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Preparing artists for success in the 21st century News FROM saN FRaNciscO cONseRvatORy OF Music Fall 2013, Volume 7, No. 1

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Double Bass Triple-Threat

Voice department chair Catherine Cook took on a second leading role this fall, winning raves for her appearance in the world premiere production of Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne at San Francisco Opera. Cook sang two performances after mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick withdrew, citing knee problems and the role’s demands.

Opera Today critic James Sohre wrote, “To say that Ms. Cook was a revelation is an understatement, since she stamped the part as her own, and experienced a triumph for her sensational performance.” Portraying a woman forced to protect her daughter from an abusive husband, Cook had to navigate dramatic and vocal extremes. Nevertheless, Sohre said, “the writing fit Ms. Cook like a glove and there

was nothing she seemed not able to do to perfection.”

Cook, the Conservatory’s Frederica von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice, returned to San Francisco Opera this fall as Berta in The Barber of Seville and sang at the Metropolitan Opera last spring. She regularly invites opera house colleagues to help teach Audition Workshop for Singers, a course she created, and frequently is asked to share her own insights. “The best advice I ever got was when I won the Met auditions in New York and the judge said to me, ‘You have fantastic instincts. Don’t let anyone ever coach them out of you.’ I say that to my students all the time. You’re never going to please everybody. And that’s why you have to know what you do best and do that.”

Cook Takes the Lead

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Tian Yang Liu ’13 may not come across as a formidable competitor. Soft spoken and genial, he volunteers that his small stature makes him an unlikely master of the double-bass. But wielding a rare 5/8-sized instrument, a gift

from his father, a bass teacher in Changsha, China, Liu swept his three most recent competitions. In June, he walked away from the prestigious International Society of Bassists (ISB) solo competition

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Students Around TownStudents have been breaking down Conservatory walls in recent weeks to perform across San Francisco. Noble Trumpets, led by trumpet faculty and San Francisco Symphony principal Mark Inouye, played Inouye’s arrangement of the National Anthem at a Giants-Dodgers game. A block of electric guitarists with battery-powered amps led by guitar department chair David Tanenbaum and New Music Ensemble players led by assistant conductor Jacques Desjardins stormed Chrissy Field in October (along with 800 other musicians) for the “massive, spatialized symphony” Chrissy Broadcast.

Al fresco entertainment at 50 Oak

And the International Low Brass Trio took it to the street before the Orchestra’s season opener, luring passers-by with their bottom-heavy blend of classics, jazz and pop from a portable stage outside 50 Oak Street.

Noble Trumpets charge the mound at AT&T Park

Illinois Summons Choi Artist Certificate candidate Alicia Choi is taking a leave of absence to join the Larchmere String Quartet, quartet in residence with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. As part of the gig, she becomes the orchestra’s associate concertmaster and adjunct faculty at Evansville University. Choi was the Conservatory’s first recipient of the Sam and Colin Murdoch Chamber Music Scholarship and a student of former faculty member Axel Strauss.

Choi (right) and the Larchmere String Quartet

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To the P-DOC! Stat!Students can now hatch career plans from a sixth-floor aerie under the eagle-eyed watch of MaryClare Brzytwa (second from left, above), the Conservatory’s new assistant dean for professional development and academic technology. The P-DOC (or Professional Development and Outreach Center) offers training in grant writing, web design and other career strategies, including how to write a good ol’ resume.

with first prize in one hand and an award for best performance of the required piece in the other.

Scott Pingel, principal bassist with the San Francisco Symphony and Liu’s teacher, says it’s hard to overstate his achievement. “He was the only bassist studying in the U.S. to even make the finals. It is a very big deal in the bass world.”

Pingel praises his student for “great passion and fearlessness in his performing.” Liu displayed both when he played A Carmen Fantasy by Frank Proto at the International Double Bass Solo Competition three years ago. The flamboyant work stood out among the evening’s lineup of double-bass concertos. Liu won the Audience Choice Award and stuck by the piece; it was part of his victorious performance at ISB.

Liu is a cross-over artist by both temperament and necessity. He says, “I want to play solo but it’s a little hard on bass.” He spices his repertoire with pieces like Sarasate’s violin showpiece Zigeunerweisen and the nightclub standard Misty, both of which he’ll record in January for a broadcast of public radio’s Performance Today.

Liu’s goals encompass solo, chamber and orchestral work, an appearance at SFJazz, perhaps, and following in his father’s steps as a teacher. Pingel encourages him to be versatile. “Tian has many natural capabilities, but just as important, he has the tenacity to be very successful.” Liu seems content to pursue a variety of paths, with one minor exception. “I’m probably going to stop doing competitions.”

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A Plume for PaiementNew Music Ensemble director Nicole Paiement has been elected to the board of OPERA America, a national organization that supports the creation and presentation of opera. Paiement is artistic director of Opera Parallèle, an award-winning professional company in residence at the Conservatory that develops and performs contemporary chamber opera. She holds the Conservatory’s Jean and Josette Deleage Distinguished Chair in New Music.

Fresh & FamiliarFacesA host of new collegiate faculty joins the Conservatory this fall. They include Erick Arenas and Giacomo Fiore ’09 (music history and literature); the San Francisco Symphony’s Steven Braunstein (contrabassoon); Ryan Brown ’05 (composition seminar and workshop); Minna Choi ’09 and Anna-Christina Phillips ’10 (musical startups); Nicholas Gabriel (beginning acting); returning faculty member Bonnie Hampton (string and piano chamber music); pre-college faculty members Carmen Lemoine ’05 (woodwind chamber music) and Li Lin (violin); Nicholas Pavkovic ’11 (musicianship and theory); and San Francisco Symphony members Jerome Simas (bass clarinet) and James Lee Wyatt III (timpani and percussion).

On May 3, Tian Yang Liu plays one of his favorite things with the Conservatory Orchestra: Frank Proto’s A Carmen Fantasy.

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Fanfare honoree soprano Marnie Breckenridge ’96 with event chair Trustee Karen Kubin

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Gala honoree Thomas Hampson takes a ceremonial tee shot

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Hugh Trutton played piano at clubs, funerals, burlesque shows and in concert before pursuing careers as a record distributor, art gallery director and data communications consultant. Hugh still plays piano . . . and hopes to get it right someday.

‘Art isn’t easy,’ Stephen Sondheim wrote in Sunday in the Park with George, to which I add, ‘It isn’t cheap, either.’ What better way to support tomorrow’s music than to provide

a legacy that promotes the exceptional talents of Conservatory students.

Hugh Trutton and horn player at Bavaria’s Herrenchiemsee.

A Gift of a Lifetimemeet an ada Clement legacy Society member

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Mr. Robert GirardMrs. André Paul P. de BordMr. and Mrs. Dixon R. DollDelia Fleishhacker EhrlichJacqueline and

Christian P. ErdmanMs. Fati FarmanfarmaianTimothy and Virginia FooMr. and Mrs. Gordon P. GettyMr. and Mrs. Daniel GirardMr. and Mrs. John D. GoldmanLisa and John GrottsMs. Susan HollanderDarril HudsonMrs. Meri JayeMr. Russell I. KassmanMs. Susan Kempler and

Mr. Van RobbinsRachel E. KishMs. Karen J. KubinMr. and Mrs.

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and The McWilliams Family Donor Advised Fund

Teresa and Mark MedearisLorna Meyer and Dennis CalasLisa and John MillerVivienne E. MillerSteve Mitchel & Nancy MarksMaura and Robert MoreyMilton J. Mosk and

Thomas FoutchMrs. Helen O’HanlonMr. John S. Osterweis and

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Mr. Phil PembertonHelen and Blair PascoeMarianne PetersonNancy and Larry ProbstMr. and Mrs. Joshua M. RafnerMr. Christopher R. RedlichMs. Diane RubinGary A. Rust, M.D. ’83Ms. Regina Schaffer ’05Mr. and Mrs. George SmithMr. and Mrs. G. C. SullivanRobin Sutherland ’75Mr. and Mrs. Calvin B. TildenMr. and Mrs. David T. TraitelMr. Arthur TruegerMs. Barbara Walkowski

Mrs. Betty Christensen Wallerstein

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endowment Funds Anonymous (1)Mrs. Shirley D. AlbrightMs. Margaret Rose BadgerMr. and Mrs. Kent T. BaumEdward W. and Marshia A. BeckPatricia H. and John C.

Beckman Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

Sandi and Joe BlackDidi and Dix BoringCarol Franc Buck FoundationGeri CelestreMrs. André Paul P. de BordMr. and Mrs. Dixon R. DollDelia Fleishhacker EhrlichAddie FinsethTimothy and Virginia FooMr. Burton M. Greenberg and

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endowed Funds and named sChoLarshipsAgnes Albert ScholarshipWilliam Banovetz Oboe

ScholarshipSergei Barsukov Scholarship

for PianoSergei Barsukov Scholarship

for ViolinK. Dale Beernink MD Memorial

Scholarship Agnes and Byron Beildeck Music

Scholarship FundAlexander Bellow ScholarshipRuth and Jo Blackmore

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Justin Blasdale Memorial FundMiriam & Leo Bodian Scholarship

FundMarilyn Volpe and George Borkow

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Canes ScholarshipSamuel Clark ScholarshipVincent Costantino ScholarshipCrescendo Fund Louise M. Davies ScholarshipChristiane P. de Bord ScholarshipPaul C. Deckenbach and Herbert

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Scholarship FundClark D. Fobes ScholarshipFrank and Josephine Fragale

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for Operatic Performance in the German Language

Dolores Graves Vocal ScholarshipWalter Guttmann Piano

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Scholarship FundThe Audrey and Les Hogan Vocal

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Scholarship for Clarinet William S. Howe ScholarshipThe Peter Boesch and Darril

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Andrew Imbrie Chamber Music Scholarship

Edgar and Don Jones Memorial Scholarship

Kolko Family Scholarship for String Students

May 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

ScholarshipLorna Meyer and David Callas

Family ScholarshipArthur Minton ScholarshipRobert and Maura Morey

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Colin and Sam Murdoch Chamber Music Scholarship Fund

Stanley K. Nairin ScholarshipWalter Oppenheim Violin

ScholarshipO’Shaughnessy Scholarship FundBernard Osher Foundation

ScholarshipOsher Foundation ScholarsPeter F. Ostwald Scholarship FundThe Jessica Pastron Memorial

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ScholarshipMarcia and Gene Purpus

ScholarshipBarbara Lull Rahm ScholarshipThe Rainbow Scholarship FundPeter Dimitris Rangaves

ScholarshipCorry Rankin Memorial FundAnthony J. Rine Vocal ScholarshipBeatrice M. Rine Piano

ScholarshipC. Sheldon and Patricia Roberts

ScholarshipJanet Rose Piano ScholarshipMargaret Rowell Cello ScholarshipJames and Elizabeth Ryan

Scholarship FundMilton Salkind ScholarshipSarlo Housing ScholarshipHarold W. Scheeline Piano

ScholarshipDavid Schneider Memorial

ScholarshipJames H. Schwabacher, Jr.

ScholarshipNathan Schwartz Memorial

ScholarshipDrs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson

ScholarshipSher-Right Scholarship FundLev and Frances Shorr ScholarshipBetty Hamilton Shurtleff

ScholarshipJane Lawton Southcott

ScholarshipEvelyn and Russell Staton

Scholarship

Dorothy Steinmetz Voice Scholarship

Donald C. Stenberg Memorial Scholarship

Henia Stone Memorial Scholarship

Edward G. Stotsenberg Memorial Scholarship

Isadore Tinkelman ScholarshipMonte Toole ScholarshipThe Nick Traina Foundation

ScholarshipJoan and David Traitel Vocal

ScholarshipThe M. Blair Vorsatz Scholarship

in Honor of Tomoko HagiwaraPhyllis Wattis ScholarshipPaul L. and Phyllis Wattis

Foundation ScholarshipPhyllis C. Wattis Memorial

ScholarshipB. Gardner Wilcox Piano

ScholarshipWilliam Wolski Violin ScholarshipMarilyn Jo Wood Memorial

ScholarshipRobert Yaryan Woodwind

Scholarship

endowed FaCuLty ChairsDistinguished Chair in Historical

Performance, Corey JamasonCarol Franc Buck Distinguished

Chair in OperaJean and Josette Deleage

Distinguished Chair in New Music, Nicole Paiement

James D. Robertson Chair in Piano, Paul Hersh

Isaac Stern Distinguished Chair in Violin, Ian Swensen

Frederica von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice, Catherine Cook

endowed awards Kris Getz Composition Award Marina Grin Award Jim Highsmith Award in

CompositionThe Peter and Jacqueline Hoefer

Alumni Composers Fund

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Gala Chairs Teresa Medearis and Trustee Barbara Walkowski with San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley

Conservatory Welcomes New TrusteesConservatory Welcomes New Trustees

The Conservatory Remembers...

Lotfi Mansouri

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Audrey A. Aasen-HullDoradea BanuetWilliam Bennett oboe facultyJ. Peter Cahill former trusteeZheng Cao mezzo-sopranoLeonie Darwin

Paul C. DeckenbachClaramae T. HoffmanCharles N. HugginsJohn LilienthalMary Tooze

The Board of Trustees welcomes two members back to its fold this fall. Pianist Rebecca-Sen Chan has performed at the Interlochen, Banff and Aspen music festivals. She recently released a CD of Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas and performed chamber music concerts in Europe and China. Chan regularly teaches master classes at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she also serves on the Board of Trustees. Chan last served as a Conservatory trustee from 1999-2008.

Dr. Jane Chang Tom has served on the boards of the Head-Royce and College Prep schools in Oakland, International House at the University of California, Berkeley, the Chinese Newcomers Service Center in San Francisco and the Mental Health Advisory Board of California. She is a commissioner of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum and president of both S&A Tom Family Foundation and S&A Tom, Inc., a company that invests in commercial properties. A retired clinical psychologist, Tom previously served as a Conservatory trustee from 1998-2008.

In memoriam

Former San Francisco Opera general director Lotfi Mansouri passed away on August 29. He worked frequently with Conservatory students, teaching master classes and, in 2012, producing Trio Appasionato, a “salon” of music by Brahms and Robert and Clara

Schumann featuring Trustee Advisory Board member Frederica von Stade. He also championed San Francisco Opera’s commission of The Dangerous Liaisons by faculty composer Conrad Susa. Mansouri was a member of the Conservatory’s Ada Clement Legacy Society and Trustee Advisory Board.

Conservatory Society member Jeannik Méquet Littlefield passed away on May 24. Fluent in French, German and Russian, Littlefield interrupted Ph.D. studies in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, to serve as a translator during World War II. She sponsored productions and served on the board of San Francisco Opera, sponsored exhibits at the Legion of Honor and de Young museums, and supported numerous educational institutions including the Conservatory.

Renowned jazz, R&B and pop pioneer George Duke (B.M., trombone and composition, ’67) died on August 5. Duke enjoyed a multi-faceted career as a composer, arranger, director and producer. He released some 30 solo albums and collaborated with artists including Miles Davis, Al Jarreau, Michael Jackson and Frank Zappa. Duke won two Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album as the producer for Dianne Reeves’ In The Moment (2000) and The Calling (2001). He died of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

George Duke ’67, after performing last January at Yoshi’s Oakland, with classmate Eric Peterson ’69

angel Heart image by MiRaDa

Lise Lindstrom ’96 in the Flying dutchman ©Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

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Demutsky’s BOLD StatementIn a compositional coup, Ilya Demutsky (M.M., composition, ’09) won a top European competition and took a bold political stand. His piece The Closing Statement of the Accused for mezzo-soprano and orchestra took first prize at the International Composing Competition 2 Agosto. Demutsky accepted his medal from the president of Italy at a ceremony in Bologna. The work is based on defiant remarks made by a member of a Russian feminist punk band at a controversial trial which ended in her imprisonment. Band members were arrested after a performance protesting President Vladimir Putin’s election campaign. Demutsky, a resident of St. Petersburg, called the piece a “requiem for the Russian judicial system” according to a recent profile in The St. Petersburg Times. He studied with David Conte.

A Tale Takes WingChildren’s stories often go hand-in-hand with music. But a project conceived in part by soprano Lisa Delan (B.M., voice, ’89) hyperlinks this classic formula. Angel Heart is the story of Luna, a broken-hearted girl rescued by a guardian angel, told in an animated book, a star-studded CD, an iPad app and concert premieres this fall at Cal Performances and Carnegie Hall. Delan and composer Luna Pearl Woolf enlisted author Cornelia Funke to write a story incorporating songs by Irving Berlin and the Beatles, among others, plus original music, all scored to ethereal effect for the ensemble Uccello led by pre-college alumnus Matt Haimovitz. Stars include narrator Jeremy Irons and Conservatory Trustee Advisory Board member and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. Conservatory performers also make cameos. They include faculty conductor Michael Morgan, leading the children’s choir of Oakland’s St. Martin De Porres School, baritone Bruce Rameker (B.M., voice, ’87) and Delan herself.

Four’s CompanyCatherine Cook isn’t the only Conservatory diva taking the stage at San Francisco Opera this season. Lise Lindstrom (M.M., voice, ’96) made a dramatic house debut in October as Senta in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, stepping into the role with three weeks’ notice. Tenor A.J. Glueckert (M.M., voice, ’10) appeared as the Steersman in the same production. Glueckert created two roles earlier this year in the world premieres of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Dolores Claiborne. Baritone Efraín Solís (M.M., voice, ’13) will soon step into the footlights as well. He joins Glueckert next year as a member of San Francisco Opera Center’s prestigious Adler Fellow training program. Solís and Glueckert studied with César Ulloa.

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aCademiC FaCuLtyThe Complete musicianJeff Anderle

Musical StartupsKayleen Asbo Psychology

of Music TeachingRobert Britton Alexander

Technique, ChairMinna Choi Musical StartupsClifford Cranna

Practical AspectsMario Guarneri

Practical AspectsElisabeth Lowry

Community ServiceAndrew Luchansky

String PedagogyJason O’Connell

Sound RecordingAnna-Christina Phillips

Musical StartupsYoriko Richman Application

of Teaching SkillsLori Vobejda Teaching Artistry

General educationErin DeBakcsyNikolaus HohmannMatthew KennedyBetsy MarvitBrian Neilson ChairEithne PardiniCarol PragidesMatthew SiegelIndre Viskontas

libraryKevin McLaughlin

music History and literatureErick ArenasTimothy Bach Vocal and

Piano LiteratureMason BatesSarah Cahill Piano LiteratureLuciano Chessa David ConteMary FettigGiacomo FioreKara GardnerDavid GarnerSusan HarveyPaul Hersh Corey Jamason Bruce LamottEmily Laurance ChairKevin McLaughlinRebecca Plack

Richard Savino Guitar Literature

John Spitzer Conrad SusaDavid Tanenbaum

Guitar Literature

music Theory and musicianshipJacques DesjardinsScott Foglesong ChairDavid Garner Alla GladyshevaSonja Neblett Nicholas PavkovicMichael SchroederConrad Susa

ensembLe FaCuLtyBrass and Woodwind Chamber musicJeff Anderle

Woodwind CoordinatorJeffrey Anderson Miles Anderson Luis BaezDavid Burkhart Timothy Day Russ deLunaSteven DibnerJohn EngelkesMario Guarneri

Brass CoordinatorMark LawrenceCarmen LemoineJames Moore Stephen Paulson Jonathan Ring Bruce Roberts Richard Roper Peter Wahrhaftig Robert WardPaul Welcomer

Conservatory BaroqueensembleCorey Jamason Co-Director,

Distinguished Chair in Historical Performance

Elisabeth Reed Co-Director

Conservatory Chamber ChoirRagnar Bohlin Director

Conservatory ChorusDavid Conte Director

Conservatory orchestraScott Sandmeier

Music DirectorAlasdair Neale Principal

Guest Conductor

Guitar ensembleSérgio AssadLawrence FerraraDavid TanenbaumMarc Teicholz

musical Theatre WorkshopMichael Mohammed

Director, ChoreographerBryan Nies Music Director

New music ensembleNicole Paiement Artistic

Director, Jean and Josette Deleage Distinguished Chair in New Music

perFormanCe FaCuLty

BassoonStephen PaulsonSteven Braunstein

Contrabassoon

ClarinetJeff Anderle Clarinet ClassLuis BaezCarey Bell Orchestral ExcerptsSteve Sánchez Jerome Simas Bass Clarinet

Collaborative PianoTimothy Bach Chair

CompositionElinor ArmerDan Becker ChairRyan Brown Composition SeminarDavid ConteDavid Garner Alden Jenks Electronic MusicConrad Susa

ConductingMichael MorganAlasdair NealeSonja Neblett Chair

Double BassScott PingelStephen Tramontozzi

FluteTimothy Day

GuitarSérgio AssadLawrence FerraraRichard Savino

Guitar History, LiteratureDavid Tanenbaum ChairMarc Teicholz

HarpDouglas Rioth

HarpsichordCorey Jamason Distinguished

Chair in Historical Performance

HornJonathan RingBruce RobertsRobert Ward

oboeRuss deLuna English HornJames Moore Chair, Woodwinds

organRodney Gehrke

PercussionJack Van Geem ChairJames Lee Wyatt III Timpani

PianoPaul Hersh James D. Robertson

Professor of PianoSharon MannMack McCray ChairYoshikazu NagaiWilliam Wellborn

Piano Pedagogy

TromboneJohn R. Engelkes BassTimothy Higgins TenorMark Lawrence Tenor;

Chair, BrassPaul Welcomer Tenor

TrumpetDavid Burkhart Mario Guarneri Mark InouyeAdam Luftman

TubaJeffrey Anderson Peter Wahrhaftig

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

ViolinAlexander BarantschikElizabeth Blumenstock

Historical PerformanceWei HeLi LinBettina MussumeliIan Swensen Isaac Stern

Distinguished Chair in ViolinCatherine Van Hoesen

Orchestral Excerpts

VioloncelloJennifer CulpJean-Michel FonteneauElisabeth Reed Baroque Cello

VoiceSylvia AndersonChristine Brandes Historical

PerformanceCatherine Cook Chair,

Frederica von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice

Patricia CraigPamela FryKrzysztof Izdebski

Vocal PhysiologyLeroy KrommDaniel MobbsRebecca Plack Vocal PedagogyRuby PleasureJane RandolphMarcie Stapp DictionCésar Ulloa

Jacques Desjardins Assistant Conductor

opera ProgramMilissa Carey

Acting, Opera WorkshopDarryl Cooper

Assistant Music DirectorNick Gabriel ActingHeather Mathews

Associate DirectorMichael Mohammed

Opera WorkshopCurt Pajer Music Director,

Interim Director

orchestral TrainingJeff Biancalana Bettina Mussumeli Stephen PaulsonDouglas RiothAdam Smyla Tanya Tomkins Stephen Tramontozzi Chen Zhao

Percussion ensembleJack Van Geem Director

String and Piano Chamber musicJennifer CulpJean-Michel FonteneauBonnie HamptonPaul Hersh James D.

Robertson Professor of PianoJodi Levitz Co-ChairRobert MannMack McCray Co-ChairBettina MussumeliMark SokolIan Swensen Isaac Stern

Distinguished Chair in Violin

emeritiKathryn Cathcart Joan Gallegos Leonid Gesin Willene Gunn Hermann le Roux Zaven Melikian Peggy Salkind Camilla Wicks

aCCompanists and voCaL CoaChesSteven BaileyMark BruceCharles CalhounAmy Chiu Miles GraberMichael Grossman Margaret HalbigAlex Katsman Kevin Korth Ho Man LamShu LiJonathan MannHye Yeong Min Keisuke Nakagoshi Bryan Nies Mai-Linh Pham Ian ScarfeXiyan WangChia-Lin YangJieun YeeRon Valentino Opera

Faculties join forces at the 3rd annual Shanghai-San Francisco International Chamber Music Festival

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& PRe-CoLLeGe DIVISIoN AdultexteNSIoNFaCuLty

BoARd oF tRuSteeS September 2013

Delia Fleishhacker EhrlichChristian P. ErdmanMrs. A. Barlow FergusonLisa M. GrottsMrs. Jaquelin H. Hume —in memoriam

Aditi H. Mandpe, M.D.Lorna F. Meyer Maura B. Morey Nancy ProbstMatthew RaphaelsonDiane M. Rubin Gary A. Rust, M.D. ’83 George S. Sarlo Camilla SmithMaureen O’Brien SullivanJane TomJoan TraitelBarbara WalkowskiRobert H. Zerbst

oFFICeRS Timothy W. Foo Chair

Deepa R. Pakianathan Executive Vice-Chair

Edward W. Beck Vice-Chair

William K. Bowes, Jr. Vice-Chair

Michael R. V. Whitman Vice-Chair

Joshua M. Rafner Treasurer

Karen Kubin Secretary

tRuSteeSKent BaumPatricia B. Berkowitz Eileen Blum-BourgadeRichard A. Bohannon, M.D. Mrs. Dix BoringMrs. James F. Buckley, Jr. Mrs. Carol W. CaseyRebecca-Sen ChanSteven A. Cinelli Christiane P. de Bord

Michael J. SavageMrs. Eugene Shurtleff John B. Stuppin Ashford D. Wood

PASt BoARd CHAIRSMrs. W. H. DurhamMrs. Harold D. PischelJames H. Schwabacher, Jr.John C. BeckmanJ. Archibald CalhounJune Hope KingsleyJohn M. AndersonMichael J. SavageMrs. Dix BoringMrs. Richard C. OtterWarren R. Hashagen, Jr.Lisa S. Miller

AdmINIStRAtIoNDavid H. Stull President

Mary Ellen Poole Dean

Kathryn Wittenmyer Vice President, Finance

Bess Touma Vice President,

Advancement

PASt PReSIdeNtSAda ClementLillian HodgheadErnest BlochAlbert ElkusRobin LauferMilton SalkindStephen BrownColin Murdoch

AdvISoRy BoARdGordon P. Getty Thomas Hampson Lotfi Mansouri —in memoriam

Robert K. McFerrin, Jr. Frederica von StadeIsaac Stern —in memoriam

Robin Sutherland ’75Michael Tilson Thomas

tRuSteeS emeRItIJohn M. Anderson John C. BeckmanAva Jean BrumbaumMrs. Harold B. Getz, Jr. Bruce W. Hart

AccompanistsStephanie ChanAmy ChiuDmitriy CoganNicholas DoldMiles GraberJames Kirksey Paul McCurdy Ian ScarfeChia-Lin Yang

CompositionJune BonacichDavid ConteArkadi SerperDaniel Wood Chair

Early ChildhoodStephanie ChanVania DobrevaMikako EndoLuba KravchenkoYoriko RichmanChristie Skousen

EnsemblesSusan BatesPaul BinkleyTheresa CalpoturaScott CmielRandolph FrommeDoris Fukawa ChairAenea Mizushima Keyes

Machiko KobialkaEsther LandauAndrew LuchanskyCorey McVicarRichard RogersEugene SorRoss ThompsonYaada Weber

GuitarPaul BinkleyTheresa CalpoturaScott CmielLawrence Ferrara Ross Thompson

HarpEmily LauranceDouglas RiothSarah Voynow

HarpsichordCorey JamasonSusie Fong

MusicianshipJune BonacichMichael KaulkinCarmen LemoineAaron PikeRichard RoperArkadi SerperDaniel Wood Chair

OrganRodney Gehrke

PercussionTommy Kesecker

PianoKatherine BussJacqueline ChewAmy ChiuLauren ConyJacqueline DivenyiAlla GladyshevaErna GulabyanTomoko HagiwaraHeidi HauDorian HoMachiko KobialkaSima KouyoumdjianLuba KravchenkoHang LiSharon MannMeikui MatsushimaAnnamarie McCarthyJohn McCarthyMack McCrayCorey McVicarYoshikazu NagaiJune Choi OhScott PrattRichard RogersLena SchumanRobert SchwartzArkadi SerperChristie Peery SkousenWilliam WellbornJerri WittHelen WongChia-Lin Yang

Laura Reynolds oboeRichard Roper trumpetYaada Weber fluteDaniel Wood horn

VoiceChristine AbrahamPamela AlexanderHelen DilworthEun-Mee KoHeidi Moss Dina Reyes

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

violoncelloRandall Fromme violoncelloDoris Fukawa violin Monika Gruber violinWei He violinAenea Mizushima Keyes

violinJonathan Koh violoncelloDavis Law violinJodi Levitz violaLi Lin violinPei-Ling Lin violaSieun Lin violoncelloYun-Jie Liu violaJoseph Maile violinBettina Mussumeli violinCarol Rice violoncelloAlisa Rose violinMonica Scott violoncelloEric Sung violoncelloIan Swensen violinZhao Wei violinBarbara Wirth violoncelloAmos Yang violoncello

Winds and BrassYueh Chou bassoonRoman Fukshansky clarinetEsther Landau fluteScott Macomber trumpetKevin McLaughlin

trumpet Timothy Price saxophone

Li Lin coaches violinist and Menuhin Competition winner Kevin Zhu

Carmen Lemoine ’05 coaxes a pre-college student in solfège

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Oral History ProjectAs the Conservatory approaches its Centennial, the school’s Archives look back to the institution’s roots. But far more than a pile of musty scores and brittle scrapbooks, the Archives bring the past to life with the Oral History Project, a growing constellation of stories told by faculty, alumni and even former presidents. These interviews explore the school’s growth, paint vivid pictures of its personalities and provide a trove of institutional knowledge. Excerpts are available on our website at www.sfcm.edu/archives.aspx.

Archivist Tessa Updike recently spoke with faculty member and renowned cellist Bonnie Hampton. Hampton began teaching at the Conservatory in the early 1950s when she was just sixteen years old. She shared these memories:

On the Conservatory’s original Sacramento Street location “It had a very homey feeling, a very comfortable feeling. Everybody was working, and enthusiastic, and friendly.”

On her first studio (in a basement closet under a stairwell) “If you put your chairs at just the right angle you could just get two people and two cellos in there.”

We invite you to read and listen to our interviews on the Oral History Project website. New interviews will be shared as they are completed. Enjoy!