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2007 - 2008 Directors and Activities

Frances Blaker received her Music Pedagogical and Performance degrees from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen where she studied with Eva Legene. She also studied with Marion Verbruggen in the Netherlands. Blaker has performed as a soloist and with various ensembles, including the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Ensemble Vermillian, and Tibia, in the US and Europe. She teaches privately and at workshops throughout the United States, including the San Francisco Early Music Society's Baroque workshop, the Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, and Amherst Early Music. Recordings include "Ludwig Senfl: Lieder, Motets and Instrumental Works" (Farallon Quartet) and "Stolen Jewels", a recording of 17 century German composers with Ensemble Vermillian. Another recording with Ensemble Vermillian is expected to be released in June of 2007. She is consultant and performer on the play-along CD series entitled DiscContinuo (KATastroPHE Music, www.katastrophemusic.com) and is author of the acclaimed Recorder Player's Companion now in its second edition. Blaker's Recorder Player's Companion and her Six Duets are published by PRB Productions www.prbmusic.com). Yaquina River, just off the press, has been published by Lost in Time Press and is obtainable from the Oregon Coast Recorder Society. She was Recorder Artist-in- idence at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in the spring of 2006.

Greta (Haug) Hryciw is the third generation in a family of San Francisco musicians. Her early exposure to these musical influences shaped her understanding and appreciation of great music. As a child, she studied piano technique and theory with Bethel Melvin, and later with symphony pianist, Reina Schivo. Her interest in the recorder blossomed during high school and for several years she played with the San Francisco branch of the New York Recorder Workshop under the direction of Peter Ehrlich. She is currently the co-director of American Recorder Orchestra of the West (AROW) with Richard Geisler, and has recently been guest conductor for several chapters of the ARS. Greta has been music director for Half Moon Bay's Coastal Repertory Theatre, is the founder of the recorder quartet, SDQ, and teaches private recorder lessons to students of all ages. She spends her work days at the family photography studio in San Francisco with her husband, Lloyd, and their two schipperkes.

Lars Johannesson, flutist, graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a degree in orchestral flute. He pursued post-graduate studies in Baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland. Having lived in Santa Cruz since 1992, he performs actively in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas. Lars is a regular member of the baroque orchestra Magnificat, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and the Bay Shore Lyric Opera Company orchestra, and also appears occasionally with groups such as New Music Works, Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Santa Cruz County Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Monterey. In addition to ÒclassicalÓ music, Lars also plays and performs Irish and other traditional music. An active studio musician, Lars has recorded for numerous releases, including many on the Gourd Music label. When he is not playing music, Lars works in the IT industry, spends time with his wife and twin sons, and enjoys growing palms & bamboo.

Hailed as distinguished musician by the Chicago Tribune, Patrick O'Malley has performed from California to New York, in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. He has appeared with many orchestras and early music ensembles. With Lisette Kielson he has released a 2-disc recording, Telemann: Canons and Duos.Patrick runs a private studio (including long-distance teaching via the Internet) and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago and the Suzuki Music School of Lincoln Park. He earned a Master of Music degree in recorder from Indiana University, where he studied with Eva Legene. As the recipient of a Netherlands Fulbright Fellowship, he pursued further studies with Han Tol at the Rotterdam Conservatory.

Eileen Hadidian is founder and artistic director of Healing Muses, a non profit organization that brings soothing music to Bay Area medical centers. She has recorded four CDs on the Healing Muses label, and her work with healing music has been featured in The American Recorder, Early Music America, ARTAFacts (American Recorder Teachers’ Association), Yoga Journal, and The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. She is currently writing an article on Music and Medicine for the March 2008 issue of the Journal of the San Francisco Medicine Society.

She has served on the music faculty at Mills College, has appeared in concert and taught workshops throughout the Western United States, and is the recipient of the annual Citizen in the Arts Award, given by the City of Albany to honor a significant contribution to the arts.

Eileen’s scholarly work and editions of music have been published by C.F. Peters, Indiana University Press, Cambridge University Press and Dovehouse Editions.

Her special interests in early music involve studying what was being composed and performed outside the mainstream of Western Europe, and she has developed numerous workshop topics and concert programs exploring music in Spanish America, French Canada, Ireland and Scotland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries, as well as music by women.

Her interests outside music include immersing herself in novels set in different cultures, learning languages, yoga, hiking, attending international fairs and discovering new ethnic restaurants. Her new challenges in the past few years have included taking Celtic harp lessons and an Arabic class.

Brazilian recorder player Clea Galhano is an International renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, Belladonna, Lanzelotte/Galhano Duo, Galhano/ Montgomery Duo, Farallon Quartet and Blue Baroque Band . As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hogwood , Nicholas McGegan and Emmanuelle Haim, World Symphony, Milwaukee Baroque and Lyra Baroque Orchestra .

Among other important music festivals, Ms. Galhano has performed at the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Tage Alter Music Festival in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, Merkin Hall in New York and Palazzo Santa Croce in Rome, always receiving acclaimed reviews. Ms. Galhano was featured in 2006 in the Second International Recorder Congress in Leiden, Holland and in 2007 at the International Recorder Conference in Montreal.

Galhano studied in Brazil, the Royal Conservatory (The Hague), and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning a Fulbright scholarship and support from the Dutch government. As an advocate of recorder music and educational initiatives, she served for six years on the national board of the American Recorder Society and was featured many years as teacher and soloist at Suzuki and AOSA conferences.

A popular teacher and ensemble director, Galhano regularly conducts workshops across the United States, Europe and Brazil. Currently, Galhano is the Executive Artistic Director of the St. Paul Conservatory of Music and she is on the faculty of Macalester College.

Ms. Galhano has recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado labels, and is artist-in-residence at the prestigious Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Louise Carslake is well known to Bay Area audiences as a performer on the baroque flute and the recorder. She is a member of the baroque ensemble Music's Re-creation, the Farallon recorder quartet, and Magnificat. She has performed widely in her native Britain, as well as in New Zealand, Poland, Ireland, and the Netherlands, and has made ten CD recordings. Louise is co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Medieval Renaissance Workshop and has taught at many workshops including Port Townsend, San Diego/Palomar, and the annual Elderhostel workshop in Carmel Valley. She is ensemble director at Mills College, and co-founder of the Junior Recorder Society in the East Bay. Louise holds the graduate diploma from Trinity College of Music, London, and also studied with Wilbert Hazelzet in the Netherlands, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Tish Berlin is the director of a Recorder Elderhostel and a masterclass/workshop for recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord at the Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts in Carmel Valley, CA . Ms. Berlin has performed with the Carmel Bach Festival and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra as well as other ensembles. She is a member of the Farallon recorder consort which has recently released its first CD: Ludwig Senfl. Other recordings include Ladino love songs with Yatan Atan on the New Albion label and the second edition of the Disc Continue. Ms. Berlin received a master's degree in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor of music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her mentors and teachers include Ross Duffin, Carol Marsh, Marion Verbruggen and Paul Leenhouts.