DAVE BARTLEY, piano jazz improvisation
- Education: BFA Piano Performance, SUNY Buffalo
- Experience/Affiliations: Created the music department at The Academy at Swift River in Cummington; composer and musician for the Washington Performing Arts Society
- Special Interests: Active performer as a soloist, and in jazz ensembles throughout Western Massachusetts
DAVE BROWN, guitar
- Education: BA Jazz Performance, U-Mass, Amherst
- Experience/Affiliations:Showband musician with cruise line
- Special Interests: Active performer with a number of local bands and theatre productions
JACK BROWN, voice
- Education: BM, College of Wooster
- Experience/Affiliations: Faculty, The Hotchkiss School; Choir Director, Simons Rock and MCLA; Artistic Director Berkshire Lyric Theatre
- Special Interests: Bass-baritone soloist throughout the northeast and Canada
SHERRI JAMES BUXTON, voice
- Education: M.Ed, Cambridge College; BME, Indiana University
- Experience/Affiliations: Public school teacher; appeared on Broadway
- Special Interests: Professional cabaret singer
CAROLINA CARRY, choir
- Education: MA Music Composition, City University of New York; BM, Boston College
- Experience/Affiliations: Co-founder of D’Arte a Musica; worked in theater and national television
- Special Interests: Cantilena Chamber Choir; Saratoga Choral Festival; Organization of American Kodaly Educators
BILL CHAPMAN, Jazz Ensemble
- Education: MEd, BM, Westfield State College; studies with Billy Martin of Medeski, Martin and Wood
- Experience/Affiliations: Adjunct faculty, MCLA; endorses Noble & Cooley, Vic Firth Drumsticks
- Special Interests: Performs with Empire Brass, Charles Neville, John Medeski and other northeast groups
BETH CRAIG, cello
- Education: BS Performance, Mannes College of Music; MM Performance, Kent State University; major teachers-Claus Adam, Yehuda Hanani
- Experience/Affiliations: Teaching cello at Miss Hall’s, Indian Mountain School, Rudolph Steiner School, Hawthorne Valley School. Previously cellist with orchestras in Brazil, Ohio, and Pennsylvania
- Special Interests: Performer, composer for theater productions and small groups with jazz and improvisation focus.
OTHA DAY, drumming
- Education: MM Piano Performance, Piano Pedagogy, Music Education, Eastern Illinois University; private studies in African, Caribbeab and Japanese drumming.
- Experience/Affiliations: Adjuct faculty, Williams College; leads drumming workshops for corporations and groups; operates individual and group piano studios.
- Special Interests: Solo performer specializing in classical piano music of Black composers
PAUL DEJONG, cello
- DMA, Univ. Illinois.
- Active concert and recording artist.
- Founding member of “The Books”.
EMILY DUFF, saxophone
- BA, Jazz Studies. Westfield State Univ.
- Award winning jazz soloist, active performer.
OUISA FOHRHALTZ, violin, viola
- Education: MM, U-Mass, Amherst
- Experience/Affiliations: Suzuki instructor; violinist with Albany and Berkshire Symphonies
- Special Interests: violinist with Vivante Trio
JUDITH GRAY, voice
- Education: MM Voice Performance, University of Michigan
- Experience/Affiliations: Adjunct faculty at Smith College and The Berkshire School
- Special Interests: International soprano soloist performing oratorio, recital and orchestral works
PAUL GREEN, clarinet
- MM, Clarinet performance, Juilliard;
- Founder of Klezmer East and Berkshire Jewish Music Festival.
- Current Principal Clarinet of Florida Grand Opera.
DAVID GROVER, guitar, song writing
- Experience/Affiliations: Founder of the National Children’s Music Project; award winning singer/song writer with Emmy and Grammy nominations; performed at the White House; toured nationally with Arlo Guthrie; created several family music recording and videos
- Special Interests: David Grover and the Big Bear Band, performs regularly throughout the region
SUSAN HADFIELD, piano
- Education: MM Performance, N.E. Conservatory; BA, Mt. Holyoke College; performance certificate, Kodaly Institute
- Experience/Affiliations: Taught at Milton Academy and other private schools; member New England Piano Teachers Assn.
- Special Interests: Choral, & instrumental accompanist; adult students
RAHIMA HOHLSTEIN, piano
- Education:DMA Piano and Theory, University of North Carolina; MM, The Boston Conservatory
- Experience/Affiliations: Taught music at The College of St. Rose, and University of North Carolina; College Music Society member and lecturer
- Special Interests: Soloist and ensemble performer
YELENA LEVINA, piano
- Education: USSR state certified, Nizhney Novgorod Pedagogical University and Music College
- Experience/Affiliations: Piano teacher Nizhney Novgorod, Bennington Music School, and Pittsfield High School
- Special Interests: Accompanist, private lessons in piano and theory
BING LIU, viola, violin
- Education: MA Viola Performance, Boston University; Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
- Experience/Affiliations: Member of Suzuki Association of America
- Special Interests: International soloist and orchestral performer; member of Berkshire Trio
CHARLES MARSHALL, piano
- Education: BS, Music Education with Piano Concentration, Gordon College; graduate courses, Music Education, (Orff & Kodaly) Westminster Choir College
- Experience/Affiliations: Interim Choir Director/Organist First Congregational Church, Dalton; Founder, Director & Instructor of Marshall Arts Academy of Music; music instructor grades Pre-K-12
- Special Interests: Marshall Arts Entertainment
KATHLEEN MCDONALD, voice
- Education: MFA Vocal Performance, University of California
- Experience/Affiliations: Faculty member of Berkshire Community College and Windsor School of Music
- Special Interests: Performer and instructor in solo, opera and musical theatre
CHRISTINE MORTENSEN, French horn
- Education: MM Performance, UMass, Amherst; BME, Oberlin Conservatory
- Experience/Affiliations: Teacher at Northampton Community Music Center and Greenwood Music Camp
- Special Interests: Active performer; member of Berkshire Brass Quintet, principal horn of Connecticut River Valley Orchestra, and Da Camera Singers
JOANNE NELSON-UNCZUR, oboe
- Education: MM Performance, Cincinnati Conservatory; BME, Ithaca College
- Experience/Affiliations: Music teacher, public schools
- Special Interests: Active performer
ART NIEDECK, percussion
- Education: BM, Juilliard School of Music
- Experience/Affiliations: Percussion teacher, public schools
- Special Interests: Pittsfield City Jazz Board Member
CHRISTINE NOBLE-DROSEHN, voice
- Education: BA Vocal and Theatre Performance, Franklin Pierce College, NH
- Experience/Affiliations: Choral Director, Darrow School; repertoire performer, Hancock Shaker Village
- Special Interests: Active soloist; church choir
CHRIS OBERFIELD, piano
- Education: MEd, Westfield State College; BS, Indiana University of PA
- Experience/Affiliations: Retired music teacher, public schools; “Piano Kids” instructor; choir director, organist, soloist and accompanist for several churches
- Special Interests: Serves as organist, First Baptist Church, Pittsfield
CINDY OGULNICK, violin, viola
- Education: BME, Performance, SUNY Potsdam
- Experience/Affiliations: Teacher, public schools
- Special Interests: Member of Berkshire Symphony and Rosamund String Trio
ZAFER PONTER, bassoon, recorder
- Education: BA, Rowan University
- Experience/Affiliations: Principal bassoon with Sage City Symphony; member of Bennington Trio, Gramercy Quintet, and Taconic Consort
- Special Interests: Active freelance performer with area ensembles
SHARON POWERS, flute, recorder
- Education: BM Flute and Composition, Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music
- Experience/Affiliations: Flute instructor and orchestra director regionally and abroad in France and Bangkok
- Special Interests: Soloing with national orchestras
KARL RAUSCH, guitar
- Education: BM, Berklee College of Music
- Special Interests: Active recording artist and performer
AMY RENAK, piano
- Education: BA, Mary Washington College; graduate studies, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford
- Experience/Affiliations: Faculty of BCC; Director of Music, Zion Evangelical Church
- Special Interests: Active performer and accompanist.; choir director and organist
TARI WHEELER ROOSA, flute, recorder, programs for young children
- Education: MME, University of Colorado; BM, University of Lowell; Suzuki and Early Childhood training
- Experience/Affiliations: Music instructor in MA, VT, and CO public schools; assistant conductor of the Eagles Band
- Special Interests: Active performer; flutist for Berkshire Children’s Chorus; Jovia Trio
HARRIET ROTHSTEIN, piano
- Education: MM, Temple University
- Experience/Affiliations: Taught piano for more than 25 years
- Special Interests: Professional collaborative pianist
DOUG SCHMOLZE, classical guitar, composition, voice
- Education: Studies at Berklee School of Music
- Experience/Affiliations: Certified Music Practitioner in the Music for Healing and Transition Program
- Special Interests: Soloist tenor and church choir member. Has performed with Berkshire Choral Festival, Berkshire Opera, Cantilena Chamber Choir and Crescendo Chorus of Lime Rock CT.
BOB SHEPHERD, Piano accompanist for Adult Cabaret
- Education: Master’s degree, MCLA
- Experience/Affiliations: Longtime professional jazz pianist in many New England groups, bass studies with Percy Heath
- Special Interests: Owner, Otis Manor Studios, voiceovers, multitrack recording and MIDI arranging
ALICE SPATZ, double bass, mand0lin, theory / composition
- Education: MFA Composition, Bennington College; BA, New School for Social Research
- Experience/Affiliations: Published composer; co-author of a series of bass pedagogy books
- Special Interests: Active performer with the folk group “Wintergreen” ensemble; published composer
JEAN STACKHOUSE, piano
- Education: MM, University of Oklahoma; BM, De Pauw University
- Experience/Affiliations: Former faculty member of New England Conservatory and Westminster Choir College; founder of Piano Performance Seminars
- Special Interests: Active performer; contributor to “Keyboard Companion”
TRISTAN SULLIVAN, percussion, music therapy
- BA Music, Westfield State College.
- Public & private school experience with students with cognitive disabilities.
PAUL SUNDBERG, trumpet
- Education: BM, Oberlin Conservancy of Music
- Experience/Affiliations: Former Williams College trumpet instructor, brass ensemble director
- Special Interests: Founding member, Berkshire Brass Quintet;
PETE SWEENEY, percussion
- Education: Drummer’s Collective, NYC; studies with Joe Morello
- Experience/Affiliations: Faculty member of National Guitar Workshop and the Vic Firth Education Program author of “The Complete Drumset Method”
- Special interests: Jazz trio leader; member of Latin/Jazz group “Sensemaya”
NORMAN THIBODEAU, flute, orchestra
- Education: MM Flute and History of Music, Peabody Conservatory
- Experience/Affiliations: Served as assistant principal flute of the Orquest Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico
- Special Interests: Active conductor and composer
KRISTEN TUTTMAN, piano
- Education: BM, Vassar College; Hartt School of Music
- Experience/Affiliations: Instructor at Syracuse University, SUNY New Paltz, and Hartt School of Music
- Special Interests: Performer with Albany Symphony Orchestra and Eribeth Chamber Players
DAVID WAMPLER, trombone
- Education: MM, University of Nebraska
- Experience/Affiliations: Faculty member of College of St. Rose and Simon’s Rock
- Special Interests: Professional musician
ERIN M. WHITE, advanced clarinet
- Education: BME, Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford
- Experience/Affiliations: Teacher at Lee High School; taught band, choir, history and theory
- Special Interests: 1st Clarinet with Hartt Symphony Band