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Metamorphoses Curated by Claire Chase Soundbox

Metamorphoses Curated by Claire Chase Soundbox

METAMORPHOSES CURATED BY CLAIRE CHASE SOUNDBOX

1 “Each of the pieces on this program explores, in different ways, the idea of metamorphosis, transformation, transfiguration—the ways that we take on new forms and ultimately transcend what we were before.” —Claire Chase

2 Esa-Pekka Salonen SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR

San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has, through his many high-profile conducting roles and work as a leading composer, shaped a unique vision for the present and future of the contemporary symphony orchestra. Salonen recently concluded his tenure as Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor for London’s and he is Artist in Association at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. He is a member of the faculty of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he developed and directs the pre-professional Negaunee Conducting Program. Salonen is the Conductor Laureate for both the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the , where he was Music Director from 1992 until 2009. Salonen co-founded— and from 2003 until 2018 served as the Artistic Director for—the annual Baltic Sea Festival.

3 The Orchestra

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director SECOND VIOLINS , Music Director Laureate Dan Carlson, Principal Vacant, Principal Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor Laureate Dinner & Swig Families Chair Philip S. Boone Chair Daniel Stewart, Youth Helen Kim, Associate Principal Peter Wyrick, Associate Principal Orchestra Wattis Foundation Music Director Audrey Avis Aasen-Hull Chair Peter & Jacqueline Hoefer Chair Ragnar Bohlin, Chorus Director Jessie Fellows, Assistant Principal Amos Yang, Assistant Principal Vance George, Chorus Director Emeritus Vacant Vacant The Eucalyptus Foundation Second Century Chair Lyman & Carol Casey Second Century Chair FIRST VIOLINS Raushan Akhmedyarova Barbara Andres Alexander Barantschik, Concertmaster David Chernyavsky The Stanley S. Langendorf Foundation Naoum Blinder Chair John Chisholm Second Century Chair Nadya Tichman, Associate Concertmaster Cathryn Down Barbara Bogatin San Francisco Symphony Foundation Chair Darlene Gray Phylis Blair Chair Wyatt Underhill, Assistant Concertmaster Stan & Lenora Davis Chair Jill Rachuy Brindel 75th Anniversary Chair Amy Hiraga Gary & Kathleen Heidenreich Second Century Chair Jeremy Constant, Assistant Concertmaster Kum Mo Kim Sébastien Gingras Mariko Smiley Kelly Leon-Pearce Penelope Clark Second Century Chair Paula & John Gambs Second Century Chair Eliot Lev David Goldblatt Melissa Kleinbart Chair Christine & Pierre Lamond Second Century Chair Katharine Hanrahan Chair Chunming Mo Carolyn McIntosh Yun Chu Polina Sedukh Elizabeth C. Peters Cello Chair Naomi Kazama Hull Chen Zhao Anne Pinsker In Sun Jang Yukiko Kurakata VIOLAS BASSES Catherine A. Mueller Chair Jonathan Vinocour, Principal Scott Pingel, Principal Suzanne Leon Yun Jie Liu, Associate Principal Daniel G. Smith, Associate Principal Leor Maltinski Katie Kadarauch, Assistant Principal Stephen Tramontozzi, Assistant Principal Sarn Oliver Vacant Richard & Rhoda Goldman Chair Florin Parvulescu Joanne E. Harrington & Lorry I. Lokey S. Mark Wright Victor Romasevich Second Century Chair Lawrence Metcalf Second Century Chair Catherine Van Hoesen Gina Cooper Charles Chandler David Gaudry Chris Gilbert David Kim Brian Marcus Christina King Wayne Roden Nanci Severance Adam Smyla Matthew Young

4 TRUMPETS SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS Tim Day, Principal Mark Inouye, Principal Members of the American Guild of Musical Artists Caroline H. Hume Chair William G. Irwin Charity Foundation Chair Robin McKee, Associate Principal Aaron Schuman, Associate Principal SOPRANOS Catherine & Russell Clark Chair Peter Pastreich Chair Cheryl Cain, Michele Kennedy, Ellen Leslie, Linda Lukas Guy Piddington Jennifer Mitchell, Natalia Salemmo, Daphne Touchais, Alfred S. & Dede Wilsey Chair Ann L. & Charles B. Johnson Chair Cindy Wyvill, Angelique Zuluaga Catherine Payne, Jeff Biancalana ALTOS The Rainbow Piccolo Chair Terry Alvord, Karen Carle, Silvie Jensen, TROMBONES Margaret (Peg) Lisi, Brielle Marina Neilson, OBOES Timothy Higgins, Principal Leandra Ramm, Dr. Meghan Spyker, Merilyn Telle Vaughn Eugene Izotov, Principal Robert L. Samter Chair Chair Nick Platoff, Associate Principal TENORS James Button, Associate Principal Paul Welcomer Seth Brenzel, Michael Desnoyers, Elliott JG Encarnación, Pamela Smith Vacant, Bass Trombone Samuel Faustine, Kevin Gibbs, Michael Jankosky, Dr. William D. Clinite Chair Jimmy Kansau, David J. Xiques Russ deLuna, English Horn TUBA BASS Joseph & Pauline Scafidi Chair Jeffrey Anderson, Principal Adam Cole, Mitchell Jones, Clayton Moser, James Irvine Chair Matthew Peterson, Chung-Wai Soong, Michael Taylor, CLARINETS David Varnum, Nick Volkert Carey Bell, Principal HARP William R. & Gretchen B. Kimball Chair Douglas Rioth, Principal Vacant, Associate Principal & E-flat Clarinet Vacant TIMPANI Jerome Simas, Bass Clarinet Edward Stephan, Principal Marcia & John Goldman Chair BASSOONS Bryce Leafman, Assistant Principal Stephen Paulson, Principal † Acting member of the San Francisco Symphony Steven Dibner, Associate Principal PERCUSSION Vacant Jacob Nissly, Principal Steven Braunstein, Contrabassoon James Lee Wyatt III The San Francisco Symphony string section utilizes revolving seating Bryce Leafman on a systematic basis. Players listed in alphabetical order change seats periodically. HORNS Stan Muncy† Robert Ward, Principal Second Century Chairs are supported in part by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation, ensuring the ongoing artistic excellence Mark Almond, Associate Principal LIBRARIANS of the San Francisco Symphony’s string sections. Bruce Roberts, Assistant Principal Margo Kieser, Principal Alexander Barantschik plays the 1742 Guarnerius del Gesù violin, on Jonathan Ring Nancy & Charles Geschke Chair loan from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Jessica Valeri John Campbell, Assistant Daniel Hawkins Matt Gray, Assistant Daniel Stewart’s appointment as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra is generously supported by the Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Endowment Fund.

5 Soundbox: metamorphoses

Claire Chase curator

KAIJA SAARIAHO Terrestre Vimbayi Kaziboni conductor Claire Chase Melissa Kleinbart violin Amos Yang cello Douglas Rioth harp Bryce Leafman percussion

PAUCHI SASAKI Sanagi Jacob Nissly percussion Suzanne Leon violin Jonathan Vinocour viola Barbara Bogatin cello Charles Chandler double bass

MARCOS BALTER Excerpts from Pan Death of Pan · Processional · Pan’s Flute · Echo Claire Chase flute Members of the San Francisco Symphony Members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus Valérie Sainte-Agathe artistic director

Steven Condiotti director Taylor Joshua Rankin editor Luke Kritzeck director of lighting Adam Larsen projection designer Yee Eun Nam co-designer

SoundBox: Metamorphoses is sponsored by Trine Sorensen and Michael Jacobson.

6 Thank You to Our Concert Sponsors

SOUNDBOX: METAMORPHOSES IS SPONSORED BY Trine Sorensen and Michael Jacobson

7 8 CLAIRE CHASE ON METAMORPHOSES By Steve Holt

What’s behind Metamorphoses, the theme of this SoundBox program? Coming out of this long and very challenging pandemic period, I hope that all the pieces on this program will invite us to explore the idea of transformation and of becoming anew. Sasaki Pauchi Let’s talk about the music. Tell us about Kaija Saariaho. Kaija is an astonishing artist, a composer who is rhythmically intricate, and teeters between ebullience uncompromising in her vision and dedication to craft, and utter frenzy. The second section is by contrast and whose compositional voice is unlike any other atmospheric, melancholy, almost achingly so. It that I know. She has also paved the way for so many depicts the flight of the bird as a kind of “infinite female-identifying composers and performers in satellite” into the ether, and we sense the transformation younger generations. It was a joy to play her music that comes with a bird’s orbiting and searching for with members of the Orchestra, and she’s someone I new skies. hope we will be hearing a lot more of in San Francisco You’re not performing in the next piece, Sanagi. in the coming years! Yes, for this one I get to sit back and listen to the How would you describe Terrestre? San Francisco Symphony players rock it! I chose this It’s stunning, sparkling, soulful, and just a little bit piece because I believe fiercely in this young dangerous. Terrestre is actually a reduction of the last composer, Pauchi Sasaki, and because the work itself movement of Kaija’s for flute and orchestra, is so enchanting and such an interesting counterpoint Aile du songe or Wing of Dream. [The full work will to the other pieces on the program. Pauchi is a be heard next season in performances led by Esa- Japanese-Peruvian artist, and she is blazing new trails Pekka Salonen with Claire Chase as soloist, October as an interdisciplinary artist who defies categorization: 14-17.] This miniature version is scored for a beautiful she is equally adept as a violinist, composer, improviser, and colorful instrumentation: solo flute with violin, sound artist, electronic music pioneer, and instrument- cello, harp, and a widely varied battery of percussion. builder. She is one to watch. It’s extremely important The first section is based on a tale of a bird that to me to represent voices in the upcoming generation sings so wildly and brilliantly that it teaches an entire who are as yet unfamiliar to San Francisco audiences. village how to dance. It’s joyous and wickedly fast, In Japanese, Sanagi evokes “transformation;”

9 specifically, it refers the stage of life inside of the plays with the ancient cocoon. Pauchi describes the piece as a transformation Greek notion of the chorus from living in a gravity-less place to a place of earthly as a kind of community emergence, a movement from abstract to animate and conscience. Our chorus— shapely. the music for which is I have to say, too—it was such a joy to work not just written such that it can be with the musicians but with the unbelievably creative learned by any group of production team on this piece. They came up with a community members, of any beautiful visual design with interactive lights and age or ability—plays a range projections that speak subtly and powerfully to the of instruments including process of metamorphosis that Pauchi’s piece so tuned wine glasses, tuned poetically evokes. wine bottles, triangles, and bamboo and metal chimes. And you close with Marcos Balter’s Pan. The chorus undergoes its I’ve worked with Marcos for nearly twenty years. I own metamorphosis from a Balter Marcos think he’s one of the leading lights in my generation of group initially enraptured with Pan’s instruments and artists, artist-teachers, and arts advocates. He’s a his music to a group that slowly dispels that myth, powerful creative force for change in the field, a recognizes Pan’s misdeeds and ultimately turns deeply progressive thinker and educator, and such a against him in protest. wonderful collaborator and friend. I can’t say enough The full version of the piece is a seventy-minute about him. musical drama for flute, electronics, and a chorus of Pan is a natural subject for flute music, given his sixty or more people. In post-pandemic times, I greatly mythical prowess as a piper. look forward to performing that version of the piece Pan was a mythical powerhouse and a trickster and with members of the San Francisco community! For yes, a very charming and talented piper. But he this SoundBox presentation, we did a roughly twenty- violently misused his power, mistreated his flock, and minute excerpt with just sixteen players, drawn from mercilessly abused and erased women. As the myth the Symphony and the wonderful SF Girls Chorus. goes, Pan crafted his pan-flute out of the body of the In this excerpted version, we present a kind of Pan water nymph Syrinx—essentially, he destroyed his “suite” with four short movements pulled from the beloved and then stole her voice. We don’t need to look larger work. We open with “Death of Pan,” the scene in far to find historical and contemporary enactments of which Pan is publicly executed at the hands of Apollo this type of behavior. So, while it may be a Greek by being flayed alive—you know, the Greeks weren’t myth, it is also very much a story about today. subtle about vengeance! Then we go backwards in Our version of the story plays with the time, to a “Processional” that feels a bit like a timeless transformation of this mythical pan-flute from an dreamscape. Is Pan being mourned or is it Syrinx who instrument made of wood to a piccolo, then to a C is being mourned? And whose voice is it that we hear? flute, a , and later a flute. It also We don’t yet know. So we go further backward in time, to the beginning of the “discovery” of the pan-flute

10 and we experience its metamorphosis into these other types of flutes in a movement called “Pan’s Flute.” Throughout, the chorus plays along in a ritual circle around Pan, but their belief in Pan begins to fray and at the end of this scene they turn away from Pan and the circle is broken. Trouble is on the way. The next excerpt is from a scene called “Echo,” the name of another nymph that Pan tries and fails to conquer. The chorus again overtakes Pan at the end of this scene, and this time Pan puts down his flute in shame. Pan asks questions that were asked thousands of years ago about the relationship between powerful leaders and the people they profess to serve. In our version of the story, the voice of Syrinx is restored at the end and lives on in the consciousness of the experience [recorded in late spring], even with all the chorus. But redemption is not so easy: Pan’s death COVID protocols, didn’t feel at all constraining; it itself is a violent one, born of a cruel battle with an honestly felt like a balm for the soul to be able to be equally oppressive God of musical prowess (Apollo) making sounds and crafting stories together with and both the chorus and audience are left to wonder if other human beings. I’m just so happy that we are and how justice was or can in fact be served. turning the corner. Can you talk about what life was like for you, as a This past year, I put a lot of the energy I would musician, during the pandemic? normally put into traveling and doing concerts into teaching, which has been rewarding and rich. So that’s I have to say first of all that I am just so exceedingly been a transformation for me too—learning alongside grateful to be alive, to be breathing. Like many of us, and from young people, in mutuality and in new forms I’ve lost beloved friends this year, and have wondered of community, even over screens. The beautiful thing how and whether our spirits will fully recover. about music is that no matter how many constraints Creatively, I have just been trying to turn everything you put on it, it can and will reach out across time and that has happened during this harrowing time into move some dormant part of ourselves: joy, deep pain, music, even when it’s only been possible to do that in hilarity, grief, you name it. And in that motion from a the confines of my apartment or by playing with stagnant place to one that starts to crackle and people over Zoom, thousands of miles away. I ended animate, we’re changed. That’s what I live for. up making seven albums this year, several of which were done entirely remotely. So, the creative energy didn’t in any way stop—it just found new forms. All of Steve Holt is a Contributing Writer to the San Francisco Symphony that said, I’m so relieved and grateful to be making program book. music with people in a room again. This SoundBox ©2021 San Francisco Symphony

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12 artists

CLAIRE CHASE is a flutist, where she teaches courses on contemporary music, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural activism, and interdisciplinary collaboration. educator. She co-founded the A San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partner, she International Contemporary is also a Creative Associate at the . She Ensemble in 2001, was named a lives in Brooklyn. MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and Zimbabwean-born conductor in 2017 was awarded the Avery VIMBAYI KAZIBONI currently Fisher Prize from for the Performing Arts. serves as Artistic Advisor of the Fiercely dedicated to the music our time, Chase Boston Lyric Opera and has given the world premieres of hundreds of new Assistant Professor of works by a new generation of artists, and in 2013 began Orchestral Studies at Boston Density 2036, a twenty-four-year commissioning Conservatory at Berklee. initiative to create a new body of repertoire for the In the 2021–22 season Mr. Kaziboni makes debuts flute leading up to the centennial of Edgard Varèse’s at the Berlin Philharmonie, Cologne Philharmonie, seminal 1936 flute soloDensity 21.5. Each year leading Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Bavarian Radio, Vienna up to the centennial, Chase premieres a program of Konzerthaus, Miller Theatre, and at festivals including newly commissioned music, and in 2036 she will play Beethovenfest , Donaueschingen Muziktage, a twenty-four-hour marathon of all the repertory Music Viva (Munich), and Spoleto Festival USA. This generated in the project. In the 2022–23 season, a production marks his San Francisco Symphony debut. weeklong retrospective will take place featuring the He also makes debuts conducting the Boston Lyric first ten programs in the project to date. This season, Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Chicago’s Chase released the first five years ofDensity 2036 Grossman Ensemble, and he premieres works by (2013–17) on a four-album compilation produced in Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, Heiner Goebbels, collaboration with Meyer Sound Laboratories in and Hannah Kendall, among others. Mr. Kaziboni will Berkeley, CA. also collaborate with director Yuval Sharon in a Upcoming projects include a collaboration with the production of La Bohème and with Sir Ecuadorian anthropologist Eduardo Kohn on a multi- as assistant conductor at the BBC Proms in London. species opera by , a new duo concerto A former Fulbright Fellow, Mr. Kaziboni holds with Esperanza Spalding by the Brazilian composer degrees from the University of Southern California in Felipe Lara, and an evening-length new solo work by Los Angeles and the Frankfurt University of Music the Australian composer Liza Lim for contrabass flute, and Performing Arts in Germany. electronics, and kinetic percussion. A deeply committed educator, Claire Chase is Professor of the Practice of Music at ,

13 MELISSA KLEINBART, DOUGLAS RIOTH joined the occupant of the Katharine San Francisco Symphony as Hanrahan Chair, joined the San Principal Harp in 1981. Born in Francisco Symphony in 1998 Missouri, he studied with Alice after serving as associate Chalifoux and Elisa Smith concertmaster with the San Dickon, attended the Francisco Opera orchestra and Interlochen Arts Academy and assistant concertmaster with the Vancouver Cleveland Institute of Music, and studied at the Symphony. In addition to solo appearances with the Berkshire Music Center. Previously principal harp of Philadelphia Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, and the Indianapolis Symphony, Mr. Rioth was also a New York Symphonic Ensemble, Ms. Kleinbart has regular participant in the Salzedo Summer Harp been a participant at the Marlboro and Colony. Harp instructor at the SF Conservatory of music festivals and has performed with the , he also serves on the coaching team for the Music Society of Lincoln Center. A graduate of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Juilliard School, she performs and teaches with the BRYCE LEAFMAN joins the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. San Francisco Symphony as AMOS YANG joined the San Assistant Principal Timpani/ Francisco Symphony in 2007 as section percussion during the Assistant Principal Cello. He 2020–21 season. Previously, he was previously a member of the was principal percussion of the Seattle Symphony. Born and Billings Symphony, and he has raised in San Francisco, he was performed with the Omaha, Berkeley, Marin, and New a member of the San Francisco World symphonies; the Boston Philharmonic; and Symphony Youth Orchestra and San Francisco Boys Symphony New Hampshire. In 2017 he was the first Choir and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from percussionist to win a solo concerto competition at the Juilliard School. From 1996 to 2002 he was the the Aspen Music Festival, where he returned in 2019 cellist in the Maia String Quartet. Mr. Yang serves on as the Charles Owen Memorial Percussion Fellow. the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Mr. Leafman holds degrees from New England Music and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. Conservatory, Boston University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

14 soundbox builders

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15 JACOB NISSLY was appointed JONATHAN VINOCOUR Principal Percussion of the San joined the San Francisco Francisco Symphony in 2013. Symphony as Principal Viola in Previously, he was principal 2009, having previously served percussion of the Cleveland as principal viola of the Saint Orchestra and the Detroit Louis Symphony and guest Symphony. He also served as a principal viola of the member of the New World Symphony. He is on the Gewandhaus Orchestra. A sought-after chamber percussion faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory musician, he is a regular guest of such as festivals the and is currently a coach for the San Francisco Seattle Chamber Music Society, Marlboro, Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has also taught at the Bridgehampton, Salt Bay, and Cleveland Chamberfest. Eastman School of Music and the Cleveland Institute Mr. Vinocour graduated from Princeton University of Music. Mr. Nissly holds a Bachelor of Music and with a degree in chemistry and from the New England Jazz Studies from Northwestern University and a Conservatory where he studied with Kim Kashkashian. Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School. He A dedicated teacher, he serves on the faculty of the began his percussion studies with Woody Smith in San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as the Iowa. Aspen Music Festival and School. He plays on a 1784 SUZANNE LEON joined the Lorenzo Storioni viola on loan from the San Francisco San Francisco Symphony in Symphony. 1990. Following her graduation BARBARA BOGATIN joined from the Curtis Institute of the San Francisco Symphony in Music, she spent five years in 1994. Previously she was France, where she served as principal cello with the concertmaster of the Orchestre Milwaukee and New Jersey International de Paris and taught at the Sorbonne. symphonies and played as a Ms. Leon has toured as a member of the Asia substitute with the Orchestra. She has performed chamber Philharmonic for ten years. She studied cello in the music frequently with her Symphony colleagues, preparatory division of the San Francisco including pre-concert performances and a concert at Conservatory, and received bachelor’s and master’s San Francisco’s Chinese Cultural Center. She has two degrees from the Juilliard School. Along with her children with her husband, former San Francisco neuroscientist husband, she has led workshops on Symphony violinist Dan Nobuhiko Smiley. meditation and music practice at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Esalen Institute, Stanford University, and in Italy and South Africa. She is a proud parent of two University of California graduates.

16 CHARLES CHANDLER is the Gabriel Kahane, Augusta Read Thomas, and Chen Yi. first member of the San In September 2019, SFGC released its most recent Francisco Symphony Youth album, My Outstretched Hand, on Supertrain Records Orchestra to have become a featuring The Knights and Trinity Youth Chorus. The member of the San Francisco Premier Ensemble has been a recipient of five Grammy Symphony. He studied with Awards, four ASCAP/Chorus America Awards for Shinji Eshima of the San Adventurous Programming, and the Margaret Hillis Francisco Opera Orchestra and with David Walter at Award for Choral Excellence from Chorus America. Juilliard. Prior to joining the Symphony in 1992, he For more information, visit sfgirlschorus.org. performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and served as associate principal bass of the Phoenix Symphony. Led by Artistic ENSEMBLE PERFORMING MARCOS BALTER’S PAN Director Valérie MEMBERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Sainte-Agathe, the Steven Braunstein Stephen Tramontozzi 42-year-old SAN Russ deLuna Jessica Valeri FRANCISCO GIRLS David Goldblatt Amos Yang CHORUS’s (SFGC) Scott Pingel Premier Ensemble is recognized as one of the world’s leading youth vocal MEMBERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS ensembles. Over the last year, SFGC has embraced the Valérie Sainte-Agathe Artistic Director challenges of distance learning by presenting eight Ava Gaughan Maggie Lu virtual performances, premiering seven new works as Kelsey Greenberg Molly McLean well as five commissions, and collaborating with Audrey Johnson Sophie Mugin artists and ensembles such as The King’s Singers, Valentina Kornach Isabel Yang Roomful of Teeth, and TENET Vocal Artists, among Calla Kra-Caskey many others. Through its innovative online learning program, SFGC has utilized technology to keep its hundreds of choristers engaged and advancing in their musical activities and performing live together from their own homes. Most recently, SFGC presented three performances of The Line Between, a video production at the Fort Mason FLIX drive-in theater that included world premiere commissions by Cava Menzies and . SFGC has been a champion of the music of our time since its founding, having commissioned more than three dozen works by leading composers, including , Richard Danielpour, Aaron Jay Kernis,

17 Accelerator Fund Founders

The San Francisco Symphony is grateful for the generosity of its Accelerator Fund Founders who have made gifts of $100,000 or more in support of its digital strategy, which includes critical investments in technology, equipment, and programming. To learn more about the digital strategy and the Accelerator Fund’s impact please contact Dan Coleman, Senior Director, Development, 415.503.5445 or [email protected].

Matt & Pia Cohler Dagmar Dolby Sakurako & William Fisher Priscilla & Keith Geeslin The Hearst Foundations Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson Anonymous (2)

18 Emmy Award-winning TAYLOR JOSHUA RANKIN is cinematographer and director an award-winning filmmaker STEVEN CONDIOTTI’s vast and composer of new music, and varied body of work based in the San Francisco Bay includes commercial, narrative, Area. His music has been documentary, and visual effects performed by ensembles across credits. In the past year, his the such as Third focus has been on filming online digital content for Coast Percussion, San Francisco Contemporary Music performing arts organizations, including the San Players, Friction Quartet, NYU Marimba Ensemble, Francisco Symphony’s CURRENTS and SoundBox and at institutions including Eastman School of Music series, Throughline: From Hall to Home, and the Deck and the University of Michigan. He is a member of the the Hall Virtual Celebration; the Sun Valley Music Oakland-based film production company Bone & Gold Festival summer broadcast season; and a production where he serves as in-house composer and creative with San Francisco Ballet. collaborator. As a filmmaker, he has collaborated with His visual effects cinematography credits include many Bay Area artists and ensembles and was the media projection material for the San Francisco video editor for ’s Throughline with the Opera’s staged production of Heart of a Soldier. He San Francisco Symphony. Mr. Rankin has a master’s has traveled worldwide filming content for Google, degree in music composition from the San Francisco Salesforce, and Splunk, as well as commercials for the Conservatory of Music where he studied with composer Golden State Warriors, San Francisco Giants, and San Mason Bates. Francisco Forty-Niners. Prior to becoming a cinematographer, Mr. Condiotti worked as chief lighting technician on major Photos: Dathan Brannon, Anastasia Chernyavsky, Stefan Cohen, Karen Chester, feature films and television series on such films as Minna Hatinen, Kimberly Leamon, Terrence McCarthy, Bart Michiels— Blue Jasmine, Milk, Hemingway & Gellhorn, and The Rolex, Brandon Patoc Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. His photographic works have been included in exhibits in , Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

19 LUKE KRITZECK has worked Philharmonic and Mostly Mozart Festival; and with artists from diverse numerous credits for the San Francisco Symphony, disciplines and backgrounds in including Britten’s Peter Grimes and the SoundBox theater, dance, music, circus, series. Mr. Larsen’s documentary Neurotypical, about and opera, on stages around autism from the perspective of autistics, aired on the the world as a lighting and PBS series POV. production designer. He is YEE EUN NAM is an award- currently the resident lighting designer and technical winning set and video designer advisor for the San Francisco Symphony and has been for opera, theater, and other live a member of the creative team for numerous performances based in Los multimedia Symphony productions in past seasons. Angeles. Recent theater design Mr. Kritzeck served as the director of lighting at the work includes Legacy Land New World Symphony for seven years. With Cirque du (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Soleil, he worked on the touring production TOTEM, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Aubergine, on its resident show ZAiA in Macau, China, and he and The Canadians (South Coast Repertory); Black also served as the lighting director for featured Super Hero Magic Mama (Geffen Playhouse); Sweat performances at the Venetian Macau. Selected design (Mark Taper Forum); Bordertown Now (Pasadena credits include Chautauqua Opera Company, Cincinnati Playhouse); Mother of Henry and Members Only Ballet, Cincinnati Symphony, Cedar Fair Entertainment, (Latino Theater Company); and Citizen: An American Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Lafayette Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Fountain Theater). Since Ballet Theatre, and the Saint Louis Symphony. 2020, she has been creating digital contents and video ADAM LARSEN is a arts for organizations including the San Francisco documentary filmmaker and Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Chamber projection designer. Designs Orchestra, LA Opera On Now, Goodman Theatre, the include Hal Prince’s LoveMusik Movement Theatre Company, and Rattlestick on Broadway; Esperanza Playwrights Theatre. She is currently working as one Spalding’s 12 Little Spells of the production designer of CLOSE QUARTERS national tour; Missy Mazzoli’s with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia and the Yee Eun Nam has received multiple LA Stage Prototype Festival; Lee Breuer’s The Gospel at Alliance Ovation Award nominations, and she won a Colonus at the Athens, Edinburgh, and Spoleto Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Theatrical festivals; Watermill at the BAM Next Wave Festival; Excellence for CGI/Video in 2020. She received an Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at MFA in Theater Design at UCLA and a BFA in Design the Singapore and Edinburgh festivals; Leonard and Metal Craft at Seoul National University in Korea. Bernstein’s A Quiet Place at Tanglewood; Leoš Janáček’s From the House of the Dead at Canadian Opera; ’s Turn of the Screw at Seattle Opera; Bernstein’s Mass at the Los Angeles

20 Production Crew

Steven Condiotti, Director Taylor Joshua Rankin, Editor Jason O’Connell, Audio Producer Jon Johannsen, Audio Engineer Luke Kritzeck, Director of Lighting Adam Larsen, Projection Designer Yee Eun Nam, Co-Designer Bob Hines, Technical Director/Engineer Brian Shimetz, Engineer/Robotic Camera Operator Paul Peralta & Keith Lacabe, Robotic Camera Operators Jim Koehler, Camera Shader Christopher Wood, Stage Manager Michael ‘Barney’ Barnard, Stage Technician Denise Woodward, Stage Audio Engineer Nick Abreu, Stage Audio Tim Wilson, Electrician Will Brodhead, Board Operator Kim Rooker, Projection Billy Schmidt, WatchOut Operator Qris Fry, Props

MARCOS BALTER: Pan (2018) Original direction by Doug Fitch Original sound design by Levy Lorenzo Commissioned and developed by Project& and Jane M Saks as part of Density 2036

Filmed at Davies Symphony Hall, a venue of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, City and County of San Francisco, May 11, 13–14, 2021.

21 san francisco symphony

The San Francisco Symphony is widely considered to Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony be among the most artistically adventurous and introduce a groundbreaking artistic leadership model innovative arts institutions in the United States, anchored by eight Collaborative Partners from a celebrated for its artistic excellence, creative variety of cultural disciplines: Nicholas Britell, Julia performance concepts, active touring, award-winning Bullock, Claire Chase, Bryce Dessner, Pekka Kuusisto, recordings, and standard-setting education programs. Nico Muhly, Carol Reiley, and Esperanza Spalding. In the 2020–21 season, the San Francisco Symphony This group of visionary artists, thinkers, and doers welcomes conductor and composer Esa-Pekka joins with Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony Salonen as its twelfth Music Director and embarks on to chart a new course of experimentation by a new vision for the present and future of the collaborating on new ideas, breaking conventional orchestral landscape. This exciting artistic future rules, and creating unique and powerful experiences. builds on the remarkable 25-year tenure of Michael February 2021 saw the launch of SFSymphony+, the Tilson Thomas as the San Francisco Symphony’s San Francisco Symphony’s on-demand video Music Director. Tilson Thomas continues his rich streaming service. For more information on the San relationship with the Symphony as its first Music Francisco Symphony, visit sfsymphony.org. Director Laureate. In their inaugural season together,

22 celebrating our donors

The San Francisco Symphony gratefully acknowledges its many philanthropic supporters who make it possible for the Symphony to bring the joy of music to the Bay Area and beyond through innovative programs, virtual events, and music education reaching a wider audience than ever before in person and through the digital platform SFSymphony+.

Keynote Society Franklin Templeton/Fiduciary Trust International The San Francisco Symphony greatly appreciates the philanthropic generosity and Priscilla & Keith Geeslin* leadership of its Keynote Society members, who have made significant contributions Charles M. Geschke & Nancy A. Geschke Foundation to the Symphony in addition to their generous support of the Symphony Fund Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation totaling $250,000 or more. Marcia & John Goldman /John and Marcia Goldman Foundation Andy & Teri Goodman q Matt and Pia Cohler Grants for the Arts q Mrs. Donald G. Fisherq Dr. Jerome Guillen & Mr. Jeremy Gallaher Mr. & Mrs. William S. Fisher * Mimi and Peter Haas Fund Priscilla & Keith Geeslin* q The Hearst Foundations Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Marcia & John Goldman /John and Marcia Goldman Foundation James C. Hormel & Michael P. N. Nguyen Christine & Pierre Lamondq Mr. & Mrs. Greg Johnson Ms. Joyce Ratner Koret Foundation Trine Sorensen &q Michael Jacobson* Mary Jo & Dick Kovacevich Anonymous Metta & Keith Krach* Christine & Pierre Lamond Fanfare Patricia Lee-Hoffmann & Steven Hoffmann The San Francisco Symphony greatly appreciates the philanthropic generosity and Nellie & Max Levchin leadership of its Fanfare members, who have made significant contributions to a Mr. Fred M. Levin, The Shenson Foundation* variety of special events, programs, and initiatives totaling $100,000 or more. Mr. & Mrs. Eric Li Alfred & Rebecca Lin Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Gorretti & Lawrence Lui Phyllis Blair q Michael Moritz & Harriet Heyman Iris S. Chan q& Dr. Michael Chan* Milton J. Mosk & Thomas Foutch John & Sherry Chen Robert G. & Sue Douthit O’Donnell Chevron The Bernard Osher Foundation q Matt and Pia Cohler Mrs. Henry I. Prien Margaret Liu Collinsq & Edward B. Collins * Ms. Joyce Ratner q Crankstart q San Francisco Artsq Commission Louise M. Davies Foundation Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Steven Denning Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem The Dolby Family Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson* Emirates Airline Michael Tilson Thomas & Joshua Robison Eucalyptus Foundation Diane B. Wilsey Roger L. Evans & Aey Phanachet Anonymous (4) Mrs. Donald G. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. William S. Fisher * Joyce Frankenberg q q 23 the symphony fund

The San Francisco Symphony’s artistic, education, and community programs are made possible with the generous support of its annual donors who provide essential funding to ensure that music is accessible to the entire community. The Symphony gratefully recognizes the following individuals who have made a recent contribution of $2,500 or more to the Symphony Fund through May 20, 2021. For more information about our membership program, please contact 415.503.5444 or [email protected].

PRESIDENT’S TIER MAESTRO’S CIRCLE $25,000-$34,999 $15,000-$24,999 $150,000 and above $50,000-$99,999 Michael & Delphine Anders Lysbeth Warren Anderson & Matt and Pia Cohler Nancy & Joachim Bechtle Louise Austin Brenton Warren Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Steven Denningq Lyman & Carol Casey q John & Sherry Chen Sarah J. Armstrong The Dolby Family Eliza & Dean Cash Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Conner* Lydia Beebe & Charles Doyle Mrs. Donald G. Fisher Solomon B. Cera Dana M. & Robert L. Emery Mr. David Berger Mr. & Mrs. William S. Fisher * Iris S. Chan & Dr. Michael Chan* Frannie Fleishhacker Mr. Jeff Bharkhda Priscilla & Keith Geeslin* q Tiffany & Jim Chang Cheryl E. Frank & Michaelq Linn Mr. J. Michael Bishop & Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Michèle & Laurence Corash Ms. Jane Gitschier Mrs. Kathryn Bishop Marcia & John Goldman /John and Mr. & Mrs. John Jay Corley q Michael H. Hardy q Athena & Timothy Blackburn Marcia Goldman Foundationq Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson Stephanie & Fred qHarman Rachael & Larry Bowman Christine & Pierre Lamond John & Paula Gambs* q Michael A. Harrison & Tom & Polly Bredt Michael Moritz & Harriet Heyman Andy & Teri Goodman Susan Graham Harrison Ann Moller Caen Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Osher Mr. Mark Heising & Ms.q Elizabeth Simons Joseph & Bette Hirsch Virginia Carder Trine Sorensen & Michael Jacobson* Maryellie & Rupert H. Johnson, Jr. James C. Hormel & Michael P. N. Hormel Dr. & Mrs. Lucas S. Chang Anonymous* Maurice Kanbar Thomas Horn & Bob A. Ross Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Robert A. Corrigan Matthew Kelly Familyq Foundation Mr. Basheer Janjua Ms. Gail Covington & Mr. John Murray $125,000-$149,999 William and Gretchen Kimball Fund* Dr. & Mrs. Stephen S. Leavitt David & Vicki Cox Charles M. Geschke & Nancy A. Geschke Nellie & Max Levchin Mrs. Ila Loeb Peter and Quin Curran Foundation Barry & Marie Lipman Jennifer Coslett MacCready Philip S. & Elayne R. Dauber Mr. & Mrs. Greg Johnson Gorretti & Lawrence Lui Mr. Alan R. May Jonathan Davies & Sheila Lee Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman Dr. & Mrs. John McConkie In memory of Felicia A. Dillenius $100,000-$124,999 North Baker Trust William & Nancy Newmeyer III Andrei Dunca Margaret Liu Collins & Edward B. Collins * Ann & Jim Paras Claudette & John Nicolai q Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Einstein Roger L. Evans & Aey Phanachet q George & Linneaq Roberts Foundation Marie Kendrick Otto Foundation Mrs. Jack S. Euphrat q Joyce Frankenberg Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation Pease Family Fund Mary C. Falvey* Dr. Jerome Guillen &q Mr. Jeremy Gallaher Michael Tilson Thomas & Joshua Robison Ms. Christine M. Rammler Elizabeth & Robert J. Fisher Mary Jo & Dick Kovacevich Anita & Ronald Wornick* Arthur Rock & Toni Rembe Rock Elizabeth J. Folger & Mr. Robert Eldred Metta & Keith Krach* Barbara & Richard Rosenberg* Mary A. Francis & Jan M. Chabala* Patricia Lee-Hoffmann & $35,000-$49,999 Felipe R. Santiago & Barry T. Joseph James & Lynn Gibbons Steven Hoffmann Dan & Linda Cooperman John V. Sell q William J. Gregory Mr. Fred M. Levin, The Shenson Dr. Ian Friedland Taube Philanthropies Cynthia Hersey Foundation Guzik Foundation Mr. Robert Thompson & Dr. Anita Demas Ms. Carol Holden Mr. & Mrs. Eric Li Dr. Paul Wilson Robert & Joyce Tufts Jo S. Hurley Robert G. & Sue Douthit O’Donnell Anonymous Diane B. Wilsey Mark & Michelleq Jung* Mrs. Henry I. Prien q Mr. Peter Windhorst Lynn & Tom Kiley Ms. Joyce Ratner q Anonymous (3) q 24 Ted & Carole Krumland/Harold & Mimi BATON CIRCLE Mary & Craig Henderson $7,500-$9,999 Steinberg Charitable Trust $10,000-$14,999 Dr. & Mrs. H.P. Hotz Mr. William Banyai Gail LaForge Julie Allecta Ms. Aditi Iyer Richard C. Barker Mr. Kenneth Lamb Mr. Paul B. Althouseq Ms. A. Annette Jensen Kathleen Burke & Ralph Davis Shawn E. Lampron & William M. York Aida Alvarez & Raymond J. Baxter Fred Karren q Bruce Colman & Margaret Sheehan Joan & William Larkin Susan & Sig Anderman Barbara & Ron Kaufman David & Maggie Cooke Mary Lemmon Dorothy & Jon Anderson F. Curt Kirschner, Jr. & Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dvorakq Ms. Lucy Lewis Paul André & Lisa Kobialka Nicholas Augustinos Michael Kalkstein & Susan English Emilie & Andrew Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Gerson Bakar Linda & Robert Klett q Ben & Mary Feinberg Marc & Sandy Macaulay The Barkley Fund/Claire Perry Lois Lynn & William J.q Ryan Mr. Arnold A. Grossman Gladys Monroy Marks & Larry Marks, The Baumann Foundation Paul & Arlee Maier q Laurel & Vinod Gupta in honor of Carol Sebelius Carol & Bill Beck Christine & Stan Mattison Mr. Jeff Himawan Tom & Bev Marlow Frank & Ruth Belvin John and Kathryn Milligan Family Fund Ms. Peggy Kivel Mr. Patrick R. McCabe Cynthia S. & Gary Bengierq Gladyne K. Mitchell Sven Kjaersgaard Debbie McCoy Paula Blank Robert L. & Jan Newman Arlene & Steve Krieger Mr. & Mrs. J. Alec Merriam Mr. & Mrs. Donaldq E. Bradley Dr. Rahul Prasad & q Linda & Frank Kurtz Alexandra Moses John & Linda Bolger Dr. Sharmila Majumdar Susan Lin and Richard Powell Ellen Newman James R. & Mical Atz Brenzel Mr. John Price Mrs. Richard B. Madden q Paul Nordine q Marilyn Burns & Jeffrey Sellonq Gordon Radley, in recognition of Betty Maddux , in memoryq of Mrs. William qH. Orrick, Jr. Maria Cardamone & Paul Matthewsq Carol Sebelius my husband,q Ed Koester Mr. Kevin Osinski and Mr.q Marc Sinykin Margot & John Clements Mr. Kausik Rajgopal & The Marmor Foundation/ Carol Potter Peckham Janet Cluff Ms. Sharyn Efimoff* Michael & Jane Marmor Mr. & Mrs. David Peng Alice Corning Mark & Alison Reinhold Nan McDowell Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pierce Davidson Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. John S. Renard Mrs. Ernst Meissner Bernadino J. Pistillo, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Andre-Paul de Bord Mr. William Ring Robert Meister David & Bobbie Pratt Mr. Marvin Dennis Mrs. Marianne B. Robison Dr. Judy C. Miner Lisa and John Pritzkerq Family Fund Dan & Kathy Dixon Elizabeth B. Ross Frank & Margaretq Morrow Dr. & Mrs. Robert L. Roe Arthur Dreshfield in memory of Ardy Mr. & Mrs. Tony Salewskiq Paula & John Murphy Mr. Michael L. Sack Dreshfield Mrs. Thomas A. Skornia Paul & Lilah Newton Betty & Jack Schafer Holly & Edmondq Eger Ms. Irene Slisky q Andrea Palmer & Mark Orttung Justus Schlichting Dr. Elaine Engman q Danna & Alex Slusky Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Pfaff The Seiger Family Jacqueline & Christian P. Erdman Mr. Owen Smith Ms. Priscilla Pittiglio q Pearl Anne Seipp Luke Evnin & Deann Wright Ms. Sarah Smith Paula & Bill Powar Maria Shim & Nicholas Fox Vicki & David Fleishhacker Laurence L. Spitters William J. Rutter q Jean Shuler Mr. Nicholas Fox Michael & Sue Steinberg Mr. & Mrs. George P. Shultz Joyce L. Stupski Michael Garland & Gigi Coe Seksom Suriyapa & Susan J. Shrader Mr. & Mrs. Reginald D. Steer Maureen & Craig Sullivan Arthur & Drue Gensler Roselyne Chroman Swig Dwight & Blossom Strong William & Janice Terry Dane & Pat Gillette Amy Tan & Lou DeMattei Drs. Karen Talmadge & Johnq Fiddes Terrence Tilley Dr. Allan Gold & Mr. Alan Ferrara Lida Urbanek Ms. Naomi R. Thorpe Fay S. & Ada S. Tom Family Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund q Bob & Gail Walker Dr. Lucy Tompkins Mr. Paul Upham Michael Good & JoAnn Close Peter L. Washburn and Rod Brown Stephanie Twomey Roche & Mrs. Gwendolyn Walsh Mrs. Bernice E. Greene In memory of Alex Wasik N. D’Arcy Roche Doris & Clark Warden Marritje & Jamie Greene Peter & Deborah Wexler Isabel Valdes Judy C. Webb q Mimi and Peter Haas Fund Wildcat Cove Foundation Daphne & Stuart Wells Wendy & Mason Willrich Mark & Christina Hanson Anonymous (5) Anonymous q Ms. Sheila Wishek Mr. Eric Hanushek & Ward & Diane Zumsteg Ms. Margaret Raymond Anonymous Kathryn Hartley

25 $5,000-$7,499 Mr. Thomas Gregory & Diane Compagno Miller Pieter & Jacqui Smith David & Judith Preves Anderson Ms. Francoise Thompson Evelyn Miller & Fred Snively The Somekh Family Foundation Norby Anderson q Douglas Grigg Edward Mocarski & Christine Martens Mr. James R. Stockton & Michael Bassi & Christy Styer Colleen & Robert D. Haas Mrs. Ellen Wright-Montgomery & Ms. Karen Tucker Mr. Scott Bays q Mr. Eliyahou Harari Mr. Howard Montgomery Ms. Susan Stratton q Mr. & Mrs. David Beach Henry Heines & Katherine Fines James C. Moora Ms. Nancy Strauch Drs. Leslie Z. & Carol A. Benet Ms. Deirdre Henderson Constance B. Mooreq & Roger D. Greer Mr. & Mrs. Calvin B. Tilden Ms. Courtney Benoist & Mr. Jason Fish Jim & Pam Henry Janet D. Morris Ms. Lisa Tough Dr. & Mrs. Alan Bentz Michael & Ruth Hodos James Moule James & Karen Tyler Paul & Kathy Bissinger Al Hoffman & David Shepherd Kathryn & Peter Muhs Paula & Jim Vanderpool Phyllis Blair q Mrs. Gail Hollingsworth Tim & Nancy Muller Drs. Oldrich & Silva Vasicek Harriet & Herbertq Bloom Mr. Allen Huang & Ms. Jessica Mok Daniel A. Murphy Grace & Steven Voorhis Brian Bock & Susan Rosin Mr. & Mrs. Bernardo Huberman Clifford & Betty Nakamoto Ronald & Sandra Wagner The Boyd Family Foundation Ms. Arlene Inch R. D. Norby q Ms. Ann Yvonne Walker & Maria & Jerry Brenholz Jessica Jacob & Zachary Townsend Ms. Annie Nunan Mr. David M. Jones The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. C. David Jensen Mr. Karl F. Nygren Kip Walker Mr. Donald Brody & Ms. Toby Mickelson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Johnson Roland & Carmela Anderson-Ortgies James & Judith Wall Robert F. Bynum Barbara E. Jones, in memory of Mr. William D. Parent John W. Ward Mr. & Mrs. John E. Cahill, Jr. William E. Jones Dr. Erica Pascal Jeff Wiggins & Joe Olivo William & Jeanne Cahill Dr. Edwin R. Jones & Mrs. Patricia Rohrs Berniece & Pat Patterson Andreas Willausch & L. Dale Crandall Mr. & Mrs. Clark N. Callander Malcolm Jones Dr. Otto H. Pflueger Jr. Diane K. Winokur Dr. Randolph Chase Alan L. & Carol M. Kaganov Jeffrey & Deborah Pierce Ms. Catherine Witzling Ms. Virginia Chen Monique L. Kaufman q Ritchie & Melissa Post Mr. & Mrs. Alex Wolf Mr. William D. Chilson Mrs. Louis O. Kelso Ms. Robin Raborn & Mr. John Lazlo Ms. Susan Wong & Mr. Bart Connally Phyllis & David Cook The Keon Family Rossannah & Alan Reeves q Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Woods Antonia Cross N. A. Kershaw, in memory of Laura Pamela & John Riddle Dr. John S. Yao & Dr. Pauline Mysliwiec Carlotta & Robert Dathe David & Barbara Kimport Joyce & Gary Rifkind Sandra W. Yip, in memory of Lucky C. Yip Davidow Foundation Mr. Thomas King Anmarie B. Roache Mr. Ming Zhao Al & Natalie Davis Donna Kline In memory of Ilene Rockman Luis & Suzanne Zurinaga Mr. & Mrs. Richardq Dishnica Sally & Jim Klingbeil Anne & Martin Roher Anonymous (8) Vincent & Wendy Drucker Ms. Eva Kryska Shelagh & Tom Rohlen Jack & Janice Eskridge Ms. Emerald Lai Dr. & Mrs. Harold Ross $2,500-$4,999 Mr. & Mrs. William F. Euphrat Robert & Sue Larson Ms. Lisa Tough q Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Adams Mrs. Wesley J. Fastiff Craig Latker & Richardq DeNatale Alice & William Russell-Shapiro Mr. Vaughn Aldape-Soratos Mr. & Mrs. Steve Fecher Laura G. Leibowitz Dr. & Mrs. David P. Sachs Elizabeth & Logan Allin Teri Follett Lisa P. Lindelef Paul G. Salisbury Mr. & Mrs. Kendall & Claire R. Allphin Sharon & Joelq Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Max Listgarten Phillip & Sara Salsbury Paul A. Anderson Mr. Richard J. Galbraith Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Loar Mr. & Mrs. Guido Saveri Richard & Clarice Anderson Mr. Nigel Gamble Mr. Thomas F. Lukens Schauble Family Foundation Robert C. Anderson Renata Gasperi Cynthia & Merrill Magowan Mr. & Mrs. Barney Schauble Ms. Naomi Andrews Theodore & Francesq Geballe Melanie & Peter Maier Diane Schmidt & Jeff Vadasz Ms. Maloos S. Anvarian & Buck Gee & Mary Hackenbracht Laurence V. Mathews & Brian Saliman Katherine Schmidt Mr. Franklin R. Jackson In memory of Daniel Geller Robert McCleskey Pamela & John Sebastian Dr. Charlene Archibeque & Ms. Margot N. Golding & In memory of Mary Janet McKelvey Mrs. Marilyn Self Dr. Robert Melnikoff Mr. Michael Powers Carrick & Andy McLaughlin Evan and Noelle Shahin Mr. William H. Armstrongq Matthew Goldman Mr. John A. McQuown Barry & Esther Sherman Dr. & Mrs. Abraham Aronow Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Goss II Mr. & Mrs. William Miklos Mr. Jeff Shuttleworth q Jonathan Arons & Claire Max Dr. Eugene Gottfried Anthony & Landra Miles Pamela D. Smith Ms. Rebecca Arons & Mr. Eric Fastiff q 26 Dr. and Mrs. Kent Bach Drs. Donald H. Clark & Michael Graves Martin Gaehwiler, Jr. Andrea Jacoby & Robert Brody Laima Baltusis Mr. Craig E. Claussen Mr. & Mrs. John A. Galen Howard & Elisabeth Jaffe Neil & Gene Barth Ms. Constance M. Clayburn Ms. Janet Gardner JJW Family Foundation Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Hazel Clegg Roberta & James R. Gates Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bates Shirley M. Clift & Jeroen Knops Laurie & Jim Ghielmetti Dr. & Mrs. Paul S. Jones Frank S. Bayley Mr. Steven J. Cohen Mr. John C. Gilbert Dan Joraanstad & Bob E. Hermann Bruce and Terry Bell Mr. Martin Cohn Mr. David Giltinan Mr. & Mrs. John D. Jorgenson Ms. Desa Belyea Mrs. Renee Cokerq Mr. Gary W. Glass Edward E. Kallgren, in memory of Dr. & Mrs. Ian Benham Mr. Daniel Coleman James & Lynne Goeller Joyce K. Kallgren Mr. Lance M. Berc & Ms. Rosemary Silva Dr. Michael & Joanne Condie Ms. Diane Goldsmith Rachel E. Kish Chris Bergeron Michelle Connelly Michael A. Gonzalez Mr. Stephen F.q Kispersky Ms. Helen Berggruen The Connolly Family Dr. Erica T. Goode Persis Knobbe Mrs. Patricia Berkowitz Ms. Darlene Cowden Mr. Robert Goodman Catherine & James Koshland Dr. & Mrs. Gerson C. Bernhard H. Gordon Cox & Gail E. McGovern Mr. Ronald Goodman Dr. Larry & Bernis Kretchmar Ms. Jane Bernstein & Mr. Robert A. Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Cox Mr. David Goodstein Andrea & Kenneth Krueger Jack & Joann Bertges Ms. Constance Crawford Maya Kuntal Goradia Leslee Kurihara and Drew Hamlin Dr. Barbara Lynn Bessey John Cromwell & Donna Chiaro Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth I. Gottlieb Michael E. Lamm Ms. Sandra Bessieres James Cross & Charles Antonen Gower-McKean Family Lapporte-Frankel Family Philanthropic Drs. Paul & Suzie Billings Mrs. Denise Cutler Mary & Nicholas Graves Fund of the Jewish Community Charles & Lenore Bleadon Caroline H. Damsky Sallie Griffith q Foundation Anne Bodel and Edward Hannemann Mr. Gordon Davidson Ms. Carol Gross Mr. Richard Larcom Janet & Kenneth Bollier Dr. Beth Dawson Jackson Haddad Dr. and Mr. Ava Lee Dix & Marilyn Moore Boring Victoria & Anthony de Alcuaz Ms. Karen Hagewood Mr. John Lee David Braker Ms. Barbara Dengler & Luisa & William Hansen Peter P. Lee Julian & Beth Brandes Miss Francoise Costa Helen A. Hanson Mr. Julius Leiman-Carbia Ms. Anna-Marie Brattonq Marshall Dinowitz Ms. Roslyn Harrisonq Mary & Arnold Levine Jennifer Braun & Raymond J. Ryan Bill & Nancy Doolittle James Hart Dr. Jay & Sharon Levy Charitable Gift Fund Mary Lou Dorking Carolyn & Larry Hartsough Mr. Frank Lewis Mrs. Patricia Ann Brennan Michael & Margaret Dotterweich David & Andrea Hayes Siegfried Linkwitz Mr. and Mrs. James Broderick Tom & Nancy Driscoll Mr. & Mrs. Frank Heffernan Constance Little Laura Brodsky Ms. Mary Eichbauer Martha & Michael L. Helms Ms. Xin Liu Joy & Robert Brorsen Ms. Jannette Engel Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Heslet Tom Lockard & Alix Marduel Tim & Peggy Brown Jesse & Jo Anne Erickson Ms. Patricia Hess Mr. Michael Loeb Josephine Brownback Robert & Veronica Faussner Mr. Thomas L. Hibdon J W Lowrie Melissa & Richard Bruinsq Ms. Lynn Feintech & Mr. Tony Bernhardt Ms. Peggy Hill Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Lyons Mr. Dennis Buckley Nancy H. & Martin Feldman Ian Hinchliffe & Marjorie Shapiro Rebecca & Goncalo Macieira-Kaufmann Ms. Jean Burns Brent and Sandra Fery Nan Ho & Gary Miner Mr. & Mrs. Bruce R. MacLeod Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Cape Katharine & Doug Finlay Kathleen Hoffacker Mr. Douglas Mandell Ms. Lynne Carr Jessena L. Finn Mr. Charles D. Hoffman Dr. & Mrs. William Marshall Ms. Sandra K. Carroll Ms. Sharon U. Ford Vanessa Homewood & Tony Farne Mr. John A. Martin Mr. John P. Caulfield First Dollar Foundation Albert J. Horn Dr. & Mrs. W.J. McAllister Dominic Chan Laura & John Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Gordon C. Hughes James & June McCarthy Mr. & Mrs. Esmond Chan Robert & Karen Flegel Mr. & Mrs. Cordell Hull Robert and Suzan McCloskey Michael Charlson & Susan Austin Dan Fourrier Leslie & George Hume Peter & Willinda McCrea Michael & Gloria Chiang Herb & Marianne Friedman Mr. Bradford Humphrey Charles & Carol McCullough Gary Y. S. Chock, in memory of Joyce Bleadon Friedman Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Humphreys Brian P. McCune Joseph P. Kelly III Ms. Donalynne A. Fuller Edward & Patricia Hymson Mr. & Mrs. Robertq McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Fay Chongq Jr. Spencer & Rena Fulweiler Dr. & Mrs. Jerome B. Jacobson Mr. Marlo McGriff q 27 James R. Meehan Jennifer F. Raike Gwen Davis Toso Mr. & Mrs. Kurt W. Melchior Mr. James Ramsayq Dr. and Mrs. Arthurq Traum Beryl & Renee Mell Genelle Relfe Mr. & Mrs. Donald Trauner David J. Mellor Mr. & Mrs. Michaelq Richter Mr. Sumter L. Travers Jr. Sharon & Stan Meresman Helen & Allan Ridley Ms. Lorraine Twohill & Mr. Peter Davis Mrs. Lynn Metzger Barry & Janet Robbins John R. Upton, Jr. & Janet Sassoon-Upton Mrs. Ann Marie Mix Murphy & Wayne Robins Dr. & Mrs. Leo van der Reis q Mr. & Mrs. John W. Monroe Martin & Edis Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Jack W. Van Geemq John Monteverdi & Marti Lochridge Fran Rominger Mr. & Mrs. S. V. Vasudevan E. Craig and Kathy Moody Mr. Galen Rosenbergq Julia B. Vetromile & David B. Goldstein The William O. Morris and Susan Craig Rossi Dr. Conrad Vial & Ms. Catalina Zapata-Vial Woodbury Morris Endowment for the Ms. Kelly Ryer J. Patrick Waddell & Franklin Smyth Performing Arts Mr. Sami Saab and Ms. Heidi Schlegel Mr. Bradford W. Wade Milton J. Mosk & Thomas Foutch Mr. James Sabry Bruce & Fran Walker Ms. Linda K. Mounts Paul Sack Mr. William Walker Carol A. Mowbray Mark Salkind & Miranda Heller Mr. & Mrs. Walter Wallach Jane E. Mraz q Mr. John F. Sampson & q Katherine G. Wallin Mr. Scott K. Nelson Ms. Sharon L. Litsky Drs. Diane & Williamq Wara Dr. & Mrs. Dale M. Nesbittq Louise Adler Sampsonq Mr. & Mrs. William E. Warren Dr. & Mrs. Donald Nichols Henry & Catharine Sandbach Ms. E. Margaret Warton & Mr. Douglas Nippa Jeffrey & Beth Scanlan Mr. Steve Benting Mr. Jeff Nova Ms. Tracy P. Schilling Margaret & Curt Weil Melanie Olson Bruce & Antoinette Schlobohm Mr. & Mrs. David L. Weinberg Robert Orban Michael & Leslie Schroeder Mr. Richard Weisiger & Ms. Jane Martin Mr. & Mrs. Johnq Orr Ron & Esther Schroeder William J Welch Mr. & Mrs. Richard Otter Doré Selix-Gabby Ron & Anne White Mr. Angelo Pagano & Mr. Jeffrey Jones Ken Shannon & Elizabeth Corden Stephen White Eugene & Seta Paige Mr. Andrey Shaw Frederick T. Williamsq & Judith Epstein Ms. Jessica Palmer Judith Singer, in memory of Bruce Singer Wilson-Dalzell Family Dr. Barry Panter Ms. Lisa C. Situ Gayla & Walt Wood Seongbae Park Mark M. Small Karen and John Wynbeek Peter Pastreich & Jamie Whittington George & Camilla Smith Kevin Yeh & Catherine Mengq Ralph & Elizabeth Peer q Dr. Stephen Smith & Ms. Theresa Lahey Dr. Lowell S. Young Mr. & Mrs. Neil Pering Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Snow Margaret & Martin Zankel Mark & Carol Perry Mr. & Mrs. Rory Snyder q Samuel & Joyce Zanze Allen & Joyce Phipps Mrs. Gail P. Soldavini Dr. & Mrs. John A. Zderic Mr. Gary F. Pokorny Carter & Constance Squires Ms. Hong Zhou Owen and Kathleen Poole Mr. David Stadlin q Catherine Y. Zimmerman Ms. Mary Porter Michael Steel & James Coletti George Zimmerman Mr. Robert Portnoy & Barbara and Charles Stevens Dr. & Mrs. Harold Zlot Dr. Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy Mr. Dennis P. Stradford Robert & Irene Zubeck Mrs. David L. Pratt Ms. Marjorie Swig Anonymous (18) Dr. David R. Priest & Bruce Tarter & Gabriela Odell Reverend Eric M. Nefstead Mr. Lee Taubeneck * Multi-year commitment Norma Ann Quan, Ph.D Ms. Betsy Templeton Society member Irving & Varda Rabin Foundation of Susan Terris †q Deceased The Jewish Community Foundation Katharine Wallas Thompson Mr. Robert Rabin Ms. Marie Tilson

28 season sponsors

The San Francisco Symphony thanks our Season Partners for their generous support of our artistic, education, and community programs. Through their generous contributions, the sponsors listed below are serving as leaders in the community.

SECOND CENTURY PARTNER

Inaugural Partner

SEASON PARTNERS

Official Airline

29 corporate partners

$100,000 AND ABOVE $15,000–$34,999 Alpha & Omega Semiconductor Dolby Laboratories East West Bank Flutter Eyewear First Republic Bank Goldman, Sachs & Co. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Meyer Sound Morrison & Foerster LLP PwC Shorenstein Company U.S. Bank

$10,000–$14,999 Armanino LLP $50,000–$99.999 Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Gap Foundation Prologis RingCentral UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco WI Harper Group Zenni

$5,000–$9,999 Brunello Cucinelli Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Delta Dental of California Dodge & Cox Half Moon Bay Wines The Macallan Violich Capital Management $35,000–$49,999

3 Corners LLC $2,500–$4,999 Got Light Gruen & Gruen + Associates Hensley Event Resources Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. KPMG LLP Hint Water PwC Landis Communications Inc. (LCI) RVK, inc. Scharffenberger Cellars Ting & Associates/Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Topo Chico UChannel TV

30 foundation & government partners

$250,000 AND ABOVE $25,000–$49,999 Crankstart Acacia Foundation Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation California Arts Council The Hearst Foundations The William G. Irwin Charity Foundation San Francisco Arts Commission Alexander M. and June L. Maisin Foundation Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation

$100,000–$249,999 $10,000–$24,999 The Eucalyptus Foundation Becker Charitable Trust John and Marcia Goldman Foundation Frank A. Campini Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Koret Foundation Walter and Elise Haas Fund The Bernard Osher Foundation Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Mimi and Peter Haas Fund $50,000–$99,999 The Joseph and Mercedes McMicking Foundation Louise M. Davies Foundation The Walther Foundation The Frances K. & Charles D. Field Foundation League of American Orchestras $2,500–$9,999 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music National Endowment for the Arts Julia Klumpke Trust John Brockway Huntington Fund Thornton Foundation Harold L. Wyman Foundation Inc. The Zellerbach Family Foundation

31 board of governors

OFFICERS Priscilla B. Geeslin Matt Cohler Trine Sorensen Lydia I. Beebe Mark C. Hanson President Vice-President Vice-President Secretary Chief Executive Officer Gail L. Covington Robert G. O’Donnell Vice-President Treasurer

BOARD OF GOVERNORS Aida M. Alvarez Matt Cohler* James H. Henry* Eric X. Li Michael Pierce Nancy H. Bechtle* Dan Cooperman* Aditi Iyer Marc T. Macaulay* Frederic M. Seegal Lydia I. Beebe* Michèle Beigel Corash* Basheer Janjua Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann* Mrs. George P. Shultz David J. Berger Gail L. Covington* Gregory E. Johnson Raj Mathai Trine Sorensen* Jeff Bharkhda Mary C. Falvey* Mark A. Jung Dr. Vincent Matthews Robert B. Thompson* Paula Blank Sakurako Fisher* Mrs. William R. Kimball Alan May Zachary Townsend Carol Casey Mary A. Francis F. Curt Kirschner Patrick McCabe Robert R. Tufts Dean Cash A. John Gambs* Metta Krach* Debbie McCoy M. Isabel Valdés* Iris Chan Priscilla B. Geeslin* Christine E. Lamond* Robert G. O’Donnell* Jack William Van Geem Lucas S. Chang Gordon P. Getty Patricia Lee-Hoffmann Andrea Palmer* Dr. Ge Wang Tiffany Chang John D. Goldman* Max Levchin Mrs. James C. Paras* Marc Winniford John S. Chen Dr. Jerome M. Guillen Fred M. Levin* Mark C. Perry Anita L. Wornick

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Herbert Blomstedt

PAST PRESIDENTS T.B. Berry J.B. Levison J.D. Zellerbach David N. Plant John D. Goldman 1910-12 1927-33 1953-56 1972-74 2001-12 W.B. Bourn Richard Tobin Kenneth Monteagle Lawrence V. Metcalf Sakurako Fisher 1912-16 1933-35 1956-61 1974-80 2012-20 William Sproule Joseph S. Thompson J.D. Zellerbach Brayton Wilbur, Jr. 1916-19 1935-36 1961-63 1980-87 John D. McKee Leonora Wood Armsby Philip S. Boone Nancy H. Bechtle 1919-27 1936-53 1963-72 1987-2001

LIFE GOVERNORS Paul H. Baastad Nancy R. Conner James C. Hormel William F. Meehan III George R. Roberts Andrew S. Berwick, Jr. Joyce Mobley Corrigan Judi Kanter Ellen Magnin Newman Richard M. Rosenberg Paul A. Bissinger, Jr. Ramon C. Cortines Richard M. Kovacevich Mrs. John F. Nicolai Mrs. Charles R. Schwab Athena T. Blackburn Mrs. Donald G. Fisher Maryon Davies Lewis Mrs. William H. Orrick, Jr. F. Clark Warden Mrs. W. John Buchanan Elizabeth J. Folger Gorretti Lo Lui Carl F. Pascarella Mrs. Herbert E. Caen Charles M. Geschke† Eff W. Martin Laura K. Pfaff *Executive Committee Margaret Liu Collins Robert D. Glynn, Jr. Christine Mattison Genelle Relfe † Deceased

32 Administration

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director FINANCE ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL & EDUCATION PLANNING Liz Pesch, Chief Financial Officer Rebecca Blum, Senior Director Priscilla B. Geeslin, President Finance & Accounting Education Programs/Youth Orchestra EXECUTIVE Gwendolyn Hasse, Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Ronald Gallman, Director Mark C. Hanson, Chief Executive Officer Christina Magee, Executive Assistant Anastasia Herold, Education Program Manager Kate Bassett, Special Assistant to the Judi Sanderlin, Controller Erin Kelly, Education Programs Associate CEO & Executive Office Salah Sibai, Financial Analyst Joseph Matthews, Education Coordinator Elizabeth Shribman, Chief of Staff Jason Pyszkowski, Associate Director, Information Technology Youth Orchestra Program ARTISTIC Aaron Bennett, Chief Information Officer Matthew Spivey, Chief Programming Officer David Berta, Applications Support Engineer Orchestra Personnel Shivani Chamakura, Manager, Data Engineering Andrew Tremblay, Orchestra Personnel Manager Artistic Planning & Analytics Daniel Zimardi, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Phillippa Cole, Director Aaron Levin, Technical Project Manager & Developer Manager Gregory Hix, Coordinator, Artist Services Jeffrey Jordan, Program Manager, Pops & Presentations Human Resources COMMUNICATIONS Shoko Kashiyama, Executive Assistant Catherine Carter, Business Partner Robin Freeman, Senior Director to the Music Director Alexandria Daley, Benefits & Compensation Analyst Lisa Zadek, Senior Manager Archives & Record Management OPERATIONS Adrienne Storey, Associate Director Digital Innovation Andrew Dubowski, Senior Director Kristin Lipska, Digital & Media Archivist Oliver Theil, Head of Digital Innovation Michele Arnold, Production Manager Margaret Benedict, SFS Media Label Manager Tim Carless, Production Manager Editorial Elizabeth Dreeson, Project Manager Casey Daliyo, Production & Tours Coordinator Steven Ziegler, Director Kim Huynh, Senior Video Producer William Lewis, Parking Attendant Gayle Ginsburg, Project Manager Krysten Richardson, Post-Production Supervisor Melodie Myers, Media Asset Manager Lauren MacNeil, Copywriter Zach Schimpf, Associate Producer Joyce Cron Wessling, Director Jeanette Yu, Director of Curation Russell Young, Head Parking Attendant Public Relations Tatyana Filatova, Communications Manager

33 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & Development Operations & Services Marketing & Sales VOLUNTEER SERVICES Chandra Asken, Director Evan Chapman, Digital Marketing Manager Marni Cook, Senior Director Mike Ehrenkranz, Data Integrity Coordinator Hillary Fowler, Marketing Coordinator Laura Bergmann, Associate Director, Advocacy & Kunwoo Hong, Reporting & Data Analytics Specialist Jason Koo, Senior Revenue Manager Community Engagement Maura Timmerman, Associate Director, Development Charles Pickford, Marketing Specialist Laura Knerler, Associate Director, Volunteer Services Operations & Services Jack Wong, Gift Administration Specialist Patron Services DEVELOPMENT Terry Breedlove, Director Dan Coleman, Senior Director Stewardship & Events Meredith Clark, Patron Services Representative Jason Tong, Administrative Assistant to the Irma Ramirez, Director Christina Coughlin, Assistant Box Office Manager Senior Director Megan Anderson, Donor Recognition Coordinator Lorri Ferguson, Patron Services Representative Sherga Kong, Associate Director, Stewardship Danielle Gold, Patron Services Representative Individual Giving Audra Loveland, Associate Director, Events Ruth Goldfine-, Patron Services Representative Rachel Kirley, Director Martina Siniscalco, Events Manager Eddie Gonzalez, Patron Services Representative Julie Ambrose, Senior Major Gift Officer May Stearman, Events Specialist Austin Graziano, Patron Services Representative Liz Gerber, Annual Fund Program Officer Hilda Kissane, Box Office Manager Alexis Gordon, Major Gifts Officer MARKETING & SALES Sam Koritz, Community & Internal Ticket Coordinator Pamela Pretlow, Senior Major Gift Officer Alexandra Llamas, Senior Director Sam Kohl, Patron Services Representative Leslie Razana, Associate Joy Smith, Executive Assistant to Marketing & Donald Patterson, Patron Services Representative May Van Norman, Associate Director, New Philanthropy Communications Laurie Peck, Patron Services Representative Carol Sebelius, Benefactor Ticket Coordinator Institutional Giving Creative Services Ian Stewart, Patron Services Representative Bryan Pangilinan, Director Larry Williams, Creative Director Philip Toscano, Group Sales Specialist Ashley Burdge, Coordinator Lisa Bogle, Senior Project Manager Nick Utterback, Patron Services Representative Rosie Fraser, Associate Director, Corporate Chelsea Dowling, Digital Web Producer Tunisha Williams, Patron Services Representative Giving & Sponsorships Jack Morrow, Senior Graphic Designer Michele Fromson, Associate Director, Foundation & Government Relations Front of House Jeff Coyne, House Manager Campaign Robert Johnston, Jr., Senior Store Manager Megan Guzman, Director, Planned Giving Toby Kahn, Assistant Store Manager Chris Shields, Manager, Prospect Research & Jennifer Mar, Senior Assistant Store Manager Management

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