About the society

New York City’s standard for grand choral performance

Celebrating its 150th anniversary during the 2023-2024 season, the Oratorio Society of New York is one of the oldest musical organizations in the United States and has become New York City’s standard for grand choral performance. Founded in 1873 by Leopold Damrosch, the Society has played an integral role in the musical life of the city. In its early years, the Society established a fund to finance the building of a new concert hall, a cause taken up in earnest by the Society’s fifth president, Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, and under the direction of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the Society helped inaugurate this new Music Hall, which would be renamed Carnegie Hall several years later.

The Society continues to perform several times each season at Carnegie Hall. Its annual performances of Handel’s Messiah, a New York holiday tradition unbroken since 1874, have become a holiday favorite with New York audiences. In addition to its collaborations with the New York Philharmonic and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, as well as other performing arts institutions, the Society performs internationally every few years – including tours in Japan, Uruguay, Germany, Italy, and Brazil.

The Society is also committed to commissioning and championing new works, including most recently two pieces by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec and Grammy Award-winning librettist Mark Campbell: Sanctuary Road, the recording of which was nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award and is available from Naxos Records, and A Nation of Others, which saw its premiere in November 2022 after multiple pandemic-related delays. The recording of the premiere will be released by Lexicon Classics in April 2024.

OSNY was awarded the Handel Medallion in 1974, and helped found the New York Choral Consortium.

The OSNY membership consists of avocational and professionally trained singers as well as non-singing members. Auditions are held twice annually at the beginning of the fall and winter terms. OSNY is a not-for-profit 501c3 corporation governed by a volunteer board of directors with a professional music staff and executive director.

If you are interested in auditioning for OSNY, please email auditions@osny.org

Soprano
Allison Abbott
Anne-Marie Audet
Micheline Beaudry
Marina Bien-Aimé
Pamela Bogardt
Elaine Boxer
Dorothea Brady
Patricia Ann Bruck
Lisa Cecchini
Marie Colella
Julie Cropper
Ellen Davidson
Alexandra Deis-Lauby
Teresa DeVera
Catherine Doll
Kate Gerlach
Adrienne Giardiniere
Jennifer Giuffre
Rachel Goldstein
Catherine Hancock
Karen Hartman
Theresa Hubbard
Nelly Kobanenko
Suky Kwak
Heather Lake
Sarah Marguerite Lally
Viktoria Lebediev
Danielle Alexandra Libatique
Shea Scanlon Lomma
Phyllis Lusskin
Jenn Mancini
Annika Many
Meghan Marks
Audrey Nicholson
Ruth Nightengale
Julie Nocco
Opeoluwa Olaniyan
Marianne Percival
Alexandra Prow
Fauneil Purcell
Jennifer Ritter
Stephanie Rivero
Natasha Roemer
Anne Sandberg
Carla Santarelli
Deirdre O. Schell
Alexandra Selawsky
Sunny Sheffman
Marit Shuman
Kelly Simmons
Elizabeth Simpson
Ashley Stern Mintz
Charlotte Storch
Glenda Strother
Shereen Taylor-Berger
Mina Tulchinsky
Pamela Vreeland
Shichun Wang
Lisa Waterworth
Sharon Webb
Maggie Woolums***
Joanne Wosahla***
Natalie Wright
Margaret Young

Alto
Maria Abeshouse
Linda Amster
Sarah Arena
Leslie Austin
Eva Bachrach
Inna Barmash
Barbara Barnes
Shirley Beyah
Mary Braunsdorf
Susan Brown
Nancy Cline
Lucy Connolly
Yona M. Corn
Marjorie Crandell
Mariana Eizayaga
Michiyo Fisher
Lesleigh Forsyth***
Tina Gonzalez***
Barbara Harrington
Jennifer Herring
Martha Hess
Laura Hogan
Patricia Hopkins
Brittany Jones
Mary Kevlin
Allison LaFleur
Maggie Larkin
Rebecca Lehmann-Sprouse
Ellyn Leverone
Kate Levin
Elizabeth Levine
Florence Long
Susan Sigda Lotocki
Robin Ludwig
Amanda MacDonald
Greta Malocaj
Karen McCahill
Maria Miller
Leslie Moser
Ruth G. Nolan
Anne Paxton
Melanie Pfetsch
DiAnn Pierce
Gretchen Pingel
Janet Plucknett
Elke Raskob
Eileen Richter
Elizabeth Robinson
Rumiko Saiki
Susan Smodish
Masayo Sonoda
Bente Strong
Eleanor T. Tewlow
Mary Vaughn
Laura Vecchione***
Jill Weissman
Brittney Wetzel
Gisela White
Judith E. Williams
Karin Wiseman
Michele Wolfson
Elana L. Yeger
Susan Zwanger

Tenor
Jeffrey Ahn
Ian Barnes
Dennis Bernardo
Ronnie Castillo
Scott Clugstone
Robert Conley***
Oscar Correa
Rick Donner
David Freides*
Mitchell Lane
Karl Lauby
Nicholas W. Lobenthal
Alexander Lubka
Tom McNeill
Ongama Mhlontlo*
Reimar Miranda
Joshua Muldavin
Hisatake Nishitani
Richard Pace
Appu Panicker
David Robb
Edward Sattler
Charles Stewart
Jose A Tobar Jr
Oscar R Vallejo
Stephen Vann
Hyung-Gon Paul Yoo

Bass
Gyasi Barber***
Jay Benzon
Charlie Bonetti
John Cline
David DePugh
Simon Dratfield
Tim Dwight
Jethro Eisenstein
Jim Finder
William Forsyth***
Matt Fremont-Smith
Douglas Harrison
Jonathan Havel
Thomas Hellegers
Drew Hinman
Arthur H. Hopkirk
Stuart Izon
Benjamin Lanzi
Sanford Leff
Jeffrey Leonard
Alex Lotocki
John R. Matjucha
Ora McCreary
Alan Meltzer
Anthony Papetti
Bruce Patrick
Alexander Pedigo
Roger Rahtz
Joe Ricci
Charles Richards
David Rolando
Michael Sagalyn
Dov Scherzer
Gary Schieneman
Curtis Scott
Sam Servello
Fred Smith
Ted Stamas
Daniel Tranchina
John Verkuilen**
Albert Watson
Connor Winton

*Choral Scholar
**Choral Associate
***Section Leader

Kent Tritle

Kent Tritle is one of America’s leading choral conductors. Called “the brightest star in New York’s choral music world” by The New York Times, he is Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City; Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York, the Grammy-nominated volunteer chorus; and Music Director of Musica Sacra, New York’s elite professional chorus.

Kent is a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School. Also an acclaimed organ virtuoso, Kent Tritle is the organist of the New York Philharmonic.

Highlights of the 2023-24 season include the 150th season of the Oratorio Society of New York that presents Handel oratorios Samson and Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat and the Mozart Requiem at Carnegie Hall, and a special program featuring the choral movements of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2; the 60th Musica Sacra season, featuring “SurRound,” a surround sound choral concert with singers moving throughout the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall; and Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Bruckner’s Te Deum, and holiday programs on the Great Music in a Great Space series at the Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine. The season also shines a spotlight on Kent’s organ activity: he is the featured soloist in performances of Saint-Säens’s “Organ” Symphony (Symphony No. 3) with the New York Philharmonic, and he performs a solo recital at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the cathedral’s digital organ.

Among Kent’s recent notable performances: at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Verdi’s Requiem, Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand,” and Britten’s War Requiem performed by the Oratorio Society of New York and the Symphony and Symphonic Chorus of the Manhattan School of Music; and with the Cathedral Choir, the New York premiere performance by the Cathedral Choir of Einojuhani Rautaavara’s Vigilia (called by Opera News “a choral concert for the ages”). With Musica Sacra, world premieres of music by Juraj Filas, Michael Gilbertson, and Robert Paterson. And with the Oratorio Society of New York, the world premieres of the Paul Moravec/Mark Campbell oratorios Sanctuary Road (the recording of which received a Grammy nomination) and A Nation of Others.

Kent has created high-profile collaborations for his groups with other major players in the New York music scene, directing the Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the New York Philharmonic led by Alan Gilbert; Musica Sacra for the New York Philharmonic’s live score performances of 2001: A Space Odyssey, also led by Gilbert, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; and the Oratorio Society of New York for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Sir Roger Norrington, and Carnegie Hall’s 125th Anniversary Gala. He also led the “Mass Appeal Mass” of the “Make Music New York” festival for three years, including the 2012 premiere of a work by Philip Glass in Times Square.

Kent Tritle is renowned as a master clinician, giving workshops on conducting and repertoire; he leads annual choral workshops at the Amherst Early Music Festival, and recent years have included workshops at Berkshire Choral International, Summer@Eastman and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. As Director of Choral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music from 2008 to 2022, Kent established the school’s first doctoral program in choral conducting. A Juilliard School faculty member since 1996, he currently directs a graduate practicum on oratorio in collaboration with the school’s Vocal Arts Department.

In more than 150 concerts presented by the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series from 1989 to 2011, Kent Tritle conducted the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in a broad repertoire of sacred works, from Renaissance masses and oratorio masterworks to premieres by notable living composers, earning praise for building the choir and the concert series into one of the highlights of the New York concert scene. From 1996 to 2004, Tritle was Music Director of the Emmy-nominated Dessoff Choirs. Kent hosted “The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle,” a weekly program devoted to the vibrant world of choral music, on New York’s WQXR from 2010 to 2014.

As an organ recitalist, Kent Tritle performs regularly in Europe and across the United States; recital venues have included the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, Dresden’s Hofkirche, King’s College at Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. With the Philharmonic he has performed Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony conducted by Lorin Maazel, Andrew Davis, Antonio Pappano, and David Robertson, and recorded Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem and Henze’s Symphony No. 9, all conducted by Kurt Masur, as well as the Grammy-nominated Sweeney Todd conducted by Andrew Litton. He is featured on the DVDs The Organistas and Creating the Stradivarius of Organs.

Kent Tritle’s discography features more than 20 recordings on the Telarc, Naxos, AMDG, Epiphany, Gothic, VAI and MSR Classics labels. Recent releases, including the Grammy-nominated 2018 world premiere performance of the Paul Moravec/Mark Campbell oratorio Sanctuary Road with the Oratorio Society of New York; the 2016 performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, David Briggs’s organ-choral version; and Eternal Reflections: Choral Music of Robert Paterson with Musica Sacra, have been praised by NPR Music, Gramophone, and The American Organist.

Kent is the 2020 recipient of Chorus America’s Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art. Other recent honors include the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award from Career Bridges and the 2016 President’s Medal for Distinguished Service from the Manhattan School of Music. Kent is on the advisory boards of the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective (C4) and the Clarion Music Society, and was the 2016 honoree at Clarion’s annual gala.

Kent Tritle holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting. He has been featured on ABC World News Tonight, National Public Radio, and Minnesota Public Radio, as well as in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He was featured in Episode 6 of the first season of the WIRED video series “Masterminds,” an installment titled, “What Conductors Are Really Doing.”

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Updated 9/2023

David Rosenmeyer

ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

The Oratorio Society’s Associate Conductor David Rosenmeyer has conducted the Society’s Carnegie Hall performances of Stravinsky’s Mass, Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, Britten’s Te Deum in C, and the chamber orchestra in Britten’s War Requiem. He is also Music Director of the Fairfield County Chorale and the Salzburg Marionette Theater’s production of The Sound of Music. Additionally, he served on the Mannes College of Music’s staff and as a conductor and vocal coach with the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv.

Mr. Rosenmeyer began his conducting career as the guest conductor of major orchestras throughout South America, including the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Argentina, Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción of Chile, the Orchestra do Festival do Curitiba of Brazil, and the Orchestra of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. He has also conducted the Israeli Chamber Orchestra as well as orchestras in Hungary, Italy, and Brazil.

Born in Argentina, David Rosenmeyer began his studies in Israel where he spent much of his childhood. After returning to Argentina, he studied choral conducting at the J. J. Castro Conservatory of Music and orchestra conducting at the UCA. He holds a master’s degree in conducting and music theory from the Mannes College of Music and is a recipient of the Felix Salzer Award and a grant from the Joyce Dutka Foundation.

Amir Farid

PIANIST

Winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, U.S-born Iranian-Australian pianist Amir Farid has been described as “a highly creative musician – a pianist of great intelligence and integrity”. Residing in both Melbourne and New York City, Amir has performed as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist and collaborative artist in concert halls and festivals internationally, including Carnegie Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Al-Hashemi-II in Kuwait, as well as other venues in Canada, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand and China.

Recital collaborations include, tenor Ian Bostridge, sopranos Greta Bradman and Siobhan Stagg, baritone Wolfgang Holzmair, as well as many instrumental soloists. As a chamber musician, Amir is pianist of the Benaud Trio, winning the Piano Trio prize at the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, as well as pianist with the Exponential Ensemble in NYC. He has also recorded for the Steinway & Sons Spirio catalog, as part of the piano manufacturer’s revolutionary player-piano system.

Amir has studied with Ronald Farren-Price, Andrew Ball, Geoffrey Tozer, Rita Reichman and Timothy Young, at the Royal College of Music, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Australian National Academy of Music. In addition to his work with the OSNY, Amir is a staff pianist at the Vocal Arts department of the Juilliard School, and has worked as a rehearsal pianist with the New York Philharmonic. Please visit amirfarid.com

Board of Directors

William Forsyth Interim chairman
Robert Conley President
Janet Plucknett Vice President
Elke D. Raskob Vice President
Elizabeth Simpson Vice President
Alan Meltzer Treasurer
Deirdre O. Schell Secretary
Erica Jacobsohn Executive director
Gyasi N. Barber Director
Deborah Bradley-Kramer Director
Katherine S. Cahill Director
Timothy Dwight Director
Evan Fein Director
Erin Flannery Director
Angel Gardner Director
Tina Gonzalez Director
Doug Harrison Director
Jennifer Herring Director
Claudia Huter Director
Jay Jacobson Director
Robin Ludwig Director
Katrin K. Naelapaa Director
Gary Schieneman Director
Oscar Vallejo Director
Mary Vaughn Director
Susan Zwanger Director
Thomas Damrosch Director Emeritus
Kathleen Flaherty Director Emerita
Catherine M. Green Director Emerita
Mary-Jo Knight Director Emerita
Julia Turner Director Emerita
Albert Watson Director Emeritus
Richard A. Pace Chairman EMERITUS

Committee Chairs

Nominating Elke Raskob
Audit & Compliance GYASI N. BARBER
Development Jennifer Herring
Education Albert Watson
Solo Competition Janet Plucknett
Music Evan Fein
International Travel Oscar Vallejo
Finance Alan Meltzer
Investment William Forsyth
Auction Mary Vaughn
Archivist Robin Ludwig

The generosity of its many patrons allows the Oratorio Society to continue its 148-year legacy as New York’s standard for grand choral performance. For more information about giving opportunities, please contact the Society here or write to the office: 1140 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10036.

List current as of July, 2022

Corporate & Foundation

The Elizabeth Fernald Allen Family Foundation
AmazonSmile Foundation
The Casement Fund
eosProducts, LLC
Gartner
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Hudson Guild
JPMorgan Chase
The Kaplen Brothers Fund
Teitler & Teitler LLP
UBS AG
Zaskorski & Associates

Golden Circle (Over $10,000)

The Elizabeth Fernald Allen Family Foundation
Bill & Lesleigh Forsyth
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger
Lawrence Madison in honor of Richard Pace and DiAnn Pierce
Richard & Lois Pace Charitable & Cultural Fund
Bruce Patrick
Denise Littlefield Sobel
Joanne Abell Spellun
Susan Zwanger

Silver Circle ($5,000 -$9,999)

Katherine S. Cahill
Kathleen Rogers & Rick Teller Fund
Albert Watson

Benefactor ($1,000-$4,999)

Linda Amster
Anne-Marie Audet
Gyasi N. Barber
Henry Barkhorn
Jay Benzon
Elizabeth Berwick
Mary Braunsdorf
Robert Conley & Evan Fein
Tracy Corn
Susan H. Dramm
Joyce G. Ferguson
Kathleen Flaherty
Matt Fremont-Smith
Joselyn Gonzalez & John Matjucha
Stephen H. Gardner Fund in memory of Betsy Means
Catherine M. Green
Doug Harrison
Karen Hartman
Jennifer Herring & Fernand Brunschwig
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger in memory of William Cohen
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger in memory of Harriett L. Obus
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger in tribute to DiAnn Pierce
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger in memory of Freddi Strasser
Patricia Hopkins
Claudia & Steve Huter
Jay & Patricia Jacobson
Steve Karger
Mary Kevlin
Ted & Joan Kuck
Suky K. Kwak
Allison LaFleur
Karl F. Lauby
Rebecca Lehmann-Sprouse
Florence C. Long
Kathleen Ludwig
Robin Ludwig
Phyllis Lusskin
Karen McCahill
Ora McCreary
Diane & Alan Meltzer
Richard Meyerson
Claudia Mooij
Leslie Moser
Julie & Brian Nocco
Brian R. & Marianne S. Percival
DiAnn K. Pierce
Janet Plucknett
David Robb
Elke & Casey Raskob
Barbara Saltzman in honor of Linda Amster
Anne and Larry Sandberg
Nicole Sandretto
Deirdre and Christopher Schell
Dov Scherzer
Gary Schieneman & Susan B. Fisher
Susan Sigda & Alex Lotocki de Veligost
Susan Smodish
Bente Strong in memory of my parents, whose love of music has been the gift of my life
Shereen Taylor-Berger and Steven Berger
Terry Tolk
Kent Tritle in memory of Nancianne Parrella
Oscar & Christina Vallejo
Judith E. and Mary A. Vaughn Williams
Laura Vecchione & Daniel Tranchina
Albert Watson & Gina Lombardi Bratter
Karin & Bob Wiseman
Michele and Michael Wolfson
Frances Zawilski
Lynda Zweben-Howland & Peter Howland

Patron ($250-$999)

Blessing Agunwamba
Stephanie & Seth Alpert
Anonymous in honor of Mary Kevlin
Rhonda Barnat in honor of Julia Turner & Peter Oldham
Barbara Barnes
Armand Bartos
Neil Bennett
Marion Buchbinder
Lisa Cecchini
Ann Chao
Nancy Cline
Miriam Cohen in honor of Karl and Alexandra Lauby and in memory of Barbara Spiegel
Catherine Corkill
Julie & Colin Cropper
Simon Dratfield
Jethro Eisenstein
Vera Finkemeier
Erin Flannery
Martha Fleischman
Angel Gardner
Tina Gonzalez & David S. Byrne
Haber Family Charitable Fund
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger in memory of William Cohen
Erin Hessman
Cynthia Hoffmann
Arthur H. Hopkirk
Helen Jackson
Rebecca Jovin
Mary-Jo Knight & Michael Parish
Nancy Leo
Nicholas W. Lobenthal
Florence Long in memory of Robert Long
Hilary Maddux
Annika Many
Anne Maxwell
Karen McCahill
Kathryn McCarthy in honor of Bente Strong
Carol McMillan
David & Leni Moore Family Foundation
Anne Paxton
Hans-Christian Pfisterer
Gretchen Pingel
Paul Richards
Douglas Riccardi
Natasha Roemer
Rosalin Rogers in memory of Theodore Kuck
Richard & Carol Seltzer in memory of Marilyn Walter
Masayo Sonoda
Glenda Strother
Susan & Mark Stumer
Hannah Tantri
Julia Turner in honor of Bob Conley
Julia Turner in honor of The Brahms Requiem
Christine Wahlquist
Albert Watson in memory of Betty Brummett
Sheila Wellington
Brittney Wetzel & Chas Stewart
Joanne Wosahla
Margaret Young
Stella Zawistowski in honor of Julia Turner

Donations made in memory of Colony Elliott Santangelo:

Robert Ambaras
Ginny Bloom
Robert B. Elliott
John Fishback
Brian Fisher
Holly Gregory
Rallou & Gena Hamshaw
Jennifer Herring
Chloe Houston
Fred & Evelynne Kramer
Alex Leu
Phyllis Lusskin
Sal & Katie Maniaci
Anne Mullen
Mairead O’Keefe
Tim & Julia O’Keefe
Richard Pace
Marianne & Brian Percival
Gates & Margy Richards
Edwin David Robertson
Megan Mery Ryan
Anne Sandberg
Barbara Santangelo
Eileen, Betty, Pat &Charles Santangelo
Christine Schaeffer
Scott Stone
Stephanie Swafford
Albert Watson
Catherine Worsnop

Gifts made in memory of Donna Tritle

Linda Amster
Christina Gonzalez
Martha Hess and Michael Dolinger
Florence Long
Karen McCahill
Carol McMillan
DiAnn Pierce
Terry Tolk

Sponsor ($100-$249)

Sarah Arena
Hubert F. Babinski
Rhonda Barnat in honor of DiAnn Pierce
Mitchell Berg
Kristin P. Bergfeld
Greta Berman
Flora Bloom
Joy Brown in memory of Chiyoko Schuller
Susan Brown
Sr. Patricia Bruck
Bob & Leita Chalfin in memory of Charles Tolk
Marie Colella
Laurie Cowan
Judy Crane
Deborah Di Taranto
Susan Drury in honor of Joanne Spellun
Maggie Duprieu
Simone Ehmann in honor of Dr. A. Henderson
Joan Ferrante
James A. Finder
Clark & Juli Froning in memory of Theodore Kuck
William & Helen Garrison
Christina (Tina) Gonzalez
Michael & Theresa Goldman
Gwendolyn Goodwin
Jeffrey Helman & Gayle Binney in honor of Richard Pace
Gary Himes
Laura Hogan
Arthur Hopkirk in honor of Priscilla Hopkirk
Stephen Hubbard
Saleem Kassum
Aaron Kinard in honor of DiAnn Pierce
Shea Scanlon Lomma
Eileen Lubars
Susan MacKenzie
Susan Madden in honor of Kent Tritle
Meghan Marks
Florence C. Maynard
Carol Miles & Mario DeStefano in honor of DiAnn Pierce
Kelly Mooij
Katrin K. Naelapaa
James H. Ottoway, Jr.
Alexis Pace & Szu Burgess
Silvia Zerbio Pillitteri
Jennifer Ritter
Lisa & Gary Rodolitz in honor of Albert Watson
Susan Rothschild
Megan Mery Ryan
Rumiko Saiki
Colony Santangelo
Elizabeth and Ernest Schwartz
Adrienne Skinner
Dr. & Mrs. Fred B. Smith
David Sturek in honor of Elaine Boxer
Ellie Tewlow
José Tobar
Jennifer Wada
Felicia & Max Weiss in honor of Richard Pace
Jay & Lynn Weiss
Susan Weiss
Dorothy Young

Associate (up to $99)

Richard C. Barcham & Prema Samuel in honor of Fred Smith
Brenda Bauer
James Beach in honor of Richard Pace
Jeffrey Blustein
Pamela Bogardt
Katherine Brennan
Mark Campbell
John Clarke in memory of Gerald Clarke
Louise Cumpson
Ellen Davidson
Virginia Davis
Joyce Demoose
Susan Drake
Timothy Dwight
Nicole Eiseman
Jonathan Havel
Matt & Luann Jacobs
Kerstin Lange
Alana Laudone
Stuart & Harriett Lerman
Tal Lev in memory of J.S. Bach
Tal Lev in honor of Elaine Boxer
Robert & Ellyn Leverone in memory of Ludmilla Pagent
Maxim J. Losi
Tien Ma
Karen McCahill in honor of Mary Kevlin
John G. Miller
Jill Morby
Rebecca Morgan
Martin & Lucy Murray
Diantha Robinson in honor of Lita Robinson’s wedding
Lita Robinson
Meredith Rossborough in memory of Ruby Morgan
Gail Safian
Richard Safran
Dan Schlieben in honor of Priscilla Hopkirk
David Simonoff in memory of Irving Simonoff
Elizabeth Simpson
Martha Trowbridge in honor of Tim Dwight
John J. Van Aalst
Quintus Von Bonin in honor of First Responders
Ron Waitzman in memory of Irving Meltzer
Terry Woolums
John Abbott Worthley

The Woodside Circle

Named in memory of the Society’s long-time music director, the Lyndon Woodside Circle offers four levels of annual giving with a three-year commitment. Circle members are invited to special events throughout the season.

Maestro ($10,000 and above)

Elizabeth Fernald Allen Family Foundation
Bill & Lesleigh Forsyth
Lawrence Madison
Richard & Lois Pace Charitable & Cultural Fund
Bruce Patrick
Joanne Abell Spellun
Susan Zwanger

Virtuoso ($5,000-$9,999 annually)

Katherine S. Cahill
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger

Grazioso ($3,000-$4,999 annually)

Suky K. Kwak
Robin Ludwig in honor of Robert Conley and Evan Fein
Shereen Taylor-Berger and
Steven Berger
Judith E. and Mary A. Vaughn Williams
Albert Watson
Michele and Michael Wolfson

Arioso ($1,500-$2,999 annually)

Linda Amster
Anne-Marie Audet in memory of Jean-Marc Audet
Gyasi N. Barber
Jay Benzon
Mary Braunsdorf
Robert Conley & Evan Fein in honor of Robin Ludwig
Susan H. Dramm
Joselyn Gonzalez & John Matjucha
Doug Harrison
Karen Hartman
Jennifer Herring & Fernand Brunschwig
Martha Hess & Michael Dolinger in memory of Donna Tritle
Patricia Hopkins
Claudia & Steve Huter
Patricia & Jay Jacobson
Steve Karger
Mary Kevlin
Allison LaFleur
Florence C. Long
Phyllis Lusskin
DiAnn K. Pierce
Janet Plucknett
David Robb
Anne and Larry Sandberg
Deirdre and Christopher Schell
Gary Schieneman & Susan B. Fisher
Susan Smodish
Terry Tolk
Laura Vecchione & Daniel Tranchina
Karin & Bob Wiseman
Lynda Zweben-Howland & Peter Howland

The Oratorio Society gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of BNY Mellon.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

2022 AUCTION DONORS

Linda Amster
Gyasi Barber
Barbara Barnes
Greg Bernarducci, O Live Brooklyn
Gina Bratter
Mary Braunsdorf
Susan Brown
Fernand Brunschwig
Mady Buchbinder
Kate Cahill
Nancy Cline
Catherine Corkill
Yona Corn
Malena Dayen
Alexandra Deis-Lauby
Rose Diamond
Tim Dwight
Leslie Fagan
Lesleigh & Bill Forsyth
Adrienne Giardiniere
Tina Gonzalez
Barbara Harrington
Jennifer Herring
Patricia Hopkins & Carlo Zaskorski
Theresa Hubbard
Jay & Patricia Jacobson
Allison LaFleur
Karl Lauby & Alice Pifer
Sandy Leff
Ellyn & Robert Leverone
Katherine Levin
Phyllis Lusskin
Annika Many
Meghan Marks
Karen McCahill
Michiko Tanaka & Ronald McClure
Maz Mezcal Restaurant
Carol McMillan
Kristin Moore
Katrin Naelapaa
Julie Nocco
Ruth Nolan
Alexis Pace
Richard & Lois Pace
DiAnn Pierce
Silvia Zerbio Pillitteri
Janet Plucknett
Tracy Pogue
Elke & Casey Raskob
Jennifer Ritter & Daniel Katz
Lita Robinson
Jennifer Rosa, Pretendly, LLC
Rumiko Saiki
Anne Sandberg
Deirdre Schell
Maria Silva, Maz Mezcal Restaurant
Charles Stewart & Brittney Wetzel
Peter Stewart
Bente Strong
Shereen Taylor-Berger & Steven Berger
Daniel Tranchina & Laura Vecchione
Kent Tritle
V&T Restaurant and Pizzeria
Oscar & Christina Vallejo
Judith and Mary Vaughn Williams
John Verkuilen
Claudia Wald
Albert Watson
Joanne Wosahla
Susan Zwanger & Steve Karger