All About Music San Diego
From advising our youth section leaders, to working out difficult passages, and so much more, our coaches are invaluable to the growth of AAMSD.
In addition to working with the orchestra, our coaches offer private lessons for:
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violin
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viola
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cello
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bass
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flute
All levels, beginning to advanced, are offered.
Contact Mary Gerard for more info.
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oboe
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clarinet
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bassoon
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brass
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class percussion
Our Coaches
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Eric Hagen
Eric takes 7th grade beginners and transforms them into 8th grade virtuosos year after year. By the time they've graduated from middle school, they have performed and competed in multiple concerts and competitions throughout Southern California.
Many of his students have gone on to professional careers after continuing their education at such renowned institutions as Berkley School of Music in Massachusetts, UC San Luis Obispo, Long Beach State, UC Berkley, and San Diego State University.
Ron Fox
Ron is a native San Diegan who studied oboe and English horn with Paul Popejoy – 1st SDSO, Carlos Mullenix (Juilliard), and Bert Gassman – 1st LA Phil. He received a BA degree from the University of California with a double major in music and chemistry, and has pursued a dual career in both science and music.
He has held positions of principal oboe with SDSO, SD Opera, La Jolla and San Diego Chamber Orchestras, S.D. and Calif Ballet, S.D. Comic Opera, La Jolla Civic Orchestra, Classics for Kids, Starlight Musical Theater, Moonlight Theater – Vista, and Orchestra de Baja – Tijuana. He was featured in Mozart Synphonie Concertante, Haydn Synphonie Concertante, and Bach Brandenburgs on several occasions. He continues in retirement playing with several community orchestras and a quintet.
He has been a featured soloist, which included a premier performance of the Concerto for Oboe & English Horn and Orchestra by R.W. Jones; the J. S. Bach Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin; Concerto Da Camera for Flute and English Horn by Honegger; the Concerto in A Major for Oboe D’Amore, Strings and Harpsichord by G. P. Telemann; and, Concerto in E Major for flute, oboe d’amore, and viola d’amore by G. P. Telemann.
He teaches oboe and English horn privately and holds clinics on instrument adjustment and maintenance, reed making, history of the double reed family, orchestral performance, tuning skills, musicianship, and career guidance.
He has applied his chemistry toward treating, reacting and thus modifying the cellulose of cane in order to improve reed life. And finally, he is a perennial student of musical acoustics of woodwind instruments and has constructed an oboe of mathematical design.
Jane Frey
Jane has taught and played professionally for over 40 years. She joined the
Professional Musicians’ Union at 19, when she was a college student at
Baylor University and started playing in the Waco Symphony and
professional orchestras in central and west Texas.
Jane studied viola performance at Aspen in 1984 and graduated the
same year with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Theory with concentrations
in piano and viola performance from Baylor University. She moved to Dallas
after graduation to study graduate viola performance and Dounis technique
with Ellen Rose. After one year, she won positions with the Ft. Worth
symphony (tenured) and Dallas Opera. Jane continued to study privately
with Ellen for four years until she moved to Boston in 1989. There, she
taught Suzuki Strings and was director of orchestras at the Suzuki School
of Newton (MA) and performed with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.
She worked as a studio musician for Word records.
In 1991, she moved to San Diego where she performed with the San Diego Symphony, the SD Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Nova, the California Ballet and Classics for Kids.
Jane is a multi-level SAA registered Suzuki violin teacher with a ECC in Suzuki Pedagogy.
Most recently, she was professor of viola and Master Teacher of the String Project at Point Loma Nazarene University and Associate Director of the Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra. All About Music is excited to welcome Jane Frey to our outstanding faculty of professional musicians and teachers.
