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D. Warner North is president and principal scientist of NorthWorks, Inc., and consulting professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Over the past forty years Dr. North has carried out applications of decision analysis and risk analysis for electric utilities in the US and Mexico, for the petroleum and chemical industries, and for government agencies with responsibility for energy and environmental protection.

Cheryl North (Warner's wife and the director of the music journalism activities of NorthWorks) is a noted music columnist for the Oakland Tribune and other papers of the Bay Area News Group. She writes performance reviews and feature articles for other publications, including Opera Now, based in Great Britain. Profile/interviews with major figures on the international, national, and local San Francisco Bay Area classical music scene have become an important specialty for which she is in demand.

New from Cheryl North:

Read Cheryl North's column from the January 29 Preview Section of Bay Area News Group on the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Ensemble Parallele production of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck at Yerba Buena Center January 30 and 31, 2010.

Oakland East Bay Symphony

Read Cheryl North's review of the Notes from Armenia Concert Friday night, January 22, 2010.

San Francisco Symphony

Read Cheryl North's columns on Yo-Yo Ma's visit as San Francisco Symphony's Artist-in-Residence January 19 to 26, and on Chad Hoopes, the 15-year-old violin soloist for the New Year's Eve Concert.

Conductor Osmo Vanska conducted during October 22-31, 2009. Read Cheryl North's interview with Osmo Vanska published in the Contra Costa Times and other papers of the Bay Area News Group October 16.

Pianist Lang Lang was the featured soloist for the opening concert of the San Francisco Symphony on September 9. Read Cheryl North's interview with Lang Lang, which ran in Bay Area News Group newspapers September 4.

San Francisco Opera Fall 2009

Last year baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky opened the season in the title role of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. This year he goes from this statesman/hero to the villainous Count di Luna in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Read the interview with Dmitri Hvorostovsky from last season. And this year, Patricia Racette has realized her dream of singing all three soprano roles in the three one-act operas of Puccini's Il Trittico. Cheryl North's interview with Patricia Racette was published Friday, September 18 under the headline, "Puccini's 'Senza Mama' follows Racette everywhere." Also, see the interview with Mary Dunleavy, this year starring as Constanze in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, from 2004 when Mary Dunleavy sang Violetta in La Traviata with San Francisco Opera. See also Cheryl North's review of The Abduction from the Seraglio published October 2, 2009

Cheryl North's interview with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato was published November 13, 2009. Ms. DiDonato appears in recital at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on November 16.

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