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Holds a degree in music performance
in flute from Boston University's School for the Arts. She has worked
as an adjuct professor of music at SUNY Cortland and has performed
flute with many local groups including the Elmira Symphony. Lisa
has maintained a private flute studio for over 25 years and has
taught Kindermusik and run Kindermusik of Ithaca for the past 10
years. Lisa also plays both celtic and pedal harp and performs with
the harp ensemble, Harps on the Susquehanna in the Binghamton area
as well a harp circle in Syracuse area. Lisa is also currently a
student in the national MHTP (Music, Healing and Transitioni Program)where
she is learning how to play music to help ease those in pain. |
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B. M. in Jazz Studies, Ithaca
College. Plays professionally, locally and regionally. Principal
teachers include Steve Brown, Bob Sneider (Eastman School of Music)
and John Stowell. Five years teaching experience. |
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B.A. in Music, Hampshire
College, Amherst MA. 20 years performing experience in Boston, Washington,
D.C., San Francisco, and Seattle, playing rock, folk, reggae, blues
and country. Original CD to be released in fall, 2004. Five years
teaching experience. |
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Majored in music at Hunter
College, NYC. Over 25 years guitar teaching experience in folk,
blues and pop styles. Songwriter for and co-founder of VITAMIN L,
a nationally acclaimed local young people's chorus. He has also
written songs for Disney and National Geographic. In addition, he
is the founder of and musical director for Mostly Motown and currently
a composer in residence for Hangar Theater's Project 4. |
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Sue Terwilliger is an Ithaca
native with a Bachelor of Music in Classical and Jazz Guitar from
Ithaca College. For the past 20 years she made her home in New York
City, where she played on various CD's and performed on several
television shows. She has toured abroad including Japan, Portugal
and Martinique. Sue is also bandleader, music director and guitarist
for an 8 - 15 piece band, performing for private events (weddings,
fundraisers) in the Northeast and Florida. Over five years teaching
experience. |
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B.A. Piano, Ithaca College. Attended
High School of Music and Art, NYC. Studied with Kendall Taylor in
London, England. Over twenty years teaching experience. |
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Rachel Fannick began teaching at CSMA in January 2010. She is currently a graduate student/assistant at Ithaca College studying Piano Performance. Since her arrival in Ithaca, she has performed in chamber ensembles, studio classes, accompanied vocal juries, and recently gave a lecture recital on contemporary music. Rachel received her Bachelors degree from Liberty University in Virginia, in Piano Performance, with honors. During her undergraduate studies, she received the Liberty University Department of Music and Humanities “Keyboard Award” for 2009. She was selected to perform in Liberty University’s Piano Showcase each year from 2006 through 2009 and in 2008, was selected to perform in Liberty University’s “Honors Recital.” Besides performing, Rachel loves to teach. She began teaching in high school and was then hired by Bloomsburg University’s Piano Preparatory department as a piano instructor as well as having a private studio. While in Virginia she taught privately and, besides teaching through CSMA, she currently teaches piano classes and private lessons to undergraduates at Ithaca College. Rachel began taking piano lesson at the age of six and has loved the piano and music ever since. She hopes that through her teaching and playing she can impart some of that love to others. |
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D.M.A. in Music Composition, Cornell University.
M.M. in Music Composition, Cleveland Institute of Music; B.M. in
Piano Performance, Wayne State University. Active and extensive
performer; solo recital, chamber, composer/pianist series. 20 years
teaching experience. |
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Molly MacMillan is a well known musician living in
Ithaca, NY. She has been a featured pianist at the Sacramento Jubilee
Traditional Jazz festival, performing there also with the Lowdown
Alligator Jass Band, as well as other jazz festivals including Ottawa,
Montreal, Buffalo and the Thousand Islands, and Corning's Crystal
City jazz festival. Ms. MacMillan plays a beautiful piano, both
with her tasteful "comping" and her very melodic solos. She is also
a vocalist of uncanny agility with a light, mellow sound. Molly
has been involved in workshops with Marion McPartland and Dr. Billy
Taylor. She has traveled and recorded with such diverse groups as
The Hot Foot Club (swing band), the Molly MacMillan Trio, and cabaret
acts with Margaret Wakely, and with Richard Driscoll. She has recorded
CD's with various artists including the Trio and the HotFoot Club,
and is the producer of several CD's by the children's artist Mrs.
McPuppet. |
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Elena Nezhdanova earned a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance at Syracuse University and a Master’s in piano performance at Ithaca College. She was a recipient of the Setnor School of Music award for undergraduate study at Syracuse University and other awards include first place in the Empire State solo piano competition (2002); the Ranlet Award for the RPC competition and a scholarship for pre-college private study at the Eastman School of Music and Nazareth College. Her primary teachers have been Dr. Jennifer Hayghe, Steven Heyman, Dr. Wei-Yi Yang, Dr. Gary Fisher, Gabriel Chodos, Karl Lutchmayer, and Andrew Russo.
She has participated in master classes with Claude Frank, Ann Schein, and Gilbert Kalish. Elena attended the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2006 and has given solo and chamber music performances in Russia as well as in Los Angeles, Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca and at Common Wealth University in Virginia.
Elena has taught private lessons for eight years as well as Keyboard Musicianship classes at Ithaca College.
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B.A., Music Education, Ithaca College. Is trained
in both classical and jazz piano and currently specializes in jazz,
rock, blues and ragtime styles. Active performer, currently accompanying
and directing the local multicultural choir, VOICES, as well as
touring nationwide with his band. Over five years prior teaching
experience. |
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Karen grew up studying at a community music school in the Chicago area and has been teaching piano and various classes at CSMA since 1983. She has always enjoyed being a student, and holds a B.M. in piano performance from the University of Southern California (USC), a Masters in Liberal Studies, with a concentration in Philosophy and the Arts from The New School for Social Research; and provisional certification in elementary education through SUNY Cortland. Karen performs chamber and solo piano music locally, often in programs presented by Music’s Recreation and as a member of the piano/string trio, “Three.” She serves as music director of the Hector Presbyterian Church, and continues to teach a few piano students at CSMA. In her spare time, she practices piano and Qigong and studies ancient Greek and Hindu philosophy.
As CSMA’s program director, Karen works with the faculty on curriculum development, interviews and auditions new instructors, gathers information for planning and publicity purposes, and puts together the master schedules and brochure information for each term. She is the primary contact for outreach programs and special summer programs. She works with the staff and faculty on policy issues and assists with the general daily management of the school.
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| Jennifer Lawrence
Birnbaum |
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B.A. in Music Education, concentration
in voice, Ithaca College. M.A. in Ethnomusicology and Music Education,
Teachers College, Columbia University. Tenured music teacher and
choral director, Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin H.S.,
New York, NY. |
| Augusto Diemecke
- Violin |
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Student of Fredel Lack and graduate of
University of Houston School of Music and Ithaca Suzuki Institute.
M.M. in Violin Performance. Has performed with the Cayuga Chamber
Orchestra and Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra. Active performer:
solo, orchestra, chamber music; co-founder of Finger Lakes Strings.
Over 15 years teaching experience. |
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M.M., Violin Performance, Ithaca College.
B.A. in Violin Performance, University of South Carolina. Currently
a member of the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Tri-Cities Opera Company
and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, he plays regularly
with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and with numerous smaller chamber
groups. He has played with the DeVere String Quartet of Syracuse
and taught at the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival. He has
been a member of orchestras in GA, SC, WV, MD and PA. He plays on
both a standard Italian violin and a mezzo violin (made by Ithacan
Robert Spear). Over ten years teaching experience. |
| Jaime Kibelsbeck - Violin |
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M.M. in Viola Performance, Ithaca College.
B.M. in Music Education/Viola Performance, Ithaca College. Provisional
teaching certification in K-12 music. Performances with Tri-Cities
Opera Orchestra, the Albert Consort, and Le Petits Violons du Cornell.
Currently plays with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes
and other ensembles. Additional performance experience on baroque
viola, alto violin, and voice, with special interest in early music.
Member of Sigma Alpha Iota and Pi Kappa Lambda. Currently an adjunct
lecturer at Ithaca College. Over ten years teaching experience.
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| Joseph Prusch - Violin
/ Viola / Fiddle |
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Joseph studied Viola Performance and
Music Education at Ithaca College. He learned to play through the
Suzuki method and teaches through Suzuki methodology and non-Western
music. He has explored the mathematical basis of music with Dr.
Dani Novak and other professors, teaching those findings to his
students in private lessons and classes. He has taught music classes
for the Northern Lights Learning Center and the Community School
of Music and Art. Joseph is currently playing soprano violin for
the modern violin family consort designed by Bob and Deena Speer,
and he also plays bass for the Zydeco Trail Riders and electric
fiddle for local favorite Urban Horse Thieves. |
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M.M. in vocal performance, Ithaca College. 20 years
teaching experience. Taught Musical Theater at the University of
Trier in Germany. |
| Active soloist in Ithaca, New York City
and nationwide. Long affiliations with several professional ensembles,
including Musica Sacra, Voices of Ascension, AmorArtis and the Grammy-nominated
a capella ensemble, Pomerium. Seven years prior teaching experience.
Also teaches in Cornell's Vocal Coaching Program. Available for
parties. |
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DMA Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory, May 2010. MM Syracuse University. Joanna has appeared with the Syracuse Opera, Oswego Opera, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Skaneateles Festival and will be making her solo debut in Colorado in August 2010 with the Strings Festival at Steamboat Springs. She served as director of the vocal program at Le Moyne College from 2006-2008 and runs the Jane Austen Singing School for Young Ladies in Skaneateles, NY.
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B.M., Vocal Performance and Music Education,
Ithaca College. Former member of IC's College Choir, Women's Chorale
and Vocal Jazz ensembles. Performances with the Ithaca Opera Company,
Syracuse Opera Company and Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Prior pre-K,
elementary and high school teaching experience. Currently singing
with local classic R&B band, The Destination. |
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