David Sabee | conductor
David Sabee is the Grammy award-winning music director and principal conductor of the Northwest Sinfonia. Following his early musical education as a pianist, Sabee began cello studies at age 17 with Johan Lingeman, former solo cellist of the Concertogebouw, and continued with Paul Olefsky and Harvey Shapiro. His primary conducting …
Sara Sant’Ambrogio | cello
Grammy-Award winning American cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio has performed all over the world, with everyone from Sting to Rudolf Serkin and in every imaginable venue from the Hollywood Bowl to Carnegie Hall. Her passionate playing has thrilled and intrigued audiences from Austin to Amsterdam and from Beijing to Boston, and she …
Stephen Salters
Stephen Salters’ passionate and impeccably articulated performances of a wide range of repertoire have won him acclaim throughout Europe, the UK, Asia and the United States. He works regularly with leading conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano, Nicholas McGegan, Keith Lockhart, Ivor Bolton, Will Crutchfield, Leonard Slatkin, Hugh …
Carolyn Sampson
Carolyn Sampson comes from Bedford, England and read music at the University of Birmingham. A stylish interpreter of the baroque and classical masters, she regularly appears with many of the most respected period instrument groups and conductors: The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The King’s Consort, The Freiburg Baroque …
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra
The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra has been internationally recognized as one of the foremost ballet orchestras in the world. Since its 1975 performance debut with the Ballet’s Nutcracker, under Music Director Denis de Coteau, the orchestra’s home has been the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. At that time, the …