Who We Are

Chamber Music San Francisco is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Robert Brittain
Edward Del Beccaro
Mark Humphrey, Treasurer
Dorothy McDonald, Chair
Scott Pinsky, Secretary
Susanna Steinberg
Alyssa Taubman, Vice Chair
Ron Wilensky

STAFF

Jeanette Wong, Artistic & Executive Director

Jeanette Wong is a passionate arts administrator, composer, and musician with over 20 years’ professional experience in arts management across multiple genres. Born and raised in San Francisco, she became Chamber Music San Francisco’s Executive Director in 2024, succeeding CMSF Founder and Executive Director Daniel Levenstein.

Prior to joining CMSF, Jeanette served as the Associate Director of Artistic Programming at SFJAZZ where her duties included management of the SFJAZZ Collective, booking the Joe Henderson Lab, and producing special events, including the SFJAZZ Gala and the NEA Jazz Masters tribute. Jeanette’s programming and curation supported a 25-week season, the 13-day San Francisco Jazz Festival, and four weeks of SFJAZZ Summer Sessions.

Jeanette began her career in 2004 at MTV Networks where she worked in public affairs at VH1. During her time living in New York, she managed logistics and communications at Michael Stockler Productions, the company of a theatre composer. She then joined the League of American Orchestras as a Member Services Associate overseeing membership acquisitions and renewals before she was promoted to Program Coordinator in the League’s Learning and Leadership Development department. In this role, she interfaced directly with leaders and staff in the orchestra field and managed the League’s Executive Leadership program, the Orchestra Management Fellowship, and additional programs designed to strengthen and grow the management skills of orchestra executives and senior staff.

Jeanette returned home to San Francisco in 2008 and joined the staff of the San Francisco Symphony, first in education programs before serving as Executive Assistant to the General Manager. She was promoted to Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer in 2015 where she managed the executive office, served on the administration’s committee in negotiations, and was the contracts administrator for the Symphony’s tours and runout concerts. In addition to her administrative duties, Jeanette worked on production and logistics for the organization’s chamber music series and was a member of the team that launched SoundBox – a program designed to offer a new, more intimate concert experience to younger audiences through classical chamber music concerts in a club-like setting.

A strong supporter of music education and a former music teacher, Jeanette organized programs for the San Francisco Symphony that reached approximately 50,000 children throughout the Greater Bay Area each year, including the award-winning Adventures in Music program which sends chamber ensembles into all of San Francisco’s public elementary schools, and has researched and produced reports on public music education policy for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. She served on the board of Living Dream Arts, an organization that provides arts education programs to youth in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jeanette began her musical studies in piano and flute performance and is a classically trained composer with a wide range of musical influences. Her interest in multimedia has led to collaborations in film, dance, and theatre in addition to more traditional concert and chamber works. Her music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe.

Jeanette holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Theory & Composition from New York University and is an alumna of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. She was a recipient of the New Music Consortium’s Undergraduate Award and was selected as a Composition Fellow for the Cortona Sessions for New Music, a Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residency, and one of Fairbanks Arts Festival’s Composing in the Wilderness composers.

Marianne LaCrosse, Managing Director

Marianne LaCrosse has more than two decades of experience in the field of classical music. A passionate advocate for the arts, Marianne is recognized for her fierce work ethic, attention to detail, and passion for supporting established performers as well as emerging artists and administrators.

Marianne served as General Manager and Education Programs Director at Music@Menlo from 2005 to 2021. She joined the acclaimed summer chamber music festival and institute two years after it was founded by cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han and was an integral part of the team that grew the organization from a small startup to an internationally-recognized organization that now attracts more than 10,000 chamber music lovers to the Bay Area each year.

In her dual role, she oversaw the Festival’s production and operations, as well as Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute for emerging and pre-professional musicians and the Arts Management Internship Program for college students and young alumni. She has worked with hundreds of young musicians and burgeoning arts administrators. Marianne was honored to be recognized among Musical America’s Worldwide Top 30 Professionals of the Year for 2019.

In 2022, she founded Suòno Artist Management, a boutique artist management agency with a diverse artist roster, promoting innovative and thought-provoking programming and educational outreach projects. She currently represents the Jasper String Quartet, the Canellakis-Brown Duo, the Byrd Ensemble, the Boarte Piano Trio, and the Fullana-Vieaux Duo. Soloists on her roster include flutist Amir Hoshang Farsi, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and pianist Michael Stephen Brown.

Prior to her arrival at Music@Menlo in 2005, she worked at the University of Washington in Seattle in a variety of departments, including the School of Art, Student Affairs, Educational Partnerships, and the School of Public Affairs.

Marianne’s volunteer experience includes board service with youth orchestras as well as community-based chamber music organizations. From 2013 to 2016, she served as a board member of Noe Valley Chamber Music, now Noe Music. In January 2020, Marianne was named a founding board member of Quinteto Latino, a San Francisco-based performing arts organization advocating to disrupt racial and economic disparities within the classical music field by championing past, present, and future contributions by Latinx composers and musicians.

Marianne received her undergraduate degree in viola performance from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has performed nationally and internationally in festivals including the Tanglewood Institute, the Menuhin Festival and Academy (Gstaad, Switzerland), and the National Repertory Orchestra.