Schwartz appointed CCMC artistic director - Items of Interest - Debbra Wood Schwartz, Crowden Center for Music in the Community - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, April-May, 2002

MTNA member Debbra Wood Schwartz was recently appointed artistic director of The Crowden Center for Music in the Community (CCMC) in Berkeley, California. She also is the co-director and co-founder of Summer Music Berkeley, a chamber music program resident at The Crowden School. Schwartz is on the Board of Directors of the Oakland Youth Orchestra, where she serves as chair of the Music Advisory Committee.

Prior to this appointment, Schwartz was violin and chamber music instructor and chamber music coach-coordinator of the Virtuoso Program at San Domenico School in San Anselmo, where she remains on the Advisory Board. She has been a member of many performing groups, including the Chicago Lyric Opera and Music of the Baroque and has appeared as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony. For more information contact The Crowden Center at (510) 559-6910 or visit www.thecrowdenschool.org.