Ellen Gronningen An East Bay native, Ms. Gronningen received degrees from both Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music. Her principal teachers were Szymon Goldberg, Raphael Bronstein and Anne Crowden. Extensive chamber music study has included work with Felix Galimir, Robert Levin, and the Juilliard Quartet. Ms. Gronningen is an active freelance musician in the Bay Area and performed at the Berkeley Art Center in January with the Paolo String Quartet and in March with Miles Graber.
Stephanie Railsback Violist, Stephanie Railsback maintains a busy schedule both performing and teaching. She performs regularly with orchestras throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Women's Philharmonic, the San Jose Symphony, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque, and the California Symphony where she is Assistant Principal. Since 1991 she has spent her summers as a member of the Carmel Bach Festival. Aside from performing, Stephanie also teaches private viola and violin students.
A native of Chicago, Ms. Railsback attended the music schools of Northwestern University and Indiana University, where she studied under Abraham Skernick. She was a member of the Savannah Symphony before moving to California in 1990. She lives in the Oakland hills with her husband, bassist David Motto.
Moses Sedler, cello Moses Sedler also plays jazz, klezmer and original music with a variety of groups. He studied at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and moved to the Bay Area in 1989.
Flemish composer, A. Willaert, belonged to the first generation of madrigalists and is often counted among its creators. He was appointed maestro di capella at St. Marks in Venice in1527, a post he held until his death.
Thomas Lupo was court musician and composer to Henry VIII.
English, Baroque composer, Henry Purcell composed the Fantasias in 1680. Owing something to the example of Locke, not only are they masterpieces of contrapuntal writing, but are also passionate revelations of the composer's most secret thoughts. Every possible device of imitation, inversion and augmentation is employed, but the result, far from being an academic exercise is appeal to the ear and might even be termed romantic in expression. (from New Grove Dictionary) |
