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Allan Pollack has been Artistic Director and Conductor of the Mendocino Music Festival for the last nineteen years. He has led both orchestra and chorus through memorable performances of the Verdi Requiem, the Brahms Requiem, Beethoven's 9th, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and seventeen fully staged operas. With a Ph.D. in composition from UC Berkeley, Pollack has composed a variety of pieces for the Festival over the years, among which are The Spiral Dance for chorus and orchestra, Two Movements in Time for orchestra, From the Song of Songs for soprano and orchestra, A Summer Evening at the Boonville Fair for orchestra, Albion Song, Jazz Concerto for Saxophone, a Vibraphone Concerto, and a String Quartet. As a jazz musician, he leads the fabulous Festival Big Band and sometimes even takes a solo on saxophone himself. In addition to his Festival responsibilities, Pollack teaches woodwinds and chamber music at UC Berkeley, has a full studio of private students, and has been Music Director and Conductor of Symphony of the Redwoods for the last eighteen years. He was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Camellia Symphony in Sacramento.
Susan Waterfall, Festival Co-Founder and Director of the Piano Series, received her early education at the University of Michigan and Chicago Musical College. She studied with Ivan Moravec in Chicago and Prague and subsequently with Karl Ulrich Schnabel. Enriching her understanding of music in culture, she lived several years in Madras studying and performing South Indian Classical Music with the legendary Dhanammal family. She has presented numerous lecture recitals on Olivier Messiaen's monumental piano cycle Vingt regards sur L'Enfant Jesus. She created multi-media scripted settings for chamber music including "Voyage a Paris" (2001), "Argentina: Gauchos and Tangos" (2002), "Bartoks Women"(2003), "Tales of a Parisian Salon" (2004), chronicling the fascinating life and times of Winnaretta Singer, the Princesse de Polignac, and "Young Brahms"(2005), bringing to life the music, friendships, and influences on Brahms in his late teens and twenties, particularly his relationship with Robert and Clara Schumann. This summers program "Scandalous Music" will explore groundbreaking works of Debussy, Satie, Ravel, and Stravinsky.
Roy Malan, Concertmaster, has been the Concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players for more than three decades. He studied in London with Yehudi Menuhin and at The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute with Ivan Galamian and Efrem Zimbalist. His concert tours have taken him throughout the US, including press-acclaimed performances at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, and to Europe, Latin America, Australia and the Far East. Mr. Malan is founder and co-director with pianist Robin Sutherland of the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, which celebrates its 32nd season this summer. Among his recent recordings are Andrew Imbrieís Chicago Bells, a solo piece written for him and premiered at the Library of Congress in honor of Imbrieís 80th birthday, Pablo Ortizís Five Little Milonguitas and Peter Garlandís Matachin Dances. Malan is also the author of a biography of Efrem Zimbalist that has received widespread critical praise. He uses a choice Peccatte bow bequeathed to him by the great violinist.
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