WHAT’S INSIDE LETTER FROM THE RCO | 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF | 5 PROGRAM | 7 DONATO CABRERA BIOGRAPHY | 8 HELEN KIM BIOGRAPHY | 9 SAMUEL ADAMS BIOGRAPHY | 9 PROGRAM NOTES | 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 15 ADVERTISING Onstage Publications 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of Onstage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 1 2 RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA LETTER FROM THE RCO This first program of the season is especially meaningful, as we feature two talented musicians with roots right here in Northern Nevada. Both our Music Director finalist Donato Cabrera, and soloist Helen Kim, spent part of their childhood here in Reno, benefitting from this rich musical community. Ms. Kim will perform the western premiere of the Chamber Concerto for Violin by her husband, Samuel Carl Adams, a rising star in contemporary classical music. Please make time to learn more about this weekend’s finalist, Donato Cabrera, by joining us for a pre-concert interview and in the lobby after each performance. You will elcome to the 2019-20 season! On also receive an email after this performance Wbehalf of our musicians, board, and with a survey, which will help our Search staff, thank you for joining us to kick off our th Committee choose the best candidate for 45 season and continue our search for the our community. next Music Director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra. Each finalist brings a unique Once again thank you for joining us, and mix of classic and contemporary works for enjoy today’s program! our ensemble, showcasing their interests with the help of a talented guest soloist. We also celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with one work by the composer on each program. Today you will hear his lively Seventh Symphony, filled with the infectious rhythm of dance. RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 3 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Amy Booth STAFF Jennifer Smith Kay Dean Thom Mayes, President William Douglass Executive Director Gail McCallister John Tozzi Jane Nichols Erica Schmitt, Vice President Lloyd Rogers Director of Administration Judith Simpson Cleta Dillard Karen Stout-Gardner Joseph Peterson, Second Vice President Holly Walton-Buchanan Artistic Planning & Operations Manager Fred Jakolat Secretary Dustin Budish, Personnel Manager Tasha Reisz Treasurer Sophie Ralston, Marketing & Graphic Design Mark MacDonald Past President Korona Phelps, Bookkeeper Stuart Murtland Audio/Visual & Operations Support Reno Chamber Orchestra This project is funded, in part, by a grant from 925 Riverside Drive, Suite 5 Reno, NV 89503 Phone (775) 348-9413 the Nevada Arts Council, Email: [email protected] a state agency, and www.RenoChamberOrchestra.org the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Member of the These concerts have been made possible, in part, by the support of The mission of the Reno Chamber Orchestra is to create intimate, inspirational musical experiences by engaging the community through vibrant music-making by the Chamber Orchestra and chamber ensembles. Superb Music. Shared Experience. Enriched Lives. RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 5 6 RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PROGRAM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2019 7:30 P.M. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2019 2:00 P.M. WAGNER (1813–1883) Siegfried Idyll 18’ NIGHTINGALE CONCERT HALL, UNR S. ADAMS (B.1985) Chamber Concerto for Violin 32’ Prelude: One by One Lines (After J) Aria: Slow Movements On/Off Postlude: All Together Now INTERMISSION BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Symphony No. 7 42’ Poco sostenuto Allegretto Presto Allegro con brio Mr. Cabrera’s appearance is made possible by a generous donation from Jennifer Smith and John Thayer. Ms. Kim’s appearance is made possible by a generous donation from Gail and Jack McCallister. DONATO CABRERA, Please disable all noise-making devices—cell phones, watches, etc.—during the Music Director finalist performance. Audio or video recording of RCO concerts is strictly prohibited. The mission of the Reno Chamber Orchestra is to create intimate, inspirational musical experiences by engaging the community through vibrant music making by HELEN KIM, the Chamber Orchestra and chamber ensembles. violin Superb Music. Shared Experience. Enriched Lives. RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 7 MUSIC DIRECTOR FINALIST BIOGRAPHY and community engagement activities. Cabrera also greatly changed the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s concert experience by expanding the scope and breadth of its orchestral concerts. Cabrera also reenergized the Youth Concert Series by creating an engaging and interactive curriculum-based concert experience. In recent seasons, Cabrera has made impressive debuts with the National Symphony’s KC Jukebox at the Kennedy Center, Louisville Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, New West Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, and the Reno Philharmonic. In 2016, he led the Chicago Symphony DONATO CABRERA Orchestra in performances with Grammy Award-winning singer Lila Downs. Cabrera onato Cabrera is the Music Director of the made his Carnegie Hall debut leading DCalifornia Symphony and the Las Vegas the world premiere of Mark Grey’s Ătash Philharmonic, and served as the Resident Sorushan with soprano Jessica Rivera. Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and was the Wattis Foundation Music Awards and fellowships include a Herbert Director of the San Francisco Symphony von Karajan Conducting Fellowship at Youth Orchestra from 2009-2016. the Salzburg Festival and conducting the Nashville Symphony in the League of Following Cabrera’s appointment as Music American Orchestra’s prestigious Bruno Director of the California Symphony Walter National Conductor Preview. in 2013, the organization reached new Donato Cabrera was recognized by the artistic heights by implementing innovative Consulate-General of Mexico in San programming that emphasizes welcoming Francisco as a Luminary of the Friends newcomers and loyalists alike, building of Mexico Honorary Committee for his on its reputation for championing music contributions to promoting and developing by living composers, and committing the presence of the Mexican community in to programming music by women and the Bay Area. people of color. With a recently extended contract through the 2022-23 season, For more information, visit Cabrera continues to advise and oversee www.donatocabrera.com. the Symphony’s music education programs 8 RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA GUEST ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Carnegie Hall, BBC Proms, Suntory Hall, and Disney Hall, among others. Kim has made recent concerto appearances with the St. Louis Symphony and Aspen Festival Orchestra under the baton of conductors Nicholas McGegan and Jun Märkl and performed works for solo violin on San Francisco Symphony’s Soundbox series and the Pulitzer Museum. Since garnering the top prize at the Coleman Competition in 2011, Kim has performed with preeminent artists such as violinist Midori Goto and members of the Juilliard and Tokyo Quartets. She will be collaborating with the St. Lawrence String HELEN KIM Quartet in the 19-20 season. iolinist Helen Kim enjoys a multi-faceted Kim is the Associate Principal Second Vcareer, regularly performing across the Violin of the SF Symphony and was Americas, Europe, and Asia. Since her recently appointed Associate Concertmaster concerto debut at the age of eight, Kim of the Seattle Symphony. has performed at the Kennedy Center, SAMUEL ADAMS ailed for his “personal voice and keen Himagination” by the New York Times, composer Samuel Adams merges classical forms with contemporary media. His music has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, New World Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony and has been performed by Emanuel Ax, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Karen Gomyo, among others. From 2015-2018, Adams served as the composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and in 2019 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 9 PROGRAM NOTES BY DONATO CABRERA WAGNER, ADAMS, AND BEETHOVEN— but, for me, it is simply a musical expression BREAKING THE MOLD of a very joyous and idyllic time between two people who were happy and in love. agner’s Siegfried Idyll, the Chamber WConcerto of Samuel Carl Adams, and Unsurprisingly, Wagner repurposed some Beethoven’s Symphony №7, fit nicely in the of the music from this very private piece current, cookie-cutter format of Overture- into his very public 1876 opera, Siegfried, Concerto-Symphony that most orchestras the third installment of his four opera cycle, follow, as if there’s been an international Der Ring des Nibelungen. The beginning summit on the matter. However, what music of the idyll can be found in Act 3, makes each of these pieces so unique and near the end, when Brünnhilde accepts and special, and why I’ve programmed them embraces her mortal life through her love together, is how these composers use molds of Siegfried. only in order to smash them. She sings: RICHARD WAGNER Ewig war ich, Born: May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Germany ewig bin ich, Died: February 13, 1883, Venice, Italy ewig in süß Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 sehnender Wonne, doch ewig zu deinem Heil! Composed: 1869 O Siegfried! Herrlicher! Hort der Welt! Duration: 18 minutes Instrumentation: 1 flute, 1 oboe, 2 clarinets, etc….. 1 bassoon, 2 horns, 1 trumpet, strings There are also embedded melodies within ith Siegfried Idyll, I’m hard-pressed to Siegfried Idyll that Wagner didn’t compose. Wfind another example in all of music The lullaby, Schlaf Kindlein, schlaf, was the quite like it! It was written as a birthday most popular lullaby at this time. present not only to his wife, Cosima (born on December 24), but it was also written in Five minutes into the idyll you hear this honor of their son’s birth, Siegfried, and it tender lullaby clearly quoted. was premiered on Christmas Day, 1870— Siegfried Idyll runs nearly twenty minutes a triple treat! It was played on the stairs and is clearly composed in sonata form.