Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio, Op. 120
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
Amy Zanrosso’s playing has been hailed as expressive, magnetic, and masterful, but since no one at the New York Times has said this, she’s not allowed to put it in quotes. Thanks to her attentive and industrious Italian immigrant mom, piano lessons started at the age of 6, and by the age of 15, Amy had decided to make music her life.
As a soloist, Amy is addicted to the thrill of performing with an orchestra. Since 2016, concerto repertoire, similar to chamber music but on steroids, has forced her to push her limits, helping make her into the confident and electrifying player she always hoped to be. She has appeared as a soloist with the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Symphony of the Kootenays, the Russian Chamber Orchestra, the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Symphony of the Redwoods, and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. Her intense love of chamber music has led her to more fully admire and explore her favorite composers while sharing the experience with countless inspiring, dedicated players and appreciative audiences.
Like performing, Amy finds teaching to be a highly rewarding part of a musician’s life. She is a faculty member and chamber music coach at the Pre-College Academy of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA.
She is constantly fueled by her fantastically inspiring students and enjoys forcing her favorite composers on them as well as telling them what to do. Amy is looking forward to all the superb music, musicians, students, and enthusiastic audiences that will come her way in the future. Many thanks to Beethoven and Brahms for inspiring her to come this far – she wouldn’t change a thing. For more information, please visit www.amyzanrosso.com.
Randall Weiss, violin, made his solo violin debut performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto as a winner of the Victoria, B.C. Concerto Competition. For 17 years, he was Assistant Concertmaster of the San Jose Symphony and a regular substitute Concertmaster. He is currently Assistant Concertmaster of Symphony Silicon Valley, one of America’s newest symphony orchestras. Mr. Weiss has also appeared with the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Louisville Orchestra. He has served as Assistant Concertmaster of the Music in the Mountains Festival as well as Concertmaster and soloist with the Santa Cruz County Symphony. His international performances include service as Concertmaster of the AIMS Orchestra in Graz, Austria. Mr. Weiss trained with Paul Kling at the University of Victoria and the University of Louisville, with Tadeusz Wronski at Indiana University School of Music, and with Sylvia Rosenberg at The Peabody Conservatory. During the summer of 1998, he performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the acclaimed Eastern Music Festival, where he has been a faculty member since 1989. In 1999, Mr. Weiss founded Music in the Mishkan, a chamber music series at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav in San Francisco. He is also an avid runner, hiker, skier, and swimmer, and has completed three marathons. Contact: randyviolin@gmail.com
Natalia Vershilova, viola, was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where she studied with the renowned violist, Professor Yuri Kramarov. While still a student at the Conservatory, she played with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mali Opera Theater of Leningrad. She was awarded first prize at the “Competition for the performance of works by Soviet Composers” in Leningrad. Ms. Vershilova has performed as a recitalist and as a member of the Foyer Des Artistes Chamber Orchestra in Rome, Italy. After emigrating to the United States, she performed with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of New York and as a member of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, with whom she appeared as a soloist in Mozart’s Symphonie Concertante. Ms. Vershilova is presently a member of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Sinfonia San Francisco and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She has served as Principal Violist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Symphony, and the Russian Chamber Orchestra. Ms Vershilova has also performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the Elixir Chamber Ensemble. For more than twenty years, a resident of San Francisco, she frequently performs with various ensembles throughout the Bay Area. Contact: violaasif@juno.com
Victoria Ehrlich, cello, was born in Texas and received her musical education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and summer programs at Interlochen, Aspen, and Tanglewood. Her teachers include Robert Marsh, Bernard Greenhouse, and Robert Gardner. Before joining the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in 1984, she performed with the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and served as principal cellist with the Symphonies of Omaha, Richmond, VA, and Phoenix. Ms. Ehrlich has performed with such disparate groups as the San Francisco Ballet and Symphony, New Century Chamber Orchestra, California and Berkeley Symphonies, Lamplighters, Composer’s Inc, and Pocket Opera, and is an active chamber musician, appearing regularly with the percussion group Adesso, the Gold Coast Chamber Players, the Fath Chamber Players, and the Ariel String Quartet. Recent work includes collaboration with poets and composers under the auspices of the American Composers’ Forum. Contact: vickyehrlich@gmail.com
