Jennifer Peringer
Jennifer Peringer is a pianist and arranger whose musical history has been guided by her love for cultural diversity, community service, and creative collaboration.
She performs chamber music from around the world with the Bernal Hill Players, plays piano duets and two piano repertoire with the Magnolia Piano Duo, performs solos in the annual CMC Piano marathon, and accompanies several community choirs in San Francisco, including Coro Solera, Coro de la Treinta, and Coro del Centro Latino.
Jennifer’s background is diverse. She has played with salsa bands in smoky nightclubs, with music hall troupes in riverside pubs, with protest bands in city streets and circus tents, with wild free-improvisation ensembles in artist lofts, with actors in theaters large and small, and with classical chamber music ensembles in concert halls and churches. She particularly loves collaborating with composers, and has been involved in several world premiere performances.
Teaching music has always been a central activity in Jennifer’s life, and she has taught piano and a variety of other classes, such as Latin jazz, chamber music, children’s music camps, and accordion, at the Community Music Center in San Francisco since 2000. She graduated with a Masters in Piano Performance and a K-12 Music Teaching Credential from San Francisco State University, following an undergraduate music degree from the University of London. When she is not playing music she can often be found in her garden pruning trees, in her kitchen cooking for family or friends, or in the park with her Japanese long staff, teaching the martial art Shintaido Bohjutsu.
MARTHA RODRÍGUEZ-SALAZAR
Singer, flutist, conductor and producer Martha Rodríguez-Salazar has been bringing Latin American folk, classical and contemporary music to the Bay Area for more than 15 years. For her outstanding leadership in promoting and developing Mexican music and culture in the Bay Area Martha was recognized as a "Luminary" in 2011 by the Mexican Consulate in SF and as "Excelencia Latina" by LAM and Mundo Fox in 2013.
A native of Mexico City, Martha was classically-trained in both Mexico and Mills College as a concert flutist and opera singer. She has been a faculty member of the Community Music Center since 2000, where she teaches voice, flute, piano, Coro de Cámara, a Mexican Mariachi ensemble, and several older adult choirs. Martha also teaches Mariachi to children and teens as part of the San Francisco Unified School District Mariachi Program.
She currently performs with the Bernal Hill Players, as well as curating the “Día de los Muertos” event at the San Francisco Symphony. When she is not teaching or performing music she loves to sit with her cat, go out to dinner with friends and family, or practice the martial art Shintaido.
Amy Fowler
Leah di tullio
Leah di Tullio began her clarinet journey in Oakland Public Schools and played with the Oakland Youth Orchestra. She then studied painting at U.C. Berkeley, where she joined both the U.C. Chorus and Orchestra. Important clarinet teachers in her life include Rosario Mazzeo, Kalmen Opperman, and her current teacher Jerry Simas.
Leah has played with several local ensembles, such as Bay Area Classical Harmonies, Classical Revolution, the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, and the Awesome Orchestra Collective. She currently plays with the Bernal Hill Players, the Mozart to Mendelssohn Orchestra, and the Sfiato woodwind quintet.
Leah first began playing with the Bernal Hill Players in 2008 and is honored to play with her friends Jennifer and Martha in such a unique and creative group. She also continues to paint, and works in the San Francisco Public Library, where she is happy to be surrounded by many scores, books, and recordings.