{"id":336,"date":"2012-08-29T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:56:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/karney-music-sounds-inc\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Anna-K. Karney, President and principal composer and sound designer<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Ten years of training in piano, conducting, and music theory at The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music. Presser Scholarship in recognition of outstanding achievement as a Music Major as well as, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in electronic music at San Francisco State University.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Composer in residence for graduate dance department San Francisco State University<\/span><\/span>Anna Karney composes music for both modern dance and ballet. To date she has several completed and performed scores including her most recently performed Death Of A Hero, and Storyboard. She started creating works for dance from her affiliations as a dance accompanist. She has either composed or accompanied for many esteemed choreographers such as, Edward Valela, Anna Sokolo, San Francisco Ballet School, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Oberlin Dance Collective, Richard Gibson and The Academy of Ballet, June Watanabe, Mills College Dance, Lucas Hoving, Ed Mock, Janice Garret, Melissa Fenley and many, many more. She also composed her Opus 1 Chaconne Sur Sept for nationally renown contemporary music group, Earplay Ensemble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">She has had her works performed at several Bay Area theaters, including The Zellerbach Playhouse, The Cowell Theater, Theater Artaud, The New Performance Gallery, and Mills College <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">View Anna&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/by_genre\/developerId,12610\/\">Gameography<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Band Member Biographies<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-461 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar-186x186.jpg 186w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar-184x184.jpg 184w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Erik-Smyth-guitar.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Erik Smyth<\/strong><br \/>\nErik Smyth has been a local San Francisco Bay Area musician playing the clubs since 1988. In the 90\u2019s he was a founding member of the large ensemble funk\/soul group The Mo\u2019fessionals. The Mofessionals got to share the stage with many large acts, Rage Against the Machine, The Fugees, Parliament, Wall Flowers, and War to name a few. The Mofo\u2019s recorded two albums together, \u201cLive at Slims\u201d and \u201cFinally Over\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KB-57-JeffHerrera-BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-324\" src=\"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KB-57-JeffHerrera-BW-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KB-57-JeffHerrera-BW-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KB-57-JeffHerrera-BW-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Jeff \u201cTrump\u201d Herrera \u2013 Drums<\/strong><br \/>\nA third generation native San Franciscan, Jeff has been playing drums and percussion professionally for over twenty five years.\u00a0Jeff\u2019s versatile and dynamic playing have provided him opportunities to back some of San Francisco\u2019s\u00a0 premier vocalists in the Latin, Jazz, Rock, Singer Songwriter, Reggae, Hip-Hop\u00a0and World Music genres. Jeff has performed at acclaimed Music Festivals such as Sierra Nevada World Music Festival (CA), South by Southwest (Austin, TX), and North by Northwest (Seattle, WA). He has also headlined such historic venues as The Fillmore Auditorium, The Great American Music Hall and the Herbst Theater. Jeff is also in demand as a recording artist, contributing to records, projects\u00a0and Soundtracks for TV, film and theater. Jeff\u00a0is currently working with a\u00a0variety of musical acts in the San Francisco area. Jeff loves exotic stamps, desserts served on fire, warm puppies, fishing in Lake Titicaca, exact change and the smell of new civic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Kevin White<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kevin-White-bass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-462 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kevin-White-bass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kevin-White-bass.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karney.org\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kevin-White-bass-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kevin White plays with a dizzying array of artists. He has been bassist for Will Porter and the California All Stars, GRAMMY winners Al Wilson (&#8220;Show and Tell&#8221;) and Billy Preston as well as soul legend Barbara Lewis (&#8220;Hello, Stranger&#8221;), The Coasters, and The Drifters. Then former Counting Crows drummer Steve Bowman recommended Kevin to be the bass player for Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express, with whom Kevin currently plays. Kevin be-gan playing bass when he was 11 years old, had his first professional gig at the age of 14 and has been on the road, on the stage, or in the studio since.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna-K. Karney, President and principal composer and sound designer Ten years of training in piano, conducting, and music theory at The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music. 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