7:00 PM | Opening Remarks
Welcome & Champagne Toast
Tad Snider | Executive Director and CEO, Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex
50 Years of BJCC Magic
BJCC Concert Hall & Theatre 50th Anniversary reflection video
Performance Introduction
Michael C. Keel | Chairman of the Board, Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center Authority
7:20 PM | BJCC 50th Anniversary Concert
Alabama Symphony Orchestra with The Alabama Ballet
Daniel Cho | Conductor, Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), K. 384
Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Prelude
Alabama Symphony Orchestra with The Alabama Ballet
Choreography by Christopher Stuart
Staged by Jon Upleger
Music by Cristina Spinei
Performed by Audra Cockrell & Humberto Ramazzina
Second Polovtsian Dance from Prince Igor (No. 17)
Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Music by Alexander Borodin
“Black Swan” Pas de Deux from Swan Lake
Alabama Symphony Orchestra with The Alabama Ballet
Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Staged by Jon Upleger
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Performed by Patricia Lucky & Andres Castillo
7:50 PM | Closing Remarks
Tad Snider
Before you leave, please proceed to the lobby to enjoy a slice of cake provided by K&J’s Elegant Pastries. Don’t forget your complimentary gift bag as a token of our appreciation!
Alabama Symphony Orchestra Roster
Daniel Cho Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra Music Director and ASO Assistant Conductor
Mark Patrick President, Alabama Symphonic Assn., Inc.
Clay A. McCollum Director of Artistic Administration
Carlos Izcaray Music Director, The Elton B. Stephens Chair
FIRST VIOLIN
Daniel Szasz
CONCERTMASTER, THE BEVERLY HEAD AND HUGH KAUL CHAIR
Mayumi Masri
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Esther Roestan
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Viktor Dulguerov
Bram Margoles
SECOND VIOLIN
Sarah Nordlund Dennis
PRINCIPAL
Tara Mueller
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
William Ronning
Liuwenji Wang
Serghei Tanas
VIOLA
Tiantian Lan
PRINCIPAL
Zakaria Enikeev
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Lucina Horner Cosby
Rene Reder
Meredith Treaster
CELLO
Warren Samples
PRINCIPAL
Lauren Peacock
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Mary Del Gobbo
Xi Yang
Peter Garrett
Hellen Weberpal
BASS
Sam Rocklin
PRINCIPAL
FLUTE
Lisa Wienhold
PRINCIPAL, THE GLORIA N. MOODY CHAIR
Tessa Vermeulen
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
OBOE
James Sullivan
PRINCIPAL
Machiko Ogawa Schlaffer
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
CLARINET
Brad Whitfield
ACTING PRINCIPAL 24/25 SEASON
BASSOON
Tariq Masri
PRINCIPAL
HORN
Valerie Sly
PRINCIPAL, THE SYMPHONY VOLUNTEER COUNCIL CHAIR
Kevin Kozak
Adam Pandolfi
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Nina Tarpley
TRUMPET
Ryan Beach
PRINCIPAL
Nicholas Ciulla
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
TROMBONE
Jay Evans
PRINCIPAL
Masa Ohtake
TUBA
Andrew Miller
PRINCIPAL
TIMPANI
Jay Burnham
PRINCIPAL
PERCUSSION
Mark Libby
PRINCIPAL
Bill Williams
HARP
Judy Sullivan Hicks
PRINCIPAL, THE MRS. R. HUGH DANIEL CHAIR
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS FOR THIS EVENING’S PERFORMANCE
Eric Anderson, bassoon
James Baker, horn
Kevin Barrett, percussion
Scott Best, bass
Evan Conroy, trombone
Grant Dalton, percussion
Katelyn Hoag, viola
Kerrig Kelly, horn
Honney Kim, first violin
Eion Lyons, bass
Sheri Peck, first violin
Julianne Steele, second violin
Ikuko Takahashi, first violin
Marissa Takaki, bassoon
Daniel Tancredi, bass
Kathy White, clarinet
Katie Woody, flute
Eric Yates, trumpet
ASO MUSICIANS ON ONE YEAR LEAVE
Pei Ju Wu, first violin
Richard Cassarino, Asst. Principal Bass
Kathleen Costello, Principal Clarinet
