Member Bios
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Sarah Jo Zaharako | violinSarah Jo Zaharako began her musical training at age five in Indiana. She studied classical violin as a child and attended Oberlin Conservatory. Sarah moved to the Bay Area in 1999 in order to expand her musical scope. In 2002, she completed a Masters of Fine Arts at Mills College where she studied violin with David Abel and improvisation with Fred Frith. Sarah now performs and composes for creative music ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area including Gojogo and Seventh Avenue String Quartet. She also plays with Matt Small’s Chamber Ensemble. In addition to composing for instrumental groups, Sarah creates music for dance. She has premiered works with Ballet Counterpointe, Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet pre-professional program, the Rotterdam Dance Academy, and project agora. |
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Roger Riedlbauer | guitarRoger Riedlbauer's varied projects have gained him recognition as both a versatile and gifted guitarist. Studying improvisation and composition under Art Johnson and Rick Helzer at SDSU, he relocated to the Bay Area in 1997, where he began composing and performing as a freelance guitarist. Riedlbauer has established himself as a vital member of the creative music scene, performing and collaborating with numerous filmmakers and visual artists for multi-media performances. He is serving as lead guitarist for noir rock band Boxcar Saints and creating imaginary landscapes with Aca trio. |
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Eric Perney | bassEric studied classical and jazz bass at the University of Michigan with Stuart Sankey and Rodney Whitaker. His musical vision has also been influenced by his work with Peter Kowald, Steve Reinfranck, Joelle Leandre, Steve Rush, Ed Sarath, Fred Frith, and Tom Waits. Eric is a founding member of the bands Transmission and Gojogo. In 2007 he performed a series of concerts with the vocal ensemble Kitka, and frequently plays with local artists Katy Stephan, Lily Storm, and the Toids. Eric also performs within the modern dance scene in San Francisco, most recently at City Hall for the “Art for the Environment” global exhibition. He can be heard on Tom Waits' “Alice”, “Orphans” and the soundtracks to “Shrek 2” and “La Tigre e la Neve”. |
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Elias Reitz | percussion, samplerElias became acquainted with Indian music in 1990 in Ganeshpuri, India on a visit to study eastern philosophy and meditation at the Siddha Yoga meditation ashram. Returning with a mrdangum, tamboura and harmonium, he has spent the years since exploring and integrating sounds ancient and cutting edge. Today his specialty is the juxtaposition of the beautiful with the anxious; the ultra-percussive with the ambient; the acoustic with the sliced and diced. His contribution to Gojogo is his production studio itself: various world percussion instruments, guitars, saloon piano, turntable, and sampler. In addition to composing and performing, Elias is also a first-call recording engineer and sole proprieter of Silence Cases. |