BOARD

Board of Directors

Katherine Bukstein, President

Violist. Violin and viola instructor. Education Committee Member, Music at Kohl Mansion. Volunteer classroom music teacher, San Mateo public schools. Member of Education and Artistic Committees of the Peninsula Symphony. former school orchestra teacher, San Carlos. Former board member, California Music Center and Peninsula Symphony. B.A. from Scripps College. M.M, San Francisco State University.

William T. Horne, Vice President

Retired psychiatrist, amateur pianist, President, Mill Valley Chamber Music Society, Board member, ACMP, The Chamber Music Network and Chamber Musicians of Northern California.

James T. Leak, Treasurer

International tax consultant, Arthur Andersen & Co., Coopers & Lybrand, G. D. Searle & Co. and Bank of America (retired). B.B.A in accounting, Baylor University and a law degree from the University of Chicago, amateur pianist.

Mary Wildavsky, Secretary

Music lover. Retired landscaper/garden designer; speech pathologist, Master of Science degree in Communicative Disorders for Speech Pathology, San Francisco State University; Bachelor in Education: French and Education, University of London, England; assistant in the publications departments at Oxford University Press, London and Unesco, Paris

Susan Bates, Immediate Past President

Violist, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (1979-2010). Instructor of Viola and Chamber Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. Former Director, SFCM Preparatory Chamber Music Program, Summer Music West. Founder, California Summer Music, Lake Tahoe Music Festival Academy. Awarded The Samuel Gruber Award for "Excellence in Chamber Music Teaching" from Chamber Music America.

Martin Gellen

Retired amateur pianist and music lover. Held various executive positions in municipal bond insurance companies for 16 years. Former faculty member, Department of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley. Served as Co-chair, Housing Committee, SPUR and President of Board of Classical Dance of Napa Valley.

Béatrice Gomory

Marketing Director, US Operations, Magimix by Robot-Coupe, Early Music enthusiast.

Eric J. Kim

Cello enthusiast and former member of Aldo Parisot's Yale Cellos. Managing Director at Maverick Capital focusing on venture capital, private equity, and small cap equity investments. B.A. from Yale College, and M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Peter Y. Kim

Music collector and concert goer. Member of Executive Committee of Stanford Club of San Francisco. Founder of Wharton's Classical Music Society. Product Manager at PlumDistrict.com, a Kleiner Perkins funded start up. BS, MS from Stanford. MBA from Wharton.

Susan Larson

Amateur cellist, chamber music enthusiast, arts advocate. Past president, San Francisco Symphony Silicon Valley League, Board of Directors, New Century Chamber Orchestra.

Jodi Levitz

Professor of Viola and Chamber Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Violist, Ives Quartet. San Francisco /Bay Area American String Teachers Association Chapter, board member. Holds BM and MM degrees from The Juilliard School. Formally principal viola and soloist with the Italian chamber group "I Solisti Veneti".

Elizabeth Prior

Professional Violist, guest performer with San Francisco Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Marin Symphony; Founder, Broderick Ensemble. Festivals: Colorado Music Festival, Cabrillo Festival, Grand Tetons Music Festival, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, Sun Valley Summer Symphony and the Fredener Musiktage.

Nancy B. Ranney
Retired partner in business litigation law firm. Specialized in counseling Lloyd's insurers regarding insurance coverage of liability for pollution cleanup. Board president of Crisis Support Services (Alameda County) 2007-2010. Sometime amateur pianist; lifelong avid music lover. BA Stanford University 1962; JD Catholic University 1980.

Tom Stone

Violinist, Cypress String Quartet, Board member, Chamber Music America.

Frances Varnhagen, Past President

Former Chairman of Young Audiences of the Bay Area; former Board member of San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the San Francisco Community Music Center; directed volunteer programs for KQED auctions, the San Francisco Film Festival, and the Transamerica Tennis Championships; holds a Bachelor of Arts in Musicology from Mills College.

Patrick Wilken

Partner, Integrated Marketing Partners, San Francisco; President, Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera.

Past Presidents: Jane Roos Le Roux, Frances Varnhagen, Susan Bates

Founding members: Barbara Barclay, Jane Galante (in memorium), Jane Roos Le Roux

The Board has been in existence since 1999.(The first board meeting was on March 1st, 1999.)

Dominique Pelletey, Executive Director

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