PAST EVENT

Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Chamber Orchestra
Garth Knox (b. 1956)
Satellites (2015)
III. Dimensions

Lowell Quartet
Rhiannon Giddens (b. 1977) (arr. Jacob Garchik)
At the Purchaser’s Option with variations (2016)

Lowell Quartet
Ken Benshoof (b. 1933)
sweeter than wine (2015)
II. Postscript

Kronos Quartet
Aleksandra Vrebalov (b. 1970)
My Desert, My Rose (2015)

Kronos Quartet
Stephan Thelen (b. 1959)
Circular Lines (2016)

INTERMISSION

Lowell Orchestra
Wu Man (b. 1963)
Four Chinese Paintings (2015) (arr. Danny Clay, Tristan Arnold)
II. Turpan Dance

Full Orchestra (Kronos Quartet, students from Abraham Lincoln High School, Lowell High School, Presidio Middle School, and Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music student mentors)
Fodé Lassana Diabaté (b. 1971) (arr. Jacob Garchik, Tristan Arnold)
Sunjata’s Time (2015)
I. Sumaworo
II. Sogolon
III. Nana Triban
V. Bara kala ta

All works on tonight’s program were commissioned as part of the Kronos Performing Arts Association’s Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, which is made possible by a group of adventurous partners, including Carnegie Hall and many others.

All program notes are available online at kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Chamber Orchestra
Violin
Trent Andrews, Benjamin Hudak, Faith Lam, Calvin Luo, Kana Luzmoor, Lucy Nelligan, Matthew Silva, Michael Tse, Renata Volchinskaya, Christian Wu

Viola
Jason Jue, Maya True-Fogel

Cello
Madeline Belew, Isabelle Fromme, Anny Kwak, Alex Linhardt, Kai Thomas, Driana Tan

Bass
Ruth Cavano, Phillis Duong, Eric Li, Atticus Simmons

Lowell Quartet (Giddens)
Kaitlyn Huey, violin
Alicia Cover, violin
Prescott Yu, viola
Alexander Kung, cello

Lowell Quartet (Benshoof)
Ying Chen, violin
Maximillian Eisenberg, violin
Verena Lee, viola
Tiffany Chu, cello

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello

Abraham Lincoln High School *
Violin
Dwight Becerra, Hannah Cheng, Jason Huang, Lani Lam, Daniel Lee, Joshua Li, Frances Li, Ivan Thai, Charles Wong, Chun Ying Wu, Joelle Yee

Viola
Jacky Chen, Kaitlynn Huang, Essence Lowe

Cello
Diamond Fang, Dennis Lee

Bass
Andy Hernandez, Kenny Li

Lowell High School *
Violin
Ying Chen, Jared Chew, Alicia Cover, Maximillian Eisenberg, Eric Fu, Sofia Herron Geller, Amy Hazemoto, Fionna Huang, Kaitlyn Huey, Ashlyn Jew, Andrew Lai, Verena Lee+, Lucian Li, Amelia Lim, Lydia Liu, Francis Lu, Suky Lu, Emily Lui, Natalie Luu, Carolyn Nguyen, Simmond Piczon+, Sofia Rodriguez, Kelly Tam, Jennifer Tom, Ada Wong, Kenny Yu, Christopher Yuan+, Cassidy Zhang+, William Zhang

Viola
Emma Candland+, Kevin Chen+, Parinita Kumari, Loretta Leung+, Lily Ou, Victor Tze,
Prescott Yu

Cello
Cameron Ching, Tiffany Chu, Volodia Demeulenaena, Dephny Duan, Alex Kung, Connie Liu, Liam Newquist, Morgan Ng, Audrey Ngai+, Linda Tan, Emily Wong+

Bass
Alexandra Flores, Mandy Lin, Emily Wu, Kenny Wu+, Danny Zhang, Flora Zhang

+ Also performing with the Full Orchestra

Presidio Middle School *
Violin
Michayla Gee, Cora Lin, Serena Zhang

Viola
Grace Huang, Jodi Jang, Monica Luo

Cello
William Cao, Tiffany Ian, Albertina Lee, Dahlia Leung, Cathy Zhou

Ruth Asawa School of the Arts
Violin
Ethan Chang, Samantha Choy, Teela Damian, Evelin Deicke-Wood, Victoria Feng, Nadine French , Sophia Grewell, Alexander Haken, Lena Lederman, Austin Lee, Jordan Li, Sandy Liu, Mo Suendermann, Plyfaa Suwanamalik-Murphy, Kelly Wei

Viola
Tully Thomas

Cello
Beatriz Lederman, Katie Lee, Saskia Negrin, Joshua Spily, Dolores Troiano

Bass
Virgyl Basas, Strummer Millward, Kimberly Rivera Aceituno, Zachary Willis Sugiyama,
Helen Yu
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Student Mentors
Hui-hsuan Hsu (Eva), violin
Cynthia Ryan, viola
Shiqi (Cherry) Li, cello
* Conservatory in the Schools Partner Schools. SFCM’s Conservatory in the Schools program provides Conservatory students with invaluable classroom training while supporting music education in San Francisco. Each year, SFCM students work alongside SFUSD teachers, providing music instruction that reaches over 2,000 students in elementary, middle, and high school.