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About Us Pacific Chamber Symphony has it all: a dynamic maestro, brilliant musicians, beautiful music, and a friendly atmosphere. A San Francisco-based 30 member orchestra, Pacific Chamber Symphony’s intoxicating sound melds chamber music’s intimate clarity with instrumental variety and symphonic power. Since 1989, the Pacific Chamber Symphony has performed over 400 different works in over 500 concert appearances. Pacific Chamber Symphony has a season of 3 to 5 concerts sets with performances in San Francisco, Napa, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Pacific Chamber Symphony educational programs have brought classical music to over 200,000 Bay Area children through full orchestra concerts for kids, maestro visits to school classrooms, school assembly performances, master classes for music students, and training in our Tri-Valley Youth Orchestra. Pacific Chamber Symphony has been honored to perform for significant occasions such as the United Nations’ 60th Anniversary World Concert Celebration held at Grace Cathedral in June 2005.
Pacific Chamber Symphony nourishes individuals. Our values, artistic excellence, programming, and presentation are designed to personally engage the audience; to make classical music accessible and meaningful, to touch and strengthen the innermost self and to spark a lifelong love of the art. Maestro Lawrence Kohl "Kohl's
avid direction gave the music just the right blend
of public rhetoric
History Organized in 1989 as the Chamber Orchestra of San Leandro our debut performance was greeted the Oakland Tribune music critic as an ensemble with “True Flair”. Renamed Classical Philharmonic in 1992, the organization expanded to include services for Hayward, Castro Valley, Pleasanton and San Ramon. Our multiple-community-model became a strategic basis for amortizing our expenses, reaching new audiences, and expanding our fund-raising opportunities. In 1995 we extended our service into San Francisco and the San Francisco Examiner music critic hailed us as the having the best promise to giving the San Francisco Bay Area a stable professional chamber symphony. The name was changed in 2002 to Pacific Chamber Symphony to reflect our regional stature, our desire to commission new works and to clarify our commitment to the chamber symphony genre. Governance Our system of governance utilizes multiple boards of directors, operating under one group federal 501(c)3 non-profit exempt status. We are thus able to be both a single organization with a single tax and accounting system, and at the same time serve the needs of each individual community. The boards meet together quarterly and hold an annual board retreat that focuses on topics of broad organizational significance. The individual boards and committees also meet for projects that pertain to activities within each community. Educational Programs Since 1990, the Pacific Chamber Symphony has been committed to the simple ideal of bringing music into our schools and, in the last season alone, inspired over 17,000 Bay Area students. Supplementary materials are provided to teachers for in-class use. Here is a sampling of the education programs we offer: Full Orchestra Concerts for Kids The Pacific Chamber Symphony has been bringing "Concerts for Kids" to schoolchildren in the Bay Area since 1990. "Concerts for Kids" is an assembly period-long introduction to the classical music concert. Each year a different educational theme is stressed. Past themes have included rhythm, melody, and telling stories through music. This year’s theme is on the concerto and how soloists demonstrate their virtuosity and the ways they communicate with the orchestra in the many concerto forms. Small Ensemble Concerts for Kids Our in-school assembly program this year features a mixed quintet of Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Violin and Cello. The forty-five minute presentation is specially created for elementary school audiences. The music is interspersed with educational highlights and a question and answer period. Maestro’s Visits to Individual Classes Maestro Kohl helps students talk about music, build a relationship to the arts and pick an instrument to study in the school.
The Tri-Valley Youth Orchestra offers further training for about 60 young musicians looking for the experience of playing in an orchestra beyond their school setting; Conductor, Teacher, and violinist Zachary Carrettin joins us this year. Sponsorship Types of Gifts
Thanks to our Sponsors
Major areas for Contributions General Operational Support – may support all activities including the artistic and educational areas or specifically targeted towards:
Artistic Program Support - may support all artistic programs or specifically targeted towards:
Educational Programs – may support all educational programs or specifically targeted towards:
Credits Thanks to our marketing committee
To Volunteer, call (415) 989-6872, (510) 352-3945 or (925) 484-9783.
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As founding Music director, Maestro
Kohl has led the Pacific Chamber
Symphony from its San Leandro inception to the premier regional organization
it has become today. He was the Music Director of the Ohlone College
Symphony Orchestra for fifteen years, Conductor for the KAMSA youth
orchestra for three years, and he was a founding member of Walnut
Creek's Sierra Chamber Ensemble. While doing his doctoral studies in
Systematic
Musicology at UCLA he was Samuel Krachmalnick's Teaching Associate
and together they re-instituted and co-conducted the UCLA Contemporary
Ensemble. Maestro Krachmalnick, was the first Koussevitsky prize
winner at Tanglewood, he conducted on Broadway and recorded Leonard
Bernstein's
musical Candide, and as famed conducting Jean Morel's assistant infused
in Maestro Kohl a most important tradition of conducting. Maestro
Kohl studied solfege for conductors with James Wimer and was coached
by
Arturo Toscanini's pupil Golfredo Corradetti. A consummate clarinetist,
Kohl has performed and toured with the San Francisco Symphony. He
was awarded a full fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, was the
first
Chancellor's Fellow at UCLA and a National Art Association prizewinner.
He also holds a Master's Degree in Philosophy from San Jose State
University and has taught both music and philosophy at several Bay
Area colleges.
Maestro Kohl makes his home in Orinda, California with his wife Isabelle
and toddler daughter Sofia.
Tri-Valley Youth Orchestra