January 28, 2011

An evening celebrating

the achievements of

Maestro Paul Freeman,

Founder and Music Director of

the Chicago Sinfonietta.

Lead Corporate Sponsor

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Yo-Yo MaSalutes

Maestro Paul Freeman

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Letter from the ChairsDear Friends,

We, along with the Board of the Chicago Sinfonietta, would like to extend our sincerest gratitude for your support of the Yo-Yo Ma Salutes Maestro PaulFreeman event. We are very proud to welcome you to this evening’s celebration,commemorating the ground-breaking career of Maestro Freeman.

Tonight’s event is timely in many ways. Last Sunday the Chicago Tribunerecognized Yo-Yo Ma as a Citizen Musician. A Citizen Musician is any musicianwho uses their talent and passion for music to enhance the quality of life in theircommunity and beyond. It is clear that tonight, we are privileged to experiencethe works of two such individuals that exemplify this concept, Maestro PaulFreeman and Yo-Yo Ma.

Paul Freeman’s life’s work has been dedicated to breaking down the barriers thathad denied aspiring minority and women musicians, composers, and conductorsthe opportunity to find their places in the classical music field. First, as a pioneering figure who broke the color barrier at over fifty orchestras worldwide,and then as a tireless advocate for minority and women musicians, soloists, andcomposers, Paul Freeman has impacted the lives of countless people throughouthis five-decade career. The culmination of his life’s work was the founding of theChicago Sinfonietta, an orchestra dedicated to promoting diversity, inclusion andinnovation in classical music.

We would like to thank JPMorgan Chase & Co. for their generous support of this event as our Lead Corporate Sponsor. We thank Deborah Rutter and theChicago Symphony Orchestra for their assistance with this event. We would liketo thank you for attending this event and to everyone that helped to make thisevening a wonderful success. Finally, we sincerely thank Yo-Yo Ma and thisevening’s other special guests for their generosity and their incredible talent.

We invite you to enjoy this incredible night and to celebrate the work of a trueChicago cultural icon.

Sincerely,

Sandra Rand John Daniels, Esq.Civic Leader Chairman, Quarles & Brady LLP

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Maestro Freeman

Paul Douglas Freeman was born in Richmond, Virginia, on January 2, 1936. Hegrew up in modest circumstances in the American South in the middle of the twen-tieth century—difficult beginnings for any African American. “Growing up in seg-regation in Richmond...to have fulfilled my personal dreams and to have helped tofound an entity [the Chicago Sinfonietta] that brings dreams to others, even Isometimes can’t believe what we’ve done,” Freeman told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Freeman started piano lessons at age five, and he soon took up the clarinet as well.He took clarinet lessons at Richmond's Armstrong High School while still in elementary school and took lessons at Virginia State College in Petersburg whilein high school. One of the stories Paul shares is about the first time he ever heardan orchestra perform as a child in his hometown of Richmond. He and his mother were directed to sit in the colored section of the theater, or as he likes torefer to it, the peanut gallery.

His conducting debut came at age 14 or 15, when his clarinet teacher fell ill andwas unable to conduct the Armstrong school band for its scheduled performanceat a PTA meeting. Freeman stepped in as a substitute. “Although the ministry wasan earlier career interest, a maestro was born that evening,” Freeman wrote in aletter quoted in the book Black Conductors.

In 1996, he was appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the CzechNational Symphony Orchestra in Prague, a position he held simultaneously with hisChicago Sinfonietta post. From 1979 to 1989, he served as Music Director of theVictoria Symphony in Canada, Principal Guest Conductor of the HelsinkiPhilharmonic in Finland, Associate Conductor of the Dallas and Detroit SymphonyOrchestras, and Music Director of the Opera Theatre of Rochester, New York.

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A recipient of the Mahler Award from the European Union of Arts, Freeman hasbeen in constant demand as a guest conductor, having led more than 100 orchestrasin over 40 countries. As one of America's most successful recording conductors, hehas approximately 200 releases to his credit. Freeman has been involved in morethan a dozen televised orchestra productions in North America and Europe. He hasbeen nominated for two Emmy Awards and constantly receives rave reviews for hisrecordings. The December 2000 issue of Fanfare magazine proclaimed MaestroFreeman “one of the finest conductors which our nation has produced.”

Dr. Freeman received his Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music. He studied on aU.S. Fulbright Grant in Berlin, and holds honorary doctorate degrees fromDominican and Loyola Universities. In 2005, Maestro Freeman was designateda HistoryMaker, having been nominated by the DuSable Museum of AfricanAmerican History, for his outstanding contributions to African American life,history, and culture.

The 2010-2011 Season with the Chicago Sinfonietta will be Maestro Freeman’sfarewell season as he steps down from the podium after twenty-four years.Chicago’s WYCC just completed a recent documentary called The Sounds ofDiversity on Maestro Freeman and the legacy of the Chicago Sinfonietta. In2010, Chicago United honored Maestro Freeman as a Bridge Award winner forhis demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity within their companies.Operation Push just honored Maestro Freeman with its Legend Award. Weanticipate many more accolades including Maestro Freeman’s induction into theClassical Music Hall of Fame.

Maestro Freeman’s talent was summarized in the following quotation fromRobert Marsh, longtime music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times: “Freeman con-ducts performances which are remarkable for their beauty and communicativeforce. He brings the sound of the Chicago Sinfonietta to the heights of angels.”

Chicago Sinfonietta History

Maestro Paul Freeman founded the Chicago Sinfonietta in 1987 in response tothe lack of opportunity for minority classical musicians, composers, and soloists.Chicago Sinfonietta musicians truly represent the city’s rich cultural landscapeand continue to fulfill the orchestra’s mission of Musical Excellence throughDiversity™. A 2007 survey of major orchestras revealed that the ChicagoSinfonietta is the most diverse professional orchestra in the United States.Through this distinction, the Chicago Sinfonietta serves as a national model forinclusiveness in classical music.

The mission of the Chicago Sinfonietta is to serve as a national model for inclusiveness and innovation in classical music through the presentation of thehighest quality orchestral concerts and related programs. The ChicagoSinfonietta aspires to remove the barriers to participation in, and appreciation ofclassical music through its educational and outreach programs that expose children and their families to classical music, and by providing professional development opportunities for young musicians and composers of diverse back-grounds enabling new, important voices to be heard.

Under the guidance of founding Music Director Paul Freeman, the orchestra performs at the highest artistic level and has achieved an outstanding reputa-tion for its innovative programs. The Sinfonietta is dedicated to the authentic performance of Classical, Romantic and Contemporary repertoire and excels atpresenting imaginative new works by composers and soloists of color.

During the first ten years, the orchestra embarked on six international tours per-forming concerts in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and the Canary Islands.

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The Chicago Sinfonietta has produced fourteen compact discs, including themuch heralded three-disc African Heritage Symphonic Series released on CedilleRecords in 2002 and a live recording of the 2007 tribute concert to Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr. The orchestra has performed twice at the John F. Kennedy Centerin Washington D.C. In August of 2008, the Chicago Sinfonietta made its debutperformance at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park to over 11,000 people and performed for over 90,000 people during 2009-2010.

After Maestro Freeman’s decision to retire from the podium after the 2010-2011,the organization embarked on a two-year international search for his successor. InAugust 2010, the Chicago Sinfonietta proudly announced Maestro Mei-AnnChen as its Music Director Designate. Maestro Chen will officially assume theMusic Director position in July of 2011, but will perform as a Guest Conductor inMay 2011 for Maestro Freeman’s final performance. Mei-Ann Chen made herSinfonietta podium debut in October 2009 for the Sinfonietta’s critically-acclaimed season opener concert titled West Meets East.

The first woman to win the Malko International Conductors Competition (2005),Mei-Ann Chen, 37, is considered one of America’s most exciting and promisingyoung conductors. Concluding a highly successful tenure as Assistant Conductorof the Baltimore Symphony in 2010, she has also accepted a three-year appointment as the Music Director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra thatbegan in the 2010-2011 season. Maestro Chen is in demand on the podium allover the world.

A native of Taiwan, Chen has lived in the United States since 1989. She holdsmaster’s degrees in both conducting and violin from the New EnglandConservatory, and a D.M.A. in conducting from the University of Michigan,where she was a student of Kenneth Kiesler. Chen was a participant in theNational Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C. and the American Academyof Conducting in Aspen.During her five-year tenure asMusic Director of the Portland(OR) Youth Philharmonic, sheled its sold-out debut inCarnegie Hall, received anASCAP award for innovativeprogramming, and was honoredwith a Sunburst Award fromYoung Audiences for her con-tribution to music education.

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Chicago Sinfonietta Board of Directors2010-2011

Maestro Paul Freeman, Music Director and FounderMaestro Mei-Ann Chen, Music Director Designate

Jim Hirsch, Executive Director

Neelum T. Aggarwal, M.D.

Karim AhamedHPM Partners

Anne Barlow-Johnston

Jetta Bates-VasilatosThe Nielsen Company

Linda BoasmondCedar Concepts

Patrick CermakWight & Company

Cheri Chappelle - CHAIRIllinois Tool Works

Eileen ChinR. M. Chin & Associates

Virginia ClarkeTalent Optimization Partners, LLC

Tara Dowd Gurber – PAST CHAIRBlue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

Philip L. Engel

Margarete EvanoffDeloitte Consulting LLP

Rich GambleChicago Magazine

Phil Gant IIIElement 79

Dan Grossman, Ph.D.The Boston Consulting Group

Steven HunterQuarles & Brady

Gregory P. JacobsonThe Jacobson Group

Betty Johnson

Nicole Johnson-ScalesFifth Third Bank

Kevin KrakoraMesirow Financial

John Luce, Psy.D.PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dean R. NelsonProcter & Gamble

Nazneen RaziJones Lang LaSalle

Stephanie SpringsMake A Wish Foundation

Michelle Vanderlaan

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Yo-Yo Ma Salutes Maestro Paul Freeman

Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Richard WagnerArr. Jeremy Jordan

Jeremy Jordan, piano

Three Preludes for piano and clarinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .George GershwinJeremy Jordan, piano

Anthony McGill, clarinet

Cello soloYo-Yo Ma, cello

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581 . . . . . . .Wolfgang Amadeus MozartII. Larghetto

Anthony McGill, clarinetDavid Katz, violin

Carmen Kassinger, violinRenée Baker, viola

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Trio in B-flat, for clarinet, cello, and piano, op. 11 Thema: Pria ch’io L’impegno (Allegretto) . . . . . . . .Ludwig van Beethoven

Anthony McGill, clarinetYo-Yo Ma, cello

Jeremy Jordan, piano

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Yo-Yo Ma

For his latest album, Songs of Joy & Peace, the multiple Grammy®-winning cellistYo-Yo Ma invited many of his favorite artists from the worlds of popular and classical music to collaborate on a selection of songs — some sacred, some secular, some traditionally seasonal, some simply beloved — connected in theirsense of wonder and appreciation of the holiday season. Yo-Yo Ma conceived ofSongs of Joy & Peace as a universal holiday house party of music “uniting differentforms of joy” with the idea of combining familiar material with songs that wouldoffer the listener the gift of discovery performed by old friends and new. Songs ofJoy & Peace celebrates the universal hopes, dreams and good cheer animating seasonal festivals — Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa, Yuletide, WinterSolstice, New Year's, Ramadan — the world over.

Celebrating his 30th anniversary with Sony Classical and Sony Masterworks,Yo-Yo Ma is an exclusive Sony Classical artist, and his discography of over 75albums (including 15 Grammy® Award winners) reflects his wide-ranging interests. He has made several successful recordings that defy categorization,among them Hush with Bobby McFerrin, Appalachia Waltz and AppalachianJourney with Mark O’Connor and Edgar Meyer and two Grammy®-winningtributes to the music of Brazil, Obrigado Brazil and Obrigado Brazil - Live inConcert. Yo-Yo Ma’s most recent recordings include Paris: La Belle Époque, with

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pianist Kathryn Stott, Appassionato, which contains some of the world’s mostromantic music and New Impossibilities, a live album recorded with the Silk RoadEnsemble and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; he also appears on JohnWilliams’s soundtrack for Rob Marshall’s film Memoirs of a Geisha. Across thisfull range of releases, Yo-Yo Ma remains one of the best-selling recording artistsin the classical field. All of his recent albums have quickly entered the Billboardchart of classical best sellers, remaining in the Top 15 for extended periods, oftenwith as many as four titles simultaneously on the list.

Yo-Yo Ma is strongly committed to educational programs that not only bringyoung audiences into contact with music but also allow them to participate in itscreation. While touring, he takes time whenever possible to conduct master classes as well as more informal programs for students - musicians and non-musicians alike. At the same time he continues to develop new concert programsfor family audiences (helping, for instance, to inaugurate the family series atCarnegie Hall). In each of these undertakings, he works to connect music to students’ daily surroundings and activities with the goal of making music and creativity a vital part of children's lives from an early age. He has also reachedyoung audiences through appearances on Arthur, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood andSesame Street.

Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to studythe cello with his father at age four and soon came with his family to New York,where he spent most of his formative years. Later, his principal teacher wasLeonard Rose at the Juilliard School. He sought out a traditional liberal arts edu-cation to expand upon his conservatory training, graduating from HarvardUniversity in 1976. He has received numerous awards, including the Avery FisherPrize (1978), the Glenn Gould Prize (1999), the National Medal of the Arts(2001), the Dan David Prize (2006), the Sonning Prize (2006), and the WorldEconomic Forum’s Crystal Award (2008). Appointed a CultureConnectAmbassador by the United States Department of State in 2002, Yo-Yo Ma hasmet with, trained and mentored thousands of students worldwide includingLithuania, Korea, Lebanon, Azerbaijan and China. He has performed with andconducted master classes for members of the Iraqi National SymphonyOrchestra. In 2006, Secretary General Kofi Annan named him a U.N. Messengerof Peace and in 2007 Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon extended his appointment.

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Anthony McGill, clarinet

Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the MetropolitanOpera Orchestra, has quickly earned the reputation of beingone of classical music’s finest solo, chamber and orchestralmusicians. Before joining the MET Orchestra in 2004, heserved as associate principal clarinet of the CincinnatiSymphony Orchestra for four years. With the MET

Orchestra, McGill frequently performs in Carnegie Hall’s Isaac SternAuditorium, as well as Zankel and Weill Halls with the MET ChamberEnsemble. He can be seen and heard on the Live in HD broadcasts from theMetropolitan Opera

On January 20th 2009, McGill performed “Air and Simple Gifts” by JohnWilliams with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Gabriela Montero at the inaugu-ration of President Barack Obama. In 2000, McGill was a winner of the highlyprestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and has also appeared as a soloist withorchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,Hilton Head Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, and The CurtisOrchestra. This season he will appear with the Peabody Orchestra, The NewAmsterdam Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a distinguished chamber musician, McGill has performed at the MarlboroMusic Festival, Sarasota Festival, La Musica, Tanglewood, Music@Menlo, theGrand Teton Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Martha’s VineyardChamber Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival,Bridgehampton Chamber Festival and the Interlochen Music Festival. He is alsoa member of the newly formed Schumann Trio with violist Michael Tree andpianist Anna Polonsky.

McGill has collaborated with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, Lang Lang,Yefim Bronfman and Gil Shaham, as well as world-renowned string quartetsincluding the Guarneri, Tokyo, Shanghai, Miami, Miró and Daedalus quartets.He has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a chamberand orchestral musician with artists including the Brentano String Quartet,Musicians from Marlboro, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,Mitsuko Uchida, Marina Piccinini and Barbara Sukova.

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McGill has appeared on Performance Today, NPR’s St. Paul Sunday, Ravinia’sRising Star Series, on the Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood television show and atLincoln Center as a member of Chamber Music Society Two.McGill attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Curtis Institute of Music.His former teachers include Donald Montanaro, Richard Hawkins, Larry Combs,Julie DeRoche, David Tuttle and Sidney Forrest. In high demand as a teacher,McGill currently serves on the faculties of the Peabody Institute of the JohnsHopkins University, Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School ofMusic Precollege. In addition he has given master classes at the Curtis Instituteof Music, University of Michigan, Stony Brook University, Temple University,UCLA, University of New Mexico and the Manhattan School of Music.

Jeremy Jordan, pianoAn alumni of the DePaul Community Music Division,Jeremy Jordan began piano studies at the age of four with hisparents Mark and Verna. He came to the CMD when he wasnine years old to study with Regina Syrkin and in that sameyear gave a televised performance of Beethoven’s PianoConcerto No. 1. Other on-air appearances include a radio performance on From the Top in 2005 as part of the

Mephisto Trio and a televised solo performance on NPR in 2007 as part of Fromthe Top: Live from Carnegie Hall.

After winning the 2006 Steinway Piano Concerto Competition, Jeremy made hisorchestral debut with Maestro Alan Heatherington and the Ars Viva SymphonyOrchestra performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1. He made his Europeandebut six months later with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under thebaton of Music Director Maestro Paul Freeman. A repeat performance was givenin 2007 with the Chicago Sinfonietta at Symphony Center. An active composeras well as performer, Jeremy’s Fantasie No. 3 for piano won first place in the MusicTeachers National Association’s Young Composer’s Competition, and hisNocturne for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon was premiered on NPR.

Jeremy is currently studying piano with Matti Raekallio on the Howard & EthelB. Ross Scholarship, the Bruno Raikin Memorial Piano Scholarship, and the VanCliburn Scholarship at The Juilliard School where he will begin his third year ofstudies in the fall.

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Renée Baker, violaRenée Baker is founder/leader of thirteen contemporarymusic performance entities — Chicago Modern OrchestraProject, FAQtet, Mantra Blue Free Orchestra, Red Chai,Project 6, Wrinkled Linen, Connoisseur Musica StringEnsemble (classical), Poemusici (spoken word group),Mimetic Cast (new music performance ensemble and pub-lisher), Blanché (experimental orchestra), Baker Artet, Tuntui

(experimental piano quartet) and the Renée Baker Trio. She has created eclecticchamber festivals for Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Joffrey BalletChamber Series, Norris Cultural Arts Center and Classical Symphony Hall.

As a composer, Ms. Baker has penned creative compositions for her own groups,as well as the Chicago Sinfonietta Chamber Ensemble and Great Black MusicEnsemble/AACM. In 2009, Ms. Baker’s compositions have premiered inUmbria, Italy and also have been performed at Suoni Per Il Popolo in Montreal.Ms. Baker has presented over twenty concerts including her compositions for theChicago State University Student Afternoon recital Series, from 2002-2007. Shehas premiered over ten works on the Chicago Sinfonietta Chamber Series 2008-2010. Ms. Baker was accepted into the cutting-edge Jazz Composers OrchestraInstitute at Columbia University in July 2010. She is currently working on musicscore for a film sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Foundation and is alsocomposing scores for the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), a programentitled Brass Epiphany, part of the 45th Anniversary celebration of the AACMto be presented in November 2010.

Carmen Kassinger, violinCarmen Llop Kassinger is proud to have played with theChicago Sinfonietta for over ten years. She has been an activeparticipant in many of the outreach programs the Sinfoniettaprovides including the SEED program and Chamber con-certs. Carmen also plays in other top tier Chicago ensemblessuch as The Chicago Philharmonic, The Ravinia FestivalOrchestra, Ars Viva, Lake Forest Symphony, and The Joffrey

Ballet Orchestra. Carmen also works with chamber ensembles like Fulcrum Pointand the Callisto Ensemble. Carmen has performed with many artists; from theThree Tenors and Andrea Bocelli to Led Zepplin, Yes, Ray Charles, FrankSinatra, Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Linda Rondstadt and Rod

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Stewart. Carmen has performed on Sound Stage and Oprah Winfrey with suchvaried performers as J-Lo, Faith Hill, Jewel, Michael McDonald, Stevie Nicks,and Mary J. Blige. She was concertmaster for the world premieres of TheProducers and Elton John’s Aida. Originally from Atlanta, Carmen was a memberof the Charleston Symphony and played the Spoleto Festival. She received herMasters in violin performance from the University of Miami, where she studiedwith Glenn Basham. While in Florida, Carmen played with the New WorldSymphony and spent ten seasons in the pit for Sarasota Opera.

David Katz, violinDavid Katz is an active performer and teacher of violin andviola in the Chicagoland area. He currently performs asassistant concertmaster with the Lake Forest Symphony andthe Chicago Opera Company. He also performs regularlywith the Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, ARS Viva!,Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and Fulcrum Point. Davidhas also been a substitute for the Philadelphia Orchestra,

Lyric Opera and Grant Park Music Festival. He also performed with theConcerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Opera Company and thePennsylvania Ballet Company. David has performed with the San FranciscoBallet in Chicago. For many of these orchestras David has stepped in as concert-master. David has played for many touring Broadway shows as well as for visitingperformers here in Chicago and in Atlantic City, NJ. David has also been all overthe globe performing and touring with orchestras such as Orchestra Sinfonica deGalicia (La Coruna, Spain) Caracas (Venezuela) Philharmonic [principal 2ndviolin], the Princeton (N.J.) Chamber Orchestra (in Cairo, Egypt and Amman,Jordan) and many years with the Spoleto (Italy) Music Festival. He toured EastGermany just before the “Wall” came down (1988) with the Chicago ChamberOrchestra, and has done many tours with the Chicago Sinfonietta in Germany,Switzerland, the Canary Islands and Southern California. David studied withJascha Brodsky (1st violinist with the Curtis String Quartet for over 50 years) atthe New School of Music in Philadelphia. David has taught violin and viola forover 25 years and is certified in the Suzuki method. He currently teaches private-ly and for Suzuki School of Barrington. David has two teenage children (who alsoplay violin) and a wife (Michelle) who enjoys listening to the trio.

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Salute the lifetime achievement of

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Quarles & Brady LLP salutes

Maestro Paul Freeman

founder of the Chicago Sinfonietta,

on 24 years of excellence

and diversity in classical music.

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The Board of Directors of the Chicago Sinfonietta salutes the work and

the leadership ofMaestro Paul Freeman.

The impact of your dream is truly immeasurable.

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