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Conductor, composer, pianist, and violinist Guenter Buchwald is a pioneer of the renaissance in silent film music. He has accompanied silent films for thirty-eight years with a repertoire of more than three thousand titles and has conducted orchestras worldwide from Iceland to Romania, Tokyo to … [Read more...] about Guenter Buchwald

Philip Carli brings both prodigious musical talent and a committed scholarly outlook to his lifelong passion for the music and culture of the turn of the last century. He discovered silent film at the age of five and began his accompaniment career at thirteen, with a performance for Lon Chaney’s … [Read more...] about Philip Carli

Arwen Lawrence and Jorge Liceaga founded Cascada de Flores in San Francisco in 1999 and have been re-imagining Mexican tradition for years. They began by journeying into the hidden corners of Mexico, seeking the real stories of that hugely diverse country. Lawrence fell for Mexican music as a young … [Read more...] about Cascada de Flores

The Club Foot Orchestra was founded in 1983 by Richard Marriott as the house band of the San Francisco Bayview district performance art nightclub, the Club Foot. Club Foot Orchestra was known around town for their dramatic, complex music when clarinetist Beth Custer and Marriot started creating … [Read more...] about Club Foot Orchestra

Mauro Correa is a Brazilian seven-string guitar player who lived in the Bay Area for many years before moving to the East Coast. He is known for arranging and performing Latin-American music and has played with some of the best Brazilian musicians in the Bay Area. SFSFF Performances Festival 2005 … [Read more...] about Mauro Correa and the Latin American Chamber Music Society

SFSFF Performances Seth Asamow Festival 2023 Baker-Mehling Hot Five Silent Winter 2006 Andrew Brown Festival 2023 Kathleen Curnow Festival 2002 Ross Eustis Festival 2023 Mark Goldstein Special Event 2009, Festival 2009 Adolphus Hailstork Festival 2016 Andrew Jamieson Festival … [Read more...] about Other Musicians

Composer/conductor Carl Davis (CBE) was born in New York in 1936 and moved to the U.K. in 1960. As both conductor and composer, Davies is a true music maker and all-round musician. He has changed the face of concerts as we know them, making classical music both accessible and varied, and is a … [Read more...] about Carl Davis

Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, Earplay is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music. Earplay offers audiences a unique opportunity to hear eloquent, vivid performances of some of today's finest chamber music. Earplay has performed over 600 works by more than 300 … [Read more...] about Earplay