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TEMESCAL STRING QUARTET & FRIENDS
Temescal String Quartet is a San Francisco Bay Area ensemble, established in 2004 by musicians of the SF Opera and Ballet Orchestras. Founding member violinist Barbara Riccardi was joined by cellist Nancy Bien in 2016. We share a great love of music, deep friendship, and great joy in playing music together.
The event will include a viewing of art works by cellist Nancy Bien, and a wine and cheese reception will follow the concert, provided by David Konigsmark of Circadian Cuisine. Note: The name Temescal is derived from the Aztec sweat lodge where the physical elements of earth, fire, air, and water are invoked to inspire spiritual renewal.
Violinist Barbara Riccardi is a native of New York where her "formal" training began at age 3. She graduated magna cum laude from Vassar College where her teachers, Boris Koutzen and Luis Garcia-Renard, ignited her passion for the violin and for chamber music. After a summer workshop with the Guarneri Quartet she became a student of Arnold Steinhardt, first violinist of the Guarneri, who remained her sole teacher for many years. She joined the San Francisco Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and subsequently the San Francisco Opera Orchestra where the vocal masters continue to inspire. Along with her long-standing friend violist Jonna Hervig, she formed the Temescal Quartet in 2005.
Violinist Dana Myers graduated from the Juilliard School with bachelor's and master's degrees in violin performance, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music with Felix Galimir and Robert Mann. Upon graduation, she joined the Hague Philharmonic in the Netherlands, where she played great music while admiring tulips. She then returned to the U.S. and joined the St. Louis Symphony, appearing as soloist several times. Recently retired from the orchestra she and her trombonist husband Tim Myers fulfilled a dream to move to San Francisco, where she was invited to join the Temescal Quartet.
Cellist Nancy Bien received her bachelor's degree in music from California State University and her master's in performance from the University of Iowa, where she studied cello with Charles Wendt and chamber music with members of the Stradivari Quartet. After graduate school she played and taught on the East Coast for several years, spending summers playing in various music festivals and doing a stint as Artist-in-Residence for the city of Baton Rouge. During that time she also studied with renowned pedagogues Fritz Maag, Thadeus Bryce and Bob Newkirk. She returned to the Bay Area in 1980 and quickly embraced a busy freelance career which includes principal work with the Marin Symphony and many other ensembles.
Victoria Ehrlich (cello) studied at Southern Methodist University, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and Stony Brook University. Her teachers included Robert Marsh, Bernard Greenhouse, and Robert Gardner. Prior to joining the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in 1984, she played with the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the Opera Orchestra of New York, and was principal cellist with the Symphonies of Omaha, Richmond, VA, and Phoenix. Ms. Ehrlich has performed with the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, Composers, Inc., Berkeley Symphony, the Russian Chamber Orchestra, and Lamplighters. Ms. Ehrlich is also an active chamber musician, performing regularly with the Cecilia Quartet, the Bridge Players (who specialize in music by Jewish and Holocaust composers), the Picasso Ensemble (who perform in the historic Sesnon House in Aptos, CA) the African American Composers Initiative, (who discover, commission, and perform music by African American composers), Trio Solano, Sonic Harvest (new music by local composers), and the Fath Chamber Players, a fixture in Mill Valley.
Paul Ehrlich (viola) is a member of The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; he also performs frequently with The San Francisco Opera Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. His previous positions have included The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Phoenix Symphony. A frequent chamber music performer, he is a member of The Sacramento Chamber Music Society and collaborates with several other Bay Area chamber groups. Dr. Ehrlich was educated at The Royal College of Music, London, Cambridge University, and Yale School of Music, where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His principal teachers include Raphael Hillyer, Jaroslav Vanecek, and Karen Tuttle.
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LocationPiedmont Center for he Arts (View)
801 Magnolia Avenue
Piedmont, CA 94611
United States
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