Community Music Instructors
Emil Altschuler, instructor
With a commanding stage presence and "...sound and accuracy of
intonation that are truly extraordinary" (Erick Friedman), American
violinist Emil Altschuler is a virtuoso of the highest caliber. He has
performed at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and Castello di
Galeazza. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School and a
Masters of Music from Yale School of Music under Dorothy DeLay and
Erick Friedman. He has recorded "The ABCs of Strings" books 1 and 3
for publisher Carl Fischer, independent albums "Emil Altschuler –
Violin" and "Diablo y Tango", and he is a featured artist on Josiah Altschuler’s album
'Murder Ballads and Love Songs for Cello and
Voice.' His upcoming recording project includes works by Mozart, Falla,
Ravel, Poulenc, and Bartok. At New England Conservatory he serves as
Head of Strings at Festival Youth Orchestra, chamber music coach at
the School of Continuing Education, and adjudicates auditions at the
Preparatory School. He also maintains an active private studio in
Cambridge, MA.
www.emilaltschuler.com
Jerry Bussiere, instructor
Jerry Bussiere has performed as a guitarist and vocalist in the field of Jazz
and Popular Music for over 40 years. His music training includes private studies
in guitar with John Scofield and Ross Adams and voice training with Eddie Watson
and Mary Healey. I addition he has studied Jazz improvisation and composition
with Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Banacos. Jerry has worked extensively in the
field of Modern Dance as a composer/arranger and is currently employed by Green
Street Studios in Cambridge, Cambridge School of Weston and Summerstages at
Concord Academy as an accompanist. He has taught guitar at Tufts University
since 1994.
Charles Blandy, instructor
Charley Blandy has been critically praised for his performances in Britten's
Midsummer Night's Dream and Berio's Sinfonia at Tanglewood. He was in the
premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's opera Ainadamar at Tanglewood and Los Angeles. The
year 2005 included two appearances with Opera Boston, in Offenbach's La Vie
Parisienne and Glück's Alceste. In 2006 he will sing Tamino in Mozart's /The
Magic Flute/ with Emmanuel Music in Boston. Mr. Blandy has sung Handel's
/Messiah /with the Charlotte Symphony, premiered Jorge Liderman's Song of Songs
with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and performed Britten's St.
Nicolas, conducted by Raymond Leppard. He frequently performs works of Bach with
Emmanuel Music in Boston, and he has sung several works with the Cantata Singers
under David Hoose and John Harbison. He studied at Indiana University (Masters),
Oberlin College, the Britten-Pears School in England, and Tanglewood, where he
was the recipient of the Grace B. Jackson prize. He is a native of Troy, NY.
Meghan Carye, instructor
Meghan Carye is an active cellist and music educator in the Greater Boston Area.
She began her musical training at New England Conservatory and holds a Bachelor
of Music and a Graduate Performance Diploma in cello performance from the Peabody
Conservatory of Music. She has performed extensively throughout North America,
Europe and Israel and is a founding member and cellist of the Illyrian Chamber
Players. She has served as the Assistant Director and Chamber Music Coordinator
for NEC's Festival Youth Orchestra since 2001 and is highly involved with the NEC's
Preparatory/Summer School coaching orchestral sectionals, presenting masterclasses
and frequently adjudicating auditions. She is currently on the faculty at Belmont
Hill School and The Lincoln Public Schools. A former faculty member at Powers
Music School, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra's Intensive Community Program,
Marblehead Public Schools & Gann Academy. She maintains as active private
cello studio and founded Common Time Music Studio in 2005.
www.commontimemusic.com
Katherine Chi, instructor
Katherine Chi has performed throughout Europe and North America to
great acclaim, including her 2003 New York recital debut, about
which The New York Times raved, "Ms Chi displayed a keen musical
intelligence and a powerful arsenal of technique." She has
established herself as one of Canada's fastest rising stars of
classical music. "…the most sensational but, better, the most
unfailingly cogent and compelling Prokofiev's Third I have heard in
years," said The Globe and Mail. She has appeared with the CBC Radio
Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra,
Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Toronto Sinfonia, and the Alabama,
Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Philadelphia,
Quebec, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Victoria Symphony Orchestras and at
festivals including Aldeburgh, Banff, Canada's Festival of the
Sound, Domaine Forget, Launadière, Marlboro, Osnabrück Kammermusik,
Germany's Ruhr, Santander Summer Music, and Festival Vancouver.
Bolzano Orchestra Recitals Milan, Rome, Salzburg, tour of Italy and
Germany, Hannover. Ms. Chi gave her debut recital at age nine. A
year later she was accepted to The Curtis Institute of Music where
she studied with Seymour Lipkin. She continued studies with Russell
Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory in
Boston, where she received her Master's degree and Graduate and
Artist Diplomas. She later studied for two years at the
International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy, and at the Hochschule
für Musik in Cologne. Ms. Chi was a prizewinner at the 1998 Busoni
International Piano Competition and was the first Canadian and first
woman to win Canada's Honens International Piano Competition. Her
debut recording, of works by Beethoven and Rachmaninov, was released
in 2003 on Canada's Arktos label.
Barry Drummond, instructor
Barry Drummond has had the good fortune to study with and perform under the direction
of many outstanding Javanese musicians, both in the United States and Indonesia.
He received a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts, 1984.
As a Fulbright Scholar, he resided for over seven years in Surakarta, Central
Java under the auspices of the Indonesian National College of the Arts. In
addition to teaching Javanese Gamelan at Tufts, he currently is the Artistic
Director of the Boston Village Gamelan.
Caitlin Felsman, instructor
Caitlin Felsman, Mezzo Soprano, is an active performer and voice teacher in
the Boston Metro Area. Ms. Felsman earned an M.M. in Voice Performance from
the University of Texas at Austin where she performed the roles of Nancy in
Britten's Albert Herring, Isabela in Catan's La Hija de Rappaccini, and Dorabella
in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Tufts
University where she performed the roles of Mrs. Webb in Rorem's Our Town, and
Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and won the Tischler Prize for Excellence
in Music Performance. Ms. Felsman recently made her professional debut with
Austin Lyric Opera as Second Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In the summer
of 2011 she was a Danis Wilson Apprentice Artist at Sugar Creek Symphony and
Song in Watseka, Il, where she performed the role of Alma March in Adamo's
Little Women. As a voice teacher, Ms. Felsman has worked with a wide range
of ages and experience levels, and teaches classical, musical theater and
contemporary music, as well as music theory. She currently serves as a soloist
and alto section leader at the Follen Community Church of Lexington.
Kathleen Flynn, instructor
Described by the Globe and Mail as having, "a voice imbued
with theatrical intensity and shimmering beauty" and by the New
Yorker, "a lush voice and hidden reserves of power," soprano
Kathleen Flynn has performed a repertoire spanning five centuries
and in locales ranging from Japan to Europe. A Sullivan Foundation
award winner, Ms. Flynn has sung under the baton of Seiji Ozawa,
Julius Rudel, Robert Spano, Christopher Hogwood, Mario Bernardi and
Jane Glover. She has performed with Chicago Opera Theater, at the
National Arts Center of Ottawa with the Winnipeg Ballet, The
Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Juilliard Theater, The Kennedy Center
and Carnegie Hall. She is an accomplished recitalist singing at
Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center Theater, the
Tanglewood Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. Ms. Flynn is a
graduate of the University of Toronto, The Juilliard School and
received her doctorate at Stony Brook University in 2007. She is a
founding member of the new chamber music ensemble Ensemble Poema.
Recent performances include a New England recital tour with Ensemble
Poema Handel's Sorceress: Arias for Elisabetta Pilotti with NYC's
Vilas Baroque, Carmel Bach Festival, and a reading of the new opera
dreamseminar/drömseminarium, NYC. She is also an educator and
is an associate professor of voice at the Berklee College of Music.
Ian Gendreau, instructor
Ian Gendreau has been teaching music for 12 years. He has worked as a teaching
artist for Young Audiences presenting assembly programs, workshops and
residencies in Ghanaian drumming. He has also taught private lessons on drumset,
Ga drums and other percussion instruments. Ian has also worked as a performing
musician in jazz groups, steel bands, pit orchestras, drumming ensembles and
other freelance percussion performances. He has traveled to Ghana multiple times
to study drumming. Ian earned his B.A. in ethnomusicology from SUNY Geneseo and
is currently a Masters student in ethnomusicology at Tufts University.
Michael Grant, instructor
Michael Grant is a Junior at Tufts returning to the Tufts Community Music
Program for his second year of teaching. He serves as the Music Director
for the Tufts Beelzebubs, in addition to pursuing a degree in music. His
love of music and teaching have led him to several music camps, teaching
musical theater and a cappella singing back home in Oregon. Michael also
plays trumpet with jazz and klezmer ensembles at Tufts and elsewhere.
Professionally, he is interested in film composition, and has scored
several student and amateur films over the past four years.
Jill Gleim, instructor
Jill Gleim has been teaching children music and dance in the Boston area for 25
years. Jill, the founder of Jillsville School of Dance and the Arts All Day
Summer Arts Camp in Cambridge has a M.Ed. from Lesley University. She studied
the Dalcroze technique in NYC with Hilda Schuster and in Boston with Lisa
Parker. Jill's classes for the young combine Dalcroze Eurhythmics – a method of
teaching music through movement - singing games, and folk and creative dance.
Casey Hannan, instructor
Casey Hannan received his BA in math and Piano from the University of
Connecticut and his Master of Music Degree in Piano performance from the Longy
School where he studied with Sally Pinkas and Eda Shlyam. He has been giving
instruction in piano for the last decade and is currently on the faculty at the
South Shore Conservatory where he teaches both Suzuki and traditional piano.
Also an organist, he is currently music minister at the Church of The Good
Shepherd in Acton where he directs the choirs and ensembles and is devoting much
time to the study of hymn improvisation.
Anne Howarth, instructor
Anne Howarth is a founding member of the chamber group Radius
Ensemble, and performs often in the greater Boston area. She holds
the position of principal horn with the Plymouth Philharmonic
Orchestra and freelances with other orchestras, including the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and
Portland Symphony Orchestra. She maintains a private teaching studio
in Somerville, MA, teaches horn at U Mass Boston, and has taught
horn and brass methods at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Anne holds degrees from Oberlin College and New England
Conservatory.
Lucille Jones, instructor
Lucille Jones studied with Madeline Culpepper and has conducted
children's choirs for the past five years. Ms. Jones is an
experienced singer and arranger. She studied dance and theater in
Boston and Atlanta. In addition to her work as Department
Administrator for the Tufts Music Department, Ms. Jones teaches
dance in Dorchester. She holds a BA in Spanish and a Masters in
Urban Policy. She enjoys working with youth of all ages.
Laura Kozachek, instructor
Laura Y. Kozachek received her BA in music at the University of California at
Santa Barbara, where she studied viola with Heiichiro Ohyama and Ronald Copes
and performed with many university ensembles, including early and new music
ensembles. She pursued graduate studies in music history at UCSB and completed
her PhD in musicology at Harvard University with a dissertation on Czech
Renaissance polyphony. She has taught music history at Harvard University and
The Boston Conservatory of Music and performs locally.
Nando Michelin, instructor
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Michelin came to Boston in 1989 to study at Berklee
College of Music. He has since remained in the Boston area and has undoubtedly
made his impact on the jazz scene. His past bands have included such up and
coming artists as bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding and drummer Richie
Barshay. His discography includes Art, an album featuring songs dedicated to
modern visual artists, and Duende, an album described in the Boston Globe as a
"fluid and literate" collaboration between the three featured artists. Entre
Amigos will be his ninth studio album. In addition to being a band leader,
Michelin has worked as a producer and as a sideman. He helped create the awarded
"Amores Torcidos" with Katie Viqueira and as a sideman he has performed with
icons like Jair Rodriguez and Maucha Adnet. He is also an educator, working as a
member of the applied faculty at Tufts University.
Greg Pauley, instructor
Greg Pauley has been praised by critics for
having "perfect dynamic nuances," being "at all times technically
brilliant," (The Newark Star Ledger) and for "playing with a
maturity that belied his age." (The Portland Press Herald) A native
of Southern California, Mr. Pauley earned his Bachelor's Degree from
the University of Southern California. He also holds a Master's
Degree from Mason Gross School for the Arts at Rutgers University
where he studied with Ilana Vered. Mr. Pauley has performed at Alice
Tully Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall among many others, and has
performed live on radio and television in Vermont, New York, Maine
and Alberta Canada. In addition to performances in New Hampshire,
concerts have taken Mr. Pauley to Florida, Alabama, Kentucky,
Vermont, New York, Michigan, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and
California. In February of 2000 Mr. Pauley released his first
recording, "What the West Wind Saw," a CD of solo piano music
inspired by elements of nature (earth, wind, fire and water) which
features works by Ravel, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy and Scriabin. In
addition to his busy performance schedule, Mr. Pauley maintains a
full teaching schedule and is in demand as an adjudicator and Master
Class teacher. Mr. Pauley lives with his family in Concord, New
Hampshire where is on the piano faculty at St. Paul's School and the
Concord Community Music School.
Yukiko Sekino, instructor
Pianist Yukiko Sekino leads an active career as a soloist and chamber musician
in the United States, Europe, and her native Japan. She made her debut with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen, and has since performed at Carnegie
Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Sanders Theatre in Boston, and
Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood. In the recent seasons, she appeared as a soloist
with the New World Symphony, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Lakeside Symphony,
Nova Vista Symphony, and Suburban Symphony. Her awards include the Gold Medal
and the Audience Prize at the 2006 International Russian Music Piano Competition
and the Jackson Prize from Tanglewood Music Center. An avid chamber musician,
Ms. Sekino has been invited to Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the
West, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and Thy Masterclass Chamber Music
Festival (Denmark). Ms. Sekino graduated from Harvard University and the
Juilliard School, and holds a doctoral degree from State University of New York
at Stony Brook. She has taught piano at Colby College and SUNY Stony Brook.
Binney Stone, Instructor
Guitarist, arranger, audio engineer, composer and teacher, Mr. Stone's experience
spans four decades of performing, teaching, recording and composing.
Mr. Stone has recorded with Ben Cameron, Jude Crossen, Bill Frisell, D Sharpe,
Gary Valente, and Lance Van Lenten, among others.
Mr. Stone has toured with the bluesman Johnny Heartsman, and he has performed with
Leslie Gore, Dick Johnson, the Platters, Sam and Dave, and Stan Strickland, and many others.
Also, he has been touring ten years throughout New England with the Perry Rossi Orchestra.
As an accomplished musician, Mr. Stone not only performs in theaters, clubs, performance
halls and pit-bands, but also plays many styles of music, including jazz, rock, blues,
klezmer, folk, world music, and classical.
Mr. Stone currently teaches guitar and ensembles at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA,
and at the Middlesex School in Concord, MA. He also teaches privately to serious students.
He has taught at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and at the Rivers School in Weston, MA.
Mr. Stone holds a Bachelor of Music Composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
Holly Stumpf, instructor
Holly Stumpf graduated from the University of Rochester and received
an M.Ed. in Creative Arts from Lesley University. She attended the
yearlong course at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria, where
she studied Orff-Schulwerk, which she believes to be an authentic
vision of integrated arts education. Ms. Stumpf has taught
elementary music in Lexington, Massachusetts, since 1975, and has
taught courses at the New England Conservatory and UMassLowell. She
has presented several workshops at national American Orff-Schulwerk
Association conferences. She has recently traveled to Senegal and
Ghana to study African drumming and dancing, and has led community
drum circles. Ms Stumpf received the Lexington Public Schools
Diversity Award in 2008 for her multicultural music and movement
curriculum and the Yale Distinguished Music Educators Award for
2011.
Yu-Hsin Tai, instructor
Ms. Yu-Hsin Tai earned her Master of Music degree as well as her
Certification in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from the Longy School of Music
in May 2011. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from National
Tainan University in Taiwan (where she is also a certified teacher),
majoring in recorder. Ms. Tai won first prize in the national music
competition of recorder in Taiwan and was invited to record the CD
for the music textbook. In addition to recorder performance, Ms. Tai
is a specialist in piano improvisation. As a music educator and
performer, she is full of passion and seeks to inspire her students.
Ms. Tai has extensive teaching experience, has judged competitions,
and is currently pursuing her Dalcroze License at the Longy School
of Music.
Noralee Walker, instructor
Boston-born violist Noralee Walker is an active performer as
well as a dedicated teacher. She plays with a variety of ensembles,
including the Boston Classical Orchestra, Emmanuel Music, New England String
Ensemble, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Recent projects have
included touring North America with the multi-media show Star Wars in Concert,
soloing with Paul Henry Smith's digital Fauxharmonic, and improvising
with blues guitarist Chris McDermott. She can be heard on the recently
released CD of American composer Ruth Lomon's music, Ruth Lomon at 80.
An ardent chamber musician, Noralee has collaborated with many of the areas
finest musicians, having appeared with the Boston Viola Quartet, Kaleidoscope
Chamber Players, South Coast Chamber Music Society, and the acclaimed Musicians
of the Old Post Road. Noralee is a graduate of Wellesley College, The Harid
Conservatory of Music, and the Yale School of Music. She has served on the
faculties of Winchester Community Music School and the Greater Boston Youth
Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Music on the Hill (Powers Music School) and
Spencer Brook Summer Music Festivals.
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