DAVID ROSS, MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR

GREGORY SHEPPARD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

2025 Season Artists

H. Bernard Alex, Ava Andrews, Hudson Brenner, Mary Carroll, Abby Feng, Eliot Fisk, Tobias Galloway, Marcia Hagan, Sonya Hines, Evelyn Ingram, Michael Jones, Kate LaVerne, Sandra Miller, David Ross, Julia Ross, Gregory Sheppard, Sar Shalom-Strong, Kymberley Smith, Ava Tyler, Katie Weber

2025 Season Repertoire

"Frolic of the Bears" from Treemonisha, Scott Joplin arranged David Ross

Concerto for Violoncello in C Major, Josef Haydn

"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, Giacomo Puccini

"And This Is My Beloved" from  Kismet, Borodin, Wright and Forrest

arranged David Ross

"Mein Herr, Marquis" from Die Fladermaus, Johann Strausee II

Prelude to Act III from Treemonisha, Scott Joplin

Concerto No, 2 for Piano, Camille Saint-Saens

Starburst, Jessie Montgomery

Wedding Song, Margaret Brouwer

Trancension, Dorothy Rudd Moore

Inner Light, Diane Jones

Soul Dance, Diane Jones

Cringlemire Garden, Ruth Gipps

Five Freedom Songs, Jessie Montgomery

Festival Orchestra

VIOLINS

Noemi Miloradovic, Sonya Williams, Edgar Tumajyan, Linda Carmona

Anita Gustafson, Tales Navarro, Noah Fields

VIOLAS

Arvilla Wendland, Carol Sasson, William Ford-Smith

CELLOS

Kate LaVerne, George Macero

DOUBLE BASSES

Spencer Phillips, Steven Fayette

FLUTE

Cindy Decker

OBOES

Eduardo Sepulveda, Mickenna Miller

CLARINET

Allan Kolsky

BASSOON

Jessica King

PERCUSSION

Julia Ross

PIANO

Sar-Shalom Strong