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MAY 2018 LUDOVIC MORLOT, MUSIC DIRECTOR KARINA CANELLAKIS CONDUCTS PROKOFIEV R O M E O & J U L I E T DAUSGAARD CONDUCTS SIBELIUS KULLERVO COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE ALEXANDRA GARDNER PRESENTING SPONSOR OF THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONTENTS MASTERWORKS SEASON SPONSOR OF THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/19/16 3:56 PM CONTENTS MAY 2018 4 / CALENDAR 6 / THE SYMPHONY 10 / NEWS FEATURES 12 / ALEXANDRA GARDNER 25 / YOUTH, EQUITY & ACCESS CONCERTS 16 / May 4 & 5 VIVALDI & HANDEL ARIAS & CONCERTOS 20 / May 6 MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 5 24 / May 10 A SPECIAL CONCERT SUPPORTING YOUTH, EQUITY & ACCESS TO THE ARTS 30 / May 17 & 20 PROKOFIEV ROMEO & JULIET 34 / May 31, June 2 & 3 SIBELIUS KULLERVO 44 / June 1 BRAHMS & SCHUMANN 16 / JULIA LEZHNEVA Photo: Emil Matveev Emil Photo: 54 / GUIDE TO THE SEATTLE SYMPHONY 55 / THE LIS(Z)T 24 / CIARA 24 / MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Photo: Amanda Smith Photo: ON THE COVER: Karina Canellakis by Todd Rosenberg COVER DESIGN: Jessica Forsythe EDITOR: Heidi Staub © 2018 Seattle Symphony All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means without written permission from the Seattle Symphony. All programs and artists are subject to change. encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 ON THE DIAL: Tune in to May & Classical KING FM 98.1 every June Wednesday at 8pm for a Seattle Symphony spotlight and CALENDAR the first Friday of every month at 9pm for concert broadcasts. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY ■ MAY 7:30pm 10am Friends Onstage 7:30pm Seattle Arts & 11am Family Concerts: Live @ Benaroya Hall: Rehearsal* Lectures: An Evening Romeo & Juliet Angélique Kidjo’s 6pm Volunteer Wine & with Jenny Han & 7:30pm Seattle REMAIN IN LIGHT Wisdom* Nicola Yoon Classic Guitar Society: 7:30pm Live @ 8pm Vivaldi & Handel Jérémy Jouve Benaroya Hall: Alan Arias & Concertos 8pm Vivaldi & Handel Cumming: Legal Arias & Concertos 1 2 Immigrant 3 4 5 2pm 7:30pm 8pm Alaska Airlines 7:30pm 7pm Mozart Violin Seattle Arts & presents A Special Ensign Symphony & Ten Grands Concerto No. 5 Lectures: Viet Thanh GIVE Concert Supporting Chorus: Glorious Nguyen Youth, Equity & BIG Access to the Arts 6 7 8 10 11 12 11am 7:30pm 7:30pm National 12pm 7:30pm 2pm Prism Project Lullaby Project National Geographic Geographic Live — A Musical Legacy Ze Ze Xue Concert at the Seattle Celebration Concert Live — A Rare Look: Rare Look: North Society Luncheon* Art Museum 2pm North Korea to Cuba Korea to Cuba National Geographic 7:30pm 3pm Live — A Rare Look: 7:30pm Seattle Arts & Prokofiev Romeo & SYSO: 5 Orchestras North Korea to Cuba Lectures: Ariel Levy Juliet & Firebird 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2pm 7:30pm 6:30pm Prokofiev Romeo & Seattle Arts & CWU Music at Juliet Lectures: The Moth Benaroya Hall Mainstage 5pm Music of Remembrance: Gaman: to persevere 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 7:30pm ■ JUNE 2pm Sibelius Kullervo Seattle Philharmonic 8pm Orchestra Brahms & Schumann 8pm Sibelius Kullervo 27 NATIONAL28 GEOGRAPHIC LIVE29 30 31 1 2 2pm 10:30am Tiny Tots: 9:30, 10:30 & 11:30am Sibelius Kullervo The Three Little Pigs Tiny Tots: The Three Little Pigs 7:30pm Northwest Sinfonietta 8pm 8pm The Sounds of The Sounds of Simon Simon & Garfunkel & Garfunkel 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2pm 7:30pm 10pm 10am & 12pm Sensory The Sounds of Simon Bernstein Wonderful [untitled] 3 Friendly Concert & Garfunkel Town 2pm Northwest 7pm Girlchoir Post-concert Puget Sound Music 7:30pm SRJO Founders Circle Party* Academy 8pm Bernstein Wonderful Town 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 10am & 12pm 1pm 7:30pm 5pm 8pm Sensory Friendly Benaroya Hall Tour Copland Symphony Volunteer Copland Symphony Concert: Journey of No. 3 Appreciation Event* No. 3 Invention & Discovery 7:30pm Wayne Marshall in 7pm Recital Copland Untuxed 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 7:30pm 9am 7:30pm 8pm Andrea Bocelli with Friends Open Saint-Saëns Symphony Saint-Saëns Symphony the Seattle Symphony Rehearsal & No. 3 Organ No. 3 Organ at Key Arena Discussion* 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 LEGEND: Seattle Symphony Events Benaroya Hall Events *Donor Events: Call 206.215.4832 for more information National Geographic Live — A Rare Look: North Korea to Cuba (May 13–15) by David Guttenfelder 4 SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG SSO098-Calendar.indd 1 4/19/18 3:27 PM ■ ON THE BEAT See Who’s Here to Hear ORCHESTRATING BETTER HEARING FOR EVERYONE. At Virginia Mason’s Listen for Life Center, our goal is to help children and adults attain the best level of hearing possible. The Center includes audiologists, surgeons and other hearing loss specialists. We also have the Northwest’s largest cochlear implant program. With three clinic locations, we serve patients Photo: James Holt James Photo: throughout Puget Sound. From research to treatment, better hearing is music to our ears! This is our first time here, actually! We wanted to be extremely fancy, LISTEN FOR LIFE CLINICS and what’s fancier than going to the Symphony? There’s no special occasion SEATTLE: 206-223-8802 — just going out for a Saturday night. FEDERAL WAY: 253-874-1750 I’ve had symphony music in my life ISSAQUAH: 425-557-8040 forever, but I’ve never actually been here. I used to kind of play the cello. But Lucas goes to a lot of live music, almost a show a week. I love to go to theater productions, and I act and direct. – Linnea, pictured with Lucas CONNECT WITH US: Share your photos using #ListenBoldly and Virginia Mason is the only hospital in the Pacific Northwest to be follow @seattlesymphony on Facebook, Ins- named one of Healthgrades® 2018 America’s 50 Best Hospitals.™ tagram, Twitter and Snapchat. Download the Listen Boldly app to easily purchase tickets, skip the Ticket Office lines and receive exclu- sive offers. Be Remarkable. VirginiaMason.org/Listen seattlesymphony.org ©2018 Virginia Mason TICKETS: 206.215.4747 GIVE: 206.215.4832 encoremediagroup.com/programs 5 LUDOVIC MORLOT SEATTLE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR French conductor Ludovic The orchestra has many successful recordings, available Morlot has been Music Director on their own label, Seattle Symphony Media. A box set of of the Seattle Symphony music by Dutilleux was recently released to mark the 100th since 2011. Amongst the anniversary of the composer’s birth. many highlights of his tenure, the orchestra has won three Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for Grammy Awards and gave an three years (2012–14). During this time he conducted several exhilarating performance at new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenu°fa Carnegie Hall in 2014. and Pelléas et Mélisande. Concert performances, both in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by During the 2017–2018 season Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau. Morlot and the Seattle Symphony will continue on their incredible musical Trained as a violinist, Morlot studied conducting at the journey, focusing particularly Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Lisa-Marie Photo: on the music of Berlioz, Stravinsky and Bernstein. In Conducting Fellowship. Morlot was elected a Fellow of addition, they will be presenting some exciting new works by John the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his Luther Adams, David Lang and Composer in Residence Alexandra significant contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral Gardner. The orchestra will also be performing on tour in California, Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School including a two-day residency at the University of California, Berkeley. of Music. SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROSTER LUDOVIC MORLOT Thomas Dausgaard, Principal Guest Conductor Pablo Rus Broseta, Douglas F. King Associate Conductor Harriet Overton Stimson Music Director Joseph Crnko, Associate Conductor for Choral Activities Gerard Schwarz, Rebecca & Jack Benaroya Conductor Laureate FIRST VIOLIN Mara Gearman PICCOLO HORN HARP Open Position Timothy Hale Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Jeffrey Fair Valerie Muzzolini Gordon David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster Penelope Crane Robert & Clodagh Ash Piccolo Charles Simonyi Principal Horn Principal Open Position Wes Dyring Mark Robbins Clowes Family Associate Concertmaster Sayaka Kokubo OBOE Associate Principal KEYBOARD Cordula Merks Rachel Swerdlow Mary Lynch Jonathan Karschney Joseph Adam, organ + Assistant Concertmaster Julie Whitton Principal Assistant Principal Simon James Supported by anonymous donors Jenna Breen PERSONNEL MANAGER Second Assistant Concertmaster CELLO Ben Hausmann John Turman Scott Wilson Jennifer Bai Efe Baltacıgil Associate Principal Danielle Kuhlmann Mariel Bailey Marks Family Foundation Principal Cello Chengwen Winnie Lai ASSISTANT PERSONNEL Cecilia Poellein Buss Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Stefan Farkas TRUMPET MANAGER Ayako Gamo Assistant Principal David Gordon Keith Higgins Timothy Garland Nathan Chan ENGLISH HORN The Boeing Company Principal Trumpet Leonid Keylin Eric Han Stefan Farkas Alexander White LIBRARY Mae Lin Bruce Bailey Assistant Principal Robert Olivia Mikhail Shmidt Roberta Hansen Downey CLARINET Christopher Stingle Associate Librarian Clark Story Walter Gray Benjamin Lulich Michael Myers Jeanne Case John Weller Vivian Gu Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Smith Principal Librarian Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Joy Payton-Stevens Clarinet TROMBONE Rachel Swerdlow Emil Khudyev Arthur Zadinsky David Sabee Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Assistant Librarian Associate Principal Principal SECOND VIOLIN BASS Laura DeLuca TECHNICAL DIRECTOR David Lawrence Ritt Elisa Barston Joseph E. Cook Jordan Anderson Dr. Robert Wallace Clarinet Stephen Fissel Principal Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Heath Eric Jacobs ARTIST IN ASSOCIATION Michael Miropolsky Principal String Bass BASS TROMBONE Dale Chihuly John & Carmen Delo Joseph Kaufman E-FLAT CLARINET Assistant Principal Second Violin Stephen Fissel Assistant Principal 2017–2018 SEASON Laura DeLuca Kathleen Boyer Ted Botsford ** COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE Gennady Filimonov TUBA Alexandra Gardner Jonathan Burnstein BASS CLARINET Evan Anderson John DiCesare Brendan Fitzgerald * HONORARY MEMBER Natasha Bazhanov Eric Jacobs Principal Jennifer Godfrey Cyril M.