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Dr. Bove is from Lafayette, California and earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Education from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California where she studied with Eric Hammer. Prior to her doctoral work, she taught instrumental music at the secondary level in Payson, Utah. In this setting, she instructed courses in band, orchestra, marching band, jazz ensemble, AP music theory, guitar, folk music, musical theater, and mariachi.
Kaitlin is founder of the And We Were Heard initiative which matches underrepresented composers of wind band, orchestral, and choral literature with volunteer ensembles to generate quality recordings of the music of diverse compositional voices. In the vein of this philosophy, Dr. Bove maintains a high commitment to commissioning and performing works by both living composers and those . She is also co-founder of Girls Who Conduct, a mentorship program that supports gender parity on the conducting podium.
In addition to maintaining a busy schedule, Dr. Cook is presently conducting an in-depth study of epic metal bands and music cultures in Bavaria. He promotes this music as part of the ongoing lineage of the great Austro-German Romantic tradition represented by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Wagner.
After undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley with Andrew Imbrie, Dr. Lee earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Musical Composition at UCLA, where he studied with Paul Reale, Henri Lazarof, and Roy Travis. Dr. Lee came to DVC in 1998.
Dr. Lee is an active composer, with performances by The DVC Philharmonic Orchestra, the DVC Concert and Chamber Choirs, the San Jose Choral Project, Opus 90, the Onyx String Quartet, the Northwind Quintet, the National Association of Computers USA Composers' Performance Ensemble (CPE), the Hillsdale United Methodist Chancel Choir, the Foothill Presbyterian Church Choir, and the UCLA Concert Choir, to name a few. Dr. Lee is past-president of the Music Association of California Community Colleges, and a past chapter president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the National Association of Composers, USA.
Dr. Lee teaches Theory and Musicianship I-IV (Music 122, 123, 222, 223) which constitutes the four-term theory and musicianship program at DVC. The program offers some of the most rigorous training available for aspiring musicians at any college. Basic instruction in music notation software is included. Students who complete the full four-term theory program at DVC have been well prepared for transfer, and have been accepted at up to the junior level by a variety of four-year colleges and universities, including UC Berkeley, UCLA, California States San Francisco, East Bay, San Jose, and Chico, the University of the Pacific, BYU, Holy Names, Santa Clara University and others.
Bret Peppo is beginning his 16th year as Director of Choral Activities at Diablo Valley College. He conducts the Concert Chorale, Chamber Singers Masterworks Chorale and the Vocal Jazz Ensembles. Peppo is currently away from DVC and is guest professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Prior to his appointment at DVC, he served as the Director of Choral Activities at Alderson-Broaddus College, the University of South Alabama and at Illinois State University. He also held the positions as director of the Old Gold Singers, at the University of Iowa. His concert, show and jazz choirs have toured extensively throughout the country and have been selected to perform for the Alabama and Illinois All-State Conferences in 1998, 2002, 2003. As a conductor, Mr. Peppo has conducted many high school and collegiate all-state festivals for both honor choir as well as jazz choirs and is a frequent adjudicator and clinician with many national music festivals and is busy as a judge from show choir and vocal jazz competitions.
Peppo is active in the American Choral Directors Association where he serves as eht R&S chairs for A cappella quality in California. Bret Peppo earned a bachelors degree in Vocal Music Education from Eastern Illinois University, a Masters of Conducting at Illinois State University and is ABD from the University of Iowa in Choral Conducting and Pedagogy.
Sean Williams is a versatile guitarist, producer and educator with the ability to seamlessly glide between styles. As a music lover without regard to genre, Sean excels in various musical settings, from straight ahead or avant-garde jazz to blues, rock, pop or funk. Being a professional musician for the past 20 years, Sean has performed in a diverse array of musical situations. As a leader, Sean performs regularly with his organ trio as well as various jazz ensembles. Though jazz/improvised music plays a huge part of his musical life, Sean is also involved in various rock projects, musical theater as well as work as a session musician. As a past member of one of the SF Bay Area's most working bands, Tortilla Soup, Sean performed regularly alongside members of Tower of Power and Malo. In 2011 Sean joined Berkeley, CA based Ninth Street Opus label and national touring band The Real Nasty, a high energy power trio weaving a unique rock, country, blues with a twist of modern pop sound. Sean can also be heard on SF based indy-pop group New Spell's self titled EP as well as their most recent EP entitled Of Time: Part I. As a member of the original rock band Pockit, Sean performed in many of the Bay Area's leading venues such as Slims, The Starry Plough and Bottom of the Hill, among others. Sean has had the privilege of working in several musical theater productions, most notably Ray of Light Theaters 2009 production of The Who's rock opera Tommy which garnered six Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, including nods for the band.
Along with performing and recording, Sean has been a music educator for over 15 years, working with students of all ages, ability levels and styles. Sean currently holds a Masters in Studio Jazz Guitar Pi Kappa Lambda - USC Thornton School of Music and BA in Music - California State University, East Bay.
From 1997 to the present Jon has also worked as an adjunct professor at both Diablo Valley College and San Francisco State. Jon received his BA in Social Science from UC Berkeley in 1984, and his MA in Humanities from San Francisco State University in 2001.
Elizabeth Wagman Emigh has a Master's Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory, where she later served on the Preparatory and Adult Extension faculty for six years. She teaches voice classes at Diablo Valley College, has a private voice studio in Oakland, and has been Director of Choirs and Drama at Clayton Valley High School for the past twenty years. Performance credits include leading roles with The Lamplighters, Piedmont Light Opera, and Actors Ensemble of Berkeley. She has vocal directed musicals at UC Davis, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, and Diablo Valley College. She has sung for the past decade with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, which won three Grammy awards during her membership, and has served as soprano soloist and section leader at Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church, Calvary Lutheran Church in Millbrae, and Temple Isaiah in Lafayette.
Saxophonist/flutist Mary Fettig has recorded and toured with such greats as Stan Kenton, Marian McPartland, Tito Puente, Flora Purim and Airto, playing jazz festivals throughout the world, including Concord, Monterey, Playboy, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo,Mary Lou Williams at Kennedy Center, Montreaux, Borneo and North Sea.
She has many studio credits in film, television, video games and radio. In San Francisco she played 25 different Broadway shows in the pit orchestras as a woodwind doubler, including the 5 year run of Phantom of the Opera, and regularly performs with the San Francisco Symphony.
Julie Homi, born in London, England, and raised in the American midwest, is a classically trained pianist/keyboardist who has toured with Robert Palmer, Martin Page, Maria Muldaur, Angela Bofill, Kalani, Tracy Chapman, Shirley Bassey, Peter Cetera, Holly Near, and Yanni for whom she performed during his Dare to Dream, Yanni Live the Symphony Concerts 1993 and 1994 concert tours, and appears on the Yanni Live at the Acropolis video and CD.[1] She played keyboards on the national tour of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby and the San Francisco engagements of The Lion King and Mamma Mia!. She was also music director and keyboardist for Menopause the Musical.
She leads an original jazz quintet called Homiopathy featuring guitarist Barry Finnerty (Miles Davis, Brecker Brothers). She holds a Masters in music composition from Mills College in Oakland, California.
Dr. Jonathan Knight teaches the brass at Diablo Valley College, serves as Assistant Camp Director at Cazadero Music Camp, is Professor of Trumpet at CSU Stanislaus, and teaches music theory and history at Los Medanos College.
He is principal trumpet of the brass chamber ensemble Brazzissimo! and an active freelance performer in the Bay Area. Dr. Knight Has appeared as trumpet soloist with the Solano Winds and the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, and guest conductor for the Diablo Symphony, and conducts the Benicia Ballet orchestra. He is an active band, orchestra, and brass clinician in Bay Area schools, and has adjudicated band and orchestra festivals and led honor bands throughout the Bay Area and Northern California.
Ben Levine (aka Mo Levone) is a professional bassist performing and recording on both electric and upright bass. A former faculty member of USC's Thornton School of Music, Ben also holds a Master's Degree in Jazz from that same institution. Ben is the bassist for the alt-bluegrass band "Honeywagon" which had a top 3 charting album "Green Day Blue Grass". Ben was also the long time bassist for the Drew Davis Band a pop/country/rock band that toured all over the United States. In 2008 the Drew Davis Band opened for Hootie and the Blowfish on their summer tour. Ben was also the bassist for former American Idol Josh Gracin and seven time #1 country music hit maker Mark Wills. Ben appeared as a guest artist on the Grammy-Winning album "Guitar Heroes" by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
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