Here's To Singing! :-)

About Me:

A Central Coaster since '05, previously in the greater San Francisco and Washington, D. C. metropolitan areas. Founder and Director, The Cayucos Community Choir, a music history first in '05. Work history: marketing and sales; executive support in law, medicine, and the performing arts; care of properties (including having prepared for sale what was once the largest and most famous working ranch in North Idaho). Have taught private piano, voice, guitar, ear training, and basic musicianship. I sing, and have performed with the San Francisco Symphony, the Marin Symphony, the Diablo Symphony, the Russian Philharmonic, the Nevada Opera, the Golden Gate Opera, more symphonies, oratorio societies and lots more doing major works as well as jazz, r&b, gospel, opera, pop, musicals, folk, etc.... Some featured artists I've performed with include Luciano Pavarotti, Christopher Cross, Dionne Warwick, Peabo Bryson, James Ingram, Oleta Adams, and lots of others. I'm also a makeup artist, and attend aesthetics conferences as a hobby. I also attend Pacific Voice Conferences and meetings of The American Society of Media Photographers whenever possible. Educational history includes two incomplete majors in Voice Performance and Music Ed (University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music, and the University of Nevada), with subsequent coursework in film production, film editing, the business practices of photography, computers, small business ownership, more. Currently working on another music history first, The Central Coast Wellness Choir, open to all health practitioners and to all wellness practitioners.

Occupation:

Refer to "About Me"

My Hobbies & Interests:

Music; ceramics, silk painting, therapeutic grade essential oils; filmmaking; aesthetics conferences; the sensation of touch; singing polished to its best; nature; more. The prospect of someday going on a vocal performance tour of the cathedrals of the world, and, possibly, of private country homes as well. Great architecture is hard to beat!

Favorite Music:

Passionately romantic madrigals from the Renaissance, especially when rendered by excellent singing having secured extremely artistic expression; the recording of Salli Terri singing with guitarist Laurindo Almeida and flautist Martin Ruderman performing Bachianas Brasileiras Number 5 composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos; Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna with the Los Angeles Master Chorale; watching my brother (he's Timpanist of The Stockton Symphony) performing Leist's Timpat; the bagpipes!

Favorite Movies / TV Shows:

Sense And Sensibilities; The Sound of Music; Gone With The Wind

Favorite Books:

The Da Vinci Code - so many books throughout life! As a child, all of the Pippi Longstocking and Narnia books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, (I was so enthralled with The Jabberwocky that I memorized it, and, to this day, it remains my favorite poem!).