Emerging Artist Profile -- Tyler Hayford

17 year old Tyler Chen Hayford’s passion for playing and studying the piano began at age 5.  He currently studies with Hans Boepple.

Tyler has played for Angela Hewitt, Gabriel Kwok, Hung-Kuan Chen, Ory Shihor, Pascal Nemirovski, Milan Vitek, and Matti Raekallio, and has been a scholarship attendee of renowned summer music programs such as the Meadowmount School of Music, the Colburn Academy Piano Festival, and California Summer Music.

In consecutive years since the age of 10, Tyler has been the winner of first place awards from the Santa Cruz County Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC), and a performer at the Carmel Bach Festival.  In January 2012, he placed first in the US Open Music Competition.  He has played twice at UCSC Recital Hall as a two time Grand Prize winner of the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival Youth Chamber Music Competition and was the featured artist in the festival’s “Emerging Artists” concert in 2012.  He has been interviewed multiple times on KUSP and KSCO radio regarding his performances.  Tyler, whose recent solo benefit recital achieved critical acclaim and raised over $2500 for Typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines, was a winner of the 28th Annual Celia Mendez Young Pianist's Beethoven Competition, first place winner of Pacific Music Society piano competition as well as being accepted to the prestigious MTAC’s Young Artist Guild (YAG).  He performed at the YAG award recital at the MTAC State Convention on June 27, 2014.  Tyler also has studied pipe organ with Vlada Volkova Moran since 2011 and has performed at benefit concerts for the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, at the annual Organist's Kaleidophone in Santa Cruz, and in Young Organist Recitals of the American Guild of Organists.  He is the organist at Messiah Lutheran Church in Santa Cruz.  Tyler routinely brings music to local senior centers on weekends and holidays.

In addition to his enthusiasm for music and playing it with peers, Tyler enjoys soccer, laughing with or at friends, and photography.  He can often be found scouting new places to shoot photos with fellow photographers, or less productively scrolling through his Instagram.

Fall 2014 Benefit Concert

Our Fall Benefit Concert, Emerging Artists Showcase, will be held Friday November 7, 2014 at 7:30pm at Holy Cross Church, 126 High St, Santa Cruz, CA.

Join us for an evening of classical and baroque music performed by award winning young artists Tyler Hayford on piano and organ, and the Classical Piano Trio, Derek Hamersly (piano), Marc Picard (cello) and Stanley Wang (violin).

This concert raises funds for the Baroque Festival and its Youth Chamber Music Competition.

Admission: $20 general, $15 senior, $5 youth and college students with ID.

PRESS RELEASE

The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival presents:

FOREST SONG: The Classical Clarinet (Concert IV)

Featuring Eric Hoeprich (classical clarinet) with Linda Burman-Hall (fortepiano)

In the baroque period the clarinet was indeed a 'rare bird' just hatched around 1700. The classical clarinet of Mozart's time had only 5 keys but yielded great timbral variety. Enjoy the silken voice of this endangered instrument in works by Lefèvre, Stadler, Hoffmeister, Weber and Beethoven, brought to you by one of the world's leading historical clarinetists.

Eric Hoeprich has performed and recorded with renowned artists Frans Brüggen, Philippe Herreweghe, Sir Roger Norrington, and Christopher Hogwood, and Musica Antiqua Köln, just to name a few. He has also authored a book on the history of the clarinet through the musical instrument series of Yale University Press.

In addition to music, we explore parallels in the conservation of species and instruments with images of endangered wildlands, including rare birds and animals selected by biologist Richard Tenaza. This visual presentation is accompanied by a sound collage by Linda Burman-Hall. “Bilou Sapiens” (Wise Bilou) layers the voices of live wooden flutes over Tenaza's fieldwork recordings of animal sounds from the Mentawai Rainforest (electro-acoustic composition with Lars Johannesson & Alissa Roedig, baroque flutes).

More information about Hoeprich, the classical clarinet, Richard Tenaza, and “Bilou Sapiens” follows below.

Concert IV takes place on Saturday, April 16, at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall beginning at 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased through the UCSC Ticket Office (www.santacruztickets.com, 831-459-2159), the Civic Center Box Office, and the SC Baroque Festival (www.scbaroque.org, 831-457-9693). Admission: $23 general, $17 senior, $6 college student, $3 K-12.

Photos (attached or available upon request): Eric Hoeprich; Richard Tenaza & Linda Burman-Hall; Historical Clarinets (illustration)

Eric Hoeprich & the Classical Clarinet

For the past twenty-five years Eric Hoeprich has specialized in performing on the historical clarinet. His expertise as a musician, scholar and instrument maker allows for a unique approach to the solo clarinet repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Hoeprich is founding member and principal clarinet of Frans Brüggen's Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and in addition to performing with his own ensembles world-wide, he has played and recorded with many luminaries of early music, including the Academy of Ancient Music (Hogwood), Orchestre des Champs-Elysées (Herreweghe), London Classical Players (Norrington), Musica Antiqua Köln (Goebel), Philharmonia (McGegan), Canada's Tafelmusik, Anima Eterna (van Immerseel) and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

His interest in playing and making early clarinets has led Hoeprich to amass a large collection of 18th and 19th century clarinets, including original instruments played by clarinetists that Weber and Brahms composed for, as well as possibly the oldest surviving French clarinet, made in the 1770s by Prudent in Paris.

Hoeprich and historical clarinets: “Eventually I became quite serious about the recorder and went to The Netherlands to study with Frans Brüggen, with whom I'd already had lessons at Harvard College when I was in my first year there. While I was in The Hague I started to make instruments, and also saw that there was an 18th-century version of the clarinet made of boxwood and started to play and make these as well.”

Historical versus modern clarinets: “The most important differences lie in the number of keys and the wood that was used to make clarinets in the 18th century. A typical Viennese School clarinet had 5 keys, which is sufficient for playing this music. There is a certain skill required to execute the cross-fingerings in order to produce all the notes in the music, but this has the added advantage of giving the instrument great variation in timbre throughout its scale.”

(Both interview excerpts are quoted from Gordillo, Bernard: “Questions for Early Clarinetist Eric Hoeprich” (posted April 7, 2010 at http://indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia/questions-for-eric-hoeprich-early-clarinettist/ )

Richard Tenaza & Bilou Sapiens

One could write a book on the numerous travels, adventures and accomplishments of Dr. Tenaza.

"When I was a child I didn't fantasize about being a fireman or policeman or president or movie actor. I didn't fantasize about material possession or wealth either. What I fantasized about were wild animals and wild people in wild places. . . . I've been very, very fortunate in having been able to live out many of those childhood fantasies."

Among his many endeavors, mostly related to his pursuit of the understanding and conservation of animals in their native habitats, Tenaza has recorded the fascinating vocalizations of endangered female Kloss gibbons, which musicologist Linda Burman-Hall (who happens to specialize in the music of Indonesia as well as early music) has worked into a sound collage together with a pair of live wooden flutes.

Says Dr. Tenaza: “Linda and I both think that the single most fascinating aspect of the Kloss's gibbon singing is the duets produced by neighboring females. The ladies meet at their territorial boundaries and sing in synchrony, performing aerial 'dances' together at the height of each song.”

The world premiere of this unique sound collage will be presented in accompaniment to Tenaza's rainforest images.

In addition to curating this special presentation, Burman-Hall will also be performing on fortepiano with Eric Hoeprich.

More information on all events at our website: www.scbaroque.org ####

Baroque Bassoon Duo Bios

Our Concert III, "Three Centuries of Endangered Sounds," is coming up this Saturday, April 2. It features 3 ensembles: a renaissance flute consort, a baroque bassoon duo, and a trio with classical baryton. Here is some more information on our baroque bassoon duo, Anna Marsh and Yueh Chou:
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Yueh Chou is known for her work on Modern and Historical Bassoons. She holds a Certificate Diploma (2007) on both Baroque and Classical Bassoons at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, the Netherlands; a Bachelors degree in Music from the Juilliard School and has obtained both Masters and Doctorate (2000) degrees in Music (with minors in Baroque Bassoon and Music Education) from the University of Southern California. Yueh has extensive performance and teaching experience, including teaching Master Classes at Fu-Jen University in Taiwan. She has taught Bassoon and Chamber Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division since 2001, and Chabot College in Hayward since 2009. Besides her love of modern and historical instruments, she also enjoys contemporary music. She premiered the solo Bassoon pieces: "Under the Open Sky" by Veronika Krausas in Los Angeles and "Group on a Row the Same" by Lou Harrison in Santa Cruz in. She has performed in Den Haag, Amsterdam (Muziekgebouw aan't IJ) in the Netherlands, Geel and Chimay (Theatre du Chateau) in Belgium; Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in the United States, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She plays on a modern by Heckel; a baroque after Prudent (c.1770) by Peter de Koningh, and a classical after Granser (c. 1800) also by Peter de Koningh.

Anna Marsh owns five bassoons and likes to play them. She has appeared with Tafelmusik, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Opera Atelier, Seattle Baroque, The National Cathedral, Opera Lafayette, Washington Bach Consort, Ensemble Voltaire, Apollo's Fire, Foundling, Americantiga, Chicago Opera Theater, the Hollywood Bowl, Banff Centre for the Arts, Musica nel Chiostro, the Bloomington Early Music Festival, Boston and Berkley Fringe Festivals, Sante Fe Pro Musica, Aradia Ensemble, Indianapolis Museum of Art and others. Anna has also taught at the Amherst Early Music Festival, the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, the Los Angeles Music and Art School, The Albuquerque Double Reed Workshop and teaches privately. She co-directs the group Ensemble Lipzodes which toured Brazil in July 2008 and has recorded two cds. She also enjoys playing with Circa 1800, a classical woodwind quintet and with From the Depths, a group devoted to music and literature. Their latest project included Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with the respective music of the time. Anna has been a concerto soloist with the Foundling Orchestra, Americantiga orchestra, the USC Early Music Ensemble and the Indiana University Baroque Orchestra. Anna has also worked in the library and/or administration at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Washington National Gallery of Art, Museum of the City of New York and the Weyerhauser Technology Center. Anna has recorded for Centaur, Avie, Naxos, the Super Bowl and Musica Omnia Record Labels.
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More information at http://www.scbaroque.org/concerts.html
We hope you can make it!
~ Alissa

Concert III takes place on Saturday, April 2, at Holy Cross Church (Santa Cruz), beginning at 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased through the UCSC Ticket Office (www.santacruztickets.com, 831-459-2159), the Civic Center Box Office, and the SC Baroque Festival (www.scbaroque.org, 831-457-9693). Admission: $23 general, $17 senior, $6 college student, $3 K-12. 3-Ticket Flex Pass: $57 general, $42 senior, $16 student.

Impressive Line-up at our 2011 Youth Competition

The lineup of chamber music competitors for the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival's

Youth Chamber Music Competition is very impressive. The contest, now in its 9th year, annually attracts the best and most devoted young players of chamber music from our region. The range of entries is remarkable is that it spans from the Middle Ages to the present, from the 13th Century Court of Alfonso X through Baroque masters such as Giulio Caccini and Alessandro Scarlatti in the 17th C and Telemann, Albinoni and Vivaldi in the 18th, through the Romantic composers such as Schumann and Borodin, and even a 20th century composer of 'Baroque' music, Kirt Mosier. The range of instruments and groups is similarly broad, including string and mixed orchestras from Monte Vista Christian School (Shari McQueen, director), and smaller chamber groups representing students of artist-teachers representing numerous studios in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. ~ Linda Burman-Hall (Artistic Director)

This competition is judged by Linda-Burman Hall, along with SC Sentinel music critic Phyllis Rosenblum and musician members of the Baroque Festival's Board of Directors. For updates on this year's contestants, check our Website (information on this year's contestants and winners forthcoming by the end of March).

Travel Report: Music in SPAIN

(By Charles Sutton - luthier, musician, and former SCBF board member)

One musical highlight each summer here in our part of Spain is the International Guitar Festival and Competition held in the nearby city of Velez-Malaga. Now in its nineteenth season, the week-long Festival features master classes, symposiums, and performances by contestants and instructors. The concerts are free and open to the public. The premiere presentation took place in the inner courtyard of the city's historic Palace of the Marques of Beniel, a building that now serves as a museum, art gallery, concert hall and offices for the government cultural council. The truly international first concert featured guitarists from Germany and Venezuela, with musical selections ranging from pieces by J.S. Bach through those of Giuliani, Albeniz and various South American composers.

The concerts are held in venues throughout the county area. We recentlyattended one in the Cafe Theater in our own village of Triana, Last night, (July 13) we saw an exceptional program at the Carmen Theater in Velez; music mostly by Spanish composers, with an excellent duo, piano and guitar, two brothers from Puente Genil in the Province of Cordoba.

We look forward to the conclusion of the festival and the final concert and presentation of awards. I recommend this highly if any of you are ever traveling in Spain this time of year. Forget the summer heat, nothing starts until 9:30 or 10 PM when things have cooled off a bit. After the concert everything is still open for food, drinks, ice cream, what have you. In fact, at that time the Spaniish evening has just begun.

If you would like more information about musical events in Andalusia, including, of course, flamenco, you may contact me, Charles Sutton, through SCBF, or at flamenco{at}cruzio{dot}com

-- Charles Sutton

Impressions of Boomeria

The annual Boomeria Extravaganza is not just a fundraiser for the SCBF. By bringing people in "touch" with pipe organs in an informal and entertaining setting, we hope to make at least a miniscule contribution towards the instrument's continued livelihood. Will it survive another 2 billenia...?

Though the organ is not as popular on the general music spectrum as the violin, piano, or guitar, Boomeria does have the potential of converting a skeptic or two to organ fans (at least temporarily). Aside from the wealth of sounds this early synthesizer produces, the mechanics and physics alone are compelling.

But Boomeria is also special to the SCBF because of the long-standing support our concert series has received from its hosts extraordinaire, Preston and Sara Boomer, who, together with us, look forward to greeting you at this hidden yet so-very-Santa Cruz enclave.

Some clippings of Boomeria from various contributors follow:

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"With that, [Preston Boomer] makes a sound that surely has to envelope his entire area code, a chord of such ominous, molar-rattling, Old-Testament menace, I feel myself buckle at the knees. This is music of elemental and ancient power and it's coming from a lovingly maintained instrument that has become famous in Santa Cruz classical-music circles. It's the Boomeria
pipe organ [...]"

-- Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel (July 9, 2009)

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"Great news, The Castle and Catacombs are now open again. Thanks to State Farm Insurance and Bret Smith the rebuild is done!

Well, fun stuff would be a link to 'Weird Homes Visits Boomeria':
http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/videos/Weirdhomes.mov

And, of course, 'The Tour of Boomeria':
http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/tour.html

And then 'About the Pipe Organs of Boomeria':
http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/pipeorgn.html"

-- Boom (June 22, 2010)

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"When I first discovered the Boomeria chapel, catacombs and organ, I almost couldn't believe that such a marvel could exist tucked away in the Santa Cruz hills. Its 40 ranks and 2,500 pipes offer every kind of organ sound"

-- Linda Burman Hall, Artistic Director and early keyboard specialist (July 2009)

"When you engage in the organ crawl, you actually enter the organ as organ builders and tuners have across the
centuries. You see the tracker mechanism over your head and, around it, you hear the pipes
opening up all around you, and see the air that sounds the pipes' lift ribbons. You are in the heart of a miracle." -- Linda Burman-Hall, Artistic Director and early keyboard specialist (July 2009)

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The Baroque Festival's Boomeria Organ Extravaganza is coming up on July 11, 2010. It takes place at Boomeria, from 1-5, and offers an afternoon of organ music (with several organists performing), snack, and wine, all on the intriguing premises of Boomeria, and surrounded by the forest. More information at www.scbaroque.org/special.html, or buy tickets at www.santacruztickets.com (search for "boomeria"). We hope to see you there!