Program:

Franz Schubert Trio in B flat Major, op. 99

Dmitry Shostakovich Piano Trio in E minor, op. 67

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MARIYA BOROZINA is a member of First Violin sections of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet orchestras and a substitute player with the San Francisco Symphony. She is a Conductor of Galbraith Honor Strings of Golden State Youth Orchestra.

Born in Moscow, Mariya Borozina began playing the violin at the age of 5, following in the footsteps of her violinist father. Starting at the Gnessins School of Music, she continued her studies at the Moscow Conservatory, class of Marina Yashvili. After moving to the US, she earned a postgraduate degree at Manhattan School of Music studying with Glenn Dicterow, Lisa Kim, Yoko Takebe, and Albert Markov. She performed around the globe as a Concertmaster of Verbier Festival and Verbier Festival Chamber orchestras.

An avid chamber music player, she has appeared as part of several local groups, including Eos Ensemble and Farallon Quintet. She appears regularly as a concertmaster and soloist for the Russian Chamber Orchestra and performs at various venues in the Bay Area and beyond. As an educator, Ms. Borozina coaches chamber groups and orchestras, performs at outreach programs, and teaches privately. She is frequently invited to judge local music competitions.

VICTORIA EHRLICH, cellist, was born in Texas and received her musical education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and summer programs at Interlochen, Aspen, and Tanglewood. Her principal teachers include Robert Marsh, Bernard Greenhouse, and Robert Gardner.  Before joining the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in 1984, she performed with the Santa Fe Opera, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and served as principal cellist with the Symphonies of Omaha, Richmond, VA, and Phoenix.  Ms. Ehrlich has performed with the San Francisco Ballet and Symphony, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and Lamplighters, a Gilbert and Sullivan company and is an active chamber musician, appearing regularly with the Picasso Ensemble, Cecilia Ensemble, Edgewood Ensemble, and the Bridge Players, , She counts many living composers as friends and inspiration.

IRINA BEHRENDT is a Russian born pianist, accompanist, and teacher living and freelancing in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1998. Irina has been a regular soloist with the Russian Chamber Orchestra, until it folded in March of 2024, performed as a chamber musician at the Noontime Concert Series, San Francisco chapter of NACUSA recitals, teaches piano privately, works as a pianist/organist at the Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay, and co-owns Gradus Ad Parnassum Music Academy with David Chernyavsky.

Irina enjoys performing contemporary music. Among her latest favorites are Bartok’s “Contrasts” and

Ustvolskaya’s Clarinet trio, as well as Valentin Silvestrov’s violin sonata and Giya Kancheli’s “Instead of a Tango”. In this light, Irina is a dedicated performer of her father, Simon Bokman’s music. She has premiered most of his works that include piano.

Irina holds degrees in Solo performance, collaborative performance, and pedagogy from Kaliningrad

Rachmaninov Music College, Petrozavodsk State Conservatory, New England Conservatory.