It’s a wrap!

Our first in-person event since Feb 2020 was a big success, raising much-needed funds to support the 2022 Klein Competition.  Strings a la carte  honored our 2021 Arts Champions, Katherine & Roy Bukstein at Cha Chi Ming Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s intimate recital hall in the new Bowes Center on Dec 11, 2021.

The afternoon’s highlight was a chamber performance from Klein First Prize laureates Gabrielle Després (2020), Yuchen Lu (2021) and Oliver Herbert (2015), with pianist Allegra Chapman.

Thanks to our Honorary Committee: David & Judith Anderson, Robert Beadle, Susan Bates, Katherine & Roy Bukstein, Richard Festinger, Alice Galenson, Peter Gelfand & Sharon Childress, Kevin Jim, Susan Kaplan, Thomas Larsen, Dexter & Kathie Lowry, Sylvia Lindsey, Jan & Bob Newman, Loretta O’Connell, Ruth Short, Patricia Taylor Lee, and Lee-Lan Yip.

And to our generous in-kind donors: Peter Gelfand, Knit Picks, KQED, Tessa Lark, Dexter Lowry, Music at Kohl Mansion, Music@Menlo, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Kendra Scott, Ruth Short, Marcy Straw & Mark Westlund.