With a contagious smile and captivating charm, conductor, trumpet virtuoso, singer, and actor BYRON STRIPLING ignites audiences across the globe. In 2020, STRIPLING was named Principal Pops conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and in 2024, STRIPLING was named Principal Pops conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He also currently serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the highly acclaimed Columbus Jazz Orchestra. STRIPLING’S baton has led countless orchestras throughout the United States and Canada including the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood and the orchestras of San Diego, St. Louis, Virginia, Toronto, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Rochester, Buffalo, Florida, Portland and Sarasota to name a few.

As a soloist with the Boston Pops, Stripling has performed frequently under the baton of Keith Lockhart, as well as being the featured soloist on the PBS television special, “Evening at Pops,” with conductors John Williams and Mr. Lockhart. Currently, Stripling serves as artistic director and conductor of the highly acclaimed Columbus Jazz Orchestra.

Since his Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, STRIPLING has become a pops orchestra favorite throughout the country, soloing with over 100 orchestras around the world including the Boston Pops, National Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and orchestras throughout Europe and Asia. He has been a featured soloist at the Hollywood Bowl and performs at festivals around the world.

An accomplished actor and singer, STRIPLING was chosen, following a worldwide search, to star in the lead role of the Broadway bound musical, “Satchmo.” Many will remember his featured cameo performance in the television movie, “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” and his critically acclaimed virtuoso trumpet and riotous comedic performance in the 42nd Street production of “From Second Avenue to Broadway.”

Television viewers have enjoyed his work as soloist on the worldwide telecast of The Grammy Awards. Millions have heard his trumpet and voice on television commercials, TV theme songs including “20/20,” CNN, and soundtracks of favorite movies. In addition to multiple recordings with his quintet, work with artists from Tony Bennett to Whitney Houston, his prolific recording career includes hundreds of albums with the greatest pop, Broadway, soul and jazz artists of all time.

STRIPLING earned his stripes as lead trumpeter and soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. He has also played and recorded extensively with the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, and Buck Clayton in addition to The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, and The GRP All Star Big Band.

STRIPLING is devoted to giving back and supports several philanthropic organizations including The United Way and Homelessness advocate and The Community Shelter Board. He also enjoys sharing the power of music through Seminars and Master Classes at colleges, universities, conservatories, and high schools. His informative talks, combined with his incomparable wit and charm, make him a favorite guest speaker to groups of all ages.

STRIPLING was educated at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. One of his greatest joys is to return, periodically, to Eastman and Interlochen as a special guest lecturer.

A resident of Ohio, STRIPLING lives in the country with his wife Alexis, a former dancer, writer and poet and their beautiful daughters.

Carmen Bradford is jazz royalty, a 2024 Grammy Award winner for “Basie Swings the Blues – the Count Basie Orchestra.” She’s been nominated five times for Grammy Award and is the recipient of the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s Jazz Vocalist Award. With her body of work, which reflects her vast experience, versatility, and technical brilliance, she has carved out her place in jazz history, and she continues to contribute to the preservation of this uniquely American art form.

Bradford was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Altadena, California. The daughter of legendary cornetist and composer Bobby Bradford and world-renown jazz vocalist, composer, and author Melba Joyce, and granddaughter of Melvin Moore (who sang with Lucky Millender and his Big Band, Dizzy Gillespie’s Big Band, and the Ink Spots), Bradford grew up with music in her home and in her heart.

She was discovered and hired by William “Count” Basie when she was just 22; she went on to be the featured vocalist with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra for nine years and has continued to perform with them regularly throughout her career. All four of her Grammy Award nominations are for albums with the Count Basie Orchestra, including two in the 1980s and a third, “Big Boss Band,” with guitarist George Benson. (She and Benson performed the classic duet, “How Do You Keep the Music Playing,” on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.) The fourth is 2022’s “Live At Birdland.”

In 1992, Bradford released her first debut album, “Finally Yours” (Evidence Records), to critical acclaim. In 1995, the release of her second solo album, “With Respect” (Evidence Records), established Bradford as one of jazz music’s most diverse and exciting vocal stylists.

Bradford has performed and/or recorded with Patti Austin, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Shelly Berg, James Brown, Benny Carter, Dori Caymmi, John Clayton and the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, Freddie Cole, Lena Horne, Kurt Elling, Wynton Marsalis, Jeremy Monteiro, David Murray, Willie Nelson, James Newton, Kenny Rankin, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Frank Sinatra, Byron Stripling, Tierney Sutton, Jeff Tyzik, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Liz Wright, and countless other artists around the world.

She also has performed and/or recorded with the Dallas Symphony, the Dani Felber Big Band, the Detroit Symphony, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Philadelphia Pops, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Vancouver Philharmonic, and many other organizations.

Bradford teamed with singer/composer Kenny Rankin for the Benny Carter Songbook Project, performing with him the duet, “And All That Jazz.” Other notable artists on the album include Ruth Brown, Jon Hendricks, Shirley Horn, Diana Krall, Peggy Lee, Diane Reeves, Bobby Short, Joe Williams, and others. At the request of Benny Carter, Bradford also sang “Key Largo” on this Grammy Award-winning album.

Bradford’s 2004 release, “Home With You” (Azica Records), is a warm and beautiful collection of vocal and piano duets with jazz great Shelly Berg. In 2008, with the release of “Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola: Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra featuring Carmen Bradford,” Bradford returned to her big band roots. That recording ultimately brought her back to her first big band family, as well: She continues to tour with the Count Basie Orchestra, always grateful to Count Basie for opening the door for her. “When the Count Basie Orchestra calls me,” she says, “I go.”

The 2015 release of “Invisible Design,” with jazz great John Mills, showcases Bradford’s versatility. 2015 also saw the release of “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas” with the Count Basie Orchestra (conducted by Scotty Barnhart). The album features Bradford, Ledisi, Ellis Marsalis, and Johnny Mathis.

In 2016, Bradford’s was the voice on the album “Imagination Nation,” a tribute to Nelson Mandela by South African trumpeter Darren English. This critically-acclaimed album won the Pledge for Peace award from the Global Peace Song Awards, and was named Best in Jazz.

The 2019 Grammy Award-nominated album, “All About That Basie” with the Count Basie Orchestra, conducted by Scotty Barnhart on Concord Records, features Bradford, Jamie Davis, Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Elling, Jon Faddis, Wycliff Gordon, Stevie Wonder, and Take 6. In 2021, another Grammy Award-nominated album was released: “Live At Birdland – the Count Basie Orchestra,” conducted by Scotty Barnhart and featuring Bradford and Jamie Davis.

Bradford regularly pays tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald with her show, “A Century of Ella,” created and conducted by jazz great Jeff Tyzik. And, with the incredible trumpeter and vocalist Byron Stripling, Bradford honors Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong in their show, “Ella and Louis,” which consistently performs to rave reviews. Bradford has recently added a new show, “Carmen Pays Tribute to the ‘First Ladies of Song.’”

Bradford has loaned her inimitable voice to stage productions and the music of Hollywood films, cartoons for television and radio commercials, and the theater. She sang on the haunting soundtrack for Oprah Winfrey’s “Beloved” and starred in the title role of Duke Ellington’s Folk Opera, “Queenie Pie,” at the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music.

As she tours and performs around the world, Bradford continues to sing multiple genres, from straight-ahead jazz to fusion to blues – and to sing as no one else can.

In 2017, Bradford’s gift for teaching and mentoring others inspired the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to recruit Bradford to serve as Vocalist in Residence, and Director of the Jazz Voice Department in the school’s new Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) Program.

Bradford also is CEO and Artistic Director of Carmen Bradford Productions, Inc. and an artist with Earthworks Audio. She serves as a panelist for AMPLIFY, part of the Emerging Black Composers Project (a partnership among the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), the San Francisco Symphony, and the SFCM President’s Advisory Council on Equity and Inclusion.) She is a Governor of the Atlanta Chapter of the Recording Academy.

Bradford sings on the critically acclaimed 2023 release, “Basie Swings the Blues” on Candid Records. In addition to Bradford, this album features some of the greatest blues artists alive today, including George Benson, Castro “Mr. Sipp” Coleman, Shemekia Copeland, Robert Cray, Jamie Davie, Buddy Guy, Charlton Johnson, Betty LaVette, Ledisi, Keb’ Mo’, Charlie Musselwhite and Bobby Rush.

Bradford’s body of work reflects jazz’s improvisation, creativity, and freedom. She looks forward to continuing her work to preserve this uniquely American art, so reflective of the cultural fabric of our country.

First Violin
Masako Yanagita, Concertmaster (Physicians’ Fund Chair)
Marsha Harbison, Assistant Concertmaster (Raymond E. & Mildred G. Clark Chair)
Robert Lawrence
Martha McAdams
Romina Kostare (Massachusetts Fire Technologies, Inc. Chair)
Ira Morris
Kathy Andrew
Mitsuko Suzuki
Miho Matsuno
Jennifer Hillaker
Yuko Naito-Gotay

Second Violin
Beth Welty, Assistant Principal
Julie Marden
Lori Everson
Amy Sims
Joyce Ryu
Jean Gress
Anne-Marie Chubet
Krzysztof Gadawski
Ani Gregorian Resnick
Lu Sun Friedman
Viktoria Tchertchian

Viola
Ronald Gorevic, Principal
Delores Thayer, Assistant Principal
Carol Hutter
James Gustafson
Elizabeth Rose
Dani Rimoni

Cello
Emily Taubl, Principal
Aron Zelkowicz, Assistant Principal
Richard Mickey
Karen Wilson
Joel Wolfe
Boris Kogan
Yoonhee Ko

Bass
Salvatore Macchia, Principal
Alexander Svensen, Assistant Principal
Joel Meginsky
Michael Gorajec
Julianne Russell

Flute
Ann Bobo, Principal
Ellen Redman

Piccolo
Ellen Redman

Oboe
Nancy Dimock, Principal
Karen Hosmer (Grace A. Kellogg Chair)
Grace Shryock

English Horn
Grace Shryock

Clarinet
Christopher Cullen, Principal
Lynn Sussman
John Friedrichs

Bass Clarinet
John Friedrichs

Saxophone
Lynn Klock, Principal

Bassoon
Yeh-Chi Wang, Principal
Shotaro Mori
Leo Kenen

Contrabassoon
Leo Kenen

Horn
Lauren Winter, Principal
Robert Hoyle
Sarah Sutherland
Matthew Muehl-Miller

Trumpet
Thomas Bergeron, Principal
Gerald Serfass
Dana Russian

Trombone
Brian Diehl, Principal
Paul Bellino
Glenn Mayer

Timpani
Martin Kluger, Principal

Percussion
Nathan Lassell, Principal
Robert McEwan

Co-Librarian
Jean Gress
Rocío Mora

Production Manager
Gregory Jones

Personnel Manager
Renato Wendel

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HONORARIUM & MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Linda Ahern in memory of Harold Ahern
Mary Jane McMahon in memory of Priscilla Anthony
Peter and Kathleen Andrew in memory of Laura Broad
Elaine & Roye Ginsberg in memory of Laura Broad
Margaret Dean in memory of Dorothy Dean
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George Dickstein in memory of Jacqueline Dickstein
Christina Loy in memory of Lorraine Kotelnicki
Dr. John N. Landis in memory of Ellen K. Landis
Dr. Ronnie Leavitt in memory of David & Frieda Lawrence
Mary Jane McMahon in memory of Richard Lussier
Susan Monks in memory of Hertha Platzer
Nita Walter McAdams in memory of Hertha Schmid Platzer
Laura Broad* in memory of Mike Ritzen
Peter & Kathleen Andrew in memory of Kathy & Michael Ritzen
Jean Trader in memory of C. David Trader
David Tripp in memory of Jeanne Murdock Tripp
Ed & Liliane Schneider in memory of Ron Weiss

*Deceased

Special thanks to these businesses for their generous support. They have contributed to making the magic of music happen in a variety of ways. From being a season supporter or placing a program ad to making a Musical Petting Zoo happen, there are a variety of ways these organizations showed their love for music and their community. If your company would like more information on ways to give back, contact Kati Hensel at khensel@springfieldsymphony.org or (413) 733-0636 x1013.

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Paul Friedmann, MD, Chair
Margaret Mantoni, Treasurer
Attorney Ronald Weiss, Clerk
Tony Falcetti, Immediate Past Chair
Marsha Harbison, Orchestra Representative
Robert Bolduc
Andrew Cade
Graham Cahill
Sandra Doran
Eileen McCaffery
Evan Plotkin
Cesar Ruiz
Dr. Michael Sorrell
Bernard Spirito
Peter Thomsen

Paul Lambert, President & CEO
Heather Caisse-Roberts, Community Outreach Advisor
Andrea Pereira, Business Manager
Renato Wendel, Director of Operations & Orchestra Personnel Manager
Caitlin Meyer, Director of Education
Max Jordan, Education Assistant
Kati Hensel, Annual Fund and Stewardship Administrator
Chiara Sinigaglia, Marketing Coordinator
Rocío Mora, Youth Orchestra Manager & Associate Librarian
Patrick McMahon, Volunteer Coordinator and MPZ Coordinator
Jonathan Lam, Conductor, Springfield Youth Orchestra
Matthew Bertuzzi, Conductor, Springfield Youth Sinfonia
Nikki Stoia, Director, Springfield Symphony Chorus
Gregory Jones, Production & Stage Manager
Jean E. Gress, Orchestra Librarian
Jennifer Higgins, Grant Writer