Santa Barbara Music Club

Member Type: Musician

Candace Fazzio , Director Emeritus, Pianist

Recently relocated to Santa Barbara from Gilroy, CA, Candace Fazzio is a well-rounded pianist and teacher with a special interest in composers from the American continents beginning with the Ragtime Era and moving to the present day. Her constantly-expanding repertoire also includes lyrical arrangements of popular music standards. She has also created well-received live piano accompaniments for silent movies such as Chaplin’s The Tramp, several Harold Lloyd films including the full-length feature The Kid Brother, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. Candace has performed as a soloist with South Valley Symphony and Chorale and in the San Juan Bautista SHP museum for Living History Days and has participated in both the Sutter Creek and West Coast Ragtime Festivals. She has presented her programs “Beyond the Maple Leaf Rag, How Syncopation Led to a Century of Keyboard Music,” and “Piano Music with a Latin Flavor,” to state-level conferences of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers and the Music Teachers’ Association of California. Candace’s teaching career began in Saratoga, CA in 1973. In 1995, she opened The Music Academy, located in downtown Gilroy, which, in addition to instruction in piano, guitar, and voice, presented periodic concerts featuring local musicians.

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Constantine Finehouse , Pianist

Constantine Finehouse was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and attended New England Conservatory, Juilliard and Yale. His principal teachers included Fredrik Wanger, Natalia Harlap, Herbert Stessin, Jerome Lowenthal, Boris Berman and Bruce Brubaker. Praised by Rhein Main Presse Allgemeine Zeitung for his “interpretations of depth and maturity,” Finehouse has performed extensively in the US (including in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Washington) and abroad (including in Lausanne, London, Odessa, St. Petersburg and Trieste). Recent recordings include Backwards Glance [Spice Rack Records 101-01], which interweaves music of Johannes Brahms and Richard Beaudoin. The Bolcom Project, made in collaboration with his American Double partner, violinist Philip Ficsor, included double-CD [Albany Troy 959/960] and a national tour. Fanfare praised the recording as “indispensable to any serious collector with an interest in later 20th century duo repertoire for violin and piano.” As part of American Double, Finehouse also toured Hungary, performing sonatas by Brahms, Bolcom and Ravel. More recently, he collaborated with violinist Olga Caceànova at Lausanne Conservatoire and with cellist Sebastian Bäverstam at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) and Merkin Recital Hall (Kauffman Center). Finehouse is currently recording Bolcom’s complete piano solo works for Naxos Records.

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Katelyn Neumann , Mezzo-soprano

Katelyn Neumann, mezzo-soprano, is a previous SB Music Club scholarship awardee. Ms. Neumann earned her A.A. in Music at SBCC where she studied classical voice under the tutelage of Nathan Kreitzer. She earned a B.A. in Music at CPSU, San Luis Obispo, and attained a M.M. in Vocal Performance at CSU, Northridge. Ms. Neumann has performed as a soloist throughout California and has been the recipient of various accolades both locally and nationally. Ms. Neumann has performed several operatic roles including Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar in Germany, the title role in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and as Mother in Capitol City Opera’s world premiere of Curtis Bryant’s The Secret Agent. Ms. Neumann performed the role of Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Capitol City Opera in 2012 and made her Lamplighters Musical Theatre debut in San Francisco as Leila in Iolanthe in 2013. Ms. Neumann sang with Opera San Jose in its productions of Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, and Le Nozze di Figaro, and with the Lyric Theatre of San Jose in their productions of The Prince of Pilsen,Utopia Limited, and Iolanthe, as Mrs. Crocker, Lady Sophy, and the Fairy Queen respectively. Ms. Neumann is also a cantor and soloist at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco. In February, she will be singing the role of Mother and inspiring children in the Bay Area to love music and theater through the Children’s Theatre production of Stiles & Drewe’s musical The Three Little Pigs in Palo Alto.

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Kyra Folk-Farber , Soprano

Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Kyra Folk-Farber has sung operatic roles and concert performances across North America and Europe. Her Mozart roles include Donna Anna, Zaide, Despina, and Susanna; she has also portrayed Mimì, Poppea, Mélisande, Anne Truelove, and The Soprano in Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus. Kyra has performed as a soloist under the batons of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kent Nagano, and Paul McCreesh, and has been featured as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Tel Aviv Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She specializes in new music and has premiered works by composers Ori Barel, John Villar, Hans Christian Détlefsen, and José Evangelista, among others. Kyra has also performed Yiddish songs at Canadian music festivals such as Ashkenaz and Chutzpah!.

Kyra holds a Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, a Doctorate of Music from Université de Montréal, and a Master’s of Information from the University of Toronto. After devoting seven years to music librarianship, Kyra is now Associate Dean of Library & Learning Resources at CSU Channel Islands. When she’s not working or spending time with her family, Kyra loves to sing, especially in collaboration with composers.

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Louis Grace , Oboist

Louis Grace, oboist, began his oboe studies with Lois Wann in the pre-college division of the Manhattan School of Music, and then continued with her in the pre-college division of The Juilliard School of Music. During his college years, he studied with David Weber at Oberlin College, and with Engelbert Brenner, retired English Hornist of the New York Philharmonic. Shortly after he arrived in Santa Barbara, Louis played for several years in the UCSB Symphony. He is currently principal oboist in the SBCC Symphony, and in the West Coast Symphony (Mozart by Candlelight, Santa Barbara July Fourth concert, end-of-Fiesta free concert). Louis holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Michigan, and he is the lecture demonstration coordinator in the physics department at UCSB.

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Jane Hahn , Director, Flutist, Soprano

Jane Hahn, singer and flutist, grew up in Santa Barbara, and has studied and performed as a singer and a flutist her whole life. Her modest singing career includes several comprimario roles with Opera Santa Barbara, and she has been the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Santa Maria. Jane has directed the women’s vocal ensemble, LUX, as well as choirs at St. Michaels and Trinity Episcopal churches. Jane studied flute at the college level at UCSB, and continues to practice and perform as a freelance musician today, lately branching out into the Jazz genre. Jane is a retired Software Engineer and Project Manager. She and her husband are very proud of their two married sons and their precious grand-daughter. Her hobbies include yoga, pottery, and house-building with her husband.

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Tracy Harris , Flutist

Tracy Harris, flutist, is internationally renowned as soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and author, and is a former SBMC scholarship awardee. She earned her BM Degree at UCSB, studying with Jill Felber. Founder/Artistic Director of the popular “Tracy Harris Flute Boot Camps,” which assist over 1,000 underprivileged students annually, she records on the Elite Source label and her latest Wyndfall Duo release is the album Eklectick, with pianist Svetlana Harris. Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician, Tracy recently premiered works by Todd Harris, which were showcased at Sir James Galway’s International Master Class. Please visit www.TracyHarrisFlute.com and also view her performances on YouTube.

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Mary Jo Hartle , Director Emeritus, flutist

Mary Jo Hartle, flutist, received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Harvard University and did graduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago. As Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of the South, her specialty was Indian Goddess Worship. A student of Anne Diener Zentner, former Principal Flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, she pursues her love of chamber music as a member of the Firecat Trio and other ensembles, and is frequent participant in the Humboldt State University Chamber Music Workshops. Ms. Hartle is the author of children’s books as well as a former anthropologist, and is currently President of the Chamber Music Society of Santa Barbara.

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Steve Hodson , Director Emeritus, Pianist, Organist

Steve Hodson is Professor of Music at Westmont College where his duties have included teaching piano and organ, conducting, and music survey, and leading various singing groups. He conducts the Santa Barbara Master Chorale and serves as organist at First United Methodist Church of Santa Barbara. Hodson holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is Vice-President of the Western Division of the American Choral Directors Association (encompassing California, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona), and past President of California ACDA. He enjoys performing on piano, organ, and harpsichord and is an accomplished accompanist.

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Adriane Hill Cleary , Director Emeritus, Flutist

Adriane Hill Cleary is a flutist based in Santa Barbara, CA, where she works as the Marketing and Communications Manager for the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music. She studied performance at UC Santa Barbara (M.M.) with Jill Felber and the University of Central Florida (B.M.) with Dr. Nora Lee Garcia. As a member of the new music group, the Now Hear Ensemble, she has toured throughout much of California, including appearances at the Center for New Music in San Francisco and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in Los Angeles. Adriane also serves as the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Los Angeles-based composer-directed collective, Synchromy. Learn more at www.adrianehill.com.

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