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The Music Department faculty is made up of professional performing musicians, composers, and distinguished specialists whose understanding of music allows them to provide a friendly, encouraging, and serious atmosphere in which students may try out new things, study, grow, and develop.
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Mary A Argenti B.A., Dominican University |
Professor Argenti has been teaching music at CCSF for over twenty-five years. Her educational goal is to share her knowledge and experience in the field of vocal performance as well as instill a love of music and learning in her students. Her performance experience has been in Renaissance and Baroque music as well as 19th Century Parlour Music.
Professor Argenti has been the head of the CCSF Concert & Lecture Committee, on the boards of Chanticleer and Avedis chamber music organizations, and a member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Presently she is on City College’s committee for a new Performing Arts Center on the Ocean Campus.
Scuba diving, gardening, cooking and traveling are some of Ms. Argenti's hobbies.
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Harry Bernstein Older Adults Department |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Anthony Blea M.A., Manhattan School of Music |
Professor Blea has been teaching at CCSF since 2007.
His goal is to impart upon his students a love of music through verbal means, performance and rehearsing varied genres of music.
Professor Blea self-produced a CD, "Virgen De La Caridad!! Anthony Blea y su Choranga.
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Robert P Bozina B.A., Santa Clara University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Mr. Bozina has performed as a guitarist througout the United States and Italy. He has recorded for Vanguard and Terra Nova Records.
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Lennis Jay Carlson B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.A.T. , Portland State University |
Lenny Carlson teaches History of Jazz and Guitar Improvisation Workshop. A composer, arranger, guitarist and author, he is an eclectic artist whose upbringing in a family of classical musicians and lifelong affinity for jazz have been twin pervasive influences on his music. He is currently arranger, producer, and accompanist for Bay Area jazz vocalist Millicent Wood, while active on the freelance music scene. He also teaches in the Music/Recording Industry Program at San Francisco State University.
Mr. Carlson has recorded both original jazz compositions and arrangements and jazz influenced, original classical works. He has produced two critically-acclaimed jazz albums of his original guitar music, Search for the Floor and In the Mud . One selection, from his second recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Composition. His Mood Indigo duet with Ry Cooder was featured on Almost Everybody Slides , an anthology album of notable slide guitar performers. He contributed guitar parts and solo arrangements to Ry Cooder's Jazz album. He has composed, arranged and recorded several notable pieces for string quartet, as well as works for marimba and other unusual instrumentation.
Mr. Carlson designed music and sound effects for video games in the early 1980s, winning many Best Music/Best Sound Effects industry awards. He has since composed for theatre, videos, and films. He has authored 15 books of guitar transcriptions and historical and analytical text for Mel Bay and other publishing companies. His works on John Lee Hooker, Lonnie Johnson, and Willie Dixon are housed in scholarly collections at universities across the United States.
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Lap-Yan Chui B.A., Arizona State University M.A., Cal State East Bay |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Kwaku Daddy B.A., San Francisco State University |
Professor Daddy has been teaching at CCSF since 1983.
He is a member of the Recording Academy, a five time winner of the ASCAP Awards for music, a consultant on African and world music to the California elementary and secondary schools, the California State university system, and the California junior college system.
Professor Daddy has also taught and conducted master percussion workshops at San Francisco State University, the Conservatory of Music, Southern U, Bakersfield College and at the College of the Redwoods. He has released seven albums and has written several musical pieces including "The African Concerto", currently being performed by numerous symphonies across the state of California. He is also the author of the text "The Folklore of Ghana".
Professor Daddy has recorded, performed and co-headlined with Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Randy Weston, Santana, John Handy, Quincy Jones, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Third World, the Paul Winter Consort, and has conducted workshops with the legendary Johnny Otis. He has also performed his African Concerto with the Santa Rosa, Sacramento, El Camino and Bakersfield symphonies.
In African culture, you have to learn the music tradition, whether you're going to be a lawyer, a doctor, or whatever you are going to be. You learn the tradition because it is what contains your folklore, history and philosophy. African society and its history is narrated through music, The music has so much to do with it that you do not do anything in African society without singing or playing music. The music is constantly present.
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Bob Davis B.A., Franklin & Marshall College; B. Mus., San Francisco Conservatory of Music; M.F.A., Mills College Center for Contemporary Music |
During Bob's professional career he has performed in Moscow, composed for Kronos String Quartet, designed sound for the film Vegas in Space , edited books on the San Francisco punk scene, written his own solo show, Banjo , and published interviews with a seventy-year-old female impersonator. He has twice been included in Who's Who America's Teachers , putting him in the 2% included in more than one edition.
A part-time instructor and full-time "freeway flyer," he also teaches music at Solano Community College in Sonoma County and sound design for theater at San Francisco State University.
He has taught music at City College since 1976.
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Helen Dilworth B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
Dr. Dilworth blends successful careers as educator and solo vocalist. She enjoys helping her students to sing the songs they choose, based upon their desires and needs. Dr. Dilworth is able to provide guidance based upon the collective wisdom of research and a wide range of experts with whom she has studied. Her methods allow students to develop their technique and expression, to perform "better, faster and longer."
Nicknamed "Dr. Diva", She has taught in many venues, including community colleges, universities, conservatories, Young Audiences, singing teacher's organizations, musician's associations, California Touring Artists, private lessons, vocal seminars, gospel workshops and choral clinics, in addition to K-12 and service as school principal.
As soprano soloist, Dr. Dilworth has toured Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Puerto Rico, China, and most of the United States. She has won many prizes, including SF Opera Merola awards, NY Metropolitan awards, Austria's Meistersinger title, Queen's Opera and San Jose Music Club awards; plus Getty, Schwabacher, and Saunderson awards. She recorded Gold's Songs of Love and Parting on Cambria records. Mayors Jordan and Brown each declared a "Dr. Helen Dilworth Day" in San Francisco.
Dr. Dilworth's publications and memberships include: "So You Want to Be a Consultant", NATS, MENC, NANM, OMI, SCC Board of Directors, Pilgrim Board of Education, Arts Committee, Ingleside Arts founder,Friends of Negro Spirituals, Bracebridge Singers, Gospel Music Workshop, Young Musicians donor, Friends of the Conservatory, Yachats performer...
She enjoys Concerts, Performing, Theatre, Movies, Parties, Family, Phone, and many more.
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Franz J Enciso B.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., California State University, Berkeley |
Mr. Enciso is a lecturer on the music of Wagner, Richard Strauss and Schubert. He is also an orchestral and choral conductor.
He is a specialist in ear-training, sight-singing, harmony and counterpoint.
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Richard C Fenner B.A. with Distinction in Music, Queens College of the City University of New York |
Professor Fenner has been teaching at CCSF since 1961.
He is a member of the Asian Infusion Committee, the Garden Club, and the Distance Learning Committee.
Professional Fenner's Professional activities include Studio Recording Cellist, Fichten Quartet, Virtuosi of San Francisco, and the Western Opera Theater Orchestra.
His interests include gardening and Buddhism.
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Brian S Fergus B.A., Pennsylvania State University, Los Angeles; M.F.A., Mills College |
Mr. Fergus is a composer and performer of electronic music. He often works in mixed media, composing and performing music for dance, film and theater arts.
He is a percussionist with the San Francisco Symphony and Ballet and has performed at the Curran Theatre and Boston Pops.
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Lawrence Ferrara B.M., M.M., San Francisco Conservatory of Music |
Professor Ferrara has been teaching at CCSF since 1978. Please visit his website at http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lferrara.
He has the distinction of being the first guitarist to receive a master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In addition to teaching as full time music professor at City College of San Francisco, Professor Ferrara also teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and UC Berkeley.
He has performed major recitals in San Francisco, Toronto, Barcelona, Los Angeles and at the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. He has performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Bay Chamber Symphony, the Classical Philharmonic and the San Francisco Conservatory's Chamber Orchestra and New Music Ensemble.
Among many awards, Professor Ferrara was twice prize winner at the Carmel Classic Guitar Competition and received special recognition at the Toronto International Guitar Competition and has served on the Music Advisory Panel to the National Endowment of the Arts. In 2004 he won the California Virtual Campus (CVC) Award for the "Best Online Teaching Website." Professor Ferrara is the author and performer of a sequence of music books titled The Student Repertoire Series for Guitar, with accompanying CD's, published by Guitar Solo of San Francisco and has a solo CD of American Guitar Works on the VGo label.
His educational goal is to expose students to an expressive potential and creative process through the study of music. This is achieved with a positive, open, friendly and encouraging classroom environment.
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Tod N Fleming B.A., San Francisco State University |
Mr. Fleming is the former chair of the Mill Valley School District Music Program.
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Peggy Gorham B.A., San Jose State University |
Professor Gorham has been teaching at CCSF since 1973 and has been a full-time faculty member since 1981.
Professor Gorham has taught elsewhere, including Cal State, East Bay, where she also held the post of Music Director. She has directed musical theater, serving as vocal coach, conductor and pianist for companies such as Magic Theater and 42nd St. Moon. She has accompanied the San Francisco Bach Choir and the American Ragtime Ensemble.
Professor Gorham has been a member of the campus-wide Curriculum Committee for six years. She has a passionate interest in attending theater and film..
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David A Hardiman A.A. Music Education, City College of San Francisco |
Professor Hardiman was born in Indiana and started in elementary school playing piano/trumpet/singing/song writing/performing through high school with bands and local acts. He moved to California in 1980 to pursue his education as an instrumental music teacher. Since 1989, Professor Hardiman taught in the San Francisco, Richmond, and Oakland Unified School Districts as an instrumental music teacher. He started teaching at CCSF Advanced Jazz Band, Jazz History, and the Jazz/Rock Improv Workshop classes in the Spring of 2005. His biggest inspiration has been his Grandmother-Sadie Hardiman, hisMother-Juanita Hardiman, and his Father- David Hardiman, Sr. who taught Jazz at CCSF for 30 years. He also finds inspiration in Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Hargrove, The Jackson Five, Prince, Babyface and After 7 among others.
Professor Hardiman has his own Jazz Quintet. He has also performed with this father's S.F. All-Star Big Band as alead singer and trumpet player since 1983. He has performed domestically and internationally in various arenas, clubs, and hotels. Some of his credits are: the IAJE, African American Jazz Caucus Dance Band as a lead singer/trumpet player. the Gene Gilbeaux Big Band, The Curtis Shaw Big Band, The Fillmore Preservation Jazz Big Band, the SF Golden Gate Park Band. He also toured with the St. Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band in the Summer of 2002 to the UK, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and France. He has opened Jazz festivals for Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove, Sly and the Family Stone, and the Indiana State Fair tour in 2007. Professor Hardiman also performed and played in "Tony, Tonie, Tone", The Barkay's, The Dazz Band, domestically. Other artists and bands include Finis Tasby, Force One, Know Jazz, About Face, Housequake, Solid Gold, Romaccue, Tito Garcia, The Franco Brothers, Salsa Monumental, Charisma, Sabor Latino, Timbalero, Cana Roja, Orchestra Boriquen, Masada, and Pepe y su Orquesta de Peru. He has performed as a bugler at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields. Professor Hardiman has appeared in several videos with Michael Jackson (Cry) and M.C. Hammer (Here Comes the Hammer). Other television appearances have been on the "Padrisimo Show"/Telemundo with Victor Manuel and CD recordings with Know Jazz, Karee featuring the Dramatics.
Professor Hardiman is a member of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Afro-American Jazz Caucus, and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
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Judy Hubbell B.S., M.S., The Juilliard School; studied voice with Hans Joachim Heinz, Beverley Peck Johnson |
Professor Hubbell has been teaching at CCSF since 1979 and has been on the CCSF Music faculty since 1991.
Her professional singing career until 1992 included New York Pro Musica, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Aspen Music Festival and engagements in the USA, South America, and Europe; including the Spoleto and Korfu Festivals. Her debut recital in New York was in Carnegie Recital Hall.
Professor Hubbell's career in voice and music teaching has included the College of Notre Dame de Namur, Sonoma State University, and Wagner College. She has also served as President of the Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and at CCSF as Artistic Director of City Summer Opera.
Professor Hubbell enjoys teaching and watching students' growth as performing artists, working on textual meaning in songs as well as their musical and sound qualities. She also encourages her students to explore other than simply western principles of vocal science, introducing techniques learned from her favorite disciplines (Hatha Yoga and T'ai Chi Chih). Judy's work with the CCSF Mentoring Music Project since 2000 has been to work with the expertise found in our CCSF student body, encouraging future teachers through their growth as mentors in her classes.
Professor Hubbell is a certified instructor of T'ai Chi Chih. During the 2009-2010 semesters, she will be Faculty Sponsor for a new Mentoring and Service Learning outreach project aimed at reciprocity between her music students and mentors in training from CCSF and seniors in the outside community. The project, "T'ai Chi Chih and Voice", will be the first of its kind for the college.
Professor Hubbell's hobbies include hiking in the beautiful wilderness areas of California, and learning new disciplines related to art, music, and physical fitness. Recordings include the CD Cantos, Ballads, Canciones with guitarist and CCSF Faculty member Robert Bozina.
Favorite CCSF activities include Mentoring and Service Learning's Music Mentoring Project. With CCSF Faculty member Jennifer Biehn, Judy will also be teaching a free class in T'ai Chi Chih for Faculty and Staff through CCSF's Professional Development this fall.
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Charles M Hudspeth B.A., Oklahoma City University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Mr. Hudspeth has conducted the Festival Art Show at the San Francisco Opera House.
He has performed at the Apollo and Howard Theaters and appeared with Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson and James Clevala.
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Pamela M Kamatani B.A., San Francisco State University |
As a music historian, Dr. Kamatani specializes in the music of the Baroque period and the works of J.S. Bach, in particular. She is also a pianist with extensive teaching and accompanying experience. Although she has taught at institutions ranging from San Quentin State Prison to UC Berkeley, she especially enjoys CCSF, where she can connect with students at all levels. She teaches Music Appreciation, Musicianship, Harmony, and Piano.
In her leisure time, Dr. Kamatani studies Polynesian dance.
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Joshua T Law Dip. Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University |
Professor Law has been teaching at CCSF since 1972.
Learning is hardwork but it can be fun. Professor Law tries to make the lectures fun and creative. He goes out of his way to reach out to those students who need him most. He encourages his students to review/study while in class and stay ahead of him by reading ahead. He encourages his students to get involved with what they learn through field trips and attending concerts. He maintains an online site to assist his students in reviewing extensively illustrated lectures, doing review quizzes and assignments to prepare for the tests. Teaching sessions and concerts are announced in class the attendance of these allows students to learn by experience. Students could review course content, tests, listening samples and lecture notes in this site. Power Point files of his lectures are also published in his text. CDs and DVDs are beautifully produced for the students after concerts and made available to them for future reference. Friends and relatives of his students from around the world can view concerts through the world wide web.
Professor Law's specialties include Solo Voice, Music Theory, Choir, East Asian Music and Keyboard. He was formerly the chair person of Asian Studies Department and a member of the executive council of the Academic Senate for many years. Joshua is an active member of Asian & Pacific Islander American Student Success (APASS). He is also currently serving as faculty advisor of World Music Club and a few years back, he revived the Chinese Culture Club (CCC) of CCSF and assisted in letting CCC assist his successful Karaoke singing contests. He produces the popular twice-yearly World Music Showcase Concerts and Karaoke contests for many years since the early nineties. Each semester, he directs City Oratorio and Orchestra, a City College Community Chorus and performs Oratorios by great Composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn. These concerts and contests have always been extremely well supported by the CCSF community as well as citizens of San Francisco. For example, The Handel's Messiah performance from City College Choir and orchestra which Professor Law directs can be viewed by following this link: www.youtube.com and search video by us using Joshua's full name as one word, i.e. joshuatlaw.
Professor Law is a well-known Baritone Soloist and Choir director among Christian churches of many denominations all over Asia as well as North America. Having been directing choirs and orchestra for the communities and churches for many years, he felt the need to explore and acquire relevant understanding of theology in order to sharpen his church work skills. Due to his excellent background in music and theology, he has been a frequent speaker in conferences and workshops on music in the US and also abroad in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Brazil, as well as S. E. Asia and Europe. He performs regularly as a Baritone soloist in concerts, directs choral/orchestral concerts and many music and video productions. He has served for over 20 years in four local Christian churches as music and worship director. He is active in many professional organizations such as MENC (Music Educators National Conference), NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing, ACDA American Choir Directors Association, MACCC (Music Association of California Community Colleges) and FACCC (Faculty Association of California Community Colleges). He is serving on the boards of CPAA (Chinese Performing Artists of America) and CGST (China Graduate School of Theology) .
Professor Law published J. Law's Music Slide Rule, Insight Press, 1995, J. Law's Music Slide Rule, Keyboard Edition, and A Study Guide to Music of East Asia, McGraw Hill, 1992. He has written and published numerous articles on music, church music and singing, which have been published in many Chinese and English journals and magazines. View his website at http://www.dorean.info
Professor Law likes camping, and traveling and he spends a lot of time arranging music for himself to performs duets, trios and quartets with himself. He has produced many songs where he is a "one-man-band" which he uses to perform life with himself as vocal and instrumental soloist in concerts and churches.
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Benedict M Lim B.A., Towson State University |
Professor Lim has been teaching at CCSF since 2000.
He is a member of the World Music Club.
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Rebeca Mauleon-Santana A.A., City College of San Francisco; B.A., M.A., Mills College |
Ms. Mauleon-Santana has been a member of the CCSF faculty for the past five years.
Her hope is to inspire future generations to share in the beauty and diversity of our world's musical cultures.
Pianist, composer, author and educator, Ms. Mauleon-Santana has been a fixture in the Bay Area as well as international Latin and world music scenes for over two decades. As one of very few women composer/band-leaders in her field, she has also performed and recorded with a Who's Who of luminaries including Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Steve Winwood and Mickey Hart, garnering several Grammy nominations.
Ms. Mauleon-Santana fronts her own powerhouse Latin Jazz ensemble entitled Round Trip, launching her solo recording career with an award-winning CD of the same name, and is also the recipient of the Meet The Composer New Residencies Award for 2001-2004. She is the author of several critically-acclaimed texts on Latin and Caribbean music, including the Salsa Guidebook, 101 Montunos and Muy Caliente, as well as articles in top music magazines such as Keyboard, Modern Drummer and Mix Magazine.
In addition, Ms. Mauleon-Santana has been lauded as the "next big thing in Bay Area Latin Jazz" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and continues to perform and tour nationally and internationally, including recent performances at the Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, the Monterey and San Francisco Jazz Festivals, and many other prestigious events.
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Charles J McCarthy B.A., San Francisco State University ; Graduate work (Cal State, Berklee College) |
Charlie has taught woodwinds privately and at CCSF for over 20 years. He has also coached sax soloists and sections at Stanford, College of San Mateo and Sonoma State College.
He has performed with many of the greats in Jazz, including Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Lovano, James Moody, Sarah Vaughn, Louie Bellson and Lena Home.
He continues to perform in Big Bands, Jazz combos, recording sessions and with the San Francisco Symphony Pops orchestra.
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James L McFadden B.A., St. Patrick's College; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Mr. McFadden was Director of Music/Organist at Church of the Epiphany from 1968-1980. He is Director of Music, Liturgy and Religious Education at St. Leo the Great Church, Sonoma.
He is also a certified instructor with National Keyboard Arts Associates.
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Gerald A Mueller B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Mr. Mueller is a composer and occasional performer of electronic and early music.
He is a member of FORTH Interest Group - a computer language forum.
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Madeline Mueller Chair, Music Department B.A., University of California, Berkeley |
Professor Mueller is a pianist and chamber musician. She has premiered many modern compositions as well as specializing in music by women composers, ragtime, parlour music, and music by English composers.
Professor Mueller has served as the CCSF Music Department Chair for 35 years. She has also served several terms as Vice President of the Academic Senate and of the CCSF Department Chair Council. She is currently Co-Chair of City College of San Francisco’s new Performing Arts Center Building Committee.
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Wilma C Pang B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University |
Ms. Pang is Organizer of the Cultural Program of the San Francisco Moon Festival and has performed on radio and television.
She has also been a touring performer in the United States, Australia and China. In 1992, she received a California Arts Council Grant for an Individual Artist.
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Michael Shahani B.M. in Voice Performance, University of Nebraska; M.A in Conducting., University of California, Davis; Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Hartt School |
Michael Shahani has been a member of CCSF Music Department since 1987.
His teachers include Marie Sloss (piano), Fred Ewing (voice), David Ahlstrom, Michael Senturia, Murry Sidlin, Gunther Schuller, and Harold Farberman.
Dr. Shahani has conducted more than 300 performances of more than 50 different operas and musicals. He has also conducted several orchestras in dozens of concerts. He founded both the Hesperian Ensemble Orchestra and the Moraga Chamber Orchestra in the San Francisco area. He has served as Musical Director for VOICES/SF Opera Ensemble, Theater Concord, San Francisco Recreation Symphony, Lyric Theatre of San Jose, and Contra Costa Musical Theater for which he won the 1988 Shellie Award for Outstanding Musical Director. He has been a guest conductor with the Varna Philharmonic, Pleven Philharmonic, and Rousse Philharmonic orchestras in Bulgaria, the China Film Philharmonic in Beijing, the Orquestra Sinfonica de Londrina in Brazil, and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra. In 1997 and in 1999, he competed in the Mario Gusella International Conducting Competition in Pescara, Italy, and in 2007 he competed in the Bartok Opera Conducting Competition in Romania. He continues to make singing appearances in the San Francisco area. He has particular expertise in the musical theater and opera works of Kurt Weill.
Dr. Shahani is currently Chairman of the Music Foundation Board at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek.
He is married and has three children, and enjoys dancing, bicycling, wine-making and cooking.
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Frank V Townsell B.A., University of Missouri; M.M., University of British Columbia |
Mr. Townsell has taught at CCSF for the past fourteen years.
In his classes, he wants to impart to students a love of music through the piano, with the idea that everyone can learn to play and become a musician, once the basic principles are understood. He feels that every student is unique and that one must have a flexible attitude in class. Mr. Townsell's students have told him that he has a lot of patience.
Mr. Townsell has published a CD of the piano music of John W. "Blind" Boone, a blind African American musician (1864-1927).
Collecting records and books about music, yoga, historical African-Americana, movies, music research are some of his extracurricular activities.