Featuring
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Meredith Brown
Principal Horn
Meredith Brown is well-known throughout Northern California, holding Principal Horn positions with the Napa Valley, Fremont, and Vallejo Symphonies as well as with Oakland Symphony, and serving as Acting Principal Horn of the Santa Rosa Symphony. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera, and the San Francisco Ballet, as well as with Oakland Symphony, Marin Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and the California Symphony. In addition, she has extensive experience in musical theater, including the San Francisco appearances of White Christmas, La Bohème, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof, Titanic, Sound of Music, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables. Educated at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, with a master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory, she lives in Oakland with her rescue kitties.
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Bruce Chrisp
Trombone
Bruce has been performing trombone professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1989. He is principal trombone of the Santa Rosa Symphony, Marin Symphony, Vallejo Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Carmel Bach Festival, and Fresno Philharmonic orchestras, and is a member of the Opera San Jose orchestra.
Bruce also performs regularly with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, and San Diego Symphony. He is in demand as a recording artist and records frequently at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County. In addition to playing modern trombone, Bruce also enjoys performing renaissance and baroque works on a replica of an instrument made in Nuremberg in 1595. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (MM) and the University of Michigan (BME). Bruce has taught low brass at the University of the Pacific since the fall of 2022 and taught at UC Davis for 22 years previously.
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Wayne Solomon
Bass 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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Suzanne Mudge
Tenor Trombone
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