, Sound Engineer
Matthew Cowell is the Technical Director for Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. Working in the Bay Area for over 18 years as sound designer, recording engineer and drummer, he has worked with numerous local and national talents, including Grammy and Oscar nominated artists.
Cowell has a Bachelor’s degree in Theater and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Theology and Film Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Olivia Cowell
Theater Arts Adjunct Instructor
Olivia received her Master of Arts in Drama from San Francisco State University and her Bachelors of Arts in Communications from CSU, Sacramento. Her dance training includes studying with Royal Academy of Dancing.
Olivia has directed adult and youth productions with theater companies in the North Bay including The Napa Valley Opera House, Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, and Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater. Directing credits include:
Mary Poppins, Shrek the Musical, Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka
,
Peter Pan
,
A Chorus Line
,
Private Eyes,
Late: a Cowboy Song
,
Eternity
,
Lend Me a Tenor, The Wizard of Oz,
Seussical Jr.,
and
Alice in Wonderland.
She focused her attention on teaching in 2007, and in 2014 became Co-Director of the non-profit organization Cafeteria Kids Theater with Aimee Guillot.
Aimee Guillot
Theater Arts Adjunct Instructor
Aimée received her Bachelor of Arts in Literature from SUNY Purchase (Cum Laude), and her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from UC San Diego. Additional acting training: NYU /Tisch School of the Arts; Oxford School of Drama.
Professional acting credits: Off Broadway- Big Love (Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival -2001, Obie Award winner); Canard, Canard, Goose? (Here Arts Center); and Xtravaganza (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Guggenheim Works & Process, and Whitney Performance Space). She is also an original member of the New York based investigative theatre group, The Civilians. Regional- Big Love (The Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville- Humana Festival of New American Plays), Wintertime (Long Wharf Theater); The Importance of Being Earnest (La Jolla Playhouse). Bay Area- Eurydice (Berkeley Rep), The Typographer’s Dream (Encore Theatre, Shotgun Players), Big Love (Berkeley Rep) Finger (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts).
As a director she has staged productions at The Napa Valley Opera House, Lincoln Theater, and the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. At Napa Valley College she co-directed Shrek the Musical, and Mary Poppins both in partnership with Cafeteria Kids Theater. She has been a drama instructor in the Bay Area for over 15 years, and was voted one of the top 100 teachers at UCSD. She founded the non-profit Cafeteria Kids Theater with Olivia Cowell in 2014.
Reed Martin
Theater Arts and Film Studies Adjunct Instructor
Reed Martin is an educator, writer, director, performer, and producer who has been on the faculty of Napa Valley College since 2007. He, TBS, Sky TV UK, Public Radio International, The Washington Post and Vogue magazine. Reed has performed twice at the White House as well as twelve countries overseas.. He leads master classes/workshops around the world and is also on the faculty of Santa Rosa Junior College, Diablo Valley College, and San Joaquin Delta College. Reed lives in the North Bay with his wife and two sons, all three of whom are much funnier than he is.
Dr. Roberto-Juan González
Music Professor
Survey and Appreciation of Music, History of Jazz
Symphonic Conductor
Dr. Roberto-Juan González has been described as “a conductor possessing a solid technical background and a genuine sense of artistry.” Working as a professional conductor since he was 15 on the island of Puerto Rico, he made his symphonic debut with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra in 1983. Since then, he has performed in Japan, the United States, and Puerto Rico as conductor, organist and cabaret singer. In 1983, Dr. González finished his doctorate in instrumental conducting and organ performance at the School of Music of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, thus completing a distinguished record of higher studies in music that began at the Music Department of InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico at San Germán, where he graduated
summa cum laude
in 1976. The IAU faculty named him “Most Outstanding Musician” in the same year, following his duties as Assistant Conductor of the IAU Orchestra and Concert Band from 1972 to 1976. He then entered the Master of Music program at Ball State University in conducting and organ at the Ball State University School of Music.
Dr. González is listed in the first edition of
Who’s Who Among Hispanic Americans
and the 23rd edition of
Who’s Who in the West
. In 1992, he received the
McPherson Distinguished Teaching Award
¸ given by the Napa Valley College Foundation.
Harry Cadelago
Adjunct Instructor: North Bay Wind Ensemble, Napa Valley College Orchestra, Applied Brass
Harry Cadelago has been conducting the NVC North Bay Wind Ensemble since 2006 and, in the fall of 2009, added the NVC Orchestra to his conducting duties. He has conducted the pit orchestra for the NVC musicals:
Sound of Music, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy
and
Sweeney Todd
.
Also in collaboration with the vocal department, he has conducted the master works of the Vivaldi
Gloria
and the Mozart
Requiem
.
Cadelago has degrees in Music Education from City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. As a student he studied instrumental music and conducting from Dr. Ed Kruth and composition with the renowned composer Dr. Roger Nixon. After graduating as a music education major, he continued his musical development with Bay Area jazz keyboard artist, Don Haas.
Mazdak Khamda
Adjunct Instructor: Piano, Computer Applications in Music, Compositing on the Computer, Applied Piano
Mazdak Khamda
was born in Tehran Iran, and had his first piano lesson at the age of eleven. He began to pursue music as a career in 1992. Mazdak holds a Bachelors of Music in piano performance from University of the Pacific and a Masters of Music degree in piano pedagogy from University of Oregon. Some of Mazdak’s instructors have included Frank Wiens, and Dean Kramer in piano; Kurt Erickson and Clark Suprynowicz in composition and S.M. Clark in harmony and counterpoint. Mazdak is a recipient of such awards as The Music Teachers Association Scholarship (1993), University of the Pacific Music Scholarship (1994) and a Graduate Fellowship from University of Oregon (1998). Mazdak is also a private music instructor in the Bay Area. As a composer, Mazdak has published works for solo piano, voice, chamber ensemble, choir, orchestra and electronic music. Many of these compositions are included in Mazdak’s four independent albums.
Mark Osten
Piano Accompanist and Adjunct Instructor: Fundamentals of Music, Music Theory
Mark Osten is an instructor, pianist, conductor and composer, in addition to being the Choral/Vocal Accompanist for Napa Valley College. He also accompanies the musical rehearsals, plays in the pit for the performances and coaches singers from the upper level voice classes. As a music instructor for the NVC Music Department, he teaches Fundamentals of Music and Music Theory courses, offered both fall and spring semesters.
Osten holds both Bachelor and Masters Degrees from San Francisco State University in music, with emphasis in piano performance. He has performed with the Santa Rosa Symphony, accompanied the Santa Rosa Children’s Chorus and performed at special event concerts in the Bay Area, such as The Napa Valley Chamber Music Festival and the 15th Annual Mostly Mozart Concert. In addition, he plays harpsichord with the
Nota Bene Baroque Ensemble
and accompanies the soprano quartet
Vocali
.
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