HSO Gala Digital Program Book

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 as a WPA project and formally established as
the Symphony Society of Greater Hartford in 1936. Angelo Coniglione, Jacques Gordon, Leon Barzin,
Moshe Paranov, and George Heck were the Orchestra’s first Music Directors. With the appointment of
Fritz Mahler in 1953, the HSO began a Young People’s Concert series and made several highly acclaimed
recordings for Vanguard, including a renowned recording of Carmina Burana. In 1964, with Arthur
Winograd as Music Director, the Orchestra grew in artistic stature, performing at Carnegie Hall and other
New York locations to highly favorable reviews. Under the artistic leadership of Michael Lankester from
1985–2000, the HSO received national recognition for its programming innovations, including the popular
Classical Conversations and Family Matinees, as well as a series of landmark theatrical productions such as
Alexander Nevsky. From 2001–2011, Edward Cumming led the HSO to new levels of artistic excellence with
diverse, innovative programming.
The HSO named Carolyn Kuan as its tenth music director in January 2011. She is the first woman and
the youngest person to hold this esteemed title and brings an entirely unique perspective on symphonic
music and its relevance in a 21st century community. She has led the HSO in new and ongoing creative
collaborations with other artistic partners, including, but not limited to Hartford Stage, the Wadsworth
Atheneum, TheaterWorks and the New Britain Museum of American Art.
In January of 2016, Adam Kerry Boyles was chosen as the HSO’s Assistant Conductor. His passion for music
and especially for young people, provides the HSO with an enthusiastic and creative advocate for our
music education and community engagement programming. The artistic leadership, musicians, and staff
have worked together to build deeper, expanded and more meaningful relationships with our long-standing
and new community partners. HSO’s 2016-2017 season introduced Family Concerts in multiple venues
throughout the Greater Hartford community and a new innovative series, HSO: Intermix. Set in multiple
small capacity nontraditional venues throughout the Hartford region, HSO: Intermix encourages close
interaction between musicians and patrons. In furtherance of its renewed commitment to community, in
2017, the HSO began the tradition of holding a public naturalization ceremony on the opening Masterworks
concert of each season and in the first year, Music Director Carolyn Kuan joined with ten others on the
stage to take the oath of citizenship.
In 2020, the HSO’s Music Builds Community campaign, publicly launched with the support of the Hartford
Foundation for Public Giving and key HSO Board members, reached its $10 million goal, a year ahead of
schedule. Most recently, as the HSO celebrated its 75th anniversary season, we proudly revived the HSO’s
Young Artists Competition, which has been maintained by generous support every year since, and was
moved to a virtual platform during the global pandemic.
STAFF
Steve Collins, Executive Director
EXECUTIVE
Jennifer Phipps, Assistant Manager,
Executive Relations and DEI/Community Engagement
ARTISTIC OPERATIONS
Dr. Colette Hall, Artistic Operations Manager
Jaroslaw Lis, Personnel Manager
Scott Switzer, Librarian
DEVELOPMENT
Ruth Sovronsky, Director of Development
Eric Hutchinson, Corporate and Foundation
Relations Manager
Jennifer Tromp, Annual Fund and Special
Events Manager
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Timothy Brown, Manager of DEI Initiatives
and Community Engagement
FINANCE
Steve West, Senior Accountant
MARKETING
Amanda Savio, Marketing and Public
Relations Manager
Ashley Overton, Marketing and Digital
Media Coordinator
TICKET SERVICES
Jennifer Berman, Ticket Services
Representative
FIRST VIOLIN
Leonid Sigal,
concertmaster
In memory of Paul
Rosenblum, HSO
Concertmaster,
by Karl & Muriel
Fleischmann, Gabriel
Halevi
Lisa Rautenberg,
associate concertmaster
Sooyeon Kim,
assistant concertmaster
Linda Beers
Perry Elliot
Karin Fagerburg
Romina Kostare
Allyson Michal
Millie Piekos
Cyrus Stevens
Deborah Tyler
Katalin Viragh
SECOND VIOLIN
Xiaoxuan Shi,
principal
Jaroslaw Lis,
assistant principal
Martha Kayser
Lu Sun Friedman
Simon Bilyk
Gary Capozziello
Diane Frederickson
Krzysztof Gadawski
Yuri Kharenko-Golduber
Virginia Kramer
Candace M. Lammers
Yinbin Qian
Alicia Rattin
VIOLA
Michael Wheeler,
principal
Aekyung Kim,
assistant principal
Nick Borghoff
Patricia Daly Vance
Ann Drinan
Sponsored by The Verney
Family
Gretchen Frazier
James Gustafson
Bethany Hargreaves
The Orchestra
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Carolyn Kuan
Endowed by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Adam Boyles
Martha Knieriem
Charlotte Malin
Arthur Masi
Georgina Rossi
Sponsored by Chloe & Wes
Horton
Jiawei Yan
CELLO
Jeffrey Krieger,
principal
Jia Cao,
assistant principal
Carole Olefsky
Laura Kane
Fran Bard
Cara Cheung
Jennifer Combs
Tom Hudson
Yoonhee Ko
Peter Zay
BASS
Edward R. Rozie, Jr.,
principal
The Claire & Millard Pryor
Orchestra Committee
Chair
Sponsored by Brook &
Charlotte Jason
Robert Groff,
assistant principal
James Carroll
Tony Connaway
Joseph Messina
Julianne Russell
Mark Zechel
FLUTE
Emma Resmini,
principal
Barbara A. Hopkins,
assistant principal
PICCOLO
Jeanne Wilson
Sponsored by Diane and
Gary Whitney
OBOE
Heather Taylor,
principal
Stephen Wade,
assistant principal
ENGLISH HORN
Marilyn Krentzman
CLARINET
Curt Blood,
principal
Eddie Sundra,
assistant principal
BASS CLARINET
Paul Won Jin Cho
BASSOON
Yeh-Chi Wang,
principal
Pinghua Ren
assistant principal
CONTRABASSOON
Rebecca Noreen
HORN
Barbara Hill,
principal
Sponsored by Matthew H.
Lynch & Susan M. Banks
John Michael Flavetta,
assistant principal
Hilary Ledebuhr
Nick Rubenstein
Joshua Michal
TRUMPET
Scott McIntosh,
principal
John Charles Thomas,
assistant principal
Jerry Bryant
TROMBONE
Brian L. Diehl,
principal
Robert Hoveland,
assistant principal
BASS TROMBONE
TUBA
Stephen B. Perry,
principal
TIMPANI
Eugene Bozzi,
principal
Sponsored by Carlotta &
Bob Garthwait, Jr.
PERCUSSION
Robert McEwan,
principal
HARP
Susan Knapp Thomas,
principal
PIANO
STAGE MANAGER
Jeremy Philbin, I.A.T.S.E.
After the first two desks
of violins and cellos, and
the first desk of violas and
basses, the remaining string
musicians participate in
rotational seating and are
listed in alphabetical order.
AFM Local 400
The musicians of the
Hartford Symphony
Orchestra are members of
the American Federation
of Musicians of the United
States and Canada.
Stagehands Local 84
The Stagehands of the
Hartford Symphony
Orchestra are members of
the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees
(I.A.T.S.E.).
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