Welcome to Preparatory
Important Dates
Special Event! PACO Holiday Extravaganza
Sunday December 8, 2024 – 3pm
Venue: Carrington Hall, Sequoia High School
Concert 1:
Sunday January 26, 2025 – 3:30pm
Venue: Palo Alto Art Center
Concert 2:
Sunday June 1, 2025 – 3:30pm
Venue: Palo Alto Art Center
Instructor Bio
Violist Wendy Clymer is an avid chamber musician and a passionate music educator. She co-founded the Persephone Chamber Ensemble and has performed with the Vallejo Symphony, Symphony Napa Valley, Grace Note Chamber Players, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Resonance Jazz Ensemble and at summer festivals in the U.S. and Europe. She was a founding member of the New York-based pop punk band Fake Brain. Wendy is on the faculty of the Crowden Music Center and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, where she has coached chamber music and viola sectionals since 2006 and conducted since 2018. She has held teaching positions at California State University East Bay, the Lafayette School District, and Summer in the City at San Jose State University and has served as president of the San Francisco area section of the American String Teachers Association. She studied viola performance with Karen Tuttle at the Juilliard School and holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.M. from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Jodi Levitz.
Wendy Clymer
