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Created by the passion of conductor Gregory Stone in 1969, the Reno Phil is northern Nevada’s largest performing arts organization, performing an array of symphonic and pops music for all tastes and ages. Celebrating its 52nd season, the orchestra, led by Music Director Laura Jackson, is a part-time, per-service orchestra composed of over 60 professional musicians who perform more than 30 concerts annually across the region, including outdoor summer concerts in Reno and at Lake Tahoe.

In addition to the professional orchestra and volunteer Reno Phil Chorus, the organization oversees and operates a robust education division with four youth orchestras, a free after school strings program at three Title 1 schools, a free family concert in the fall, and numerous other educational and outreach programs.

The pandemic has had a drastic impact on the Reno Phil, but the organization has remained commited to finding innovative ways to serve the community through both performance and its education programs.

As a federally registered 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, the Reno Phil engages an active Board of Trustees, staff, volunteers, patrons, donors, sponsors, partner organizations, and the community to ensure that it will thrive through future generations.

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LAURA JACKSON music director and conductor

Her passion and drive have helped the Reno Philharmonic reach new heights with cutting edge composer-in-residence projects as well as vibrant performances of traditional repertoire. Last season, Jackson led the Reno Phil and 12 partnering orchestras to mark the shared anniversaries of the Reno Phil (50 years) and the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion (150 years), with a new work by Grammy–nominated composer, Zhou Tian. The project became the subject of an NPR story and a documentary film created by KNPB to be released Fall 2019.

In addition to concerts with the Reno Philharmonic, Ms. Jackson guest conducts nationally and internationally. Recent performances include concerts with the symphonies of Hartford, Eugene, Charlottesville, Hawaii, Flint, the Philly POPS and L’Orchestre symphonique de Bretagne in France. In 2017, Jackson returned to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra where she previously served as their first-ever female assistant conductor from 2004-2007.

Jackson recorded Michael Daugherty’s Time Cycle on Naxos with the Bournemouth Symphony in partnership with Marin Alsop and she has performed with the Philippine Philharmonic. In North America, she has performed with the symphonies of Alabama, Baltimore, Berkeley, Boca Raton,

Detroit, Phoenix, San Antonio, Toledo, Toronto, Windsor, and Winnipeg, among others.

Prior to her appointment in Atlanta, she studied conducting at the University of Michigan and spent summers at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2002 and 2003. As the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood, she conducted numerous concerts featuring both traditional and contemporary repertoire.

Ms. Jackson spent her early childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania before moving at age 11 to Plattsburgh, NY, where she grew up waterskiing, swimming, and sailing on Lake Champlain. She fell in love with the violin in public school, later attending the North Carolina School for the Arts to finish high school. She pursued an undergraduate degree at Indiana University where she studied both violin and conducting before moving to Boston in 1990 to freelance as a violinist and teach at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.

LAURA JACKSON — now in her 12th season as music director of the Reno Philharmonic — continues to win praise for her artistry, leadership, innovative programming, and creative community engagement.

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First ViolinRuth Lenz*, ConcertmasterOlga Archdekin*, Acting Associate ConcertmasterEllen Flanagan*Alison HarveySarah Coyl*

Second ViolinCalvin Lewis*, Acting Principal SecondLucie Zalesakova, Acting Assistant Principal SecondClaire Tatman*David Haskins*

ViolaDustin Budish*, PrincipalKati Wentink, Acting Assistant PrincipalMcKayla Talasek*Catherine Matovich

CelloPeter Lenz*, PrincipalRobin Bonnell*, Assistant PrincipalKaren Stout-Gardner

BassScott Faulkner*, PrincipalMark Wallace*, Assistant Principal

HarpMarina Roznitovsky Oster*, Principal

KeyboardJames Winn*, Principal

*denotes contract player

Golijov:Quartet A:Violin 1: Ruth LenzViolin 2: Olga ArchdekinViola: Dustin BudishCello: Peter Lenz

Quartet B:Violin 1: Calvin LewisViolin 2: Lucie ZalesakovaViola: Kati WentinkCello: Robin Bonnell

Bass: Scott Faulkner

RENO PHIL ORCHESTRA

RENO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LAURA JACKSON | CONDUCTOR MARINA ROZNITOVSKY OSTER | HARP MARTINA YOUNG | DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER PETER LENZ | CELLO PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

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Claude DEBUSSY Danses sacrée et profane Approximate duration: 10 minutes (1904) I. Danse sacrée II. Danse profane

Camille SAINT-SAENS “The Swan” from Carnival of the Animals Approximate duration: 4 minutes (1886)

Osvaldo GOLIJOV Last Round Approximate duration: 14 minutes (1996) I. Movido, Urgente – Macho, Cool and Dangerous II. Lentissimo – Death of Angels

Jennifer HIGDON Dance Card Approximate duration: 24 minutes (2015) I. Raucous Rumpus II. Breeze Serenade III. Jumble Dance IV. Celestial Blue V. Machina Rockus

Dare We Dance? is presented by Sandy Raffealli, In Memory of Jill WinterSaint-Saens’ The Swan is generously sponsored by Charlotte & Dick McConnellAdditional concert support provided by the City of Reno, Parks & Recreation


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L. MARTINA YOUNG, DANCE ARTISTL. Martina Young is originally from Los Angeles where she launched her solo concert career. Based in Reno, NV, she continues her dance making, teaching, and lecturing worldwide. A multi-year Fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts, her work has earned numerous awards including two Los Angeles Vanguard Awards and Nevada’s highest arts honor, the Governor’s Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts. The solo dancer in Stevie Wonder’s music video Ribbon in the Sky and filmmaker Julie Dash’s award-winning film Four Women, Martina has danced with Israel’s renowned Batsheva Dance Company, Tony Award-winning choreographer Donald Byrd/The Group, and American Repertory Dance Theatre performing the works of the American modern dance pioneers. As an educator, Martina has served on the faculties of California Institute of the Arts, The College of William and Mary, and was former Director of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno. She also enjoys regular teaching-artist residencies with Washoe County’s Damonte Ranch High School for the Performing Arts. Earning her doctorate in Comparative Mythology, Martina currently serves on the faculty of UNR’s Core Humanities Program and is a contributing lecturer for the launch of its 2020 Black Film Festival. The Swan Project—Martina’s investigations of the swan trope in literature, film, poetry, music, art, philosophy, alchemy, psychology, and dance—reflects what poet Seamus Heaney might translate as being on the swan road. Her 2018 performance work, Black Swans, an opera poem, is being re-imagined for performance by indigenous and non-indigenous Australian artists and will be hosted by the National Museum of Australia in 2021.

The Swan Project:The Swan Project—Martina’s investigations of the swan trope in literature, film, poetry, music, art, philosophy, alchemy, psychology, and dance—reflects what poet Seamus Heaney might translate as being on the swan road. Her findings are also reflective of qualities she feels needs renewal in modern civilization. Martina’s 2018 performance work, Black Swans, an opera poem, is being re-imagined by indigenous and non-indigenous Australian artists, and will be hosted by the National Museum of Australia in 2021. Learn more at https://www.apoeticbody.com/the-swan-project.html

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MARINA ROZNITOVSKY OSTER, PRINCIPAL HARP Marina Roznitovsky Oster teaches harp at the University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College. She is the principal harpist with the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Reno Philharmonic. She actively performs as a soloist and a number of her performances have been broadcast on National Israeli and U.S. television and radio.

Oster leads a large private studio and has created her own harp teaching method titled C-world. This book enables individual and group class setting, while providing a progressive learning approach to all beginners at the harp, from lap size to pedal harps.

As part of an ongoing determination to promote the harp, Oster produces an annual celebration of the harp called “Harp Plus,” at Nightingale Concert Hall. This production features standard solo repertoire and chamber music involving harp and often includes exciting world premieres. It also provides a public platform to showcase the University of Nevada, Reno harp ensemble and other harpists from the area with pieces involving a large ensemble, with 27 harps on the stage being the record so far.

In 2009 and in 2015, Oster represented Israel in the renowned International Harp Competition in Jerusalem and was featured on the Israeli News Channels. She earned her BM, MM and P.D. in harp performance and pedagogy at Indiana University, under the tutelage of distinguished professor Susann McDonald.

As a graduate student, Oster was the first prize winner in the music category of the 2006 National Society of Arts and Letters Competition in Bloomington, Indiana. She also performed on a worldwide tour with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.

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Her determination to excel was rewarded with yearly recognitions of highest scholastic achievements, throughout her studies. In addition, she was a recipient of the American Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship award four consecutive times. She also received multiple awards from the Dunie Weitzman Conservatory, Indiana University, Barenboim-Said Foundation, The Bureau of Jewish Education and other organizations.

Oster was born in Ukraine and immigrated to Israel with her mother when she was six years old. She started musical training at the age of five with singing, piano lessons and dance. At the age of 12, she began studying harp under the instruction of professor Olga Moitlis, making her first harp concerto début just a year later. At 13, she was accepted as a harp and piano major at a specialized art school. She continued her extracurricular training at the Dunie Weitzman Conservatory under continuous scholarship. Harp proved to be her calling and passion in life and her main goal is to share this passion through teaching and performing.


DANSES SACRÉE ET PROFANEComposed: 1904 Duration: 10 minutes

The increasing use of chromatic harmony in music of the late nineteenth century led to difficulties in performing such works on the standard pedal harp. So in the mid 1890s, Gustave Lyon, director of the Pleyel instrument manufacturing firm, started work on a “chromatic harp without pedals,” which had two rows of strings slanted across each other, one dedicated to the white notes of the piano and one to the black. Asked to write a work that would help publicize this new design, Debussy composed the Danses sacrée et profane, premiered at the Concerts Colonne on November 6, 1904.

Despite the considerable technical difficulties for the soloist, the two Danses are largely gentle and restrained in

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Claude DebussyBorn: August 22, 1862, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Died: March 25, 1918, Paris, France

Claude Debussy was one of the most important and influential composers of his time. After more than a decade of studies at the Paris Conservatoire, his receipt of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1884 allowed him two years of work in Rome. Visits to Bayreuth in 1888-89 brought him under the spell of Wagner’s music, which he later rejected, and the 1889 Paris World Exhibition exposed him to the music of Asian cultures. His famous, revolutionary Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, as well as the opera Pelléas et Mélisande and the orchestral work La mer, secured his reputation as one of France’s great composers. While his music – often described as Impressionism, although he didn’t like the term – is appreciated for its sensuous beauty, it is also noteworthy for its fluid sense of tonality and the use of unusual scales like the pentatonic and whole-tone. These innovations were influential to many major musicians, from Igor Stravinsky and Olivier Messiaen to Pierre Boulez and Bill Evans.

tone. The harp introduces the serenade-like main theme of the Danse sacrée, apparently derived from a keyboard piece by Portuguese composer Francisco de Lacerda. A languorous mood prevails in this dance, with only a couple of more passionate outbursts. After an elaborate final statement of the main theme, the music fades and a lazy waltz theme begins the Danse profane. This dance is in a kind of rondo form, in which the waltz theme constantly reappears, decorated differently each time as the harp embroiders the music with rising and falling arpeggios and other embellishments. The music builds to a final climax, then hushes as a pizzicato chord closes the work.

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“THE SWAN” FROM CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALSComposed: 1886 Duration: 3 minutes

After a concert tour that didn’t go well, in early 1886 Saint-Saëns settled for a time in a small Austrian village. He was supposed to be finishing his “Organ” Symphony No. 3, but found more fun in creating the lighthearted and humorous “zoological fantasy” Carnival of the Animals. However, because he had a keen desire to be recognized as a composer of serious, substantial music, shortly after his Carnival was premiered at a few private concerts, Saint-Saëns banned further public performances of it, and refused to have it published until after his death. Only in 1922 did it receive its first public performance, and now Carnival of the Animals is one of Saint-Saëns’s best-loved works. The vividness with which he evokes the lion’s roar, the hen’s crowing, the kangaroo’s leap, the mule’s

Camille Saint-SaënsBorn: October 9, 1835, Paris, France

Died: December 16, 1921, Algiers, Algeria

Regarded by Hans von Bülow as “the greatest musical mind” of his time, Camille Saint-Saëns composed over 300 works, among the best-known of which are the “Organ” Symphony No. 3, the opera Samson et Dalila, and, perhaps most famous of all, The Carnival of The Animals. Saint-Saëns was also one of the most renowned pianists and organists of his day – Hector Berlioz called him “an absolutely shattering master pianist.” A musical prodigy, Saint-Saëns started piano lessons at age two, composed his first music a year later, played his first full-length concert as a pianist at ten (where he offered as an encore to play any of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas from memory), and entered the Paris Conservatoire at thirteen. From 1853 to 1876 he held a number of church organist posts, and taught for four years at the École Niedermeyer. As he continued his busy musical career, composing and touring as a famous piano virtuoso, he was also able to pursue a variety of non-musical interests: he spoke several languages, was an amateur astronomer and archaeologist, and wrote poetry, plays, and popular travel books.

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bray, and the flights and songs of birds are sometimes supplemented by humorous verses by American poet Ogden Nash.

The one exception he made to his lifetime ban on performances and publication was for “The Swan,” which was published in an arrangement for cello and piano in 1887. The elegant cello melody is said to represent the swan gliding gracefully along the water’s surface, and the rolled chords and rippling motion of the piano both the water’s movement and the swan’s feet propelling it below.


LAST ROUNDComposed: 1996 Duration: 14 minutes

Osvaldo Golijov has written the following about his Last Round:

“Astor Piazzolla, the last great Tango composer, was at the peak of his creativity when a stroke killed him in 1992. He left us, in the words of the old tango, ‘without saying good bye,’ and that day the musical face of Buenos Aires was abruptly frozen. The creation of that face had started a hundred years earlier from the unlikely combination of African rhythms underlying gauchos’ couplets, sung in the style of Sicilian canzonettas over an accompanying Andalucian guitar. As the years passed all converged towards the bandoneon: a small accordion-like instrument ... which, after finding its true home in the bordellos of Buenos Aires’ slums in the 1920s, went back to Europe to conquer Paris’ high society in the 1930s. Since then it reigned as the essential instrument for any Tango ensemble.


Osvaldo GolijovBorn: December 5, 1960, La Plata, Argentina

Osvaldo Golijov was raised surrounded by classical chamber music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the “new tango” of Astor Piazzolla, and his own compositions exhibit a blending of genres and seamless integration of voices. Golijov has enjoyed collaborations with ensembles such as the Kronos and St. Lawrence String Quartets and artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, and Robert Spano. In 2000, the premiere of Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos (St. Mark Passion) took the music world by storm. Golijov has also received acclaim for groundbreaking works like his opera Ainadamar and the clarinet quintet The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, as well his scores for the films of Francis Ford Coppola. His most recent work is Falling out of Time, a song cycle written for the Silk Road Ensemble. Golijov is Loyola Professor of Music at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1991.

“The title [of Last Round] is borrowed from a short story on boxing by Julio Cortázar, the metaphor for an imaginary chance for Piazzolla’s spirit to fight one more time (he used to get into fistfights throughout his life). The piece is conceived as an idealized bandoneon. The first movement represents the act of a violent compression of the instrument and the second a final, seemingly endless opening sigh (it is actually a fantasy over the refrain of the song ‘My Beloved Buenos Aires,’ composed by the legendary Carlos Gardel in the 1930s). But Last Round is also a sublimated tango dance. Two quartets confront each other, separated by the focal bass, with violins and violas standing up as in the traditional tango orchestras. The bows fly in the air as inverted legs in crisscrossed choreography, always attracting and repelling each other, always in danger of clashing, always avoiding it with the immutability that can only be acquired by transforming hot passion into pure pattern.”

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DANCE CARDComposed: 2017 Duration: 24 minutes

“Get ready … you are about to hear 19,227 notes proceeding from these string instruments to your ears … they will go fast, they will go slow, and they’ll keep you on your toes!” – Jennifer HigdonCommissioned by the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, and the Chicago Sinfonietta as part of its Project W (dedicated to performing and recording the music of diverse women in classical music), Dance Card is dedicated to violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra. In an interview with the Windy City Times, Higdon explained the work’s title: “My grandmother talked about this, when men wanted to dance with you they had to fill out a card that listed what men the ladies would dance with. That is the idea. A collection of dances for a string orchestra.”

Jennifer HigdonBorn: December 31, 1962, Brooklyn, New York

Jennifer Higdon is one of America’s most acclaimed and frequently performed living composers. She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto, a 2010 Grammy for her Percussion Concerto, and a 2018 Grammy for her Viola Concerto. Most recently, Higdon received the Nemmers Prize from Northwestern University, given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement who have significantly influenced the field of composition. Higdon enjoys several hundred performances a year of her works, and blue cathedral is one of today’s most performed contemporary orchestral works. Her music has been recorded on more than sixty CDs. Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere, and its recording was nominated for two Grammy awards. Dr. Higdon holds the Rock Chair in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published exclusively by Lawdon Press.


Dance Card opens with “Raucous Rumpus,” a fanfare for strings rather than the usual brass. The following “Breeze Serenade” features lyrical solos for the principal players of the string sections. “Jumble Dance” alternates measures of four and three beats, giving the dance what Higdon calls “a certain lopsided feel.” The contemplative fourth movement, “Celestial Blue,” is dedicated to Higdon’s father, who passed away months before she started writing Dance Card. It derives from of its materials for another memorial work she’d written for her younger brother, Andrew Blue Higdon, many years before. The lively final movement, “Machina Rockus,” is another “lopsided” dance with a nod to Russian music in honor of dedicatee Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, who had once told Higdon how much she loves Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.


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Nadine DeWitt & John SublettPatty DickensNicholas DiMeoJane & Seth DingleyCharlotte DinningLynford Disbrow Sr.Elizabeth DonovanEllen DriscollPenny & Elliot DruckerLynn DuncanJames DyerPatricia EbyCarol Ann EdmundJaime EilenbergerThomas ElmoreDennis EricksonBonnie EvansJoan & Domenic FaveroCatherine FawcettDonna FerlatteKaren Ferrer & Eileen MerrittEllen & Neal FincherBob & Nancy FischerMarjorie FisherSusan FittinghoffThomas FooteRon FosterConnie & Gerald FrasherElizabeth & Stephen FreemanCheva & Michael GaborStephen & Debbie GadsbyDon & Martha GalleyRolando GarciaKay & John GenasciSina GieslerRenee GladstoneCarol J. GleasonVirginia GrahamDawn & Richard GraverFrancine GrayLaurie & Michael HaleyDenise HammondThe Hammond FamilyLeslie HammerFrank HarnagelGreg HarperTanya Traughber HartDonna HarveyMickey HawkeThe Hermansen FamilyMary HeryGerald HestonMichael HicksCarrie & Michael HillerbyJacqueline L HoganCharles E HollandWayne HollandClifford HunterAmy Hyne-SutherlandMary IchtersPeter J. Hudson


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Sally JaspersonRobert & Joan JeffersArthur JohnsonSherman KeatingElana & Kirk KeilMr. & Mrs. Wyane KerrCarolyn & Thomas KilleenColleen KingJudith KoladaMarie KresinskeConnie KretschmerJoanne & Leonard LaCasseBrien LairdHarvey W LambertKathryn LandrethMargery LandryAmy LauderAngela LaurinaitisBarbara LaVakeJeong LeeJustin LeggKKristin & Michael LewandowskiPhyllus LidsterNancy & Richard Lucier in honor of Julliet VitileBrad & Leslie LylesPamela LynchSusan LynnNancy MacDonaldJulie & Larry MachadoLorne MalkiewichRita K MalkinDiane Malven-PangBrooks & Diane ManciniNancy & Ben MansfieldCarol & Hector MarinFrederic G. MarksMarilyn MarstonRhonda & Baron MathewsArnold & Catherine MaurinsSeong McGinnisAnnelise McKenzieThe McLanahan FamilyPatricia McMahonMargaret MelcherErika & Michael MellorChristopher MillerPriscilla & Thomas MillsRosamond MoranvilleBruce & Mollie MorganElizabeth MorseEthena & Pierra Mousset-JonesJean MulreanyMadeline MurrayValerie NelsonLinda & Steve NewbergTimothy OmaraCheryl & Robert O’Neill

Deanna OsborneJudith & Ralph PaoliAndy PasternakNancy PetersenAshley PhillipsLorraine PichonJeanne PierceJanice PineNancy Podewils-BabaLinda Martini PosnerCatherine PowellMeg PriceJacey Prupas & Patrick LevertyKen RaabeJane & Bill RaleyKathy RavenRachelle ResnickHarry RevillRobert RichesonNancy RoseJessica Krenkel RosemarkJanet RossCaryn RubinStephen RubinLeah SandersRon & Linda SandstromDebbie SchneiderStefanie ScoppettoneKathy & Ramon SeelbachEvelyn SeelingerSuzy SepahpourCraig ShafferThe Shipman FamilyLarry SimcoeGeorge SimmonsSunnie SkilesClaire H SmithLinda & Kenneth SmithNina Sterrett SmithRalph SmithTerry & Robert SmithWalt & Earlene SmithMargaret SpanoConstance & Robert StancoDavid SteeleZelda & Raymond SteinbergLillian TanabeLarry & Huiling TanouyeAlanna TedescoStanley TolleMichael TonnerWilliam E. TrachBarbara TrainorRon TurekThe Turner FamilyTruby UithovenRene Kaldunski & Rich ValentineIgor Valigura

Stephen VanDrongelenAl & Margie VictorsCharlotte VoitoffBarbara & Donald WaiteLorri WaldmanMirta & Brien WaltersKatrine WatsonTrinkie WatsonPaul WeaverLone & Bob WebbLynn WhetstoneNancy WhitneyJulie & John WilliamsJoan WinklerSarah & Wally WolodkiewiczDonna & Carl WoodsHoward YamadaIlia A YambolievLouise ZabriskieAnthony Zimmerman

Recent Gifts to the Endowment Trust FundDr. James & Deena Behnke**Sandra BitlerJudy BrahamKaren Ferrer & Eileen MerrittGretchen Hass*Judi & Michael Henry*Jacqueline L HoganJulie & Larry MachadoChris & Parky May**Mary NorkJacque, Steve, and Stevie PistorelloMillard Reed & Millie HopperJudy Simpson / In memory of Margo Daniels, longtime chorus memberJudy Simpson / In memory of Bob CashellClaire H SmithConnie SteinheimerGay C WarnerSarah & Wally Wolodklewlcz

Matching GiftsGEGeneral MillsExxonMobilHewlett Packard EnterpriseIBM

Donations reflect gifts received by October 20, 2020

*Indicates cumulative total of over $25,000

** Indicates cumulative total of over $50,000

For donor benefits go to www.renophil.com/donate



Virtuoso ($10,000+)Bill Pearce Motors**John Dermody Ventures**

Vivace ($5,000+)Bergdahl Associates, Inc.Toll Brothers

Allegro ($2,500+)Coulter Harsh LawMenath InsuranceNV Energy**

Crescendo ($1,000+)Coldwell Banker Real Estate – Skip BentonJimmy John’sPorterhouse Marketing/Sarah PorterRiviera FinanceRotary Club of SparksRPM Technology, LLC*Shelter Properties, Inc./Robert NielsenTMCC

Principal ($500+)Alice Heiman, LLCAndCoJonesey’sNevada Divorce & Document ServicesSpartan Power

CORPORATE PARTNERS The Reno Phil applauds these generous corporate and community contributors who recognize the importance of providing high quality live music performances and music education programs to our community.

STAFFAdministrationTim Young, President & CEODeborah Hodges, Accountant

ArtisticLaura Jackson, Music Director & ConductorJason Altieri, Associate Conductor & Youth Symphony Orchestra ConductorDustin Budish, Youth Concert Orchestra ConductorCarol Laube, Youth String Ensemble & Symphonia ConductorJennie Tibben, Chorus Director

Patron ($250+)SPB Utility Services, Inc.

Friend ($50+)5 Bees BooksUrban Real Estate Investments

In-kind PartnersBeaujolais BistroBourns Productions, Inc.CalafuriaCentroDorinda’s ChocolatesDynagraphic Printing, Inc.GSRHigh Sierra Coffee RoasteryInventive Web DesignKNPBKUNRKTVN Channel 2La Vecchia Ristorante/Alberto GazzolaLiberty Food and Wine Exchange/Mark Esteemrd - A Creative AgencyMUSE GroupPeppermillRattlesnake ClubRenaissance Reno Downtown HotelThe ROW

Rum Sugar LimeSierra St. Kitchen | Skyline Kitchen & VineSparks FloristSWAG | Blue MoonSteinway Piano GalleryThe Stone House CaféWashoe Public HouseWhitney Peak Hotel

Donations reflect gifts received by October 20, 2020*Indicates cumulative total of over $25,000**Indicates cumulative total of over $50,000For donor benefits go to www.renophil.com/donate

OperationsVirginia Bowman, Operations ManagerEric Skye, Stage ManagerMary Miller, Orchestra Personnel ManagerKasey Smith, Chorus ManagerRachel Perkins, Orchestra Librarian

EducationHeather Gage, Education & Community Engagement DirectorDavid Haskins, Youth Ensembles Manager

Development & MarketingMichael Hicks, Development DirectorEvelyn Klatt, Marketing DirectorAmanda Marvel, Box Office Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Jaclyn Raley, Development & Marketing Coordinator

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Your support can help us inspire imaginations, engage minds, unite individuals through live performances and education and engagement programs, and initiate innovative partnerships that make music part of the fabric of our lives.

INDIVIDUAL GIVING Individuals can make a general donation to the Reno Phil, or designate a gift to a specific program such as one of the Reno Phil’s five core education programs: Discover Music, Reno Phil Association Kids, Young People’s Concerts, Youth Orchestras, and Family Concert.

Individuals that give $1,000 or more annually also become members of the Crescendo Circle. More information about the Crescendo Circle can be found at renophil.com/giving

CONCERT SPONSORSHIPS Opportunities are available to sponsor guest artists, specific orchestral works, and entire concerts.

LEGACY GIVING Many Reno Phil supporters have included us in their will or bequest with another type of legacy gift. Their foresight, and yours should you choose to join them, strengthens and helps ensure the future of the Reno Phil. More information about Legacy Giving can be found in this program.

ENDOWMENT Gifts to the Reno Philharmonic Endowment Fund can be made through direct contributions, pledges, and legacy giving options. The Endowment Trust ensures that future generations will continue to be inspired by the power of music.

CORPORATE SUPPORT Businesses are invited to become corporate partners and invest in the Reno Phil. Not only do you show community support, but you will discover that your connection to the Reno Phil is a good return on your investment. Corporate support includes sponsorships, advertising with the Reno Phil, and doing in-kind trades.

IRA CONTRIBUTIONS & STOCK DONATIONS Options to consider as you discuss what works best for your needs with your financial advisor may include IRA contributions and stock donations.

WAYS TO GIVE PLAY A PART IN OUR FUTURE

The charitable IRA distribution allows taxpayers who are 70 1/2 years or older to make tax-free distributions of up to $100,000 per year from a Traditional IRA or Roth IRA directly to the Reno Phil.

Contribute stocks at their full, appreciated value. You receive the tax benefit of the full contribution amount and you don’t pay capital gains tax.

VOLUNTEER Volunteering is a great way to socialize and have fun while providing the staff with assistance at concerts, special events, and around the office. Plus, you will have the opportunity to experience some of the finest live music in the region.

To make a gift to the Reno Phil or obtain more information, please contact the Director of Development at (775) 323-6393, email [email protected], or visit renophil.com/giving

For more information on becoming a volunteer, contact the Volunteer Coordinator at (775) 323-6393 or email [email protected]

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This project is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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