Hadley McCarroll, hailed for her “... lively and exhilarating ...” pianism (SF Classical Voice) is a well-known solo & collaborative pianist. She has performed with Alonzo King's LINES Ballet (Paris, New York), Festival del Sole (Napa Valley), Concerts in the Barn (formerly Olympic Music Festival) - Quilcene, WA, and in a rare solo recital with KRONOS Quartet violist Hank Dutt (San Francisco). Hadley has given wide-ranging solo performances, including with the Santa Rosa Symphony (Carnival of the Animals, Beethoven Lives Upstairs), Old First Concerts, and Noontime Concerts. Hadley enjoys performing intriguing, passionate repertoire, frequently pairing masterworks of the past with new work of the present. Programs might include newly composed music, or works by Carter, Lachenmann and Ligeti alongside favorites by Beethoven, Debussy or Janáček. She especially enjoys performing contemporary music, and has premiered compositions by John Harbison and Robert Greenberg, among many others. As pianist with the contemporary music ensemble sfSound, Hadley has performed works by Crumb, Cage, Berio, Glass, Grisey, and Spahlinger, among dozens of others. She has performed in unique venues and environments, including ZBelow, Project Arthaud, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, at Oakland's historic Paramount Theater, with the Oakland Symphony (San Francisco Silent Film Festival's production of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights) and at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens (Flower Piano - a multi-day festival of outdoor piano repertoire). For the past nearly 20 years she has performed as the pianist of the cello/piano duo martha & monica, appearing around California Hadley received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin.