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The mission of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (SFFCM) is to make chamber music a vital part of the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area by increasing audiences and support for chamber music activity – performance, education, and career development.
Our goals are:
- to provide assistance in the form of fiscal sponsorship, funding, workshops, resources and services to established and emerging professional chamber ensembles, and individuals or unincorporated organizations with chamber music related projects. The Affiliate Program, The Musical Grant Program.
- to build new audiences for chamber music, and showcase the diversity of chamber music in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Chamber Music Day - Live + Free.
- to create chamber music education opportunities for a wide range of players that both encourages life-long participation and builds new audiences for the art form. Chamber Music Encounters.
- to collaborate and foster partnerships with Bay Area and national music organizations, schools, and presenters
- to provide a comprehensive website that serves our programs, events and the general public through its information and resources Calendar.
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music is a member of Chamber Music America.
Our goals are:
- to provide assistance in the form of fiscal sponsorship, funding, workshops, resources and services to established and emerging professional chamber ensembles, and individuals or unincorporated organizations with chamber music related projects. The Affiliate Program, The Musical Grant Program.
- to build new audiences for chamber music, and showcase the diversity of chamber music in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Chamber Music Day - Live + Free.
- to create chamber music education opportunities for a wide range of players that both encourages life-long participation and builds new audiences for the art form. Chamber Music Encounters.
- to collaborate and foster partnerships with Bay Area and national music organizations, schools, and presenters
- to provide a comprehensive website that serves our programs, events and the general public through its information and resources Calendar.
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music is a member of Chamber Music America.
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The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet is the Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts, where they serve as teaching assistants to their mentors, the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet. In 2008, the Afiara Quartet won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York, following a top-prize victory at the Munich ARD International Music Competition that same year. The quartet is the only Canadian ensemble to win top honors in either of these historic competitions. The San Francisco Classical Voice calls the Afiara Quartet "a terrifically unified, versatile, and moving ensemble" with "startling intensity" and a "powerful, keen-edged collective sound". They have performed at Carnegie Hall in the "Kronos: Signature Works" series, were presented in their New York debut by Chamber Music America and the Kronos Quartet at St. Luke's Church, have been heard on Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio 2, KALW, and were featured in the "Road to Banff" documentary.
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