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
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
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.
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
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