BIOGRAPHIES:

Violinist Tammie Dyer
holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, an M.M. from Rice University, and a B.M. from the University of Utah. She has studied with many of the great artists of our time, including Philip Setzer, Dorothy DeLay, Pamela Frank, Kathleen Winkler, members of the Cleveland String Quartet, and the Emerson String Quartet. An enthusiast of contemporary music, she has worked with many composers, including Steve Reich, Harrison Birtwistle, Mario Davidovsky, and Shulamit Ran. An avid chamber musician, Tammie has attended the Tanglewood, Aspen and Sarasota music festivals, taught at the Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop at Humboldt State, and was in residence at the Upper Valley Music Center in New Hampshire with the Ocarina String Quartet. Tammie is currently active as a teacher and performer in the greater Bay Area and has played with Symphony of the Redwoods, the Mendocino Music Festival Orchestra, the North State Symphony, Philharmonia Healdsburg, the American Philharmonic, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and at such venues as Davies Symphony Hall, the Greek Theater, the Fox Theater, and the Gallo Center for the Arts. 

John Konigsmark, Violinist and Violist
has combined performance and instruction in both the USA and abroad. As a freelancer he regularly performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Ballet, and Opera Orchestras and also played shows in San Francisco to include Fiddler On The Roof, Cats, Annie, and others. His early studies at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara led him to work with Berl Senofsky at the Peabody Conservatory and eventually with Oscar Shumsky at Juilliard. While in the Los Angeles area he worked briefly with Camila Wicks then attended University of Redlands and San Francisco State University where as recipient of the Morrison Foundation Award played in the Morrison String Quartet and was concertmaster of the orchestra. In 1969, while pursing his doctoral at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music he was drafted and consequently played viola with the West Point String Quartet. For nearly 20 years, he was conductor and faculty member at City College of San Francisco. In addition to studio work, to include Skywalker Ranch, Konigsmark performed with the Tiffany Strings Trio at the St. Francis Hotel and with Ernie Heckscher's Big Band at the Vienncian Room at the Fairmont Hotel.

Clovice A. Lewis, Jr.
has composed numerous works ranging from ensemble to electronic and orchestral pieces. He graduated from the prestigious College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He began teaching as a freshman at the school, and upon completion of his studies, accepted a position as a Lecturer, then promoted to Associate Professor there from 1978 until 1985. He was, at the time, one of the youngest professors in the UC system (at 22) to hold such a position. Lewis studied composition with Peter Fricker, Anthonus Lolov, Thea Musgrave, Gordon Crosse, Edward Applebaum, and Stanley Krebs. His cello teachers included such renowned cellists as Peter Preston, Peter Rejto, Geoffrey Rutkowski, and Robert Mason.

During the past 30 years, the music Lewis has composed has been performed by numerous orchestras in California, including a Concerto for Trumpets and Orchestra, a Poem for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra, a Bassoon Concerto (with Rufus Olivier) and a Multi-Media Cantata for Soprano Voice. He is the recipient of numerous awards for composition, including the 1985 Cabrillo Music Festival award for outstanding composition for a string quartet composed in 1976. In June of 1993, his Concerto for Violoncello and Computer was hailed as a breakthrough piece when it was performed for the Old First Church series of concerts which showcases exceptional Northern California composers. 

Holly McElroy Fagan, Violinist
is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Tiberius Klausner. She has been a member of professional and community orchestras in St. Louis, Detroit, Kansas City and Palo Alto. Currently, she plays with the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra, Lake County Symphony Orchestra and Symphony of the Redwoods. As a member of Sigma Alpa Iota International Music Fraternity, she premiered Don Womack's Double Talk for violin and bass marimba at the Cincinnati National Convention with the late Charmaine Asher-Wiley. Teaching is Holly's passion and she has taught in public and private schools for 40 years. She currently teaches sixty-five string students at River Oak Charter School in Ukiah. 

Lawrence Ames
is a double bassist from Ukiah, CA. For the last 25 years he has served as the principle bassist for the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra, as well as performing as a guest musician with Symphony of the Redwoods, Lake County Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Healdsburg. He has been playing the double bass for more than 50 years. Ames' early instruction began at the age of 10, through the music program in the public schools of Simi Valley, California, and culminated with the Humboldt State University Symphony in 1976. In addition to classical, he enjoys performing a broad spectrum of musical genres, including jazz, blues, musical theater, choral, bluegrass, and Americana. He currently performs with local jazz duo "Wine Country Jazz". 

Eva Kidwell
had never heard of the basson until she was asked if she wanted to play it by her music teacher at age 10. She already played several instruments but they needed a bassoonist for the orchestra. She went home and looked it up in the family dictionary. After the first lesson she knew that this was it. From there she advanced up in the orchestras of her community in Sweden and later studied basson performance at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and later for Steven Paulson of SF Symphony at the Conservatory of Music in SF where she earned her BA. She spent 12 years in Mendocino where she participated in the Mendocino Music Festival, principal chair in Symphony of the Redwoods, numerous solo and ensemble performances, private teaching as well as ensemble coaching. She also funded and ran the SOR Children's Concerts between 2001 and 2007. In 2012 she was the soloist for the opening concert of Solano Symphony in Fairfield playing Gordon Jacob's Bassoon Concerto. At present time she lives in the Bay Area and enjoys playing in the Kaleidoscope quintet, Santa Rosa Symphony, Benicia Ballet among others.  

Paula Mulligan
was born in Belgium and moved to the United States when she was eight years old. Later that year she began to study violin in Benington VT. She began playing chamber music with her father and siblings almost immediately and joined her first orchestra, the Berkshire Symphony, at age eleven at which time she began to prefer playing viola. Her family moved to the midwest during her high school years where she developed an interest in theater and majored in drama at Northwestern University. She never lost her love for music and began to play again after moving to northern California where she has played with the Ukiah Symphony for 25 years, and with Symphony of the Redwoods for over 20 years. She frequently plays with the Lake County Symphony and has also performed with Philharmonia Healdsburg. She taught music and drama at Laytonville High School until she retired. Her first love is still chamber music and she plays string quartets with friends every week as she has done for thirty years. She is honored and delighted to be part of this beautiful bassoon concerto written by her good friend and stand partner, Jeff Ives.  

Tom Aiken
studied organ and harpsichord at CSU Chico where he completed a Masters degree in music. His areas of concentration were music before 1750 and after 1900. Chico has been unique among CSU campuses with regard to the collection of keyboard instruments associated with early music including harpsichords, pedal clavichord, and mechanical action organs by Flentrop and Yokota. The availability of fine instruments, in addition to an historically informed keyboard faculty created an ideal environment for the study of early keyboard music. Aiken supported himself in college by playing with jazz and cover bands. He toured the west coast with a cover band prior to returning to Chico to complete a teaching credential. He moved to Lake County in 1980 taking a teaching job in the Kelseyville Unified School District. He retired from teaching in 2010 and is currently active playing with a variety of groups in Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties. He has performed on harpsichord with the Lake County Symphony, Healdsburg Philharmonia, Ukiah Symphony, and the Mendocino Music Festival chamber orchestra. 

Randy Masselink, horn
Randy studied horn with Neil Sanders (ex-principal horn of the London Philharmonic) in Michigan and with Dale Clevenger, former principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. While completing a degree in music education, and during his early years as a music teacher he played in several professional orchestras as well as with the Chicago Civic Orchestra and occasional appearances with the CSO. In April of 1981 he went to Florence, Italy for a three month stint with the Orchestra Regionale di Toscana, and ended up staying in Italy for over 16 years, playing with many prominent orchestras in Italy and Switzerland. Meeting, marrying and having 2 sons with his wife Donatella entered largely into the decision to remain there for more than just a few months…. In 1997 the Masselinks moved to California where Randy has taught music in the Healdsburg School District ever since. He also maintains a very active schedule playing horn throughout northern California. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Aaron Ames was raised in Ukiah and is currently teaching at the James C. Harper School for Performing Arts in Lenoir, North Carolina. He received his Master's Degree in Music Performance in 2010 from Appalachian State University, and was invited to join Pi Kappa Lambda, the musician's academic honors society.

Beth Aiken resides in Kelseyville and is the principal oboist with the Lake County Symphony, Ukiah Symphony and Symphony of the Redwoods. She earned her BA in music at Humboldt State University and has been teaching in public schools since 1984.

Nick Biondo currently performs with Symphony of the Redwoods, the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra, the Ukiah Saxophone Quartet and "The Funky Dozen" rock/funk band. As an inaugural member, he has been playing for 34 years with the Lake County Symphony.

Ann Hubbard resides in Lucerne and is principal bassoonist with the Lake County Symphony, Symphony of the Redwoods and the Ukiah Symphony. She attended the Juilliard School on Full Scholarship, as well as Curtis Institute of Music. The concept of the La Voce del Vento chamber series in Lake County was initiated by Ms. Hubbard.

Randy Masselink studied horn with Neil Sanders, former principal horn of the London Philharmonic and with Dale Clevenger, former principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He played with orchestras in Italy and Switzerland for 16 years and is now teaching music in the Healdsburg School District.

To Top ^