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  Terrie
Baune, violinist, in addition to being a member of Earplay,
is Associate Concertmaster of the Oakland-East Bay Symphony,
and a member of the Empyrean Ensemble, a professional new music
ensemble in residence at the University of California, Davis.
Ms. Baune's professional credits include concertmaster positions
with the Women's Philharmonic, Fresno Philharmonic, Santa Cruz
County Symphony and Rohnert Park Symphony. She was a member of
the National Symphony Orchestra for four years; she also spent
two years as a member of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
of New Zealand, where she toured and recorded for Radio New Zealand
with the Gabrielli Trio, performed with the New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra, and toured the country as solo violinist with the
Concert By Candlelight Orchestra. Ms. Baune has performed as
concertmaster with many of the San Francisco Bay Area's orchestras,
and has been heard in recital throughout Northern California.
Her recording of the Maddalena Lombardini Violin Concerto #5
with the Women's Philharmonic is available on the Newport Classic
label. Ms. Baune has been on the faculty of Sonoma State University,
California State University, Stanislaus, and UC Davis. She has
served as string program coordinator for the Cazadero Music Camp
and taught at Humboldt State University Preparatory Academy.
She is on the coaching staff of the Humboldt and Sequoia Chamber
Music Workshops, and is a frequent performer on the HSU Faculty
Artist Series. Ms. Baune graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music in 1978, having attended summer festivals in Aspen and
Taos. As a student she won the Oberlin Concerto Competition and
the Marin Symphony Association Award as well as a full scholarship
to the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Grand Prize in the Joseph
Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.
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 Flutist Tod
Brody grew up in Chicago, where his early studies were
with Marie Moulton, of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, and
Walfrid Kujala, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His collegiate
studies were with Paul Renzi at San Francisco State University,
and he later studied with Merrill Jordan and Lloyd Gowen. He
has also worked in master classes with Alain Marion and Jean-Pierre
Rampal. Mr. Brody was a member of the Sacramento Symphony for
many years, where he was frequently featured as a soloist on
both flute and piccolo. A specialist in new music, Mr. Brody
is principal flutist for the San Francisco ensemble EARPLAY,
the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Empyrean
Ensemble. He has performed numerous world premieres, and has
been recorded on the Arabesque, CRI, Capstone, Centaur, Charisma/Virgin,
Magnon, and New World labels. He is also the principal flutist
for the Sacramento Opera and for California Musical Theater,
and appears frequently with the orchestras of the San Francisco
Opera and San Francisco ballet. Mr. Brody is on the faculty of
the University of California at Davis, where he teaches flute
and chamber music. In addition to his activities as a performer
and teacher, Mr. Brody is Director of the San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter of American Composers Forum, an organization dedicated
to linking composers and performers with communities, encouraging
the making, playing, and enjoyment of new music.
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 Particularly
interested in opera as well as new music, Mary
Chun conducted the Canadian and European premieres of
John Adams's earthquake romance, I was Looking at the Ceiling
and then I saw the Sky at the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques
in Montreal, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, and the Thalia
Theater in Hamburg, with the Finnish contemporary ensemble AVANTI.
She was invited by the East Slovakian State Opera to conduct
the European premiere of American composer Martin Kalmanoff's
Insect Comedy, and American Stage Director Peter Sellars and
composer Tan Dun asked for her musical assistance with Dun's
latest opera, Peony Pavilion. Last season she conducted sold-out
performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly in Honolulu with the
Hawaii Opera Theater and was asked by the composer to conduct
the world premiere of Carla Lucero's opera, Wuornos, in San Francisco
in 2001. She was the Music Director for the Texas Shakespeare
Festival 2000 where she conducted the world premiere performances
of Mort Garson's Revoco. She has been a member of the conducting
staffs of notable opera companies in the United States and France
including the San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Music Center
Opera, The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Chatelet Theatre
in Paris and the Opera de Lyon, where she was also the Director
of Musical Studies for Music Director Kent Nagano. Her recording
credits include music direction for two CDs of orchestra works
by American composer Peter Allen and a 30 second commercial for
Disney.
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 Based
in the San Francisco Bay Area, Peter
Josheff maintains a dual career as a composer and clarinetist.
He is a founding member of Earplay, a member of the Empyrean
Ensemble and of the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. He
has performed with numerous Bay Area new music ensembles, including
the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the San Francisco Contemporary Music
Players, Composers Inc., and the Left Coast Ensemble. He has
appeared on many concert series and festivals devoted to new
music, among them, the Centro Nacional
de las Artes, the Music on the Edge Series, the Monday Evening
Music Series, the Other Minds Festival, the Pacific Rim Festival,
and the Sacramento Festival of New Music. Josheff performed in
a production of Erling Wold's chamber opera A Little
Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil at the ODC Theater, and with
the Lawrence Pech Dance Company at Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts. He has had numerous works dedicated
to him by composers. His playing can be heard on the Elektra,
CRI, Centaur, Arhoolie, Spooky Pooch, and Rastascan record labels.
Josheff has an active interest in popular and improvised music
and has taken part in multimedia collaborations at many of San
Francisco's best-known performance spaces, including Intersection
for the Arts, New Langton Arts, the Marsh, Radio Valencia, and
Bruno's. He has performed and recorded with the Club Foot Orchestra
and Beth Custer's Clarinet Thing. Joseheff's music has been performed
locally by the Berkeley Symphony and Oakland Civic Orchestras,
Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, City Winds, Schwungvoll, and
on many concert series; and nationally on numerous venues.
He has been the recipient of a grant from Meet the Composer and
has been in residence at the MacDowell colony.
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 Thalia
Moore, cello, is a native
of Washington D.C. She began her cello studies with Robert Hofmekler,
and after only 5 years of study appeared as soloist with the
National Symphony Orchestra of Washington at the Kennedy Center
Concert Hall. She attended the Julliard School of Music as a
scholarship student of Lynn Harrell, and received her Bachelor's
and Master's Degrees in 1979 and 1980. While at Juilliard, she
won first prize in the National Arts and Letters String Competition.
Since 1982, Ms. Moore has been Associate Principal Cellist of
the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and in 1989 joined the cello
section of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. She has continued
to concertize extensively, appearing as soloist at Avery Fisher
Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center
Terrace Theater, Herbst Theater, and San Francisco
Legion of Honor, among others. She has also performed as guest
artist at the Olympic Music Festival, (Seattle, Washington),
the Lake Tahoe Summer Music Festival, and the Music in the Vineyards
Chamber Music Festival, among others. In 1991, Ms. Moore appeared
in the last episode of the TV series, Midnight Caller, and in
1993 was featured as soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Symphony
under the direction of Roger Norrington. In 1996, she performed
one of the first Bay Area performances of the composer's version
of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the San Francisco Chamber
Orchestra. She has performed with the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet,
and is a member of the Empyrean Ensemble, with which she has
recorded works by Mario Davidovsky and Maria Niederberger. Recently,
she was named a Cowles Visiting Artist at Grinnell College, Iowa,
and in 1999 won election to the Board of Governors of the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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 Violist Ellen
Ruth Rose relocated in 1998 to the San Francisco Bay Area
after having spent several years in Cologne, Germany, where she
first became immersed in the music of our time. As a member
of the experimental ensembles Musik Fabrik and Thrmchen Ensemble
and frequent guest with Frankfurt's Ensemble Modern, she toured
throughout Europe.
She has performed as soloist with the West German Radio Chorus
and appeared at the Cologne Triennial, Berlin Biennial, Salzburg
Zeitflu, Brussels Ars Nova, Venice Biennial and Budapest Autumn
festivals. Continuing her role as an avid interpreter of new
music, she is currently a member of EARPLAY and Empyrean Ensemble.
Ms. Rose also appears often
with other Bay Area ensembles, including Left Coast Ensemble,
the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players and Santa Cruz New
Music Works. In collaboration with Empyrean Ensemble, Ensemble
Modern, Musik Fabrik, Thrmchen Ensemble and others, Ms. Rose
has appeared on numerous recordings on the Sony Classical, RCA,
Arabesque, CPO, Wergo, Capriccio, and Soundspell labels. A Wergo
CD of the chamber music of German composer Caspar Johannes Walter,
including several pieces written for her, won the German Recording
Critics' new music prize in 1998. She has also interpreted more
traditional chamber music repertory in several international
settings, including the Marlboro Music Festival, the the Banff
Center for the Arts, and at festivals in England,
Italy and Finland. Ms. Rose holds degrees in viola performance
from the Juilliard School and the Northwest German Music Academy
in Detmold, Germany, and a degree in English and American history
and literature from Harvard University. She teaches viola and
chamber music at UC Davis. Her own viola teachers have included
Heidi Castleman, Nobuko Imai, Marcus Thompson and Karen Tuttle.
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 Pianist Karen
Rosenak is an almost-native of the San Francisco Bay Area.
She is particularly interested in the contrast between early
fortepiano music, especially of C.P.E. Bach, and the most recently
composed piano and chamber music. She was a founding member and
pianist for many years with the San Francisco-based new music
ensemble EARPLAY and the Davis-based Empyrean Ensemble, and has
performed in countless premieres with these and other new music
groups. She studied fortepiano with Margaret Fabrizio at Stanford
University, and has participated in master classes with Malcolm
Bilson. She studied modern piano with Carlo Bussotti and Nathan
Schwartz. She is on the faculty at University of California,
Berkeley, where she teaches musicianship and contemporary chamber
music.
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