Symphonie Fantastique

Support

Symphonie Fantastique is planning its projects for the 2010/2011 Season. Support the orchestra by becoming a Friend or a Patron.

  • Friends

As a Friend of Symphonie Fantastique, you will help the orchestra to grow up. Being a young and independent orchestra, Friends’ donations are critical to our musical activity. We will be delighted to invite our Friends to attend reharsals and meet the musicians.

You can become a Friend with a donation starting from € 100,–

  • Patron
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Composers, performers and orchestras have always relied on individual private benefactors to support them. Symphonie Fantastique invites you to continue the tradition of supporting great music by becoming a Patron. 
You will receive invitations to rehearsals, the opportunity to meet the conductor and the musicians and two tickets for a concert of your choice in the Season 2010/2011.

To become a Patron we ask for a minimum donation of € 500,–

Download a sponsorship form.

Symphonie Fantastique is currently looking for Corporate Patrons and Major Sponsors. Plase contact moc.inibrabailuignull@eciffo for more information.

Symphonie Fantastique

“It’s with great enthusiasm that I write to you in support of the founding of a period-instrument orchestra to perform music of the Romantic era. This project had as its origin two concerts of the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique in Saintes, France, last summer, in which I directed two works of Schumann – the piano concerto and the original version of the Fourth Symphony. The extraordinary young musicians of that orchestra, who came together for a two-week period that included these concerts, played with fervor, unbridled engagement and emotional commitment. There was a sense of extraordinary communication in the performances, which went far beyond the more mundane standard goals of playing with a high degree of polish, brilliance and assurance (though those qualities were also vibrantly present).

As the period drew to a close, several of the musicians, among them Giulia Barbini and Mark Dupere, came to me and ex- pressed a desire to perpetuate our collective artistic adventure in a permanent orchestra that would illuminate the pathbreaking repertoire of Romanticism with the heady combination of the players’ exuberance, the intensely characteristic sonorities of period instruments, and stylistic and aesthetic knowledge of the musical and poetic parameters of the Romantic Zeitgeist. There is at present no such orchestra and it is highly likely that an ensemble of this kind would attract a great deal of attention throughout Europe and, indeed, the world, should it have the proper financial and logistical support necessary to prepare and present challenging and enthralling repertoire.

I am deeply honored by the confidence these wonderful musicians have placed in me as a potential artistic leader of such an orchestra and wish to help them in every way possible. My widespread concert activities and contacts may be of some assistance, but all of the idealism in the world will not guarantee success. The generosity of enlightened individuals such as you would be crucial to the initiation of this exciting orchestra. It is with a sense of humility and inspiration that I write in support of this marvelous idea, which I back without reservation.“

Robert Levin

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