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Theory and Musicianship

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Composition

JONO KORNFELD (2000), theory, composition, jazz piano, ear training, sight singing, theory/musicianship group classes. MA in Composition and post-graduate music study, SFSU; BA, English, University of Rochester, NY. Composition/theory studies with Ronald Caltabiano, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Richard Festinger at SFSU, and with Michael Czajkowski at the 2001 Aspen Music Festival. Jazz and classical piano studies with Adam Domash. Author, Music Theory and Notation for Intelligent Beginners. On the faculty at SFSU and also teaches privately. www.jkornfeld.net
Mission and Richmond District Branches

JANIS MERCER (1992), composition, ear training, piano, theory lessons, Inner City Young Musicians Program, Comprehensive Musicianship Program. BM, Composition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MA, Composition, Mills College. Piano studies with Dady Mehta, Albertine Votapek, Bill Sorenson; composition studies with Herbert Brün, Salvatore Martirano, David Liptak. Specializes in contemporary performance practice. Studied piano with Albertine Votapek, Dady Mehta, and Bill Sorenson, and composition with David Liptak, Salvatore Martirano, and Herbert Brün. Specializes in contemporary performance practice.
Mission and Richmond District Branches

ERIK IAN WALKER (1998), composition, ear training, piano. BM, Composition, SF Conservatory of Music. Erik has been coaching students in the beginnings and finer points of improvisation for 25 years. Learning riffs, building solos, playing through changes, using your intuition. Erik performs with Music for Squares and runs his studio, WackoWorld Music. For sample piano lessons and more information, visit www.wackoworldmusic.com
Mission District Branch

Ear Training

JONO KORNFELD (2000), theory, composition, jazz piano, ear training, sight singing, theory/musicianship group classes. MA in Composition and post-graduate music study, SFSU; BA, English, University of Rochester, NY. Composition/theory studies with Ronald Caltabiano, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Richard Festinger at SFSU, and with Michael Czajkowski at the 2001 Aspen Music Festival. Jazz and classical piano studies with Adam Domash. Author, Music Theory and Notation for Intelligent Beginners. On the faculty at SFSU and also teaches privately. www.jkornfeld.net
Mission and Richmond District Branches

MARTHA RODRIGUEZ-SALAZAR (2000), ear training, flute, piano, recorder, sight singing, voice, Flute Choir, Latin Music Vocal Workshop, Camp CMC, Mission District Young Musicians Program Project Coordinator. Martha was born and raised in Mexico City, coming to the United States in 1998 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Music at Mills College in Oakland. As both flutist and mezzosoprano, Ms. Rodriguez has toured extensively in the United States, Mexico and Europe, with Classical, Baroque and folk ensembles and orchestras, winning awards in many of the countries where she has performed. In 1995 she began her conducting career, directing various ensembles, ranging from chamber music to flute and vocal choirs to operas. Ms. Rodriguez’s diverse teaching activities at CMC include flute, voice, piano, sight-reading, Latin Vocal Workshop, MDYMP, and Summer Camp. She has become a cultural leader of the Bay Area Latino community, directing and producing the annual Mexican Christmas show La Posarela at CMC, as well as curator and musical advisor at the annual Día de los Muertos Family Concert at the San Francisco Symphony. Also speaks Spanish.
Mission District Branch

Sight Singing

DOROTHY BARNHOUSE (1974), sight singing, voice. BA, Linguistics, Harvard University; Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, Musikhochschule, Berlin; MEd, Education, Harvard University; MA, Music Theory, SFSU. Performed as mezzo-soprano soloist in Germany, Boston and the Bay Area. From 1988-1999, trained youth to teach music to children in barrios of Managua, Nicaragua. Resumed teaching at CMC in 1999. Also speaks Spanish.
Mission and Richmond District Branches

Theory

KEN ROSEN (1975), clarinet, flute, saxophone, theory lessons, Jazz Ensemble, Teen Jazz Band, Inner City Young Musicians Program. BA, New Mexico State University. Graduate study with David Baker and George Russell at Indiana University. Studied winds with Ray Tross, H. Hardisty, Eugene Rousseau and Paula Bing. Performed with big bands of Al Cobine, Lee Castle, Warren Covington and Larry Elghart.
Mission District Branch

KATRINA WREEDE (2006), viola, violin, composition, Comprehensive Musicianship Program. BA with Distinction in Music Performance, San Jose State University. Violist, composer, and clinician, formerly violist with the Turtle Island String Quartet and a composer for international chamber groups, orchestras, silent film, and dance. Teaching since 1982 in private and group lessons, orchestras, schools, and artist residencies. Composer in the Schools for the American Composers Forum from 1992-2004 and founding faculty member of the John Adams Young Composer Program since 2007, travels around the country with her classroom workshops: “My Goldfish Died-Blues for Strings”, and “Composing Together”. Teaching style includes emphasis on learning basic technique and repertoire through creative composition projects tailored to students abilities, tastes, and interest. Participation in CMC recitals and outside concerts encouraged but not required. More info at: http://katrinawreede.com
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