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| Micah Epps |
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Micah Epps earned his Bachelor of Music Degree at the University of Arizona. His experience ranges from opera to classical and sacred choral music. He has performed as soloist in such groups as the San Mateo Masterworks Chorale (European Tour soloist), San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and was Mozart Requiem soloist in Hermosillo, Mexico. His operatic roles include U.S. premieres with local composers such as David Conte in Firebird Motel and Erling Wold in Sub Pontio Pilato. In addition, he has created the roles of Eumolpus in Lisa Scola Prosek's opera Satyricon and Creon in Mark Alburger's Antigone.
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Maria Mikheyenko |
Maria
Mikheyenko, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, is actively involved in
bringing Russian repertoire to audiences of all backgrounds. She has sung
Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death with the Russian Chamber Orchestra
of Marin, was a guest artist at the 2nd Annual Russian Confederation of
San Francisco, and in January 2005 performed An Evening of Russian Romance
with pianist Alexander Katsman at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.
Ms. Mikheyenko received her BM in voice from the University of Michigan,
where she studied with renowned tenor George Shirley, and completed her
graduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2002, where
she studied with Sylvia Anderson. She now studies with Victoria Rapanan.
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| Aurelio Viscarra |
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Aurelio Viscarra has performed in the San Francisco bay area for over 20 years. He has been a part of the Fresh Voices programs since their inception and has been seen in Goat Hall productions including Amahl and the Night Visitors and The Fantasticks. He has also appeared with Cinnabar Theater, Berkeley Opera, Eugene Opera (OR), Not Quite Opera, George Coates Performance Works, and LA Opera Theater.
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Dr. Mark Alburger |
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Dr. Mark Alburger is an eclectic American composer of postminimal, postpopular,and postcomedic sensibilities. He is Founder and Music Director of the San Francisco Composer Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of Goat Hall Productions: San Francisco's Cabaret Opera Company, Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal, an award-winning ASCAP composer of over 100 major works published by New Music, oboist, pianist, vocalist, recording artist, musicologist, author, and music critic. Alburger began playing the oboe and composing with Dorothy and James Freeman, George Crumb, and Richard Wernick. He studied with Karl Kohn at Pomona College, Joan Panetti and Gerald Levinson at Swarthmore College (B.A.), Jules Langert at Dominican College (M.A.), Roland Jackson at Claremont Graduate School (Ph.D.), and Terry Riley. His recordings are issued by North/South Consonance, I Kill Me Music, and New Music Publications and Recordings.
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| Alexis Alrich |
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Alexis Alrich has been a member of the SFCCO since its first concert. As one of the winners of a Continental Harmony grant from the American Composers Forum she has written a piece for chorus, orchestra and soloists for the state of Maine. Avenues, her first orchestra piece, was premiered by the Women's Philharmonic and has been played around the country. Her piece for orchestra and narrator, Island of the Blue Dolphins, has also been performed by several orchestras around California. Her chamber compositions have been performed by ensembles including Bay Brass, City Winds, the Ariel Ensemble, New Release Alliance and Earplay in San Francisco. Ms. Alrich is the pianist of the Serafine Trio, with soprano Lisa Scola Prosek and violist Katrina Wreede, both composers as well. Ms. Alrich is one of four hosts of a weekly radio show on KUSF in San Francisco, “Classical Salon” with little-heard music from 1800 to the present.
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| Philip
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Philip Freihofner's wide-ranging background includes an appearance on the first Residents Album "Meet the Residents;" a collaboration and concert with the band "negativland;" frequent guest appearances on KPFA's "Over the Edge;" and critically acclaimed sound design and composition for drama and modern dance. He has composed and performed in a silent film score for "The Golem" (Wegener, 1920), which now being toured by the Double Reed Quartet "Wizards!". He has a degree in Music from U.C. Berkeley and has also studied at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music. After a 15-year hiatus, he resumed the oboe, and has the goal of becoming a legitimate, late-blooming virtuoso performer.
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| Harry Bernstein |
Harry Bernstein has been involved in the Bay Area for many years as a composer, performer and teacher. He is co-founder of the Golden Age Ensemble, a duo presenting varied programs of instrumental and vocal music around the area. He is currently active with the SFCCO (flute), San Francisco's Civic Symphony, and the Irregular Resolutions--a composers circle. He is an instructor at City College of San Francisco, teacher privately and sings with the St. Mary's Cathedral Choir in the City. In his spare time, he likes to read, play word games and explore the natural beauty of the area.
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| Loren Jones |
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Loren Jones is a native of San Francisco and began composing as a child. He studied with Tom Constantine, Herb Bielawa, Alexis Alrich and is currently working with David Conte at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he is also a member of the chorus. His music has been performed by the SFCCO, and students and teachers around the Bay Area. He has performed professionally, produced a CD of his own music, and has recorded for radio and film, including the sound track for an animated short which won a special Academy Award.
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| Lisa Scola Prosek |
Lisa Scola Prosek grew up in Rome and moved to the US when she was 11. Lisa has her BA in composition from Princeton University, and her graduate composition was at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy. She studied composition in NY with Lukas Foss, and voice with Margherita Kalil of the Met. Lisa is a composer/librettist and her newest opera: I Quaderni di Leonardo, features a libretto in Italian taken from Leonardo's Notebooks, enacting several of his experiments in optics and perspective on stage. Thick House Theater, May 18,19 and 20, San Francisco.
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