San Francisco Ballet School across the Bay Area. These matinees are shortened programs with excerpts of ballets the company is currently performing. After the retirement of Harold Christensen in 1975, Richard L. Cammack was brought in as School director by the SF Ballet Company’s new co-director, Michael Smuin. Under Cammack’s leadership, SF Ballet School was federally approved for foreign students and received authorization from the California Department of Education. Cammack also oversaw the School’s move to its current state-of-the-art facilities on Franklin Street in 1983. When Helgi Tomasson became San Francisco Ballet’s new artistic director and leader of the School in 1985, he appointed
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