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Board of Directors as October2009

 

Katherine Bukstein, President

Violist; music instructor (strings and classroom music), Board member, California Music Center; Education Committee of Music at Kohl Mansion, Board member, Peninsula Symphony.

 

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.

 

 

 

Judith Preves Anderson

Retired United Airlines Project/Financial/Market Research/Operations Managers; Vice President, Klein International String Competition; Artistic advisory, Music at Kohl Mansion; President, San Francisco Symphony Upper Peninsula League, Silicon Valley League, ACT Planned Giving Steering Committee.

 

Susan Bates
Former SFFCM president, Violist, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; 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 "Excellence in Chamber Music Teaching" The Samuel Gruber Award from Chamber Music America.

 

Krisanthy Desby

Cellist, Laurel Ensemble; Assistant Principal Cello, Napa Valley Symphony; member of the Grand Teton Music Festival.

 

Beatrice Gomory

Marketing Director, US Operations, Magimix by Robot-Coupe; Early Music enthusiast; Past Gala Chair, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Former member of the Chorale de l'Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier.

 

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 Runnicles

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.

 

Tom Stone

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

 

Frances Varnhagen

Former SFFCM 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, Jane Roos Le Roux

 

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

 





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