The Santa Rosa Symphony in California announced that it has finished the fiscal year ended June 30 with a projected surplus of $50,000, on total revenues of $2.9 million. The orchestra’s endowment fund reached just over $4.5 million as of May 31, and the orchestra saw a 55.5 percent increase over FY11 in paid full-series subscriptions. To date, $2.85 million has been raised as part of a three-year campaign launched in January to raise $4 million to grow the general endowment and increase contributed revenue. The $2.85 million includes a $1 million gift—the largest individual gift in the orchestra’s history—to establish a fund for orchestral choral performances. In September, the orchestra opens its 85th season when it moves into its new home, the Weill Hall at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University. At that September 30 opening-night concert, Music Director Bruno Ferrandis will be joined by Conductor Emeritus Corrick Brown for a program of Copland’s Canticle of Freedom; Sonoma Overture, a newly commissioned work by Nolan Gasser, a Petaluma resident; Ravel’s Bolero; and Beethoven’s Consecration of the House Overture; and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, with soloist Jeffrey Kahane, who is also the orchestra’s conductor laureate.
Posted July 10, 2012
