BERNAL HILL PLAYERS
HADLEY MCCARROLL: MATTHEW WELCH
Pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL performs several selections from MATTHEW WELCH'S piano music, including many West Coast premieres from his "12 Etudes for Piano" (2015). Concluding is "Orion" (1998), an early piece of Matthew’s in response to Morton Feldman‘s style.
San Francisco’s beloved women’s chamber music ensemble BERNAL HILL PLAYERS performs “Forces of Nature”, a wildly varied program referencing Italian volcanoes, Brazilian rainforests, Japanese seas, English forests, and Californian canyons. The program features three newly composed pieces by Bay Area composers Davide Verotta, Jennifer Peringer, and Sarah Stiles, and also includes nature-themed pieces by Pauline Oliveros, Sally Davies and Toru Takemitsu.
P R O G R A M
Toru Takemitsu: Moby Dick and The Night from Toward the Sea
Jennifer Peringer and the Bernal Hill Players: The Canyon Wakes Up
Davide Verotta: Sulle Aridi Pendici
Pauline Oliveros: Environmental Dialogue
Sarah Stiles: A Dança da Sobrevivencia
Sally Davies: Restore the Earth
sfSound's pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL is a well-known San Francisco Bay Area-based collaborative and solo pianist. She has performed in the United States, and internationally with, among others: Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in Paris and New York, the Festival del Sole in the Napa Valley, Composer’s Inc., Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and most recently in recital with KRONOS Quartet violist Hank Dutt in San Francisco. For the past fifteen years she has performed as the pianist of the cello/piano duo martha & monica. Hadley has also worked at the Royal Danish Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, West Edge Opera and as accompanist for the James Toland Vocal Arts International Competition for the past 6 years. Equally at home as a soloist, Hadley has given wide-ranging performances, including the Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and programs featuring Carter, Beethoven, Ligeti, Liszt and Schumann. She frequently premieres new piano works. Ms. McCarroll received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin.
The BERNAL HILL PLAYERS is a mixed instrument ensemble formed in 2009 that performs classical, contemporary, and experimental chamber music from around the world, with a particular focus on Bay Area and women composers. They love performing in intimate neighborhood venues, where they can enjoy chatting with the audience, experimenting with new creative ventures, and celebrating the joy of playing music together. Performers: MARTHA RODRÍGUEZ-SALAZAR, flutes; ANNELISE ZAMULA, saxophones and flute; LEAH DI TULLIO , clarinets; SHARON WAYNE, guitar; and JENNIFER PERINGER, piano.
Singer, flutist, conductor and producer MARTHA RODRÍGUEZ-SALAZAR has been bringing Latin American folk, classical and contemporary music to the Bay Area for more than 15 years. For her outstanding leadership in promoting and developing Mexican music and culture in the Bay Area Martha was recognized as a "Luminary" in 2011 by the Mexican Consulate in SF and as "Excelencia Latina" by LAM and Mundo Fox in 2013. A native of Mexico City, Martha was classically-trained in both Mexico and Mills College as a concert flutist and opera singer. She has been a faculty member of the Community Music Center since 2000, where she teaches voice, flute, Coro de Cámara, Latin Vocal Workshop, conducts several older adult choirs, and is part of the San Francisco Unified School District Mariachi Program. She currently performs with the Bernal Hill Players and the Ave Fénix Duo, as well as curating the “Día de los Muertos” event at the San Francisco Symphony.
JENNIFER PERINGER is a pianist and arranger who has played throughout Europe, Mexico and California, with salsa bands in smoky nightclubs, with music hall troupes in riverside pubs, with protest bands in city streets and circus tents, with wild free-improvisation ensembles in artist lofts, with actors in theaters large and small, and with classical chamber music ensembles in churches and concert halls. Jennifer has taught at the Community Music Center in San Francisco since 2000. She earned a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University, following an undergraduate music degree from the University of London. She currently performs with the Bernal Hill Players and the Magnolia Piano Duo.
ANNELISE ZAMULA was educated at Berklee College of Music, Boston, and Indiana University, Bloomington. She studied flute with Wallace Mann (then-principal flutist of the National Symphony) and Matt Marvuglio. She has toured the US, Europe and Canada with the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, and appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with the Montclair Women’s Big Band. Annelise performs locally with the Noertker’s Moxie, Big Lou’s Polka Casserole, and the Bernal Hill Players. She has played in rock, pop, and blues bands in addition to jazz, swing, and classical ensembles.
LEAH DI TULLIO began her clarinet odyssey in 4th grade in the Oakland Public Schools, studying with Rudy Tapiro and eventually joining the Oakland Youth Orchestra. She studied painting at U.C. Berkeley while taking lessons with Rosario Mazzeo and performing in the UC Chorus and Orchestra. She continues to paint, and plays with numerous orchestral and chamber groups including Bay Area Classical Harmonies, Marin Baroque, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, Mozart to Mendellsohn Orchestra, Classical Revolution, Bernal Hill Players and her wind quintet, Sfiato. She studied for many years with Kalmen Opperman, and currently studies with Jerry Simas. She works in the Oakland and San Francisco Public Libraries where she is happy to be surrounded by many scores and recordings.
Classical guitarist SHARON WAYNE has received critical acclaim for her performances throughout the US and in Japan. Sharon is passionate about bringing new pieces to audiences, and has premiered works by Frank Wallace, Dusan Bogdanovic, Carlo Domeniconi, and Scott August. In Spring of 2023, she will premier two new duets written for Ave Fénix Duo by Bay Area composers Erik Pearson and Davide Verotta. Ms. Wayne has served as Artistic Director of both the Boston and the San Francisco Guitar Society, and was a founding member of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet. She has recorded seven CDs, including both solo and chamber music, and is currently on the Guitar Faculty of San Francisco Community Music Center.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale