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French ImpressionsRAVEL Rapsodie espagnole DEBUSSY Nocturnes BERLIOZ Te Deum

Charles Dutoit conductor • Joseph Kaiser tenor Sydney Philharmonia Choirs • Sydney Children’s Choir Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus

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Thu 3 Sep 1.30pmEmirates Metro Series

Fri 4 Sep 8pmPre-concert talk by David Garrett 45 minutes before each performance

Roman TrilogyBERLIOZ Roman Carnival – Overture SCHUMANN Cello Concerto RESPIGHI Roman Festivals Fountains of Rome Pines of Rome

Charles Dutoit conductor Daniel Müller-Schott cello (PICTURED)

APT Master Series

Wed 9 Sep 8pm Fri 11 Sep 8pm Sat 12 Sep 8pmPre-concert talk by David Larkin at 7.15pm

Banned SSO Fellows Chamber Concert

Music by Schulhoff, Pavel Haas, Martinů and Mendelssohn, with the Sextet from Richard Strauss’s Capriccio.

Roger Benedict Artistic Director

Sat 19 Sep 6pmUtzon Room, Sydney Opera House

Anne-Sophie Mutter plays DvorákDVOŘÁK Romance for violin DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 (Eroica)

Jakub Hrůša conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin

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Wed 23 Sep 8pm Fri 25 Sep 8pm Sat 26 Sep 8pm Pre-concert talk by Genevieve Huppert at 7.15pm

Sibelius 2 Robertson Conducts

SCULTHORPE Sun Music II WALTON Violin Concerto SIBELIUS Symphony No.2

David Robertson conductor Andrew Haveron violin (PICTURED)

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Thu 8 Oct 1.30pmEmirates Metro Series

Fri 9 Oct 8pmGreat Classics

Sat 10 Oct 2pm Pre-concert talk by David Robertson 45 minutes before each performance

Cirque de la Symphonie Cirque de la Symphonie returns to Australia with a show of favourites and surprises. Enjoy elite performers from around the world presenting dazzling displays of circus artistry and skill with your Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

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MEET THE MUSIC THURSDAY 27 AUGUST, 6.30PM

KALEIDOSCOPE FRIDAY 28 AUGUST, 8PM SATURDAY 29 AUGUST, 8PM

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TIME FOR THREEJessica Cottis conductorTime for Three: Zachary DePue violin Nicolas Kendall violin Ranaan Meyer double bass

Pre-concert talk by the SSO’s Director of Artistic Planning, Benjamin Schwartz, in the Northern Foyer 45 minutes before each performance.

Estimated durations: 21 minutes, 35 minutes, 20-minute interval, 7 minutes, 25 minutes The concert will conclude at approximately 10pm (8.30pm Thursday).

AARON COPLAND (1900–1990) Suite from the ballet Billy the KidThe Open Prairie Street in a Frontier Town Mexican Dance and Finale Prairie Night (Card Game at Night) Gun Battle Celebration after Billy’s Capture Billy’s Death The Open Prairie Again

JENNIFER HIGDON (born 1962) Concerto 4–3The Shallows – cadenza – Little River – Roaring Smokiesfeaturing Time for Threeaustralian premiere

INTERVAL

MASON BATES (born 1977) White Lies for Lomax

FIVE SONGS FOR STRING TRIO AND ORCHESTRA…

Banjo LoveLittle Lion ManHallelujahCsárdásOrange Blossom Special

See page 13 for composer and arranger details

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ABOUT THE MUSIC

KeynotesCOPLANDBorn Brooklyn, NY, 1900 Died Peekskill, NY, 1990

For many, Aaron Copland’s name is synonymous with American music – you only have to think of works such as his ballets Rodeo and Appalachian Spring or the Fanfare for the Common Man. It was his pioneering achievement to shrug off the musical influence of Europe and develop a style that was recognisably characteristic of America in the 20th century, and yet distinctive to him alone.

BILLY THE KID

This ballet came about at the instigation of the impresario and philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein, perhaps best known as the co-founder, with Balanchine, of New York City Ballet in 1946. But NYCB wasn’t his first foray into ballet: ten years earlier he’d founded the touring company Ballet Caravan. It was for this company that Copland composed Billy the Kid in 1938; the choreographer was Eugene Loring.

The ballet’s scenario is based on the historical figure William H Bonney, best known as Billy the Kid – gunman, outlaw and folk hero of the American Old West. This suite of dances follows the thread of the story and is distinctive for the way in which Copland folded traditional cowboy songs into his style.

Aaron Copland Suite from the ballet Billy the KidThe Open Prairie Street in a Frontier Town Mexican Dance and Finale Prairie Night (Card Game at Night) Gun Battle Celebration after Billy’s Capture Billy’s Death The Open Prairie Again

Billy the Kid opens on the prairie, settlers crossing the plain in search of ‘the American Dream’; among them Billy and the mother whose death will spur Billy into his short life of crime.

Copland’s music begins with a simple tune played by oboe and two clarinets spread out over an octave and a half. The effect is unique: like a tune picked out on a slightly wheezing frontier harmonium. It’s a perfect example of Copland’s lean, yet strikingly perfect orchestration. For once, Copland’s music, so often characteristically suggestive of Big Sky Country, specifically portrays that western scene. When the music strikes fortissimo, or comes back on a quartet of French horns at the end, we know

John Kriza in Billy the Kid, from the American Ballet Theatre’s inaugural season in 1940.

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that this is an heroic vision of pioneering waggoners on the trail. The off-beat ostinato in the bass has elsewhere been used by American composers (such as Leonard Bernstein) to underscore courage.

Billy the Kid was Lincoln Kirstein’s idea. He wanted to create a work for his company Ballet Caravan which would get American ballet away from Russian models. Copland was sympathetic, but protested that he was too much of a city-slicker to write the music. Kirstein convinced him that Billy the Kid (c.1860–1881), the notorious gunslinger of the American southwest, had been born in New York himself.

And so, in 1938, prior to Copland’s trip to Europe to hear El salón Mexico performed in London, Kirstein started plying Copland with volumes of cowboy music. Copland was still ambivalent. Of cowboy music he said: ‘The words are usually beautiful, and the manner of singing needs no praise from me. But neither the words nor the delivery are of much use in a purely orchestral ballet score…’

And certainly, friends and colleagues who had followed Copland’s career thus far – severe abstract works such as the Piano Variations or Statements, or jazz-influenced works such as the Piano Concerto – were perplexed. Fellow-composer David Diamond couldn’t imagine how ‘Aaron’ would incorporate cowboy music in that rugged, spare style of his.

Nevertheless Copland took the volumes with him from London to Paris. Elliott Carter, Music Director of Ballet Caravan, posted him the scenario, several pages of notes on Billy the Kid and other suggestions. ‘Perhaps there is something different about a cowboy song in Paris,’ said Copland later. ‘Whatever the reason, it was not long before I found myself hopelessly involved with “Great Grand-Dad”, “Git Along Little Dogies”, “The Old Chisholm Trail”, “Goodbye, Old Paint, and “The Dying Cowboy”…I assured David that I would not use “Home on the Range” – I decided to draw the line somewhere.’

Billy the Kid loosely follows Wild West history. After an opening scene on the prairie, we find ourselves on a street in a frontier

Aaron Copland in the 1930s

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town. Cowboys saunter past or ride horses, Mexican women do a Jarabe. We hear tunes like Great Grand-Dad, The Old Chisholm Trail and Git Along Little Dogies. This innocuous scene is soon interrupted by a fight between two drunks. Somehow the mother of 12-year-old Billy is killed and, in revenge, Billy stabs her killers. (The real Billy apparently first killed when he got his hands free to pull out his gun during a fight in Arizona with a bully). Thus begins his short brutal career. We then see him at night under the stars; at a card game (where Copland uses triads and segments of Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie); hunted by a posse and in a gun battle. He is captured; escapes. Then back out on the prairie he is captured with his girl.

Perhaps Kirstein was wanting to say something about an underlying brutality in American life that would demonise a boy as young as Billy. Billy was said to have killed a man for every year of his life; he was shot dead at 21. It must have been hard for a young man to walk straight in the feuding lawlessness of 19th-century New Mexico Territory. Nevertheless, it was this commission which probably gave Copland the clue as to how an American music should sound.

The work was tried out in Chicago, on 6 Oct 1938, played on two pianos. In its New York premiere it was paired with Elliott Carter’s Pocahontas. Copland made his concert suite adaptation in 1939.

Copland talked of the difficulties in adapting original sources like cowboy songs: one must find harmonies that do not go against the naturalness of the music ‘[yet] must expand, contract, rearrange, and superimpose the bare tunes themselves, giving them something of one’s touch’. By now he was writing very, very simply, not just, as he said, because in writing for theatre you must not detract from what the eye needs to see, but because simplicity was in itself a virtue. Time magazine in June 1939 described the score of Billy the Kid as ‘wasting not a grace note’.

Billy the Kid became a prototype for later ‘Western’ ballets: Rodeo and even perhaps Agnes de Mille’s work in Oklahoma!. As for the note of realism that it struck, choreographer Eugene Loring recalled that when it was first performed, there were old-timers out west who remembered the real Billy the Kid. One of them came backstage after a performance in San Francisco and said the ballet was fine, ‘except that Billy really shot left-handed’.

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Copland’s Billy the Kid calls for two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets

and two bassoons; four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba;

timpani and a large percussion section; harp, piano and strings.

The SSO gave the first Australian performance of music from Billy the Kid

in 1951, conducted by Eugene Goossens. According to our records, our most

recent performance of the suite was in 1973, conducted by Patrick Thomas.

The only authenticated photo of Billy the Kid is a ferrotype photograph from 1879 or 1880. It was widely circulated in a flipped reproduction (as above), leading to the assumption that he was left-handed. Examination of the rifle as well as his clothing (belt buckle, direction of the buttoning) revealed that it was a mirror image. On the other hand, there are contemporary newspaper reports suggesting that Billy the Kid may have been ambidextrous.

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Jennifer Higdon (born 1962) Concerto 4–3The Shallows – cadenza – Little River – Roaring Smokies

featuring Time for Three

The composer writes…

Concerto 4–3 is a three-movement concerto, featuring two violins and a double bass, which combines the language of classical music with dashes of bluegrass technique.

The work is divided into three movements, with the option to perform a cadenza between the first and second movements. The movement titles refer to rivers that run through the Smoky Mountains (where growing up, I heard quite a bit of bluegrass): The Shallows, Little River and Roaring Smokies. I wanted to reference the Smokies, because East Tennessee was the first place that I really experienced bluegrass (or, as they call it there, Mountain Music).

The first movement, The Shallows, incorporates unique extended techniques (a manner of playing beyond the normal way of playing these instruments) that mimic everything from squeaking mice to electric guitars. These sounds resemble parts of the mountain rivers that move in shallow areas, where small rocks and pebbles make for a rapid ride that moves a rafter quickly from one side of the river to the other.

The second movement, Little River, is slow-moving and lyrical, very much in hymn-like fashion. This movement reflects the beauty of Little River as it flows through Townsend and Walland, Tennessee. At times there is real serenity and a majestic look to the water, with no movement obvious on the pure, glassy surface.

The third movement, Roaring Smokies, is a rapid-fire, virtuosic movement that shifts and moves very much like a raging river (those wild waters that pour out of the mountains). It is fun to swim in those cold waters, but your attention must always be alert, as danger lurks…the water goes where it wants and will take you with it.

While Concerto 4–3 is written in the classical vein, certain bluegrass techniques have been incorporated into the fabric of the piece: emphasis on off beats, open strings and slides. The language is definitely tonal, 21st-century and American-sounding in style.

About the composer…

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Jennifer Higdon taught herself to play flute at the age of 15 and began formal musical studies at 18, with an even later start in composition at the age of 21. Despite this

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late beginning, she has become a major figure in contemporary classical music and makes her living from commissions. Her work covers a wide range of genres, from orchestral, wind ensemble and chamber music, to operatic, choral and vocal works.

Higdon’s music has been commissioned and performed by orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luzern Sinfonieorchester, Hague Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and Dallas Symphony, as well as by such groups as the Tokyo String Quartet, Eighth Blackbird and the President’s Own Marine Band. She has worked with musicians such as Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Hilary Hahn and Yuja Wang.

Her many honours include the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto. She enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works and her music has been extensively recorded. Her blue cathedral is one of the most frequently performed American contemporary orchestral works, with more than 500 performances worldwide since its premiere in 2000. Among her most recent projects, her opera based on Charles Frazier’s best-selling novel Cold Mountain was premiered earlier this month by the Santa Fe Opera. Dr Higdon holds the Milton L Rock Chair in Composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she has inspired a generation of young composers and musicians.

www.jenniferhigdon.com

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The orchestra for Concerto 4–3

calls for pairs of flutes, oboes,

clarinets and bassoons; four horns,

three trumpets, three trombones

and tuba; timpani and percussion;

and strings.

This is the Australian premiere of

Concerto 4–3.

…East Tennessee was the first place I really experienced bluegrass (or, as they call it there, Mountain Music)

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Mason Bates White Lies for Lomaxfor orchestra

The composer writes…

It is still a surprise to discover how few classical musicians are familiar with Alan Lomax, the ethnomusicologist who ventured into the American South (and elsewhere) to record the soul of a land. Those scratchy recordings captured everyone from Muddy Waters to a whole slew of anonymous blues musicians.

White Lies for Lomax dreams up wisps of distant blues fragments – more fiction than fact, since they are hardly honest recreations of the blues – and lets them slowly accumulate to an assertive climax. This short but dense homage (which began life as a solo piano work) ends with a Lomax field recording floating in from an off-stage radio, briefly crossing paths with the cloud-like remnants of the work’s opening. The seemingly recent phenomenon of sampling – grabbing a sound-bite from a song and incorporating it into something new – is in fact a high-tech version of the very old practice of allusion or parody, and the inclusion of a field recording of early blues musicians at the end is a nod to that tradition.

MASON BATES © 2009

About the composer…

Mason Bates fuses innovative orchestral writing, imaginative narrative forms, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno. His symphonic music is championed by leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas and Leonard Slatkin and has received widespread acceptance for its expanded palette of electronic sounds. He is an advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether through institutional partnerships such as his residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, or through his classical–DJ project Mercury Soul, which has transformed spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing over a thousand people. His Mothership was premiered here at the Sydney Opera House by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in 2011 to an online audience of 1.8 million. In 2012 he received the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities.

www.masonbates.com

White Lies for Lomax calls for two flutes (one doubling piccolo), piccolo,

two oboes, clarinet, E-flat clarinet, two bassoons; four horns, three

trumpets, three trombones and tuba; timpani and three percussionists;

harp, piano and celesta; and strings.

This is the SSO’s first performance of White Lies for Lomax.

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Five songs for string trio and orchestra…Banjo Lovecomposed by Ranaan Meyer, Zach DePue and Nick Kendall orchestrated by Steve Hackman

Little Lion Mancomposed by Marcus Mumford (born 1987) arranged by Hackman

Hallelujahcomposed by Leonard Cohen (born 1934) arranged by Time for Three, orchestrated by Hackman and Meyer

Csárdáscomposed by Vittorio Monti (1868–1922) arranged by Time for Three, orchestrated by Hackman

Orange Blossom Specialcomposed by Ervin Thomas Rouse (1917–1981) arranged by Time for Three, orchestrated by Peter Nero

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If you’d like to hear more original material by Ranaan Meyer, together with some of the songs from tonight’s concert, look for the 2009 album 3 Fervent Travelers, which includes Hallelujah and Orange Blossom Special.KOCH 2035

Broadcast DiarySeptember–October

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Saturday 12 September, 8pmROMAN TRILOGYCharles Dutoit conductor Daniel Müller-Schott celloBerlioz, Schumann, Respighi

Saturday 26 September, 8pmANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER PLAYS DVOŘÁK Jakub Hrůša conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violinDvořák, Beethoven

Saturday 10 October, 2pmSIBELIUS 2David Robertson conductor Andrew Haveron violinSculthorpe, Walton, Sibelius

Tuesday 20 October, 9.30pmBEETHOVEN’S MISSA SOLEMNISDavid Robertson conductor Susanna Phillips, Olesya Petrova, Stuart Skelton, Shenyang vocal soloists Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

SSO RadioSelected SSO performances, as recorded by the ABC, are available on demand: sydneysymphony.com/SSO_radio

SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HOURTuesday 8 September, 6pmMusicians and staff of the SSO talk about the life of the orchestra and forthcoming concerts. Hosted by Andrew Bukenya.

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MORE MUSIC

COPLAND BALLETSFor more of Copland’s ballet music a great place to begin would be the Double Decca 2CD release featuring – in addition to the complete score for Billy the Kid – Rodeo, El salón México, Danzón cubano, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! and Grohg. The popular Fanfare for the Common Man is a bonus. (Perhaps the only thing missing is Appalachian Spring, composed for Martha Graham.) The performers include Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with David Zinman and the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen.DECCA 478 4585

JENNIFER HIGDONJennifer Higdon’s music has been widely recorded, as a visit to her website will reveal. If you’re especially interested in discovering more of her orchestral music, look for the recording of her Concerto for Orchestra, paired with City Scape and performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Robert Spano.TELARC 80620

Or check out her Violin Concerto in Hilary Hahn’s recording, accompanied by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Vasily Petrenko. It’s paired with the original version of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 8777

MASON BATESYou can hear the original piano version of White Lies for Lomax performed by Tania Stavreva in an all-Bates recording released last year. Also on the album: the title track Stereo is King (performed by the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble with Mason Bates on electronics), Observer in the Magellanic Cloud (vocal ensemble Chanticleer), Difficult Bamboo (with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Terrycloth Troposphere (GVSUNME) and String Band (Claremont Piano Trio).INNOVA 882

TIME FOR THREELast year Time for Three released their Universal debut album, Time for Three. It’s every bit as diverse and eclectic as you’d expect, ranging from their take on Coldplay’s UFO to music by Bach and Rachmaninoff as well as original pieces. The recording features collaborations with equally versatile guests, including Jame Shimabukuor on ukulele, saxophonist Branford Marsalis and cellist Alisa Weilerstein.UNIVERSAL MUSIC CLASSICS 481 0997

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SSO Live RecordingsThe Sydney Symphony Orchestra Live label was founded in 2006 and we’ve since released more than two dozen recordings featuring the orchestra in live concert performances with our titled conductors and leading guest artists. To buy, visit sydneysymphony.com/shop

Strauss & SchubertGianluigi Gelmetti conducts Schubert’s Unfinished and R Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Ricarda Merbeth. SSO 200803

Sir Charles MackerrasA 2CD set featuring Sir Charles’s final performances with the orchestra, in October 2007. SSO 200705

Brett DeanTwo discs featuring the music of Brett Dean, including his award-winning violin concerto, The Lost Art of Letter Writing. SSO 200702, SSO 201302

RavelGelmetti conducts music by one of his favourite composers: Maurice Ravel. Includes Bolero. SSO 200801

Rare RachmaninoffRachmaninoff chamber music with Dene Olding, the Goldner Quartet, soprano Joan Rodgers and Vladimir Ashkenazy at the piano. SSO 200901

Prokofiev’s Romeo and JulietVladimir Ashkenazy conducts the complete Romeo and Juliet ballet music of Prokofiev – a fiery and impassioned performance. SSO 201205

Tchaikovsky Violin ConcertoIn 2013 this recording with James Ehnes and Ashkenazy was awarded a Juno (the Canadian Grammy). Lyrical miniatures fill out the disc. SSO 201206

Tchaikovsky Second Piano ConcertoGarrick Ohlsson is the soloist in one of the few recordings of the original version of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.2. Ashkenazy conducts. SSO 201301

Stravinsky’s FirebirdDavid Robertson conducts Stravinsky’s brilliant and colourful Firebird ballet, recorded with the SSO in concert in 2008. SSO 201402

LOOK OUT FOR…

Our recording of Holst’s Planets with David Robertson. Available now!

Mahler 1 & Songs of a Wayfarer SSO 201001

Mahler 2 SSO 201203

Mahler 3 SSO 201101

Mahler 4 SSO 201102

Mahler 5 SSO 201003 Mahler 6 SSO 201103

Mahler 7 SSO 201104

Mahler 8 (Symphony of a Thousand) SSO 201002

Mahler 9 SSO 201201

Mahler 10 (Barshai completion) SSO 201202

Song of the Earth SSO 201004

From the archives: Rückert-Lieder, Kindertotenlieder, Das Lied von der Erde SSO 201204

MAHLER ODYSSEY

The complete Mahler symphonies (including the Barshai completion of No.10) together with some of the song cycles. Recorded in concert with Vladimir Ashkenazy during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. As a bonus: recordings from our archives of Rückert-Lieder, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied von der Erde. Available in a handsome boxed set of 12 discs or individually.

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Jessica Cottis is fast gaining a reputation as one of the most promising conductors of the younger generation. Her international career was launched though close working relationships with mentors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit and Donald Runnicles. She was Assistant Conductor to Runnicles at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Conducting Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2009–2011), and from 2012 to 2014 she was Assistant Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Earlier this year she was appointed Principal Conductor of the Glasgow New Music Expedition.

As a guest conductor, Jessica Cottis has appeared with soloists such as pianists Pascal and Ami Rogé, Nikolai Demidenko and Kathryn Stott, and with violinist Sarah Chang. Recent highlights include conducting debuts with Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Women of the World Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and

Bit20 Ensemble in Bergen, as well as return engagements with Scottish Opera, Red Note Ensemble and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with whom she recently recorded a series of Australian classical music. She has also returned to Australia to conduct the Queensland and Adelaide symphony orchestras.

Jessica Cottis was born in Sale, Victoria and studied organ and musicology at the Australian National University. She continued her organ studies with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris, making her European debut at Westminster Cathedral in 2003. A hand injury halted her playing career and she began studying conducting with Colin Metters and Colin Davis at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded the top conducting prizes on graduation in 2009. In 2015 she was named an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), an honorary award for alumnæ who have made a significant contribution to the profession.

Jessica Cottis conductor

THE ARTISTS

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String trio Time for Three transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a distinctive blend. Its members – violinists Zachary (Zach) DePue and Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, and double bassist Ranaan Meyer – carry a passion for improvisation, composing and arranging, all prime elements of the ensemble’s playing.

All three members are classically trained, having first met and jammed together at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

To date, the group has performed hundreds of engagements as diverse as its music: from featured guest soloists on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s subscription series to Club Yoshi’s in San Francisco, from residencies at the Kennedy Center to Christoph Eschenbach’s birthday concert at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany. Highlights have included the group’s Carnegie Hall debut, appearances with the Boston Pops, a sold-out concert at the 2014 BBC Proms, and an appearance on American ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. And the debut album Time for Three spent seven consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Classical Crossover Chart.

Time for Three’s high-energy performances step outside convention and draw from its members’ differing musical backgrounds. In addition to music composed for string trio and orchestra, the group also performs its own arrangements of traditional repertoire as well as original compositions by Ranaan Meyer.

The trio has embarked on a major commissioning program to expand its unique repertoire for string trio and orchestra, including Concert 4–3 by Jennifer Higdon, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pittsburgh and Wheeling symphony orchestras; Travels in Time for Three (2010) by Chris Brubeck, commissioned by the Boston Pops Orchestra, Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and eight other orchestras; and Something Wonderful Right Away (2013) by William Bolcom, commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Their most recent project, Elevation: Paradise, was commissioned by the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and created by the trio in collaboration with Kenji Brunch, and was premiered earlier this month in Sun Valley, Idaho.

Time for Three has previously performed in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, this is their SSO debut.

Time for Three

Zachary DePue Nicolas Kendall Ranaan Meyer

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SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra has evolved into one of the world’s finest orchestras as Sydney has become one of the world’s great cities.

Resident at the iconic Sydney Opera House, where it gives more than 100 performances each year, the SSO also performs in venues throughout Sydney and regional New South Wales. International tours to Europe, Asia and the USA – including three visits to China – have earned the orchestra worldwide recognition for artistic excellence.

The orchestra’s first Chief Conductor was Sir Eugene Goossens, appointed in 1947; he was followed by Nicolai Malko, Dean Dixon, Moshe Atzmon, Willem van Otterloo, Louis Frémaux, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zdenĕk Mácal, Stuart Challender, Edo de Waart and Gianluigi Gelmetti. Vladimir Ashkenazy was Principal Conductor from 2009 to 2013. The orchestra’s history also boasts collaborations with legendary figures

such as George Szell, Sir Thomas Beecham, Otto Klemperer and Igor Stravinsky.

The SSO’s award-winning education program is central to its commitment to the future of live symphonic music, developing audiences and engaging the participation of young people. The orchestra promotes the work of Australian composers through performances, recordings and its commissioning program. Recent premieres have included major works by Ross Edwards, Lee Bracegirdle, Gordon Kerry, Mary Finsterer, Nigel Westlake and Georges Lentz, and the orchestra’s recordings of music by Brett Dean have been released on both the BIS and SSO Live labels.

Other releases on the SSO Live label, established in 2006, include performances with Alexander Lazarev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Ashkenazy and David Robertson. In 2010–11 the orchestra made concert recordings of the complete Mahler symphonies with Ashkenazy, and has also released recordings of Rachmaninoff and Elgar orchestral works on the Exton/Triton labels, as well as numerous recordings on ABC Classics.

This is the second year of David Robertson’s tenure as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director.

DAVID ROBERTSON THE LOWY CHAIR OF

CHIEF CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PATRON Professor The Hon. Dame Marie Bashir ad cvo

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MUSICIANS

David RobertsonTHE LOWY CHAIR OF CHIEF CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dene OldingCONCERTMASTER

Andrew HaveronCONCERTMASTER

Toby ThatcherASSISTANT CONDUCTOR SUPPORTED BY CREDIT SUISSE, RACHEL & GEOFFREY O’CONOR AND SYMPHONY SERVICES INTERNATIONAL

FIRST VIOLINS Dene Olding CONCERTMASTER

Kirsten Williams ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Fiona Ziegler ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Sophie ColeAmber DavisGeorges LentzNicola LewisEmily LongAlexandra MitchellAlexander NortonRebecca Gill*Veronique Serret*Cristina Vaszilcsin*Lucy Warren*Andrew Haveron CONCERTMASTER

Sun Yi ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER

Lerida Delbridge ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Jenny BoothClaire HerrickLéone Ziegler

SECOND VIOLINS Marianne BroadfootEmma Jezek ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Freya FranzenEmma HayesShuti HuangStan W KornelBenjamin LiNicole MastersMaja VerunicaAlexandra D’Elia*Monique Irik°Elizabeth Jones°Kirsty Hilton Marina Marsden Philippa PaigeBiyana Rozenblit

VIOLASRoger Benedict Tobias Breider Sandro CostantinoRosemary CurtinGraham HenningsJustine MarsdenAmanda VernerLeonid VolovelskyRachel Dyker*Andrew Jezek*Anne-Louise Comerford Justin Williams ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Jane HazelwoodStuart JohnsonFelicity Tsai

CELLOSLeah Lynn ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Kristy ConrauFenella GillTimothy NankervisElizabeth NevilleAdrian WallisDavid WickhamEleanor Betts*Umberto ClericiCatherine Hewgill Christopher Pidock

DOUBLE BASSESKees Boersma Neil Brawley PRINCIPAL EMERITUS

David CampbellSteven LarsonRichard LynnJosef Bisits°Alex Henery Benjamin Ward

FLUTES Janet Webb Carolyn HarrisRosamund Plummer PRINCIPAL PICCOLO

Emma Sholl

OBOESDiana Doherty Shefali Pryor Stephanie CooperDavid Papp Alexandre Oguey PRINCIPAL COR ANGLAIS

CLARINETSFrancesco Celata Craig Wernicke PRINCIPAL BASS CLARINET

Alex McCracken†

Lawrence Dobell Christopher Tingay

BASSOONSFiona McNamaraBen Hoadley*Matthew Wilkie Noriko Shimada PRINCIPAL CONTRABASSOON

HORNSRobert Johnson Euan HarveyMarnie SebireRachel SilverBen Jacks Geoffrey O’Reilly PRINCIPAL 3RD

TRUMPETSPaul Goodchild Anthony HeinrichsRosie Turner°David Elton

TROMBONESScott Kinmont Christopher Harris PRINCIPAL BASS TROMBONE

Iain Faragher†

Ronald Prussing Nick Byrne

TUBASteve Rossé

TIMPANIMark Robinson ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Richard Miller

PERCUSSIONRebecca Lagos Timothy ConstableJoshua Hill*Philip South*

HARP Louise Johnson

KEYBOARDSSusanne Powell*

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BEHIND THE SCENES

Sydney Symphony Orchestra StaffMANAGING DIRECTORRory Jeffes

EXECUTIVE TEAM ASSISTANTLisa Davies-Galli

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PLANNINGBenjamin Schwartz

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION MANAGER Eleasha Mah

ARTIST LIAISON MANAGERIlmar Leetberg

RECORDING ENTERPRISE MANAGER Philip Powers

LibraryAnna CernikVictoria GrantMary-Ann Mead

LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT

DIRECTOR OF LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT Linda Lorenza

EMERGING ARTISTS PROGRAM MANAGER Rachel McLarin

EDUCATION MANAGER Amy Walsh

EDUCATION OFFICER Tim Walsh

ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT

DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Aernout Kerbert

ORCHESTRA MANAGERRachel Whealy

ORCHESTRA COORDINATOR Rosie Marks-Smith

OPERATIONS MANAGER Kerry-Anne Cook

PRODUCTION MANAGER Laura Daniel

STAGE MANAGERCourtney Wilson

PRODUCTION COORDINATORSElissa SeedOllie Townsend

PRODUCER, SPECIAL EVENTSMark Sutcliffe

SALES AND MARKETING

DIRECTOR OF SALES & MARKETINGMark J Elliott

MARKETING MANAGER, SUBSCRIPTION SALES Simon Crossley-Meates

SENIOR SALES & MARKETING MANAGERPenny Evans

A/ SENIOR SALES & MARKETING MANAGER Matthew Rive

MARKETING MANAGER, WEB & DIGITAL MEDIA Eve Le Gall

MARKETING MANAGER, CRM & DATABASEMatthew Hodge

A/ SALES & MARKETING MANAGER, SINGLE TICKET CAMPAIGNSJonathon Symonds

DATABASE ANALYSTDavid Patrick

SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERChristie Brewster GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Tessa ConnSENIOR ONLINE MARKETING COORDINATOR

Jenny SargantMARKETING ASSISTANT

Laura Andrew

Box OfficeMANAGER OF BOX OFFICE SALES & OPERATIONS

Lynn McLaughlinBOX OFFICE SYSTEMS SUPERVISOR

Jennifer LaingBOX OFFICE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR

John RobertsonCUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES

Karen Wagg – CS ManagerRosie BakerMichael Dowling

PublicationsPUBLICATIONS EDITOR & MUSIC PRESENTATION MANAGER

Yvonne Frindle

EXTERNAL RELATIONS

DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Yvonne Zammit

PhilanthropyHEAD OF PHILANTHROPY

Luke Andrew Gay PHILANTHROPY MANAGER

Jennifer DrysdalePATRONS EXECUTIVE

Sarah MorrisbyPHILANTHROPY COORDINATOR

Claire Whittle

Corporate RelationsCORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER

Belinda BessonCORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS EXECUTIVE

Paloma Gould

CommunicationsCOMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA MANAGER

Bridget CormackPUBLICIST

Caitlin BenetatosDIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCER

Kai Raisbeck

BUSINESS SERVICES

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

John HornFINANCE MANAGER

Ruth Tolentino ACCOUNTANT

Minerva Prescott ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

Emma Ferrer PAYROLL OFFICER

Laura Soutter

PEOPLE AND CULTUREIN-HOUSE COUNSEL

Michel Maree Hryce

Terrey Arcus AM Chairman Ewen Crouch AM

Ross GrantCatherine HewgillJennifer HoyRory JeffesDavid LivingstoneThe Hon. Justice AJ Meagher Goetz Richter

Sydney Symphony Orchestra CouncilGeoff Ainsworth AM

Doug BattersbyChristine BishopThe Hon John Della Bosca MLC

John C Conde ao

Michael J Crouch AO

Alan FangErin FlahertyDr Stephen Freiberg Simon JohnsonGary LinnaneHelen Lynch AM

David Maloney AM Justice Jane Mathews AO Danny MayJane MorschelDr Eileen OngAndy PlummerDeirdre Plummer Seamus Robert Quick Paul Salteri AM

Sandra SalteriJuliana SchaefferFred Stein OAM

John van OgtropBrian WhiteRosemary White

HONORARY COUNCIL MEMBERSIta Buttrose AO OBE Donald Hazelwood AO OBE

Yvonne Kenny AM

David Malouf AO

Wendy McCarthy AO

Leo Schofield AM

Peter Weiss AO

Anthony Whelan mbe

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Board

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SSO PATRONS

Maestro’s Circle

David Robertson

Peter Weiss AO Founding President & Doris Weiss

Terrey Arcus AM Chairman & Anne Arcus

Brian Abel

Tom Breen & Rachel Kohn

The Berg Family Foundation

John C Conde AO

Andrew Kaldor AM & Renata Kaldor AO

Vicki Olsson

Roslyn Packer AO

David Robertson & Orli Shaham

Penelope Seidler AM

Mr Fred Street AM & Dorothy Street

Brian White AO & Rosemary White

Ray Wilson OAM in memory of the late James Agapitos OAM

Supporting the artistic vision of David Robertson, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director

Chair PatronsDavid RobertsonThe Lowy Chair of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director

Roger BenedictPrincipal ViolaKim Williams AM & Catherine Dovey Chair

Kees BoersmaPrincipal Double BassSSO Council Chair

Umberto ClericiPrincipal CelloGarry & Shiva Rich Chair

Timothy ConstablePercussionJustice Jane Mathews AO Chair

Lerida DelbridgeAssistant ConcertmasterSimon Johnson Chair

Lawrence DobellPrincipal ClarinetAnne Arcus & Terrey Arcus AM Chair

Diana DohertyPrincipal OboeJohn C Conde AO Chair

Richard Gill oam

Artistic Director, DownerTenix DiscoveryPaul Salteri AM & Sandra Salteri Chair

Jane HazelwoodViolaBob & Julie Clampett Chair in memory of Carolyn Clampett

Catherine HewgillPrincipal CelloThe Hon. Justice AJ & Mrs Fran Meagher Chair

Robert JohnsonPrincipal HornJames & Leonie Furber Chair

Leah LynnAssistant Principal CelloSSO Vanguard Chair With lead support from Taine Moufarrige, Seamus R Quick, and Chris Robertson & Katherine Shaw

Elizabeth NevilleCelloRuth & Bob Magid Chair

Shefali PryorAssociate Principal OboeMrs Barbara Murphy Chair

Emma ShollAssociate Principal FluteRobert & Janet Constable Chair

Janet WebbPrincipal FluteHelen Lynch AM & Helen Bauer Chair

Kirsten WilliamsAssociate ConcertmasterI Kallinikos Chair

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHAIR PATRONS

PROGRAM, CALL (02) 8215 4625.

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Lerida Delbridge was appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the SSO in 2013. She is a founding member of the Tinalley String Quartet and was previously a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. SSO Council member and leading providore Simon Johnson has been following Lerida’s career since her days in the Australian Youth Orchestra and is delighted to support her chair.

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Learning & Engagement

SSO PATRONS

fellowship patronsRobert Albert AO & Elizabeth Albert Flute ChairChristine Bishop Percussion ChairSandra & Neil Burns Clarinet ChairIn Memory of Matthew Krel Violin ChairMrs T Merewether OAM Horn ChairPaul Salteri AM & Sandra Salteri Violin and Viola ChairsMrs W Stening Cello ChairKim Williams AM & Catherine Dovey Patrons of Roger Benedict,

Artistic Director, FellowshipJune & Alan Woods Family Bequest Bassoon ChairAnonymous Double Bass ChairAnonymous Trumpet Chair

fellowship supporting patronsMr Stephen J BellJoan MacKenzie ScholarshipDrs Eileen & Keith OngIn Memory of Geoff White

tuned-up!TunED-Up! is made possible with the generous support of Fred Street AM & Dorothy Street

Additional support provided by:Anne Arcus & Terrey Arcus AM

Ian & Jennifer Burton Ian Dickson & Reg HollowayMrs Barbara MurphyTony Strachan

major education donorsBronze Patrons & above

John Augustus & Kim RyrieBob & Julie ClampettHoward & Maureen ConnorsThe Greatorex FoundationJ A McKernanMr & Mrs Nigel Price

Sydney Symphony Orchestra 2015 Fellows

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Commissioning CircleSupporting the creation of new works.

ANZAC Centenary Arts and Culture FundGeoff Ainsworth AM

Christine BishopDr John EdmondsAndrew Kaldor AM & Renata Kaldor AO

Jane Mathews AO

Mrs Barbara MurphyNexus ITVicki OlssonCaroline & Tim RogersGeoff StearnDr Richard T WhiteAnonymous

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Through their inspired financial support,

Patrons ensure the SSO’s continued

success, resilience and growth. Join the

SSO Patrons Program today and make a

difference.

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Stuart Challender Legacy Society

Celebrating the vision of donors who are leaving a bequest to the SSO.

Henri W Aram OAM & Robin Aram

Stephen J BellMr David & Mrs Halina BrettR BurnsHoward ConnorsGreta DavisBrian GalwayMichele Gannon-MillerMiss Pauline M Griffin AM

John Lam-Po-Tang

Peter Lazar AM

Daniel LemesleLouise MillerJames & Elsie MooreVincent Kevin Morris &

Desmond McNallyDouglas PaisleyKate RobertsMary Vallentine AO

Ray Wilson OAM

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Stuart Challender, SSO Chief Conductor and Artistic Director 1987–1991

bequest donors

We gratefully acknowledge donors who have left a bequest to the SSO.

The late Mrs Lenore AdamsonEstate of Carolyn ClampertEstate Of Jonathan Earl William ClarkEstate of Colin T EnderbyEstate of Mrs E HerrmanEstate of Irwin ImhofThe late Mrs Isabelle JosephThe Estate of Dr Lynn JosephThe Late Greta C RyanEstate of Rex Foster SmartJune & Alan Woods Family Bequest

IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON

MAKING A BEQUEST TO THE SSO, PLEASE

CONTACT LUKE GAY ON 8215 4625.

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the music lovers who donate to the orchestra each year. Each gift plays an important part in ensuring our continued artistic excellence and helping to sustain important education and regional touring programs.

Playing Your Part

DIAMOND PATRONS $50,000+Anne & Terrey Arcus am

In Memory of Matthew KrelMr Frank Lowy ac & Mrs Shirley

Lowy oam

Roslyn Packer ao

Paul Salteri am & Sandra Salteri

Estate of the late Rex Foster Smart

Peter Weiss ao & Doris WeissMr Brian White ao &

Mrs Rosemary White

PLATINUM PATRONS$30,000–$49,999Doug and Alison BattersbyMr John C Conde ao

Robert & Janet ConstableMr Andrew Kaldor am &

Mrs Renata Kaldor ao

Mrs Barbara MurphyVicki OlssonMrs W SteningMr Fred Street am &

Mrs Dorothy StreetKim Williams am & Catherine

Dovey

GOLD PATRONS $20,000–$29,999Brian AbelRobert Albert ao & Elizabeth

AlbertThe Berg Family FoundationTom Breen & Rachael KohnSandra & Neil BurnsEstate of Jonathan Earl

William ClarkJames & Leonie FurberI KallinikosHelen Lynch am & Helen

BauerJustice Jane Mathews ao

Mrs T Merewether oam

Rachel & Geoffrey O’ConorAndy & Deirdre PlummerGarry & Shiva RichDavid Robertson & Orli

ShahamMrs Penelope Seidler am

G & C Solomon in memory of Joan MacKenzie

Ray Wilson oam in memory of James Agapitos oam

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SILVER PATRONS $10,000–$19,999Geoff Ainsworth am

Christine BishopAudrey BlundenMr Robert BrakspearMr Robert & Mrs L Alison CarrBob & Julie ClampettMichael Crouch ao & Shanny

CrouchIan Dickson & Reg HollowayPaul EspieEdward & Diane FedermanNora GoodridgeMr Ross GrantThe Estate of Mr Irwin ImhofSimon JohnsonRuth & Bob MagidSusan Maple-Brown The Hon Justice AJ Meagher &

Mrs Fran MeagherMr John MorschelDrs Keith & Eileen OngMr and Mrs Nigel PriceKenneth R Reed am

Mrs Joyce Sproat & Mrs Janet Cooke

John Symond am

The Harry Triguboff FoundationCaroline WilkinsonJune & Alan Woods Family

BequestAnonymous (2)

BRONZE $5,000–$9,999Mr Henri W Aram oam

John Augustus & Kim RyrieStephen J BellDr Hannes & Mrs Barbara

BoshoffBoyarsky Family TrustPeter Braithwaite & Gary

LinnaneIan & Jennifer BurtonRebecca ChinMr Howard ConnorsDavid Z Burger FoundationDr Colin GoldschmidtThe Greatorex FoundationRory & Jane JeffesRobert JoannidesMr Ervin KatzBarbara MaidmentMora MaxwellTaine MoufarrigeRobert McDougallWilliam McIlrath Charitable

FoundationJ A McKernan

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SSO PATRONS

BRONZE PATRONS CONTINUED

Nexus ITJohn & Akky van OgtropSeamus Robert QuickChris Robertson & Katherine

ShawRodney Rosenblum am & Sylvia

RosenblumDr Evelyn RoyalManfred & Linda SalamonGeoff StearnTony StrachanMr Robert & Mrs Rosemary WalshIn memory of Geoff WhiteAnonymous

PRESTO $2,500–$4,999G & L BessonIan BradyMr David & Mrs Halina BrettMark Bryant oam

Lenore P BuckleMrs Stella ChenCheung FamilyDr Paul CollettEwen Crouch am & Catherine

CrouchProf. Neville Wills &

Ian FenwickeFirehold Pty LtdDr Kim FrumarWarren GreenAnthony GreggAnn HobanJames & Yvonne HocrothMr Roger Hundson &

Mrs Claudia Rossi-HudsonMr John W Kaldor AMProfessor Andrew Korda am &

Ms Susan PearsonIn memoriam

Dr Reg Lam-Po-TangProfessor Winston LiauwRenee MarkovicHelen & Phil MeddingsJames & Elsie MooreMs Jackie O’BrienPatricia H Reid Endowment

Pty LtdJuliana SchaefferHelen & Sam ShefferDr Agnes E SinclairEzekiel SolomonJohn & Josephine StruttMr Ervin Vidor am &

Mrs Charlotte VidorLang Walker ao & Sue WalkerWestpac GroupMary Whelan & Robert

BaulderstoneYim Family FoundationDr John YuAnonymous (2)

VIVACE $1,000–$2,499Mrs Lenore AdamsonAntoinette AlbertRae & David AllenAndrew Andersons ao

Mr Matthew AndrewsMr Garry and Mrs Tricia AshSibilla BaerThe Hon Justice Michael BallDavid BarnesDr Richard & Mrs Margaret BellIn memory of Lance BennettMs Gloria BlondeG D BoltonJan BowenIn memory of Jillian BowersIn Memory of Rosemary Boyle,

Music TeacherRoslynne BracherWilliam Brooks & Alasdair BeckMr Peter BrownIn memory of R W BurleyIta Buttrose ao obe

Mrs Rhonda CaddyHon J C Campbell qc &

Mrs CampbellDebby Cramer & Bill CaukillMr B & Mrs M ColesMs Suzanne CollinsJoan Connery oam & Maxwell

Connery oam

Mr Phillip CornwellMr John Cunningham scm &

Mrs Margaret CunninghamDiana DalyDarin Cooper FoundationGreta DavisLisa & Miro DavisDr Robert DickinsonE DonatiProfessor Jenny EdwardsDr Rupert C EdwardsMalcolm Ellis & Erin O’NeillMrs Margaret EppsMr & Mrs J B Fairfax am

Julie FlynnDr Stephen Freiberg & Donald

CampbellMr Matt GarrettVivienne Goldschmidt &

Owen JonesIn Memory of Angelica GreenAkiko GregoryDr Jan Grose oam

Mr & Mrs Harold & Althea Halliday

Janette HamiltonMrs Jennifer HershonSue HewittDorothy Hoddinott ao

Kimberley HoldenMr Kevin Holland & Mrs Roslyn

Andrews

The Hon. David Hunt ao qc & Mrs Margaret Hunt

Mr Phillip Isaacs oam

Dr Owen JonesAron KleinlehrerMrs Gilles KrygerMr Justin LamDr Barry LandaBeatrice LangMr Peter Lazar am

Airdrie LloydMrs Juliet LockhartGabriel LopataPeter Lowry oam & Carolyn

Lowry oam

Macquarie Group FoundationMelvyn MadiganDavid Maloney am & Erin

FlahertyJohn & Sophia MarMr Danny R MayMr Guido MayerKevin & Deidre McCannIan & Pam McGawMatthew McInnesI MerrickHenry & Ursula MooserMilja & David MorrisJudith MulveneyDarrol Norman & Sandra HortonMr & Mrs OrtisMr Andrew C PattersonIn memory of Sandra Paul

PottingerMr Stephen PerkinsAlmut PiattiThe Hon. Dr Rodney Purvis am

& Mrs Marian PurvisDr Raffi Qasabian &

Dr John WynterMr Patrick Quinn-GrahamErnest & Judith RapeeIn Memory of

Katherine RobertsonMr David RobinsonTim RogersDr Colin RoseLesley & Andrew RosenbergJanelle RostronMr Shah RusitiIn memory of H St P ScarlettGeorge and Mary ShadVictoria SmythDr Judy SoperJudith SouthamMr Dougall SquairThe Honourable Brian Sully am qc

Mrs Margaret SwansonThe Taplin FamilyMildred TeitlerDr & Mrs H K TeyDr Jenepher ThomasKevin TroyJohn E Tuckey

Judge Robyn TupmanDr Alla WaldmanIn memory of Denis WallisMiss Sherry WangHenry & Ruth WeinbergThe Hon. Justice A G WhealyJerry WhitcombMrs Leonore WhyteA Willmers & R PalAnn & Brooks C Wilson am

Dr Richard WingEvan WongDr Peter Wong & Mrs Emmy

K WongGeoff Wood & Melissa WaitesSir Robert WoodsLindsay & Margaret WoolveridgeIn memory of Lorna WrightMrs Robin YabsleyAnonymous (20)

ALLEGRO $500–$999Nikki AbrahamsKatherine AndrewsMr & Mrs George BallBarlow Cleaning Pty LtdBarracouta Pty LtdSimon BathgateDr Andrew BellMr Chris BennettJan BiberMinnie BiggsJane BlackmoreMrs P M BridgesR D and L M BroadfootDr Peter BroughtonDr David BryantArnaldo BuchDr Miles BurgessPat & Jenny BurnettHugh & Hilary CairnsEric & Rosemary CampbellM D & J M ChapmanJonathan ChissickMichael & Natalie CoatesDom Cottam & Kanako ImamuraAnn CoventryMr David CrossMark Dempsey sc

Dr David DixonSusan DoenauDana DupereJohn FavaloroMrs Lesley FinnMr Richard FlanaganMs Lynne FrolichMichele Gannon-MillerMs Lyn GearingMr Robert GreenMr Geoffrey GreenwellMr Richard Griffin am

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VANGUARD COLLECTIVEJustin Di Lollo ChairBelinda BentleyOscar McMahonTaine Moufarrige

Founding PatronShefali PryorSeamus R Quick

Founding PatronChris Robertson & Katherine

Shaw Founding Patrons

MEMBERSLaird Abernethy Elizabeth AdamsonClare Ainsworth-HershellCharles ArcusPhoebe ArcusPhilip AtkinLuan AtkinsonJoan BallantineAndrew Batt-RawdenJames BaudzusAndrew BaxterAdam Beaupeurt Anthony BeresfordDr Andrew BotrosPeter BraithwaiteAndrea BrownNikki BrownProfessor Attila BrungsTony ChalmersDharmendra ChandranLouis ChienPaul ColganClaire CooperBridget CormackKarynne CourtsRobbie CranfieldAsha CugatiJuliet CurtinDavid CutcliffeEste Darin-CooperRosalind De SaillyPaul DeschampsCatherine DonnellyJennifer DrysdaleJohn-Paul DrysdaleKerim El GabailiRoslyn FarrarNaomi FlutterAlastair FurnivalAlexandra Gibson

Sam GiddingsJeremy GoffHilary GoodsonTony GriersonLouise HaggertyJason HairPeter HowardJennifer HoyKatie HryceVirginia JudgePaul KalmarJonathan KennedyPatrick KokJohn Lam-Po-TangTristan LandersGary LinnaneDavid LoSaskia LoGabriel LopataRobert McGroryAlexandra McGuiganDavid McKeanSarah MoufarrigeJulia NewbouldNick NichlesKate O’ReillyPeter O’SullivanCleo PosaJune PickupRoger PickupStephanie PriceMichael RadovnikovicKatie RobertsonDr Benjamin RobinsonAlvaro Rodas FernandezAdam SadlerProfessor Anthony SchembriBenjamin SchwartzCecilia StornioloRandal TameSandra TangIan TaylorDr Zoe TaylorMichael TidballMark TrevarthenMichael TuffySarah VickAlan WattersJon WilkieYvonne ZammitAmy Zhou

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“Together, we have an ambition to foster a love of orchestral music in school children of all ages, and to equip their teachers with the skills they need to develop this in our young people…”DAVID ROBERTSON SSO Chief Conductor and Artistic Director

PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TODAY

Benjamin Hasic & Belinda DavieSandra HaslamAlan Hauserman & Janet NashRobert HavardMrs A HaywardRoger HenningDr Mary JohnssonMrs Margaret KeoghAernout Kerbert & Elizabeth

NevilleDr Henry KilhamJennifer KingMrs Patricia KleinhansAnna-Lisa KlettenbergMs Sonia LalL M B LampratiDavid & Val LandaElaine M LangshawMargaret LedermanRoland LeeMrs Erna LevyMrs A LohanLinda LorenzaM J MashfordMs Jolanta MasojadaKenneth Newton MitchellMr David MuttonMr & Mrs NewmanMr Graham NorthDr Lesley NorthSead NurkicMr Michael O’BrienJudith OlsenDr Alice J PalmerDr Natalie E PelhamPeter and Susan PicklesErika PidcockDr John I PittAnne PittmanJohn Porter & Annie Wesley-

SmithMrs Greeba Pritchard

Michael QuaileyMr Thomas ReinerDr Marilyn RichardsonAnna RoMr Michael RollinsonMrs Christine Rowell-MillerJorie Ryan for Meredith RyanMr Kenneth RyanGarry E Scarf & Morgie BlaxillMrs Solange SchulzPeter & Virginia ShawDavid & Alison ShilligtonMrs Diane Shteinman am

Margaret SikoraColin SpencerTitia SpragueRobert SpryMs Donna St ClairFred & Mary SteinAshley & Aveen StephensonMargaret & William SuthersPam & Ross TegelMrs Caroline ThompsonPeter & Jane ThorntonRhonda TingAlma TooheyHugh TregarthenMrs M TurkingtonGillian Turner & Rob BishopRoss TzannesMr Robert VeelRonald WalledgeMiss Roslyn WheelerIn Memoriam JBL WattDr Edward J WillsDr Wayne WongDr Roberta WoolcottPaul WyckaertAnonymous (32)

SSO Patrons pages correct as of 7 July 2015

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SALUTE

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is assisted by the Commonwealth

Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and

advisory body

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is

assisted by the NSW Government

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