“This month we salute 30 exceptional women—from the fields of business, education, health care, arts, public service, philanthropy, religion and sports—each one of them a leader who makes a significant difference in the life of our community,” writes Nancy Schoeffler in Friday’s (11/21) Hartford Magazine (CT). Included are Carolyn Kuan, music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and Rebecca Corbin Loree, founder of Corbin Advisors, who is chair of the orchestra’s five-year capital campaign. At the Hartford Symphony, “Kuan has sought ways to shake up the traditional classical repertoire with a wide variety of innovative and offbeat approaches. She’s paired music with visual presentations, woven in new music and world music, musically interpreted local culinary creations with chefs on stage [and] has taken the orchestra to many different venues.” As chair of the HSO’s $10 million capital campaign “that already has raised $8.6 million … Corbin Lee says she applied insights and experience from her own field to give the campaign its identity—‘Music Builds Community.’ The campaign aims to raise $2 million for innovation … $2 million to build patronage and engage the community; and $6 million for endowment ‘to solidify our future.’ ”
Posted November 26, 2019
