On Leaving
Music for Parting and Passage
February 27, 28, March 1
Tenor Corey Head specializes in early music with a special affinity to J.S. Bach. His solo concert performances include The Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion, as well as tenor soloist in his Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, B-Minor Mass, and many of his cantatas. Other oratorio roles include Uriel in Haydn’s Creation, “The Evening” in Telemann’s Die Tageszeiten, and tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah.
Corey has appeared with CBS as tenor soloist in the Biber Requiem and Steffani Stabat Mater, as well as the recent Christmas concert. He has also performed solos in Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, William Boyce’s Solomon: A Serenata, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, and Mozart’s C Minor Mass.
Operatic performances include the roles of Ferrando in Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea, and Mordocai in Cristiano Lidarti’s Hebrew setting of Esther. Corey has performed as soloist with many San Francisco Bay Area groups including Albany Consort, Bay Choral Guild, Chora Nova, Marin Baroque, Marin Oratorio, San Francisco Choral Society, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, San Francisco Symphony, Stanford Choirs and Orchestras, and Viva La Musica. He performs regularly in the chorale with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale.
David Morris, Baroque cello, has performed across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He is a member of Quicksilver and the Bertamo Trio and has been a continuo player for the Boston Early Music Festival since 2013. He is a frequent guest performer on the New York State Early Music Association and Pegasus Early Music series and has performed with Tafelmusik, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He has been a guest instructor in historical performance practice at Cornell University and Oberlin College and has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, CBC/Radio-Canada, and New Line Cinema.
Farley Pearce, violone, is a San Francisco musician who plays viols, violone, cello, and contrabass. He has performed with the Baroque orchestras of Vancouver, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and is a member of the Voices of Music ensemble and the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols. He also has appeared with American Bach Society, Archetti, Magnificat!, Musica Pacifica, Marin Baroque, and the Albany Consort, as well as symphony orchestras in the Bay Area and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. His frequent recitals have featured old and new music for period contrabass as well as late 18th century music for viol and fortepiano.
Stacey Pelinka, flute, is a founding member of the Eco Ensemble and a longtime member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. She plays principal flute with San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program productions and the Midsummer Mozart Festival, second flute with the Berkeley Symphony and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and piccolo with the Santa Rosa Symphony. Stacey serves as flute instructor at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and teaches baroque flute at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. A native of the Bay Area, Stacey attended Cornell University and the San Francisco Conservatory, where she studied with Timothy Day.
Yuko Tanaka, organ, a native of Tokyo, Japan, is active as soloist and ensemble performer on harpsichord, fortepiano and chamber organ. Yuko performs with ensembles including Bertamo Trio, Music of the Spheres, Archetti, Musica Pacifica, and has recorded with Moscow Chamber Orchestra and American Bach Soloists. She also performed with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and most recently with the Seattle Symphony performing Bach’s D major Harpsichord Concerto. For 15 years, Yuko was a soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival. Yuko directs Music Discovery Workshop (a program of the San Francisco Early Music Society), maintains a private studio, conducts master classes, and appears as guest lecturer at various universities. Notable engagements include performances at the Frick Collection (New York City), Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany) and the Istanbul International Music Festival. Yuko received a Doctor in Musical Arts (DMA) in early music from Stanford University and has studied with Margaret Fabrizio at Stanford University, Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Ketil Haugsand in Oslo, Norway.