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Leighton Fong- San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

INSIDE OUT (I/O) - I/O Field trip

• presentation at Meridian Gallery by Leighton Fong from the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

• On December 3, 2008, cellist Leighton Fong captivated 12 teens at Meridian gallery with a musical presentation and demonstration about Kaija Saariaho “Sept Papillons” for solo cello. The teens’ then attended ‘Furious Craft’, a full performance evening presented by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players on Monday December 8th featuring works by Francesconi, Zhou Long and Piere Boulez’s master piece “Le Marteau sans Maître”. With the Saariaho, these four works of intensity and craftsmanship were beautifully performed by the SFCMP.

View Video of artist presentation before the field trip:

Inside Out (I/O)

Leighton Fong, cello
is a longtime member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and also serves as Principal Cello with the California Symphony. He plays regularly with the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, the Empyrean Ensemble and is an active freelancer in the Bay Area. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 1997. Mr. Fong studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, the New England Conservatory, the Bern Conservatory in Bern, Switzerland, and the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark. He joined the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 2006. » Back To Top

Meridian Gallery - Meridian Interns Program (MIP)

Founded in 1996, the Meridian Interns Program (MIP) is a paid internship for low-income teens from all over San Francisco in which Artist Instructors integrate art-making workshops with training in job-related skills. The Society for Art Publications of the Americas applies for support to sustain its Meridian Interns Program which uses a designated studio in its non-profit Meridian Gallery as a base for experiential work in the arts. Youth are taught by a team of five or six artists. Conceived as a natural offshoot of the programming of Meridian Gallery, MIP transforms the knowledge and energy of the people and resources associated with Meridian Gallery into a unique educational experience, providing approximately 34 youth each year the chance to work with and learn from professional interdisciplinary artists.
Meridian Interns with Instructors, Spring 2006

The Meridian Interns Program provides these youth, aged 14 to 18, for nine months, in the school year and summer, with real work in the real world, a paid training in all the transferable job skills of running a gallery (literacy, verbal and visual communication, computer graphic programs, publication writing, illustration design and production; gallery maintenance and installation of monthly shows). The context for this curriculum driven program is a working downtown gallery. Meridian partners with the Mayor's Youth Employment and Education Program (MYEEP), who pays the youth a minimum hourly wage as they create their own diverse working community in a safe environment while they learn art making skills from a team of five to six professional artist instructors. They organize several annual events including their own gallery show, a Holiday Coffee House performance, and publish a Zine for about 600 city youth.

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