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MARROWSTONE 2017 FESTIVAL PROGRAM 74 TH SEASON in partnership with JULY 23 - AUGUST 6, 2017 Stephen Rogers Radcliffe, Music Director THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS MARROWSTONE SCHOLARSHIP FUND SPONSOR The Estate of Mrs. Marjorie Moore SEATTLE OPERA ACADEMY SPONSORS Susan Coughlin and John Lauber Hearst Foundations MEET THE $10,000+ STAFF & BOARD Mr. Terry Clark SYSO Staff Marrowstone Staff $2,000-$4,999 Kathleen Allen Robert Babs Donald & Mary Louise Brown Interim Executive Director Marrowstone Coordinator Robert & Judith Eagan Janice Gatti Megan Cummings Horizons Foundation Orchestra Coordinator / Counselor Coordinator Office Manager Paul & Ya-Ling Ristuccia Darian Douglas Paul Rafanelli & Dan Williams Lance Georgeson Box Office Manager / Counselor Coordinator Williamson Foundation for Music MITC Program Coordinator Tomick Necessary $1,000-$1,999 Chris Harshman Student Liaison MITC Director Mrs. Susan Jay Gordon Robbe Meini Li Mrs. Maxine Shum & Mr. John McKee Orchestra Personnel Manager Advancement Manager Evan Berge $500-$999 Bryan Lindeman Data & Operations Coordinator Music Librarian Karen & Dr. Don Berry Shannon Loys Coltan Foster National Federation of Music Club Graphic Designer Faculty Liaison Ms. Lynne Rein Dan Schmitt Bryan Kolk Associate Director of Opera Liaison $100-$499 Development Hank & Kristin Van Schelt • Mr. & Mrs. John Woll • Dr. & Mrs. Caleb Ren Clyde Hiss • Mr. John Stephens & Ms. Alice Hale • Mr. Evan Collaborative Pianist Kuhlmann • James & Addis Chapman SYSO Board of Directors Alice Ikeda, President | Nancy Grauman, Vice President MEDIA SPONSOR IN-KIND Christine Chang, Secretary | Dean Willard, Treasurer Mary Lou Brown, Francisco J. Grijalva, Ed.D., Ikuko Hellevik, Mae Lin, Ginger Hunt Luce, Yoshiaki Minegishi, John Neeleman, Paul Rafanelli, Robert M. Sokol, Fernando Vega, M.D. Western Washington University Marrowstone Personnel Dr. Christopher Bianco David Saxton Lea Fetterman Cory Herman Music Department Chair PAC Operations Kramer Elwell Conference Services Jon Bash Heather Dalberg Michelle Stranges Samantha Golden Kaitlyn Ronstadt Administrative Services Keyboard Technician Shayna Woods Kristina Nielsen Manager Apartments & Guest Housing Jesse Phillips Lacey Knudtson Fred Ramage Box Office Manager Kathryn Moore PAC Operations Manager Ariel Mathwig Facilities/Technical Staff Head House Manager 2 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE NOTES FROM MARROWSTONE LEADERSHIP Thank you for joining us at On behalf of Seattle Youth Symphony Welcome to Marrowstone 2017! As Marrowstone. Your participation makes you Orchestra, it gives me great pleasure to a Marrowstone and SYSO alumnus, I am part of a great Northwest tradition. Over the welcome you to the 2017 Marrowstone honored to be participating in Marrowstone course of its 74-year history, Marrowstone Music Festival. Set among the grandeur of as the program coordinator. Overall, this is my has become the premier summer youth music the Puget Sound and the snow-capped peaks seventh season at the festival, having attended program in the Pacific Northwest, featuring of the Cascade Mountains, Marrowstone is a not only as a student, but as a counselor, inspiring performances, world-class faculty, magical musical event, one in which lifelong and staff member as well. This program has and unparalleled artistic and educational friendships are forged, where the love for been such a significant part of my life and experiences. This year we add to this tradition great music is kindled and where musicians musical education. The memories shared and of excellence a partnership with the Seattle learn to give voice to the beauty within and lessons learned here over the years are some Opera for the first-ever Seattle Opera around them. of my most cherished. I am eternally grateful Academy at Marrowstone, which will culminate to the faculty, staff, and my fellow students The Festival draws its name from the fabled in performances of the full opera “The Tender who have continuously inspired, pushed, and Puget Sound island that hosted many of Land” by Aaron Copland. nurtured me. I am sure that this year will be no the early performances. While the Festival’s exception. Thank you to all who have helped make location has changed, its role as the Pacific this season’s festival possible. Marrowstone Northwest’s most distinguished orchestral My best wishes for a successful festival to could not happen without the strong support performance and training program has not. all students this season. The Marrowstone of Western Washington University, all our experience is one that is both instructive and Whether you are a longtime Marrowstone friends in the Bellingham community, and our fun! And many thanks to all of the wonderful patron, a visitor, a parent, or a lover of great partners at Seattle Opera. I hope you enjoy families and community members who have music, we welcome you to our 2017 Festival the performances and your Marrowstone made it a priority to support these great young and look forward to sharing with you these experience. musicians and this festival! magnificent gifts of great music. KATHLEEN ALLEN STEPHEN ROGERS RADCLIFFE ROBERT BABS Marrowstone Coordinator Interim Executive Director Music Director & Conductor Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra MEET OUR PARTNER WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY The Music Department at Western Washington University has long been a leading institution in the Northwest for undergraduate and graduate studies in music, with an enrollment of over 200 majors and an additional 300 non-major ensemble performers each quarter. Students majoring in music are able to pursue a variety of degree programs including Music Education, Composition, Performance, Music History & Literature, and Conducting. Western’s Performing Arts Center is one of the finest facilities in the nation for teaching, performing, and studying music. The facility includes a concert hall, large auditorium, electronic music/ composition studio, keyboard lab, classrooms, and rehearsal halls. LEARN MORE > wwu.edu MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 3 MEET THE FACULTY CONDUCTORS STEPHEN ROGERS RADCLIFFE RYAN DUDENBOSTEL Music Director & Conductor Conductor Dr. Radcliffe continues to fulfill the promise recognized when he made Dr. Dudenbostel is the Director of Orchestral Studies at Western his Lincoln Center conducting debut with Metropolitan Opera sopranos Washington University, where he conducts the WWU Symphony Orchestra; Jan DeGaetani, Susan Graham, and Dawn Upshaw. Since then, he teaches courses in conducting, music theory, and music history; and leads has conducted orchestras on four continents, produced compact disc the contemporary music ensemble NowHearThis! He conducts regularly recordings of operatic, orchestral, and chamber music works, and has on the Jacaranda new music series in Los Angeles, and has taught at the fostered the development of audiences through innovative educational Marrowstone Music Festival for seven summers. Previously, he served as and artistic programs. An Assistant Conductor of the Boston Lyric Opera, Music Director of the Santa Monica Youth Orchestra. He also spent three Radcliffe was Founder and Music Director of the New York Chamber seasons as a rehearsal and cover conductor at the Manhattan School of Ensemble (performing for over a decade at Lincoln Center), Artistic Music, and was among fewer than a dozen Americans invited to participate Director of the Cape May Music Festival, and Principal Guest Conductor of in the 11th Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition in the Hungarian Virtuosi, which he led in international touring, television and Barcelona. Dudenbostel is a graduate of UCLA, UMKC, and WWU, and radio broadcast performances and recording projects. has studied conducting with Neal Stulberg, Robert Olson, David Wallace, Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav Meier and Rossen Milanov. DALE CLEVENGER JONATHAN GIRARD Conductor Conductor Principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from February 1966 Dr. Girard is one of the rising stars of his generation. A passionate musician to June 2013, Clevenger is a versatile musician in many areas, including committed to engaging audiences with thrilling performances, he enjoys a chamber music, jazz, commercial recordings, and solos, his principal mentors reputation as a musical force equally versed in symphonic repertoire, opera, being Arnold Jacobs and Adolph Herseth. Clevenger was a member of and new music. As the Director of Orchestras at the University of British Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Columbia School Of Music, Girard dedicates himself to raising the standard Air directed by Alfred Wallenstein, the Kansas City Philharmonic, and the of orchestral training in Western Canada. He also serves as the assistant Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. Also a conductor, conductor for the Vancouver Symphony Whistler Institute Orchestra. He Clevenger served as music director of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra was the assistant conductor of the Ohio Light Opera from 2012-2014. for fourteen years. His conducting career has included guest appearances Girard served as cover conductor for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with numerous orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony (NY) in 2012. At the Eastman School of Music, he studied conducting with Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the Shanghai Symphony Neil Varon and was the assistant conductor of the Eastman Symphony Orchestra.