Kris Palmer
Music Director and Conductor
Join us as Salvation Army Bell Ringers!
We’re performing Christmas carols
for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle
at
LUNARDI’S MARKET IN SAN JOSE
2666 SOUTH BASCOM AVENUE
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20th
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Bring your flute and a folding music stand and join in!
The music is easy and fun,
and nothing puts money
in the Salvation Army Red Kettle
like LIVE MUSIC.
THE MEMBERS
AMY HANSON began studying flute in elementary school and performed with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra in high school. Her teachers included William Hebert of the Cleveland Orchestra and Lois Schaefer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She performed as a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Boston while earning a degree from Harvard University, and she is a former member of Symphony Parnassus in San Francisco. Amy is a product marketer for a software company, and she is performing as the concerto soloist on Mozart’s G Major Flute Concerto at Music Village Flutes’ inaugural concert.
CATHY LEMESHEWSKY began her musical studies on the flute in elementary school and later performed with the U. C. Santa Cruz Orchestra. During her career in Japan, she studied Western classical flute with the principal flutist of the Nagoya Philharmonic and pursued traditional Japanese music through formal study of the Kinko-Ryu shakuhachi. Following an extended hiatus from the flute to focus on a career in Silicon Valley while raising twins, she is now actively re-engaging with performances and musical studies. She studies flute with Lars Johannesson.
BARBARA RAVE is a graduate of Arizona State University, where she studied flute with Joe Corral. She completed her degree in Business Computer Information Systems and paved a 38-year career in the aerospace industry with Lockheed Martin. She has served as a software and systems engineer as well as a project manager of data warehousing and analytics teams. After a 15-year absence, she reunited with the flute and performs frequently at open mic shows in San Jose as a soloist and chamber musician. She studies the flute with Kris Palmer.
Originally from the city of Nanjing in China, HANYU SUN is a software engineer with a passion for playing the flute. She performed in the University of Pennsylvania’s college flute ensemble, The Penn Flutes while earning her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science, and she is a former member of the Googler Orchestra. She frequently performs chamber music with friends, with recent performances of one of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti and Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto. She studies the flute with Sarah Benton, and she enjoys skiing and ice skating while away from making music.
GLORIA ZHU is a graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University, where she studied piano, violin, and organ. She performed in choir exchange programs in Texas and Shanghai in 2005 and 2007, and she began studying flute after finishing college. She is currently a private music instructor on violin and piano for preschool through high school aged students in San Jose. She studies flute with Kris Palmer.
After a rigorous stint as first chair flutist at Campbell High School, GEORGE MUELLER took a much-deserved 47-year hiatus from music in order to develop a successful career in the semiconductor industry. He resumed his musical studies with Kris Palmer in 2022 and currently studies with Gala Yaroshevsky-Whiting. When he’s not practicing, he is cycling and skiing and fracturing collarbones.