Featuring
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Timothy Roberts
Cello
Timothy was founder, artistic director, and cellist of the Art of Music Chamber Players in Boston for 10 years. He was also a founding member and is a current performer in the South Coast Chamber Music society for the last 13 years. He recently purchased Copley Chamber Players Inc which is a performing organization as well as a company that provides musical ensembles for functions, events and weddings.
His freelance work includes work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Opera Company of Boston, Boston Ballet, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Classical Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra (Tampa) as well as just about every other type of freelance work available in Boston. He has also taught for many years in various towns and music schools since 1984, teaching both private cello and as a chamber music coach, and in his private studio in Needham.
Mr. Roberts holds degrees in Performance from New England Conservatory, and Northwestern University, and he pursued a doctorate at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He performs on a Gabriello cello made in Florence, Italy in 1751.
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Ginger Kroft
Principal Clarinet
Ginger Kroft is a faculty member at San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Santa Clara University. She is Principal Clarinet of Sacramento Philharmonic and the Carmel Bach Festival, and is a member of the Oakland Symphony. Ms. Kroft regularly performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra for many seasons. In the chamber world, Ms. Kroft was in-residence with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at the Wunsch New Music Festival.
She is a Vandoren International Artist and performs on M15 mouthpieces and Traditional reeds. An education advocate, Ms. Kroft maintains a private teaching studio, ClarinetStudio.org, and is a frequent adjudicator of solo competitions. Ms. Kroft holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Northwestern University.
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Ann Kaefer Duggan
Violin
A graduate of Roosevelt University and The University of Michigan, Ann performs with the Haymarket Opera Company, Carmel Bach Festival, Bella Voce, Music of the Baroque, Callipygian Players, and Third Coast Baroque. She teaches violin and viola at Trinity International University as well as a private studio. Ann has been a past member of Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, Da Corneto Opera, Sarasota Opera, Key West Symphony, and Spoleto Opera Festival as well as 10 years of teaching at the Music Institute of Chicago.
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Tom Hornig
Alto & Tenor Trombone
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Kevin Neuhoff
Percussion
Kevin Neuhoff, whose performances as a symphonic timpanist and percussionist have been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “virtuosic” and “remarkably sensitive” is a steady presence on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene.
A concerto competition winner and graduate of the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, Kevin is the Principal Timpanist with the San Francisco Opera Center Orchestra, the Berkeley and Fremont symphonies, the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra, and Principal Percussionist with the Marin Symphony. Kevin also plays frequently with orchestras throughout Northern California including Oakland, Silicon Valley, California, Santa Rosa, Monterey, Sacramento, and San Francisco symphonies. He performs and has recorded with Philharmonia Baroque, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Opera Parallele, West Edge Opera, Castleton Opera with Lorin Maazel, Live Oak Baroque, the Albany Consort, Jubilant Baroque, Marin Baroque, and the California Bach Society. At the invitation of Music Director Kent Nagano, he played with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in the Canadian premiere of Messiaen’s challenging opera St. François d’Assise.
A versatile musician, Kevin also performs Broadway shows at Cinnabar Theater, contemporary chamber music with San Francisco’s Earplay Ensemble, and music on demand with the Skywalker Symphony where he has performed with numerous artists such as The Who, Placido Domingo, Andre Bocelli, Weird Al Yankovic, the symphonic concert presentation of Zelda: Symphony of a Goddess, Disney’s Finding Nemo, and a variety of video game scores. His recordings can be found on Harmonia Mundi, Koch, Triloca, Wide Hive, New Albion, and Nonesuch labels. Kevin has also performed with the festivals of Aspen, Cabrillo, Mendocino, Other Minds, and the Festival of the Americas in Montréal. Kevin’s Baroque timpani are recently made by Aehnelt Lefima of Cham Germany.
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Sue Yelanjian
Double bass
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