Selected Recordings of the Longday Flutes

Members

Barb Gurnari (inactive)

Matt Jacob

Kent Peacock

Nika Rejto (inactive)

David Ross (inactive)

Carol Wilhelmy

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

Barbara Gurnari has loved the flute since her piano teacher introduced one to her during a summer piano lesson. She opened up that small black case with a gleaming silver tube inside and it was "love at first sight". Barbara went on to major in flute performance in college and received her MM from the University of Michigan. Currently, Barbara enjoys her duties as an executive assistant at Macrovision located in Santa Clara. She continues her "lifelong love affair" by playing at weddings and has enjoyed and played in the Long Day Flute Quartet for about 8 years.

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 Sun Microsystems. His first instrument was the accordian, and he gained an appreciation for classical music from his teacher, working from the ages of Bach and Tchaikovski into the middle to find Mozart as his favorite composer. 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.

Carol Wilhelmy is also a software engineer. She has been playing with members of the Long Day Flutes since the early 1990s, and has performed publicly with the group since 1996, when it was a trio. Since the sixth grade, Carol has enjoyed the excitement of performing for live audiences. Some of the biggest adrenaline rushes she experienced were as a piccolo player in the University of California Marching Band in the first couple of years that women were allowed as members. Carol is a student of jazz flutist Nika Rejto.