Benjamin Pesetsky
Benjamin Pesetsky is a composer and writer. His music has been performed by Tapestry Opera, WordSong, Shakespeare Concerts, and the Guerilla Composers Guild and Phonochrome Collective. He currently serves on the staff of the San Francisco Symphony and has also worked as a freelance writer, editor, and consultant for the St. Louis Symphony, Tippet Rise Art Center, Melbourne Symphony, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre and Hambidge Center and earned degrees in composition and philosophy from Bard College and Bard College Conservatory.
Allegra Chapman
Allegra Chapman is an omnivorous pianist, adventurous curator, and passionate educator. Her performances have been called “fervid but impeccably controlled” by the San Francisco Chronicle and “brilliant” by the San Francisco Classical voice. She was the founding co-artistic director and executive director of the critically acclaimed festival Bard Music West, a founding member of the Phonochrome Collective, and has been a member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Delphi Trio. She received her master’s degree from the Juilliard School and earned dual bachelor’s degrees in piano and history from Bard College Conservatory and Bard College. She is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory’s Pre-College division.