our Conductors

Maestro Mattias Kuntzsch

Maestro Matthias Kuntzsch was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and attended the Conservatory of Music in Hannover, where he studied piano with the famous Mozart pianist Karl Engel. 

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Alexander Katsman

Alexander Katsman is the Artistic and Music Director for Livermore Valley Opera. Alumni of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, he received his M.M. from St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and his B.M. cum laude from Mussorgsky College of Music in St.Petersburg, Russia.

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our Vocalists

Jane Randolph

Jane Randolph’s 25 years of experience teaching voice to students has led her across North America, from L’Atelier de L’Opéra de Montréal and L’Université de Montréal to establishing private studios in San Diego, San Francisco and New York.

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Catherine Cook

A former Merola participant and Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, Ms. Cook has performed more than 50 roles in over 300 performances with San Francisco opera over a span of 25 years.

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Sylvia Anderson

Sylvia Anderson was born in Denver, Colorado, and received her Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music.  She won a Fulbright Stipend for post graduate study at the Cologne, Germany, Conservatory and over the next years was honored for her singing on three continents.

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Molly Fillmore

Molly Fillmore made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Helmwige in Die Walküre, conducted by James Levine, winning a Grammy award for Best Opera Recording. During her seven seasons at the Met, she also appeared as Mrs. Naidoo in Satyagraha by Philip Glass.

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Patricia Craig

Renowned American operatic soprano Patricia Craig made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1978 as Marenka in The Bartered Bride, and has performed leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Dialogues of the Carmelites, La bohème and Mahagonny.

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Marcie Stapp

Marcie Stapp, Professor of Lyric Diction at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, is the author of The Singer’s Guide to Languages, a well-known vocal coach, accompanist and translator whose operatic translations are performed by leading music schools and professional companies across the country.

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our Pianists

Hao Wu

Hao Wu is Associate Professor of Accompanying at Shenyang Conservatory of Music and a guest graduate instructor at Shandong Normal University in China. After finishing his Professional Studies Diploma in Collaborative Piano under the guidance of professor Timothy Bach, he started to serve as a staff pianist at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2018.

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Yeo-Jin  Seol

Pianist and Accompanist, Yeo-Jin Seol is native of Seoul, Korea. She received her doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Arizon State University. She holds additional performance degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Han- Yang University in Seoul, Korea.

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Young Lee

Young Lee is an active collaborative pianist in the Bay Area. She is versed in both instrumental and vocal repertoire. Young holds a Professional Studies Diploma from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she was under the tutelage of Timothy Bach. Ms. Lee received her B.M. from Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary and her M.M. from Sungshin Women University in Seoul, South Korea.

our Guests

Clifford Cranna

Clifford 'Kip' Cranna, Dramaturg at San Francisco Opera, has served on the staff since 1979 and was Director of Music Administration for over thirty years. In 2008 he was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal, the company’s highest honor, and in 2012 he received the Bernard Osher Cultural Award for distinguished efforts to bring excellence to a cultural institution.
In 2014 he received the Star of Excellence Award for outstanding service to the programs of the San Francisco Opera Guild.

He holds a B.A. in music from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University. For thirty years he was Program Editor and Lecturer for the Carmel Bach Festival. He lectures and writes frequently on music, teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory and the Fromm Institute at USF, and moderates the SF Opera Guild “Insight” panel discussions. He was Dramaturg for the 2016 production of Wagner’s “Ring” at the Kennedy Center in Washington

our Founders

Timothy Bach

Timothy Bach is co-founder and director of the Collaborative Piano Program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has appeared in performances in the United States, Europe and Asia with artists such as mezzo-soprano Elena Obratsova, soprano Jane Marsh, tenor David Gordon, violinists Chee Yun and Jennifer Koh and cellists Hai-Ye Ni and Wendy Warner.

Milena Bach

Milena Georgieva Bach is founder and artistic director of Bach-Millennium Music.  She made her operatic debut in Europe and performed roles in Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Tannhäuser and others in France, Italy, Germany and Bulgaria.  

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