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Arcadia Players

Celebrating
20 Years of Historical Performance

Ian Watson, Artistic Director

Who we are	Board of Directors
Volunteers	Advisory Board

Arcadia Players embraces historical performance practice to illuminate and invigorate the great Western heritage of vocal and instrumental music.

We are a professional ensemble of musicians founded in 1989 by Margaret Irwin-Brandon. Currently under the direction of renowned keyboardist and conductor Ian Watson, we present a series of concerts each year in several communities in western Massachusetts, performing chamber music, opera, orchestral and choral repertoire, including highly acclaimed performances of Handel's Messiah. We also regularly collaborate with vocal ensembles throughout New England, at institutions such as Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, Yale University, and the Hartt School, as well as Commonwealth Opera and the Connecticut Early Music Festival.

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: 413-586-8742
email: info[at]arcadiaplayers.org
www.arcadiaplayers.org

Board of Directors
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Sally J. Lemaire, President
Walter B. Denny, Clerk
Matilda Friedrich, Treasurer
Jeanne Ammon, Monica Jakuc Leverett, Arthur Kinney, Deena Maniscalchi, Peter W. Shea, Barbara Stroup

Ex-officio members
Alice Robbins, Player representative
Ian Watson, Artistic Director
Ann O'Roark, Administrative Director

Advisory Board

E. Wayne Abercrombie
Anna Polesny Bartoli
Robert Creed
Priscilla Drucker
Alan Durfee
Robert Eisenstein
T. Marc Futter, Founding Patron
Gregory Hayes
Jane Hershey
Catherine Hilton
Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Founder and Artistic Director Emerita
Christopher Krueger
Dana Maiben
John Montanari
Charles Page
Meredith Young

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.

Program notes: Robert Eisenstein
Fundraising: Anna Polesny Bartoli, Barbara Stroup
Website management, Program insert production, Ticket design: Peter W. Shea
Season Celebration/Auction management: Jeanne Ammon
Springfield Concert Education Program: Anna Polesny Bartoli, Jane Hershey, Laurie Rabut, Julie Jaron, Jean Acree, Charles Page, Barbara Stroup

Marketing: Deena Maniscalchi
Publications: Priscilla Drucker

Concert Production

House Manager:

Jeanne Ammon

Box Office:

Michael Thomas Gilman

Head Usher:

Joan Vander Vliet

Ushers:

Jeanne Bell, Sherry Clark, Carla Cook, Richie Davis, Carl Doermer, Wendy Foxmyn, Suzanne Garber, Beth Gillespie, Anne Knauf, Susan Levine, Maureen Lyon, Jone Messmer, Joanne Montgomery, William Montgomery, Annginette Moos, Al Siano, Mary Siano, James Sullivan, Jean Turner, Wayne Turner

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

Call 413-586-8742
or email info[at]arcadiaplayers.org for more information, and to receive a season brochure.

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