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First Parish Music StaffMusic Director, Laura Stanfield Prichard A graduate of Yale Universtiy and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she was a tenured faculty member in music and dance at California State University-East Bay (Hayward) and San Francisco State University for eight years, and has presented lectures at the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, and New Century Chamber Orchestra since 1996. In Fall 2007, she performed in Carnegie Hall and Boston's Jordan Hall, directed Amahl & the Night Visitors at First Parish Arlington, directed an 88-student abridged performance of The Pirates of Penzance (Cambridge) and edited/directed Lemony Snicket's newest holiday story for its world premiere staged performance (Arlington). She often appears with her husband Michael, a professional baritone whose recent engagements include the 2007 BSO European Tour, Porgy at MIT's Lincoln Labs and the title role in excerpts from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov under the direction of Jonathan McPhee with the Boston Ballet and in NEC's Jordan Hall. He was the baritone soloist for the New World Chorale and Clafin Hill Orchestra's 2006 Brahms' Requiem, and will perform the Pirates of Penzance with them in 2008 (Pirate King). Organist and Pianist, Sarah Haera Tocco Ms. Tocco has made concerto appearances with the Moorpark College Symphony and the California State University Los Angeles Symphony and given solo recitals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and repeat performances for the acclaimed concert series at the Newton (MA) Free Library. She holds both undergraduate and master's degree in Performance Piano from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She performs frequently through out New England area, both as soloist and accompanist, and currently has her debut CD release with the music of Brahms, Chopin and Schubert. Sarah Tocco teaches privately in Newton where she lives with her eight-year-old daughter, Annabelle. |
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