2025-2026 Season Tickets also available now.

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open 30 minutes before the start of the concert.

Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm

2025-2026 Season Tickets also available now.

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open at 7:15pm — 15 minutes before the start of the pre-concert talk.

A Mill Valley resident since 1997, Jenny Douglass has created a rewarding portfolio career as a violist, educator, event producer, and writer. She has been the Principal Violist of the Marin Symphony since 1999, and a member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra since 2008. Ms. Douglass is a frequent substitute with the San Francisco Symphony, performing with them in Davies Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and on several European tours. Jenny has also toured North and South America, Europe, and Asia with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and can be heard on several of their recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, including the 2001 Grammy Award winning CD, “Shadow Dances."

From 2015-2022, Jenny served as the Marin Symphony’s Director of Education and Community Engagement. She developed several initiatives that send Marin Symphony musicians into Marin County schools as well as community locations, including San Quentin Prison. In June 2019, Jenny created and produced a Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra tour, taking 90 teenagers to Europe for performances in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. Her proudest achievement was bringing them all back.

Jenny’s love for chamber music has taken her to festivals all over the US. Her chamber music partners have included Yo Yo Ma, Joseph Silverstein, Bruno Giuranna, and members of the San Francisco and Boston Symphonies. Ms. Douglass earned degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School, studying with  Lynne Ramsey, Karen Tuttle, and Eugene Lehner. 

2025-2026 Season Tickets also available now.

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open 30 minutes before the start of the concert.

Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm

2025-2026 Season Tickets also available now

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open 30 minutes before the start of the concert.

Geoffrey Burr is an amateur clarinet player who has made his home in the Bay Area for 30 years. He has served as Principal Clarinet of the Palo Alto Philharmonic since 2002, and performs regularly with Peninsula Symphony, Cambrian Symphony and other Bay Area community orchestras. In additional to orchestral performance, Geoff enjoys playing chamber music at workshops and local concerts, performing pieces ranging from Brahms' Clarinet Quintet to the original (13-instrument) version of Copland's Appalachian Spring to Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat.

Geoff studied clarinet in high school with Sam Cifonelli and Vincent Smith, and in college with Diana Haskell (then Principal with the Buffalo Philharmonic, currently Associate Principal with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra). He performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the University at Buffalo Orchestra in 1991, and the Spohr Clarinet Concerto with the Caltech/Occidental Symphony Orchestra in 1995.

Geoff is an active orchestra volunteer with the Palo Alto Philharmonic — he serves on the Music Committee, handles online and in-person ticket sales and various marketing tasks, maintains the orchestra's online presence as Webmaster, and designs the orchestra concert programs. Outside of playing music, Geoff has been coaching AYSO soccer for autistic and other special-needs children on Sunday afternoons for nearly 20 years.

In his "day job," Geoff is a Distinguished Research Scientist at IBM Research — Almaden in south San Jose, where he has worked for 30 years. Geoff holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and has worked in a wide variety of technical fields, ranging from holographic storage to classical nucleation theory. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE Society in 2020. Currently, Geoff serves as a technical leader and strategist for a worldwide team, driving chip-architecture, -design and -test for novel "Analog AI" (Artificial Intelligence) hardware systems based on performing computation with non-volatile memory devices.

Geoff and his wife Annette Grot — violinist, Board Member, and Concert Coordinator for the orchestra — live in Cupertino, where they raised their two daughters, Emily and Allison Burr.

Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open at 7:15pm — 15 minutes before the start of the pre-concert talk.

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will NOT be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open 45 minutes before the start of the concert.

Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open at 7:15pm — 15 minutes before the start of the pre-concert talk.

California-based Evan Kahn has been praised as “a cellist deserved of serious listening” for bringing his “electrifying … nuanced and colorful” style to all of his collaborations, from concerti to chamber music to contemporary performances.

Evan is principal cellist of New Century Chamber Orchestra, Opera San Jose, and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. Dedicated to the orchestral craft, he was previously principal cellist of San Francisco Opera, and has also enjoyed time performing with the San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Los Angeles Opera. In April/May 2018, he served as Artist-in-Residence with Performance Today at NPR, sharing some of his favorite works for cello and his philosophies on music and life. In February 2019, he was named Musical America’s New Artist of the Month. He is a resident cellist for a number of Bay Area small ensembles, including Ninth Planet, After Everything, and the Wave Chamber Music Collective. During the summer, Evan serves as assistant principal cellist of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder.

Evan received a Master’s in Chamber Music at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with Jennifer Culp. He graduated with college and university honors from Carnegie Mellon University, studying with David Premo. Before college, he took lessons in Los Angeles with John Walz, Timothy Loo, and Karen Patch. Other important mentors include Paul Hersh, Thomas Loewenheim, Amos Yang, Mark Kosower, Robert DeMaine, and Bonnie Hampton.

In addition to performing and teaching, Evan enjoys playing tabletop RPGs, watching British television, and playing with his cats, Nyx and Zagreus.

For online purchases: clicking "Add to Cart" will connect to a remote secure server for your transaction. You may need to enable "pop-up windows" for the shopping cart to function properly. Bring your receipt to our Will Call table to obtain a ticket. Tickets bought online will not be sent through the mail.

At the door: we accept credit cards, cash or check. The Box Office will open 45 minutes before the start of the concert.