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Lakeview Orchestra’s Advancing Excellence: Making Moves Campaign exceeds fundraising goal

Lakeview Orchestra relocates performances to the Athenaeum Theatre

Lyric Opera orchestra violinist Heather Wittels and Artistic Director Gregory Hughes open the orchestra’s 6th Season in October

Visual artists Sarah & Joseph Belknap commissioned to celebrate the centennial of Gustav Holst’s The Planets

Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassoonist Miles Maner makes his solo debut with Lakeview Orchestra

Lakeview Orchestra creates a new Composition Competition, will premier work by a young composer

The Chicago Chamber Choir debuts with the Lakeview Orchestra for the season finale concert in June, 2019

 

CHICAGO— Gregory Hughes, Artistic Director of the Lakeview Orchestra and Lindsay Brown, President of the Lakeview Orchestra Board of Directors, announce the success of the orchestra’s Advancing Excellence: Making Moves fundraising campaign, the relocation of the orchestra’s performances to the Athenaeum Theatre, and programming for the 2018/2019 Season.

 

Success of the Advancing Excellence: Making Moves Campaign

In August of 2017, the Lakeview Orchestra Board of Directors, in consultation with Mr. Henry Fogel (Dean of Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts and former President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association) launched the silent phase of a fundraising campaign designed to dramatically increase the artistic and financial capacity of the Lakeview Orchestra. The campaign, named Advancing Excellence: Making Moves, was co-chaired by Mr. Charles Palys (Lakeview Orchestra violinist and Major Gifts Officer with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association) and Mr. Gregory M. Zinkl (Founding President of the Lakeview Orchestra Board of Directors and Senior Counsel with Amgen, Inc.) and sought to raise $80,000.

As of June 18, 2018, Lakeview Orchestra has secured gifts and pledge commitments totaling $101,080.00, exceeding the campaign’s goal by more than 26%.

Contributed campaign funds will be spent over the next three years to expand Lakeview Orchestra’s capacity and underwrite specific initiatives including:

• Purchasing and/or upgrading artistic equipment and instruments

• Competitively compensating the orchestra’s artistic leadership and soloists

• Relocating the orchestra’s performances to the Athenaeum Theatre

• Creating a new staff position: Audience Development Manager

• Expanding the orchestra’s investments in marketing promotions and advertising

For more information about Lakeview Orchestra’s Advancing Excellence: Making Moves campaign visit www.lakevieworchestra.org/advancing-excellence.

 

Relocation to the Athenaeum Theatre

Subsequent to the success of the orchestra’s Advancing Excellence: Making Moves campaign, the Lakeview Orchestra will relocate its performances to the Athenaeum Theatre beginning in the 2018/2019 Season.

Founded in 1911, the Athenaeum Theatre is Chicago’s oldest, continually operating off-Loop theatre. Originally built to host performances of opera, the theatre is now home to several resident theatre, music, and dance companies. Lakeview Orchestra will be the only regularly performing symphony orchestra in residence at the Athenaeum Theatre.

 

2018/2019 Season Programming

The Lakeview Orchestra will celebrate its 6th Season in 2018/2019 and the orchestra’s first year at the Athenaeum Theatre. Highlights of the season include the return of Lyric Opera orchestra violinist Heather Wittels, a commission from visual artists Sarah & Joseph Belknap to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the premier of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassoonist Miles Maner will make his solo debut with Lakeview Orchestra, the launch of Lakeview Orchestra’s first annual Composition Competition, critically acclaimed pianist Andrew Staupe returns for Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, and the Chicago Chamber Choir debuts with Lakeview Orchestra for a performance of Fauré’s Requiem.

Lakeview Orchestra’s 2018/2019 Season Concerts

 

October 2, 2018  | 7:30PM

PINES OF ROME

Gregory Hughes conductor

Heather Wittels violin

SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite

BRAHMS: Violin Concerto

RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome

Lyric Opera violinist Heather Wittels returns for Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Lakeview Orchestra’s first performance at the Athenaeum Theatre. Sibelius’ Karelia Suite opens the concert, and the evening concludes with Respighi’s epic Pines of Rome.

 

November 13, 2018  | 7:30PM

CELESTIAL OBJECTS

Josh Mather conductor

Sarah and Joseph Belknap visual artists

VOX 3 Collective chorus

HOLST: The Planets

MATTHEWS: Pluto, The Renewer

WILLIAMS: Star Wars Suite

Acclaimed visual artists Sarah and Joseph Belknap will present original artwork to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the premier of Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Colin Matthew’s Pluto, The Renewer supplements the program, and John Williams’ score to Star Wars concludes this out-of-this-world concert!

 

December 18, 2018  | 7:30PM

HOLIDAYS ON STAGE & SCREEN

Gregory Hughes conductor

Ann James narrator

Robert Hunt baritone

VOX 3 Collective chorus

BIZET: Farandole from L’Arlésienne

TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from The Nutcracker

ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival

SILVESTRI: Suite from The Polar Express

SEUSS: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Lakeview Orchestra presents an evening of holiday music written for the theatre, ballet, concert hall, big screen and television in this family-friendly celebration of the season.

 

February 5, 2019  | 7:30PM

DVOŘÁK’S NEW WORLD

Josh Mather conductor

TBA Winner of the 2019 Student Concerto Competition

MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides

TBA: Concerto

DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”

Mendelssohn’s Scottish ode The Hebrides opens the first concert of 2019, the winner of Lakeview Orchestra’s annual Student Concerto Competition performs, and the concert concludes with Dvořák’s powerful New World Symphony.

 

March 19, 2019  | 7:30PM

THE RITE OF SPRING

Gregory Hughes conductor

Miles Maner bassoon

MOZART: Overture to The Magic Flute

MOZART: Bassoon Concerto

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring

Lakeview Orchestra pays tribute to the German heritage of the Athenaeum with Mozart’s witty overture to The Magic Flute, CSO musician Miles Maner brings the playful tones of the bassoon center stage in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, and we beckon Spring to come early with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

 

April 30, 2019  | 7:30PM

EMPEROR CONCERTO

Gregory Hughes conductor

Andrew Staupe piano

STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

TBA: Winning Composition of the 2019 Composition Competition

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”)

The pianist Andrew Staupe graces the stage to perform one of the most influential and exciting works for piano and orchestra ever written - Beethoven’s monumental “Emperor” Concerto.

 

June 11, 2019  | 7:30PM

FAURÉ’S REQUIEM

Gregory Hughes conductor

Alexis Magarò soprano

Phillip Dothard baritone

Christopher Windle chorus master

Chicago Chamber Choir chorus

CHABRIER: España

POULENC: Sinfonietta

FAURÉ: Requiem

The Chicago Chamber Choir and Lakeview Orchestra partner for this French foray. Chabrier’s wild, dance-inspired España opens the concert, Poulenc’s quirky Sinfonietta concludes the first half, and Fauré’s Requiem brings Lakeview Orchestra’s 2018/2019 Season to a heavenly end.

 

Season Subscriptions and Single Tickets

Season Tickets for the Lakeview Orchestra’s 2018/2019 season range from $64 to $98 and are on sale now online at www.lakevieworchestra.org/season-tickets or by phone at (773) 935-6875.

Single Tickets for the 2018/2019 season go on sale August 1st, 2018.

Adult: $20
Senior: $15
Student: $10
Child: $5

 

About the Lakeview Orchestra (www.lakevieworchestra.org)

The Lakeview Orchestra was founded in 2013 and is now recognized as a leading volunteer orchestra in Chicago. Under the baton of Artistic Director Gregory Hughes, the orchestra presents acclaimed performances that engage, entertain, and educate. The orchestra is home to well-trained, non-professional musicians that revel at opportunities to perform a diverse variety of music — from established masterworks to pieces written expressly for the ensemble.

The orchestra's commitment to artistic excellence has been noted by audiences, critics, and artists alike. In 2016 the Lakeview Orchestra garnered an unprecedented three awards in a single year from the Illinois Council of Orchestras, including the prestigious Community Orchestra of the Year award.