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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

[email protected].

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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Piano Series

Monica Chew, piano

Date & Time: Saturday February 3, 4 pm



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

http://monicachew.com/

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Piano Series

Joana Gonzalez, piano

Date & Time: Saturday March 17, 7:30 pm



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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Piano Series

Anne Rainwater, piano

Date & Time: Saturday May 5, 7:30 pm



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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Piano Series

Eric Tran, piano

Date & Time: Saturday June 16, 4 pm



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



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


Organ

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Nicole Takesono, mezzo-soprano

Kevin Korth, piano

Date & Time: Saturday February 10, 4 pm



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


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



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



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



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


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



MOZART PIANO QUARTET NO. 2 IN E FLAT MAJOR, K. 493

BRAHMS PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN IN G MINOR, OP. 25

Chamber Music /

Ensemble

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



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


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



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.



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



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.



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



“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.

Folk

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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



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.

Choral Music

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San Francisco Girls Chorus

Date & Time: Friday April 27, 7:30 pm



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


Katherine McKee, director Date & Time: TBD May 2018



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.

Choral Music

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Holiday Concert

San Francisco Boys Chorus

Date & Time: December TBD



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


Date & Time: December TBD


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.


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



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.

Opera

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Annual Opera Gala & Fundraiser

Date & Time: TBD August 2018


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.

Young Art is ts Series

http://www.basoti.net

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Gayatri Venkatesan (soprano) in concert



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



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.


Tickets: Free. Please bring a dish to share at the potluck

Glimpses of Asia—Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila

Germany & Austria

And more ….

Travelogue

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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.


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)


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


Saturday, April 14, 2018, 7:30 p.m.

Arias by Mozart, Gounod, Massenet, Mascagni, Verdi,

Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Copeland.

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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

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)


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


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)


December 2018

JAZZ/FOLK SERIES

Larry Vuckovich in Concert (Page 20)


Details coming soon

An Evening with Pablo Estigarribia (Page 21)


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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