Noon Concerts featuring the Fath Chamber Players

JOSEPHA FATH, Violin  Josepha Fath grew up in Mill Valley, California and received her musical training at the San Domenico School, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco State University and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. She has been a participant in the Tanglewood, Blossom, Spoleto and Mendocino Festivals. Professionally, Josepha plays and records with California and Berkeley Symphonies, the Western Opera Theatre, Lamplighters, Pocket Opera, Oakland East Bay Symphony, the San Francisco Opera, and Skywalker Film Recording Orchestra.

PHILIP FATH, Clarinet  Philip Fath was born in New York City and attended the Manhattan School of Music. Over the past 47 years he was the Assistant Principal Clarinet with George Szell’s Cleveland Orchestra, Principal Clarinet with the San Francisco Symphony and Principal Clarinet with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra from which he recently retired. Phil has been on the music faculties of UC Berkeley, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the San Domenico School in Marin.

ROXANNE MICHAELIAN, Piano comes from a family of professional musicians. Her father was first violinist in the S.F. Symphony for 50 years, and her sister was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to perform as soloist with the N.Y. Philharmonic.  Roxanne began piano lessons at age five, studying with Claire James at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She continued her education there, completing an undergraduate and graduate degree in Piano Performance, studying with Paul Hersh.  Roxanne’s first appearance as soloist with orchestra was at the age of 12, when she performed with the San Francisco Symphony on its youth concert series. She subsequently received first prize in the North American Young Artists Competition in Denver, Colorado, performing with the Denver Symphony. She also was overall winner in the Young Musicians National Foundation Competition, performing at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.  Other orchestras she has soloed with are the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Symphony, and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra.  Roxanne is an active and much sought after collaborator. A past winner of national chamber music competitions,  Roxanne has toured the United States with nationally known artists, and has performed in concert with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Jamie Laredo, members of the San Francisco Symphony and members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.

VICTORIA EHRLICH, cello was born in Texas and received her musical education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She also attended summer programs at Interlochen, Aspen, and Tanglewood. Her teachers include Robert Marsh, Bernard Greenhouse, and Robert Gardner.  Before joining the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in 1984, she performed with Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and served as Principal Cellist with the symphonies of Omaha, Richmond, VA, and Phoenix. Ms. Ehrlich has performed with San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony, California and Berkeley Symphonies, Lamplighters, and the Russian Chamber Orchestra. She’s also an active chamber musician, appearing regularly with the percussion group Adesso, the Gold Coast Chamber Players, Picasso Ensemble, the Fath Chamber Players and the Ariel String Quartet.  Recent work includes collaboration with poets and composers under the auspices of the American Composers’ Forum.