Preparatory and Extension Faculty

Composition
June Bonacich
David Conte
Michael Kaulkin
Jonathan Russell
Arkadi Serper
Clark Suprynowicz
Clare Twohy

Early Childhood
Mikako Endo
Luba Kravchenko
Jaejin Lee
Yoriko Richman
Christie Peery Skousen

Ensembles
Susan Bates
Paul Binkley
Scott Cmiel
Bruce Foster
Randolph Fromme
Doris Fukawa, chair
Miles Graber
Aenea Mizushima Keyes
Machiko Kobialka
Andrew Luchansky
Richard Rogers
Benjamin Simon
Ross Thompson
Yaada Weber

Guitar
Paul Binkley
Scott Cmiel
Lawrence Ferrara
Ross Thompson

Harp
Douglas Rioth
Sarah Voynow

Harpsichord
Corey Jamason

Musicianship
June Bonacich
Scott Cmiel, chair
Michael Kaulkin
Richard Roper
Arkadi Serper
Clark Suprynowicz
Clare Twohy

Organ
Rodney Gehrke

Percussion
Tommy Kesecker

Piano
Katherine Buss
Jacqueline Chew
Lauren Cony
Jacqueline Divenyi
Erna Gulabyan
Tomoko Hagiwara
Heidi Hau
Paul Hersh
Dorian Ho
Machiko Kobialka
Sima Kouyoumdjian
Luba Kravchenko
Jaejin Lee
Sharon Mann
Meikui Matsushima
Annamarie McCarthy
John McCarthy
Mack McCray
Yoshikazu Nagai
June Choi Oh
Scott Pratt
Richard Rogers
Lena Schuman
Christie Peery Skousen
William Wellborn
Jerri Witt
Helen Wong

Strings
William Barbini, violin
Susan Bates, viola
Pat Burnham, violin
Shinji Eshima, bass
Jean-Michel Fonteneau, violoncello
Doris Fukawa, violin
Monika Gruber, violin
Wei He, violin
Aenea Mizushima Keyes, violin
Jonathan Koh, violoncello
Davis Law, violin
Jodi Levitz, viola
Li Lin, violin
Sieun Lin, violoncello
Yun-Jie Liu, viola
Bettina Mussumeli, violin
Carol Rice, violoncello
Monica Scott, violoncello
James Shallenberger, violin
Axel Strauss, violin
Barbara Wirth, violoncello

Winds and Brass
Yueh Chou, bassoon
Kathryn Curran, trombone
Bruce Foster, clarinet
Gary Jagard, horn
Esther Landau, flute
Scott Macomber, trumpet
Timothy Price, saxophone
Laura Reynolds, oboe
Richard Roper, trumpet
Yaada Weber, flute

Voice
Christine Abraham
Pamela Alexander
Helen Dilworth
Eun-Mee Ko *
Hermann Le Roux*
Dina Reyes
Anja Strauss

* On Leave

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Christine Abraham, voice
M.M., Manhattan School of Music; B.A., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Patricia McCaffrey, Cynthia Hoffmann, Lucille Evans, Herman LeRoux; principal roles/soloist with Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Spoleto Festival USA, Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Boston Baroque, Music of the Baroque; recorded on Signum Classics, Naxos American Classics, Arabesque Recordings, BBC Music.

Pamela Alexander, voice
M.M., New England Conservatory of Music; B.A., Lewis and Clark College; Merola program, San Francisco Opera; performances in Salzburg, Brussels, Hamburg, Vienna, Boston and New York; solo performances at Davies Symphony Hall.

William Barbini, violin
Diploma, The Juilliard School; studied with Ivan Galamian and Paul Makanowitsky; concertmaster, Monterey Symphony; music director, Chamber Music Society of Sacramento; former member, New York Philharmonic; performs with San Francisco Contemporary Players and Music Now; performed at Festival San Miguel Allende in Mexico, Pacific Music Festival and Other Minds Festival; faculty, California State University at Sacramento.

Susan Bates, viola, ensembles
M.A., B.A., California State University at San Jose; founding member, New Age Quartet; studied with Albert Gillis, Rafael Druian and Paganini Quartet; member, San Jose String Quartet; cofounder California Summer Music; director, Lake Tahoe Music Festival Academy; education director, Menuhin Seminar; president, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music; member, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; faculty, Midwest Young Artists, recipient, 1992 Gruber Award from Chamber Music America for excellence in chamber music teaching.

Paul Binkley, guitar, ensembles
M.M., San Francisco State University; B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; performed with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras, and the Berkeley Symphony; recordings with the Modern Mandolin Quartet and the San Francisco Symphony; performances with ACT; faculty, Holy Names University and Mills College in Oakland.

June Bonacich, musicianship, composition
M.A., Sonoma State University; M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Elinor Armer; former faculty for San Francisco Boy's Chorus; winner, Kris Getz Composition Award in 1997 and 1998.

Pat Burnham, violin
B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Isadore Tinkleman and Jenny Rudin; participated in pedagogy workshops by Dorothy DeLay and Mimi Zweig; member, San Jose Chamber Orchestra; performs with Opera San Jose; former department head, Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop at Humboldt State University; former faculty, Delay School and Nueva School.

Katherine Buss, piano
M.M., New England Conservatory of Music; B.A., University of California at Berkeley; studied with Mortimer Markoff, Alexander Libermann, Irwin Freundlich, Russell Sherman and Nathan Schwartz; former faculty, New England Conservatory of Music Extension Division and University of the Pacific.

Jacqueline Chew, piano
M.M., SUNY-Binghamton and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; private studies with Leonard Shure in Boston; recorded Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus and recently released Sweet Irrational Worship: The Niles-Merton Songs; has performed and recorded with the Women's Philharmonic; faculty, University of California at Berkeley.

Sarah Choi, ensembles
D.M.A., Boston University; M.M., Yale University; B.M., The Juilliard School; former teachers include David Soyer, Harvey Shapiro, Aldo Parisot and Leslie Parnas, and chamber music studies with Felix Galimir, and the Juilliard, Tokyo and Muir String Quartets; performed at New York City's Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artists International competition and throughout New England, New York and Canada; former faculty at the New England Conservatory's Preparatory School, the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Boston University's College of Fine Arts.

Yueh Chou, bassoon
D.M.A. and M.M., University of Southern California; B.M., The Juilliard School; bassoon with Rose Corrigan, Stephen Maxym and Stephen Paulson; Banff Center School of the Arts; performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center; Certificate Diploma from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, the Netherlands; premiers of works for solo bassoon by Lou Harrison and Veronika Krausas.

Scott Cmiel, guitar, chair of musicianship, ensembles
B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.A., Northwestern University; studied guitar with Michael Lorimer and Aaron Shearer; solfège with James Wimer; faculty, University of California at Berkeley; former music staff, San Francisco Opera; former faculty, Chicago Musical College.

David Conte, composition
D.M.A., Cornell University; commissions from Chanticleer, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Dayton, Oakland and Stockton Symphonies, the American Guild of Organists, Sonoma City Opera, and the Gerbode Foundation; Fulbright Scholar in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellow, and an Aspen Music Festival Conducting Fellow; B.M. Bowling Green University with Wallace DePue and Ruth Inglefield; M.F.A. and D.M.A. Cornell University; collaborated on film score for Ballets Russes, Sundance Film Festival in 2005; faculty, collegiate division San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Lauren Cony, piano
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.A., Skidmore College; studied piano with Sharon Mann, Paul Hersh and Pola Baytelman, harpsichord with Laurette Goldberg; attended Banff and Bowdoin Chamber Music festivals; accompanist and participant at Oberlin in Casalmaggiore, Italy; has collaborated with Richard Stolzman; faculty, San Francisco Community Music Center.

Kathryn Curran, trombone
M.M., B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; principal trombone, Opera San Jose and the Santa Cruz Symphony; performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfonica UANL, Mexico, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago; fellow, Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Helen Dilworth, voice
Ed.D., University of Southern California; A.M., Stanford University; M.A., San Francisco State University; certificate in Voice Restoration, McClosky Institute; studied with James Schwabacher, Dietrich Erbelding, Peter Gregg, Marcie Stapp, Monroe Kanouse, Lucille Evans, Donald Stenberg, Lenoir Hosack, Dewey Camp, Earl Jones, Sylvia Olden Lee, Martial Singher and Dr. William Warfield; soloist with San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Indianapolis and Oakland Symphonies, Pocket Opera and Columbia Artists; recording for Cambria label; faculty, City College of San Francisco; former faculty, San Francisco State University.

Jacqueline Divenyi, piano
Diploma, Geneva Conservatory of Music; Concert Diploma, Vienna Academy of Music; studied with Bruno Seidlhofer and Stefan Askenase; former faculty member, Geneva Conservatory of Music and Webster University in St. Louis.

Mikako Endo, Dalcroze-Eurhythmics
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; M.A., Tokyo Gakugei University; B.A., Tokyo Gakugei University; studied with Choji Kaneta, Hiroshi Hara, Elinor Armer, Conlad Susa, Dan Becker; piano study with Haseko Miyawaki, University of Shizuoka, Japan.

Shinji Eshima, bass
M.M. The Juilliard School; B.A. Stanford University; Associate Principal Bass, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; member, San Francisco Opera Orchestra; faculty, San Francisco State University; former faculty, Stanford University, University of California at Santa Cruz, San Francisco School of the Arts and The Crowden School.

Lawrence Ferrara, guitar
M.M., B.M. San Francisco Conservatory of Music; performed as soloist with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Bay Chamber Symphony, the Classical Philharmonic and the San Francisco Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and New Music Ensemble; prize winner, Carmel Classic Guitar Competition; served on the Music Advisory Panel to the National Endowment of the Arts; author and performer of The Student Repertoire Series for Guitar Vol. 1 and 2; solo CD of American Guitar Works on the VGo label; faculty, collegiate division SFCM, City College.

Jean-Michel Fonteneau, cello
Founding member, Ravel String Quartet, winner of two prizes in the Evian String Quartet Competition in 1989; founding member, Le Nouveau Trio du Val-de-Marne; performances with Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre de Chambre Français, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; former assistant professor, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon.

Bruce Foster, clarinet, ensembles
M.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; principal clarinet with the West Bay Opera; has performed in the Carmel Bach Festival; San Francisco Opera, Opera San Jose, Santa Cruz Symphony, Oakland Symphony and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Formerly principal clarinet with the Air Force Band of the Golden West and former member of Citywinds Woodwind Quintet.

Randolph Fromme, ensembles
Artist Certificate, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; M.A., University of Minnesota; B.A., University of Wisconsin; studied with Mark Sokol and Clive Greensmith; collaborative performances with Frederica von Stade, Donald and Vivian Weilerstein; member, Fromme Duo with pianist Shu Li; former member, Oberon and Del Sol quartets; performances in Other Minds and Sandpoint Festivals; faculty, Nueva School.

Doris Fukawa, violin, chair of ensembles
M.Ed., Columbia University Teachers College; B.M., Manhattan School of Music. Teachers include Raphael Bronstein, Ariana Bronne, Anne Crowden, Colin Hampton and Lillian Fuchs. Performances with San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Midsummer Mozart, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Skywalker Symphony; guest conductor, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Cazadero Performing Arts Camp; faculty, California Chamber Music Institute, Crowden Center for Music in the Community; Executive Director, Crowden Music Center.

Rodney Gerhke, organ
M.A., musicology, University of California at Berkeley; studied with Hugo Gehrke, David Dahl, Lawrence Moe and Harald Vogel; director of Music and Liturgy at St. Mark's Lutheran Church; organist and choir director at Temple Emanu-El; organ instructor, University of California at Berkeley; adjunct lecturer in church music and liturgy at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary; performed and recorded with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; recorded and toured with Chanticleer; appears on CD collection Historical Organs of San Francisco.

Miles Graber, ensembles
Studied at The Juilliard School; teachers include Anne Hull, Phylis Kreuter, Hugh Aitken and Louise Behrend; performances with Itzhak Perlman, Camilla Wicks and Sarah Chang, and with the San Francisco Chamber Soloists, Midsummer Mozart, the Oakland-East Bay Orchestra, Opera San Jose, and the San Francisco Camerata; principal pianist for the Bay Area chapter of the National Association of Composers; faculty at The Crowden School.

Monika Gruber, violin
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; student with Ian Swensen, Hochschule fuer Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ Weimar, Germany (Degrees in Violin Performance and Violin Pedagogy), and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, France; member of ‘The Eusebius Duo’; appearances at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Festival del Sole, Napa. 1st Prize Winner Intl. Chamber Music Ensemble Competition, Boston; Master classes with Norbert Brainin, Menahem Pressler, Martha Katz.

Erna Gulabyan, piano
Graduate of Moscow Conservatory and Central Musical High School for Specially Gifted Children in Erevan, Armenia; former faculty, Erevan Conservatory and Central Musical High School.

Tomoko Hagiwara, piano
B.A. and graduate studies, University of Tokyo; B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Adolph Baller, Max Egger and Lilli Kraus; first prize, San Francisco Symphony Competition; performed with San Francisco Symphony as soloist under Josef Krips; competed internationally at Long-Thibaud, Paris and Queen Elizabeth Competitions, Brussels; numerous performances and recordings as soloist and chamber musician.

Heidi Hau, piano
B.A., Stanford Universty; M.A., Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland; studied with Erna Gulabyan and John O’Conor; Fulbright Scholar 1999-2002; prize winner in Naumburg International Piano Competition, AXA Dublin International Piano Competition, China International Piano Competition; performed in the Concertgebouw, the Wiener Saal, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and the Forbidden City Concert Hall; Artistic Director of the Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition.

Wei He, violin
B.A., University of Texas at Austin; Artist Certificate in Chamber Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Camilla Wicks and Mark Sokol; founding member, New China Trio, top prize winner of Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and Carmel Chamber Music Competition; former member, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; former artistic director, Crowden School in Berkeley; artist faculty, Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Paul Hersh, piano
Attended Yale University; studied viola with William Primrose and piano with Leonard Shure and Edward Steuermann; former violist and pianist of the Lenox Quartet; piano debut at Carnegie Recital Hall; artist-in-residence and visiting faculty at UC Davis, Temple University, Oregon State University, Berkshire Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and the Spoleto (Italy) Festival of Two Worlds; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Dorian Ho, piano
Ph.D., New York University; M.M., The Juilliard School; diploma, Vienna Academy of Music; studied with Beatrice Beauregard, Eugene List and Martin Canin; winner, Young Artist International Audition; New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall; soloist, Franz Liszt, Kazakstan State, and Moscow Chamber Orchestras and Slovic Sinfonietta.



Gary Jagard, horn
B.A., San Francisco State University; studies with Earl Saxton and Herman Dorman; performances with the San Francisco Symphony; former faculty, West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Corey Jamason, harpsichord
Ph. D., Indiana University; M.M. Yale University; B.M. SUNY College at Purchase; studied with Richard Rephann; performances with NPR's "Performance Today", American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Northwest, among others; appearances at Berkeley Early Music, Bloomington Early Music, Bach Aria and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals; current member Duo Affetti; recordings with Oxygenius and Gilles Apap; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Michael Kaulkin, composition and musicianship
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory; B.M. University of the Arts; studied at Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary; faculty The Crowden School; music performed by Oakland East Bay Symphony, Mission Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Music Group of Philadelphia; incidental music for Ark Theatre, Los Angeles; original musical for San Jose Children’s Musical Theater as well as other musical theater projects; music for the feature film Shakespeare’s Merchant.

Tommy Kesecker, percussion
B.M. San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Barry Jekowski, Rick Kvistad and Johnny Rae; faculty member, Jazz School in Berkeley; performances with Zakir Hussain and the Rhythm Experience; performances and recordings with Larry Vuckovich; performances with Michael Feinstein at Davies Symphony Hall.

Aenea Mizushima Keyes, violin, ensembles
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.M., National Academy of Music, Bulgaria; Prussia Cove International Musicians Seminar, UK; studied with Dorothy DeLay, Guinka Guichkova and Daniel Phillips; toured Russia, Japan, Europe and USA as soloist, chamber musician, violinist-composer, MusicAEterna member and founder; symphony/chamber orchestra performances in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center; recordings: Tear, Del Sol String Quartet CD; Senorita Extraviada, awarded Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize; SFMOMA Artcast, interview/performance.

Eun Mee Ko, voice
Post-Graduate Diploma, M.M. and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Hermann le Roux and Sylvia Anderson; International Opera Festival di Roma; operatic roles include Countess (Marriage of Figaro), Cleopatra (Guilio Cesare) and Alice (Falstaff); solo performances at Davies Symphony Hall.

Machiko Kobialka, piano, ensembles
M.M., Catholic University; B.M., Hartt College of Music; graduate, Toho-Gakuen School of Music; studied with Akiko Iguchi, Raymond Hanson, William Masselos and Grant Johanneson; recipient, California Touring Grant; former member, Kobialka Duo; former faculty member, California State University, East Bay.

Jonathan Koh, cello
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.M., Northwestern University; studied with Hans Jørgen Jensen; collaborations with Pinchas Zukerman, Carter Brey, Amanda von Goetz and Kyung-Sun Lee; substitute cellist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; solo appearances at Kennedy Center, Ravinia Festival, Salzburg Festival, Disney Hall, Centre National Des Arts, Taos Performing Arts Center and Tong-yong Festival Hall; recordings for NAXOS and Dora Classics labels.

Sima Kouyoumdjian, piano
M.M. and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Mack McCray and Paul Hersh; alumna, Conservatory's Preparatory Division.

Luba Kravchenko, piano, first steps at the keyboard
B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studied with Paul Hersh; vocal coach and accompanist, San Francisco Arts Education Project; Director of Liturgical Music, Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Esther Landau, flute
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; studied with Keith Underwood, Robert Willoughby, Timothy Day, Julia Bogorad, William Grass; attended Tanglewood and Banff; masterclasses with Carole Wincenc, Barthold Kuijken, Robert Dick, Tom Nyfenger; former member, Citywinds; former faculty, Northern California Music and Art Culture Center; performances with Empyrean Ensemble, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; premiered works by Chen Yi, Hyo-shin Na, Belinda Reynolds.

Davis Law, violin
B.M., New England Conservatory of Music; studied with Zaven Melikian and Dorothy DeLay; alumnus, Conservatory's Preparatory Division.

Jaejin Lee, piano, first steps at the keyboard
D.M.A., University of Cincinnati; M.M., Michigan State University; B.M, Seoul National University; studied with Eugene Pridonoff, Yong-hi Moon, and Nakho Baik; certificate in Suzuki piano and Orff-Schulwerk; former faculty, University of Cincinnati Preparatory Department and Capital University; summer faculty member, Blue Lake Summer Arts Camp.

Hermann Le Roux, voice
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; graduate, University of Cape Town; studied with Desiree Talbot, Gregorio Fiasconaro, Martial Singher and Leopold Simoneau; premiered works by John Cage, Arne Melnas, Robert Moran; president, International Voice Institute; former chair, Conservatory voice department; Frederica von Stade Distinguished Chair in Voice.

Jodi Levitz, viola
M.M. and B.M., The Juilliard School; studied with Margaret Pardee, Paul Doktor and William Lincer; principal viola of I Solisti Veneti; principal viola of the Chamber Orchestra of Mantova and the Orchestra Citta di Ferrara (Italy); chamber music faculty, Oberlin in Casalmaggiore, Italy; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music; member, Ives Quartet.

Li Lin, violin
M.M. and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Irene Sharp; studied chamber music with Josef Gingold and Robert Mann; master classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Joel Krosnick, Anner Bylsma and Paul Katz; solo and chamber music performances for KKHI radio and San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Series; former faculty, Indiana University String Academy.

Sieun Lin, cello
M.M. and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Irene Sharp; studied chamber music with Josef Gingold and Robert Mann; masterclasses with Yo-Yo Ma, Joel Krosnick, Anner Bylsma and Paul Katz; solo and chamber music performances for KKHI radio and San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Series; former faculty, Indiana University String Academy.

Yun-Jie Liu, viola
Studied at the University of Southern California with Donald McInnes and Alan DeVeritch; studied with Shen Xi-Di and Wu Fei at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music; appeared as soloist with the San Diego Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Shanghai Youth Orchestra; Acting Principal Violist of San Francisco Symphony.

Andrew Luchansky, ensembles
M.M., State University of New York at Stony Brook; B.M., New England Conservatory of Music; studied with Laurence Lesser, Timothy Eddy, and chamber music with members of the Guarneri and Juilliard Quartets and Beaux Arts Trio; master classes with Gregor Piatagorsky, Bernard Greenhouse and Anner Bylsma; performances with The Classical Band, Musica Sacra, Brooklyn Philharmonic and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and as soloist at the Festival International de Musica in Deia Spain, Italy and Denmark; former faculty, Florida State University, currently director of string studies at the CSU Sacramento School of Music.

Scott Macomber, trumpet
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.M., Northwestern University; studied with David Burkhart and Vincent Cichowicz; principal, Napa Valley Symphony, Arizona MusicFest, Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra; member, Santa Rosa Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Sacramento Opera, San Francisco Brass Company; faculty, UC Davis and San Francisco State University.

Sharon Mann, piano
D.M.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Stanford University; B.A., The Juilliard School; early studies with Rudolph Ganz and Isador Buchhalter; later studies with Jose Echaniz, Irwin Freundlich, Rosalyn Tureck, and Dorothy Taubman; recipient, the George Eastman Award; has served as artistic director of Ohio's Governor Series; co-produced the Soviet Emigre Orchestra; co-produced Sommermusikwochen of Switzerland; former music director, the Junior Bach Festival; recorded for Orion and Capella Records; collegiate faculty San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Perlman Music Program.

Meikui Matsushima, piano
Diploma, Toho Music College, Tokyo; additional studies at San Francisco Conservatory of Music; summer faculty member of Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival in Courmayeur, Italy.

Annamarie McCarthy, piano
B.A., Lone Mountain College; studied with Bernhard Abramowitsch and Peggy Salkind; performances at CAMI Hall in New York, Yosemite Bracebridge Concerts, Stanford University and University of California at Santa Cruz; recorded for Composer Recording Society label; member, Annamarie and John McCarthy Piano Duo; former faculty, Lone Mountain College.

John McCarthy, piano, director; Preparatory and Adult Extension divisions
B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; attended Mannes College of Music and Hofstra University; studied piano with Bernhard Abramowitsch, Katja Andy, Martin Canin, Robert Helps, Milton Salkind and Peggy Salkind; recorded for Composer Recording Society label; performances with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Ojai Festival, Music in the Vineyards Festival; member, Annamarie and John McCarthy Piano Duo; former faculty member, Lone Mountain College and Pacific Music Festival; summer faculty member, International Institute for Young Musicians; president, West Coast Chapter, National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts.

Mack McCray, piano
M.S. and B.M., The Juilliard School; studied with Irwin Freundlich; silver medal in International Georges Enesco Competition in Bucharest; 1st prize in the Charleston Symphony and San Francisco Symphony competitions, and Juilliard's Steuermann Memorial Prize; guest at Festival d'Automne in Paris, Seville's Great Interpreters Cycle, UNESCO Festival of International Artists at Monte Carlo, Bucharest Philharmonic's Bach/Beethoven/Brahms Festival; performances with San Francisco Symphony; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Bettina Mussumeli, violin
M.M. and B.M., The Juilliard School; teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, Paul Doktor and Kato Havas, also members of the Juilliard, Cleveland and Guarnari quartets; former concertmaster and solo violin of I Solisti Veneti, Orchestra Citta di Ferrara and Orchestra Communale di Bolognia; chamber music faculty at Oberlin in Casalmaggiore, Ars Musica Festival and Zephyr Festival Italy; currently first violin of the Ives Quartet; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Yoshikazu Nagai, piano
M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music; D.M.A. studies, Rice University; studied with John Perry, Paul Schenly, Sergei Babayan , Duane Hulbert; recitals in Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Italy, NPR's "Performance Today"; first prize Washington International Piano Competition; frequent master classes throughout U.S. and Asia; summer faculty, Eastern Music Festival and Beijing International Music Festival; former faculty, Interlochen Arts Academy; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. www.yoshinagai.com



June Choi Oh, piano
M.M. and B.M., The Juilliard School; studied with Herbert Stessin, William Masselos and Solomon Mikowsky; first prize, Aspen Music Festival Piano Competition, Marcia Polayes National Competition, Westchester Concerto Competition; medalist, Maria Canals de Barcelona International Competition; soloist with New Haven Symphony, Aspen Concert Orchestra; faculty, Dominican University; former faculty, Preparatory Division at Manhattan School of Music; founder and former director, Pacific Music Festival of California.

Scott Pratt, piano
M.M., Manhattan School of Music; B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Mack McCray and Nina Svetlanova; four-time winner, Musical Merit Foundation Award.

Timothy Price, saxophone
M.A. with distinction, California State University at Fresno; A.B. magna cum laude, Occidental College; further studies at Eastman School of Music and University of Northern Colorado; studied saxophone with Harvey Pittel and Gary Foster, piano with Richard Grayson and Phillip Lorenz; co-founder, co-director of the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra; faculty, San Francisco University High School; former faculty member California State University at Fresno, Fresno City College.

Dina Reyes, voice
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.M, St. Isabel College, Manila, Philippines; studied with Hermann le Roux, John Lester and Teresita Agana-Santos; performed with Opera Chorus of the Philippines; assistant conductor, Opera Chorus of the Philippines; former faculty, Concordia College and St. Isabel College.

Laura Reynolds, oboe
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.M., University of Michigan; studied with Harry Sargous and William Bennett; principal oboe, California Symphony; oboe/english horn, Santa Rosa and Marin Symphonies; performances with San Francisco Symphony; attended Music Academy of the West, National Orchestral Institute, Sarasota Music Festival, Bach Aria Festival and Institute at Stonybrook; founding member, Citywinds; faculty, University of California at Davis.

Carol Rice, cello
M.M., Yale School of Music; B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; studied with Gabor Rejto, Robert Adcock, Irene Sharp and Aldo Parisot; former principal, Monterey and Santa Cruz symphonies; principal, Berkeley Symphony.

Yoriko Richman, Dalcroze-Eurhythmics
B.A., Musashino Academia Musicae, Tokyo; Dalcroze Teacher's License, Dalcroze School of Music, New York; Berklee College of Music, Boston; Postgraduate Diplome, Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva; former faculty, Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division and Showa Academia Musicae, Yokohama, Japan; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Douglas Rioth, Harp
Principal harpist, San Francisco Symphony; solo appearances with the SFS; studied with Alice Chalifoux and Elisa Smith Dickon; attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and Cleveland Institute of Music, and studied at the Berkshire Music; formerly principal harpist, Indianapolis Symphony.

Richard Rogers, piano, ensembles
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.A., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; studied with Seymour Bernstein, Marthe Motchane and Paul Hersh; performances at Chamber Music West and with San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra; former faculty, Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Richard Roper, trumpet, musicianship
D.M.A., University of Maryland; M.M., Yale School of Music; B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Winner of Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship for study in Paris; performances at Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival; faculty at California State University at Stanislaus and Community School of Music and Arts; former faculty at University of Maine.

Jonathan Russell, composition
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; B.A., Harvard University; studied with Dan Becker, Elinor Armer, John Stewart and Eric Sawyer; compositions performed by Berkeley Symphony, San Francisco Conservatory Symphony and New Music Ensemble, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Woodstock NY Chamber Orchestra; solo appearances with Harvard's Bach Society Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Woodstock Chamber Orchestra; performed with Marin Symphony and Ensemble Parallèle.

Lena Schuman, piano
M.M. and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied with Maria Itzkovich, Haggai Niv, Milton Salkind and Herbert Stessin.

Monica Scott, cello
B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; Soloist's Diploma, Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam; studied with William Pleeth and Harro Ruijsenaars; artist-in-residence, Banff Centre for the Arts; former assistant principal, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal; member of the sfSoundGroup; former member Del Sol String Quartet; member of the pianocello duo "martha and monica."

Arkadi Serper, composition, musicianship
Gnesin State Musical College; Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory; compositions for Kairos Youth Choir and musical theatre; faculty, The Crowden School.

James Shallenberger, violin
M.M., University of Washington, Seattle; B.M., University of California at Berkeley; performs with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet Orchestras; founding member of the Kronos String Quartet.

Benjamin Simon, ensembles
M.M. The Juilliard School; B.A., Yale College; Aspen Music Festival with Denis Russel Davies; member of Naumburg Award-winning New World String Quartet, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Music from Marlboro, and the Stanford String Quartet; recorded for MCA Classics, Vox, Musical Heritage Society, Centaur, CRI, and Laurel Records; faculty Harvard University, Stanford University, and University of California at Berkeley; former director of The Crowden School in Berkeley; Currently music director of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra.

Christie Peery Skousen, piano, first steps at the keyboard
B. M., Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University; studied with Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov and Dr. Irene Peery; Carnegie Hall debut at age 18; winner Corpus Christi International, Missouri Southern International, Gina Bachauer International Junior Division and Joanna Hodges Competition; solo performances with Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony and Samara Philharmonic.

Anja Strauss, voice
Postgraduate Degree, The Juilliard School; M.M., Musikhochschule Luebeck, Germany; active opera/concert/lied performer; appearances include Carnegie Weill Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Fremont Symphony, Mozart Society (CA), Olympic Music Festival (WA); opera performances with Sacramento Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Lamplighters Musical Theatre, Pacific Repertory Opera, Pocket Opera, Stockton Opera and German companies of Luebeck, Kiel, Potsdam and Detmold; recorded with Dabringhaus and Grimm; offers German, Italian, French and Spanish diction. www.anjastrauss.com

Axel Strauss, violin
Studied with Petru Munteanu and Dorothy DeLay; winner, 1998 Naumburg Violin Award; concerto appearances in Germany, Japan, China and Eastern Europe; festival appearances include Marlboro Music, International Music Festival of Saga in Japan and Kammermusiktage Mettlach in Germany; former violin teacher, Hochschule für Musik; former teaching assistant, Dorothy DeLay; collegiate faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Clark Suprynowicz, musicianship, composition
B.A. in music, Hampshire College, Amherst; studied with Elinor Armer, David Conte, Ken Durling and Joel Lindheimer; composed music for National Public Radio, and chamber music, songs, choral music and full-length works for the stage; faculty Crowden School; Composer-in-Residence, Berkeley Symphony.

Ross Thompson, guitar, ensembles
M.M. and B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; diploma of advanced study from The Royal College of Music in London; studied with David Tanenbaum, Carlos Bonell, Scott Kritzer; artist-inresidence for San Francisco Performances; former faculty, Community Music Center of San Francisco; performances in the United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina and the United States.

Clare Twohy, composition, musicianship
B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; studied violin with Camilla Wicks and composition with Elinor Armer; member of the San Francisco Composers' Chamber Orchestra; attended Music Academy of the West, Roundtop and Bowdoin Festivals; faculty, The Crowden School.

Sarah Voynow, harp
D.M.A., M.M., B.M., The Juilliard School; studied with Marcella DeCray, Nancy Allen, Susan McDonald, David Diamond, Michael White, and Lucile Lawrence; performances with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Golden Gate Opera, Stockton Symphony and Stockton Opera Orchestra; recording artist with Skywalker Sound; recipient of Graduate Teaching Fellow at The Juilliard School; winner of Lyon and Healy International Pop and Jazz Festival.

Yaada Weber, flute, ensembles
B.A., Mills College; studied with Herbert Benkman, Doriot Dwyer, Ferenc Molnar and Darius Milhaud; studies with Amos Gunsberg in physiological aspects of performance; member, Duo Linos; former member, Oakland Symphony Orchestra.

William Wellborn, piano
D.M.A. and B.M., University of Texas at Austin; M.M., New England Conservatory; studies with Gregory Allen, Patricia Zander and Nancy Garrett; coachings with John Perry, Jerome Lowenthal and Paul Schenley; soloist, Austin Symphony, Laredo Philharmonic and Sudeten Philharmonie (Poland); concerts in 25 states and 10 countries; festival appearances include American Liszt Society, Paderewski Festival, Chopin festival de piano (France); creator and host of radio program "Piano Legacy"; recordings for Marco Polo and Cambria labels; faculty, master classes of Saint Malo (France), Franz Liszt Summer Academy (Hungary), Austrian International Seminar; Founding President, SF Liszt Society; collegiate faculty, SFCM.

Barbara Wirth, violincello
B.M., Northwestern University; M.M., Indiana University; studied with Janos Starker and Pierre Fournier; former member, Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Opera Orchestra; has performed with San Francisco Symphony and Ballet Orchestras; former faculty, Northwestern University preparatory department, Eastern Kentucky University, Louisville Academy of Music, Dominican College, San Francisco State University and University of San Francisco.

Jerri Witt, piano
M.M. and B.M., Boston Conservatory of Music; post-graduate study at Boston University and University of Denver; studied with Katja Andy, Maria Clodes, Bela Nagy, and Bernhard Abramowitsch; faculty, The Nueva School.

Helen Wong, piano
M.M., University of Michigan; graduate of Royal Academy of Music; studied with Gyorgy Sandor and Max Pirani; former collegiate and preparatory faculty, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Oxford Music School; performed at Wigmore Hall, London; Hong Kong, China, and Bay Area; Elected Associate, Royal Academy of Music; founding member and faculty, Hong Kong Summer Music.