Private Instructor

Erika Oba

Erika Oba is a composer, pianist/flutist, and educator based in the SF Bay Area. As a composer she has written works for big band, small jazz ensembles, chamber groups, dance and theater. She is active as a performer on both piano and flute, and is a member of the Montclair Women’s Big Band, Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble, Rice Kings, and The Sl(e)ight Ensemble, and has performed with the Hitomi Oba Ensemble, Peter Apfelbaum’s Sparkler, and Lisa Mezzacappa’s Duo B Experimental Band. She has worked as a dance accompanist for Mills College and Berkeley Ballet Theater, and is currently...

Michael Orland

MICHAEL SETH ORLAND appears often in the Bay Area in performances of chamber music, and has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Empyrean Ensemble, Earplay, and Other Minds; in bygone days, he played with New Music Theater and in the San Francisco Symphony’s New and Unusual Music series.

Venturing further from home, Orland has played in the Gund Series at Kenyon College in Ohio and in new-music festivals at Cal Arts (LA) and in Buffalo, N.Y. He performed duo-piano music at April in Santa Cruz and the Mendocino Music Festival, and can be heard on...

Hanneke van Proosdij

Hanneke van Proosdij performs regularly as soloist and continuo specialist and is principal early keyboard player with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Festspiel Orchester Goettingen and Voices of Music, She has appeared regularly with Hesperion XX, Concerto Palatino, Magnificat, American Bach Soloists. Concerto Koln, Chanticleer, LA Phil, Dallas Symphony, Gewandhaus Orchester and the Arcadian Academy. She received her solo and teaching diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where she studied recorder, harpsichord and composition.

Together with her husband David Tayler,...

Elisabeth Reed

Elisabeth Reed teaches Baroque cello and viola da gamba at the University of California at Berkeley. She also teaches Baroque cello and viola da gamba at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is co-director of the Baroque Orchestra. Her playing has been described in the press as, “intense, graceful, suffused with heat and vigor” and “Elisabeth Reed provided the authentic Baroque sound, with her delicately nuanced and powerful playing of the Baroque cello and viola da gamba.”

A member of the American Bach Soloists, Voices of Music, and Wildcat Viols, she has also...

Glenn Richman

Glenn Mark Richman was educated at Mannes School of music in New York City and Berklee School of Music in Boston. He studied privately with Buster Williams, George Marz, Jon Burr, Homer Mensch, Don Palma and Mike Longo.

He has played with many jazz greats such as, Bobby Hutcherson, Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Dave Liebman, John Hicks, Bruce Barth, Harold Danko, Jimmy Ponder, Arthur Prysock, Mike Clark, Lewis Nash, Kenny Werner, Benny Green, Chet Baker, Jack Wilkins, Larry Willis, George Coleman, Joe Gilman, Billy Hart, Eddy Marshall, Renee Rosnes and Mickey Roker....

David Ridge

Originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia, David Ridge holds the position of Principal Bass Trombone with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. His duties with the Company include playing trombone, bass trombone, and contrabass trombone. He performs frequently with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and has performed with every major arts organization in the San Francisco Bay area.

Mr. Ridge has performed at many of the major music festivals in this country and abroad including the Arizona MusicFest, Tanglewood Music Center, Colorado Philharmonic/National...

Ellen Ruth Rose

Violist ELLEN RUTH ROSE enjoys a varied career as a soloist, ensemble musician and teacher with a strong interest the music of our times. She is a member of Ecoensemble, the professional new music ensemble at UC Berkeley, Empyrean Ensemble, the flagship new music ensemble in residence at UC Davis, and Earplay, the San Francisco-based contemporary ensemble. She has worked extensively throughout Europe with Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern and the Cologne experimental ensembles Musik Fabrik and Thürmchen Ensemble, appearing at the Cologne Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg...

Mariko Smiley

Mariko Smiley received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Juilliard, where she was a student of Dorothy DeLay. She has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony’s first violin section for over twenty years. She was also founding Concertmaster and soloist with Music in the Mountains Festival in Nevada City, CA, as well as a member of the Aurora String Quartet. The Aurora Quartet performed in the U.S. and abroad, and recorded the entire quartet works of Mendelssohn and Prokofiev for the Naxos label.

Ms. Smiley has been deeply...

Jeffrey Sykes

Acclaimed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “a commanding solo player, the most supportive of accompanists, and a leader in chamber music,” pianist Jeffrey Sykes has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Western Europe. He has garnered praise for his interpretations of music both old and new: The San Francisco Examiner praised his appearance with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players as “a tour-de-force performance [that was] the evening’s major delight.” And The Well-Tempered Ear commented that “Mr. Sykes displayed the ideal Chopin touch...

Alicia Telford

A native of Northern California, Alicia completed her college studies when she moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with David Krehbiel, Principal Horn with the SF Symphony, then San Francisco State University for further studies with Bill Klingelhoffer, Principal Horn with the SF Opera.

Ms. Telford has performed at major music festivals in the United States and abroad, including the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Sun Valley Music Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Luzern...