Rainbow Symphony Nov. 10 Concert November 10, 2012

Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) performs: De Falla, Dance from La Vida Breve, Bruch, Concerto for Viola and Clarinet with soloists Jodi Levitz and Susan Barnes, Copland, Quiet City, and Beethoven, Symphony #5, under the baton of Christian Baldini.

About Dr. Christian Baldini, guest conductor
In his early 30s, based in California, and of Argentinian and Italian descent, Christian Baldini is a dynamic and diverse young artist. Equally at home in the core repertoire as in the most daring corners of the contemporary repertoire, he is an accomplished conductor and a natural communicator, with a pure and warm sense of musicality. He has conducted orchestras and ensembles internationally, including the Munich Radio Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He has also conducted opera for the Aldeburgh Festival (England).

About Jodi Levitz, viola
Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and violist of the Ives Quartet, Jodi Levitz is an active performer of international reputation and passionate advocate of new music for viola. She was principal viola and soloist with the Italian chamber group I Solisti Veneti for 12 years, a position she won while still a student at The Juilliard School.

About Susan Barnes, clarinet
Susan received her Master of Music Performance degree from Northwestern University in 1997. She studied with J. Lawrie Bloom of the Chicago Symphony and Russell Dagon of the Milwaukee Symphony. Her Bachelor of Music degree is from Oberlin Conservatory where she also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art at Oberlin College in 1996.

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