Professional backgrounds and bios

Edwin Bradley - business executive/consultant, investment counselor
Joy Chu - graphic designer
Eleanore Giacoletti - businesswoman, music store owner, director of music school
Richard A. Froese, Jr. - commercial real estate development
N. Ty Smith, M.D. - physician, professor, founder of PACEM
Craig Zobelein - aerospace engineer, teacher, CEO, musician
Jennifer Zobelein - editor, writer, teacher, musician
Warren Gref - musician

Edwin Bradley is a retired business executive. He has had extensive experience in computer technology development and deployment, serving as a director of technology planning at Kraft Foods and as a senior manager in Ernst & Young's consulting practice. He has also served as a consultant to general management in developing business change programs for Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries including consumer products, financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and energy exploration.
Since retiring from business and moving to San Diego in 2000, Mr. Bradley has become increasingly involved in the region's vibrant musical community, and currently plays the horn in two local amateur orchestras as well as various chamber ensembles. He is active in several local community and volunteer organizations including the Advocates for Classical Music, the Escondido literacy project and the San Diego Foundation. And he is very grateful to be able to enjoy San Diego's wonderful climate, it's social and ethnic diversity, and to participate in it's opportunities for personal growth.
Mr. Bradley earned a BA from Northwestern University, and an MBA, with Honors, from the University of Chicago. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, a business honorary society.
Mr. Bradley and his wife Nancy Lee reside in Escondido.

Joy Chu is a graphic designer who specializes in books, presentations and Web sites. She works with publishers on both coasts, and previously was art director for children's and adult books at Harcourt in San Diego and designer at several New York publishing houses. An active member of the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators), she has worked with many of the top artists, writers and photographers in the country. She frequently lectures across the country on book design. She has served as chairperson of the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Book Show Competition and on the board of directors for AIGA/San Diego. She is the recipient of numerous design awards from the AIGA, Print and Step-by-Step magazines, the Society of Illustrators (for art direction), and Bookbuilders West. Her work has been nominated for the LMP (Literary Market Place) Award and the American Book Award, both for outstanding book design

Richard A. Froese, Jr. graduated from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management and a minor in music theory and composition. While at ASU, he worked on the Technical Staff of the Grady Gammage Center for the Performing Arts, working as a stagehand, sound technician, and follow-spot operator. Upon graduation, Rick went to work for Mattel Toys in Hawthorne, California as a cost analyst. In 1979, he joined TrizecHahn Development Corporation, a California-based developer, manager and owner of regional shopping centers. Starting as a job-site construction secretary, Rick spent over 22 years with TrizecHahn, working his way up through a variety of positions including tenant coordinator, project manager, vice-president of asset management, and senior vice president of development administration. Rick has worked on the development of over 30 regional shopping centers in over ten states and was most recently responsible for developing Paseo Colorado Pasadena?, the redevelopment of an existing enclosed mall into a $220 million, one million square foot, open-air, urban village integrating retail, entertainment, and residential uses. His business skills include team building and management, fiscal analysis and control, task identification and follow-up, and a collaborative approach to problem solving. Rick now works as the Western Regional Senior Vice President for New Plan Excel Realty Trust, a New York based REIT specializing in owning and managing neighborhood and community shopping centers. Rick and his wife, Linda, have been married for twenty-five years and have had their home in Encinitas, California for the past twenty years. Rick and Linda have two children, Tiffany and Justin, who attend Principia College, a small, liberal arts college, located in Elsah, Illinois.

N. Ty Smith, M.D. is Professor Emeritus, University of California at San Diego, and is Founding Director of PACEM (Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music) in San Diego. Dr. Smith was born in Iowa, and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Smith has served on the faculties at Stanford Medical Center, and University of California at San Diego, and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Institute of Medical Physics in Holland, University of Wisconsin, and University of Otago in New Zealand. Dr. Smith has also served at Children's Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts General Hospital, U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital in San Diego, and Dunedin Hospital in New Zealand. Dr. Smith has received numerous honors and awards including "Who's Who in Medicine" and the Detur Award from Harvard College.

Craig Zobelein, a native Californian, grew up in a home filled with music. His mother was an opera star, and his grandmother, also a singer, was a generous patron of classical music in Los Angeles. Craig played accordion as a child, then advanced to piano and organ, and also classical and folk guitar. At home, he has two organs and a grand piano to play around with. Craig spent fifteen years as a design engineer in the aerospace industry, followed by fifteen years as a teacher in the public school system in Ventura County (adult school, elementary, math and computer labs). For the past eight years he has been the CEO of a family-owned investment corporation. For many years, Craig performed in community theater - dancing, singing and acting. Also for many years, as a band parent, he was actively involved in supporting music programs in the schools. He has been an enthusiastic patron of the arts for decades. He and his wife moved to the San Diego area in 1998. They enjoy travel, hiking, skiing and boating.

Jennifer Zobelein was Born in England, raised in Canada, and moved to Los Angeles, California, as a high school student. After earning a university degree in English (minor in Music), she worked for a few years as an assistant editor for Western Publishing Company and also as a free-lance writer (copy writing, political speeches, articles). She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, with one book published. After staying home to raise two musical children, Jennifer went back to school in 1978 for a teaching credential, along with her husband, Craig. She taught for fifteen years - junior high, elementary, suspended and expelled secondary program, and the last eight years in Gifted and Talented Education. When her husband took over the family business, she worked with him - as Office Manager and Secretary-Treasurer of the company. Jennifer also plays piano and organ, and was a church organist for two years. She worked with Craig as a band parent, making presentations to the city council and school board in Thousand Oaks which resulted in a grant of $100,000 for new band instruments. Both of them are active members of the American Guild of Organists, Palomar chapter.

Warren Gref is a long-time member of the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera, and has been a contracted member of the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. He had performed as a substitute 4th horn with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the 1998-99 and most of the 1999-2000 seasons. Mr. Gref was invited to give a lecture/demonstration in May of 1999 at the International Horn Society's 31st Annual Symposium held at the University of Georgia. Mr. Gref enjoys a full and varied career and, in addition to playing horn, is Founder of the San Dieguito Performing Arts Association, and served as its first Artistic Director until he resigned from that organization in the fall of 1999. He also conducts the newly formed Orchestra of San Dieguito, which included during its inaugural season a performance of all of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti. As Artistic Director of Seagate Concerts, he organized a yearlong musical tribute in honor of the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach's death, "Basically Bach - Celebration 2000". The central focus of this series of 13 concerts throughout the year was a 3-day Festival beginning on the actual date of Bach's passing, and held at the San Diego Museum of Art. Recently, Mr. Gref was also named as Resident Conductor of the Cabrillo Chamber Orchestra.
As an orchestral musician, Mr. Gref has performed under such internationally acclaimed conductors and composers as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Esa-Pekka Solenen, John Williams, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate, and Antal Dorati. In recent years, Mr. Gref has twice toured Japan with the Sierra Brass Quintet, and has toured Europe, Mexico, and the Eastern United States with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Gref's musical tastes include a broad spectrum reaching back to the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque, through the Classical, Romantic, and up to the present day avant-garde. He has been involved in the premiere performances and recordings of numerous new works, both for large orchestra and for small chamber ensembles. Mr. Gref has recorded for London, Pro Arte, Sony, Naxos, Neuma, CRI, Koch, and other record labels. Mr. Gref has also participated in the Mainly Mozart Festival as well as La Jolla's SummerFest. Mr Gref has recently been accepted into the Fellowship Program at the American Conductors Academy as part of the Aspen Music Festival and will be studying there this summer (2003).
In addition to his involvement with "classical" music, Mr. Gref also works in the Los Angeles television and motion picture studios, and performs for musical theater productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Showboat, Ragtime, Titanic, and others. Mr. Gref is an associate faculty member at the University of California at San Diego, has been appointed to the faculty at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and is also serving on the faculty at San Diego State University. Mr. Gref is also on the staff as a Brass Clinician at Mt. Carmel High School in the Poway School District (San Diego). In the spring of 2002, Mr. Gref participated as clinician, conductor, and performer at the Dale Clevenger Horn Workshop held on the campus of UC Santa Barbara. Prior to moving to San Diego in 1979, Mr. Gref had taught at the University of Georgia, and the University of New Mexico, and also during the summers at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina where he was Principal horn. Mr. Gref began his orchestral career at the age of 21 as Assistant Principal horn with the San Antonio Symphony. Warren and his wife, Ann, are long-time residents of Encinitas, and have two children attending public school.

Seagate Concerts is a Proud Member of
San Diego Performing Arts League
Chamber Music America
Musical America
Encinitas Chamber of Commerce
Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce

Seagate Concerts is Recognized by
San Diego Opera
Jung-Ho Pak, conductor
Carlsbad Arts Office
UCSD Music Department
Ann Chase, soprano
CAMARADA
Westwind Brass
American Guild of Organists, SD Chapter