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Bassoon: Jane Orzel
Cello: Karen Andrie
Clarinet: Mark Brandenburg
Cornett: William Mathews
Flute: Leta Miller, Greer Ellison
Fortepiano: Linda Burman-Hall, Mary Jane Cope, Anatole Leikin
Horn: Susan Vollmer
Guitar: William Coulter, Mesut Özgen
Harpsichord: Linda Burman-Hall
Lute: Mesut Özgen
Oboe: Patricia Mitchell
Percussion: George Marsh, William Winant
Piano: Mary Jane Cope, Maria Ezerova, Anatole Leikin
Saxophone: Paul Contos
String Bass: Barry Green, Stan Poplin
Trombone: Wayne Solomon
Trumpet: Owen Miyoshi
Violin, viola: Roy Malan
Voice: Patrice Maginnis, Brian Staufenbiel
Karen Andrie, Lecturer in Cello
B.M., Performer’s Certificate, Eastman School of Music;
Premier Prix, Licence du Concert, École Normale de
Musique, Paris; Diploma, Soloist, Accademia Chigiana, Sienna,
Italy. Concurrent affiliations: instructor, Suzuki Program,
Cabrillo College; member, Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Santa
Cruz New Music Works, Monterey Symphony. Performances: solo
and chamber music performances in the U.S. and Europe. Teachers:
Florence Reynolds, Ronald Leonard, Andrie Navarra. Chamber
coaches: Joseph Gingold, Claus Adams, Michael Tree, Arnold
Steinhart. Former member: Atlanta and Columbus String Quartets,
and Trio d’Accord (winner of the Concert Artist Guild
Competition of New York).
Mark Brandenburg, Lecturer in Clarinet (markbrand@mac.com)
B.M., M.S., Juilliard School of Music. Performances: San Francisco
Symphony, San Jose Symphony, Midsummer Mozart Festival, Cabrillo
Music Festival, Anchor Chamber Players, Opera San Jose. Teachers:
Frealon Bibbins Jr., Rosario Mazzeo, Bernard Portnoy.
Linda Burman-Hall, Professor of Music (lbh@ucsc.edu)
Ph.D., Princeton University. Specialist in Baroque music,
historical performance practices, and chamber music. Extensive
solo and ensemble performances, including continuo harpsichord
and chamber organ. Director, Santa Cruz Baroque Festival.
Recordings: Musical Heritage Society, Wildboar, Centaur, Helicon.
Paul Contos, Lecturer in Saxophone (paul_contos@csumb.edu)
Concurrent affiliations: California State University, Monterey
Bay; saxophone clinician, Monterey Jazz Festival Education
Program; director, Monterey County High School Honor Band;
co-director, California High School All-Star Band; Monterey
Jazz Festival Summer Camp, Ray Brown’s Great Big Band,
Dave Eshelman’s Jazz Garden Band, Juan Sanchez Ensemble,
and others. Performances with McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter,
Dizzy Gillespie, Mundell Lowe, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove,
Bobby Hutcherson, Billy Childs, Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks,
Dianne Reeves, Sheila Jordan, Rebecca Paris, Rufus Reid, Bill
Berry, Bruce Forman, Louie Bellson, The Temptations, The Four
Tops, and others. Previous affiliations: Santa Cruz County
Symphony, San Jose Civic Light Opera Orchestra. Recordings:
Capitol Records Angel Recordings, Fantasy Records, and others.
Mary Jane Cope, Lecturer in Piano and Fortepiano
(mjcope@ucsc.edu)
M.M., Indiana University. Master Teacher Certificate, Music
Teachers National Association. Interests: Classical and Romantic
piano music (including lesser known works and composers),
literature of the fortepiano, 20th-century piano literature
and extended techniques. Performances: solo and chamber performances,
including premieres of compositions (some written for her).
Recordings: Opus One Records, Orion Records. Pedagogical philosophy:
natural holistic approach to pianism that emphasizes anatomical
and psychological considerations, strength through balance,
and an integration of the physical and musical gesture. Focus
on development of tone, pedal technique, stylistic awareness,
and encouragement of independence and imagination. Acquaintance
with the Dorothy Taubman approach.
William Coulter, Lecturer in Classical
Guitar (billski@ucsc.edu)
M.A., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; M.A., Ethnomusicology,
UC Santa Cruz. Interests: Classical guitar repertoire, especially
guitar ensemble and guitar with other instruments; traditional
folk music and songs from the British Isles, especially from
Ireland; the music of Turloch O’Carolan. Pedagogical
philosophy: influenced by the Suzuki method and the teaching
of Benjamin Verdery; emphasis on communication of musical
ideas, the enjoyment of playing, tone production, and accurate,
fluent technique.
Maria Ezerova, Lecturer in Piano (mvezerov@ucsc.edu)
M.A., UC Santa Cruz; M.M. and D.M.A. equivalents in Piano
Performance, Moscow State Conservatory. Teachers: Russian
pianists Stanislav Neuhaus, Lev Vlasenko, and Michail Pletnev;
master’s degree in early music performance practice
from UC Santa Cruz included harpsichord study with Linda Burman-Hall.
Performances throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, the
U.S., Canada, and Asia as a soloist and chamber pianist and
harpsichordist. Recordings: Centaur and New Albion labels.
Interests: keyboard repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque,
Classical and Romantic periods, and the 20th century.
Barry Green, Lecturer in Bass (barry@innergameofmusic.com)
M.M., University of Cincinnati, Conservatory of Music. Previous
affiliations: bass instructor, University of Cincinnati and
Indiana University; numerous bass workshops in U.S. and abroad.
Performances: principal bass, California Symphony, Sun Valley
Idaho Summer Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Nashville Symphony,
Casals Festival Orchestra of Puerto Rico. Publications: The
Popular Bass Method in 3 Volumes, Fundamentals of Double Bass
Playing and Advanced Techniques of Double Bass Playing (Piper
Publications); numerous journal articles for the International
Society of Bassists and Northern California Bass Club, and
in Double Bassist Magazine, Instrumentalist Magazine, and
in many other trade journals. Recordings: six solo recordings
of Baroque, Romantic, and contemporary bass music.
Anatole Leikin, Professor of Music (asl@ucsc.edu)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Interests: Classical
and Romantic performance practice, music history and theory,
and piano performance. Recent and present projects include
structural and hermeneutic analysis, early tonality, Romantic
performance practice, Chopin, Scriabin, Granodes, and Shostakovich.
Solo and chamber ensemble performances in the U.S.S.R., Italy,
and the U.S.
Patrice Maginnis, Lecturer in Voice (patrice@ucsc.edu)
(831) 459-3213
M.A., San Jose State University. Concurrent affiliation: Opera
San Jose. Interests: operatic, recital, and concert work,
especially of 19th- and 20th-century art song. Pedagogical
philosophy: emphasis on strong technical foundation, broad-based
knowledge of vocal repertoire from the 16th century to the
present, and preparation of effective recitals and operatic
roles, including programming, historically informed interpretation,
and effective stage presence.
Roy Malan, Lecturer in Violin and Viola
(831) 423-7923
Diplomas in Violin: Royal Academy of Music, Juilliard School
of Music, Curtis Institute of Music. Concurrent affiliations:
concertmaster, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; principal violinist,
San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players; founder and director,
Telluride Chamber Music Festival; faculty, Rocky Ridge Music
Center. Teachers: Ivan Galamian, Efrem Zimbalist, Yehudi Menuhin.
Performances: solo and chamber music in the U.S. and abroad.
Interests: 19th-century literature, performance practice,
and virtuoso techniques; chamber music. Recordings: Sonatas,
by Efrem Zimbalist and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (Genesis Records);
Sonatas, by Robert Russell Bennett and Ottorino Respighi,
and Fredrick Kaufman Concerto, Violin Sonata (Orion Master
Recordings); Music from Telluride (Transparent Recordings);
numerous contemporary works for CRI and Newport Classics,
including Gihon for solo violin, written for him by jazz flutist
James Newton. Pedagogical philosophy: acquisition of the technique,
tone, and musical culture for performance of the Classical,
Romantic, contemporary, and virtuosic basic repertoire; cultivation
of the sensitivity and discipline essential for chamber music
playing.
George Marsh, Lecturer in Percussion (Marshdrum@aol.com
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Former affiliation: San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Concurrent
affiliation: Sonoma State University. Performances: with Terry
Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Mose Allison, David Grisman, Joe
Henderson, Roscoe Mitchell, John Abercrombie, and others;
solos with San Francisco Taiko Dojo. Recordings: In C, with
Terry Riley and friends; Upon A Time, with jazz guitarist
John Abercrombie, and many others. Publications: Inner Drumming,
a drumset method book; articles in Percussioner International,
Modern Drummer, Drum Tracks, and Percussive Notes. Interests:
innovative performance and the art of teaching rhythm and
drumset; inner drumming and use of the I Ching to devise rhythm
patterns and study systems (taught in clinics nationwide);
study of pulses for healing.
William Mathews, Lecturer in Cornett (mathews@ucolick.org)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Performances: Santa
Cruz Baroque Festival and other early-music ensembles in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Director of the early-music ensemble
Antiquarian Funks; board of advisers, Historical Brass Society;
consultant to makers of historical reproduction cornetts;
instructor at early-music workshops. Interests: performance
practice of early brass instruments, particularly the use
of cornett in Italian and German sonatas, and brass ensemble
music of the 16th and 17th centuries; appropriate early Baroque
articulation, ornamentation, and expressive style; and acoustical
properties of historical cornetts. Recordings: The Festival
Consort and Music for the Cittern (Musical Heritage Society).
Leta Miller, Professor of Music (leta@ucsc.edu)
Ph.D., Stanford University. Solo and ensemble performances
on modern and baroque flutes. Specialist in Renaissance and
Baroque music, historical performance practices, chamber music
of all eras. Recordings on modern/baroque flutes.
Patricia Mitchell, Lecturer in Oboe (oboe@earthlink.net)
B.M., San Jose State University. Performances: San Jose Symphony,
Opera San Jose, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, American Musical
Theatre of San Jose, San Francisco Best of Broadway series.
Owen Miyoshi, Lecturer in Trumpet (ommtpt@comcast.net)
B.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Concurrent affiliations:
Monterey Symphony, Santa Cruz County Symphony, Bay Shore Lyric
Opera, Farallon Brass Ensemble, North Bay Opera.
Jane Orzel, Lecturer in Bassoon (johnorzel@earthlink.net)
M.A., San Jose State University. Concurrent affiliations:
Organist, First United Methodist Church of Salinas; Santa
Cruz County Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Ensemble Monterey,
Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Laurel Wind Quintet. Teachers:
Leonard Sharrow, William Waterhouse, Milan Turkovic, Wilbur
Simpson, Sam Jordan, Steve Paulson, Artemus Edwards. Professional
memberships: International Double Reed Society, American Guild
of Organists.
Mesut Özgen, Lecturer in Guitar (mozgen@ucsc.edu)
M.M., Artist Diploma, Yale University; D.M.A. candidate, Arizona
State University. Prizewinner: International Portland Guitar
Competition. Performances: solo and ensemble concerts in U.S.,
Turkey, and Spain. Interests: classical guitar repertoire;
lute and vihuela music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods;
19th-century Romantic guitar music; 20th century works, especially
those based on various folk traditions; composing and arranging
solo and ensemble music based on traditional Turkish music.
Pedagogical philosophy: combining musical and physical aspects
of guitar-playing technique from the beginning level, influenced
by Benjamin Vedery's pedagogical concept of "sound and
sensation." Works in Progress: a pedagogical book on
designing individualized technical training programs based
on exercise physiology principles; assisting Professor Frank
Koonce to revise his celebrated edition of "the Solo
Lute Works of J.S.Bach."
Stan Poplin, Lecturer in String Bass (stanpoplin@earthlink.net)
Studies at Norwegian State Academy of Music and privately
with Stephen Tramontozzi, Mel Graves, and Bob Manning. Concurrent
affiliations: Santa Cruz New Music Works, Mendocino Music
Festival, Monterey Symphony, California Parallele Ensemble,
Monterey Jazz Festival. Performances with Toots Thielemans,
Dave Brubeck, Herb Ellis, Charlie Haden, Bobby Hutcherson,
Roger Kelloway, James Moody, Eddie Harris, Smith Dobson, Chuck
Berry, Charlie Bird, Chet Baker, and Muddy Waters.
Wayne Solomon, Lecturer in Trombone and
Tuba (waynesolomon@earthlink.net)
M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Concurrent affiliations:
Monterey County Symphony, Santa Cruz County Symphony, Napa
Valley Symphony, Carmel-Bach Festival. Performances: San Francisco
Symphony, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Pacific Symphony
Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, San Jose Symphony, and numerous
other solo and ensemble venues, including performances with
Ray Charles, Manhattan Transfer, The Temptations, The Four
Tops, Diana Krall, and Dave Brubeck. Teachers: Mark Lawrence,
Paul Welcomer, and John Engelkes.
Brian Staufenbiel, Lecturer in Voice (staufen@ucsc.edu)
(831) 459-3756
D.M.A., Eastman School of Music. Interests: Vocal repertoire
from Baroque to the present with special emphasis on oratorio,
Mozartian opera, German lied, art song, Benjamin Britten and
other music of the 20th century. Pedagogical philosophy: emphasis
on applying new research in physiologically based vocal techniques
and pedagogy; development of a sound knowledge of standard
vocal repertoire, which is both historically informed and
at the highest level of preparation; instruction in effective
preparation, professionalism, and artistic effect. Recordings:
Electra, Koch International Classics, Musical Heritage Society.
Susan Vollmer, Lecturer in Horn (svollmer2001@yahoo.com)
B.M., M.M, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Concurrent
affiliations: Principal, Santa Cruz County Symphony and Western
Opera, and other ensembles in the Bay Area.
William Winant, Lecturer in Percussion (steakatto@hotmail.com)
M.F.A., Mills College. Concurrent affiliations: principal
percussionist, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; artist-in-residence,
Mills College (Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio), John Zorn Chamber
Ensemble, Mr. Bungle, Mark Morris Dance Group, extra percussionist
for San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; faculty, UC Berkeley.
Performances: Cabrillo Music Festival, Pierre Boulez with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Kronos
String Quartet, Steve Reich and musicians, Yo-Yo Ma, Oingo
Boingo, Charles Wourinen, and Frank Zappa. Interests: performance
of new works for solo and multiple percussion, and integration
of this medium with analog and digital electronics; world
music, especially Balinese, Javanese, and South Indian Classical
Carnatic music. Performances: in collaboration with Anthony
Braxton, Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, Lou Harrison, John Cage,
Iannis Xennakis, Danny Elfman, Ralph Shapey, Terry Riley,
Sonic Youth, and John Zorn. Recordings: more than 100 recordings
of new music, rock, and jazz, including works by Lou Harrison
(New Albion), the Glenn Spearman Double Trio (Black Saint),
Siouxsie and the Banshees (Polydor), Mr. Bungle (Warner Brothers),
Sonic Youth (Geffen Records, SYR4), and the sound track of
Tim Burton’s film Batman Returns (Warner Brothers).
Pedagogical philosophy: emphasis on the study of musics from
Western and non-Western cultures and on solo and ensemble
performance.
Greer Ellison Wolfson, Lecturer in Flute
(greere@juno.com)
B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.M., University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor. Concurrent affiliations: Mainly Mozart Festival,
California Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra of the West (early flutes).
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