Amateur Music Network Workshops
601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite E3-230, San Francisco, CA 94102
About
Amateur Music Network Workshops offers workshops and conversations that include online workshops, online master classes, and a Juneteenth workshop. The program features activities such as Facebook Live music streaming, Family Sing, sing-alongs, baroque chamber music, and violin duets. Participants can also use Community Listings to create a profile and listing, view a video gallery to revisit past workshops, and read a blog with interviews, news updates, and articles.
Amateur Music Network Workshops states that its network is open to all ages and all genres or interests. Its mission describes music as the language of connection and states that music is available to everyone, regardless of skill. The program’s mission and methods include connecting people to share in active musical experiences, creating music-making opportunities on its own and through partnerships with other arts organizations, and sharing music through active listening and participatory experiences. It provides online access so that all may join from anywhere and describes unique online community listings that embrace all musical genres and encourage participation from anyone who wishes to join. The organization states that it values diversity and is committed to music-making that brings people together across boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, and culture, and that it extends offerings to people who do not have access to music-making opportunities in the community.
The leadership team includes Founder Lolly Lewis; Board Chair Corty Fengler; Secretary Lisa Zadek; Treasurer Sylvia Chen; and Board members Alessandra Aquilanti, Nicholas Pavkovic, Erin Renfroe, James “Sky” Schuyler, Jeanette Wong, and Jeanette Yu. The Advisory Board includes Rebecca Blum (Executive Director, Music in the Vineyards), Nan Keeton (Arts Consultant), David Landis (Former President, Landis Communications Inc.), Michael Roest (Founder, International Pride Orchestra), Jerome Simas (Clarinetist, San Francisco Symphony), Dee Spencer (Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre in the School of Theatre & Dance at San Francisco State University), and Robin Sutherland (Principal Pianist, San Francisco Symphony, in memoriam). Staff credentials noted for specific leaders include Bob Athayde, a pianist, bandleader, and chorus director who began teaching at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette, California, in 1986, and Dee Spencer, Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre in the School of Theatre & Dance at San Francisco State University.
Amateur Music Network states that it supports local musicians through its workshops and creates music-making opportunities through partnerships with other arts organizations. It notes that it has partners and sponsors that are aligned with its values and support it with financial and in-kind donations. The program also offers Community Listings with free and professional listing plans for teachers, ensembles, schools, and other music services, and a video gallery called AMN Encore to revisit past workshops.
Last updated August 9, 2026.
Amateur Music Network Workshops states that its network is open to all ages and all genres or interests. Its mission describes music as the language of connection and states that music is available to everyone, regardless of skill. The program’s mission and methods include connecting people to share in active musical experiences, creating music-making opportunities on its own and through partnerships with other arts organizations, and sharing music through active listening and participatory experiences. It provides online access so that all may join from anywhere and describes unique online community listings that embrace all musical genres and encourage participation from anyone who wishes to join. The organization states that it values diversity and is committed to music-making that brings people together across boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, and culture, and that it extends offerings to people who do not have access to music-making opportunities in the community.
The leadership team includes Founder Lolly Lewis; Board Chair Corty Fengler; Secretary Lisa Zadek; Treasurer Sylvia Chen; and Board members Alessandra Aquilanti, Nicholas Pavkovic, Erin Renfroe, James “Sky” Schuyler, Jeanette Wong, and Jeanette Yu. The Advisory Board includes Rebecca Blum (Executive Director, Music in the Vineyards), Nan Keeton (Arts Consultant), David Landis (Former President, Landis Communications Inc.), Michael Roest (Founder, International Pride Orchestra), Jerome Simas (Clarinetist, San Francisco Symphony), Dee Spencer (Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre in the School of Theatre & Dance at San Francisco State University), and Robin Sutherland (Principal Pianist, San Francisco Symphony, in memoriam). Staff credentials noted for specific leaders include Bob Athayde, a pianist, bandleader, and chorus director who began teaching at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette, California, in 1986, and Dee Spencer, Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre in the School of Theatre & Dance at San Francisco State University.
Amateur Music Network states that it supports local musicians through its workshops and creates music-making opportunities through partnerships with other arts organizations. It notes that it has partners and sponsors that are aligned with its values and support it with financial and in-kind donations. The program also offers Community Listings with free and professional listing plans for teachers, ensembles, schools, and other music services, and a video gallery called AMN Encore to revisit past workshops.
Last updated August 9, 2026.
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