Concerts with Anne Pinsker and Janet Guggenheim

Week of January 21, 2023

Two different programs will feature romantic, beautiful and uplifting music for cello and piano. There will be works by Dvorak, Schumann, de Falla, Rachmaninoff. Also swoon along to Gershwin, and other lovely songs!

 

Anne Pinsker joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1982. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with the great cellist, Leonard Rose. After some years of playing chamber music and freelancing in New York, she joined The Lyric Opera of Chicago as Associate Principal Cello. During her five years there, she became a regular sub for the Chicago Symphony. After joining the SFS, Anne created a summer music festival called Marin Music Fest where musicians from all over the country gathered to play chamber music. As of November 1, 2022, Anne retired from the SF Symphony after a 40 year career there. She is happy to be free!

Janet Guggenheim is the pianist in the video, “Perlman Live in Russia”. For 30 years she collaborated with violinist Itzhak Perlman, including concerts in Mexico City, Hong Kong, Taipei, Istanbul, and Moscow. She appeared numerous times on the Johnny Carson “Tonight” Show with Perlman and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, as well as with Yo Yo Ma.  She was pianist for the Pablo Casals Master Classes in Berkeley, televised on PBS. She has given recitals throughout Europe. With Michael Grebanier, she recorded the complete cello works of Rachmaninoff. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the San Francisco Symphony. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, she received a master’s degree from the Juilliard School, received the Joseph Lhevinne scholarship, and won the Juilliard Concerto competition. She has been on the faculties of U.C., Dominican and Portland State University.