Biographies

Monica Scott, cellist, has had a varied career of solo, chamber music and orchestral work on both sides of the Atlantic. After completing her studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, she received her soloist’s diploma from the Sweelinck Conservatoruium in Amsterdam. Monica has played at numerous festivals in Germany and Switzerland, as well as Prussia Cove in England and Sarasota in Florida. After an artist residency at the Banff Centre, Monica performed for four seasons with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa in Portugal, a position which included performing over 50 concerts per year with the Alcantara Quartet. During this time she was also a featured soloist with the Orquestra Metropolitana, performing concertos under the baton of Eduardo Alonzo Crespo, with whom she has also performed Dvorak and Haydn concertos in Argentina. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1997, Monica has concentrated on the presentation of little known twentieth century repertoire, and programming mixed recitals both on modern and baroque cello. Formerly the cellist in the Del Sol String Quartet, Monica performed countless premieres in that capacity, helping to develop an artistic vision for the ensemble which led to two consecutive Chamber Music America/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. Monica has performed with Composer’s Inc and the Composer’s Alliance, is a member of the SfsoundGroup, and also has a duo with her mother, pianist Irene Schreier. She teaches cello both privately and in the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Hailed for her "...lively and exhilarating..." pianism (San Francisco Classical Voice), Pianist Hadley McCarroll appears regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, United States, and internationally as a solo and collaborative artist, opera coach, and clinician. Ms. McCarroll enjoys collaborations with local companies San Francisco Opera and Opera Center, Festival Opera, Opera San José, Berkeley Opera, North Bay Opera, West Bay Opera, Oakland Opera Theater, San Francisco Lyric Opera, Golden Gate Opera, and BASOTI (Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute.) She is also on the faculty of Peninsula Teen Opera, a company of teens performing opera for teens. Under the baton of maestro Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, she has served as musical preparer for concert performances of operas by Elliott Carter and Phillip Manoury. In the spring of 2007 she will assist in preparing Unsuk Chin's work Sopranica Cantatrix, a chamber work for two sopranos and countertenor. In addition to running her own private piano and coaching studios in Oakland, she has served on the piano faculty of the Community Music Center since 1997. While at the Center, Ms. McCarroll has sat on the faculty council, been awarded three faculty enrichment grants, and has twice been presented on the Shenson Faculty Series. An active chamber musician, Ms. McCarroll has received an individual artist grant from the City of Oakland to perform concertos for piano and chamber wind ensemble. As a member of the acclaimed Bay Area vocal-instrumental trio The Mirage Ensemble, she has presented chamber music masterclasses and concerts at the Northwestern University School of Music. Ms. McCarroll currently resides in Oakland with Matt Ingalls, a local composer/clarinetist.