BARS Spring Concert
Set design by Léon Bakst for the world premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, Paris 1912.
John Kendall Bailey, conductor
🏳️🌈 MAURICE RAVEL: DAPHNIS ET CHLOÉ, SUITE NO. 2
🏳️🌈 BENJAMIN BRITTEN: THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA
KURT ATTERBERG: SUITE NO. 3 for violin, viola, and strings
🏳️🌈Michael Long, violin
🏳️🌈Ivo Bokulic, viola
AVRIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: SUSSEX LANDSCAPE West Coast premiere
John Kendall Bailey is currently Music Director of the Mozart to Mendelssohn Orchestra, Artistic Director of Chora Nova, and Principal Conductor of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra.
In 1994, he founded the Berkeley Lyric Opera and served as its Music Director and Conductor until 2001. Since then, he has held positions including Music Director of Mesopotamia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor of Trinity Lyric Opera, and Guest Conductor with Oakland Symphony, Oakland Ballet, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Folsom Lake Symphony, Sonoma County Philharmonic, Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Magik*Magik Orchestra, San Francisco Civic Symphony, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, Santa Rosa Junior College, and has conducted productions for Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, West Bay Opera, North Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, Mission City Opera, Cinnabar Theater, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Crowden School, Oakland School for the Arts, and Dominican University, among others. He has also been a cover/rehearsal conductor for several orchestras including Berkeley Symphony, Modesto Symphony, Oakland Symphony, and Young People’s Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Bailey has taught conducting at the University of California-Davis and Notre Dame de Namur University.
As a choral director, Mr. Bailey has served as Music Director of Voices of Musica Sacra, Chorus Master for Festival Opera of Walnut Creek and Opera San Jose, and has been guest conductor for the University of California-Berkeley Chamber Chorus, the University of California-Davis Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Alumni Chorus, Contra Costa Chorale, and the Berkeley Broadway Singers.
As a composer, Mr. Bailey’s works have been performed and commissioned in the Bay Area and abroad, including arrangements for Carlos Santana and Oakland Symphony performed in 2010. Mr. Bailey is also a baritone, oboist, and pianist, and has performed with the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Marin, Oakland, Berkeley, Napa, Sacramento, Redding, Prometheus, and UC Davis symphonies, American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, the Midsummer Mozart and West Marin music festivals, San Francisco Bach Choir, Volti, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Sacred and Profane, Masterworks Chorale of San Mateo, Marin Baroque, the Mark Morris and Merce Cunningham dance companies, the Berkeley, Golden Gate, and Oakland Lyric Opera companies, and many more. He has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi, Koch International, Pro Musica, Wildboar, Centaur, and Angelus Music labels. He has been a pre-performance lecturer for Oakland Symphony, San Francisco Opera, American Bach Soloists, Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, and Gold Coast Chamber Players, and is a regular lecturer for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State University (East Bay, and Chanel Islands) and Santa Clara University. He has also been a critic for the San Francisco Classical Voice, and a writer of real-time commentary for the Concert Companion.
Croatian-American violist Ivo Bokulic is a highly sought-after musician, celebrated for his artistry in the Bay Area and beyond. He is Principal Violist of the San José Chamber Orchestra, and holds additional positions in Opera San José, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and One Found Sound. Ivo also performs with distinguished ensembles such as the New Century Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Opera.
In addition to opera and orchestra, Ivo has toured, recorded, and shared the stage with renowned musicians such as Beck, Andrea Bocelli, Death Cab for Cutie, The Eagles, Father John Misty, Smokey Robinson, and Sting. He also regularly records music for video games, television, and films at Skywalker Ranch. Ivo can also be seen performing at Fever's Candlelight Concerts in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, & San José.
Notably, Ivo has appeared as soloist, performing Martinů’s Rhapsody-Concerto with the Eureka Symphony, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante alongside violinist Liana Bérubé and the San José Chamber Orchestra.
A recipient of both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Jodi Levitz, Ivo plays a viola crafted in 1999 by Hiroshi Iizuka. When he’s not making music, Ivo enjoys cultivating his mostly monochromatic aesthetic, indulging in fine dining, and indie music exploration. He also loves sharing and receiving copious amounts of cat memes, and polishing the day off with a glass of vino.
