Please join us for a special live concert when Anna Presler and Leighton Fong of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble return to Claremont Branch Library to perform works by Pá\;l Hermann.
\n \nFounded in 1992\, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) is a cons ortium of 17 San Francisco Bay Area musicians who create exciting performa nces of all types of classical music for all types of audiences and work a s a cohesive collective of artists who share values of integrity\, quality \, inclusion\, service\, curiosity\, and advocacy. Learn more about LCCE a t https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/
\nAnna Presler\, a longtime mem ber of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble\, teaches violin and chamber music at the School of Music at California State University\, Sacramento. She wa s a member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra for two decades and has be en a fellow at the Banff Art Center\, the International Music Seminar at C ornwall\, and the Tanglewood Music Center\, where her chamber music coache s included Eugene Lehner\, Gil Kalish and Julius Levine. She holds a bache lor&rsquo\;s degree from Yale University and a master&rsquo\;s degree in m usic from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, and also studied at th e North Carolina School of the Arts. Her primary violin teachers were Elai ne Richey\, Ian Swensen\, and Syoko Aki.
\nLeighton Fong\, longtime member of LCCE\, is Principal Cellist of the California Symphony. He plays regularly with Eco Ensemble and Empyrean Ensemble\, and was a member of t he SF Contemporary Players. Leighton studied at the SF Conservatory\, the New England Conservatory\, the Bern Conservatory in Switzerland\, and the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen\, Denmark. He has taught at UC Ber keley since 1997.
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