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The Music of Tina Turner
Friday, July 18, 2025 (rain date July 19)
Talcott Mountain Music Festival

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Carolyn Kuan, music director


The Music of TINA TURNER

Friday, July 18, 2025

Adam Kerry Boyles, conductor

FEATURING
Lakisha Jones
Nova Y. Payton
Armando Imagines


Disco Inferno 
I Want to Take You Higher
Nutbush City Limits

What’s Love got to Do with It
Let’s Stay Together
We Don’t Need Another Hero (from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome)
Goldeneye
All Night Long (All Night)
Private Dancer
River Deep - Mountain High

 Intermission

 Music from Tommy, Overture - Pinball Wizard
It Takes Two - Tonight - It’s Only Love
Son of a Preacher Man
Living for the City
The Best 

Music of the Beatles, Live and Let Die - Hey Jude
Proud Mary 


The post of Music Director is endowed by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation.

We kindly request that you refrain from using flash photography and video recording during the performance, however we encourage you take photos and share them on your favorite social media platforms- be sure to tag us so we can join in on the excitement! 

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development,

Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.


Orchestra Roster

Violin 1
Leonid Sigal 
Gary Capozziello 
Millie Piekos 
Deborah Tyler 
Katalin Viragh 
Lu Friedman 
Michael Eby 
Yukiko Kuhara
Jamie Andrusyak

Violin 2
Michael Duffett
Martha Kayser
Candace Lammers
Yuri Kharenko
Krzysztof Gadawski
Benjamin Kremer
Yuri Kharenko 
Nathan Lowman 
Virginia Kramer

Viola
Michael Wheeler
Nick Borghoff
Kyle Davis
Andrew Knebel
Carrol Lee
Nick Citro

Cello
Jia Cao
Peter Zay
Cara Cheung
Kathy Schiano
Amy Wensink

Double Bass
Edward Rozie
Robert Groff
Mark Zechel
Alex Svensen

Flute
Barbara Hopkins
Jeanne Wilson
Jennifer Berman

Oboe
Erik Andrusyak
Stephen Wade


Clarinet
Sangwon Lee
Curt Blood
Christopher Howard

Bassoon
Yeh-Chi Wang
Dillon Meacham

French Horn
John Michael Flavetta 
Brian Nichols
Justin Ruleman
Eric Brummitt

Trumpet
John Charles Thomas 
Wayne DuMaine
Tucker Barney

Trombones
Brian Diehl 
Robert Hoveland 
Bass Trombone
Reid Harman

Tuba
William Connors

Timpani
Robert McEwan

Percussion
Evan Glickman
Dave West
Doug Perry

Harp
Susan Knapp Thomas

Keyboard
Gary Chapman

E. Bass
Edward Rozie

E. Guitar
Emilio Garcia

Saxophone
John Mastroianni
Jonathan Ball
Michael Paglione