American soprano Aundi Marie Moore is a 2023 Sphinx Medal of Excellence honoree and member of the Metropolitan Opera roster.The Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 Maestro’s Ball will be held Sept. 22 at the Jemison Concert Hall of UAB’s Alys Stephens Center.
This year’s ball is hosted by Susan Curtin, Peter Curtin and Emma Curtin and features orchestra Music Director Carlos Izcaray conducting the orchestra in a program of symphonic works and arias inspired by the theme “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
American soprano Aundi Marie Moore joins Izcaray and the ASO as the evening’s special guest. A 2023 Sphinx Medal of Excellence honoree and member of the Metropolitan Opera roster, Moore drew national attention in 2019 as Strawberry Woman in the Met’s production of Porgy and Bess. Moore will be performing arias by Puccini and Gershwin for the Maestro’s Ball.
Guests at the ball also will be served an array of small plates curated by chef Frank Stitt and Pardis Stitt with Tre Luna.
“I am honored to join the Maestro’s Ball Committee in our largest fundraising effort of the year,” Corporate Fundraising Committee member Emily Wood Bowron said in a statement from ASO. “Red Diamond Coffee and Tea has been an avid supporter of the ASO for decades, alongside much of corporate Birmingham, local foundations and individual donors.”
According to the press release, corporate, philanthropic and individual donors’ contributions through the ball raise as much as 15% of the ASO’s operating budget. In addition to helping underwrite subscription concerts, these funds are critical to helping the ASO reach a large and diverse audience through free community engagement performances, a statewide tour and education programs that serve approximately 40,000 students annually, the release states.
More of the ball’s supporters include 2023 Maestro’s Ball corporate chairs Gail and Jeffrey Bayer and Maggie and Tyler O’Connor.
Ball corporate committee members are Lacey Whatley Alford, Emily Wood Bowron, Will Bowron, Dell S. Brooke, F. Dixon Brooke Jr., John Carter, Virginia Hazelrig Carter, Doug Eckert, John Harbert, Kelly Harbert, Chris Harmon, Jonathan Hoffmann, William J. Long IV, Gina McClanahan, Scott McClanahan, Taylor McElroy, Danney McKinney, Maggie O’Connor, Tyler O’Connor, Anne Schilleci, Vince Schilleci, Robert Schoenvogel, Jeff St. Denis, Jesse Vogtle, Nick Willis and Whitney Wright.
More information about the ball can be found by going to alabamasymphony.org and clicking on menu, then events. Or you may contact Olivia Staggs at [email protected].
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