The Sacramento Baroque Ensemble

E.J. Koford:  Playing recorder was a family tradition for Mr. Koford, and most of his family played from a very young age.  He studied music seriously and coached recorder and early music while earning his degrees in zoology at Berkeley and Ecology at UC Davis.  His consort, "The West Wyndes" played regularly for the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and special concerts for the San Francisco Early Music Society at Stanford, the DeYoung Museum and Golden Gate Park.  He was a member of Pastime with Good Company directed by Robert Dawson, and shared several concert programs with the stellar vocal choir Chanticleer at St. Mary's Cathedral.  He has also performed at Julia Morgan Hall and Dominican College in San Rafael.  While at UC Davis, Mr. Koford was clarinetist in the UC Davis Symphony orchestra and directed the instrumentalists and prepared concerts of the University Early Music Ensemble. Mr. Koford performs regularly with the Sacramento Baroque Ensemble, a jazz ensemble called Saxomania, and occasionally directs or coaches small groups.  Recently his mission has been to introduce wider audiences to the diversity of the modern and jazz repertoire for recorders.

Kathryn Canan studied flute and toured Europe with America's Youth in Concert as a teenager.  She played flute and piccolo in the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra while earning her B.A. in biological sciences.   She learned recorder at age 12 because it fit better in a backpack than modern flute, but began seriously studying it in the early 90's.  She has studied recorder and baroque flute with Frances Feldon and Judith Linsenberg.  Her musical interests range from medieval to contemporary recorder music. In May, 2000 she and Mr. Koford were featured soloists in the Brandenburg Concerto #4 with the Apollo Baroque Orchestra. Ms. Canan is on the board of the Sacramento Recorder Society and currently serves as vice-president, workshop chair, newsletter editor, and webmaster.  She designs websites for musicians and ensembles, including Musica Pacifica and Hausmusik.

Marta Belén is an accompanist and coach for many musicians in northern California. From 1988-1993 she was the Music Director of the Aurora Music Ensemble, a chamber group specializing in classical music. She is the Music Director for Small-Time Productions (a chamber opera group), accompanies the American Recorder Orchestra West and Camerata Vocale California, and is a founding member of the Sacramento Baroque Ensemble. In 1999 she and Jeremiah Bills won the New American Music Competition playing Sonata for Flute and Piano by Lowell Lieberman. During the Spring 1999 term she was a staff accompanist at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. In March 2000 she accompanied David Bellugi, the Italian recorder player, during his American tour, and in October 2000 she produced the all-Brahms concert for the St. John's Lutheran Church concert series.

Jesse Joad, M.D. is a Pediatric Allergist and Pulmonologist at UC Davis Medical Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UC Davis Medical School.  In her teenage years she studied cello with Joel Krosnik, who now is the cellist with the Juilliard String Quartet.  Since high school she has played the cello with various small and larger ensembles and finds it a wonderful "right-sided" brain break from her "left-sided" brain life.

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Copyright January 2000.
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