| Program Notes: Dan Scharlin, flute, graduated from UCLA in 1953 with a degree in Music Education. His principal teachers were Jules Fuhrman and George Drexler, both of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He currently is principal flutist in the Prometheus Orchestra and the orchestra of Bella Musica Chorus,'with whom he recently recorded CD's of Bach's Magnificat and Orff's Carmina Burana. He plays regularly with The Berkeley Bach Cantata Group, The Occasional Sunday Afternoon Wind Serenade Group and the Moraga Woodwinds. Although retired from full time employment in the fields of employee benefit plans and advertising, he is Treasurer of The Working Group, producers of television programs about working people; the Trustee of the Kaiser Steel Retirement Plan; and Special Trustee of a corporate Profit Sharing PIan.
Bert Bayin, clarinet, is a graduate of UCLA and a student of Rudolf Jettl at the Vienna Academy of Music. He has performed with the Vienna Opera, the Dallas Symphony and with other orchestras and chamber groups in Austria, Los Angeles, Texas and the Bay Area. He is currently principal clarinetist with the Palo Alto Philharmonic.
Kathleen Conner, oboe, a native San Franciscan, received her Bachelors of Music and Masters of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with Marc Lifschey. She regularly performs with the L^lamplighters, and has performed with the Monterey Symphony; Napa Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, and Sacramento Symphony. She teaches at the SF Community Music Center and is the woodwind coach at . Ben Franklin Middle School in San Francisco.
Richard Reynolds French horn, is a member of the Berkeley Symphony, the l^lamplighters Orchestra, and the Fremont Symphony. He has performed with many other Bay Area orchestras, including the Oakland Symphony, Marin Symphony, and Santa Rosa Symphony, and has appeared on many chamber music programs. Also a writer, he edits Harmonia, the newsletter of P..Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and has written articles on rnusic and other subjects for many publications. He is communications director of Mother ]ones magazine.
Jim Bernhardt, bassoon, graduated from Cal-State University, Hayward with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance. He has continued private studies with Jerry Dagg and Rufus Olivier of the SF Opera. Jim has performed regularly with Opera San Jose since 1990, and is an active freelance player and bassoon teacher in the Bay Area. He participated in the OSJ world premiere of Phaedra, this was recorded for the PBS series Great Performance in 1991 and televised nationally. Prior to his current work in the South Bay, he held permanent positions with the West Bay Opera Orchestra in Palo Alto, the Fremont Symphony, and the Berkeley Promenade Orchestra before it became the Berkeley Symphony. Jim has also been involved in the Early Music field. He performed in the Queens Band at theRenaissance Pleasure Faire and directed his own early music consort for in- school concerts. During the day, fJim works as a software development manager in Dublin. He lives in Pleasanton with his wife, violinist, Tigger the cat, and Figaro the parakeet |
