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S A N F R A N C I S C OF R I E N D S O F C H A M B E R M U S I C

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A Note from the President

Looking back on the last twelve months, I think it would be fair to say SFFCM has moved into the fast lane. The level of activity—all for the benefit of chamber music, thanks to our hard-working Board of Directors, affiliates, and friends—was indeed noteworthy. As with the music itself, imagination and cre-ativity played a pivotal role this year in our approach to our mission—to make chamber music a vital part of the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Affiliate Program currently boasts thirteen ensembles and composers and is constantly growing. This Program, the only one of its kind dedicated to serving established and emerging chamber music groups, is one of the cornerstones of our organization. Recently it has become the springboard for a new adjunct program serving professional Bay Area chamber ensembles. The Associate Program, suggested by Board members Tom Stone (Cypress Quartet) and Jodi Levitz (Ives Quartet), will offer a range of services to established ensembles that do not require SFFCM’s fiscal sponsorship.

Our calendar of Affiliate events began in January 2007 with three free workshops held at the San Fran-cisco Community Music Center on subjects of interest to all performing musicians and other related professionals. The Cavani Quartet, and an invited panel, also presented a workshop at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame. Well attended, and most informative, Katherine Bukstein’s article on page 3 tells about all these events in detail. It was an honor for SFFCM to receive the generous grants from the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, the Fleishhacker Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts which make these workshops possible.

Our Events and Development Committee, led by Patrick Wilken, produced two sold out chamber music celebra-tions this season. The first held in March at the home of Mary Risley, (Tante Marie’s Cooking School), thanked our donors with marvelous morsels by Mary and her culinary students. SFFCM Affiliates, Laurel Ensemble and sfSound, performed diverse musical selections. In April, SFFCM presented the Alexander String Quartet with guest clari-netist Richard Stoltzman for eighty fortunate fans at the Dolby Laboratories. Normally used for movie screenings, the intimate Dolby theater was transformed for this occa-sion into a great chamber music space that even received a rave review from Mr. Dolby himself. Finding a time and place to rehearse prior to the concert that was close to the

theater was a challenge, but Mr. Stoltzman and the ASQ found themselves an amusing spot just blocks from the concert site when long-time ASQ supporter, Fritz Maytag of the Anchor Steam Brewery gra-ciously offered his taproom for the two-hour dress rehearsal of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet.

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Photograph: Richard Stolzman explaining to Dagmar and Ray Dolby why Mr. Dolby could play the clarinet again.

The Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Semi-nar & Festival ended our chamber season. This event, now in its 5th year, has become an SFF-CM tradition. During the five days of exciting chamber music instruction and performances 70 young chamber musicians and 15 artist fac-ulty came from the Bay Area and as far afield as Utah and Cleveland, Ohio. Funded by the Ross McKee Foundation, the Amateur Cham-ber Music Players Foundation, the Walter & Elise Haas Foundation, the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and SFFCM Angel Sponsors, the Seminar seeks to offer chamber musicians from middle school through college, training, performance, and career guidance. This year’s Seminar and Festival was again held at the San Francisco State University School of Creative Arts who contribute greatly to the program. Running concurrently with the training were concerts by artist faculty. This year, cellist Lynn Harrell, violist Toby Appel, and pianist Emile Naoumoff joined the Alexander String Quartet, the Jupiter Trio, and the Daedalus String Quar-tet in two amazing concerts. The theme for this year’s Seminar and Festival was “The Compos-er’s Mind—The Performer’s Voice”. Guest artist

Emile Naoumoff created a new composition (voice and piano) for the occasion and two high school composers, Matt Cmiel and Leland Paul Kusmer also contributed new works that were performed dur-ing the session.

I would personally like to thank all of our loyal donors for making possible the work we do for chamber music in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. SFFCM’s operating budget in FY08 will total $153,000, up from $135,500 in ’07. This year 42 percent of our donations came from our Board and individual patrons. In addition, our organization is supported by numerous institutional funders including the ACMP Foundation, the Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation, the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Ross McKee Foundation, the Stanley S. Langendorf Foundation, the National Endow-ment for the Arts, the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund, the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

Please visit our web site (www.sffcm.org). If you haven’t been there in a while you will find much that is new. Whether you are looking for a chamber music concert from our comprehensive calendar, wish a ticket to an affiliate concert, want to find information from the chamber music yellow pages, or want to donate online—our site has something for you.

I invite you to keep a close eye on SFFCM next season. Here’s a hint— someone “Goode” will perform for the benefit of SFFCM in the Spring!

pg. 2 Susan Bates Menuhin Seminar Photographs: Marrakesh Quartet presenting their outreach program - Emile Naoumoff and soprano Megan Stetson

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Affiliate Program Expands

The SFFCM’s Affiliate Program has had the opportunity to greatly expand its services to affiliate members and the chamber music community at large due to the generous support of the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, the Fleihhacker Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. As a result of this very important funding, SFFCM presented a series of career building workshops at the Community Music Center in November 2006. These sessions were facilitated by Nancy Quinn and Nicole Lungerhausen, leaders in the Bay Area in performing arts consulting. (www.quinn-as-soc.com). Each was well attended by affiliates as well as others interested in the logistics of how an ensemble should go about effectively gaining the support of friends and the community. The three topics were: “Dear Friend: Writing a Compelling Donor Appeal Letter”, “Raising More Money: Effective Grant Writing” and “Let’s Party: How to Put on a Great Special Event”.

On February 9th, SFFCM presented an afternoon workshop on “How to Grow a Great Outreach Pro-gram for Youth”. This took place at the new San Ma-teo Public Library and featured the Cavani Quartet, a Cleveland-based ensemble with years of outreach ex-perience. The Cavani shared their approach to plan-ning and presenting chamber music to young audi-ences through a lively demonstration and an intense dialogue about the challenges and rewards of creating an engaging and artistic presentation for youth.

This was followed by a session on “How to Fund and Sell Your Program”. Our distinguished panelists were: Kim Bigelow, Education Director for the Cypress String Quartet, Ron Gallman, Director of Education for the San Francisco Symphony, Stephen Harrison,

cellist from the Ives String Quartet, Patricia Kristof Moy, Executive Director of Music at Kohl Mansion, and Alisa Rose, a graduate student at the San Francisco Conservatory who directs an after school string program at a “low income” San Francisco public school. There was a lively and very informative discussion about the “nuts and bolts” of how to work with school districts, how to get funding and how to assess success. We are very thankful to our panelists for the generous donation of their time and expertise.

We were very pleased that this workshop attracted the attendance of not only our current affiliate members, but also executive directors and education directors of performing arts organizations, as well as directors of programs for music enrichment in the schools.

Many who attended the workshop attended the Cavani Quartet’s Family Concert at Kohl Man-sion in Burlingame that evening, where they were able to see how the Cavani interacted with its young audience. The energy and spirit in the air was wonderful and it was clear that the young people in the audience were experiencing something very special.

In fall of 2007, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music is planning a workshop for our affiliates devoted to public relations and marketing.

Katherine BuksteinPhotograph: Cavani Quartet, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”—three bears insearch of a player.

pg. 4 New affliates: Eusebius Duo, The Lee Trio,

The Affiliate Program of San Francisco Friends of Cham-ber Music is one of the major components of the Friends’ mandate. It was the first service to be developed by the organization when it was founded in 1998. The objective was to “provide assistance in the form of fiscal sponsor-ship, career guidance through workshops, resources and services to chamber ensembles, (both established and emerging), and individuals or unincorporated organiza-tions with chamber music-related projects”. Now in our ninth year, the Friends are proud to have sponsored 19 affiliates, three of which (the Cypress String Quartet, Del Sol String Quartet, and Chamber Music San Francisco) have moved on to incorporate and obtain their own non-profit status. Currently we have 13 active Affiliates.

Initially the focus of aid to emerging chamber groups was to provide them with an avenue of support by enabling them to raise money under the non-profit umbrella of our 501(c)3 status. Small groups generally do not have the time, the organizational structure, or the money required to apply for and establish charitable status, however lack of this status also hampers them in fund-raising efforts. Working under the umbrella of the SFFCM enables them to fund raise, work on special projects, and expand their visibility in the music community. We also provide our affiliates access to our mailing list for concerts and out-reach.

As the visibility and financial endowment for the Friends has increased we have also been able to increase our services to our Affiliates. Now through our web page (www.sffcm.org) we provide links to the web sites of all our Affiliates. Under the link to each of the Affiliates is a

“Donations” button, so that friends and supporters may make a direct donation to the Affiliate of their choice. Our web site has also added a “Calendar” of performances, a “Yellow Pages” of general information including reviews, listings of arts events and concerts, as well as a directory of chamber music organizations and musicians, both professional and amateur. We also provide a “Ticket” service, so that concert-goers may purchase tickets online for Affiliate concerts.

The musical Bay Area has a wonderful resource in its chamber music community. The summer festivals around the bay are well-attended, and nationally recognized players are featured throughout the year at the many important venues, such as San Francisco Performances, Cal Performances, Stanford Lively Arts, Chamber Music San Francisco, to name but a few. However chamber music still does not draw anywhere near the audiences that are attracted by the symphony and the opera. Given the breadth and variety of chamber music, the wonderful intimacy of the form, the amazing talent of the performers whose common purpose is to create an experience for the auditors of intense, personal pleasure, out of the already extraordinary construct of the composer’s mind, the conundrum is how to persuade the “unconverted” or the marginally interested, or the unconvinced, that chamber music will have something for them, personally, which will enhance, improve and inform their lives. Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker, has written “Music is too personal a medium to support an absolute hierarchy of values. The best music is music that persuades us that there is no other music in the world.” San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music seeks to spread this word by supporting

SFFCM Affiliate Program

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the next generation of chamber musicians and encourag-ing their friends and supporters, the already committed, to spread the word that there is so much excitement and intimacy waiting to be experienced.

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music aims to provide its affiliates, who are largely at the outset of their musical careers, with a sense that they can have somewhere to turn to help them with the “nuts and bolts” of develop-ing a career path. We provide not only a means of raising financial support, and increasing visibility and public access via mailing lists, but also through our web site each group is profiled and can be contacted. We have instituted series of free workshops run by experts in their field on a variety of topics pertinent to maintaining and promoting a chamber group or running a concert series, the kinds of things that are not generally taught in music schools and conservatories. A report on the most recent series is on p.3. We plan to follow up with “refresher” workshops on important topics such as fundraising, effective rehearsals, preparation for recording sessions, and more.

These workshops provide a wonderful opportunity for artists to meet their peers, exchange information and ideas, to network and create community.

Creating community is not only important for the pro-fessional, but it is also important for the chamber music audience. The bottom line is that without its public— true for all arts— there is no development, no sharing, no community. Finding common ground for a viable and stimulating connection among performers, present-ers, and the public is perhaps the ultimate focus of our organization’s work. Our Board is constantly working on

ideas to help our affiliates and to improve the visibility of chamber music. Our Affiliates are featured in showcase events, and donor appreciation concerts.

Future plans include developing an Associates program. Chamber groups who have achieved their own non-profit status might benefit from a connection with an “umbrella” organization such as the Friends, which could provide a nexus for sharing information through a central directory, pooling resources for advertising and concert planning, mid-career workshops, re-granting possibilities, and pos-sibly a mentor program for entry-level musicians. Our most exciting project for the future is the creation of a Day of Chamber Music, a festival, which will bring together musicians, presenters, composers, teachers, recording organizations, instrument makers, music publishers, music media representatives, and the public in an exciting day-long event, featuring local ensembles, and hopefully introducing chamber music to a wider audience.

The steps we are taking are small, but as we gain vis-ibility and support, our programs are beginning to show remarkable benefits. Our President, Susan Bates, in her report, underlines the importance of our annual Yehudi Menuhin Seminar, now in its fifth year, which is attract-ing chamber musicians not only from the Bay Area, but also from the continental United States. We hope that the upcoming season for San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music will continue to provide, with the help of our friends, supporters, and affiliates, more opportunities for our organizational dream to see Chamber Music as an exciting and necessary enhancement in the lives of all music lovers.

New affiliates: Classical Revolution, Gold Coast Chamber Players

The Afiara Quartet competed in the triennial Banff Inter-national String Quartet competition last August. This fall they are collaborating with a rap group at the San Francisco Conservatory —“a meeting of worlds”. Other concerts dur-ing the coming season will include Shostakovich Quartet No. 5 with the Laney Sokol Contemporary Dance group, as well as the Sierra Chamber Society in Walnut Creek, Noe Valley Chamber Series, and San Francisco Performances Salons at the Rex Series.

Amy X Neuburg is in the process of recording The Secret Language of Subways, a song cycle, with producer/engineer Bruce Kahpah. The CD will be released in early 2008 by In-nova records. Selections will also be performed on March 12, 14 and 15, 2008, at Theater Artaud, where Paul Dresher will be presenting his opera The Tyrant. Please check the web site for dates and donations.

The California Quartet has crossed into the realm of jazz on two fronts, including a commission and recording of a new work called Echolocation by San Francisco’s own Lenny Carlson, and upcoming performances with jazz guitarist Peter Sprague with works composed and arranged by him for string quartet and jazz trio. The quartet has also recently been invited to be Quartet in Residence of the South Coast Symphony.

The Eusebius Duo has concerts coming up through the Noon-time Concerts series in San Francisco and Trinity Chamber Concerts in Berkeley (June 21, 2008 at 8:00 pm). They are also continuing their relationship with Stanford Hospital through the Bing Concert Series.

The Luna Nova Quartet has won a grant for their America Project, featuring original arrangements, adaptations, and compositions on musical themes of the Appalachian Moun-tains, the Civil War and the American West, as well as man-dolinist Ben Brussell’s original compositions. The quartet appeared under the sponsorship of Chamber Music America in the Western Alliance Showcase in Los Angeles, and also in San Francisco in the YES Foundation for the Arts Concert.

The Luna Trio was a finalist in the Fischoff National Chamber Competition 2007. Says Jennifer Wey, violin, “our trio entered this competition with high hopes, and we left it with even higher standards and dreams.”

The Laurel Ensemble has plans for three concerts. The first (Dec/Jan) is an homage to Stravinsky, “All About Igor”, which will include a trio version of Soldier’s Tale, arranged by Stravin-sky for clarinet, piano and violin, as well as a piece by Joan Tower, Petroushskates. In February, the theme is “Serenade” celebrating Valentine’s Day. The third concert (April/May) is entitled “Masterpieces” and will include music by Brahms,

and a specially commissioned piece celebrating the name of their ensemble, based on the Daphne myth, by James Cohn, who is celebrating his 80th birthday this year.

martha & monica: the cello-piano duo of Monica Scott and Hadley McCarroll are launching their second season with a program entitled “Voyages”, featuring music by Chopin, Ravel and Dusapin, as well as their own transcriptions of Debussy and Poulenc songs. In the spring they will pair Schubert and Britten with two sets of Papillons by Kaija Saariaho and Schumann for solo cello and solo piano respectively.

Following their Grammy nominated 2006 CD Latigo, Quartet San Francisco are releasing a new Violin Jazz CD Whirled Chamber Music, drawing from a wide variety of indigenous American forms, and highlighting the music of Raymond Scott. Future engagements for next season include concerts in the Los Angeles Area and S. California, Kentucky, and the East Coast including New York

This fall, 2007, the San Francisco Guitar Quartet presents the world premiere of a new work by internationally acclaimed composer, Gang Situ, together with San Francisco’s exceptional Chinese music ensemble Melody of China. They will also be performing in San Jose, Mountain View, Berkeley and San Francisco.

The focus of sfSound is the creation, promotion, and support of live contemporary music. Their summer season ended with a performance of 19 newly commissioned three-minute works inspired by Webern’s Concerto, Opus 24, all by local composers. The new season will include many collaborative compositions and improvisations and works by ensemble members. Look for the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, presented by sfSound in January, for an opportunity to hear surround sound chamber music for speakers!

The Lee Trio—sisters and native San Franciscans. Upcoming season highlights include recitals in Germany and Switzerland, a debut recital at the Markham Theater in Toronto, a return concert tour to Hong Kong and Macau, and performances in San Antonio, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, including the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

ChamberBridge, an ensemble directed by Eva-Maria Zim-mermann, piano, and Lara Bruckman, soprano, is working on an “Homage to Messiaen”. They are planning a three-concert series, which will cover 5 generations of music around and in-cluding the work of the French composer Olivier Messiaen.

Please visit our website for more information: www.sffcm.org/affiliates/affiliates/

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The Affiliates New Season

Thank You to Our DonorsWe extend our most sincere appreciation to the following individuals, foundations, and corporations for their generous gifts. This support helps San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music ensure chamber music remains a vital part of the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Guardian ($10,000 and above)Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation National Endowment for the Arts

Guarantor ($5000 and $9,999)Mrs. Frances Varnhagen Fleishhacker Foundation Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation Walter & Elise Haas Fund The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation Ross McKee FoundationAnonymous

Patron ($1000-$4999)Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bukstein Mr. and Mrs. Reid Dennis Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dolby Mr. and Mrs. Brian FisherMs. Elizabeth Prior Runnicles Ms. Jane Roos Le Roux Mr. Orin YarbroughDavid and Judy Preves Anderson The ACMP Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Fund Thomas H. and Donna M. Stone FoundationAnonymous (2)

Benefactor ($500-$999)Mrs. Susan BatesDr. and Mrs. Joseph Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cmiel Mr. Hugh Coughlin Nancy Quinn and Tom Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. William Hershey Mr. Gerald RosensteinProfessor and Mrs. Dana ScottMs. Mary WildavskyMr. Patrick Wilken

Supporter ($250-$499)Ms. Florence Aquilina Ms. Barbara Barclay Mr. and Mrs. Nordin Blacker Ms. Delia Ehrlich Mrs. Janet Ferguson Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Gaenslen Mr. and Mrs. Clement Galante Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Goldman Mrs. Katherine Hartwell-Barr Mr. and Mrs. Alfred HellerMr. and Mrs. Steve Kahn Mrs. Gretchen Kimball Ms. Gloria Milner Ms. Thalia Moore Mr. Douglas Powell Mrs. Janet Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rosen Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shapiro Ms. Barbara Stevens SBC Foundation Alexander String Quartet

Friend ($100-$249)Mr. and Mrs. Marcus AaronMs. Rachael BalyeatMr. James BastableMr. Frank BayleyMr. and Mrs. Paul BissingerMs. Linda BrownriggMr. and Mrs. Charles CarrollMs. Karen ChapmanMr. Sin-Tung Chiu Mrs. Elizabeth ColtonMrs. Leonie DarwinDr. Joanne De PhillipsMs. Jill DebroffMrs. Krisanthy DesbyMr. Domenic FaveroMrs. Friederike FearneyProf. and Mrs. Solomon FefermanMr. and Mrs. Roland FellerMs. Ruth FeltMr. Hartly FleischmannDr. and Mrs. Seymour GrossmanMr. and Mrs. David HartleyDr. Holly HolterDr. and Mrs. Leon KaseffMr. Stephen KealhoferMr. Mark KritzMr. James T. LeakMr. Daniel LevensteinMs. Jodi LevitzMr. and Mrs. John LowryMr. and Mrs. Niall LynchMr. Dmitri MathenyMr. and Mrs. Mack McCrayMrs. David McDanielMr. D. MitchellDr. William MooresMr. and Mrs. Ralph MorrisonMr. Fred MuribusMr. and Mrs. John OsterweisMr. and Mrs. Harold ParkerMrs. Nelson PolsbyDr. Vera PriceMs. Nancy RanneyDr. and Mrs. Howard RosenbergMr. and Mrs. Robert RyanDr. Robin SchaderMr. and Mrs. Edwin SchwartzDr. and Mrs. Lee ShahinianMr. Walter SteinbergMs. Blanche StreeterMr. Michael Summers Mr. Michael Tekulsky

Dr. and Mrs. Clay ThomsonMr. Clifford ThrasherMs. Liz VarnhagenMr. and Mrs. Tony VarnhagenMs. Barbara WampnerMs. Anita WeissbergMr. Daniel Yearwood

Associate (under $100)Ms. Andree Abecassis Ms. Amy Anderson Mr. David Balakrishnan Mr. John Bennett Mrs. Frances Bennion Ms. Carol Benz Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bohannon Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Brown Mrs. Jean Chaitin Ms. Agnes Chan Ms. Dorinda Chase Mrs. Warren Coughlin Mr. William Davis Ms. Joyce Featherstone Ms. Jane Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Milton Goldberg Mr. John Greenwood Mr. John Herbert Mr. Bill Horne Mr. Rob Jacoby Mrs. Mary Kimball Ms. Elaine Klein Ms. Machiko KobialkaMs. Juliana Kohl Ms. Jane Kumin Ms. Clementina Kun Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Lai Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Leavitt Mr. Andrew Luchansky Mrs. Danae Mattes and Mr. Stephen De Staebler Ms. Hadley McCarroll Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller Mr. Donald Millhauser Ms. Joan Murray Mr. and Mrs. Doran Newhart Mr. and Mrs. R. Pellerin Ms. Ann Redl Dr. Ray Rosenman Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ross Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schwartz Ms. Freda Scott Mr. Rick Shinozaki Mr. and Mrs. Philip Siegelman Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Simon Mr. & Mrs. Chalmers Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard Springer Ms. Kate StenbergMrs. Maxine Wallace John and Bernice Lindstrom

Gifts in Memory ofMs. Rheta Goldberg from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph BeckMs. Rose Zebrach Chapnick from Mrs. Carol MukhopadhyayMr. Richard B. Novack from Mrs. Gloria NovackMrs. Helen Shapiro from Mr. Stephen ShapiroMs. Else Reisner from Ms. Deborah SohrMr. James Schwabacher from Mr. Robert Mison

Gifts in Honor of Ms. Monica Scott from Mr. and Mrs. Paul DraperExeter Quartet from Mr. Richard LarsenAmititai and Elan Koren Smyla Mr. and Mrs. Wallace LevinMr. Rick Larsen from Ms. Christine MacomberSusan Bates and Mack McCray from Mr. and Mrs. Marc PangMrs. Mary Wildawsky from Ms. LaDene Otsuki and Mr. Jörg Rupf Dr. and Mrs. Julian ParerChloë Lula and Monica Scott from Mrs. Marilyne TronMrs. Frances Varnhagen from Mr. Albert WaldJupiter Trio from Mrs. Mary Wildavsky

Gifts In-KindAlexander String QuartetMr. James BastableMrs. Barbara BarclayDr. and Mrs. Joe BernsteinChisel Design, Tim Nutt and Graham MyhreDolby LaboratoryMrs. Liz DossaFeda CorporationMs. Susan HallMr. Patrick FrancisLaurel EnsembleMorrison SeriesMary RisleySan Francisco PerformancesCollege of Creative Arts, SFSUsfSoundMrs. Monica ScottMs. Barbara Stevens

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sponsored in parts by grants from the phyllis c. wattis foundation, the fl eishhacker

foundation and the national endowment for the arts.

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (SFFCM) is dedicated to increasing public awareness and enjoyment of chamber music and to supporting chamber music activities in the Bay Area. Our goals are to provide general assistance to established and emerging professional performing groups and to create educational opportunities for youth and the general public through: 1. Collaboration and partner-ships with Bay Area chamber music organizations and national advocates to promote chamber music, 2. Assistance to unincorporated chamber music ensembles engaged in projects that further chamber music through fi scal sponsorship and the services of our Affi liate Program, 3. Educational opportunities that encourage participation and build new audiences for chamber music.

Board of DirectorsSusan Bates, PresidentPatrick Wilken, Vice PresidentTom Stone, TreasurerKatherine Bukstein, Secretary

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James T. LeakJane S. Roos Le RouxJodi LevitzTh alia MooreDouglas PowellElizabeth Prior RunniclesTom StoneFrances Varnhagen

Mary WildavskyPaul Yarbrough

Advisory CommitteeBarbara BarclayRobert CommandayRuth FeltLynn Harrell

Donald RunniclesStephen ShapiroGeraldine Walter

Executive DirectorDominique Pelletey

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