Faculty Portrait

Contact Information

Name: Anna Presler

Title: Associate Professor of Music

Office Location: Capistrano 427

Email: music129@gmail.com

Office Phone: (916) 278-7484

Education : MM, San Francisco Conservatory

Courses Taught : Applied Music - Violin, Chamber Music, MUSC 129: American Society and its Music

Profile

Violinist Anna Presler is the Artistic Director of Left Coast Chamber Ensemble in San Francisco and a member of the Grammy-nominated New Century Chamber Orchestra. She holds degrees in music from the North Carolina School of the Arts and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a degree in history from Yale University.

Appointed as an Assistant Professor in Sacramento State's School of Music in 2014, she has also taught at the Center for Chamber Music at Apple Hill in New Hampshire and the CalCap Chamber Music Workshop, and participated in festivals at Tanglewood and at the International Musicians' Program in Cornwall, England. She has received critical acclaim for her performances of contemporary music and masterpieces of the chamber music literature.