Bay Area Rainbow Symphony March 16, 2013 Concert March 16, 2013

The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) continues to champion LGBTQ composers and musicians, threading the theme of fate through its concert on Saturday March 16th at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at 8pm. Maestra Jessica Bejarano will return to BARS as guest conductor, opening the program with Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz and her Overture for Orchestra. Internationally known virtuoso Daniel Glover will then mark his third appearance with the orchestra to perform Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2. Bejarano and the ensemble will conclude with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. Tickets range from $15 through $35. Reservations and information available at bars-sf.org.

About Jessica Bejarano, guest conductor
Jessica Bejarano currently serves as Music Director of West County Winds; Artistic Director of the Chamber String Orchestra of San Francisco; Associate Conductor of the Community Women's Orchestra; Instrumental and Vocal Director of the Jewish Community High School; and Artist-In-Residence with LEAP...Imagination in Learning in San Francisco.

About Daniel Glover, piano
Pianist Daniel Glover has performed in 42 states and 25 countries throughout Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean. The San Jose Mercury News said, "Glover is an incisive, exciting, and apparently tireless player...a natural for hyper-virtuosic challenge." He has been hailed for his "extraordinary technique, analytical understanding and determined phrasing from the first to the last bar." (Sdhessische Post, Germany) The San Francisco Classical Voice remarked, "Brilliant, tender, whimsical, sparkling...Glover brought everything together into a well balanced, evenly measured medium." "The elegance and civility of Glover's approach was musically unimpeachable." "Dazzling...golly can he play! I kept expecting smoke to emerge from the interior of the instrument...a flawless sense of Lisztian style incorporating its emotional depth."

Official Website: http://bars-sf.org