Sarn Oliver has performed as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe and Asia.  As a young violinist  Mr Oliver was the winner of many competitions and appeared in solo performances with numerous orchestras such as the Dallas Symphony, Sacramento Symphony and the Shreveport Symphony.  He was a featured artist on the PBS television program  “State of the Arts” and his concerts have been broadcast on radio stations throughout the country.

Mr. Oliver performs in chamber music festivals and concert series throughout the United States and is currently a founding member of the Tilden Trio.  Other accomplishments include the creation of the jazz group, the Continuum.  Also a recording engineer and producer,  Sarn Oliver founded SarnWorks Recording Studio in 2007 and is active recording, producing and engineering classical CDs and Film projects.

Sarn Oliver began composing in 2004 and his compositions have received numerous performances and growing recognition. Hailed as:”an unusually thoughtful and eclectically-minded composer.” His works have been performed in Haawaii, Japan, Russian and the US.

 He has taught violin at UC Davis , University of the Pacific and UC Berkely. Mr. Oliver is the former Principal Second Violin of the Sacramento Symphony and Concertmaster of the Santa Cruz Symphony and is currently a First Violinist with the San Francisco Symphony founding Violinist of Tilden Trio and the founder of SarnWorks LLC.

Cellist Mariko Hiraga Wyrick, co-principal of the San Francisco Youth Orchestra was born in New York City in 1992. She is currently a student of Michael Grebanier. Mariko is a senior at the San Francisco School of the Arts and was a member of the Orchestra da Camera with whom she has soloed in the Dvorak and the Brahms Double concertos.

She is a four time winner of the Marin Music Chest scholarship award and won the 2006 Stewart Brady Award for Excellence. As a winner of the American Fine Arts Festival competition, she performed at Weill Hall in New York City. She has participated in the masterclasses of Lynn Harrell, Bonnie Hampton, Joel Krosnick, Yoyo Ma, as well as the American, Daedelus, Chiara, and Alexander string quartets. Mariko has attended Greenwood Music Camp for the past four years.

Alina Ming Kobialka began her studies at the age of 5 under the tutelage of Roy Oakley. Alina then studied with Li Lin for 5 years and is currently studying with Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

At the age of 6, she was awarded 1st prize in the Chinese Music Teachers Association of Northern California Competition (Group A, Violin). At the age of 10 she was invited to be a guest soloist with the Diablo Valley College Philharmonic Orchestra and at the age of 12, she was invited to be a guest soloist with the Oakland Civic Orchestra and was awarded 1st prize in the Chinese Music Teachers Association of Northern California Competition (Group C and D, Violin). Alina is also in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. This past summer, she attended the Hotchkiss Summer Portals chamber music camp, and in November 2010, she made her concerto debut with the Symphony Parnassus, conducted by Stephen Paulson, playing the Barber Violin Concerto at Herbst Theatre.

She is associate Concert Master of San Francisco symphony Youth Orchestra

June Choi Oh has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the New Haven Symphony, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic of New York, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Diablo Symphony and Filarmonica de Jalisco in Mexico.

As a recitalist, her appearances include performances at the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations in New York City, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, Kieller Schloss in Germany, and Stadsgehoorzall in Holland. She appeared in Aspen Music Festival and Victoria Music Festival (Canada), where she was also a faculty member. She has also performed on radio with WNCN in New York City, WPKT in Connecticut, WFMT in Chicago, KQED in San Francisco, as well as on American PBS television, and abroad on National Television of Denmark.

An avid chamber musician and a member of Tilden Trio with Sarn Oliver and Peter Wyrick, June has performed frequently at Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University and in the San Francisco Symphony Chamber Series at Davies Symphony Hall. She also performed in Cabrillo College, St. Mary’s College, Holy Names College, Kutstown University (PA), Arrowhead Arts Association, Berkeley Chamber Series and a multi-island concert tour of Hawaii, through the National Endowments for the Arts Grant. Last December, June was a guest artist for the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble Concert at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City.

She has taught at the Manhattan School of Music and is a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Dominican University of California, where she is the director of piano and chamber music studies, and the Guest Concert Series.

She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School.

Mariko Smiley began studies with her father, David Smiley , who was a violist with the San Francisco Symphony from 1962-1973. She also studied with Leonard Austria, Stuart Canin, and Dorothy Delay.

Mariko received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School. She has participated in many music festivals and concert series, including serving as Concertmaster and soloist for the Music in the Mountains Festival and the California Symphony.

Mariko was a member of the Aurora String Quartet, which recorded the entire string quartet repertoire of Prokofiev and Mendelssohn on the international label Naxos. She is a member of the first violin section of the San Francisco Symphony and enjoys playing with her fellow orchestra members, who include her husband, Sarn Oliver, brother Dan Smiley, sister-in-law Suzanne Leon, and Suzanne’s sister, Kelly Leon-Pearce, all of whom are violinists. She is also an instructor of Violin at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mariko enjoys exploring new music, reading, baking, travel, yoga, and time with her husband and nine year old son Sean.

Peter Wyrick is the Associate Principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony. He has performed as chamber musician and soloist with renowned chamber groups and orchestras throughout the world. Before joining the Tilden Trio, Peter was a member of the acclaimed Ridge String Quartet whose recording of the Dvorak Piano Quintets with Rudolf Firkusny on the RCA label won the French Diapason d’Or and was nominated for the 1993 Grammy Award for best chamber music. He has participated in Finlandís Helsinki Festival, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and Spoleto, Italy, as well as the Vancouver, Bard, Chamber Music West, La Jolla, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals.

Peter has performed as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Aspen Chamber Symphony, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Queens Philharmonic, the American and the Oklahoma City Chamber Orchestras, and the Kozponti Sinfonicus

8in Budapest, Hungary. He has recorded the cello sonatas of Gabriel Fauré with pianist Earl Wild for D’ell Arte records, and can also be heard in chamber music performances on the Arabesque and Stereophile record labels. Peter held the position of the Principal cello for the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York City and was also the Associate Principal cellist for the New York City Opera Orchestra. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City with Leonard Rose.

Amy Hiraga, violinist in the San Francisco Symphony, was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1991 to 1999. A student of Emanuel Zetlin in Seattle, Washington, and Dorothy Delay at the Julliard School in New York, she has performed and recorded with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New York Chamber Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Amy is a former member of the Aspen Philharmonia, Solisti of New York, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. In addition she has performed chamber music at the Caraqmoor, Bard, Olympic, Chamber Music West, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals as well as with the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Chelsea Ensemble, and the Partita Chamber Ensemble. She lives in Mill Valley, California with her husband, Peter Wyrick, and their two daughters, Mayumi and Mariko.
Amy is a founding artist of the Ruby Mountain Chamber Music Festival.

A grand finalist in KDFC radio's Classical Star Search, RJ Pearce (15) is a four time winner of the Marin Music Chest Scholarship Award, a two time first place winner of the MTAC junior piano competition and a two time soloist for the bay area Junior Bach Festival. When not performing classical music RJ can be seen as the keyboard player for the popular Marin band known as "Crunchy Frog."

Violinist Suzanne Leon is an active recitalist, soloist and chamber musician whose performances have taken her throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S. She was soloist and concertmaster of the Orchestre Internationale de Paris, and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris before joining the San Francisco Symphony in 1990. Her duo with pianist sister Stephanie Leon Shames toured extensively as "Artistic Ambassadors" under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency and has recorded for Cassiopée Disques, Radio France, the Suddeutscher Rundfunk, French TV, N.P.R., and Worldnet Satellite. She has toured the past three summers as a member of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra. Suzanne graduated from Juilliard and the Curtis Institute, where her teachers include Jascha Brodsky, Arnold Steinhardt, and Szymon Goldberg.

Shinya Abe was born in Japan. When he was 5 years old, He started the piano.When he was 13 years old, he started the violin. He studied the violin with Sarn Oliver and Mariko Smiley. and also Camilla Wicks and Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and studied the viola with Jodie Levitz at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with Masao Kawasaki and Dr.Catharin Carroll. He took master classes with world famous musicians such as Robert Mann(violinist), Menamamm Presler (pianist), Mark Sokol (violinist), Bonnie Hampton (cellist), Sadao Harada (cellist) and Issac Stern (violinist). In 2002, He started to study conducting. He has conducted the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, and the Aspen Music Academic Orchestra, the Crawden Music School, youth orchestras and music university orchestras in Japan, America and Europe. He was invited by the Aspen Music festival as a conductor and a violist fellowship student. He was invited to the conducting master class with the Thuringen Philharmonie in Germany, and the International conducting master class at the Dresden Conservatory of Music, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducting master class, the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery and others. And he has received the diploma for the Orchestra Conducting from those Conducting Master Classes. In 2006, He has gotten Srd price from the International Conducting Competition in Cordoba. He has invited as a violin and viola visiting faculty and also as a Guest Conductor at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine from 2007. In 2008 he is serving Music director of New Chamber soloists in Tokyo. and from 2011, He become Guest Conductor of Nipponika Symphony in Tokyo.He lives in Dresden, Germany.

Robert Pollock, composer and pianist, now directs Ebb & Flow Arts, Inc., in Hawai'i. He co- founded Guild of Composers, New York, 1975, and founded and directed Composers Guild of New Jersey, 1980-1997. He recently performed solo piano and chamber music recitals in Honolulu, Hawai'i, Seoul, Korea (twice), and Tokyo, Japan (twice). He has received numerous commissions and awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Grant Fellowship, Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Award, Ingraham Merrill Award, New Jersey State Fellowships and Composers String Quartet Award.