Ross Wright
Elvis Schoenberg
Conductor
www.ross-wright.com
A classically trained composer, conductor, and jazz bassist, with a
diverse musical background, Ross Wright has worked as a composer,
ghostwriter and orchestrator of scores for film and television, in
addition to penning concert and chamber music, which has been
performed throughout the United States and internationally.
As a bassist, Wright
has performed and toured internationally with artists ranging in
diversity from Ray
Charles to Middle East superstar Darioush, and served at music
director and bassist for the Frank Zappa musical, Joe's Garage.
At the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, Wright teaches private
lessons and courses including Harmony, Theory, Playing Techniques,
and Melodic Bass Duets.
Wright earned a Masters Of Music from California
State University Los Angeles, a Bachelors from California State
University Northridge, a Diploma from UCLA Film Scoring Program,
Dick Grove School Of Music, and the Musicians Institute.
His film scores
include: Mesteno, 525 Films, Golden Sun Production; Inner
Demon, BHM Pictures; The Big Announcement, Sunshine
Terrace Productions; The Revolting Dead, Thriller
Entertainment; Table For Two, Cinefile Digital; Comic Book
Villains, Lionsgate Entertainment; Nothing But The Truth,
Bird Dog Productions; Victim of Desire, M.C.E.G. Sterling
Entertainment; Falling Star, Lincoln-Hughes Film Productions.
His film orchestrations include: A Fate Worse Than Death,
The Bubble Factory (Starring Janet Leigh, Christopher Lloyd), The
Haven, Prophecy Entertainment & 4 Wall Films (Starring Timothy
Bottoms), The Rising Place, Flatland Pictures, (Starring Liam
Akin, Billy Campbell), Dangerous Touch, Escalarta Films,
(Starring & Directed by Lou Diamond Phillips), Death Wish V, The
Face Of Death, Trimark Pictures, (Starring Charles Bronson),
White Wolves II: A Cry in the Wild II, Directed by Catherine
Cyran, One False Move, Columbia Pictures, (Starring Billy Bob
Thornton & Bill Paxton), Steven King’s Sometimes They Come Back,
Paradise Films, (Starring Tim Matheson & Brook Adams) .
His awards include two Los Angeles Music Awards for "Best Rock Opera
of the Year" and "Special Achievement Award in Orchestral
Arrangement"; "Best Music Director of the year" by Entertainment
Today’s Ticket holder Awards For the Open Fist Theater Production of
Joe’s Garage; winner of the Composition Competition at the
Romanian American Music Days Festival for Three Quickies for
Woodwind Quintet; recipient of the Harry Warren Full
Tuition Music Scholarship, California State University Los Angeles;
and the Featured Composer at the Akron New Music Festival, 2006.
Wright is also the co-founder of the West Coast Composers Forum, a
group that has been dedicated to writing and performing new chamber
works from 1999 to the present.
The Orchestre
Surreal
is his creation.
Angela Carole Brown
The Fabulous Miss Thing
Vocals
www.angelacarolebrown.com
Los Angeles native Angela Carole Brown is a
singer/songwriter, an author, and an artist/designer. She has been a veteran of the L.A. music scene for
over two decades as a
vocalist and recording artist. She has recorded
voice-overs, movie cues, jingles, and CDs for herself and other
artists, including: Josh Groban's hit single
You Raise Me
Up on his
Closer
CD for Warner Bros. Records, and demo tests for
South Park
creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
She has worked theatre, clubs, concert halls, television, and radio, in
the U.S., Europe, and Asia,
including
her critically lauded Off-Broadway, one-woman show, The Purple Sleep
Café, at Primary Stages' 45th Street Theatre in New York City.
Brown
is also an author, whose debut novel,
TRADING FOURS,
about the Los Angeles music scene,
was published by Haiku House and has been called "a
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
for musicians."
TRADING FOURS
has been featured on KPFK's
Arts in Review and KUCI's Blacklisted; given honorable mention in Music Connection Magazine; and featured
in an Ejazznews.com article entitled Jazz Encounters of the Literary
Kind, by the UK columnist John Stevenson. Angela's second
novel, The Assassination of Gabriel Champion, released in
the spring of 2013, also on Haiku House, and is a modern fable of
violence and redemption that asks the question: what can be
forgiven?
Angela is also a
memoirist, whose first published effort in this genre is The
Kidney Journals: Memoirs of a Desperate Lifesaver.
Shorter works have been
featured on Kidney.Org, the Highlight Network, and Angela's own blog,
Bindi Girl Chronicles.
Brown began her career, however, as an
actress, after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts,
and landing work with various Los Angeles theatre companies, performing
the repertoires of Shakespeare, Williams, Brecht, Shaw, and Puccini, to
name a few,
the experience of which has
had significant bearing on her approach to a song. The high notes will
always elude this slightly raspy alto, but her gift is in her
ability to use that texture to interpret a lyric with genuine intimacy,
and connect to a song the way an actor connects to a character he is
hired to play. Jason McCloskey, in the BACK STAGE WEST, has said of
her: "As Angela Carole Brown
begins to sing, she underscores the
fact that while most singers simply sing songs, great singers employ
their voices as instruments and their songs as vehicles to create tone
poems of undeniable emotional impact."
Brown eventually migrated from acting to singing by
joining various bar bands, doing the cabaret and hotel circuit, and
establishing what would turn out to be years-long alliances with
wonderful musicians, and with recording work; and in 1984 won the grand
prize in the first-ever (to become annual) Stardom Pursuit singing
contest sponsored by the old legendary Rose Tattoo Cabaret in Los
Angeles.
She never did "the road," but has
established a solid base and reputation as an L.A. vocalist of integrity
and professionalism.
Brown launched two original
music projects in the early 2000s, whose mission was to feature her songwriting and to create live
performance experiences. The Global Folk, a guitar-led trio, showcased Angela's alt-folk songs, and The Slow Club Quartet, a piano-led trio,
showcased her jazz compositions. These two groups have performed all over Los Angeles, including the Playboy Jazz
Festival, and have resulted in the recordings
Resting on the Rock, The Slow Club,
Music for the Weeping Woman, Expressionism
and Winter,
all on Rue de la Harpe Records.
Brown is presently one of the
lead singers (since 1997) of the award-winning and exquisitely radical
Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre Surreal, as "The Fabulous Miss Thing,"
re-enlivening her old theatre background in a larger-than-life role. She
is also a member of
the
internationally acclaimed author, lecturer, and spiritual activist
Marianne Williamson's Miracle Ensemble, and most recently has had her
original music featured on the internet series Venice.
Her proudest
achievement, however, is as a kidney donor, which she did in 2008 for a
young man who now has a new lease on life.
She now holds her organ recipient
emotional hostage to do her bidding when and where she feels the whim.
April Fissell
The Daunting Diva-Lynn
Vocals
www.aprilfissell.com
Whether it's producing
Judge Judy, receiving an Emmy nomination, making B movies and commercials, wearing the hats of child therapist AND
international model, you name it, Ms. Fissell has probably done it.
This coloratura soprano
provides operatic moments in the Orchestre Surreal
with glass-shattering power and a wink and a smile.
New
Mexico native, April Fissell made her stage debut at age 12 as Annie and
has continued to cross genres and oceans. She is a classically trained
opera singer with a four-plus-octave range who is currently a recording
artist on the Spirit Voyage label specializing in yoga chant and
meditation music. She has worked as an international model, actress
(Time Cop II and Killer Weekend), and
Emmy-nominated producer, producing such shows as Candid Camera
and Judge Judy. She holds a Masters in clinical psychology and
currently specializes in work with children on the Autistic Spectrum and
their families as well as private practice. She leads classes and
retreats where she uses her music and mantra along with her training in
psychology and neurology to help people go deeper into their practice.
Fissell grew up surrounded by extraordinary historic buildings, archaeological
sites, and beautiful cultural landscapes. All this helped build the
foundation that April cultivated her extraordinary talents from. At an
early age she loved being the dramatic diva, acting, singing and dancing
every chance she got. This became the focus of her young adult life as
she left New Mexico for the University of Washington where she received
her degree in Voice and Theater, with a minor in Speech Pathology. These
grand accomplishments also allowed her the opportunity to join the
summer program at Julliard, studying under Edward Berkeley (Advanced
Scene Study) and W. Steven Smith (voice).
After graduating from college Fissell moved to Los Angeles, where she has
actively been performing in film, television and stage. One of the most
important things she has learned is that you must continue to study your
craft and Fissell does continue to do so with such great and well-known
teachers of our time such as Milton Katselas, Margie Haber, Steve
Pearson, Maestro David Romano, W. Steven Smith, Maestro Richard Bado,
Maestro William Vendiche, and Mary Curtis Verna.
Fissell is truly a triple
threat in this day and age that harkens back to the many entertainers
who graced Hollywood during the golden years. Fissell, the actor,
singer, dancer, is dedicated to growing as an artist and nurturing all
her talents to their fullest, which only will help her realize her
dreams and we will be lucky to watch this talent continue to grow and
grace the silver screen, theatre and so much more!
Dan O'Callaghan
Dangerous Dan
Vocals
www.dannyoc.tv
Dan left these waters for calmer shores. But whenever
he's in town, the Orchestre Surreal does whatever it can to secure
an appearance. Easily
straddling the operatic and rock worlds as a versatile vocalist, show-stealer
Daniel O'Callaghan aka "Dangerous Dan" aka "Father Ninja" is
originally from Chicago, where he attended college at The Goodman
School of Drama and graduated from the world famous Second City
Training Center. He performed all over Chicago as an actor and a
singer on stage, in the studio, and on camera before relocating to
Los Angeles to seek his fame and fortune as waiter "Mr. Popular" at
Ed Debevic's Restaurant in Beverly Hills.
While waiting tables he moon-lighted as a TV commercial actor and is
the veteran of 97 television commercials (including 14 for Diet Dr.
Pepper). He played Virginia Madsen's bodyguard in Jon
Grisham's The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He
has worked with Barry Sonnenfeld, Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Matt
LeBlanc, Denise Richards, Barbra Streisand, French Stewart, and
Pauly Shore, and has toured internationally with the opera tenor
trio, The Three Tenors, all the while honing his opera skills with
all the ferocity of a hungry dog digging for a bone. He has
performed all over the world at corporate events, as well as with
several orchestras and bands around L.A.
He is also a filmmaker, having already amassed quite a canon of artful shorts, and
was the co-author and star of Symphony of the Absurd, the
Orchestre Surreal's first outing at the John Anson Ford
Amphitheatre.
He should be considered extremely dangerous. If you encounter him,
DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT. Do not hand him anything. Do not accept
anything from him. Do not give him any personal information about
you. You don't want Dangerous Dan crawling around in your head. Do
not attempt to engage or subdue him yourself. Immediately duck and
cover, then call 911. Seriously.
No . . . seriously.
David Arana
Keyboards
There are many reasons
the Orchestre Surreal is the right place for keyboardist David Arana. It
encompasses many styles of music, and has players with experience in
various areas of the entertainment industry, who are all just trying to
make sense of the crazy notes Elvis Schoenberg has written down. In a
similar but somewhat obtuse way, Arana has played for many groups whose
interests and beliefs are wide-ranging and colorful, and in general speak to
the better part of the human experience. For this reason, he attributes
his long-standing position in the Orchestre Surreal to his ability to
fit in (with a little nip and tuck here and there) with the many
faith-based and social-service-oriented organizations for whom he has
worked.
Chronologically
speaking, those organizations of his musical employ are and have been:
First Christian Church of Palmdale
Our Savior Lutheran Church of Simi
Valley
Stephen S. Wise Adult Choir and Early
Childhood Center Choruses
Sante Fe Springs "Twighlights" Senior
Citizens Choir and Children's Choruses
Holy Spirit Catholic Church Gospel
Mass
Crescenta Valley Community Church
Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist
Society, "the Onion"
David Hughes
Electric Bass
www.swedebass.com
David Hughes was
born and raised in Sweden but is now based in Los Angeles,
California. After studies at the Royal College of Music in
Stockholm, Hughes left for LA and a stint at the Bass Institute of
Technology, BIT.
After receiving the BIT Outstanding Student Award, Hughes soon
joined the teaching staff and began to explore life as a studio and
live musician.
David received his first important break when Wayne Henderson of the
legendary Jazz Crusaders asked him to join the band. Other credits
include Chaka Khan, Melissa Etheridge, Burt Bacharach and Connie
Stevens and Ray Manzarek of the Doors. He has played on countless
sessions for TV shows such as
Baywatch and The
Defenders and
for films such as Firehouse
Dog and Old
School, in which he also appeared.
A composer
since he was old enough to reach the piano keys, the release of Hughes
debut CD Swoosh united his greatest
passions - composing and performing. With the release of Foreign
Shores he
achieved a new musical level, with more complex compositions and live,
interactive performances. Cruising Along Hughes
straddles the pop and jazz genres and focuses on melodic tunes, using
improvisation as a flavor rather than as main ingredient. Hopeful
Romantic puts the focus on Hughes’ bass guitar with plenty of
room for his fretless and fretted basses to soar.
Currently Hughes fills his schedule composing, having recorded four CDs
under his own name, touring and recording with David
Benoit, the Orchestre Surreal,
the Budman/Levy Orchestra, and with recording sessions and local
performances spanning jazz to rock and classical music.
Mark Breitenbach
String Bass
Mark has made his
living a freelance musician and music educator in the Los Angeles area
for the past 25 years with a primary focus on classical music but has
worked in a wide range of genres with The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra,
Andrea Bocelli West Coast Orchestra, New West Symphony, Santa Barbara
Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Redlands Symphony, Pacific Chamber,
Riverside Symphony, and the always entertaining Orchestre Surreal.
In addition to
teaching and live performance he has also appeared in TV ads for Lipton
Iced Tea and Shiseido cosmetics. In his free time, Mark is an active
Crossfit athlete.
Byron Fry
Electric Guitar
www.byronfry.com
As Composer / Arranger / Producer, he has scored dozens
of hours of footage for Film and TV; written, arranged and produced
every style for live shows and records; been musical director of a
theatrical musical’s 3-month run; written his first symphony and
conducted its premier and spearheaded the writing of a major-label rock
opera by an international team with multiple platinum records and number
one hits under its belt.
As a guitarist he has worked with numerous #1-hit artists
and has credits in every genre for Film, TV, tours, records and club
dates. As of this writing, he is producing Indie Folk / Rock / Celtic
artist Christina Duane, composing a string quartet and recording the
follow-up fusion album to “Combustible”.
As a teacher / clinician, Byron has taught many hundreds
at many schools and colleges and as a contract artist for the State of
California, as well as at academically elite Deep Springs College; he is
on faculty at California College of Music in Pasadena. Players of all
levels and styles benefit from his private instruction online via
video-chat technology. He teaches all Fretted Instruments, Keyboards,
Vocals, and non-instrument-specific musical curriculae to players of all
instruments.
He venerates art and expression over pop “product” and
his musical comfort zone stretches through every genre from Jazz /
Fusion to Funk / R&B, World to Classical, Big Band to Country and of
course all Rock styles, Blues to Latin to Slide and Acoustic forms, etc.
In short, he’s somewhat of a musical schizophrenic but isn’t above
hoping you’ll like his music and / or study with him.
Chris Wabich
Drums
www.wahidmusic.com
www.sketchyblackdog.com
The original
drummer with the Orchestre Surreal, Chris Wabich has been touring the
world of late, but will always be beloved here.
Wabich is
recognized as a versatile and original
voice on the drum set. He
recently played Frank
Zappa's
Joe's Garage,
a full stage production of the album,
produced by
Frank's wife, Gail Zappa, with music direction by Ross Wright (Elvis
Schoenberg).
Wabich is co-leader
of Sketchy Black Dog based in NYC,
which, in the last year has headlined at the Blue Note, the Iridium
Room, the Zinc Bar,
Birdland, and has
toured Russia.
He is also one half of the world music duo Wahid. His upcoming
projects include discs with Bernard Woma, jazz legend Mark
Murphy, and
Leonard Cohen.
As a music director, Wabich has
directed the gospel/Beatles show Both,
and The Existents
featuring Ty Taylor (of INXS).
Wabich has recorded for Ludacris,
Sting, Malcolm in the
Middle,
Better Homes and Gardens,
American Idol, John
Oates, Brian Bromberg, Jimmy
Johnson, Jimmy
Haslip, Lalo
Shifrin, Sheila
E, Mark Murphy, Alex Acuna, Larry Koonse, Bad
Haggis, Turkish superstar Omar Faruk, Boogsie Sharpe,
Judith Hill, Prog Rock legend Kevin
Ayers (Soft
Machine), Mike Hoffman (Tony Williams Lifetime),
Richard Sinclair (Caravan) and
Leonard Cohen.
Chris is sponsored by Turkish
Cymbals, Cadeson Drums, Aquarian Drumheads, Vic Firth Sticks, and Tycoon
Percussion.
Abby Savell
Percussion
www.abbysavell.com
Abby Savell
has been playing music since the age of five, when her grandma
bought her an upright piano, on which she took lessons for ten
years. At fourteen, she began playing percussion and took to it
immediately. She attended Mission Viejo High School, known for its
exemplary music program; she was extremely active in drum line, and
as a principal mallet player and section leader, she led the group
to dozens of state and regional victories. During this time, she
also took jazz lessons with Paul Carman (of Frank Zappa fame). Abby
received her Bachelor's of Music in Percussion from Chapman
University in 2002; soon after, she joined the steel drum band Big
Bamboo, playing tenor pan and performing at numerous events.
Abby is one
of the only (if not, the only) female steel drum/vocalists in the
Los Angeles area. Abby completed her Master's degree in Percussion
at California Institute of the Arts, studying Western percussion
with David Johnson and John Bergamo, Latin Percussion with Aaron
Serfaty, and improvisation with harpist Susan Allen. In May 2004,
she performed the World Premiere of the highly virtuosic Sonata
for Xylophone and Piano by acclaimed composer Bruce Levine. She
also played percussion with bass-legend Charlie Haden, in his
Liberation Orchestra, as well as performing with xylophone virtuoso
Bob Becker on the East Coast and in Los Angeles. She has performed
with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra multiple times (including under
renowned composer/conductor John Williams). She is the percussion
chair and soloist for the award-winning Orchestre Surreal, an
eccentric, variety-style band. She also stays busy with the Kim
Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra, with whom she has performed at the
Jazz Bakery, and onstage for the Spotlight Awards at the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion. Abby loves playing steel pan professionally,
having performed at countless private and public functions with her
band, Nesta, and as a soloist. She has worked and performed with
steel drum virtuoso Ken Philmore, and visited Trinidad (the
birthplace of steel drums).
On steel
pan, she appeared on the show Outer Spaces on HGTV. Other
film work has also included a series of nationwide Radio Shack
commercials on which she played steel drums and feature film
Final Encounter; she also co-wrote and performed the music for
the short film, My Brief Experience as an Amateur Bird Watcher &
World Traveler by John Joyce, which was composed entirely of
acoustic percussion. To widen her breadth of experience, she
participated in the Broadway Percussion Seminar at NYU, where she
studied with many veteran percussionists of the Broadway musical
scene. She was also a featured percussionist and steel drummer in
the West Coast Composer's concert in 2012.
Paul Cartwright
Violin
www.archerblack.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/electric-violin-meet-paul-cartwright
Born and raised in Bakersfield, California, Paul Cartwright grew up in a
musical family. His parents, both musicians, owned a music store where
he spent his childhood days. Cartwright began studying classical violin at the
age of 7, but several years later a performance by Stéphane Grappelli,
which he attended with his parents, opened up his mind to the
possibilities of improvising and playing other styles of music on his
instrument. Cartwright studied jazz and classical violin performance at CSU Bakersfield and CSU Northridge under the tutelage of Dr. Doug Davis,
Gary Pratt, David Aks, Mary Kim, and Arnold Belnik.
He has since led a
diverse career, performing and recording with a spectrum of artists,
including John McEuen, Kenny Loggins, Rissi Palmer, Everlast, Ozomatli,
Dr. Dre, members of Oingo Boingo, the Black Eyed Peas, Los Lobos and War.
His playing can also be heard on numerous
television, film, and video
soundtracks, including Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Trauma, and
Mad
Men. Paul currently resides in Los Angeles, and is a member of several
local progressive string groups, including the Los Angeles String
Collective, the Quartetto Fantastico, Elevation Orchestra, DaKah Hip
Hop Orchestra, and now the Orchestre Surreal.
Elizabeth Bacher
Violin
Elizabeth Bacher was born in New York
and began playing music at the age of 3. Her talent was discovered at
an early age as by the age of 8 she had already performed on national
television as a national prizewinner on the piano and soloist with an
orchestra on the violin. Her studies became international as she
attended a specialized music school in England, and studied with major
teachers from Russia, Germany and Israel. She graduated with Masters
degree from The Juilliard School, and has performed in many
international settings such as the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Carnegie
Hall, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. She has also been featured on
radio shows in the US and abroad as a violinist and pianist as well as
been awarded numerous awards and scholarships.
Elizabeth has always loved popular
music and began playing electric violin after graduating. She now
lives in Los Angeles and enjoys working in a variety of settings and
events. She loves to entertain and brings her high energy and talent
to many audiences around the world.
Marcy Vaj
Violin/Viola
www.referrals47.org
As a busy studio,
stage, school violinist/violist, freelancer Marcy Vaj has worked with
virtually everyone in every situation over the past 45 years, from Frank
Sinatra, John Denver, and Christina Aguilera to the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
(founding member) and Orchestre Surreal. She has played on hundreds of
film scores and was concertmaster for Sir Paul McCartney at the 2012
Grammys and on his iTunes live webcast. She has soloed in chamber
concerts in La Sainte Chappelle, Paris and in London during the 2011
Royal Wedding week and 2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee. She also has
solos on After Hours, the newest release from Glenn Frey of The
Eagles. As well as countless arrangements, Marcy has composed for a
poetry album, the award-winning short film Click Three Times, the
documentary California Women Win The Vote, and orchestrated on Prince
of Egypt and Antz. She is an Adjunct Professor of Applied Music at Santa
Monica College and a member of CELA, a player/composer ensemble that
plays music composed/arranged within the group.
Yvette Holzwarth
Violin
www.yvetteholzwarth.com
Yvette Holzwarth began
singing and playing violin when she was three years old and has never
looked back. Starting as a classical student, she has now grown to love
playing a multitude of styles including Arabic, pop, country, and rock.
She especially enjoys performing free improvisation with several groups
and contemporary chamber music. Since moving from the San Francisco Bay
Area to attend UCLA six years ago, she has played with the American
Youth Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, Multi-Ethnic Star
Orchestra (MESTO), and many singer-songwriters and bands.
She has
traveled to every corner of Los Angeles County from playing orchestral
concerts in Walt Disney Concert Hall to intimate art gallery shows in
Echo Park. In 2007 and 2010, music led her to tour internationally with MESTO in Egypt and the UAE. In spring 2011, she had the honor of
performing artist Fernando Ortega's Transcription at the Hammer
Museum exhibit All This or Nothing. From hard rock to soothing
Icelandic music, the schizophrenic scene of Los Angeles music has
somehow led Holzwarth to become part of the great musical creation of Elvis
Schoenberg's Orchestre Surreal. She is very excited to be a part of this dynamic group!
Jennifer Thomas
Viola
www.kirafontana.com
Jennifer Thomas is a native
Southern California resident. Growing up in San Diego, she began her
studies on the violin at age 5. By 10 she had transferred her musical
focus to the viola, and became an active participant in solo and chamber
music. By 13 she held the principal violist chair for the San Diego
Youth Symphony. She has participated in such organizations as The
Disney Young Musician Symphony Orchestra, Tangelwood Institute, Heifitz
International Performing Arts Festival, the Heimspiel Arts Festival in
Austria, and the Educational Bridge Project in Russia were she performed
chamber music with members of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
Jennifer
was a scholarship musician at both Boston University, where she received
her BFA, and California Institute of the Arts, where she received her
MFA in Viola Performance. Although she is classically trained, Jennifer
has studied a wide variety of musical styles, ranging from traditional
Irish and American folk music, Jazz, Rock, and Pop, as well as Classical
North Indian music. She has recorded and toured with performers
throughout the United States and Europe.
Jennifer was recently featured
as a young female musician in a national Dove commercial Campaign.
Marda Todd
Viola
www.myspace.com/mardat
Marda Todd, who recently left Los Angeles for the greener pastures of
Florida, but still plays with the Orchestre Surreal whenever she's in
town, wields a mean bow, and equally mean black latex thigh-high stiletto
boots and a whip.
Todd
has recorded for Joanna Newsome, Bear McCreary,
Diana Krall,
Christina Aguilera,
Thomas Newman,
Emmy Rossum,
Meat Loaf,
John Ottman, Graeme Revell, and Kanye
West. And on the original scores for Revolutionary Road,
Pineapple Express, WALL-E, X2: W-Men United,
Chronicles of Riddick, Daredevil, Inside Out,
Little Children, and the television show Battlestar Galactica:
Seasons Two & Four
Matt Cooker
Cello
Matt Cooker is a veteran L.A. session musician
who has worked on over 500 film scores, many television shows, and
countless records. His a member of the Hollywood Bowl
Orchestra, and principal cello for Symphony in the Glen.
Recent scoring work has been for Family Guy and other Fox animated
shows. Current films include Fast Five, Super 8, and
Cars 2.
Recent record dates have included sessions for Barbra Streisand,
Michael Bolton, and Paul McCartney.
Cooker plays with several other bands, including Rain Phoenix's Papercranes,
The Orphics, the Gift Horse Project, and the Orchestre Surreal,
and has been known to break out some Nirvana on his cello.
Thea Mesirow is a Los
Angeles based cellist with a background in classical and rock music.
She performs regularly with contemporary and classical music groups,
as well as with various rock bands, and her recording work can be
heard on various television shows and commercials.
She has been fortunate enough to work with composers
such as Evan Ziporyn and Sophia Gubaidulina and currently studies at
California Institute of the Arts with Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick.
Jean Marinelli
French Horn
No one embodies the
heart and soul of the Orchestre Surreal, or does a better horse ninny
impression, quite like Ms. Jean Marinelli, whose far-out wardrobe
is always the most talked about happening at any OS sighting. But
wacky fashion sense isn't remotely her only talent.
She has performed with Sammy
Davis Jr. Celine Dion, Johnny Mathis, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Bel-Air
Brass. And has recorded with Raphael Saadiq, Thomas Newman, Levi
Chen, Howard Tate, the Format, David Pascucci, Dov, the Orchestre
Surreal,
Debbie Gibson, Kim Richmond, Greg Adams, and Ennio Morricone.
Tawnee Lillo
French Horn
www.tawneelillo.com
Tawnee Lillo
discovered her passion for playing the horn in the 8th grade. She has
been living her dream as a versatile professional horn player and
manager/contractor in Los Angeles for the past several years. After
studying in the small town of Hemet, California, where her mother
traveled back and forth to Los Angeles so that she could be a part of
the Southern California School of Band and Orchestra Association, she
began her college training at The University of Arizona where she
received a bachelors degree in Horn Performance.
Lillo then to Los
Angeles to continue her education and earned a master’s degree at The
University of Southern California. She has been extremely fortunate to
have studied with some legendary horn players in Los Angeles including
Richard Todd, Vincent DeRosa and James Decker. Other influential
teachers include Ken Biskie, Keith Johnson and Kristy Morrell. As a
versatile player, Lillo plays with several ensembles in many different
styles throughout the Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
Lillo’s career has
brought her some great opportunities recording for film and television,
including television show’s such as Family Guy, American Dad,
Cleveland, and Fringe. She has also played and/or recorded
with several bands/artists, including Randy Newman, Jeff Beck, Chuck
Negron, Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Sean Combs, Kanye West, and Rihanna.
As a classical
artist, Lillo not only plays principal horn for Center Stage Opera but
is also the Orchestra Manager of the company. Through her experience
with this company, she has since developed the passion for
managing/contracting artists. Other orchestras she plays with and
contracts include The Long Beach Opera, San Luis Obispo Symphony,
Bakersfield Symphony and The Culver City Chamber Orchestra.
In the Jazz world,
Lillo thoroughly enjoys being a part of The Ron Jones Influence
Orchestra, where she has had the honor of playing with artists such as
Frank Sinatra Jr., Gene Sipriano and Emil Richards.
In addition, Lillo has played with Keith
Emerson, Abraham Laboriel and Bonnie Raitt, has been a soloist in the
Tony-Award-winning show Blast, and has toured across Northern
America with Shockwave. This
year alone Lillo has been on tour with
Josh Groban’s
“Straight To You” tour, and is one of the infamous hotty-hot-hotty
French hornists of the Orchestre Surreal.
Emily Reppun
French Horn
www.emilyreppun.net
Originally from Bellingham, WA, Emily
Reppun received a Bachelor's Degree Cum Laude in Horn Performance from
the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, where
she studied with Chicago Symphony principal horn Dale Clevenger and his
wife, Alice Render, before moving to Los Angeles in 2005. Since
2005, she has held the position of 2nd horn in the Golden State Pops
Orchestra, which specializes in live performances of film scores and
frequently introduces new film music repertoire to its audiences.
In 2006, she was appointed principal horn of the Chamber Players of Los
Angeles. She became a regular member of the Santa Monica Symphony
horn section in 2011. She has also performed with the American
Youth Symphony, California Philharmonic, San Diego Opera Ensemble,
Center Stage Opera, Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra, Bruce Lofgren
Big Band and Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre Surreal.
Commercial highlights of Emily's career include performances with
Christina Aguilera and Rickey Minor at the 2007 CNN Heroes Awards at the
Kodak Theatre, Rihanna, and Kanye West at the 2011 NBA All-Star Game,
and the 2010 Video Games Live Orchestra at Nokia Theater.
Lisa McCormick
French Horn
Lisa McCormick, a Pittsburgh native, began her studies on the French
horn at age 17. Soon after, she went on to pursue her Bachelor's degree
in music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she studied horn
under Dr. John Scandrett of the Pittsburgh Opera. During her time at
IUP, she played principal horn in nearly every ensemble, performed
regularly with faculty chamber groups, and played with several local
professional orchestras such as the Johnstown Symphony.
McCormick
recently moved to Los Angeles where she was accepted to the University
of Southern California to pursue her Masters in Horn Performance with
the aid of a Music Merit Scholarship. As a freelance musician in the
Los Angeles area, Lisa has performed with groups such as the Pasadena
Symphony, the Downey Symphony, the Brentwood Symphony, Centerstage
Opera, the Lyric Opera of Los Angeles, the American Youth Symphony and
many other various orchestras and chamber ensembles - including the
wonderful Orchestre Surreal.
John Grab
Trombone
Tenor Trombonist /
Bass Trombonist / Euphoniumist for Elvis Schoenberg's Orchestre
Surreal,
John Grab, was torn at an early age over which lucrative and high
profile career to choose; poet, philosopher, sheepherder, blacksmith,
fluffer, multi-level marketer (these last two are really one and the
same), or trombonist. After much soul searching and internal
dialogue, but mainly because of a freakishly long right arm, he
decided on the trombone. His well-known involvement in the huge,
all inclusive, underground, cross-dressing trombonist community here
in Los Angeles, exposed by his lead role in their independent film
Glen or Glenda Miller, made him the most obvious choice for Mr.
Schoenberg's ensemble. In spite of. or perhaps because of. his
quirky fetish he's been married to a wonderful woman for years and has
four lovely and well-adjusted children.
Robert Kyle
Woodwinds
www.robertkyle.com
Saxophonist/Flutist/Composer Robert Kyle has become known for his unique
warm sound, melodic style, and his ability to harmoniously cross musical
borders. His lyricism and passion are evident in whatever situation he
finds himself, and he is fluid in many styles including Jazz, Blues,
Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, R & B and Classical. His performing and recording
credits include work with Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole,
Jason Mraz, Vince Gill, Michael Bolton, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King,
Brenda Russell, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Chaka Khan, Francisco Aguabella,
Marisela, Pete Escovedo, Jessica Simpson, Babyface, Kenny Loggins, Al
McKibbon, Billy Mitchell, Roy “Guitar” Gaines and many others. As a
19-year member and musical director of blues diva Linda Hopkins band, he
has made over fifty trips to Europe and Japan, performing
internationally at many of the biggest Jazz festivals, theaters and
clubs in the world. He is featured on Miss Hopkin’s recordings Here’s
the Kid and Wild Women Blues. He’s also the musical director
for salsa artist Leslie Paula and Jazz vocalist Carol Bach-y-Rita. He
has played for the Academy awards, the Emmy awards, The BET awards, The
Nick & Jessica Variety Show, Lou Rawls cavalcade of stars, The NAS
awards and many others.
In addition to
being a very busy and in demand live & session musician, Kyle also leads
several of his own groups and has released eight CD’s on his own Dark
Delishious Music label available through his website. His band plays a
variety of instrumental music with a focus on Latin & Brazilian Jazz,
and is regularly featured at clubs and festivals all over. His Brazilian
trio plays a mix of classic as well as contemporary Samba, Bossa Nova &
Brazilian Jazz, mixing vocal and instrumental music.
Kyle’s playing
is featured on the Hal Leonard instructional books, CD’s and DVD’s
Brazilian Styles for Drum Set and Afro-Cuban Styles for Drum Set
by Maria Martinez, for which he also composed and arranged all the
music. He is a regularly invited to perform, teach and lecture for the
“Ethnic Styles” class at The L.A. Music Academy.
He lives in
Altadena, a small suburb of Los Angeles, and when he’s not touring, he
keeps a full performance schedule. You can hear him around town with one
of his own bands, as well as with Linda Hopkins, Leslie Paula, Billy
Mitchell, The Hi-Fi Quintet, Betty Bryant, Greg Poree, Kleber Jorge, the
Jumpin’ Joz band, Alessa, Tony Guererro, the .L.A. Choro Ensemble, the
Orchestre Surreal, and many others.
He is an avid Yoga
practitioner and reader of books.
Ken Fisher
Woodwinds
Woodwind doubler and low reed specialist
Ken Fisher was born in Santa Monica, CA and raised in the Los Angeles
area. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Clarinet/Saxophone
Performance from UCLA in 1995 under the tutelage of Gary Gray, 20-year
Principal Clarinetist of the LA Chamber Orchestra and renowned studio
musician. After 15 years in the trenches he is now pursuing his Master
of Music degree at UCLA in Bassoon Performance, studying with John
Steinmetz, LA worker-bee-bassoonist, composer, studio musician, and
former Principal Bassoonist of the LA Opera. Fisher has performed with
Joe Williams, Tony Bennett, Diane Schuur, Dianne Reeves, Shirley Horne,
Patti Austin, Maureen McGovern, and Mary Wilson, and has performed under
the direction of John Williams, Quincy Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Gunther
Schuller, Marvin Hamlisch, John Clayton, Randy Newman, Elmer Bernstein,
Bruce Broughton, Gerald Wilson, and James Newton Howard.
An avid traveler, Fisher has visited 38
different countries, has performed in 47 US States, and is currently
looking for performance opportunities in Nebraska and the Dakotas. As a
baritone saxophonist, he spent two summers at Disneyworld with the
All-American College Jazz Band, a year touring with the World Famous
Glenn Miller Orchestra, and a total of three years in the Showband on
over a dozen different cruise ships. As a bassoonist, he spent seven
years living in Mexico as a member of the Orquesta Filarmónica de
Jalisco in Guadalajara and the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las
Artes in Culiacán. With other like-minded members of the Sinaloa
Symphony, he founded the Cuarteto Extremo, a group which has won
grants for cultural advancement at the state and national level,
released two self-produced albums, run a nationwide New Music
competition, toured extensively in Mexico and California and continues
to promote their unique brand of original compositions and arrangements,
all by young Mexican composers. Since returning to Los Angeles in 2008,
Ken has re-immersed himself in the local free-lance scene, and performs
regularly with Broadway Musicals, Symphony Orchestras, Big Bands,
Latin/World Music groups, and records for albums, movies, and
television.
Deeply committed to music education in
underserved areas, Fisher has been involved in the Youth Orchestra Los
Angeles (YOLA) since its inception and is currently the Clarinet
Teaching Artist at the YOLA at EXPO site, where he also teaches a
bilingual Parent Recorder Ensemble/Music Appreciation course. While in
Mexico, he collaborated with the music schools in Guadalajara and
Mazatlán, taught at the Escuela Superior de Música in Culiacán
and is now on the summer faculty of the Centro de Artes Musicales
in Tijuana, Baja California. Fisher has also worked extensively as an
orchestra manager, contractor, stage manager, and producer: he was the
Orchestra/Personnel Manager for the Henry Mancini Institute Summer
Festival for three years, Program Manager for the Harmony Project,
served as Stage Manager for several Beyond the Bell and Harmony Project
concert events, and continues to work in various behind-the-scenes
capacities around the Los Angeles area.
Phil Moore
Woodwinds
As the woodwind
player/featured soloist for Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python, Phil
Moore shared the stage with Eric Idle, Robin Williams, Clint Black, Art Garfunkle, and Terry Jones. He has performed with Cindy Williams, Bruce
Kimmel, Linda Purl, Bruce Vilanch, Matthew Ashford, Patrick Cassidy,
Julie Reiber, Beth Malone, Alice Ripley and Brent Barrett. Moore’s
talent can be heard on commercial recordings for ABC’s Desperate
Housewives, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Dirty Harry
video game and various commercials. He has also been featured in several
critically acclaimed LA theater productions: InterAct Theater’s LA 2006
production of Urinetown, under the musical direction of
John Rubinstein and for Nathan Wang and Dave Manning the 1999 Ovation
Award winning comedy musical Reefer Madness. Moore has toured with the “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz, performed with
Tito Puente, flute legend Johnny Pacheco, and merengue star Olga Tanon. He regularly performs with the Tim Gill All-Stars and Nutty.
Mike Nelson
Woodwinds
Mike Nelson can be heard on a variety of
T.V. shows, including Bonnie Hunt, Pushing Daisies,
Scrubs, The O.C., Samantha Who, Jake In Progress,
Wheel of Fortune, Son of a Beach, State of Grace,
Family Tree, Donny and Marie, World Series of Blackjack,
Wayne Brady Show, and The Academy Awards. He can also be
heard on the soundtracks of Six Days Seven Nights, The Whole
Nine Yards, Death At a Funeral, The Spy Next Door,
Feast of Love, Son of the Mask, Malibu’s Most Wanted,
Ed T.V., Defcon 4, Public Enemy #1, The Prize
Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Labor Pains, A Dog of Flanders,
and on performances of Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, Natalie Cole, Jose
Feliciano, Michael McDonald, Chaka Kahn, Barry Manilow, Patti Austin,
Patti La Belle, The Drifters, Freddy Hubbard, Clark Terry, Tom Jones,
The Fifth Dimension, Henry Mancini, Bobby Brown, Roger Daltry, Edgar
Winter, The Four Tops, Brian Setzer, Jim Belushi, The Coasters, Diahan
Carroll, Don Rickles, Steve Allen, and Bob Hope. Nelson holds a
Bachelor 'sDegree in Music Performance from Cal State Northridge, and
has been with the Orchestre Surreal since its beginnings.
Phil Feather
Woodwinds
Sought
after for his versatility, Phil Feather regularly performs on oboes,
saxophones, clarinets and flutes with such diverse ensembles as The
Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s, where he is currently principal
oboe, California Philharmonic, Desert Symphony, Burbank Symphony,
Pasadena Pops Orchestra, Capistrano Valley Symphony, American Jazz
Orchestra, and the bands of Doug Mac Donald, Bill Watrous, Dick
Cary, Harry James, Mike Barone, and the Orchestre Surreal.
He has toured with Natalie Cole, Percy Faith, Henry Mancini, and Ray
Coniff.
Feather has been soloist with The Chamber Orchestra at St.
Matthew’s and the California Philharmonic. He has performed at the
International Double Reed Society Conference.
Feather
is featured on the soundtrack to the movie, Leopard Son. In the
recording studio, he has recorded with many artists, including
the duo album with pianist Marilyn Harris entitled Winds on Ivory,
Elton John, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Steve Lawrence, Doc Severinson,
Linda Ronstadt, Chicago, Rosemary Clooney, Helen Reddy, Percy Faith
Orchestra, Ray Coniff, Bill Watrous, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, and the
cast album of Do I hear a Waltz? He has also worked on 40-plus
film soundtracks.
In live
performances, Feather has backed many artists, including: Frank
Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Chicago, Lucy Arnaz,
Tony Bennett, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme,
George Burns, Bob Hope, Paul Anka, Rosemary Clooney, and Pia Zadora.
Terry Landry
Woodwinds
www.thejazznetworkworldwide.com/profile/TerryLandry
Not content merely to mimic the sounds of his heroes, saxophonist T.
Landry decided years ago to learn everything there was to know about the
art and science of saxophone sound. His studies led him not only to
becoming a prime Los Angeles session player: Appearing with
Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Gerald Wilson, Patti LaBelle,
Lou Rawls, Celia Cruz, and most recently with Luis Miguel's 2011 World
Tour. But also to work as a product designer and acoustical
consultant for top musical instrument manufacturers. Landry has served
as tone production guru to the jazz world's most legendary saxophonists,
showing them how to achieve the sounds they've always searched for. His
seminars on saxophone sound have won him devotees in conservatories
throughout the US, Japan and Europe.
Matt Fronke
Trumpet
www.facebook.com/mattfronke
Matt Fronke’s trumpet playing, writing, and
singing reflect his diverse musical tastes and experiences. He’s
had extensive training in classical and commercial music, with
significant professional experience as a section, lead, and improvising
solo trumpeter and vocalist. That experience includes funk, pop, jazz,
Latin jazz, New Orleans-style, swing, fusion, salsa, reggae, rock, and
symphonic groups, and has enabled Fronke to become a proficient,
well-rounded musician and writer. A native of Long Beach, CA, Fronke graduated from Wilson High School. While in school, he spent time in
youth honors groups like the American Youth Symphonic Band, Southeast
Youth Symphony, All-Southern Orchestra, Arrowbear Music Camp, and
All-District Jazz Band; and was the principal trumpeter of the Long
Beach All-District Junior and Senior High School Orchestras for six
straight years. Fronke then attended CSU Long Beach, where he was section
leader and soloist in the Wind Symphony, Brass Ensemble, and Jazz
Ensemble #1. He had a wealth of private study throughout his schooling,
including
Charlie
Shoemake
(a top jazz artist and improv
teacher), Boyd Hood
(L. A. Philharmonic),
Anthony
Plog
(classical trumpet recording virtuoso),
Jeffrey Reynolds
(L. A. Philharmonic), and
Bobby Shew
(jazz
recording artist).
After several years in college, Fronke left to
record and tour with MCA recording artists
The
Untouchables,
and began to work on a steady basis. This work included tours with
Tom
Jones, Boz Scaggs, Steve Tyrell, Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd, The
Brian Setzer Orchestra,
and
Al McKay’s
“Earth, Wind, & Fire Experience” All-Stars.
Currently,
he performs in the
Celine Dion
show in the
Colosseum at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Much of this work has
opened doors for TV and movie work. A few of these movies are
The
Informant!, Mars Attacks!, What’s Love Got to Do With It?,
The Rocketeer, In the Line of Fire, Salsa,
and
Mobsters.
His television experience
includes work on
The
Tonight Show, The Today Show, Seinfeld, Seinfeld On
Broadway, Profiler, The Nanny, The Late Show With
David Letterman,
solo trumpet work for
Harpo productions
In addition, he has enjoyed playing live shows, nightclubs, and
freelancing in general with artists such as
The Houston
Symphony Pops, The Temptations, The Four Tops, John Tesh, Poncho
Sanchez, The O’Jays, Mel Torme, Michael Feinstein, Eddie Money, Band
from TV, Dana Carvey, Diahann Carroll, Bob Newhart, The Dells, Jack
Sheldon, The Wayne Bergeron Big Band, The Tom Kubis Big Band, Suzanne
Somers, And Lou Rawls.
In recent years,
Fronke has spent much of his time performing with
Celine Dion, Steve Tyrell,
Elvis
Schoenberg’s Orchestre Surreal,
Disney’s Bayou Brass
and
Jambalaya Jazz,
and as a vocalist/writer/arranger for his
Martini
Lounge Quintet.
He also has the
distinction of being the first trumpeter ever to serve as a regular
member of Disneyland’s legendary
Royal St. Bachelors
jazz trio.
Jeff Jarvis
Trumpet
Jeff
Jarvis
has distinguished himself as a trumpeter, composer, jazz educator, and
music publisher. He serves as Director of Jazz Studies at the Bob
Cole Conservatory at California State University Long Beach and is an
owner of Kendor Music, Inc., the first educational music publisher to
provide jazz charts written especially for student musicians. He
frequently appears as an honors jazz band conductor, clinician and
lecturer, is a former Vice-President of the International
Association For Jazz
Education and Music Director Emeritus of the Central New York Jazz
Orchestra,
His solo recordings as a jazz
trumpeter and composer have placed high on national air play charts and
have won him critical acclaim. Jarvis’ early career as a studio trumpeter
encompasses over 100 recordings for such names as Lou Rawls, Michael
Jackson, Melba Moore, The O’Jays and many more. Live performance credits
include Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Bellson, Joe Williams, Benny Golson, Jon
Hendricks, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Henry Mancini, Slide Hampton, Kevin
Mahogany, Grady Tate, Eddie Daniels, Rob McConnell, and Doc Severinsen.
He is frequently commissioned to compose music for school, military
and professional musical groups, along with serving as a contributing
editor for The Instrumentalist, and writing for other music trade
journals such as Flute Talk, Band & Orchestra Product News, and
Jazz Educators Journal. Jarvis has co-authored The Jazz
Educators Handbook with Doug Beach, a jazz piano book with Matt
Harris entitled The Chord Voicing Handbook, and with Mike Carubia,
Effective Etudes For Jazz, the new standard in jazz
performance/audition solos.
A Yamaha trumpet artist, Jeff
has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia
and Indonesia. He has most recently been featured with the USAF Airmen
of Note, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Jazz Orchestra, US Army
Jazz Ambassadors, Jazz Knights of the United States Military Academy
Band at West Point, Riverside Jazz Orchestra, Oslo Big Band (Norway), US
Army Blues, Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra, Denver Symphony Orchestra,
USAF Shades of Blue and more.
William Roper
Tuba
www.roperarts.com
William Roper's
experience ranges from the symphony stage to free improvisation groups.
He has received awards in the disciplines of music, theatre and the
visual arts from the NEA, CAC, LADCA, JUSFC, and others. He has
fulfilled commissions from Dance L.A., Gloria Newman Dance Theatre, Rudy
Perez Dance, USC Max Kade Institute, and SASSAS, among others. He
has toured Europe, Japan, North and South America as soloist and with
ensembles. He has an extensive discography as a leader and a sideman.
Bill Masonheimer
Tuba
www.facebook.com/bill.masonheimer
Willis (Bill)
Masonheimer graduated from UCLA in the latter 20th century.
He studied conducting with renowned band director, Dr. Clarence Sawhill,
and he studied arranging and scoring with F. Kelly James. He pursued a
teaching and performing career, teaching with LAUSD, the Los Angeles
Archdiocese, The Los Angeles Area Youth Band Council, and Pepperdine
University and performing with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra, The
California Philharmonic, and various ensembles at Disneyland. In 1978 he
was one of the founding members of the Great American Yankee Freedom
Band.
He lived and worked
for five years as a musician in southwestern Japan beginning in 1993.
After returning to the U.S. he re-joined the Freedom Band serving as
Artistic Director from 2002 until 2013.
Bill has recorded
with such diverse talents as Peggy Lee and Tom Waits. He can be seen
weekly in the orchestra on the Hour of Power television series, He works
as Head Librarian and utility player for the California Philharmonic’s
summer concert series at Santa Anita Park and Disney Hall, teaches
elementary band in Huntington Beach, and plays his tuba and bass
trombone with local groups.
