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Innovative. Intimate. Inspiring. News FROM San Francisco Conservatory of Music FALL 2010, Volume 4, No. 1
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
Faculty News 3
Student News 4
Alumni News 5
New Trustees 6
President’s Message 7
Thanks to our Supporters 8
Faculty and Trustees 14
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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.)
Conservatory Celebrates Chamber Music
Anniversary

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Faculty RecordingsFaculty Recordings
Faculty News
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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
Conservatory Strengthens
Ties with Shanghai
50 Oak Street Designers Win Awards50 Oak Street Designers Win Awards
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.”
New
Department
Chairs
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
Nominations
No 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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Student News Alumni News
Montenegro
Rodriguez
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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 Piece
On 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
(Damaˉm), cymbals and the scream-like
human voices (called Kél in this culture)
are essential elements of a common
lamentation c­­eremony in Bandar Abbaˉs
and Boushehr,” he says. “This movement
is informed by nightmares I had during
the flight to back to Tehran.”
The final movement invokes the Azaˉn,
a call to morning prayer that is “one of
the most symbolic and famous forms
of its kind, by Rahim Moazzén-zaˉdéh.
It is the symbol of Persianized Islam,
as this was the first time Azaˉn had been
sung in Persian modes.” Hometown
memories and struggles to overcome
grief inspired this movement, which
ends with calls of “Allaˉh-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 Norway
A 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 Stage
Two 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 Tonys
Erin 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 Accolades
The 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 Luncheon
Violinist 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 Dvorˇák 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 Banff
This 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.”

4. Conservatory Welcomes New TrusteesConservatory Welcomes New Trustees San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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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 Expenses
Total = $13,748,000Contributions
and special
events
$3,046,000Net tuition and fees
$9,485,000
Endowment Draw
$1,800,0003.5%
Other* $522,000
63.9%63.9%
12.1%12.1%
20.5%20.5%
Unrestricted Operating Revenues
Total = $14,853,000
Annual Report FY2009-2010
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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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Individuals
Conservatory Society
Ovation Level
Mr. and Mrs. Kent T. Baum
Patricia and Edwin Berkowitz
Drs. Richard and Nancy Bohannon
Didi and Dix Boring
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Bowes, Jr.
Josephine Brownback
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Carol and Lyman Casey
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Mr. Steven A. Cinelli
Robert and Laura Cory
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Carol Pucci Doll and
Mr. Dixon R. Doll
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The Shenson Foundation
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Drs. Robert G. Johnson, Jr. and
Margaret A Liu
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Deepika R. Pakianathan and
Phil Pemberton
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Gary A. Rust, M.D.
Ms. Regina Schaffer and
Mr. Tucker Jessup
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Mr. Hugh C. Trutton
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. V. Whitman
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Crescendo Level
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Mr. and Mrs. David M. Chamberlain
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Reid and Peggy Dennis
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Dr. Elizabeth Hume and
Mr. Jay Jacobs
George and Leslie Hume
Jeri and Jeffrey Johnson
Mr. Michael J. Moritz and
Ms. Harriet Heyman
Mr. and Mrs. William
Russell-Shapiro
Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund
The Sher-Right Fund
Mrs. Lydia P. Shorenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt N. Simon
Walt and Beth Simpson
Hannah and Sam Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin B. Tilden
Ms. Marilyn Anne Townsend
Ms. Veronica Watson and
Mr. Michael Petonic
Diane and Howard Zack
Lyric Level
Anonymous
John Adams and Deborah O’Grady
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Horizons Foundation
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Patricia H. and John C. Beckman
Fund of The Oregon
Community Foundation
Louis de K. Belden
Donald and Katherine Black
Mrs. André Paul P. de Bord
Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich
Robert Ellis and Jane Bernstein
Ms. Linda E. Foreman
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Lisa and John Grotts
The Kingsley Family Foundation
Dr. Lucy Hume Koukopoulos and
Mr. Nicholas Koukopoulos
Ms. Karen J. Kubin
Aditi H. Mandpe, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Doug McLean
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Mrs. Anne Gianinni McWilliams
and The McWilliams Family
Donor Advised Fund
Teresa and Mark Medearis
Vivienne E. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Mooradian
Mrs. Michael A. O’Hanlon
Mr. John S. Osterweis and
Ms. Barbara Ravizza
Mr. Peter Pastreich and
Ms. Jamie Whittington
Mrs. Kathleen Pomeroy
Melissa and Ritchie Post
Mr. and Mrs. John Pritzker
Mr. and Mrs. Steven
MacGregor Read
Mrs. Judith Renard
Douglas and Mary Robinson
Mrs. Diane Rubin
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Savage
Susan and James Swartz
Marilyn G. Seiberling
Betsy and Bob Stafford
Maureen and Craig Sullivan
Mr. Terrill Timberlake
Ms. Barbara Walkowski
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Walske
Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey
Tempo Level
Anonymous (2)
Barbara and Marcus Aaron
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Aherne
Mrs. Carlin Anton
Jonathan Arons and Claire Max
Mr. Marlon Austria
Constance Goodyear Baron and
Barry C. Baron, M.D.
Mr. James Basile
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Beleson
Mr. Andrew J. Bellotti
Richard and Denise Bergmann
Mrs. Jane Bogart
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bottum
Mr. Theodore Brown and
Ms. Eleanor F. Killebrew
Ms. Barbara Brown
Ava Jean Brumbaum
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bryan
Carol Franc Buck
The Buena Vista Fund of
Horizons Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cahill, Jr.
Ms. Annette Campbell-White and
Dr. Rüdiger Naumann-Étienne
Libi and Ron Cape
Dr. Chi-Foon and Rebecca-Sen Chan
Ms. Julia Chen and
Mr. Kenneth Tsiang
Nancy Clark and Bill Broach
Marie B. Collins
Ms. Phoebe Cowles and
Mr. Robert Girard
Mr. Paul Curtin and
Ms. Catharine Keena
Anne J. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Andre L. de Baubigny
Patricia Swig Dinner
Christina and Neil Diver
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dobos
Mary Lou Dorking
Sterling L. Dorman
Mr. and Mrs. David L. Douglass
Lisa and Chris Ennis
Ms. Lisa M. Erdberg and
Mr. Dennis Gibbons
Ms. Helen E. Faibish
Mr. James F. Feldstein
Christine and Frederick Finseth
Vicki and David Fleishhacker
Tom and Mary Foote
Mr. Stephen Fraidin
Ms. Alison F. Geballe
The Stephen and
Margaret Gill Family Foundation
Mrs. Beverly J. Goggio
Mr. Burton M. Greenberg and
Mr. James Clavin
Mrs. Robert M. Greenhood
Mr. Michael Grinnell
Mr. Bill Hackenberg
Mr. and Mrs. James Hale
Dr. David Bailey Harnden and
Dr. Susan Bailey-Harnden
Mr. Marc Loupé and
Ms. Anette Harris
Ada Hau
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Heafey
Ruth and Alfred Heller
Mrs. Janet Saxton Hill
Mrs. C. Lester Hogan
Mr. James C. Hormel and
Mr. Michael P. Nguyen
From Hilda Huang and family,
in honor of Mr. John McCarthy
Darril Hudson
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen V. Imbler
Mr. Charles B. Johnson and
Dr. Ann Johnson
Mr. Warren A. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kassel
Carl P. Kaufman and Martha Angove
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kaufman
Ms. Eleanor F. Killebrew and
Mr. Theodore Brown
William and Gretchen Kimball Fund
Rachel E. Kish
Mrs. Donna S. Kline
Mr. and Mrs. Guy O. Kornblum
Doris S. Lee
Richard and Sharonjean Leeds
Jack and Alice Leibman
Hollis Lenderking
Michael and Mary Lubin
Ms. Jane R. Lurie
Machiah Foundation of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Malin
Richard A. Marciano
Mr. and Mrs. Haig Mardikian
Carole and Michael Marks
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Massocca
Pat and Susie McBaine
Laura Kimble McLellan
Mr. Louis Miramontes
D G Mitchell
William and Ursula Moffett
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Moodey
Mrs. Joseph A. Moore
Milton J. Mosk and Thomas Foutch
Willa and Ned Mundell
Mrs. Mary T. Negi
Michael N. Norem
Ms. Dorothy A. Orrick
Mrs. Lise Deschamps Ostwald
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Otter
Helen and Blair Pascoe
Virginia Patterson
Marianne and Richard H. Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pilara
Edward and Linda Plant
Mrs. Mary Poland
Carol A. Poole, M.D.
Post Family Trust
Damon Raike
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Rinehart
Ms. Margaret S. Rocchia
Bob and Terri Ryan
Ms. Sande Schlumberger
Mr. Jack E. Schuss
Dr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Shonfeld
Hon. and Mrs. George P. Shultz
Mr. and Mrs. Jan E. G. Smit
Mr. and Mrs. George Smith
Mrs. Susan Swartz
Pamela, Eric and Brandon Tang
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Teicholz
The Laney Thornton Foundation
Ms. Marie Tilson
Mrs. Lamar Tooze, Jr.
Thomas Tragardh and David Cortez
Ms. Frederica von Stade and
Mr. Michael Gorman
Mark and Liz Vorsatz and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Weissman
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Weissman
Ms. Faye Wilson
Peggy and Lee Zeigler
Friends of the Conservatory
$500-$999
Anonymous (4)
Michael and Diane Abel
Mrs. Edgar E. Baker
Joseph and Helen Bernstein
Mrs. Betty Blomberg
John and Kathryn Blum
Michael J. Bozzini
John M. Bryan Family Fund
Ms. F. Elizabeth Burwell
Philip J. Cazahous
Julia K. Cheng
Laurie Cohen Fund
Katy Daniel
Mr. Paul L. Davies, Jr.
Paul C. Deckenbach and
Herbert L. Jeong
Carol Eisenberg and Raymond
Linkerman
Mrs. Susan Euphrat
Elizabeth and David Evans
Mr. Robert Fearing
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Fetherston
Mr. Clark W. Fobes
Mr. Robert Frear and
Mr. Tim Kennedy
Mr. Michael P. Go
Brian K. Gould
Mr. Maurice W. Gregg
Blanca Haendler and Robert Cook
Barbara Hancock
Ms. Adrienne Hirt and
Mr. Jeffrey Rodman
Ms. Meri Jaye
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kaplan
Ms. Nancy Kling
Kathryn Lawhun and Mark Shinbrot
Charles K. Lee, M.D.
Dr. Roy Lee and Mrs. Ruth Lee
Ms. Nancy E. Lem
Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. P. Lion
Mr. Simon Z. Lipskar
Mr. Jeffrey P. Malloy
Mr. and Mrs. J. Alec Merriam
Russell H. Miller, Jr.
Ms. Gloria Miner
Ms. Doerte Murray
Mr. John R. Nelson
Susan Okaguchi
Mrs. Mary Powell
Kay and Ray Roberts
William M. and Joan O. Roth
John M. Sanger
Dr. and Mrs. Rolf G. Scherman
Mr. and Mrs. John Schram
Bill Sevald
Mr. Rich Silverstein and
Ms. Carla Emil
Jim Sisley
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Snyder
Alexei Sorokine and
Elena Koudrtavtseva
Drs. Donald and
Michiyo Kawachi Stanford
Daniel F. Sullivan
Mr. Alan S. Taylor
Martha Doerr Toppin
Robert and Joyce Tufts
Ms. Stephanie Tuttle
Mrs. Stephen Varnhagen
Joanne and Alan Vidinsky
Robert and Martha Warnock
Mr. Steven R. Winkel and
Ms. Barbara W. Sahm
Ms. Cynthia W. Woods and
Mr. Myron Sugarman
Ms. Susan M. Worts
$250-$499
Anonymous (7)
Joanne and Clark Ahn
Maria D. Allo and WD Andrews
Dr. James Anthony and Kris
Anthony
Mr. Howard I. Atkins
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bea
David N. Bentley
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bialek
Seth Brenzel and Malcolm Gaines
Mrs. Sheldon V. Brooks
Virginia and Norman Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy N. Brown
Edward and Abigail Buckley
Mrs. Elizabeth Burnham
Mr. William J. Carlin
George and Ingrid Carney
Mr. and Mrs. A. Michael Casey
CDM Foundation
Dr. Alessandra Cesano
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Chafian
Ms. Birgit Chase
Mr. and Mrs. Paolo Cocchiglia
Martin and Kathleen Cohn
Mr. Hugh J. Coughlin
LaVaughn and Ted Craig
Mr. Copley E. Crosby
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Dauber
Ms. Virginia Debs
Maureen and Paul Draper
Dan Eisenstein
Ms. Keri Elmquist
Jan Elvee
Roland Feller Violin Makers
Guy and Lia Haskin Fernald
George Gemignani
Mr. and Mrs. Ulf Gustafsson
Michael W. Henschel
Mr. and Mrs. Sean Honey
Mr. Morgan Hough and
Ms. Kristin Scheel
Edward and Patricia Hymson
Ms. Mia Jang
Carol R. Johnson
Ed and Peggy Kavounas
Mrs. Patricia H. Kelso
Victoria Kirby
Mr. Leslie Lamport
Mr. David A. Lauer
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee
Regina Lee and Ryan Meyer
Ms. Karen Lee
Professor Jay Levy
John and Bernice Lindstrom
Sylvia and Paul Lorton, Jr.
Mrs. David Jamison McDaniel
Helen McKenna and Allan Ridley
Marilyn McMillan
Ms. Barbara J. Meislin
Mr. Edward P. Miner
John H. Moore and
Arnold McGilbray, Jr.
Mr. Klaus Murer
Mr. and Mrs. Lance D. Nagel
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Nemirovsky
Susan K. O’Sullivan
Dr. Douglas Ousterhout and Ms.
Nancy McKerrow
Ms. Nancy J. Padgett
Brian Pennix
Anna and Frank Pope
Richard and Ellen Price
Nancy B. Ranney
Mrs. Genelle Relfe
Chet Roaman
Nancy and Darin Rock
Dr. and Mrs. David H. Rose
Leslie V. Sanford in honor of
Elizabeth Ingber
Ms. Lisa Sapinkopf
Tim Savinar and Patricia Unterman
Marion L. Scholten
Ms. Elizabeth D. Schrero
Mrs. Janet Schultz
Lawrence A. Souza
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stephenson
Beryl Jean Symmes
Dr. Thomas L. Tarnowski
Ruthellen Toole
Albert Wald
Mr. Edward F. Walsh, Jr.
Charles Wegerle
Linda and George Wertheim
Robert T. Weston
W. Charles Whitcomb
Drs. Steven and Emma White
Mr. Jerry G. Wright
Mr. Ganlin Wu and Ms. Yu-Ping Li
$100-$249
Anonymous (19)
Elaine Adamson and Ed Gould
Drs. Paul and Geraldine Alpert
Norm and Della Alvares
Mr. Roderick Alvernaz
Ms. Marian M. Anderson
Martin and Ardath Andrews
Mr. Robert Ang and Dr. Grace Ang
Ms. Helen Armbrust and
Mr. Len Mentzer
Noreen Axelson and Donald Archer
Cedric and Dorothy Bainton
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Baker
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Barbaccia
Mrs. Sharon R. Barley
Dr. Michael Barlowe and
Rev. Paul Burrows
Ann Fay Barry Giurlani
Dimitri and Marianne Barton
Mr. Maurice Bassan
J. Peter Baumgartner
Al and Marcy Bautista
Mr. Frank S. Bayley
Dr. Joseph C. Beck
George and Christo Becker
Dr. John J. Beeston
Ms. Marion Bell
Dr. and Mrs. Avi Ben-Ora
Joanne W. Blokker
Mr. Noel T. Blos
Allan B. Blumenfeld
Ms. Jean Bogiages
Mr. Claude Borowsky
Lorraine M. Bosché
Ms. Sheila Bost
Dr. and Mrs. P. Brandenhoff
Cathryn Brash
Ms. Ruth E. Brennan
Mr. Phillip K. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Brudos
Mr. Robert Bruner
Ms. Eleanor G. Burke
Dr. William M. Burke
Ms. Sara S. Burke
Franklin Burney
Jean Burns
Dr. Jef Caers
Dr. James M. Campbell
Eleanor Canova-Davis
Dr. Mary E. Cantrell
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carroll
Mrs. Mary K. Cervantes
Agnes I. Chan
Mr. Joseph D. Charpentier
Chia-Pi Tien
Jean Chew
Mr. and Ms. Kho Liep Chok
W. James & Yu-Jean Chon
Delores A. Churchill
Ms. Maureen Clarke
Drs. James and Linda Clever
Janet and Lloyd Cluff
Scott and Peggy Cmiel
Drs. Sandra and Richard Cohen
Ms. Huguette Y. Combs
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
Rudolph R. Cook
Ms. I’lana Sandra Cotton
Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Cravens
Mr. Edward L. Crossley
Dr. and Mrs. Roy L. Curry
Barbara A. Daily
Ms. Barbara M. Daley
Mrs. Jacqueline S. Daley
Mr. Bill Dameron
Mr. Steven D’Amico
William and Sally Daniel
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dash
John G. Day
Leslie and Charlie Dicke
Chauncey & Emily DiLaura
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Dow
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Downey
Robert and Madeline Drake
Mr. Daniel Druckerman
Mr. Robert J. Eakin and
Mr. Alvis E. Hendley
Ms. Sharon Eaton
Doug and Margie Eberhardt
Linda Eby
Mr. and Mrs. Les Edwards
Mr. Alan M. Eisner
Walter R. Ems
Robert and Jenni Enslow
Ms. Julia Erickson
R. Elizabeth Erickson
Reverend Richard G. Fabian
Emily Huggins Fine
Helen Finnegan
Ms. Marcia Flannery
Ms. Maria Foley
Ms. Ceseli D. Foster
Mr. Richard L. Frank
R.T. Freebairn-Smith
S. Robert Freedman
Ms. Kathi Freeman
Martin D. Fried and Linda D. Hom
David C. Gan
Ms. Jessica Gaston
Ms. Ann Gazenbeek
Martin Gellen
Tong Lai Ginn and Elizabeth Newton
Sheila and John Girton
Ms. Margot Golding
William G. Goodwin
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Gottfried
Bill and Barbara Goza
Ms. Doris W. Grau
Flora Greenhoot
Edna Grenlie
Mrs. Andrew Griffin
Mr. Tri Q. Nguyen and
Ms. Valerie J. Gross
Mr. George S. Grossman
Mrs. Shoko Haas
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hahn
Joseph Haletky
Mr. George G. Hall
Bill and Miyuki Halpin
Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Halsey
David Hammer
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Harmon
Dr. and Mrs. Ron Harrison
Barbara Hasten
Ms. Jacqueline E. Haveman and
Mr. Nathan Dwiri
Ms. Kirsten Havrehed
Mr. Mark Haynes and
Ms. Sara Bassler
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Heald
Kathleen Healy
W. J. Heap
Dr. and Mrs. John S. Hege
Richard L. Heidelberg
Peggy and Ralph Heineman
Ms. Jill Heinke
Mr. Richard G. Henderson
Ms. Suzanne Herko
Joanne Hively
Yue-shun E. Ho
Mr. Robert L. Hobson
Libby and Joe Hobson
Mr. Jay Hoffman
Marcia J. Hooper
Dr. Hing On Hsu
Dean and Amy Huang
John Hudson
Ms. Helen Hughes
Ms. Jocelyn S. Hunter
James and Cely Hynson
Tucker and Charmly Ingham
Stan and Helen Ishida Abramson
Dr. Laurence Jacobs
Ms. Eva E. Jakes
Ms. Mary Jameson and
Mr. Jeffrey Goodrich
Ms. Norma L. Jayne
Mr. A. Roger Jeanson and
Ms. Jean Mileff
Josh Jensen
Mr. Jongheon Steve Jeong and Ms.
Sunghee Park
Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Johnson
Mr. Paul E. Johnson
Mr. Paul S. Jones
Ms. Mary Catherine Jue and
Mr. Ted Kuster
Ms. Anne Kaiser and
Mr. Robert Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Kales II
Ms. Ruth R. Karlen
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Karpowicz
Ms. Aviva Katzman and
Mr. Morris Mauer
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Kautz
Mr. and Mrs. E. Paul Kelly
Ms. Jean P. Kempf
Sara Keyak
Mrs. Insook Kim
Dr. Moon-Ju Kim and Mr. Paul Park
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Kim
Ms. Haeran Kim
Patrick and Fukoko Kitano
Robert S. Klein
Adela and Richard Knight
Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Knoepfel
Ms. Constance Kobayashi
Mr. David Koffman
Allison Kozak
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Krantz
Ms. Aisha Krieger
Mr. and Mrs. John Kryzanowski
Drs. Michael and Grace Kwok
Vinh M.G. Lam
Langridge Family
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Larsen
Mr. Almon E. Larsh, Jr.
Eugene and Gwen Lavin
Mr. George A. Lazar
Mr. Richard L. Ledon
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lee
Arlene and Welton Lee
Mr. Peter Lee
Dieter C. Lenz

6. Thank You SupportersThank You Supporters
Mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao rehearses with
faculty pianist Mack McCray
FALL 2010 1110
Vera and Harold S. Stein, Jr.
Ms. Jo Ann Stewart
Ms. Lilian T. Stielstra
Ms. Laura Storm
John Hale Stutesman
Esther Sun
Ms. Robin A. Sutton
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Sydow
Donald and Lily Tam
Mr. Richard D. Tilles
Terence and Vivian Yu
David Clark Tseng
Jerome Tulchin
Mr. Thomas Turinia
Ms. Suzanne Turley
Maria Ury
Martha and John Vlahos
Mary and Terry Vogt
Marian Marsh and David Wade
Suzette Wallace
Stephen P. Wallace
Ms. Judith Bergin Walsh
Lilian Walters and John Perrotis
Drs. Peter and Pamela Webb
Ronald Welch and Ellen Watson
Robert and Tina Wertz
Dr. Cherie L. R. Wetzel
Paul and Laura White
Ms. Sylvia White
Ms. Vivian Wilder
Ms. Kendall Wilkinson
Jack and Susan Wittenmyer
Mr. William W. Wong
Phil and Gail Wright
Family of Ethan Yan
Mr. Wenjin Yang and Ms. Bella Lin
Ms. Sandra M. Yoffie
Jacqueline Young
David Young and Donald Bird
David Zebker
Ms. Joan L. Zentner
Barry Zevin M.D.
Mark Ziering
Mike Zimmerman
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Zinn
Conservatory
Faculty and Staff
Anonymous (8)
Ms. Elinor Armer
Timothy and Rie Bach
Robert Britton
Alexander Brose
Ms. Filiz Caglayan
Scott and Peggy Cmiel
Kip Cranna
Ms. Jennifer S. Culp
Mr. Jacques Desjardins
Steven André Dibner
Jacqueline Divenyi
Erna Gulabyan
Mr. Wei He and Ms. Ming Xue
Dr. Nikolaus Hohmann
Corey Jamason
Matthew Kennedy
Ms. Machiko Kobialka
Frank and Linda Kurtz
Ms. Esther Landau and
Ms. Caroline Pincus
Davis Law and Hyung Nam Law
Jodi Levitz
John and Annamarie McCarthy
Colin and Sam Murdoch
Bettina Mussumeli
Ms. Sonja Neblett
Ms. Murrey E. Nelson
Lawrence Newhouse, Inc.
Mr. Jason O’Connell
Ms. Nicole Paiement
Eithne & Al Pardini
Dr. Mary Ellen Poole
Mr. Timothy R. Price
Jane Randolph
Ms. Carol Rice
Mr. Doug Rioth
Lena Schuman
Bess Touma
Tony Vella
Ms. Sarah Voynow and
Mr. Anthony Berman
Yaada Weber
Paul Welcomer
Ms. Jerri Witt
Institutional Gifts
Asset Management Company
AT&T California
Bettina Baruch Foundation
Agnes and Byron Beildeck Music
Scholarship Fund
John M. Bryan Family Fund
Frank A. Campini Foundation
Compton Foundation, Inc.
The Ann and
Gordon Getty Foundation
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
The Florence Gould Foundation
Grants for the Arts of the San
Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation
Hanson Bridgett LLP
The Herbst Foundation, Inc.
The William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation
HSBC Private Bank
ISOM Foundation
Jackson Lewis LLP
Kaiser Permanente Public Affairs
The Kingsley Family Foundation
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
The Stanley S. Langendorf
Foundation
Laurel Heights Convalescent
Hospital
Littler Mendelson Foundation, Inc.
Machiah Foundation of the Jewish
Community Endowment Fund
Margoes Foundation
The Ross McKee Foundation
Mid-Peninsula League of
the San Francisco Symphony
Moore Dry Dock Foundation
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Osterweis Capital Management, LLC
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker LLP
Perkins + Will
PKR Consulting, Inc.
Portal Insurance Agency, Inc.
Post Family Trust
Prep Family Day
The Presser Foundation
Edna Reichmuth Scholarship Trust
The San Francisco Foundation
The Schick Foundation
Sequoia Trust
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
The L.J. Skaggs and
Mary C. Skaggs Foundation
May and Stanley Smith
Charitable Trust
The Morris Stulsaft Foundation
Ticketfly, Inc.
Union Bank of California
The Narada Michael Walden
Foundation
Wallis Foundation
Jessie Wegner Trust
Wells Fargo Bank
Wells Fargo Foundation
Emma Lou Young Music Fund
of the Jewish Community
Endowment Fund
Corporate council
Members
All Clean
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.
Artis Capital Management, LP
Asset Management Company
AT&T
Bank of America Foundation
The Capital Group Companies
Charitable Foundation
Charles Schwab Foundation
Chevron Corporation
Deutsche Bank Americas
Foundation
Hanson Bridgett LLP
HSBC Private Bank
IBM Corporation
Jackson Lewis LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
KPMG
Littler Mendelson Foundation
Macy’s Foundation
McKesson Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Osterweis Capital Management, LLC
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker LLP
Perkins + Will
Portal Insurance Agency Inc.
RBC Capital Markets
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sony Corporation of America
State Farm Companies
Sun Microsystems
Union Bank of California
Varian Medical Systems
Wells Fargo Bank
Matching Gifts
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.
Artis Capital Management, LP
AT&T Foundation
Bank of America Foundation
The Capital Group Companies
Charitable Foundation
Chevron Corporation
College Access Foundation
of California
Deutsche Bank Americas
Foundation
IBM Corporation
Macy’s Foundation
McKesson Corporation
Microsoft Corporation Matching
Gift Program
Charles Schwab Foundation
Sony Corporation of America
State Farm Companies Foundation
The Sun Microsystems Foundation
Varian Medical Systems
Wells Fargo Educational
Matching Gift Program
Significant In-Kind
Gifts
Anchor Brewing Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Kent T. Baum
Ms. Laura E. Bernabei
BiRite Foodservice Distributors
Ms. Myrtle A. Blanton
Mr. Ernest Bloch II
Didi and Dix Boring
Carmen Busch
Cetrella Restaurant
Thomas R. Colletta
Robert and Laura Cory
Entercom/KDFC Radio
Mr. Clark W. Fobes
Richard J. Forde, M.D.
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Steven Hammerschlag and Debra
Reynolds
Hanson Bridgett LLP
Mr. L. John Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Himes
La Boulange Bakery
Mandarin Villa Restaurant
Marino Mexican and
Seafood Restaurant
Clifford and Rose Meltzer
Vivienne E. Miller
Mr. Stephen Mittel
Jason O’Connell
Mrs. Lise Deschamps Ostwald
The PlumpJack Group
Presidio Golf Course Café
Ms. Margaret S. Rocchia
Gary A. Rust, M.D.
See’s Candies, Inc.
Sheet Music Plus
Mr. Edward Suharski and
Ms. Elizabeth McCarthy
Ms. Marie Tilson
Tres Sabores
Ms. Barbara Walkowski
Dr. Frank R. Wilson
Ada Clement Planned
Giving Society
Anonymous (2)
Mrs. Jocelyn Adler
Dr. Richard Leonards
Ms. Elizabeth Lester
Mr. James A. Leuker
Mrs. Evelyn Levin
Ms. Zahavah Levine
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Levine
Amy and Joel Levine
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levy
Ms. Lolly Lewis
Ming Li
Mr. Alfred Li and Ms. Connie Ng
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Lim
Mr. Steven Lind
Bonnie Lindahl
Alexander and Ramona Lipske
Britt-Marie Ljung
Mr. John T. Lopez
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Lowens
Dr. & Mrs. G. Karl Ludwig, Jr.
Leon and Helen Luey
Mr. Bruce Lundquist
Jim Lyle
Weijuan & Chao Ma
Ms. Suzanne Macahilig
Mr. Edmund R. Manwell
Ms. Alix Marduel and
Mr. William Thomas Lockard
Dr. John S. Mark
David and Cathy Marsten
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. Martin
Norman Masonson
Eldon Mather
Mr. Alexander P. Matson
S. Matsuo and V. Ma
Rosemary and John Maulbetsch
Ms. Denise Mauldin
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McCarthy
Joanna McClure
Mr. Chris McCrum
Mr. Matthew C. McFee
Mr. Robert McIvor
Julie McKenzie and Ken Miller
Mr. Jin H. Meng
Mr. and Mrs. M. Meyyappan
Peter and Caryl Mezey
Mr. Roger D. Miles and
Mrs. Satomi Fukuda Miles
Judith and Walter Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Miller
Mr. Harry Mitchell
Carl and Gloria Mondon
Mr. Christopher Lyall Morrill
Mr. Arthur Morris
Catherine H. Munson
Fred Muribus
Ms. Virginia Murillo
Mr. Randall S. Murley
Patty and Jim Murray
Mr. Don Nelson
Mr. Richard Nicewonger
Mr. and Mrs. D. Warner North
Norman and Hillevi Null
Mr. James E. O’Donnell
Shanna O’Hare
Mr. and Mrs. Paul O’Keeffe
Craig Olzenak
Mr. Peter O’Malley
Ms. Mitzi S. Palmer
Harold A. Parker, Esq.
Robert and Carol Parvin
Catherine Payne and Daniel Banner
Louise M. Pescetta
Frances Wong Peters
Ms. Linda Poligono Webster
Demetri J. Polites
Robert and Marcia Popper
Ms. Christine Powell and
Mr. Bern Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Garry Preneta
Ms. Tammy Preuss
Ms. Ellen Price
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Purcell
Jennifer F. Raike
Ms. Alicia Ramirez
Lady Elise Rattle
Mrs. Wei En Raymond
Ms. Amy Rees and Mr. Chris Nelson
Mr. Glenn H. Reid
Mr. Arthur J. Remedios
Ms. Barbara Resnik
Prof. Walter E. Rex
Mrs. Laurose Richter
Mr. Joseph Ries
Mr. Michael Roberts
Ms. Susan Robertson
Mrs. Dirkje M. Rook
Mr. David Rorick
Barbara J. Ross
Mr. James Ross
Hermina M. Rosskopf
Ms. Mary E. Rudden
Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Rupp
Bob and Terri Ryan
Mrs. Peggy R. Salkind
Sandbox
Ken and Marjorie Sauer
Mr. and Mrs. H. Alton Schick
Miss Katherine Schmidt
Mr. Guido Schroeder and
Ms. Yang Liu
Mr. Harold Segelstad
Mr. Stuart Seligson
Ms. Rita R. Semel
Murali Sharma and Sadhana Jain
Mr. William M. Sharp
Ms. Carolyn Shaw
Mr. Edmund Sheffield
Jeffrey Shuttleworth and
Cecilia Gaerlan
Mrs. Victoria Smith
Steve Smith and Terri Lahey
Judge Garrett Grant and
Jennifer Sobol
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell C. Sollod
Dr. Sonja Sorbo
Mr. John Spellman
Mr. John M. Stedman and
Ms. Julie Brook
Simon Rattle in a workshop with the
Conservatory Orchestra
The Paul F. Albert Fund of
Horizons Foundation
Mr. Anthony J. Alfidi
Mr. Steven Alter
David and Judith Preves Anderson
Mr. Jeffrey J. Argentos
Dr. William Armstrong
Patricia H. and
John C. Beckman Fund of The
Oregon Community Foundation
Mr. Andrew J. Bellotti
Mr. Rachmael Ben-Avram and
Mr. Gerard Lespinette
Drs. Richard and Nancy Bohannon
Didi and Dix Boring
Ms. Valerie E. Brouard
Josephine Brownback
Ava Jean Brumbaum
Mr. Philip Bylund
Ms. Kathryn L. Cousineau
Anne J. Davis
Mr. Wesley Day
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dennis
Dr. and Mrs. James R. Diederich
Carol Pucci Doll
Mr. and Mrs. Harris Elvebak
Ms. Helen E. Faibish
Christine Finseth
Mr. Clark W. Fobes
Mrs. Laura G. Frankel
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fraser
Miss Muriel Talbot French
Ms. Joan Gallegos
Mr. Thomas R. Gambrel
Mrs. Rosalie Z. Gerber
Mrs. Harold B. Getz, Jr.
Ms. Doris W. Grau
Mr. and Mrs. Ulf Gustafsson
Bonnie Hampton
Dr. Helen A. Hanson
Mr. James A. Heagy
Ms. Margriet Hecht
Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Hughes
Mr. Mason Ingram
Carol R. Johnson
Mr. Loren Jones and
Ms. Catherine Valentine
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kaplan
Mrs. Ellen Kastius
Mr. Harold Korf
Mrs. Charlene Kunitz
Mr. Hermann le Roux
Mrs. Flossie Lewis
Mr. Ben Maiden
Mr. Lotfi Mansouri
Miss Josephine Markovich
Norman Masonson
Ms. Denise Mauldin
Mr. Frank T. Maynard
Mrs. Norma M. McBride
Laura Kimble McLellan
Mr. David C. Milward
D G Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Mizel
Mr. Henry Mooney
Colin and Sam Murdoch
Lawrence Newhouse, Inc.
Mr. Christien Nilssen
Norman and Hillevi Null
Mrs. Michael A. O’Hanlon
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Perkins, Sr.
David and Roberta Pressman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Primes
Ms. Jane Radcliffe
Mr. Dana L. Rees
Bob and Jane Regan
Ms. Marilyn B. Schindler
Elizabeth L. Schultz
Mr. Jack E. Schuss
Marilyn G. Seiberling
Mr. Michael Seither
Mrs. Eugene A. Shurtleff
Mr. Vernon N. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Snyder
Ann and Ellis Stephens
Mr. Joel D. Stirling
Ms. Marilyn Anne Townsend
Mr. Hugh C. Trutton
Mr. Cecil L. Unruh
Mr. Rex Vaughan
Lilian Walters and John Perrotis
Mrs. Manya Warner
Linda and George Wertheim
Dr. Cherie L. R. Wetzel
Mrs. David B. Wodlinger
Endowment and
Memorial Funds
Sandi and Joe Black
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bodian
The Brody Family
Geri Celestre
The Christensen Family
Ms. Madeline Chun
Mrs. André Paul P. de Bord
Estate of Roger A. Elliott
Christine Finseth
Mrs. Harold B. Getz, Jr.
Joan Glassey
Bonnie Hampton
Mrs. C. Lester Hogan
Hurlbut-Johnson Fund of
the Silicon Valley Community
Foundation
Mrs. Barbara Imbrie
Donald E. Kelley, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Lin
Frank and Sally Lopez
Estate of Frank Noel Mathes
Lorna Meyer and Dennis Calas
Maura and Robert Morey
Dr. Jonathon Narita and
Dr. Thianda Manzara
Post Family Trust
Reverend and Mrs. Larry Rankin
Mr. James E. Ryan
Ms. Regina Schaffer and
Mr. Tucker Jessup
The Nick Traina Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Traitel
Mark and Liz Vorsatz and Family
EndowED Funds and
Named Scholarships
Agnes Albert Scholarship
William Banovetz Oboe Scholarship
Sergei Barsukov Scholarship
for Piano
Sergei Barsukov Scholarship
for Violin
Alexander Bellow Scholarship
Ruth and Jo Blackmore Scholarship
Justin Blasdale Memorial Fund
The Miriam and Leo Bodian
Scholarship Fund
Marilyn Volpe and
George Borkow Scholarship
Selina Canes &
Jacques Meyer Canes Scholarship
Samuel Clark Scholarship
Vincent Costantino Scholarship
Louise M. Davies Scholarship
Christiane P. de Bord Scholarship
Betty Swig Dinner Scholarship
Helen and Willis Elliott Scholarship
Jorge Estebanez Scholarship
Adelaide and Frederick Finseth
Scholarship Fund
Frank and Josephine Fragale
Scholarship
Isidor Geiger Violin Scholarship
Dolores Graves Vocal Scholarship
Walter Guttmann Piano Scholarship
Crescent Porter Hale Scholarship
The Peter and Jacqueline Hoefer
Scholarship Fund
The Audrey and
Les Hogan Vocal Scholarship
Lester A. Holmes Scholarship
William S. Howe Scholarship
Hurlbut-Johnson
Preparatory Scholarship
Hulbut-Johnson Scholarship
Andrew Imbrie Chamber Music
Scholarship
Kolko Family Scholarship for
String Students
May S. Kurka Scholarship
Lewis Scholarship
Cherry Lin Scholarship in Honor of
Tomoko Hagiwara
Jane and Martin Livingston
Memorial Scholarship
Martin Livingston Preparatory
Scholarship
Barry Manilow Scholarship
Frank Noel Mathes Scholarship
Susan McCarthy Memorial
Scholarship for Students of
Musicianship
Dean B. McNealy Scholarship
Connie and Charles Meng
Scholarship
Arthur Minton Scholarship
Robert and Maura Morey
Scholarship
Stanley K. Nairin Scholarship
O’Shaughnessy Scholarship Fund
Bernard Osher Foundation
Scholarship
Osher Foundation Scholars
Peter F. Ostwald Scholarship Fund
The Jessica Pastron Memorial
Scholarship
Harold D. Pischel, Jr. Scholarship
Peter B. Pischel Scholarship
Germain Prevost Viola Scholarship
Marcia & Gene Purpus Scholarship
Barbara Lull Rahm Scholarship
Peter Dimitris Rangaves Scholarship
Anthony J. Rine Vocal Scholarship
Beatrice M. Rine Piano Scholarship
C. Sheldon & Patricia Roberts
Scholarship
Janet Rose Piano Scholarship
Margaret Rowell Cello Scholarship
James and Elizabeth Ryan
Scholarship Fund
Milton Salkind Scholarship
Sarlo Housing Scholarship
Harold W. Scheeline Piano
Scholarship
David Schneider Memorial
Scholarship
James H. Schwabacher, Jr.
Scholarship
Nathan Schwartz Memorial
Scholarship
Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson
Scholarship
Lev and Frances Shorr Scholarship
Betty Hamilton Shurtleff
Scholarship
Jane Lawton Southcott Scholarship
Evelyn and Russell Staton
Scholarship
Dorothy Steinmetz Voice
Scholarship
Donald C. Stenberg
Memorial Scholarship
Henia Stone Memorial Scholarship
Edward G. Stotsenberg
Memorial Scholarship
Isadore Tinkleman Scholarship
The Nick Traina Foundation
Scholarship
Joan and David Traitel Vocal
Scholarship
The M. Blair Vorsatz Scholarship in
Honor of Tomoko Hagiwara
Phyllis Wattis Scholarship
Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Foundation
Scholarship
Phyllis C. Wattis Memorial
Scholarship
B. Gardner Wilcox Piano Scholarship
William Wolski Violin Scholarship
Marilyn Jo Wood Memorial
Scholarship
Robert 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 Awards
Kris Getz Composition Award
Marina Grin Award
Jim Highsmith Award in
Composition
The Peter and Jacqueline Hoefer
Alumni Composers Fund

7. FALL 2010 1312
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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, 6
March 5-6 Handel Alcina
April 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

8. Collegiate Faculty Preparatory & Adult
Extension Faculty
FALL 2010 1514
Leroy Kromm
Ruby Pleasure
Jane Randolph
Marcie Stapp Diction
César Ulloa
Academic Faculty
Alexander Technique
Robert Britton
General Education
Erin DeBakcsy
Jill L. Ferguson Chair
Nikolaus Hohmann
Matthew Kennedy
Betsy Marvit
Lois S. Musmann
Brian Neilson
Eithne Pardini
Library
Kevin McLaughlin
Music History and Literature
Mason Bates
Dan Becker
Sarah Cahill
Luciano Chessa
Thomas Conroy
David Conte
Mary Fettig
David Garner
Susan Harvey
Paul Hersh
Corey Jamason
Bruce Lamott
Emily Laurance
Kevin McLaughlin
Rebecca Plack
Richard Savino
John Spitzer Chair
Conrad Susa
Music Theory and Musicianship
Thomas Conroy
Jacques Desjardins
Scott Foglesong Chair
David Garner
Alla Gladysheva
Sonja Neblett
Michael Schroeder
Conrad Susa
Practical Aspects of a
Career in Music
Clifford Cranna
Mario Guarneri
Sound Recording
Jason O’Connell
Teaching Skills
Kayleen Asbo
Yoriko Richman
Ensemble Faculty
Brass and Woodwind
Chamber Music
Jeffrey Anderson
Miles Anderson
Luis Baez
Gregory Barber
Woodwind Coordinator
David Burkhart
Timothy Day
Steven Dibner
John R. Engelkes
Mario Guarneri
Brass Coordinator
Mark Lawrence
James Moore
Stephen Paulson
Jonathan Ring
Bruce Roberts
Peter Wahrhaftig
Robert Ward
Paul Welcomer
Conservatory Baroque
Corey Jamason Co-Director
Elisabeth Reed Co-Director
Conservatory Chorus
David Conte Director
Conservatory Chamber Choir
Ragnar Bohlin Director
Conservatory Orchestra
Andrew Mogrelia
Music Director
Alasdair Neale
Principal Guest Conductor
Guitar Ensemble
Sérgio Assad
Lawrence Ferrara
David Tanenbaum
Marc Teicholz
Musical Theater Workshop
Heather Mathews Director
Michael Mohammed
Director, Fall 2010
Bryan Nies Music Director
New Music Ensemble
Nicole Paiement
Artistic Director
Jacques Desjardins
Assistant Conductor
Opera Program
Milissa Carey Acting
Kathryn Cathcart
Music Director
Darryl Cooper
Assistant Music Director
Richard Harrell
Director, Opera Program
Heather Mathews
Assistant Director
Michael Mohammed
Assistant Director, Fall 2010
Performance Faculty
Bassoon
Gregory Barber
Stephen Paulson
Clarinet
Jeffrey Anderle Clarinet Class
Luis Baez
Jerome Simas Bass Clarinet
Composition
Elinor Armer
Dan Becker Chair
David Conte
David Garner
Alden Jenks
Conrad Susa
Conducting
Michael Morgan
Alasdair Neale
Sonja Neblett Chair
Double Bass
Scott Pingel
Stephen Tramontozzi
Flute
Timothy Day Chair,
Woodwinds
Guitar
Sérgio Assad
Lawrence Ferrara
Richard Savino
Guitar History, Literature
David Tanenbaum Chair
Marc Teicholz
Harp
Douglas Rioth
Harpsichord
Corey Jamason
Horn
Jonathan Ring
Bruce Roberts
Robert Ward
Oboe
William Bennett
James Moore
Organ
Rodney Gehrke
Percussion
David Herbert Timpani
Jack Van Geem Chair
Piano
Paul Hersh
Sharon Mann
Mack McCray Chair
Yoshikazu Nagai
William Wellborn Piano
Pedagogy
Piano Accompanying
Timothy Bach Chair
Trombone
John R. Engelkes Bass
Mark Lawrence Tenor;
Chair, Brass
Paul Welcomer Tenor
Trumpet
David Burkhart
Mario Guarneri
Mark Inouye
Tuba
Jeffrey Anderson
Peter Wahrhaftig
Viola
Don Ehrlich
Paul Hersh
Katie Kadarauch
Orchestra Excerpts
Jodi Levitz Chair, Strings
Madeline Prager
Violin
Alexander Barantschik
Wei He
Bettina Mussumeli
Axel Strauss
Ian Swensen
Catherine Van Hoesen
Orchestral Excerpts
Violoncello
Jennifer Culp
Jean-Michel Fonteneau
Voice
Sylvia Anderson
Catherine Cook Chair
Patricia Craig
Pamela Fry
Eric Howe Vocal Physiology;
Vocal Pedagogy
Orchestral Training
Gregory Barber
Jeff Biancalana
Jodi Levitz
Bettina Mussumeli
Douglas Rioth
Adam Smyla
Tanya Tomkins
Stephen Tramontozzi
Chen Zhao
Percussion Ensemble
Jack Van Geem Director
String and Piano Chamber Music
Jennifer Culp
Jean-Michel Fonteneau Chair
Paul Hersh
Jodi Levitz
Robert Mann
Yoshikazu Nagai
Mark Sokol
Axel Strauss
Ian Swensen
Emeriti
Marcella DeCray
Joan Gallegos
Leonid Gesin
Willene Gunn
Hermann le Roux
Zaven Melikian
Peggy Salkind
Camilla Wicks
Accompanists &
Vocal Coaches
Steven Bailey
Mark Bruce
Hsueh-Ching Chien
Amy Chiu
Nadya Dabuzhskaya
Michael Grossman
Elizabeth Ingber
Alex Katsman
Kevin Korth
Jieun Lee
Shu Li
Keisuke Nakagoshi
Bryan Nies
Kristin Pankonin
Carl Pantle
Mai-Linh Pham
Ian Scarfe
Yeo Jin Seol
Szu-pei (Teresa) Yu
Music Director Andrew Mogrelia coaxes
pizzicato precision from the orchestra
Composition
June Bonacich
Thomas Conroy
David Conte
Michael Kaulkin
Arkadi Serper
Early Childhood
Mikako Endo
Luba Kravchenko
Jaejin Lee
Yoriko Richman
Christie Peery Skousen
Ensembles
Susan Bates
Paul Binkley
Tamara Bohlin
Theresa Calpotura
Scott Cmiel
Randolph Fromme
Doris Fukawa Chair
Aenea Mizushima Keyes
Machiko Kobialka
Andrew Luchansky
Richard Rogers
Ross Thompson
Yaada Weber
Guitar
Paul Binkley
Theresa Calpotura
Scott Cmiel
Lawrence Ferrara
Ross Thompson
Harp
Emily Laurence
Douglas Rioth
Sarah Voynow
Harpsichord
Corey Jamason
Musicianship
June Bonacich
Theresa Calpotura
Scott Cmiel Chair
Thomas Conroy
Michael Kaulkin
Richard Roper
Arkadi Serper
Organ
Rodney Gerhke
Percussion
Tommy Kesecker
Piano
Katherine Buss
Jacqueline Chew
Amy Chiu
Lauren Cony
Jacqueline Divenyi
Alla Gladysheva
Erna Gulabyan
Tomoko Hagiwara
Heidi Hau
Paul Hersh
Dorian Ho
Machiko Kobialka
Sima Kouyoumdjian
Luba Kravchenko
Jaejin Lee
Sharon Mann
Meikui Matsushima
Annamarie McCarthy
John McCarthy
Mack McCray
Yoshikazu Nagai
June Choi Oh
Scott Pratt
Richard Rogers
Lena Schuman
Robert Schwartz
Christie Peery Skousen
William Wellborn
Jerri Witt
Helen Wong
Strings
Kineko Barbini violin
William Barbini violin
Susan Bates viola
Pat Burnham violin
Shinji Eshima bass
Jean-Michel Fonteneau
violoncello
Doris Fukawa violin
Monica Gruber violin
Wei He violin
Aenea Mizushima Keyes
violin
Jonathan Koh violoncello
Davis Law violin
Jodi Levitz viola
Li Lin violin
Sieun Lin violoncello
Yun-Jie Liu viola
Bettina Mussumeli violin
Helen Dilworth
Eun-Mee Ko
Hermann le Roux
Dina Reyes
Anja Strauss
Adult Extension
Division
June Bonacich
Robert Britton
Jacqueline Chew
Clifford Cranna
Helen Dilworth
Alden Jenks
Brian Neilson
Tim Price
Richard Roper
Anja Strauss
Conrad Susa
Indre Viskontas
Barbara Wirth
Carol Rice violoncello
Monica Scott violoncello
James Shallenberger violin
Axel Strauss violin
Ian Swensen violin
Barbara Wirth violoncello
Amos Yang violoncello
Winds and Brass
Yueh Chou bassoon
Kathryn Curran trombone
Roman Fukshansky clarinet
Gary Jagard horn
Esther Landau flute
Scott Macomber trumpet
Kevin McLaughlin trumpet
Timothy Price saxophone
Laura Reynolds oboe
Richard Roper trumpet
Yaada Weber flute
Voice
Christine Abraham
Pamela Alexander
TRUSTEES
Kent Taylor Baum
Edward W. Beck
Patricia B. Berkowitz
Richard A. Bohannon, M.D.
Mrs. Dix Boring
Mrs. James F. Buckley, Jr.
Mrs. Carol W. Casey
H. David Choo
Steven A. Cinelli
Christiane P. de Bord
Mrs. Genevieve di
San Faustino
Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich
Christian P. Erdman
Mrs. A. Barlow Ferguson
Mrs. Ernest Goggio
Mrs. 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. Anderson
John C. Beckman
Ava Jean Brumbaum
Reid Dennis
Mrs. Harold B. Getz, Jr.
Bruce W. Hart
Warren Hashagen
— in memoriam
Mrs. Richard C. Otter
Michael J. Savage
Mrs. Eugene Shurtleff
John B. Stuppin
Ashford D. Wood
Advisory
Board
Gordon P. Getty
Thomas Hampson
Lotfi Mansouri
Robert K. McFerrin, Jr.
Frederica von Stade
Isaac Stern
—in memoriam
Robin Sutherland ’75
Michael Tilson Thomas
Faculty
Representative
Nikolaus Hohmann
Laurence A. Lasky, Ph.D.
Rose C. Meltzer
Lorna F. Meyer
Maura B. Morey
Deepa R. Pakianathan
Peter Pastreich
Nancy Probst
Joshua M. Rafner
Matthew Raphaelson
Gary A. Rust, M.D.
George S. Sarlo
Regina Schaffer
Camilla Smith
Joan Traitel
Barbara Walkowski
Michael R.V. Whitman
Robert H. Zerbst
Yoriko Richman teaching Dalcroze
to young students
Prep student Hilda
Huang with alumnus
Robin Sutherland
Guitar Department Chair David
Tanenbaum and student Eric Sandoval

9. 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
Dvorˇák 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, piano
Thursday, 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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