EMERITUS Leah Lynn Noriko Shimada ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLINS PRINCIPAL CONTRABASSOON * = GUEST MUSICIAN Kristy Conrau Kirsty Hilton Todd Gibson-Cornish ° = CONTRACT MUSICIAN Fenella Gill † = SYDNEY SYMPHONY FELLOW PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL Marina Marsden Timothy Nankervis Grey = PERMANENT MEMBER OF Elizabeth Neville HORNS THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRINCIPAL NOT APPEARING IN THIS CONCERT Marianne Edwards Christopher Pidcock Ben Jacks ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Adrian Wallis PRINCIPAL Emma Jezek David Wickham Euan Harvey Marnie Sebire ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL DOUBLE BASSES Alice Bartsch Rachel Silver Kees Boersma Victoria Bihun Geoffrey O’Reilly PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL 3RD Rebecca Gill David Campbell Emma Hayes Steven Larson TRUMPETS Shuti Huang Richard Lynn Brent Grapes* Monique Irik Jaan Pallandi GUEST PRINCIPAL Wendy Kong Benjamin Ward Anthony Heinrichs Stan W Kornel David Barlow† Daniel Henderson* Benjamin Li Robin Brawley* David Elton Tobias Aan† Alex Henery PRINCIPAL Nicole Masters PRINCIPAL Paul Goodchild Maja Verunica ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

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Board of Directors Administration Terrey Arcus AM Chairman EXECUTIVE Ilmar Leetberg Artist Liaison Manager Geoff Ainsworth AM Emma Dunch Chief Executive Officer Alyssa Lim Publicity Manager Andrew Baxter Sarah Falzarano Director of Finance Marta Marcos Head of Copywriting Kees Boersma Richard Hemsworth Director of Operations Rosie Marks-Smith Orchestra Personnel Ewen Crouch AM Aernout Kerbert Director of Orchestra Manager Emma Dunch CEO Management Catherine Hewgill Alastair McKean Library Manager Luke Nestorowicz Director of Marketing The Hon. Justice AJ Meagher Rachel McLarin Orchestra Personnel Manager Raff Wilson Director of Artistic Planning Karen Moses Lynn McLaughlin Head of CRM John Vallance Mary-Ann Mead Librarian Geoff Wilson Ross Chapman Production Manager Lars Mehlan Head of Corporate Relations Mihka Chee External Affairs Manager Tom Niall Marketing Associate Callum Close Philanthropy Manager Alex Norden Operations Manager Council Ian Colley Customer Analyst Aeva O’Dea Office Administrator Brian Abel Meg Collis Philanthropy Coordinator Lauren Patten Philanthropy Officer Doug Battersby Kerry-Anne Cook Associate Director Christine Bishop of Operations & Touring Minerva Prescott Accountant Dr Rebecca Chin Pim den Dekker Head of Customer Service Andrea Reitano Digital Marketing Coordinator and Ticketing John C Conde AO Genevieve Scott Stage Manager Michael Dowling Customer Service The Hon. John Della Bosca Elissa Seed Production Coordinator Alan Fang Representative Indah Shillingford Design Lead Hannah Fink and Andrew Shapiro Jennifer Drysdale Head of Philanthropy Andrea Shrewsbury Marketing Project Manager Erin Flaherty Douglas Emery Marketing Manager Acting Director, Sydney Dr Stephen Freiberg Emma Ferrer Accounts Assistant Peter Silver Symphony Presents Robert Joannides Meera Gooley Head of Digital Marketing Laura Soutter Payroll Officer Simon Johnson Victoria Grant Librarian Gary Linnane Brendon Taylor Production Coordinator Tess Herrett Marketing Associate Helen Lynch AM Ruth Tolentino Finance Manager Michel Maree Hryce In-House Counsel, David Maloney AM People & Culture Sam Torrens Artistic Planning Manager The Hon. Jane Mathews AO Philip Jameson Chief of Staff Simonette Turner Orchestra Personnel Manager Danny May Stephen Wilson Senior Customer Service Manager Jane Morschel Meklit Kibret Community Engagement Officer Dr Eileen Ong Patricia Laksmono External Affairs Officer Amy Zhou Graphic Designer Andy Plummer Deirdre Plummer Seamus Robert Quick Paul Salteri AM Sandra Salteri Juliana Schaeffer Fred Stein OAM Mary Whelan Brian White AO Rosemary White HONORARY COUNCIL MEMBERS Ita Buttrose AC OBE Donald Hazelwood AO OBE AM Wendy McCarthy AO Dene Olding AM Leo Schofield AM Peter Weiss AO

Concertmasters Emeritus

Donald Hazelwood AO OBE Dene Olding AM

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the music lovers who support us. Your generous philanthropy is instrumental to our continued artistic excellence and helps to sustain our important education and regional touring programs. In addition to those listed below, we also acknowledge those supporters who wish to remain anonymous.

VISIONARIES Geoffrey Robertson ao Robert McDougall Ken Unsworth Graeme Roberston Judith A McKernan Dr Alla Waldman Brian Abel Tim Robertson Jackie O’Brien The Hon. Justice A G Whealy Geoff Ainsworth am & James Stening Sandra Plowman Johanna Featherstone Lindsay & Margaret Woolveridge Judy & Sam Weiss Mark & Lindsay Robinson Josette Wunder Anne Arcus & Terrey Arcus am Caroline Wilkinson oam Dr Agnes E Sinclair The Berg Family Foundation June & Alan Woods Family Dougall Squair $1,000+ Robert & Janet Constable Bequest Howard Tanner am & Mary Tanner Colin & Richard Adams Crown Resorts Foundation David FC Thomas & Lenore Adamson Dr Rachael Kohn ao & $10,000+ Katerina Thomas John Aitken Mr Tom Breen Ainsworth Foundation Women’s Health & Research Rae & David Allen Sir Frank Lowy ac & Rob Baulderstone & Mary Whelan Institute of Australia Henri W Aram oam Lady Shirley Lowy oam Audrey Blunden Robert Veel In memory of Toby Avent Ruth & Bob Magid oam Daniel & Drina Brezniak Robert & Rosemary Walsh John Augustus & Kim Ryrie Roslyn Packer ac Richard Cobden sc Yim Family Foundation Lyn Baker (President, Maestro’s Circle) Janet Cooke Dr John Yu ac Malcolm & Joanna Barlow Packer Family Foundation Ewen Crouch am & Dr Richard & Mrs Margaret Bell Thyne Reid Foundation Catherine Crouch $2,500+ G & L Besson Peter Weiss ao (President Ian Dickson & Reg Holloway David Barnes Mark Bethwaite am Emeritus, Maestro’s Circle) & The Greatorex Fund In memory of Lance Bennett Minnie Biggs Doris Weiss Carolyn Githens In memory of Rosemary Boyle, Allan & Julie Bligh Nora Goodridge oam Music Teacher MAESTRO’S CIRCLE James Graham am & In memory of R W Burley Judith Bloxham Andre Boerema Robert Albert ao & Helen Graham Cheung Family Elizabeth Albert Ross Grant Jill E Choulkes Irene & Robert Bonella Christine Bishop The Hilmer Family Endowment Dr Paul Collett Dr Barbara Booth & John C Conde ao Jim & Kim Jobson Andrew & Barbara Dowe Dr Margaret Booth Dr Gary Holmes & Roland Lee Sarah & Tony Falzarano Jan Bowen am Dr Anne Reeckmann Dr Janet Merewether Ian Fenwicke & the late Prof Ros Bracher am Ingrid Kaiser Dr Dominic Pak & Cecilia Tsai Neville Wills Peter Braithwaite & Gary Linnane I Kallinikos Mr & Mrs Nigel Price Michael & Rochelle Goot Mrs H Breekveldt Anthony & Sylvia Rosenblum Anthony Gregg Ita Buttrose ac obe Sharon Lee Foundation The Ross Trust Sherry & Tom Gregory Hugh & Hilary Cairns Warren & Marianne Lesnie Rod Sims & Alison Pert Jill Hickson am Michel-Henri Carriol The late Hon Jane Mathews ao Tony Strachan Roger Hudson & M D Chapman am & Catriona Morgan-Hunn Russell Tagg & Pat Woolley Claudia Rossi-Hudson J M Chapman Rachel & Geoffrey O’Conor Kim Williams am & David Jeremy Norman & Suellen Chapman Vicki Olsson Catherine Dovey Andrew Kaldor am & Dr Diana Choquette Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Renata Kaldor ao David Churches & Helen Rose David Robertson & Orli Shaham SUPPORTERS PROGRAM W G Keighley Donald Clark Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri $5,000+ Dr Heng Khung & Mrs Cilla Tey In memory of L & R Collins Penelope Seidler am Stephen J Bell Professor Andrew Korda am & Joan Connery oam In memory of Mrs W Stening Dr Victor Bien & Susan Pearson Debby Cramer & Bill Caukill Kathy White Ms Silvana d’Iapico A/Prof Winston Liauw & Dr Peter Craswell In memory of Dr Bill Webb & Beverley & Phil Birnbaum Ellen Liauw Mary Anne Cronin Mrs Helen Webb Boyarsky Family Trust Gabriel Lopata Trevor Cook & Julie Flynn Ray Wilson oam, in memory of Ian & Jennifer Burton Peter Lowry oam & Charles P Curran ac & James Agapitos oam Hon J C Campbell qc & Dr Carolyn Lowry oam Mrs Eva Curran PATRONS PROGRAM Mrs Campbell David Maloney am & Erin Flaherty John Curotta Margot Chinneck Renee Markovic Diana Daly $15,000+ Roxane Clayton Dr V Jean McPherson The Hon. Justice David Davies & Antoinette Albert B & M Coles Phil & Helen Meddings Mr Paul Presa James & Elsie Moore Doug & Alison Battersby Howard & Maureen Connors Greta Davis Janet Newman Dugald Black Donus Australia Foundation Lisa & Miro Davis Timothy & Eva Pascoe Sandra & Neil Burns Limited The Deveson Family Paul R Espie ao Andrew Patterson & Robert & L Alison Carr Kate Dixon Dr Rebecca Chin Richard Flanagan Steven Bardy Susan Doenau Bob & Julie Clampett Dr Stephen Freiberg & Graham Quinton Stuart & Alex Donaldson Emma Dunch Donald Campbell Suzanne Rea & Graham Stewart Edward & Diane Federman Dr Colin Goldschmidt Patricia H Reid Endowment Pty Ltd Peter Doyle Simon Johnson Warren Green Dr Evelyn Royal JP & Jen Drysdale Dr Barry Landa Dr Jan Grose oam Shah Rusiti Professor Jenny Edwards Sylvia & the late Sol Levi James & Yvonne Hochroth Tony Schlosser Dr Rupert C Edwards Helen Lynch am & Helen Bauer Kimberley & Angus Holden Sophie Schultz The Hon. Justice Sylvia Emmett Susan Maple-Brown am Peter M Howard Helen & Sam Sheffer Suellen & Ron Enestrom Russell & Mary McMurray Ervin Katz Yvonne Sontag John B Fairfax ao & Libby Fairfax The Hon. Justice AJ Meagher & Justice Francois Kunc & Titia Sprague Hannah Fink & Andrew Shapiro Mrs Fran Meagher Ms Felicity Rourke Jo Strutt & the late John Strutt Mr & Mrs Alexander Fischl John & Jane Morschel John Lam-Po-Tang Jane Thornton oam & Vernon Flay & Linda Gilbert Karen Moses Dr Lee MacCormick Edwards Peter Thornton Frielich Family Foundation Kenneth R Reed am Charitable Foundation Kevin Troy Lynne Frolich Garry & Shiva Rich Mora Maxwell Judge Robyn Tupman Jennifer Fulton

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Dr Greg Gard & In memory of Katherine Robertson R D & L M Broadfoot Dr Allan Laughlin Dr Joanne Grimsdale Alexander & Rosemary Roche Ian & Barbara Brady Olive Lawson Irene & John Garran Lesley & Andrew Rosenberg Dr Tracy Bryan Antoinette le Marchant Ray & Lindy Gerke Christine Rowell-Miller Alexandra & Axel Buchner Dr Leo Leader & Stephen Gillies & Jo Metzke Jorie Ryan for Meredith Ryan Darren Buczma Mrs Shirley Leader Clive & Jenny Goodwin Kenneth Ryan Anne Cahill oam Cheok F Lee Marilyn & Max Gosling Manfred & Linda Salamon Lorraine Cairnes & Peter Moffitt Catherine Leslie Andrea Govaert and Hon Justice Ronald Sackville ao & Eric & Rosemary Campbell Erna Levy Wik Farwerck Mrs Pam Sackville Mary Carter Liftronic Pty Ltd In Memory of Angelica Green In memory of H St P Scarlett Freda Cassen Joseph Lipski Robert Green Solange Schulz C Cathels Anne Loveridge Geoffrey Greenwell George & Mary Shad P C Chan Panee Low Akiko Gregory Kathleen Shaw Callum Close & James Tolhurst Lyon Family Harry & Althea Halliday Peter & Virginia Shaw Alison Clugston-Cornes Elaine MacDonald Kim Harding & Irene Miller Alison Shillington & Brian Cohen Frank Machart V Hartstein the late David Shillington Meg Isabelle Collis Melvyn Madigan Donald Hazelwood ao obe & Dr Evan Siegel In memory of Beth Harpley Silvana Mantellato Helen Hazelwood Margaret Sikora Dom Cottam & Kanako Imamura Molly McConville Jennifer Hershon Marlene & Spencer Simmons lan Creighton Alastair McKean Sue Hewitt Maureen Smith Robin & Wendy Cumming Margaret McKenna Dr Lybus Hillman Barbara & Bruce Solomon John & Jill Curtin Ross McNair & Robin Richardson Michelle Hilton, in memory of my Judith Southam Katarina Cvitkovic I Merrick father, Emil Hilton Donna St Clair Anthoula Danilatos John Mitchell Dorothy Hoddinott ao Fred Stein oam Geoff & Christine Davidson Kenneth Newton Mitchell Georgina Horton Catherine Stephen Christie & Don Davison Alan Hauserman & Janet Nash Dr Brian Hsu & Mrs Felicity Hsu Dr Vera Stoermer Mark Dempsey & Jodi Steele John R Nethercote Dr Michael & Mrs Penny Hunter Rosemary Swift Anne Dineen Graham North In memory of Geoffrey Israel D P Taranto & A J Cassidy Dr David Dixon Kate Parsons Beth Jackson & John Griffiths M Teh Grant & Kate Dixon Dr Kevin Pedemont Margaret Johnston Mildred Teitler Marion Dixon Tobias Pfau Dr Owen Jones & Jonathan Teperson Lili Du Erika & Denis Pidcock Vivienne Goldschmidt Dr Jenepher Thomas Camron Dyer & Richard Mason Dr Michael Pidcock Fran & Dave Kallaway H M Tregarthen Ron Dyer oam & Dorothy Dyer Jane Purkiss Leslie Kennedy Gillian Turner & Rob Bishop John A Easton & Glenda C Easton The Hon. Dr Rodney Purvis am qc Anna-Lisa Klettenberg Helen Twibill Margaret Epps & Mrs Marian Purvis Justin Lam Suzanne & Ross Tzannes am John Favaloro Dongming & Jiyi Ren Beatrice Lang Dr John Vallance Dr Roger Feltham Kim & Graham Richmond Peter Lazar am Mary Vallentine ao Carole Ferguson Megan Rofe Robert Lee John & Akky van Ogtrop E Fidler Catherine H Rogers The Levins Family Foundation Mr & Mrs Waddington Lesley Finn Peter & Heather Roland Benjamin Li Ronald Walledge Barbara Fogarty Agnes Ross Juliet Lockhart In memory of Denis Wallis Arlene Goldman Kaye Russell A Lohan In memory of Don Ward Sharon Goldschmidt Peter & Edith Ryba Dr Linda Lorenza Jerry Whitcomb Dr Leo Gothelf Justin Schaffer Michael & Hilary Lunzer Dr Peter White Carole A P Grace William Sewell Barbara Maidment Peter Williamson Richard Griffin am & Jay Griffin Daniela Shannon John & Sophia Mar A L Willmers & R Pal Peter & Yvonne Halas Diane Shteinman am Anna & Danny Marcus Dr Edward J Wills Christopher Harris Ian & Jan Sloan Alexandra Martin Margaret Wilson Michael Harvey Charles Soloman Danny May Dr Richard Wing Sandra Haslam Jennifer Spitzer Kevin McCann am & Evan Wong & Maura Cordial Robert Havard Robert Spry Deidre McCann Dr Peter W Wong Rosemary Heal Dr Vladan Starcevic Ian & Pam McGaw In memory of Lorna Wright James Henderson Cheri Stevenson Matthew McInnes R Yabsley Roger Henning & Anton Enus Ian Taylor Evelyn Meaney $500+ Lynette Hilton Pam & Ross Tegel Keith Miller John & Livia Aboud Prof Ken Ho & Mrs Tess Ho Ludovic Theau Dr Robert Mitchell Phillip Alexander & Sally Hochfeld Daryl & Claire Thorn Henry & Ursula Mooser Elizabeth Steel Geoff Hogbin Alma Toohey Howard Morris Heather & Peter Andrews Andrew & Carmella Hollo Kathryn J Turner P Muller Nick & Juliet Andrews Suzzanne & Alexander Houghton Kristina Vesk oam Judith Mulveney Luke Arnull Heather & Malcom Hughes Lynette Walker Janet & Michael Neustein Garry & Tricia Ash Philip Jameson June Walpole Yvonne Newhouse & Lauren Atmore Dr Mary Johnsson Edward West Henry Brender John Bagnall Michael Jones Robert Wheen Darrol Norman & Sandra Horton Paul Balkus Scott and Ellie Kable Dr Peter White J E Norman & G V Norman The Hon. Chief Justice Bathurst & Karanikas Family Holdings Pty Ltd In memory of JB Whittle Professor Mike O’Connor am Mrs Bathurst In memory of Pauline Keating P & B Williamson Judith Olsen Jan Bell Kim & Megan Kemmis In memory of Trevor Williamson Mr & Mrs Ortis Chris Bennett M Keogh Don & Heather Wilson In memory of Sandra Paul Susan Berger Dr Henry Kilham In memory of Olwen Woolcott Christina Pender Baiba Berzins Jennifer King Marianna Wong Stephen Perkins The Hon. Michael Black ac qc & Susan Kitchin & John Woolford Sue Woodhead Almut Piatti Mrs Margaret Black Margaret Kyburz Roberta Woolcott Dr John I Pitt Peter & Louise Black Sonia Lal Dawn & Graham Worner Greeba Pritchard Jane Blackmore Tania Lamble Juliana Wusun Dr Raffi Qasabian & Richard Bloor Eugen Lamotte & Duncan George Paul Wyckaert Dr John Wynter Kees Boersma & Kirsty McCahon Patrick Lane L D & H Y Patrick Quinn-Graham Stephen Booth The Laing Family Joyce Yong Ernest & Judith Rapee Libby Braybrooks Elaine M Langshaw Helga & Michele Zwi

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Chair Patrons David Robertson Umberto Clerici Jane Hazelwood Timothy Nankervis The Lowy Chair of Principal Cello Viola Cello Chief Conductor and Garry & Shiva Rich Chair Bob & Julie Clampett Chair Dr Rebecca Chin & Family Chair Artistic Director in memory of Carolyn Clampett Anne-Louise Comerford Elizabeth Neville Emma Dunch Associate Principal Viola Claire Herrick Cello Chief Executive Officer White Family Chair Violin Ruth & Bob Magid OAM Chair I Kallinikos Chair Kristy Conrau Mary & Russell McMurray Chair Alexandre Oguey Andrew Haveron Cello Catherine Hewgill Principal Cor Anglais Concertmaster James Graham AM & Principal Cello Mackenzie’s Friend Chair Vicki Olsson Chair Helen Graham Chair The Hon. Justice AJ & Mark Robinson Joshua Batty Timothy Constable Mrs Fran Meagher Chair Acting Principal Timpani Principal Percussion Kirsty Hilton Sylvia Rosenblum Chair Karen Moses Chair The late Hon. Jane Mathews AO Principal Second Violin in memory of Rodney Chair Victoria Bihun Drs Keith & Eileen Ong Chair Rosenblum Violin Lerida Delbridge Scott Kinmont Emma Sholl Sylvia & the late Sol Levi Chair Assistant Concertmaster Associate Principal Trombone Associate Principal Flute Simon Johnson Chair Kees Boersma Audrey Blunden Chair Robert & Janet Constable Chair Principal Double Bass Diana Doherty Leah Lynn Justin Williams Council Chair Principal Assistant Principal Cello Assistant Principal Viola John C Conde AO Chair Tobias Breider Sydney Symphony Orchestra Robert & L Alison Carr Chair Principal Viola Paul Goodchild Vanguard Chair (lead support Roslyn Packer ac & Associate Principal from Taine Moufarrige and Gretel Packer Chair Friends of The Hon. Jane Seamus R Quick) Mathews AO Chair Nick Byrne Nicole Masters Trombone Carolyn Harris Violin Robertson Family Chair Flute Nora Goodridge oam Chair Dr Barry Landa Chair

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHAIR PATRONS PROGRAM CALL (02) 8215 4674

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Sydney Symphony Fellowship The Fellowship program receives generous support from Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri and the Estate of the late Helen MacDonnell Morgan. Fellowship Artistic Director, Roger Benedict is supported

by Warren & Marianne Lesnie. ANTHONY GEERNAERT PHOTO: fellowship patrons Robert Albert AO & Elizabeth Albert Violin Fellow Black, Morgan-Hunn & Stening Oboe Fellow Christine Bishop Percussion Fellow Sandra & Neil Burns Clarinet Fellow Carolyn Githens Double Bass Fellow Dr Gary Holmes & Dr Anne Reeckmann Horn Fellow In memory of Matthew Krel Violin Fellow Warren & Marianne Lesnie Trumpet Fellow The Ross Trust Double Bass Fellow In memory of Joyce Sproat Viola Fellow In memory of Mrs W Stening Cello Fellow June & Alan Woods Family Bequest Fellow

Sydney Symphony Orchestra 2019 Fellows

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Commissions 2019

Each year – both alone and in collaboration with other orchestras worldwide – the Sydney Symphony Orchestra commissions new works for the mainstage concert season. These commissions represent Australian and international composers, established and new voices, and reflect our commitment to the nurturing of orchestral music.

STEVE REICH Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Premiered February 2019 Commissioned with the support of Dr Stephen Freiberg & Donald Campbell

CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Help spark a lifetime Premiering 28, 29, 30 November 2019 love of music and support Commissioned with the support of Geoff Stearn the Orchestra’s future.

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Sydney Symphony Bequest Society Sydney Symphony Orchestra Vanguard We recognise the generosity and vision of donors who help to Sydney Symphony Vanguard is an adventurous way to secure a bright future for the Sydney Symphony by making demonstrate your commitment to supporting a secure future a bequest. The Sydney Symphony Bequest Society honours for orchestral music and live performance. A membership the legacy of , the Sydney Symphony program for the musically curious, Vanguard is your ticket to Orchestra’s renowned Chief Conductor from 1987 until his join the Sydney Symphony community. untimely death in 1991. In addition to those listed below, VANGUARD COLLECTIVE Ben Sweeten we also acknowledge those who wish to remain anonymous. Justin Di Lollo Chair Ian Taylor Warwick K Anderson Dr John Lam-Po-Tang Taine Moufarrige Lena Teo Henri W Aram OAM & Robin Aram Dr Barry Landa Founding Patron Robyn Thomas Timothy Ball Peter Lazar AM Chris Robertson & Katherine Shaw Russell Van Howe & Simon Beets Dr Rosemary Barnard Daniel Lemesle Founding Patrons Dr Danika Wright Stephen J Bell Ardelle Lohan Paul Colgan Jane Wurth Christine Bishop Dr Linda Lorenza Oscar McMahon Judith Bloxham Mary McCarter David & Halina Brett Louise Miller Shefali Pryor R Burns James & Elsie Moore VANGUARD MEMBERS David Churches & Helen Rose Barbara Murphy Howard Connors Duncan & Wendy Abernethy Greta Davis Douglas Paisley Laird Abernethy Glenys Fitzpatrick Jane Purkiss Gabrielle Aimes Dr Stephen Freiberg Kate Roberts Attila Balogh Dr Richard Spurway Vic & Katie French Andrew Baxter Jennifer Fulton Rosemary Swift Dr Victoria Beyer Brian Galway Mary Vallentine AO Geoffrey Greenwell Ray Wilson OAM Daniel Booth Pauline M Griffin AM Dawn & Graham Worner Dr Andrew Botros Christie Brewster Nikki Brown Chloe Burnett Sandra Butler Alicia Cabrera Jacqueline Chalmers Dharma Chandran Dr Rebecca Chin Tanya Costello Alex Cowie Anthony Cowie Peter Creeden Paul Deschamps Paul & Rachelle Edwards Stuart Challender, Sydney Symphony Orchestra Roslyn Farrar Chief Conductor and Artistic Director 1987–1991 Matthew Garrett & Courtney Thomason We gratefully acknowledge those who have left a Rob Gaunt bequest to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sam Giddings The Estate of the late Ross Adamson Kathryn Higgs The Estate of the late Douglas Vincent Agnew Katie Hryce The Estate of the late Dr Alison Margaret Burrell Virginia Judge The Estate of the late Carolyn Clampett Aernout Kerbert The Estate of the late Jonathan Earl William Clark Robert Larosa The Estate of the late Martha Danos Kate Lavender The Estate of the late Roma Valeria Joy Ellis Carl McLaughlin The Estate of the late Paul Louis de Leuil Sabrina Meier The Estate of the late Colin T Enderby The Estate of the late Mrs E Herrman Adrian Miller The Estate of the late Irwin Imhof Jemma Morris The Estate of the late Isabelle Joseph Alex Nicholas The Estate of the late Dr Lynn Joseph Timothy Nicholls & James Camilleri The Estate of the late Matthew Krel Joel Pinkham The Estate of the late Helen MacDonnell Morgan Seamus Robert Quick The Estate of the late Greta C Ryan Katie Robertson The Estate of the late Foster Smart Alvaro Rodas Fernandez The Estate of the late Joyce Sproat Wouter Roesems June & Alan Woods Family Bequest We are proud to acknowledge Rachel Scanlon those donors who have IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON MAKING A Cassandra Scott given in support of our work BEQUEST TO THE SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, PLEASE Mischa Simmonds over the last twelve months. CONTACT OUR PHILANTHROPY TEAM ON 8215 4674. Tim Steele (1 August, 2019)

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