Mission
LIEDER ALIVE! offers frequent opportunities to experience German Lieder, multi-lingual vocal repertoire, and instrumental chamber music in an intimate environment, performed by highly accomplished emerging and established professionals.The purpose of LIEDER ALIVE! is to create an opportunity for deep transformation for the artists and for the audience at large. This important relationship of our supremely gifted musical artists with our patrons is keeping this canon of uniquely expressive and luminous art forms passionately ALIVE!
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Liedership
- Maxine Bernstein, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
A devoted advocate for opera and lieder, Ms. Bernstein has lived, performed and taught in New York, London, Paris, Vienna and now San Francisco. Born in London, her life in music began as a soprano, her international musical education culminating in her studies with Christa Ludwig. In recent years, she has mentored and coached extensively, integrating her broad knowledge of vocal development and repertoire with her mentoring and counseling experience. She now utilizes her long-term insights into the training of singers and the presentation of musical artists by directing the teaching and performance organization, LIEDER ALIVE!, which she founded in 2007.
Kay Anderson, DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
John Parr, MASTER COACH
Kurt Erickson, COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
Michael Anthony Schuler, LINGUISTICS CONSULTANT
Marisa Mariscotti, FINANCIAL SERVICES
Josh Dougherty, EVENT MANAGEMENT
David Weuste, SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Ilana Walder-Biesanz, EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT EMERITUS
Executive Board
Maxine Bernstein
Founder and Director, LIEDER ALIVE!
Jeffrey LaDeur
Concert and Collaborative Pianist
Founder and Director, San Francisco International Piano Festival
Ruth Nott
Managing Director, Opera Parallèle
Arts and Community Consultant (Santa Fe Opera, Music at Kohl Mansion)
Founder and Former Director of Education, San Francisco Opera
Artistic Advisory Board
Alison Pybus, Chair
Alison Pybus Representation
Former Vice President, IMG Artists
John Parr
Collaborative Pianist, Master Coach
San Francisco Opera Center
Head of Music Staff, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany
Mark Williams
Chief Executive Officer
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Paul Yarbrough
Founding Violist, Alexander String Quartet
Artistic Director, Yehudi Menuhin Seminar
Former Faculty, San Francisco State University
Founding Advisory Board
David Bernstein, Honorary Chair
London, England
Charles Spencer
Collaborative Pianist
Professor of Lied and Accompanying
Universität für Darstellende Kunst
Vienna, Austria
Dorothy Divack (1936-2018)
Founder and President
Center of Excellence
New York and San Francisco
Gary Rust, MD
California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco