Faculty Members

Jeannette Isenberg

Violin Workshops, Intermezzo String Orchestra

Ms. Isenberg holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music and divides her time between teaching and performance. She has diverse musical talents: she plays violin with the Santa Rosa Symphony, classical chamber ensembles, jazz combos and country swing bands.

Ivy Zenobi

Chamber Ensembles & Violin Workshops

Ms. Zenobi received her Bachelor in Music from the University of Colorado at Boulder in violin performance and a Masters in viola performance from the University of Toronto, Canada. She has performed in the Aspen Music Festival and School & the Banff Center for the Arts. Ivy performs regularly with Santa Rosa Symphony as well as other Bay Area Orchestras and rock bands on both violin and viola. Ms. Zenobi became Suzuki Certified under the tutelage of Dr. William Starr and most recently was chosen to attend the Starling-Delay Violin Symposium held at The Juilliard School. Ivy has a private studio of over 35 students and teaches a strings ensemble (String Beans) at Sonoma Academy.
 

Karen Zimmerman

Prelude String Orchestra

Ms. Zimmernam holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music from the Juilliard School. While in New York, Karen played with the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera along with appearing with various chamber ensembles throughout the city. She now plays with the Santa Rosa Symphony along with other local orchestras, has an active teaching schedule and is the Librarian for the Santa Rosa Symphony.

Robert Bowman

Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Theory & Improvisation

We are delighted to have Robert Bowman with us for another great year of Summer Music Academy, directing the Jazz Band and teaching Jazz Theory and Improvisation.
 
 

Pam Otsuka

Violin Workshops

Pam Otsuka graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in violin performance. Upon graduating, she performed in the Hidden Valley Opera Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, performing with Roy Malan. She has performed with Ukiah Symphony as Assistant Concertmaster, Symphony of the Redwoods as Principal Viola and Principal Second Violin, and the Sonoma County Philharmonic as Principal Viola and Acting Concertmaster. She has performed with many theater groups, including Transcendence Theater, Sixth Street Playhouse, Spreckles Theater and Raven Theater in Healdsburg.

She has been teaching  Beginning, Advanced and Junior High Orchestra classes at Rincon Valley Unified School District since 2014. She founded and has conducted the Windsor String Orchestra since 2013. She has been giving private lessons in the Sonoma County area since 2008. She has also taught with the Overture Project in Healdsburg, strings coach for Analy High School in Sebastopol, and strings clinician at the Santa Rosa Junior College.
 
 

Joyce Park

Cello Workshops, Kinderviolin

Joyce Park was born in Seoul, Korea and moved to Piedmont, CA at the age of 10. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Cello Performance at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received her Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and Music Education at California State University, Sacramento where she was a student of Andrew Luchansky. At Sacramento State she was the winner of the 2014 concerto competition and performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra as well as being an apprentice teacher in the String Project. For the past five years, she has been teaching privately in the Sacramento area and is also the private cello instructor at Norcal Music & Arts studio and at New World Music Academy. She is currently the cellist in the Mersonacta Quartet where she performs throughout California. Aside from cello, she is an active pianist and is currently the piano accompanist at the S.A. Church in Sunnyvale.

 
 

Chris Pimental

Guitar Workshops

I have been a professional Musician since 1989. I have worked with many different acts, in many different styles. I tend to pride myself on my ability to play different styles convincingly, as well as playing bass. Although I try to remain musically diverse, my true love is Jazz Guitar.

Some names I have worked with: Michael Feinstein, Bobby Caldwell (What you won‘t do),R & B great Al Wilson (Show and Tell) Little Anthony (Tears on my Pillow), The Coasters, The Drifters, the Platters, The Mills Brothers, David Pack (Ambrosia), The Reycards, Timothy B. Schmidt (the Eagles), Patrick Simmons (Doobie Bros.) Rich Little, Ernie Watts, Mel Martin, Bennett Freidman, Mel Graves, Randy Vincent, Peter Welker, George Cables, John Stowell, Julian Lage, Sam Andrew (Big Brother and the Holding Co.) Linda Tillery, Tommy Tutone, Melvin Seals of JGB, (Formerly the Jerry Garcia Band).

Bay Area Dance Bands: Dick Bright Orchestra, Encore, Big City Review, City Lights, Full Motion, Black Market Jazz Orchestra, Rich Martini Orchestra, Chuck Wansley’s After Hours, Mustache Harbor, Tainted Love

Broadway Musicals: Mama Mia, The Full Monty, Wicked, Hairspray, The Color Purple, Annie, The Jersey Boys, Disney’s High School Musical, Grease, and Spamalot, Cats, the off Broadway San Francisco Production of “Love Janis,” and the Broadway Sacramento-Music Circus Presentation of “Big River.” I have also performed with the Marin Symphony and Sun Valley Summer Symphony performances of “Pixar in Concert,” And most recently the Sun Valley Summer Symphony Gala Concert Featuring Audra McDonald.

Katie Austin

Kindermusicianship and Choirs

Kathleen Austin is currently the choir director at both SunRidge School and Sebastopol Independent Charter School. Kathleen moved to Sebastopol from the East Coast, where she directed the Apprentice Program at the American Boychoir School in New Jersey and instituted vocal and piano programs for young children in Virginia and New York State. Kathleen is a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey with a B.M. in Music Education. As a teacher, she believes in building a strong foundation in musical skills and musical literacy through songs, games, and joyful music making.

Lennie Moore

Video Game Music Ensemble

For decades Lennie Moore has been a proven force as an accomplished composer, arranger and orchestrator of music for videogames, commercials, film, and television. His credits include Outcast: Second Contact, artist music packs for DOTA2: The International 2016 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Fighter Within, Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Halo Combat Evolved 10th Anniversary, Halo 2 Anniversary, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, The Walking Dead Motion Comic, Watchmen Motion Comic, MTG: Duels of the Planeswalkers, Dirty Harry, Dragonshard, and War of the Ring.

Lennie has also developed and taught Composition as an adjunct professor for USC, UCLA Extension, and currently at the Technology and Applied Composition program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Andrew Emer

Andrew Emer studied String bass with Peter Rofe (Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Charlie Haden (John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman) and received a Masters of Arts degree from New York University(NYU) 2000. As a string bassist, Andrew has performed, toured & recorded with; Branford Marsalis, Bob Weir (Grateful dead) Lee Konitz, Stefon Harris, Roy Hargrove, Ben Vereen, Donald Byrd, Billy Higgins, Slide Hampton, Buddy Collett, Gabriel McNear ( No Doubt, Green day) and the mutli Platinum selling artist – Black Slate.  Andrew has taught college clinics and workshops at the National conservatory of Sydney, Australia. The Brussells Conservatory, Antwerp, Belgium. Biblioteca Nacional of Bilbao, Spain. Melbourne University, The California Jazz conservatory and Sonoma State University.