Jane Rogers has lived in Marin since 1982, and in Mill Valley since 1986. After an early career in urban planning and national environmental policy in Washington, D.C., she moved to the Bay Area and joined the San Francisco Foundation as Program Executive for the Environmental for nearly 20 years. In that capacity, she worked with most of the environmental organizations in Marin County and throughout the Bay Area.

Jane has extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, having held leadership positions in six other organizations before assuming the presidency of the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society. She loves live classical music, ballet, reading, and walking in beautiful Marin County.

Beginning her piano lessons at age six and continuing through college, Jane began studying duo piano with John and Anna Marie McCarthy in the Adult Extension at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1986. During the past 10 years, she has studied harpsichord with Yuko Tanaka. She has been a member and officer of the Marin Music Study Club since 2002, and she plays duo piano with her friend Grace Huenemann.

"I fervently hope that the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society will be back to full concert activity in 2022, and that we will be able to gather safely together with one another, with superb performers, and with live sound waves."

Bill Horne grew up studying the piano but didn’t know much about chamber music and, in fact, it wasn’t until he was 48 years old that he discovered this art form. And the love he had for chamber music was instant. The result was he would play with ensembles wherever and whenever he could, ranging from music organizations all over the Bay Area to summer festivals at a variety of college campuses. Bill recalls how the idea of playing with others without a conductor became an essential part of his life, and the emotional and up-close quality of chamber music was intoxicating. Bill belongs to many chamber music organizations, groups situated in the Bay Area as well as nationally. “I believe that one of the undiscovered pleasures of chamber music is the intimacy the musicians and audience have with one another,” he says. “This music is meant to be played in intimate settings where the audience is so close to the musicians that they can almost hear the players’ hearts beat.”

Somewhat surprisingly, while Bill has lived in Mill Valley for over 40 years, it was only when a former Mill Valley Chamber Music Society board president recruited him for the board about 20 years ago that he actually learned of the extraordinary resource MVCMS offers. Bill has had two primary roles with the organization, serving as its president for the past 11 years and heading up the Artist Selection committee. This is his real passion and the board is pleased that he will continue to plan and produce the concerts which is clearly his real love.

Even though Mill Valley Chamber Music Society live concerts have paused for the moment, Bill is looking for new and innovative ways to continue sharing his love for this music with the Bay Area. He is also continuing to plan and develop in-person concerts which he hopes will begin again next year.

Jerry Kay is our newest member and will be overseeing our Communications. He is “thrilled to join the board and to work with these amazing people.” Jerry has been a broadcaster in the Bay Area for many years including a reporter at KFRC Radio and a program host at KCBS Radio.  A long-time Marin County resident, he has also produced podcasts for organizations such as California Academy of Sciences and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Currently, Jerry is Journalist in Residence at the AP Giannini Foundation where he provides communications training to physician scientists.

Joe Angiulo retired from the Outreach arm of the Board in May after 25 years on the Board. Joe was elected Board Member Emeritus. He served nearly four decades as a beloved stringed instrument teacher in the Mill Valley public schools.

"The Outreach arm of the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society has introduced intimate ensemble music to countless children in Marin County. Each season three or four groups come to schools for presentations that combine performance with Q & A’s. Some of our out-of-town presenters are willing to do this extra duty; others are local groups. We choose them carefully because many children are unexposed to chamber music and we want to make sure the music has a chance to appeal to them. The reward comes when I see them turn on to music they’ve never heard before or see instruments completely foreign to them. From an early age, we should be able to listen to and love all kinds of music. Each of the 40 to 50 soloists and ensembles we’ve introduced to schoolchildren have offered insightful musical experi-ences. The most outstanding—The Turtle Island String Quartet (classical and jazz), Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra (seven saxophones), Assad Brothers (duo guitarists), Hot Buttered Rum String Band (bluegrass), and Trio Voronezh (Bach to balalaikas)—have presented music in ways the children could understand, bringing them new ways of hearing and appreciating." ~ Joe Angiulo