CANCELED Sunday, February 19, 2023- 4pm
$15 youth, $20 Senior/Student, $25 general admission
Tickets available through Eventbrite.
CONCERT CANCELED
The Bay Bones are a young trombone quartet founded in the early months of 2022. Comprised of San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Southern Methodist University graduates, the group strives for a beautiful, modern and accessible sound. The Bay Bones welcome you as the audience of one of their early & formative performances!
Your safe enjoyment of this wonderful music is our first priority! All artists, guests, and staff must be fully vaccinated and boosted for Covid 19 in order to attend. We will ask for proof of vaccination at the door. At this time, we are also requiring an N95, KN95, or double mask be worn, properly covering nose and mouth, throughout the performance.
Available In-Person OR Live-streamed. We pay ALL of our artists a guaranteed fair minimum wage - thanks to music lovers like you! This concert will take place in our beautiful Sanctuary performance space.
Artist Profiles
Tsukimi Sakamoto-David (tenor trombone) was born in Kanazawa, Japan, and raised in Gatineau, Québec. An avid trombonist, Tsukimi began studying the trombone at the Conservatoire de Musique de Gatineau while also completing a degree in Languages at the CÉGEP de l’Outaouais. Tsukimi holds a Bachelor of Music from the Glenn Gould School (GGS) in Toronto and is currently completing her Master of Music degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her teachers include Angus Armstrong, Gordon Wolfe, and is a current student of Timothy Higgins (principle trombonist of the San Francisco Symphony).
Many of Tsukimi’s memorable musical moments tie into chamber music, as her brass sextet, Wetakinova, won third place in the GGS Chamber Competition 2018 and was awarded a fellowship for the American Brass Quintet Seminar in Aspen for 2020. Tsukimi has participated in festivals such as Le Domaine Forget, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Institute in Whistler, and the Lätzsch Trombone Festival in Germany. She is also proud of having performed amongst great women brass players at the Canadian Women’s Brass Conference hosted at the University of Toronto.
Matthew Laskowski (tenor trombone) Novi, Michigan-native Matthew Laskowski received his Bachelor of Music & Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 2016 from the University of Michigan, as well as his Master of Music Degree from Southern Methodist University (Texas) in 2019. Matt has performed in orchestras such as the Aspen Fellowship Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, and Round Top Festival Orchestra. Matthew has studied with prestigious players such as Dr. Don Babcock, David Jackson, Dr. Per Brevig, and John Kitzman.
His current work as a field engineer in the Biotech industry has taken him to the cities of Chicago and San Francisco where he continues to perform in local ensembles. He enjoys expanding his musical horizons through studying new music genres and creating music with modern music technologies & digital audio workstations.
Katie Lambert (tenor trombone) Raised in the Libertyville suburbs of Chicago, Katie Lambert is a current master’s student at the San Francisco Conservatory of music. She is an alumnus of the Merit School of Music’s Alice S. Pfaelzer Conservatory and Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, and has studied with the likes of Lee Allen, Dr. Andrew Glendening, and Paul Welcomer of the San Francisco Symphony. Over the course of her studies, Katie has performed for the Prague Summer Nights festival, Miami Music festival, and Porkony Seminar.
While studying to be an orchestral trombonist, she has worked as an assistant librarian for Oberlin’s ensemble library and doing research and data entry for Oberlin’s musicology department for a British music festival database which catalogues festivals from 1695-1940.
Jason Hébert (bass trombone) Bass trombonist Jason Hébert was born & raised in the Bay Area, beginning his Bachelor of Music at San Jose state with Thomas Hornig as his teacher. Two years later, he transferred to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to study with the retired bass trombonist of the San Francisco Symphony, John Engelkes. Jason has been an avid free-lancer in the Bay Area since high school, regularly playing in groups such as the Oasis Big Band, Santa Clara Big Band, and more. He was the bass trombonist for the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2016-2019, a group that went on to tour in Europe’s most famous halls such as the Berlin Philharmoniker, Elbphilharmonie, and Musikvereinn.
Jason Hébert has participated in the Third Coast Trombone and Miami Music festivals, and is frequent performer in the area. He currently works in the I.T. Department of the San Francisco Conservatory while continuing to pursue professional auditions for bass trombone.
