RESIDENT ARTISTS Our artists-in-residence program provides arts education in schools and community centers, builds new audiences, and furthers the careers of talented artists by providing the time and freedom necessary to explore new ideas and develop new works. In 1989, San Francisco Performances created its first (and ongoing) artist residency program with the Alexander String Quartet. Working in partnership with San Francisco State University, the Quartet created a chamber music curriculum entitled "The Story of the String Quartet" for high school students in the San Francisco Unified School District. In 1997, with the support of the Wallace Readers Digest Foundation, San Francisco Performances expanded the residency model and created three new residencies in jazz, guitar and contemporary dance. These residencies, which continued over a four-year period, helped expand audiences for the organization and helped to develop strong collaborations with new community partners. Resident artists' consistent presence in the Bay Area over several years gives both school students and adult audiences the opportunity to form a close bond with the artists. By making the performing arts accessible across economic and generational boundaries, San Francisco Performances helps all community members build a deep personal connection to the performing arts. Current Resident Artists:
	Alexander String Quartet Robert Greenberg, music historian Antigoni Goni, guitarist	Luciana Souza, jazz vocalist Jeeyoung Kim, composer
Past Resident Artists:
	Regina Carter, jazz violin (1997-2001) Manuel Barrueco, classical guitar (1997-2001) Stephen Petronio, contemporary dance (1997-2001) Stefon Harris, vibraphone/jazz percussion (2001-2005) Christòpheren Nomura, baritone (2001-2005)
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Resident Artists

Click here to visit the ASQ's website Alexander String Quartet The Alexander String Quartet (Zakarias Grafilo and Fred Lifsitz,violins; Paul Yarbrough, viola; Sandy Wilson, cello), in joint residence with San Francisco Performances and San Francisco State since 1989, helped create the popular school series, The Story of the String Quartet. The curriculum was written by San Francisco Performances for non-music students. Rather than experience an isolated one-time performance, these students are introduced over time to music as a powerful voice for cultural expression. The Alexander String Quartet captured international attention in 1985 as the first American Quartet to win the London International String Quartet Competition, receiving both the jury's highest award and the Audience Prize. Debut concerts in New York City and London, followed by rave reviews, established the Quartet as one of chamber music's most compelling ensembles. Since 1989, they have directed the chamber music studies program at San Francisco State University. They also teach at Baruch College of the City University of New York, St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. In May of 1995, Allegheny College awarded Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees to the members of the Quartet in recognition of their unique contribution to the arts. The Alexander's annual calendar of concerts continues to include performances at major halls throughout North America and Europe. When they are not on tour, the members of the Quartet live in San Francisco with their families. The Alexander Quartet has recorded the complete Beethoven quartet cycle for BMG's Arte Nova Classics. They have also made recordings of Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets and Schumann and Dvorák string quartets. Other recent recordings include sur pointe, a CD of contemporary compositions produced by Foghorn Records. Back to top

Click here to visit Robert Greenberg’s Teaching Company webpage Robert Greenberg Robert Greenberg received his Ph.D. in music composition, With Distinction, from the University of California, Berkeley, where his principal teachers were Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson in composition and Richard Felciano in analysis. Greenberg’s compositions for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles have received numerous honors, including commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and San Francisco Performances. Recent performances of his works have taken place in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, England, Ireland, Greece, Italy and The Netherlands. In May 1993, Greenberg taped a forty-eight lecture course entitled “How to Listen to and Understand Great Music” for the Teaching Company/SuperStar Teachers Program. The course was named by Inc. Magazine (1996) as one of "The Nine Leadership Classics You've Never Read," and lead to the development of ten further courses, among them “The Symphonies of Beethoven”, “How to Listen to and Understand Opera”, and “The Chamber Music of Mozart”, totaling over 500 lectures. Greenberg has performed, taught and lectured extensively across North America and Europe. He is currently a faculty member of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and he has served on the faculties of the University of California at Berkeley, California State University at Hayward, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Greenberg has lectured for some of the most prestigious arts organizations in the United States, including the San Francisco Symphony (where for ten years he was host and lecturer for the Symphony's nationally acclaimed “Discovery Series”), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia Festival,and the Chautauqua Institute. In addition, Greenberg is a sought after lecturer for businesses and business schools, and has recently spoken for such diverse organizations as S.C. Johnson, Deutsches Bank, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School Publishing, and the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Greenberg has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, and the University of California Alumni Magazine, Princeton Alumni Weekly, and Diablo Magazine. In February, 2003, The Bangor Daily News (Maine) called Greenberg “the Elvis of music history and appreciation”, an appraisal that has given more pleasure than any other. Back to top

Click here to visit Antigoni Goni's website Antigoni Goni Greek-born classical guitarist Antigoni Goni will succeed Manuel Barrueco as San Francisco Performances' guitarist-in-residence, beginning in the fall of 2002. Ms Goni was the first-prize winner in the 1995 International Guitar Foundation of America Competition, and the 1991 Julian Bream Competition. A former student of Julian Bream and Sharon Isbin, she heads the guitar department of the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, and is an associate of London's Royal Academy of Music. She has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout Europe and North America, and made her San Francisco recital debut in 2000. Her first solo recording, on the Naxos label, features music of Rodrigo, Brouwer, Domenico, Barrios and Mompou. Ms. Goni's experiences as a teacher have given her special insight into developing educational programs that introduce the classical guitar to young people. In her four-year residency with SFP, she will advise on the creation of curriculum for high school social sciences students that will trace the evolution and migration of the guitar, from the Middle East to the New World. She will also interact with adult guitar afficianados in master classes and discussions, and participate in Family Matinee performances. Back to top

Click here to visit Luciana Souza's website Luciana Souza 2002 and 2003 Grammy nominee Luciana Souza hails from São Paulo, Brazil, where she grew up in a family of musicians. She began her recording career at age three with a radio commercial, and recorded more than 200 jingles and soundtracks, becoming a first-call studio veteran by age 16. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee College Music, where she taught for four years, and a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies from New England Conservatory. She currently teaches at Manhattan School of Music, in New York. Ms. Souza has participated in more than thirty recordings lead by jazz greats such as Danilo Perez, George Garzone, Steve Kuhn, John Patitucci, and Maria Schneider, among others. Since 1996, Ms. Souza has been crossing over into classical music, being the soloist on two very successful pieces by contemporary classical composer Osvaldo Golijov, including La Pasion Segun San Marcos, performing with the Bach Akademie in Stuttgart, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the LA and Brooklyn Philharmonics. She has performed Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo with the Atlanta Symphony, under Robert Spano, and with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Roberto Minczuk. More recently, Ms. Souza premiered Billy Childs' Voices of Angels with the Los Angeles Master Chorale under Grant Gershon. As a leader, Ms. Souza has recorded six critically acclaimed albums - "An Answer to Your Silence" (NYC Records, 1999), "The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop and Other Songs" (Sunnyside, 2000), and the Grammy-nominated "Brazilian Duos" (Sunnyside, 2001). The latter two were included in the New York Times Critics' Choice Top Ten Jazz releases for 2000 and 2001 respectively. "North and South" (Sunnyside, 2003) featured Ms. Souza performing Brazilian and American standards, and was also nominated for a Grammy as Best Jazz Vocal Album. "Neruda" (Sunnyside, 2004) was Ms. Souza's fourth recording for Sunnyside, and featured her musical settings of ten of Pablo Neruda's poems. "Duos II" (Sunnyside, 2005), is a sequel to her 2002 release, and features Ms. Souza's renditions of 12 beautiful Brazilian songs for voice and guitar. Back to top

Click here to visit Jeeyoung Kim's website Jeeyoung Kim As a Korean-born composer who was educated in Korea and the United States, "Jacqueline" Jeeyoung Kim's music harmonizes the unique cultural aspects from Eastern and Western traditions. Ms. Kim is currently a composer-in-residence for San Francisco Performances, and held the same position with Chanticleer in 2003-2004. Most recently, she was commissioned by the Silk Road Ensemble which is led by Yo-Yo Ma; Tryst, a trio for cello, oboe, and kayagum (Korean zither) was performed by Mr. Ma and the Ensemble in the United States and Europe, and published by G. Schirmer in 2003. In 2001-2002, she was awarded a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University, where she composed and researched Asian music and philosophy. Ms. Kim has won awards and recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (Bunting Fellowship), ASCAP, International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA), Meet the Composer, SCI/ASCAP, Britten-on the Bay competition, Dale Warland Singers New Music Competition, American Music Center, Seattle Creative Orchestra Commissioning Competition, Jerome Foundation, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. In addition, she has received numerous commissions and her music has been performed by many chamber orchestras and ensembles in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Seattle Symphony, Su-Won Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea, Seattle Creative Orchestra, Yale Concert Band, Oberlin Winter Orchestra, Dale Warland Singers, Su-Won Civic Choir, De ereprijs in the Netherlands, Ethos Percussion Group, the ISCM International Summer Course for Young Composers in Poland, AUROS Group for New Music, 4 Plus Percussion Group in Korea, the American Composers Forum, and Wu Man. Ms. Kim studied composition at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, receiving a Bachelor of Music. She received her Master of Music degree at Indiana University, and in May 2001, Ms. Kim received the Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale University. Back to top