To enter or update your information in the Alumni Directory, click here.

You can try to find a name by using the "search" feature of your browser (in the Edit menu) or by pressing Ctrl-F. Enter all or part of the name and click on the Next button to continue searching down the page.

Individuals are listed alphabetically by current last name within decade. 


1970s and earlier 

Roger Barton, AIA - Class of '78
Name when graduated: Roger Barton
Area of Study: Organ Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): rbarton_aia@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Still architect at LWPB Architecture in Oklahoma City, still organist and choir director at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lawton, OK. June 2007 our Oklahoma City AGO chapter sponsored a Pipe Organ Encounter in which 20 teens from around the country converged here for a week of study and recitals.

Noel Benkman - Class of '71
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): noel@lushtone.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.lushtone.com
What I'm doing now: I teach music at Chabot College and will be going on my 4th concert tour of China in April 2008.
Updated: 3/4/08

Richard Bains - Class of '73
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: World Music Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): richard_bains@csumb.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am Chair the Music Dept. at California State University at Monterey Bay. I am a founding faculty member of the Music program, which means I was able to design the current accredited program and hire all of the current faculty. I perform on occassion with my colleagues in solo and duet programs. Before coming to CSUMB I was working with the San Francisco Symphony for eight years as Director of Education Programs and the Youth Orchestra. Since being at CSUMB I have been acting Dean of the College of Arts, Human Communication and Social and Behavior Studies as well working in my current position of Dept. Chair of Music and Performing Arts.

Bai-Chi Chen - Class of '76
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Cello Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): baichichen@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Living in Maryland.

Bill Clark - Class of '75
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): billclark.billclark@gmail.com
Personal Web Page: www.myspace.com/philomell
What I'm doing now: Software by day, music by night.
Updated: 12/11/07

Ed Cohn - Class of '79
Name when graduated: Ed Cohn
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): eddipi@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page: www.mascot2.com/edlos.html
What I'm doing now: My group, the EDLOS, is a contemporary a cappella performance group active since 1988. We've made six albums, had our own PBS special, and have won numerous awards. Check out our web site! I also teach voice out of my home in Marin County and produce and record. I have my own production company, Lasagna Productions.

Scott Foglesong - Class of '76
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): scottlf@mindspring.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.scottfoglesong.com
What I'm doing now:

David Garner - Class of '79
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): maestro@davidgarner.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.davidgarner.com
What I'm doing now: David Garner is on the faculty of the Conservatory teaching musicianship. On May 2, 2005 he was one of three Bay Area composers whose work was performed at the Works & Process at the Guggenheim series on in New York. Lisa Delan and Kristin Pankonin (both alumns) joined mezzo-sopranos Frederica von Stade and Zhang Cao, and cellist Matt Haimowitz to perform two of Garner’s sets of art-songs, “Annettes Lieder” and “Phenomenal Woman”. Garner was interviewed prior to the performance by Martin Bookspan. Garner’s horn quartet, Cuadro Cuadrángulos, commissioned by QUADRE, will be published by Emerson Horn Editions this fall. The work will also be featuered on QUADRE’s second CD, also due out this year. He is currently working on a trumpet sonata commissioned by Richard Roper (alum), and a large vocal chamber-music piece, “Six Songs from the Vilna Ghetto”, using poems in Yiddish by Avrom Sutskever, for mezzo-soprano Sylvie Braitman (alumna).

Patricia Hall - Class of '79
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Degree
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Associate Professor of Music History at University of California, Santa Barbara, was recently selected as one of the winners of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for her book, A View of Berg's LuLu, published by University of California Press. Professor Hall has been a Fulbright Scholar and has received grants and fellowships from DAAD, the Paul Sacher Foundation and the Academic Senate at UCSB.

M. Alexandra Hawley - Class of '73
Name when graduated: Mary Alexandra Hawley
Area of Study: Cello/piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): alexandrahawley@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently I am playing viola da gamba with a group 'Yoga for Peace', and I am also working towards a viola da gamba CD. I have been very involved with The Kodaly Method and have taught the Music Curriculum at Montessori training programs (I am also a Montessori Directress). I have written some biographies of composers for children and may try to have them published some day and have been working on a pentatonic approach to the Montessori Bells; a current interest: African rhythm instruments for children, a long time interest: BELLS. I am interested in news about alumni.

Grace Huenemann - Class of '72
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano
Email (or phone): gracenoel@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I teach piano lessons in San Francisco at my private studio and at Community Music Center, New School of Music, and Schools of the Sacred Heart, where I coordinate the after school Applied Music Program. From time to time I perform solo or chamber music repertoire.

Andy Lewis - Class of '79
Name when graduated: same
Area of Study: Percussion Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): aclewis@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Sub, SFSO Principal Timp, Santa Rosa, Modesto, Santa Cruz syms
Principal Perc, Napa Sym.
Jazz group, the A.C. Lewis Trio
Member, the Sprocket ensemble

Alan Lochhead - Class of '78
Name when graduated: Alan Lochhead
Area of Study: Double Bass Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): (510) 231-9450
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: 1997-Present: String Bass Chair #5, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Dir. Michael Morgan 1996-Present: String Bass Principal, San Francisco Sinfonietta, Dir. Urs L. Steiner
1989-Present: String Bass Principal, Community Music Center Orchestra, Dir. Urs L. Steiner
1996 (Summer) String Bass Principal, 1st International Festival of Classical Music in Oaxaca, Mexico
Professional Affiliations: Musician's Local #6, Northern California Bass Club

Eliane Lust - Class of '74
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): bookings@elianelust.com
Personal Web Page: www.elianelust.com
What I'm doing now: Continued solo concertizing, internationally and nationally as well as producing various concerts with other musicians. This season's highlight include touring the US in concert with composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski, all Rzewski piano music, both solo and 2-piano repertoire. Based in San Francisco I also hold monthly master classes for advanced and professional pianists.

Michael McGrew - Class of '76
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Organ Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Mikeljayy@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Retired from Verizon Communications and moved to Denver in 2004 after 31 years in California, where I was assistant organist at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Long Beach. I now sing bass in the choir at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, where I am also the music librarian and co-chair of the Choir Advisory Board. And I love to practice on the cathedral's magnificent 96-rank Kimball organ.

Roxanne Michaelian - Class of '79
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): stellagm@ix.netcom.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:
Teaching at The Nueva School, accompanist for Irving Klein String Competition, CD with flutist Maria Tamburrino out in August 1998! Lots of chamber music.

Larry Nobori - Class of '71
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Clarinet
Email (or phone): lnobori@msn.com
Personal Web Page: www.wcjazz.com
What I'm doing now:
I retired from teaching music in the Portland School District in 2001. I also taught in the Berkeley School District from 1971-78. I taught elementary, middle and high school levels. I've always played in some music venue during my teaching career. I changed over to playing jazz about 1982. Currently I'm the leader of the West Coast Jazz Ensemble. We just released a CD "Sail Away", a collection of mostly West Coast Jazz artist/composers who were prominent in the 1950's-early 60's. For more information, see www.cdbaby.com/wcje.

Keith Olsen - Class of '78
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:www.operissimo.com/
What I'm doing now:

Craig Olzenak - Class of '78
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Clarinet Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): colzenak@bsdvt.org
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Greetings from Vermont! Amanda, my wife, and I have been living in Burlington for about 14 years. I teach in the public schools here, and I'm in the clarinet section of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Jaimie Laredo, Music Director). Highlights of this past year must include a performance of Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto (with Peter Serkin) and a run of Bernstein's "Wonderful Town." I'd love to hear from anyone who attended the Conservatory between 1976-78. We don't seem to get back to the West Coast very often... Take care!
Updated: 2/25/08

Michelle Sell - Class of '78
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Harp
Email (or phone): msell@bayareaharpist.com
Personal Web Page:www.michellesell.com/
What I'm doing now: Since leaving the conservatory I have toured with Linda Ronstadt as a harp and voice duo, released six of my own CD's, published music as a composer for Omni Music in New York, appeared on the Tonight Show and generally had a great career. Not over yet. My newest CD is available at amazon.com and CDbaby.com.

Bonnie Skolnik - Class of '67
Name when graduated: Bonnie Kaplan
Area of Study: Conducting Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): edmusiq@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Music Educator, Alhambra Unified School District.

Robin Sutherland - Class of '75
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree: Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): sfsland@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Two years before graduation, Seiji Ozawa appointed me Principal Pianist of the San Francisco Symphony, and 34 seasons later I'm still here. It's a wonderful job -- definitiely full-time, steady work, yet with ample flexibility to pursue a broad range of musical interests (mostly chamber music) outside the Bay Area, California, and often the United States. Helped open the new Recital Hall in Oct. 2006, and am thrilled with the uniquely spectacular new School at 50 Oak Street!

Ronald Tucker - Class of '76
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Bassoon Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): rwtucker@stmarys.org
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I resigned as Data Processing Manager with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in December 2004 in order to take a similar position with St. Mary's Foundation (part of St. Mary's Hospital) in Evansville, IN.

Frank Wallace - Class of '74
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): frank@duoliveoak.com
Personal Web Page:http://www.frankwallace.com
What I'm doing now: I recently received my second Fellowship Award of $5,000 from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts. I released two CDs of my compositions on the Gyre label last year. "Woman of the Water" features songs for voice(s) with guitar or lute, and "Sketches" is my second volume of solos for guitar. The grant will aid in the production of a new CD of songs for baritone and guitar including three song-cycles completed in the last four years. I live in a 1789 farmhouse with my longtime partner, soprano/poet Nancy Knowles. We perform together as Duo LiveOak and specialize in contemporary art song.

Janise White - Class of '76
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): pianomuzic@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am Professor of Music at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, one of the LACCD colleges. In addition, I am listed The Bibliography of Black Music and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music by Dr. Rene de Lerma and American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences by Dr. Ora Williams. I am founder of the Afro American Chamber Music Society Orchestra 1988-, which has performed live for KUSC classical radio station in Los Angeles. We specialize in performances and research of Black Classical music from the African Diaspora.

Margo White - Class of '77
Name when graduated: Margo Rosenstein
Area of Study: Voice Degree
Email (or phone): margo@riverbank1.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I have been living in Washington state now for 20 years! I am teaching guitar at the Brass, Reed, and Guitar shop in Vancouver. That development is a surprise to me since my major was voice, but it is just another one of life's unexpected turns. Another skill I have acquired which I neither expected to have or wanted to have is my expertise in autism. Having two children with autism has drawn out of me a tremendous capacity to be patient, and to think very creatively. This has made me a very good teacher, and I love teaching music!

Charles Wolzien - Class of '73
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Charles.Wolzien@colorado.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

» back to top





1980 - 1989 

Brian Anderson - Class of '83
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Trumpet Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): bcamusic@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: In August 2004, I was one of the featured players in Frank Martin's Concerto for Seven Winds. It was performed at the Bear Valley Music Festival by the Festival Orchestra. The annual festival takes place each summer in Bear Valley, California, located on Highway 4 in the Sierras. I am the Festival Orchestra's Principal Trumpet. This March 2005, I performed the Tomasi Trumpet Concerto with the North State Symphony in Redding, Chico, and Red Bluff. This was my 15th solo appearance with an orchestra.

Anthony Angelo - Class of '83
Name when graduated: Anthony Angelo
Area of Study: Piano Degree
Email (or phone): catony@angelopianoduo.com
Personal Web Page: www.angelopianoduo.com
What I'm doing now: I am currently on the music faculty and Dean of Sophomores (it figures!) at The Branson School in Marin. Cathy and I (the Angelo Piano Duo) are performing actively here in the Bay Area and abroad (including two tours in Russia). Our new piano duo CD "En Blanc et Noir" has been released recently -- including a work by conservatory faculty member David Garner. We also perform with "The Bridge Sextet," a vocal quartet and piano duo ensemble that includes Conservatory alums Michael Matson and Mimi Ruiz as well as faculty member Hermann LeRoux.

Catherine Angelo - Class of '83
Name when graduated: Catherine Angelo
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): angelo2@wenet.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am teaching piano in Marin and am the director of the performing arts program at the Mount Tamalpais School in Mill Valley. Tony and I are performing actively here in the Bay Area and abroad (including two tours in Russia). Our new piano duo CD "En Blanc et Noir" has been released recently--including a work by conservatory faculty member David Garner. We also perform with "The Bridge Sextet," a vocal quartet and piano duo ensemble that includes Conservatory alums Michael Matson and Mimi Ruiz as well as faculty member Hermann LeRoux.

Janet Archibald - Class of '82
Name when graduated: Janet Popesco
Area of Study: Oboe Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jbird2@jps.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: For 16 years I've played English Horn with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. I live in SF with my husband Jay, an international tour guide. I also play with the SF Chamber Orchestra and love to travel in our off season.

Allen Biggs - Class of '89
Name when graduated: Allen Biggs
Area of Study: Percussion Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): biggsdrums@attbi.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: A CD I recorded with Chanticleer, Lamentations and Praises, won two Grammy awards, for Best Small Ensemble Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition. I recently won an audition for the Napa Symphony, and I am performing frequently with touring Broadway productions in San Francisco.

Bob Blossom - Class of '86
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Trombone Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): blossom@ya.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Since leaving SF Conservatory I have been Principal of the orchestra of the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Italy, then Principal of the New Orleans Symphony. Since 1991 I have been Associate Principal of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon in Valladolid, Spain. I also play in the brass quintet of the orchestra. I now have three great kids with my lovely wife Mary Helen (who doesn't think their kids are great, after all?). BTW, Sean Engel (bass trombone) also plays with this orchestra. I also see Dede Decker from time to time, as she also plays in Spain.

David Daniel Bowes - Class of '82
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Viola Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): ddbowes@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently serving as principal viola for both Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. David Bowes is with American Bach Soloists for their Summerfest and with Midsummer Mozart in July. He is also teaching privately in SF: String pedagogy, with the focus on the release of physical and mental tensions a specialty (Kato Havas, the Delay/Galaminan School). Chamber music coach and concert producer/contractor. He is a writer and editor of articles related to string playing and performing.
Updated: 6/19/08

Scott Brazieal - Class of '86
Name when graduated: Scott Brazieal
Area of Study: Composition Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): scott@orclinic.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I finally "retired" from my long-time, (ultimately onerous) smoky club gigs/endless travel routine. I went out "gloriously" by spending most of 1995-6 on tour throughout Europe with a fantastic "modern-classical" rock group from Carcassonne, France, via Los Angeles, called 5uu's. We even did concerts in Zagreb, Croatia--full of UN soldiers and Serbs at the time--and the now troubled Belgrade and Skopje. (They're VERY nice people by the way.) These days: by day, I'm repairing computers and such for a large hospital in Portland, OR, -by night, I'm playing the gigs that I REALLY WANT TO DO...I've even managed to become accompanist and choir director for a Lutheran church in NE Portland, Holy Redeemer Lutheran. I continue to play and compose music: for the church (liturgy) and choir as well as my own ensemble called Pays du Cathare. My most recent recordings (this past year) were, Thinking Plague "In Extremis" and 5uu's "Crisis in Clay".

Seth Brenzel - Class of '88
Name when graduated: Seth Brenzel
Area of Study: Piano Degree
Email (or phone): sbrenzel@waldenschool.org
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:I am Executive Director of The Walden School, a summer music program and teacher training institute. I live in San Francisco with my partner, Malcolm Gaines, and both of us have been long-time members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. I currently serve as President of the Swarthmore College Alumni Council and serve on the College's board of managers. I completed degrees in music and political science from Swarthmore College and an MBA from UC Berkeley/Haas School of Business. I've also served on the board of Earplay, a contemporary concert music ensemble in San Francisco.

Sharon Brooks Keith - Class of '86
Name when graduated: Sharon Brooks
Area of Study: Flute Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): slbflute@eananda.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I spent most of 2002/03 living in Italy while touring with the Ananda Singers -- from Como in the north, to Sicily in the extreme south, I saw a LOT of Italy! Now I'm settling down in Lugano, Switzerland with my soon-to-be husband, Fabio Nani. We met at Ananda's yoga & meditation retreat near Assisi, Italy (he's been a dedicated meditator for many years, while I started in 1998) and we're getting married in July 2004. Although I've been called upon to sing a lot (who knew?), as well as to establish and direct Ananda choirs, I still play a fair amount of flute, and have recorded several CDs of Ananda music. Be sure to send me an email if you're visiting the south of Switzerland (or north Italy, which is just across the border).

A. Michael Brown - Class of '82
Name when graduated: A. Michael Brown (Mike)
Area of Study: Trombone Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): t2phxs@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I'm in my 19th season as 2nd trombone with the Phoenix Symphony. My 3 children Josh, Jenny, and Rachel are now 12, 10, and 5. Other professional stuff: 9 seasons with the Santa Fe Opera, 2 seasons with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, 1 year with the Oakland Symphony, 1 year with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and 5 years each with the Marin, Modesto, and Berkeley Symphonies/Orchestras. There's more but ... No need. After all these years, still miss the Bay Area.

David Butler Cannata - Class of '82
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: In April, delivered the keynote lecture at the Rachmaninoff conference at the International Piano Archives. His recent "Perception and Apperception in Liszt's Late Piano Music" in the Spring 1997 issue of The Journal of Musicology was well received.

Robyn Carmichael - Class of '84
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): robyncarmichael@aol.com
Personal Web Page: www.robyncarmichael.com
What I'm doing now: FIRST PERFORMANCE in POLAND of FRANZ LISZT'S SALVE POLONIA by pianist ROBYN CARMICHAEL. September 10, 2004 at the Radziejowice Palace (west of Warsaw, near Zelazowa Wola). Program will be repeated in the city of Oborniki-Slaskie, sponsored by the Liszt Society of Poland. Program: Chopin, J.S. Bach/Alkan, Godowsky, Liszt. This program will be preceded by a lecture on Liszt by the eminent musicologist from Warsaw, Stanislaw Dybowski.

Barbara Chaffe - Class of '80
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Flute
Email (or phone): bacsf@hotmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Principal flute of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Married to Rob Weir, bassoonist; raising our two children.
Updated: 5/9/08

Janny Choi - Class of '85
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): netmusicpro@gmail.com
Personal Web Page: www.jannychoi.com
What I'm doing now: I am in the recording/producing music business. Something I'm able to enjoy and use my background.
Updated: 4/11/08

Jerome and Corinne Couture - Class of '82
Name when graduated: Corinne Beyer
Area of Study: Conducting and Piano
Email (or phone): website@themusicschoolinc.com
Personal Web Page: www.themusicschoolinc.com
What I'm doing now: We founded The Music School, Inc. after we left the Conservatory, and it has developed into an amazing High-Tech venture. We teach 120 students each week and utilize Computerized Music Theory, Full-Color CD Production with professional arranging, and Music Videos burned to DVD. In addition,Jerome is conducting two CMC orchestras and performing with Corinne as the "Haute Couture Duo" at concerts and weddings. Both of our sons are now in college and sometimes we still wake up from a bad dream thinking that we are late for class at the Conservatory!

Dede Decker - Class of '87
Name when graduated: Dede Decker
Area of Study: Trombone Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): dddee@redkbs.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Playing principal Trombone in the Tenerife Orchestra. It is a lovely Island in Spain. I also teach 20 hours a week at the Conservatory here. I'm married to Jose LLacer whom is Spanish, beautiful, plays 3rd Horn in the Orchestra and makes a fantastic Paella. I have been here for 8 years now and am very happy. No kids yet. Just 2 dogs and a great house over looking the sea.

John deKelaita - Class of '87
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): uncleluka@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Living in Chicago.

Marcia Gallas - Class of '82
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Percussion
Email (or phone): margal1@zoomtown.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: What I'm doing now: performing on drums & percussion with several contemporary folk/rock musicians...freelancing/percussionist with MUSE (Cincinnati Women's Choir), repairing computers and printers in the "real world!"

James Gandre - Class of '83
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jamesgandre@gmail.com
Personal Web Page: http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Gandre
What I'm doing now: What I'm doing now: Dean, Chicago College of Performing Arts and Interim Dean, College of Education, Roosevelt University. Board Member, Grant Park Music Festival Executive Committee, Planning Board, Chicago High School for the Arts (to open 2008). Board Member, Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. Board of Visitors, Walnut Hill School (MA). Advisory Board, University of Melbourne (Australia) School of Music Bachelor's Program.

Margi Griebling-Haigh - Class of '84
Name when graduated: Margi Griebling
Area of Study: Oboe Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): margi@musicalligraphics.com
Personal Web Page: www.musicalligraphics.com
What I'm doing now: I have just released a new CD of mixed chamber music called Panoramicos. Three of my compositions, La Bergere des Brises for flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, and piano, Hebert Variations for piccolo and piano, and Bocadillos Panoramicos for viola and piano are featured on the disc, along with works by David Morgan and Erwin Schulhoff. Performing on the disc are Cleveland Orchestra members Lynne Ramsey, Thomas Sperl, Bryan Dumm, and Takako Masame as well as Mary Kay Ferguson, Danna Sundet, Kathryn Brown, Randall Fusco, Mark George, and Molly Fung-Dumm. The disc is available at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Bookstore or by e-mailing me at the address above. I was named "Ohio Composer of the Year" in 2003 by the Ohio Music Teachers Association. The honor carried with it a commission for a new work, Trocadillos for oboe, bassoon, and piano. The piece was premiered in November, 2003 with me playing oboe, Barrick Stees, bassoon, and Randall Fusco, piano.

Marcia Gronewold Sly - Class of '80
Name when graduated: Marcia Gronewold
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): mezzomg@aol.com
Personal Web Page: http://marciagronewold.com/
What I'm doing now: Living, performing, teaching in beautiful coastal Maine with lawyer/tenor husband Peter Sly and our two kitties, Dexter and Pickel. Continue to provide management, fundraising, and communications services to nonprofit organizations.

Doug Hall - Class of '85
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: French horn Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Personnel manager for, and plays in, the San Diego Opera Orchestra. Performed on the 1997 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas CD.

Joan Harrison - Class of '85
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Cello Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): joan@enterprisingrabbit.com
Personal Web Page: www.enterprisingrabbit.com
What I'm doing now: After living the New York life for a while while playing asst. principal in the New York City Opera and teaching at NY School for Strings and the Perlman Music Program, I went back to Ottawa to live with husband, violist David Goldblatt. I perform lots of recitals on both modern and baroque cello, record regularly as principal cello with the Aradia Ensemble of Toronto and the Toronto Chamber Orchestra, maintain an active studio AND run a business: the enterprising rabbit. We design and distribute aids that "inspire young minds in music and life"! Perhpas you have seen our Fiddle Friends shoulder rests or TempoTape, the temporary highlighter tape? The latest news is that David and I adopted a son! We skipped the diaper stage and jumped into teenage world -- Rob is 15 and is a great life teacher! Would love to hear from some "old" colleages!

Douglas Hensley - Class of '83
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): hensley-derome@uniserve.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Teaching guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music in British Columbia, married to composer/guitarist Heather DeRome, two children at home, Rowan (9) and Julia (6), and Susan (31) in Cincinnati. Susan is the mother of my grandson Zachary. Also busy playing in the Continuum Consort (duo of voice & various lutes, etc.), Ten-String Music (viola & guitar), and various Persian instruments with a classical Persion trio. Life is full!

Stefan Hersh - Class of '84
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Diploma
Email (or phone): pollastri2005@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page: callistoensemble.com
What I'm doing now: Living in Chicago with wife, violinist Roberta Freier and son, 'cellist Alexander. Teaching at Roosevelt University and performing with my chamber group, Callisto Ensemble...plus involved in the fine string instrument industry with my companies, Midwest Strings, Midwest String Rentals, and Hersh Consulting.

Mark Hilton - Class of '83
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): hmh911@homesc.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Teaching high school chemistry, biology, and physics.
Updated: 3/17/08

Joanna Hood - Class of '82
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Viola Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): ojdooh@uvic.ca
Personal Web Page: www.eclipsequartet.com and finearts.uvic.ca/music/ensembles/lafayette/
What I'm doing now: I am the violist of the Lafayette String Quartet, in Residence at the University of Victoria School of Music in Victoria BC, Canada. I also play with the LA based new music quartet Eclipse. I play with the NY based quartet Loma Mar with fellow alumni Krista Bennion Feeney, and often perform with the Orchestra of St. Luke's also in New York.
Updated: 5/2/08

Lucy Hudson - Class of '80
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Electronic Composition Degree
Email (or phone): lucy88@sirius.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I play synthesizer and create arrangements for the Community Women's Orchestra and for "Sonic Splendour," a 4-keyboard band that plays for City Ballet School's "Nutcracker." (We are the only youth ballet in the Bay Area with live music for Nutcracker!)

Choong-Mo Kang - Class of '86
Name when graduated: Choong-Mo Kang
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page: http://www.cmkang.com/new/
What I'm doing now: I'm teaching at The Korean National University of Arts. Also performing in various places, such as, Korea, Taiwan, Sydney, Moscow and etc. You will find more info in my homepage (see above).

Claire Kelm - Class of '88
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): ckelm@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Eulsun Kim - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): tersunclinics@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I have written a new book on developing piano technique. As a member of Music Teachers Association of California, I am presenting lectures based upon my book and my teaching experiences. In Korea during the last two years, I have been giving presentations to university teachers and students about my piano method and how to use it. I also maintain an active performing schedule.

Julianne Knell - Class of '83
Name when graduated: Julianne Booth
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): jbknell@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Claire Kelm, Dvora "Stoller", Angela Winkler and I gave a talk for the VPL on January 18th. The subject was making a living and working as a singer, with a special focus on the San Francisco Opera Chorus. Ask Wendy or the other faculty members about it.

Ernie Kohl - Class of '81
Name when graduated: Ernie Kohl
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): ErnestKohl@Yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I began working this year (2006) as a Systems Analyst for PeaceHealth, a regional (Northwest) Catholic healthcare organization. I also play occasionally at informal adult piano evenings at the studio of retired concert artist Joanna Hodges in Vancouver, WA, where I live.

Scott Kritzer - Class of '80
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): scott@miramont.com
Personal Web Page: www.voiceandguitar.com
What I'm doing now: Performing as part of the Chvatal/Kritzer Duo, based in Portland, OR.

Sandra Mabee - Class of '83
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Percussion Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): sandramabee@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Julie McKenzie - Class of '82
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Flute Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Principal flutist of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, piccoloist of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and a member of the Anchor Chamber Players and the San Francisco Chamber Symphony. I have participated in summer music festivals at Tanglewood, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Lake Tahoe Music Festival and the Mendocino Music Festival. I have been featured on a PBS television documentary with Jean-Pierre Rampal and have recorded for New Albion Records.

Kenneth S Miller - Class of '81
Name when graduated: Ken Miller
Area of Study: Double Bass Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): kenbasso@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Performing regularly with S.F.Symphony. Married to Julie McKenzie, Principal flute S.F. Opera. Enjoying time with our 8 month old boy, Sammy!

Philip Munds - Class of '86
Name when graduated: Philip Munds
Area of Study: French Horn Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): pmunds@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am currently playing Assistant Principal horn in the Baltimore Symphony.

Catherine Naglestad - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Cnaglestad@aol.com
Personal Web Page: www.catherinenaglestad.com
What I'm doing now: In 2006, I was given the title 'Kammersaengerin' from the German Ministry of Fine Arts as well as being voted 'Singer of the Year' by Opernwelt magazine.

Tri Quang Nguyen - Class of '84
Name when graduated: same
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I live in Goshen, Indiana and I am performing and lecturing nationally and internationally.

Valerie Gross Nguyen - Class of '86
Name when graduated: Valerie Gross
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): grossv@hclibrary.org
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently Director, Howard County Library, Columbia, MD.

Vern Pat Nelson - Class of '87
Name when graduated: Viktor Death, Dank Wanker, Kurt Refusal
Area of Study: Composition Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): vern@vernnelson.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.vernnelson.com/index.html
What I'm doing now: As much as I miss San Francisco and the rest of the world, it seems that my mission is to shake things up here in Orange County, the notorious conservative-conformist wasteland where I grew up. Current projects include a children's choir (the "Kids' Music Army"), an acid-jazz combo ("The Vern Nelson Problem"), and my ongoing composition Iran-Contra: The Opera.

Julie Hiromi Nishimura - Class of '81
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree
Email (or phone): nishimur@udel.edu
Personal Web Page: http://www.music.udel.edu/deptinfo/faculty/nishimura.html
What I'm doing now: The Dept. of Music at the University of Delaware where I've been for 18 years keeps me busy, playing two to three concerts a week and teaching classes in Accompanying and Chamber Music. Also performing in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC and New York City. Keeping me extra (but happily) busy is my adorable six-year-old Miranda (born in 2001), a budding pianist, actress, artist and bridge builder.

Tom Oliver - Class of '83
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): voiceconcepts@ca.inter.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada's Steel Town. Partner Branislav and I own Voice Concepts (Voice Studio) teaching voice privately in Toronto, Oakville and Hamilton. Voice Coach for Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton. Created "Voices in the Night" fundraising vehicle which has raised over $200,000 for local charities. Currently working on a new show "The Vocal Test: A Reality Concert" featuring 15 of my students (15-20 yrs) who are preparing for their Grade 8 Voice Exams. You should hear them sing. Wow! Best wishes to all of my colleagues from SFCM, Vancouver, Edmonton, & Canadian opera companies.

Wayne Organ - Class of '80
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Percussion Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): worgan@contracosta.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am currently the co-chair of the Music Department at Contra Costa College. My current teaching responsiblilites include Music Fundamentals, Music Theory, Jazz, Pop and Rock in American Culture and Recording Arts. In addition, I carry several individual students in musicianship and percussion. I am active with the Kensington Symphony, the Latin Soul Project and several other groups in the Bay Area. I am currently working on an instructional DVD on "Reason", a software synthesis and sequencing program. I live in the El Cerrito Hills with my wife Annie.

Devin Ossman - Class of '84
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Flute Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): devino@whidbey.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently teaching private lessons on flute and sax. Performing chamber music occasionally with Saratoga Chamber players and Whidbey Island Chamber musicians. My neo-celtic/folk band No Band Is An Island just came out with our second CD "Still Live." Looking for more students and performance opportunities in the Seattle area.

Kristin Pankonin - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Accompanying Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): kpankoni@mills.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Marc Parella - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): marcparella@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page: www.marcparella.com
What I'm doing now: Just finished an engagement as guest conductor of the State Orchestra of Mexico. Conducted two concerts in a program of original works including a new viola concerto. Also conducted a rare performance of Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony (2nd Version). Will be back in Mexico in October to conduct the Guanajato Symphony Orchestra in a program of original works. Recent commissions by Musica Nova Symphony Orchestra and State Orchestra of Mexico.
Updated: 1/3/08

Jo Vincent Parks - Class of '89
Name when graduated: Jo Vincent Parks
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): JoVincent@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I'm currently studying with maestro Salvatore D'Aura. I'm doing a lot of singing in Capitola at the Bay Shore Lyric Opera. In the fall of 98 I'll be performing in La Boheme as Marcello. I'm also singing with the San Francisco Lyric Opera Co. Recently I performed Germont in their production of La Traviata and will be Gerard in Andrea Chenier in the spring of '99. So, lots of singing lately, and hopefully in the future as well.

Shelley Phillips - Class of '89
Name when graduated: Shelley Mathewson
Area of Study: Oboe Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): barryp@cruzio.com
Personal Web Page: Barry and Shelley Phillips
What I'm doing now: I've been playing winds in the band of Irish singer Eilis Kennedy and played 33 concerts in Germany and Switzerland in October and November of 2003. I just put out my third solo album: The Butterfly. The Community Music School, which I founded in Santa Cruz, is in its 10th year, and Barry and I bought a little house near the beach.

John Reager - Class of '88, 91
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition, Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): johnreager@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: "The Berkeley Overture" will have its premiere May 15, 2005 by the Berkeley Youth Orchestra. James Tinsley (former BSO trumpet player) and I premiered my Anne Sexton Songs on February 23, at Laney College where I teach voice, piano, history, and choir.

Eugene Rodriguez - Class of '86
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): contact@loscenzontles.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Founder and Executive Director of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center in San Pablo, CA. Nominated for Grammy award in 1985 for production of Papa's Dream with Los Lobos. Currently producing video documentary series to be aired on PBS May 2006.

John Rommereim - Class of '84
Name when graduated: John Stuhr-Rommereim
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): rommer@grinell.edu
Personal Web Page: http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/rommer/
What I'm doing now: Award-winning baritone Thomas Meglioranza will be singing my song cycle"Into the Still Hollow" at Symphony Space in New York City on February 9, 2006. Together with the Kansas City Chorale, Phoenix Bach Choir, and Seattle Pro Musica, I have commissioned a new choral work from 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner, Steven Stucky. I will be conducting the Grinnell Singers in the European premiere of this work when we travel to Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey in March of 2006. On this tour, I will also be conducting Levin's completion of Mozart's Mass in C Minor. My recent work for guitar "Upon the Blue Guitar" will be performed on a concert tour this fall by Petar Jankovic, faculty member at Indiana University.

Luis Roncayolo - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Double Bass Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): luis@bloomington.in.us
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am not a double bassist anymore... I am now a singer! I discovered that I have a great voice for singing -- looks like I will probably be singing Verdi bass roles in the future. Not yet, but in a few years. For several years, I have been working with a violin maker on converting a small church bass into a "violone in G" so that will be my way of continuing to play instrumental music. It's great that music is still fun after all these years.

Gary Rust - Class of '83
Name when graduated: Gary Rust
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): DoctorGar@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Ear Nose and Throat/Head and Neck Surgery private practice, San Francisco, California.

Gabriel Sakakeeny - Class of '85
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Conducting Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): gabriel@sakakeeny.com
Personal Web Page: www.sakakeeny.com
What I'm doing now: President, American Philharmonic Association; Music Director, American Philharmonic - Sonoma County; Partner, Sakakeeny & Associates, leadership development and organizational effectiveness consulting and training.
Updated: 12/19/07

Steven Sanchez - Class of '82
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Percussion Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): sbsanchez3410@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Hello, I continue to perform in the percussion section of the Santa Rosa Symphony and freelance. I live in Santa Rosa with my 15 year old daughter Abbi, who plays violin and was a member of the Santa Rosa Discovery Orchestra. I am a coach for the D.O. and had many opportunities to play in the same orchestra as my daughter, a big time blessing! I work as a teacher in the Santa Rosa City School District where I have been teaching Music and Physical Education at the elementary level. My life is a wild journey of events and I'm getting married in 2008. Feel free to contact, Steve
Updated: 10/18/07

Laura Elise Schwendinger- Class of '81
Name when graduated: same
Area of Study: Composition Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): lschwendinge@wisc.edu
Personal Web Page: www.lauraschwendinger.com
What I'm doing now: I am an Assoc. Prof. of Composition at the University of WI Madison. My works have been performed by, amongst many others, Dawn Upshaw, the Arditti Quartet, Jennifer Koh, Matt Haimovitz, the Liszt Chamber Orchestra at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Berlin Philharmonic, Miller Theater, Symphony Space, Wigmore Hall in London and the Theater du Chatalet in Paris. My in just spring- is available by Dawn Upshaw on her TDK/Naxos DVD, Voices of Our Time. I have received honors from the Guggenheim, Koussevitsky, and Fromm Foundations, Rockefellor Bellagio Center, Yaddo MacDowell and the Copland House, ALLEA III, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Radcliffe Institute and many others.
Updated: 7/10/08

Daryl Silberman- Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Viola
Email (or phone): daryl@daryls.com
Personal Web Page: www.daryls.com
What I'm doing now: After having been employed full-time at the Yamaha Corporation of America as their Product Specialist of Orchestral Strings, I have left that position and am once again freelance. I plan to continue to teach private violin, viola, and piano lessons, complete training as a Kindermusik instructor, and to travel nationally for Yamaha as a Yamaha Clinician, continuing to help connect classical and contemporary music on stringed instruments. My husband, violist Danny Seidenberg, and I have 2 children ages almost 3 and almost 5.

Douglas Sommer - Class of '84
Name when graduated: Douglas Sommer
Area of Study: Double Bass Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): dasbass@bellsouth.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Just completing my 14th season with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Urs Leonhardt Steiner - Class of '86
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I conduct the San Francisco Sinfonietta Orchestra, the Community Music Center Orchestra, and the Adda Clevenger Youth Chorus and teach a composition class for high school students at the Community Music Center. I direct an International Music Festival in Oaxca, Mexico and guest-conduct regularly in Europe. I have made 3 CDs in the last 2 years (with Sinfonietta). We will perform at the White House with my Youth Chorus on Dec. 17. I am teaching a master class for conductors in Managua (Nicaragua) in January and I play tennis.

Lisa Stidham - Class of '85
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): lisastidham@charter.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Voice faculty, Cal State University Los Angeles; Vocal Coach, Los Angeles Children's Chorus; home studio, Glendale, CA; Recital with lute/guitar, The Los Angeles Shakespeare Company, Dec. '07; "Sons of Noah" (Stephen Hartke), October, '07. Earned DMA in Vocal Performance, USC, '06.
Updated: 2/28/08

Shawne Stone - Class of '88
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Viola Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Freelancing in the Portland area, am acting principal violist with Oregon Ballet Theatre, principal violist with the Anchorage Symphony and am currently subbing with the Oregon Symphony. I have an active teaching studio, performed the Walton Concerto with the Anchorage Symphony last season, and am currently working on a spring recital program.

Seth Taylor - Class of '80
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): seth.monica@t-online.de
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Concertmaster of the Landeskapelle and Landestheater Eisenach (city of Bach's birth), Germany

Karen Tesitor - Class of '86
Name when graduated: Karen Tesitor
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): ktesitor@pacbell.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I'm pursuing a teaching credential for elementary school; I'll be finished in May. My husband and I are raising our two delightful children, Brendan (b. 8/2000) and Jocelyn (b. 4/2004).

Melinda Thomas - Class of '80
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Working full-time as library media assistant at Sierra Community College. In off hours, I "play" with local community theatres, acting, singing, accompanying, and directing. Just started my own a cappella group called "Harmony Geeks" - we'll see what if anything develops on that performance tangent. Anyone who remembers me - drop an email sometime, ok?

Doug Thorley - Class of '81
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Trombone Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): ekmiller@jps.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Freelancing in the Bay Area and teaching. I was married in August to Beth Miller and am busy being a father to two beautiful girls, Lauren and Erica.

Frances Toliver - Class of '85
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): songms@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I reside in Queens, New York and continue to do recitals. In 2004, I sang the role of Suor Angelica with Chelsea Opera and will soon be starring in a supporting role in an independent short film.

Richard Tremarello - Class of '89
Name when graduated: Richard Tremarello
Area of Study: French Horn Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): tremtone@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am freelancing in Milwaukee and perform with a variety of ensembles. I also teach privately and music appreciation classes at Concordia University and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. I am an Executive Board Officer for the Milwaukee Musicians' Association, Local 8 of the AFM. Hey, everyone! How's it goin'?

Wayne Tu - Class of '83
Name when graduated: Tienwen Tu
Area of Study: Violin
Email (or phone): waynetu@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently working as a CEO of a major USA shopping center property management firm in San Mateo County. Life has been really good and I still have the passion for music. Regular concert and opera goer. Thanks to the great education from SFCM.

Caterina Vivarelli - Class of '83
Name when graduated: Caterina Vivarelli
Area of Study: Piano
Email (or phone): c.vivarelli@tiscalinet.it
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Dear friends, Since last year, I teach Principal Piano at the Cuneo Conservatory (50 miles from Turin, where I live). If someone is interested in coming in Turin for the Winter Olympic Games in February 2006, contact me at this address: Caterina Vivarelli- Corso Alberto Picco 74/B, 10131 TORINO, Italy. Keep in touch! Ciao Caterina

Robert Ward - Class of '81
Name when graduated: Robert Ward
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): mward@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Teaching and performing in the Boston area. On the faculty of Northeastern University, Brookline Music School and The New School of Music.

Uri Wassertzug - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Viola Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): uriw@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Full circle for now-- living outside of DC with two violinists-- wife Liz Field and millenium baby Eli (born Jan. '00). Playing opera and ballet at the Kennedy Center. Currently between string quartets. Still in a funk after the 2004 election-- keeping an eye out for openings out west or Down Under. Meanwhile looking forward to debut season of the Nats.

Darla Wigginton - Class of '89
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree
Email (or phone): dwiggi@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page: www.darlawigginton.com
What I'm doing now: Since moving back from 8 years in New York, I've been singing with Festival Opera, Sacramento Opera and experimenting with the crossover route with companies like Theatreworks and Oakland Opera Theatre. I'm also doing a lot of recital work of classical cabaret and Latin American rep.

Nadine Zollner - Class of '89
Name when graduated: Nadine Redfield
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): nzollner@comcast.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am teaching music at two K-6 elementary schools in Hillsboro, OR.

» back to top





1990 - 1999 

Florante Aguilar - Class of '96
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): florante@pacbell.net
Personal Web Page: www.florante.org
What I'm doing now: Recently released his first solo CD The Art of Harana, a collection of Spanish-influenced serenades from the Philippine islands for solo guitar. Currently touring/concertizing and appearing on radio to promote its release. Active in championing Philippine music. Still paying my student loans.

Mike Allen - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Trombone Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): mallen2@interact.ccsd.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Band Director -- Vegas Baby!!. Last year I was named new teacher of the year for the state of Nevada.

Kathryn Greenwood Andrews - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Kathryn Greenwood
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): kathrynga@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Charles and I are living in Maryland with our two children (Paul, age 4, and Maggie, all of nine weeks) and planning to open a tea shop. We'd love to hear from other SFCM alumni!

Hector Armienta - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): harmienta@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page: www.hectorarmienta.com
What I'm doing now: Commissioned to complete the next part of the River of Women Trilogy. Western Stage will premiere the new work, La Llorona/The Weeping Woman in 2008.

Ginger Kroft Barnetson - Class of '97
Name when graduated: Ginger Kroft
Area of Study: Clarinet Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): info@clarinetstudio.org
Personal Web Page: www.ClarinetStudio.org
What I'm doing now: Member of Sacramento Philharmonic, Fresno Philharmonic, Carmel Bach Festival, Monterey Symphony and Santa Cruz Symphony orchestras. Soloist with Monterey Symphony and Carmel Bach Festival orchestras. I am a Vandoren International Artist and am a faculty member at Santa Clara University.
Updated: 6/19/08

Alma Batista - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): drbatista@msn.com
Personal Web Page: www.dralmabatista.com
What I'm doing now: I recently received the Arts Honoree of the Month from the City of Riverside. For more information, click here
Updated: 11/27/07

Steve Becraft - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Clarinet Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): becrafs@hsu.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am in my third year teaching at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas where I am Assistant Professor of Music teaching both Clarinet and Saxophone. I frequently sub with the Arkansas Symphony in Little Rock and spent the past 3 summers as a member of the Utah Festival Opera orchestra. My Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University is still incomplete...trying to find time to work on the dissertation is a challenge! I'm also fortunate to work with my wonderful colleague, Assistant Professor of voice Laura Storm (MM 1991), my wife of 5 years.

Bruce Christian Bennett - Class of '93
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): bruce@cnmat.berkeley.edu
Personal Web Page: http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~bruce
What I'm doing now: PhD candidate in composition at UC Berkeley.

Loren Berzsenyi - Class of '90
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Oboe Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): 513-421-0106
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am performing with the Northern Kentucky Symphony, freelancing in West Virginia, performing at Lakeside Summer Festival in Ohio and freelancing in the Cincinnati area.

Daniel Biaggi - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): dbiaggi@pbopera.org
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I just finished my second season as Director of Artistic Operations at the Palm Beach Opera, where I am planning season repertoire and casting roles alongside the Artistic Director Principal Conductor Bruno Aprea, and make sure all day-to-day activities in the Artistic Department run smoothly. Prior to moving to Florida, I was busy as Artist Manager in New York for 3 years while also teaching diction and performance seminars at MSM, Mannes, and Juilliard. It's been very exciting to put together all the pieces of the 'opera industry puzzle' after graduating from MSM with a MD in Vocal Performance, and I am having a blast building musical relationships and producing events.
Updated: 8/7/07

Kimberly Bianco - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jkbianco@grandecom.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I have performed with local theater companies and the San Antonio Symphony and currently teaching voice in the musical theater department of the Northeast School of the Arts in San Antonio.

Lara Bisserier - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Lara Bisserier
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): lara@cradlerockmusic.com
Personal Web Page:www.cradlerockmusic.com
What I'm doing now: A lot of wonderful things have been happening for me since graduation. Since June I have started my own business teaching children the joy of music. I start them as early as newborn to 7 years of age and currently have over 40 students enrolled. I also teach at various preschools monthly. My newest project involves teaching a children's chorus for the Mill Valley School District. As far as performing goes, I have been singing with the Marin Master Chorale as the Soprano section leader and soloist for about a year now. In May we will be singing Carmina Burana at the San Rafael Civic Center. I will be doing the soprano solo in that work by Carl Orff. The newest and most exciting development is that in April I will be joining the San Francisco Opera in their full-time regular chorus. It is so amazing when we can make a living out of the things we love the most. Oh, lastly I breed Siamese cats and currently have 16 beautiful kittens running around my apartment. Isn't it GRAND!!

Jeffrey Blackstone - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Trumpet Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): jblackst@usc.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Working on M.M. degree at University of Southern California.

Anthony Blea - Class of '91
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Chamber Music Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): anothonyblea@aol.com
Personal Web Page: www.charanga.org
What I'm doing now: CD available at cdbaby.com

June Bonacich - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): junebugproductions@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Teaching in the Preparatory Division at the SFCM. I also teach theory and am the director of the youngest (5 and 6 year olds) group in the San Francisco Boys Chorus.

Paul Bonnel - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Bass Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): pbonnel@mindspring.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently a Guest Lecturer and Doctoral student in Double Bass performance at Rutgers University, in New Jersey. I am actively performing and teaching on both coasts of the US. I am always interested in new-music to perform, so share new projects and ideas...

Sylvie Braitman - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: We are very sorry to report that Sylvie Braitman passed away on November 10, 2006 at the age of 50. We extend condolences to her husband Philippe and children Maissa and Reuben.

Marnie Breckenridge - Class of '96
Name when graduated: Marnie Breckenridge
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): marniebreck@mac.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Marnie Breckenridge returns to San Francisco Opera this season as Inez in "Il Trovatore" and Papagena in "Die Zauberflote". Recent 2002-2003 engagements include, Gretel in "Hansel and Gretel" with Arizona Opera, Adina in "L'Elisir d'amore" with Intermountain Opera in Montana, soloist with the Tassajara Symphony singing Knoxville:Summer of 1915, and Olga in "The Merry Widow" with San Francisco Opera (PBS Broadcast...soon to be released on DVD). Later this year she returns to Arizona Opera to sing Yum Yum in "The Mikado". In January of 2004 she will sing Juliet in "Romeo et Juliette" with Sacramento Opera. She can be heard on Bruce Rockwell's (M.M. Composition '01) CD, "Songings" singing the set entitled, Sea Flowers. Marnie lives with her husband, Alex and dog, Chloe in Napa, California.
Updated: 12/4/07

Emily Breedlove - Class of '95
Name when graduated: Emily Breedlove
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): diaphinia@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: What I'm Doing Now: Working on Soma yoga teacher certification, focusing on integrating yoga and music, both music into yoga and yoga into music. Motivated by my experiences in an imbalanced profession, I decided to refocus, concentrating on achieveing personal balance. Finding that, I'm inspired to help others work toward balance, integrated with the visceral and spiritual experience of music.

Annette Brodovsky - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Annette Bebb
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: We regret to inform you that Annette died tragically on April 2, 2007. We send condolences to her husband and daughters and other members of her family.

Sandra Coria Cadman - Class of '96
Name when graduated: Sandra Coria
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): sandycad@comcast.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently living in Minnesota with my husband, Edward S. Cadman, Esq. (Cello, '96). Enjoying our son, Maxwell, born 03.24.06. Edward is enjoying municipal law and is setting up a private practice for wills and trusts. Sandy sings with VocalEssence, is consulting and is shopping a book for publication. Both are enjoying parenthood and miss the west coast.

William Campbell - Class of '95
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): wcampbell@music.org
Personal Web Page: www.WilliamCampbellMusic.com
What I'm doing now: After a one year position at Southwest Missouri State University, I'm moving up to the Quad Cities for a position as Assistant Professor of Music (Theory/Composition) at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Commissions and performances continue, so look me up when you've got time!

Melissa Canaday - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Melissa Rose
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): melissa.canaday@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: After many years of trying to make my peace with not singing professionally, I've managed to combine my musical education and my "real world" skills as the Asst. Director for the Crowden Center for Music in the Community in Berkeley and living with my new husband in our new house in Rockridge. Life is good!
Updated: 5/23/08

Heather Carolo - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): hncarolo@hotmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am very proud to be the Assistant Director of the Opera Program as well as the Director of the Musical Theatre Workshop here at the Conservatory. I still perform quite often in both Europe and here in the Bay Area. I am also very excited to be getting married to my love, baritone Joshua Brown, late summer of 2005.

Annie Center - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Annie Chang
Area of Study: Chamber Music Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): anniechangcenter@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: After graduating from SFCM in '94, I joined the Phoenix Symphony as the assistant principal violist. I also performed regularly as a pianist with the Concorda Trio in AZ. This year I am taking a sabbatical leave from the symphony to start a video production company, Streamlight Digial LLC and a new chamber music festival in Orange County, CA, OC Chamber Series. In the meantime, I continue to work for a non-profit organization that promotes world peace through different art forms, Intercultural Journeys as the coordinator and media producer for various events.
Updated: 1/2/08

Pei-An Chao - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Pei-An Chao
Area of Study: Cello Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): vcp23@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I'm a member of the New World Symphony right now, but mostly, I'm just enjoying the beach at Miami.

Melvina L. Chew - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Percussion Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Since returning to the Bay Area in May 1997, I've been freelancing and subbing with local orchestras.

Bruce Chrisp - Class of '91
Name when graduated: Bruce Chrisp
Area of Study: Trombone Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): Bruce@Chrisp.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.chrisp.com
What I'm doing now: Freelancing in Bay Area, Web design in my spare time.

Dorothy Ming-Yih Chu - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Dorothy Ming-Yih Su
Area of Study: Performance Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): j-ming@comcast.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Besides teaching prevately, I'm working on piano duo music , and forming a piano trio with two other friends.

Erie Cicelski - Class of '92
Name when graduated: Erie Chong
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): eriecicelski@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:Real Estate Agent in San Francisco.

Diane Clymer-Greenberg - Class of '96
Name when graduated: Diane Clymer
Area of Study: Flute Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): decg74@comcast.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I live in the Bay Area, have a studio of 25 kids/adults, am K-8 music director at an independent school,and play as much as I can.

Thayer A. Coburn - Class of '97
Name when graduated: Thayer Coburn
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): thayercoburn@coburnco.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Working, living in small town America.

Alison Collins - Class of '93
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:I am living in New York City, and have been singing with young artist programs, and, of course, an artist's life is not complete without a day job! I would love to hear from SFCM friends.

Lauren Cony - Class of '95
Name when graduated: Lauren Cony
Area of Study: Piano Accompanying Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): lcony@highstream.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am teaching privately, at the Community Music Center, and in the Prep Division at the Conservatory. I have a piano duo parternship, and play chamber music as much as possible! I have also performed frequently with fellow alumna Amanda Hahn, flute, and more recently, Emanuela Nikiforova, violin.

Darryl Cooper - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Accompanying Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): dscooper63@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Musical Assistant, SFCM Opera Program, coaching privately, Music Director Noe Valley Ministry Presbyterian Church

Yu-Fen Chang- Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Accompanying Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): tsctcyf@yahoo.com.tw
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Justine Cormack- Class of '93
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): justine@nztrio.com
Personal Web Page: www.nztrio.com
What I'm doing now: My piano trio - New Zealand Trio - is ensemble in residence at Auckland University - a full-time position divided between performance and teaching - a dream come true. Prior the this I spent 4 years (2000-2004) as Concertmaster of the Auckland Philharmonia - a position that offered me some wonderful opportunities both on and off the stage. I am still involved in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition as one of the international judges, and my trio is now also involved in that competition within the chamber music round. I completed my Doctoral degree in Violin at Stonybrook University in 2001.

Lynn Coston - Class of '90
Name when graduated: Lynn Cheney
Area of Study: French Horn Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): imbackloft@gmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Wow, I think I'm the only one on here that doesn't play music anymore!! I teach a mentally retarded class of 1st-5th graders at an elementary school in Ferris, TX. I live way out in the country and race homing pigeons, have a big garden, and raise a lot of chickens. Yee ha!! I'd love to hear from anybody that remembers me.
Updated: 6/19/08

Meg Cotner - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Harpsichord Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): meg.cotner@gmail.com
Personal Web Page: astoriasharpsichordist.blogspot.com
What I'm doing now: After receiving my DMA in Harpsichord Performance from SUNY Stony Brook in 2005, I moved to Astoria, NY, in Queens. Actively involved with both early and contemporary music, I perform throughout the metro NYC area. I am also a founding member of the traverso-harpsichord duo Rossignol Amoureaux. I write for a couple of Astoria-based websites and write CD and book reviews for Harpsichord & Fortepiano magazine, a publication based in the UK. I love living in NYC and think it is the most amazing city.

Carmen Creel - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Carmen Creel
Area of Study: Clarinet Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): carmenc92@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am a development officer at the University of Chicago.

Tepring E. Crocker - Class of '95
Name when graduated: Tepring Crocker
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): tepring@rainstickmusic.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Ben Davis - Class of '96
Name when graduated: Raymond Benjamin Davis
Area of Study: Bassoon
Email (or phone): davisben@wwc.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I left San Francisco in 2002 for New York, and I am getting ready to spend the 2004-2005 academic year in Israel. Upon returning to the U.S., I will be starting rabbinical school at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Pennsylvania in July, 2005.

Troy Davis - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Oboe Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): mrtroydavis@mac.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I have been teaching middle school band since graduation and am enjoying it very much! Additionally, I have been a freelance orchestral oboist and oboe soloist around the Bay Area.

Sylvie Desouches - Class of '95
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): mamansing@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Frequent pre-concert lecturer for Ravinia Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Continue to perform as a soloist and chamber singer with local groups.

Devin Dukes - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Same
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): devinmariedukes@hotmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I moved to New England last year and have started to perform in Boston and Maine. If anyone else is in the area, I'd love to know.

Cem Duruoz - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Cem Duruoz
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): gem@duruoz.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.duruoz.com
What I'm doing now: Two highlights of my guitar career in 2004 were my New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall and my performance of Rodrigo's Aranjuez concerto with the Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra. The review of the recital and a short video clip from the Aranjuez performance is on my web site. I also have accepted a guitar instructor position at Wesleyan University, and in September 2003 I moved to Connecticut.

Angelo L. Favis - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): alfavis@ilstu.edu
Personal Web Page: [Click here]
What I'm doing now: Asst. Professor of guitar at Illinois State University; recently released CD -- Philippine Treasures -- on VGO Recordings label; won 2nd prize at 2003 Mid-America Chamber Guitar Competition with flutist Kim Risinger. He and May Gorospe (BM '89) are proud parents of Francis (7), Maiya (3), and Isabella (2).

Robert Firpo-Cappiello - Class of '96
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): firpcapp@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I'm living in New York. In August '03 I signed with the Susan Gurman Agency to represent me as a playwright/lyricist/composer. We are working to get my musical play "A Room With a View," adapted from the novel by E.M. Forster, produced in New York or in regional theater. (You can hear excerpts from "A Room With a View" at gurmanagency.com.) I've also been working as a composer in television and commercial music: I composed and orchestrated music for the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics for NBC Sports, and I've been scoring documentaries for the History Channel, most recently "Mississippi State Secrets" and "Electing a Pope." I had the good fortune to be nominated for two Daytime Emmy awards for my work on the soap opera "Guiding Light." I was selected for the 2003 ASCAP/NYU Film-Scoring Workshop, which culminated in my composing, orchestrating, and conducting a film cue with an orchestra made up of members of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera orchestra. I've been enjoying part-time teaching, as a lecturer in opera and music appreciation at New York City Opera, Hofstra University, New York University, and Molloy College. My daughter, Clara Marie Firpo-Cappiello, was born in November of 2002 and is growing like a little flower. My wife, Michele, is a successful sculptor with work in collections in New York, North Carolina, and California.

John Florencio - Class of '93
Name when graduated: Dalmacio John Florencio
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): john.florencio@gmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Living in Paris, in the 5me, enjoying life. Playing local gigs, learning French and eating lots of cheese!
Updated: 1/24/08

Miki Fujimoto - Class of '95
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): miki@temjin.com
Personal Web Page: http://miki-fujimoto.com
What I'm doing now: After graduated from SFCM, went to music school in Spain. Later, studied composition and jazz harmony in music school in Japan. I am a leader of Violin Progressive Rock Band Fantasmagoria. Fantasmagoria has released FANTASMAGORIA live demo CD from Vital Records. We have played at BAJA PROG FESTIVAL in MEXICO, DAN DAVID PRIZE CEREMONY in ISRAEL and PROG SUD FESTIVAL in FRANCE. Now, playing in my own Instrumental Progressive Rock Band, Fantasmagoria and playing as a Classical Violinist.
Updated: 8/29/07

T. K. Albert Fung - Class of '97
Name when graduated: T. K. Albert Fung
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): FungAlbert@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Skao Ruamsuke Ganjanapalagun - Class of '92
Name when graduated: Skao Ruamsuke
Area of Study: Piano Accompanying Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): amarilis@cheerful.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Was an assistant to Director for Academic Affairs from 1993-1996. Now working as a freelance translator. Will open a private studio soon.

Jason Geary - Class of '96
Name when graduated: Jason Geary
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): jason.geary@yale.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Working on a Ph.D. in musicology at Yale, after just having finished an MA at the University of Michigan.

Benoit Gendron - Class of '92
Name when graduated: Benoit Gendron
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): BGTENOR@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Just came back from singing Jose (CARMEN) in Japan and the title role in WERTHER in Victoria. Living in NYC with my wonderful wife Cristin.

Scott Glasgow - Class of '99
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): scott@glasgow.org
Personal Web Page: http://www.scottglasgowmusic.com
What I'm doing now: Scoring 3 feature film in 2005: 1.) "Chasing Ghosts" staring Michael Madsenand other stars. Recorded with the Slovak Raido Orchestra. www.chasingghostsmovie.com. 2.) The Shadow Chronicles", a BIG SciFi franchise film. 3.) "HACK!" a horror-comedy. For more on my bio go to my web site (there are also some interesting items and photos).

Yuliya Gorenman - Class of '92
Name when graduated: Yuliya Gorenman
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): yuliya@yuliya.com
Personal Web Page: www.yuliya.com
What I'm doing now: Currently I am on the piano faculty at the American University in Washington, DC.

Matthew Grasso - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar
Email (or phone): mysticalsounds@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page: cambium.com/matthewgrasso
What I'm doing now: I have been living in Davis, Ca for the last five years. I have been playing an instrument I call extended 7-string guitar for the past many years. I stay busy performing and teaching. I have put out many recordings, and published many musical scores. About ten years ago I studied North Classical Indian Music with Ali Akbar Khan. I try to live a simple life of music, meditation, and yoga.

Heather LeDoux Green - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Heather LeDoux
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): hlgreen@cox.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Member of the National Symphony Orchestra.

Paloma Griffin - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): palomalot@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Playing with the Oregon Symphony and the 13-piece ensemble Pink Martini.

Joanna Gruca - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Joanna Gruca
Area of Study: Violin Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jg019e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am pursuing a DMA at the Eastman School and playing with the Rochester Philharmonic.

Stephen Guggenheim - Class of '90
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree
Email (or phone): Sguggy@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Chip Halt - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Tuba Degree
Email (or phone): ChipTuba@hotmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Playing tuba with the Epic Brass Quintet

Lori Halt - Class of '92
Name when graduated: Lori Ziegler
Area of Study: Flute Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): LoriZig@hotmail.com
Personal Web Page: www.myspace.com/lorizig
What I'm doing now: I'm living in Mansfield, MA with my husband, (SFCM tuba alum Chip Halt) performing with several area orchestras and teaching and freelancing throughout New England. (I also have a day job working in HR.) I'm thrilled (and maybe a wee bit jealous!) to read about the beautiful new building and can't wait to see it for myself in the coming years. I miss all my old SFCM pals and would love to hear from any/all of you!

Christopher Hanford - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): chanford@aigfinancialadvisor.com
Personal Web Page: www.sfgq.com
What I'm doing now: After 14 years of teaching, freelancing, and concert performances, I decided to switch careers. My other passion has always been investing so I've become a financial advisor with AIG. I'm also married and we have a son named Adrian who was born in July 2005.
Updated: 7/24/07

Jacque Harper - Class of '95
Name when graduated: William Jacque Harper
Area of Study: Bass Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jacqueharper@earthlink.net
Personal Web Page: www.chicagobassensemble.com
What I'm doing now: By day, Senior User Experience Manager for Cars.com. But at night, transformed into the founder of the Chicago Bass Ensemble. Also Principal Wasthtub Bassist of the Ukezootub Orchestra. Married to Sylvie Desouches, and we're the parents of Isadora, age 8, who shows a little interest in violin, less in the washtub bass, and more in dancing and horses.
Updated: 6/30/08

Sherry Hedstrom - Class of '95
Name when graduated: Sherry Barnard
Area of Study: Flute Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): zoe@sweetrush.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Married for 7 years, got my masters from Peabody, living back in SF again. Looking for Matt Lavin, can't find him anywhere, does anybody know???

George Hernandez - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Currently singing with SF Opera Chorus, performances with local Opera companies and teaching full time at my private voice studio.

Mark Hernandez - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): info@blazingstage.com
Personal Web Page: www.blazingstage.com
What I'm doing now: Same old same old, and no complaints.

Christopher Herr - Class of '92
Name when graduated: Christopher Herr
Area of Study: French Horn Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): crh@studioht.com
Personal Web Page: www.studioht.com
What I'm doing now: Owner and Principal of Studio H:T - an design studio focused on modern, fuel-efficient architecture. Still playing horn, I'm principal in the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. Have two children now - Ansel who is 6 months old, and Talia who is 3 years old. Enjoying building this business, loving my family, and squeezing in a little horn on the side.
Updated: 2/21/08

Julian Hersh - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Cello Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): JulianHersh@AOL.COM
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Founding member of the Jupiter Trio which is in residence at DePaul University in Chicago. Also started a violin shop (Darnton and Hersh Fine Violins) which is located in downtown Chicago.

Peter Hilliard - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Imbrogliolimited@aol.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Peter Hilliard's opera buffa 'Don Imbroglio' will be presented as part of the Next Link series in the New York Musical Theatre Festival during the last week of September. Earlier this year, his opera 'The Filthy Habit' was a finalist in the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Competition, and Peter won first prize in the Young New Yorkers' Chorus Composition Competition. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania.

Miwa Hirose - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Miwa Hirose
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): hirose@nethall.com.br
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Working as a piano teacher in Brazil.

Jo-Chu Ho - Class of '97
Name when graduated: Jo-Chu Ho
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): joi2joi@hotmail.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Teaching piano at a community center here in BC, Canada. Will be getting married and moving to SF in July.

Jeffrey Holmes - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Jeffrey@Jeffrey-Holmes.com
Personal Web Page: www.Jeffrey-Holmes.com
What I'm doing now: I recently recieved my Doctoral degree in Music Composition from USC, where I taught for 2 years before recieving an appointment as Professor of Music in the Theory and Composition department at Chapman University in Southern California. This year I have had performances at the Darmstadt New Music Festival in Germany, at the Society for Chromatic Art in New York and by the Cal Arts Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles. Currently I am completing a commission for Piano Spheres and have recently been published by Doberman-Yppan.

Sarah Holzman - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Flute Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): sarahholzman@gmail.com
Personal Web Page: tsuilien@pchome.com.tw
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I teach voice in university and sing on stage sometimes.

Howard Hsu - Class of '94
Name when graduated: Howard Hsu
Area of Study: Conducting Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): baton@usa.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I was named Music Director and Principal Orchestra Conductor of the Greater Waterbury (CT) Youth Symphony.

Georgene Huang - Class of '98
Name when graduated: Georgene Huang
Area of Study: Flute Degree
Email (or phone): gh50@cornell.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Attending Cornell University as an economics major; still playing in the school orchestra!

Ling Hui - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): linghui98@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am teaching at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. I have been the resident pianist for Lancaster Festival in Ohio since 1994.

Andrew Gordon Hull - Class of '95
Name when graduated: Andrew Gordon Hull
Area of Study: Guitar Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): info@andrewhullguitar.com
Personal Web Page: www.andrewhullguitar.com
What I'm doing now: Living in Solana Beach, CA.

Susan Hytken - Class of '91
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am currently playing in The Scarlet Pimpernel on Broadway and performed Beethoven's Ghost Trio at The Nicholas Roerich Museum in NYC.

Ayaka Isono - Class of '97
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): ayaka.isono@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Performing recitals, teaching piano and Braille music.
Updated: 2/26/08

Mikael Jacobson - Class of '93
Name when graduated: Mikael Jacobson
Area of Study: Double Bass Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): Music@MikaelJacobson.com
Personal Web Page: www.MikaelJacobson.com
What I'm doing now: Scoring films in Los Angeles.

Othello B. Jefferson - Class of '95
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Voice Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): OBDJ@prodigy.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I was recently hired as Choir Director at my alma mater, Lowell High School (SF). For the past couple of years, I 've been doing more gigs as a pianist than as a singer. Solo performances with the Oakland Festival Chorus and the Berkeley Community Chorus have begun to reverse that trend.

Michael Kaulkin - Class of '96
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): mk@aboutthecomposer.com
Personal Web Page: http://www.aboutthecomposer.com
What I'm doing now: I'm still in San Francisco, continuing to juggle projects in musical theater, film and concert music. Last year I did the score for a film adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice" (not the Al Pacino one). As of September 2005, I've put aside work on my musical "Eros at Breakfast" to work on a string orchestra piece that has been commissioned by the Hungarian Chamber Symphony Orchestra. The premiere will take place in Budapest right before Thanksgiving.

Cindi Kazarian - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Viola
Email (or phone): cindimerline@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now:

Yonit Lea Kosovske - Class of '95
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Harpsichord Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jkosovsk@exchange.indiana.edu
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I finished coursework for the DM in Harpsichord at Indiana University. I still have exams & a document to write. Meanwhile, I'm freelancing & teaching, working at IU, and...being partner to my hubby Vlad and mama to our amazing daughter Talya, born 4/4/01.

Slawomir Krysmalski - Class of '98
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Bassoon Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): skrysmalski@sbcglobal.net
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Member of Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Spain. Married to wonderful women, Rachel Baker, and blessed with wonderful son, Ariel, born on 05.09.99.

Jill Ellen Kuntz - Class of '92
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Flute Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone):
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I have been living in New York for 2½ years. It took awhile, but I'm freelancing more and more steadily and hopefully someday I'll be able to quit my part-time day job!

Esther Landau - Class of '91
Name when graduated: Esther Landau
Area of Study: Flute Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): estherlandau@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I currently live with my partner Caroline and our spunky daughter Ruby (born in 2000). I am Director of Development for The Walden School, a summer program for young musicians interested in composing (www.waldenschool.org) and teaching flute lessons both privately and through SFCM Prep.

Eun Kyung Lee - Class of '91
Name when graduated: Eunice Lee
Area of Study: Piano Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): e.rhee04@yahoo.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: Working on DMA at U.S.C. Teaching private lessons and doing chamber music with musicians from L.A.
Updated: 3/25/08

Joyce Lee - Class of '96
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Violin Degree Bachelor of Music
Email (or phone): joymasa@msn.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am in school again! After freelancing, teaching and being involved in various music-related activities for several years, I am now back at SFCM working toward my graduate degree. For those of you with whom I've lost contact, drop me a line if you have a chance to do so. I would love to hear from you!

Tszming Lee - Class of '93
Name when graduated: Tsz-Ming Lee
Area of Study: Piano Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): d_kerl@juno.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I became a California Certified Public Accountant in 2003, working in the tax field. As for piano, I am still learning new pieces for pleasure.

Jessica Chichia Lin - Class of '94
Name when graduated:
Area of Study: Organ Degree Master of Music
Email (or phone): jessica_cc_lin@juno.com
Personal Web Page:
What I'm doing now: I am a piano teacher in my area and music director for the church of San Jose Christian Assembly.

Wen-chuan Julianne Lin - Class of '99
Name when graduated: Wen-chuan Lin
Area of Study: Composition Degree Master of Music