THE CURSE OF THE NINTH 13TH SEASON 2016 - 2017 Season Boulder Chamber Orchestra 9th. We call this The Curse of the 9th! Along the way, we will be collaborating Our jinx is Symphonies by various later composers, with a number of fantastic artists from near including Schubert and Bruckner, were and far, including Maestro Nicholas Carthy renumbered to put the best one last. Brahms as our first regular-season guest conductor your good and Mendelssohn didn’t even compose nine with the orchestra, the prize-winning symphonies, thus avoiding the Jinx! young violinist Yabing Tan, our favorite fortune... returning violinist Lindsay Deutsch, and Scholars believe that it took Brahms Boulder’s own Karen Bently Pollick. Intrigue A FEW KIND WORDS TO OUR between eighteen and twenty-one years will be added to the mix with the Boulder DEAR SUPPORTERS to compose his first symphony precisely premiere of the Beatles Suite for Violin and because he was terrified of being compared Orchestra by Maxime Goulet, and a brand- It’s been an exciting and challenging twelve to Beethoven and needed this extra time new Concerto for Violin and Orchestra seasons. As always, we’re grateful for to complete it to his own satisfaction. The by American composer David Jaffe. And your support, encouragement, and endless work contains a rather bold reference to the grand finale, Beethoven’s 9th, will be generosity, which have made the BCO what Beethoven’s Ode to Joy melody in the finale. performed in collaboration with the Boulder it is now. When one concertgoer remarked on this Chorale under the direction of resemblance at the symphony’s premiere, Vicki Burrichter. This, our thirteenth season, is called Jinx Brahms acidly replied: “Any ass could for obvious reasons. But in musical history see that.” We’ll let you decide if Jinx, the Curse of the the term Jinx has been associated with two 9th is our best season yet! numbers: 13 and 9. There’s an interesting Highlighting this anxious yearning to have reason for this. Several great composers one’s greatest symphony stand up to the after Beethoven—whose nine monumental symphonic Goliath that was Beethoven, we symphonies constitute the very definition begin the season with Brahms’s Symphony of greatness—were tormented by the idea No. 1 and end it with Beethoven’s 9th. that they too had to prove their merit with In between, we will visit symphonic nine symphonies, their entire life’s work masterpieces by Mendelssohn and Schubert culminating in the last of these, the great as well. 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Concertmaster) Rowanna Bobo Kimberly Brody Kiel Lauer Christine Short (Principal 2nd) Sarah Luk Ryan Van Gilder Brune Macary (Asst. Principal 2nd) Greta Parks Daniel Watt Magee Capsouto Marcelo Sanchez CLARINET Jenny Diaz Spera Julia Siegl Nina Fronijan Kellan Toohey (Principal) TUBA Renee Hemsing-Patten Michael Moy Danielle Lewis BASS Michael Allen Allegra Michael Susie Peek Kevin Sylves (Principal) BASSOON KEYBOARD Veronica Pigeon Miriam Bijerk Johannes Rudolph Jared Connor Kent Hurd (Co-Principal) Linda Wilken Paul Trapkus Jennifer Motycka Kaori Uno-Jack (Co-Principal) HORN PERCUSSION VIOLA FLUTE John McGuire (Principal) Seth Miller (Principal) Aniel Cabán (Principal) Cobus du Toit (Principal) Megan Ruben Paul Mullikin Christine Arden Valerie Johnson (Asst. 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She has also attended as one of six finalists in the the Great Wall International 3rd China International Violin Competition in 2011. Music Academy in Beijing as & 24 23 September a scholarship recipient every summer since 2006. After completing her Bachelor Violinist Yabing Tan, born 1990 of Music degree, Ms. Tan moved in Hunan