Private Instructor

Ru Huang

Ru Huang is a classically trained soprano, dedicated educator, and artist known for her
versatility across opera, musical theatre, and contemporary commercial music.

Huang currently teaches at UC Berkeley as a private voice instructor. She is a doctoral
candidate in Vocal Arts Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, with a minor in Arts Management. She earned her Master of Music
in Vocal Arts and Opera Performance from the University of Southern California. She
has extensive training in theoretical vocal science and practical...

Deborah Jackson

Deborah Jackson has taught #14, the vocal technique class and #150 private voice instruction at UC Berkeley for the past 28 years. She was an instructor of voice at San Francisco State University for twelve years, and Dominican University for 6 years, as well as conducting the opera workshop and musical theater classes.

For the past ten years, Ms. Jackson has been music director, cantor and conductor at St. Patrick’s Catholic church in Larkspur. With West Marin Players, she has conducted 4 Gilbert and Sullivan light operas, “Most Happy Fella...

Peter Josheff

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Peter Josheff has been on the front lines of the northern California new music scene for more than thirty years as a composer and clarinetist. He is a founding member of Earplay and of Sonic Harvest, and is a core member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Empyrean Ensemble (UC Davis), the Eco Ensemble (UC Berkeley), and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. He performs frequently with Opera Parallele, and has worked with many other groups including Other Minds, West Edge Opera, Melody of China, the Ives Collective, Mills College...

Jonathan Koh

Cellist Jonathan Koh has established himself as one of the most exciting musical entrepreneurs and teachers of this generation. An active soloist, ensemble musician, clinician, and administrator, Jonathan has already laid claim to several ground breaking musical endeavors. A passionate and dedicated teacher who is gaining international recognition, Jonathan’s students have won countless major national and international competitions and have performed all across the globe. His students have also been featured in several radio and television stations throughout the United...

Jason Levis

Ph.D. and M.A. in Composition, UC Berkeley; B.A. in Music, Naropa University. Two-time Meet the Composer award recipient; Eisner Prize for Music winner; Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (UC Berkeley); Interaktion Festival finalist (Berlin), drummer and composer JASON LEVIS has led and been a collaborator in numerous jazz, improvised music, and chamber ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin, Germany. These include Joseph’s Bones; duo B.; Junior Reggae; the Lost Shapes; the Berlin Boom Orchestra; the Nathan Clevenger Group, and many more. Through these avenues he has been...

Adam Luftman

Originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Adam Luftman is currently the Principal Trumpet of both the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet Orchestras. Prior to moving to SF in 2007, Mr. Luftman held positons with the Baltimore Symphony, New World Symphony in Miami, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Adam has also been a guest artist with many of the countries finest orchestras including The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony. He has also enjoyed touring and recording with many of these ensembles....

Loren Mach

Loren Mach is passionate about the arts as they relate to our 21st century world and all who inhabit it. A graduate of the Oberlin and Cincinnati Conservatories of Music, he has premiered countless solo, chamber, and orchestral works.

Mach is a member of ADORNO, ECO Ensemble, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Worn Chamber Ensemble, and co-founder of Rootstock Percussion. He often performs with the San Francisco Symphony, many of the areas regional symphony and opera orchestras, or in the orchestral pit of hit Broadway shows like Wicked. But Mach prefers making new music in more...

Frank Martin

Northern California native Frank Martin continues a diverse career as a performer, producer and educator, and has performed and/or recorded with a wide variety of artists that include:

Stevie Wonder, Sting, Randy Brecker, Angela Bofill, Whitney Houston, Al Jarreau, Richard Bona, Shankar Mahadevan, Alex Acuna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Coryell, Flora Purim & Airto Moriera, Narada Michael Walden, Herbie Hancock, Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Tuck & Patti, Patrice Rushen, Wah Wah Watson, Robben Ford, Joey DeFrancesco, Lisa Fischer, Nguyen Le, Trilok...

Vicki Melin

Vicki Melin, Classical, Baroque and Renaissance Flutes, has performed in early music groups throughout the U.S. and the Bay area such as the American Bach Soloists, with the ABS Academy in the San Francisco Bach Festival, Voices of Music, Live Oak Baroque Orchestra, California Bach Society, MUSA, and her ensemble, Nash Baroque. Ms Melin attended Boston University for her Masters of Music, studying with Christopher Krueger and The Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Hague, The Netherlands, where she received an Advanced Diploma in Performance, studying with Wilbert...

Carla Moore

Carla Moore is one of America’s foremost Baroque violinists acclaimed for her stylish and virtuosic playing. A First Prize winner of the Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music, she is co-concertmaster of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), of which she has been a member for over twenty years. She is also concertmaster of Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon) and a founder and director of Archetti Baroque String Ensemble, a conductor-less Baroque string band. Archetti’s CD of music of Handel and Hellendaal is available on the Centaur label....