Sarah Young is a freelance oboist and oboe teacher in the greater Providence
area. After earning her Master's Degree in Music Performance from DePaul
University, Chicago, in 2000, she spent the next three years playing oboe
and English horn full-time with professional orchestras in Monterrey and
Guanajuato, Mexico. She moved home to her native New England in 2003, where
she now plays principal oboe in the Rhode Island Philharmonic Community
Orchestra and performs regularly with her quartet, Ocean Winds, and with
the Rhode Island Wind Orchestra and Rhode Island College Wind Ensemble.
Holder of dual bachelor's degrees in Music and Civil Engineering from Stanford
University, Sarah also teaches Mathematics and Music at Lincoln School
in Providence and coaches chamber music at the Music Institute at Rhode
Island College; in her copious free time, she sings in the choir at Trinity
Episcopal Church in Pawtuxet Village, and occasionally finds time to bake
a mean flourless chocolate torte.
William
Ouimette (recorders)
William Ouimette attended the Hartford Conservatory of Music from 1967-69,
studying recorder with John Kelsey, percussion with Tele Lesbines, and
theory with Howard Parsons. He studied recorder in the spring of 1974 at
the Hartt College of Music with Gordon Smith. He completed a Bachelor of
Music at the University of Rhode Island in 1978, studying recorder with
Dov Jaron. In the spring of 1978 Mr Ouimette studied recorder performance
of 18th century music with Bernard Krainis of the New York Recorder Guild
in New York City. From the 1970s and to the present Mr Ouimette has performed
recorder concerts in Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and with the San Diego Renaissance Fair in Tempe, AZ in 1981. He is also
a freelance photographer.
Charles Cofone (piano)
Charles Cofone studied Early Music (harpsichord concentration) at Hartt
College of Music with Joseph Iadone, lutenist with the New York Pro Musica.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Rhode Island
and Masters degree in Library and Information Studies, also from the University
of Rhode Island. He
has published two music volumes, both with Dover Publications,
New York - Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall Booke (editing and transcription
of British Museum Additional MS 10337, a 1656 commonplace book),
and Favorite Christmas Carols (arrangements
of traditional songs and carols). Mr. Cofone also has had
a thirty(+) year career in composing, editing, arranging, musical directing
and sound production for the theatre in university, summer, regional
and Off Off-Broadway theatres. He is currently the resident musical
director and sound designer for the Gamm
Theater. He was a music teacher
at Lincoln School in Providence, RI for a number of years, then held
the position of Director of Technology and is currently the Director
of Operational Affairs. He
is a devoted Sacred Harp singer (http://www.ri-sacredharp.net).
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