Ann Krinitsky
Violin
[From a Nova Vista Symphony Press Release]
The Nova Vista Symphony takes great pleasure in announcing the appointment of Ann Krinitsky to the Music Directorship of the orchestra for the 2006-2007 season. Serving as Assistant Conductor and Principal Guest Conductor, Krinitsky has led the orchestra in four concerts since 2002.
Krinitsky completed her tenure as Music Director of the Palo Alto Philharmonic in April 2006, having been selected in a national search from a field of over 40 candidates in April, 2005. She continues as Director of the Chautauqua Summer Orchestra in western New York state. Other recent positions include Interim Director of Orchestras at Stanford University, Music Director of the Berkeley Youth Orchestra and Community Womens' Orchestra, Conductor of the Acalanes Chamber Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble.
Krinitsky has appeared as guest conductor with the Maui Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Women's Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the Marin Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra. She has also served on the faculty at Laney College in Oakland. Graduating with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley, Krinitsky completed three summers of study with Harold Farberman and various visiting artists at the Conductors' Institute at Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. In 1993 she was invited to participate in the American Composer-Conductor Program, designed to allow five conductors and five composers exchange knowledge and expertise. She has also attended numerous workshops sponsored by the Conductors Guild and the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Krinitsky received the 2000-01 JoAnn Falletta Conducting Award. Given by The Women's Philharmonic and funded by the Stein Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, the award and accompanying prize money recognize women actively pursuing careers as conductors. To culminate her term as award recipient, she guest conducted The Women's Philharmonic in a work of her own reconstruction at Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
Krinitsky's experience playing saxophone and jazz piano has kept her well versed in popular as well as classical music. In 1992 she was Musical Director for New Girl in Town, a 1957 Broadway musical presented at the Masquers' Playhouse in Point Richmond. In addition to her conducting duties, she has performed nationally as a violinist and is a published music transcriber and copyist. She serves as guest conductor and adjudicator at various festivals and competitions.
During the 1997-98 season she took leave from her Bay Area posts to play full-time with the Honolulu Symphony, with which she continues to perform on a part-time basis. She is married to timpanist and conductor Stuart Chafetz and now divides her time between Hawaii, California and New York.
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