Crossing the lines
Improvisation between chamber music and art
It’s not everyday when live chamber music and art join together in glorious harmony. At SF Salon Music, one should always expect the unexpected. Join us at the Verdi Club for an evening of chamber works by Gabriel Fauré, Norman Dello Joio and Louise Farrenc, all accompanied with the works of painter Peggy Gyulai. The evening will end with a soundscape improvisation between the painter and the musicians. You will not want to miss this living and breathing performance where live painting and music collide!
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Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served at 4 pm, followed by the concert. Desserts are offered after the concert.
Performers
Peggy Gyulai, Painter
“Listening to great music has taught me much about the act of creation. Inspiring, dreaming, exploring, inventing--these are all reflections of the emotional and "motional" world created by a piece of music. My paintings are chronicles of my personal encounters with music, and I try to make each work a fusion of air, light, and passion as I immerse myself in both new and old masterworks of sound.”
Peggy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA degree in Biological Anthropology; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Certificate; University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Paintings in over 100 private and corporate collections in the US and Europe: including Stanford Medical Center, SAP America, Neiman Marcus, ARCO Chemical, Royal Bank of Ontario, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and Vanguard Funds.
Diane Grubbe, Flutist
Diane Grubbe is an active performer and teacher with a special renown in contemporary music and new performance techniques on flute, piccolo, alto, and bass flutes. In the Bay Area, she has appeared with the Stockton Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, Lamplighters Music Theater, Festival Opera, Pocket Opera, and many others. She is a founding member of Quinteto Latino, a wind quintet focusing on contemporary music from Latin America and Latinx Americans, commissioning and performing new works nationally. She often performs with the avant-garde ensemble sfSound. She has been a guest artist with Earplay, the Eco Ensemble, Santa Cruz New Music Works, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. She earned degrees in flute performance from San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is on the San Francisco Community Music Center faculty and maintains a private teaching studio.
Monica Scott, Cellist
Monica Scott has performed as a cellist throughout the United States, Europe, Argentina, Canada, and South Korea, engaging audiences with energetic, eloquent playing. She has been a member of the avant-garde ensemble sfSound since 2000 and the cellist in the award-winning Del Sol String Quartet from 2001-2005. In 2006, she joined pianist Hadley McCarroll to form "martha & monica," performing and recording masterworks and challenging contemporary repertoire. In 2019, she appeared with the Dresher Ensemble in Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s In Search of Lost Beauty. She is a composer, notably as a member of LIGHTFAST, a collaboration with two visual artists, a writer, and herself as a performer, improviser, and sound sculptor. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College Conservatory and a Soloist’s Diploma from the Sweelinck Conservatorium (Amsterdam) and maintains an active private teaching studio in Oakland.
Frank Johnson, Pianist
Frank Johnson has, for over fifty years, served as a musical and vocal director, conductor, composer/arranger, pianist and chamber musician, coach and accompanist, educator, and arts administrator/consultant. Degrees in piano and composition from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. He performed as a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, founded a chamber orchestra and producer/presenter, the Pittsburgh Philharmonia, served as General Manager of Music at Gretna (chamber music and jazz), and as General Director of Mississippi Opera. In the Bay Area, he has served as a staff musician for Beach Blanket Babylon and Teatro Zinzanni. He has provided music and vocal direction for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Marin Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Pocket Opera, and many others. He is currently with the Jarvis Conservatory in Napa as Musical Director and host of a monthly concert, special events, and productions.