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Pianist Laura Dahl has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic, Davies Symphony Hall, the Henley Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Tanglewood Music Festival, and the San Francisco Stern Grove Festival. The first musician to be named a German Chancellor’s Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Dahl is currently a member of the music faculty at Stanford University. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Dahl has taught at the New National Theatre Young Artists Training Program in Tokyo, Japan, and is a former music associate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In association with the San Francisco Opera Center, Dahl was an Assistant Conductor for Western Opera Theater and a member of the Merola Opera Program. She is the founder and artistic director of the A. Jess Shenson Recital Series at Stanford University and the Music by the Mountain chamber music festival in northern California.

Mezzo-soprano Sally Porter Munro Mezzo-soprano Sally Porter Munro is a native of London, England and a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England. While living in England she sang with the English National Opera, Royal Opera de la Monnaie in Brussels, the BBC Singers on radio and television, and as oratorio soloist in Europe.

Since moving to San Francisco, Ms. Munro has sung with the San Francisco Opera, Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Pocket Opera, Berkeley Opera, North Bay Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Bear Valley Music Festival, and the Lake Tahoe Festival. Ms. Munro's ecent concerts include recitals in New York City, London, Capetown (South Africa), and St. Petersburg (Russia). She enjoys collaborating with contemporary composers and has premiered many new works by Allen Shearer, Marge Wheeler, Louise P. Canepa, and Ian Venables.

Ms. Munro has an extensive singing teaching practice in San Francisco where she is a faculty member of the San Francisco Girls' Chorus. She is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. She is a founder and associate director of the Chamber Music by the Mountain festival.

Soprano Laura Decher Wayte Soprano Laura Decher Wayte has been performing traditional and contemporary opera, orchestral pieces, choral, and chamber music for over 10 years. She has performed roles and been the soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Symphony, Nevada Opera, Mendocino Music Festival, Berkeley Opera, and Diablo Valley Symphony among others. She has also given many solo recitals of art songs, including several world premiers of contemporary compositions. In 2000, Ms. Wayte sang the world premier in Amsterdam with The Nieuw Ensemble of a piece for voice and chamber orchestra written by her husband, composer Lawrence Wayte. Her singing can be heard on a recording of composer D’Arcy Reyhold’s music entitled The Past Keeps Changing (Dharma Gate Music). Ms. Wayte’s singing has been consistently praised for its lyric expressiveness and rich tonal qualities. Originally from Seattle and a former newspaper reporter for the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, Laura graduated with a Master's Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she was awarded Outstanding Achievement in Opera Performance. She recently moved with her family to Eugene, Oregon.

Baritone Kenneth Goodson specializes in oratorio and recital repertoire. Critics praise his singing as "poignantly serene and beautiful" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and as "masterful, with beautiful tonal quality as well as intelligent, movingly insightful text interpretations" (Oakland Tribune).

Past engagements include Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms) and War Requiem (Britten) at Davies Symphony Hall with the San Francisco Choral Society, Die Schöne Magelone (Brahms) as a Carmel Music Society Series Artist, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) with Berkeley Opera. Goodson appears frequently with Stanford University ensembles, most recently with the Stanford Choruses and the Peninsula Symphony in Carmina Burana (Orff).

Goodson's training includes a year of study with German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and he spent two summers as a voice fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Goodson is a Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford, where he teaches heat transfer.

The Albany Consort started performing in 1974 in London, at Christ Church, Albany Street. The group's repertoire spans the period 1550 - 1750, with occasional forays into earlier and later centuries. Most performances now use period instruments. Husband and wife team Jonathan Salzedo and Marion Rubinstein organize and direct the ensemble. The Albany Consort was based in London until 1981, when Jonathan left England, and is now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Specializing in oratorio and recital repertoire, critics praise his singing as "poignantly serene and beautiful" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and as "masterful, with beautiful tonal quality as well as intelligent, movingly insightful text interpretations" (Oakland Tribune).

The Consort Players:
Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
Marion Rubinstein, recorder
Carol Panofsky, recorder
Mindy Rosenfeld, fute
David Wilson, violin
Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, violin
Felicia Mcfal, viola
Amy Brodo, cello
Roy Whelden, violone

Jonathan Salzedo Since moving to California 25 years ago, the British-born harpsichordist has become a popular collaborator with leading Bay Area orchestras (Jubilate, San Francisco and Monterey Symphonies, Classical Philharmonic), choruses (Soli Deo Gloria, Baroque Choral Guild, Coro Hispano) and ensembles (Whole Noyse, Santa Cruz Chamber Players, Four Spices). With his wife Marion Rubinstein, he co-directs the Albany Consort, now in its 33rd year, which tackles the entire spectrum of baroque music from duos to opera. He performs new music (Richard Worn Ensemble, Latin American Chamber Music Society) and works with innovative soloists (Karen Bentley, Viviana Guzman) creating varied programs using the harpsichord in new contexts (tango, new age). Once a maker of instruments, Jonathan still enjoys the challenges of moving harpsichords (generally single-handedly) and tuning them (he is an expert on early tuning systems). He has two children who are both fine musicians. In his spare time, he runs a software consulting business.

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