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  Terrie
Baune, violinist,
is currently Concertmaster of the North State Symphony based in Chico and Redding, CA, and Co-Concertmaster of the Oakland East Bay Symphony. She is also a member of the San Francisco-based Earplay Ensemble, a professional new-music chamber ensemble and past member of the Empyrean Ensemble, which is in residence at UC Davis. Ms. Baune is the Associate Director of the Humboldt Chamber Music Workshop and a faculty member of the Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop, both summer programs at Humboldt State University.
Ms. Baune's professional credits include four years as a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C. and three years in New Zealand, during which time she was a member of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra in the Wellington International Festival of the Arts, and toured and recorded with the Gabrielli Trio, a string trio which was designated as a Radio New Zealand National Ensemble. She has held concertmaster positions with the Fresno Philharmonic, the Santa Cruz County Symphony and the Rohnert Park Symphony, and has made numerous guest appearances as concertmaster with orchestras throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1978, having won the Oberlin Concerto Competition, Grand Prize in the Joseph Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and participated in master classes with Dorothy Delay, Itzhak Perlman and Aaron Rosand.
For over twenty years, Ms. Baune held the position of Concertmaster of The Women's Philharmonic, working under the batons of JoAnn Falletta, Apo Hsu and most of the world's best-known women conductors. During this time she participated in hundreds of premieres and recorded numerous works including the Maddalena Lombardini Violin Concerto #5. In 2001 she and The Women's Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Chinese Folk Dance Suite for violin and orchestra by Chen Yi, a work commissioned by the Koussevitsky Foundation to be written for Ms. Baune and the orchestra. The Women's Philharmonic disbanded in 2004, but through her ongoing work with living composers Ms. Baune continues to be regarded as a strong advocate for new music as well as a fine interpreter of the classic repertoire.
Ms. Baune has taught private violin students since her own college days and has been on the faculties of Sonoma State University, where she taught violin, viola and orchestral techniques, and Stanislaus State University, where she taught violin, viola, chamber music and string pedagogy. She has also been a volunteer lecturer at UC Davis, and has been involved with programs working with student performers and composers at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley and the Santa Rosa Junior College.
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 Flutist Tod
Brody grew up in Chicago, where his early studies were
with Marie Moulton, of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, and
Walfrid Kujala, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His collegiate
studies were with Paul Renzi at San Francisco State University,
and he later studied with Merrill Jordan and Lloyd Gowen. He
has also worked in master classes with Alain Marion and Jean-Pierre
Rampal. Mr. Brody was a member of the Sacramento Symphony for
many years, where he was frequently featured as a soloist on
both flute and piccolo. A specialist in new music, Mr. Brody
is principal flutist for the San Francisco ensemble EARPLAY,
the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Empyrean
Ensemble. He has performed numerous world premieres, and has
been recorded on the Arabesque, CRI, Capstone, Centaur, Charisma/Virgin,
Magnon, and New World labels. He is also the principal flutist
for the Sacramento Opera and for California Musical Theater,
and appears frequently with the orchestras of the San Francisco
Opera and San Francisco ballet. Mr. Brody is on the faculty of
the University of California at Davis, where he teaches flute
and chamber music. In addition to his activities as a performer
and teacher, Mr. Brody is Director of the San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter of American Composers Forum, an organization dedicated
to linking composers and performers with communities, encouraging
the making, playing, and enjoyment of new music.
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 Particularly
interested in opera as well as new music, Mary
Chun conducted the Canadian and European premieres of
John Adams's earthquake romance, I was Looking at the Ceiling
and then I saw the Sky at the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques
in Montreal, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, and the Thalia
Theater in Hamburg, with the Finnish contemporary ensemble AVANTI.
She was invited by the East Slovakian State Opera to conduct
the European premiere of American composer Martin Kalmanoff's
Insect Comedy, and American Stage Director Peter Sellars and
composer Tan Dun asked for her musical assistance with Dun's
latest opera, Peony Pavilion. Last season she conducted sold-out
performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly in Honolulu with the
Hawaii Opera Theater and was asked by the composer to conduct
the world premiere of Carla Lucero's opera, Wuornos, in San Francisco
in 2001. She was the Music Director for the Texas Shakespeare
Festival 2000 where she conducted the world premiere performances
of Mort Garson's Revoco. She has been a member of the conducting
staffs of notable opera companies in the United States and France
including the San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Music Center
Opera, The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Chatelet Theatre
in Paris and the Opera de Lyon, where she was also the Director
of Musical Studies for Music Director Kent Nagano. Her recording
credits include music direction for two CDs of orchestra works
by American composer Peter Allen and a 30 second commercial for
Disney.
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 Peter Josheff has been a clarinetist, composer and advocate of contemporary music in the Bay Area for over twenty years. He is a founding member of Earplay, the San Francisco-based new music ensemble, as well as a member of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. He performs frequently with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Melody of China, and Composers Inc. He has performed as a clarinetist on many commercial recordings.
Peter’s recent works include Caught Between Two Worlds, Three Poems by Dorothy Cary (2009);Inferno (2008), a chamber opera; INFERNO Instrumental Suite (2009); and Viola and Mallets (2007). A long-time collaboration with poet Jaime Robles has seen the creation of a number of works for voices and instruments, including Diary (2002), 3 Hands (2003), House and Garden Tales (2006), and Inferno. His work has been performed by the Laurel Ensemble, Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and on his own Sonic Harvest concert series. He is currently writing a new work for the Laurel Ensemble, and is also planning a new opera, A Natural Aristocrat, with libretto by Carol V. Hamilton.
Peter studied composition at the University of Wisconsin, Madison with Leslie Thimmig, and at the University of California, Berkeley with Olly Wilson, Edwin Dugger and Andrew Imbrie.
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 Thalia
Moore, cello, is a native
of Washington D.C. She began her cello studies with Robert Hofmekler,
and after only 5 years of study appeared as soloist with the
National Symphony Orchestra of Washington at the Kennedy Center
Concert Hall. She attended the Julliard School of Music as a
scholarship student of Lynn Harrell, and received her Bachelor's
and Master's Degrees in 1979 and 1980. While at Juilliard, she
won first prize in the National Arts and Letters String Competition.
Since 1982, Ms. Moore has been Associate Principal Cellist of
the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and in 1989 joined the cello
section of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. She has continued
to concertize extensively, appearing as soloist at Avery Fisher
Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center
Terrace Theater, Herbst Theater, and San Francisco
Legion of Honor, among others. She has also performed as guest
artist at the Olympic Music Festival, (Seattle, Washington),
the Lake Tahoe Summer Music Festival, and the Music in the Vineyards
Chamber Music Festival, among others. In 1991, Ms. Moore appeared
in the last episode of the TV series, Midnight Caller, and in
1993 was featured as soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Symphony
under the direction of Roger Norrington. In 1996, she performed
one of the first Bay Area performances of the composer's version
of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the San Francisco Chamber
Orchestra. She has performed with the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet,
and is a member of the Empyrean Ensemble, with which she has
recorded works by Mario Davidovsky and Maria Niederberger. Recently,
she was named a Cowles Visiting Artist at Grinnell College, Iowa,
and in 1999 won election to the Board of Governors of the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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 Violist Ellen
Ruth Rose relocated in 1998 to the San Francisco Bay Area
after having spent several years in Cologne, Germany, where she
first became immersed in the music of our time. As a member
of the experimental ensembles Musik Fabrik and Thrmchen Ensemble
and frequent guest with Frankfurt's Ensemble Modern, she toured
throughout Europe.
She has performed as soloist with the West German Radio Chorus
and appeared at the Cologne Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg
Zeitflu, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice Biennial and Budapest Autumn
festivals. Continuing her role as an avid interpreter of new
music, she is currently a member of EARPLAY and Empyrean Ensemble.
Ms. Rose also appears often
with other Bay Area ensembles, including Left Coast Ensemble,
the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players and Santa Cruz New
Music Works. In collaboration with Empyrean Ensemble, Ensemble
Modern, Musik Fabrik, Thrmchen Ensemble and others, Ms. Rose
has appeared on numerous recordings on the Sony Classical, RCA,
Arabesque, CPO, Wergo, Capriccio, and Soundspell labels. A Wergo
CD of the chamber music of German composer Caspar Johannes Walter,
including several pieces written for her, won the German Recording
Critics' new music prize in 1998. She has also interpreted more
traditional chamber music repertory in several international
settings, including the Marlboro Music Festival, the the Banff
Center for the Arts, and at festivals in England,
Italy and Finland. Ms. Rose holds degrees in viola performance
from the Juilliard School and the Northwest German Music Academy
in Detmold, Germany, and a degree in English and American history
and literature from Harvard University. She teaches viola and
chamber music at UC Davis. Her own viola teachers have included
Heidi Castleman, Nobuko Imai, Marcus Thompson and Karen Tuttle.
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 Pianist Karen
Rosenak is an almost-native of the San Francisco Bay Area.
She is particularly interested in the contrast between early
fortepiano music, especially of C.P.E. Bach, and the most recently
composed piano and chamber music. She was a founding member and
pianist for many years with the San Francisco-based new music
ensemble EARPLAY and the Davis-based Empyrean Ensemble, and has
performed in countless premieres with these and other new music
groups. She studied fortepiano with Margaret Fabrizio at Stanford
University, and has participated in master classes with Malcolm
Bilson. She studied modern piano with Carlo Bussotti and Nathan
Schwartz. She is on the faculty at University of California,
Berkeley, where she teaches musicianship and contemporary chamber
music.
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