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Director - Bill O'Neill
Choir director, opera singer, director of youth theater productions — Bill O'Neill brings a spectacular range of talents to his new position as music director of Peninsula Cantare.
Bill began his musical career at age five in the church choir directed by his father, and he has gone on to perform as a soloist in many theater productions, operas, and choral performances. He is currently music minister at Messiah Lutheran Church and director of Redwood City Community Youth Theater.
Bill holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, training as an opera singer under Leroy Kromm and Catherine Cook.
Accompanist - Eric Weg
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1976, he took to the piano at age six and was immediately hooked. After five years of study under Maria Cisyk, he made his concert debut in 1991 with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra in Symphony Space, New York City. Graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 1994, he continued his music education at the wonderful Oberlin Convervatory in the studio of Sedmara Rutstein and was then admitted into the graduate collaborative piano program at the Juilliard School, where he had the pleasure and privilege of working with some of the greatest musicians in the world. In 2001 he turned his energy to teaching, and have been in private practice ever since.Director Emeritus - Janice Gunderson
Janice Gunderson became the second director of the Peninsula Master Chorale (renamed Peninsula Cantare) in January 1997 after serving as the accompanist since 1986. After 15 very successful years, she retired as director in December 2011.
Singers
Sopranos- Susan Breuer
- Pamela Eaken
- Shirley Fitzgerald
- Roxanne Fornells
- Karen Gernand
- Toby Goldberg
- Debby Hamburger
- Vicki Hanson
- Kriss Ibrahim
- Sharon Rice
- Gae Sares
- Ruth Sitton
- Joanne Sun
- Lenore Wilkas
- Lyndesay Adams
- Eryl Aynsley
- Leslie Cardiasmenos
- Jean Cole
- Suzanne Farbstein
- Ellen Hill
- Victoria Jayswal
- Kay Johnson
- Miriam Kaplan
- Marilyn Michaelson
- Kathy Nebel
- Paula Ondricek
- Laura Pearce
- Robyn Peters
- Diane Reeve
- Pamela Schwarz
- Katie Sears
- Patricia Steuer
- Carol Vollen
- Bob Adams
- Larry Baer
- Max Capestany
- John Farbstein
- Jamie Gaskin
- Emery Gordon
- Joseph Kresse
- Paul Reeve
- Ruth Wilkins
- Bernie Buice
- Ronald Clazie
- John Friesen
- Peter Gunderson
- Ronald Hodges
- Gene Hogenauer
- Robert Janssen
- Mark Loy
- Dave Peters
- Robert Peterson
- Paul Wendt
- Charlie Zimmerman
Founding Director - Carl Sitton
Carl Sitton founded the Peninsula Master Chorale (now Peninsula Cantare) in 1968 and directed it until his death in 1996. He was head of the voice and choral departments at Cañada College, Redwood City, California. He was known widely in the United States as a choral conductor and composer. A student of the French composer, Darius Mihaud, he published over twenty five compositions and arrangements, as well as nine commissioned scores for theater and dance and two anthems commissioned by Woodside Village Church for their centennial celebration in 1993. He was president of the Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and appeared as a conductor at the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association.
. Last update 7 December 2011.