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SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER: About
Founded: March 1997
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter has taken the lead in interdisciplinary and educational programming in Northern California. Its commitment to innovative programming has led to a recent emphasis on its Salon Series, performances and discussions that create a dialogue between composers and audiences. The chapter has also created interdisciplinary residencies joining composers with choreographers, poets, and filmmakers, to increase composer visibility, reach new audiences, and develop new works. Its Composer in the Schools Program serves San Francisco and the East Bay, training high school musicians to compose works for the area's premier new music ensembles. These programs are complemented by artist-driven Community Partners projects, which yield new collaborations throughout Northern California, creating new relationships between communities and living composers.
"The San Francisco Chapter of the American Composers Forum has done a world of good for that often overlooked segment of our creative community, the young composer. By presenting a forum for young composers and musicians to present their works, while the ink is still wet, it fills an urgent need for our society to connect these creative spirits with audiences. In a society such as ours, dominated by solely commercial interests, the Composers Forum gives life to a creative field free from commercial concerns." –Terry Riley, composer
The San Francisco Chapter is funded in part through the generous support of:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
The Helen F. Whitaker Fund
SAN
FRANCISCO CHAPTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ann Barden, Director of Development,
San Francisco SPCA
Lisa Lochanko, consultant
Bob Peskin, Director of Chapters, ACF-National Office
Anthony Tansimore, Chief Operating Officer, San Francisco Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER ADVISORY COUNCIL
Richard Burg, Ilyas Ilya, Deirdre McClure, Mark Rosen, Dale Scott,
Gang Situ, and Erling Wold
SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER ARTISTIC PANEL
Herbert Bielawa, Andrew Imbrie,Terry Riley, and Charles
Shere
ACF NATIONAL
BOARD MEMBER
Anthony Tansimore, Chief Operating Officer,
San Francisco Foundation
Active Members: 97
Tod
Brody, Director
American Composers Forum - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
44 Page Street, Suite 504
San Francisco, California 94102
(415)
864-0400
fax (415) 864-1534
staff@sfcomposersforum.org
Visit our local website at: www.sfcomposersforum.org