Cuban National Ballet to join foreign ballet companies is a big incentive for numbers of the National Ballet of Cuba, where a top dancer's pay is about $30 a month. Today several American and British companies have former dancers from the National Ballet dance school among their principal dancers as "Lorna Feijoo" and her husband "Nelson Madrigal" who perform with the Boston Ballet, Lorna's sister is with the San Francisco Ballet, in the San Francisco Ballet where Cuban Jorge Esquivel is one of the ballet masters. In 2004 "Jose Manuel Carreno" was the first Cuban to win the Dance Magazine award for contributions
Quartet San Francisco with the Santa Fe Opera. She is co-concertmaster of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and concertmaster with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. She is on the faculty of the Music Department at Stanford University. James "Jim" Shallenberger, a founding member of the Kronos Quartet, played violin on the 2002 recording "Quartet San Francisco". Shallenberger is a member of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras. He is one of the extended faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. "Pacific Premieres", the group's fifth album, was released in 2013. The album consists