Curriculum Vitae

Current Position
Other Positions
Guest Appearances
Education
Honors

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

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

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