CLARINET & BASS CLARINET
SARAH BAMBREY currently resides in Fort Myers, Florida. This is Sarah’s fourth season with the symphony playing in the clarinet section. She teaches middle school band in Lehigh Acres Florida at Veterans Park Academy for the Arts. This is Sarah’s 7th year teaching band. Sarah taught elementary band in Alexandria, Virginia three years prior to moving to Florida. Sarah was born and raised in Northern Virginia. She graduated from East Carolina University in 2001 with a bachelor of music degree. Her previous performing experiences were with the Annandale Symphony from 2002-2005.
JOHN GIACCO (Principal Clarinet) BS, MA, Woodwind specialist, clinician, conductor, arranger. John has a music degrees from SUC at Fredonia, N.Y. and Columbia University, NYC. He has performed with numerous professional groups over the past 45 years including: USMA Band at West Point, N.Y. , Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Studio Orchestra, Tr-State Opera Orchestra, and the Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. Presently John resides in New Windsor, N.Y. and Bonita Springs, Fl.
JACOB H. GOLDBERGER was born in the Czech Republic and raised in Israel where he began studying clarinet at age of eleven. He immigrated to the United States at age 13 and continued studying at New York School of Music. Jake interrupted his musical education while pursuing a medical career at Indiana University and Brown University. A practicing surgeon in the Fort Myers area since 1982, he has been playing with the Gulf Coast Symphony since 1998 and is continuing his musical studies with Scott Ellington.
BASS CLARINET
JACOB H. GOLDBERGER (see above)
JUDY ROSE was born and continues to reside in the Rochester, New York area. She and her husband Bill love Fort Myers as a “winter escape” and the home of Red Sox Spring Training. A graduate of the State University of New York, she is retired from teaching computer science at the secondary level. She studied clarinet during her pre-college years and resumed studies after joining New Horizons, a community music offering at the Eastman School of Music. She is currently bass clarinetist with community bands in the towns of Irondequoit and Penfield, in a clarinet choir and Second Winds Clarinet Ensemble. Her family includes five children and fifteen grandchildren. Involvement in the PENCIL Project (Public Education Needs Community Involvement in Learning) at an elementary school in Rochester has become a new passion. In addition to music, Judy enjoys traveling, genealogy, knitting, gardening and her husband’s antique auto restoration hobby.