Organ/Harpsichord

Community Music Center Chamber Music Ensembles

Whether you are an advanced beginner or an accomplished amateur musician, CMC’s chamber music program offers an opportunity to develop your musicianship and technique as well as the chance to play with others. Groups are composed of two to five students of compatible levels. Advanced beginners and intermediate students will focus on developing basic ensemble skills, intonation, tone quality, and rhythmic accuracy. Advanced students will study important aspects of ensemble playing, including interpretation and performance techniques.

Community Music Center Creative Expresson & Injury Prevention for Musicians

This group class uses Body-Mind Centering and Feldenkrais methods to facilitate creative expression. It is an inquiry into the relationship between the body and the mind through movement, guided attention and non-verbal dialogue. This work can create fertile ground for new performance material and improvisation. In the process students may find improvements in breathing, tone, coordination and technical proficiency as well as prevent and rehabilitate injuries.Students should bring their instruments if they have one and a piece of music to play or compose at the end of each class.

Charlene Brendler

Charlene enjoys teaching motivated students of all ages & abilities. Although specializing in early keyboards, she has kept an active private piano studio in the Bay Area & she has developed an Music History course that is integrated into the Berkeley Crowden School curriculum.

Sandra Soderlund

I am primarily an organist although I also perform on harpsichord, clavichord, and both early and modern piano. I am an eclectic player, performing music from earliest times to the present. I have also been a church musician, so understand the specific demands of that profession.

My main interest has been in the history of keyboard technique on which I have written a book, "How Did They Play? How Did They Teach?" I use and teach a variety of techniques to suit the music being studied. All of my ideas are based upon primary source material in keyboard playing.

Eric Howe

Eric Howe is a frequent guest soloist, chorister, conductor, and piano and organ accompanist for many groups, and is also in demand as a clinician and adjudicator. As well as private teaching (currently online), Eric taught Vocal Physiology and Pedagogy at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Holy Names University, and at HNU taught conducting, organ, and conducted the HNU Chamber Singers. He has been Cal-Western regional NATS governor, was president of the SF Bay Area chapter of NATS and chaired its annual Singing Festival.

David Schofield

David Schofield serves as Music Director at St. Francis Lutheran Church and Organist for St. Savior's Anglican Community in San Francisco. He continues his work as General Editor of the NDC Editions for C.F. Peters Corporation www.ndceditions.com, which provides scores of the renaissance repertory for modern usage.