Our Friday March 7, 2008 concert will feature soloists Evan Craves and Dan Celidore in performance of the Bach Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe.

By day, Evan Craves is an engineering supervisor for DSI, a Santa Rosa technology company specializing in high-precision optical filters. By night, he is a freelance violinist and composer. He has lived and worked in the Santa Rosa area since graduating from UC Davis in 1998 with Bachelor degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Music. He has studied the violin since his youth with teachers and mentors that include: Donna Lerew, Robert Bloch, Elizabeth Field, Phoebe Craig and Michael Sand. He has also had the good fortune of working on occasion withthe extraordinary musical talents of Marilyn Thompson, Jorja Fleezanis, Jeffrey Thomas and Mark Sokol.

Evan has performed with a number of regional music groups, including the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, UC Davis Baroque Ensemble, Apollo Baroque Orchestra, Symphony of the Redwoods, Bohemian Club Symphony, and the Pacific Collegium. He is a co-founder of The String Quartet (http://thestringquartet.home.comcast.net) and has volunteered with the American Philharmonic Sonoma County since 2000 in a variety of capacities, including a Spring 2007 performance of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1.

Daniel Celidore has been a freelance oboist in the greater Bay Area since graduating from Sonoma State University in 1974, where he studied with Jean Stevens. Over the years he has taken lessons with Jay Light, John DeLancie, John Mack, Mark Lifschey, and Wayne Rapier. He is currently Adjunct Oboe Instructor for Sonoma State University, and maintains a studio of oboe students varying in age from ten years old to seventy-plus years of age. Mr. Celidore's students play in some of the major youth orchestras in Northern California, including the Santa Rosa Youth Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Some former students are now attending conservatories and have begun their musical careers.

Mr. Celidore has coached the wind sections of the three Santa Rosa Symphony youth orchestras, as well as oboe players at Analy High and Maria Carillo High School. In the summer, he teaches recorder, recorder ensemble, and general musicianship for the Napa Valley Music Association.

Daniel has performed in venues including the Santa Rosa Symphony with Corrick Brown, the Cinnabar Opera, the Sonoma Opera, the St. Helena Chamber singers, and the Sonoma County Chorus, as well as opera productions and shows at Sonoma State University and Napa Valley College. He has performed for years with the American Philharmonic, Sonoma County, and the Nota Bene Baroque Ensemble.

Mr. Celidore is the conductor of the Sonoma County Recorder Society. He has played shawm in the Queen's Band at the Renaissance Faire, and has performed with Nota Bene on the baroque period oboe.