Edendale Up Close presents Hortus Musicus

Join us for our next Edendale Up Close performance – Hortus Musicus, featuring Dr. Paul Sherman (baroque oboe), Dr. Asunción Ojeda (baroque flute), Vicki Ray (harpsichord) and Jim Garafalo (viola da gamba). 

Dr. Paul Sherman is on the faculty of Glendale Community College. He has appeared with the LA Chamber Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, Musica Angelica, and many other orchestras in California and the Southwest. Flutist Dr. Asunción Ojeda has performed with various California ensembles, including the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Nimbus Ensemble, and the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra. She is currently a musicianship instructor with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, was recently an adjunct lecturer at CSU Long Beach, and was a music teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch. She is also an active member of World Kulintang Institute Ensemble, an organization devoted to the preservation of traditional kulintang music from the southern Philippines. Vicki Ray has performed with the LA Philharmonic, is the head of keyboard studies at the California Institute of the Arts and is a member of the faculty at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at Mass MoCA. Her many acclaimed recordings on a variety of keyboard instruments feature everything from early to contemporary music. As a bassist, Jim Garafalo has played on many TV and film scores, and has performed with local orchestras such as the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic and the Santa Monica Symphony. On viola da gamba he worked extensively with flutist Tony Brazier and the late harpsichordist Suzanne Shapiro. He has also performed with Suite Royale, the Los Angeles Baroque Players, and Ergo Musica.