The joys of string quartet playing attracted me in elementary school when I was 10 years old, and this formative experience nurtured my lifelong love of chamber music. The San Francisco Symphony offers an annual series of 6 musician-curated chamber music concerts at Davies Symphony Hall. I’ve enjoyed programming and playing a wide variety of repertoire on these concerts over the years, including beloved masterpieces such as the Mendelssohn Octet; brilliant works by underrepresented composers including African American women Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, and Jessie Montgomery; and music composed in concentration camps during the Holocaust by Gideon Klein and Hans Krasa that we performed on instruments from the “Violins of Hope” collection.
My first string quartet
Violin, viola, and cello from the Violins of Hope collection of restored Holocaust instruments, with SFS colleagues
On stage at Davies Hall with Stephanie McNab, flute and Kev Choice, piano
Performing Afro-American Suite by Undine Smith Moore
Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op. 67
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, June 18, 2006
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, April 3, 2022
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, May 8, 2005
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, May 1, 2011
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall June 23, 2013
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, April 26, 2015
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Feb. 4, 2018
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Jan 15, 2023
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Feb 22, 2020
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, February 28, 2016
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Feb 22, 2020
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Feb 22, 2020
Performed at the Lucerne Festival, Sept. 10, 2015
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Feb. 19, 2017
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, October 28, 2007
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Jan 15, 2023
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall June 23, 2013
Felix Mendelssohn Octet for Strings, Op. 20
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, February 20, 2011
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, Nov. 5, 2023
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, March 27, 2011
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, October 23, 2016
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, April 3, 2022
Performed at Davies Symphony Hall, April 21, 2024