Selected Recordings of the Longday Flutes

Photo taken at the SF Symphony's Chamber Music Workshop 5/12/13
Left to Right: Susan Roloff, Judy Quinn, Linda Lukas (SF Symphony coach), Kent Peacock, and Matt Jacob.

Onstage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

Members

Matt Jacob

Kent Peacock

Carol Wilhelmy

Jim Engelman (inactive)

Nika Rejto (inactive)

David Ross (inactive)

Judy Quinn (inactive)

Susan Roloff (inactive)

Barb Gurnari (inactive)

Stanford International Center 5/6/01

History

The Longday Flutes are a group of friends who, since about 1994, have gotten together one evening a week to play the flute ensemble literature. The Longday name originated when one of us remarked as we were getting set to play one evening that it had been a "really long day". Over the years, we've done a number of concerts and weddings, and have recorded most of those performances. A sampling of these is offered here for your enjoyment.

Biographies

Matthew Jacob is a freelance software engineer in Silicon Valley. He has been playing with the Long Day members for over a decade. He has studied with Jeanne Chandler, Patrick Hurtado, John May and others over the last 30 years. Also a guitarist, he has played in both classical and jazz areas and finds both equally sublime and salacious in nearly equal proportions.

Kent Peacock is a software engineer at Oracle (from Sun Microsystems). His first instrument was the accordian, and he gained an appreciation for classical music from his teacher. He started playing flute at age 21, and within 7 years was playing professionally in the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra in Canada, while working toward a Ph.D. in computer science. He's played two of the three Mozart flute concerti with orchestras, as well as playing in a number of local amateur orchestras and for musicals with Palo Alto Players and Theaterworks. He currently plays in the California Pops Orchestra, and occasionally with the Nova Vista Symphony Orchestra.