Welcome to the 2021-2022 Season of the Sinfonietta!
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Sinfonietta President,
Susan Buffum Welcome to the
Verde Valley Sinfonietta’s 17th Season! I am honored and proud to be welcoming you as the new president of the VVS Board of Trustees. After a very challenging two years we are excited to be back performing live orchestral music and offering you a five concert season. This is a first for us. We are grateful that guest conductor Laura Jackson and soloists Ray Ushikubo and Nikolette LaBonte were able to reschedule their postponed Sinfonietta concerts. |
We are pleased to have additional outstanding guest artists performing with us - Jeffrey Swann and Rachel Barton Pine and a Sedona favorite Cicely Parnas. I hope that you will plan to attend all five concerts. And
please invite your family, friends and neighbors.
Last year we began to professionally record our concerts and provide excerpts on our website. If you’d like to relive some wonderful memories or hear what you missed please visit our website at vvsinfonietta.org. You can also make a donation there, purchase tickets and find information about the current and past seasons, the VVS mission and history of the Sinfonietta.
As was announced at our May concert, after five years Music Director/Conductor Kevin Kozacek will be retiring at the conclusion of this season. He has been instrumental in advancing the Sinfonietta to a higher level of excellence and has been a true pleasure to work with. He will be missed, and we wish him well in his retirement.
We will be conducting a search this year and auditioning prospective music directors during the ’22-’23 season. Your audience feedback will be invaluable.
I want to express my deep gratitude to our two most recent Board presidents, Al Vander Peut and Marion Maby. They have both lead by example and provided me with invaluable wisdom and insights on managing an orchestra. Theirs are big shoes to fill and I am forever indebted to them.
None of this would be possible without you, our wonderful audience and supporters - donors, advertisers, grantors and volunteers. We are eternally grateful for your loyalty to the VVS, especially during the pandemic. You all deserve a round of applause - better yet a standing ovation!
Thank you again for keeping live orchestral music alive in Sedona and the Verde Valley. We are all better human beings with music in our lives in this beautiful community.
please invite your family, friends and neighbors.
Last year we began to professionally record our concerts and provide excerpts on our website. If you’d like to relive some wonderful memories or hear what you missed please visit our website at vvsinfonietta.org. You can also make a donation there, purchase tickets and find information about the current and past seasons, the VVS mission and history of the Sinfonietta.
As was announced at our May concert, after five years Music Director/Conductor Kevin Kozacek will be retiring at the conclusion of this season. He has been instrumental in advancing the Sinfonietta to a higher level of excellence and has been a true pleasure to work with. He will be missed, and we wish him well in his retirement.
We will be conducting a search this year and auditioning prospective music directors during the ’22-’23 season. Your audience feedback will be invaluable.
I want to express my deep gratitude to our two most recent Board presidents, Al Vander Peut and Marion Maby. They have both lead by example and provided me with invaluable wisdom and insights on managing an orchestra. Theirs are big shoes to fill and I am forever indebted to them.
None of this would be possible without you, our wonderful audience and supporters - donors, advertisers, grantors and volunteers. We are eternally grateful for your loyalty to the VVS, especially during the pandemic. You all deserve a round of applause - better yet a standing ovation!
Thank you again for keeping live orchestral music alive in Sedona and the Verde Valley. We are all better human beings with music in our lives in this beautiful community.
Sue Buffum
President, Verde Valley Sinfonietta Board of Trustees
President, Verde Valley Sinfonietta Board of Trustees
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Verde Valley Sinfonietta PO Box 4672 Sedona, AZ 86340 Voicemail Phone: (928) 282-3066 |
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Donations by check should be mailed to: Verde Valley Sinfonietta PO Box 4672 Sedona, AZ 86340 |