Meet the Cast of Eve 2024
Sharon Lee Kim is an active recitalist, chamber pianist, vocal coach, music director, choral/vocal accompanist, and piano instructor. She performs and records throughout the nation and internationally, often collaborating with renowned vocalists and instrumentalists. Her most recent recording projects have been for Meta and for a short Sundance film. Since joining Saint Mary’s faculty in 2008, her roles have included: Lecturer in Piano and Music History, Coach for Vocal Studios and Chamber Music, Choral Assistant Director and Accompanist. Beyond Saint Mary’s, she is the staff pianist at UC Berkeley including the UC Choral Program, pianist of Ensemble Ari, freelance pianist, and maintains a thriving private studio. Sharon holds the administrative and management role as Piano Program Coordinator at UC Berkeley. Sharon is a member of the MTAC and received the Steinway Top Teacher Award (2021). In the fall of 2023, Sharon received her EFP certification in the Estill Vocal Training Program to enhance her vocal coaching skills. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley (BA Honors) and New England Conservatory (MM and GD Honors and Distinction in Performance in Collaborative Piano).
Violist Daria D’Andrea performs across stylistic boundaries from 17th century Italian to 21st century tango. Daria is a member of the California Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera and plays with the San Francisco Opera Center Orchestra, West Edge and Opera Parallèle. As a baroque specialist on violin and viola, Daria performs with outstanding period ensembles such as American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque, Musica Angelica, Ars Minerva and the San Francisco Bach Choir. As an educator she has taught violin and viola for over two decades at the University of San Francisco, also creating their chamber music program and advising music minors. Daria is President of the Northern California Viola Society.
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Emma Lanier is a dance artist who works with movement, objects, and sound. She has presented work at San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox, Fresh Festival, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Catherine Clark Gallery, Sonoma Ceramics, Creativity Explored, and Eleanor Harwood gallery at Minnesota Street Project. Lanier has recently performed with Alexandra Pirici, KT Nelson, Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works, and Cauveri Suresh.