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PRESIDENT AND CEO
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

Lieder Alive!

Vocal Master Class Program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The purpose of this program is to re-invigorate the teaching of German Lieder—a major chapter of western classical music. Such a training program, devoted exclusively to this   important artistic genre, is unique in America. Exceptional students and emerging professionals from the United States and around the world are offered the opportunity to work intensively with internationally renowned musical artists.

  • We are honored to welcome June Anderson who will sing a Benefit Concert on
    Friday, October 14, and teach The Art of Singing opening with a public Master Class
    on Saturday, October 15, 2011.

  • Thomas Hampson inaugurated this unique program with a Mostly Mahler intensive Master Workshop on October 1st and 2nd, 2008.

  • We are profoundly grateful to Marilyn Horne for teaching Romantic German Lieder,
    a three-day program that began on June 11th, 2009.

  • The Program takes place at the new state-of-the-art Conservatory of Music in the heart
    of San Francisco’s cultural district, which boasts a four-hundred seat Grand Concert Hall.

  • Master Workshops range from three to ten days, and are open to the public.

  • Our participants, Heidi Melton and Eleazar Rodriquez appeared in Concert with
    John Parr in the Grand Concert Hall, on October 20th, 2009.

  • We also present an ongoing Liederabend series using the beautifully restored antique
    Bösendofers, Bechsteins and Blüthners in the elegant Music Salon at Salle Pianos.

  • This “graduate level” program is specifically geared to highly accomplished emerging and established professionals. These are the supremely gifted singers that we believe can assist in our purpose of keeping Lieder where it belongs—alive!

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