LFL Notes For Nourishment concert on Sunday May 8th 4:00pm PDT in Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street, San Francisco CA and online worldwide
May 8th is Mothers Day in the USA so these two wonderful artists will be donating their time and talents to perform a special family-friendly, one-hour, free program to nourish all those who fulfill "mother (or grandmother)-roles" in our lives, and all collected donations will go to NGOs helping the mothers and children still in Ukraine or living as refugees in neighboring countries.Cellist Emil Miland made his solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony at 16, the same year he was selected to perform in the Rostropovich Master Classes at UC Berkeley. He has been a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra Since 1988 and was honored when Frederica von Stade asked him to accompany her in Carnegie Hall at her farewell recital. In 2018 he collaborated with Maestro Michael Morgan at the Bear Valley Music Festival to perform the premiere of David Conte’s cello Concerto, a memory made even more cherished by Morgan’s untimely passing. Recent projects include recording “Intonations” by Jake Heggie for the Violins of Hope, playing solo cello on the soundtrack for Gordon Getty’s opera “Goodbye Mr. Chips” and a new duo by David Conte with violinist Kay Stern. In August 2022 he returns to Bear Valley to perform John Williams’ “Elegy” for Cello and Orchestra.
Organist and pianist Jerome Lenk currently serves as Director of Music and Liturgy, as well as Principal Organist for Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. His duties include administration of a music program of two choirs, providing musical support for regular weekend liturgies and all major feasts, coordinating and developing cantors, and conducting the Basilica Choir in major concerts each year, as well as coordinating the Basilica organ recitals and guest concert series. Mr. Lenk conducts the Basilica Choir is their ever-popular annual Candlelight Christmas Concerts Mr. Lenk has also served on the San Francisco Archdiocesan Music Commission. He is active as a recitalist and accompanist and maintains a private coaching studio. He has performed recitals and conducted the outstanding Basilica Choir in California, Mexico, and Italy. His extensive experience as an accompanist includes appearances with the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Western Opera Theatre, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, CappellaSF, San Mateo Masterworks Chorale, San Jose Symphony, Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, San Francisco Concert Chorale, San Francisco Lyric Chorus, The Choral Project of San Jose, and the Valley Concert Chorale. He has also collaborated with Robert Shaw, Eugene Butler and Jörg Demus.
Mr. Lenk is also experienced as a vocal coach and conductor. His credits include Opera on Tap, the San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Opera San Jose, the Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, San Jose State University Opera Workshop, and The University of Iowa.
Mr. Lenk has performed solo recitals at the Oakland Cathedral as well as San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and has been a recitalist at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In 2017 he was the featured organist for the Lou Harrison centennial concerts with the Other Minds Festival of New Music, performing two of Harrison’s solo organ works.
Mr. Lenk began his musical studies on piano at the age of seven and on the organ at age nine. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance with an organ minor from Central Methodist University, Fayette, Missouri, and the Master of Fine Arts degree in performance from the University of Iowa. His principal teachers have included Groff Bittner, Thomas Yancey, John Ditto, John Simms and Delores Bruch.
Emil Miland:
Jerome Lenk
Jerome Lenk 
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