CHICAGO SINFONIETTA WILL HOST ITS ANNUAL BALL ON SATURDAY, June 4 at
the Fairmont CHICAGO MILLENNIUM PARK HOTEL. This year’s theme is
“MAESTRO’s LEGACY…Today. Tomorrow. Forever.” The event will
celebrate the LEGACY OF THE SINFONIETTA’s late FOUNDER AND TRUE
PIONEER, MAESTRO PAUL FREEMAN, who founded the SINFONIETTA IN 1987,
retired in 2011 and passed away in 2015 at the age of 79. The
event’s Corporate Chair is Linda Boasmond of Cedar Concepts
Corporation and the Civic Chair is Dr. Greta Pope Wimp. The Honorary
Chairs are the Betty and Edward Gardner Family. Cedar Concepts
Corporation is the Title Sponsor of the CHICAGO SINFONIETTA BALL.Each
year Chicago Sinfonietta hosts more than 550 guests from among
Chicago’s top corporations and private supporters to raise much
needed critical support for the Sinfonietta’s innovative concert
season and expansive education outreach programs. Individual
reservations for the Ball are $400 per person; sponsorship
opportunities range from $1,250 to $75,000.
The ball will feature a cocktail reception, three-course gourmet
dinner, a $10,000 raffle, live auction and paddle raise to support
education programs and a signature performance by the full orchestra,
under the baton of three Freeman Conducting Fellows, with surprise
guest artists. The evening will conclude with a post-performance
cocktail celebration and dance party.
“We are proud to dedicate this year’s annual ball to the life and
legacy of Maestro Freeman,” said Sinfonietta Ball Civic Chair, Dr.
Greta Pope Wimp. “He was a true visionary who changed the landscape
of classical music in the United States and beyond. He offered
opportunity for a diverse community of musicians and composers to
contribute their immense talents to one of the finest and most
creative orchestras in the world.”
Under the direction of Music Director Maestro Mei-Ann Chen and
Executive Director Jim Hirsch, Chicago Sinfonietta has continued
Maestro Freeman’s mission of providing exciting opportunities for
minority musicians while showcasing the range of musical expression
that is present in the many symphonic musical traditions of the world.
For more information about the CHICAGO SINFONIETTA BALL AND TO MAKE
RESERVATIONS OR ARRANGE SPONSORSHIP, please contact Courtney Perkins,
Director of Development and Operations for CHICAGO SINFONIETTA AT
(312) 284-1559 or by email at cperkins@chicagosinfonietta.org. For
more information, please visit www.chicagosinfonietta.org/2016ball
[http://www.chicagosinfonietta.org/2016ball].
About the Sinfonietta
Entering its 29th season, Chicago Sinfonietta has pushed artistic and
social boundaries to provide an alternative way of hearing, seeing and
thinking about a symphony orchestra. Each concert experience blends
inventive new works with classical masterworks, each from a diverse
array of voices, to entertain, transform and inspire. Learn more
at www.chicagosinfonietta.org.
Chicago Sinfonietta is grateful to its season supporters including:
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Joyce
Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nicor, Pritzker Foundation,
Chicago Magazine, Southwest Airlines, the Hotel Arista, the Fairmont
Hotel, WXRT 93.1, Chicago Reader, Naperville’s SECA fund, Naperville
Magazine, the Illinois Arts Council and the Department of Cultural
Affairs and Special Events. Chicago Sinfonietta is also grateful to
its event sponsors Exelon, PWC, Aon, Hyatt, Macy’s, Molex, ABC7, and
Telemundo.
About Mei-Ann Chen
Innovation, passion and dynamism are the hallmarks of American
conductor Mei-Ann Chen. Music Director of the Memphis Symphony since
2010 and of Chicago Sinfonietta since 2011, she has infused both
orchestras with energy, enthusiasm and high-level music-making,
galvanizing their audiences and communities alike. A sought-after
guest conductor, Ms. Chen’s reputation as a compelling communicator
has resulted in growing popularity with orchestras both nationally and
internationally.
Distinguished orchestras and opera companies with whom she has guested
internationally include Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony and Norrlands
Opera, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Austria’s
Grosses Orchester Graz, and Brazil’s São Paulo Symphony and Minas
Gerais Philharmonic, Denmark's Danish National Symphony and other
principal orchestras, Germany’s Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe,
Finland’s Tampere Philharmonic the Netherlands Philharmonic,
Norway’s Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Trondheim Symphony, and
Taiwan’s National Symphony. North American guest engagements
include the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Colorado, Detroit, Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, Oregon,
Pacific, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and
the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., among others.
For more information on CHICAGO SINFONIETTA, please visit
www.chicagosinfonietta.org [http://www.chicagosinfonietta.org].
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