Ron Stonoga , bass guitar and guitar

Teacher for bass guitar and guitar, both acoustic and electric. I studied arts and music at the Vancouver City College from which I graduated with my Diploma in Fine Arts in 1979. I moved to California in 1980 and began my professional career here. I studied more jazz theory here with many top names at music workshops throughout the bay area including UC Berkeley. I have been recording, teaching and playing professionally ever since. KEEP THE MUSIC ALIVE .

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Andres Felipe Gómez , Guitar

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Lynné Funkhouser, clarinet / saxophone

Lynné Funkhouser is a professional musician and teacher with a Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet from the Peabody Conservatory of Music/John Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in clarinet performance from Brooklyn College.

Lynné Funkhouser has been teaching clarinet and saxophone since her graduation from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She teaches all ages, all levels and both classical and jazz styles. She is currently a teaching artist with the San Francisco Symphony's Education Department.

In the United States, she has studied with Leon Russianoff (Julliard faculty), David Breeden (San Francisco Symphony, principal clarinet), Luis Baez (San Francisco Symphony, associate principal and E-flat clarinet), Alan Balter (Memphis and Akron Symphonies, conductor), Robert Listoken (North Carolina School of the Arts), Sydney Forrest (Peabody Conservatory), Edward Palanker ( Baltimore symphony, bass clarinet). Her teachers in Europe have included Alan Hacker, Josef Horak, Anthony Pay and Thea King.

Lynné Funkhouser has studied and performed extensively throughout Europe and the United States. She attended the Interloched Arts Academy, The International Clarinet Festival in England, the Rocky Ridge Music Center, and Alan Balter's Clarinet Workshop.

Lynné Funkhouser is presently performing in the Bay Area with the " Ambience Woodwind Quintet," the "Kokopelli Clarinet Trio," the " Arabella Chamber Ensemble," and the "Golden Gate Park Band."

Contact Information: Lynné Funkhouser (415) 334-8106 Two studio locations: San Francisco and Burlingame.

Stephen Bell , trumpet, flute, trombone and euphonium

Stephen Bell has played trumpet since 1968 and flute since 1990. He has also performed on trombone and euphonium since 1974. He has performed with various groups and styles ranging from 30's/40's dance bands, jazz and concert bands, rock/funk/soul bands and pit orchestras for musical productions.

He is currently a music teacher in San Francisco Unified School district. He teaches elementary instrumental music in five schools.

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Keith Jones, Band and Orchestra.

Mr. Jones is a native San Franciscan and has taught band and orchestra in the public schools for 20 years.

Currently he is the band director and music teacher at Marshall High School in San Francisco. He has played baritone horn with the Clyde Beatty Circus, first clarinet with the 6th Army Band, lead alto sax in the San Jose State Jazz Ensemble, string bass with the Barstow College Jazz Ensemble, and has been on the road and in Las Vegas for many years.

As a performer he is a multi-instrumentalist. As a high school student at Mission San Jose High School he played every instrument. He has earned degrees from Ohlone College, UNLV, and Cal State San Bernardino as well as attended the American Band College at Southern Oregon University.

"If it's not fun, don't do it. If you do things you do not want to do, you will end up in a place you do not want to be. Love the sound you make on your instrument and that will fill your life with love. Your job as a musician is to make the world a happier place."

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Susan Bell - Harp, Guitar, Piano, Organ

Susan Bell teaches lever harp to beginning and intermediate students. She studied music and music education, earning a BA at UC Berkeley and a Master's at College of Notre Dame. She studied harp with Janice Ortega, harpist with SF Symphony and Cal State Hayward. She performs solo and with ensembles, including her family's trio of harp, flute and cello, at various venues. Susan has taught private students for over twenty years. She also teaches music for grades K-6 in Bay Area public schools. In addition to harp, Susan performs and teaches guitar, piano, and organ.

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Andrew Cohen - Tuba

Andrew Cohen graduated from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT, recieving his B.Mus in Music Education with his applied instrument being the Tuba, as well as CT Teaching Certification. He became an Elementary School music teacher in inner-city Hartford, maintaining a schedule of over 27 classes of at-risk children per week. Andrew also co-organized, rehearsed and executed schoolwide performances for the entire student body as well as bring in outside performers for the students themselves. During this time, Andrew also developed a regular schedule of private students on various instruments. Andrew taught Brass, Piano, and Recorder lessons as well as giving general music lessons to a large homeschool family. Andrew also has been an active performer, playing Tuba professionally in a brass quintet and various local orchestras. He continues to build a consistent studio of students in the San Francisco area on various instruments as well as holding his CA teaching credential.

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Brenda Schuman-Post - Oboe

Brenda Schuman-Post, an oboe player and instructor, is on a mission to demystify the instrument, teaching people where the wood in oboes comes from and how it can be played in settings outside the symphony. Brenda Schuman-Post is an oboe player and teacher who calls herself "an oboe advocate." But you could also think of her as an oboe activist, or oboe revolutionary, for that matter, because there's no mistaking her passion for an instrument that most people know little or nothing about. Even those who play it. And she aims to change that. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem says she's "opened a window onto the oboe's possibilities." And she demonstrates that on "Oboe of the World," an album in which she plays the modern classical oboe in the many styles of its ethnic counterparts from China, Venezuela and India, among other countries. Jazz Now magazine called it "groundbreaking." Schuman-Post acknowledges that the oboe has been used in folk, rock and pop music by the likes of the Moody Blues, the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, Roxy Music, King Crimson, the Electric Light Orchestra and most recently by indie-darling Sufjan Stevens. In addition to being a freelance orchestral and chamber musician as well as a concerto and cantata soloist, she's played bluegrass, jazz, pop and world fusion music. But most people don't associate the oboe with anything other than hearing it in an occasional solo in symphony orchestras - most often as the sound of the duck character in Prokofiev's popular "Peter and the Wolf." "She's done a lot of cool stuff for the oboe," said the Magic Flute's Dan Petruzzella. "Her students look up to her and admire her. She knows more about the oboe than anyone I've ever met." She is on the faculty of San Domenico School in San Anselmo and, in her campaign to change the ways people think about her chosen instrument, teaches a class she calls "Demystifying the Oboe" that is designed to make it less threatening and more accessible.

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Rob Gibson, Drums

Rob Gibson has a wide variety of musical experience including rock, jazz, latin, country & western as well as musical theatre. He currently freelances all over the Bay Area. His recording credits include Claudio Madeiros (Brazilian) David Landon (Blues) and Marten Ingle (Pop) He has appeared at the Monterey, Reno, San Jose and Fillmore Street jazz festivals. His televison credits include the Charley Trotter cooking show entitled, "The ! Kitchen Sessons" recently airing on Saturday mornings on PBS. He also appeared on the Bruce Latimer Show on 2-18-04 with his band 'Simply Jazz' He has performed with Rich Little, The Coasters and singer Kaye Stevens. From 1996 through 2005 he has been the drummer for the Las Positas College vocal jazz program. Road work includes tours of California with Make*A*Circus 1995-96 and a tour of Hawaii with guitarist Larry Love in 1986. He's had private studies with Narada Michael Walden, Scott Morris, Steve Smith, Mike Clark and others. On November 7th 1997 he was awarded a citation for oustanding musicianship from the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE)

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Flute & Piano Teacher - Christine Wampole

Christine teaches beginning, intermediate & advanced flute (piccolo) and beginning piano lessons for all ages of students, having started teaching while still a student in college herself in 1968. In addition to participating in numerous master classes here in the Bay Area given by: Jean-Pierre Rampal, William Bennett, James Galway, etc., she studied the flute with Alain Marion, teaching associate of Jean-Pierre Rampal, Paris Conservatory.

She also has earned both elementary and secondary teaching credentials at East Bay State University. For over a decade or more, some of Christine's students have been chosen to participate in both the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and the El Camino Youth Orchestra programs. One student was chosen to participate in the summer Interlochen Orchestra (not just the band!) while still a middle school student. First as a camper and later as a teacher and counselor, Christine spent late August for over a decade at La Honda Music Camp, founded by her high school band director, A.J. (Duke) Campagna, Hillsdale High School.

As a professional musician, Christine has played with numerous groups over the years including: San Francisco Ballet Orchestra (Denis de Couteau), Berkeley Free Orchestra (George Cleve), Notre Dame Orchestra (Mitchell Sardou Klein), Crestmont Conservatory Orchestra (Dietrich Erbelding), numerous West Bay Opera Co. productions, numerous Pacific Civic Light Opera musical productions (now Broadway By the Bay), the San Mateo Choral Society (Sing it Yourself Messiah), more recently with the Pacific Coast Ragtime Orchestra (recorded 3 CD albums) and a quintet from that group, The Smalltimers, (recorded one CD), in addition to performing at numerous traditional jazz and ragtime festivals both in and out of state. Another trio group that played both ragtime and classical music for the Hillbarn Theater's "Bravo" Dinners was called High F'lutin. For a decade Christine also played musicals in the Venetian Room, The Fairmont (S.F.)

Presently Christine plays with the Magic Flutes (Pamela Ravenelle), the College of San Mateo Symphonic Band (Mike Galisatus) and, of course, every Sunday at her church.

"Without music, life would be a mistake" - Nietzsche

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Terrance Yan - Violin

Terrance Yan received his Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance at San Francisco State University. As an experienced music teacher, Yan's studio has students of diverse age and background from various cities in the bay area. He was invited regularly by private and public schools as a guest instructor of their music programs. He participated as an instructor on many school productions such as concerts, musicals and plays. As a performer, Terrance Yan is an active orchestral musician, chamber music player and soloist. In 2004 He won the San Francisco Community Concerto Competition and performed with the San Francisco Community Music Center Orchestra under the baton of Urs Steiner. He is currently working on his Master Degree on Classical Performance at San Francisco State University under the guidance of Zak Grafilo. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts on Economics from the same university.

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