Friday Evening, April 1, 2016, at 8:00

Grace McLeanJustin Goldner, Musical Director and BassHiroyuki Matsuura, Drums and Percussion

Kate Ferber, Jo Lawry, VocalsAmanda Lo, ViolinElise Frawley, Viola Geoffrey Countryman, Saxophone, Clarinet, and FluteKris Kukul, Piano

Chorus: Rachael Duddy, Roe Hartrampf, Tom Hennes,Jo Lampert, Matthew Marsh, Preston Martin, Barrie McLain, Eric William Morris, Jay Stolar, Hannah Whitney

Orchestrations by Justin GoldnerAdditional Orchestrations by Solomon Hoffman,Dillon Kondor, Dana Lyn, and Ian Axness

This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella.

Endowment support provided by Bank of America

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.

The Program

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In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building.

Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by The DuBose andDorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin B. Cohen, The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends ofLincoln Center.

Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and zabars.com

MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center

UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENT:

Tuesday Evening, April 5, at 7:30 in the David Rubenstein AtriumRick Barry

The David Rubenstein Atrium is located on Broadway between West 62nd and 63rdStreets. Shows at the Atrium are free, with seating available on a first-come, first-servedbasis.

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Grace McLean is an actress, singer, writer, and teacher who has appearedin Off-Broadway hits like Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812;Brooklynite; Sleep No More; and Bedbugs!!! She also makes time for heracclaimed original music, both as a solo artist and with her band, GraceMcLean & Them Apples. With a sound that combines Regina Spektor’squirkiness, Nellie McKay’s jazz sensibilities, Fiona Apple’s irreverence,Kimbra’s sass, and Merrill Garbus’s rhythm, Ms. McLean adds up to onebeautiful weirdo.

Ms. McLean was a headlining performer and instructor at the SingStronga capella festivals in Washington, D.C., and Chicago in 2014. Mostrecently, Grace McLean & Them Apples opened Lincoln Center’s 2015American Songbook series and toured Pakistan, sponsored by the U.S.Department of State. Ms. McLean also collaborates with the Dance Cartelon its monthly show/dance party OnTheFloor, and her pop opera In theGreen (about the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard von Bingen) hasbeen developed at CAP21, Space on Ryder Farm, and the Johnny MercerWriters Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. In addition, Ms. McLean has per-formed at Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Ars Nova (whereshe developed the interactive concert experience Grace McLean Lives inConcert), New York City Center, and BAM.

Justin Goldner

Justin Goldner’s (musical director, orchestrations, bass) musical explo-rations have taken him around the world as a bassist, guitarist, and pro-ducer, making music with the likes of Sting, Ricky Martin, Macy Gray,Hugh Jackman, Steve Martin, Matisyahu, John Turturro, Allison Williams,Donald Glover, Jesse McCartney, and his mentor, Meshell Ndegeocello.

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Mr. Goldner also writes, produces, and arranges for various artists with FunkyButter Productions, including recent recordings for Alice J, Jem and theHolograms, Saint Adeline, and a forthcoming third album with Grace McLean &Them Apples. He is bassist for NBC’s America’s Got Talent and was guitarist inBroadway’s The Bridges of Madison County, and has collaborated closely withMs. McLean as bassist, producer, and musical director since 2009.

In addition, Mr. Goldner performs on a litany of string instruments, includingbanjo, mandolin, bouzouki, oud, cavaquinho, Puerto Rican cuatro, and Mexicanguitarrón. A restless traveler, he is conversant in eight languages and has gonein recent years to Pakistan, Abu Dhabi, South Africa, Latin America, andTurkmenistan, where he performed and conducted music workshops.

Hiroyuki Matsuura

Originally from Tokyo, Hiroyuki Matsuura (drums, percussion) started playingmusic in his infancy and concentrated on the drums and percussion in highschool. He began working as a musician while majoring in accounting in college.After relocating to New York City, he enrolled in jazz performance studies at CityCollege of New York. He has since appeared at the Kennedy Center, MadisonSquare Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Blue Note, Beacon Theatre, Chicago’sHouse of Blues, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Mr. Matsuura has worked with the likes of Hector Maximo Rodriguez (SpanishHarlem Orchestra), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Bob Lanzetti (Snarky Puppy),and Liz Swados. He has shared the stage with the Roots and Corey Glover,among others, and is currently performing in Old Hats at Signature Theatre withTony-winning actors Bill Irwin and David Shiner and singer Shaina Taub.

Kate Ferber

Kate Ferber (vocals) is a songwriter and actress who recently performed a sold-out run of her one-woman original show, One Child Born: the Music of LauraNyro, at the American Repertory Theater’s Oberon space. She also led theUrchins in the Cleveland Play House’s Little Shop of Horrors, and is recordingthe forthcoming EP The Great Thaw.

Jo Lawry

Jo Lawry (vocals) grew up on an almond farm in South Australia and, after a briefflirtation with operatic study, began her formal instruction in jazz. She wasawarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in New York, was an artist in CarnegieHall’s Musical Connections program, and served as artist-in-residence at theAustralian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Ms. Lawry’s debut album, I Want to Be

Happy, was named one of the best CDs of the decade by DownBeat magazine,and her latest album, Taking Pictures, was released in March 2015. She is thevocalist for the Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra, and has been featured on numer-ous modern-jazz recordings, including Dr. Lonnie Smith’s Rise Up! and KateMcGarry’s Grammy-nominated If Less Is More…Nothing Is Everything. Since2009 Ms. Lawry has been touring and recording with Sting and more recentlywith Paul Simon. In 2013 she was featured in the film 20 Feet from Stardom,which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Amanda Lo

Amanda Lo (violin) is an acoustic and electric violinist based in New York City.She studied with Stephanie Chase at New York University before earning herbachelor’s degree in violin performance in 2011. Ms. Lo is the violinist for theheavy-metal string quartet seven)suns and rock band the Ludlow Thieves. Sheis also concertmaster and orchestral contractor of the Manhattan Cameratachamber orchestra, and has soloed with the Chelsea Symphony, MetroChamber Ensemble, and the Westchester Philharmonic. She has recorded andperformed with artists including Amanda Brown, Bill Whelan, Björk, Colin Smith,Efterklang, Harry Connick Jr., Paul Simon, Ra Ra Riot, Rihanna, and SufjanStevens. On television Ms. Lo has appeared on America’s Got Talent and TheLate Show with Stephen Colbert. In addition, she serves as the director of spe-cial programs and outreach for the nonprofit Sympho, Inc.

Elise Frawley

Elise Frawley (viola) has performed in a variety of venues, from Carnegie Hall toRockwood Music Hall. She currently serves as principal viola for the ChelseaSymphony. She has also performed with Ensemble LPR, Wordless MusicOrchestra, and Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, among others. Additionally, Ms.Frawley has performed/recorded with pop and contemporary artists, includingPaul Simon, Andrew Bird, Pink Martini, Sweet Electra, Lady Lamb theBeekeeper, Atomic Tom, and Jordan Knight. She is a member of Tubafresh, achamber hip-hop ensemble that fuses elements of electronic, jazz, and classicalmusic. Her television and film appearances include America’s Got Talent, StanLee’s Superhumans, and Mozart in the Jungle. Ms. Frawley received her bach-elor of music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and her master ofmusic degree from New York University, where she also served as adjunctinstructor of viola.

Geoffrey Countryman

Geoffrey Countryman (saxophone, clarinet, flute) is a saxophonist, multi-instru-mentalist, composer, producer, and engineer. He attended New YorkUniversity’s jazz performance program, and has worked with artists such as

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Katreese Barnes, Patti LaBelle, Wu-Tang Clan, Ronnie Spector, Tina Fey, andLeon Pendarvis. Mr. Countryman has performed regularly with the SaturdayNight Live Band and Chico Hamilton’s Euphoria as well as with his own band,Countryman and the Buffalo Band. He was assistant producer to LennyPickett for Kenny Werner’s Lawn Chair Society (Blue Note Records) and DaveDouglas’s High Risk (Greenleaf Music), and is a soloist on hip-hop artist T.I.’sGrammy-nominated album King (Atlantic Records). Mr. Countryman can beseen in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe and NBC’s Smash. His studio,Geoff & Tyler Recording, is responsible for four Grammy-nominated albums.

Kris Kukul

Kris Kukul (piano) is a music director, composer, arranger, orchestrator, andconductor. His current projects include Saint Joan (Public Theater), Songbird,and The Last Goodbye (The Old Globe, Williamstown). For 10 seasons he wasresident music director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. For 15 years heworked as arranger and musical director for Elizabeth Swados; their worktogether included Kaspar Hauser, Jabu, The Nomad, and Revolting Rhymes.Recent theatrical projects include Darko Tresnjak’s production of Kiss Me,Kate; The Heart of Robin Hood; June Moon; and Animal Crackers. In New YorkCity he has also worked at Shakespeare in the Park, Vineyard Theatre,Playwrights Horizons, La Mama, 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, New York TheatreWorkshop, and Manhattan Theatre Club. His studio/film work includes MyDepression: The Up and Down and Up of It for HBO and Of Many. Both pre-miered at the Tribeca Film Festival. As a composer, Mr. Kukul has writtenmusic for Camp Monster and Wing It!, both of which premiered at theWilliamstown Theatre Festival, and A Midsummer Night Dream in Athens.

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele-bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre-ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn ofthe 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all stylesand genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to theeclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also show-cases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established andemerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: pre-senter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and com-munity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of

more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educa-tional activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivalsincluding American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival,Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly MozartFestival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winningLive From Lincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of theLincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the LincolnCenter complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a$1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Lincoln Center Programming DepartmentJane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic DirectorHanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music ProgrammingJon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary ProgrammingJill Sternheimer, Director, Public ProgrammingLisa Takemoto, Production ManagerCharles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingMauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingRegina Grande, Associate ProducerAmber Shavers, Associate Producer, Public ProgrammingNana Asase, Assistant to the Artistic DirectorLuna Shyr, Senior EditorNick Kleist, Company ManagerOlivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator

For American SongbookRocky Noel, Lighting DesignScott Stauffer, Sound DesignKyle Moore, Sound Engineer

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