David Alban * J. Jeff Badger * Katie Bank * John Bischoff *
Jesse Buddington * Paula Chacon * Elizabeth Douthitt Sharp *
Elisabeth Eliassen * Twila Ehmcke * Jeff Fields *
Irene Gallardo * Corey Head * Alice N. Ko * Rita Lilly *
Raymond Martinez * Emil Martinsek * Lisa May *
Katherine McKee * Samuel Palmer * Diana Pray *
Jane Rieder * Bill Treddway * Maria West * Helene Zindarsian *
A percussionist, a published composer and arranger, and an ordained Presbyterian minister, he also teaches music at Stuart Hall for Boys, third through eighth grade, and directs two boy choirs. Once a member of the directing staff of the internationally renowned San Francisco Boys Chorus, he appears on occasion with them still. During the fall of 2004 Mr. Jolly was Composer-in-Residence at San Francisco’s School for the Arts, composing two commissioned pieces, To Be Read at a Funeral and The Oath, which were subsequently performed at the school.
Previously a guest conductor with San Francisco Renaissance Voices, he became the group’s regular music director August 2005.
Katherine McKee, Assistant Music Director
Ms. McKee holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education and a Master's degree with honors in Choral Conducting from the New England Conservatory and has directed choirs, community orchestras and opera, and school groups since her college years. In the Boston area she directed the children's, youth and adult choirs at Hanscom Air Force Base's Protestant Chapel, taught stringed instruments and conducted orchestras in the Somerset (MA) public schools and served as assistant conductor for the Jamaica Plain Symphony Orchestra. In New York she founded and directed the chamber group Premier, which focused on newly composed works for a cappella voices, and served as an assistant conductor for the Gregg Smith Singers and at St. Bartholomew's Church.
In the San Francisco Bay Area she has served on the conducting faculty of the San Francisco Boys Chorus, as chorus master, prompter and music director for San Francisco Lyric Opera, and as music director of Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church in Noe Valley.
As a singer she is much in demand as an oratorio soloist, and appears regularly with the San Francisco Opera Chorus, American Bach Soloists, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, and the chorale of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Ms. McKee teaches private vocal students who perform throughout the Bay Area including members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Opera Chorus, San Francisco Choral Society, Woodminster Theater, and Lamplighters Music Theatre.
J. Jeff Badger, Executive Director
Currently, Mr. Badger is also Managing Director
of Seventh Avenue Performances (San Francisco)
and Concerts House Manager for Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra. Previously he was Director
of Development for American Bach Soloists. He has worked as a
Development Officer with San Francisco Opera, and as Managing Director/Board President of the California Bach Society. Additionally, he has served on various non-profit boards including serving five years on the San Francisco Mayor’s Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities, and as Executive Chair of the committee for four of those years. He is perhaps best know to Early Music audiences, performing throughout the Bay Area over the past 25 years as a baritone soloist and chorister with various vocal groups including American Bach Soloists, Carmel Bach Festival, the California Bach Society and San Francisco Bach Choir.
Irene Gallardo, Coordinator of Educational Programs
Soprano Irene Gallardo has sung with San Francisco Renaissance Voices since
the group began in 2004. Currently she also teaches general music and
develops curriculum as Music Program Director and Supervisor with
Rhythm & Moves, an independent company that provides music and physical
education to public and private schools. She is a certified music teacher in the
State of California and additionally serves as cantor for Our Lady of the Way Side and St. Denis, in Portola Valley, CA. She holds a BA in Music Education from Bethany College and making music education available to a broad range of communities is her personal passion.
