We invite you to join us for our Noon Concert Series held every Wednesday at Noon. Concerts last approximately an hour and we present many talented Bay Area performers in an intimate setting.
Wednesday, January 6 Noon Concert Britton Day, Piano and Bethanne Walker, Flute
Program
Rondo in D Major K. Anh. 184 – W.A. Mozart
Variations über “Trockne Blumen” op. post. 184 – F. Schubert
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Duo for Flute and Piano – A. Copland
Concertino op. 107 – C. Chaminade
Mill Valley native Britton Day is a member of the accompanying staff at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of music. Upon graduation from Oberlin, he continued his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory, receiving both a Master of Music and a Professional Studies Diploma in Piano Performance.
Known for her intensity and versatility, flutist Bethanne Walker is dedicated to modern and historical performance practice. In San Francisco, she has performed with Wild Rumpus, Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Symphony Napa Valley, SFCMP, and has performed on the Hot Air New Music Festival. A strong advocate of new music she has given performances of over forty world premieres. Walker has studied with Tim Day, Linda Toote, and Dr. Nancy Andrew, and Stephen Schultz on baroque flute.
Some of our past performers have been:
Patrick Galvin is a jack of many musical trades. As a violinist, he performs classical recitals both solo and in chamber settings. He is also a member of the folk band Hoxton Mob which performs regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, he has begun scoring radio stories for live performance. When he is not performing, Patrick teaches violin at a private school and out of his home in San Francisco. He also writes reviews for the online journal The Classical Voice. A San Francisco native, Patrick began his violin studies with Roy Oakley at age 6 and made his solo debut with the Oakland East Bay Symphony at age 11 playing the Bruch Violin concerto. His teachers have included Camilla Wicks and Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory, Herbert Greenberg at the Peabody Conservatory , and Barbara Gorzynska at the Prayner Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria. Patrick has always been an avid athlete, playing soccer and basketball, and running track for Johns Hopkins University. Currently he plays with a local soccer team and when time allows, in a baseball league.
Ray Capiral, pianist, composer and teacher, graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2009. He enjoyed an active career as a private teacher and gigging musician in L.A. for ten years before moving north, and has now resided in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2011. Currently, Mr. Capiral serves as the music director at Open Door United Methodist Church (Richmond) and pianist and organist at Mira Vista United Church of Christ (El Cerrito), and enjoys part-time work at Avenue Yarns in Albany. Between knitting, spinning at his spinning wheel, and playing the piano, one can assume Mr. Capiral is likely taking in the sights at Land’s End, wandering around Angel Island, or fantasizing about snowboarding in Tahoe.
Eric is a graduate of Stanford University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. During his studies, he was the winner of the concerto competitions of both institutions. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Robert M. Golden Medal for outstanding contributions to the arts. As a composer, he won the Pacific Musical Society Composition Prize 2014, and his sets of children’s music have been programmed for over six years on the syllabus of the US Open Music Competition. His music has been performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Friction Quartet, his generous friends, and his adorable piano students.Eric also comprises one half of the notorious “Happy Dog” piano duo, with his piano partner, Nathan Cheung. For over a decade, they have performed four-hands originals, transcriptions, and classics alike with a focus on bringing humor and joy to the classical music world. In his spare time, he enjoys a good game of Go.
Taija Warbelow, originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, is the violist in the Bay Area based Friction Quartet. She studied at the Juilliard Pre-College with Toby Appel and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Jodi Levitz. Though bios are a necessary part of being a performer, she feels they are impersonal and would prefer for audiences to get to know her through her playing and by talking to her after the performance.
Bassist Eugene Theriault is a born and raised San Francisco native. He graduated with a B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory and an M.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory, where he studied with Scott Haigh and Steve Tramontozzi, respectively. The performance of new music has been a part of his life since high school and he continues to be a strong supporter of contemporary music, performing most recently with the San Francisco Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble, Opera Parallele, and the Berkeley Symphony. He currently works as a freelance performer and teacher in the Bay Area, and enjoys playing a wide range of musics.
