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If chamber music is “a conversation between friends,” as the writer and violinist Catherine Drinker Bowen once famously observed, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music will be one of the friendliest places in town during the 2010-2011 season. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the chamber music degree program, the Conservatory has assembled a year-long performance series bringing together faculty, students, alumni and guest performers for concerts, master classes and other special events. Anniversary highlights include a Celebration Concert on November 5 presenting student and alumni ensembles and honoring Bonnie Hampton, cellist and longtime faculty member who returns for a week-long residency of performances and classes. The season also features a four-concert Chamber Music Marathon on April

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Concerts in a New Key

Dan Becker, chair of the Conservatory’s composition department, has his ear to the ground. What he hears is a hum like a tuning fork ringing out beyond the Concert Hall balcony, fixing the pitch for concerts in a new key. Entrepreneurial new music collectives, partnerships with external institutions and interdepartmental collaborations

Jean-Michel Fonteneau coaches violinists Joseph Maile and Mac Kim, violist Pei-Ling Lin and cellist Gretchen Claassen

Alumni Jonathan Russell and Jeffrey Anderle in the habit of performing with Switchboard ensemble Edmund Welles

within the Conservatory are changing the local landscape of contemporary music performance.

“Composers emerging from the Conservatory since our move to Oak Street are becoming real players in the Bay Area new music scene,” Becker told UpBeat. As evidence, he points to an outbreak of composer-performer collectives erupting onto the stage. The Switchboard Music Festival, an annual eight-hour marathon of eclectic contemporary

music founded by Ryan Brown (M.M., composition, ’05), Jonathan Russell (M.M., composition, ’03) and Jeffrey Anderle (M.M., clarinet, ’06), recently featured home-grown heavyweights Pamela Z and Paul Dresher alongside Conservatory student works, in performances ranging from klezmer-polka-tango to traditional Chinese instruments.

17, a star-studded Chamber Music Masters program and numerous concerts by Conservatory students. (For a complete calendar of events, visit sfcm.edu.)

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helped us to look toward the future and further strengthen our partnership.”

Back in San Francisco, the two schools have also increased their level of student interchange. This fall the Conservatory welcomed 11 new students from Shanghai, part of 21 total new enrollees from China (more than ten percent of the total incoming class). Two of the 11 are official exchange students from the Shanghai Conservatory, studying in San Francisco for a semester. In addition, for the first time one student from the Shanghai Conservatory is studying at the Conservatory under a grant from the Chinese Ministry of Education. Brose believes it may only be a matter of time before students from San Francisco study in Shanghai, completing the exchange.

As for the schools’ future relationship, exciting visits and performance opportunities should further tighten the bonds of sisterhood. This November, the Conservatory welcomes President Xu and a delegation from Shanghai that includes the dean, vice president for foreign affairs and director of the preparatory division.

Sister relationships come in all shapes and sizes. Some sisters remain close all their lives, while others prefer to keep their distance. For the Conservatory and its new sister institution, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the sibling relationship is definitely on the upswing.

Last February, Conservatory President Colin Murdoch and Shanghai Conservatory Vice President Yang Yandi signed a historic sister-conservatory agreement that both consolidated the schools’ existing relationship and opened the door for future collaborations. Since then, the seeds of this labor have borne fruit in the form of several exciting performance and educational opportunities.

In June, the San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City Committee invited several Conservatory affiliates to perform in Shanghai to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the two cities’ sister-city relationship. Violin student Yinbin Ben Qian, piano student Hanqian Serena Zhu and clarinetist/alumnus Jeffrey Anderle represented the Conservatory as cultural delegates, performing at a Gala Dinner during “San Francisco Week” at the Shanghai World Expo and in recital at the Shanghai Conservatory. Faculty violinist Wei He also performed with his Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, featuring alumni guest artists violist Jory Fankuchen, cellist Ming Xue and percussionist Jonathan Goldstein.

“We were immensely honored that the Sister City Committee invited us to represent San Francisco for this momentous event,” said Alexander Brose, the Conservatory’s associate vice president for advancement and delegate to the Shanghai Expo. “The Conservatory has a long and rich history with the musicians of Shanghai, and we, along with the Shanghai Conservatory, benefited greatly from these performances. Additional meetings with Shanghai Conservatory administrators, including President Shuya Xu, also

On April 23, 2011, the Conservatory will launch a new Alumni Recital Series with a performance by San Francisco and Shanghai alumnus Weigang Li, violinist with the Shanghai Quartet, and pianist Melvin Chen.

Conservatory delegates pose before Shanghai Celebration Concert sign; Yinbin Qian, Hanqian Zhu and Jeffrey Anderle bowing after their performance

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The Conservatory is pleased to welcome soprano Patricia Craig as a new member of the voice faculty. Her performing career spans three decades of major roles in the world’s leading opera houses, with a specialty in Puccini and Verdi heroines. She debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in 1978 as Marenka in The Bartered Bride. A faculty member of the New England Conservatory from 1990 to 2009, Craig also teaches at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Chautauqua Institute and the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute. She received a B.S. from Ithaca College and pursued postgraduate studies in opera at the Manhattan School of Music.

Patricia Craig Joins Conservatory Faculty

The Conservatory salutes two new department chairs in voice and composition this fall. Mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook has excelled in roles with leading companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Her students have won numerous vocal

competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Dan Becker, founder and artistic director of the Common Sense Composers’ Collective, has earned awards and grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary

Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, ASCAP, the Jerome Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Get ready to add to your music playlist, because a wave of new faculty recordings is flooding the market. Trumpeter Mario Guarneri released Tell Your Story, a double disc of standards and originals by Guarneri and Omar Clay, the Bay Area veteran drummer in whose memory the collection is dedicated. Featuring Guarneri’s quartet live in concert at the Conservatory, this heaping double helping of jazz cooks hotter than a Fourth of July barbeque and swings wilder than the stock market, but still finds time for poignant introspection.

Faculty violinist Axel Strauss and orchestra conductor Andrew Mogrelia strengthen their ties to the Naxos label with Rudolphe Kreutzer’s Violin Concertos Nos. 17-19, featuring the Conservatory Orchestra. Known as the man for whom Beethoven wrote the Kreutzer sonata (which in turn inspired Tolstoy’s novella of that name), Kreutzer was a brilliant virtuoso violinist and

Elvis Costello once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about archi-tecture.” But when great architecture is put in service to great music, it can be something to write home about. This year the Conservatory’s new home won four prestigious awards for its designers, Perkins+Will (P&W). The Society for College and University Planning gave P+W a 2010 Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse. The firm earned a Design Award from the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. And as part of P+W’s own 75th Anniversary celebrations, an independent jury awarded the Conservatory design one of 22 awards culled from 167 submissions from its 20 North American offices.

The National Building Museum also tapped P+W as the first architectural firm ever to receive one of its three Design Awards. According to National Building Museum President Chase W. Rynd, “This year’s honorees . . . focus on teaching, mentorship, and multi-generational knowledge as an essential way to improve our buildings and help communities thrive. The National Building Museum believes these models have, and will continue to have, an extraordinary impact on our society.”

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prolific composer. Look for the release on the Naxos web site.

David Tanenbaum joins his colleagues on Naxos with Awakenings, a disc of American chamber music for guitar

freshly penned for the recording’s performers to commemorate the opening of the Conservatory’s new facility and concert hall. Aaron Jay Kernis’s Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby, a work of novel instrumentation and soaring lyricism, showcases Strauss on violin

while the composer himself mans the keyboards. Steven Mackey’s Measures of Turbulence, performed by the Conservatory Guitar Ensemble, slyly subverts its title with solemn, gong-like harmonics and delicate shifts in sonority and texture.

Viva! Latin Grammy NominationsNo stranger to the Latin Grammys, Sérgio Assad has been nominated again in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for two works: Maracaípe, for the Beijing Guitar Duo; and Interchange, for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet with orchestra. Interchange blends traditional musical styles to suggest “a casual meeting of different people on an LA freeway,” says Assad.

Doublespeak—New Guitar Works If they weren’t already busy enough making waves, guitar faculty David Tanenbaum and Sérgio Assad have also announced an ambitious new undertaking, “Doublespeak—New Guitar Works from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.” Students and faculty of the guitar and composition departments are working to craft pieces for mixed instrument pairings. “This project will see students doing what most professional guitarists do,” Tanenbaum observes, “which is creating their own repertoire from the ground up.” Performances are lined up throughout Northern California in the coming months, including a concert at the Conservatory on November 30.

Talks are also underway to develop a chamber music festival, sponsored by both institutions, that would celebrate existing masterworks and encourage new works composed by faculty and students from both sides of the Pacific.

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Help students become professionals! Many thanks to the generous Conservatory alumni who made gifts to support Conservatory educational programs, including the Student Professional Development Fund, which awards student subsidies for auditions, competitions and summer festivals as well as recording activities and instrument maintenance. If you would like to contribute to this fund, please complete the envelope remit inside this newsletter or contact Alex Brose at awb@sfcm.edu or 415.503.6263.

Kronos Quartet to Premiere Aminikia PieceOn December 20, 2009, Conservatory composition student Sahba Aminikia received some horrific news—his father had been killed in a car crash in Tehran. Grief overwhelmed the composer during a 20-day journey to Iran following this tragedy, but it also provided the seed for a powerful new composition. String Quartet No. 3 “Marsiye-i Baraye Bazmandegan: A Threnody for Those Who Remain,” for quartet and electronics, receives its premiere by the Kronos Quartet October 28-29 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a co-commission between YBCA and the Kronos Performing Arts Association.

After his return to San Francisco, Aminikia met with Kronos violinist David Harrington to discuss a new composition project. They emerged with a concept of “how strange it is that our loved ones leave us so swiftly and suddenly, and with an ocean of sorrow and grief that lasts until the end of our lives.”

Images, memories and recorded sounds pervade the quartet. Aminikia notes that the piece “incorporates ambient sound clips recorded in Tehran during my stay there in winter and ethnic percussion instruments which were recorded at an actual lamentation ritual in Southern Iran.” The first movement draws inspiration from a childhood game Aminikia played with his father, a memory set against the Islamic revolution and the turbulent Iran-Iraq war.

For the second movement, Aminikia draws upon the sounds of a southern Iranian mourning rite. “The drums (Damam), cymbals and the scream-like human voices (called Kél in this culture) are essential elements of a common lamentation c eremony in Bandar Abbas and Boushehr,” he says. “This movement is informed by nightmares I had during the flight to back to Tehran.”

The final movement invokes the Azan, a call to morning prayer that is “one of the most symbolic and famous forms of its kind, by Rahim Moazzén-zadéh. It is the symbol of Persianized Islam, as this was the first time Azan had been sung in Persian modes.” Hometown memories and struggles to overcome

grief inspired this movement, which ends with calls of “Allah-u-akbar” (God is great). This is the mantra “with which the people protested the results of the 2009 presidential election, recorded on the rooftops of Tehran. These are the shouts that I heard all the time at night during my stay.”

Waarts, Armstrong Shine in NorwayA current and a former Preparatory Division student earned major accolades at the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Oslo, Norway, the leading competition for young violinists in the world.

Merola Alumni Take Center StageTwo illustrious tenors, both alumni of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, continue to share the spotlight in burgeoning opera careers. Daniel Montenegro (B.M., voice, ’02) has been named one of 12 Adler Fellows by the San Francisco Opera Center. In addition to performances during the mainstage season, Montenegro will perform in a special year-end concert of opera scenes and arias with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. A former resident artist at Minnesota Opera, Montenegro has also appeared with the Los Angeles Opera and the Sydney Festival. He made his San Francisco Opera debut in 2009 and will appear as a Thug in Los Angeles

Opera’s world premiere production of Daniel Catán’s Il Postino.

Another Merola veteran, Eleazar Rodriguez (B.M., voice, ’10) heads to Heidelberg Opera for a one-year contract with this leading opera house. Rodriguez will perform Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Joachino in Beethoven’s Fidelio and Rodrigo in Verdi’s Otello. On the eve of his departure, Rodriguez appreciatively noted, “It is a true blessing. Many people go to Europe and do a round of auditions in five to eight opera houses and sometimes they don’t get anything. I was lucky enough to have auditioned once and I was immediately invited to be part of Heidelberg Opera.”

Benim at the TonysErin Benim (B.M., violin, ’01) of Quartet Rouge was thrilled to perform at the 64th Tony Awards show in June, part of an all-cast appearance with the California punk band Green Day. Quartet Rouge played last season for Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of American Idiot, a rock opera adaptation of Green Day’s hit album of the same name. The show’s Broadway production garnered a Tony nomination for Best Musical and Tony Awards for Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design.

More Afiara AccoladesThe Afiara String Quartet won second prize at the 2010 Banff International String Quartet Competition. This graduate string quartet in residence at The Juilliard School includes Conservatory alumni Yuri Cho (Artist Certificate, violin, ‘06) Adrian Fun (B.M., violin, ’08) and David Samuel (Artist Certificate, viola, ’06). In addition to a $12,000 cash prize, the Afiara also secured the $3,000 Sze’kely Prize for best performance of a Beethoven quartet.

Krista Bennion Feeney, alumna of honor at the Fanfare LuncheonViolinist Krista Bennion Feeney (B.M., violin, ’81) will be the alumna guest of honor at this year’s Fanfare Luncheon on January 21, 2011. An outstanding figure in American chamber and chamber orchestra music, Feeney is concertmaster of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, co-concertmaster of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and a former music director and concertmaster of the New Century Chamber Orchestra. As founding member and first violinist of the Santa Cruz-based Ridge String Quartet, she performed on four continents, recorded the Dvorák piano quintets for RCA Red Seal with pianist Rudolf Firkusny and collaborated with the likes of clarinetist Benny Goodman and the Guarneri String Quartet. No stranger to popular music, Feeney has recorded quartet works by Sir Paul McCartney for the EMI label and appears on recordings by Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon and 10,000 Maniacs. A native of Menlo Park, California, Feeney studied in the Conservatory’s Preparatory Division, making her San Francisco Symphony debut at 15 with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. She continued her training in the Conservatory’s collegiate division with Isadore Tinkleman and Stuart Canin before completing her studies with Mischa Schneider at the Curtis Institute of Music.

From the first note of the Brahms Sonata I was hooked, and within a few bars, I was moved to tears.

Such an experience is so rare.

—Ariane Todes, The Strad, on Waarts’ performance at the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition

Cmiel Residency in BanffThis summer, guitarist/composer Matthew Cmiel was composer-in-residence for the 2010 Summer Arts Festival at the Banff Centre in Canada, where he worked with iconic composer John Adams and oversaw the performance of his woodwind quintet, “Love That Dirty Water.” Cmiel also performed with the 2010 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival. In a review in the Berkshire Eagle, Richard Houdek wrote of his performance in a work by George Crumb, “Matthew Cmiel, with his sitar, maintained the steady mood of mystery, in the Crumb-prescribed lotus position.”

Stephen Waarts received second prize in the junior category, while Prep alumnus Nigel Armstrong received second prize at the senior level. A wonderful review of Waarts’ performance subsequently appeared in The Strad magazine: “From the first note of the Brahms Sonata I was hooked, and within a few bars, I was moved to tears,” editor Ariane Todes wrote. “Such an experience is so rare.”

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Instruction $7,185,000

5.9%Fundraising $814,000

Other program related $1,293,000

General management and administrative $2,504,000

Maintenance of plant and Interest* $1,952,000

52.3%

18.2%18.2%

9.4%9.4%

14.2%14.2%

* Maintenance of plant excludes depreciation.

unrestricted operating expensesTotal = $13,748,000 Contributions

and special events $3,046,000 Net tuition and fees

$9,485,000

Endowment Draw $1,800,000 3.5%

Other* $522,000

63.9%63.9%

12.1%12.1%

20.5%20.5%

unrestricted operating Revenues Total = $14,853,000

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Vice president of legal affairs at Siebel Systems, Inc. for ten years, Barbara Walkowski now serves as Vice President-Administration of the San Francisco Opera Guild Executive

Committee. Other board affiliations, past and present, include Meals on Wheels of San

Francisco, the Sonoma International Film Society and the V Foundation Wine Celebration,

which raises money for cancer research through an annual wine auction in Napa. She

earned a B.A. in economics and a J.D. from the University of Michigan.

Camilla Smith has worked as a speechwriter for the Japanese American Citizens League, an English

teacher in New York City and an editor for Teachers College Press, G.P. Putnam’s Publishers and

the National Association of Food Chains. Currently co-chair of the Committee on Trustees at the

National Public Radio Foundation, she also serves on boards or committees for San Francisco

Performances, the San Francisco Public Library and the University of California–Berkeley Library

Advisory Board. Smith holds a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University and an M.A. in

English from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Welcome to academic year 2010-2011 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music! It’s hard to believe we have begun our fifth year at 50 Oak Street, which will feature many exciting events and celebrations. Among these is the 25th anniversary of the Conservatory’s one-of-kind chamber music degree program.

In many respects, 2009-2010 was a banner year for the Conservatory. Individual donors continued to support our efforts in this challenging economic climate, as we received 1,653 gifts from individuals last fiscal year, up from 1,398 the previous year. Incoming students continue to dazzle us with their extraordinary talents. Admission for this year’s entering class was the most selective in Conservatory history, and the yield rate was also extremely high.

The Conservatory promises to be an especially vibrant place this year. To celebrate our chamber music anniversary, we have assembled an outstanding lineup of performances by students, faculty, alumni and guest artists. We have inaugurated a new curricular emphasis

A Message from the President

Minna Choi (M.M., composition, ‘09) started Magik*Magik Orchestra, a Conservatory-studded company of players mixing classical music and indie pop. A brilliant debut at Herbst Theatre found Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood in the audience for the West Coast premiere of his “Popcorn Superhet Receiver,” a string piece from the film score to There Will Be Blood. “It would be hard to envision a more skillful approach to the goal of mixing up rock and contemporary classical audiences,” cooed critic Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle.

This generation of Conservatory-trained composers combines the skills of the entrepreneur, impresario and performer with a strong foundation in traditional compositional techniques. Rather than wait for institutional patronage, these new music champions seize the initiative by starting their own groups, establishing concert series and learning how to run them both. Taking a cue from pioneers like the Kronos Quartet, they have solicited fresh work, defined a distinct repertoire and built an enthusiastic audience. They share a common commitment to free the musical score from the whiff of the laboratory and get it off the page, into the open air and onto the street.

Concerts in a New Key (continued from page 1)Creative collaborations with kindred institutions further illustrate the composition department’s newfound footing. For its upcoming spring concert set, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra unfurls the first installment of its Incredible Shrinking Orchestra Project with a reduction of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring arranged for the ensemble by Conservatory students. Composition faculty David Conte

has invited San Francisco Choral Artists and the International Orange Chorale to participate as guests in the Conservatory’s Spring Choral Composition Competition, three of whose winners have received publishing contracts.

As the Conservatory’s central location has generated greater interaction with neighboring organizations, so too has it facilitated an awareness of the fruitfulness of interdepartmental partnerships within. The latest results of the ongoing Viola Project, which matches composer with soloist to craft pieces for specific performers, can be heard in concert on November 19. A related Guitar Project has matured into the Doublespeak program, a joint effort by the guitar and composition

departments whose students are creating 20 new works for guitar and will present them in venues from Northern California to Germany. Becker sees a bright future for such endeavors and hopes to plan similar programs with the percussion and brass departments.

in historical performance, and our new sister-conservatory relationship with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music will result in even greater collaboration this year than last.

We are extremely fortunate in that outstanding music students from across the country and around the world choose to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Without your support, this would not be possible. Thank you so much for the incredible generosity you have shown toward these students. I very much hope that you will continue to support them this year by again making a gift to the Conservatory.

With much appreciation,

Colin Murdoch

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Ms. Virginia DebsMaureen and Paul DraperDan EisensteinMs. Keri ElmquistJan ElveeRoland Feller Violin MakersGuy and Lia Haskin FernaldGeorge GemignaniMr. and Mrs. Ulf GustafssonMichael W. HenschelMr. and Mrs. Sean HoneyMr. Morgan Hough and

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The San Francisco Conservatory of music is grateful to its many supporters for contributions received from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Thank you for playing your part in the future of music.

The Hume family gathers for the 2010 Gala in honor of Betty Hume

2010 Fanfare Luncheon guest of honor and alumnus Chester Patton

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Mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao rehearses with faculty pianist Mack McCray

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Alexander BroseMs. Filiz CaglayanScott and Peggy CmielKip CrannaMs. Jennifer S. CulpMr. Jacques DesjardinsSteven André DibnerJacqueline DivenyiErna GulabyanMr. Wei He and Ms. Ming XueDr. Nikolaus HohmannCorey JamasonMatthew KennedyMs. Machiko KobialkaFrank and Linda KurtzMs. Esther Landau and

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Seafood RestaurantClifford and Rose MeltzerVivienne E. MillerMr. Stephen MittelJason O’ConnellMrs. Lise Deschamps OstwaldThe PlumpJack GroupPresidio Golf Course Café Ms. Margaret S. RocchiaGary A. Rust, M.D.See’s Candies, Inc.Sheet Music PlusMr. Edward Suharski and

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Simon Rattle in a workshop with the Conservatory Orchestra

The Paul F. Albert Fund of Horizons Foundation

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Sandi and Joe BlackMr. and Mrs. Leo BodianThe Brody FamilyGeri CelestreThe Christensen FamilyMs. Madeline ChunMrs. André Paul P. de BordEstate of Roger A. ElliottChristine FinsethMrs. Harold B. Getz, Jr.Joan GlasseyBonnie HamptonMrs. C. Lester HoganHurlbut-Johnson Fund of

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Mrs. Barbara ImbrieDonald E. Kelley, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Vincent LinFrank and Sally LopezEstate of Frank Noel MathesLorna Meyer and Dennis CalasMaura and Robert MoreyDr. Jonathon Narita and

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Mr. Tucker JessupThe Nick Traina FoundationMr. and Mrs. David T. TraitelMark and Liz Vorsatz and Family

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Agnes Albert ScholarshipWilliam Banovetz Oboe ScholarshipSergei Barsukov Scholarship

for PianoSergei Barsukov Scholarship

for ViolinAlexander Bellow ScholarshipRuth and Jo Blackmore ScholarshipJustin Blasdale Memorial FundThe Miriam and Leo Bodian

Scholarship FundMarilyn Volpe and

George Borkow ScholarshipSelina Canes &

Jacques Meyer Canes ScholarshipSamuel Clark ScholarshipVincent Costantino ScholarshipLouise M. Davies ScholarshipChristiane P. de Bord ScholarshipBetty Swig Dinner Scholarship

Helen and Willis Elliott ScholarshipJorge Estebanez ScholarshipAdelaide and Frederick Finseth

Scholarship FundFrank and Josephine Fragale

ScholarshipIsidor Geiger Violin ScholarshipDolores Graves Vocal ScholarshipWalter Guttmann Piano ScholarshipCrescent Porter Hale ScholarshipThe Peter and Jacqueline Hoefer

Scholarship FundThe Audrey and

Les Hogan Vocal ScholarshipLester A. Holmes ScholarshipWilliam S. Howe ScholarshipHurlbut-Johnson

Preparatory ScholarshipHulbut-Johnson ScholarshipAndrew Imbrie Chamber Music

ScholarshipKolko Family Scholarship for

String StudentsMay S. Kurka ScholarshipLewis ScholarshipCherry Lin Scholarship in Honor of

Tomoko HagiwaraJane and Martin Livingston

Memorial ScholarshipMartin Livingston Preparatory

ScholarshipBarry Manilow ScholarshipFrank Noel Mathes ScholarshipSusan McCarthy Memorial

Scholarship for Students of Musicianship

Dean B. McNealy ScholarshipConnie and Charles Meng

ScholarshipArthur Minton ScholarshipRobert and Maura Morey

ScholarshipStanley K. Nairin ScholarshipO’Shaughnessy Scholarship FundBernard Osher Foundation

ScholarshipOsher Foundation ScholarsPeter F. Ostwald Scholarship FundThe Jessica Pastron Memorial

ScholarshipHarold D. Pischel, Jr. ScholarshipPeter B. Pischel ScholarshipGermain Prevost Viola ScholarshipMarcia & Gene Purpus ScholarshipBarbara Lull Rahm ScholarshipPeter Dimitris Rangaves ScholarshipAnthony J. Rine Vocal ScholarshipBeatrice M. Rine Piano ScholarshipC. Sheldon & Patricia Roberts

ScholarshipJanet Rose Piano ScholarshipMargaret Rowell Cello Scholarship

James and Elizabeth Ryan Scholarship Fund

Milton Salkind ScholarshipSarlo Housing ScholarshipHarold W. Scheeline Piano

ScholarshipDavid Schneider Memorial

ScholarshipJames H. Schwabacher, Jr.

ScholarshipNathan Schwartz Memorial

ScholarshipDrs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson

ScholarshipLev and Frances Shorr ScholarshipBetty Hamilton Shurtleff

ScholarshipJane Lawton Southcott ScholarshipEvelyn and Russell Staton

ScholarshipDorothy Steinmetz Voice

ScholarshipDonald C. Stenberg

Memorial ScholarshipHenia Stone Memorial ScholarshipEdward G. Stotsenberg

Memorial ScholarshipIsadore Tinkleman ScholarshipThe Nick Traina Foundation

ScholarshipJoan and David Traitel Vocal

ScholarshipThe M. Blair Vorsatz Scholarship in

Honor of Tomoko HagiwaraPhyllis Wattis ScholarshipPaul L. & Phyllis Wattis Foundation

ScholarshipPhyllis C. Wattis Memorial

ScholarshipB. Gardner Wilcox Piano ScholarshipWilliam Wolski Violin ScholarshipMarilyn Jo Wood Memorial

ScholarshipRobert Yaryan Woodwind

Scholarship

ENDowED FaCulty ChaIrS

The James D. Robertson Chair in Piano, Paul Hersh

The Isaac Stern Distinguished Chair in Violin, vacant

The Frederica von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice, vacant

ENDowED awarDSKris Getz Composition AwardMarina Grin AwardJim Highsmith Award in

CompositionThe Peter and Jacqueline Hoefer

Alumni Composers Fund

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Notes from The Silk Road

A New Historical Performance Program

Jonathan Mendle with his 11-string archguitar

July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010

Leora C. Blaine, donor

Alma Brock-Smith, former faculty

Diane Clymer-Greenberg, alumna

Wolfgang S. Homburger, donor

May S. Kurka, former staff

Jack H. Lund, donor

Michael J. Moore, alumnus

Walter Shorenstein, donor

In Memoriam

With the imminent launch of a new historical performance program, 50 Oak Street throbs with the pulse of the Bay Area early music community. An expanded curriculum is in the works, and an extraordinary charitable financial commitment has made possible a flurry of period instrument acquisition. UpBeat sat down to talk with the program’s director, Corey Jamason, about these developments.

UpBeat: You are spearheading the creation of a new curricular emphasis in historical performance at the Conservatory. What are your goals for this program?

Jamason: The historical performance program offers our students many opportunities to study and perform early music on period and modern instruments in the Conservatory Baroque Ensemble. Students can also study individual instruments with remarkable faculty, including baroque cello and viola da gamba with Elisabeth Reed, my co-director in the Baroque Ensemble, and lute and baroque guitar with Richard Savino. We also offer performance practice courses and many early keyboard offerings, including harpsichord, fortepiano and continuo playing. This year we welcome two incredible artists to our program: violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock and soprano Christine Brandes. Our goal is to provide the best instruction and broadest opportunities for students in early music, particularly for those who otherwise specialize in modern instruments. The happy result is that students feel invested in the early music movement and now play in celebrated early music ensembles locally and nationally.

UpBeat: Guitar Chair David Tanenbaum told us about recent additions to the instrument collection, which includes two theorbos, a vihuela, two baroque guitars, a Baroque lute and two Romantic-era guitars. What else can you tell us about the collection?

Jamason: Thanks to the generosity of Robert and Laura Cory, we are continuing the acquisition process that was begun last year. We have purchased string and keyboard instruments and are starting to acquire period winds as well. A new harpsichord by master builder Kevin Fryer will be unveiled in a concert of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on April 23, 2011.

UpBeat: Does the Conservatory’s central location help the program tap the wellspring of existing early music groups in the area?

Jamason: The historical performance program enjoys strong ties to the Bay Area’s remarkable early music community. We are particularly excited about our continuing collaboration with American Bach Soloists. This summer, Artistic Director Jeffrey Thomas and I co-directed the first annual ABS Academy, a two-week educational program for advanced students in early music which included many Conservatory students and alumni. We also host an ABS master class series and other master classes and lectures throughout the year.

Recent Conservatory graduate Jonathan Mendle (M.M., guitar, ’10) spent August on the road with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble on its East Coast summer tour, playing concerts in places like Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland. These excerpts from the blog he kept capture a roadside portrait of the life of a starry-eyed touring musician, who somehow managed to keep both feet on the ground.

“About a month before graduation, I woke up one morning to read an email from my teacher at the Conservatory, Sérgio Assad. When I read it, I was sure I was still dreaming. He told me that Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble were looking for a guitarist for their upcoming August 2010 tour of East Coast music festivals, that he had recommended me for this gig and that I should get in touch with them immediately.”

Once hired, Mendle is first underwhelmed, then overwhelmed by the music he will play:

“When I was first emailed the scores, I had a reaction of ‘this is it?’ The music [to ‘Ambush’] looked much simpler than I might expect. Then it became evident that this was a sketch of how the piece should sound, and it was up to me to figure out what to play, where to fill things in, where I could be a little improvisatory, etc. The score to ‘Wine Madness,’ however, presented the sheer problem of quantity—who can turn through 17 pages while playing just about the whole time? I realized I would have to make my own score, so first I transcribed the opening section from the recording (thank you, musicianship class). Then, I cut my part out of the score for the second section and taped the lines to pieces of paper, which I then photocopied. [But I still] wound up writing it out by hand, using a lot of shorthand notation, and I got the second section of the piece down to a page. WIN.”

Music sorted, it’s time to hop on a plane to meet and rehearse with the other musicians:

I felt incredibly welcomed into this musical family which had been playing together for ten years. When I went to go introduce myself to Yo-Yo, he immediately started joking with me. The thing about working with Yo-Yo Ma is that he is not a strict and

intimidating figure. He is very encouraging when things improve or when he likes something. But I know that this isn’t because it can’t be better. Instead, it makes me want to give more, to reach the next level in my knowledge of the piece we are working on.

Exhilaration and relief after the first concert:

“Wow. What an incredible experience. This was my first time performing in front of so many people. There were probably 5,000 people or more in attendance. Someone told me that [Ambush] sounded like a western movie a la Clint Eastwood, but set in China, and I took that as a compliment. The ensemble’s musicianship and technical ability is about as high as I’ve seen, but beyond that, the joy and freedom in their music making is profound. [And] to sit next to Yo-Yo Ma when he is playing the cello . . . wow!

After a concert in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Mendle absorbs a lesson that transcends music:

At the donor reception afterward, Yo-Yo was asked to speak. I feel like I can learn a lot from the way he speaks—he is able to give ample compliments without it feeling overly emotional or contrived, weave humor into the things he says, and all with zero planning! It’s a great skill to have as a musician, as it is impossible to be successful without understanding the non-musical aspects of this field very well.

For more on Mendle’s August adventure, visit http://travelingwiththesilkroad.blogspot.com.

Jean-Michel Fonteneau, chair of the chamber music department, expects the celebration will reunite many of the program’s past participants. “We seek to gather as many alumni as possible for a meaningful engagement with faculty and students in the true spirit of the program, reminiscing about how important chamber music has been at the Conservatory. Our guest artists have also contributed greatly to the program as well, and we are delighted to have them back for this celebration.”

The chamber music program has roots in the Chamber Music West summer festival, founded in 1976 by then-faculty members Hampton, Nathan Schwartz, David Abel (all members of The Francesco Trio) and Paul Hersh. Within ten years the Conservatory had incorporated this festival into its curriculum, making it the first American conservatory to offer a chamber music

degree program in 1985. Among the inaugural class of seven students were pianist Seth Knopp and violinist Violaine Melançon, who went on to form the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio. Other notable alumni include members of the Del Sol String Quartet, the Nexus String Quartet and the Afiara String Quartet.

Violist and String Department Chair Jodi Levitz has witnessed some exciting developments during her decade-long tenure at the Conservatory. Master class participants of viola superstar Kim Kashkashian, for example, have blossomed from a modest handful into a mighty host of players, able to tackle the entire collection of Primrose’s viola transcriptions of Bartok’s 44 violin duets. Levitz also remembers an especially poignant performance of the Shostakovich Piano Quintet in which an earthquake erupted during the eerie

stillness of the second movement’s fugal subject. “You could say that Shostakovich rocked the house that night,” she quips.

Whether judged by the formidable march of 44 dueling violas or by performers uncowed by earthquakes, the Conservatory’s chamber music program remains a vital force. “Twenty-five years ago, when the Conservatory’s chamber music program was created, then-president Milton Salkind expressed a desire to create an environment in which the exceptional young musician could ‘live and breathe chamber music,’” says Colin Murdoch, president of the Conservatory. “It seems to me that we have succeeded marvelously well at realizing this vision. As I anticipate this year’s performances, we will both celebrate our history and look forward to an ever brighter future for chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.”

CM anniversary (cont. from page 1)

BAROque SeASON HIgHLIgHTS

October 31 Bach Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 4, 5, 6March 5-6 Handel AlcinaApril 20 Concerto Competition Winners

Writing Joseph Sargent Sam Smith

Design and Production Beatriz Américo

Photography Drew Altizer Thomas John Gibbons Alkira Mahapaiboon Rory McNamara Shiela Newbury Brian Smeets Matthew Washburn

COLLegIATe FACuLTy PRePARATORy & AduLT exTeNSION FACuLTy

FALL 2010 1514

Leroy KrommRuby PleasureJane RandolphMarcie Stapp Diction César Ulloa

acadeMic FacultyAlexander TechniqueRobert Britton

General EducationErin DeBakcsyJill L. Ferguson ChairNikolaus HohmannMatthew KennedyBetsy Marvit Lois S. Musmann Brian Neilson Eithne Pardini

LibraryKevin McLaughlin

Music History and LiteratureMason Bates Dan Becker Sarah CahillLuciano ChessaThomas ConroyDavid Conte Mary FettigDavid Garner Susan HarveyPaul Hersh Corey Jamason Bruce LamottEmily LauranceKevin McLaughlin Rebecca Plack Richard Savino John Spitzer ChairConrad Susa

Music Theory and MusicianshipThomas ConroyJacques DesjardinsScott Foglesong ChairDavid Garner Alla GladyshevaSonja Neblett Michael SchroederConrad Susa

Practical Aspects of a Career in Music

Clifford CrannaMario Guarneri

Sound RecordingJason O’Connell

Teaching SkillsKayleen AsboYoriko Richman

eNseMble FacultyBrass and Woodwind

Chamber MusicJeffrey AndersonMiles AndersonLuis BaezGregory Barber

Woodwind CoordinatorDavid BurkhartTimothy Day

Steven DibnerJohn R. EngelkesMario Guarneri

Brass CoordinatorMark Lawrence James MooreStephen PaulsonJonathan RingBruce RobertsPeter WahrhaftigRobert WardPaul Welcomer

Conservatory BaroqueCorey Jamason Co-DirectorElisabeth Reed Co-Director

Conservatory ChorusDavid Conte Director

Conservatory Chamber ChoirRagnar Bohlin Director

Conservatory OrchestraAndrew Mogrelia Music DirectorAlasdair Neale

Principal Guest Conductor

Guitar EnsembleSérgio AssadLawrence FerraraDavid TanenbaumMarc Teicholz

Musical Theater WorkshopHeather Mathews DirectorMichael Mohammed

Director, Fall 2010 Bryan Nies Music Director

New Music EnsembleNicole Paiement

Artistic DirectorJacques Desjardins

Assistant Conductor

Opera ProgramMilissa Carey ActingKathryn Cathcart

Music DirectorDarryl Cooper

Assistant Music DirectorRichard Harrell

Director, Opera ProgramHeather Mathews

Assistant DirectorMichael Mohammed

Assistant Director, Fall 2010

PeRFORMaNce FacultyBassoonGregory BarberStephen Paulson

ClarinetJeffrey Anderle Clarinet ClassLuis BaezJerome Simas Bass Clarinet

CompositionElinor Armer Dan Becker ChairDavid ConteDavid Garner Alden Jenks Conrad Susa

ConductingMichael MorganAlasdair NealeSonja Neblett Chair

Double BassScott PingelStephen Tramontozzi

FluteTimothy Day Chair,

Woodwinds

GuitarSérgio AssadLawrence FerraraRichard Savino

Guitar History, LiteratureDavid Tanenbaum ChairMarc Teicholz

HarpDouglas Rioth

HarpsichordCorey Jamason

HornJonathan RingBruce RobertsRobert Ward

OboeWilliam BennettJames Moore

OrganRodney Gehrke

PercussionDavid Herbert Timpani Jack Van Geem Chair

PianoPaul HershSharon MannMack McCray ChairYoshikazu Nagai William Wellborn Piano

Pedagogy

Piano AccompanyingTimothy Bach Chair

TromboneJohn R. Engelkes BassMark Lawrence Tenor;

Chair, BrassPaul Welcomer Tenor

TrumpetDavid BurkhartMario GuarneriMark Inouye

TubaJeffrey Anderson Peter Wahrhaftig

ViolaDon EhrlichPaul Hersh Katie Kadarauch Orchestra ExcerptsJodi Levitz Chair, StringsMadeline Prager

ViolinAlexander BarantschikWei HeBettina MussumeliAxel Strauss Ian SwensenCatherine Van Hoesen

Orchestral Excerpts

VioloncelloJennifer Culp Jean-Michel Fonteneau

VoiceSylvia AndersonCatherine Cook ChairPatricia Craig Pamela FryEric Howe Vocal Physiology;

Vocal Pedagogy

Orchestral TrainingGregory BarberJeff BiancalanaJodi Levitz Bettina MussumeliDouglas RiothAdam SmylaTanya TomkinsStephen TramontozziChen Zhao

Percussion EnsembleJack Van Geem Director

String and Piano Chamber MusicJennifer CulpJean-Michel Fonteneau ChairPaul Hersh Jodi Levitz Robert Mann Yoshikazu Nagai Mark Sokol Axel Strauss Ian Swensen

EmeritiMarcella DeCrayJoan GallegosLeonid Gesin Willene GunnHermann le RouxZaven MelikianPeggy SalkindCamilla Wicks

accOMPaNists & vOcal cOachesSteven BaileyMark BruceHsueh-Ching ChienAmy ChiuNadya DabuzhskayaMichael Grossman Elizabeth IngberAlex KatsmanKevin KorthJieun LeeShu LiKeisuke NakagoshiBryan NiesKristin PankoninCarl PantleMai-Linh PhamIan ScarfeYeo Jin Seol Szu-pei (Teresa) Yu

Music director Andrew Mogrelia coaxes pizzicato precision from the orchestra

CompositionJune BonacichThomas ConroyDavid ConteMichael KaulkinArkadi Serper

Early ChildhoodMikako EndoLuba KravchenkoJaejin LeeYoriko RichmanChristie Peery Skousen

EnsemblesSusan BatesPaul BinkleyTamara Bohlin Theresa Calpotura

Scott CmielRandolph FrommeDoris Fukawa ChairAenea Mizushima KeyesMachiko KobialkaAndrew LuchanskyRichard RogersRoss ThompsonYaada Weber

GuitarPaul BinkleyTheresa Calpotura Scott CmielLawrence FerraraRoss Thompson

HarpEmily Laurence Douglas RiothSarah Voynow

HarpsichordCorey Jamason

MusicianshipJune BonacichTheresa Calpotura Scott Cmiel ChairThomas ConroyMichael KaulkinRichard RoperArkadi Serper

OrganRodney Gerhke

PercussionTommy Kesecker

PianoKatherine BussJacqueline ChewAmy ChiuLauren ConyJacqueline DivenyiAlla Gladysheva

Erna GulabyanTomoko HagiwaraHeidi HauPaul HershDorian HoMachiko KobialkaSima KouyoumdjianLuba KravchenkoJaejin LeeSharon MannMeikui MatsushimaAnnamarie McCarthyJohn McCarthyMack McCrayYoshikazu NagaiJune Choi OhScott PrattRichard RogersLena SchumanRobert SchwartzChristie Peery SkousenWilliam WellbornJerri WittHelen Wong

StringsKineko Barbini violinWilliam Barbini violinSusan Bates violaPat Burnham violinShinji Eshima bassJean-Michel Fonteneau

violoncelloDoris Fukawa violinMonica Gruber violinWei He violinAenea Mizushima Keyes

violinJonathan Koh violoncelloDavis Law violinJodi Levitz violaLi Lin violinSieun Lin violoncelloYun-Jie Liu violaBettina Mussumeli violin

Helen DilworthEun-Mee KoHermann le RouxDina ReyesAnja Strauss

adult exteNsiON divisiON

June BonacichRobert BrittonJacqueline ChewClifford CrannaHelen DilworthAlden JenksBrian Neilson Tim PriceRichard RoperAnja StraussConrad SusaIndre ViskontasBarbara Wirth

Carol Rice violoncelloMonica Scott violoncelloJames Shallenberger violinAxel Strauss violinIan Swensen violin Barbara Wirth violoncello Amos Yang violoncello

Winds and BrassYueh Chou bassoonKathryn Curran tromboneRoman Fukshansky clarinetGary Jagard hornEsther Landau fluteScott Macomber trumpetKevin McLaughlin trumpet Timothy Price saxophoneLaura Reynolds oboeRichard Roper trumpetYaada Weber flute

VoiceChristine AbrahamPamela Alexander

TRuSTeeSKent Taylor BaumEdward W. Beck Patricia B. BerkowitzRichard A. Bohannon, M.D.Mrs. Dix Boring Mrs. James F. Buckley, Jr.Mrs. Carol W. CaseyH. David ChooSteven A. CinelliChristiane P. de BordMrs. Genevieve di

San FaustinoDelia Fleishhacker EhrlichChristian P. ErdmanMrs. A. Barlow FergusonMrs. Ernest GoggioMrs. Jaquelin H. Hume

— in memoriam

BOARd OF TRuSTeeS

Lisa S. Miller Chair

Colin Murdoch President

Timothy Foo Executive Vice-Chair

William K. Bowes Jr. Vice-Chair

Jean Deleage Vice-Chair

Carol Pucci Doll Secretary

Margaret A. Liu, M.D. Treasurer

September 2010

LIFeTIMe TRuSTeeS

John M. AndersonJohn C. BeckmanAva Jean BrumbaumReid DennisMrs. Harold B. Getz, Jr.Bruce W. HartWarren Hashagen

— in memoriam

Mrs. Richard C. OtterMichael J. SavageMrs. Eugene ShurtleffJohn B. StuppinAshford D. Wood

AdvISORy BOARd

Gordon P. GettyThomas HampsonLotfi MansouriRobert K. McFerrin, Jr.Frederica von StadeIsaac Stern

—in memoriam

Robin Sutherland ’75Michael Tilson Thomas

FACuLTy RePReSeNTATIve

Nikolaus Hohmann

Laurence A. Lasky, Ph.D.Rose C. MeltzerLorna F. MeyerMaura B. MoreyDeepa R. PakianathanPeter PastreichNancy ProbstJoshua M. RafnerMatthew RaphaelsonGary A. Rust, M.D.George S. SarloRegina SchafferCamilla Smith Joan TraitelBarbara WalkowskiMichael R.V. Whitman Robert H. Zerbst

yoriko Richman teaching dalcrozeto young students

Prep student Hilda Huang with alumnus Robin Sutherland

guitar department Chair david Tanenbaum and student eric Sandoval

Celebration Concert (tickets required) | Friday, November 5, 8 p.m. Featuring the Peabody Trio, Cypress String Quartet, Del Sol String Quartet, Delphi Trio, Nexus String Quartet, Navitas Ensemble, plus a combined student/alumni ensemble and a cello ensemble of past and present students to honor Bonnie Hampton’s 75th birthday.

REPERTOIRE TO INCLUDE: Schubert Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, D. 898 (Andante) Beethoven String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130 (excerpt) Mozart Piano Trio No. 4 in E Major, K. 542 (excerpt) Haydn Quartet No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 76 “Quinten” (excerpt) Schulhoff Duo for Violin and Cello

Chamber Music Marathon | Sunday, April 17 | 11 a.m./2 p.m./5 p.m./8 p.m. Featuring student quartets from the Conservatory’s chamber music program.

Tuesday, November 2, 7:30 p.m. Master Class – Bonnie Hampton, cello Thursday, November 4, 8 p.m. Concert – Bonnie Hampton, cello Carter Sonata for Cello and Piano Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80 Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36

Tuesday, February 1, 7:30 p.m. Master Class – Kim Kashkashian, viola Thursday, February 3, 8 p.m. Concert – Kim Kashkashian, viola Dvorák String Sextet in A Minor, Op. 48 Brahms Viola Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2

Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. Master Class – Menahem Pressler, pianoThursday, March 10, 8 p.m. Concert – Menahem Pressler, piano Franck Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, M. 8 Schumann Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. Master Class – Robert Mann, violin Thursday, April 7, 8 p.m. Concert – Robert Mann, violin Repertory TBA

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