Ms. Ganenko is Sunset Youth Orchestra music director, violinist soloist, teacher, and music arranger. She was a member of Sacramento Symphony for 10 years, graduate of St. Petersburg Conservatory, played with St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Tatiana also teaches violin in French American International School. Her students were accepted into San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and New York Juliard School of Music.
Ms. Taylor received her music degree from San Francisco State University, magna cum laude. She has performed extensively in orchestras throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in orchestras in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Perth, Australia. She is concertmaster of the San Francisco Sinfonietta and principal second violin of the Santa Cruz County Symphony. Currently, Loretta is a faculty member at the Community Music Center (CMC) in San Francisco where she teaches violin, chamber music and is concertmaster of the CMC Orchestra. In addition, she teaches at the School of the Arts High School in San Francisco, string coach at Giannini Middle School as well as an assistant for the Sunset Youth Orchestra. Loretta has coached chamber music for the Chamber Musicians of Northern California and the Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop. She has been a soloist with the Old First Orchestra, Community Music Center Orchestra and the New Millennium Strings. Loretta has also participated in numerous festivals and workshops in the United States and abroad in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua and Switzerland. Loretta lives in San Francisco where she maintains a private violin studio.
Danny Cao is a trumpeter, singer, composer, arranger and producer; born, raised and residing in San Francisco. His current projects include the DU UY Quintet, The Chesscapades, Inspector Gadje, LoCura, Istanbul Connection. He has worked with Manicato, Vinyl, Royal Jelly Jive, Bayonics, J.C. Hopkins, Mars Villa, Big Bones and many San Francisco Bay Area groups. He has also performed with bay area theater group We Players in their productions of Hamlet on Alcatraz and The Odyssey on Angel Island. Danny Cao is also an active trumpet and music teacher in San Francisco and the East Bay. He regularly teaches at Union Music Company at 1710-B Market St; San Francisco, CA 94102. To inquire about lessons simply email: caodanny@hotmail.com .