Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra presents
Mozart, Haydn & Beethoven
April 23
Music & Arts Community Center
2020-2021 Season Sponsor: Gunterberg Charitable Foundation – Culliton Family
Conductor
Dr. Andrew M. Kurtz
Program
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
MOZART
Symphony No. 44 in E minor (“Trauersinfonie”)
HAYDN
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
BEETHOVEN
Andrew M. Kurtz
Music & Executive Director
Gulf Coast Symphony founder Dr. Andrew M. Kurtz enters his twenty-sixth season as the Symphony’s Music & Executive Director, and conductor. His deep rooted commitment to new work, community and education, combined with a vibrant artistic vision has led to creating and nurturing one of the most dynamic arts organizations in the region. His conducting has been called “passionate, expansive, expert, and musical.” He was named the 2007 Performing Artist of the Year at Lee County’s Angel of the Arts Awards. Kurtz’s repertoire encompasses a wide range of music styles from baroque to contemporary, and multiple genres including symphonic, opera, ballet, musical theater, jazz, cantorial, and symphonic pops.
An avid arts educator, Maestro Kurtz was Resident Music Director at the Luzerne Music Center. Kurtz is a past-president of the board of the Lee County Alliance for the Arts. In 2001, he won First Prize in the Dell’Arte di Firenze International Conducting Competition, and made his European conducting debut in Florence. In 1995, Kurtz made his international operatic debut in Tel Aviv while working as a staff conductor at the Israel Vocal Arts Institute. In 1997, he conducted the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s educational tour production of The Best of Puccini. He was a scholarship conducting student at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival, and boasts numerous other conducting credits, including the Pennsylvania Opera Theater, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Charlotte Symphony, Gonzaga Symphony, and the Ocean City Pops.
Kurtz completed his doctoral studies in conducting at the Peabody Conservatory and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia where he received his master’s degree in music history and a bachelor of arts in music and drama. A native of Philadelphia, Kurtz has called Southwest Florida home for more than 28 years, where he currently resides with his wife, Julie, and their son, Benjamin.
Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra
Violin 1
Sean O’Neil
Carlann Evans
Marcia Prezioso
Ariel Eliot
Erica Griswold
Violin 2
Rachel Cox
Margaret Nichols
Millard Golusin
Ellen Fox
David Sawtelle
John DiPuccio
Viola
Alfonso Giordano
Ron Erickson
Greg Lane
Cello
Antonio Innaimo
Scott Crowley
Timothy Torres
Andreas Werle
Double Bass
Scott Davis
Doni Landefeld
John Wadsworth
Flute
Deb Handley
Sherrie Mangan
Oboe
Jonathan Gentry
Kareema Colson
Clarinet
Nicholas Contreras
Shelby Ledbetter
Bassoon
Scott Radloff
Stacey Gossmann
Horn
Tom Schiller
Kathy Edgett
Trumpet
Alan Evans
Alan Klispie
Timpani
Scott Crawford
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