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Executive Director and Founder
Dominique van de Stadt
President
Judith Bukshpan
Secretary

Board Members:
Colleen Black, R.N .
Dana Campbell Saylor
Dr. Richard J. Harding, M.D.
Dr. Lynda Peterman, M.D.
Dean M . Scheinert, CFA

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Morrie C. Aaron
Daniel J. Barkosky
David Ehrlich
David Frazer
Jordan Greenbaum
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1. Introit - prelude (instrumental)
2. The capture foretold
3. The plan to go into hiding
4. The last night at home and arrival at the Annexe
5. Life in hiding
6. Courage
7. Fear of capture and the second break-in
8. Sinfonia (Kyrie)
9. The Dream
10. Devastation of the outside world

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11. Passing of time
12. The hope of liberation and a spring awakening
13. The capture and the concentration camp
14. Anne's meditation

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Annelies is a full-length choral work based on the Diary of
Anne Frank. It is the full first name of Anne Frank,
commonly referred to by her abbreviated forename,
Anne. Movements from Annlies were first performed at
the National UK Holocaust Memorial Day in Westminster
Hall on January, 27,2005. The World Premiere of the full
work followed in April 2005 at the Cadogan Hall, London,
conducted by Leonard Slatkin with the Choir of Clare
College Cambridge and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
The US Premiere was presented in April 2007 at
Westminster Choir College, Princeton NJ with Lynn Eustis,
soprano, under James Jordan, with a reduced scoring for
soprano, choir and chamber ensemble.
The final chamber version calls for an ensemble
comprising of violin, cello, piano and clarinet and was
premiered in the Netherland on June 12, 2009 with Daniel
Hope, violin and Arianna Zukerman, soprano. In May
2012, Annelies was recorded for Naxos Records by the
Westminster Williamson Voices under the direction of
James Jordan with Arianna Zukerman, soprano, the
Lincoln Trio and clarinetist Bharat Chandra. The recording
was nominated for the 2014 Grammy for best Choral
performance. The U.S West Coast premiere of the
chamber version was performed in April 2015 at Beth
Israel Synagogue in Portland Oregon. Today's performance
is an Arizona premiere.

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DAVID EHRLICH
Artistic Director and Violinist
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Raised in Israel, violinist David Ehrlich started his
professional career as concertmaster and soloist with
the Tel Aviv Chamber Orchestra and toured as guest
soloist with other Israeli chamber orchestras. In the US,
after studying with Shmuel Ashkenasi, he served as
concertmaster and soloist of the Colorado Festival
Orchestra, Filarmonica de Caracas, Chicago
Philharmonic Orchestra and was
associate concertmaster with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Later,
he joined the Audubon Quartet as first violinist, and toured for 17 years all
over the world, performing on some of the most prestigious concert series,
collaborating with many of the world's great chamber musicians, and
appearing on radio and television . Mr. Ehrlich conducted master
classes/lectures at USC, New England Conservatory, Oberlin, Cleveland
Institute of Music, Chautauqua -NY, Arizona State University, Tel Aviv
University, Ireland, Venezuela, Prague, Beijing, and many others. David is
the head of Intensive Studies course at Ameropa, an international summer
music festival in Prague, CZ. This highlighted in a series of performances at
the prestigious Prague Spring Festival, where he was artistic director of a
program dedicated to Schoenberg and Mahler. David also performs
annually at the Red Rocks Music Festival, taking place in Phoenix, and
Sedona, AZ. In 2013 -2014, David helped mentor a new professional string
orchestra in Hong-Kong, and conducted an intensive chamber music
seminar in Beijing, China. In 1993, he and his wife, Teresa, founded the
Renaissance Music Academy of Virginia, a nonprofit community music
school located in Blacksburg, Virginia, which provides music lessons to
children throughout all of southwest Virginia . In Blacksburg, David helped
develop Virginia Tech's Vocal Arts and Music Festival,
where he is in charge of the instrumental chamber music program and
intensive string quartet seminar. He is also the artistic director of Musica
Viva, a chamber music concert series based in Blacksburg. Since 2004, David
has served as a Fellow of Fine Arts at Virginia Tech . He performs on a violin
made by Carlo Bergonzi (1735), through the generosity of the Virginia Tech
Foundation.

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TERESA EHRLICH
Piano
Ms. Ehrlich began her musical training at the age
of four. Born and raised in the Midwest, she
received her master of music degree in piano
performance and pedagogy from Northern Illinois
University as a student of Donald Walker. Ms.
Ehrlich's other teachers have included Gyorgy Sebek, Menachem Pressler,
and Leon Fleisher. She has received critical acclaim throughout the United
States, Israel and South America, where she has performed as recitalist and
soloist with orchestras including the Sinfoica de Maracaibo and the
Filarmonica de Caracas in Venezuela. In addition to her solo and orchestral
engagements, she is active as a chamber musician and has performed as a
guest artist with the Audubon, Vermeer, Cassatt, and Vanbrugh quartets. Ms.
Ehrlich has been a participant in the Banff Festival in Canada, Yale Chamber
Music Festival, Music at Gretna Festival, New Hampshire Music Festival,
Chautauqua Festival in New York, and the Sanibel Island Festival. She has
performed during numerous live broadcasts on radio station WFMT in
Chicago and is also frequently heard on National Public Radio. As well as
being a founder of the Renaissance Music Academy of Virginia, Ms. Ehrlich is
also the Executive Director of the school and a member of the piano faculty.
She is a member of the chamber group Avanti Ensemble which performs
throughout Virginia. Since 2005, Ms. Ehrlich has been a faculty member in
"Ameropa" an international summer festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Joshua Gardner (cont.)
on American Public Radio's Performance Today. In addition to performing and
teaching, Gardner has a strong interest in woodwind pedagogy and research.
He won first prize at the International Clarinet Association Research
Competition in 2008 and has presented lectures on tongue motion during
clarinet performance throughout the US, often accompanied by live tongue
imaging. He is currently exploring the use of ultrasound for quantified
research and performance diagnostics. As part of the PPR Lab, Gardner often
mentors student research initiatives. Current student projects range from
examining embouchure force dynamics using thin-film force transducers to
examining non-articulatory tongue motion during saxophone performance
using ultrasound imaging. More information about the ASU Clarinet Studio
and PPR Lab can be found at www.asuclarinetstudio.com .

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David Schildkret
Conductor
David Schildkret joined the ASU faculty in 2002. He
holds the Doctor of Music and the Master of Music
degrees in Choral Conducting from Indiana University
School of Music, where his primary teachers were
Robert Porco and George Buelow. He earned the
Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Rutgers
University, where he studied with David Drinkwater
and F. Austin Walter. Schildkret.

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Joshua Gardner is a Clinical Assistant Professor of
Music at Arizona State University, where he has
taught since 2011, and is Director of the
Performance Physiology Research Laboratory at
ASU . Dr. Gardner received Bachelor's degrees in
Music Education and Clarinet Performance from the
University of Kentucky and the Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from Arizona State University. He

maintains an active performance career, performing with several ensembles,
including the internationally recognized Paradise Winds, and is a frequent
soloist with high school and college bands. He has performed and lectured at
conferences for the International Clarinet Association, International Double
Reed Society, and North American Saxophone Alliance and has been featured
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Schildkret conducts the ASU Choral Union, Chamber Singers, and Barrett Choir,
which he founded in 2011. He teaches classes in conducting, score study, and a
General Studies course on music and humor. In addition to teaching at ASU, he
is the Music Director of the Mount Desert Summer Chorale in Bar Harbor,
Maine, and is Director of Music at Scottsdale United Methodist Church . As a
member of the Fulbright Senior Fellows Roster, he has traveled twice to
Venezuela, where he has conducted the State Orchestra of Merida, numerous
choirs, and was stage director and conductor for a bilingual production of
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," the first time this musical was presented
in Venezuela . Prior to coming to Arizona State University, Schildkret taught at
the University of Rochester, Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Salem
College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was dean of the School of
Music. He returned to Salem as a visiting scholar during his sabbatical year in
2009-10. His articles have appeared in the newsletters of the Mozart Society of
America and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, in the Choral Journal,
Bach, Eighteenth-Century Life, and the NATS Bulletin . He has published reviews
in the American Choral Review and has written liner notes for numerous
recordings

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Ben Wyatt
Cello
Cellist Benjamin Wyatt enjoyed an active career as a
freelance musician in Los Angeles and New York, and
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has performed extensively abroad as well as at home,
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including performances in Italy, Germany, Austria, The
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worked in popular and commercial idioms, including

film and television sound tracks and for Broadway musicals. He has been a
guest artist the past three summers at the Aspen Music Festival. Other
festival performances have included those at Spoleto {Italy), Corona Del Mar
{CA), and Sarasota (FL) . His chamber music performances have been
broadcast live in New York and Los Angeles, and he has been hailed as
"virtuosic" by the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Wyatt completed his education at
the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he
studied with Ronald Leonard and received the award for the Outstanding
Doctoral Graduate and the String Department Award in 2003. His
undergraduate studies were at the Cleveland Institute of Music under
Stephen Geber. Prior to that he studied with Dr. Robert Jesselson . Mr. Wyatt
has completed Suzuki pedagogy training at the School for Strings with Pamela
Devenport. Mr. Wyatt is an experienced teacher of students of all ages. In
New York, he taught at Third Street Music School Settlement and the
Thurnauer School. As a teaching assistant during graduate school he taught
both undergraduate and graduate students, and while in Los Angeles he was
on the faculty at the Seoul Academy of Music. During the summer of 2003 he
was on faculty at the South Carolina Governor' s School for the Arts
andHumanities teaching cello and music theory. Mr. Wyatt is also active as a
Baroque cellist, performing with numerous period instrument ensembles as
both soloist and continua cellist. As a Baroque cellist, Mr. Wyatt has played
with such ensembles as Musica Angelica, The American Classical Orchestra,
Angeles Consort, Con Gioia, and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra. He has been
fortunate to perform with numerous leading artists, including Renee Fleming,
Harry Bicket, Martin Haselbuck, Giovanni Antonini, Paul Goodwin, Nicholas
Kraemer, Elizabeth Futral, Rachel Podger, and Elizabeth Blumenstock. Ben
joined the Renaissance Music Academy in 2007, where he teaches cello,
Suzuki cello group classes, and chamber music. He is a member of the Avanti
Ensemble and is also a faculty member with Virginia Tech's Fine Arts
Initiative.

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Larry Wyatt
In the fall of 1964 Larry Wyatt signed his first teaching
contract and has been engaged in teaching since. That
first position was as elementary band director and
eventually high school chorus director. Working with
the high school chorus was a life changing experience.
Following his master's degree in Choral Music
Education, he accepted a position as choral director,
voice teacher and assorted brass instruments at then

CFJC in Ocala, Florida (1966-69.) The U.S. Army decided it needed him to
defend the country against bad band music and made him a rehearsal band
director at the Armed Forces School of Music (1969-71.) He then enrolled in
the doctoral program at Florida State and shared a part time elementary
teaching job with his wife Susan, who supervised his teaching.
After a year in an interim choral directing position at the University of
Houston, he joined the faculty at Loyola University in New Orleans. While
there he founded the New Orleans Symphony Chorus and an annual
Collegiate Choral Festival. Active in the American Choral Directors'
Association, he served in a number of offices including President of the
Southern Division . His Loyola Choir performed on two Division and one
National Convention and toured internationally four times.
In 1987 he was appointed Director of Choral Studies at USC. Continuing work
in the professional association his USC Concert Choir has been a headliner on
two division conventions and he co-directed the Ecumenical Service at a
national convention . The Palmetto Mastersingers were also selected to
perform on one convention . He is one of the most published active choral
director authors in professional journals and was interviewed and published
in "In Quest of Answers, Interviews with American Choral Directors "by
Carole Glenn, published by Hinshaw Publishers. He edits a series for American
Voices for Alliance Music Publishers. At USC he is in charge of the OMA and
MM degree programs in choral conducting. Of approximately 45 graduates of
the doctoral program 40 are in university teaching positions.
Active as a community and church musician, he has held church music
director positions for 35 years and almost as many years as a community
chorus director.
He and his wife Susan have one son Benjamin who is a professional
cellist/teacher. They have two grandsons, four-year-old Charlie, who is an
aspiring cellist/astronaut and Henry, who is working on his crawling.

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Arianna Zukerman ~
Soprano
Renowned for her pure, luminous, rich soprano,
persuasive performances and dramatic ability,
Arianna Zukerman is considered one of the
premiere vocal artists of her generation . An artist
in demand internationally for concert and opera
performances, Ms. Zukerman is also an avid
chamber musician, and regularly collaborates with
some of today's foremost chamber players. The
2016 -'17 season includes a concert of duets and
arias with mezzosoprano, Heather Johnson and

pianist, Giovanni Reggioli at Clarion Concerts Leaf Peepers series as well as
performances of Annelies with the Red Rocks Music Festival in Arizona . Ms.
Zukerman is the featured soloist in the critically acclaimed, GRAMMY
nominated 2013 Naxos recording of James Whitbourn' s oratorio, Annelies :
the first major choral setting of the Diary of Anne Frank. She sings the work
often including recent performances in Dallas, TX and Cleveland, OH and
notably, the New York City premiere of the work at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln
Center in Spring of 2014. For more information, please visit
www.ariannazukerman.com Management: Uzan International Artists; 250
West 57th Street, Suite 1932 New York, NY 10107; 212.969.1797;
info@uzanartists.com

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