Point Reyes Chamber Concerts brings world-class performances of classical chamber music to the West Marin community.
We feature artists from the Bay Area’s extraordinary music scene alongside guest artists from around the world, creating opportunities for collaboration between local and visiting musicians. In our intimate venues, audiences and performers can connect deeply, making each concert a shared musical experience in the true spirit of chamber music.
Jennifer Howard
Founder and Executive DirectorJennifer Howard has spent many decades supporting artists and musicians. She has served on the boards of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, the Cypress String Quartet, the Berkeley Symphony, the American Composers Forum and the Valley of the Moon Music Festival. Jennifer grew up in Lagunitas and began studying piano at age 5 and cello at age 10. She continues to study, teach and play the cello. Jennifer lives in Inverness with her husband Tony Cascardi and together they share four children and five grandchildren.
Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for her “fervid but impeccably controlled” performances, Allegra Chapman is a pianist, curator, and writer known for bringing insight and imagination to classical music ranging from well-known works to historically overlooked and living composers. She performs widely as a soloist and collaborative artist, and is a member of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Chordless Duo with soprano Sara LeMesh. Allegra is Artistic Director of Point Reyes Chamber Concerts and a Contributing Writer to the San Francisco Symphony. She was the founding co-artistic director and executive director of Bard Music West, the critically acclaimed San Francisco festival exploring the worlds of composers from the past century. She holds degrees from the Bard Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School.
Artistic DirectorAllegra Chapman
Tony learned violin at an early age and has played as a serious amateur throughout his life. He moved from the East Coast to California in 1980 and spent more than four decades on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley as Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. During the course of his Berkeley career he served for ten years as Dean of Arts and Humanities and before that was Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities and of the Arts Research Center. He was an ex officio Board member of Cal Performances and of BAMPFA (the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) and has been responsible for numerous institutional and private grants. Tony lives in Inverness with his wife Jennifer Howard and together they share four children and five grandchildren.
Associate Director