Annual Report2014–2015

MissionThe Schubert Club invites the world’s finest recital soloists and ensembles to our community and promotes the finest musical talents of our community to the world. We do this through performances, education and museum programs, championing the music of today and of the future while celebrating great classical music of the past.

Joyce DiDonato Anderson & Roe

Bruce P. Carlson

Scholarship CompetitionDanish String Quartet

Photos: Zach Forstrom, Caroline Bettancourt, Brent Cline, Peter Miller, Kate Cooper, Jayme Halbritter

Dear friends,

Thank you for your support for The Schubert Club during 2014-2015. It is hard to believe that we have been making music

continuously since our founding in 1882. We are delighted to report that our organization is as strong as ever, with larger audiences

and increasing revenue. Our commitment to presenting recitals and chamber music in the Twin Cities along with a range of music

education programs continues, and our museum’s exhibitions of musical instruments and composer letters have been delighting

music enthusiasts and students of all ages.

This year, we celebrated the opening of the new Ordway Concert Hall in which The Schubert Club will present many recitals in

future seasons. The Schubert Club is now able to present two concerts of most International Artist Series programs, making it

possible for audience members to attend either an evening or daytime recital. The Concert Hall opened to the public in February

2015 after seven years of imagining, planning, fundraising and construction. It has been the dream of the Arts Partnership, a

consortium comprised of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Ordway, Minnesota Opera and The Schubert Club. We are grateful

to the foundations, corporations, the State of Minnesota, the City of St. Paul and to all of the very generous individuals who made

the Concert Hall a reality.

This has been an extraordinary year by any measure.

Yours sincerely

Nina Archabal Barry KemptonBoard President (2013–15 ) Artistic & Executive Director, The Schubert Club

Maude Moon Weyerhaeuser SanbornInternational Artist SeriesOur flagship recital series at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts September 30 Nathan Gunn, baritone, & Julie Jordan Gunn, piano November 11 Richard Goode, pianoFebruary 24 Benjamin Grosvenor, pianoApril 15 Hilary Hahn, violin & Cory Smythe, pianoMay 19 Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano & David Zobel, piano

Music in the Park Series Internationally acclaimed chamber music ensembles in concert in Saint Anthony Park neighborhoodOctober 12 Danish String QuartetOctober 26 Miami String Quartet & Lydia Artymiw, pianoNovember 23 Ensemble CapriceFebruary 15 Schubert Ensemble of LondonApril 19 St. Lawrence String QuartetMay 10 Assad Brothers

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Hilary Hahn

Ordway Concert Hall opening: Rock the OrdwayMarch 8 Pekka Kuusisto, violin & Dermot Dunne, accordionMarch 20 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Love Songs”March 22 Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition Winners’ Recital

Assad Brothers

Pekka Kuusisto & Jay Gilligan

Revenue

Concert ticket sales & miscellaneous sales

Contributions & grants

Endowment spend

Miscellaneous

Total support & revenue

$440,376

$896,172

$548,218

$19,731

$1,904,497

$1,405,091

$297,547

$163,612

$1,866,250

Expenditure

Program services (concerts, education & museum)

Management & general

Fundraising

Total expenditure

24+47+27+2Concert ticket sales &

other sales 23%

Contributions &

Grants 47%

Endowment

draw 29%

Misc. 1%

Program services

75%

Fundraising 9%

Management &

general 16%

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Financial Results

Schubert Club MixOur next-generation classical concerts in non-traditional venues. We added a new venue, Bedlam Lowertown and expanded our presentations from 3 to 4October 3 Anderson & Roe, piano duoJanuary 18 String Quartet Brooklyn Rider & Greg Saunier, percussionMarch 10 Pekka Kuusisto, violin & Jay Gilligan, jugglerApril 24 Stephen Prutsman, piano

More performancesThe Schubert Club is committed to supporting and presenting top Minnesota-based musicians and music by Minnesota composers including: Accordo (in partnership with Kate Nordstrum Projects), the Hill House Chamber Players and 24 Courtroom Concerts featuring the best of Minnesota music and musicians.

The Schubert Club MuseumLandmark Center6,200 Museum visitors viewed and many among them played keyboards from four centuries. In addition to the permanent display of keyboards and original handwritten composer letters from our Gilman Ordway Manuscript Collection, we exhibited three unique musical bicycles created by sculptor Norman Andersen and donated by composer Mary Ellen Childs.

Music EducationOur commitment to music education and student musicians continued with $68,000 awarded in student scholarships & grants, four high-school composers mentored by composer-in-residence Edie Hill, jazz piano workshops and the introduction of KidsJam, a new program inviting kids 5-12 to play, listen, learn, and create.

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Brooklyn Rider & Greg Saunier at Aria

KidsJam at Neighborhood House

75 West 5th Street

302 Landmark Center

Saint Paul, MN 55104

schubert.org • 651.292.3267

This activity is made possible by the voters of

Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board

Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative

appropriation from the arts and cultural

heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo

Foundation Minnesota.

Thank you to the following organizations

Patrick and Aimee Butler Foundation

“ The Schubert Club KidsJam has helped shape our Neighborhood House Kids Connect program into precisely what we intended it to be—a program where kids can experience cultural richness and be mentally and artistically stimulated in ways they might not get at home or school. On one occasion our kids built their own ganzas and learned the rhythms of Ecuadorian folkloric music. They enthusiastically carried that rhythm on long after the musicians went home, dancing and chanting throughout our building!”

Chris GustafsonKids Connect Coordinator/Youth Leadership SpecialistNeighborhood House