Schroeder Hall
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Admission Fees:
$12 General, $5 student/youth, SSU students free

Tickets:
Faculty Recital - Avenue Winds

Avenue Winds with pianist Amy Zanrosso

CONCERT PROGRAM LINK

Francis Poulenc: Sextet for Winds and Piano
Wallingford Constantine Riegger: Concerto for Piano and Woodwind Quintet, Op. 53
Jean Françaix: L’Heure du Berger

-Intermission-

Victoria Hauk, flute, loves exploring the beauty of music through collaboration with fellow Bay Area musicians and by sharing it with the next generation of musicians through coaching and teaching. She is an avid chamber musician and can be seen performing with groups including woodwind quintet Avenue Winds, One Found Sound, and Areon Flutes. Orchestras she has worked with include Marin Symphony, California Symphony, Stockton Symphony, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and New World Symphony. She maintains an active private teaching studio and coaches chamber music at San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Pre-College Division. She won the University of Arizona President’s Concerto and Arizona Flute Society competitions. She is an award winner of the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, MTNA Southwest Regional Competition, San Diego Flute Guild Young Artist Competition, and has received the Presser Foundation Award. She received her Professional Studies Diploma at the San Francisco Conservatory studying with Tim Day, M.M. at Lynn Conservatory studying with Jeffrey Khaner and Renée Siebert, and B.M. at the University of Arizona studying with Brian Luce.

Laura Reynolds, oboe, is an active chamber and orchestral performer throughout Northern California and serves as Principal oboist with the Santa Rosa Symphony, the California Symphony, and second oboe and English horn with the Marin Symphony. Laura has always been a chamber music enthusiast and before joining Avenue Winds was a member of the wind trio Trois Bois and Citywinds, a San Francisco woodwind quintet dedicated to contemporary repertoire. She is a member of the applied faculty of Sonoma State University as well as of the Pre-College and Continuing Education Divisions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she additionally serves as Associate Director. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, her principal teachers were Harry Sargous and William Bennett.  

James Pytko, clarinet is an avid performer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the Second/Bass Clarinetist of Opera San Jose and during the summer, he is the Principal Clarinet of the Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theater. James has also performed with San Francisco Opera, Symphony San Jose, Sphinx Symphony, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, and many other Bay Area ensembles. James has taught clarinet at California State University Stanislaus and University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently teaches privately. His primary teachers were Richie Hawley, Carmine Campione, Scott Andrews, and Naomi Drucker.

Daniel Wood, horn, is a performer, composer, educator, and musical entrepreneur. Before joining Avenue Winds, he received his musical training from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is the chair of Musicianship and Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Pre-College Division.  As a composer, Daniel favors small ensembles, including brass, wind, and string chamber music, steel drum ensembles, and jazz combos with commissions from Avenue Winds, CSMA Brass, and members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. As a member of Quadre – The Voice of Four Horns, Daniel has performed over 1,000 concerts and composed for all their albums. He additionally writes and performs solo shows as an improvisational musician. As a freelance musician, he has played with chamber ensembles, symphonies, opera & ballet companies, and new music groups. Daniel lectures on the “Business of Music” and runs Solid Wood Publishing, offering over 50 titles of horn music and he is the Northern CA representative for the International Horn Society.

Jamael Smith is a San Francisco-based bassoonist and educator. A dedicated performer of contemporary and chamber music, they are a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Players and Eco Ensemble; as a chamber musician, they perform as a member of Quinteto Latino and the Avenue Winds. They also serve as a core member of the conductorless chamber orchestra One Found Sound. They have performed frequently with the San Francisco Symphony and appear on multiple recordings with the orchestra, including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (a 2023 Grammy nominee) and Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony. Other regular engagements include the Santa Rosa Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Opera Parallèle, among others. 

A passionate educator, Smith serves as the Director of Wind Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the instructor of bassoon at San Jose State University. Primary teachers include Stephen Paulson and Seth Krimsky, with additional training at the Kent Blossom, Pierre Monteux and Bay View Chamber Music Festivals. 

Amy Zanrosso’s playing has been hailed as expressive, magnetic and masterful but since no one at the New York Times has said this, she’s not allowed to put it in quotes. Thanks to her attentive Italian immigrant mom, piano lessons started at the age of 6 and by the age of 15, Amy had made the decision to make music her life. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Symphony of the Kootenays, the Russian Chamber Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony of the Redwoods and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. Her love of chamber music has led her to more fully admire her favorite composers while sharing the experience with countless inspiring musicians and appreciative audiences. 

Amy is a faculty member and chamber music coach at the Pre-College Academy of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. She is constantly fueled by her fantastically inspiring students and enjoys forcing her favorite composers on them as well as telling them what to. Many thanks to Beethoven and Brahms for inspiring her to come this far – she wouldn’t change a thing. For more information, please visit www.amyzanrosso.com.