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10 History of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra As Buffalo’s cultural ambassador, the Grammy Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the leadership of music director JoAnn Falletta presents more than 120 Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year and reaches over 40,000 students per year (K-12) across all eight counties of Western New York. Since 1940, the orchestra’s permanent home has been Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Site with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the United States. The BPO has toured widely across the United States and Canada including the recent Florida Friends Tour with JoAnn Falletta in March 2010, the first multi-city tour since the 1988 European tour. The BPO has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall as a participant in the prestigious Spring for Music festival in 2013. This will be the orchestra’s 24th appearance at Carnegie Hall and its first since Music Director JoAnn Falletta led the orchestra in a much heralded appearance there in June 2004. During the tenure of current music director JoAnn Falletta, the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of NPR broadcasts and recordings, including the release of 18 new CDs of a highly diverse repertoire on the NAXOS and Beau Fleuve labels. The Philharmonic’s Naxos recording of composer John Corigliano’s “Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan,” featuring soprano Hila Plitmann, won Grammys in two categories of the three for which it was nominated: Classical Vocal Performance and Classical Contemporary Composition. For more information about the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra please visit www. bpo.org. History of Kleinhans Music Hall Kleinhans Music Hall is a National Historic Landmark with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the United States. It was designed by the famous Finnish father-and-son team of Eliel and Eero Saarinen with F.J. and W.A Kidd, architects. Kleinhans is considered one of the most acoustically perfect halls in the world. Kleinhans Music Hall was built thanks to the generosity and vision of Edward and Mary Seaton Kleinhans and the stewardship of their charitable dreams by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. The Community Foundation was bequeathed the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Kleinhans who made their fortune from the clothing store that bore their name and who died within three months of each other in 1934. The Kleinhans, who were music lovers, found the Elmwood Music Hall drafty and acoustically imperfect and specified their money was to be used “to erect a suitable music hall…for the use, enjoyment and benefit of the people of the City of Buffalo.” Kleinhans Music Hall was officially opened on October 12, 1940; this date also marked the Buffalo Philharmonic’s first concert in the hall. There are three notable rooms within Kleinhans: the Main Auditorium, Livingston Hall (named in memory of Mary Livingston, mother of Mr. Kleinhans), and the Mary Seaton Room (a memorial to Mr. Kleinhans’ wife, Mary Seaton Kleinhans). For more information about Kleinhans Music Hall please visit www.kleinhansbuffalo.org.
JoAnn Falletta, music director Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower Endowed Chair Matthew Kraemer, associate conductor FIRST VIOLIN Michael Ludwig concertmaster Clement & Karen Arrison Endowed Chair Amy Glidden assoc. concertmaster Louis P. Ciminelli Family Foundation Chair Ansgarius Aylward asst. concertmaster Marylouise Nanna Douglas Cone Frances Kaye Karen Soffer Deborah Greitzer Diana Sachs Alan Ross Melanie Haas Andrea Blanchard-Cone Loren Silvertrust SECOND VIOLIN Antoine Lefebvre principal Jacqueline Galluzzo assoc. principal Richard Kay Jeffrey Jones Frances Morgante Donald McCrorey Robert Prokes Amy Licata Dmitry Gerikh Diane Melillo Shieh-Jian Tsai VIOLA Valerie Heywood principal Natalie Piskorsky assoc. principal Matthew Phillips Kate Holzemer Janz Castelo NingNing Jin CELLO Roman Mekinulov principal Jane D. Baird Endowed Chair Feng Hew assoc. principal Nancy Anderson Monte Hoffman1 Robert Hausmann David Schmude Amelie Fradette BASS Daniel Pendley principal Garman Family Foundation Endowed Chair Brett Shurtliffe assoc. principal William Burns Michael Nigrin John Haas Makoto Michii Edmond Gnekow FLUTE Christine Lynn Bailey principal Betsy Reeds Natalie Debikey Scanio PICCOLO Natalie Debikey Scanio OBOE Pierre Roy principal Catherine Estes Anna Mattix ENGLISH HORN Anna Mattix CLARINET John Fullam principal Patti Dilutis Salvatore Andolina E-FLAT CLARINET Patti Dilutis BASS CLARINET & SAXOPHONE Salvatore Andolina BASSOON Glenn Einschlag principal Ron Daniels Martha Malkiewicz CONTRABASSOON Martha Malkiewicz FRENCH HORN Michael Winter* Kay Koessler Endowed Chair Daniel Kerdelewicz, assoc. principal Daniel Sweeley Jay Matthews Duane Saetveit TRUMPET Alex Jokipii principal Geoffrey Hardcastle Philip Christner TROMBONE Jonathan Lombardo 2 principal Timothy Smith BASS TROMBONE Jeffrey Dee TUBA Don Harry principal TIMPANI Matthew Bassett principal Dinesh Joseph asst. principal PERCUSSION Mark Hodges principal Dinesh Joseph HARP Suzanne Thomas principal * one year appointment 1 Chair dedicated to the memory of Maer Bunis 2 Chair dedicated to the memory of Scott Parkinson 11
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