Curriculum Vitae

Current Position
Other Positions
Guest Appearances
Education
Honors

Current Position -- 1985 to Present
Music Director, Redwood Symphony

Redwood City, CA

Founder and conductor of orchestra. Responsible for orchestra's artistic vision. Select repertoire for eight-program season, including pops, family and chamber concerts, concert versions of operas, as well as for the orchestra's expanding catalogue of internationally-distributed CDs. Prepare all pre-concert lectures and concert demonstrations, and staging and supertitles of concert operas. Orchestra's annual operating budget is $50,000. As founder, initially responsible for recruitment, PR, marketing, budget, hall rental, program notes, flyers and mailings.

Redwood Symphony is considered one of the San Francisco Bay Area's finest community orchestras. Its all-volunteer membership of professionals and amateurs are attracted by the ensemble's unique mission: to perform repertoire that is more contemporary and ambitious than that of most community orchestras, in an innovative, informal and educational format. Highlights of past seasons include:

Performances of all of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler
Performance of Ives' Symphony No. 4, with four simultaneous conductors, three ensembles and chorus.
West Coast premiere of Leonard Bernstein's last orchestral work, the Concerto for Orchestra.
Bay Area premiere of Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, a play with actors and orchestra by Tom Stoppard and André Previn.
Benefit performance of Corigliano's Symphony No. 1 ("Of Rage and Remembrance").
Performance at Davies Symphony Hall of Stravinsky's opera, Oedipus Rex.
Featured in Stereophile Magazine "1997 Records to Die For" for The Rite of Spring and Les Noces compact disc.
Five critically acclaimed compact discs on two record labels, available internationally.
Performances of uncut operas in concert, a biannual series.
Commitment to music education for all ages.
Dr. Kujawsky's popular lectures, concert talks and concert demonstrations.

Other Positions

Music Instructor -- 1998 to Present
College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
Music Director, Oakland Youth Orchestra Summer Camp -- Summer 1991
Laney College, Oakland, CA
Music Instructor -- 1987 to Present
Cañada College, Redwood City, CA
Music Director for many Productions of Musicals, including:
- Sweeney Todd
- Sunday in the Park with George
- My Fair Lady
- Cabaret
- Kiss Me Kate
- Ruddigore
- The Mikado

Guest Appearances

Rose City Chamber Orchestra (OR)
Mesa Symphony (AZ)
San Francisco Concerto Orchestra
Oakland Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
South Valley Symphony (San Jose, CA)
San Mateo Symphony
Theatreworks (Palo Alto, CA)
Ramshead Productions and Stanford Savoyards
(Stanford University).

Education

Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting, June 1985
Stanford University Stanford, CA
Advisor: Andor Toth
Master of Fine Arts in Conducting, June 1982
University of California, Los Angeles
Advisors:Samuel Krachmalnick (Instrumental), Donn Weiss (Choral)
Master Conducting Class, Summer 1980, 1982
Aspen Music Festival
Instructor: Paul Vermel
Bachelor of Arts in Music Education, June 1978
University of California, Los Angeles

Honors

Council of the Arts, Palo Alto Arts Recognition Award, 1990
For outstanding Service and Support of the Arts Community
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, 1987
For Musical Direction of Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George"
The Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award, 1987
For Musical Direction of Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George"
Alice Wilber Chapman Graduate Fellowship, 1982-1985
Stanford University
Mimi Alpert Feldman Award (UCLA) 1982
For Achievement and Academic Excellence