Our musician teachers are active professionals who are deeply committed to making music and to teaching others the joy of creating and participating in music.
Folk and World Music Accordion Banjo, Bouzouki Didgeridoo Fiddle Mandolin (bluegrass & folk) Middle Eastern Oud World Hand Percussion- Cajon (Flamenco percussion) Indian Tabla
Voice - Music Together - Emily Browder B.A., Reed College; M.M., with Honors, Longy School of Music. Principle opera roles with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Academy of Music, Boston Music Theater Project, and Harvard University. Recitals at the Music at the Cloud Series, UMass Dartmouth Chamber Series, and Paine Hall at Harvard University. Soloist and member of the Cantata Singers; soloist and ensemble appearance with Boston Vocal Artists. Performances with soprano duo Ensemble O at the Harare International Festival for the Arts in Zimbabwe and in the Boston Early Music Festival. Recordings: the role of the Boy in Lukas Foss's "Griffelkin" on Chandos records; upcoming release of the role of Eve in Daniel Pinkham's "Garden Party" on Arsis Records. Faculty: Dana Hall School of Music and Tunefoolery, an ensemble of musicians with mental illness.
Voice - (Conductor, Basics of Music, Songwriting Workshop-on leave) - Sandi Hammond B.A., Earlham College, Honors Scholarship in Fine Arts. Ford Foundation Fellowship in Conducting. Grant recipient, Council for the Arts, MIT. Private study with Jayne West, Patti Thom, Beverly Meyers, Richard Morrison, Sharon Daniels. Boston University Tanglewood Institute, 1990. Former member of Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver Chorale, Cantata Singers. Former soloist at St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Boston. Live performance on WGBH, WERS, WUMB. Solo album (pop) RUBBERGIRL (Aspire Records), 1999. Featured on RESPOND compilation CD (Signature Sounds/Columbia Records), 2000. Regular performances in nightclubs including The Living Room (NYC), Johnny D's, Somerville Theater, Club Passim. On Leave
Voice - Teen Musical Theater, and Kids' Cabaret Music Director for April Vacation Week - Pamela Murray Pamela Murray’s “naturally beautiful lyric voice” has been praised by the Boston Globe. She has performed as soloist with The Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, and Boston Baroque, with such conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Craig Smith, and Seiji Ozawa.
The KOCH International recordings of the ensemble Favella Lyrica, of which she is a founding member, have received national critical acclaim. She is also Artist in Residence with Foundling, a Baroque women’s orchestra and advocacy project based in Providence RI, where a recent review stated that "Ms. Murray's interpretive gifts carry the listener through the emotive field effortlessly." She has sung several roles with Prism, a Boston based opera company.
Ms. Murray is on the voice faculty at the American Repertory Theatre, the Harvard University Extension School, and The Boston Conservatory of Music. She has also taught at the Middlesex School Summer Arts program, where she served as Music Director for Little Shop of Horrors, and was co-director of Broadway in Brookline, a musical theater workshop at the Brookline Music School.
Voice - Wendy Parker Wendy received her M.M. in voice performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and her B.A. in voice performance from the University of Massachusetts.She completed professional operatic training programs at OperaWorks in Los Angeles, BASOTI in San Francisco, and the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Wendy has professional voice teaching certifications in the Somatic Voicework™ and Northwest Institute of Voice methods.
Wendy is an active performer in opera, oratorio, recital, and musical theater, as well as experimental rock, bluegrass, folk, and her own original pop-folk songs.Operatic engagements includethe title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola (Portland Opera, POGO tour), Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (Rogue Opera), and Lady Billows in Albert Herring, (Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute). Her musical theater roles include Maria in West Side Story, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, and Rapunzel in Into the Woods.Shehas appeared as a concert soloist in the YuletideSpectacular (Oregon Symphony), Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass (Redding Symphony), Beethoven’s Mass in C, Bach’s Magnificat, and Vivaldi’s Gloria (University of Portland Orchestra), and Handel's Messiah (San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra).
Wendy’s teaching fosters student creativity and independence by incorporating strong technical skill-building, improvisation and theater/musical play.
Piano - Voice - Violin- Megan Roth B.M. in Violin Performance with honor, DePaul University, M.M. in Vocal Performance, Florida State University, Artist Certificate in Opera, Florida State University.Ms. Roth is currently pursuing a professional career in opera and has recently debuted with Boston Midsummer Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte.Additionally, she has performed with Opera Boston, Boston Baroque, and the American Repertory Theatre.Throughout 2008-2009, she has presented numerous art song recitals throughout the northeast, and in New York.She is the alto soloist for the Old North Church & Festival Chorus in Marblehead, MA.
Ms. Roth has been teaching piano, violin, and voice to students of all ages since 2001.Teaching method for pianists and violinists includes developing a relaxed approach to their instrument, while concentrating on good sound, agility, and musicianship. Voice students will develop a solid foundation of technique, focusing on breath and tone coordination, ease of tone production, musicianship, and constant awareness of vocal health.
Please visit her website to learn more about Megan and to see information on upcoming performances:www.meganroth.com
Voice - Music Discoveries - Dana Sandler B.M. in Studio Music and Jazz Voice, University of Miami, Coral Gables; M.M in Jazz Performance with a concentration in Music-In-Education, New England Conservatory. Jazz vocal studies with Dominique Eade and Rachel Lebon. Jazz composition studies with Allan Chase, John McNeil and Frank Carlberg. Classical Voice studies with Nobleza Pilar and Lois Yavniele and classical piano studies with Esperanza Brigante. Performed on Royal Caribbean Cruise lines as leader of the Dana Sandler Quintet. Performances in Jordan Hall, Queens College, Riverside Park, NY and clubs in NY including Tonic, the Stone and Stain Bar as lead vocalist for Khevre, a boston-based Klezmer group and other various jazz groups. Master classes at Berklee and performances with pianist, Carmen Staaf. Former voice faculty at the Musical Suite in Newburyport, MA specializing in jazz and musical theater. Recordings with Carmen Staaf (Reflection 2008, released on Fractamodi records), Khevre (Ofyn Sheydvig-At the Crossroads 2005) and with University of Miami’s Downbeat award winning Jazz Vocal 1 ensemble.
Voice - Anita Suhanin BM, Berklee College of Music. Studies with Susan Lincoln, April Arabian, Maggie Scott, Bob Stoloff. Performs “Torch and Twang” mix of country, jazz, blues and original music in local clubs. Performed with Vox One, Peter Mulvey, Bruce Millard, the Gin House Heroes, and Groovasaurus which won two Boston Music Awards and Boston Magazine’s Best Rock Band. Faculty, Brookline Music School.
Voice - Vocal Ensembles - (Women's Choir Director, Ear Training) - Susan Trout Susan Trout, dramatic soprano, is known for her versatility in a wide range of repertoire. She has appeared as an oratorio soloist with the baroque orchestras of Emmanuel Music, Boston Cecelia, Handel and Haydn Society, and the Washington Bach consort in such works as Samson, G.F. Handel, Mass in B minor, J.S. Bach, In the Beginning, A. Copland, Gottes Zeit ist die Aller Beste Zeit, J.S. Bach, St. John Passion, J.S. Bach. Ms. Trout has appeared with Boston Lyric Opera as Sarah in The Ballad of Baby Doe, and also as Mrs. Baines in the workshop production of Elmer Gantry. Ms. Trout has been a featured soloist with the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic performing the Four Last Songs and finale from Der Rosenkavalier of Richard Strauss, and the Liebestod of Richard Wagner. She has also been heard locally with the choruses and orchestras of Tufts performing the Verdi Requiem, of M.I.T. performing the Mozart Requiem, with Clark University in the Poulenc Gloria, and with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus in the Lord Nelson Mass by Haydn. Ms. Trout is a member of Emmanuel Music, world renowned for its performances of Bach cantatas as a part of the weekly liturgy.
Voice - Jazz - Patrice Williamson Jazz Times magazine states that “Patrice Williamson isn’t a singer, she’s a one-woman jazz sampler. – She is a woman of many voices, each distinctly intriguing all distinctly her own.” Williamson is a favorite fixture of both Boston and Singapore's live music scene. Her sensitive interpretations and fluent scat style have earned her a coveted Best of Boston accolade and several Kahula Boston Music award nominations. She's also been heard at both the Tanglewood and Marblehead Jazz Festivals. Both of her independent recordings My Shining Hour and Free to Dream have received high praises from jazz critics around the country. Patrice is an active member of the vocal trio E.S.P. The trio released their first recording, 1st Cut in December 2008. Patrice received her M.M. degree and the Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Dominique Eade and Susan Clickner. Her B.M. is in Classical Flute performance from the Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Piano - Alexander Technigue - Gaye Bennes Gaye Bennes has B.S. and M.S. degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with Beveridge Webster and Rosina Lhevinne. She has been active as a soloist and chamber musician, including performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's pre-symphony concerts. Gaye has taught piano at the Longy School of Music, at Concord Academy, and has been Artist-in-Residence at Eastern Kentucky University, Delta State University (Mississippi), and Winona State University (Minnesota). Her training includes study in improvisation, Dalcroze Eurythmics, and the piano methods of Abby Whiteside and Dorothy Taubman. She is an STAT, AmSAT certified instructor of the Alexander Technique. Gaye has been composing pieces for piano with stories and poems to match since the age of seven. She likes to guide students to use imagination and natural creativity to develop and learn to enjoy their skills for the fullest possible experience of making music. With her training in Alexander Technique, Gaye gives special attention in piano teaching to the use of the body for posture and movement awareness.
Piano - Violin - Kai-Ching Chang B.M. in Piano Performance, Soochow University (Taiwan). M.M. with Distinction in Piano Performance, Longy School of Music. Artist Diploma Candidate in Collaborative Piano, Longy. Winner of Longy's 2007 Honors Competition, and 2007 Patricia Sherman Award. Prize Winner in the 1999 Seidof and Sons Piano Competition, Taiwan. Former orchestral violinist. Current staff accompanist for PALS Children's Chorus. Piano and violin teacher since 1998. Teaching method incorporates elements of Dalcroze, Orff and Suzuki, as well as introductory Jazz, Pop and Folk styles within a Classical foundation.
Piano - Group Piano - Brett Klaus B.M. University of Missouri; M.M. The Boston Conservatory. Studies with Max Levinson, Peter Miyamoto, and Ayako Tsuruta. Additional private study with Elinor Freer, Andrew Cooperstock, Michael Lewin, and Jerome Lowenthal. Masterclasses with Ilana Vered, Sergio diSimone, Henri Brassard, Mykola Suk, Idil Biret, Abbey Simon, Irina Morozova, Vladmir Shakin, Janice Weber, Thomas Lanners, and Philip Kawin. Appeared in solo and orchestral halls across the United States, Canada, and Europe which include music festival performances at the Brevard Music Festival, Le Centre d’Arts Orford (Montreal), The Las Vegas Music Festival, Sound Encounters at the New England Conservatory, Brandeis Chamber Music Festival, and Music Fest Perugia (Italy), among others. Live performances on WSQR National Public Radio, solo performance at the Governor’s Mansion (Jefferson City). Collaborator with Laura Hall of ABC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? for a New Year’s Eve benefit performance. Two-time consecutive winner of both the Boston Conservatory Piano Honors Competition and the Boston Conservatory Chamber Ensemble Honors Competition. A frequent interpreter of new music -- premieres of works by established composers include Kenji Bunch, Andy Vores, and Lowell Liebermann; new music performances with the Ludivico Ensemble, Juventas, and the Columbia Chamber Soloists. Member of the Pianist Partnering Program at the Boston Conservatory – a small select group of pianists chosen to collaborate with the top vocal/instrumental students at the Conservatory. Private teacher, vocal coach, and musical director throughout the Boston area; Staff Accompanist at the Boston Conservatory.
Piano - Suzuki Piano - Elizabeth Landman B.S. cum laude, Syracuse University. Actress, New York City. Piano Training: Ruth Byer Holden, Dr. Bela Nagy. Suzuki Piano Training: John Homsy, Dr. Doris Harrel, Robert Fraley, Mary Craig Powell, others. Attended Suzuki Institutes at the School of Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, Japan and elsewhere. Attended the following graduate schools: The Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ. and the College of Music, Univ. of MA. at Lowell. Dalcroze Eurthymics, Improvisation and Kindermusik Training. Pres. Of Suzuki Music Schools of MA, Inc., an affiliated chapter of the S.A.A., Director of STEM Piano School in Lexington, MA, guest clinician at festivals throughout MA. Mother of six grown children; grandmother of four.
Piano - Catherine Lawlor B.M., M.M. in piano with Honors, New England Conservatory. Solo and chamber music recitals including performances at the Gardner Museum, Brown University, Kneisel Hall (Blue Hill, Maine), Dartington Festival (Devon, England). Faculty: UMASS/Boston. Studies with Theodore Lettvin, Katja Andy and Tatiana Yampolsky.
Piano - Suzuki piano - Flute- classical and jazz - Suzuki flute - Pei-Chun Lin B.M. Berklee College of Music in Jazz Performance; M.M. Longy School of Music (Modern American Music). Studies with Vanessa Mulvey, George Garzone and Charlie Banacos. Currently organist and director of Children's Music in King's Chapel Church and regularly performs and records in the Boston area. Faculty: The Cambridge School of Weston.
Piano - Conducting - Timothy McFarland B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory. Performances throughout the U.S. Conductor of the Belmont Symphony Orchestra. Student of Russell Sherman and Rudolf Kolisch. Faculty: University of Massachusetts, Boston and The Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College.
Piano - Violin - Melanie Maz B.A. in Music Performance with Distinction and Honors, Goucher College. Post-college violin studies at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Lewis Kaplan, and at Longy School of Music with Janet Packer. Founder and director of the Serenata Chamber Musicians. Violinist in the Serenata Chamber Musicians, Newton Symphony, and the Boston Neo-politan Chamber Orchestra. Performances with the Brahms Society Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, and Longwood Symphony. Piano Faculty: Haggerty Community School
Jazz Piano - Klesmer - Joe Reid B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University; J.D., Northeastern University; LL.M., Boston University. Joe has played piano professionally for over 30 years, and he maintains a busy schedule performing in jazz clubs, with chamber ensembles, with dance troupes, and for theatre productions (over a dozen musicals since 2004). More information about Joe can be found at: www.joereidmusic.com.
Piano - Violin - Voice - Megan Roth
B.M. in Violin Performance with honor, DePaul University, M.M. in Vocal Performance, Florida State University, Artist Certificate in Opera, Florida State University.Ms. Roth is currently pursuing a professional career in opera and has recently debuted with Boston Midsummer Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte.Additionally, she has performed with Opera Boston, Boston Baroque, and the American Repertory Theatre.Throughout 2008-2009, she has presented numerous art song recitals throughout the northeast, and in New York.She is the alto soloist for the Old North Church & Festival Chorus in Marblehead, MA.
Ms. Roth has been teaching piano, violin, and voice to students of all ages since 2001.Teaching method for pianists and violinists includes developing a relaxed approach to their instrument, while concentrating on good sound, agility, and musicianship. Voice students will develop a solid foundation of technique, focusing on breath and tone coordination, ease of tone production, musicianship, and constant awareness of vocal health.
Please visit her website to learn more about Megan and to see information on upcoming performances:www.meganroth.com
Piano - Trudi Van Slyck Piano Diploma, Longy School of Music. Grant recipient for study in Berlin, Germany. Summer study at Yale University. Soloist with Boston Pops Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Merrimack Valley Orchestra, Harvard Club Orchestra. Solo and ensemble concerts at Gardner Museum, Sanders Theater, Harvard University, MIT Kresge, National Gallery in Washington, DC, other venues in New England, radio and American Consulate recitals in Berlin. Teaching experience at Longy School of Music, Lesley University, UMass Boston, Indian Hill Music School, Boston Center for Adult Education and others. Duo piano concerts with husband Nicholas Van Slyck, composer. Recording: piano music of N. Van Slyck on Titanic.
Piano - Esther Ning Yau B.M., Hong Kong Baptist University; Professional Diploma, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts; M.M. in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano, New England Conservatory. Student of Patricia Zander and Irma Vallecillo. Active chamber musician and collaborative partners with both singers and instrumentalists. Staff accompanist at the Boston Conservatory. Participated in Song Fest (UCLA) and Yellow Barn Music Festival and awarded Fellowship at Aspen Music Festival, Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy. Performances at Jordan Hall, Chinese Cultural Institute (Boston), Hong Kong Government House, Puerto Rico Museum of Arts. Member of the New Piano Quartet. Years of experience preparing students for Royal School of Music Examination.
Violin – Emil Altschuler B.M., The Juilliard School; M.M., Yale School of Music; He has received ovations at LincolnCenter, San Francisco's Helen Von Ammon's Emerging Artist Series, The Aspen Music Festival,and Italy's Castello di Galeazza. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Aspen Young Artist's Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic and the Binghamton University Chamber Orchestra. In the AM Duo, he tours extensively with guitarist Jérôme Mouffe. His primary teachers include Erick Friedman, Dorothy DeLay, and Naoko Tanaka. Erick Friedman wrote of him “a very gifted violinist who possesses the talent and capability to become a truly outstanding violinist of his generation.” He is a Teaching Artist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has recently recorded for their Repartee’s interactive website. His playing is also featured on his solo CD “Emil Altschuler – violin”, “Diablo y Tango”, and “Murder Ballads and Love Songs for Cello and Voice”. His latest album, “Theme and Variations”, is due for release in spring 2010.
Emil is also a dedicated teacher with students as young as three as well as adults.
For more info please visit: www.emilaltschuler.com
Cello - Suzuki Cello - Pamela Ambrose Diploma, Longy; M.M., Boston University. Student of George Neikrug and Madeleine Foley. Faculty: Winchester Community Music School, Arlington After School Program. Member of the Charles River Trio. Major studies with Raymond Davis, Madeline Foley and George Nekrug, Chamber music studies with Louis Krasner. Chamber music performances: Museum of Fine Arts. Decordova Museum, Berklee School of Music, Ryles Jazz Club . Can be heard on recent recording , Poetic Reflections
Piano - Violin - Kai-Ching Chang B.M. in Piano Performance, Soochow University (Taiwan). M.M. with Distinction in Piano Performance, Longy School of Music. Artist Diploma Candidate in Collaborative Piano, Longy. Winner of Longy's 2007 Honors Competition, and 2007 Patricia Sherman Award. Prize Winner in the 1999 Seidof and Sons Piano Competition, Taiwan. Former orchestral violinist. Current staff accompanist for PALS Children's Chorus. Piano and violin teacher since 1998. Teaching method incorporates elements of Dalcroze, Orff and Suzuki, as well as introductory Jazz, Pop and Folk styles within a Classical foundation.
Violin - Shu-Fang Du B.M., National Taiwan Normal University; M.M., The Boston Conservatory in Violin Performance; M.M. candidate in piano performance, The Boston Conservatory; Doctorate candidate, Boston University. Soloist with Boston Chamber Orchestra, Boston University Orchestra and Boston Conservatory Orchestra. Chamber music concerts in U.S.A. Taiwan, Japan and Italy. Concerts (piano) with David Kim in New England area. Chamber music coach of the amateur program at Kneisel Hall , Maine and Italy. Former staff accompanist for The Boston Conservatory. Former member of Taipei City Symphony Orchestra. Summer Festivals at Kneisel Hall, Yellowbarn, Walnut Hill and Asian Youth Orchestra under Sir Yehudi Menuin. Teachers include Bayla Keyes, Roman Totenberg, Zinaida Gilels, Lynn Chang and Silvia Lee. Currently plays with The Cantata Singers and Ensemble, The Boston Virtuosi, and Emanuel Music.
Upright and Electric Bass – Matthew Edwards
BM Berklee College of Music. Studies with Jim Stinnett, Dave Clark, Anthony Vitti, Dave Buda. Matthew has played in just about every type of band, from classical and jazz, to rock, funk and Latin. He has played in bands that have opened for such bands as Everclear and Pink. He has played in a string section that recorded with the Dropkick Murphys and can be heard on their latest album “The Meanest of Times”. Matthew has also played several shows with the Dropkick Murphys. He is an active member in the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra and the Quincy Symphony Orchestra. Matthew brings his versatility as a bass player to his teaching and is easily able to adapt to the students learning ability. No matter what style Matthew is teaching he always stresses playing with feeling and groove.
Guitar - Chris Jenkins Chris attended Berklee College of Music as a performance major, receiving the Berklee Achievement Scholarship. He studied with Kenny Werner, Jon Damien and Hal Crook., and had masterclasses with Pat Martino, Mike Stern, Joe Lovano, and Pat Metheny. Chris has performed with Phil Wilson's Rainbow Band, Jon Damien, Christopher Holliday, Billy Bowker, Rob Bargad, in many theater productions, and has had an annual gig at film star John Travolta's New Year's Eve party. With over 10 years of teaching experience Chris is a former faculty member at the Gainesville Guitar Academy and Academy of Music and Art in Gainesville, Florida, and current faculty at the Music & Arts Center in Peabody, Ma.
Chris brings a jazz background to his teaching style with emphasis on ear training, theory, improvisation and their application to all styles of music. He is equally comfortable with the beginner to advanced of all ages and styles, including jazz, rock and blues, on both acoustic and electric. Many of his students have won scholarships to the nation's top music programs.
Guitar- Classical - Aaron Larget-Caplan B.M., New England Conservatory; M.M., Life. Performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician throughout New England, as well as in Italy, Spain and across the United States. Repeated appearances on NPR's Sounds from Chautauqua, NY, and KMUN Radio, Astoria, OR. Internet debut recital, 2003, on www.evolvingartist.com. Programs include chamber works, traditional solo compositions, and works written and dedicated to him by contemporary composers, including Daniel Pinkham, Lior Navok, Ryan Vigil, Jose Elizondo, and Edward Mascari. A former roster artist on Young Audiences of Massachusetts, he performs regularly as an Artist-in-Residence in schools and other community venues. Currently studies with Russian pedagogue Dima Goryachev, other teachers include Eliot Fisk and David Leisner. Faculty: Community Music Center of Boston, The Fenn School in Concord, MA, and an active private studio in Southbridge, MA, where he is the co-founder of the Music & Life Program. www.alarget-caplan.org; www.musicandlife.net.
Violin - Suzuki Violin - Sally Martin BM Performance, Indiana University. Performed for 4 years with the Osnabrueck Symphony Orchestra in Germany. Performed chamber music and toured with the Nordwestdeutsches Kammerensemble. Has performed with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra (Italy), the Graz Festival Orchestra (Austria), the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, among others. Suzuki training from Ronda Cole, Edmund Springer, Edward Kreitman, and Mary Cay Neil. Currently on the faculty at All Newton Music School. Freelances and performs with various area orchestras.
Piano - Violin - Melanie Maz B.A. in Music Performance with Distinction and Honors, Goucher College. Post-college violin studies at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival with Itzhak Rashkovsky and Lewis Kaplan, and at Longy School of Music with Janet Packer. Founder and director of the Serenata Chamber Musicians. Violinist in the Serenata Chamber Musicians, Newton Symphony, and the Boston Neo-politan Chamber Orchestra. Performances with the Brahms Society Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, and Longwood Symphony. Piano Faculty: Haggerty Community School
Guitar - Electric Bass - Mandolin - Steve Mayone AA Berklee College of Music, Audio Arts Certificate. Center for Media Arts in NY Performs electric and acoustic rock. Blue grass, blues, Americana and pop. There solo albums and multiple European and U.S. tours with banda and as a solo artist. Extensive experience with school age and younger children. Steve has been writing songs and playing instruments since the age of 13. Music is an element of his being. He is both a respected sideman and a talented singer/songwriter in his own right.
Suzuki Violin - Suzuki Viola - Loren Pearson BA Smith College. MM SUNY-Buffalo. Performed chamber, symphonic, and operatic music in Europe for 10 years. Performances with Boston Opera, Worcester Symphony, Masterworks Chorale, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Hartford Symphony, among others. WGBH Live Performance Series. Since 1987 with husband Kevin McGinty has performed viola-piano recitals in local schools and colleges. Former faculty, Milton Academy and Cape Cod Conservatory.
Guitar - Folk - Rock - Flamenco - Classical - Jazz - Thomas Pendergast Graduate of Berklee College of Music in composition and arranging, jazz studies with Charlie Benarcus, Hal Crook, Jerry Bergonzi, Mick Goodrick, and Sal Salvador. Sings (tenor/baritone) in Opera Un-Met, performs flamenco and jazz guitar in Boston area.
Violin- Piano - Voice - Megan Roth B.M. in Violin Performance with honor, DePaul University, M.M. in Vocal Performance, Florida State University, Artist Certificate in Opera, Florida State University.Ms. Roth is currently pursuing a professional career in opera and has recently debuted with Boston Midsummer Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte.Additionally, she has performed with Opera Boston, Boston Baroque, and the American Repertory Theatre.Throughout 2008-2009, she has presented numerous art song recitals throughout the northeast, and in New York.She is the alto soloist for the Old North Church & Festival Chorus in Marblehead, MA. Ms. Roth has been teaching piano, violin, and voice to students of all ages since 2001. Teaching method for pianists and violinists includes developing a relaxed approach to their instrument, while concentrating on good sound, agility, and musicianship. Voice students will develop a solid foundation of technique, focusing on breath and tone coordination, ease of tone production, musicianship, and constant awareness of vocal health.
Please visit her website to learn more about Megan and to see information on upcoming performances:www.meganroth.com
Harp - Mary Jane Rupert B.M., Oberlin College; M.M. in Harp, and M.M. and D.M.A. in piano, Indiana University. Acclaimed as concert pianist and harpist, Mary Jane has performed throughout the world from Carnegie Hall to Beijing, and has appeared with orchestras and chamber groups across the U.S. She performed as a soloist at the American Harp Society's National Convention (1994), has recorded under the North Star and Harmony Hill labels, and has published duets for harp and flute. Former teaching positions at Oberlin, Indiana, Western Michigan University, and Walnut Hill. Faculty: Tufts University, Wellesley College, Boston College, MIT.
Violin - Fiddle - Anne Hooper Webb B.S., Mannes. Student of William Kroll, Raphael Bronstein, and Sandor Vegh. Played for nine years with the Camerata Academica of Salzburg and the Sinfonieorchester Graunke of Munich. Freelances in the Boston area. Member of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Boston Philharmonic. Scottish Fiddle National Champion, 1993, 1998. Faculty: The Rivers Music School, Lexington Schools.
Active professional clarinetist since 1971. B.A., BardCollege. M.M., New England Conservatory. Clarinet studies with Gino Cioffi, Attilio Poto, Charles Russo, and Harold Wright. Masterclasses with Robert Marcellus and Stanley Drucker. Former orchestral positions include Atlanta Ballet Orchestra (member), utility clarinet with Atlanta Symphony, principal clarinet with Sao Paulo Symphony under Eleazar de Carvalho, principal and utility with Harvard Chamber Orchestra under Leon Kirchner, Czech Radio Symphony (guest artist) , principal with Bridgeport Symphony, principal with Green Mountain Opera Festival Orchestra, principal with Hanover Chamber Orchestra (Dartmouth College), (present) principal with Massachusetts Symphony, (present) and Orchestra of Emmanuel Music with the Spectrum Singers and Harvard University Chorus.
Guest artist with Alea III under Gunther Schuller (most recent program) and Theodore Antoniou; soloist with Boston’s Zamir Chorale. Founding member of the Cambridge Chamber Players (criticially acclaimed by the New York Times and Boston Globe). Member of the Blackstone Trio and Trio Capriccio; premieres of many new works for these groups and others, including theAtlanta Virtuosi and the former Ariel Chamber Ensemble under late Harvard professor/ composer Earl Kim.Performed with the Vermeer and Muir String Quartets, and Composers in Red Sneakers.
Appearances in Boston's Symphony Hall, Merkin Hall (NYC), Jordan Hall, Sanders Theatre, Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, Sully Hall at The Boston Conservatory, Kresge Auditorium (M.I.T.) Paine Hall and Sanders Theater at Harvard University, Baruch College, Hopkins Center (Dartmouth College), Boston College, Berklee College of Music, Tsai Center at Boston University,UMass/Boston, Allegheny College, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, “Entrée des Artistes” Chamber Music Series, Orliac, France, First Night Boston, as well as many others.Regularly heard on NPR, including WGBH FM Classical Performances Series. Recordings include recent Centaur Records release of "Clarinet Now," and Zemlinsky’s Trio in D Minor, Op.3 on Northeastern Records. Faculty, UMass/Boston since 1996 and the New School of Music, Cambridge since 1990.
Music Theory Composition - Jazz Saxophone - Justin Casinghino BM Hartt School of Music. MM Longy School of Music. DMA candidate, Boston University. Studied composition with Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou, Paul Brust, David Macbride, Steven Gryc, Ken Steen and Robert Carl. Studied saxophone under jazz legend Jackie McLean. Teaching appointments at Boston University, the BU Tanglewood Institute, and the Framingham Public Schools. Boston area consulting director for the rock ‘n’ roll camp DayJams. Commissions from ALEA III, Longy Chamber Orchestra, Longitude New Music Ensemble, Contemporary Players New Music Ensemble, and works featured in master classes given by George Crumb and Lukas Foss. Performs on saxophones, piano and organ, and as a vocalist with several jazz, blues and rock bands. His composition students have won awards including the ASCAP Young Composer’s Award, several Downbeat awards, and commissions and performances by the Boston Pops and MYWE.
World Music - Didgeridoo - Daniel Orlansky Daniel Orlansky has been playing the the didgeridoo for 15 years both in America and Europe. He has performed in many locations, notably at Berklee College of Music, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Jazz Festival, the Cambridge River Festival, and for the Boston Ballet and many local dance companies.
Flute- classical and jazz - Suzuki flute - Pei-Chun Lin B.M. Berklee College of Music in Jazz Performance; M.M. Longy School of Music (Modern American Music). Studies with Vanessa Mulvey, George Garzone and Charlie Banacos. Currently organist and director of Children's Music in King's Chapel Church and regularly performs and records in the Boston area. Faculty: The Cambridge School of Weston.
Flute - Jacqueline Ostergren B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory. Principal Flute with Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico). Performed for the Opera Company of Boston, Portland Symphony, the Nova Filarmonia Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal), and the Spoleto Festival in Italy, U.S. Student of Lois Schaeffer, Robert Stallman and Claude Monteux. Faculty: Milton Academy, and Newton Public Schools.
Recorder - Roy Sansom B.A., Old Dominion University; M.M., New England Conservatory. Performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and Boston Baroque. Recordings on Telarc, Koch International and American Gramophone; featured on radio in “A Note To You” and “A Musical Offering”, and on television on “Long Ago and Far Away”. Coached ensembles at Wellesley College, Tufts University, Mountain Collegium (North Carolina), Pine Woods, the Institute of Historical Dance (Salzburg), and University of Florida, Gainsville.
Accordian, Bassoon - Emilian Badea Dr. Music,BostonUniversity
Bassoonist, Accordionist, Musicologist, and educator Emilian Badea graduated from one of Romania’s most prestigious Music Academies. He earned a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree both as a Dean’s scholar from Boston University. Emilian Badea has performed most of the symphonic repertoire with the Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra and as a freelance musician in the Boston area, he has performed with The Boston Ballet, The Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Classical Players, The Boston Academy of Music, The New Hampshire Symphony, The Rhode Island Philharmonic, The Brockton Symphony, and many other New England ensembles. Dr. Badea has presented Master classes at the "George Dima" Academy of Music in Cluj, Romania and "G. Donizetti" Conservatorio di Musica, Bergamo, Italy. He is a member of The National Music Honor Society "Pi Kappa Lambda", of the American Federation of Musicians, The International Double Reed Society, The American Accordionists’ Association, and the Accordion Teachers Association of Massachusetts. Dr. Badea is also currently on the music faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston and The Brookline Music School.
Percussion - North Indian Tabla - World Music - Jerry Leake Degree in Professional Music, Berklee College of Music.
Faculty Positions: New England Conservatory of Music • NEC Intercultural Institute • NEC Continuing Education • Tufts University • LearnQuest Academy of Indian Music • Berklee College of Music • University of Southern Maine
Publications:Relating Sound & Time • Master Drummers of West Africa • African Bell Ritual • Series A.I.M. Percussion Text (3 vols.): Vol. I: Afro-American Aspects; Vol. II: Indian Influence; Vol. III: Mallets, Meters & Multiple Percussion • Drum Set Adaptations of North Indian Tabla • Clave
Performing Groups: Natraj (Indian/African/Jazz quintet) • Club d’Elf (dub/trance/groove) • Raga and Rhythm Ensemble (Karnatak) • Agbekor Drum and Dance Society (trad. W. African) • Moksha (Berklee faculty) • Portland Symphony Percussion Trio
Select Appearances:JazzYatra, Bombay, India; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Lake George Jazz Weekend, NY; PANAFEST, Accra and Cape Coast, Ghana; Oberlin College, OH; Prayojana Festival, Bangalore and Chennai, India; Guelph Jazz Festival, ON; New Year's Portland ME; Festival of Black Music, MA; Saranac Lake Concerts, NY; U. of Texas, TX; Portsmouth Jazz Weekend, NH; Tsai Performance Center, MA; Musikfest, PA; First Night, MA; Boston Globe Jazz Festival, MA; Regattabar Jazz Festival, MA; Waterfront Park Concert Series, MA; Columbia University, NY.
Pilates - Dance - Lisa Marie Leake Lisa began dancing in grade school then studied ballet in Europe during high school. Since 1984, dance studies include Boston Ballet, Jeanette Neil Dance Studio, California and San Diego Dance Centers. African intensive dance since 2004, emphasis on Ghanaian and Senegalese dance and drumming. Teachers include: Marie Paquette; Gene Murray; Jeanette Neil; Alonso King; Pape N’Diaye; Fatou N’Diaye; Caro Dialo; Ramone de los Reyes. Lisa holds a Master’s Degree in education and Massachusetts K-12 teacher’s license. She has taught in Boston and Cambridge Public and private K-12 schools and colleges, and currently studies general music at NEC.
Greek Bouzouki - Middle Eastern Oud - Guitar - World Music - Tery Lemanis BM Berklee College of Music. Oud studies with Thomas Constantinou and Mal Barsamian. Bouzouki studies with Giorgos Krionas and Charlie Makredes. Guitar studies with David Fiuczynski, Norm Zocher and Costas Baltazanis. Studied Greek & Byzantine music in Greece at the Philipos Nakas Conservatory. Current teacher for "Plugged In." Performances with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Dünya Arabesk Ensemble with Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Traditional Greek Ensembles, Esthema and The Brain Police (Frank Zappa Tribute).
Guitar - Electric Bass - Mandolin - Steve Mayone AA Berklee College of Music, Audio Arts Certificate. Center for Media Arts in NY Performs electric and acoustic rock. Blue grass, blues, Americana and pop. There solo albums and multiple European and U.S. tours with banda and as a solo artist. Extensive experience with school age and younger children. Steve has been writing songs and playing instruments since the age of 13. Music is an element of his being. He is both a respected sideman and a talented singer/songwriter in his own right.
World Music - Didgeridoo - Daniel Orlansky Daniel Orlansky has been playing the the didgeridoo for 15 years both in America and Europe. He has performed in many locations, notably at Berklee College of Music, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Jazz Festival, the Cambridge River Festival, and for the Boston Ballet and many local dance companies.
Guitar - Folk - Rock - Flamenco - Classical - Jazz - Thomas Pendergast Graduate of Berklee College of Music in composition and arranging, jazz studies with Charlie Benarcus, Hal Crook, Jerry Bergonzi, Mick Goodrick, and Sal Salvador. Sings (tenor/baritone) in Opera Un-Met, performs flamenco and jazz guitar in Boston area.
Jazz Piano - Klesmer - Joe Reid B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University; J.D., Northeastern University; LL.M., Boston University. Joe has played piano professionally for over 30 years, and he maintains a busy schedule performing in jazz clubs, with chamber ensembles, with dance troupes, and for theatre productions (over a dozen musicals since 2004). More information about Joe can be found at: www.joereidmusic.com.
Banjo - Bass - Guitar - Mandolin - Charles Rose BS University of Kansas, Lawrence. Jazz guitar studies at Webster University. Recorded with The Asylum Street Spankers, The South Austin Jug Band, The Crooked Jades, and The Jeff and Vida Band. Guest performer with many national acts, including the David Grisman Quintet, and bluegrass singer Shannon Whitworth. Recent nationwide radio appearance on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion. Former faculty, Americana Music Academy, and Montana State Fiddle Camp.
Dance - Yoga - Margaux Skalecki (Ants in the Pants Yoga and Dance for Kids ) BFA, Dance, Boston Conservatory; MA, Personal and Global Transformation through Performing Arts Education, Lesley College. Studies with Judy Baker, Tod Norian. Facilitates Dance Your Sacred Journey, Dancing with Spirit, Sweat Your Prayers, Ecstatic Body Jam, Ants in the Pants Dance for Kids. Faculty, Dance Complex, Brookline Community Center for the Arts, Omega Institute, and Brookline Music School. www.dancingoutloud.com
Piano - Alexander Technique - Gaye Bennes Gaye Bennes has B.S. and M.S. degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with Beveridge Webster and Rosina Lhevinne. She has been active as a soloist and chamber musician, including performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's pre-symphony concerts. Gaye has taught piano at the Longy School of Music, at Concord Academy, and has been Artist-in-Residence at Eastern Kentucky University, Delta State University (Mississippi), and Winona State University (Minnesota). Her training includes study in improvisation, Dalcroze Eurythmics, and the piano methods of Abby Whiteside and Dorothy Taubman. She is an STAT, AmSAT certified instructor of the Alexander Technique. Gaye has been composing pieces for piano with stories and poems to match since the age of seven. She likes to guide students to use imagination and natural creativity to develop and learn to enjoy their skills for the fullest possible experience of making music. With her training in Alexander Technique, Gaye gives special attention in piano teaching to the use of the body for posture and movement awareness.
Music Theory Composition - Jazz Saxophone - Justin Casinghino BM Hartt School of Music. MM Longy School of Music. DMA candidate, Boston University. Studied composition with Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou, Paul Brust, David Macbride, Steven Gryc, Ken Steen and Robert Carl. Studied saxophone under jazz legend Jackie McLean. Teaching appointments at Boston University, the BU Tanglewood Institute, and the Framingham Public Schools. Boston area consulting director for the rock ‘n’ roll camp DayJams. Commissions from ALEA III, Longy Chamber Orchestra, Longitude New Music Ensemble, Contemporary Players New Music Ensemble, and works featured in master classes given by George Crumb and Lukas Foss. Performs on saxophones, piano and organ, and as a vocalist with several jazz, blues and rock bands. His composition students have won awards including the ASCAP Young Composer’s Award, several Downbeat awards, and commissions and performances by the Boston Pops and MYWE.
Piano - Conducting - Timothy McFarland B.M., M.M., New England Conservatory. Performances throughout the U.S. Conductor of the Belmont Symphony Orchestra. Student of Russell Sherman and Rudolf Kolisch. Faculty: University of Massachusetts, Boston and The Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College.
Voice - Music Together - Emily Browder B.A., Reed College; M.M., with Honors, Longy School of Music. Principle opera roles with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Academy of Music, Boston Music Theater Project, and Harvard University. Recitals at the Music at the Cloud Series, UMass Dartmouth Chamber Series, and Paine Hall at Harvard University. Soloist and member of the Cantata Singers; soloist and ensemble appearance with Boston Vocal Artists. Performances with soprano duo Ensemble O at the Harare International Festival for the Arts in Zimbabwe and in the Boston Early Music Festival. Recordings: the role of the Boy in Lukas Foss's "Griffelkin" on Chandos records; upcoming release of the role of Eve in Daniel Pinkham's "Garden Party" on Arsis Records. Faculty: Dana Hall School of Music and Tunefoolery, an ensemble of musicians with mental illness.
Music Together® - Laura Indigo Laura is a Music Together mom, a musician and a massage therapist, and loves to be with children. She was trained at Oberlin Conservatory, and has used her training in many different areas including creating inter-disciplinary curriculum-based performance projects for kids, performing with orchestras and small ensembles, learning African and European folk dances, and exploring music and movement in groups and private lessons with a range of ages from children to adults, in schools, group homes, and private studio settings. Laura loves using many styles of music to deepen relationships with children and their families, and to have fun combining music and movement in daily life. Laura plays flute and ukelele, and includes these instruments in classes, as well as playing guitar and drums in her own preschooler’s rock band at playtime. She has been teaching Music Together classes for 4 years.
Piano - Group Piano - Brett Klaus B.M. University of Missouri; M.M. The Boston Conservatory. Studies with Max Levinson, Peter Miyamoto, and Ayako Tsuruta. Additional private study with Elinor Freer, Andrew Cooperstock, Michael Lewin, and Jerome Lowenthal. Masterclasses with Ilana Vered, Sergio diSimone, Henri Brassard, Mykola Suk, Idil Biret, Abbey Simon, Irina Morozova, Vladmir Shakin, Janice Weber, Thomas Lanners, and Philip Kawin. Appeared in solo and orchestral halls across the United States, Canada, and Europe which include music festival performances at the Brevard Music Festival, Le Centre d’Arts Orford (Montreal), The Las Vegas Music Festival, Sound Encounters at the New England Conservatory, Brandeis Chamber Music Festival, and Music Fest Perugia (Italy), among others. Live performances on WSQR National Public Radio, solo performance at the Governor’s Mansion (Jefferson City). Collaborator with Laura Hall of ABC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? for a New Year’s Eve benefit performance. Two-time consecutive winner of both the Boston Conservatory Piano Honors Competition and the Boston Conservatory Chamber Ensemble Honors Competition. A frequent interpreter of new music -- premieres of works by established composers include Kenji Bunch, Andy Vores, and Lowell Liebermann; new music performances with the Ludivico Ensemble, Juventas, and the Columbia Chamber Soloists. Member of the Pianist Partnering Program at the Boston Conservatory – a small select group of pianists chosen to collaborate with the top vocal/instrumental students at the Conservatory. Private teacher, vocal coach, and musical director throughout the Boston area; Staff Accompanist at the Boston Conservatory.
Voice - Kid’s Cabaret - Pamela Murray - Voice - Teen Musical Theater - Kids' Cabaret Music Director for April Vacation Week Pamela Murray’s “naturally beautiful lyric voice” has been praised by the Boston Globe. She has performed as soloist with The Handel & Haydn Society, Emmanuel Music, and Boston Baroque, with such conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Craig Smith, and Seiji Ozawa.
The KOCH International recordings of the ensemble Favella Lyrica, of which she is a founding member, have received national critical acclaim. She is also Artist in Residence with Foundling, a Baroque women’s orchestra and advocacy project based in Providence RI, where a recent review stated that "Ms. Murray's interpretive gifts carry the listener through the emotive field effortlessly." She has sung several roles with Prism, a Boston based opera company.
Ms. Murray is on the voice faculty at the American Repertory Theatre, the Harvard University Extension School, and The Boston Conservatory of Music. She has also taught at the Middlesex School Summer Arts program, where she served as Music Director for Little Shop of Horrors, and was co-director of Broadway in Brookline, a musical theater workshop at the Brookline Music School.
Music Discoveries - Voice - Dana Sandler B.M. in Studio Music and Jazz Voice, University of Miami, Coral Gables; M.M in Jazz Performance with a concentration in Music-In-Education, New England Conservatory. Jazz vocal studies with Dominique Eade and Rachel Lebon. Jazz composition studies with Allan Chase, John McNeil and Frank Carlberg. Classical Voice studies with Nobleza Pilar and Lois Yavniele and classical piano studies with Esperanza Brigante. Performed on Royal Caribbean Cruise lines as leader of the Dana Sandler Quintet. Performances in Jordan Hall, Queens College, Riverside Park, NY and clubs in NY including Tonic, the Stone and Stain Bar as lead vocalist for Khevre, a boston-based Klezmer group and other various jazz groups. Master classes at Berklee and performances with pianist, Carmen Staaf. Former voice faculty at the Musical Suite in Newburyport, MA specializing in jazz and musical theater. Recordings with Carmen Staaf (Reflection 2008, released on Fractamodi records), Khevre (Ofyn Sheydvig-At the Crossroads 2005) and with University of Miami’s Downbeat award winning Jazz Vocal 1 ensemble.
Originally from New Jersey, where the theatre bug bit him in high
school, Matt came to Boston to attend Northeastern University where he graduated
with a bachelor's degree in theatre performance. Since that time, he has
performed throughout the greater Boston area with the American Repertory
Theater, Devanaughn Theatre Co., Stoneham Theatre and the Boston Theatre
Marathon. With the Boston Globe-spotlighted SouthCity Theatre Ensemble, he
performed in a number of pieces that he helped to create, author and direct, and
which were seen in venues across Cambridge and Boston. More recently, Matt
received rave reviews for his portrayal of the "Snail with the Mail" in Stoneham
Theatre's production of A Year With Frog and Toad, the musical
adaptation of the Frog and Toad children's book series. For his major
solo number, a reviewer remarked: "...Matt Spano is to the the frog pong what
Gypsy Rose Lee is to burlesque", a quote he was quite proud of!
Matt has taught with Stoneham Theatre's youth theatre program, teaching
theatre games, voice, crafts and directing weekly presentations given by the
students. Additionally, he can be seen performing at KidStage, the resident
children's theatre at the Boston Children's Museum during the day and as a House
Manager at the American Repertory Theatre at night. Matt enjoys being able to
bring his knowledge of the performing arts to students of all ages and feels it
an honor to do so.
Music Together - Percussion - World music - Yael Shacham Yael has been teaching Music Together in the Berkshire area for over four years. She is also a teaching and performing artist with focus on music and dance of West Africa and is Co-Artistic Director of Marafanyi Drum, Dance and Song with musical partner, Lara Gonzalez. Together they are committed to the therapeutic, educational and transformational power of drum, dance and song for all ages and populations. They have been teaching for over 10 years and travel frequently to Guinea where they focus on the dynamic and lyrical music and dance from a variety of ethnic groups and maintain assistance programs for artists in the capital region there. Yael readily integrates West African music and movement into the Music Together classes, come and join her high energy classes! Visit www.marafanyi.com.
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