Michael Sand has become one of the foremost Baroque violinists in America. A founding member and first musical director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Mr. Sand is also the director of Arcangeli Baroque Strings, a string ensemble dedicated to the concerto grosso repertoire, and concertmaster of the Magnificat Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco. In great demand as a guest musical director and lecturer, he has led performances of numerous chamber and Baroque orchestras throughout this country and abroad, including Israel and Australia. He plays with the chamber ensemble Musical Assembly, the viol consort Sex Chordae and the American Bach Soloists. Mr. Sand has recorded for Meridian, Harmonia Mundi (both in France and the United States), Koch, Arts and Music, KATastroPhe, and Titanic
Records.

Harpsichordist Phebe Craig appears as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the United States. She has specialized in continuo realization and is a member of the Arcangeli Baroque Strings and Concerto Amabile. She has appeared with the American Bach Solorsts at the Carmel Bach Festival, the Regensburg Tage Alter Musk, and the Berkeley Baroque Festival. She may be heard on recordings of a wide variety of music, both chamber and orchestral music, and is producing a series of play-along CDs on the KATastroPHE label Ms. Craig is a popular-teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and is co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Renaissance workshop. She teaches harpsichord and coaches baroque chamber music at the University of California at Davis.

Anna Carol Dudley has per^formed with most of the Bay Area's contemporary music ensembles, including Earplay, Composers lnc., the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Kronos Quartet, Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, San Francisco State's pro Musica Nova, and Sacramento's Music Now. She has premiered numerous works, including a number written for her. Dudley has been a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony (singing Morton Feldman's "Neither") and with Bay Area Women's Philharmonic. Also specializing in the performance of Baroque music, she has sung with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and at the Berkeley Festival, and has toured nationwide with the early music group "Tapestry". She is Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society’s annual summer Baroque Music Workshop and is Music Director of the Junior Bach Festival Association.

LIVE OAK CONCERTS
Chamber music at the BERKELEY ART CENTER

Live Oak Concerts was an ongoing, year-round series of classical music concerts featuring many of the best and emerging musicians from the greater Bay Area, and from around the country and abroad. The concert series presents an average of thirty concerts per year. The superb acoustics of the gallery of the Berkeley Art Center has proven to be a jewel for the presentation of live classical music. Cable Television Series...