Category: Staff
-
Jacobsen, Sascha Jacobsen
Sascha Jacobsen was born into a musical family, going as far back as his great, great, great, great-grandfather, who was a bassist for the Moscow Opera. Sascha has performed with Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Martin Short, Peter Gabriel, Josh Groban, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Bobby McFerrin, Darren Criss & Amber Riley (of Glee), Eddie Duran,…
-
Pitt-Smith, Zack Pitt-Smith
Zack Pitt-Smith has been performing in the Bay Area music scene for 15 years as a woodwinds multi-instrumentalist. Most significantly, Falso Baiano, his ensemble that plays Brazilian choro music, has performed at SF Jazz, Yoshi’s, and LA County Museum of Art. He currently teaches music in Oakland at a public middle school and teaches out of his studio…
-
Ogilby, Les Ogilby
Les Ogilby was an elementary school teacher for 37 years. and every year he would teach all of his students to play harmonica. Les and Mike Volk have taught many harmonica classes together at CAZ for the past several years. Les plays blues harp with the Blues Street Band in the Southern California area. Les…
-
Brown, Amy Brown
Amy likes to think of art as construction– each medium is a building block used to turn an idea in your head into something you can hold in your hands. With fabric as her main medium, she loves to make unconventional stuffed objects (animal, vegetable AND mineral). Amy also finds joy in embroidery, needle-felting, ceramics, puppetry and costuming. The main driving…