CHANCELLOR'S CONCERT SERIES RESUMES

With the New Year comes a new series of wonderful concerts that bring some of the Bay Area's most accomplished and acclaimed musicians to UCSF's Cole Hall to give free performances every Thursday at noon.

This concert series began last October. It was established by Medical School Dean Haile Debas while he was Chancellor, with the aim of enriching the quality of life on campus. He seems to have been right on.

"More, more! Wonderful idea, lovely execution," was one response. "Love the idea of noontime concerts," said a staff member. "I think this is a great service to the UCSF community," said a student, and another concert-goer commented, "Of all the things you could do to provide inspiration and uplift the spirit during the work week, I can't think of anything better."

During the winter quarter, the range of music to be performed will be widespread. And to perform it, we are privileged to have topflight musicians, most of them from the SF Symphony and the SF Conservatory of Music.

These weekly concerts are your chances to hear a variety of artists and styles and take your choice -- without paying your money. All concerts are free. And now that the concerts have become so popular it's a good idea to arrive promptly.

Cole Hall doors open for Chancellor's Concerts Thursdays at noon, allowing time for seating and brown bag lunch. Music from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.

CHANCELLOR'S CONCERT SCHEDULE

January 7, l999

Kum Mo Kim, violin
Sharon Bogas, cello
Roy Bogas, piano

Smetana    Piano trio, Op. 15

Kum Mo Kim comes from a prominent musical family in Korea. She has been a member of the SF Symphony since l975 and also performs in various Bay Area chamber groups.
Sharon Bogas is a student at the Eastman School of Music. She has performed in Davies Hall and on tour as principal cellist of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Roy Bogas is solo pianist for SF Ballet and appears frequently in recital and at important music festivals. He is professor of music at Holy Names College in Oakland.

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) became a symbol of his Bohemian homeland, now the Czech Republic, by creating an original blend of its folk traditions with the European musical mainstream of his day. He wrote in many forms, including a great cycle of symphonic poems, My Country, and several operas, The Bartered Bride being the best known today. The Piano Trio is one of his finest chamber works.

January 14, l999

Steven Bailey, piano

D. Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in B-minor
Sonata in D-major

Mozart (1756-1791)
Variations on a theme by Gluck

Debussy (1862-1918)
Selections from Preludes, Book I

Wagner (1813-1883)
Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Piano transcription by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Steven Bailey has performed with the SF Concerto Orchestra and the Midsummer Mozart Festival Orchestra, among others, and in chamber music concerts with members of American Bach Soloists, and the Alexander, Arlekin, and Sausalito String Quartets. He is a vocal and instrumental coach at the SF Conservatory of Music.

January 21, l999

Suzanne Leon, violin
Tanya Tomkins, cello

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonata for violin and cello

While living in Paris for five years and teaching at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Leon was concertmaster of both the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre Internationale de Paris. She performs frequently in a violin duo with sister Kelly Leon-Pearce, both members of the SF Symphony since l990.
Tanya Tomkins has performed extensively throughout Europe, primarily as a chamber musician. As a member of the Euridice Quartet, she has recorded the quartets of Ravel and Debussy for Vanguard Classics. She divides her time between Holland and the Bay Area where she performs this season as a member of Philharmonia Baroque.

January 28, l999

Hermann le Roux, baritone
Timothy Bach, piano

M. Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
The Nursery
           
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Oliver Cromwell
Foggy Dew
           
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
I bought me a cat
Folk Songs from Africa

Hermann le Roux is Chairman of the SF Conservatory Voice Department and director of its Cantata Singers. He gives master classes and performs extensively in Europe, the Philippines, Japan, South Africa, and Israel. He is a founding member of the Pacific Voice Foundation and has received eight awards for his contributions to vocal teaching.
Timothy Bach is also on the faculty of the SF Conservatory as Chairman. He has been official accompanist at the Music Academy of the West and the Carmel Bach Festival and has assisted many artists, including Yo Yo Ma, Peter Pears, and Gerard Souzay, in master classes. 

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