Susan Bates, President, board member since 2001
San Francisco, CA
Violist, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; Instructor of Viola and Chamber Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Founder and former Program Director, Faculty, California Summer Music; Co-founder and former Director, Preparatory Chamber Music Program, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Patrick Wilken, Vice President, board member since 2001
San Francisco, CA
Partner, Integrated Marketing Partners, San Francisco; Board member, Merola Program of the San Francisco Opera.
Tom Stone, Treasurer, board member since 2003
San Francisco, CA
Violinist, Cypress String Quartet.; Board Member Chamber Music America
Katherine Bukstein, Secretary , board member since 2004
Hillsborough, CA
Violist; currently music instructor, with an emphasis on strings, for middle school students in San Carlos School District; Board member, California Music Center; Music Advisory Committee of Music at Kohl Mansion; former Chamber Music Coaching Coordinator for Chamber Musicians of Northern California; Board member of the Peninsula Symphony; earned a BA from Scripps College in Modern European History and a Masters of Music in Viola Performance with an emphasis on Chamber Music from San Francisco State University.
Judith Preves Anderson, board member since 1999
Hillsborough, CA
Retired United Airlines Project Manager; Vice President, Klein International String competition; Artistic Advisory Committee, Music at Kohl Mansion; President San Francisco Symphony Upper Peninsula League.
Krisanthy Desby, board member since 2002
San Francisco, CA
Cellist; member of the Laurel Ensemble and the Mendocino and Grand Teton Music Festivals.
James T. Leak, board member since 2007
Alamo, CA
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.
Jodi Levitz, board member since 2005
San Francisco, CA
Violist. Holds BM and MM degrees from The Juilliard School. Professor of Viola and Chamber Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Prior appointment as viola and soloist with the Italian chamber group I Solisti Veneti. In June 2006 She joined the Ives Quartet.
Thalia Moore, board member since 1999
Oakland, CA
Cellist, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Douglas Powell, board member since 2004
San Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Music from U.C. Santa Barbara, Graduate Composition Studies at the University of Southern California, J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law; award-winning composer; software architect and author of Sonopedia: the Complete Catalog of Chords and Scales.
Elizabeth Prior Runnicles, board member since 2006
San Francisco, CA
Violist, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Marin Symphony. Other orchestral credits include the Baden Baden Radio, Stuttgart Radio, Basel Symphony, and Mannheim Opera Orchestras, as well as the Freiburg Philharmonic and Cape Town Symphony.Chamber music include ensembles such as the Broderick String Quartet, the Marin Harp Trio, Trio Resonance, the Barbican String Quartet, and Ensemble 13 Karlsruhe. Festival performances include the Colorado Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, the Grand Tetons Music Festival, the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and the Fredener Musiktage
Frances Varnhagen, board member since 1999
San Francisco, CA
Former SFFCM President (2003-2006) 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.
Mary Wildavsky, board member since 2005
Oakland, CA
Music lover. Retired landscaper/garden designer; prior work as Speech Pathologist, with 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.
Paul Yarbrough, board member since 1999
San Francisco, CA
Violist, Alexander String Quartet; Instructor, San Francisco State University School of Music and Dance.
The Board has been in existence since 1998.
Founding members: Barbara Barclay, Jane Galante, Jane Roos Le Roux
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