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DAN VANHASSEL

YAO CHEN

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Florent Ghys is a composer and bass player from Bordeaux, France. He worked with ensembles and soloists such as the Bang on a Can All-Stars, JACK quartet, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and Marc Dresser. His album “Baroque Tardif” has been released on Cantaloupe music and he often performs his music on solo double bass and laptop. His interests are: solfège, speech melody, counterpoint, randomness, Man-delbrot ensemble, hair dryers and Belgian ale beers.

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Dr. Nomi Epstein is active as a composer, curator/performer of ex-perimental music, and music educator. Past commissions have come from the CSO cellist, Katinka Kleijn, the internationally renowned guitarist, Seth Josel, The Old Town School, Noble Fowl Trio, Ensemble Décadanse, the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, David Kalhous, Steven Lin, and the Roosevelt University Percussion En-semble. In addition to participating in several international composers _^lmboZel%�pab\a�bg\en]^]�i^k_hkfZg\^l�Zm�HlmkZoZ�=Zrl%�An]]^klÛ^e]�Contemporary Music Festival, Darmstadt, and Bang on a Can, she has Zmm^g]^]�Lmnmm`Zkm�l�:dZ]^fb^�L\aehll�Lhebmn]^�lnff^k�k^lb]^g\r%�Zg]�has been twice invited as an Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Epstein is a 5-time ASCAPLUS winner (ASCAP), and a 2-time CAP Grant winner (American Composers Forum). Her composi-tions have been performed throughout the US and Europe by such ensembles as ICE, Ensemble SurPlus, Wet Ink, and Dal Niente.

Epstein was an invited lecturer at the 2011 Black Mountain College John Cage Conference, and in 2012 she produced/curated A John Cage Festival in Chicago to celebrate the centennial. Epstein is found-er/curator of the critically acclaimed, Chicago-based experimental music concert series “a.pe.ri.od.ic”, listed as “Best of Chicago 2011” in The Chicago Reader. She continues to perform experimental music with the Chicago Scratch Orchestra, and Haptic at the Museum of Contem-porary Art Chicago, WNUR live broadcasts, and the Green Mill. As an educator, she has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University. She is currently head of theory at the British School, instructor of theory and composition at the DePaul Community Music Division, and a piano teacher both privately and at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Epstein holds degrees from Barnard College, New England Conserva-tory and Northwestern University, where her principal teachers have bg\en]^]�?k^]�E^k]Zae%�Fb\aZ^e�@Zg]heÛ%�FZkmb�>ilm^bg%�:fr�PbeebZfl%�Jay Alan Yim, and Augusta Read Thomas.

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Dan VanHassel is a composer and multi-instrumentalist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. A musical omnivore, his works combine noise and chaos with moments of sensuous beauty and simplicity, creat-ing a quirky and evocative sound world drawing from his experience performing in rock bands, gamelan orchestras, free jazz groups, and chamber ensembles.

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He has a B.A. in composition from Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and Ph.D in composition from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois School of Music, and will join the Illinois State University School of Music as as-sistant professor in fall 2012.

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Jenny Olivia Johnson was born in Santa Monica, raised in Claremont, CA, educated in New York City, and is currently an assistant professor of music at Wellesley College in Boston. Her music, which has been described as “gorgeous, ominous, and hypnotic” by the ;hlmhg�@eh[^, “stunning in its simplicity and power” by the ;hlmhg�Fnlb\Ze�Bgm^eeb`^g\^k, “deeply moving and beautiful” by MusicVsTheater.com, and “iridescent, shimmering, and evocative” by Steve Smith of Mbf^�Hnm�G^p�Rhkd, is often concerned with abstract representations of overwhelming emotional experiences. Draw-ing from her academic research on music and trauma, as well as from the Z^lma^mb\l�h_�1)�l�m^e^oblbhg�Zg]�f^]bZ%�C^ggr�l�fnlb\�l^^dl�mh�\k^Zm^�lhgb\�and multi-media narratives that are simultaneously familiar and distorted, hypnotic and disorienting, delicate and ear-splitting, glowering and ecstatic. Her music has been performed by such groups as New York City Opera, the Asko-Schoenberg Ensemble, BMOP, Ensemble Robot, ICE, and the Arditti Quartet. Upcoming projects include a sound installation at the =Zobl�Fnl^nf�Zm�P^ee^le^r�<hee^`^%�\hffbllbhgl�_khf�Ünmblm�CZg^m�F\DZr�and soprano P. Lucy McVeigh, and a new work for soprano, percussion, and electronics for the 2012 Etchings Festival in Auvillar, France.

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:fr�k^\^bo^]�a^k�FZlm^k�l�]^`k^^�_khf�ma^�LZg�?kZg\bl\h�<hgl^koZ-tory of Music in May 2009, where she studied with Tim Day, principal Ünm^�h_�ma^�LZg�?kZg\bl\h�Lrfiahgr'�EZm^k�maZm�lnff^k%�la^�pZl�bgobm-ed to be a fellow at the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado for an eight week orchestral festival. Other fellowships and festivals have included the Texas Music Festival Fellowship in 2008, Eastern Music Festival, and Interlochen Arts Camp. Amy has per-_hkf^]�bg�fZlm^k\eZll^l�h_�fZgr�p^ee&dghpg�Ünmblml�bg\en]bg`�FZkbZgg^�Gedigian, Jill Felber, Jeanne Baxtresser, Robert Langevin, Jonathan Snowden and Tadeu Coelho.

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CLARINETCO-DIRECTOR

Clarinetist Sophie Huet recently earned a^k�FZlm^k�l�]^`k^^�Zm�ma^�LZg�?kZg-cisco Conservatory of Music studying with Luis Baez. Prior to her studies in San Francisco, she earned her BM in clarinet performance and BA in English

at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Fred Ormand and Monica Kaenzig. An avid proponent for new music, Sophie has performed with Nothingset Ensemble, San Francisco Conservatory of Fnlb\�l�G^p�Fnlb\�>gl^f[e^%�Zl�p^ee�Zl�ma^�FZ`bd#FZ`bd�Hk\a^lmkZ%�and is a member of the New Spectrum Ensemble. She has also pre-miered works by Michael Daugherty, Eliza Brown, and Sahba Aminikia and performed in masterclasses with Mark Nuccio, Daniel Gilbert, Eli Eban, and David Krakauer.

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Harpist Naomi Hoffmeyer mhhd�Ûklm�ikbs^�bg�ma^�:]-vanced Division of the American Harp Society National Competition in July

2009, and placed as an alternate in the 2010 Anne Adams Awards. Her recent performances around the Bay Area include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Parallèle, the Santa Cruz County Symphony Orchestra, and performances at the San Francisco International Airport as part of the You Are Hear program to boost cultural experiences to the airport. She recently participated in the Round Top Music Festival in Round Top, Texas in June and July 2011.

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PIANO

Pianist Margaret Halbig re-cently completed a Doctorate in collaborative piano from UC Santa Barbara. During her time there, she worked as

a pianist for Opera Santa Barbara and Westmont College. This sum-mer, Margaret relocated to the Bay Area and is working at the San Francisco Conservatory and San Francisco Girls Chorus. She is thrilled to be part of Wild Rumpus as her study and enjoyment of chamber music in particular highlights her passion for musical expression in a collaborative environment.

Margaret holds degrees from the University of Evansville in Indiana as well as the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. She has also studied at the University of Kansas and the Music Academy of the West.

PIANO

Pianist Kelsey Walsh is an enthusi-astic supporter of new music, and enjoys performing contemporary works both for solo piano and for chamber ensemble. She currently

co-directs the After Everything ensemble, which performs exclusively contemporary music. In the past, she served as co-director of the San ?kZg\bl\h�<hgl^koZmhkr�h_�Fnlb\�l�Ahm�:bk�Fnlb\�?^lmboZe%�Zg]�aZl�aZ]�the privilege of working with several composers to create new works, including the Twitter-based #armada project.

Ms. Walsh has been a top-prize winner in numerous local competi-mbhgl�bg\en]bg`�ma^�D^glbg`mhg�Lrfiahgr�l�Rhng`�Lhehblm�<hfi^mbmbhg�Zg]�ma^�<k^lmfhgm�<hgl^koZmhkr�l�Ahghkl�IbZgh�<hfi^mbmbhg'�La^�aZl�Zelh�[^^g�ahghk^]�pbma�ma^�LZgmZ�<kns�<hngmr�Rhnma�Lrfiahgr�l�Outstanding Musician Award, and the San Francisco Conservatory h_�Fnlb\�l�CZg^m�Khl^�ibZgh�l\aheZklabi�Zg]�FZkbgZ�@kbg�:pZk]��_hk�Ûg^�ibZgblf%�`hh]�\bmbs^glabi%�Zg]�l^eÜ^ll�`bobg`�mh�ma^�fnlb\Ze�\hf-munity.” Please check her website at www.kwpianist.com for more information.

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Christy Kyong earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Interdisciplin-ary Studies in Early Childhood from University of California at Berkeley where she studied with Mariko Smiley, David Abel and Heather

Haughn. She received her Masters in Violin Performance from North-p^lm^kg�Ngbo^klbmr�;b^g^g�L\ahhe�h_�Fnlb\�lmn]rbg`�bg�;eZbk�Fbemhg�l�studio. Christy Kyong has been an active performer and has soloed with groups such as the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, Berkeley University Symphony, and other various groups. Kyong also loves to perform solo recitals and accompanies on the piano and the pipe organ on a regular basis. Christy Kyong resides in Oakland where she happily teaches privately and is a faculty member of the Crowden School CCMC Program, Bentley School, and the Nomura School.

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Since making her Kennedy Center debut i^k_hkfbg`�L\ah^g[^k`�l�Ib^kkhm�engZbk^%�cellist Anne Suda has enjoyed numerous solo and chamber music performance opportunities both nationally and inter-

nationally. Anne has been praised for bringing a contemporary sound to standard works with Jack Gabel of the Northwest Reverb writing,

“Cellist Anne Suda read so much contrast into the score, intermittently B�_^em�B�pZlg�m�a^Zkbg`�=^[nllr�Zm�Zee%�[nm�]bl\ho^kbg`�abl�ehlm�\hgm^f-ihkZkr�`^gbnl�bm�pZl�ma^�_k^la^lm�B�o^�a^Zk]'��:gg^�l�i^k_hkfZg\^l�this season have included a featured performance on the Noe Valley Chamber Music series as Emerging Young Artists with contemporary chamber music group Nonsemble 6 and many performances with the Aleron Trio, most recently performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto. This summer Anne will perform in Spain and France on concert tours, and looks forward to performing the Brahms Double Concerto and Miaskovsky Cello Concerto next season.

Anne has participated in many master classes with renowned artists such as Matt Haimovitz, Colin Carr and Robert Mann of the Julliard Quartet. Anne has performed at national and international festivals including the Zephyr and Adriatic Chamber Music Festivals in Italy and most recently the Astoria Music Festival in Oregon, where she was invit-ed to serve as Young-Artists-in-Residence with Nonsemble 6. Anne has also appeared as soloist for several seasons with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, most recently performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto.

While studying abroad in Sydney, Australia, Anne served as principal cellist of the Sydney Conservatory Chamber Orchestra. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree from Vanderbilt University where she double majored in English Literature, and completed her Master of Music Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory as a student of Jen-nifer Culp. Anne began her cello study with her mother Carolyn Suda at age four.

SOPRANO

Maria Janus is a native of the Missis-sippi Gulf Coast, but currently resides in San Francisco, where she studies with Jane Randolph. She received her Bachelor of Music from Louisiana

State University and her Master of Music from the San Francisco Con-l^koZmhkr�h_�Fnlb\'�FZkbZ�bl�Z�m^Z\abg`�Zkmblm�pbma�ma^�eh\Ze�ghg&ikhÛm�Music in Schools Today. She teaches glee club and musical theatre at Hillside Elementary in San Leandro and the Laurel School in San Fran-cisco. She also teaches voice privately and sings opera around the Bay Area. She is very happy to be joining Wild Rumpus this season.

SOPRANO

Kali Wilson debuted with San Fran-cisco Lyric Opera as Donna Elvira in its 2009 production of Don Giovanni. She was touted as a “vocal triumph” by the San Francisco Classical Voice and

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CONDUCTOR

Nathaniel Berman re-\^bo^]�abl�FZlm^k�l�=^-gree in conducting from the University of Califor-nia at Santa Cruz, where he studied with Nicole

Paiement. He returned to UC Santa Cruz music department as faculty member in the fall of 2007, where he now conducts the Concert Choir. Berman is the Music Director of the Santa Cruz County Youth Sympho-ny, and serves as Associate Conductor of the Oakland Civic Orchestra. Equally active with choral and orchestral music, Berman has been a member and assistant conductor of the San Francisco-based profession-al new-music chorus Volti. New music and interdisciplinary collabora-tion are particular interests for Berman, and he has premiered new pieces as guest conductor of the UC Santa Cruz Orchestra and Opera Theater. He has also appeared regularly as a conductor in the April in Santa Cruz festival of new music and as a conductor and trumpeter for inii^m�ma^Zm^k�bg�LZg�?kZg\bl\h'��;^kfZg�l�Ûklm�bglmknf^gm�pZl�mknfi^m%�and he grew up playing duets with his dad, a jazz pianist and singer.

COMPOSERFOUNDER & CO-DIRECTOR

Jen Wang’s recent commissions include works for Talea, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and Rootstock; and her work has been performed at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the

Other Minds Composer Fellowship Concert, the California EAR Unit Residency at Arcosanti., and the Bang On A Can Summer Festival. Her new work for Talea will receive its premiere at the International Sum-mer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt this summer, as part of the Staubach Honoraria program. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony of the Arts, and is currently a doctoral candidate at University of California, Berkeley.

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Join Wild Rumpus at the Garden of Memory, a walk-through concert featuring dozens of Bay Area new music groups spread throughout the sprawling, beautiful Chapel of the Chimes.

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Dominique Pelletey & San Francisco Friends of Chamber MusicTod Brody & American Composers Forum, SF Bay Area Chapter

Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT)Mala Bingham, San Francisco Girls Chorus

Sean DougallAndrew LyTiffany NgErnie Cruz

Natalie Chenault DougallNicholas TranbyDaniel Gilliam

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Ben StevensonYing Wang

Christine TsaiRichard & Nanette Dougall

Patrick DougallGloria HuetJon Russell

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