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Building Community through Music & Arts
Incarnation Episcopal Church 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
415-564-2324
sunsetarts.wordpress.com
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to the Sunset Music & Arts 2018 season. Our 4th season is another ambitious season on the
heels of a very successful 2017 season. We are extremely grateful to our audience members, artists,
donors, and the many volunteers who help put together this upcoming season. We continue to focus
on bringing high-quality live music programming and performing arts to the Sunset district of San
Francisco, adding to the cultural milieu of San Francisco in these extremely challenging times.
Some of the highlights of the new season include performances by both returning artists as well as many new artists. In 2018 we have an expanded instrumental series, a strong chamber music and vocal
series, and an expanded Jazz/Folk series as well. We are especially proud to partner with our artists-
in-residence, the San Francisco Renaissance Voices (director Katherine McKee) and other groups
like the San Francisco Boys Chorus, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and the Bay Shore
Lyric Opera company.
In addition to concerts we also continue with our community events with travelogues, student recitals,
and workshops. In 2018 we are proud to collaborate with the Phoenix Recital Symposium of San
Francisco (Professor Sylvia Anderson, General and Artistic Director), to showcase up and coming
opera singers as they prepare for a career in opera.
These are just some of the highlights of the season. Please take time to read about all of the
extraordinary artists and offerings in this brochure and join us as at one or more of our events in
2018. We look forward to sharing the joy of these unique performances with you.
With best wishes,
Mathew Chacko Sally Porter Munro
Co-Directors, Sunset Music & Arts
An initiative of Incarnation Episcopal Church, San Francisco
Sunset Music & Arts
1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122
415.564.2324 http://sunsetarts.wordpress.com [email protected]
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SUNSET MUSIC & ARTS — 2018 Season
Table of Contents
Special Events
Opera Gala & Reception ………………………….…….. Page 32
Sunset Music & Arts is dedicated to
providing high-quality, affordable music
and arts programs to people of all ages, in
the Sunset district of San Francisco and
beyond. In addition, we occasionally
conduct a variety of workshops focusing
on the arts.
The initiative is a community offering
generously provided by the Episcopal
Church of the Incarnation, San
Francisco, where we have the use of the
beautiful space, wonderful acoustics, and
the use of a grand piano and pipe organ.
We are also excited about launching our
brand new initiative, “Sunset
Community Music & Arts,” where
you can enjoy mostly free (occasionally,
donations or a small fee may be
requested) concerts and
programs, produced and performed by
members of the local community. If you
are interested in performing as part of
this program, please contact us at
415.564.2324 or e-mail us at
Please consider partnering with Sunset
Music & Arts by supporting us either
financially or volunteering at one of our
events. Your support helps us to
continue to bring quality programming at
affordable prices.
You can support us financially by writing a
check made payable to “Incarnation
Episcopal Church” and write ‘Sunset Music
& Arts’ on the memo line of your check.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization and your donations are 100%
deductible. You can also donate online via
PayPal. Check our website for details.
Thank you for your consideration and
support.
Please mail your check to:
Episcopal Church of the Incarnation
1750 29th Avenue
San Francisco CA 94122
Monthly Calendar……………………………………
Recital Instrumental Series…………………….……...
Recital—Vocal Series…………………………………
Chamber Music/Ensemble…………………………….
Jazz/Folk Series……………………………………….
Choral Series…………………………………………
Opera ………… ……………………………………..
Opera/Broadway Gala ………………………………
Community Events/Workshops………………………
Calendar by Series
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Page 5—10
Page 10—11
Page 13—19
Page 20—24
Page 25—29
Page 30—31
Page 32
Page 33—37
Page 38—39
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JANUARY
Sat. Jan 6—Bridge Piano Quartet (Page 13)
Fri. Jan 19—Phoenix Performance (Page 34)
Sat. Jan 20—Misuzu Tanaka (Page 5)
FEBRUARY
Sat. Feb 3—Monica Chew (Page 6)
Sat. Feb 10—N. Takesono/K. Korth
(Page 11)
Fri. Feb 16—MUSA (Page 14)
MARCH
Sat. March 3—Patrick Galvin/Jungeun Kim
(Page 15)
Sat. March 17—Joana Gonazlez (Page 7)
Sat. March 24—San Francisco Renaissance
Voices (Page 25)
APRIL
Sat. April 7—V. Langer/V. Breheda (Page 12)
Sat. April 14—Phoenix Performance
(Page 34)
Sun. April 15—Trio 180 (Page 16)
Fri. April 27—SF Girls Chorus (Page 27)
Sun. April 29—Phoenix Performance
(Page 34 )
MAY
Sat. May 5—Anne Rainwater (Page 8)
Sat. May 12—Larry Vuckovich (Page 20)
Sun. May 13—Acis & Galatea (Page 30)
Sat. May 19—Pablo Estigarribia (Page 21)
TBD May—SF Renaissance Voices (Page 27)
JUNE
Fri. June 8—Phoenix Performance (Page 34)
Sat. June 9—pickPocket Ensemble (Page 24)
Sun. June 10—Phoenix Performance
(Page 34)
Sat. June 16—Eric Tran (Page 9)
Sat. June 23—Folias Duo (Page 22)
JULY
To be announced
AUGUST
TBD —Opera Gala & Fundraiser (Page 32)
Sat. Aug 18—Chamber Concert (Page 17)
Sat. Aug 25—Così fan tutte (Page 31)
SEPTEMBER
Sat. Sept. 1—Gayatri Venkatesan (Page 35)
Sat. Sept. 8—A. Mallya/D. Cogan (Page 36)
Sat. Sept 15—B. Snellings/J. Totzke (Page 18)
OCTOBER
Sat. Oct 13—K. Palmer/V. Milinder (Page 19)
Sat. Oct 27—Othello Jefferson (Page 10)
NOVEMBER Sat. Nov 3—Brazzissimo (Page 23)
DECEMBER TBD —SF Boys Chorus (Page 28)
TBD —Lessons and Carols (Page 29)
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Reci tal : Inst rumental
Piano Series
Misuzu Tanaka, piano
Date & Time: Saturday January 20, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Hailed by international press as a pianist “who dispatched everything with both
dizzying speed and sensitivity” Today’s Zaman (Turkey) and for her “exceptionally
high technical level” General-Anzeiger Bonn (Germany), Misuzu Tanaka has
established herself as an artist of remarkable individuality with a rare combination of
poetic sensitivity and breathtaking virtuosity.
She has performed in prestigious concert venues throughout the world, from the
Gewandhaus in Leipzig and Mozart’s Museum at Villa Bertramka in Prague to Alice
Tully Hall in New York. Misuzu Tanaka is also a respected regular performer for
Music from the Frederick Collection, a leading North-American venue for
performance on historical instruments. Enjoying an active solo career in the U.S.,
she is among the country’s brightest emerging stars.
Her recent debut album which was recorded live on the Concertant Classics label, “Misuzu Tanaka in Concert” features works
by Leoš Janáček and J. S. Bach, two composers who have been a constant source of her musical inspiration. The 2017-18
season brings two new releases: a second piano recital in which she further explores music of Janáček as well as music by
Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, and a debut album “Epilogues” with clarinetist Maksim Shtrykov, which focuses on four clarinet
sonatas, which are the last works of three leading composers – Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saëns and Francis Poulenc.
Her 2017-18 season includes an instant return engagement on the RIT Performing Artist Series (Rochester, NY) in addition to
numerous other debut appearances. Highlights of the past seasons include a concerto debut at the Amadeus Festival
(Whitefish, MT) with the Festival Orchestra under the direction of maestro John Zoltek as well as recitals at California State
University Sacramento Piano Series, Distinguished Artists Lecture and Concert Series in Santa Cruz (CA), Dame Myra Hess
Memorial Concerts in Chicago (IL), Pro Musica in San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), Chamber Music Society of Maryland and
Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society (CA). An avid small-ensemble collaborator, Misuzu Tanaka has appeared with prominent
artists including James Dunham (Cleveland Quartet) and members of the National Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, together
with her artistic partner and critically acclaimed clarinetist Maksim Shtrykov, she began touring throughout the United States as
the Shtrykov-Tanaka Duo.
Born in London, United Kingdom where she began her piano lessons at the age of five, she then continued her studies in Japan
and in the United States with Martin Canin at The Juilliard School. Her Masters and Doctoral degrees are from University of
Michigan where she was a full scholarship recipient studying with Logan Skelton and devoted much time to the study and
performance of the works of Leoš Janáček, which led to further studies with Miroslav Brejcha and the late Ivan Moravec in the
Czech Republic.
J. S. BACH Concerto in the Italian Style in F Major, BWV 971, “Italian Concerto”
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Prelude & Fugue in E Minor, Op.35 No.1
L. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
LEOŠ JANÁČEK Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, From the street
FRANZ LISZT Après une Lecture de Dante, fantasia quasi sonata,
from Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année
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Reci tal : Inst rumental
Piano Series
Monica Chew, piano
Date & Time: Saturday February 3, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Monica Chew is a pianist living in Oakland, California. Born in Florida, she spent her first 20
years in North Carolina. She appeared on Good Morning America at age 8 and made her solo
debut with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra at age 13. She entered the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro on a full scholarship at age 17 and graduated three years later
with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and a Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science and Mathematics. She received her Master of Music from San Francisco Conservatory
of Music under scholarship. She has played at Eastern Music Festival and Colorado College
Summer Music Festival and worked with many luminaries. She loves playing chamber music
and co-founded Minsky Duo and Duo Moderna in 2016. Her favorite thing to do is to
perform concerts with a strong narrative arc.
Monica also worked for 9 years as an principal engineer at Mozilla and Google after getting
her doctorate in computer science under full scholarship from University of California at
Berkeley. Her specialties are computer security and privacy.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
DIABELLI VARIATIONS, OP. 120
BAGATELLES, OP. 126
PIANO SONATA NO. 32 IN C MINOR, OP. 111
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Reci tal : Inst rumental
Piano Series
Joana Gonzalez, piano
Date & Time: Saturday March 17, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Joana Gonzalez is a South Florida native of Hispanic descent. Joana’s
strong desire to connect with others through music has motivated her
to strive for musical excellence since she began her studies at the age of
nine. Throughout her high school career, Joana studied under Ciro
Fodere at the New World School of the Arts. In 2014, she was
accepted into the University of Miami Frost School of Music under a full
scholarship to study with renowned pianist Santiago Rodriguez.
Joana was awarded first place at the New World Symphony’s Side by
Side competition, which allowed her the opportunity to perform the
Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto in g minor No. 2 with the New World
Symphony and to play for its distinguished founder, Michael Tilson
Thomas. Besides the New World Symphony, Joana has performed solos
with various orchestras in Florida including the Alhambra Orchestra
and the Imperial Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, Joana was awarded second place in the American Protege International
Competition, which gave her the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
Most recently, Ms. Gonzalez has enjoyed giving lecture recitals both locally and abroad.
J. S. BACH Partita No. 3 in A minor, BWV 827
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Polonaise-Fantaisie, A-flat major, Op. 61
MAURICE RAVEL Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
ALBERTO GINASTERA Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 28
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Reci tal : Inst rumental
Piano Series
Anne Rainwater, piano
Date & Time: Saturday May 5, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Oakland-based pianist Anne Rainwater is a dexterous musician known for her vibrant
interpretations of works from J.S. Bach to John Zorn. Recognized for her “boldly
assertive rhetoric” (San Francisco Examiner) and “bright golden honeycomb for a
brain” (Roy Doughty, poet), she appears as a soloist, accompanist, chamber musician,
and educator. She holds a Bachelor’s in Music from the Oberlin Conservatory and a
Master of Music in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.
Anne has performed in venues and festivals throughout the world, including the Donau
Festival in Krems, Austria, the Kennedy Center, Princeton University, and Kampnagel in
Hamburg, Germany, among others. Recent solo shows include performances at the
Center for New Music, Switchboard Music Festival, Maybeck Studio and the Old First
Series in San Francisco. Anne also teaches privately in her home studio to students of all
ages.
Program
Local pianist Anne Rainwater performs keyboard solos by J.S. Bach, Pierre Boulez, David
Lang, Bryce Cannell, and Chris Gendall. Composer Bryce Cannell will be in attendance
to discuss his piece, which was written specifically for Anne earlier this year.
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Reci tal : Inst rumental
Piano Series
Eric Tran, piano
Date & Time: Saturday June 16, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
San Francisco based pianist-composer Eric Tran is known for his friendly stage
manner, thoughtful programming, and bold risk-taking. He has appeared in music
festivals such as PianoTexas, Aspen, as well as festivals in Europe. His principal
studies were with pianists Sharon Mann, Thomas Schultz, and composer Jaroslaw
Kapuscinski. Eric is a graduate of Stanford University and the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music. During his studies, he was the winner of the concerto
competitions of both institutions, and he was awarded the prestigious Robert M.
Golden Medal for outstanding contributions to the arts. As a composer, he won
the Pacific Musical Society Composition Prize, and his sets of children’s music have
been programmed for over six years on the syllabus of the US Open Music
Competition. His music has been performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet,
the Friction Quartet, his generous friends, and his charming piano students.
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Chopin – Etudes Op. 10
Chopin – Etudes Op. 25
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Othello Jefferson piano
Date & Time: Saturday October 27, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Othello Jefferson is a native of San Francisco. He received his Bachelor of Music
Degree in Voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Single
Subject Music Credential from San Francisco State University. As Choir Director
at his alma mater, Lowell High School, he worked with Michael Morgan (Oakland
Symphony), The King’s Singers, and Chanticleer and won performance awards in
the International Children’s Culture and Art Festival in Shenzhen, China. Othello is
the recipient of a Gospel Music Award from San Francisco’s Academy of Gospel
and a Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers Award from the Friends Of Negro
Spirituals in Oakland. He also recently completed the first level of the American
Guild Of Organist’s examinations for professional certification (Service Playing
Certificate). His organ teacher is Jerome Lenk, Director of Music and Organist for
Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco.
Othello is the Choir Director at Sequoia High School and Organist/ Accompanist
for Ragazzi Boys Chorus (both in Redwood City). He is also Minister Of Music at
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (San Francisco).
Program Works by JS Bach, Mathias, Mendelssohn, Parry, Wood, and Young
Reci tal : Inst rumental
Organ
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Nicole Takesono, mezzo-soprano
Kevin Korth, piano
Date & Time: Saturday February 10, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Originally from Hawaii, mezzo-soprano Nicole Takesono has been praised for her sweet, warm voice
and dedication to character. Ms. Takesono has performed principal roles with San Francisco Opera,
Opera San Jose, West Edge Opera, Festival Opera, West Bay Opera, among others. Roles performed
include Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Dido in Dido
and Æneas, The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Second Shining
One and Madam Wanton in A Pilgrim’s Progress, Mercedes in Carmen, Flora and Annina in La Traviata,
Siébel in Faust, and Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. Ms. Takesono sings with the San Francisco Opera
Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Cappella SF and studies with Deborah Benedict.
As an in-demand recitalist and coach, pianist Kevin Korth has collaborated with such legendary and
esteemed artists as Robert Mann, Axel Strauss, Joel Krosnick, Frederica von Stade, Suzanne Mentzer,
Nadine Sierra, Lise Lindstrom, Kristen Clayton, and Brian Asawa. Last fall brought the release of his
debut album, Out of the Shadows, a recording of American art song with soprano Lisa Delan and
cellist Matt Haimovitz on the Pentatone Classics label. Very warmly received, Gramophone praised Mr.
Korth’s work as “superb,” and “full of color and character.” Reflecting his demand as an interpreter of
contemporary work, the album features premieres by Jack Perla, Gordon Getty, and David Garner, in
addition to previously unrecorded works by Norman Dello Joio, Paul Nardoff, and John Kander. Since
graduating from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s renowned Chamber Music program, he has
held a position at the Conservatory as both collaborative pianist and vocal coach.
REYNALDO HAHN (1874 – 1947) Quand je fus pris au pavillon
Paysage
Mai
L’heure exquise
HUGO WOLF (1860 – 1903) Number 46 from Italienisches Liederbuch
Verborgenheit
Das Verlassene Mägdelein
Er ist’s
MANUEL DE FALLA (1876 – 1946) From Siete Canciones Popolares
Seguidilla murciana
Asturiana
Polo
KURT WEILL (1900 – 1950) My Ship
Don’t Look Now
Is It Him or Is It Me?
Economic
Reci tal : Vocal Series
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Vanessa Langer, soprano
Vera Breheda, piano
Date & Time: Saturday April 7, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students Full program details to be announced shortly
Praised for her “flexible and multi-hued voice” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “enormous
stage presence” (New Classical LA), Soprano Vanessa Langer, an active voice in the baroque
and contemporary classical music scene, enjoys a close working relationship with emerging
composers from around the world. Her work has been recognize through various awards and
fellowships including a Winter Music Creative Residency at the Banff Center for the Arts in
Canada, the New Horizon Fellowship from the Aspen Music Festival & School, the Eisner Prize for
Creative Achievement in the Arts and the Albert King Scholarship from the University of
California at Berkeley. She has given more than 30 world premieres and appeared under the
auspices of the Stanford New Ensemble, The Legion of Honor Listening Series, The San Francisco
Presidio Sessions, Composer’s Inc. Bamm! Festival and San Francisco Music Day.
Vera Breheda, born in Hamburg, Germany of Ukrainian parents, immigrated to the U.S. at age
three, where the family settled in Buffalo, New York. At age 11, Vera’s family moved to San
Francisco where during the 7 years, she was a scholarship student of Alma Harrington, Adoph
Baller, and Marcus Gordon at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Within several years, she
was soloist with the San Francisco Symphony in a special youth concert. She continued her studies
with Martin Canin at SUNY Stony Brook, and Leonard Shure in Boston, and in 1983 gave her New
York recital debut at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall. Vera’s concertizing has taken her to the major
cities on the East and West coasts as well as to Europe, China, Japan and Russia. Breheda has also
been a participant in the music festivals at Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Florida West Coast, and the
Moscow Conservatory of Music. At Banff she was guest artist with the Fine Arts Quartet in a
performance of the Schumann Piano Quartet. Locally, her Bay Area solo, duo piano (Kuderna
Breheda Duo) and chamber recitals have been in Hertz Hall, Julia Morgan Theater, Old First
Church, and Herbst Theater. Her CD, “Brahms Piano Works” won the 2006 “Just Plain Folks Music
Awards” in the “best Classical Solo Album” category. Recently a chamber music CD of a live
performance of the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor and the Beethoven Piano Trio op.72#2
was released. The CDs are distributed by www.ConBrioRecordings.com. In 2013 Breheda toured China as a member of the
San Francisco Munich Trio. A New York Times review of her Carnegie Recital Hall recital called her “a pianist who seems totally
engaged in the music she plays”.
Reci tal : Vocal Series
GUSTAV FAURÉ Après un Rêve
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Preludes
CLAUDE DEBUSSY De Fleurs
Il pleure dans mon Coeur
Spleen
Nuit d’etoiles
Apparition
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Preludes
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF How Fair the Spot, Op. 21 No. 7
Lilacs, Op. 21 No. 5
Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3
Spring Waters, Op. 14 No. 11
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Brettl Lieder
Galathea
Gigerlette
Mahnung
Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arcadien
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Bridge Piano Quartet Piano Quartets by Beethoven, Clarice Assad, Joaquin Turina Cynthia Baehr-Williams – violin,
Eleanor Angel – viola
Kristin Garbeff – cello
Kumiko Uyeda – piano
Date & Time: Saturday January 6, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
The Bridge Piano Quartet originally began as the ZaSu Piano Trio, which
was inspired over tea and scones, and the trio first performed at the Santa
Cruz library concert “Munching with Mozart” in the summer of 2014. We
formed into a piano quartet in 2016 with the addition of violist Eleanor Angel
and renamed our group the Bridge Piano Quartet. Our newest member
Kristin Garbeff joined our group in January of this year. The Bridge Piano Quartet still enjoys tea together (with addition of morning rolls)
and strive to bring chamber music to people of all ages and backgrounds through concerts throughout the year. Our 2018 season begins
with a concert at the Sunset Concert Series in San Francisco on January 6 followed by a concert and live recording at the Maybeck Recital
Hall in Berkeley on January 14. Our repertoire ranges from Mozart to contemporary composer Clarice Assad, including the piano quartet
by the English composer Frank Bridge (early 20th century), who was one inspiration for our name. Other inspirations come from the many
bridges in our area, as well as the bridges on our instruments! And of course, we all feel that music bridges all … For more information
please visit our website at BridgePianoQuartet.com.
Cynthia Baehr, violin
Cynthia is Concertmaster of the Opera San Jose and San Jose Chamber Orchestras as well as the Cadenza ensemble in Santa Cruz. She has
also appeared frequently as a soloist with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and New Music Works Ensemble of Santa Cruz. A passionate
advocate of string education, Cynthia is the founder an Music Director of Santa Cruz Chamber Strings, an ensemble of young string players.
Having served on the faculties of Santa Clara University and the Silicon Valley Youth Conservatory at San Jose State University, she
presently maintains a thriving studio of private students in Santa Cruz where she now resides. Before moving to the Bay Area, Cynthia lived
in Europe where she performed as a member of the Lucerne Chamber Soloists in Switzerland and the Wurttembergisches Chamber
Orchestra in Germany.
Eleanor Angel, viola
As a California native, Eleanor Angel, Violinist/Violist, grew up playing in the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, studying at the San Francisco
Conservatory and attending Tanglewood (BSO) during summers. Eleanor received her BM from Indiana University, followed by an
apprenticeship with the late-great William Primrose, and a MM from the Eastman School of Music. As an avid chamber musician, Eleanor
has performed in Switzerland, Perugia and Siena Italy, and at the Yale Summer School, as well as for the Adventures in Music Quartet for
the San Francisco’s in-school program. Since 1984 Eleanor has held a full studio of violin and viola students, while playing for the San Jose
Symphony/Symphony Silicon Valley, San Francisco’s Opera and Symphony, San Jose’s Opera and Chamber Orchestras, as well as the New
Century Chamber Orchestra and the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival.
Kristin Garbeff, cello
Kristin is an active freelance musician and has performed with many groups in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas including the
Monterey Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, West Bay Opera, New Music Works, Cadenza, and Hidden Valley String Orchestra. Kristin is
also active in the popular music scene. She has collaborated with various groups in the San Francisco Bay Area including indie band Blue
Rabbit, Kenny Shick, Jenn Grinels, and the Thriving Artists organization. Kristin received her Master of Music degree in 2007 at the Longy
School of Music in Cambridge, MA where she studied with Dr. Terry King. She studied chamber music with Kathleen Lenski, Victor
Rosenbaum, and Roger Tapping, and jazz improvisation with pianist Peter Cassino. In addition to performing, Kristin maintains a teaching
studio at her home in Scotts Valley, Ca.
Kumiko Uyeda, piano
Kumiko enjoys performing in various genres, including western art music, jazz-fusion, and collaborating with poets and traditional
instruments. She worked as a free-lance pianist before resuming her academic studies at UC Santa Cruz and received a Ph.D. in Cultural
Musicology in 2015, with research focus on the indigenous Ainu music of Japan. Kumiko will join the adjunct faculty at University of San
Francisco in the fall of 2017 in the Performing Arts and Social Justice Department. She received her M.M. degree in piano performance from
the Manhattan School of Music in New York City where she actively pursued contemporary music, working with Joel Thome and the
Orchestra of Our Time. While in New York, she studied with Zenon Fishbein and with Edna Golandsky with the Dorothy Taubman
technique. She has published two solo piano CD albums to date: Music of Erik Satie and Art of Love. Kumiko maintains a private teaching
studio at the Santa Cruz Music Academy.
Chamber Music /
Ensemble
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MUSA—Smorgasbord Baroque 16th and 17th music from unexpected places such as China and the Americas Cynthia Black, violin/viola
Addi Liu, violin/viola
Frédéric Rossele, cello
Derek Tam, harpsichord
Date & Time: Sat. January 28, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
MUSA is a chamber ensemble dedicated to historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical repertoire, as well as new music
for period instruments. From trio sonatas to orchestral works, MUSA has presented programs on numerous concert series across the Bay
Area. MUSA is a fiscal affiliate of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
Cynthia Black enjoys a varied musical life across the United States performing music from several centuries as a violist
and violinist. This season includes appearances with Apollo’s Fire, Les Délices, Indy Baroque, Washington Bach Consort,
National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Three Notch’d Road, Atlanta Baroque, and One Found
Sound. She recently completed a D.M.A. at Case Western Reserve University as a student of Julie Andrijeski and holds
modern viola degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music in the studios of Lynne Ramsey and Robert Vernon. Her
doctoral theses focused on the exploration of unknown scordatura practices of late 17th-century Italy and the practices of
ornamentation and improvisation in Classical string chamber music. In her spare time, Cynthia enjoys baking and canoeing
and currently lives in a tiny house in Berkeley, California.
Addi Liu is a baroque violinist and violist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Noted for his “vivid” playing (San
Francisco Classical Music Examiner), he is a founding member of the baroque ensemble MUSA. He has performed with
Ars Minerva, Albany Consort, Black Box Baroque, San Francisco Bach Choir, and many other early music ensembles
and projects in the Bay Area. He is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival, Montecito International Music Festival
(under the Westmont Viola Fellowship), American Bach Soloists Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and La
Petite Bande Summer Academy under Sigiswald Kuijken where he was a viola soloist in Mozart Sinfonia Concertante,
K. 364. A native of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Mr. Liu studied baroque violin with Elizabeth Blumenstock and viola
with Jodi Levitz at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he graduated with a B.M. and M.M. in viola
performance with a departmental award in excellence. As an SAA-certified teacher in the Suzuki Method, he is on
faculty at the Green Octave School of Music and has served as a chamber music teaching fellow and coach at the Palo
Alto Chamber Orchestra. In his spare time he is an avid Geocacher and a researcher on Western musical treatises in
Qing China transmitted by European missionaries.
Since his move to the Bay Area, Swiss-American cellist Frédéric Rosselet has been seen performing with local
ensembles such as American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble San Francisco and Live
Oak Baroque Orchestra. Equally dedicated to chamber and orchestral music, he has been a recurring participant
of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Yellow Barn Music Festival, as well as a faculty member at the Yellow
Barn Young Artists Program. Having a keen interest in early and new music, he enjoys exploring new repertoire
for the cello and discovering old works on baroque cello and viola da gamba. After studying at both the Basel
Music Academy and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Frédéric obtained his DMA from the University of
Southern California. He has mainly benefited from the teachings of cellists Ralph Kirshbaum, Rafael Rosenfeld
and David Geringas.
In demand as a conductor and historical keyboardist, Derek Tam performs regularly in the Bay Area and
elsewhere. Praised for his “deft” conducting (San Francisco Chronicle), Tam appears frequently with choral and
orchestral ensembles. Recent engagements include collaborations with Ars Minerva, Bay Pointe Ballet and Oakland
Ballet. A specialist on historical keyboards, Tam has been lauded as “a master of [the harpsichord]” (San Francisco
Classical Voice). Recent concerto appearances include performances with Elevate Ensemble and the Modesto
Symphony. In addition to performing as a soloist, Tam is a founding member and the harpsichordist of MUSA, a San
Francisco-based Baroque ensemble. He has also served as principal keyboardist for the symphonies of Merced,
Modesto, Napa Valley, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz. Tam currently serves as the Director of Music at First
Congregational Church of Berkeley, one of the major performances venues for classical music in the East Bay. He
also is the Artistic Director of the Star Valley Children’s Choir (SVCC) and is the Music Director of the Berkeley
Community Chorus Chamber Singers. He has served on the faculty of the NAPA Music Festival and the San Francisco Early Music Society
Recorder Workshop, and has been on staff at the American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy. He currently chairs the Youth Advisory
Board of Early Music America. Tam is a registered tax professional with the State of California. He is a graduate of Yale University.
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Patrick Galvin, violin
Jungeun Kim, piano
Date & Time: Saturday March , 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
A San Francisco native, Patrick Galvin, began his violin studies with Roy
Oakley at age 6 and made his solo debut with the Oakland East Bay Symphony at
age 11 playing the Bruch Violin concerto. His teachers have included Barbara
Gorzynska at the Prayner Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria; Camilla Wicks and
Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and Herbert Greenberg at
the Peabody Conservatory.
Patrick Galvin is a man of many musical trades. As a violinist, he performs
classical recitals both solo and in chamber settings. He is also a member of the
folk band Hoxton Mob which performs regularly throughout the San Francisco
Bay Area. Recently, he has begun scoring radio stories for live performance.
When he is not performing, Patrick teaches violin at a private school and out of
his home in San Francisco. He also writes reviews for the online journal The
Classical Voice.
Born in Changwon, Korea, Jungeun Kim studied at the Busan High School of
Arts and Konkuk University under Hyeyoung Moon, Jaemi Kim, and Jihyun Lee.
She made her debut with the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003.
Ms. Kim participated in master classes with Eugene and Elisabeth Pridonoff from
the University of Cincinnati, Edward Auer from Indiana University, Lei Weng
from the University of Northern Colorado, and Jonghwa Park from Seoul
National University. She received first prize in the Eumaksekye Piano
Competition and the Gyeongnam Education Music Competition, second prize in
the Ceramic Palace Hall Concours and the Music Education News Concours,
and third prize in the Beethoven Concours. She also performed with the
Konkuk Symphony Orchestra and accompanied the choir at Konkuk University.
Also, she participated in the 2015 Distinguished Performers Debut Concert
sponsored by The Music Journal. She also attended the Eumyeon Summer Music
Festival. She is currently pursuing her M.M. at the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music with Yoshikazu Nagai. She also accompanies pre-college students and the
choir at the music school.
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Trio 180
Date & Time: Sunday April 15, 7 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students Full program details to be announced shortly Trio 180, the faculty piano trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific’s
Conservatory of Music, is dedicated to its roles as performer, proponent of new music,
and educator. In addition to giving concerts and master classes throughout the United
States, the trio has been featured on concert series in Mexico and Canada. This talented
ensemble includes celebrated concert violinist Ann Miller, renowned cellist Vicky Wang,
and award-winning pianist Sonia Leong. Trio 180 performs a wide range of music from the
Classical era to the present and is an active advocate of new music. The trio was awarded
a Barlow Grant in 2006 to commission eminent composer Chen Yi’s first piano trio, Tibetan Tunes (Theodore Presser). Continuing its
tradition of commissioning new works, the trio premiered composer Robert Greenberg’s 180 Shift in 2013 and Reinaldo Moya’s Gothic Sea
in 2011 in honor of Trio 180’s tenth anniversary. The trio has premiered works by Allan Crossman (Icarus), Jorge Liderman (Suite del Sur;
Sidewalk recorded on Albany Records), Derek Jacoby (Trio No. 2), Francois Rose (Gently, Wild Rose Petals) and Cindy Cox (Wave,
recorded in summer, 2010 and winter of 2014). The trio mentors young musicians and chamber music groups at the University of the
Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, where all three members are on faculty. In addition, Trio 180 frequently performs at elementary and high
schools throughout California, presenting varied and interactive programs designed to challenge and engage young students.
The trio’s current season features appearances in North Carolina and California, including performances and master classes at the Music
Teachers’ Association of California’s annual conference. In past seasons, the trio has presented numerous performances for Composers
Inc., in San Francisco and Berkeley, a concert tour to Vancouver, Canada, and performances across California, including concerts at the
Crocker Museum in Sacramento and the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum. The trio has performed numerous times
on the Old First Concert series in San Francisco, including a year-long residency featuring the works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and
Robert Schumann. The trio is thrilled to have completed its first CD of works by Dvorak, Suk, and Schumann.
Ann Miller, violin
Celebrated violinist Ann Miller has appeared in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. At home performing music
spanning the Baroque era to the present day, Ms. Miller enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, and educator.
A proponent of new music, Ms. Miller made her New York debut as a soloist with the New Juilliard Ensemble in Alice Tully Hall in the
North American premiere of David Matthews’ Concerto No. 2. She has performed with the ensemble Continuum in venues in Mongolia
and Ukraine as well as New York City. In addition, Ms. Miller participated in an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the
Lucerne Festival Academy that culminated in performances in Switzerland and New York under the direction of Pierre Boulez.
Recent solo appearances include performances of Tartini’s Devil’s Trill with the Zion Chamber Orchestra, the Brahms Violin Concerto
with the University of the Pacific’s Symphony Orchestra, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with the St. John’s Chamber Orchestra, and Brahms’s
Double Concerto with cellist Ira Lehn and the Mariposa Symphony in Yosemite National Park. As a recitalist, Ms. Miller frequently
collaborates with pianist Sonia Leong and has appeared on Old First Concerts in San Francisco and the University of the Pacific’s Resident
Artist Series. Their debut album of music by Beaser, Ysaÿe, and Bartók will be released in the fall of 2015.
Vicky Wang, cello
Winner of the Young Artist International Competition, cellist Vicky Wang made her New York debut in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in
2001. As an avid chamber musician, Ms. Wang was a member of the award-winning ensemble Aristos String Quartet. This ensemble has
been invited to participate in the focus! New Music Festival in New York, Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival in Virginia as well as
frequent collaborations with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in its lecture-concert series. Ms. Wang’s concert highlights also
include collaborations with legendary performers Ray Charles at the Belleayer Music Festival and Liza Minelli at Avery Fisher Hall.
Prior to relocating to California, Ms. Wang served on the faculty of Mannes College of Music and the Aaron Copland School of Music at
Queens College. She currently maintains an active private studio in Palo Alto. Her students have been featured as concerto soloists with
the El Camino Youth Symphony, California Youth Symphony, and Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra.
Sonia Leong, piano
Pianist Sonia Leong has performed in Canada, the United States, England, Romania, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. She has appeared with the
Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti in Satu Mare, Romania, the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Stockton Symphony, the St. John
Chamber Orchestra, and has performed live on Radio Suisse Romande in Geneva. She was a prizewinner at the Concours Piano 80, in
Switzerland, and a finalist at the Concorso Pianistico Nazionale “Città de Cesenatico” in Italy. From 2001–03, she played with Music Now, a
new music ensemble based in Sacramento. She appears regularly on the Sierra Chamber Society concert series, both with her trio and in
other chamber music combinations.Ms. Leong studied at the University of British Columbia, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Université
de Montréal, as well as at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her principal teachers
include Robert Silverman, Julian Martin, and Marc Durand. She has participated in festivals at the Banff Centre; Orford, Quebec; Scotia
Festival; Ladevie, France; and Ernen, Switzerland (with György Sebök).
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Jeremy Preston, violin
Deanna Badizadegan, viola
Angela Lee , cello
Britton Day, piano
Date & Time: Saturday August 18, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
MOZART PIANO QUARTET NO. 2 IN E FLAT MAJOR, K. 493
BRAHMS PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN IN G MINOR, OP. 25
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Jeremy Preston joined the San
Francisco Opera Orchestra as Principal
Second Violin in 2014. He is also the
Associate Concertmaster of the
Oakland East Bay Symphony. Before
moving to San Francisco in 2012, he
was a tenured violinist with the North
Carolina Symphony for seven seasons.
While in Raleigh, he was a member of
the North Carolina Symphony String
Quartet, Mallarme Chamber Players,
and the Eastern Festival Chamber Players. Jeremy is a faculty
member of the SF Community Music Center and the Eastern
Music Festival. Trained at New England Conservatory, Rice
University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Jeremy’s
teachers included Marylou Speaker Churchill, Lynn Chang,
Kathleen Winkler, Sally Thomas and William Preucil. His
chamber music coaches included Norman Fisher, Pamela and
Claude Frank and members of the Cleveland Quartet and
Juilliard Quartets.
Deanna Badizadegan currently studies
with Kim Kashkashian at the New England
Conservatory, where she is pursuing a
Graduate Diploma in Viola Performance.
She enjoys a diverse career as a soloist and
chamber musician, including recent
performances with the East Coast
Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), Sejong
Soloists, and at TEDxStanford and
TEDxFargo, where she also joined
Stanford Professor Tom Byers in his talk
on Entrepreneurship Education. In addition to performing, Deanna
enjoys working with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and
the 21st Century Musician Initiative to bring more entrepreneurial
ideas into the arts. Deanna received her B.S. in Organizational Design
& Engineering and her M.S. in Management Science & Engineering
from Stanford University, where she was also a Mayfield Fellow. She
also holds a Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music.
Since giving her Carnegie Hall debut in
1994, Angela Lee’s “amazing finesse,
control and coloration” (San Francisco
Chronicle) and “astonishingly rich
tone” (San Francisco Examiner) has
been celebrated with recitals around
the world, including venues such as
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and
the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. Together with her sisters, Angela
is a member of The Lee Trio, an award-winning piano trio that
has established itself as one of the premier chamber ensembles
on the international stage. She completed her studies at The
Juilliard School and Yale School of Music as a scholarship
student of Aldo Parisot, and is the recipient of the Ruth T.
Brooks Achievement Award for Continued Excellence in the
Arts, a grant from the Foundation for American Musicians in
Europe, a Fulbright scholarship to study in London with William
Pleeth, the Jury Prize in the Naumburg International Cello
Competition, and a cello performance fellowship from The
American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Britton Day is a member of the
accompanying staff at the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music and the San
Francisco Conservatory Preparatory
Division. He performs regularly in
venues around the greater Bay Area,
including recent appearances in the San
Francisco Symphony Chamber Series,
InConcert Sierra, the Berkeley Hillside
Club and at the Center for New Music. Britton received his Bachelor
of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and his
Master of Music and a Professional Studies Diploma in Piano
Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory.
When he is not giving recitals, Britton can be found playing for ballet
classes most weekday mornings at Miss Tilly’s Ballet School, located in
San Francisco’s Outer Richmond District.
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Ben Snellings, cello
Jason Totzke, violin
Date & Time: Saturday September 15, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students Full program details to be announced shortly
Ben Snellings, cellist and conductor, has been performing and teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 25 years.
Ben’s credits as a cellist include performing tenured positions in numerous regional orchestras of the San Francisco Bay Area,
performances at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, performances with Different Strokes (a jazz strings duo) and the San
Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. He was also the Music Director of “Funky Fitness”, a TV show produced in San
Francisco. Ben’s teaching experience includes positions as Instrumental Music Director, Artist in Residence, Strings Teaching
Specialist, Chamber Music Coach, Cello Sectional Coach and Cello Instructor for numerous school districts, private schools,
youth orchestras and community music schools. Ben is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the University
of Arizona and San Francisco State University, where he earned a California State Teaching Credential in Music.
Violinist Jason Totzke has performed in the United States, Canada and Europe. He has been heard on WXXI Radio
Rochester (NY) and as soloist with the Boston Chamber Ensemble, the Kensington Symphony Orchestra (CA), and the Pro
Arte Chamber Ensemble of South Florida. His performances have received acclaim from the press which describe him as
having consistent “character, poise, and tender phrasing” (Sun Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale). A California native, Dr. Totzke
currently resides in San Francisco and has performed with numerous orchestral and chamber music ensembles throughout the
San Francisco Bay area. He is the concertmaster of the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, has been a guest Concertmaster of
the Thalia Symphony in Seattle and has recorded for numerous motion picture, television and video game sound-tracks. An
active teacher, he is currently a faculty member of Golden Gate Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and maintains a large studio of
private violin and viola students. Mr. Totzke is a former member of the Syracuse Symphony (NY), the Erie Philharmonic (PA),
and performed with the Rochester Philharmonic (NY) for nearly a decade. While completing the prestigious Doctor of Musical
Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music, he taught at the University of Rochester and at Rochester’s Hochstein Music
School where he was a founding member of the Hochstein String Quartet, and appeared in chamber music recitals with faculty
members of the Eastman School and with principal players of the Rochester Philharmonic. Dr. Totzke plays on a Dutch violin
made c. 1760 by Johannes Cuypers.
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Kris Palmer, flute
Varvara Milinder, piano
Date & Time: Saturday October 13, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students A first-prize winner in the Carmel Chamber Music Society Competition, Dr. Kris Palmer is the
director and founder of Black Cedar, a rare ensemble devoted to music for flute, cello, and guitar.
Under her leadership, the trio has garnered multiple grants from the San Francisco Friends of
Chamber Music and the Zellerbach Family Foundation, commissioned four new works for this
unique instrumental combination, released an album of new and re-discovered trios, and earned
an invitation to the National Flute Association Convention. “You can easily see why this unique
group has become a chamber music draw in the musically rich Bay Area,” writes James Manheim of
AllMusic.com.
As a solo artist, Dr. Palmer made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2001 to rave
reviews as a winner in the Artists International Competition. The New York Concert Review
called Palmer’s performance “incisive and expressive…particularly enchanting…with sensuous tone and pace.” Dr. Palmer is a
second-prize winner in the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, a first-prize winner in the Ruth Burr
Awards in Houston, a fourth-prize winner in the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition in Texas, and a finalist in
both the Hemphill-Wells Sorantin Young Artist Awards in Texas and the William C. Byrd Competition in Michigan. Her solo
album, Versailles, is a compilation of her own arrangements of French Baroque works. The New York Concert Review says,
“She is clearly among the few current performers on any instrument to fully understand the nature of French Baroque music.”
Dr. Palmer holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts with an emphasis in eighteenth-century performance practice from Rice
University, where she worked as a teaching assistant for seven years. She is the author of the book, Ornamentation According to
C.P.E. Bach and J.J. Quantz, and the American Music Teacher magazine writes, “Clearly, the author is knowledgeable about
ornamentation.” She also holds a Master of Music from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern
California. Her primary teachers are Carol Wincenc, John Thorne, Aralee Dorough, the late Roger S. Stevens, Walfrid Kujala,
Anne Diener Zentner, Leone Buyse, and Gaetano Schiavone with the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Dr. Palmer is a former member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra – where she served as assistant principal flute, the
Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque – where she held the position of principal flute, and the Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles
– where she held the position of second flute. She currently performs as principal flutist with Island City Opera, and she has
performed with Houston Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Santa Cruz Ballet, Modesto Symphony, Monterey Symphony,
Shreveport Symphony, Ohio Light Opera Company, and Lamplighters Operetta Company.
Dr. Palmer is a frequent guest lecturer on eighteenth-century performance practice techniques, with engagements at the San
Diego Flute Festival, MTAC State Convention, San Francisco International Flute Festival, Skyline College Flute Day, and Areon
Summer Flute Institute. Upcoming masterclasses include Wichita State University and Chabot College. She has also served as
an adjudicator for the U.S. Open Music Competition, MTAC Certificate of Merit Program, Berkeley’s Etude Club Scholarships,
and the Junior Bach Festival.
ELDIN BURTON (1913-1979)
Sonatina
GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685-1759) Flute Sonata in G Major, HWV 363
ALBERT FRANZ DOPPLER (1821-1883)
Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise, Opus 26s
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Larry Vuckovich, piano
Date & Time: Saturday May 12, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students Full program details to be announced shortly
Larry Vuckovich has won acclaim from critics and jazz audiences for his deeply imaginative style and repertoire heard at
prestigious North American and European jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals. He is equally at home in world music/
classically influenced modal jazz as he is with hard-swinging bebop, post-bop, contemporary jazz, and down-home blues. The
New York Times notes that his unique outlook and collection of influences “set him apart from most pianists who are heard
regularly in New York”. The Village Voice comments on his “book of piano gems that will keep you guessing.” The Toronto
Globe and Mail calls him “a musician who sits apart from the rest by virtue…of his taste for both the exotic and the exquisite.”
Cited by piano legend Barry Harris as “one of the premier West Coast pianists, Mr. Vuckovich brought his Jazz-Latin Trio/
Quartet, featured on his two current piano trio/quartet CDs, to Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club in New York on a recent East
Coast tour. On the same tour, he performed with Marian McPartland on her Piano Jazz show, broadcast to national and global
NPR affiliates. Mr. Vuckovich has appeared as soloist at the Fazioli piano series in San Francisco, New York and Chicago, and
also leads an 18-piece band that sold out the 600-seat 2007 Jazz at Filoli show in Woodside, CA. His two latest recordings,
High Wall: Real Life Film Noir and Street Scene, on his Tetrachord Music label, placed in the Top 10 of the JazzWeek national
radio reporting charts, and are heard regularly on XM Satellite Radio.
Born in Kotor, a small Montenegrin coastal town in the former Yugoslavia, the pianist was classically trained as a child, but was
also drawn to jazz music he heard on Armed Forces Radio and Voice of America during World War II and the Communist
regime that followed. After the war, Tito’s communists took his home, including the family piano, and imprisoned his father
and brother. Jazz came to symbolize freedom. Finally, in 1951, when he was 14, his family was granted political asylum in the
United States, arriving in San Francisco at the height of a flourishing jazz scene. The young pianist began listening to local KJAZ
radio, hanging out at record shops and later frequenting legendary clubs to hear visiting jazz giants, such as Miles Davis, John
Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, and others. He also heard and sat in with locally based masters, such as John Handy and
Brew Moore with whom he later began his professional career. Among the famous clubs he visited was the Black Hawk, where
he met Cal Tjader pianist, Vince Guaraldi, who agreed to engage him as his only piano student. Mr. Guaraldi later featured Mr.
Vuckovich in a two-piano quintet and sent him to substitute as accompanist for vocalists Irene Kral, David Allyn, and Mel
Tormé, for whom Mr. Vuckovich became first-call pianist in San Francisco.
Larry was acknowledged as a “Jazz Legend” for the Fillmore Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco. Larry was honored along
with Eddy and Vernon Alley, Willie Bobo, Vince Guaraldi, Paul Desmond, Bop City’s Jimbo Edwards, John Handy, Noel Jewkes,
Frank Jackson, Jon Hendricks, Bobby Hutcherson, Pat Nacey, Cal Tjader, Allen Smith, and others who contributed to the
greatness of the San Francisco jazz scene. Larry Vuckovich Day, December 8th was proclaimed in San Francisco on his
birthday.
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Pablo Estigarribia, violin
Date & Time: Saturday May 149 7:30 p.m.
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Pablo Estigarribia was born in 1985 in El Chaco, Resistencia, Argentina and started studying piano at the National
Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires when he was only 8 years old.At age 17, he won a national competition for chamber
music, “sub 18” and at age 22, he won the piano competition that was part of the Shell Biennial Youth Music Festival in Buenos
Aires. In 2004, Estigarribia won a prestigious scholarship to the International Festival of Winter Camps of Jordão, Brazil, where
he studied with international soloists and conductors Kurt Masur and Glenn Dicterow.
The tango entered his life in 2005, when he won a grant from the Orchestra School of Tango (last group with Emilio Balcarce
as director), with whom he toured Italy. In 2008, he toured Mexico with the Lisandro Adrover Quintet and in 2010 he visited
a good portion of the theaters of Japan with the orchestra of Victor Lavallén, performing almost 50 concerts including at the
famous Nakano Sun Plaza of Tokyo. Since then, with various companies, he has toured Europe and Russia, giving more than 90
concerts, in theaters such as the Cologne Philharmonic, the Grand Opera of Frankfurt, the Savoy Theater of Helsinki, and the
Folies Bergeres of Paris among many others.
In 2011, he became a regular member of the Tango Pasión company, with whom he toured for four and a half months. Also,
same year, Estigarribia formed his own tango ensemble, Meridional Sextet and launched his first recording, Chapado a la
antigua. In 2014, he performed with the Juan Dios Filiberto Tango Orchestra, premiering his own symphonic arrangements and
his work Rapsodia sobre un tema de Piazzolla for piano and orchestra. In 2015, Estigarribia won the prestigious Gardel Prize for
the best recording of tango by a new artist for his recent release, Tangos para piano (EPSA).
He is currently a member of Trio Lavallen – Cabaros – Estigarribia and Victor Lavallén’s tango orchestra (Municipal Orquesta
de Tango de Lomas de Zamora), a member of the prestigious Teatro Porteño, a member of his own ensemble, Meridional
Sextet, and a member of the La Seleccion Nacional de Tango, an ensemble with which he performed in the United States,
Brazil, Cuba, and Belgium. This season, Estigarribia will be performing solo and orchestral pieces including his own composition
with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra. He is a frequent guest artist faculty at prestigious stowe tango music festival,
Vermont where he gives master classes, workshops and lectures to students and professional tango musicians from around the
world. He is considered among the best tango musicians of his generation.
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Folias Duo
Date & Time: Saturday June 23, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Andrew Bergeron and Carmen Maret are performers, composers, educators
and entrepreneurs from Grand Rapids, Michigan known as the Folias Duo.
The Folias Duo’s fifteen year performer/composer collaboration has taken this
nomadic husband and wife duo to stages throughout the United States and
around the globe including Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal,
Argentina, and Chile. They have a fearless approach to developing new original
compositions for flute and guitar, an expertise for arrangements of Argentine
tango, and a passion for South American folk. About Folias’s performing and
composing, Robert Schulslaper of Fanfare Magazine writes: “Carmen Maret and
Andrew Bergeron are facile players… They draw on tango rhythms and
melodies sometimes; at other times they write with a scenic sensitivity…
mysterious… charming… evocative,” while Todd Gorman of American Record
Guide calls Folias “daring in self-written music” and “a nice touch of originality.”
Folias Duo’s concert touring showcases their versatility as
composers, arrangers, and performers as well as their prowess for self
management. Some recent highlights include the Detroit Scarab Club Chamber Music Series’ presentation of the duo’s
arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s Angel Suite for flute, guitar and string quartet and the Grand Rapids Art Museum Classical Series’
presentation of all original music and arrangements from the duo’s 2017 Dreaming to Live Release. Folias Duo’s 2017 summer
tour includes over twenty performances throughout the west United States and features a debut performance at the Ventura
Classical Guitar Series and a return performance at the Burning Tango Festival. Lee Passarella wrote in Audiophile Audition
Review: “There’s really a lot to like here for enthusiasts of tango, blues, and jazz. Performances are suave and full of energy,
the sound recording especially fine.”
The Folias Duo has performed live music for milongas (social tango dances) in over forty cities throughout the world. They
continue to build camaraderie and communication between dancers and musicians through their musicality workshops which
have been featured by the Albuquerque Tango Society, the Madison Tango Society and festivals such as the Fairbanks Summer Arts
Festival, and the Atlin Music Festival in northern British Columbia.
Since 2005, Bergeron and Maret have operated their label and publishing company Folias Music where they also host a podcast
called Folias Music Live and maintain a blog that documents their relentless exploration of food and nature throughout the
world.
As educators, Bergeron and Maret have been feature performers, guest lecturers and music business presenters at Wayne
State University, Cornerstone University, Central Michigan University, and Michigan State University.
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Brazzissimo!
Date & Time: Saturday November 3, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Brazzissimo is a ten-piece brass chamber music ensemble based in the East Bay Area region of Northern California.
The ensemble is comprised of four trumpets, four trombones, French horn and tuba.
Performing classical works, show tunes, jazz standards, Latin music, and contemporary pieces accompanied
with guest percussionists, our consistent goal is to create enjoyable and memorable concert experiences for you! Come see
and hear us some time for an extraordinary music experience!
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pickpocket Ensemble
Date & Time: Saturday June 9 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
“Inspired by many world musical traditions,
the pickPocket ensemble inhabit a country all
their own. Original and fresh, the pickPocket
ensemble create a contemporary chamber
café music that moves both body and soul.
“To listen to the pickPocket ensemble is to
embark on a journey. Speak to audience
members after a performance: one will have
been to Bogota, one to Prague, one to Paris.
Yet for all its wide-ranging inspirations, the
pickPocket ensemble’s music remains
intensely personal and immediately engaging,
an invitation to listen in on an intimate
conversation.”
Rick Corrigan – (accordion, piano, composition) has been an electronic music composer and film composer, with several
scores for experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage to his credit, and has produced live film and sound performances with
filmmaker Paul Lundahl at San Francisco’s Exploratorium and SF’s Cinematheque.
Marguerite-Marie Ostro – (violin) Marguerite received her Bachelor degree in music and French at the University of
California at Berkeley. She has over 15 years of music performance, music recording, and teaching experience. She enjoys
nurturing the gift of music through music education. Marguerite currently performs and records with the contemporary
chamber music group the pickPocket ensemble.
Yates Brown – Yates’ guitar, banjo, bass, and sitar playing appear on over 30 recordings, including 7 solo albums, with live
performances including Spoleto Festival USA. He performs regularly with the traditional Arabic orchestra ASWAT and has
toured with progressive rock group Ventid. Currently, he composes for and performs with the new chamber ensemble
Doralice.
John Slattery – (percussion), a Chicago native, John has worked in wide-ranging musical settings for over 25 years, appearing
on records and tours with pop, hard rock /metal, jazz / fusion and blues groups. Notable performances include those with
Cyclone Temple and Tools of Ignorance. He is thrilled to bring his diverse experience to the pickPocket ensemble.
Colin Williams – (double bass) grew up listening to his mother sing jazz standards as she rocked him to sleep. Colin teaches
music at the Bay School of San Francisco in addition to playing with Dirty Cello. You can still see him many evenings lugging his
bass home on the cable cars, humming Gershwin under his breath.
Matthew Souther – (trumpet) Matthew has toured with indie folk group Il Gato. He studied at Bennington College, where
he composed a mini opera, song cycles and miscellaneous chamber music, and played in the brass quartet.As educators,
Bergeron and Maret have been feature performers, guest lecturers and music business presenters at Wayne State University,
Cornerstone University, Central Michigan University, and Michigan State University.
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Music for the Feasts of Our Lady
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Katherine McKee, director Date & Time: Saturday March 24, 4 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Program
Heinrich Isaac’s Missa Virgo Prudentissima
Motets from The Medici Codex
San Francisco Renaissance Voices made their debut in 2004
with a “standing room only” performance of Victoria’s Requiem
and quickly became a favorite of San Francisco Bay Area Early
Music audiences. SFRV has consistently earned praise for their
“gossamer sound … a sound something akin to spiritual
levitation” as well as recognition for their imaginative
programming and christened the Bay Area’s “hipper than thou”
Early Music ensemble by San Francisco Classical Voice and in
2010 SFWeekly chose SFRV as the “Best Classical Music” for
their Best of San Francisco edition. SFRV is the San Francisco Bay
Area’s professional mixed-voice ensemble dedicated to
performing and exploring the a cappella choral music of the
Renaissance particularly lesser-known and rarely-performed
works, as well as exploring music from this period outside of the
traditional European canon.
SFRV’s Opera Early & Ancient San Francisco mini-series seeks to present to audiences operatic and related works from the
Medieval through Baroque periods and has included such works as the “technicolor” production of Hildegard von Bingen’s
Ordo Virtutum (“Hildegard’s little-performed musical mantra rang out anew” – Los Angeles Times) and the west coast
premiere of William Boyce’s Solomon (“The performance was often exciting and even eye-opening … a performance other
groups struggle to achieve on record” – San Francisco Classical Voice).
Katherine McKee, Music Director
Ms. McKee joined San Francisco Renaissance Voices in 2007 as Alto Section Lead and was quickly asked to take on the
responsibilities of Assistant Music Director as well. She became the group’s second Music Director starting for our 2014-15
Season. Ms. McKee holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and a Master’s degree with honors in Choral Conducting
from the New England Conservatory and has directed choirs, community orchestras and opera, and school groups since her
college years. In the Boston area she directed the children’s, youth and adult choirs at Hanscom Air Force Base’s Protestant
Chapel, taught stringed instruments and conducted orchestras in the Somerset (MA) public schools and served as assistant
conductor for the Jamaica Plain Symphony Orchestra. In New York she founded and directed the chamber group Premier,
which focused on newly composed works for a cappella voices, and served as an assistant conductor for the Gregg Smith
Singers and at St. Bartholomew’s Church.
In the San Francisco Bay Area she has served on the conducting faculty of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, as chorus master,
prompter and music director for San Francisco Lyric Opera, and as music director of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Noe
Valley. Currently, she is director of music at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Menlo Park.
As a singer she is much in demand as an oratorio soloist, and appears regularly with the San Francisco Opera Chorus,
American Bach Soloists, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, and the chorale of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Ms. McKee
teaches private vocal students who perform throughout the Bay Area including members of the San Francisco Symphony
Chorus, San Francisco Opera Chorus, San Francisco Choral Society, Woodminster Theater, and Lamplighters Music Theatre.
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San Francisco Girls Chorus
Date & Time: Friday April 27, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Program
Works by Handel, Barber, and Randall Thompson.
Founded in 1978, the San Francisco Girls Chorus is a leading voice in music in the Bay Area and across the nation. Led by
Artistic Director Lisa Bielawa and Music Director and Principal Conductor Valérie Sainte-Agathe, the Girls Chorus produces
and collaborates in concerts, recordings and tours that empower young women, expand the field of music for treble voice,
and set the standard for the highest level of performance and education. Hundreds of singers ages 5-18 from over 45 Bay Area
cities participate in this program, which has won honors including 3 ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming and five
Grammy awards.
The Chorus School offers a program of unparalleled excellence, designed to take young girls from their first introduction to
the art of choral singing through advanced choral/vocal instruction. This comprehensive music education includes the study and
development of choral artistry, vocal technique, music theory, music history, and performing style. The discipline, teamwork,
and concentration young girls learn in the Chorus School rehearsals and performances instill in them the values necessary for
high achievement in music and in life.
The Chorus School Level III is an ensemble of approximately 50 girls ages 8-13, which performs music for holiday events,
festivals, dinners, luncheons, auctions, and other events.
Luçik Aprahämian, Level III Director
Luçik Aprahämian’s versatility as a conductor places her equally at home in front of an orchestra, vocal ensemble, and the
opera stage. With roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Arizona, she has worked with groups of all ages and skill
levels. Aprahämian is an avid exponent of new music and has commissioned and premiered works for a variety of performing
forces. She also has a great passion for opera and was the co-artistic director of Southern Arizona Opera as well as assistant
conductor and chorus-master for various professional opera companies in the Bay Area, including Opera Parallèle and
Bayshore Lyric Opera. Aprahämian has held various faculty positions in California and Arizona, and currently serves as the
music director at First Lutheran Church of Palo Alto. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of
California at Santa Cruz, and her doctorate in conducting from The University of Arizona.
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To Henry, with love from Florence
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Katherine McKee, director Date & Time: TBD May 2018
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students
Program Madrigals from a collection of Italian masterpieces, sent as a gift to Henry VIII from Florence, Italy, in 1533
San Francisco Renaissance Voices made their debut in 2004
with a “standing room only” performance of Victoria’s Requiem
and quickly became a favorite of San Francisco Bay Area Early
Music audiences. SFRV has consistently earned praise for their
“gossamer sound … a sound something akin to spiritual
levitation” as well as recognition for their imaginative
programming and christened the Bay Area’s “hipper than thou”
Early Music ensemble by San Francisco Classical Voice and in
2010 SFWeekly chose SFRV as the “Best Classical Music” for
their Best of San Francisco edition. SFRV is the San Francisco Bay
Area’s professional mixed-voice ensemble dedicated to
performing and exploring the a cappella choral music of the
Renaissance particularly lesser-known and rarely-performed
works, as well as exploring music from this period outside of the
traditional European canon.
SFRV’s Opera Early & Ancient San Francisco mini-series seeks to present to audiences operatic and related works from the
Medieval through Baroque periods and has included such works as the “technicolor” production of Hildegard von Bingen’s
Ordo Virtutum (“Hildegard’s little-performed musical mantra rang out anew” – Los Angeles Times) and the west coast
premiere of William Boyce’s Solomon (“The performance was often exciting and even eye-opening … a performance other
groups struggle to achieve on record” – San Francisco Classical Voice).
Katherine McKee, Music Director
Ms. McKee joined San Francisco Renaissance Voices in 2007 as Alto Section Lead and was quickly asked to take on the
responsibilities of Assistant Music Director as well. She became the group’s second Music Director starting for our 2014-15
Season. Ms. McKee holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and a Master’s degree with honors in Choral Conducting
from the New England Conservatory and has directed choirs, community orchestras and opera, and school groups since her
college years. In the Boston area she directed the children’s, youth and adult choirs at Hanscom Air Force Base’s Protestant
Chapel, taught stringed instruments and conducted orchestras in the Somerset (MA) public schools and served as assistant
conductor for the Jamaica Plain Symphony Orchestra. In New York she founded and directed the chamber group Premier,
which focused on newly composed works for a cappella voices, and served as an assistant conductor for the Gregg Smith
Singers and at St. Bartholomew’s Church.
In the San Francisco Bay Area she has served on the conducting faculty of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, as chorus master,
prompter and music director for San Francisco Lyric Opera, and as music director of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Noe
Valley. Currently, she is director of music at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Menlo Park.
As a singer she is much in demand as an oratorio soloist, and appears regularly with the San Francisco Opera Chorus,
American Bach Soloists, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, and the chorale of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Ms. McKee
teaches private vocal students who perform throughout the Bay Area including members of the San Francisco Symphony
Chorus, San Francisco Opera Chorus, San Francisco Choral Society, Woodminster Theater, and Lamplighters Music Theatre.
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Holiday Concert
San Francisco Boys Chorus
Date & Time: December TBD
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students Full program details to be announced shortly
The San Francisco Boys Chorus (SFBC) is comprised of the Grammy award-winning Concert Chorus, the
Graduate Chorale, the Hand Bell Program and the four-level Chorus School, which includes the Preparatory Chorus.
The CONCERT CHORUS is the SFBC’s premiere performing ensemble and is comprised of choristers who exhibit
vocal excellence, performance flair, and exceptional musicianship skills. Led by Artistic Director, Ian Robertson, the
committed Concert Chorus members, ages 10 to 13, present a full concert series in the San Francisco Bay Area, tour
nationally and internationally, record often and appear annually with renowned artistic partners, such as the San Francisco
Opera, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the Robert Moses Kin Dance Company and other Bay Area arts
organizations such as George Cleve's Midsummer Mozart Festival and Stanford Live.
The Concert Chorus is the level to which Chorus School singers aspire. Under the guidance of our Associate Artistic
Director, the San Francisco Boys Chorus faculty team train youngsters through four CHORUS SCHOOL levels, beginning as
early as kindergarten in the Preparatory Chorus (Level I) and up through the Junior (Level II), Apprentice (Level III), and
in time to the Intermediate Choruses. (Level IV).
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Festival of Lessons and Carols
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Date & Time: December TBD
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: Free. Reception follows.
Choral Music
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Handel’s Acis and Galatea
Concert Version
Date & Time: Sunday May 13, 7 p.m.
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors / Students
A concert performance of Handel’s 1718 opera Acis and Galatea, the tragic love story between a water nymph and a
shepherd. Acis, the shepherd, is in love with the water nymph, Galatea. The monster, Polyphemus, also loves her. In a jealous
rage, and spurned by Galatea, Polyphemus hurls a boulder at Acis and mortally wounds him. Galatea uses her magic powers to
change her dead lover into a stream that will flow eternally.
Soloists to be announced shortly
Opera
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Mozart’s Così fan tutte
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
Date & Time: Saturday August 25, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors/Students
Bay Shore Lyric Opera presents Mozart’s delightful opera Così fan tutte. A hilarious
farce, Così fan tutte revolved around a bet made among three men; Don Alfonso, the
older and more cynical of the bunch, bets Ferrando and Guglielmo that he can prove that
their girlfriends, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, are unfaithful like all women. Don Alfonso, with
the help of Despina, the girls’ maid, sets up the plot to pretend to send the men off to
war, but then disguise them as “Albanians” in the attempts to seduce the other man’s
girlfriend. After many comical struggles, and absurd tricks, Despina and Alfonso succeed
in duping the quartet and putting the two couples into situations where they are forced
to decide. Both girls agree to marry the “Albanians,” and Fiordiligi and Ferrando have
appeared to have fallen in love, when it is announced that their old boyfriends have
returned home. The men reveal themselves, and the ladies ask for their forgiveness.
Alfonso wins the bet and gloats, hoping that they have all learned their lesson.
Bay Shore Lyric Opera Company was founded in 1996 by a group of passionate
musicians and singers who had the desire to bring opera to all ages and all communities,
and to educate and entertain them with the strongest commitment to quality. It has
produced over forty operas on a grand scale at the Villa Montalvo Carriage House, Fox
Theater in Redwood City, San Mateo Performing Arts Center, the Capitola Theater, and
the Mountain Winery.
Bay Shore Lyric Opera Company is unique in that it offers a wide variety of production
venues for any event and educational tools as well. Its resident artists are available for
hire for school outreach programs, company conventions, weddings, and other events.
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Annual Opera Gala & Fundraiser
Date & Time: TBD August 2018
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $30 General, $25 Seniors, $20 Students
Gala Reception after the concert
Sunset Music & Arts, invites you to celebrate its third anniversary in a gala concert featuring soloists from the San
Francisco Opera Chorus, The program will include favorites from opera and Broadway shows. Please consider making a
donation to celebrate this special occasion. All donations are fully tax deductible. Donations received by July 31,
2018 will be listed in our program booklet. Suggested donation levels:
Friend: $1 – $99
Supporter: $100 – $249
Benefactor: $250 – $499
Patron: $500 or above
All donations are fully tax deductible. Please make checks payable to Incarnation Episcopal Church and mail it to:
Incarnation Episcopal Church / Sunset Music | Arts
1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122.
Please call 415-564-2324 or visit our website http://sunsetarts.wordpress.com
for details as they are finalized and announced.
Opera Gala
Community Music Recitals, Workshops, and Social Events
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Community Music Recitals, Workshops, and Social Events
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Phoenix Performance Symposium
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $10 General admission (for each concert)
Friday, January 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m. – Arias by Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, Donizetti,
Verdi, Mendelssohn, Wagner and others as well as French and American composers.
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Arias by Mozart, Gounod, Massenet, Mascagni, Verdi,
Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Copeland.
Sunday, April 29, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Arias by Mozart, Offenbach, Weber, Saint-Saëns, Wagner.
Friday, June 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m. Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Ponchielli, Wagner, R. Strauss, Berg,
Schumann, and J. Strauss.
Sunday, June 10, 2018, 7:30 p.m. – Arias by Puccini, Massenet, Menotti, and other favorite
arias to end the Phoenix Recital Symposium 2018.
Accompanists, Charles Calhoun, SFCM, Margaret Halbig, SFCM,
Alex Katsman, SFCM, with Maestro Matthias Kuntzsch
PHOENIX RECITAL SYMPOSIUM of SAN FRANCISCO Presented by the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
YEAR – LONG PROGRAM for YOUNG SINGERS
October 2017- June 2018
Professor Sylvia Anderson, General and Artistic Director
Master Classes by Professors of the SF Conservatory Patricia Craig, Lyric Soprano, Sylvia Anderson, Mezzo and Dramatic
Soprano
Dramatic Training by David Ostwald, International Stage Director Alexander Technique by – Robert Britton, SFCM
Lectures and practical aspects of singing with conductor and orchestra International Opera and Concert Conductor, Prof.
Matthias Kuntzsch
Accompanists – Timothy Bach, SFCM, Charles Calhoun, SFCM, Margaret Halbig, SFCM, Alex Katsman, SFCM
For more information visit www.basoti.net.
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Gayatri Venkatesan (soprano) in concert
Date & Time: Saturday September 1, 7:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: Free. Donations Requested
Gayatri recently graduated from San Jose State University. During her time there, she actively participated in the
San Jose State Opera Theater program, where she played roles such as Eurydice (Orpheus in the
Underworld), Maria (Westside Story), and Marie (The Daughter of the Regiment). She has also participated in
the Opera Chorus at Silicon Valley Community Opera production of Madame Butterfly in Spring of
2015 Additionally, she has been singing with the choir at the Union Church of Cupertino under the direction of Dr.
Ross Hoksbergen since June of 2016.
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Ajay Mallya, violin
Dmitriy Cogan, piano
Date & Time: Saturday September 8, 5:30 pm
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: Free. Donations Requested
Ajay Mallya started learning violin at age 3 and is currently a student of Zhao Wei of the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has won local, state, and international violin competitions and
awards, and made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 12 with the Carnegie Honors Orchestra of North
America. Subsequently, he was chosen to perform a recital in Carnegie Hall at age 13. Ajay is currently
a member of the California Youth Symphony. He also enjoys chamber music at the California Music
Preparatory Academy and has performed at the California Summer Music festival and the Summit Music
Festival. In 2017, Ajay will be traveling to India to perform a recital at the National Center for
Performing Arts, and in 2018, he will be traveling with CYS orchestra to Russia and Eastern Europe to
perform at such venues as the Shostakovich St. Petersburg Philharmonia.
Dmitriy Cogan began music studies at the age of six at the Central Music School before moving to
the U.S. and settling in San Francisco in 1974. He studied conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music and continued piano studies with Vladimir Pleshakov and Maria Cysic. In 1979, he moved to
New York to study with Martin Canin at the Juilliard School, where he received Bachelor and Master of
Music degrees. Mr. Cogan has performed publicly since age nine in Moscow. His American debut was in
1975 with the Peninsula Symphony in San Mateo, California. In 1981-1983, he was a prizewinner in
competitions in New York, Cincinnati and Cleveland. In 1988, Mr. Cogan gave his New York recital
debut at Carnegie Hall to favorable reviews and has since appeared in recitals throughout the
Northeast and California. He has also toured in France and in Russia twice and was a laureate of the
1990 Jose Iturbi International Piano competition in Valencia, Spain. Since 1985, he has performed
throughout North America and Asia with violinist Alexander Markov; their first CD was released
worldwide on the Erato label. In recent years, Mr. Cogan has often performed with violinist Philip
Quint throughout California. His recordings with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento and with clarinetist Patricia
Shands have also been recently released. Mr. Cogan is a staff accompanist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and
teaches piano privately in the Bay Area.
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Travelogue Series
Date & Time: TBD Saturdays at 5:30 p.m.
Venue: 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: Free. Please bring a dish to share at the potluck
Glimpses of Asia—Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila
Germany & Austria
And more ….
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RECITAL—INSTRUMENTAL SERIES
Misuzu Tanaka (piano) (Page 5)
Saturday January 20, 4 p.m.
Bach, Beethoven, Schubert
Monica Chew (piano) (Page 6)
Saturday February 3, 4 p.m.
All Beethoven Program
Joana Gonzalez (piano) (Page 7)
Saturday March 17, 7:30 p.m.
Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Ginastera
Anne Rainwater (piano) (Page 8)
Saturday May 5, 7:30 p.m.
Bach, Pierre Boulez, David Lang, Bryce Cannell, and Chris
Gendall
Eric Tran (piano) (Page 9)
Saturday June 16, 4 p.m.
All Chopin Program
Othello Jefferson (organ) (Page 10)
Saturday June 16, 4 p.m.
Bach, Mathias, Mendelssohn, Parry, Wood, and Young
CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
Bridge Piano Quartet (Page 13)
Saturday January 6, 4 p.m.
Beethoven, Clarice Assad, Joaquin Turina
MUSA—Smorgasbord Baroque (Page 14)
Friday February 16, 7 p.m.
16th and 17th music from unexpected places such as
China and the Americas
Patrick Galvin (violin) and Jungeun Kim (piano)
Saturday March 3, 7:30 p.m. (Page 15)
Program details to be announced
Trio 180 (Page 16)
Sunday April 16, 7 p.m.
Program details to be announced
Jeremy Preston (violin), Deanna Badizadegan (viola)
Angela Lee (cello), Britton Day (piano)
Saturday August 18, 7:30 p.m. (Page 17)
Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms
Ajay Mallya (violin) and Dmitriy Cogan (piano)
Saturday September 8, 5:30 p.m. (Page 36)
Free Admission. Program details to be announced
Ben Snellings (cello) and Jason Totzke (violin)
Saturday September 15, 7:30 p.m. (Page 18)
Program details to be announced
Kris Palmer (flute) and Varvara Milinder (piano)
Saturday October 13, 7:30 p.m. (Page 19) G.F. Handel, Eldin Burton, Albert Franz Doppler
VOCAL SERIES
Phoenix Recital Symposium (Page 34)
Friday, January 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Arias by Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Mozart, Donizetti,
Verdi, Mendelssohn, Wagner
Nicole Takesono (mezzo-soprano) (Page 11)
Kevin Korth (piano)
Saturday February 10, 4 p.m.
Reynaldo Hahn, Hugo Wolf, Manuel de Falla , Kurt
Weill
Vanessa Langer (soprano) (Page 12)
Vera Breheda (piano)
Saturday April 7, 4 p.m.
Fauré, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg
Phoenix Recital Symposium (Page 34)
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Arias by Mozart, Gounod, Massenet, Mascagni, Verdi,
Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Copeland.
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Phoenix Recital Symposium (Page 34)
Sunday, April 29, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Arias by Mozart, Offenbach, Weber, Saint-Saëns, Wagner.
Phoenix Recital Symposium (Page 34)
Friday, June 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Ponchielli, Wagner, R. Strauss,
Berg, Schumann, and J. Strauss.
Phoenix Recital Symposium (Page 34)
Sunday, June 10, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Arias by Puccini, Massenet, Menotti, and other favorite arias
to end the Phoenix Recital Symposium 2018
Gayatri Venkatesan in concert (Page 35)
Saturday September 1, 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission. Program to be announced
CHORAL / OPERA SERIES
Music for the Feasts of Our Lady (Page 25)
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
Saturday March 24, 4 p.m.
Heinrich Isaac’s Missa Virgo Prudentissima and motets
from The Medici Codex
San Francisco Girls Chorus (Level III)
in concert (Page 26)
Friday April 27, 7:30 p.m.
Handel, Barber, and Randall Thompson
Handel’s Acis and Galatea (Concert Version)
Sunday May 13, 7 p.m. (Page 30)
$25 General, $20 Seniors/Students
To Henry, with love from Florence
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
May 2018 (Page 27)
Madrigals from a collection of Italian masterpieces, sent as
a gift to Henry VIII from Florence, Italy, in 1533
Annual Opera and Broadway Gala & Reception
Artists from the San Francisco Opera Chorus
August 2018 (Page 32)
$30 General, $25 Seniors, $20 Studetns
Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte (Page 31)
Bay Shore Lyric Opera
Saturday August 25, 7:30 p.m.
$25 General, $20 Seniors/Students
Holiday Concert with (Page 28)
San Francisco Boys Chorus
December 2018
Festival of Lessons and Carols (Page 29)
San Francisco Renaissance Voices
December 2018
JAZZ/FOLK SERIES
Larry Vuckovich in Concert (Page 20)
Saturday May 12, 7:30 p.m.
Details coming soon
An Evening with Pablo Estigarribia (Page 21)
Saturday May 19, 7:30 p.m.
pickPocket Ensemble (Page 24)
Saturday June 9, 7:30 p.m.
Original instrumental songs, inspired by folk and
cafe music from around the world
Folias Duo (Page 22)
Saturday June 23, 7:30 p.m.
Brazzissimo! (Page 23)
Saturday November 3, 7:30 p.m.
All Tickets $20 General, $15 Seniors/Students unless noted.
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