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Arcadia Players

"The Finest Baroque Ensemble in the Pioneer Valley"

Ian Watson, Artistic Director

Who we are	Board of Directors
Volunteers	Advisory Board

Founded in 1989 by Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Arcadia Players is a professional ensemble of musicians whose repertoire is focused on the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and whose instruments and performance practices reflect the spirit and style of the period in which the music was composed.

Now, as we present our seventeenth season, Arcadia Players continues its mission: to develop a regional ensemble of musicians and a broad audience for live musical performance, to communicate the spirit of the Baroque in performance, programming and educational outreach.

Arcadia Players presents a series of concerts each year in several communities in western Massachusetts, performing chamber music, opera, orchestral and choral repertoire, including annual highly acclaimed performances of Handel's Messiah. The group regularly collaborates with vocal ensembles throughout western New England, at institutions such as Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, Yale University, and the Hartt School.

Arcadia Players is in residence at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

For basic information on our status as a 501(c)(03) public charity see GuideStar, the National Database of Nonprofit Organizations. If you need more information, please contact us directly.

Contact information:

Arcadia Players
PO Box 387, Northampton MA 01061
phone: 413-534-8888
email: info[at]arcadiaplayers.org
www.arcadiaplayers.org

Board of Directors
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Anna Polesny Bartoli, President
Walter B. Denny, Clerk
Alan Durfee, Treasurer
E. Wayne Abercrombie, Jeanne Ammon, J. J. Briones, Priscilla Drucker, Robert Eisenstein, Monica Jakuc Leverett, Deena Maniscalchi, Angelo Mazzocco, Charles Page, Peter W. Shea, Barbara Stroup, Meredith Young

Ex-officio members
Alice Robbins, Player representative
Arthur Kinney, Director, Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Founder and Artistic Director Emerita
T. Marc Futter, Founding Patron

Advisory Board

Robert Creed, Co-Chair
Gregory Hayes
Jane Hershey
Catherine Hilton
Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Co-Chair
Chris Krueger
Dana Maiben
John Montanari

Volunteers

Arcadia Players could not continue to fulfill its mission without the help of its
many committed friends and volunteers. We wish to acknowledge those who were
actively involved last season and to express our gratitude to them.

Gabriel Amadeus Cooney: photography
Alan Durfee: Organ Caretaker
Walter Denny: Grant Writing
Priscilla Drucker: Acknowledgements, Marketing
Zon Eastes, Zeps Design: Playbill, Brochure
Robert Eisenstein: Program Notes
Charles Page: Springfield School Program
Peter W. Shea: Web management, Program inserts

Concert Production

Box Office:

Marvin Ward, Sandra Whitney

House Manager:

Kait O'Neal

Head Usher:

Joan Vander Vliet

Ushers:

Jeanne Ammon, Jeanne Bell, Barbara Blank, Ralph Blank, Vivienne Carey, Annie Cheatham, Sheryl Clark, Richie Davis, Susanne Garber, Anne Gibson, Bill Gold, Jennifer Higgins, Susan Levine, Maureen Lyon, Malcolm Meltzer, Al Siano, Mary Siano, Karen Siemering, Charles Stevenson, Jean Turner,Wayne Turner, Roger Webb

The following people helped in small and large ways behind the scenes: Anna Polesny Bartoli, Vivienne Carey, Walter Denny, Alan Durfee, Bob Eisenstein, Catherine Hilton, Monica Jakuc, Arthur Kinney, Alice Robbins, Peter Shea, Suzan Smith, Marvin Ward, Sandy Whitney, Meredith Young.

Please consider volunteering; take a look at our Volunteer Opportunities page

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Call 413-534-8888
or email info[at]arcadiaplayers.org for more information, and to receive a season brochure.

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