Laura Griffiths, Oboe
Stephanie Bibbo, Violin
Caroline Lee, Viola
Krisnthy Desby, Cello
Proposed program:
Water Colors by Alexis Alrich (this season’s commissioned piece)
1 movement of Visions & Visitations by Vincent Russo (commissioned for 2018)
Mozart Oboe Quartet
Laura Griffiths is Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and was formerly Principal Oboe of The Cleveland Orchestra and the Rochester Philharmonic. She has been guest Principal Oboe with several major orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She was Acting Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Opera for three years. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.
Stephanie Bibbo has returned from Bogotá, Colombia, where she was Adjunct Professor of Chamber Music at the Universidad de los Andes, and will be rejoining us in May. She is a member of Opera Parallèle, and has performed with orchestras and chamber music ensembles in venues throughout Europe and the United States, notably Boston’s Symphony Hall, San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. She has performed many different styles of music from Baroque to contemporary, as well as rock, soul, and traditional Persian music. She received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance from New England Conservatory, and her Master of Music and Professional Studies Diploma from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, under the private instruction of Ian Swensen, where she was honored for her musicianship in the New Music Ensemble. Besides her love for performance, Stephanie has a great passion for teaching students of all ages.
Caroline Lee has performed throughout the US and Canada as an orchestral player as well as a chamber musician and recitalist. She is a member of the San Francisco Ballet orchestra and plays with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. She was a member of the Kansas City Symphony for eight years as well as performing regularly with the Chicago symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. An active chamber musician, she has performed in Banff, Domaine Forget, and the International Musical Arts Festivals, and has collaborated with members of the Tokyo, Cleveland and Colorado quartets, as well as artists such as Eric Friedmann, Steve Dann, Jesse Levine, Heiichiro Ohyama, and Richard Stolzman. She is a member of the Eos Ensemble, performing a wide range of works for chamber ensemble within the San Francisco Bay Area. Caroline is also the Founder and Artistic Advisor of Community Concerts at Epworth in Berkeley: www.communityconcertepworth.org. She received her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Michigan and her Masters Degree and Artist's Diploma from Yale School of Music, studying with Heiichiro Ohyama, Donald McInnes, Yizhak Schotten, and Jesse Levine.
Krisanthy Desby has been active in chamber ensembles and orchestras in North America, Europe and South Africa. She founded the Laurel Ensemble, which concertized throughout the Bay Area from 2005 to 2010 and premiered new works at Hong Kong’s Musicarama Festival in 2009. Ms. Desby has been Assistant Principal of both the Napa Valley Symphony and the Santa Cruz Symphony, and coached young chamber and orchestral musicians as a String Specialist at University High School. During the summers, she is a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival, and has taken part in the Mendocino, Midsummer Mozart, Scotia and Neuberg Kulturtage festivals. She played with the Houston Symphony under Christoph Eschenbach, as well as the Houston Ballet Orchestra and the Houston Grand Opera. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Peabody Institute and a Masters Degree from the Shepherd School at Rice University. Her teachers included Nathaniel Rosen, Stephen Kates, Shirley Trepel and Aldo Parisot. She formed Strobe to spotlight music for strings and oboe.