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D. Warner North is president and principal scientist of NorthWorks, Inc. Over the past forty-five 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. Dr. North has a long association with Stanford University as adjunct faculty beginning in 1976 and as a consulting professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering from 1988 to 2009.





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:

Jeremy Cohen and Quartet San Francisco with the Marin Symphony

Preview: World premiere of Jeremy Cohen's Concerto Carnevale by Quartet San Francisco and the Marin Symphony Sunday October 28.
(An interview with Jeremy Cohen from ten years ago is on the Interviews page.)

Andras Schiff's Bach Project

World-renowned pianist Andras Schiff is giving lectures and concerts during a two year residency with the San Francisco Symphony on the music of J.S. Bach.

California Symphony

Review of the September 30 opening concert of the 2011-12 season, conducted by Robert Moody, the first of seven conductors being considered as the new music director for the California Symphony.

San Francisco Opera

An interview with Albanian tenor Saimir Pirgu, who makes his S.F. Opera debut September 29 in Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues.

San Francisco Symphony

An article on Semyon Bychkov, who conducts the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall September 5 to 15 prior to the formal season-opening concert September 20, 2012.

Semyon Bychkov with Cheryl North
Backstage at Davies Hall
September 12, 2012
Photo by DWN

From Warner North:
Congressional Testimony

Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Feb 1, 2012, Hearing on the Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Dr. North was the fourth witness. All of the witness statements are on the above site. Here is a link to the The Blue Ribbon Commission Final Report to the Secretary of Energy. Links to Dr. North's comments to the Commission during its work are on the main D. Warner North page.




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