Music Discovery Workshop 2012 Faculty

Faculty for 2012

	Tish Berlin (Director, dance) 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.
	Louise Carslake (recorder) is a member of the baroque ensemble Music’s Re-creation, the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Magnificat and the Jubilate Baroque Orchestra and has performed widely in her native Britain, as well as in New Zealand, Poland, Ireland, and the Netherlands. She has made over ten CD recordings. She is co-founder of the Junior Recorder Society in the East Bay and for many years has taught an after-school recorder program for the Albany school district, and for schools in Oakland and Berkeley. She also teaches early music performance on the faculty at Mills College, and coaches baroque flute at U.C. Berkeley.
	Shula Kleinerman, theater direction and dance. As the founder of Seattle Historical Arts for Kids, Shulamit has been introducing children to the arts and culture of the 12th-18th centuries in day camps and ensembles since 2005. She was honored with Early Music America’s 2011 Outreach Award for her early music kids’ performance troupe and its new family CD Merry It Is. Shula plays renaissance violin and medieval vielle and is a founding member of the Elizabethan ensemble Plaine & Easie, winner of the 2009 EMA Medieval and Renaissance music competition. She has also performed as a dancer with Seattle Early Dance.
	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 as 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 received her Masters degree from Indiana University’s Early Music Institute.
	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. Chordć Consort of Viols, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Airs and Graces, and many other period instrument groups.
	Yuko Tanaka (harpsichord), a native of Tokyo, Japan, is active as a harpsichord and fortepiano soloist and ensemble performer. Yuko is a soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival, and she performs with numerous ensembles including Music of the Spheres, Musica Pacifica, Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and American Bach Soloists. She has appeared at Berkeley Festival and Exhibition and Bloomington Early Music Festival and with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet orchestra. She maintains a private studio, conducts master classes, and appears as guest lecturer at various universities. Recent engagements include performances at the Frick Collection (New York City), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany), and the Istanbul International Music Festival, as well as performances on National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts. Yuko received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music from Stanford University and has studied with Margaret Fabrizio at Stanford University, Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Ketil Haugsand in Oslo, Norway. She performs on a Taskin harpsichord built in 1987 by Kevin Fryer, a Vaundry harpsichord built by Kevin Fryer in 1992, and a copy of a Stein Fortepiano, rebuilt by Janine Johnson and John Phillips. She has recorded for Koch International and Delos International.

Last updated 02/12/2012.