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2016 - 2017 Season

T H E C U R S E O FT H E N I N T H

1 3 T H S E A S O N

Along the way, we will be collaborating

with a number of fantastic artists from near

and far, including Maestro Nicholas Carthy

as our first regular-season guest conductor

with the orchestra, the prize-winning

young violinist Yabing Tan, our favorite

returning violinist Lindsay Deutsch, and

Boulder’s own Karen Bently Pollick. Intrigue

will be added to the mix with the Boulder

premiere of the Beatles Suite for Violin and

Orchestra by Maxime Goulet, and a brand-

new Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

by American composer David Jaffe. And

the grand finale, Beethoven’s 9th, will be

performed in collaboration with the Boulder

Chorale under the direction of

Vicki Burrichter.

We’ll let you decide if Jinx, the Curse of the

9th is our best season yet!

B A H M A N S A L E S S

M U S I C D I R E C T O R A N D C O N D U C T O R

It’s been an exciting and challenging twelve

seasons. As always, we’re grateful for

your support, encouragement, and endless

generosity, which have made the BCO what

it is now.

This, our thirteenth season, is called Jinx

for obvious reasons. But in musical history

the term Jinx has been associated with two

numbers: 13 and 9. There’s an interesting

reason for this. Several great composers

after Beethoven—whose nine monumental

symphonies constitute the very definition

of greatness—were tormented by the idea

that they too had to prove their merit with

nine symphonies, their entire life’s work

culminating in the last of these, the great

9th. We call this The Curse of the 9th!

Symphonies by various later composers,

including Schubert and Bruckner, were

renumbered to put the best one last. Brahms

and Mendelssohn didn’t even compose nine

symphonies, thus avoiding the Jinx!

Scholars believe that it took Brahms

between eighteen and twenty-one years

to compose his first symphony precisely

because he was terrified of being compared

to Beethoven and needed this extra time

to complete it to his own satisfaction. The

work contains a rather bold reference to

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy melody in the finale.

When one concertgoer remarked on this

resemblance at the symphony’s premiere,

Brahms acidly replied: “Any ass could

see that.”

Highlighting this anxious yearning to have

one’s greatest symphony stand up to the

symphonic Goliath that was Beethoven, we

begin the season with Brahms’s Symphony

No. 1 and end it with Beethoven’s 9th.

In between, we will visit symphonic

masterpieces by Mendelssohn and Schubert

as well.

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Annamaria Karacson (Concertmaster)

Chelsea Winborne (Asst. Concertmaster)

Christine Short (Principal 2nd)

Brune Macary (Asst. Principal 2nd)

Magee Capsouto

Jenny Diaz Spera

Nina Fronijan

Renee Hemsing-Patten

Danielle Lewis

Allegra Michael

Susie Peek

Veronica Pigeon

Johannes Rudolph

Paul Trapkus

Aniel Cabán (Principal)

Christine Arden

Steve Gravagne

Stephanie Mientka

James Shaw

Lauren Spaulding

V I O L I N

V I O L A

Joseph Howe (Principal)

Rowanna Bobo

Sarah Luk

Greta Parks

Marcelo Sanchez

Julia Siegl

Kevin Sylves (Principal)

Miriam Bijerk

Jared Connor

Jennifer Motycka

C E L L O

B A S S

Cobus du Toit (Principal)

Valerie Johnson (Asst. Principal)

Ginger Hedrick

F L U T E

Max Soto (Principal)

Kimberly Brody

O B O E

Derek McDonald (Principal)

Ben Foss

Reid Johnson

T R U M P E T

Kellan Toohey (Principal)

Michael Moy

C L A R I N E T

Kent Hurd (Co-Principal)

Kaori Uno-Jack (Co-Principal)

B A S S O O N

John McGuire (Principal)

Megan Ruben

H O R N

Andrew Converse

Kiel Lauer

Ryan Van Gilder

Daniel Watt

T R O M B O N E

Michael Allen

T U B A

Linda Wilken

K E Y B O A R D

Seth Miller (Principal)

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Calendar1 3 T H S E A S O N2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7 S E A S O N

“ T H E E L E P H A N T I N T H E R O O M ” Y A B I N G T A N , V I O L I N

“ T H E P R I N C I P A L S ”( M I N I C H A M B E R )

“ T H E A M E R I C A N S ” K A R E N B E N T L E Y P O L L I C K , V I O L I N

“ T H E R E F O R M A T I O N ” N I C H O L A S C A R T H Y , C O N D U C T O R & P I A N O

September 23 | Broomfield

Auditorium | 7:30 pm

September 24 | Boulder Adventist

Church | 8:00 pm

Saint - Saëns: Introduction and

Rondo Capriccioso Op. 28 in A

Minor

Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2

in D Minor

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C

Minor

October 1 | Grace Lutheran Church

| 7:30 pm

October 2 | Grace Lutheran Church

| 2:00 pm

Annamaria Karacson, Christine

Short, Lauren Spaulding, Joseph

Howe and Kevin Sylves

Onslow: String Quintet Op. 38

(“The Bullet”)

Dvorak: String Quintet No. 2,

Op. 77

November 11 | Broomfield


November 12 | Boulder Adventist

Church | 7:30 pm

Barber: Adagio for Strings

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Jaffe: Violin Concerto, “How Did

It Get So Late So Soon?” (U.S.

premiere)

December 10 | Broomfield


December 11 | Boulder Adventist

Church | 7:30 pm

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in

D Major (“Reformation”)

Mozart: Piano Concerto in C

Minor, K. 491, Nicholas Carthy

(Piano)

Dvorak: Nocturne in B Major for

String Orchestra, Op. 40

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 6 O C T O B E R 2 0 1 6 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 6 D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 6



M A R C H 2 0 1 7

“ T H E S O N G W R I T E R S ” L I N D S A Y D E U T S C H , V I O L I N

“ T H E D U O ”( M I N I C H A M B E R )

“ T H E B E A T ” R O N Y B A R R A K , P E R C U S S I O N

“ O D E T O J O Y ” B O U L D E R C H O R A L E , C H O I R

February 10 | Broomfield


February 11 | BoulderAdventist

Church | 7:30 pm

Goulet: Beatles Fantasy

Saless: Tango Variations

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B

Minor (“Unfinished”)

March 4 | Grace Lutheran Church

| 7:30 pm

Chloé Trevor (violin) joins

Jonathan Tsay (piano) for an

evening of chamber music.

Ginastera: Pampeana No. 1, Op. 16

Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre,

Op. 40

Prokofiev: 4 Pieces from ‘Romeo

and Juliet’ Op. 64

April 7 | Broomfield Auditorium |

7:30 pm

April 8 | Stewart Auditorium |

7:30 pm

April 9 | Boulder Adventist Church

| 2:30 pm

Lebanese percussionist and

composer Rony Barrak and

friends combine eastern and

western flavors in an evening of

music blending Classical, Arabic,

Latin, and Jazz.

May 5 | Macky Auditorium |

7:30 pm

May 6 | Lakewood Cultural

Center | 7:30 pm

May 7 | Lone Tree Arts Center |

2:00 pm

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in

D Minor (“Ode to Joy”)

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Violinist Yabing Tan, born 1990

in Hunan Province, China, has

performed as a soloist throughout

China, the United States, Canada,

and Europe. Yabing started

playing violin at the age of six in

her native Guangdong Province.

She was soon discovered by the

legendary Chinese pedagogue

Professor Lin Yaoji, of Beijing’s

Central Conservatory of Music,

enrolling after two years in the

middle school of the Central

Conservatory.

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Yabing was chosen by the Central

Conservatory for the school’s

2006 DVD production of Jeno

Hubay’s Carmen Fantasy, and

she was selected to represent

the Central Conservatory in the

Morningside Musical Bridge

International Festival in Calgary,

Canada. She has also attended

the Great Wall International

Music Academy in Beijing as

a scholarship recipient every

summer since 2006.

Yabing was awarded a Starling

Scholarship to attend the

University of Cincinnati’s

College-Conservatory of Music.

She has been selected to play

in master classes led by David

Kim, Midori Goto, Vadim

Repin, Viviane Hagner, and

Yair Kless, among many others.

In 2009, Ms. Tan attended the

International Summer Academy

of Mozarteum at the University

of Salzburg and in Cervo,

Italy. That same year, she was

awarded the First Prize of the

Central Conservatory of Music’s

“Chausson Poeme” Competition

and performed with the CCM

concert orchestra. Yabing is the

youngest concertmaster of CCM

Philharmonia. She was selected

as one of six finalists in the

3rd China International Violin

Competition in 2011.

After completing her Bachelor

of Music degree, Ms. Tan moved

on to her Master’s as a teaching

assistant under University

of Cincinnati professor Kurt

Sassmannshaus.

In 2012, Ms. Tan was asked to

perform the Paganini Caprices

for solo violin in collaboration

with the Cincinnati Ballet for

its “Kaplan New Works Series”;

the program later toured to New

York’s Joyce Theater, where her

performance received wide

praise. She released her first solo



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She was also selected as a

semifinalist in the 2016 Michael

Hill International Violin

Competition in New Zealand.

Ms. Tan is currently a Starling

Fellow and a DMA student at the

USC Thornton School of Music,

while studying with the noted

violinist Midori Goto.

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album, The Great Wall Classic, the

same year.

Recently, Ms. Tan was selected

to compete in the Premio

Paganini International Violin

Competition in Genoa, Italy,

winning the special prize of “The

Best Interpretation of Paganini

Caprices.”

M E E T Y A H B I N G T A N C O N T .



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Karen Bentley Pollick joined

the Paul Dresher Ensemble in

1999 and champions a wide

range of solo repertoire and

styles on violin, viola, piano,

and Norwegian hardangerfele.

She studied with Camilla Wicks

in San Francisco and attended

Indiana University, where she

received both Bachelor’s and

Master’s of Music degrees and

studied with Yuval Yaron and

Josef Gingold. Recordings on her

own label, Ariel Ventures, were

honored at the Just Plain Folks

Music Awards. With Russian

pianist/composer Ivan Sokolov

she has recorded <amberwood>,

Homage to Fiddlers, and Russian

Soulscapes and performed

throughout the U.S. and Czech

Republic and at the American

Academy of Rome.

Serving as concertmaster of the

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Kammerorchester, the Palo

Alto Chamber Orchestra, and

the New York String Orchestra,

Karen has performed at the

June in Buffalo Conference,

the Wellesley Composers

Conference, the Olympic Music

Festival, the Tanglewood

Festival, the Amelia Island

Festival, the Next Generation

Festival, the American Spring

Festival, the Canberra Festival,

the Huddersfield Festival, the

Music Olomouc Festival, and the

Permainu Muzika Contemporary

Music Festival. She has also

appeared as guest artist with

Opus Posthumous from Moscow,

the Seattle Chamber Players, and

the Ensemble for the Romantic

Century.

Karen premiered Ole Saxe’s

Dance Suite with the Redwood

Symphony, received a grant

from the NEA for Solo Violin

and Alternating Currents, and

launched Violin, Viola & Video

Virtuosity with New York video

artist Sheri Wills. She performs

on a violin made in 1860 by Jean

Baptiste Vuillaume and on a

viola made in 1987 by William

Whedbee, and she resides in

Evergreen, Colorado, and in

Vilnius, Lithuania, where

she debuted in the program

“Resonances from Vilna” with

pianist Jascha Nemtsov in May

2014 and presented Climate

Change Theatre Action “Nothing

Is Forever” with director Aiste

Ptakauske. Karen currently

tours with Australian pianist

Lisa Moore and the Paul Dresher

Double Duo.



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Nicholas Carthy, CU Opera Music

Director, studied at the Guildhall

School of Music in London with

Mary Peppin and John York,

and in 1981 won an Austrian

government scholarship to study

at the Mozarteum Salzburg with

Hans Leygraf. After completing

his studies he was offered a

post as Kapellmeister at the

Landestheater in Salzburg,

where he made his operatic debut

conducting Mozart’s Marriage of

Figaro. During this time he was

also an assistant at the Salzburg

Festival, working closely with

both Bernard Haitink and Sir

Georg Solti.

From 1990 until 1993 Carthy was

assistant to Daniel Barenboim,

working on the Erato recording

of Don Giovanni in Berlin, at

the Chicago Symphony for the

Mozart/DaPonte series, in Le

Châtelet in Paris (Wozzeck), and

in Bayreuth.

In June 1992, Nicholas Carthy

was appointed Musical Director

of the Orchestra della Svizzera

Italiana. Under his stewardship

the orchestra received invitations

to perform at the Lucerne

Festival, the Concertgebouw, and

the Goldener Musikvereinssaal

in Vienna. Carthy has conducted

opera productions in Vienna,

Salzburg, Oslo, Stockholm,

Winterthur, Milan, Rome,

Naples, Eugene, and Tel Aviv.

His repertoire ranges from

Mozart to the contemporary. He

conducted the first performances

of Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face

in Sweden, Israel, Switzerland,

and Italy. A critical review in

Opera magazine described the

first performance in Italy as

being “conducted with brilliant

musicality.”

As a guest conductor Nicholas

Carthy has worked with

orchestras such as Camerata

Academica Salzburg, Mozarteum

Orchester Salzburg, the Royal

Philharmonic Orchestra

Stockholm, the Colorado

Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra

RAI di Torino, Orchestra San

Carlo di Napoli, Accademia

Filarmonica Roma, Orchestra

Teatro Reggio Torino, Orchestra

Sinfonica del Piemonte,

L’Orchestra.

Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra

di Padua e del Veneto, Pomeriggi

Musicale di Milano, Wiener

Volksopernorchester, the

Israel Contemporary Players,

Stadtorchester Winterthur, RSO

Prague, Slovak Philharmonic,

Slovenian Philharmonic,

Orquesta de San Sebastian,

and the Accademia Nazionale

di Santa Cecilia di Roma,

where he collaborated closely

with Luciano Berio on several

projects. He has worked with

distinguished soloists including

Radu Lupu, Alicia de Larrocha,

Natalia Gutman, Viktoria



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Mullova, Waltraud Meier, Daniela

Barcellona, Robert Dean Smith,

and Wolfgang Holzmair.

Carthy’s work as a musical

educator has taken him all over

the world. From 1996 to 2002

he was a guest professor at the

opera school in Stockholm,

and he is Musical Director of

the Portland State University

Summer Programme, Professor of

Music and Opera Music Director

at the University of Colorado,

and visiting tutor at the Royal

Northern College of Music.

Carthy gives master classes in

opera schools and conservatories

throughout Europe and the U.S.

and conducts youth orchestra

seminars in Austria, Switzerland,

Spain, Italy, and Norway. He

also sits on the jury of several

international piano and singing

competitions. Nicholas Carthy

broadcasts regularly as conductor

and pianist.

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With her limitless enthusiasm

and vast gifts as a performer and

entertainer, American violinist

Lindsay Deutsch has emerged

as a charismatic and captivating

presence on today’s music scene.

Described by the L.A. Times as

having “the technical equipment

and temperament for a big

career,” she has thrilled audiences

throughout the U.S. and Canada

with her passion for music and

brilliant display of technique and

musicianship.

Ms. Deutsch’s Project:

CLASSIFIED is gaining significant

attention with classical music

presenters as well as with local

clubs, theatres, and pop music

series. Project: CLASSIFIED

targets the most recent

generations of Americans who

have not grown up with an

appreciation for or knowledge

of classical music. Offering a

mixture of classical and crossover

music, dressed down and

performed in a familiar setting—

such as a bar, restaurant, club,

or outdoor venue—Ms. Deutsch is

paving the way for today’s artists

to reach a whole new generation

of audience members. This “one-

woman show” has reinvented the

traditional classical violin recital

by featuring the great classical

repertoire alongside her own

unique arrangements of pop, jazz,

folk, and rock.

Lindsay’s down-to-earth and

humorous conversations,

in addition to her amazing

violinistic abilities, bridge

the classical and popular

aspects of music, resulting in

an astounding performance of

virtuosity, groove, elegance, and

energy. She frequently appears

as guest soloist with American

and Canadian symphonies. Her

recent orchestral engagements

include the Colorado, Fort

Worth, Missoula, New West, Las

Cruces, Pensacola, Irving, Cape,

Knoxville, South Carolina, and

West Virginia Symphonies as

well as the Los Angeles, McGill,

Portland, and Boulder Chamber

Orchestras. Ms. Deutsch’s

performance of Astor Piazzolla’s

Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

with the Los Angeles Chamber

Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey

Kahane, was selected for NPR’s

Symphony Cast Program.

Ms. Deutsch’s movie credits

include playing the solo-violin

sound track for the movie The

Good Shepherd, starring Robert

De Niro. She feels strongly that

the young people of today need to

have opportunities to be exposed

to the world of classical music.

In 2007, Lindsay and her sister,

Lauren, co-founded a nonprofit

organization, the Classics Alive

Foundation (www.classicsalive.

org), dedicated to building

classical music audiences. The

Youth Orchestra Residency

Program, now in its fourth



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nationwide program for youth

orchestras in which Ms. Deutsch

is actively involved.

As a chamber musician, Ms.

Deutsch has collaborated with

such musicians as Gil Shaham,

Jeffrey Kahane, ChoLiang Lin,

Arnold Steinhardt, Chee-Yun,

Alisa Weilerstein, Gary Hoffman,

and the members of the St.

Lawrence String Quartet. Ms.

Deutsch received her education

from the Colburn Conservatory

in Los Angeles, where she

studied under Robert Lipsett.

She performs on an 1845 Jean-

Baptiste Vuillaume violin.

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Silver medalist of the 2008 Ima

Hogg Competition, Chloé Trevor,

is one of the rising stars on

today’s international violin scene.

Critics have acclaimed Chloé

for her “dazzling technique”,

“excellent musicianship”, “huge

tone”, “poise and professional

grace”, and “bold personality

unafraid to exult in music and

ability”. She has appeared as a

soloist with many orchestras

worldwide, including the Hong

Kong Sinfonietta, Latvian

Chamber Orchestra, Slovak State

Philharmonic, Plano Symphony

and the Knoxville Symphony.

She made her New York concerto

debut in 2013 and Avery Fisher

Hall debut in 2014.

Chloé was the Grand Prize

winner at the 2006 Lynn Harrell

Competition, the 2005 Lennox

Competition, the 2003 Dallas

Symphonic Festival Competition

and the 2000 Collin County

Young Artists Competition. She

has been a featured violinist

in the Music in the Mountains

Festival in Colorado, at the

Meyerson Symphony Center in

Dallas and with the Missouri

Symphony Orchestra. At age

thirteen she appeared on the

nationally syndicated radio

program From the Top.

More recent performances

included a tour with the Latvian

Chamber Orchestra in Riga,

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

with the Dallas Symphony and

Prokofiev’s 2nd Concerto both at

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the Cleveland Institute of Music

Orchestra as a result of winning

the Cleveland Institute of Music’s

Concerto Competition.

Dedicated to music education

and outreach, Chloé regularly

connects with students and

teachers through interactive

performances, master classes,

and lectures, both in person and

online. With an extensive and

ever-growing following via social

media, Chloé enjoys spreading

her message of positivity and

encouragement to tens of

thousands of people on a daily

basis in order to influence present

and future generations of classical

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season. He was a top prizewinner

in the collegiate division of the

Janice K. Hodges Contemporary

Piano Performance Award,

and was also a top prizewinner

in both solo and concerto

divisions of the Texas Music

Teachers Association (TMTA)

piano competitions. He is

also the winner of the South

Central division of the 2004-

2005 Music Teachers National

Association (MTNA) Young

Artists Piano competition and

was a national finalist. Recent

performances include concerts

for Fine Arts Chamber Players,

Blanco Performing Arts, Music at

Southminster in Ottawa, and a

solo recital tour of Taiwan in

December 2016.

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Born and raised in Arlington,

Texas, Jonathan started his piano

studies with Carolyn Savko at the

age of five. Under the tutelage of

Carol Leone, Jonathan earned a

Bachelors of Music with Honors

at the Meadows School of the

Arts at Southern Methodist

University (SMU). While at SMU,

he was the recipient of the van

Katwijk Award, the Roy and Sue

Johnson Award, and the Mu Phi

Epsilon Award. Jonathan entered

l’Université de Montréal in 2005

as a Masters of Music student of

Marc Durand, and through an

accelerated program received his

doctorate in 2009.

Jonathan is founder and Artistic

Director of ensemble75, a

chamber music series based

out of Dallas in their seventh

season. First prize in the 4th

annual Concours de musique de

Repentigny ( 2016 ), Jonathan

made his Canadian solo debut

during the following concert



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Internationally renowned

Lebanese percussionist and

composer Rony Barrak held his

Darbouka (Middle Eastern Tabla)

at the tender age of four and

began playing it intuitively. Led

by early self-confidence, he made

his first TV performance at the

age of seven and then proceeded

to improve his skills through

school and family performances.

At the age of seventeen, Rony

distinguished himself in the

world of music by winning the

Gold Medal in a competition

on the Lebanese Broadcasting

Corporation International (LBCI)

television for talented young

musicians in Lebanon and the

Middle East. This achievement

encouraged him to unleash the

Darbouka from the chains of its

long-standing traditional context

and explore its full potential. He

moved to London in 1990 where

he studied orchestral percussion

and drum kit at the Guildhall

School of Music and Drama and

later taught Middle Eastern

Percussion at Trinity College of

Music. Rony became a British

citizen in year 2000 and has dual

citizenship of Lebanon and the

U.K.

Blending eastern and western

flavors, Rony is a versatile

percussionist, composer, pianist,

and arranger. He plays and

composes his own fusion style—a

colorful blend of Arabic, Latin,

Jazz, funk, New Age and chill-

out. In addition to being the

world’s leading Darbouka player,

he assembled his own unique

percussion set. He incorporated

into his performances fascinating

instruments such as car parts,

demonstrating an uncanny

ability to create rare, exciting

combinations out of found

objects.

Rony’s love for classical music

propelled him to compose

symphonic pieces, taking

his effort to bring together

eclectic music traditions to the

next level. Since 2009 he has

composed and premiered three

compositions—dramatic, graceful,

and spontaneous symphonic

poems featuring his Darbouka—in

the US and Germany. Over the

years, he has performed with

many world-renowned symphony

orchestras and conductors as a

Darbouka soloist. Besides original

symphonic compositions, Rony

has also achieved breakthrough

success since 2005 as a soloist

with Symphonic Game Music

Concerts produced by Thomas

Böcker (Merregnon Studios)

and with PLAY! A Video Game

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concerts. Subsequently, Rony

was featured prominently in five

video game music albums.

Rony makes regular appearances

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in Lebanon and throughout the

Middle East, including interviews

and solo performances,

consistently demonstrating a

strong rapport with worldwide

audiences. Further, Rony served

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Composer for a Saturday night

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Baroud) on LBCI TV-Lebanon in

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Symphony Orchestras,

became common. These

ongoing associations earned

it the respect of the music

community. By 2001, the

Chorale began planning concert

tours internationally and has

sponsored tours to China, Italy,

Austria, Greece, Costa Rica,

Central Europe, and Quebec.

In 2015, Dr. Vicki Burrichter

became The Boulder Chorale’s

Artistic Director. Dr.

Burrichter’s passion is choirs

and choral singers. She brings to

all of her choirs an expectation

of excellence, a sense of humor,

an understanding of diverse

genres and cultures, and a

theatrical sensibility that makes

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Boulder and one of the oldest and

largest in the region.

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inter-generational, with 150-

200 singers aged 6 to 88, and 5

ensembles performing separately

and together, in collaboration

with other local musicians,

for a total of 8-10 professional

performances annually, plus

additional free, public concerts at

high-profile community events

and venues.

Several milestones over the last

50 years yielded this substantial

growth. In 1968 the small group

found a director, Carolyn Bowles

(later Wayland), who would lead it

until 1986. Performances became

regularly scheduled events; the

repertoire expanded beyond

operatic sounds. Collaborations

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