Free Concert :  November 22, 2026, 2pm
Crosswalk Community Church 2590 1^st Street, Napa

Ann Krinitsky returns to lead the orchestra
Soloist: Violist Jenny Douglass

Program:
Béla Bartók:  Rumanian Folk Dances
Chen YI:  Shuo
George Frideric Handel – Passacaglia
Carl Maria von Weber – Andante e rondo ongarses (viola soloist)
Clarice Assad – Três Pequenas Variações

• Conductor Ann Krinitsky to Lead NVCO in November 22nd Concert

  

  As guest conductor with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Krinitsky has led concerts on Oahu, Hawaii, and Kauai. She conducts the orchestra for Ballet Hawaii’s Nutcracker and has enjoyed numerous collaborations with Chamber Music Hawaii. She has also guest conducted the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival String Orchestra and the Maui Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. She recently appeared with the Columbus (OH) Symphony Orchestra.

  In the Bay Area, Ms. Krinitsky recently completed rewarding tenures as Director of the Marin Symphony Youth Performance Programs, Conductor of the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Director of the Virtuoso Program at San Domenico School. She has also served as Director of Orchestras at Stanford University, Music Director of the Nova Vista Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Berkeley Youth and Community Women’s Orchestras, Conductor of the Acalanes Chamber Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble. She has guest conducted the Sacramento Philharmonic, Women’s Philharmonic, the Camellia Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the Marin Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra. In addition to conducting, she has served on the faculty at Laney College in Oakland and, for many years, was a violinist with the Napa Valley Symphony.

• Jenny Douglass – Viola Soloist

  

  Jenny Douglass has built a multifaceted career as a violist, educator, event producer, and writer, with a musical life that spans concert halls, classrooms, and some unexpected destinations.

  Since 1999, Jenny has served as Principal Violist of the Marin Symphony, appearing as soloist in concertos by Jennifer Higdon and William Walton, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Jeremy Constant, and Bruch’s Double Concerto with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. A member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra since 2008, she performed alongside Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in Lera Auerbach’s Sogno di Stabat Mater. Jenny is a frequent substitute with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, and on European tours. Jenny has 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. 

  As the Marin Symphony’s Director of Education and Community Engagement from 2015-2022, Jenny developed programs that brought musicians into schools and community settings, including San Quentin Prison. In 2019, she created and produced a Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra tour, taking 90 teenagers to Europe to perform in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. Her proudest achievement? Bringing them all back.

  A devoted chamber musician, Jenny has performed at festivals throughout the United States and collaborated with artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Joseph Silverstein, Daniel Hope, Bruno Giuranna, and members of the San Francisco and Boston Symphonies. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School and counts Eugene Lehner, Lynne Ramsey, and Karen Tuttle among her extraordinary teachers.

  Jenny is now bringing her performing and teaching experiences to a new endeavor: a biography of violinist and pedagogue Louis Krasner, celebrated for commissioning and premiering Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto. A former student of Krasner’s, she is drawing on his unpublished speeches and writings, along with more than 80 interviews with former students and colleagues, to illuminate his musical legacy. You can follow her writing journey at Rosin & Ink on Substack.

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• Who We Are

  NVCO is the one community orchestra in the Napa Valley for resident musicians and audiences. All our concerts are free to the public. We are funded by audience donations, community business sponsors, an annual wine and music fundraiser, and grants from the Napa Arts Council and the Gasser Foundation. We are proud to promote the love of Classical music to audiences throughout the Valley, including Napa, American Canyon, St Helena and Angwin.