Faculty for 2009:
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Vida Bateau (recorder) has been teaching Orff-Shulwerk classroom music at Beacon Day School for 20 years. She has a large Tutti Flauti Dolci group of students which plays for the school's parades and festivals. She plays the renaissance reeds, capped and open, as well as alto and baritone sax. She has played baroque bassoon with Ars Musica Baroque Orchestra. She has studied with Marleen Montgomery, Marion Verbruggen, and Jean Fineberg, among many others. She learns the most from her students.
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Tish Berlin (Director, recorder) performs with the Tibia Recorder Duo, the Farallon Recorder Quartet and the Sitka Trio. Ms. Berlin teaches recorder in the Bay Area and at early music workshops around the USA. She holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Master of Arts in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University. She is the Past President of the American Recorder Society.
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Katherine Heater (dance) holds music degrees from UC Berkeley, Oberlin Conservatory, and the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. She performs frequently on early keyboard instruments locally and nationally. She directed the Music Discovery Workshop for several years, and currently co-directs the SFEMS recorder workshop for adults.
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Shira Kammen (musicianship/theater band) performs and teaches medieval, renaissance and traditional music nationally and internationally. She directs a number of ensembles and choruses in the Bay Area and has produced several recordings of her own compositions and arrangements. She can be heard on dozens of other recordings and soundtracks for film and video games.
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Ron McKean (harpsichord) is Artist-in-Residence at First Presbyterian Church, Oakland CA. Recognized internationally as a leader in improvisation, he has tutored under Laurette Goldberg, Harold Vogel, Kenneth Mansfield, Anthony Newman (Harpsichord and Organ) and with Leonard Bernstein and Robert Bassert (composition).
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Carla Moore (violin) enjoys performing and teaching the repertoire for baroque violin. She serves as co-concertmaster and soloist for Bay Area early music ensembles Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists, and concertmaster of the Portland Baroque Orchestra (Oregon). Carla also teaches baroque violin and coaches the baroque ensemble at the University of California at Berkeley. She was a student of, and assistant to, Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University’s Early Music Institute.
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Farley Pearce (viola da gamba and ‘cello) has performed with the Spoleto Festival, the Charleston Pro Musica, and as a recitalist in Brazil and Uruguay. Mr. Pearce has been an active free- lance performer with many of California’s orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra, S. Chordæ Consort of Viols, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Airs and Graces, and many other period instrument groups
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Allison Rolls (Theater Director) holds degrees from UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan and the Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She worked for many years in public radio and in arts administration, but currently works as a graphic designer and occasional d.j. She has trained in stage combat and historical costume construction, and pre-industrial arts and crafts.
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Assistants
Imogen Poropat
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