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SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING OF GREEN MUSIC CENTER ON SEPTEMBER 29 AND 30, 2012
INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PIANIST LANG LANG OPENS WEILL HALL IN OPENING NIGHT RECITAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY AND MUSIC DIRECTOR BRUNO FERRANDIS PRESENT INAUGURAL CONCERT ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES MULTI-YEAR CONCERT AGREEMENT WITH SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES WITH CARNEGIE HALL
Sonoma County, California – January 2, 2012 - The Donald and Maureen Green Music Center and the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall, Lawn, and Commons on the campus of Sonoma State University officially open on Saturday, September 29, 2012 with a performance by internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang in Weill Hall followed by a formal opening night dinner. The Santa Rosa Symphony, Resident Orchestra of the Green Music Center, will perform a Sunday matinee concert led by Music Director Bruno Ferrandis and featuring special appearances by former music directors Corrick Brown and Jeffrey Kahane in addition to a commissioned world premiere from a Sonoma County composer. A full calendar of Opening Weekend events will be announced as part of the Inaugural Season Announcement in early March.
The San Francisco Symphony and Sonoma State University announce a multi-year multi-concert series in which the Orchestra performs four subscription concerts annually at the Green Music Center, beginning in the inaugural 2012-13 season. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and guest conductors will lead the Orchestra at Weill Hall with full details of dates, artists, and repertoire to be announced March 5.
In addition, it was announced that talks are underway between Sonoma State University and New York’s Carnegie Hall, exploring a number of future partnership opportunities, including music education programs that could benefit students in area schools; special residencies with young professional musician fellows from The Academy program, combining performance and community activities; as well as programming in Sonoma County tied to future Carnegie Hall artistic initiatives. Details of the partnership will be announced once plans are finalized.
The above news was announced on January 1, 2012 by Sonoma State University President Ruben Armiñana, Sanford I. Weill, Chair of the Green Music Center Board of the Advisors, and Donald Green, Chair Emeritus of the Green Music Center Board of Advisors at a New Year’s Day Open House for major donors and supporters from the community. “This project has been a labor of love for Maureen and me and many in our community for more than 12 years,” stated Donald Green. "We feel excited and grateful to everyone as we watch the Green Music Center come to fruition in such a positive way with so many supporters."
“This is truly the moment for which we have all been waiting,” said President Armiñana. “We would not be here without the community of music lovers and philanthropists who have come together around our vision of a world class performing arts venue at a public university.”
Located on the picturesque Sonoma State University campus in the heart of California’s Sonoma wine region,
“Joan and I are extremely passionate about education, music, and the arts and we are firm believers that they help bridge cultural divides that exist throughout the world,” said Sandy Weill. “The Green Music Center at Sonoma State University brings all three together on the campus of a public university. Not only will the Center create an innovative learning environment for students with our exciting new partnerships, but it will provide an economic boost to the area and help diversify its tourist base. Northern California boasts some of the country’s best food, wine, weather, people and now culture. Today’s announcements further enhance the reputation of San Francisco and the whole North Bay as one of the world’s premier cultural destinations.”
“The San Francisco Symphony looks forward to participating in the inaugural seasons of the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University,” said Brent Assink, Executive Director of the San Francisco Symphony. “It is a beautiful venue and will, I believe, soon join the roster of America’s finest concert halls. It will undoubtedly enrich the cultural life of the entire Bay Area. We are eager to welcome audiences to this stunning new venue and share the inspired music-making that is the trademark of the vibrant partnership between the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas.”
Lang Lang will be the first of many internationally acclaimed performing artists and ensembles featured in the first season in 2012-2013, programmed by Artistic Director Jeff Langley in partnership with Artistic Consultant
Founded in 1928, the Santa Rosa Symphony ranks among the oldest symphony orchestras in the western states. As Resident Orchestra, the Santa Rosa Symphony will present its classical music series in Weill Hall, inaugurate a new Family Concert Series and host free concerts for youth and youth orchestras as part of the 2012-2103 Inaugural Season at the Green Music Center. “It is nothing less than a transformational opportunity that seldom is afforded any American orchestra – to call a world class concert hall its home," stated Santa Rosa Symphony Executive Director Alan Silow. “Rivaling the Vienna Musikvereinssaal and Boston Symphony’s Ozawa Hall, the Weill Concert Hall will create an intimate space that becomes part of our musical ensemble itself.”
About The Green Music Center: The initial concept for the Center began with Donald and Maureen Green’s dream to establish a choral recital hall on campus and expanded into a world-class arts center after Sonoma State University President Ruben Armiñana, his wife Marne Olson, and Donald and Maureen Green visited Tanglewood in the early 1990s. These four love classical music and education, and saw the University as a future home for a music venue unmatched by any on the West Coast and beyond. They were impressed by Ozawa’s acoustical perfection and intrigued by its design and they set out to closely replicate it on the Sonoma State campus. Joan and Sanford I. Weill’s recent generous contribution enables Sonoma State University to complete the Center. Weill Hall, Lawn, and Commons join an already completed state-of-the-art music education building, faculty offices, and an elegant restaurant and executive retreat center. Among the plans was to provide a new home for the Santa Rosa Symphony. When finally complete the Green Music Center will also include the 250 seat "Schroeder’s Recital Hall," named by Jean Schulz, wife of the late cartoonist Charles Schulz. Designed by architect William Rawn, working closely with acoustician Lawrence Kirkegaard, the 1,400 seat Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall is modeled after Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood and was designed to replicate the intimacy and acoustics of Vienna’s Musikverein and Symphony Hall in Boston. In addition to the concert hall, the Center will include two additional performance venues. The south end of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall is designed with a back wall that can be fully opened onto a beautifully landscaped and terraced lawn, similar to Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, expanding the reach of the concert hall to an additional 3,000 guests. The Weill Commons, an area directly to the east of the main concert hall, will be transformed into an amphitheater with a 10,000 seat capacity for large-scale outdoor events.
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the Green Music Center is a focal point for music in the region and home to the University’s music department. The more than $130,000,000 performing arts center will welcome local music lovers and visitors from around the world providing economic and cultural benefits for the entire region. In its public university setting, the Green Music Center offers a peerless venue with superb acoustics where students and guests of all ages and backgrounds can come to hear, work alongside, and learn from the very best. The Green Music Center is an initiative led by Sonoma State University but supported through deep roots in the Northern California philanthropic community. Beginning with the Green Family’s initial contribution, and supported by the Santa Rosa Symphony, the dream behind the world class performing arts center has attracted contributions from more than 1,800 contributors.
Robert Cole. Opportunities to hear the talented student musicians from Sonoma State University’s Music Department in performance throughout the year, a full slate of student led programming initiatives from On Campus Presents, and concerts with both the Santa Rosa Symphony and San Francisco Symphony combine to create a full season of music and arts in the 2012-2013 inaugural season. 
