Clyde Mitchell (conductor)
Clyde Mitchell is Founding Music Director of Lions Gate Sinfonia, the professional orchestra of Vancouver’s beautiful North Shore. He has also created the growing Lions Gate Youth Orchestra. After a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University and a Master of Arts from California State University, Northridge, Clyde had a …
Jerome Simas (clarinet)
Jerome Simas, a member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, is professor of clarinet, bass clarinet, and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a music educator, he has taught master classes at leading conservatoires and universities in the US, Canada, and …
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Founded in 1992, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of 13 San Francisco Bay Area musicians illuminating familiar masterpieces while revealing the expressive power of the music of our time. They receive critical acclaim for performances of both new and old music. The Financial Times of London praised their …
Anna Presler (violin)
Anna Presler, longtime member of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and its artistic director, teaches violin and chamber music at the School of Music at California State University, Sacramento. Living since the 1990s in Berkeley, California with her husband, cellist Leighton Fong, she enjoys local bakeries, the company of friends, and …
Eckart Runge (cello)
Founder of the renowned Artemis Quartet, with which he performed for three decades in all major concert series and festivals worldwide, in 2019 Eckart Runge left the quartet to pursue new artistic challenges, pursuing solo projects and a passion for programs that combine varied musical genres and art forms. Since …
