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About the Hartford Symphony Orchestra | 7 Carolyn Kuan, Music Director | 8 Adam Boyles, Assistant Conductor | 9 The Orchestra | 10 Administrative Staff | 11 Board of Directors | 12 Volunteers | 13 Letter from The Chairman & Executive Director | 15 Dancing in the Street | 17 Celebrate America! | 24 Come Fly with Me | 27 Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty | 29 The Music of Elton John | 31 HSO Contributors | 36 Patron Information | 55 HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 166 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860-246-8742 Fax: 860-247-1720 Ticket Services: 860-987-5900 Ticket Services Fax: 860-249-5430 www.hartfordsymphony.org Dornenburg Kallenbach Advertising, Cover Art The programs of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are funded in part by the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s United Arts Campaign, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. HARTFORDAbout theSYMPHONY Symphony ORCHESTRA he mission of the Hartford The Hartford Symphony Symphony Orchestra is Orchestra was founded in 1934 to enrich lives and and formally established as the Tcommunity through great music. Symphony Society of Greater Marking its 75th Anniversary Hartford in 1936. Angelo Season in 2018-2019, the Coniglione, Jacques Gordon, HSO is Connecticut’s premier Leon Barzin, Moshe Paranov, musical organization, the and George Heck were the second largest orchestra in New Orchestra’s first music directors. England, and widely recognized With the appointment of Fritz as one of America’s leading Mahler in 1953, the HSO began regional orchestras. its Young People’s Concerts and HSO captivates and inspires made several highly acclaimed audiences of all ages by presenting recordings for Vanguard. In 1964, more than 100 concerts annually, Arthur Winograd became music including the Masterworks Series, director and the Orchestra grew POPS! Series, HSO: Intermix, in artistic stature, performing Sunday Serenades, Discovery at Carnegie Hall and other Concerts, Symphony in Schools, New York locations to highly Musical Dialogues, the Talcott favorable reviews. Under the Mountain Music Festival at the artistic leadership of Michael Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center, Lankester from 1985–2000, the HSO received and more. The HSO aims to deliver uniquely national recognition for its programming powerful and emotional experiences that lift innovations, including the popular Classical and transform the spirit, and to give back and Conversations and Family Matinees, as help create vibrant communities in the Greater well as a series of landmark theatrical Hartford area. productions. From 2001–2011, Edward The Hartford Symphony Orchestra named Cumming led the HSO to new levels of artistic Carolyn Kuan as its tenth music director excellence and innovative programming. in January 2011; she is the first woman and Each season, the HSO plays to audiences youngest person to hold this title. Since numbering approximately 75,000 statewide. The beginning her tenure in 2011, she has led the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s extensive array HSO to new artistic heights with community- of Education and Community Activities serves minded concerts and innovative programming. more than 15,000 individuals in Hartford and In 2015, Kuan signed a new, six-year contract, surrounding communities annually. extending her commitment to the orchestra until May, 2022. 7 Music Director HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ecognized as a conductor death, and rebirth as symbolized of extraordinary versatility, by the ancient Greek icon of Carolyn Kuan has a serpent eating its own tail. Renjoyed successful associations Working with composer Scott with top tier orchestras, opera Wheeler, she directed Naga, one companies, ballet companies, of the three operas commissioned and festivals worldwide. Her for the trilogy. For her debut commitment to contemporary with the Santa Fe Opera, she music has defined her approach conducted the premiere of Huang to programming and established Ro’s Dr. Sun Yet-Sen with director her as an international resource James Robinson, and a mixed for new music and world premieres. cast of east and west singers and Appointed Music Director of the instrumentalists, which garnered Hartford Symphony Orchestra great critical acclaim. Her debut in 2011, she has signed a six-year with the Washington National contract extending their creative Opera at the Kennedy Center collaboration through May 2022. was a production of Daniel Catan’s Florencia en el Highlights of Ms. Kuan’s 2018/2019 season Amazonas, directed by Francesca Zambello. include debuts with the Singapore Symphony; Santa During Ms. Kuan’s long tenure with the Cabrillo Barbara Symphony, featuring John Corigliano’s Festival of Contemporary Music, some of her Red Violin; and the Portland Opera, conducting finest successes bridged the gap between cultural a production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola; as well and social issues, as in her work raising awareness as engagements with two of the top conservatory of conservation and the environment through her orchestras in the U.S., the Cleveland Institute performances around the globe of the multimedia of Music Orchestra, and Yale Philharmonia. She project Life: A Journey Through Time. Developed by will end her season with a world premiere of Iain the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and Bell’s Stonewall with the New York City Opera at music director Marin Alsop, the project featured Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. Upcoming music by Philip Glass and images by famed National engagements in her 2019/2020 season include the Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’s Sweet Carolyn Kuan’s previous positions include Potato Kicks the Sun with the Santa Fe Opera; her Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony debut with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra; Artist-in-Residence at the New York and a return engagement with the Baltimore City Ballet; and Assistant Conductor for the Symphony Orchestra. Baltimore Opera Company. In her 2012 debut Ms. Kuan’s North American engagements have album for the Naxos label, Ms. Kuan conducted included performances with the symphonies of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in various Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, Omaha, San works by Chinese composers. Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto; the Florida and Recipient of numerous awards, Ms. Kuan holds the Louisville orchestras; the New York City Ballet; distinction of being the first woman to be awarded the Colorado Music Festival and Glimmerglass the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship by Festival; the New York City Opera, Santa Fe the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Opera, and Washington National Opera. Recent Austrian Foundation in 2003, resulting in her international engagements have included concerts residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival. Winner of with the Bournemouth Symphony, Hong Kong the first Taki Concordia Fellowship, she has received Philharmonic, National Symphony of Taiwan, additional awards from the Women’s Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Residentie Orkest, Conductors Guild, and Susan W. Rose Fund for Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan, Royal Danish Music. Ms. Kuan graduated cum laude from Smith Ballet, and the West Australian Symphony. College, received a Master of Music degree from the Other career highlights include a project University of Illinois, and a Performance Diploma sponsored by Beth Morrison Projects called from the Peabody Conservatory. Ouroboros Trilogy, a three-part exploration of life, www.carolynkuan.com HARTFORDAssistant SYMPHONY Conductor ORCHESTRA dynamic and versatile He has worked with many conductor, ADAM BOYLES notable conductors such as is a notable figure in Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Roger Athe musical life of the Boston Norrington, Kurt Masur, and area. Boyles is currently Gunther Schuller. Director of Orchestras at the An accomplished vocalist, Massachusetts Institute of Boyles performed in numerous Technology, and Assistant operas with the Indiana Conductor of the Hartford University Opera Theater, Symphony Orchestra. Previous and in Arizona Opera’s Music Director positions first complete presentation include six seasons with of Wagner’s Der Ring des the Brookline Symphony Nibelungen. He has sung with Orchestra, three seasons many professional choral with the Southern Arizona ensembles across the country Symphony Orchestra, five such as Conspirare, True seasons with Opera in the Concord, Apollo’s Voice, Mon Ozarks, and five seasons Choeur, Cantique, and the with MetroWest Opera. Boyles served on the Tucson Chamber Artists. In 2010, Boyles was faculty at The University of Texas at Austin and featured as a guest soloist with the Tanglewood The University of Arizona. Festival Chorus. Recent engagements include performances Boyles received his Doctor of Music in with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, On Site Orchestral Conducting degree from The Opera, Grand Harmonie, Muncie Symphony University of Texas at Austin, his Master of Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Austin Music in Orchestral Conducting degree from Chamber Ensemble, Audio Inversions, Michigan The University of Arizona, and his Bachelor State University, Rhode Island College, and of Music in Vocal Performance degree from three operas with Boston Opera Collaborative. Indiana University. Boyles also served as a cover conductor with Adam is currently on the roster of Couret & the