MARIN SYMPHONY YOUTH PROGRAMS STAFF
Ann Krinitsky, Acting Artistic Director and Conductor
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Ann Krinitsky has recently been appointed to two positions in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and will be delighted to return to the Bay Area as a full time resident this fall. As Conductor of the Marin Symphony Youth Performance programs, she will lead the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra and Crescendo Workshop programs. As Music Director of theVirtuoso Program at San Domenico School, she will conduct the Orchestra da Camera.
Ms. Krinitsky recently completed her tenure as Music Director of the Nova Vista Symphony. During her four seasons as Music Director, she and the orchestra presented exciting and diverse programs featuring soloists from the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet orchestras, the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic, and the New World (FL) Symphony, as well as acclaimed soprano Nuccia Focile for a special benefit concert at Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Other positions she has held in the Bay Area include Interim Director of Orchestras at Stanford University; Music Director of the Palo Alto Philharmonic, the Berkeley Youth and Community Women’s Orchestras; Conductor of the Acalanes Chamber Orchestra; and Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble. She has also served on the faculty at Laney College in Oakland and as Conductor of the Chautauqua Summer Orchestra in western New York. |
A frequent guest conductor with the Honolulu Symphony in recent seasons, Ms. Krinitsky led community and educational concerts on Oahu as well as on tour to the neighbor islands of Hawaii and Kauai. Ms. Krinitsky conducted the Honolulu Symphony for Ballet Hawaii's 2008 and 2009 productions of The Nutcracker. In collaboration with the Onium Ballet Project, she conducted Chamber Music Hawaii's combined "Tresemble", featuring members of the Symphony, in three modern ballets: Hindemith's The Demon, Martinu's Kitchen Revue, and Milhaud'sCreation of the World. In May 2009, she and renowned trumpet soloist Matthias Höfs performed with the Honolulu Symphony for a crowd of 40,000 at Ala Moana Beach Park as part of the Memorial Day Lantern Floating Ceremony. Ms. Krinitsky has also appeared as guest conductor with the Maui Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Chamber Music Hawaii, the Women's Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the Marin Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra.
Graduating with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Krinitsky completed three summers of study with Harold Farberman and various visiting artists at the Conductors' Institute at Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. In 1993 she was invited to participate in the American Composer-Conductor Program, designed to allow five conductors and five composers exchange knowledge and expertise. She has also attended numerous workshops sponsored by the Conductors Guild and the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Ms. Krinitsky received the 2000-01 JoAnn Falletta Conducting Award. Given by The Women's Philharmonic and funded by the Stein Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, the award and accompanying prize money recognize women actively pursuing careers as conductors. To culminate her term as award recipient, she guest conducted The Women's Philharmonic in a work of her own reconstruction at Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
Ms. Krinitsky's experience playing saxophone and jazz piano has kept her well versed in popular as well as classical music. In 1992 she was Musical Director for New Girl in Town, a 1957 Broadway musical presented at the Masquers' Playhouse in Point Richmond. In addition to her conducting duties, she has performed nationally as a violinist and is a published music transcriber, arranger and copyist. She serves as guest conductor and adjudicator at various festivals and competitions. She is married to conductor and timpanist Stuart Chafetz and now divides her time between California and New York.
Andrei Gorchov, Associate Conductor and Orchestra Manager
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Andrei
Gorchov was born in Marin County, CA, where he attended
Redwood High School and began playing the flute at age
8. He has been a soloist and an orchestral musician with
the Marin Symphony and is an alumnus of the Marin Symphony
Youth Orchestra. After receiving a degree in flute performance
from San Francisco State University, Andrei has pursued
a career in conducting which has led him from the Oakland
Youth Orchestra to Tanglewood. As a choral conductor, Andrei
has taught at SingersMarin and at Redwood High School.
As an orchestral conductor, Andrei has studied with Michael
Morgan and has been the associate conductor for the Oakland
Youth Orchestra, which included a tour to Greece in 2006.
Andrei is deeply involved in and committed to the value
of youth music and education in Marin County and currently
holds a studio of over 40 young flutists.
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Marin
Symphony Youth Programs
c/o The Marin Symphony
4340 Redwood Highway, Suite 409c
San Rafael, CA 94903
Phone:
415.479.8100
Fax: 415.479.8110 |
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